Huntingdon Bedford and Peterborough Gazette 5 Dec 1835: James Marshall, Samuel Nightingale and James Stearn convicted of allowing beer to be drunk on premises
James Marshall, keeper of a beer-shop at Trumpington, was charged on an information with having on the 19th September last sold beer and permitted the same to be drank on his premises, not being duly licensed to sell beer to be so drank; the beer was delivered by the defendant to the customers and drank by them in the passage leading to the front room. The defendant was convicted in the mitigated penalty of £5.Samuel Nightingale was charged with having committed a similar offence on the 10th October last at Trumpington. It appeared that a glass of beer was served by a female in a room of the house where it was drank: after it had been drank, the female said, “you should not have drank it on the premises;” the persons to whom it was served said “never mind fetch us another;” she then fetched another which was also drank in the same room, and pipes of tobacco were also served; there were two other persons in the room smoking; these two persons, John Cock and William Northrop came forward as witnesses for the defendant, and made a statement extremely favourable to Mr. Nightingale, as to the unwillingness of Mrs. Nightingale (the female before mentioned) to allow the beer to be drank on the premises. The magistrates convicted the defendant in the mitigated penalty of £5.
James Stearn, being convicted of a similar offence at Trumpington, was also fined £5.