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SWINDON POLICE:

... and put it into a ditch, about one o'clock in the day. The defendant, a lid about Li, in his defence said, that it was bonfire night (sth Nov.). and that he took the faggot to make a bonfire. Th . , Magistrates reprimanded him, and he woo discharged. Aaron ...

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... favour of Russia. would be a rare exercise of patience and self-denial—and not without its use, to read it through some bonfire night, when a rejoicing population are celebrating a victory. ...

Published: Thursday 20 September 1855
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1953 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BRATTON FLEMING

... Mr. Harvie for the defendant. —The case was gone into at great length, and terminated in the complaint being dismissed. Bonfire Night. Georye Hook and William Bassett, farm Servants, were charged their master, Mr. George Downing, of Pickwell Barton, Georgeharo ...

Published: Thursday 13 November 1856
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 1160 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

South Devon Gazette

... sth of November. The Bench convicted all the defendants, excepting Webber and Cowd, and fined them £1 and 14s. expenses. Bonfire Night at Otterton.— John Warmingion and Richard Nim were charged with having lighted bonfires within fifty feet of the centre ...

Published: Saturday 21 November 1857
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1984 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

RIOT AND BENEVOLENCE

... sth inst,, and those more recently participated in a sprinkling of older inhabitants on Monday last. It appears that, on bonfire night, in addition to other property dishonestly obtained; barrel value 7s stolen from the premises of Mr. Powell, grocer. Pursuant ...

LAUNCESTON WEEKLY NEWS,

... and it is much better to furnish them with an innocent opportunity than to let it take its chance. He hoped that next bonfire night the young men would buy materials for their sports instead of levying it dishonestly from others. There is one thing that ...

( From odb London Correspondent. )

... gains at the nearest public-house. The good, old-fashioned custom of having a veritable Guy, and burning him in a huge bonfire night, has entirely passed away, and the utilitarian spirit of the age has discovered even in this matter that it pays better ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1859
Newspaper: The Cornish Telegraph
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1493 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

yotal ntias

... Y. C. for no guns La tie 6th of November. Defendants said that they understood that they were allowed to off guns on bonfire night. Ordered to pay is of West Coker, was summoned for amealting Sarah Lane. It appears that a melee took place in Du:k-etreet ...