| Reading
Mercury or Weekly Post, no.338, 28 May 1744, page 3. READING, May 28. Laft Saurday [sic] fe'nnight Arthur Smith, commonly Call'd Prince of the Gipfies, and Lamas and Elizabeth Smith, his Son and Daughter, were committed to Oxford Gaol by Thomas Pardo, D.D. being charg'd on the Oath of William Bofwell, the King of another Gang, with robbing him of 15 l. in Wiltfhire, about a Year ago. |
| Oxford
Chronicle, 20 June 1846, page 3. BRACKLEY. VAGRANCY.- Thomas and Aaron Sherry, of Shuttlehanger, two travelling tinkers, of the gypsey tribe, were charged by police-officer Dewdney, with having at Moreton Pinkney committed an act of vagrancy by sleeping on [sic] an outhouse without permission. - Committed to Northampton gaol for one month. |
| Jackson's
Oxford Journal, 20 July 1861, page 5. THE ODD FELLOWS' FETE. - On Tuesday last [16th] the Odd Fellows' annual fete took place in a field near Holywell Church [Oxford] ... one side of the field was occupied by gipsies, with cocoa nuts, snuff boxes, dolls, &c., on sticks ... |
| Oxford
Chronicle, 28 September 1861, page 8. CHIPPING-NORTON. PETTY SESSIONS, SEPT. 25. Charles Scarrott, of Finstock, hawker, was charged by Sergeant Morgan for refusing to aid and assist him in the execution of his duty, at Charlbury, on Sept. 21st. Adjourned for 14 days. |
| Gloucester
Journal, 12 October 1861, page 3. GLOUCESTER. CITY POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WEDNESDAY. - ... Bridgett Bryan, an old fortune-teller, was charged by P.C. Morley with being drunk and incapable, at the Island, on the previous night. She was so drunk that she was conveyed to the Station on a truck. - Discharged with a caution. |
| Banbury
Guardian, 24 October 1861, page 1. BOROUGH POLICE. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19. RUM, COFFEE, LAW, GYPSIES, AND POLICEMEN. - Ann Smith, a tidy looking old gypsey was charged with contravening the rules of the Banbury lock-up, by bringing some rum into the same for the benefit of prisoners ... The prisoner was accordingly locked up, and shortly afterwards liberated, to the great delight of a numerous gathering of her tribe who thronged the purlieus of the hall during the case. |
| Banbury
Guardian, 24 October 1861, page 1. COUNTY POLICE. CLERK'S OFFICE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17. ASSAULTING THE POLICE. - Cornelius Gentle, Freedom Gentle, and Selina James, all gipsy hawkers, were charged with assaulting Inspector Thorogood, on Thursday evening ... STEALING A VIOLIN. - George Harrington was charged with stealing a fiddle from Hercules Smith, at Neithrop, on Friday. Prosecutor stated that he went to the Rose and Crown, Calthorpe Lane, and the company asked him to play a tune on his fiddle. He did so, and while he was subsequently in the act of lighting his pipe, the prisoner walked off with the violin. The instrument had not since been found. Remanded till the Petty Sessions to-day. |
| Oxford
Chronicle, 27 June 1868, page 7. ABINGDON. COUNTY MAGISTRATES CHAMBER, JUNE 22.- (Before J.B. Jenkins and W. Graham, Esqrs.) - Shipton Buckland, a gipsy, was charged with assaulting a fellow gipsy named Perron Smith, at Sutton Courtney Feast, on the 12th inst. The parties are rival owners of dancing booths, and a jealousy appears to have arisen between them. The defendant found at last a pretext for striking the complainant a blow on the eye, which the Bench told him he had no right to do, and fined him 13s., including costs, which he paid. |
| Oxford
Times, 18 July 1868, page 7. ABINGDON. COUNTY MAGISTRATES' CHAMBER. - JULY 13. Sampson Hoadley and James Hoadley were convicted for seven days for sleeping by the side of the Oxford road, under their hawking cart. |
| The
Hertfordshire Express, 28 May 1870, page 3. STEVENAGE. PETTY SESSIONS - THURSDAY LAST [19 May]. Ann Draper of St Paul's Walden, was charged with allowing a horse to stray on the highway, fined 5s. |
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The Hertfordshire Express, 11
June 1870, page 3. DRUNKENNESS.- ... Ambrose Draper was fined 5s for being drunk and riotous ... |
| Fenny
Stratford Weekly Times and General District Advertiser, 20 May
1880, page 4. IVINGHOE. PETTY SESSIONS.- SATURDAY.- Keziah Smith, travelling hawker, of Stewkley, appeared in discharge of bail to answer a charge of having assaulted Dinah Sulsten, wife of a butcher at Cheddington, on the 12th of May. The defendant purchased a piece of meat, and then quarrelled because her proposed terms of exchange for a broom were not accepted, and eventually she took hold of Mrs. Sulsten and threw her against a wall. Fined 2s and £1 3s costs. |
| Abingdon
and Reading Herald, 29 July 1882, page 6. BULLINGDON PETTY SESSIONS. COUNTY HALL - SATURDAY. HIGHWAY OFFENCE. - John Buckland and Jabez Buckland, hawkers, late of Tiddington, were summoned for encamping by the side of the highway, at Tiddington, on the 13th July. - P.C. Savings said that on Thursday the 13th he was on duty at Tiddington. The defendants were encamping on the highway in a van. They had been there two nights, and they told witness that they had a man with a broken leg in the van. There were four vans on the highway. Witness saw the man in bed on the following Monday. - The defendants said that the doctor ordered them not to move him. - The Bench dismissed defendants with a caution |
| Jackson's
Oxford Journal, 24 June 1893, page 6. ABINGDON. COUNTY MAGISTRATES, MONDAY. Frank Buckland, a "traveller," was fined 2s. and 9s. 6d. costs, for allowing a horse and donkey to stray at Appleford, on June 11th. Sarah Buckland, another itinerant, was fined a similar amount for permitting two horses to stray, the same date and place. Andrew Wall, similarly described, was fined 7s. 6d., and 9s. 6d. costs for allowing three horses to stray at Long Wittenham, on June 5th. James Wall was fined 2s. and 10s. 6d. costs for committing a similar offence, at same time and place [sic]. |
| Reading
Mercury, Oxford Gazette, Newbury Herald, and Berks County Paper,
13 August 1910, page 6. CHALLOW. DEATH OF A GIPSY CELEBRITY.- On Friday morning of last week there died in the parish of West Challow, Thomas Lewis, probably the most widely known gipsy for many a mile around. The funeral took place on Monday afternoon at West Challow, when hundreds of people assembled - some out of mere curiosity, but many out of respect to the bereaved family. The coffin was of polished elm with brass fittings, and the plate bore the inscription:- "Thomas Lewis. Died August 5th, 1910. Aged 77 years." The mourners included Mrs. Lewis (the widow), John Lewis and Henry Lewis (sons), Mrs. Welch, Mrs. Jeffries and Mrs. Breakspear (daughters), and many grand-children and more distant relatives. The service was conducted by the Rev. - Lilly, who is acting for the Rev. H. Saunders, who is in Ireland. |