Market Harborough Police Report
Tuesday, January 14th, 1840
William Morris Iliff, farmer and Grazier, of Desborough,
Northamptonshire, attended before the Bench to answer a charge made
against him by his servant, John Oram, who stated that his master had
turned him away and would not pay him his wages. Mr. Iliff said he had
ordered him to do certain things, which he had neglected, and he had
sent him away in consequence, but had offered to pay the boy's mother
what wages were due to him, but that she would not take less than a
sovereign. The Magistrates calculated the wages, and allowed the boy
13s. 6d. for the time he had been in Mr. Iliff's service.
Leicester Journal, Friday 17 January 1840