WHEREAS a Petition of George Fox, of Desborough, in the county of Northampton, Shoemaker, before then of Harrington, in the said county of Northampton, Shoemaker, an insolvent debtor, having been filed in the County Court of Northamptonshire, at the Royal Hotel, at Kettering, and an interim order for protection from process having been given to the said George Fox, under the provisions of the Statutes in that case made and provided, the said George Fox is hereby required
to appear before the said Court, on the 17th of May instant, at three o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for his first examination touching his debts, estate, and effects, and to be further dealt with according to the provisions of the said Statutes; and the choice of the creditors' assignees is to take place at the time so appointed. All persons indebted to the said George Fox, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to Mr. Thomas John Barstow, Clerk of the said Court, at Kettering, the Official Assignee of the estate and effects of the said insolvent.
Source: The London Gazette,
Issue 20978, published on the 15 May 1849. Page 46