Whit Sunday Festivities and a local court case
160 Years Ago
Sussex Advertiser, 24 May 1864
FLETCHING
Whit-Monday Festivities
On Whit-Monday, the members the Mount Chapel, Piltdown, together with a number of their friends, had a social gathering of a very pleasing character. In the afternoon a variety of innocent and amusing games were engaged in on the common, chiefly by the younger members of the party, and the weather being delightfully fine on the occasion, they were highly enjoyed by all both young and old.
Afterwards the whole party adjourned inside the chapel, where tea was served, followed by interesting addresses. The whole of the proceedings were of a most agreeable kind.
170 Years Ago
Sussex Advertiser, 23 May 1854
Henry Botton v. Thomas Ashby
This case, in which the parties live at Fletching, was a claim for £1, being balance of goods supplied, and, it will be remembered, was adjourned by his Honour from last court day in order to give plaintiff an opportunity of producing his witnesses, to prove the delivery of the goods.
Mr. Langham appeared for defendant.
This case on both sides was gone into very fully, and was attended with as little success with regard to satisfactory conclusion as on the former occasion.
The claim was for a sack of wheat, which plaintiff and his son Jasper said that defendant or one of his assistants had fetched from the plaintiff’s premises, but neither of them were present at the time. The defendant and James Harris, his grinder, both swore positively that they had never had the wheat in question.
His Honour said there was still a want of proof about the delivery, and non-suited plaintiff, in order to give him a future opportunity of establishing his claim.
Plaintiff had to pay 12s., the defendant’s expenses on the former occasion.