George Tailby was charged with having in his possession a document, to wit, a warrant of appointment of two overseers to the parish of Newton Bromshold, and afterwards fraudulently cutting off from the said document the impressions of certain stamps which had been affixed thereto in accordance with the Local Stamp Act 1869, namely, a stamp value 1s and another value 6d with intent to use the stamps for a rate book. A second indictment charged the prisoner with fraudulently counterfeiting certain writing, purporting to be an allowance for certain justices of the peace on a rate made upon the parishioners of Rushden, on the 2^nd and 3^rd of October – Mr. Monckton appeared for the prosecution and Mr. Hensman for the Defence – The prisoner pleaded guilty Mr. Hensman said the accused was assistant overseer in the parish and having committed an offence he was proceeded against under an Act of Parliament entitled 4^th and 5^th William IV, chap 76, which enacted that the magistrates were empowered to inflict a penalty of £20 and order the defendant to restore the money up to double the amount taken. On Monday the prisoner was taken before the magistrates and there he pleaded guilty to the charge. He was ordered to restore the amount of money he had taken (£320) and a penalty of £50. In getting the money he had no doubt brought himself within the venue of a recent Act of Parliament which made the offence a forgery and although he had restored the money taken he was still amenable to the law. He hoped his Lordship would taken this into consideration and also that the blow to a man who had previously been of good character was very severe indeed. He had also a wife and family. The prisoner himself was in a bad state of health and probably any length of imprisonment would terminate fatally. Mr. Monckton said the prosecution had no desire to deal vindictively in this matter. His Lordship after referring to the act which had brought the prisoner under the charge of felony and had subjected him at the discretion of the Court, to be either sentenced to penal servitude or imprisonment said that the several circumstances which had been mentioned would have the effect of inducing him to reduce the penalty he would have the effect of inducing him to reduce the penalty he would otherwise have passed upon him. Sentenced to Nine Months Imprisonment with Hard Labour.