Faversham Gazette, 30 August, 1856.

An innkeeper and cooper at Bearsted, named John William Davis, was charged before E. Twopeny, Esq., at the magistrates' clerk’s office at Sittingbourne, on Saturday, with stealing a copper chimney-pot, belonging to the Rev. J. Woodruff, at Upchurch, on the 18th inst., and remanded until the 1st September, to be dealt with under the Criminal Justice Act.

Faversham Gazette, 6 September, 1856.

John Davis, a publican at Bearsted, was committed to Maidstone gaol for two days, for stealing a copper chimney pot from the Rev. J. Woodruffe, at Upchurch.