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Ewell Minnis
This is a new one to me, and the only reference to the pub I have found
to date is from the Dover Express of 1870. I have no firm location to the
house at present, other than at Ewell Minnis, and the only other "Plough"
I know of that is around that area would be the one at Hougham, but that's a
good few miles away and along the Folkestone Road. So I am assuming that
this is yet another of those houses that existed, but of which little is
known.
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From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 22
July, 1870.
CHARGE OF ASSAULT
Saturday, before T. Humphreys and W. F. Elsted Esqs., and Major Munn.
Mary Ann Wells was summoned by Catherine Chidwick for an assault, on
the 8th July.
The complainant, a married woman, said she lived at Ewell Minis,
where also the defendant belonged. On the previous Saturday she was in
the house of her brother, the "Plough," at Ewell Minnis, and the
defendant was there. Some words ensued, in the course of which the
defendant brandished a knife at her.
The Magistrates, after hearing with great patience the particulars of
the quarrel, thought that, if any provocation had been offered at all,
it had been given by the complainant, and they therefore dismissed the
case.
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From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 5
August, 1870. Price 1d.
COUNTY POLICE COURT
John Maxted, belonging in Ewell, was summoned by Daniel Finch, of the
same place, on a charge of assaulting him on the 23 instant.
Mr. Fox appeared on behalf of the complainant.
Daniel Finch: I live at Ewell Minnis, and the defendant is my next
door neighbour. I was going to the "Plough" public-house, on Saturday
morning last, about noon, to fetch some beer for dinner, when the
defendant came behind me, and seizing hold of me, tore my coat up the
back, at the same time striking me in the eye and under the ear, and
knocking me down, I was stunned by the blows, and I do not know exactly
what took place afterwards, but I believe the defendant kicked me. I
know of no reason for the defendant's violence.
By the defendant: I have never interrupted your wife, nor called her
bad names, or have offered to fight you. I am not a fighting man.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said there had been
differences between himself and the complainant in request to their
respective rights a neighbours. The complainant had in consequence
challenged him to fight at any time; and as he met him on the day in
question, he reminded him of the challenge, and they adjourned to a
field and "had it out."
The Magistrates fined the defendant 10s. and 6s. 6d. cost; in default
seven days' imprisonment with hard labour.
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