Pubs and Breweries in Gloucestershire Past and Present
Kings Head, The Peep, Northleach
The Kings Head was a two storey Cotswold stone building in a terraced row just behind the Market Square.
Gloucester Journal, 2nd April 1859 –
CHARGE OF STABBING John Sly, aged 18, groom, was indicted for feloniously stabbing and wounding one Dusgate Wortley, with intent to maim or to do grievous bodily harm, at Northleach, on the 18th of March.
Mr. Cripps prosecuted, and Mr. Griffiths defended. Mr. Cripps, in opening the case, said the prosecutor was head groom in the King’s Head stables, at Northleach, and the prisoner was a stable boy under him. He came late on the morning of the 18th of March, and prosecutor spoke angrily to him on the subject, and ultimately struck him a blow with his fist. The prisoner thereupon took up a prong which was in the stable, and with it stabbed the prosecutor in the head, and also struck him a violent blow with it upon the head. The wound was a severe one, and a great quantity of blood flowed. The question for the jury was whether there was any intent to do grievous bodily harm, or whether it was simply a case of unlawful wounding.
The prosecutor deposed to his having been stabbed. In cross- examination he admitted that he first struck the boy on the temple, and also in the mouth, and gave him a black eye.— Two other boys were called, who deposed to the wounding, and also admitted that there was a regular “row ” between the master and the boy.
Mr. Austin, a surgeon, proved that there was a contused wound on the temple of the prosecutor.
P. C. William Webb deposed that he apprehended the prisoner, who said he was sorry he had not killed the man, and he would if he could get at him.
His Lordship said there was clearly no case whatever of intent to do grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Griffiths then addressed the court for the prisoner on the other count, contending there was no unlawful wounding at all, but that it was merely a fair fight.
The learned Judge having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of unlawfully wounding. —His Lordship said he agreed that the assault had been committed under circumstances of great provocation, and the striking of the prisoner by the prosecutor was not justifiable; but no provocation would justify such a retaliation as that the prisoner inflicted.
Still taking the provocation into account, the sentence was imprisonment for six weeks with hard labour.
Information and research coutesy Dr Martyn Beaufort.
Gloucestershire Chronicle. April 16th 1870 – William Day, landlord of the Kings Head public house, was summonsed for keeping his house open for the sale of beer at a quarter to eleven on the night of Sunday, was fined 10/-, and 9/- and 3d costs. This is the second conviction of defendant for a similar offence.
Above image: Chris Amies
Above image: Chris Amies
Licensing Details:
Owner in 1891: Tayler’s Cotswold Brewery, Northleach
Rateable value in 1891: £11.4s.0d.
Type of licence in 1891: Beerhouse
Owner in 1903: Tayler’s Cotswold Brewery, Northleach
Rateable value in 1903: £11.5s.0d.
Type of licence in 1903: Beerhouse
Closing time in 1903: 10pm
Landlords at the Kings Head include:
1856 Isaac Day
1870 William Day
1885 John Hall
1891 George Bullock
1892 ‘The license of the Kings Head, Northleach, was transferred from George Bullock to Charles Newport’ (January 1892)
