Northampton Mercury, November 1st 1862, transcribed by Susan Manton 

Irchester Assault

James Walden charged Ambrose Noble with assaulting him at Irchester on the night of the 11^th. Mr. Cook was for defendant. It appeared from the evidence that the complainant and a party of other young men had been drinking at the Red Lion and when they came out began larking and bonneting each other. Defendant, who is an agent for Mr. Groom, shoefactor of Northampton was against the Rushden carrier’s van, on the look out for work sent from Northampton, when the complainant ran against him and almost knocked him down and kicked him behind while he was picking his cap up, but did not do it with any vicious intent. Defendant said he was also very much abused and struck by the complainant. The complainant said he was obliged to keep to his bed for some days from the kick, but Mr. Cook elicited in cross-examination that he was playing bowls for some time on the following Monday. The magistrate said the case ought not to have been brought and dismissed it each party to pay their own costs.