“James Ward, for stealing books, the property of Caleb Townsend, at Aston, and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment in the House of Correction,” – Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 28 Apr 1827, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
“On Monday last and the two following days the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for this County were holden before W.H. Ashhurst, Esq. M.P. Chairman, the Right Hon. Lord Churchill, and other County Magistrates, when the following prisoners were tried and convicted, viz.:—
James Ward, for stealing books, the property of Caleb Townsend, at Aston, and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment in the House of Correction,” – Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 28 Apr 1827, p. 3, col. 2 – https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/