Servant fined at Ellon

JUSTICE OF PEACE COURT
At a Justice of Peace Court, lately held at Ellon, a Servant who had engaged for the Summer half-year with Alexander Findlay, at Little Mains of Auchleuchries, but who refused to enter upon her service, was fined in the mitigated penalty of £1. 10s. sterling, the Wages engaged for having been £2. 10s. sterling.  The action was brought for insolent conduct, and the penalty afterwards generously given to the poor of the parish.

Published in The Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 10th October, 1810.