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At Huntingdon assizes, a cause was tried, which excited much comment. A miller had for years his windmill in the midst of a common. A part of this was enclosed by Act of Parliament, and the new road was run by the Commissioners under the fly of the mill. The prosecutor, a Reverend and respectable gentleman, passing when the mill was at work, his horse took fright, and he was thrown. The Judge was at a loss how to determine. The miller was innocent, the prosecutor was intitled to justice, the commissioners only were to blame.— Under these circumstances, he thought that the best way of deciding would be, “to direct the prosecutor to pay the miller 40l. and the miller to abate the nuisance, with leave to erect his mill on some convenient spot adjoining.” This was accordingly made the judgment of the court The decision has caused much surprise in the county, as it is the first instance wherein a prosecutor has been made to pay a fine as the price of his obtaining justice.
— Hampshire Chronicle, Monday 03 August, 1807 source