Kentish Gazette Dec 14 1821 back page col.4
Parish officers of Maidstone having received information that several persons who receive parochial relief, were in the habit of spending a considerable portion of that relief in public houses, went around the town on Thursday evening last. At one or two houses they found some individuals dissipating in tippling, the money they had so received from the funds furnished by the industrious part of the community, and proper notice will be taken of the conduct of men who thus prove themselves to be such unworthy objects of the public charity.
