One Mr Horton kept the Union Inn in Thames Street – as in February 1835 he was charged by informer Moses Pegg of selling ale to boatmen on good Friday. also Pegg claimed men were playing skittles in the yard, Horton was fined 40/-.
In May of the same year, Moses Pegg was to lay a charge on three publicans for serving after hours, again including the Union Inn.
The Leicester Chronicle reported, this time naming the landlord Mr Orton:
The report suggested that Moses Pegg was a ‘public spirited gentleman’ but he was to become the most notorious informer in Leicester’s history for being a scourge of many publicans and other tradesman.
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