Possible Clues:

• Put down in writing
• Did this all right, by the sound of it
• That's written in an old-fashioned way
• Written of old where there's a knotted tie
• Heard on a charge once put in writing
• Dined about it and wrote about it
• Wrote this of old and dined about it
• Accused caught out and taken down
• Charged, by the sound of it, in written form of old
• Charged, by the sound of it, with having written this in an old-fashioned way