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Dalton's The Country Justice, 1690
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Chap. 174.
Precedents of Warrants.

by them to be first examined, and then the Offenders to be committed if
they be faulty therein.  See antea, tit. Labourers and Warrants.
 

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For Ale-house-keepers to renew their Recognizances.

    JOhn St. George Esquire, one of the Kings Majesties Justices, &c.

    These are in the Kings Majesties name to require you, that you direct
your Precepts to every Petty Constable within your Hundred, requiring
them, that they warn all Ale-house-keepers and Victuallers in
their several Towns within your said Hundred, to be and personally
to appear before us at Linton upon Thursday, &c. then and thither
bringing with them their former Licences:  and farther, that every of
them bring with them a Certificate of their fitness and honest behaviour
in keeping of their Ale-houses, and Victualling-houses, under the hands
of four at the least of the most substantial, honest and discreet Inhabitants
of the Parishes where they so keep or dwell. And hereof fail you
not, &c.
 
A Warrant for the suppressing of an Ale-house.

    TAlbot Pepis and Isaac Barrow Esquires, two of the Kings Majesties
Justice of Peace within the said County of Cambridge, to the Constables
of B. and either of them, Greeting.  Whereas we are credibly
informed, that R. D. of your Town, Victualler, is himself a man of
evil behavior, and besides doth suffer evil rule and disorder to be kept
in his house, contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm:  These
are therefore to will and command you forthwith to repair to the
house of the said R. D. and to charge him to surcease from keeping any
longer any Ale-house, or Tippling house, and from common selling of
Ale or Beer at his peril; and withal that you cause his sign to be pulled
down.  Hereof fail you not, as you and either of you will answer to
the contrary at your peril.  Given under our Hands and Seals at B. the
20th day of August, and in the year of our most gracious Sovereign Lord
Charles, &c.
 


 

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A Warrant to levy mony forfeited by Ale-houses-haunters.

    JOhn Gill Esq; one of the Kings Majesties Justices of the Peace within
the said County of Cambridge, to the Constables and Church-wardens
of the Parish of W. and to every of them, Greeting.  Forasmuch as 
it hath been duly proved before me, according to the Statute in that
behalf provided, that all and every the persons hereunder named, being
Inhabitants within your Parish of W. upon the twelfth day of this instant
Month of November have been and continued drinking and tippling
in the house of G. W. of your said Town (Inn-keeper, or Ale-house-keeper)
contrary to the form of the same Statute: These are
therefore in his Majesties name to charge and command you, and every
of you, forthwith to levy by Distress and sale of the Goods of every the
said persons hereunder named the sum of three shillings and four pence
apiece, if they shall refuse or neglect forthwith to pay the same; (which
several Forfeitures shall be bestowed and imployed by you to the use of
the Poor of your said Parish) and that you render to every of the said
Offenders the overplus that shall remain upon your sale of their said
Goods:  and if the said Offenders, or any of them, shall refuse or neglect


 

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