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Conditions of Recognizance.
Amongst Articles of this kind I did commend to the
Justices care these
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First, That no Ale-house-keeper upon the Sabbath
day should receive
or suffer to remain any person whatsoever (as their Guests) in any their
houses, or other places to tiple, eat or drink; other than Travellers,
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Secondly, That they suffer no person whatsoever,
resorting to their
Houses, only to eat or drink, to remain to be there after nine of the Clock
in the evening, from Michaelmas till Lady-day; or from Lady-Day
till Michaelmas,
after teri of the Clock at night. |
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Thirdly, That they suffer no person, resorting to
their Houses, only to
eat and drink, to remain tipling there above one hour, other than Travellers. |
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But note, that now there be divers Articles of far
better directions,
published (touching Ale-houses) by Proclamation given by the Kings
Majesty at New-Market, the 19 day of January in the 16 year
of his Majesties
Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Anno Dom. 1618.
in
manner and form following. |
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I. That the Justices of Peace of every County,
City, or Town Corporate
within this Kingdom, and the Dominion of Wales, do once every
year, in the Months of April and May, assemble themselves,
either at a
special Sessions, or such other Meeting as they shall appoint for that
purpose,
(respecting the ease and convenience of the People of the County)
and there call before them, or any two of them, (whereof one to be of
the Quorum) all such persons as do sell Ale or Beer by retail in
any place
(as well within Liberties as without) within such County, City or Town
Corporate; and then and there to take true Certificate and Information
from Men of trust, who be Persons of honest conversation, and who not;
and to give Licence to such persons as they in their discretions shall
think
meet to keep common Ale-houses, or Victualling houses, within the
places where such persons shall dwell. |
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II. That in the licensing of the said Victuallers
and Ale-house-keepers,
the form of the Recognizance hereafter following, and the Condition
thereunto annexed, be used, and none other.
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MEmorand' quod 20 die Febr. anno
Regni Som' nostri Caroli, De gratia,
Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ & Hiberniæ Regis,
Fidei Defensoris, &c.
cor' T. P. & H. D. Armiger' Justiciar' dicti Dom' Regis ad Pacem
in Comitatus
pred' conservand' assignat' &c. A. B. de, &c. & C.
D. de, &c. manuceperunt
pro W. St. de, &c. Victualler, viz. uterq; Manucapt'
pred' sub pœna quinq; librar'
& pred' W. St. assumpsit pro seipso sub pœna 10 l. quas
concesserunt se debere
dicto Dom' Regi, &c. sub Condit. seq.
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THE Condition of this Recognizance is such; That
whereas the
above (or within) bounden A. B. is admitted and allowed by the said
Justices to keep a common Ale-house and Victualling-house until the
first of April, (or for the space of one whole year next ensuing
the date
hereof) and no longer, in the House where he now dwelleth, at C. in
the
County of S. and not elsewhere in the said County: If therefore
the said
A. B. shall not, during the time aforesaid, permit or suffer, or
have any
playing at Dice, Cards, Tables, Quoits, Loggets, Bowls, or any other
unlawful Game or Games, in his House, Yard, Garden or Back-side; nor
shall suffer to be or remain in his House any person or persons (not
being his ordinary houshold Servants) upon any Sabbath-day or Holy-day; |
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