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Conditions of Recognizances.
honest and good conversation, and displacing of others of ill behaviour. |
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7. That the Clerks of the Peace, and Town-clerks,
and their Deputies,
may take of every Ale-house-keeper for their Fee, for performing
of the Services aforesaid, at the time of the acknowledgment of the said
Recognizance, the Fee of 18 d. and no more, over and above the Fee
of
12 d. allowed for the Justices Clerks by the Statute, which shall
be paid
to the said Justices Clerks. |
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8. That in case the Ale-house-keeper, not
knowing of the Justices
meeting, or being hindred by sickness, or other such like impediment,
shall fail of admittance at the general or publick Assemblies, and shall
notwithstanding be admitted or licensed by two Justices of the Peace,
(whereof one to be of the Quorum) the Recognizance with condition
fair engrossed in parchment in the form prescribed, as aforesaid, shall
forthwith, or at the next next Sessions at the farthest, be returned to
the
Clerks of the Peace, or the Town-clerks respectively, under the hands
of the Justices before whom such Recognizance was taken, together also
with the said Fee of eighteen pence for the entring, registring, making
and delivering of a Copy under his hand to the Ale-house-keeper,
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9. That none be licensed or allowed to keep
an Ale-house that hath
not one convenient lodging at least in his or their Houses, for the lodging
of any Passenger or Traveller, and hath not always in his or their House
good and wholsom small Beer or Ale, of two quarts for a penny, for the
relief of the Labourer, Traveller, or others that call for the same. |
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10. That the Justices of Peace within their
several Precincts do not
permit or suffer any unlicensed Ale-house-keeper or Victualler to sell
Beer
or Ale, but that they proceed against them by all due and lawful means
whatsoever; and that they be very careful, from time to time, to cause
the Brewers to be proceeded against in their General and Quarter-Sessions,
for delivering Beer or Ale to such unlicensed persons, according to
the Statute in that case provided. |
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11. That the Clerks of the Peace, or Town-clerks
respectively, do
once every year, in Trinity Term, make and bring in a Brief of all
such
Recognizances as shall be taken within every County, City and Town
Corporate, into the Office of the Patentees, (appointed by them for that
purpose) to the end all concealments of Recognizances taken in that
behalf may be discovered, and the benefit accruing to his Majesty by
such as willingly break the same may be more duly prosecuted; of which
that his Highness be not defrauded, order is given to the Patentees, that
with the allowance of the chief Justices of the Kings Bench there be appointed
Committees in every County for the recovery thereof from
time to time. |
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12. That the Justices of Assize in their Circuits,
and Justices of Peace
at their general Sessions of the Peace, do from time to time, enquire of
the due execution of these presents, and of all other abuses, disorders,
and misdemeanors, whatsoever, committed or suffered against the provisions
aforesaid, and the true meaning of them. |
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' And yet the means (as I conceive) to reduce them
both to a more
' competent number, and to better order, would be by a Law to be
' made by Statute, that none should be licensed to keep any Ale-house,
' unless they did find two good and sufficient Sureties (one of them at
' least to be a Subsidy-man) to be bound for performance o the Condition
' of their said Recognizance. |
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