92 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book VIIL 



or either of them their or either of their assignes for the same 

 The acte & statute made in the seaventh yeare of the late kinge 

 of England Edwarde the sixte intituled an Acte for the avoyd- 

 inge of the excessive price of wynes * or any branch article or 

 clause therein conteyned. Or any other acte law statute 

 ordynance Tf'clamacon ^'vision Comaundm* or restrainte by vs 

 or any of o'' noble ^'genitors or 'F'decessors kings or queenes of 

 this Realme heretofore had madeor'F'claymed to the contrary 

 notw*"standinge, Provided alwaies & nevertheless vpon Con- 

 dicon That if the yearely some or paym* of Forty shillings 

 menconed in the Condicon of one obligacon wherein the said 

 Roger Funston standeth bound in the some of Twenty pounds 

 for the paym* of the said yearely soire to vs o'' heires and 

 Successors duringe the lives of the said Elizabeth Funston & 

 John her sonne shall happen or fortune to be behind and 

 vnpaid in p'te or in all by the space of Thirty dales next after 

 any of the feasts lymitted by and in the Condicon of the said 

 obligacon for the paym* of the same Contrary to the true 

 intent & meaninge of the said Condicon, Or if the said Elizabeth 

 Funston & John her sonne or the longer liver of them shall 

 or doe at any tyme or tymes hereafter graunte set let or assigne 

 the said lycence or ^res pattents vnto any f^son or Tsons 

 whatsoever either for longer or lesser tyme or shall by any 



* According to the provisions of this Act, French and Gascony wines 

 were to be sold at Zd. Rochell at 4^. and any other wine " after the rate 

 of \od. the gallon at most." (ii.) No person was allowed to have more than 

 ten gallons of wine for his private use in his house unless he was worth by 

 the year 100 marks (;^66 \is. 4^.), or have goods and chattels to the value 

 of 1000 marks, or was the son of a Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, or Baron 

 of the realm, (iii.) No person could keep taverns except in cities, towns, 

 corporate boroughs, port and market towns, under licence of the Mayor, 

 and in market towns under licence of Justices of the Peace. Not more 

 than two taverns were allowed in any town, except in London where 40 were 

 permitted, in York 8, Norwich 4, Westminster 3, Bristol 6, Hull 4, Shrews- 

 bury 3, Exeter 4, Salisbury 3, Gloucester 4, Winchester 3, Oxford 3, 

 Cambridge 4, Newcastle-on-Tyne 4, etc. (iv.) No person was allowed to 

 retail wine " to be dronk or spent " on the premises under penalty of ^10 

 for each offence, (v. vi.) Merchants, high Sheriffs, and Mayors of towns 

 corporate were exempt, as also were the ^Universities of Oxford and 

 Cambridere. 



