Wiltshire Quarter Sessions. 



329 



The purport of these clauses is as follows : — 



" 1. First that noe Innkeeper or Typler that may convenience be served from 

 anie brewer do brewe in their houses but that they take from the brewers such 

 drincke onlie and at such reasonable sise as shalbe fytt for travelers and passen- 

 gers and as the Justices of the peace of that place or lymitt shall assigne or set 

 downe as f} r tt for that purpose." 



2. Against the admission of " cardes dice or tables " into any tippling-house. 



" 3. Itm that no Victuler &c shall dresse or suffer to be dressed or eaten within 

 his house ani fleshe upon anie forbydden dayes saving in case of necessitie of 

 sicknes &c. &c. 



" 4. Itm that they suffer none to eate and typle or victual in their houses but 

 such as wayfaring men that shall take the same to refresh themselves in their 

 passage or iorny or such as shalbe appoynted to lodge or take dyett in their 

 houses but to deliver oute of their houses that quantitie of drink wch their neigh- 

 bours of the poorer sorte shall have need of to be druncke in their houses whoe 

 fetche or send for the same, and not elswhere. 



5. No drunkenness to be permitted, " nor anie tipling at all on the Sabaoth 

 dayes or hollydayes in tyme of devyne service," nor after 8 p.m. 



6. None to be entertained for longer than one day and one night " but such 

 as he [the victualler] will answer for." 



7. Against buying goods of any wayfaring man. 



" 8c Itm that ev r y Inkeeper and Typler allowed shall buy his drinke wthout 

 brewing, of anie of the brewer allowed to brewe drinke (if anie be) all of one 

 sorte And if eyther Typlers or Innkeepers refuse soe to doe ev r y of the Typlers 

 soe refusing to be forthwith dismissed to Typle any longer, and to be bound 

 over &c." 



At the Epiphany Sessions, 19th Elizabeth, two innkeepers — one 

 of Hindon the other of Fisherton Anger — gave bail with sureties 

 conditioned, among 1 other things, for the due observance of the third 

 of the foregoing articles. 



The City of Salisbury seems to have been foremost in application 

 for licenses to " aquavitemen," while Devizes stands almost alone as 

 the place at which the inns are, in the minutes, named by their signs. 



At the same Michaelmas Sessions held at Devizes as that at which 

 the above rules were promulgated, nine innkeepers at Devizes gave 

 bail, themselves in £10 with two sureties in £5 each — John Sawter, 

 in respect of " The Beare," the sign of which is mentioned as " de 

 novo apposit : " ; James Willis, for " The Lambc"; Nicholas Bar- 

 ret, for "The Crowne " ; Richard Maundrell, for " The Harte " j 

 John Pearce, for " The Swan w ; Stephen Godfrey, for " The Lyon " ; 

 and three other persons for houses which are not specially designated. 



