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Extracts from the Records of the 



East Laving ton contributed three publicans; Weeke two (for the 

 titles of whose houses the spaces on the page are left blank) ; Up- 

 avon two (of whom one was Maurice Oram, of " The Antelope, de 

 novo apposit : ") ; Allcannings one ; and Bromham one. From the 

 east of the county came, on a like errand, Thomas Waters, of Frox- 

 field ; while from the yet remoter borders of Charnham Street 

 journeyed three persons whose names are separately entered and 

 noted as " diversorii de antiquo allocati, sed non tenebantur coram 

 eisdem justic : sicut alteri." 



Like security was taken from seven common brewers, of whom 

 Upavon sent one and Devizes the rest. Three of them are described 

 as " yeomen/' two as " gentlemen/'' one as a widow, and the seventh 

 passes undescribed. They undertook to " brewe and sell noe other 

 but good and wholesome ale and beare well sodden and well brewed 

 of wholesome grayne as it ought to be." A regular tariff is pre- 

 scribed for them, but unfortunately the measures of quantity only 

 are specified, while the spaces for the prices were never filled in. 



A distinction between victualling and alehouse-keeping is marked 

 in the following order : — 



" It is ordered that John Reele only shall keep an Alehouse in Great Bedwyn, 

 and that William Pierson shalbe permitted to kepe Vitlinge untill Easter next 

 without setting up any Alestake* but if he kepe any disorder then to be utterly 

 dismissed. All other to be removed." 



V. — Unlawful Games. 



The due conduct of a tippling-house included a discountenancing 

 of unlawful games, a term which, so far as the generality of the 

 population was concerned, included, temp. Eliz., a variety of amuse- 

 ments which would now-a-days be regarded as not only harmless 

 but commendable. The statute then in force on this subject had 

 been passed in the thirty-third year of the reign of King Henry 

 the Eighth, and was styled " The Bill for maintaining Artillery and 

 the debarring of unlawful games."" The connection between the 

 two ideas, not at first very obvious, is explained by a perusal of the 

 Act. The bowyers, fletchers, stringers, and arrow-head makers had 



• Alestake: the post or pole, the sign of an alehouse. 



