By F. A. Carrington, Esq. 



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Anno 1223. Constitut. Eicardi Poore, Epi Sarum.* " Prohibemus quoque 

 ne denunciationes Scotallorum fiant in ecclesia per laicos nec in ecclesiis nec 

 extra ecclesias per sacerdotes vel per clericos." 



TRANSLATION : — 



Anno 1223. Constitutions of Eichard Poore, Bishop of Sarum. We order 

 also that no announcements of Scot ales be made by laymen in the church, and 

 neither in the churches nor out of the churches by priests or by clergymen. 



In the same diocese, a meeting of more than ten persons of the 

 same parish or vicinage was a Scot ale that was prohibited by- 

 Bishop Bridport. 



Anno 1266. Constit: Aegid : de Bridport Epi Sarum. -f " De prohibitione 

 Scotallarum. — Prohibitionem Scotallarum et aliarum communium potationum 

 pro salute animarum et corporum introductam synodali approbatione prose- 

 quentes rectoribus vicariis et aliis presbyteris parochialibus precipimus sub 



j obedientie debito firmiter injungendo quod parochianos suos crebra exhortatione 

 diligenter inducant ne prohibitionis hujus temerarii violatores existant." 

 " Communes autem potationes declaramus quoties virorum multitudo que 



• numerum denarium excesserunt ejusdem parochie in qua cervisia venalis exti- 

 terit vel etiam vicinarum in tabernis hujus modi vel infra septa ejusdem domi- 

 cilii potandi gratia commorantur. Viatores vero peregrinos et in nundinis et 



| mercatis convenientes quamvis in tabernis convenerint sub prohibitione ista nolu- 



I mus comprehendi." 



TRANSLATION : — 



i a.d. 1266. Constitutions of Giles de Bridport, Bishop of Surum. 



" Of the prohibition of Scot ales." 

 "We being desirous, for the good of men's souls and bodies, to put down 

 ; Scot ales and other public drinkings, do, with the consent of our Synod, enjoin 

 all rectors, vicars, and other parish priests, in virtue of the obedience which 

 they owe to us, to urge upon their parishioners by frequent exhortations, not to 

 I be rash violators of this prohibition. 



" By public drinkings we mean, wherever a multitude of men exceeding the 

 I number of ten in the same parish in which the ale shall be sold, or in neighbour- 

 ing parishes, or within the bounds of the same domicile shall be assembled for 

 | the purpose of drinking. But travellers, strangers, and persons attending fairs, 

 i or markets, although they meet in taverns, we are unwilling to include in this 

 i prohibition." 



Scot ales were generally kept in houses of public resort. 



4. The Clerk's Ale. 



I was told in the year 1838, by the late Mr. Thomas Neale, of 

 Draycote Foliot, that on Easter Tuesday in every year, the clerk of 



* Wilkins's Concil Magn. Britan. Vol. i., p. 600. From a MS. in Corp. Ch. Coll., Oxon. 

 t Id. p. 719, from a MS. in Corp. Chr. Coll., Oxon. 



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