Showeth that whereas the multitude of our poor people is greatly increased, both in our Town and Parish which grievance doeth arise (as we conceive) from the great number of disordered alehouses, being receptacles only of such loose and idle persons as have not any lawful calling, and nurseries of bawdry, which is too manifest by the great routs we see of Bastards and other dissolute persons; And whereas we conceive that Ten are sufficient for our said Town (the same being no Market Town) yet would we neither limit your worships herein, nor reduce them to our own stint; but finding that there are too many more unable to give entertainment to any travellers for lodging (some of them brewing in kilns) and as we believe unlicenced; we do most earnestly entreat your worships for the honour of God, and for the removal of Judgments from us in these evil times, to be pleased to take this our grievance into your worship's considerations, and either by a due examination of the cause and the delinquents, to suppress, or otherwise to proceed against them as to your wisdoms shall seem meet, or otherwise to direct us for the relief of the poor, by setting on work such as are able or in authorising us to distrain for such as offend herein for the relief of the impotent, this we leave to your wisdoms, and commend you to the Lord in our prayers.
Petitions
LRO
QSB 1/51/59
Petition
Manchester, Lancashire, England
1629 (Epiphany)
Petition
Complaint
1629
Relates To
Keeping a disorderly house
Retailing without licence
Lodging
Setting
Alehouse
Transcription
Petitioners
Harry Fairfax
male
Church of England Clergyman
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Ralph Wood
male
Churchwarden
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Basic Mark
John Ashton
male
Churchwarden
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Signature
Robert Lees
male
Churchwarden
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Signature
Ralph Hall
male
Overseer of the Poor
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Robert Shelton
male
Churchwarden
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Signature
William Bell
male
Overseer of the Poor
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Signature
William Wright
male
Overseer of the Poor
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Signature
Robert Leech
male
Overseer of the Poor
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Signature
Richard Ouldham
male
Overseer of the Poor
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Signature
George Coate
male
Churchwarden
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Signature
Isaac Dehaw
male
Overseer of the Poor
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Signature
John Smith
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Signature
Edmund Buckley
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Basic Mark
Miles Andrew
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Elaborate Mark
John Andrew
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Signature
Henry Andrew
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Basic Mark
Joshua Lees
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Signature
John Knott
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Basic Mark
Ralph Clough
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Elaborate Mark
Nicholas [Not specified]
male
Signature
Nicholas Berwick
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Elaborate Mark
Miles Hilton
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Basic Mark
John Robinson
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Basic Mark
John Hardman
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Signature
John Sandiforth
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Signature
Robert Slater
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Basic Mark
Robert Walker
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Elaborate Mark
Nicholas Hurst
male
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Signature