The humble petition of the Ministers and Elders of the Classes of Warrington. Showeth that the multitude of alehouses, ales, and merrynights are occasions of drunkenness, robberies, and other sins, as also of great dearth of barley the ordinary bread corn of poor people, and that your worships issued forth warrants for the putting down, and suppressing of many alehouses which notwithstanding have taken no effect, but the number of alehouses continue and increase to the dishonour of God, and contempt of your authority and grief of us the minister and Elders of the Classes of Warrington and the associated parishes… We humbly pray that your worships would use your authority in suppressing those of those alehouses which by credible information you may understand to be superfluous, as also ales, merrynights, bear baitings, and other disorders and to cause the Constables to execute their office and we shall daily pray.
Petitions
LRO
QSB 1/288/22
Petition
Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
1647 (Easter)
Petition
Complaint
3 May 1647
Intoxicants
Alcohol | Ale
Relates To
Licensing
Drunkenness
Allowing games
Poor relief
Setting
Alehouse
Transcription
Petitioners
Thomas Risley
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Peter Rollinson
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
William Haigh
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
John Ashton
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Bradley Hayhurst
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Peter Lealand
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
William [Not specified]
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
John [Not specified]
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
George Ainsworth
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Richard Greene
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Richard Mawdsley
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Thomas Tonge
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
William Leigh
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Robert Vose
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Thomas [Not specified]
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
James Wood
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
John Mosse
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Peter Crompton
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Henry Morris
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Zachary Taylor
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Thomas Crompton
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Peter Harrison
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Thomas Norman
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Henry Shaw
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
James Unsworth
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Robert Yates
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Hugh Parr
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
John Johnson
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
John Robinson
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
John Battersby
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
John Maddock
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
John Wright
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Richard Barton
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Timothy Smith
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
James Bradshaw
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Arthur Parr
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
William Baynley
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Peter Lealand
male
Warrington, Lancashire, England