May it please your worships to understand that I, your worship’s handmaid and poor petitioner being wife of Robert Rosbotham late deceased of Ashton in the time of Sickness I being left in great misery now being very desirous to get a true honest living not having any estate to assist me withal, craves your worships favour in granting me a licence to brew and to bake, promising your worships not to have any evil customs in the same so hoping it will stand with your gracious favours in relieving me in this my request, praying for your health and happiness I rest. Furthermore I do you to understand that my brother dies of the sickness and I was put into a cabin and my child a month and a three weeks in the house my means being spent in my imprisonment under God’s hand am now bound to sue for favour at your worship’s hands I not being practiced in any other calling to get my living.
Petitions
LRO
QSP 27/26
Petition
Wigan, Lancashire, England
1650 (Epiphany)
Petition
Application
14 January 1650
Relates To
Licensing
Poor relief
Food
Brewing/Distilling
Setting
Alehouse
Transcription
Petitioner
Widow Rosbotham
female
Widow
Alcohol Retailer: Alehouse-keeper
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England
Basic Mark