The humble petition of the inhabitants of the township of Great Eccleston whose names are subscribed. Showeth that whereas several great abuses have been committed and done and is daily seen and felt in our township by the multiplicity of alehouses, having at this time not less than seven that keep tippling houses, and of late having had soldiers quartered in our said town who would not be contented with such drink as their quarters would afford did send for strong ale into the houses where they were quartered and the alewives since have procured the soldiers to come and take the meat of the honest prisoners take their goods and scold very fiercely and violently with them and the said alewives (as most or all them) are not of good name or fameā¦ May it please your worships to suppress the said alehouses and divers other such as in this kind shall appear to be faulty and your petitioners will pray etc.
Petitions
LRO
QSP 26/23
Petition
Preston, Lancashire, England
1650 (Epiphany)
Petition
Complaint
1650 (Epiphany)
Intoxicants
Alcohol | Ale
Relates To
Keeping a disorderly house
Quartering
Setting
Alehouse
Transcription
Petitionees
John Gradell
male
Alcohol Retailer: Alehouse-keeper
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
Henry Rayby
male
Alcohol Retailer: Alehouse-keeper
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
John Fisher
male
Alcohol Retailer: Alehouse-keeper
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
John Glover
male
Alcohol Retailer: Alehouse-keeper
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
Petitioners
William Anyon
male
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
Richard Johnson
male
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
John Gurnall
male
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
John Johnson
male
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
John Fowler
male
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
Andrew Gurnall
male
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
Henry Lawson
male
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
John White
male
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
Edmund White
male
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
Richard Blackburn
male
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
James Hornby
male
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
James Clitheroe
male
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
Henry Johnson
male
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England
William Hornby
male
Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England