That your petitioner being a licenced alehousekeeper about a month sithence Mr Ratcliff Garrard with several others came to your petitioners house requiring to have some meat and drink for their money: But so it happened that after the said Mr Garrard came unto Halsall that it pleased the Lord to receive him out of this world so that he became a doubt unto the Country that the said Mr Garrard died of the sickness of the plague ever since whose death your supplicant hath been [prevented from] going abroad or suffering any other neighbours coming unto him albeit it hath been very much loss unto him... for that your petitioner hath not any other means to live upon to maintain himself wife and children all only by brewing, which... hath not only been very prejudicial unto your petitioner by the loss of ten brew of drink then provided, but also the withdrawing of friends and neighbours at the meeting about the Town's business… The premises considered your supplicant's humble petition therefore herein is that your Worship's would be pleased in Order a commiseration of your petitioner's great loss and present misery to Order that he receive such allowance forty of the parish of Halsall or otherwise as to your great wisdoms shall seem meet and requisite. And as in duty bound, your petitioner shall ever pray.
Petitions
LRO
QSP 35/15
Petition
Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
1650 (Midsummer)
Petition
Other
1650
Relates To
Official consumption
Brewing/Distilling
Poor relief
Setting
Alehouse
Transcription
Petitioner
Bartholomew Houlme
male
Alcohol Retailer: Alehouse-keeper
Halsall, Lancashire, England