May it please your worships to be certified by us whose names are hereunder subscribed that your petitioner above named is a very aged woman to the number of fourscore and five years and now by reason of her age and unableness to follow her labour to get her living, she is brought into some decayed want, but whereas your petitioner resideth in a very convenient place in Shaving Lane in Worsley aforesaid being in the road betwixt Manchester and Bolton and other Market towns are humble suit to your worships is that you would grant her a licence to brew and sell ale or beer by and likewise to relieve passengers and travellers with victualling and lodging so that neither she nor her goods may fall into any fine detriment or penalty for so doing… The premises considered and forasmuch as your petitioner dwelleth so conveniently as abovesaid and there not being any alehouse near or within the division of the Constables we humbly entreat your worships that your petitioner may have a licence granted her, we hoping it will be an assistance to her towards mentoring her in her old age and we shall be careful to instruct her to keep good rule and order in her house and which your petitioner for your worships' good prosperity will daily pray… I know this petitioner to be a good honest aged woman and that the house where she lives hath formerly been an alehouse and stands conveniently for that purpose.
Petitions
LRO
QSP 116/19
Petition
Manchester, Lancashire, England
1655 (Midsummer)
Petition
Testimonial
1655
Intoxicants
Alcohol | Ale
Alcohol | Beer
Relates To
Brewing/Distilling
Lodging
Poor relief
Licensing
Setting
Alehouse
Transcription
Petitionee
Cicely Collier
female
Widow
Shaving Lane, Worsley, Lancashire, England
Petitioners
William Cooke
male
Worsley, Lancashire, England
Ralph Marten
male
Worsley, Lancashire, England
Signature
John Valentine
male
Worsley, Lancashire, England
Richard Worsley
male
Worsley, Lancashire, England
Signature
Henry Hill
male
Worsley, Lancashire, England
Robert Landsdall
male
Worsley, Lancashire, England
Signature
Oliver [Not specified]
male
Worsley, Lancashire, England
Signature
James Marcroft
male
Worsley, Lancashire, England
Signature
Edward Urmston
male
Worsley, Lancashire, England
Signature