Your humble petitioner Grace Fielden the... late wife of Lieutenant Henry Fielden and continued widow these fifteen years ever since the death of my husband and have carefully brought up a great many of children with very small means, whereof some are now in the parliament's service and have been above ten or twelve years, and after the death of my husband for the most part sithence, for my better livelihood and subsistence have kept ale to sell without the least opposition or complaint of any of my neighbours or others until this last year. That one man only in our town did lay such foul aspersions upon me especially at the last privy Sessions holden for the division of Blackburn hundred, so as by no means I could procure licence to keep ale as formerly I had and yet doth still persist so vehemently against me as he intendeth nothing more than to overthrow me in my poor and small estate and to take my good name and fame utterly from me to my intolerable grief and sorrow as you may perceive by a warrant (here to be showed) directed forth against me to appear this day before you, and in obedience thereunto lest I should offend the law, with great pain by reason of my infirmities and indisposition of body, have travelled hither to purge myself of such aspersions as already have or are to be objected against me Which I trust (by god's good help and the assistance of my good and honest neighbours) whose names be subscribed whereof some be here in that behalf will upon examination of our cause plainly appear to be most untrue, which if they be, I trust you will (in your solid judgment and prudent consideration) weigh and commiserate my case and poor condition and grant and licence [me] to keep ale as well as to others according to the rules and order of the law in that case made and provided, which (god willing) I shall observe... And so only and humbly desiring your lawful favour and wishing your everlasting health and prosperity rest your humble and poor petitioner.
Petitions
LRO
QSP 178/26
Petition
Preston, Lancashire, England
1659 (Midsummer)
Petition
Appeal
1659
Intoxicants
Alcohol | Ale
Relates To
Poor relief
Licensing
Setting
Alehouse
Transcription
Petitionee
Grace Fielden
female
Widow
Alcohol Retailer: Alehouse-keeper
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Petitioners
Grace Fielden
female
Alcohol Retailer: Alehouse-keeper
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Thomas Broughton
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
William Oldam
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
George Hindle
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
George Ainsworth
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Christopher Hindle
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Ralph Rishton
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Edward Holker
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
John Handley
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Richard Lavy
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Thomas Cottam
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Lawrence Duckworth
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Christopher Fielden
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Gilbert Houlden
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Ralph Walkden
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
George Riley
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
James Kirshey
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
John Hargreaves
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
John Broughton
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Christopher Baron
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
John Crosley
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Lawrence Tomlinson
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
William Rishton
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Lawrence Tomlinson
male
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
John Hindle
male
Freemason
Blackburn, Lancashire, England