Showeth that your petitioner hath for these twenty-two years past been an innholder or alehousekeeper and although your worships have been pleased (for some reasons best known to yourselves) to say your petitioner should leave of selling ale and beer yet your worships out of goodness towards your petitioner have been please to licence him till this timeā¦ Your petitioner therefore humbly begs a continuation of your worships' licence for selling of ale and beer as formerly he hath done, he demeaning himself according to the laws in that behalf. And the rather for that by this means he shall the better be supplied with small beer for the use of the prisoners, as they are supplied in prisons in other places: And also in regard your petitioners is very ancient and not likely to live long, and by means of selling ale and beer he may the better be enabled to pay every one their just dues. And your petitioner shall ever pray for your worships etc.
Petitions
LRO
QSP 308/39
Petition
Manchester, Lancashire, England
1667 (Midsummer)
Petition
Appeal
1667
Intoxicants
Alcohol | Ale
Alcohol | Beer
Relates To
Licensing
Setting
Prison
Transcription
Petitioner
Edward Rawsterne
male
Gaoler
Manchester, Lancashire, England