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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… clothes and BEDDING from moths and fleas, and in brewing ALE, though this last was prohibited by [Acts (1710)]. The … the 'Compounder of Liquors'. On the other hand, wormwood-ale was. This is confusing as one would not expect an ale to come within the province of a distiller or compounder …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… century when he also exercised the assize of bread and ale. The inhabitants of the manor were presented in 1601 for …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Ralph de Camoys also claimed the assize of bread and of ale in 1276. 97 The honor of Richmond's free tenants attended …
A History of the County of Essex
… encroachments on the waste, the unlicensed sale of ale, sheltering strangers, and the failure to scour ditches … on the common. As well as constables one or two bread- and ale-tasters were usually elected. The number of presentments …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the park walls. There were bars at the town's entrances. Ale Bar gate on the Oxford road, recorded in 1504, was … green towards Oxford but in 1504 was the street leading to Ale Bar gate. 51 It was Pest House Lane when the later no. 23 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough charter of 1453 granted the assize of bread and of ale to the mayor, and the charter of 1565 allowed him to hold … current market price of grain, he set the prices of bread, ale, and sometimes a wide range of other products. 37 The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… wine in the town hall, the 'populace' shared a hogshead of ale at Penniless Bench. 22 Popular pastimes recorded in the … By the early 19th century there was a septennial Whitsun ale 28 during which the pole and an evergreen bower were set … in the mid 18th the corporation regularly paid for cakes, ale, and a drummer for the procession. 37 The last recorded …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the mayor was to hold the assize of bread and of ale without interference from royal officers. The corporation … to Catholic Emancipation. 44 In 1793 the council provided ale for the populace on burning the effigy of Thomas Paine. … encroachments, and breaches of the assize of bread and of ale; in the later 17th century a few presentments concerned …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Manor courts were held for Aluredston with assize of ale in the late 13th century, and a hayward was elected. 66 … Wood from the late 15th century to 1660, a bread- and ale-taster, and a hayward. 73 From the late 17th century …