The Early History of English Poor Relief

by of Girton College E. M. Leonard

Touching Alehouses.

1. What alehouses there be in yo^r parish & where they stand.

2. What persons they bee that keepe them & whether licensed or bound.

3. What assize of bread & beere they keepe.

4. What disorders they keepe in theire houses by drinking or otherwise.

5. What persons haunt the same Alehouses or continue drinking therein.

6. What persons have bine drunke and have not bine therefore punished.

Lastly.

Whether the watches appointed by the Statute have bine duly observed for the apprehencon and punishm^t of Rogues."

B. Dom. State Papers, Chas. I. Vol. 189. 80 and Vol. 197. 69. Extracts from two reports from the hundred of Braughing, one sent to the High Sheriff in April and the other in Sept. 1631.