Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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10th June 1713 - 17th October 1721

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amended and clean by the days such Views are to be taken
That then the Justices do Convict and levy the Penaltys in the
said Statute upon all and every the offenders

And this Court haveing also taken into consideration the State
and Condition of the Goals within this County and particularly
those of New Prison and Bridewell (which are more imediately
under the Jurisdiction of this Court) Doe find and are Satisfied
by the Report of Several Justices who have taken a view of them
That they are in perfect health very Sweet and clean and under
very good Regulations

And it is farther Ordered by this Court That this Order be printed and
published in the Newes Papers called The Daily Courant To the
intent that all Persons concerned in any of the Particulars
herein Specified may have publick Notice and conforme
themselves thereunto.

In the Act of the 7th. of King George, For Quartering
Soldiers and Punishing Matiny and Desertion
for 175: There is a Clause

Representacon
to the Secretary
of warr touching
the Quartering
of Soldiers

That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Constables Etc.
to Quarter or Billet the Officers and Soldiers in his Majestys
Service, in Inns, Livery Stables, Ale houses, Victualing houses,
and all Houses of Persons Selling Brandy Strong Waters Cyder or
Metheglin by Retails to be drank in Houses other than and
Except the House or Houses of any Distillers, who keep Houses
or places of Distilling Brandy or strong waters and the House of
any Shop keeper, whose principal Dealings' shall be more in
other Goods and Merchandizes than in Brandy and Strong
Waters who do not permit or suffer Tipling in their Houses.
It is too apparent what ill use has been made of the Exception in
their Clause.

1.

It has put all sorts of Inferior Trades on selling Stong Waters,
being by this Exception Freed from Quartering Soldiers under
petence of dealing more in other Goods.

2.

Most of those, who deal in Strong Waters only, and get their whole
Livelyhood by Selling them by Retail, Sett up Little stills,




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