One Lewis Hallam< no role > who keeps an Alehouse called the Taphouse
Wells in Goodmans Fields aforesaid for keeping respectively
Common reputed or Notorious known Bawdy houses for Gain
therein to the Encouraging of all Vice and Profaneness whereunto
many Tole and Disorderly Persons Young and Old of both Sexes
resort by day and Night and Commit divers Outrages and
Disorders to the Disturbance of the Inhabitants - The Said
Justices of the Said Division At their General Meetings for Granting
Licences to Victuallers when the said Sir Samuel Gower< no role > This name instance is in set 3163. was
present have often refused to grant Licences to the sd. Roberts
And Hallam for the Causes aforesaid Notwithstanding
which And All the said Justices at such Meetings (Saveing
himself) Utterly refused to Grant Such Licences to the said
Roberts & Hallam Yet he the said Sir Samuel Gower< no role > This name instance is in set 3163. hath
been Urgent on their behalf And Endeavoured to get Some
One of the said Justices to Join with him in Granting Such
Licences.

That not being able by such his Publick as able Private
and Personal Sollicitations to procure Such Licences the said
Sir Samuel Gower< no role > This name instance is in set 3164. hath presumed by his Own Authority City and Under
Colour of his Office of a Justice of the Peace Signed Writings
by him Called Permissive Licences for the said Roberts and< no role >
Hallam respectively to sell Beer & Ale whereby the said
Wicked Practices have been Continued in their said Houses
And whereby Also the Commissioners of Excise have been
imposed upon and have Granted to the said Roberts and< no role >
Hallam respectively Licences for retailing Spirituous
Liquors therein

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That the said Justice Sir Samuel Gower< no role > This name instance is in set 3163. does or lately
did Employ as his Clerk One winstone Victualler who lately was a
White Chappel Bailiff and Now keeps an Alehouse in the Tower
Liberty near half a Mile Distant from the said Justice to whom at
his said Alehouse All Persons Applying to the said Justice for a
Warrant are to go And the said Winstone when at Leisure is to
take their Informations and Examinations And there to make out
Warrants and to send them to the said Justice to be signed That Such
Persons Drinking in the said Winston's house< no role > Untill such Matters are
prepared are afterwards very unfit to make Oath of the truth