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One
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Lewis Hallam
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who keeps an Alehouse called the Taphouse
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aforesaid for keeping respectively
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Common reputed or Notorious known Bawdy houses for Gain
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therein to the Encouraging of all Vice and Profaneness whereunto
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many Tole and Disorderly Persons Young and Old of both Sexes
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resort by day and Night and Commit divers Outrages and
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Disorders to the Disturbance of the Inhabitants - The Said
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Justices of the Said Division At their General Meetings for Granting
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Licences to Victuallers when the said Sir
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Samuel Gower
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was
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present have often refused to grant Licences to the sd. Roberts
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And Hallam for the Causes aforesaid Notwithstanding
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which And All the said Justices at such Meetings (Saveing
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himself) Utterly refused to Grant Such Licences to the said
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Roberts & Hallam Yet he the said Sir
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Samuel Gower
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hath
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been Urgent on their behalf And Endeavoured to get Some
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One of the said Justices to Join with him in Granting Such
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Licences.
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That not being able by such his Publick as able Private
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and Personal Sollicitations to procure Such Licences the said
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Samuel Gower
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hath presumed by his Own Authority City and Under
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Colour of his Office of a Justice of the Peace Signed Writings
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by him Called Permissive Licences for the said
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Roberts and
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Hallam respectively to sell Beer & Ale whereby the said
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Wicked Practices have been Continued in their said Houses
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And whereby Also the Commissioners of Excise have been
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imposed upon and have Granted to the said
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Hallam respectively Licences for retailing Spirituous
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Liquors therein
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That the said Justice Sir
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Samuel Gower
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does or lately
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did Employ as his Clerk One winstone
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Victualler
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who lately was a
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and Now keeps an Alehouse in
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the Tower
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Liberty near half a Mile Distant from the said Justice to whom at
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his said Alehouse All Persons Applying to the said Justice for a
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Warrant are to go And the said Winstone when at Leisure is to
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take their Informations and Examinations And there to make out
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Warrants and to send them to the said Justice to be signed That Such
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Persons Drinking in the said Winston'
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Untill such Matters are
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prepared are afterwards very unfit to make Oath of the truth
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