aforesaid called the Taphouse (but not the Taphouse to
4 Goodmans fields Wells as untruly in the sd. Representation is
suggested) situate in a Stable Yard where great Numbers of
Gentlemens Horses are kept & which Alehouse had been a Licensed
Alehouse for Thirty Years then past & had always been a House
of good Credit And thereupon the sd. Lewis Hallam < no role > did apply to the
Deponent for a Permissive License to Sell Beer & Ale in that House
until a Sessions should be held for granting Licences And this Depo [..]
did according sign such Permissive License for the said Lewis
5 Hallam And this Depont. further Saith that at the next Sessions for
granting Licenses (at which Sessions this Depont. was present) the
said Lewis Hallam applyed to the Justices to grant him a License
but William Hallam< no role > the supposed Proprietor of the Place called
Goodmans Fields Wells & the Brother of the sd. Lewis Hallam there
having had some Dispute as this Depont. has been Informed &
believes with Richard Ricards< no role > in the Representation named Richard
Rickards< no role > Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace (who was then in
the Chair) such License was refused And this Depont. admits he
did upon such Refusal say he thought it was every hard Case
to refuse a Licence to an old Licensed House without any Apparent
Reason & desired to know what the Poor Man must door to that
Effect whereto the sd. Richard Ricards replyed that they did not
Chuse then to grant him a License but that this Depont. might Sign
him a Permissive Licence as before which would Enable the said
Lewis Hallam to get a Licence from the Comissioners of Excise for
retailing Spirituous Liquors And this Depont. possitively denys that
before or at the Sessions for granting Licences a Complaint was made
to this Depont. or to the sd. Justices of the Peace or any of the unto this
Deponts. Knowledge or Belief) against the sd. Lewis Hallam for
keeping a Comon Reputed or known Bawdy House or that Idle
disorderly Persons resorted by Day or Night to the said House &
But on the contrary this Deponent Saith the sd. Alehouse taken by the
said Lewis Hallam was reputed to be our Orderly & Creditable House