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In the Act of the 7th. of King George For Quartering Soldiers & Punishing
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Mutiny & Desertion feb 175: There is A Clause
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That it shall & may be lawfull to & for the Constable Etc to Quarter or Billet the Officers
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Soldiers in his Majesty's Service, in
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Livery Stales, Ale houses Victualli
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houses & all houses of Persons Selling Brandy Strong Waters Cyder or Motheglin by
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Retaile to be drunk in Houses other than & except the House or Houses of any
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Distillers
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, who keep Houses or Places of Distilling Brandy or Strong Waters, and the
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House of any Shop keeper, whose principall Dealings Shall be more in other
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Goods & Merchandizes than in Brandy & Strong Waters who do not Permitt
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or Suffer Tipling in their Houses.
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Itt is too apparent, what ill Use has been made of the Exception in this Clause.
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1.
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Itt has put all Sorts of Inferior Trades on Selling Strong Waters, being by this
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Exception Freed from Quartering Soldiers, under pretence of dealing more
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in other Goods.
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Most of those, who deal in Strong Waters only, & get their whole Livelihood by Selling
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them by Retail Set up little Stills, where they distill Small Quantities only,
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& yet insist they are thereby Distillers within this Exeception, and as such to be
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excempted from Quartering Soldiers, & taking Licences, the Two greatest
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Inconveniencies, which attend those, who keep any Kind of Publick houses.
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By those Means, the Ale house keepers & Victuallers have been in many Places over
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bur then'd with Soldiers, to the Ruin of Several, & impoverishment of many
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more, especially Since the
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Vintners
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have been also excused.
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These Brandy Shops Seem to deserve ye least Incouragement or Previledge of any Publick
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houses as they are found by experience, to be the Cause of more Mischief & Inconveniences
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to this Town, than all other Publick houses Joyned together, and as wee are Inform'd
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by Several Physitians are most likely to prepare & dispose the bodies of those
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who usually drink Such Liquors, by weaking & over heating them, to receive
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any Infection, which may be brought in among us, from other places or Causes,
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Under the Cover of this Exception, almost all that Sell Brandy or Geneva, Shelter themselves
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from Quartering of Soldiers contrary to ye. Intention of ye. Parliamt. as is conceived, & on
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all Occasions threaten the
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Justices & Constables
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with Actions, if they Quarter upon them
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wherein they pretend to be supported by those reall Distillers, of whom they buy the
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Waters they Sell. By which means the Constables are afraid to do their
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Duty, & execute the Justices Warrants for leavying the Penalties on them being
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exposed thereby to the Charge & Hazard of Actions, where in it lies on the
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Justices
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& Constables
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to prove, Either that they Suffer Tipling or deal more in Strong
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Waters than in other Goods, which Points are Scarse ever to be Proved,
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but by their Customers or Servants, & they are generally unwilling Witnesses,
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& not easily prevailed on to informe or give Evidence against them.
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Another difficulty in the Execution of this Act arises from the General words of the
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Exception and how they are to be Construed, with respect to the following
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Queries
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What Persons shall bee deemed to be
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Distillers
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or to keep Houses or Places of
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Distilling Strong Waters within this Exception.
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