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aforesaid called the Taphouse (but not the Taphouse to
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Wells as untruly in the sd. Representation is
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suggested) situate in a Stable Yard where great Numbers of
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Gentlemens Horses are kept & which Alehouse had been a Licensed
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Alehouse for Thirty Years then past & had always been a House
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of good Credit And thereupon the sd.
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Lewis Hallam
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did apply to the
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Deponent for a Permissive License to Sell Beer & Ale in that House
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until a Sessions should be held for granting Licences And this Depo
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did according sign such Permissive License for the said Lewis
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5 Hallam And this Depont. further Saith that at the next Sessions for
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granting Licenses (at which Sessions this Depont. was present) the
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said Lewis Hallam applyed to the Justices to grant him a License
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but
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William Hallam
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the supposed Proprietor of the Place called
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Wells & the Brother of the sd. Lewis Hallam there
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having had some Dispute as this Depont. has been Informed &
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believes with
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Richard Ricards
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in the Representation named
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Richard
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Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace (who was then in
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the Chair) such License was refused And this Depont. admits he
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did upon such Refusal say he thought it was every hard Case
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to refuse a Licence to an old Licensed House without any Apparent
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Reason & desired to know what the Poor Man must door to that
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Effect whereto the sd. Richard Ricards replyed that they did not
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Chuse then to grant him a License but that this Depont. might Sign
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him a Permissive Licence as before which would Enable the said
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Lewis Hallam to get a Licence from the Comissioners of Excise for
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retailing Spirituous Liquors And this Depont. possitively denys that
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before or at the Sessions for granting Licences a Complaint was made
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to this Depont. or to the sd. Justices of the Peace or any of the unto this
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Deponts. Knowledge or Belief) against the sd. Lewis Hallam for
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keeping a Comon Reputed or known Bawdy House or that Idle
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disorderly Persons resorted by Day or Night to the said House &
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But on the contrary this Deponent Saith the sd. Alehouse taken by the
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said Lewis Hallam was reputed to be our Orderly & Creditable House
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