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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22174	By the King, a proclamation concerning ale-houses	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1618 (1618)	STC 8588; ESTC S1563	3,829	3

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ❧ By the King ¶ A Proclamation concerning Ale-houses WHereas for the suppressing of the great disorders daylie vsed in Ale-houses and Uictual-houses many good and wholesome Lawes and Orders haue beene deuised which haue not taken such effect as Wee desired because the same haue not beene so duely executed as they ought to be Wee haue therefore appointed certaine Patentees to take knowledge thereof and to compell the Ale-house-keepers Licensed to keepe good Orders by pressing them vpon the penalties of their Recognizances taken to Our vse In the proceeding wherein Wee are also informed that the Recognizances taken for that purpose in most Counties of Our Realme being the onely Tye Wee haue vpon that Lawlesse kinde of people are either altogether defectiue or not duelie certified so that these vnruly persons still remaine at libertie And that there are diuers of them that take authoritie to themselues to keepe Ale-houses as though they were Licensed and yet are not Both which sorts wee are desirous to drawe into better Order and to that purpose Wee haue caused certaine Articles of direction bearing the Date hereof to bee published which hereby Wee streitly Will and Commaund to bee executed by such as the same shall any wayes concerne and as they will giue an accompt vnto Us when Wee shall require it And because Wee would not haue Our Subiects that dwell in parts remote from Our City of London to bee ouertrauelled hereabout and all to bee drawne hither to Our sayd Citie Wee haue giuen Order to the Pattentees taking the allowance of Our Chiefe Iustice of the Kings Bench to appoint Committees from time to time such as shal bee knowne to bee of experience and integrity to prosecute in those more remote Counties such forfeitures as shall growe due vnto Us by the sayd Recognizances Giuen at Newmarket the nineteenth day of Ianuary in the sixteenth yeere of Our Raigne of Great Brittaine France and Ireland Anno Dom. 1618. ¶ By the King ¶ Articles of direction touching Ale-houses FIrst That the Iustices of Peace of euery County Citie or Towne Corporate within this Kingdome and the Dominion of Wales Doe once euery yeere in the Moneths of April and May assemble themselues either at a speciall Sessions or such other meeting as they shall appoint for that purpose respecting the ease and conueniencie of the people of the Countrey and there call before them or any two of them whereof one to be of the Quorum all such persons as doe sell Ale or Beere by retayle in any place aswell within Libertie as without within such County Citie or Towne Corporate and then and there taking true Certificate and Information from men of Trust who be persons of honest Conuersation and who not And to giue Licence to such persons as they in their discretions shall thinke meet to keepe Common Ale-houses or Uictualling-houses within the places where such persons dwell THat in the Licensing of the sayd Uictualers and Ale-house-keepers the forme of the Recognizance hereafter following and the Condition thereunto annexed be vsed and none other Memorandum Quod Anno Regni Dom. nostri IACOBI Dei gratia Regis Angliae Franciae Hiberniae fidei defensor c. Scotiae Coram Iusticiarijs dicti Dom. Regis ad pacem in Comitat. praedict conseruand c. manuceperunt pro Victular viz. vterque manucaptor praedict sub poena quinque librar praedict assumpsit pro seipso sub poena x. li. Quas Concesserunt c. Sub Conditione sequent THe Condition of this Recognizance is such that whereas the aboue bounden is admitted and allowed by the said Iustices to keepe a Common Ale-house and Victualling-house vntill the first of April next ensuing the date hereof and no longer in the house wherein hee now dwelleth at in the sayd County of and not elsewhere in the sayd County If therefore the sayd shall not during the time aforesayd permit or suffer or haue any playing at Dice Cardes Tables Quoits Loggets Bowles or any other vnlawfull Game or Games in his House Yard Garden or Backside Nor shall suffer to bee or remaine in his house any person or persons not being his ordinary houshold seruant vpon any Sabbath day or Holy day during the time of Diuine Seruice or Sermon Nor shall suffer any person to lodge or stay in his house aboue one day and one night but such whose true Name and Surname he shall deliuer to some one of the Constables or in his absence to some of the Officers of the same Parish the next day following vnlesse they be such person or persons as hee or shee very well knoweth and will answere for his or their forth-comming nor suffer any person to remaine in his or her house Tipling or drinking contrary to the Law nor yet to be there Tipling or drinking after nine of the clocke in the night time nor buy or take to pawne any stollen goods nor willingly harbour in his sayd House or in his Barnes Stables or other-where any Rogues Vagabonds Sturdy beggers Masterlesse men or other notorious offendors whatsoeuer Nor suffer any person or persons to sell or vtter any Beere or Ale or other victuall by Deputation or by colour of his or her License And also if he shall keepe the true assise and measure in his Pots Bread and otherwise in his vttering of his Ale Beere and Bread and the same Beere and Ale to sell by scaled measure and according to the assise and not otherwise And shall not vtter or sell any strong Beere or strong Ale aboue the peny the quart and small Beere or small Ale aboue a halfe-peny the quart and so after the same rates And also shall not vtter nor willingly suffer to be vttered drunke taken and tipled any Tobacco within his said House Shop Cellar or other place thereunto belonging that then c. That euery Alehouse-keeper and Uictualler so to be Licensed doe enter into Recognizance with two able sureties to be bound in fiue pounds a peece the principall ten pound at the least for the performance of the Condition of the said Recognizance which shall endure but for one whole yeare and then to determine vnlesse it shall seeme fit to the Iustices of Peace to renew ●he same againe by taking a new Recognizance of the same Condition And whatsoeuer Date the Recognizance shall haue it is to indure but vntill the said Monthes of Aprill and May or one of them That the Clerkes of the Peace Towne Clerkes or their Deputies respectiuely bee called to attend the Iustices of Peace at such their meetings or assemblies and that they doe there take the Recognizances aforesaid of euery Uictualler or Alehouse-keeper Licensed and doe duely enter them amongst the Records of the Sessions of the Peace in their charge whereby his Maiestie may bee duely answered of the forfeitures that shal be made of the parties so bound That the Clerkes of the Peace and Towne-clerkes aforesaid