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<HEAD><NOTE PLACE="marg">Hertf. &s;&s;.</NOTE> At the general Quarter-Se&s;&s;ion of the publick Peace of the County of <HI>Hertford,</HI> holden at <HI>Hertford,</HI> for the County afore&s;aid, on Monday next after the Fea&s;t of the tran&s;lation of St. <HI>Thomas</HI> the Martyr: that is to &s;ay, the four|teenth and &s;ixteenth dayes of <HI>Iuly,</HI> in the yeer of our Lord one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty and &s;ix.</HEAD>
<P>_FOra&s;much as his Highne&s;s the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> &amp; <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the Dominions thereto belonging, hath taken &s;pecial notice of the mi&s;chiefs and great di&s;orders which daily happen and are committed in Taverns, Innes and Alehou&s;es, which are extreamly multi|plied in this Nation; &amp; of the great prophane&s;s that is &s;pread, and the many outrageous practi&s;es and wickedne&s;&s;es that are from time to time committed in &s;uch hou&s;es; &amp; that very many of the Keepers of tho&s;e hou&s;es, as well as the Re&s;orters to &s;uch hou&s;es, are lewd, evil di&s;po&s;ed, and debauched per|&s;ons, and di&s;affected to the Pre&s;ent Government: which mi&s;doings do much tend to the di&s;honour of Almighty God, and are a &s;candal to Religion, and are to the di&s;turbance of the publick peace and tranquillity of this Nation; notwith&s;tanding the many good Laws and Statutes made for the prevention and puni&s;hment of &s;uch evils: and his Highne&s;s having required the &s;pecial care and diligen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> of the Ju&s;tices of the publick Peace, and of other the Officers and Mini&s;ters of this County, who are therein concer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ed: Therefore, for the more due and exact execution of the Laws and Statutes made again&s;t the &s;aid enormities and offences, and for the better prevention of them for the future, it is thought fit, and accordingly ordered by the Bench this pre&s;ent Se&s;&s;ion, That no per&s;on what&s;oever living in any hou&s;e within this County, &s;hall from henceforth be licen&s;ed or allowed to keep any Alehou&s;e or Victualling|hou&s;e, unle&s;s his hou&s;e be in the common road or open&s;treet, and not &s;tanding alone; and in &s;uch places, no greater number then nece&s;&s;ity requires: and that &s;uch per&s;ons &s;o to be licen&s;ed, be of hone&s;t life and conver&s;ation, and of good ability, having conveniency for entertainment of Travellers and Pa&s;&s;engers, well-affected to the Pre&s;ent Go|vernment, and of per&s;ons who have not adhered to the late King and his Party: al&s;o, That no Bayliff, or his under-Officer, Follower, or Servant, &s;hall be licen&s;ed or allowed to keep any Alehou&s;e or Victualling-hou&s;e in this County: and, That every Alehou&s;e-Keeper, who &s;hall be licen&s;ed, &s;hall have a Sign over his Door, and none el&s;e to be licen&s;ed hereafter. And that this nece&s;&s;ary work may be the more effectually and fully performed, &amp; that the great evil, or the neglect thereof, may be clearly di&s;covered at who&s;e door it &s;hall happen to lie, his Highne&s;s Ju&s;tices of the Peace of this County, are in their re&s;pective Divi&s;ions to take &s;pecial <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> for the effectual &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of all &s;uch Alehou&s;e-Keepers as are, or at any time hereafter &s;hall be convicted of the prophanation of the Lords Day, by receiving into his, her or their hou&s;e or hou&s;es, any Company, or of &s;wearing, drunkenne&s;s, &s;uffering di&s;orders, tippling, gaming, or playing at Tables, Billiard-table, Shovelboard, Cards, Dice, Nine-pins, Pidgeon-holes, Trunks, or of keeping of Bowling-Alley, or Bowling-Green, or of any of them, or of any other Games: and that all &s;uch Victuallers or Alehou&s;ekeepers as &s;hall with their privities or con&s;ents &s;uffer any Per&s;on or Traveler that &s;hall lodge and continue in his hou&s;e until the Lord's Day in the morning, to depart from thence, (otherwi&s;e, then to divine Wor&s;hip or Sermon, to &s;ome place neer adjacent) until Munday morning, without the allowance or approbation of &s;ome Ju&s;tice of Peace of this County. And it is further ordered, That no Per&s;on who &s;hall be &s;uppre&s;&s;ed for any of the Cau&s;es afore&s;aid, be admitted or a|gain allowed to keep Alehou&s;e or Victualling-hou&s;e within the &s;aid County for the &s;pace of three yeers, according to the form of the Statute in that behalf made and provided for di&s;orderly Alehou&s;es: and al&s;o, If a greater number of Ale|hou&s;es have been licen&s;ed in this County, then are of ab&s;olute nece&s;&s;ity, or who&s;e hou&s;es are not convenient, or the per|&s;ons not &s;o qualified as is above expre&s;&s;ed, that their Licen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">es be called in, &amp; they &s;uppre&s;&s;ed; and that no other per&s;on &s;hall be hereafter licen&s;ed to &s;ell Ale or Beer within this County, but by the con&s;ent &amp; approbation of the greater num|ber of the Ju&s;tices of the &s;aid County in open Se&s;&s;ions of Peace, or at their &s;everal meetings within their re&s;pective Di|vi&s;ions; &amp; that none but able &s;ureties &s;hall hereafter be taken for performance of the conditions of their recognizances; that is to &s;ay, &s;uch as are in Lands, or Goods, or both, worth one hundred pounds at the lea&s;t: and that no Victualler, Brewer, or Alehou&s;e-keeper be taken as &s;urety or &s;ureties one for another: al&s;o, That no Bay liff or his under-Officer, Follower or &s;ervant, be taken as &s;ureties for any &s;uch Victualler &s;o to be licen&s;ed as afore&s;aid. And it is further ordered, That the Iu&s;tices of Peace of this County, &s;hall take care that all and every the Church-wardens, Con&s;tables, and other Officers, within their re&s;pective Divi&s;ions, that &s;hall be herein concerned, &s;hall be diligent in the execution of all War|rants to them to be directed, for the levying of Forfeitures and penalties again&s;t Vintners, Taverners, Inne-keepers, Ale|hou&s;e-keepers, Victuallers and Tiplers, or again&s;t any of them: and that the &s;aid forfeitures and penalties be duly im|ployed and accounted for: &amp; that &s;uch as &s;hall be found def<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">e therein, &s;hall be puni&s;hed according to Law: and that they the &s;aid Officers &s;hall make return to the general Quarter-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">e&s;&s;ions from time to time, of the Names of all &s;uch Brewers as have or hereafter &s;hall lay in Beer or Ale into any hou&s;e or hou&s;es of any unlicen&s;ed Alehou&s;e or Tipling-hou&s;e.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By the Court.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Examined by <HI>Edward Hide,</HI> Clerk of the Peace.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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