Depositions & Examinations
ZQSF 61/81
CRO
Undefined
1613
Chester, Cheshire, England
Plaintiff
[Not specified]
[Not specified]
Defendant
John Pick
male
Alcohol Retailer: Alehouse-keeper (Inferred)
Northgate Street, Chester, Cheshire, England
Witnesses
John Weedop
male
John Garnett
male
Event
False measures at John Pick's house
8 April 1613
Northgate Street, Chester, Cheshire, England
Components
Commercial hospitality
Company and drinking groups: male
Service
Payment and bills
False measures
Travel and transport
Alcohol | Ale
3 Quart
3d
Setting
Alehouse
Location of Event
Inferred
Statement
8 April 1613
John Weedop
Sworn and examined deposeth and saith that this day he went to John Pick his house in the Northgate Street within the City of Chester intending to hire a horse of the said Pick where he the said Weedop was drinking with some others then there present that there came in three quarts [of] ale which three quarts want of being full a pint in each quart and that the wife demanded 3d for the same ale, whereof 1d was paid, and 2d was left unpaid.
Statement
8 April 1613
John Garnett
Sworn and examined deposeth and saith that to the measure he did not take much heed nor the same [did] observe but saith that it was somewhat frothy and wanted measure as the thought, and more saith not, but as Weedop hath said.