That whereas your petitioner hath dwelled in the town of Upholland for the space of 28 years where his now wife was born, and hath during all that time kept a common alehouse and behaved himself honestly, and suffered no evil order in his house, neither by receiving or harbouring of lewd persons gaming drunkenness or any other misdemeanours as is well known to all his neighbours. Nevertheless so it is if it may please your good worships that one Richard Leigh of Upholland gentleman who is landlord to your petitioner upon... displeasure conceived against your petitioner seeketh by all means possible to suppress your petitioner for keeping alehouse your petitioner therefore most humbly beseecheth your good worships, to have commiseration of his estate in respect he is an aged broken man and not able to work, and hath no other means for the relief of himself and his wife being also an aged woman but by keeping alehouse And that your worships will be pleased that your petitioner may be licenced by authority of this bench to keep a common alehouse. And your petitioner will daily pray for your worships in all health and happiness long to continue… We whose names are subscribed humbly signify to your hood worships that this petitioner is an honest poor man and hath been a painful and laborious man all his lifetime and that the substance of his petition is true in testimony whereof we have subscribed and endorsed our names.
Petitions
LRO
QSB 1/122/59
Petition
Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
1633 (Midsummer)
Petition
Appeal
15 July 1633
Relates To
Licensing
Poor relief
Setting
Alehouse
Transcription
Petitionee
John Rimmer
male
Freemason
Alcohol Retailer: Alehouse-keeper
Upholland, Lancashire, England
Petitioners
John Rimmer
male
Freemason
Alcohol Retailer: Alehouse-keeper
Upholland, Lancashire, England
Roger Heaton
male
Upholland, Lancashire, England
Signature
Christopher Roby
male
Upholland, Lancashire, England
Basic Mark
Roger Brownlow
male
Upholland, Lancashire, England
Signature
John Garrard
male
Upholland, Lancashire, England
Signature
Robert Hey
male
Upholland, Lancashire, England
Basic Mark
William Brownlow
male
Upholland, Lancashire, England
Signature