Alehouse keeper

[…] if it ſhall appear by ſuch ſtock book or account, or oath of the officer, that ſuch perſon is ſurveyed as a victualler or retailer, and is charged with the ſame duties that victuallers and retailers are charged with and pay for any the liquors aforeſaid, and is not intitled to the allowance or abatement given to common brewers, he ſhall be deemed an alehouſekeeper, victualler, retailer, or ſeller thereof, as if it had been proved by two witneſſes. […] If any perſon ſhall ſell or deliver any beer or ale, to any perſon that ſhall then ſell beer or ale as a common tipler or alehouſekeeper, the ſame perſon not having licence to ſell ale or beer (except it be for the uſe of his houſhold only); […]

From West Ham also (1587), two alehousekeepers were reported because ‘they sell but a pint of ale for a 1d. to travellers and inhabiters’ (instead of at the usual rate of ½d.). […] A few months after Elizabeth’s death the Act of 1 James, c. 9, obliged alehousekeepers to sell not less than a full ale quart of best ale or beer for 1d., and small beer at 2 quarts for 1d.

Around Christmas 1618 Ashley unearthed two more unlicensed alehousekeepers in Colleton Row, both of whom had been ‘entertaining townsmen and apprentices drinking’. […] Three Dorchester alehousekeepers were in trouble some years later, in 1633, for serving mead and beer to boys from the Free School.