More widely, commoners developed communities in areas where they could fraternise in Jacobite alehouses, inns and taverns, singing seditious songs, collecting for the cause and on occasion being recruited for risings.
42.
A survey in 1577 of drinking establishment in England and Wales for taxation purposes recorded 14, 202 alehouses, 1, 631 inns, and 329 taverns, representing one pub for every 187 people.
43.
A licence to sell alcohol at The George is claimed from 1397, which may have been a local licence from the Prior of Hinton Priory as Governmental licences for alehouses were only introduced in 1552.
44.
As a supporter of the Immorality Bill he believed the remedy for poverty was the suppression of alehouses, " the most . . . intolerable grievance we have . " He died on 19 January 1730.
45.
In the Middle Ages beer was brewed by abbeys and independent alehouses, but the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century meant British brewing lost its connection with religious houses earlier than in other European countries.
46.
As this " would serve for the relief of many poor people, Corbet was ordered to restrict their brewing to the minimum necessary for their customers and to forbid " tippling and disorderly drinking in the said alehouses ."
47.
By the 19th century the county magistrates exercised powers over the licensing of alehouses, the construction of bridges, prisons and asylums, superintendence of main roads, public buildings and charitable institutions, and the regulation of weights and measures.
48.
The modern village built up along a single street that runs approximately parallel to the River Cam from the old London to Cambridge road ( now the turnpike and two alehouses, the Ship and the Chequers, opened in the late 18th century.
49.
There existed a body of students in the 1830 to 1850s who banded together in secrecy to flout the strict rules which forbade students from appearing in the town without their gown, " communicating " with local women and frequenting the local alehouses.
50.
But unlike other cloth-manufacturing regions, Norwich weaving brought greater urbanisation, substantially concentrated in the surrounds of the city itself, creating an urban society, with features such as leisure time, alehouses, and other public forums of debate and argument.
