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Definition of Alehouses
1. alehouse [n] - See also: alehouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alehouses
Literary usage of Alehouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"The alehouses, he wrote, were ' the very bane of the county,' bringing forth '
all manner of wickedness.'ì A fortnight later he proceeded to Chester, ..."
2. Political Dictionary: Forming a Work of Universal Reference, Both by Charles Knight (1845)
"alehouses. By the common law of England, a person might open a house for the sale
of beer and ale as freely as he might keep a shop for the purpose of ..."
3. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1901)
"AN ATTACK ON alehouses. •commissioners, and the justices of the peace for the
hundred of Blackburn, in Lancashire, it had been resolved to suppress no less ..."
4. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"TOBACCO IN alehouses. A FOREIGN weed, which has made so many Englishmen, ...
alehouses are at present licensed to deal in tobacco ; but it was not so from ..."
5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"And it falleth out by experience that the alehouses of this land consume the ...
For upon a survey taken of the alehouses only of the town of Wells, ..."
6. Prince Charles and the Spanish Marriage, 1617-1623: 1617-1623. A Chapter of by Samuel Rawson ( Gardiner (1869)
"THE PATENT FOR alehouses. CH- v- oppressive treatment of those who had refused
to conform The for to their demands.* 1618. ..."
7. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1870)
"In most of our cities, some few ex- cepted, like 1 Spanish loiterers, we live
wholly by tippling- inns and alehouses. Malting are their best ploughs, ..."
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