Taxation Act 1691

IV. Private Person brewing where there is a Common Brewer, unless he has brewed within a Year;

Penalty £20.; Proviso for such Person having brewed within the Year removing.

And that Their Majesties may not be p[re]vented of the Duties hereby granted by any Frauds or Practices to lessen the same Be it further Enacted That no p[er]son or p[er]sons (Except Victuallers Retailers and Com[m]on Brewers) Inhabiting in any markett Towne or in any City or Suburbs of the same or in any Towne Corporate or in parts adjoyning to any City or Suburbs Towne Corporate or Markett Towne where there is or shall be a Com[m]on Brewer or Brewers [X1 Brewing] makeing or selling Strong Beere or Ale and small Beer who within the space of One yeare next before the Seventeenth of November in the year One thousand six hundred and ninety did not brew or make the strong Beer small Beer or Ale drunk consumed spent or sold in his or their respective Houses Outhouses or other places shall not during the Terme aforesaid brew or make any strong Beer strong Ale small Beer or Ale to be drunk consumed or spent in his or their respective Houses or Families under pain to forfeit for every such offence Twenty pounds Provided That in case any p[er]son within the space of a year before the said Seventeenth day of November One thousand six hundred and ninety did usually brew the strong Beer small Beer and Ale drunk and spent in the House or Houses where he and his Family have inhabited for the use of himselfe and his Family and shall remove his Family to any other House It shall and may be lawfull to and for such p[er]son to brew his owne Ale or Beer as hee did before and not be liable to the said Penalty.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.