Alehousekeeper

Quick meaning: Alehousekeeper is a noun meaning Alternative form of alehouse keeper.

Meaning

Alternative form of alehouse keeper.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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