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Alehouse Act 1627

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IV.Second Offence by unlicensed Alehousekeeper.

Punishment.; Subsequent Offence.; Punishment.

And be it further enaected That if the said Offendor or Offendors being an unlicensed Alehousekeep shall offend in any of the p[re]misses the second tyme and be thereof lawfullie convicted in Manner and Forme aforesaid, that then the said Mayor Bayliffe Justice or Justices of X1 Peace or other Head Officer shall committ him her or them unto the House of Correccion there to remaine for the Space of One Moneth and be dealt withall as idle lewd and disorderly p[er]sons. And if such p[er]son or p[er]sons shall againe offend and shalbe thereof convicted as aforesaid, that then the said Offendor or Offendors for every such Offence shalbe co[m]mitted unto the said House of Correccion as aforesaid there to remaine untill by Order of the Justices in their Generall Sessions for the Countie Citie Borough or Franchise he she or they shalbe delivered from thence.

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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: to the present O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

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