Taxation, etc. Act 1695

XVII. Brewer refusing Entrance to Officer or to continue whilset Guile brewing and to take Account;

Penalty £20 and Officer not obliged to prove that Brewer carried, &c. Guile before Duties paid.

And it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Co[m]mon Brewer Innkeeper or Victualler after the said Five and twentieth day of March shall upon due Request or Demand made by the Gauger or other Officer in the Day time or in the Night in the presence of a Constable refuse to permitt such Gauger or other Officer to enter and come into his House Brew-house Storehouses or other Places belonging to or used by such Brewer Innkeeper or Victualler or being lawfully entred shall refuse such [X1 Officer or Gauger] to stay and continue in his Brewhouse or Place of Brewing whilst his Guile is brewing and quietly gauge and take an Account of the several Worts as they are brewed off and lett into his Backs and Tuns and to see their Strong and Small Drink cleansed and carried out without mixture and to gauge and take an Account of the Goods in the Mesh Tun or of the Quantity of Malt from which such Worts are drawne or made such Brewer Innkeeper or Victualler for every such Offence shall forfeit and lose the Su[m]m of Twenty Pounds and the Informer or Prosecutor shall not be obliged to prove that such Brewer Innkeeper or Victualler did carry or deliver out any part of such Guile of Beer or Ale before hee paid and cleared the Duties due for the same Any thing in the former Acts of Excise or any other Act or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Gauger or Officer O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]