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Excise Act 1696
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Beer or Ale left and added to a new Guile, charged as new Drink, and Brewer to pay the Duties.
And whereas many Brewers having Strong Beer or Ale remaining in their Brew-houses from the time itt was brewed until the next Guile or Brewing the Quality of which they frequently alter by mixing with the same new Small Beer or old returned Drink and then add the Beer and Ale so altered to the next Guile by means whereof his Majesty is often defrauded of his Duties of Excise Be it therefore declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if it shall appeare to the Gauger that the Quality of such Strong Beer or Ale so remaining in the Brew-house of a former Guile & added to a Guile of new Drink as aforesaid hath been so altered since it was brewed such Gauger shall charge and returne all such Beer and Ale so altered and added to a Guile of new Drink as if the same were then originally brewed and had never been charged before and such Brewer shall pay the Duties thereof [X1according] accordingly.
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