Excise Act 1688

V.

Brewer chargeable with the Quantity of Worts missing.

And whereas by the Laws relateing to their Majesties Revenue of Excise It is enacted That Gaugers have power to gauge all Coppers Fatts and Vessells in any Brewhouse and all other places whatsoever belonging to or used by any Brewer Innkeeper Victualler or other Retailer of Beere or Ale and to take an accompt of Beere Ale and Worts from time to time brewed or made and thereof to make Returne and Report in Writeing to the Commissioners and Subcommissioners of Excise and such Returns to be a Charge upon such Brewers Now for the preventing of Frauds and Disputes which may happen or arise by the Gaugers makeing their Returns [X1 as] aforesaid Bee it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That where it shall appeare to the Gauger or Gaugers that any Worts are missing or not lett fairely downe into the Tun and such Gauger cannot finde the same in such Case it shall be lawfull [X1 for such Gauger] to charge such Brewer Victualler or other Retailer with soe much Beere or Ale as such Worts soe missing would reasonably make

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