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The curiosities of ale & beer: an entertaining history (1889)

Bickerdyke, John, 1858-1933 · London : Swan Sonnenschein · leaf 122

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THE CURIOSITIES OF 102 assembled, and through the great streets that are most dirtyT The illustration is taken from the Assissa Pants (temp. Edw. I.), preserved among the City Records. The defaulting brewer or … Punishment of the Hurdle. brewster, in the reign of Edw. III., for the first offence was to forfeit the ale, for the second to forswear the mistier (the mystery or art of brew¬ ing), and on the third offence to forswear the City for ever. However, the penalties varied from time to time, for in the…

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