1 Charles I. c4 (1625).
An Act for the further restraining of tippling in inns, alehouses, and other victualling houses.
| Whereas in the last parliament it was enacted, That if any person or persons, wheresoever his or their habitation or abiding be, should after be found upon view, or his own confession, or proof of one witness, to be tippling in an inn, alehouse or victualling-house; such person or persons should be thenceforth adjudged and confirmed to be within the statutes of the first and fourth years of the late King's majesty's reign, King James of famous memory; the one intituled, An act to restrain the inordinate haunting of tippling in inns, alehouses, and other victualling-houses; and the other intituled, An act to repress the odious and loathsome sin of drunkenness; as if he or they had inhabited and dwelled in the city, town corporate, market-town, village or hamlet where the inn, alehouse or victualling-house was or should be, where he or they should be found tippling, should incur the like penalty, and the same to be in such as there inhabit: (2) but no punishment by any or either of the said acts or by any other staute, is inflicted upon the inn-keeper, alehouse-keeper or victualler, that permits or suffers such person or persons not there inhabiting, to tipple in his inn, alehouse or victualling-house: (3) for remedy whereof, be it enacted, That every inn-keeper, alehouse-keeper and other victualler, that at any time after the end of this session of parliament shall permit and suffer any person or persons not inhabiting in the city, town corporate, market town, village or hamlet, where such inn, alehouse, or victualling-house is or shall be to tipple in the said inn, alehouse, or victuallling-house, contary to the true intent of any or either of the said former statutes, the said inn-keeper, alehouse-keeper an d victualler so offending shall incur the same penalty, and in such manner to be proved, levied and disposed, as in the former statute of the first year of his saud late Maajesty's reign is appointed for permitting such to tipple as dwell in the same city, town corporate, market-town, village or hamlet. |
II.
| And be it further enacted, That the keepers of taverns, and such as sell wine in their houses, and do also keep inns or victualling in their houses, shall be taken to be within the said two former statutes, and also within this statute. |