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Related sites:
The 'Mole Inn', Carter's Hill
The 'Swan Inn', Arborfield
The 'Bull Inn', Arborfield
The 'Bramshill Hunt',
Arborfield
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An intriguing list of local Pub landlords is held at the
Berkshire Record Office. It is from the Quarter sessions of September 1815 for
the Forest Division of Berkshire. It's tantalising because it doesn't name the
pubs; only the parishes in which they are located.
The forms are pre-printed, and they have
space to list up to three pub landlords standing surety for each other. Here's
the wording on one of them, with the hand-written sections shown in bold italics:
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Berks. Forest Division
} TO WIT
Samuel Milam of
Hurst, Victualler - acknowledge to
our Sovereign Lord the King the sum of Ten Pounds
William Ludlow of Arborfield, Victualler
- acknowledge to our Sovereign Lord the King the
sum of
five pounds
Thomas Eed of Swallowfield, Victualler - acknowledge to our
Sovereign Lord the King the sum of five pounds
To be
levied on their several Goods and Chattels, Lands or Tenements, by way of
Recognizance to his Majesty's Use Upon CONDITION, that whereas the said
Samuel Milam
is this Day licenced [sic]
to keep common Ale House or Victualling-House in
the Parish of Hurst
for the term of One Year only, from the Twenty-ninth Day of September
instant.
If
therefore the said Samuel Milam
shall keep good Order and Government, and suffer no Disorder to be committed, or
unlawful Games used in the said House, Yard, Garden or Back-side thereunto
belonging during the Continuance of the said Licence, THEN this Recognizance to
be void, or else to remain in full Force.
Taken and
acknowledged this 5
Day of September,
1815,
before us,
N
Dukinfield
Elizabeth Colleton.
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It looks as if each Landlord stood surety for his
near-neighbour in an informal arrangement to keep order in the local area, and
the same names re-appear several times on 5th September 1815.
Here are several other examples from
the same day (all are described as 'Victuallers'):
| William Watkins of Wokingham |
10 pounds |
for William Watkins of Wokingham |
| Thomas Thrift of Sandhurst |
5 pounds |
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| John Hall of Arborfield |
5 pounds |
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| John Collier of Barkham |
10 pounds |
for John Collier of Barkham |
| John Hall of Hurst (not Arborfield) |
5 pounds |
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| Joseph Giles of Finchampstead |
5 pounds |
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| Thomas Thrift of Sandhurst |
10 pounds |
for Thomas Thrift of Sandhurst |
| William Watkins of Wokingham |
5 pounds |
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| John Hall of Arborfield |
5 pounds |
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| Thomas Piggott of Warfield |
10 pounds |
for Thomas Piggott of Warfield |
| Thomas Finch of Warfield |
5 pounds |
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| John Hall of Arborfield |
5 pounds |
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| Walter Mitchell of Sonning |
10 pounds |
for Walter Mitchell of Sonning |
| John Radburn of Sonning |
5 pounds |
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| Samuel Milam of Hurst |
5 pounds |
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| Elizabeth Launchbury of Warfield |
10 pounds |
for Elizabeth Launchbury of Warfield |
| William Ludlow of Arborfield |
5 pounds |
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| Thomas Eed of Swallowfield |
5 pounds |
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| John Radburn of Sonning |
10 pounds |
for John Radburn of Sonning |
| Walter Mitchell of Sonning |
5 pounds |
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| Samuel Milam of Hurst |
5 pounds |
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| Thomas Eed of Swallowfield |
10 pounds |
for Thomas Eed of Swallowfield |
| Samuel Milam of Hurst |
5 pounds |
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| William Ludlow of Arborfield |
5 pounds |
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| William Ludlow of Arborfield |
10 pounds |
for William Ludlow of Arborfield |
| Samuel Milam of Hurst |
5 pounds |
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| Thomas Eed of Swallowfield |
5 pounds |
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| John Hall of Hurst (see above) |
10 pounds |
for John Hall of Hurst |
| John Collier of Barkham |
5 pounds |
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| Joseph Giles of Finchampstead |
5 pounds |
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| Joseph Giles of Finchampstead |
10 pounds |
for Joseph Giles of Finchampstead |
| John Collier of Barkham |
5 pounds |
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| John Hall of Hurst |
5 pounds |
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One of the forms had only two names of those pledging
sureties, as shown below. Note that they were standing surety for a third party,
Thomas Hall - was he John Hall's relative?
| John Hall of Arborfield |
10 pounds |
for Thomas Hall of Wokingham |
| John Collier of Barkham |
10 pounds |
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We can't say with certainty which pubs were tenanted by
whom, but in this case, it is likely that Samuel Milam was at the
'Mole' in Carter's Hill, William Ludlow was at the
'Bull' in
Arborfield and John Hall was at the
'Swan' in what was then
called 'Arborfield Street', which in the Liberty of Newland, not in Arborfield.
Did this confuse the officials filling in the forms?
Although we don't yet know when the
'Bramshill Hunt' first became
a pub, it is only shown as a cottage on a map of the area around Whitehall
Farm from 1817 (on the
www.berkshirenclosure.org.uk
site - see the 'Windsor Forest' maps, reference MPA1/60, image 11).
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