The Evil Spirit appearing to a Man who frequented Alehouses on Sunday.
Sabbath-breaker at Risca village, where he frequently used to play and visit the alehouseson the Sabbath day, and there stay till late at night.
It is also the name of alehouses in King Street, Holborn, and in Stepney, High Street, &c.
The reason why so many alehouses in town and country have the sign of the swan, is because that bird is so fond of liquid.
Notwithstanding these innovations, the majority of the old objects still survive, in name at least, on the signboards of alehouses and taverns.
But since "cobblers and tinkers are the best ale drinkers," many alehouses have adopted this sign also.
We have put down a full third part of all the alehouses within this wapentake; yet there are so great a multitude of poor miners within this wapentake that we are enforced to leave more alehousekeepers than otherwise we would.
Church ales would usually a good source of income; alehouses would be closed during the ceremonies and parishioners would contribute malt for the ale and grain, eggs, butter, cheese, and fruits.
All classes lived so much at coffee houses, alehouses or clubs, which they often used as their addresses, that house room was a secondary consideration.
Some alehouses catered to criminals and prostitutes.
Further, alehouses were the centers of social life for the common people; both women and men met their friends there.
Only persons keeping public victualing houses, inns, coffee houses, alehouses or brandy shops who exercised no other trade were allowed to obtain a license.
Few of those who were summoned left their homes; and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets.
As there were then no barracks, and as, by the Petition of Right, it had been declared unlawful to quarter soldiers on private families, the redcoats filled all the alehouses of Westminster and the Strand.
And in taverns and alehouses among the pots, how much time is wasted by rich and poor!
If Hawkins had had anything better to talk about, he would not have wasted space on the music of alehouses and "places of vulgar resort.
Now, although the sonatas offer nothing of special interest, we may certainly venture to say that one does not hear such well-written melodious strains in or near alehouses of the present day.
It was reported in 1655 thatalehouses had become the very bane of the county.
It has already been mentioned, that at this period it was the custom of all classes in the northern counties, men and women, to resort to the alehouses to drink, and the hostel at Goldshaw was the general rendezvous of the neighbourhood.
Only persons keeping public victualling houses, inns, coffee houses, alehouses or brandy shops who exercised no other trade were allowed to obtain a license.
At Guildford all the alehouses were at one time required to exhibit a Woolpack as a token of the leading commodity in the town.
Some of these larger alehouses were a cause of anxiety to well-disposed people, and no doubt the Church Houses were partly instituted with the idea of inducing the faithful to spend their time in a less disreputable manner.
At Guildford, and some other cloth centres, the alehouses were required to exhibit a woolpack for a sign.
Alehouses abounded everywhere, known by a long pole surmounted by a tuft of foliage.
Illustration: The Chequers, Doddington] As the restrictions on travelling gradually disappeared many of the alehouses developed into inns.
Some of them may have existed as alehouses during the Saxon period; some may even stand on the sites of Roman tabernae.
We can hardly trace the sites even of the inns and alehouses between Ware and Tottenham mentioned in the "Compleat Angler.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alehouses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
