- ReferenceR3/2834
- TitleLetter mainly regarding expense of ale consumed by prisoners and keepers
- Date free text20 Jan 1829
- Production dateFrom: 1829 To: 1829
- Scope and ContentReads- Shaw & Webb's bill - we shall have to pay it. We shall probably have recourse to these constables again & I am afraid of putting them on the poachers' side. £1 a day grossly exaggerated. I do object to the public-house bills; in that for the Flying Horse, 93 pots of ale are charged for 10 prisoners & 12 keepers for supper & breakfast. If this was drunk, it ought not to have been - gross imposition or misconduct. Ampthill bill worse: 42 people dine the 1st day, including 13 prisoners; next day 6 keepers & 8 prisoners breakfast & dine; & 8 prisoners & 8 keepers sup; 6 people also dine in the parlour; & 58 qts. of ale, besides liquors & wine, are drunk. If the prisoners had 1 pint at each meal, the remaining 20 people & the 6 parlour-diners consumed 46 qts. of ale - monstrous! There is also a charge of £5 for use of room at 2nd inn at Ampthill. The Lidlington bill. Did Green sanction this? Reward. Child's stupidity. Economy. Labourers in Ireland's department. Practice in Salmon's time. Atkinson & Bone's accounts.
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