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Licensees :
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WILLIAM WESTON
age 55 in 1851		 1839 - *1859
5th August 1854 - Licence suspended for six months following his second conviction of refusing to admit peace officers.
7th October 1858 - Fine of £2 and 16s 6d costs for refusing to admit a policeman.
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Tollemache Boomfield was charged Wednesday, 26th October 1854 of maliciously stabbing William Webster on 20th August. Bloomfield had been drinking. There was a peculiarity about him which suggested he was not in his right mind at the time. He was acquitted on the grounds of insanity and confined at the pleasure of her Majesty.
(Mr. Webster was described as a cordwainer)
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The Bury and Norwich Post of Wednesday 6th June 1855 reported .......

To be Sold at the Crown Inn, Banham, 21st June 1855...
Lot 1. All the Messuage or Tenement now used as a Beer-house, known by the sign of the Bell, in Banham. With Stabling, Neat-house, Piggeries and other Outbuildings, together with about an Acre of Land planted with Fruit Trees.

Lot 2. An Inclosure of Arable Land, Parcel of the Heath, by estimation 2a 2r.

All in the occupation of Mr. William Weston, at the annual rent of £22.

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Thanks to Geraldine Sayers 06.2020 for discovering detail of the 1855 sale.