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        | Licensees : |  
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        | MINNS PAYNE age 58 in 1851
 & proprietor of houses.
 | 1844 - 1851 |  
        | (THOMAS
          BOYCE in residence) | (1847 - 1860) |  
        | DAVID RAWLING age 26 in 1857
 | 1855 - 1857 |  
        | Friday 12th January 1855 - Fine of £1 6s 
		6d and 13s 6d costs for selling beer on the morning of Sunday 7th 
		January. Rawling was warned not to repeat the offence. |  
        | Friday 11th May 1855 - Fine of £2 8s and 12s costs for having 
		house open at unlawful hours, five minutes to twelve, Sunday 6th May 
		1855. A second offence within six months.
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        | Acquitted Wednesday 1st July 1857 of 
		possessing goods knowing them to be stolen. (Eight stones weight of 
		pollard had been discovered on his premises) |  
        | Acquitted October 1857 of feloniously 
		receiving, on 12th May 1857, four stones weight of oil cake from Charles 
		Secker, . |  
        | MINNS PAYNE age 66 in 1861
 | 1858 - 1861 |  
        | MILES RICHES | 1863 - 1869 |  
        | Fine of 10s and 11s costs for allowing 
		persons to drink on the premises during church hours on Sunday 15th 
		February 1863 |  
        | Fine of £1 and 11s costs on 
		Friday 22nd March 1867 - See opposite. |  
        | WILLIAM FITT (At SWAN by 
		1871)
 | 05.11.1869 |  
        | JAMES DARBY age 37 in 1871
 | 1871 - 1877 |  
        | WILLIAM COPEMAN age 36 in 1881
 | 1879 - 1888 |  
        | SAMUEL DAVIDSON age 48 in 1891
 | 12.10.1888  - 1892 |  
        | WILLIAM BIRD Licence confirmed 4th November 1892
 | 14.10.1892 - 1894 |  
        | ISAAC JACOBS Temporary licence awarded 26.10.1894 until next licensing day.
 | 1894 |  
        | SAMUEL SYMONDS age 64 in 1901
 | 1896 to 1907 |  
        | ROBERT SKELTON | 17.05.1907 |  
        | WILLIAM HUTSON | 27.11.1908 |  
        | FRANCIS WARREN | 26.05.1911 |  
        | Fine 16/- plus
        4/- costs or 16 days detention imposed 28.06.1912 for permitting
          drunkenness. |  
        | FREDERICK PERKINS | 02.01.1925 |  
        | SIDNEY HEAD | 14.10.1927 |  
        | LESLIE ROGER
          HEAD | 05.07.1957 |  
        | ANDREW JOHN
          HARDY | 22.05.1970 |    | 
		Listed under Dereham in Licence Registers.
 As at Toftwood or Toftwood Common 1865, 1875, 1883, 1888, 1904 & 1937.
 
 Licensee Miles Riches was found guilty of allowing drinking in his house 
		at illegal hours. The offence had taken place on Sunday 3rd March 1867 
		and although Mr. Riches offered the excuse that he was away from home at 
		the time, a previous conviction was recorded against him and he was 
		fined £1 and 11s costs.
 
 Objection to the renewal of licence was made on Friday 16th February 
		1906.
 
 Closure was proposed by S&P but not agreed at meeting with Bullards 29.05.1962.
 Sales
    given for 1961 as 88 barrels. A report dated June 1969, prepared by S&P for Watney Mann recommended immediate
    closure."The trade bad, Licensed rooms are poor &
 beer is drawn from the wood.
 Tenants on one years notice, to expire 1970."
 Renewal of licence not applied for 8th February 1974
 
 
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