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At the County Sessions Thursday 4th January 1844 :- Francis Alexander was charged with stealing a sovereign, the property of John Roberts, of the Queen's Head public-house. On the Fair night, 11th November, at about 11 0'clock, the prisoner, with others came into the house and asked for a pot of porter, for which he tendered a sovereign. Mr Roberts alleged that he put down the sovereign on a side board in the bar and that he counted out 19s 6d which he laid near the sovereign. The prisoner was said to have swept both the sovereign and silver into his purse. When he missed the sovereign, he asked the prisoner to show his silver, which he refused to do. A policeman was sent for, who searched him, and found exactly one sovereign and 19s and 6d. He was then taken into custody. Alexander claimed that he had received payment earlier in the day of £2/14/1 and had only spent the odd silver at the fair. After a trial of nearly three hours, the Jury returned a verdict of Not guilty. The Chairman ordered the 19s 6d to be returned to Alexander but the sovereign to Roberts. ~ On Tuesday 9th October 1866, Martha Elvin a dirty, dissipated-looking young woman of about twenty years old was charged by landlady Sarah Palmer of being drunk and refusing to quit the house. Ordered to pay a fine and costs totalling 14s, the money not forthcoming, she was committed to the Wymondham Bridewell for fourteen days' hard labour. ~ At the Long Stratton Brewster Session held Tuesday 14th February 1906 it was heard that the tenant had been convicted of selling out of hours - but this was seemingly the only misdemeanour in the area. ~ Trade for 1906 given as 70 barrels of beer and 23 gallons of spirits. In 1907 it was 115 barrels of beer and 44 gallons of spirits. Licence renewal deferred Tuesday 9th February 1909, to be considered on 23rd February. On Tuesday 23rd February it was heard that trade for 1908 had been 143 barrels of beer and 42 gallons of spirits. Trade had doubled in three years. The customers of the house were mainly of the working class On Monday 26th June 1909 the licence was renewed. ~ 76 year old Florence Burdett was fined £1 on Tuesday 28th February 1950 for selling liquor out of permitted hours. Mrs. Florence Hollis of the same address was fined £2 for aiding and abetting consumption and Robert Hazell, labourer, £1 for consuming. It was heard that Mrs. Burdett had been at the house for 47 years and held the licence since her husband died 25 years previously. This was the first time she had been in trouble. |