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        | Licensees : |  
        | JOHN JARVIS worsted weaver
 | 1760 - 1764 |  
        | FUTTER
          DIXON (Fuller ?) | 1802 |  
        | MARY DIXON | 1810 |  
        | NATHANIEL BANHAM | 1822 |  
        | EDWARD GIBBS | 1830 |  
        | NATHANIEL BANHAM | 1836 |  
        | THOMAS CARLTON
          according to Pigot | 1839 |  
        | ANN CARLTON
          according to Robson | 1839 |  
        | JOHN SAWYER age 51 in 1851
 | 1842 - 1851 |  
        | BENJAMIN BECKHAM (as B Beckwith 1859)
 | 1854 - 1864 |  
        | Wednesday 4th December 1861 - Fine of 1s 
		and costs for allowing gambling (playing cards) in his house on the 
		previous Friday. |  
        | J. RICHES | 1865 |  
        | JEREMIAH ALLISON | by 1867 |  
        | ARTHUR ROBERT EMMS | 06.10.1885 |  
        | EDWIN DAWS | 13.04.1886 |  
        | Convicted 1888
        of allowing consumption out of hours. Fine 10/- plus 7/- costs
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        | Accused of assault Monday 
		15th February 1892, but complainant  Thomas Smith, a weaver, failed 
		to attend the Monday  hearing, or the adjourned session, the 
		following day, so charges were dropped. |    | Lot number 6 in the sale Monday 7th September 1778, of the Brewery 
			and Public Houses, late in the ownership of Nockold Tompson, 
			deceased.
 
 The house was engaged for Freeholders, the Friends of Sir Edward Astley, 
		Bart. and Thomas William Coke, Esq. on Wednesday 14th April 1784, being 
		the Day of Election. (One of 53 such houses in Norwich)
 
 Address 30 St Stephens Street in 1802
 John Hicks of the Castle Ditches had been in custody twelve times between 
	September 1843 and March 1849. He was a constant frequenter of public-houses 
	and when in liquor, was usually violent. On the morning of Monday 22nd April 
	1850 he was drinking at the Shoulder of Mutton, when he used threatening 
	language against landlady Rose Sawyer and struck her. In the evening he went 
	on to the 
		CHEQUERS 
	in Pump Street and caused further violence - At the hearing Tuesday 23rd 
	April 1850 the prisoner was ordered to pay 8s 6d for the assault on Mrs. 
	Sawyer, with no further charges or fines being recorded. See
		
		CHEQUERS.
		Licence renewed at 
	Sessions held 19th August 1862.
 One of several houses where the licensee had been proceeded against during 
	the year. The offences, for which summonses had been issued were either for 
	selling beer out of hours, for allowing gambling or for permitting persons 
	of bad character to assemble.
 (Nature of offence at this house not specified in report.)
 
 Edwin Dawes made an application, on Monday 24th August 1891, for a music 
		and singing licence in the bar where a melodeon was played on Monday and 
		Saturday nights. The application was opposed since the bar opened up 
		onto the street and only afforded accommodation for fifteen to twenty 
		people.
 The Bench refused the application.
 
    Licence not renewed 1892.Property sold by Steward & Co.
 
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