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George Wyatt

2025-07-19T09:57:04Z

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George Wyatt (born c.1836 in High Littleton) was listed as a Coal Miner and Beer Seller in the 1861 Census, living in Batch, Paulton with his wife Ruth (born c.1835 in Paulton) and daughter Phoebe (born 1861 in Paulton). Moreover, he is listed as a Beerhouse Keeper in the Baptism record for Phoebe in 1861. He is mentioned in the [[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]] as being of the Red White & Blue beerhouse, a name I can find no other record of.

By August 1864 he was at the High Littleton Inn, where he was convicted of having unjust measures.

By the time of the 1871 census, he is living in High Littleton

Temple Cloud Petty Sessions

2025-07-19T09:38:51Z

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==Introduction==

This page is an incomplete listing of pubs, beer houses, landlords and other beery goings on from the Temple Cloud Petty Sessions, from the mid to late 19th Century - as reported in the various local papers of the time.

Note that the Petty Sessions moved from being held at the Clutton Union Workhouse to the County Court House at Temple Cloud in late 1855 (see [[ Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - 01 November 1855]])

This is very much a work in progress - there is tons still to do to make this anywhere near a complete record.

== 1850s ==

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|15/01/1856
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 19 January 1856
|-
|29/01/1856
|N
|Thomas Robins, of Ston Easton, was fined £5 for selling beer on his premises, he not being licensed to do so.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 02 February 1856
|-
|30?/04/1856
|N
|N
|Wells Journal - Saturday 03 May 1856
|-
|06/05/1856
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 10 May 1856
|-
|20/05/1856
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 24 May 1856
|-
|26/08/1856
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 30 August 1856
|-
|05/11/1856
|Only one story - beating up of Mr Blinman. Note George Wyatt was involved.
|N
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 13 November 1856
|-
|16?/12/1856
|N
|Mr Shaw, of Midsomer Norton, was charged with having his house open for the sale of beer during the hours of Divine service, on the morning of Nov. 30. The case was promoted by the police. Fined £2 10s. and costs.
|Bath Herald - Saturday 20 December 1856
|-
|31/12/1856
|N
|Isaac Dagger, beerhouse keeper of Bishop Sutton - house open for sale of beer after 10 o'clock at night on 11th December 1856.
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 08 January 1857
|-
|20/01/1857
|N
|Thomas Burge, licensed beerseller from Midsomer Norton - keeping his house open after eleven o'clock at night. Joseph Ashman, Pelican Inn, Chew Magna. Open during divine service on Christmas Day George Oakes, licensed beerseller from Litton, keeping his open after ten o'clock at night.
|[[Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - 29 January 1857]] Bristol Mercury - Saturday 24 January 1857
|-
|03/02/1857
|N
|Thomas Burge case, beerseller from Chilcompton. More detailed description of the case, including detailed reference to applicable law.
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 12 February 1857
|-
|17/02/1857
|N
|N
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 26 February 1857
|-
|03/03/1857
|N
|James Orchard, brewer at Midsomer Norton, in the employ of Messrs. Curtis and Aglen, was fined 14s. and 6d. for cruelty to a horse
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 12 March 1857 Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 18 March 1857
|-
|07/04/1857
|N
|License of Pelican Inn, Chew Magna, transferred to Mr. Smith, formerly of the Blucher Inn, Southgate Street, bath.
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 09 April 1857 Wells Journal - Saturday 11 April 1857 Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 15 April 1857
|-
|29/04/1857
|N
|William Fear, licensed victualler, Blue Bowl Inn, Compton Martin - fined £2 fro selling beer on Good Friday during Divine Service
|Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 06 May 1857
|-
|12/05/1857
|N
|N
|Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 20 May 1857
|-
|26/05/1857
|[[Thomas Brodribb]] (later of the [[Flying Dutchman]]) attended with his solicitor, Michael Marshall, Esq., to show cause against an information of Ann Emery, of the same place, whom she alleged to be the father of her bastard child. The case was dismissed.
|N
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 04 June 1857
|-
|09/07/1857
|[[Thomas Brodribb]] (later of the [[Flying Dutchman]]) - to answer the charge that he was the father of Ann Emery's bastard child. It seems it was found that he was.
|John Webb, beer seller of Chew Magna - fined £2 for keeping his house open after 10pm for the sale of beer.
|[[Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - 16 July 1857]]
|-
|18/08/1857
|N
|George Stock, of East Harptree, beerseller, convicted of keeping open his house in the afternoon of Sunday, the 19th July last, for the sale of beer. £2 and costs.
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 27 August 1857 Wells Journal - Saturday 29 August 1857
|-
|01/09/1857
|John Watts, shopkeeper and beerseller of Paulton, fined 14s 6d. For selling beer after the hour of ten o'clock in the evening.
"This was the general annual licensing day for innkeepers for the division of Chewton. The Bench delivered an address upon the vice of drunkenness, and called the attention of the police to the face that many persons had been fined for this offence. The Magistrates expressed their regret that those who were the primary cause of the evil were allowed wholly to escape conviction."
|Isaac Fuller, the keeper of the Bell Inn, Ubliey, was fined 30s and costs for selling beer on Sunday before the hour of half-past twelve o'clock.
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 10 September 1857
|-
|22/09/1857
|N
|Case of John Brain, employee of Messrs. Green of Holcombe Brewery, charged with stealing a truss of hay.
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 08 October 1857
|-
|03/11/1857
|N
|N
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 12 November 1857 Bristol Mercury - Saturday 07 November 1857
|-
|10/11/1857
|James Norris, a beer-house keeper, at Paulton, was fined in the sum of 7s. 6d., for keeping open his house for the sale of beer after the hour allowed by his license. The small fine imposed was in consequence of the good character the defendant received.
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 14 November 1857
|-
|08/12/1857
|N
|N
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 17 December 1857
|-
|22/12/1857
|N
|N
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 31 December 1857
|-
|05/01/1858
|N
|Richard Ashman was convicted in a penalty of 8s and costs, for assaulting Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. Chivers, the landlord of the Stones Cross Inn, at Midsomer Norton, and , in default of immediate payment, fourteen days imprisonment.
Sarah Watts, a beer-house keeper, at Farringdon Gurney, was 14s 6d for keeping open her house for the sale of beer after the hour of ten o'clock in the evening
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 09 January 1858
|-
|19/01/1858
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 23 January 1858
|-
|02/02/1858
|N
|John Sims, a beerhouse keeper of Bishop Sutton, was convicted in the penalty of £4 10s., and 6s 6d costs, for keeping open his house on Sunday, the 24th of January last for the sale of beer during divine service.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 06 February 1858
|-
|16/02/1858
|N
|Alexander Keeling was fined £1 5s 6d for keeping open his house for the sale of beer at Chewton Mendip after the hour of ten o'clock at night on the 22nd of January last.
John Roch and George Moon, carters in the employ of Messrs. Green, of Holcombe Brewery, were fined 9s 6d, for riding in their wagons without reins at Paulton.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 20 February 1858
|-
|02/03/1858
|Abraham Gray, of Paulton, was fined 9s 6d for keeping open his house for the sale of beer after the hour of ten o'clock in the evening.
|William Roynon, of Farmborough, was fined in the sum of £6 10s for keeping open his house for the sale of beer before the hour of half-past twelve o'clock on Sunday, it being the second conviction.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 06 March 1858
|-
|30/03/1858
|N
|John Sims, beerhouse keeper of Bishop Sutton, fined 5s and costs for being found by the police in a beastly state of intoxication and unable to take care of himself.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 03 April 1858
|-
|13/04/1858
|N
|Charles Gibbs, the landlord of the Red Lion Inn at Bishop Sutton, was fined £3 and 5s 6d costs for permitting drunkenness in his house, contrary to the conditions of his licence.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 17 April 1858
|-
|25/05/1858
|N
|James Knowles, the keeper of the Greyhound Inn, at Midsomer Norton, was fined £2 15s 6d, including costs, for keeping open his house for the sale of beer on Sunday
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 29 May 1858
|-
|08/06/1858
|N
|Interesting story about stealing buckets of beer from Mr Richard Lewis, brewer of Clutton.
John Rawlins, a beerhouse keeper at Chew Stoke, was fined 15s, and costs for keeping open his house on Sunday morning for the sale of beer,
Samuel Robbins, the keeper of the Britannia Inn at Chilcompton, was fined £1 10s, and costs for permitting drunkenness in his house.
James Knowles, of Midsomer Norton, was summoned for refusing to admit the constable into his house, the Greyhound Inn. The case was dismissed for want of proof of his refusal.
|[[Bristol Mercury - 12 June 1858]]
|-
|22/06/1858
|N
|John Marshall, the keeper of the inn at Chewstoke, was summoned for permitting drunkenness in his house, and fined £5 and costs. The bench said they had never before had so gross a case before them, and they therefore inflicted the highest penalty.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 26 June 1858
|-
|06/07/1858
|[[Absalom Grey]] was summoned for selling beer before half past twelve o'clock on Sunday, the 17th June last. Mr. Wm. Rees Mogg defended and the case was dismissed
|N
|Bristol Mercury - 10 July 1858
|-
|31/08/1858
|George Carter, a carrier and beerseller, was fined £1 and costs for keeping open his house at unlawful hours at Paulton.
|Jasper Toogood was convicted of damaging the sign of Wm. Fear, of the Blue Bowl, at Compton Martin, and was fined 6s 6d.
Annual licensing session - all renewed except one - the Bull Inn at Chelwood, which was withheld. Three applications for new licenses - 2 granted, namely Mr. Tidcombe's of Midsomer Norton and Alexander Keeling's of Chewton Mendip. 1 was refused - Mr. Pow's of Farmborough. It is to be hoped that another year this house will be licensed; it is well situated and the public would be thereby beneffitted.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 04 September 1858
|-
|14/09/1858
|N
|Thomas Tucker, a licensed seller of beer, was fined 25s and 8s 6d costs for keeping open his house at the parish of Westharptree, for the sale of beer at improper hours
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 18 September 1858
|-
|28/09/1858
|Richard Thompson, a clockmaker, appeared to answer the charge of Mr. George Carter, of Paulton inn, for stealing two tin cups, his property. The cups were found in the house of the accused by the police when in search of some other property. The case was dismissed, prosecutor not being able to prove that some person in his employ had not lent them.
|Selina Fear, of Publow, a servant in the employ of Mrs. Gough, of the Warwick Arms inn, Clutton, was brought up in custody charged with felopniously stealing a purse, and also thirty shillings in gold and silver money, the property of Mr. Thomas Gough, husband of the above. She was convicted of stealing the purse. Mrs. Gough created roars of laughter during the examinations by her ludicrous mimicry. The sentend of the court was two calendar months imprisonment, with hard labour.
Various people convicted of drunkenness and riotous behaviour at Stones Cross Inn, Midsomer Norton. "It was intimated to the bench that frequent disturbances occurred at the Stones Cross Inn. The police were directed to look sharply to it, and intimation being conveyed that the license would be endangered if such disturbance continued."
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 02 October 1858
|-
|26/10/1858
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 30 October 1858
|-
|09/11/1858
|Mercy Gray, of Paulton, was summoned by Patience - her servant, for an assault. As the case was not proved it was dismissed, as was also the case of Mercy Gray against Harriet Clarke, mother of the last complainant. (I think this may be the Wife of [[Absalom Gray]])
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 13 November 1858
|-
|23/11/1858
|N
|John Roynon, a beerhouse-keeper, of Farmborough, was summoned by the police for permitting his house to be open for the sale of beer after the hour of ten o'clock at night, it being the third offence. The case was dismissed as some doubt arose as to the exact time the beer had been drawn, and the defendant was given the benefit of it.
John Rawlins, a beerhouse keeper, of Chewstoke, was fined £4 and costs for keeping open his house for the sale of beer before the hour of half-past twelve o'clock on Sunday last, it being his second offence.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 27 November 1858
|-
|07/12/1858
|N
|John Church, of the Castle of Comfort Inn, on Mendip, was fined £3 10s and costs for keeping open his house for the sale of beer on Sunday, before the hour of half past twelve o'clock
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 11 December 1858
|-
|21/12/1858
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 25 December 1858
|}

== 1860s ==

===1860===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|10/01/1860
|Elizabeth Whatley of Paulton convicted of assaulting Hannah Maggs at Paulton Inn George Wyatt in trouble for assaulting the police
|John Hill, beerhouse keeper of Midsomer Norton, charged two travelling cheese dealers with stealing on of his knives
|Bristol Mercury - 14 January 1860
|}

===1861===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|08/01/1861
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury- 12 January 1861
|-
|05/03/1861
|[[George Wyatt]], of the Red White and Blue beerhouse at Paulton was convicted in a penalty of £1 5s 6d for obstructing the police in their duty and refusing entry to his house
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - 08 March 1861 Bristol Mercury - 09 March 1861
|}

===1862===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|26/08/1862
|Annual Licensing Session for victuallers - no objections
|Annual Licensing Session for victuallers - no objections
"The Chairman hoped that as they were licensed merely to refresh travellers they would be careful not to allow parties to remain on their premises long enough to get drunk, as the Bench had the power to withhold the license from such persons as so committed themselves." 
Application for Spirit license for Mr Thomas Burge, Redan Inn, Downside - application was opposed on behalf of the Britannia Inn, Chilcompton - refused. 
Application for Spirit License for Edwin Baker of the White Post, Midsomer Norton - opposed on behalf of T Burge. Adjourned to next petty session. 
Application for a license for Joseph Warford, beerseller at Nempnett. Also adjourned.
|Western Daily Press - 29 August 1862
|}

===1863===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|13/01/1863
|Thomas James, beer seller of Paulton, fined for selling beer at unlawful hours
|N
|Wells Journal - 17 January 1863
|-
|26/05/1863
|Leah Holbtook, of Paulton, charged with an assault on Hannah Maggs in a beer-shop called the "Strip and at it", at Paulton
|Faraham Clarke, son of a beer-seller at Timsbury, summoned for assault upon Abigail Pain, but case was dismissed
|Frome Times - 27 May 1863
|}

===1864===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|16/02/1864
|William Winter, George Carter, Job Woodland, Frederick Woodland, and Alexander Withers were summoned by George Gibbs, a beer-seller of Paulton, for disorderly conduct in his house. Compromised by the payment of 25s each.
|N
|Sherborne Mercury - 23 February 1864
|-
|03/05/1864
|George Gibbs, of the [[Winterfield Inn]], summoned for having his house open for the sale of beer at prohibited times on Sunday, the 24th ult. Fined 20s and costs
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 05 May 1864
|-
|23/08/1864
|Unjust measures convictions: 
Grace Carter, Paulton Inn 
John (Jehu in Frome Times) Derrick, of Paulton, beerseller 
Annual Licensing Session - all license renewed 
License granted to Abraham Grey of Paulton 
|George Hathaway of Farmbough, fined for keeping open his beerhouse at unlawful times 
Unjust measures convictions: 
George Wyatt, innkeeper, High Littleton Inn 
William Lane Clarke, Farrington Inn 
John Pow, New Inn, Farmborough 
James Thomes of Timsbury, beerseller 
George Banfield of Hallatrow, beerseller 
Thomas Bridges, of Clutton, beerseller 
Annual Licensing Session - all renewed except 
Chewstoke Inn 
Miners Arms at Chewton Mendip 
|Shepton Mallet Journal - 26 August 1864 
Frome Times - 31 August 1864
|}

===1865===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|10/01/1865
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - 13 January 1865
|-
|24/01/1865
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - 26 January 1865 
Frome Times - 01 February 1865
|-
|07/02/1865
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - 11 February 1865
|-
|14/02/1865
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - 16 February 1865
|-
|14/03/1865
|N
|Elizabeth Carrell, of East Harptree, beerhouse keeper - fined for selling beer at prohibited hours
|Western Daily Press - 16 March 1865
|-
|28/03/1865
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - 31 March 1865
|-
|11/04/1865
|N
|Richard Lewis, proprietor of the Clutton Brewery - charged with unlawfully receiving an alder pole
|Bristol Mercury - 15 April 1865
|-
|18/04/1865
|N
|Continuation of case against Richard Lews, of Clutton Brewery, from the last session
|Bristol Mercury - 22 April 1865
|-
|02/05/1865
|N
|Jesse Hearse, beerseller of East Harptree - illegal fishing
|Western Gazette - 05 May 1865
|-
|16/05/1865
|Thomas James, beerhouse keeper of Paulton - house open at prohibited hours on a Sunday
|N
|Western Daily Press - 18 May 1865
|-
|30/05/1865
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 02 June 1865
|-
|13/06/1865
|N
|Henry Brimble, beerseller of High Littleton - keeping his house open at prohibited hours Elizabeth Green beerseller of Hinton Blewitt - house open at prohibited hours, case dismissed John Weaver beerseller of Chew Stoke - house open at prohibited hours, case dismissed
|Wells Journal - 17 June 1865
|-
|20/06/1865
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - 24 June 1865
|-
|11/07/1865
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 13 July 1865
|-
|25/07/1865
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 27 July 1865
|-
|08/08/1865
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 10 August 1865
|-
|22/08/1865
|Annual Licensing Day - all licenses renewed. Thomas James summoned for having his beerhouse open at prohibited hours on Sunday 9th - dismissed.
|Annual Licensing Day - all licenses renewed. Refusal of spirit license at Redan beerhouse at Downside, Midsomer Norton
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 24 August 1865
|-
|05/09/1865
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 08 September 1865
|-
|26/09/1865
|N
|John Lockyer, of West Harptree - fined for selling beer without a license 
James Winter of Compton Martin - fined for selling cider without a license
|Western Gazette - Friday 29 September 1865
|-
|10/10/1865
|N
|N
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 12 October 1865
|-
|24/10/1865
|Elizabeth Tucker of Newtown was convicted of stealing several articles (including a salt cellar and glasses) from [[Grace Slade Carter]], Paulton, innkeeper - and was sent to Shepton Mallet House of Correction for 7 days
|N
|Western Daily Press - Friday 27 October 1865
|-
|07/11/1865
|N
|George Oaks, beerseller of Litton, allowing nine pigs to stray on the highway at Litton
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 09 November 1865
|-
|21/11/1865
|N
|N
|Frome Times - Wednesday 29 November 1865
|-
|05/12/1865
|N
|Jas. Brimble, Beerhouse keeper of Midsomer Norton - selling at prohibited hours on Sunday
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 07 December 1865
|-
|19/12/1865
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 21 December 1865
|}

===1866===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|09/01/1866
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 11 January 1866
|-
|23/01/1866
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 26 January 1866
|-
|01/02/1866
|Ston Easton - Police, Thursday - … At the petty session the previous Monday, Elizabeth Beecham, of Hallatrow, and Mary Manby, of Paulton, two servants at the [[Red Lion Inn]], Paulton, were brought up by PC Best before B. Naish Esq. charged with stealing wine and spirits, the property of [[Grace Carter]], and remanded until the petty session on Tuesday next. Note - according to the Western Daily Press, this is at the Paulton Inn - suggesting the names are used interchangeably to refer to the same place.
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 03 February 1866 
Western Gazette - Friday 09 February 1866 
Western Daily Press - Thursday 08 February 1866
|-
|27/02/1866
|N
|Mark Norman of West Harptree - drunk and disorderly at a beerhouse kept by Henry Mayor at West Harptree
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Saturday 03 March 1866
|-
|02/03/1866
|N
|N (Note - the sessions were on a Friday)
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Monday 05 March 1866
|-
|13/03/1866
|N
|Robert Perry, beerhouse keeper of Woollard, charged with leaving horse and cart on turnpike road at Farnborough
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 15 March 1866
|-
|27/03/1866
|N
|Abraham Bell of Farmborough, beerhouse keeper - refusing to let Police enter beerhouse on 18th inst.
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 29 March 1866 Western Gazette - Friday 06 April 1866
|-
|10/04/1866
|N
|William Winter of Ubley (an old offender) fined for selling two quarts of Cider without a license.
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 12 April 1866
|-
|01/05/1866
|N
|N
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 03 May 1866
|-
|15/05/1866
|N
|Elizabeth Smith of Farrington Gurney summoned by landlord of Farrington Inn, William Lane Clarke - for damaging a door on his property
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 17 May 1866
|-
|29/05/1866
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 01 June 1866
|-
|12/06/1866
|N
|Charlotte Norman of West Harptree - breaking a door property of Henry Major, beerhouse keeper of same Parish.
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 14 June 1866
|-
|19/06/1866
|Joseph Walsh of Paulton, stoker and John Burkeley of Camerton, labourer - brought up under remand for stealing a gun from a stable at the Paulton Inn during night of 16th inst. Property of Timothy Carter
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 21 June 1866
|-
|10/07/1866
|N
|N
|Wells Journal - Saturday 14 July 1866 Western Daily Press - Thursday 12 July 1866
|-
|24/07/1866
|Thomas Brodribb of Paulton - for allowing two donkeys to stray on the highway 
William Maggs, a tailor, of Paulton was fined 14s 6d and costs for assaulting Albert Knee, the ostler of the Red Lion Inn there, and in default 14 days imprisonment. Sarah Maggs, a daughter of William Maggs, was also fined 8s for violently assaulting the said Albert Knee with a carving knife and shovel, and breaking his head, and in default of payment was sentenced to seven days imprisonment.
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 27 July 1866
|-
|07/08/1866
|N
|Worley Watts of Compton Martin fined for breach of his beer license
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 09 August 1866
|-
|21/08/1866
|N
|N
|Wells Journal - Saturday 25 August 1866
|-
|05/09/1866
|Annual Licensing Session - no complaints, all licenses renewed
|Annual Licensing Session - no complaints, all licenses renewed
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 06 September 1866
|-
|25/09/1866
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 27 September 1866
|-
|09/10/1866
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 11 October 1866
|-
|23/10/1866
|N
|Bell Inn, Farmborough - Elizabeth Drury, daughter of landlord Mr George Drury, summoned for furious driving at Clutton
|Western Gazette - Friday 26 October 1866
|-
|06/11/1866
|[[Thomas Brodribb]], beerhouse keeper of Paulton, keeping his beerhouse open during prohibited hours on Sunday.
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 08 November 1866
|-
|20/11/1866
|N
|Alfred Church, innkeeper of East Harptree - three unjust measures 
Thomas Kelling, beerhouse-keeper of Chewton Mendip - unjust measures 
James Franks, innkeeper of Litton - unjust measures 
John Sherborne, innkeeper of Litton - unjust measures 
George Oaks, beerhouse keeper of Litton - unjust measures 
James Vagg, innkeeper of Chilcompton - unjust measures 
John Smith, beerhouse keeper of Mid Norton - unjust measures 
John Shearn, beerhouse keeper of Mid Norton - unjust measures
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 22 November 1866
|-
|18/12/1866
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 20 December 1866
|}

===1867===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|01/01/1867
|George Gibbs, of the [[Winterfield Inn]], Paulton, for assauling Edward Dairs, was fined 10s., including costs.
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 03 January 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 04 January 1867 Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 05 January 1867
|-
|08/01/1867
|N
|N
|Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 09 January 1867
|-
|15/01/1867
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 17 January 1867 Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 17 January 1867 Sherborne Mercury - Tuesday 22 January 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 18 January 1867
|-
|29/01/1867
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 31 January 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 01 February 1867 Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 02 February 1867
|-
|12/02/1867
|N
|Alfred Church, innkeeper of East Harptree - having house open for the sale of beer at prohibited times. Jesse Hearse, beerhouse keeper, of Easy Harptree - fined 10s for refusing to allow police entry after 10pm - there being people inside.
|Western Daily Press - Friday 15 February 1867 Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 15 February 1867 Sherborne Mercury - Tuesday 19 February 1867
|-
|26/02/1867
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 28 February 1867 Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 28 February 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 01 March 1867
|-
|12/03/1867
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 15 March 1867
|-
|26/03/1867
|N
|N
|Sherborne Mercury - Tuesday 02 April 1867
|-
|16/04/1867
|N
|Moses Shepherd, beer seller of Timsbury - having his house open for selling of beer during divine service on a Sunday.
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 18 April 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 26 April 1867 Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 18 April 1867
|-
|23/04/1867
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 26 April 1867
|-
|07/05/1867
|N
|George Blackler, landlord of the Clutton Inn, for selling beer after 10 o'clock at night. George Fussell of Midsomer Norton also fined for selling beer after 10 o'clock
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 10 May 1867 Western Daily Press - Thursday 09 May 1867
|-
|21/05/1867
|N
|N
|Sherborne Mercury - Tuesday 28 May 1867 Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 24 May 1867
|-
|04/06/1867
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 06 June 1867
|-
|18/06/1867
|N
|Mark Chard, of Black Dog beerhouse, Timsbury - Joseph Payne and William James stole £8 from him.
George Green, beerhouse keeper, Hinton Blewitt - open at prohibited hours.
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 20 June 1867
|-
|02/07/1867
|[[Thomas Brodribb]] of Paulton - allowing his donkey to stray onto the highway.
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 04 July 1867 Bristol Times and Mirror - Saturday 06 July 1867
|-
|16/07/1867
|N
|Bell Inn, Farmborough - a woman was thrown into a well opposite.
|Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 20 July 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 19 July 1867
|-
|30/07/1867
|N
|Waggon and Horses, Temple Cloud, mentioned in passing in assault case.
|Western Gazette - Friday 02 August 1867 Western Daily Press - Wednesday 31 July 1867 Western Daily Press - Thursday 01 August 1867
|-
|13/08/1867
|N
|Daniel Wilkins, of Bull Inn at Chelwood - leather stolen from his trap.
License of Bell Inn, Ubley, endorsed until next Transfer day to William Oaks.
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 16 August 1867 Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 17 August 1867
|-
|27/08/1867
|N
|William Chard, innkeeper, of Temple Cloud - house open at prohibited times.
|Western Gazette - Friday 30 August 1867 Western Daily Press - Thursday 29 August 1867
|-
|10/09/1867
|N
|Thomas Cook stole glasses from the Stones Cross Inn, Midsomer Norton, property of Elizabeth Millard.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 14 September 1867 Western Daily Press - Thursday 12 September 1867
|-
|24/09/1867
|N
|N
|Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 28 September 1867 Western Daily Press - Thursday 26 September 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 27 September 1867
|-
|08/10/1867
|[[Joseph Banfield]] when he was bailiff at Old Mills colliery.
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 11 October 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 11 October 1867 Wells Journal - Saturday 12 October 1867 Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 12 October 1867
|-
|22/10/1867
|N
|Richard Clavey charged with stealing a whip, property of George Stallard, from the inn at Farrington Gurney
George Harding charged with assaulting Adelaide Branch at the New Inn in Farmborough
|Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 26 October 1867 Western Daily Press - Thursday 24 October 1867
|-
|05/11/1867
|William Creese, Mary Creese, James Rose, Silverthorne Stokes, Eliza Stokes - of Newtown, Paulton - drunk in front of the Red Lion Inn
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 08 November 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 08 November 1867
|-
|19/11/1867
|N
|N
|Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 23 November 1867 Wells Journal - Saturday 23 November 1867
|-
|03/12/1867
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 05 December 1867 Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 06 December 1867
|-
|17/12/1867
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 20 December 1867 Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 21 December 1867
|-
|31/12/1867
|N
|James Salmon, farmer and beer seller of Midsomer Norton - charged with assault.
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Wednesday 01 January 1868 Western Gazette - Friday 03 January 1868 Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 03 January 1868
|}

===1868===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|14/01/1868
|N
|George Bean, licensed seller of beer in Midsomer Norton - keeping his house open at 12:30 on a Sunday. Case dismissed.
License granted to Mrs. Mary Parsons of the George Inn, Nettlebridge in Midsomer Norton.
License of Lamb Inn, Clandown, indorsed to Mr. Joseph Grant until the next transfer day, 10th Mar 1868.
|Western Gazette - Friday 17 January 1868
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 17 January 1868
|-
|28/01/1868
|N
|James Priddon, Cooper, of Clutton - selling beer on his premises without a license.
|Western Gazette - Friday 31 January 1868
|-
|11/02/1868
|N
|Daniel Wilkins, innkeeper, Chelwood - John Spear stole from him.
William Chard, of Temple Cloud, fined for selling beer without a license.
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 14 February 1868
|-
|25/02/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 28 February 1868
|-
|10/03/1868
|N
|George Oaks, beerseller of Litton,selling at unlawful hours
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 13 March 1868
|-
|24/03/1868
|N
|Lewin Little, beerseller at Chilcompton, keeping his house open on Sunday at unlawful hours
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 27 March 1868
|-
|31/03/1868
|N
|James Priddow, of Clutton, fined £5 for selling beer without a license
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 03 April 1868
|-
|21/04/1868
|N
|John Hale of Timsbury - fined for keeping open his house for the sale of beer on Good Friday at unlawful hours
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 24 April 1868
|-
|05/05/1868
|N
|James Vagg, of Britannia Inn, Chilcompton - accused of assault
Henry Pearce, of Kings Arms Inn, Litton - potatoes were stolen
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 08 May 1868
|-
|19/05/1868
|N
|Henry Watts for opening his house for the sale of beer at unlawful hours
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 22 May 1868
|-
|02/06/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 05 June 1868
|-
|16/06/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 19 June 1868
|-
|30/06/1868
|N
|William Mapstone, licensed beer seller - keeping open his house at Bishop Sutton at unlawful hours
John Hill beer seller and John Matthews Farmer bound over to keep the peace for fighting
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 03 July 1868
|-
|14/07/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 17 July 1868
|-
|28/07/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 31 July 1868
|-
|11/08/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 14 August 1868
|-
|25/08/1868
|Annual Licensing Session - no complaints, all licenses renewed - "the innkeepers in their usual boniface style, renewed their licenses"
|All licenses renewed, except the following were held over because the proprieters did not appear: Waldegrave Arms Inn, Chewton Mendip - Chewstoke Inn - The Ring of Bells Inn, Compton Martin - The Blue Bowl, Compton Martin.
Application for license for Redan beerhouse at Downside, kept by Mr Thomas Burge was, on his behalf, made by Mr Hobbs of Wells, but opposed by Mr Bartrum of Bath, on behalf of the Britannia Inn, Chilcompton. THe testimonials were of a voluminous description, and such that the bench, after consultation, granted a license.
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 28 August 1868
|-
|08/09/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 11 September 1868
|-
|22/09/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 25 September 1868
|-
|29/09/1868
|N
|Charles Smith of Midsomer Norton, charged with selling beer without a license. Case dismissed.
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 02 October 1868
Western Daily Press - Thursday 01 October 1868
|-
|13/10/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 16 October 1868
|-
|27/10/1868
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 31 October 1868
|-
|01/12/1868
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 03 December 1868
Western Gazette - Friday 04 December 1868
|-
|22/12/1868
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 24 December 1868
Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 24 December 1868
|}

===1869===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|05/01/1869
|N
|An assault happened at the inn in Farrington Gurney (doesn't say which one)
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 07 January 1869
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 08 January 1869
|-
|19/01/1869
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 21 January 1869
Western Gazette - Friday 22 January 1869
|-
|02/02/1869
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 05 February 1869
|-
|16/02/1869
|N
|STORY CONSIDERED IMPORTANT TO BEERHOUSE KEEPERS - Henry Walter Faulks of Green Ore - summoned for selling spirits without a license and a second count of keeping spirits on his premises which are only licensed for keeping beer. Fine would have been massive (£50 - and never being allowed a beer license again). IN the end, it was believed (because of his impeachable character) that he had only had it there for his own purpose.
Mary James, late in employ of W. L. Clarke of Farrington Inn, charged with stealing four glasses (note SMJ says Farringdon)
William Harry and John Flower - drunk and disorderly at the Timsbury Inn.
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 19 February 1869
Western Daily Press - Thursday 18 February 1869
|-
|02/03/1869
|N
|James Russell, beer seller of East Harptree - selling beer at unlawful hours.
Ann Mercer - selling beer at Farmborough without having an Excise license authorising her to do so.
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 05 March 1869
|-
|09/03/1869
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 12 March 1869
|-
|16/03/1869
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 18 March 1869
|-
|30/03/1869
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 02 April 1869
|-
|13/04/1869
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 16 April 1869
|-
|27/04/1869
|Joseph Banfield - see next column - later licensee of Somerset? Or Blackbird? This story is useful is untangling the Banfield family.
|George Banfield of Hallatrow, beerseller, Samuel Banfield of High Littleton, beerseller, Joseph Banfield of Paulton, bailliff and William Banfield of Clutton - each ordered to pay 1s a week towards the support of their mother, Mary Banfield, who is chargeable to Clutton Union.
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 30 April 1869
Western Daily Press - Thursday 29 April 1869
Western Gazette - Friday 30 April 1869
|-
|11/05/1869
|Thomas Towell, inkeeper of Paulton. Assaulted by Henry House - extensive story.
|Amos Browning, inkeeper in Chew Magna - witness in a case of stabbing.
|Bristol Daily Post - Wednesday 12 May 1869
Bristol Mercury - Saturday 15 May 1869
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 14 May 1869
|-
|25/05/1869
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 28 May 1869
|-
|08/06/1869
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 10 June 1869
|-
|22/06/1869
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 25 June 1869
Western Daily Press - Thursday 24 June 1869
|-
|06/07/1869
|N
|N
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 08 July 1869
|-
|20/07/1869
|N
|Walter Harrison, innkeeper, Timsbury - John Sage was accused of stealing glassses. Case Dismissed.
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 22 July 1869
Western Gazette - Friday 23 July 1869
|-
|03/08/1869
|Thomas Towill, of the Red Lion Inn, Paulton - keeping a dog without a license
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 06 August 1869
Western Daily Press - Thursday 05 August 1869
|-
|17/08/1869
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 19 August 1869
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 20 August 1869
|-
|31/08/1869
|Annual licensing session.
All innkeepers received licenses - no complaints.
Beersellers also received licenses except for 21 (including some from Paulton) which were adjourned (Henry Tovey, George Carter, Thomas Brodribb, John Carter)
|Annual licensing session.
All innkeepers received licenses - no complaints - except for Old Down Inn, Ubley Inn, Waldgrave Arms CHewton Mendip which were adjourned
Beersellers also received licenses except for 21 (including some from Paulton) which were adjourned.
Jawes Wyatt, of Hallatrow, beerhouse keeper (along with James Weeks and Jonah Weeks - both colliers) - fined for resisting the police in the execution of their duty at Hallatrow.
Jonah Weeks charged with stealing a quantity of cider and a jar from William Drury, farmer, of Hallatrow.
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 02 September 1869
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 03 September 1869
Bristol Daily Post - Thursday 02 September 1869
|-
|06/09/1869
|A wonderful letter - "The magistrates at the Temple Cloud Petty Sessions on Tuesday, thoroughly denouced skittle playing by cautioning the innkeepers on pain of penalty of they permitted it at their houses in the future" - the letter argues that they should equally complain about croquet matches and archery on the lawns of the gentries houses.
|N
|Bristol Daily Post - Monday 06 September 1869
|-
|14/09/1869
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 17 September 1869
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 17 September 1869
|-
|28/09/1869
|N
|George Hathaway, beerhouse keeper of Farmborough - having his house open for the sale of beer at unlawful hours
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 30 September 1869
Western Daily Press - Thursday 30 September 1869
|-
|28/09/1869
|List of persons keeping beerhouses (and receiving licenses) the decision being adjourned to this meeting:
Paulton: Henry Tovey, George Carter, Thomas Brodribb, John Carter
|List of persons keeping beerhouses (and receiving licenses) that had been adjourned to this meeting:
Chew Magna: James Mayne
Chew Stoke: William Rawlins, Elizabeth Rawlings, Stephen Frederick Allen
Chilcomption: Thomas Simmons, John Jones
Farrington Gurney: Sarah Watts
Green Oar: George Brown
Hinton Blewitt: George Green
Midsomer Norton: J.F.C. Gunning
Timsbury: John Heal
Chew Magna: John Collins
East Harptree: James Russell
Farmborough: George Hathway (also - fined for keeping his beerhouse open after 10 o'clock at night)
Hallatrow: James Wyatt
Litton: George Oaks
Midsomer Norton: James Salmon
Timsbury: James Stephen Cundict
Ubley: Sylvester Gallop
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 01 October 1869
Western Gazette - Friday 01 October 1869
|-
|12/10/1869
|N
|Old Down Inn - Richard Chapman, of Binegar, was drunk and disorderly
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 15 October 1869
Western Daily Press - Thursday 14 October 1869
|-
|26/10/1869
|N
|George Lane, innkeeper, of Ubley fined for deliberately allowing drunkeness
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 28 October 1869
|-
|09/11/1869
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 12 November 1869
|-
|23/11/1869
|N
|Wellsway Tavern, West Harptree - Eliza Norman drunk and refusing to quit when requested by the landlady.
|Western Gazette - Friday 26 November 1869
|-
|07/12/1869
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 10 December 1869
|-
|28/12/1869
|N
|The Inn at High Littleton - Jacob Simmons (one of the notorieties of Paulton!) drunk and disorderly and refusing to quit - 1 month hard labour!
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 31 December 1869
|}

==1870s==

==1880s==

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|05/06/1883
|Martin Cyrus Slade, landlord of [[Old Lottery Inn]] was assaulted by Thomas and Frederick Perry
|George Oakes, innkeeper, Compton Martin - fined for not sending children to school
|[[Western Gazette - 08 June 1883]]
|-
|08/09/1885
|All licenses renewed - only one conviction in the year, George Yeates, beerhouse keeper of Paulton ([[Rose & Crown]]) - it was acknowledged there were extenuating circumstances, so his certificate was granted an admonition
|All licenses renewed. Kings Arms Inn, Litton - transferred from Henry Pearce to Richard Pearce.
|Bristol Mercury - Wednesday 09 September 1885
[[Bristol Times and Mirror - 12 September 1885]]
|-
|25/09/1888
|License of [[Somerset Inn]] (Somerset Arms in Bristol Mercury), Paulton, transferred from George Brimble to Thomas Mercer Williams.
George Simmons applied for transfer of license of the [[Dove Inn]], Paulton, from executors of Amanda Pow to himself. He told the court he would occupy the house himself, so the police withdrew their objection.
|Order sanctioning removal of license of the beerhouse occupied by Mrs Watts at Farrington Gurney, ot other premises, was made, the alterations and accomodation being approved by the police.
License of West Town Inn, Nempnett, transferred from William Hamlin jun. to Stephen Gunter
Extension of two hours granted to Mr Green, landlord of Waldegrave Arms, Chewton Mendip, on occasion of a cricket club dinner on October 9th.
|[[Bristol Mercury - 26 September 1888]] Western Daily Press - Wednesday 26 September 1888
|-
|07/05/1889
|Uriah Maggs (father of Uriah Maggs who later was licensee of [[Rose & Crown]]) - charged with maliciously wounding his son William James Maggs. William was at the [[Dove Inn]], when his father came in and abused the landlord - there then follows a tale of Uriah hitting him with a candlestick. George Simmons, landlord of the Dove deposed to the occurrences. He was properly beat up - a broken rib punctured his lung. Uriah was committed for trial at Midsummer Sessions.
|Butchers Arms, Bishop Sutton - license transferred from Isaac Mapstone to George Mellish
Edward Hathway applied for an outdoor license at Farmborough - the late tenant having neglected to renew the license. Neighbouring publican objected. Refused on the grounds that the notices had not been properly served (affixed to church door)
|[[Shepton Mallet Journal - 10 May 1889]] [[Bristol Mercury - 11 May 1889]]
|-
|21/05/1889
|Temporary authority granted to Joseph John Simmons for the Winterfield Inn.
|Temporary authority to seel at the Miners' Arms, Chewton Mendip, was refused. 
There is a cool story about a man accused of being drunk who said he had not had "More than his usual quantity of beer" but it was instead the sewer gasses from the hole he had been digging. 
Assault by David Williams, 27, shoemaker of Paulton on Ada Rayson, aged 14 - on the way along the canal back from Camerton (where they had some cider at the Camerton Inn).
|Bristol Mercury - Wednesday 22 May 1889 
Western Daily Press - Wednesday 22 May 1889 
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 24 May 1889
|-
|09/07/1889
|License of Winterfield Inn, Paulton transferred from Alice Gibbs to Joseph John Simmons.
|Edward Hathway applied for outside license at Hobbs Wall, Farmborough - previous tenant having neglected to renew at last annual licensing meeting - Granted. 
Temporary authority in respect of Miners Arms, Chewton Mendip, granted to William James Bartlett in succession to Jonathan Pearce.
|Wells Journal - Thursday 11 July 1889 
Western Daily Press - Wednesday 10 July 1889 
Bristol Mercury - Wednesday 10 July 1889 
|}

==1890s==

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|15/04/1890
|Henry Simmons summoned for drunkenness at Paulton. Samuel Padfield also summoned for drunkenness at Paulton - came out, threatened to break a mans ribs and "challenged any man in Paulton to a fight." James Paget also drunk in Paulton - there was some squabble over who had the best pocket watch! William Church also drunk in Paulton - and technically assaulted the police man. All at the [[Winterfield Inn]].
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Wednesday 16 April 1890 [[Western Daily Press - 17 April 1890]]
|-
|12/07/1892
|Application for transfer of the [[Winterfield Inn]] from James Ross to William Woods was adjourned for evidence of character
|Temporary transfers were granted in respect of Halltrow Inn, from H. J. Hallett, deceased, to Sarah Georgina Hallett; and of the Star Inn, Chew Stoke, from Edwin Millard to Chas. A. Weeks. 
Application for transfer of the Buthers' Arms inn, Farmborough, from John Moass to Isaac F. Webley, was adjourned for evidence of character.
|Wells Journal - Thursday 14 July 1892
|-
|23/08/1892
|Annual licensing day - no complaints by police, so all renewed. 
Licence of [[Winterfield Inn]] transferred from James Ross to William Woods
|Annual licensing day - no complaints by police, so all renewed.
Licence of Hallatrow Inn, Hallatrow, transferred to Sarah Georgina Hallett, widow of the late holder
Licence of Star Inn, Chew Stoke, transferred from Edward Millard to Charles Alfred Weekes
Licence of Butchers' Arms, Farmborough, transferred from John Moans to Frank Webley
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Saturday 27 August 1892 Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 26 August 1892
|-
|10/05/1898
|Mr James Brook, of the [[Winterfield Inn]] granted an extension for an hour on May 23rd, on the occasion of the Paulton Casuals annual football dinner
|Mr William Pow, of the Bell Inn, Farmborough, granted an extension for an hour on May 11th, on the occasion of the Farmborough football dinner
|Bristol Mercury - Wednesday 11 May 1898
|}

==1900s==

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|19/06/1900
|The license of the [[Red Lion]] Inn, Paulton, was transferred from William John Allward to Walter David Butler
|license of the Butchers Arms, Farmborough, transferred from Joseph Hillier to Herbert Sheard 
William Foxwell, of Chilcompton, disorderly at the Old Down Inn on June 3.
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Saturday 23 June 1900
|-
|19/11/1901
|Case against Alfred Kempster, of the [[Old Lottery]], for permitting drunkenness. Case dismissed.
|N
|[[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 23 November 1901]]
|-
|11/08/1908
|License of the [[Rose & Crown]] transferred from George Sherborne to [[Herbert Shearn]]
|Licence of the Pelican Hotel, Chew Magna, transferred from executors of R. H. Singleton, deceased, to Mrs Emily Singleton, widow
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 13 August 1908
|}

==1910s==

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|17/07/1917
|Mr. W. J. Bryant, licensee of the [[Red Lion]] Hotel, Paulton, made an application for the sale of intoxicating liquors at the athletic ground, Paulton, on the occasion of the annual fancy dress parade carnival in aid of the Paulton Hospital and other charitable institutions, to be held at Paulton on Tuesday, August 7. Police Supt. Ford supported the application, and stated that it was conducted quite properly last year and he had no complaint whatever and no objection to the granting of the license from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. - The license was granted.
|Tom Farrant, licensee of the Warwick Arms, Clutton - failing to send his children to school.
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 20 July 1917
|}

==1920s==

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|04/05/1920
|Transfer of license of the Old Lottery Inn, Paulton, from the present licensee, Alfred Kempster, to his son-in-law, Frederick Smith, bootmaker, of Paulton
|N
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 07 May 1920
|-
|16/01/1923
|Licence of the [[Rose & Crown]] transferred to Samuel Workman
|Licence of the Star Inn, High Littleton, granted to H. Cundy
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 19 January 1923
|-
|30/06/1925
|License of the [[Red Lion]] transferred from William Joseph Bryant to [[Frederick Nelson Ashman]] - well known secretary of the Paulton Rovers Football Club
|N
|[[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 03 July 1925]]
|-
|31/05/1927
|Mr. F. N. Ashman, licensee of the Red Lion, granted an occasional license from 2.0 to 9.30pm for the sale of intoxicants in a field on the occasion of the annual Friendly Societies fete and sports to be held at Paulton on Whit-Monday
|Mr. Bert Salmon, of the Ring of Bells Inn, Compton Martin
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 03 June 1927
|-
|31/07/1928
|Samuel Workman, licensee of the [[Rose & Crown]] - summoned for selling liquor in an unsealed vessel to a person under the age of 14 - case dismissed.
|N
|[[Western Daily Press - 02 August 1928]]
|-
|25/06/1929
|Tom Simmons, licensee of the Red Lion, granted an extension of one hour from 19 pm to 11 pm on the occasion of the first annual dinner of the Excelda Lodge, R.A.O.B to be held on Wednesday, July 3rd.
|N
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 28 June 1929
|}

==1930s==
{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|21/10/1930
|License of the Britannia Inn transferred from Mr. Reuben James Carter to his son-in-law, Mr. Reginal William Ashman. Mr. Reuben Carter has held the license of this inn for a period of 26 years.
|N
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 24 October 1930
|-
|14/07/1931
|License transfer from Mr. H. Lumber to Mr. Ernest Dando. Mr. H. Lumber had been licensee for the past 21 years. Application was made on behalf of Messrs. Georges Breweries, Ltd., of Bristol.
|N
|[[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 17 July 1931]]
|-
|22/01/1935
|Tom Simmons granted an extension from 10pm to 11pm for the sale of intoxicating liquours on the occasion of the annual dinner of the Paulton "Excelda" Lodge of the R. A. O. B. in the [[Red Lion]] Hotel, Paulton, on the 2nd Feb.
|Mr George Hatch, of the Queen's Arms, Chew Magna, granted extension on occasion of a skittles club dinner.
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 25 January 1935
|-
|26/11/1935
|Mr F. Bennett, of the Red Lion Hotel, Paulton, granted an extension from 10pm to 11pm on the occasion of the Paulton Homing Society annual dinner.
|Mr. Penney, of the Farrington Gurney Inn, granted an extension from 10pm to 11pm on the occasion of the annual fat stock show dinner
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 29 November 1935
|-
|08/03/1938
|Charles Webb, who was previously the licensee of the [[Royal Oak]], Old Mills, Paulton, for 15 years - supported the application of the transfer of the full license from the Hallatrow Inn to the Miners Arms. If it had been granted it would have also led to the closure of the [[Rose & Crown]] as well as other local pubs.
|Application for the transfer of the full license from the Hallatrow Inn, to the Miners Arms, Farrington. Application was refused. Nice information about the situation of these pubs. If the application had been granted it would have led to the closure of the Hallatrow Inn, the Jolly Colliers Inn in Clutton, the Rose & Crown in Paulton and an off-license in High Littleton. 
Application made by Wallace Sennington Weymouth, to move the New Inn, Farmborough, to a new site 200 yards from the existing one. Granted 
Alterations to the Old Down Inn, Ston Easton, were approved 
Application granted to Sidney George Rowlands, of the High Littleton Inn, for sale of intoxicating liquour at the High Littleton Working Mens Club.
|[[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 11 March 1938]]
|}

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==DIVISION OF CHEWTON, SOMERSET==

It is believed the justices of the peace for this division will, at their petty sessions, on the 6th of November next, adjourn such session from the Clutton Union Workhouse to the County Court House, at Temple Cloud, near Bristol, where all future petty and special sessions will be holden, communications having been made to Graham Wilmore, Esq., the judge of such Court, the treasurer and other officers, to that effect.

Temple Cloud Petty Sessions

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==Introduction==

This page is an incomplete listing of pubs, beer houses, landlords and other beery goings on from the Temple Cloud Petty Sessions, from the mid to late 19th Century - as reported in the various local papers of the time.

Note that the Petty Sessions moved from being held at the Clutton Union Workhouse to the County Court House at Temple Cloud in late 1855 (see [[ Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - 01 November 1855]])

This is very much a work in progress - there is tons still to do to make this anywhere near a complete record.

== 1850s ==

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|15/01/1856
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 19 January 1856
|-
|29/01/1856
|N
|Thomas Robins, of Ston Easton, was fined £5 for selling beer on his premises, he not being licensed to do so.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 02 February 1856
|-
|30?/04/1856
|N
|N
|Wells Journal - Saturday 03 May 1856
|-
|06/05/1856
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 10 May 1856
|-
|20/05/1856
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 24 May 1856
|-
|26/08/1856
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 30 August 1856
|-
|05/11/1856
|Only one story - beating up of Mr Blinman. Note George Wyatt was involved.
|N
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 13 November 1856
|-
|31/12/1856
|N
|Isaac Dagger, beerhouse keeper of Bishop Sutton - house open for sale of beer after 10 o'clock at night on 11th December 1856.
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 08 January 1857
|-
|20/01/1857
|N
|Thomas Burge, licensed beerseller from Midsomer Norton - keeping his house open after eleven o'clock at night. Joseph Ashman, Pelican Inn, Chew Magna. Open during divine service on Christmas Day George Oakes, licensed beerseller from Litton, keeping his open after ten o'clock at night.
|[[Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - 29 January 1857]] Bristol Mercury - Saturday 24 January 1857
|-
|03/02/1857
|N
|Thomas Burge case, beerseller from Chilcompton. More detailed description of the case, including detailed reference to applicable law.
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 12 February 1857
|-
|17/02/1857
|N
|N
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 26 February 1857
|-
|03/03/1857
|N
|James Orchard, brewer at Midsomer Norton, in the employ of Messrs. Curtis and Aglen, was fined 14s. and 6d. for cruelty to a horse
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 12 March 1857 Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 18 March 1857
|-
|07/04/1857
|N
|License of Pelican Inn, Chew Magna, transferred to Mr. Smith, formerly of the Blucher Inn, Southgate Street, bath.
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 09 April 1857 Wells Journal - Saturday 11 April 1857 Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 15 April 1857
|-
|29/04/1857
|N
|William Fear, licensed victualler, Blue Bowl Inn, Compton Martin - fined £2 fro selling beer on Good Friday during Divine Service
|Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 06 May 1857
|-
|12/05/1857
|N
|N
|Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 20 May 1857
|-
|26/05/1857
|[[Thomas Brodribb]] (later of the [[Flying Dutchman]]) attended with his solicitor, Michael Marshall, Esq., to show cause against an information of Ann Emery, of the same place, whom she alleged to be the father of her bastard child. The case was dismissed.
|N
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 04 June 1857
|-
|09/07/1857
|[[Thomas Brodribb]] (later of the [[Flying Dutchman]]) - to answer the charge that he was the father of Ann Emery's bastard child. It seems it was found that he was.
|John Webb, beer seller of Chew Magna - fined £2 for keeping his house open after 10pm for the sale of beer.
|[[Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - 16 July 1857]]
|-
|18/08/1857
|N
|George Stock, of East Harptree, beerseller, convicted of keeping open his house in the afternoon of Sunday, the 19th July last, for the sale of beer. £2 and costs.
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 27 August 1857 Wells Journal - Saturday 29 August 1857
|-
|01/09/1857
|John Watts, shopkeeper and beerseller of Paulton, fined 14s 6d. For selling beer after the hour of ten o'clock in the evening.
"This was the general annual licensing day for innkeepers for the division of Chewton. The Bench delivered an address upon the vice of drunkenness, and called the attention of the police to the face that many persons had been fined for this offence. The Magistrates expressed their regret that those who were the primary cause of the evil were allowed wholly to escape conviction."
|Isaac Fuller, the keeper of the Bell Inn, Ubliey, was fined 30s and costs for selling beer on Sunday before the hour of half-past twelve o'clock.
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 10 September 1857
|-
|22/09/1857
|N
|Case of John Brain, employee of Messrs. Green of Holcombe Brewery, charged with stealing a truss of hay.
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 08 October 1857
|-
|03/11/1857
|N
|N
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 12 November 1857 Bristol Mercury - Saturday 07 November 1857
|-
|10/11/1857
|James Norris, a beer-house keeper, at Paulton, was fined in the sum of 7s. 6d., for keeping open his house for the sale of beer after the hour allowed by his license. The small fine imposed was in consequence of the good character the defendant received.
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 14 November 1857
|-
|08/12/1857
|N
|N
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 17 December 1857
|-
|22/12/1857
|N
|N
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 31 December 1857
|-
|05/01/1858
|N
|Richard Ashman was convicted in a penalty of 8s and costs, for assaulting Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. Chivers, the landlord of the Stones Cross Inn, at Midsomer Norton, and , in default of immediate payment, fourteen days imprisonment.
Sarah Watts, a beer-house keeper, at Farringdon Gurney, was 14s 6d for keeping open her house for the sale of beer after the hour of ten o'clock in the evening
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 09 January 1858
|-
|19/01/1858
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 23 January 1858
|-
|02/02/1858
|N
|John Sims, a beerhouse keeper of Bishop Sutton, was convicted in the penalty of £4 10s., and 6s 6d costs, for keeping open his house on Sunday, the 24th of January last for the sale of beer during divine service.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 06 February 1858
|-
|16/02/1858
|N
|Alexander Keeling was fined £1 5s 6d for keeping open his house for the sale of beer at Chewton Mendip after the hour of ten o'clock at night on the 22nd of January last.
John Roch and George Moon, carters in the employ of Messrs. Green, of Holcombe Brewery, were fined 9s 6d, for riding in their wagons without reins at Paulton.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 20 February 1858
|-
|02/03/1858
|Abraham Gray, of Paulton, was fined 9s 6d for keeping open his house for the sale of beer after the hour of ten o'clock in the evening.
|William Roynon, of Farmborough, was fined in the sum of £6 10s for keeping open his house for the sale of beer before the hour of half-past twelve o'clock on Sunday, it being the second conviction.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 06 March 1858
|-
|30/03/1858
|N
|John Sims, beerhouse keeper of Bishop Sutton, fined 5s and costs for being found by the police in a beastly state of intoxication and unable to take care of himself.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 03 April 1858
|-
|13/04/1858
|N
|Charles Gibbs, the landlord of the Red Lion Inn at Bishop Sutton, was fined £3 and 5s 6d costs for permitting drunkenness in his house, contrary to the conditions of his licence.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 17 April 1858
|-
|25/05/1858
|N
|James Knowles, the keeper of the Greyhound Inn, at Midsomer Norton, was fined £2 15s 6d, including costs, for keeping open his house for the sale of beer on Sunday
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 29 May 1858
|-
|08/06/1858
|N
|Interesting story about stealing buckets of beer from Mr Richard Lewis, brewer of Clutton.
John Rawlins, a beerhouse keeper at Chew Stoke, was fined 15s, and costs for keeping open his house on Sunday morning for the sale of beer,
Samuel Robbins, the keeper of the Britannia Inn at Chilcompton, was fined £1 10s, and costs for permitting drunkenness in his house.
James Knowles, of Midsomer Norton, was summoned for refusing to admit the constable into his house, the Greyhound Inn. The case was dismissed for want of proof of his refusal.
|[[Bristol Mercury - 12 June 1858]]
|-
|22/06/1858
|N
|John Marshall, the keeper of the inn at Chewstoke, was summoned for permitting drunkenness in his house, and fined £5 and costs. The bench said they had never before had so gross a case before them, and they therefore inflicted the highest penalty.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 26 June 1858
|-
|06/07/1858
|[[Absalom Grey]] was summoned for selling beer before half past twelve o'clock on Sunday, the 17th June last. Mr. Wm. Rees Mogg defended and the case was dismissed
|N
|Bristol Mercury - 10 July 1858
|-
|31/08/1858
|George Carter, a carrier and beerseller, was fined £1 and costs for keeping open his house at unlawful hours at Paulton.
|Jasper Toogood was convicted of damaging the sign of Wm. Fear, of the Blue Bowl, at Compton Martin, and was fined 6s 6d.
Annual licensing session - all renewed except one - the Bull Inn at Chelwood, which was withheld. Three applications for new licenses - 2 granted, namely Mr. Tidcombe's of Midsomer Norton and Alexander Keeling's of Chewton Mendip. 1 was refused - Mr. Pow's of Farmborough. It is to be hoped that another year this house will be licensed; it is well situated and the public would be thereby beneffitted.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 04 September 1858
|-
|14/09/1858
|N
|Thomas Tucker, a licensed seller of beer, was fined 25s and 8s 6d costs for keeping open his house at the parish of Westharptree, for the sale of beer at improper hours
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 18 September 1858
|-
|28/09/1858
|Richard Thompson, a clockmaker, appeared to answer the charge of Mr. George Carter, of Paulton inn, for stealing two tin cups, his property. The cups were found in the house of the accused by the police when in search of some other property. The case was dismissed, prosecutor not being able to prove that some person in his employ had not lent them.
|Selina Fear, of Publow, a servant in the employ of Mrs. Gough, of the Warwick Arms inn, Clutton, was brought up in custody charged with felopniously stealing a purse, and also thirty shillings in gold and silver money, the property of Mr. Thomas Gough, husband of the above. She was convicted of stealing the purse. Mrs. Gough created roars of laughter during the examinations by her ludicrous mimicry. The sentend of the court was two calendar months imprisonment, with hard labour.
Various people convicted of drunkenness and riotous behaviour at Stones Cross Inn, Midsomer Norton. "It was intimated to the bench that frequent disturbances occurred at the Stones Cross Inn. The police were directed to look sharply to it, and intimation being conveyed that the license would be endangered if such disturbance continued."
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 02 October 1858
|-
|26/10/1858
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 30 October 1858
|-
|09/11/1858
|Mercy Gray, of Paulton, was summoned by Patience - her servant, for an assault. As the case was not proved it was dismissed, as was also the case of Mercy Gray against Harriet Clarke, mother of the last complainant. (I think this may be the Wife of [[Absalom Gray]])
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 13 November 1858
|-
|23/11/1858
|N
|John Roynon, a beerhouse-keeper, of Farmborough, was summoned by the police for permitting his house to be open for the sale of beer after the hour of ten o'clock at night, it being the third offence. The case was dismissed as some doubt arose as to the exact time the beer had been drawn, and the defendant was given the benefit of it.
John Rawlins, a beerhouse keeper, of Chewstoke, was fined £4 and costs for keeping open his house for the sale of beer before the hour of half-past twelve o'clock on Sunday last, it being his second offence.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 27 November 1858
|-
|07/12/1858
|N
|John Church, of the Castle of Comfort Inn, on Mendip, was fined £3 10s and costs for keeping open his house for the sale of beer on Sunday, before the hour of half past twelve o'clock
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 11 December 1858
|-
|21/12/1858
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 25 December 1858
|}

== 1860s ==

===1860===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|10/01/1860
|Elizabeth Whatley of Paulton convicted of assaulting Hannah Maggs at Paulton Inn George Wyatt in trouble for assaulting the police
|John Hill, beerhouse keeper of Midsomer Norton, charged two travelling cheese dealers with stealing on of his knives
|Bristol Mercury - 14 January 1860
|}

===1861===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|08/01/1861
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury- 12 January 1861
|-
|05/03/1861
|[[George Wyatt]], of the Red White and Blue beerhouse at Paulton was convicted in a penalty of £1 5s 6d for obstructing the police in their duty and refusing entry to his house
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - 08 March 1861 Bristol Mercury - 09 March 1861
|}

===1862===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|26/08/1862
|Annual Licensing Session for victuallers - no objections
|Annual Licensing Session for victuallers - no objections
"The Chairman hoped that as they were licensed merely to refresh travellers they would be careful not to allow parties to remain on their premises long enough to get drunk, as the Bench had the power to withhold the license from such persons as so committed themselves." 
Application for Spirit license for Mr Thomas Burge, Redan Inn, Downside - application was opposed on behalf of the Britannia Inn, Chilcompton - refused. 
Application for Spirit License for Edwin Baker of the White Post, Midsomer Norton - opposed on behalf of T Burge. Adjourned to next petty session. 
Application for a license for Joseph Warford, beerseller at Nempnett. Also adjourned.
|Western Daily Press - 29 August 1862
|}

===1863===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|13/01/1863
|Thomas James, beer seller of Paulton, fined for selling beer at unlawful hours
|N
|Wells Journal - 17 January 1863
|-
|26/05/1863
|Leah Holbtook, of Paulton, charged with an assault on Hannah Maggs in a beer-shop called the "Strip and at it", at Paulton
|Faraham Clarke, son of a beer-seller at Timsbury, summoned for assault upon Abigail Pain, but case was dismissed
|Frome Times - 27 May 1863
|}

===1864===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|16/02/1864
|William Winter, George Carter, Job Woodland, Frederick Woodland, and Alexander Withers were summoned by George Gibbs, a beer-seller of Paulton, for disorderly conduct in his house. Compromised by the payment of 25s each.
|N
|Sherborne Mercury - 23 February 1864
|-
|03/05/1864
|George Gibbs, of the [[Winterfield Inn]], summoned for having his house open for the sale of beer at prohibited times on Sunday, the 24th ult. Fined 20s and costs
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 05 May 1864
|-
|23/08/1864
|Unjust measures convictions: 
Grace Carter, Paulton Inn 
John (Jehu in Frome Times) Derrick, of Paulton, beerseller 
Annual Licensing Session - all license renewed 
License granted to Abraham Grey of Paulton 
|George Hathaway of Farmbough, fined for keeping open his beerhouse at unlawful times 
Unjust measures convictions: 
George Wyatt, innkeeper, High Littleton Inn 
William Lane Clarke, Farrington Inn 
John Pow, New Inn, Farmborough 
James Thomes of Timsbury, beerseller 
George Banfield of Hallatrow, beerseller 
Thomas Bridges, of Clutton, beerseller 
Annual Licensing Session - all renewed except 
Chewstoke Inn 
Miners Arms at Chewton Mendip 
|Shepton Mallet Journal - 26 August 1864 
Frome Times - 31 August 1864
|}

===1865===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|10/01/1865
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - 13 January 1865
|-
|24/01/1865
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - 26 January 1865 
Frome Times - 01 February 1865
|-
|07/02/1865
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - 11 February 1865
|-
|14/02/1865
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - 16 February 1865
|-
|14/03/1865
|N
|Elizabeth Carrell, of East Harptree, beerhouse keeper - fined for selling beer at prohibited hours
|Western Daily Press - 16 March 1865
|-
|28/03/1865
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - 31 March 1865
|-
|11/04/1865
|N
|Richard Lewis, proprietor of the Clutton Brewery - charged with unlawfully receiving an alder pole
|Bristol Mercury - 15 April 1865
|-
|18/04/1865
|N
|Continuation of case against Richard Lews, of Clutton Brewery, from the last session
|Bristol Mercury - 22 April 1865
|-
|02/05/1865
|N
|Jesse Hearse, beerseller of East Harptree - illegal fishing
|Western Gazette - 05 May 1865
|-
|16/05/1865
|Thomas James, beerhouse keeper of Paulton - house open at prohibited hours on a Sunday
|N
|Western Daily Press - 18 May 1865
|-
|30/05/1865
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 02 June 1865
|-
|13/06/1865
|N
|Henry Brimble, beerseller of High Littleton - keeping his house open at prohibited hours Elizabeth Green beerseller of Hinton Blewitt - house open at prohibited hours, case dismissed John Weaver beerseller of Chew Stoke - house open at prohibited hours, case dismissed
|Wells Journal - 17 June 1865
|-
|20/06/1865
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - 24 June 1865
|-
|11/07/1865
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 13 July 1865
|-
|25/07/1865
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 27 July 1865
|-
|08/08/1865
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 10 August 1865
|-
|22/08/1865
|Annual Licensing Day - all licenses renewed. Thomas James summoned for having his beerhouse open at prohibited hours on Sunday 9th - dismissed.
|Annual Licensing Day - all licenses renewed. Refusal of spirit license at Redan beerhouse at Downside, Midsomer Norton
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 24 August 1865
|-
|05/09/1865
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 08 September 1865
|-
|26/09/1865
|N
|John Lockyer, of West Harptree - fined for selling beer without a license 
James Winter of Compton Martin - fined for selling cider without a license
|Western Gazette - Friday 29 September 1865
|-
|10/10/1865
|N
|N
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 12 October 1865
|-
|24/10/1865
|Elizabeth Tucker of Newtown was convicted of stealing several articles (including a salt cellar and glasses) from [[Grace Slade Carter]], Paulton, innkeeper - and was sent to Shepton Mallet House of Correction for 7 days
|N
|Western Daily Press - Friday 27 October 1865
|-
|07/11/1865
|N
|George Oaks, beerseller of Litton, allowing nine pigs to stray on the highway at Litton
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 09 November 1865
|-
|21/11/1865
|N
|N
|Frome Times - Wednesday 29 November 1865
|-
|05/12/1865
|N
|Jas. Brimble, Beerhouse keeper of Midsomer Norton - selling at prohibited hours on Sunday
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 07 December 1865
|-
|19/12/1865
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 21 December 1865
|}

===1866===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|09/01/1866
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 11 January 1866
|-
|23/01/1866
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 26 January 1866
|-
|01/02/1866
|Ston Easton - Police, Thursday - … At the petty session the previous Monday, Elizabeth Beecham, of Hallatrow, and Mary Manby, of Paulton, two servants at the [[Red Lion Inn]], Paulton, were brought up by PC Best before B. Naish Esq. charged with stealing wine and spirits, the property of [[Grace Carter]], and remanded until the petty session on Tuesday next. Note - according to the Western Daily Press, this is at the Paulton Inn - suggesting the names are used interchangeably to refer to the same place.
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 03 February 1866 
Western Gazette - Friday 09 February 1866 
Western Daily Press - Thursday 08 February 1866
|-
|27/02/1866
|N
|Mark Norman of West Harptree - drunk and disorderly at a beerhouse kept by Henry Mayor at West Harptree
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Saturday 03 March 1866
|-
|02/03/1866
|N
|N (Note - the sessions were on a Friday)
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Monday 05 March 1866
|-
|13/03/1866
|N
|Robert Perry, beerhouse keeper of Woollard, charged with leaving horse and cart on turnpike road at Farnborough
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 15 March 1866
|-
|27/03/1866
|N
|Abraham Bell of Farmborough, beerhouse keeper - refusing to let Police enter beerhouse on 18th inst.
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 29 March 1866 Western Gazette - Friday 06 April 1866
|-
|10/04/1866
|N
|William Winter of Ubley (an old offender) fined for selling two quarts of Cider without a license.
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 12 April 1866
|-
|01/05/1866
|N
|N
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 03 May 1866
|-
|15/05/1866
|N
|Elizabeth Smith of Farrington Gurney summoned by landlord of Farrington Inn, William Lane Clarke - for damaging a door on his property
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 17 May 1866
|-
|29/05/1866
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 01 June 1866
|-
|12/06/1866
|N
|Charlotte Norman of West Harptree - breaking a door property of Henry Major, beerhouse keeper of same Parish.
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 14 June 1866
|-
|19/06/1866
|Joseph Walsh of Paulton, stoker and John Burkeley of Camerton, labourer - brought up under remand for stealing a gun from a stable at the Paulton Inn during night of 16th inst. Property of Timothy Carter
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 21 June 1866
|-
|10/07/1866
|N
|N
|Wells Journal - Saturday 14 July 1866 Western Daily Press - Thursday 12 July 1866
|-
|24/07/1866
|Thomas Brodribb of Paulton - for allowing two donkeys to stray on the highway 
William Maggs, a tailor, of Paulton was fined 14s 6d and costs for assaulting Albert Knee, the ostler of the Red Lion Inn there, and in default 14 days imprisonment. Sarah Maggs, a daughter of William Maggs, was also fined 8s for violently assaulting the said Albert Knee with a carving knife and shovel, and breaking his head, and in default of payment was sentenced to seven days imprisonment.
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 27 July 1866
|-
|07/08/1866
|N
|Worley Watts of Compton Martin fined for breach of his beer license
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 09 August 1866
|-
|21/08/1866
|N
|N
|Wells Journal - Saturday 25 August 1866
|-
|05/09/1866
|Annual Licensing Session - no complaints, all licenses renewed
|Annual Licensing Session - no complaints, all licenses renewed
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 06 September 1866
|-
|25/09/1866
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 27 September 1866
|-
|09/10/1866
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 11 October 1866
|-
|23/10/1866
|N
|Bell Inn, Farmborough - Elizabeth Drury, daughter of landlord Mr George Drury, summoned for furious driving at Clutton
|Western Gazette - Friday 26 October 1866
|-
|06/11/1866
|[[Thomas Brodribb]], beerhouse keeper of Paulton, keeping his beerhouse open during prohibited hours on Sunday.
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 08 November 1866
|-
|20/11/1866
|N
|Alfred Church, innkeeper of East Harptree - three unjust measures 
Thomas Kelling, beerhouse-keeper of Chewton Mendip - unjust measures 
James Franks, innkeeper of Litton - unjust measures 
John Sherborne, innkeeper of Litton - unjust measures 
George Oaks, beerhouse keeper of Litton - unjust measures 
James Vagg, innkeeper of Chilcompton - unjust measures 
John Smith, beerhouse keeper of Mid Norton - unjust measures 
John Shearn, beerhouse keeper of Mid Norton - unjust measures
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 22 November 1866
|-
|18/12/1866
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 20 December 1866
|}

===1867===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|01/01/1867
|George Gibbs, of the [[Winterfield Inn]], Paulton, for assauling Edward Dairs, was fined 10s., including costs.
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 03 January 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 04 January 1867 Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 05 January 1867
|-
|08/01/1867
|N
|N
|Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 09 January 1867
|-
|15/01/1867
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 17 January 1867 Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 17 January 1867 Sherborne Mercury - Tuesday 22 January 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 18 January 1867
|-
|29/01/1867
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 31 January 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 01 February 1867 Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 02 February 1867
|-
|12/02/1867
|N
|Alfred Church, innkeeper of East Harptree - having house open for the sale of beer at prohibited times. Jesse Hearse, beerhouse keeper, of Easy Harptree - fined 10s for refusing to allow police entry after 10pm - there being people inside.
|Western Daily Press - Friday 15 February 1867 Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 15 February 1867 Sherborne Mercury - Tuesday 19 February 1867
|-
|26/02/1867
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 28 February 1867 Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 28 February 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 01 March 1867
|-
|12/03/1867
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 15 March 1867
|-
|26/03/1867
|N
|N
|Sherborne Mercury - Tuesday 02 April 1867
|-
|16/04/1867
|N
|Moses Shepherd, beer seller of Timsbury - having his house open for selling of beer during divine service on a Sunday.
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 18 April 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 26 April 1867 Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 18 April 1867
|-
|23/04/1867
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 26 April 1867
|-
|07/05/1867
|N
|George Blackler, landlord of the Clutton Inn, for selling beer after 10 o'clock at night. George Fussell of Midsomer Norton also fined for selling beer after 10 o'clock
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 10 May 1867 Western Daily Press - Thursday 09 May 1867
|-
|21/05/1867
|N
|N
|Sherborne Mercury - Tuesday 28 May 1867 Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 24 May 1867
|-
|04/06/1867
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 06 June 1867
|-
|18/06/1867
|N
|Mark Chard, of Black Dog beerhouse, Timsbury - Joseph Payne and William James stole £8 from him.
George Green, beerhouse keeper, Hinton Blewitt - open at prohibited hours.
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 20 June 1867
|-
|02/07/1867
|[[Thomas Brodribb]] of Paulton - allowing his donkey to stray onto the highway.
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 04 July 1867 Bristol Times and Mirror - Saturday 06 July 1867
|-
|16/07/1867
|N
|Bell Inn, Farmborough - a woman was thrown into a well opposite.
|Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 20 July 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 19 July 1867
|-
|30/07/1867
|N
|Waggon and Horses, Temple Cloud, mentioned in passing in assault case.
|Western Gazette - Friday 02 August 1867 Western Daily Press - Wednesday 31 July 1867 Western Daily Press - Thursday 01 August 1867
|-
|13/08/1867
|N
|Daniel Wilkins, of Bull Inn at Chelwood - leather stolen from his trap.
License of Bell Inn, Ubley, endorsed until next Transfer day to William Oaks.
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 16 August 1867 Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 17 August 1867
|-
|27/08/1867
|N
|William Chard, innkeeper, of Temple Cloud - house open at prohibited times.
|Western Gazette - Friday 30 August 1867 Western Daily Press - Thursday 29 August 1867
|-
|10/09/1867
|N
|Thomas Cook stole glasses from the Stones Cross Inn, Midsomer Norton, property of Elizabeth Millard.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 14 September 1867 Western Daily Press - Thursday 12 September 1867
|-
|24/09/1867
|N
|N
|Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 28 September 1867 Western Daily Press - Thursday 26 September 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 27 September 1867
|-
|08/10/1867
|[[Joseph Banfield]] when he was bailiff at Old Mills colliery.
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 11 October 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 11 October 1867 Wells Journal - Saturday 12 October 1867 Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 12 October 1867
|-
|22/10/1867
|N
|Richard Clavey charged with stealing a whip, property of George Stallard, from the inn at Farrington Gurney
George Harding charged with assaulting Adelaide Branch at the New Inn in Farmborough
|Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 26 October 1867 Western Daily Press - Thursday 24 October 1867
|-
|05/11/1867
|William Creese, Mary Creese, James Rose, Silverthorne Stokes, Eliza Stokes - of Newtown, Paulton - drunk in front of the Red Lion Inn
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 08 November 1867 Western Gazette - Friday 08 November 1867
|-
|19/11/1867
|N
|N
|Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 23 November 1867 Wells Journal - Saturday 23 November 1867
|-
|03/12/1867
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 05 December 1867 Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 06 December 1867
|-
|17/12/1867
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 20 December 1867 Somerset County Gazette - Saturday 21 December 1867
|-
|31/12/1867
|N
|James Salmon, farmer and beer seller of Midsomer Norton - charged with assault.
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Wednesday 01 January 1868 Western Gazette - Friday 03 January 1868 Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 03 January 1868
|}

===1868===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|14/01/1868
|N
|George Bean, licensed seller of beer in Midsomer Norton - keeping his house open at 12:30 on a Sunday. Case dismissed.
License granted to Mrs. Mary Parsons of the George Inn, Nettlebridge in Midsomer Norton.
License of Lamb Inn, Clandown, indorsed to Mr. Joseph Grant until the next transfer day, 10th Mar 1868.
|Western Gazette - Friday 17 January 1868
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 17 January 1868
|-
|28/01/1868
|N
|James Priddon, Cooper, of Clutton - selling beer on his premises without a license.
|Western Gazette - Friday 31 January 1868
|-
|11/02/1868
|N
|Daniel Wilkins, innkeeper, Chelwood - John Spear stole from him.
William Chard, of Temple Cloud, fined for selling beer without a license.
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 14 February 1868
|-
|25/02/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 28 February 1868
|-
|10/03/1868
|N
|George Oaks, beerseller of Litton,selling at unlawful hours
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 13 March 1868
|-
|24/03/1868
|N
|Lewin Little, beerseller at Chilcompton, keeping his house open on Sunday at unlawful hours
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 27 March 1868
|-
|31/03/1868
|N
|James Priddow, of Clutton, fined £5 for selling beer without a license
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 03 April 1868
|-
|21/04/1868
|N
|John Hale of Timsbury - fined for keeping open his house for the sale of beer on Good Friday at unlawful hours
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 24 April 1868
|-
|05/05/1868
|N
|James Vagg, of Britannia Inn, Chilcompton - accused of assault
Henry Pearce, of Kings Arms Inn, Litton - potatoes were stolen
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 08 May 1868
|-
|19/05/1868
|N
|Henry Watts for opening his house for the sale of beer at unlawful hours
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 22 May 1868
|-
|02/06/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 05 June 1868
|-
|16/06/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 19 June 1868
|-
|30/06/1868
|N
|William Mapstone, licensed beer seller - keeping open his house at Bishop Sutton at unlawful hours
John Hill beer seller and John Matthews Farmer bound over to keep the peace for fighting
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 03 July 1868
|-
|14/07/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 17 July 1868
|-
|28/07/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 31 July 1868
|-
|11/08/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 14 August 1868
|-
|25/08/1868
|Annual Licensing Session - no complaints, all licenses renewed - "the innkeepers in their usual boniface style, renewed their licenses"
|All licenses renewed, except the following were held over because the proprieters did not appear: Waldegrave Arms Inn, Chewton Mendip - Chewstoke Inn - The Ring of Bells Inn, Compton Martin - The Blue Bowl, Compton Martin.
Application for license for Redan beerhouse at Downside, kept by Mr Thomas Burge was, on his behalf, made by Mr Hobbs of Wells, but opposed by Mr Bartrum of Bath, on behalf of the Britannia Inn, Chilcompton. THe testimonials were of a voluminous description, and such that the bench, after consultation, granted a license.
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 28 August 1868
|-
|08/09/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 11 September 1868
|-
|22/09/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 25 September 1868
|-
|29/09/1868
|N
|Charles Smith of Midsomer Norton, charged with selling beer without a license. Case dismissed.
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 02 October 1868
Western Daily Press - Thursday 01 October 1868
|-
|13/10/1868
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 16 October 1868
|-
|27/10/1868
|N
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 31 October 1868
|-
|01/12/1868
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 03 December 1868
Western Gazette - Friday 04 December 1868
|-
|22/12/1868
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 24 December 1868
Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 24 December 1868
|}

===1869===

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|05/01/1869
|N
|An assault happened at the inn in Farrington Gurney (doesn't say which one)
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 07 January 1869
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 08 January 1869
|-
|19/01/1869
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 21 January 1869
Western Gazette - Friday 22 January 1869
|-
|02/02/1869
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 05 February 1869
|-
|16/02/1869
|N
|STORY CONSIDERED IMPORTANT TO BEERHOUSE KEEPERS - Henry Walter Faulks of Green Ore - summoned for selling spirits without a license and a second count of keeping spirits on his premises which are only licensed for keeping beer. Fine would have been massive (£50 - and never being allowed a beer license again). IN the end, it was believed (because of his impeachable character) that he had only had it there for his own purpose.
Mary James, late in employ of W. L. Clarke of Farrington Inn, charged with stealing four glasses (note SMJ says Farringdon)
William Harry and John Flower - drunk and disorderly at the Timsbury Inn.
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 19 February 1869
Western Daily Press - Thursday 18 February 1869
|-
|02/03/1869
|N
|James Russell, beer seller of East Harptree - selling beer at unlawful hours.
Ann Mercer - selling beer at Farmborough without having an Excise license authorising her to do so.
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 05 March 1869
|-
|09/03/1869
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 12 March 1869
|-
|16/03/1869
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 18 March 1869
|-
|30/03/1869
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 02 April 1869
|-
|13/04/1869
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 16 April 1869
|-
|27/04/1869
|Joseph Banfield - see next column - later licensee of Somerset? Or Blackbird? This story is useful is untangling the Banfield family.
|George Banfield of Hallatrow, beerseller, Samuel Banfield of High Littleton, beerseller, Joseph Banfield of Paulton, bailliff and William Banfield of Clutton - each ordered to pay 1s a week towards the support of their mother, Mary Banfield, who is chargeable to Clutton Union.
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 30 April 1869
Western Daily Press - Thursday 29 April 1869
Western Gazette - Friday 30 April 1869
|-
|11/05/1869
|Thomas Towell, inkeeper of Paulton. Assaulted by Henry House - extensive story.
|Amos Browning, inkeeper in Chew Magna - witness in a case of stabbing.
|Bristol Daily Post - Wednesday 12 May 1869
Bristol Mercury - Saturday 15 May 1869
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 14 May 1869
|-
|25/05/1869
|N
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 28 May 1869
|-
|08/06/1869
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 10 June 1869
|-
|22/06/1869
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 25 June 1869
Western Daily Press - Thursday 24 June 1869
|-
|06/07/1869
|N
|N
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 08 July 1869
|-
|20/07/1869
|N
|Walter Harrison, innkeeper, Timsbury - John Sage was accused of stealing glassses. Case Dismissed.
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 22 July 1869
Western Gazette - Friday 23 July 1869
|-
|03/08/1869
|Thomas Towill, of the Red Lion Inn, Paulton - keeping a dog without a license
|N
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 06 August 1869
Western Daily Press - Thursday 05 August 1869
|-
|17/08/1869
|N
|N
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 19 August 1869
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 20 August 1869
|-
|31/08/1869
|Annual licensing session.
All innkeepers received licenses - no complaints.
Beersellers also received licenses except for 21 (including some from Paulton) which were adjourned (Henry Tovey, George Carter, Thomas Brodribb, John Carter)
|Annual licensing session.
All innkeepers received licenses - no complaints - except for Old Down Inn, Ubley Inn, Waldgrave Arms CHewton Mendip which were adjourned
Beersellers also received licenses except for 21 (including some from Paulton) which were adjourned.
Jawes Wyatt, of Hallatrow, beerhouse keeper (along with James Weeks and Jonah Weeks - both colliers) - fined for resisting the police in the execution of their duty at Hallatrow.
Jonah Weeks charged with stealing a quantity of cider and a jar from William Drury, farmer, of Hallatrow.
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 02 September 1869
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 03 September 1869
Bristol Daily Post - Thursday 02 September 1869
|-
|06/09/1869
|A wonderful letter - "The magistrates at the Temple Cloud Petty Sessions on Tuesday, thoroughly denouced skittle playing by cautioning the innkeepers on pain of penalty of they permitted it at their houses in the future" - the letter argues that they should equally complain about croquet matches and archery on the lawns of the gentries houses.
|N
|Bristol Daily Post - Monday 06 September 1869
|-
|14/09/1869
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 17 September 1869
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 17 September 1869
|-
|28/09/1869
|N
|George Hathaway, beerhouse keeper of Farmborough - having his house open for the sale of beer at unlawful hours
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Thursday 30 September 1869
Western Daily Press - Thursday 30 September 1869
|-
|28/09/1869
|List of persons keeping beerhouses (and receiving licenses) the decision being adjourned to this meeting:
Paulton: Henry Tovey, George Carter, Thomas Brodribb, John Carter
|List of persons keeping beerhouses (and receiving licenses) that had been adjourned to this meeting:
Chew Magna: James Mayne
Chew Stoke: William Rawlins, Elizabeth Rawlings, Stephen Frederick Allen
Chilcomption: Thomas Simmons, John Jones
Farrington Gurney: Sarah Watts
Green Oar: George Brown
Hinton Blewitt: George Green
Midsomer Norton: J.F.C. Gunning
Timsbury: John Heal
Chew Magna: John Collins
East Harptree: James Russell
Farmborough: George Hathway (also - fined for keeping his beerhouse open after 10 o'clock at night)
Hallatrow: James Wyatt
Litton: George Oaks
Midsomer Norton: James Salmon
Timsbury: James Stephen Cundict
Ubley: Sylvester Gallop
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 01 October 1869
Western Gazette - Friday 01 October 1869
|-
|12/10/1869
|N
|Old Down Inn - Richard Chapman, of Binegar, was drunk and disorderly
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 15 October 1869
Western Daily Press - Thursday 14 October 1869
|-
|26/10/1869
|N
|George Lane, innkeeper, of Ubley fined for deliberately allowing drunkeness
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 28 October 1869
|-
|09/11/1869
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 12 November 1869
|-
|23/11/1869
|N
|Wellsway Tavern, West Harptree - Eliza Norman drunk and refusing to quit when requested by the landlady.
|Western Gazette - Friday 26 November 1869
|-
|07/12/1869
|N
|N
|Western Gazette - Friday 10 December 1869
|-
|28/12/1869
|N
|The Inn at High Littleton - Jacob Simmons (one of the notorieties of Paulton!) drunk and disorderly and refusing to quit - 1 month hard labour!
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 31 December 1869
|}

==1870s==

==1880s==

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|05/06/1883
|Martin Cyrus Slade, landlord of [[Old Lottery Inn]] was assaulted by Thomas and Frederick Perry
|George Oakes, innkeeper, Compton Martin - fined for not sending children to school
|[[Western Gazette - 08 June 1883]]
|-
|08/09/1885
|All licenses renewed - only one conviction in the year, George Yeates, beerhouse keeper of Paulton ([[Rose & Crown]]) - it was acknowledged there were extenuating circumstances, so his certificate was granted an admonition
|All licenses renewed. Kings Arms Inn, Litton - transferred from Henry Pearce to Richard Pearce.
|Bristol Mercury - Wednesday 09 September 1885
[[Bristol Times and Mirror - 12 September 1885]]
|-
|25/09/1888
|License of [[Somerset Inn]] (Somerset Arms in Bristol Mercury), Paulton, transferred from George Brimble to Thomas Mercer Williams.
George Simmons applied for transfer of license of the [[Dove Inn]], Paulton, from executors of Amanda Pow to himself. He told the court he would occupy the house himself, so the police withdrew their objection.
|Order sanctioning removal of license of the beerhouse occupied by Mrs Watts at Farrington Gurney, ot other premises, was made, the alterations and accomodation being approved by the police.
License of West Town Inn, Nempnett, transferred from William Hamlin jun. to Stephen Gunter
Extension of two hours granted to Mr Green, landlord of Waldegrave Arms, Chewton Mendip, on occasion of a cricket club dinner on October 9th.
|[[Bristol Mercury - 26 September 1888]] Western Daily Press - Wednesday 26 September 1888
|-
|07/05/1889
|Uriah Maggs (father of Uriah Maggs who later was licensee of [[Rose & Crown]]) - charged with maliciously wounding his son William James Maggs. William was at the [[Dove Inn]], when his father came in and abused the landlord - there then follows a tale of Uriah hitting him with a candlestick. George Simmons, landlord of the Dove deposed to the occurrences. He was properly beat up - a broken rib punctured his lung. Uriah was committed for trial at Midsummer Sessions.
|Butchers Arms, Bishop Sutton - license transferred from Isaac Mapstone to George Mellish
Edward Hathway applied for an outdoor license at Farmborough - the late tenant having neglected to renew the license. Neighbouring publican objected. Refused on the grounds that the notices had not been properly served (affixed to church door)
|[[Shepton Mallet Journal - 10 May 1889]] [[Bristol Mercury - 11 May 1889]]
|-
|21/05/1889
|Temporary authority granted to Joseph John Simmons for the Winterfield Inn.
|Temporary authority to seel at the Miners' Arms, Chewton Mendip, was refused. 
There is a cool story about a man accused of being drunk who said he had not had "More than his usual quantity of beer" but it was instead the sewer gasses from the hole he had been digging. 
Assault by David Williams, 27, shoemaker of Paulton on Ada Rayson, aged 14 - on the way along the canal back from Camerton (where they had some cider at the Camerton Inn).
|Bristol Mercury - Wednesday 22 May 1889 
Western Daily Press - Wednesday 22 May 1889 
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 24 May 1889
|-
|09/07/1889
|License of Winterfield Inn, Paulton transferred from Alice Gibbs to Joseph John Simmons.
|Edward Hathway applied for outside license at Hobbs Wall, Farmborough - previous tenant having neglected to renew at last annual licensing meeting - Granted. 
Temporary authority in respect of Miners Arms, Chewton Mendip, granted to William James Bartlett in succession to Jonathan Pearce.
|Wells Journal - Thursday 11 July 1889 
Western Daily Press - Wednesday 10 July 1889 
Bristol Mercury - Wednesday 10 July 1889 
|}

==1890s==

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|15/04/1890
|Henry Simmons summoned for drunkenness at Paulton. Samuel Padfield also summoned for drunkenness at Paulton - came out, threatened to break a mans ribs and "challenged any man in Paulton to a fight." James Paget also drunk in Paulton - there was some squabble over who had the best pocket watch! William Church also drunk in Paulton - and technically assaulted the police man. All at the [[Winterfield Inn]].
|N
|Bristol Mercury - Wednesday 16 April 1890 [[Western Daily Press - 17 April 1890]]
|-
|12/07/1892
|Application for transfer of the [[Winterfield Inn]] from James Ross to William Woods was adjourned for evidence of character
|Temporary transfers were granted in respect of Halltrow Inn, from H. J. Hallett, deceased, to Sarah Georgina Hallett; and of the Star Inn, Chew Stoke, from Edwin Millard to Chas. A. Weeks. 
Application for transfer of the Buthers' Arms inn, Farmborough, from John Moass to Isaac F. Webley, was adjourned for evidence of character.
|Wells Journal - Thursday 14 July 1892
|-
|23/08/1892
|Annual licensing day - no complaints by police, so all renewed. 
Licence of [[Winterfield Inn]] transferred from James Ross to William Woods
|Annual licensing day - no complaints by police, so all renewed.
Licence of Hallatrow Inn, Hallatrow, transferred to Sarah Georgina Hallett, widow of the late holder
Licence of Star Inn, Chew Stoke, transferred from Edward Millard to Charles Alfred Weekes
Licence of Butchers' Arms, Farmborough, transferred from John Moans to Frank Webley
|Bristol Times and Mirror - Saturday 27 August 1892 Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 26 August 1892
|-
|10/05/1898
|Mr James Brook, of the [[Winterfield Inn]] granted an extension for an hour on May 23rd, on the occasion of the Paulton Casuals annual football dinner
|Mr William Pow, of the Bell Inn, Farmborough, granted an extension for an hour on May 11th, on the occasion of the Farmborough football dinner
|Bristol Mercury - Wednesday 11 May 1898
|}

==1900s==

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|19/06/1900
|The license of the [[Red Lion]] Inn, Paulton, was transferred from William John Allward to Walter David Butler
|license of the Butchers Arms, Farmborough, transferred from Joseph Hillier to Herbert Sheard 
William Foxwell, of Chilcompton, disorderly at the Old Down Inn on June 3.
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Saturday 23 June 1900
|-
|19/11/1901
|Case against Alfred Kempster, of the [[Old Lottery]], for permitting drunkenness. Case dismissed.
|N
|[[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 23 November 1901]]
|-
|11/08/1908
|License of the [[Rose & Crown]] transferred from George Sherborne to [[Herbert Shearn]]
|Licence of the Pelican Hotel, Chew Magna, transferred from executors of R. H. Singleton, deceased, to Mrs Emily Singleton, widow
|Western Daily Press - Thursday 13 August 1908
|}

==1910s==

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|17/07/1917
|Mr. W. J. Bryant, licensee of the [[Red Lion]] Hotel, Paulton, made an application for the sale of intoxicating liquors at the athletic ground, Paulton, on the occasion of the annual fancy dress parade carnival in aid of the Paulton Hospital and other charitable institutions, to be held at Paulton on Tuesday, August 7. Police Supt. Ford supported the application, and stated that it was conducted quite properly last year and he had no complaint whatever and no objection to the granting of the license from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. - The license was granted.
|Tom Farrant, licensee of the Warwick Arms, Clutton - failing to send his children to school.
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 20 July 1917
|}

==1920s==

{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|04/05/1920
|Transfer of license of the Old Lottery Inn, Paulton, from the present licensee, Alfred Kempster, to his son-in-law, Frederick Smith, bootmaker, of Paulton
|N
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 07 May 1920
|-
|16/01/1923
|Licence of the [[Rose & Crown]] transferred to Samuel Workman
|Licence of the Star Inn, High Littleton, granted to H. Cundy
|Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 19 January 1923
|-
|30/06/1925
|License of the [[Red Lion]] transferred from William Joseph Bryant to [[Frederick Nelson Ashman]] - well known secretary of the Paulton Rovers Football Club
|N
|[[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 03 July 1925]]
|-
|31/05/1927
|Mr. F. N. Ashman, licensee of the Red Lion, granted an occasional license from 2.0 to 9.30pm for the sale of intoxicants in a field on the occasion of the annual Friendly Societies fete and sports to be held at Paulton on Whit-Monday
|Mr. Bert Salmon, of the Ring of Bells Inn, Compton Martin
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 03 June 1927
|-
|31/07/1928
|Samuel Workman, licensee of the [[Rose & Crown]] - summoned for selling liquor in an unsealed vessel to a person under the age of 14 - case dismissed.
|N
|[[Western Daily Press - 02 August 1928]]
|-
|25/06/1929
|Tom Simmons, licensee of the Red Lion, granted an extension of one hour from 19 pm to 11 pm on the occasion of the first annual dinner of the Excelda Lodge, R.A.O.B to be held on Wednesday, July 3rd.
|N
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 28 June 1929
|}

==1930s==
{| class="wikitable"
!style="width: 6%;"|Date
!style="width: 37%;"|Paulton Pubs
!style="width: 37%;"|Other Pubs
!style="width: 20%;"|Source
|-
|21/10/1930
|License of the Britannia Inn transferred from Mr. Reuben James Carter to his son-in-law, Mr. Reginal William Ashman. Mr. Reuben Carter has held the license of this inn for a period of 26 years.
|N
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 24 October 1930
|-
|14/07/1931
|License transfer from Mr. H. Lumber to Mr. Ernest Dando. Mr. H. Lumber had been licensee for the past 21 years. Application was made on behalf of Messrs. Georges Breweries, Ltd., of Bristol.
|N
|[[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 17 July 1931]]
|-
|22/01/1935
|Tom Simmons granted an extension from 10pm to 11pm for the sale of intoxicating liquours on the occasion of the annual dinner of the Paulton "Excelda" Lodge of the R. A. O. B. in the [[Red Lion]] Hotel, Paulton, on the 2nd Feb.
|Mr George Hatch, of the Queen's Arms, Chew Magna, granted extension on occasion of a skittles club dinner.
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 25 January 1935
|-
|26/11/1935
|Mr F. Bennett, of the Red Lion Hotel, Paulton, granted an extension from 10pm to 11pm on the occasion of the Paulton Homing Society annual dinner.
|Mr. Penney, of the Farrington Gurney Inn, granted an extension from 10pm to 11pm on the occasion of the annual fat stock show dinner
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 29 November 1935
|-
|08/03/1938
|Charles Webb, who was previously the licensee of the [[Royal Oak]], Old Mills, Paulton, for 15 years - supported the application of the transfer of the full license from the Hallatrow Inn to the Miners Arms. If it had been granted it would have also led to the closure of the [[Rose & Crown]] as well as other local pubs.
|Application for the transfer of the full license from the Hallatrow Inn, to the Miners Arms, Farrington. Application was refused. Nice information about the situation of these pubs. If the application had been granted it would have led to the closure of the Hallatrow Inn, the Jolly Colliers Inn in Clutton, the Rose & Crown in Paulton and an off-license in High Littleton. 
Application made by Wallace Sennington Weymouth, to move the New Inn, Farmborough, to a new site 200 yards from the existing one. Granted 
Alterations to the Old Down Inn, Ston Easton, were approved 
Application granted to Sidney George Rowlands, of the High Littleton Inn, for sale of intoxicating liquour at the High Littleton Working Mens Club.
|[[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 11 March 1938]]
|}

Somerset Standard - 28 December 1973

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==Paulton in the Eighteen-fifties (concluded)==

==WOMEN STRIPPED TO THE WAIST AND FOUGHT IN PUBLIC==

ERIC WESTMAN, local historian, concludes the recollections of John Watts

PAULTON Church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and there were club feasts held by the old and new clubs on Trinity Monday.

The old club room was up a stone flight of steps just above Paulton Inn garden. On Feast Day, after the village had been paraded, the flags were put into two large iron eves or staples on barrels at the end of the club room.

The dancing on the old floor of the club room soon rendered it in very bad condition. The new club was held in the shoe factory of Messrs Elliott and Gregory, and there was a service in the church at twelve o'clock for both clubs.

Two bands were engaged for the parading, and there were toy stalls and stands of every description, with swings, roundabouts, shooting galleries, bowls and pins, sideshows, a boxing saloon - and, of course, dancing in the cart house to the music of old Barrington's fiddle and tambourine at a penny a time, which his wife collected.

(John Watts could just remember Barrington's father, who lived in a tent in Monger Lane, near the mouth of the tunnel where the trucks came down from the quarry, made when Old Mills pit was sunk).

===Cask of beer===

The parade went around the village, making various stops - sometimes to do a step-dance - and Club spears were generally carried.

There was usually a 54-gallon cask of beer for the occasion. This was not used up on the first day, so on the following day the women went down to share in what was left. They sometimes finished up with a fight through jealousy.

John Watts saw two women strip to the waist and and fight for a quarter of an hour.

A ring was made on the far side of Green Close stile by the watchers, and each woman had a pickerup. A real pitched battle followed.

Frequent battles were fought, mostly with Timsbury people.

Trouble would start on the Saturday night and finish up on the Monday or Tuesday with an all-in fight in the second field below Green Close.

Some of the women fighters later emigrated to America, and a collection was made around the village for them.

The services at the Wesleyan Chapel were led by musical instruments such as the cello, clarionet,cornet and bassoon. Unfortunately, the bassoon was not in the best of tune and made a horrid squeaking noise when the chord was sounded before playing commenced.

This noise so offended the ear of a lady sitting in the front of the gallery, with the musicians behind her, that she decided to buy the bassoon and stop the nuisance.

The deal was done and the bassoon was stored away in her garret for a generation.

This band of musicians also played in the parish church, and it was customary for them to play in the church in the morning and in the chapel at night - an early example of ecumenism!

The bassoon was played by Thomas Whippey, the serpent by George Maggs, the cello by Richard Banfield, the clarionet by Poor Jacob Heart, and the tenor by C. D. Purnell, who was clerk and weigher at Simon's Hill pit.

===The lunatic===

John Watts tells the following sad, but amusing, story:

"The lord of the manor subscribed yearly to provide blankets which were given away by the Misses Hill who ran a women's club, and they also gave a considerable amount of money away every year to the poor. The blankets were brought in large van loads from Bath.

"This went on for several years and the people were so accustomed to it that a man, by name Caleb Gregory, who had gone a bit wrong in the head, went to Bath and ordered a quantity of blankets. They were picked out by him and he told the people at the shop that he was going to marry Miss Hill so it would be all right.

"But they could not believe him and a special messenger was sent out from Bath to inquire if they to were to be sent. It was found out that he had gone wrong and soon afterwards he became an inmate of Wells asylum.

"I saw him there in the Refractory Ward with the straight-jacket on and gloves locked on each hand.

He knew me and hugged me around, and related to me the names of all my sisters and ordered me to stop to dinner. I had a job to be released from his clutches. He died a few days later."

===Poor===

Most men were miners, and very poor. The husband of the family in the middle house in the Triangle worked at Clandown Coal Pit, and young John Watts used to wonder why his wife was always up so late at night and why she used to go outside her house every hour.

He asked her, and she told him she came out to hear the church clock strike, as they possessed no clock.

She waited up to hear the clock strike three to call Jimmy to go to work. He did a bit of cobbling as well as work underground. Those were hard times for miners - 12 shillings was about the average wage. However, there were garden allotments let very cheaply.

All the field behind Paulton Spring was allotment ground; and the field opposite what was Edward's factory; Maiden's Mead, where the cemetery is; and all at the back of Paulton Inn.

In addition, Rowley Quarry and Gregory's Tyning were let out as allotments. In those days, miners had to do gardening to grow enough potatoes for the year's requirements.

John Watts was anxious to work in a coal mine, so he made arrangements with "old George Bourton" to start work the next morning at the pit on Simon's Hill. His experiences are best described in his own words:

===Down the pit===

"It was a frosty morning, and I met young George Bourton. The iron hudge was on the runner; with George I had to climb up to get into the hudge. Then the word "All right" was "hollered" out, and up goes the pail and we were dangling about while the runner was pushed away.

"The runner Is a square heavy platform , on four wheels eight inches high travelling on iron crees. It runs over the mouth of the pit to close it, and has to be moved to let anything down, and put in position for anyone getting off the pail when drawn up otherwise they would fall down the pit mouth.

"Well, the runner was moved away, and down we went with a grating noise and bumping from one side of the pit to the other. Much rubbing on the sides of the pit made it quite polished. When we got down I was glad to stand on firm ground once again.

"It was a large space, and a big fire made it quite hot. It was called the coal hole.

"I got very thirsty and wanted a drink. I was told there was plenty of water just below, so I went on my hands and knees to drink from a little spring running by the road.

===Horror===

"After about six hours I had to come up. The big chain was dangling and swinging from side to side. To my horror I had to come up on this fourteen-foot chain which was on the end of a flat rope about seven inches wide.

"The chain had links three inches to three-and-a-half inches In size. Someone seized the chain and pulled it forward. A man wearing a guss jumped on to it and I had to jump into his lap and hold him around.

"Then the signal was given to raise the chain four feet. Then another couple jumped on to it, and so on until six or eight couples were In position. Then up we all went.

"I noticed how smooth and bright the sides of the shaft were but they would nearly drag you off if you did not hold on tightly and clip one another together. Looking up I could see a round hole of light the size of an apple which grew bigger and bigger as we neared the top, and finally we came out into the reality of the open air.

"The runner was pushed across the pit mouth and we dropped off two at a time. I shall never forget the first time I came up, and the sensation of the rubbing I got against the sides of the pit.

"I got the horrors, but I held on and finally was free in the air above."

===Small coal===

The Ham Lane pit was kept open to pump the water from Simon's Hill pit. Small coal could be obtained for 1 1/2d a hundredweight, and it was so plentiful that a lot was hauled down the lane to repair the road. It gave its name to Small Coal Lane, now called Lover's Lane.

The pit engine boilers were haystack shaped, with the bottoms raised and hollow. If the water was not kept up well above the bottom it would cause super-heated steam and blow up the boiler.

This actually happened at Simon's Hill and killed Mr Thomas Heal who lived at Tennis Court. By coincidence, his son William was killed at Ham pit.

The plunger of the engine came too far out of the housing, and as he worked to get it back the steam was turned on and the surge coming very suddenly knocked his brains out.

He was a cornet player and used to lead the choir in the chapel.

Somerset Standard - 21 December 1973

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==Paulton in the Eighteen-fifties - 1==

==INN BREWED ITS OWN BEER - AND IT MATURED FOR THREE YEARS!==

Local historian ERIC WESTMAN has come across the written recollections of John Watts, a local worthy who paints a vivid picture of life in North Somerset more than a century ago.

Conditions were so different then that this story seems like the description of another world, as well as of another age. Only some of the place names remain the same.

JOHN WATTS, who was a was a tinsmith, was born at Paulton in 1844 in the corner shop of the square by the Paulton Inn. This square is now the Red Lion car park and the inn itself is presumably the Red Lion.

Between 1914 and 1916, towards the end of his life, he wrote down some of his early memortes, and from them this article is compiled. His son Reg and his grandson Stan were well-known Paulton residents long kept a hardware shop in the High Street.

As a boy John Watts watched the Paulton inn pulled down and rebuilt. The original inn was very old with a thatched roof and oak-framed windows with leaded lights. The thatch was or three or four feet thick.

Behind the inn stood the brewery and it had four large cellars. At that time he beer was kept for two or three years to mature before it was sold. The large barrels, or "pieces" as they were properly called, had large square holes to enable a man to go down into them by ladder and clean them out before they were refilled.

===Air-tight===

After filling, a cover was put on each barrel and it was pasted around the joint to make it airtight. Then the top was covered with sand to keep the beer cool.

The beer was cooled in large trays about sixteen feet square and six inches deep. it was of a superior quality and was supplied to the Clutton Hill Coal Works.

One of John's uncles who came from London was so impressed by the beer that he bought a small barrel of it to take to America with him.

Dr Curtis, a local gentleman noteworthy for the Sunday school he organised in what was previously a Dame's School tried the beer and declared it was the best he had tasted for years and another gentleman said there was not a better quality beer to be obtained in Paulton.

It was assumed that Paulton's pure soft spring-water was responsible for the excellence of the brew: the water was obtained from the old Pithay. Joab Derrick was the brewer at the Paulton Inn in those days.

===Shrewd===

At the time that the Paulton Inn was rebuilt (about 1850), it was kept by Mr John Wilcox. He was a shrewd man with an eye to business, and if there was a quiet evening with no-one in the inn, he would push the stools about until someone would look in to see what all the noise was about. Then he was all right for the evening.

He kept a brass tobacco box on the table, and customers would put a halfpenny in it to fill their long church-warden pipes. When the box was closed. it required another halfpenny to open it again.

The pipes were kept in an oblong tray on the table. To cleanse them, they were burnt in a baking oven before the fire was taken out for baking bread.

They were placed In an iron cage which had a ring at the top into which the long poker could be put to pull them out of the oven after they had been sufficiently burnt. The pipes were thus always fresh and smoked easily.

Mr Willcox made a lot of money in Paulton - he told John Watts' father that he made a pound every day he was there (the average miner's weekly wage was 12 shillings). He originally came from Shepton Mallet. His wife died one November day after bearing a child, presumably prematurely. This occurred through shock at hearing a cannon being fired in the Inn Square by Josiah Gregory - the report seemed to shake the whole village. The child was brought up by a woman called Nancy Bartlett

===The Law===

There were no uniformed policemen in those days, although constables were chosen every year at the annual Vestry meeting.

Generally, six men were appointed, the principal ones being Mr Ward, Joshua Watts and Alfred Purnell. They used to take Sunday morning walks around the village to see that no beer was being sold and that there was no drinking during prohibited hours.

Mr Ward, who owned a saddlery business, was a tall, thin man of military appearance. One day he was called upon to quell a disturbance at the Paulton Inn, and one of the crowd caught hold of him and held him up.

With unconscious humour he called out, "Aid and assist me in the name of our Queen Victoria - if you don't put me down I will take you up."

The lock-up, or "blind house" as it was called, had within it some iron rings about three-and-a-half inches in diameter built into the wall at the back and front.

When a couple of fighting drunks were arrested, they were put into the blind house and handcuffed to the iron rings. There they were left until they cooled down.

A long bench with a raised portion at the top end about six inches high and forming a pillow, enabled them to rest their aching heads.

A carter called Bill Jones, who came from Cameley, was employed to haul timber to Mr C D Purnell's premises, formerly a timber yard. He told John Watts that he once stole a sapling oak, was found out and transported to Tasmania for seven years.

A popular trade In Paulton was that of sawyer, and the best known names in it were Perry and Bartlett. The coalpits required a lot of timber, but as no circular saws existed, the wood was all hand sawn.

As mentioned earlier, a Mr Ward had a good saddlery business, which employed his two sons and two other men.

Saddlery was a good trade, for there were several carriages and pairs kept in the district, and three coalpits which employed underground ponies as well as surface horses.

Coal was hauled by horses pulling heavy tram wagons from the bottom of Simon's Hill, around Wallenge, and along to the Somerset Inn. There the wagons went down an incline by means of a rope around a drum.

As the full wagons ran down to the dock of the canal, where the coal was loaded into barges, they pulled up the empty ones. A man called Smith kept the dock and repaired and painted it.

Chandlery was a thriving trade. There were candle factories at Radford, Brittens, and at Mr Heal's general shop in Paulton village.

The factory at Brittens, next to the Flying Dutchman, was burnt down when John Watts was a boy. He saw the flames of the fire from Winterfield as he came home from school in Midsomer Norton. The owner of the factory was called Vowles. After the fire he came to the village and had a chandler's shop in Little Lane.

===Diddled===

He bought tallow in large casks and on one occasion he was "diddled." The cask contained a sack of sand with tallow around it. The sack must have been put in in Russia as it was Russian tallow, and it happened just after the Crimean War.

The smell of boiling fat caused a nuisance, so Vowles took a shed at Ham and only made candles at the Little Lane shop. Unfortunately, the flue caught fire and then the thatch so that the shop was burned down too.

There was also a good malting trade. John Watts could remember a man called George Brassey who used to grind the malt. He had leprosy, and his arms and hands were always peeling. They had brown and white marks on them.

A market was held every Saturday night in the centre of the village. On one side of the street were butcher's stalls owned by Joshua Watts. John Whippey, John Carfter and a butcher from Frome.

On the other side, near the inn, were Butcher Brown from Ston Easton and George Dix. Alongside them were a boot and shoe stall and, occasionally, a quack doctor's stall. In the angle space opposite the saddler's shop were a crockery stall and several fish stalls.

===Fights===

The public houses kept open until twelve o'clock on Saturday nights and there was generally a fight which sometimes ended in the combatants being lodged in the blind house.

A fiddler called Barrington, together with his wife who played the tambourine, provided the music every Saturday night in the Tap Room of the Paulton Inn.

They often went to the Dove at Winterfield, and Barrington was so accustomed to sitting in the same place and bumping out the time to the music with his heel, that he wore a hole in the stone half as deep as a teacup.

There was a piece of level road in the centre of the village opposite the Paulton Inn and there the young men used to play marbles. They had a iron boss taw and four or five used to play there with a ring about six feet in diameter.

Somerset Standard - 21 December 1973

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==Paulton in the Eighteen-fifties - 1==

==INN BREWED ITS OWN BEER - AND IT MATURED FOR THREE YEARS!==

Local historian ERIC WESTMAN has across the written recollections of John Watts, a local worthy who paints a vivid picture of life in North Somerset more than a century ago.

Conditions were so different then that this story seems like the description of another world, as well as of another age. Only some of the place names remain the same.

JOHN WATTS, who was a was a tinsmith, was born at Paulton in 1844 in the corner shop of the square by the Paulton Inn. This square is now the Red Lion car park and the inn itself is presumably the Red Lion.

Between 1914 and 1916, towards the end of his life, he wrote down some of his early memortes, and from them this article is compiled. His son Reg and his grandson Stan were well-known Paulton residents long kept a hardware shop in the High Street.

As a boy John Watts watched the Paulton inn pulled down and rebuilt. The original inn was very old with a thatched roof and oak-framed windows with leaded lights. The thatch was or three or four feet thick.

Behind the inn stood the brewery and it had four large cellars. At that time he beer was kept for two or three years to mature before it was sold. The large barrels, or "pieces" as they were properly called, had large square holes to enable a man to go down into them by ladder and clean them out before they were refilled.

===Air-tight===

After filling, a cover was put on each barrel and it was pasted around the joint to make it airtight. Then the top was covered with sand to keep the beer cool.

The beer was cooled in large trays about sixteen feet square and six inches deep. it was of a superior quality and was supplied to the Clutton Hill Coal Works.

One of John's uncles who came from London was so impressed by the beer that he bought a small barrel of it to take to America with him.

Dr Curtis, a local gentleman noteworthy for the Sunday school he organised in what was previously a Dame's School tried the beer and declared it was the best he had tasted for years and another gentleman said there was not a better quality beer to be obtained in Paulton.

It was assumed that Paulton's pure soft spring-water was responsible for the excellence of the brew: the water was obtained from the old Pithay. Joab Derrick was the brewer at the Paulton Inn in those days.

===Shrewd===

At the time that the Paulton Inn was rebuilt (about 1850), it was kept by Mr John Wilcox. He was a shrewd man with an eye to business, and if there was a quiet evening with no-one in the inn, he would push the stools about until someone would look in to see what all the noise was about. Then he was all right for the evening.

He kept a brass tobacco box on the table, and customers would put a halfpenny in it to fill their long church-warden pipes. When the box was closed. it required another halfpenny to open it again.

The pipes were kept in an oblong tray on the table. To cleanse them, they were burnt in a baking oven before the fire was taken out for baking bread.

They were placed In an iron cage which had a ring at the top into which the long poker could be put to pull them out of the oven after they had been sufficiently burnt. The pipes were thus always fresh and smoked easily.

Mr Willcox made a lot of money in Paulton - he told John Watts' father that he made a pound every day he was there (the average miner's weekly wage was 12 shillings). He originally came from Shepton Mallet. His wife died one November day after bearing a child, presumably prematurely. This occurred through shock at hearing a cannon being fired in the Inn Square by Josiah Gregory - the report seemed to shake the whole village. The child was brought up by a woman called Nancy Bartlett

===The Law===

There were no uniformed policemen in those days, although constables were chosen every year at the annual Vestry meeting.

Generally, six men were appointed, the principal ones being Mr Ward, Joshua Watts and Alfred Purnell. They used to take Sunday morning walks around the village to see that no beer was being sold and that there was no drinking during prohibited hours.

Mr Ward, who owned a saddlery business, was a tall, thin man of military appearance. One day he was called upon to quell a disturbance at the Paulton Inn, and one of the crowd caught hold of him and held him up.

With unconscious humour he called out, "Aid and assist me in the name of our Queen Victoria - if you don't put me down I will take you up."

The lock-up, or "blind house" as it was called, had within it some iron rings about three-and-a-half inches in diameter built into the wall at the back and front.

When a couple of fighting drunks were arrested, they were put into the blind house and handcuffed to the iron rings. There they were left until they cooled down.

A long bench with a raised portion at the top end about six inches high and forming a pillow, enabled them to rest their aching heads.

A carter called Bill Jones, who came from Cameley, was employed to haul timber to Mr C D Purnell's premises, formerly a timber yard. He told John Watts that he once stole a sapling oak, was found out and transported to Tasmania for seven years.

A popular trade In Paulton was that of sawyer, and the best known names in it were Perry and Bartlett. The coalpits required a lot of timber, but as no circular saws existed, the wood was all hand sawn.

As mentioned earlier, a Mr Ward had a good saddlery business, which employed his two sons and two other men.

Saddlery was a good trade, for there were several carriages and pairs kept in the district, and three coalpits which employed underground ponies as well as surface horses.

Coal was hauled by horses pulling heavy tram wagons from the bottom of Simon's Hill, around Wallenge, and along to the Somerset Inn. There the wagons went down an incline by means of a rope around a drum.

As the full wagons ran down to the dock of the canal, where the coal was loaded into barges, they pulled up the empty ones. A man called Smith kept the dock and repaired and painted it.

Chandlery was a thriving trade. There were candle factories at Radford, Brittens, and at Mr Heal's general shop in Paulton village.

The factory at Brittens, next to the Flying Dutchman, was burnt down when John Watts was a boy. He saw the flames of the fire from Winterfield as he came home from school in Midsomer Norton. The owner of the factory was called Vowles. After the fire he came to the village and had a chandler's shop in Little Lane.

===Diddled===

He bought tallow in large casks and on one occasion he was "diddled." The cask contained a sack of sand with tallow around it. The sack must have been put in in Russia as it was Russian tallow, and it happened just after the Crimean War.

The smell of boiling fat caused a nuisance, so Vowles took a shed at Ham and only made candles at the Little Lane shop. Unfortunately, the flue caught fire and then the thatch so that the shop was burned down too.

There was also a good malting trade. John Watts could remember a man called George Brassey who used to grind the malt. He had leprosy, and his arms and hands were always peeling. They had brown and white marks on them.

A market was held every Saturday night in the centre of the village. On one side of the street were butcher's stalls owned by Joshua Watts. John Whippey, John Carfter and a butcher from Frome.

On the other side, near the inn, were Butcher Brown from Ston Easton and George Dix. Alongside them were a boot and shoe stall and, occasionally, a quack doctor's stall. In the angle space opposite the saddler's shop were a crockery stall and several fish stalls.

===Fights===

The public houses kept open until twelve o'clock on Saturday nights and there was generally a fight which sometimes ended in the combatants being lodged in the blind house.

A fiddler called Barrington, together with his wife who played the tambourine, provided the music every Saturday night in the Tap Room of the Paulton Inn.

They often went to the Dove at Winterfield, and Barrington was so accustomed to sitting in the same place and bumping out the time to the music with his heel, that he wore a hole in the stone half as deep as a teacup.

There was a piece of level road in the centre of the village opposite the Paulton Inn and there the young men used to play marbles. They had a iron boss taw and four or five used to play there with a ring about six feet in diameter.

Red Lion Inn

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==Overview==

The Red Lion is (probably) the oldest pub in the village of Paulton - it is at least the earliest for which specific mention is made in the local papers - and sits prominently in the centre of the village. It seems to have been known interchangeably as the "Red Lion" or the "Paulton Inn". This is likely to be because it was the only Inn in Paulton, therefore there was no ambiguity. The original building was demolished and rebuilt in (largely) its modern form in 1848.

==Photos==

[[File:Red_Lion_2017.jpg|Red Lion in 2017|300px]]

Red Lion in 2017

[[File:Paulton_16974.jpg|Red Lion in the time of Fred Ashman|300px]]

The Red Lion in the mid 1920s, when Frederick Ashman was the licensee.

[[File:Upstairs_Red_Lion.jpg|Mr and Mrs Bryant on the occasion of the Paulton Rovers Cup Buffet|300px]]

Paulton Rovers Cup Buffet, upstairs at the Red Lion, with Mr and Mrs Bryant.

==Location==

==Licensees==

- ????-1827 Thomas Ames Hill
- ????-1847-1853-???? John Wilcox
- ????-1860-1861 George Carter
- 1861-1866-???? Grace Slade Carter
- ????-1869-1871-???? Thomas Towill
- ????-1874-???? William Ashman
- ????-1879 James Heatherleigh
- 1879-1881-1891-???? Frederick Pow
- ????-1900 William John Allward
- 1900-1914-???? Walter David Butler
- ????-1916-1925 William Joseph Bryant
- 1925-1927-???? Frederick Nelson Ashman
- ????-1929-1935 Thomas Simmonds
- 1935-1936 Frederick Bennett
- 1936-1965 Ernest Gilbert Brent
- 1965-???? E. Slater
- 1976-???? Mike and Norma Lockyear

==Owners==

- ????-1925-1957-???? Oakhill Brewery
- ????-1965-???? Courage

==Timeline==

{| class="wikitable"
!Date
!Detail
!Source
|-
|07/10/1790
|Earliest mention I can find in the British Newspaper Archive - an auction is happening at the Red Lion Inn
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - 07 October 1790
|-
|21/05/1799
|Thieves stole a quantity of halfpence (or twenty pounds in cash, depending on the source), two pocket handkerchiefs, a waistcoat and other articles (which belonged to Mr, Hill of Paulton Inn) from the house of Mrs. Susannah James, called Paulton Inn. The main protagonist, Abraham Isles had some amazing aliases - Scramhanded Jemmy and Twink.
|[[Gloucester Journal - 27 May 1799]] [[Salisbury and Winchester Journal - 20 May 1799]]
|-
|02/05/1811
|Paulton Manor is for sale by auction, including Red Lion Inn, along with Coal Mines, Cottages, Farm Houses and 550 acres of land
|[[Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - 02 May 1811]]
|-
|27/08/1827
|DEATHS. Aug. 17, after a few days' illness, aged 69, Mr. Thomas Hill, of Paulton Inn, Somerset.
|Bristol Mirror - Saturday 25 August 1827
|-
|10/12/1827
|PAULTON INN to be let, following decease of Mr. T. A. Hill.
|[[Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - 13 December 1827]]
|-
|25/11/1841
|Red Lion to be Let for 7 years from 25th March 1842 - along with the brewery and adjoining 9 acres of land. Apparently it is the "only Licensed House in the place" - which must refer to being fully licensed. Previous tenant is retiring after 14 years.
|[[Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - 25 November 1841]]
|-
|06/06/1847
|Baptism of George James Willcox, son of John Willcox, in Paulton. John is a Licensed Victualler - so probably at Red Lion.
|Paulton Parish Records
|-
|29/06/1848
|Advert for builders to contract to take down and re-build the Red Lion. Not exactly certain when this happened, or how long it took - although auctions were again happening at the Red Lion by mid 1849, so it was completed by then at the latest.
|[[Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - 29 June 1848]]
|-
|30/03/1851
|John Wilcox (age 32, from Bath) is living at the Red Lion Inn with his wife (age 32, from Bath) and their son George I (age 3, from Paulton). He is a Brewer and Victualler.
|1851 Census
|-
|02/10/1851
|A burglary was committed during Thursday night last, on the premises of Mr John Wilcox of the Red Lion Inn, Paulton. The thieves stole a quantity of beer, and about forty pairs of boots and shoes, which had been left in the landlords care by the owner James Penny of Clandown.
|Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - 02 October 1851
|-
|11/11/1853
|Burial of Elizabeth Willcox, wife of John Willcox in Paulton.
|Paulton Parish Records
|-
|17/12/1853
|Red Lion to be let - present proprietor declining business. House is "newly built" and brings in about £1600. Apply to Mr JOHN WILLCOX, Red Lion, Paulton. Presumably this decision follows the death of his wife.
|[[Bristol Mercury - 17 December 1853]]
|-
|1860
|George Carter, Red Lion, Paulton
|The Draper and Clothier, 1860 - guide to principal Hotels and Commercial Inns
|-
|07/12/1860
|Public Dinner of Clutton Union -dinner was provided by Mr. George Carter of the Paulton Inn
|Shepton Mallet Journal - 07 December 1860
|-
|23/02/1861
|EAST MENDIP RIFLE CORPS, No. 22 - Wanted a Person qualified to INSTRUCT BOYS for a DRUM and FIFE BAND - Application with terms to be sent to Mr Carter, Red Lion Inn, Paulton, of whom any further particulars may be obtained.
|Bristol Mercury - Saturday 23 February 1861
|-
|07/04/1861
|George Carter (b. 1819, Warminster) is living with his wife Grace (b. 1821, Warminster) with their two children Timothy (b. 1844, Warminster) and Bessie (b. 1854, Warminster). He is an Innkeeper. Note - this slightly confusingly, seems to be a George Carter who is not (immediately at least) related to all the many other Carter families from Paulton and the surrounding area.
|1861 Census
|-
|26/06/1861
|Death of George Carter, of the Red Lion, Paulton, aged 42.
|Warminster Miscellany and Local Advertiser - 01 July 1861
|-
|23/08/1864
|Unjust measure convictions: Grace Carter, Paulton Inn
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|24/10/1865
|Elizabeth Tucker of Newtown convicted of stealing several items (including a salt cellar and glasses), the property of Grace Slade Carter, Paulton, Innkeeper.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|01/02/1866
|Elizabeth Beecham of Hallatrow and Mary Manby of Paulton, two servants at the Red Lion Inn, Paulton, charged with stealing wines and spirits, the property of Grace Carter. Remanded until petty session on Tuesday next
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|06/02/1866
|Elizabeth Beachim of Paulton charged with stealing a bottle of wine from the Paulton Inn, the property of her mistress Mrs Grace Slade Carter. Another vixen (!) also charged with stealing a glass bottle from the Paulton Inn - property of the landlady Mrs Grace Slade Carter
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|19/06/1866
|Joseph Walsh of Paulton, stoker and John Burkeley of Camerton, labourer - brought up under remand for stealing a gun from a stable at the Paulton Inn during night of 16th inst., property of Timothy Carter
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|24/07/1866
|William Maggs, a tailor, of Paulton was fined 14s 6d and costs for assaulting Albert Knee, the ostler of the Red Lion Inn there, and in default 14 days imprisonment. Sarah Maggs, a daughter of William Maggs, was also fined 8s for violently assaulting the said Albert Knee with a carving knife and shovel, and breaking his head, and in default of payment was sentenced to seven days imprisonment.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|05/11/1867
|William Creese, Mary Creese, James Rose, Silverthorne Stokes, Eliza Stokes - of Newtown, Paulton - drunk in front of the Red Lion Inn
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|11/05/1869
|Thomas Towell, inkeeper of Paulton. Assaulted by Henry House - extensive story.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|03/08/1869
|Thomas Towill of Red Lion - keeping a dog without a license
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|03/09/1869
|Red Lion Hotel, Paulton Inn and Simon Carter of Plummers Hill all mentioned in an article about Paulton Harvest Festival
|[[Western Daily Press - 03 September 1869]]
|-
|28/02/1871
|Disorderly conduct at Red Lion - and refusing to quit: Charles Dando, Jonah Weeks of Hallatrow and Francis Dodson, Joseph Rogers and George Wyatt of Farrington Gurney
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|02/04/1871
|Thomas Towill (age 24) is living with his Sister Frances? Towill (age 26) in the Red Lion Inn, Paulton. He is an Innkeeper.
|1871 Census
|-
|05/12/1871
|Red Lion: Mary Creese, of Paulton, fined for being drunk and refusing to quit
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|02/04/1872
|Red Lion Inn - George Banfield and Henry Collier disorderly conduct
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|30/06/1874
|Red Lion Inn, Paulton: William Ashman, landlord. William Jones stole milk.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|31/08/1875
|Annual Licensing Session - all licenses renewed except for Red Lion, Paulton, Waldegrave Arms, East Harptree and Old Down Inn, Ston Easton. These were adjourned.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|21/09/1875
|Adjourned annual licensing session - license granted to Mr. James Hatherly of the Red Lion Inn, Paulton
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|27/05/1879
|Red Lion Inn, Paulton: William Pearce charged with stealing a beer glass - propert of James Heatherley of the Red Lion.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|16/12/1879
|Temporary license to sell until next transfer day given to Frederick Pow of Red Lion Inn, Paulton - late of the Greyhound, Midsomer Norton
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|13/01/1880
|License of Red Lion transferred to Frederick Pow
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|03/04/1881
|Frederick Pow (age 40, Clandown) is living with his wife M. A. W (age 41, Welton), two daughters and his mother, at the Red Lion Inn, Paulton. He is a Licensed Victualler. C. H. Boulton is a Barman (Servant) at the Red Lion.
|1881 Census
|-
|24/05/1881
|Occasional license granted to Frederick Pow of Red Lion, Paulton to sell excisable liquors in a tent in a field on Whit-Monday
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|1883
|Frederick Pow. Red Lion, Paulton
|Kelly's Directory of Somerset 1883
|-
|1889
|Frederick Pow, Red Lion P. H.
|Kelly's Directory of Somerset 1889
|-
|05/04/1891
|Frederick Pow (age 51, widower) is living with three of his children at the Red Lion, Paulton. He is an Inn Keeper and Farmer.
|1891 Census
|-
|1897
|William John Allward, Red Lion P. H.
|Kelly's Directory of Somerset 1897
|-
|19/06/1900
|The license of the Red Lion Inn, Paulton, was transferred from William John Allward to Walter David Butler
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|31/03/1901
|Walter Butler (age 38, Peterborough) is living with his wife Mary (age 37, Welton) and their 4 children and a niece in the Red Lion Hotel, Paulton. He is a Hotel Keeper.
|1901 Census
|-
|31/10/1901
|William Nash (shoemaker of Paulton) evicted from Red Lion for being drunk - he then went to the Old Lottery.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|1902
|William D. Butler, Red Lion Hotel, Paulton. Good accomodation for cyclists.
|Kelly's Directory of Somerset 1902
|-
|25/09/1906
|An extension of one hour was granted to W. D. Butler of the Red Lion for a dinner of the Shepherd's Friendly Society.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|02/04/1911
|Walter David Butler is living with his wife Mary and three of their children in the Red Lion Hotel, Paulton. He is a Licensed Victualler.
|1911 Census
|-
|1914
|Walter D. Butler, Red Liom Hotel, Paulton.
|Kelly's Directory of Somerset 1914
|-
|04/12/1914
|Red Lion for sale as part of Paulton Manor Estate
|[[Western Gazette - 04 December 1914]]
|-
|16/06/1916
|Paulton Fete and Sports - refreshments were provided by Mr. W. J. Bryant of the Red Lion Hotel
|[[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 16 June 1916]]
|-
|17/07/1917
|Mr. W. J. Bryant, licensee of the [[Red Lion]] Hotel, Paulton, made an application for the sale of intoxicating liquors at the athletic ground, Paulton, on the occasion of the annual fancy dress parade carnival in aid of the Paulton Hospital and other charitable institutions, to be held at Paulton on Tuesday, August 7. Police Supt. Ford supported the application, and stated that it was conducted quite properly last year and he had no complaint whatever and no objection to the granting of the license from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. - The license was granted.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|22/07/1921
|William Bryant of the Red Lion charged for selling a pint of rum for too much money.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|10/01/1925
|Mr. W. J. Bryant, landlord of the Red Lion, broke his wrist when trying to start his car.
|[[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 16 January 1925]]
|-
|30/06/1925
|License transferred from William Joseph Bryant to Frederick Nelson Ashman
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|31 May 1927
|Mr. F. N. Ashman, licensee of the Red Lion, granted an occasional license from 2.0 to 9.30pm for the sale of intoxicants in a field on the occasion of the annual Friendly Societies fete and sports to be held at Paulton on Whit-Monday.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|25/06/1929
|Tom Simmons, licensee of the Red Lion, granted an extension of one hour from 19 pm to 11 pm on the occasion of the first annual dinner of the Excelda Lodge, R.A.O.B to be held on Wednesday, July 3rd.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|1935
|Thomas Simmonds, Proprietor, Red Lion Hotel
|Kelly's Directory of Somerset 1935
|-
|22/01/1935
|Tom Simmons granted an extension from 10pm to 11pm for the sale of intoxicating liquours on the occasion of the annual dinner of the Paulton "Excelda" Lodge of the R. A. O. B. in the [[Red Lion]] Hotel, Paulton, on the 2nd Feb.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|10/1935
|Frederick Bennett took over the Red Lion Hotel, Paulton - this is reported in an interesting article about his bankruptcy - he was inexperienced in the licensed trade.
|[[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 27 March 1936]]
|-
|26/11/1935
|Mr F. Bennett, of the Red Lion Hotel, Paulton, granted an extension from 10pm to 11pm on the occasion of the Paulton Homing Society annual dinner.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|02/05/1936
|Frederick Bennet, publican formerly of Red Lion, Paulton, Bankrupt
|Western Daily Press - 02 May 1936
|-
|24/11/1936
|Temporary transfer of the license from the Oakhill Brewery Co. to Mr. Ernest Gilbert Brent, of Paulton, who had been the manager of the house for the past eight months.
|[[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 27 November 1936]]
|-
|25/03/1937
|Funeral of Thomas Simmons - held license of Red Lion for 7 years.
|[[Western Daily Press - 25 March 1937]]
|-
|09/11/1937
|Paulton Parish Council discussed erection of public conveniences - it has been hard to find a suitable site. The clerk had been in touch with Oakhill Brewery Co., Ltd. with a view to securing a suggested site at the Red Lion Inn yard. The Brewery company has asked the Council to submit plans.
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 12 November 1937
|-
|23/04/1938
|Death of George Parsons, Paulton Footballer. Mentioned Ernest Brent as present licensee of the Red Lion.
|[[Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - 23 April 1938]]
|-
|29/09/1939
|Ernest Brent in the right place to still be the licensee of the Red Lion
|1939 Register
|-
|1951
|Planning permission being obtained to convert an existing building in the Red Lion Yard into a public convenience. Estimate to do so was £748.
|[[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 16 November 1951]]
|-
|1957
|Plan of proposed improvements to bar, kitchen and living rooms at The Red Lion Inn, Paulton. 1957. For The Oakhill Brewery Co., Ltd., Shepton Mallet; [3347].
|Somerset Heritage Centre - D\R\clu/22/1/186
|-
|1965
|Plan for internal alterations to Red Lion Inn, Paulton. 1965. For Courage (Western) Ltd., Bristol; (W. Brice, surveyor, Courage Western Ltd.). [7033]
|Somerset Heritage Centre - D\R\clu/22/1/578
|-
|17/12/1965
|Retirement of Mr and Mrs Ernest Brent. They have now gone to live at Rising Sun House, which was a licensed premises until April 1965. There are 4 local ex licensees living in Newtown! License transferred to Mr. E. Slater - who has come from Bristol with his wife and 15 year old son. Improvements have been made to the pub costing several thousand pounds.
|[[Somerset Standard - 17 December 1965]]
|-
|23/12/1976
|Mike and Norma Lockyear have taken over the Red Lion, Paulton. Come and visit us over Christmas (usual pub food)
|[[Somerset Standard - 23 December 1976]]
|}

==Sources==

===Newspapers===

[[Somerset Standard - 21 December 1973]] - Paulton in the Eighteen-fifties 1

[[Somerset Standard - 28 December 1973]] - Paulton in the Eighteen-fifties (concluded)

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Shearn, Leslie

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Daft notes on Leslie Shearn

Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 07 May 1954

CLANDOWN Licence Transfer Weston (Bath) magistrates, on April 28, agreed to the transfer ot the licence of the Crown Inn, Clandown, from Mr. Leslie Shearn to Mr. Bertram Moon, of New Buildings, Peasedown. They also granted Mr. Joseph George a temporary protection order concerning off-licensed premises now occupied by Mr. Moon

Licensees

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{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Name
!Where
!Years
!Born
!Died
!Comments
|-
|Smith, John
|[[Blackbird Inn]]
|????-1855-1879
|c. 1825 Midsomer Norton
|26 Oct 1879
|Beer Seller in 1861 and 1871 Census - in Winterfield - mother to Mary Eliza Smith (later Banfield) - also for baptism of 6 children from 1855- 1864
|-
|Banfield, George
|[[Blackbird Inn]]
|1879-1891
|4 Apr 1856 Paulton
|15 Jan 1891
|Son of Joseph Banfield, of the [[Somerset Inn]]
|-
|Banfield, Mary Eliza
|[[Blackbird Inn]]
|1891-1921
|c. 1856 Paulton
|26 Jan 1921
|Daughter of John Smith, wife of George Banfield
|-
|Banfield, Joseph
|[[Blackbird Inn]]
|1921-1961
|14/08/1882
|04/02/1961
|Son of George and Mary Banfield. Was still "of the Blackbird Inn" in this will.
|-
|Carter, George
|[[Britannia Inn]]
|1861-1869
|c. 1809 Paulton
|1861
|
|-
|Carter, Simon
|[[Britannia Inn]]
|1871-1875
|c. 1804
|1875
|
|-
|Carter, Felix
|[[Britannia Inn]]
|????-1875-1901
|
|
|
|-
|[[Shearn, Leslie]]
|[[Britannia Inn]]
[[Rising Sun]]
|1954-1957
1957-???
|
|
|Prior to taking over the Britannia Inn, he was the licensee of the Crown Inn, Clandown
|-
|Wyatt, George
|Red, White and Blue Beerhouse
|????-1861-????
|c. 1836 High Littleton
|
|Coal miner and Beer Seller in 1861 Census, and mentioned in Petty Sessions as being of Red White & Blue Beerhouse
|}

Licensees

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{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Name
!Where
!Years
!Born
!Died
!Comments
|-
|Smith, John
|[[Blackbird Inn]]
|????-1855-1879
|c. 1825 Midsomer Norton
|26 Oct 1879
|Beer Seller in 1861 and 1871 Census - in Winterfield - mother to Mary Eliza Smith (later Banfield) - also for baptism of 6 children from 1855- 1864
|-
|Banfield, George
|[[Blackbird Inn]]
|1879-1891
|4 Apr 1856 Paulton
|15 Jan 1891
|Son of Joseph Banfield, of the [[Somerset Inn]]
|-
|Banfield, Mary Eliza
|[[Blackbird Inn]]
|1891-1921
|c. 1856 Paulton
|26 Jan 1921
|Daughter of John Smith, wife of George Banfield
|-
|Banfield, Joseph
|[[Blackbird Inn]]
|1921-1961
|14/08/1882
|04/02/1961
|Son of George and Mary Banfield. Was still "of the Blackbird Inn" in this will.
|-
|Carter, George
|[[Britannia Inn]]
|1861-1869
|c. 1809 Paulton
|1861
|
|-
|Carter, Simon
|[[Britannia Inn]]
|1871-1875
|c. 1804
|1875
|
|-
|Carter, Felix
|[[Britannia Inn]]
|????-1875-1901
|
|
|
|-
|Shearn, Leslie
|[[Britannia Inn]]
[[Rising Sun]]
|1954-1957
1957-???
|
|
|Prior to taking over the Britannia Inn, he was the licensee of the Crown Inn, Clandown
|-
|Wyatt, George
|Red, White and Blue Beerhouse
|????-1861-????
|c. 1836 High Littleton
|
|Coal miner and Beer Seller in 1861 Census, and mentioned in Petty Sessions as being of Red White & Blue Beerhouse
|}

Britannia Inn

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aka Plummers Hill Beer House, Plummers Arms Inn

The first mention I can find of beer being sold from this premises is in the 1861 Census, when George Carter is listed as at Beer Seller at Plummers Hill Beer House. George died shortly thereafter, and it isn't entirely clear exactly what happened to the license. By the time of the 1871 census Simon Carter is the Beer Seller at Plummers Hill Beer House. Simon was not (as far as I can tell) directly related to George, but his son Felix married George's daughter Hepzibah in 1862 - and then in 1864 Simon married George's widow Sarah!

In Jun of 1875, on the death of his father, the license was transferred to said Felix Carter. Felix Carter remained there until sometime between 1901 and 1905, when he seems to have taken over the Lamb Inn. The license passed to his son Herbert John Carter, before being transferred to his second cousin [[Reuben James Carter]] in 1906, who was the licensee for 26 years. [[Reuben James Carter]] was the father of [[William George Carter]], well known Paultonian, who was the landlord of the Victoria Inn for many years. He was also the cousin of [[Mary Elizabeth Banfield]], landlady of the Blackbird for many years.

In 1930, the license was taken over by Reginald F. Ashman, the son-in-law of Reuben James Carter, who ran the pub until 1954. The last licensee was Leslie Shearn (formerly of the Crown Inn, Clandown), who ran the pub until it closed in 1957, at which point he moved to the [[Rising Sun]].

The pub closed in 1957.

==Photos==

[[File:Britannia2.jpg|caption|300px]]

==Location==

==Licensees==

????-1861 George Carter
????-1871-1875 Simon Carter
1875-1901-???? Felix Carter
????-1905-1906 Herbert John Carter
1906-1930 Reuben James Carter
1930-1954 Reginald F. Ashman
1954-1957 Leslie Shearn

[[File:Britannia_Carter_Licenses.jpg]]

The image above shows how the license moved between members of the Carter family between 1861 and 1905.

==Owners==

- ????-1957 Charlton Brewery

==Timeline==

{| class="wikitable"
!Date
!Detail
!Source
|-
|07/04/1861
|George Carter (age 52) is living with his wife Sarah (age 49) and daughter Hepzibah (age 21) at Plummers Hill. He is a Beer Seller.
|1861 Census
|-
|19/12/1861
|Burial of George Carter
|Paulton Parish Records
|-
|03/09/1869
|Red Lion Hotel, Paulton Inn and Simon Carter of Plummers Hill all mentioned in an article about Paulton Harvest Festival. I think this is before Simon was licensee.
|[[Western Daily Press - 03 September 1869]]
|-
|28/09/1869
|George Carter's license was renewed at the annual licensing session. This is confusing since George has died! Perhaps this is actually Simon.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|02/04/1871
|Simon Carter (age 66) is living at Plummers Hill Beer House with his wife Sarah (age 60), his son Felix (age 34) and daughter Hepzibah (age 31) as well as his grandson George (age 6) and granddaughter Sarah (age 6). He is a Beer House Keeper. Note that Sarah is George Carter's widow. Also note that Hepzibah is George and Sarah's daughter (so is Simon's step-daughter) but is also married to Felix.
|1871 Census
|-
|08/06/1875
|License of Plummers Arms Inn, Paulton temporarily transferred to Felix Carter
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|06/07/1875
|Beer License of S Carter transferred to Felix Carter
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|19/06/1878
|Baptism of Gilbert Carter, son of Felix and Hepzibah Carter. Felix is a Beer Retailer at Plummers Hill. Sadly Gilbert was buried on 29 July 1878.
|Paulton Parish Records
|-
|13/09/1879
|Baptism of Gilbert Tom Carter, son of Felix and Hepzibah Carter. Felix is a Beer House Keeper at Plummers Hill.
|Paulton Parish Records
|-
|26/08/1890
|Britannia Inn mentioned in a serious assault case against William Banfield
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|05/04/1891
|Felix Carter (age 54) is living with his wife Hepzibah (age 50), son Gilbert (age 11) and daughter Sarah (age 25) at the Britannia Inn. Felix is an Innkeeper and Cattle Dealer.
|1891 Census
|-
|22/11/1891
|Felix Carter granted an extra hour on 5th December for the Druids Friendly Society Dinner
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|31/03/1901
|Felix Carter (age 60) is living with two of his sons, and grandchildren at the Britannia Inn. He is a widower. He is a Cattle Dealer and Innkeeper.
|1901 Census
|-

|08/08/1905
|George Crossman Hansford, of Paulton, was fined 10/- and costs for assaulting Herbert John Carter, the landlord of the Britannia Inn, Paulton. There was a dispute over some change, and the defendant struck the landlord on his ear with his fist.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|05/12/1905
|Herbert John Carter, the licensee of the Britannia public house, Paulton, was summoned for permitting drunkeness on his licensed premises. Mr. J. E. Meltcalfe (Bristol) prosecuted on behalf of the police and Mr. J. C. Gilmore (Bristol) defended. The bench convicted the defendant, and fined him £1 and £1/19/6, costs, including solicitor's fee.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|02/01/1906
|License transferred from Herbert John Carter to Reuben James Carter
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|21/10/1930
|License of the Britannia Inn transferred from Mr. Reuben James Carter to his son-in-law, Mr. Reginald William Ashman. Mr. Reuben Carter has held the license of this inn for a period of 26 years.
|[[Temple Cloud Petty Sessions]]
|-
|1935
|Reginald Frederick Ashman - beer retailer
|Kelly's Directory of Somerset 1935
|-
|17/03/1939
|Funeral of Reuben James Carter - licensee of the Britannia Inn for 26 years.
|[[Western Daily Press - 17 March 1939]]
|-
|29/09/1939
|Reginald F. Ashman is in the right place for the Britannia Inn, but not listed as licensee
|1939 Register
|-
|31/03/1954
|"Temple Cloud magisrates, on Wednesday, transferred the licence of the Britannia Inn, Paulton, from Mr. Reginal Frederick Ashman to Mr. Leslie Shearn, formerly of the Crown Inn, Clandown"
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 02 April 1954
|-
|17/08/1955
|"Temple Cloud magistrates on Wednesday approved plans submitted on behalf of Charlton Brewery for building alterations in respect of the Britannia Inn, Paulton"
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 19 August 1955
|-
|13/02/1957
|Transfer of License of the [[Rising Sun]] from Joseph William Barras to Leslie Shearn (licensee of the Britannia Inn for the previous three years).
|[[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 15 February 1957]]
|-
|15/02/1957
|Sale of the premises formerly "The Britannia Inn" together with the freehold dwelling "Britannia Cottage", by order of the Charlton Brewery Co. Ltd.
|[[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 15 February 1957]]
|-
|12/02/1958
|General Annual Licensing meeting at Temple Cloud. There were 35 fully licensed houses, 23 on-license beer houses and five off-licence beer houses. This was a decrease of three on-licence beer houses - The Britannia, Paulton, the Crosskeys and Jolly Collier, Clutton - and one off-licence beer house, the Waggon and Horses, Farmborough.
|Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - 21 February 1958
|}

==Sources==

Licensees

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{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Name
!Where
!Years
!Born
!Died
!Comments
|-
|Smith, John
|[[Blackbird Inn]]
|????-1855-1879
|c. 1825 Midsomer Norton
|26 Oct 1879
|Beer Seller in 1861 and 1871 Census - in Winterfield - mother to Mary Eliza Smith (later Banfield) - also for baptism of 6 children from 1855- 1864
|-
|Banfield, George
|[[Blackbird Inn]]
|1879-1891
|4 Apr 1856 Paulton
|15 Jan 1891
|Son of Joseph Banfield, of the [[Somerset Inn]]
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|Banfield, Mary Eliza
|[[Blackbird Inn]]
|1891-1921
|c. 1856 Paulton
|26 Jan 1921
|Daughter of John Smith, wife of George Banfield
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|Banfield, Joseph
|[[Blackbird Inn]]
|1921-1961
|14/08/1882
|04/02/1961
|Son of George and Mary Banfield. Was still "of the Blackbird Inn" in this will.
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|Carter, George
|[[Britannia Inn]]
|1861-1869
|c. 1809 Paulton
|1861
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|Carter, Simon
|[[Britannia Inn]]
|1871-1875
|c. 1804
|1875
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|Carter, Felix
|[[Britannia Inn]]
|????-1875-1901
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|Shearn, Leslie
|[[Britannia Inn]]
[[Rising Sun]]
|1954-1957
1957-???
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|Wyatt, George
|Red, White and Blue Beerhouse
|????-1861-????
|c. 1836 High Littleton
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|Coal miner and Beer Seller in 1861 Census, and mentioned in Petty Sessions as being of Red White & Blue Beerhouse
|}

Stones on Charmy Down

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==Query #27 - Stones on Charmy Down==

'''22/07/1933'''

Various references are made in local histories to "Druidical" stones in the field north-west of Charmy Down Farm. The earliest I have seen is in Tunstall's "Rambles," 3rd ed., 1851. The most authoritative is a reminiscence addressed to Mr. R. E. M. Peach, and incorporated by him in his "Annals of Swainswick," 1890. From internal evidence it may have been written by a Fellow of Oriel about 1877. He says: "In the field on the north of the farm may still be seen some Druidical stones, but they were much more conspicuous in my childhood." There is a single low weathered stone still standing at what I have been told is the site. In 1927 I met an old man who knew the Down well, and he remembered more stones and their arrangement. I think there must still be men living who can remember these stones, and I should be glad to hear how many these were and how they were arranged. For purposes of record I give the following data for the site of the existing stone: Lat. 51deg., 25min. 12sec. Long. 2deg. 20min. 17 ½ sec. A.T.W., Monkton Combe.

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The First Herald

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==Query #26 - The First Herald==

'''15/07/1933'''

A friend of mine, looking through some old photographs, has found a copy of "The Bath Herald and General Advertiser," dated March 3rd, 1792 (No. 1 Gratis), also a copy of the New Bath Guide of 1797. The Guide contains a New Plan of the City of Bath at that date, also a picture the famous Richard Nash, Esq., M.C. for nearly 50 years. The guide is a quaint affair, with its pictures of the Guildhall and different things. I wonder if any other reader the paper has copies of a previous date to these? —Interested, Trowbridge.

==Replies==

'''22/07/1933'''

The first copy of the "Bath Herald "is probably a reproduction issued in 1892, in its centenary year. Recently I saw the first five volumes of " The Bath Herald," together with the notice of starting the paper, in a Bath collection.—J.G.M., Bath.

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Jane Austen

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==Query #25 - Jane Austen==

'''15/07/1933'''
My stay in your wonderful city was all too short. Your streets breathe memories of the past, and you have done wisely to tablet the houses of distinguished residents. As a student of Jane Austen I should feel grateful if, through the medium of your Notes and Queries column, I could be enlightened as to the reason for regarding No. 4, Sydney Place as one of the definite residences of Jane Austen during her stay at Bath. So far I have been unable to trace particulars from her letters and biographies in confirmation of this statement.—M. S. (Austenite), U.S.A., now staying in London.

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Somerset Brasses

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==Query #24 - Somerset Brasses==

'''15/07/1933'''

Can any of your readers give sources of information on Somerset Brasses?—E. V., Bath.

==Replies==

'''22/07/1933'''

There is perhaps no complete list of Somerset Brasses which is easily accessible (if one exists I hope the reference will be published). E.V. will, however, get a good deal of information—and discover at least the location of over 70 brasses —if he will pool the details to be obtained from the following sources:—

#Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological Society, Vol. 52 (for 1906) contains an index of over 30 Somerset brasses described or referred to in the first 52 volumes of the Proceedings.
#Macklin's Brasses of England (County index end of book).
#Suffling's English Church Brasses (County index).
#Rambles about Bath (Tunstall-Peach).

All the books mentioned may borrowed from the Bath Municipal Lending Library. J.F.B., Bath.

'''22/07/1933'''

I do not know of any work dealing entirely with the Brasses of Somerset; various references occur in county and village histories, such as Collinson's "History of Somerset" (1791), the Victoria County History, and Kelly's Directory.

An exhaustive list of Somerset Brasses (some 43 in all), with details of costume (whether in armour, civilian or priestly dress) and dates, is given in “Monumental Brasses,” by H. W. Macklin (Allen and Co., 1913, I think 2s. 6d.). The best brasses in the county are following :—

*llminster : Sir W. Wadham (in armour), with his wife, under a canopy, 1440.
*Cheddar: Sir Thomas Cheddar (armour), 1442. Isabel Cheddar, 1460.
*S. Petherton : Sir Giles Daubeny (armour) and wife under a canopy, 1430.
*Swainswick: Edmund Forde (civilian), 1439.
*Burnett (Keynsham) : A curious quadrangular plate to John Cutte and his wife and family, Mayor of Bristol 1575.
*Wells : Priest in cope, 1465.
*Langridge: Eliz. Wallche, 1441.

This latter has been filled with black enamel and will hardly rub, besides being fixed on the wall.

There is a brass mentioned as being at Hemington, but no traces of it exist. I hope this may be some help to your correspondent.—V.R., Freshford.

'''26/08/1933'''

In addition to the sources already given, special attention should be paid to the articles entitled, " Monumental Brasses in Somerset” in the proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological Society. Parts I. and II. have appeared in the volumes for 1931 and 1932, and the former of these has a very valuable introduction.— A.T.W., Monkton Combe.

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Somerset Brasses

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Turner's Tower

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==Query #23 - Turner's Tower==

'''15/07/1933'''

In the issue of the "Bath Chronicle and Herald" for July 10th you give a quotation referring this tower near Faulkland. It includes a statement to the effect that John Turner, a respected farmer of Hemington, erected the tower 1890. In your issue June 28th, 1930, on the other hand, you said "Known as Turner's Folly, it was constructed in the middle of the last century by an eminent local architect of that name." Can you, or any of your readers, dispel the atmosphere of doubt which seems to exist?—J. B., Bath.

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Holy Stone

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==Query #22 - Holy Stone ==

'''08/07/1933'''

I understand that the stone called "Holy Stone" used in the Navy and mercantile service for deck scrubbing is obtained from some local quarry. Where is this quarry situated and how did it obtain its name "Holy" A. B., Watchet.

==Replies==

'''15/07/1933'''

This stone, used in the Navy, etc., for scrubbing purposes is a by-product of the Farleigh Stone Quarry, near Bath. It is soft stone, unsuitable for other uses. I believe the local Stone Firms are contemplating the erection of lime kilns to make use of the large quantities of waste stone. Corsham.

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Holy Stone

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==Query #22 - Holy Stone ==

'''08/07/1933'''
I understand that the stone called "Holy Stone" used in the Navy and mercantile service for deck scrubbing is obtained from some local quarry. Where is this quarry situated and how did it obtain its name "Holy" A. B., Watchet.

==Replies==

'''15/07/1933'''

This stone, used in the Navy, etc., for scrubbing purposes is a by-product of the Farleigh Stone Quarry, near Bath. It is soft stone, unsuitable for other uses. I believe the local Stone Firms are contemplating the erection of lime kilns to make use of the large quantities of waste stone. Corsham.

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Beech Trees on Wiltshire Downs

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==Query #21 - Beech Trees on Wiltshire Downs==

'''08/07/1933'''

On the ridges of the Wiltshire Downs one observes isolated clumps of beech trees. Is there any special significance attached to these clumps and are they peculiar to Wiltshire ?— A. V. W., Westbury.

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Inscription in Bath Abbey

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==Query #20 - Incsciption in Bath Abbey ==

'''08/07/1933'''

I am given to understand that there is a monument in the Bath Abbey bearing an epitaph extolling the virtues of a "mother-in-law." Could any reader supply me with a copy of the inscription? — Epitaphs, Wells.

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Wiltshire White Horse

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==Query #19 - Wiltshire White Horse==

'''08/07/1933'''

Can any reader offer information as to the number of White Horses there are in Wiltshire, and do they all date from the same period? —Newcomer, Westbury.

==Replies==

'''15/07/1933'''

The chief white horses of Wiltshire are those at Bratton Down, Westbury; Oldbury Castle, Cherhill; and All Cannings, near Devizes. The best known is the Westbury horse, but as this was entirely re-cut in 1778 it cannot be considered as ancient. The old horse which it replaced was probably of very early origin, like the famous Uffington animal. There was quite fashion for cutting chalk horses on the Wiltshire Downs in the late 18th century, and the smaller specimens made at this time have long since disappeared. The All Cannings' horse dates from 1812, while that at Cherhill is comparatively modern, having been cut as recently as 1870 by Dr. Alsop of Calne.—W. C, Calne.

'''22/07/1933'''

There is a booklet on "White Horses." I believe it is published by the G.W.R., and gives an account of the White Horses of the South of England.—A.T.W., Monkton Combe.

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Wiltshire White Horse

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==Query #19 - Wiltshire White Horse==

'''08/07/1933'''

Can any reader offer information as to the number of White Horses there are in Wiltshire, and do they all date from the same period? —Newcomer, Westbury.

==Replies==

'''15/07/1933'''

The chief white horses of Wiltshire are those at Bratton Down, Westbury; Oldbury Castle, Cherhill; and All Cannings, near Devizes. The best known is the Westbury horse, but as this was entirely re-cut in 1778 it cannot be considered as ancient. The old horse which it replaced was probably of very early origin, like the famous Uffington animal. There was quite fashion for cutting chalk horses on the Wiltshire Downs in the late 18th century, and the smaller specimens made at this time have long since disappeared. The All Cannings' horse dates from 1812, while that at Cherhill is comparatively modern, having been cut as recently as 1870 by Dr. Alsop of Calne.—W. C, Calne.

'''22/07/1933'''
There is a booklet on "White Horses." I believe it is published by the G.W.R., and gives an account of the White Horses of the South of England.—A.T.W., Monkton Combe.

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Bath & West of England Club

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==Query #18 - Bath & West of England Club==

'''08/07/1933'''

I should be much obliged if any your readers could give me any information about the Bath and West of England Club. What were its objects? When did it exist? and Where were its activities carried on? —A. R. F. Chapman, Bathampton.

==Replies==

'''12/08/1933'''

In reply to the query of Mr. A. R. F. Chapman, of Bathampton, regarding the Bath and West of England Club, I have just come across the following extract from Meyler's Original Bath Guide, 1826, among my notes :—

The Bath and West of England Subscription Rooms, No. 2, Great Pulteney Street, were opened Oct. 30th, 1824. They are fitted in a superior style, and unite the advantages of a Subscription House wth those of an Inn, as beds and refreshments are provided on moderate terms. The reading room is well supplied with newspapers, magazines, etc. The terms of subscription are, two guineas and a half per annum. All members of the Bath York Club, White's, Brookes's, Waller's, Hardinge's, The Union, St. James's, Graham's, Albion, Cheltenham and Gloucestershire, Kildare Street and Sackville Street, Dublin, The Edinburgh New Club, and all Members of Parliament, are admitted as subscribers. Any gentleman wishing to become a subscriber (and not belonging to any of the aforementioned clubs) must be introduced by two subscribers. None but subscribers to these Rooms are admitted into the billiard room unless introduced by a subscriber. Messrs. Guynette and Chamberlain are the proprietors. Elsie A. Russ, Bath.

'''26/08/1933'''

In Davis and Waters "Tickets and Passes of Great Britain and Ireland," 1922, page 105, occurs the following entry:

Obverse: BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND CLUB* Centre an oak wreath.

Reverse: MACAO within a laurel wreath. Brass All M.S.

The issue of these tokens was stopped about 1835. The Club was established in Bath about 1810.—Elsie A. Russ, Bath.

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A Marshfield Legend

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==Query #17 - A Marshfield Legend ==

'''08/07/1933'''

A strange tradition held by many Marshfield people concerns the burial of "a golden calf," both at Beeks and at West End Town, which is the oldest part of Marshfield. Every native of Marshfield knows of the legend, but can tell no more about it.

Of all the comers to this island in those far-off days the Phoenicians are the only ones likely to have erected images in the form of a golden calf. Were the false gods ceremoniously buried when the inhabitants of these parts became Christians?

The tradition is firmly imbedded in the minds of Marshfield people, but no one has any other information about it.—F. C. T., Bath.

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A Marshfield Legend

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Druid Stones at St. Catherine's

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==Query #16 - "Druid Stones" at St. Catherine's ==

'''08/07/1933''

Can anyone give any information about some stones at Beeks, near St. Catherine's, which are marked on the Ordnance map as Druidical Stones? They are always spoken of in the neighbourhood as "The Druid's Stones."

They are in Hill's Wood, on sloping ground near Beeks' Farm, and consist of three large stones in a straight line up the bank, and from the centre of the lowest one a thorn tree, with a trunk divided into three, is growing. The thorn tree must be of some age, as one trunk is covered with thick twisted branches of ivy. What look like the remains of a stone circle can be traced nearby.

The stones are just in Gloucestershire, the small brook at the bottom of the valley being part of the boundary between the counties of Gloucester and Somerset.

I was also told of some caves in the same neighbourhood which have now become overgrown or filled up. F. C. T., Bath.

==Replies==

'''22/07/1933'''

For comments on these stones see "Long Barrows of the Cotswolds," by O. G. S. Crawford, 1925, p. 223. The experienced author, who is the Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey, does not accept any of the stones in Trull's Wood as of archaeological interest. Trull's Wood (O.S.) is the only wood near Beek's Farm and presumably is the Hill's Wood of F.C.T.'s query. The author remarks that the site as marked on the small scale map of 1830 on the higher ground above Beek's Farm and not on the slopes. About 10 years ago the writer was asked to search the higher ground, the assumption being that when the original survey was made there were stones there. On following Beek's Lane from Marshfield, three fields before the farm, a slight rise was noticed under the hedge on the south side of the field, there being an angle the hedge at that point. On the spot there were a number of stone fragments. The writer conjectured that this was the site of the stones, and that they had been broken up on the spot. Digging might prove or disprove the conjecture. If the sockets of the stones could be found it would be confirmation. I enclose a tracing of the site taken from the 6in. O.S. map for F.C.T. Perhaps inquiries by F.C.T. locally might furnish information. For purposes of record I give the site as Lat. 51deg., 26min. 50 ½ sec.; Long. 2deg., 20min. 3sec—A.T.W., Monkton Combe.

[[File:Druid_Stones.png|100px]]

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Druid Stones at St. Catherine's

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==Query #16 - "Druid Stones" at St. Catherine's ==

'''08/07/1933''

Can anyone give any information about some stones at Beeks, near St. Catherine's, which are marked on the Ordnance map as Druidical Stones? They are always spoken of in the neighbourhood as "The Druid's Stones."

They are in Hill's Wood, on sloping ground near Beeks' Farm, and consist of three large stones in a straight line up the bank, and from the centre of the lowest one a thorn tree, with a trunk divided into three, is growing. The thorn tree must be of some age, as one trunk is covered with thick twisted branches of ivy. What look like the remains of a stone circle can be traced nearby.

The stones are just in Gloucestershire, the small brook at the bottom of the valley being part of the boundary between the counties of Gloucester and Somerset.

I was also told of some caves in the same neighbourhood which have now become overgrown or filled up. F. C. T., Bath.

==Replies==

'''22/07/1933'''

For comments on these stones see "Long Barrows of the Cotswolds," by O. G. S. Crawford, 1925, p. 223. The experienced author, who is the Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey, does not accept any of the stones in Trull's Wood as of archaeological interest. Trull's Wood (O.S.) is the only wood near Beek's Farm and presumably is the Hill's Wood of F.C.T.'s query. The author remarks that the site as marked on the small scale map of 1830 on the higher ground above Beek's Farm and not on the slopes. About 10 years ago the writer was asked to search the higher ground, the assumption being that when the original survey was made there were stones there. On following Beek's Lane from Marshfield, three fields before the farm, a slight rise was noticed under the hedge on the south side of the field, there being an angle the hedge at that point. On the spot there were a number of stone fragments. The writer conjectured that this was the site of the stones, and that they had been broken up on the spot. Digging might prove or disprove the conjecture. If the sockets of the stones could be found it would be confirmation. I enclose a tracing of the site taken from the 6in. O.S. map for F.C.T. Perhaps inquiries by F.C.T. locally might furnish information. For purposes of record I give the site as Lat. 51deg., 26min. 50 ½ sec.; Long. 2deg., 20min. 3sec—A.T.W., Monkton Combe.

[[File:Druid_Stones.png|thumb]]

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Druid Stones at St. Catherine's

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==Query #16 - "Druid Stones" at St. Catherine's ==

'''08/07/1933''

Can anyone give any information about some stones at Beeks, near St. Catherine's, which are marked on the Ordnance map as Druidical Stones? They are always spoken of in the neighbourhood as "The Druid's Stones."

They are in Hill's Wood, on sloping ground near Beeks' Farm, and consist of three large stones in a straight line up the bank, and from the centre of the lowest one a thorn tree, with a trunk divided into three, is growing. The thorn tree must be of some age, as one trunk is covered with thick twisted branches of ivy. What look like the remains of a stone circle can be traced nearby.

The stones are just in Gloucestershire, the small brook at the bottom of the valley being part of the boundary between the counties of Gloucester and Somerset.

I was also told of some caves in the same neighbourhood which have now become overgrown or filled up. F. C. T., Bath.

==Replies==

'''22/07/1933'''

For comments on these stones see "Long Barrows of the Cotswolds," by O. G. S. Crawford, 1925, p. 223. The experienced author, who is the Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey, does not accept any of the stones in Trull's Wood as of archaeological interest. Trull's Wood (O.S.) is the only wood near Beek's Farm and presumably is the Hill's Wood of F.C.T.'s query. The author remarks that the site as marked on the small scale map of 1830 on the higher ground above Beek's Farm and not on the slopes. About 10 years ago the writer was asked to search the higher ground, the assumption being that when the original survey was made there were stones there. On following Beek's Lane from Marshfield, three fields before the farm, a slight rise was noticed under the hedge on the south side of the field, there being an angle the hedge at that point. On the spot there were a number of stone fragments. The writer conjectured that this was the site of the stones, and that they had been broken up on the spot. Digging might prove or disprove the conjecture. If the sockets of the stones could be found it would be confirmation. I enclose a tracing of the site taken from the 6in. O.S. map for F.C.T. Perhaps inquiries by F.C.T. locally might furnish information. For purposes of record I give the site as Lat. 51deg., 26min. 50 ½ sec.; Long. 2deg., 20min. 3sec—A.T.W., Monkton Combe.

[[File:Druid_Stones.png]]

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Pre-Reformation Baths

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==Query #15 - Pre-Reformation Baths==

'''01/07/1933'''

Can anyone give a reference pointing to "superstitious uses" having been practised at the baths of Bath in pre-Reformation days?—C710.

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The Horse Bath

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==Query #14 - The Horse Bath==

'''01/07/1933'''

When was the Horse Bath constructed and when was it removed? —C710.

==Replies==

'''08/07/1933'''

The supply of mineral water to the Horse Bath outside the South Gate of the city was obtained from the overflow of the King's Bath. Dr. William Turner had severely criticised the poor conditions at the Baths in his "Natures and Properties of the Baths of England," published in 1561, and he suggested improvements by the daily cleansing of the mineral water system, the erection of separate baths for women and for those suffering from infectious diseases together with a special bath for horses. In 1598 the Corporation erected a Horse Bath, which was continued for upwards of 50 years. The site of this bath is noted on Speed's map of 1610, but is omitted in Thomas Johnson's plan of 1634. From the city records information is available showing the use this Horse Bath during the Civil Wars of the 17th century. I do not think that one can definitely give an exact date for the final abandonment of the Horse Bath. During the recent excavations in Stall Street the course of the overflow from the King's Bath was located, a distinct layer of mineral deposit being observed at this point. This overflow emptied itself into the river at the site of the present extension of the Electric Light works. – W.

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The Horse Bath

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Commemoration of King Edgar's Coronation

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==Query #13 - Commemoration of King Edgar's Coronation==

'''01/07/1933'''

When did the Whit-Sunday festivities in commemoration of King Edgar's coronation at Bath, referred to by Leland (and quoted by Warner, page 50) cease to be held?—QUAERENS.

==Replies==
'''08/07/1933'''

As far as I can trace, the Whitsuntide Festival in commemoration of King Edgar's Coronation at Bath was discontinued early in the 18th century. Although this Festival was associated with an historic event, it is more than likely that it had its origin in pre-Christian times. —W.

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Commemoration of King Edgar's Coronation

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==Query #13 - Commemoration of King Edgar's Coronation==

'''01/07/1933'''

When did the Whit-Sunday festivities in commemoration of King Edgar's coronation at Bath, referred to by Leland (and quoted by Warner, page 50) cease to be held?—QUAERENS.

==Replies==
'''08/07/1993'''

As far as I can trace, the Whitsuntide Festival in commemoration of King Edgar's Coronation at Bath was discontinued early in the 18th century. Although this Festival was associated with an historic event, it is more than likely that it had its origin in pre-Christian times. —W.

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Commemoration of King Edgar's Coronation

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==Query #13 - Commemoration of King Edgar's Coronation==

'''01/07/1933'''
When did the Whit-Sunday festivities in commemoration of King Edgar's coronation at Bath, referred to by Leland (and quoted by Warner, page 50) cease to be held?—QUAERENS.

==Replies==
'''08/07/1993'''

As far as I can trace, the Whitsuntide Festival in commemoration of King Edgar's Coronation at Bath was discontinued early in the 18th century. Although this Festival was associated with an historic event, it is more than likely that it had its origin in pre-Christian times. —W.

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Roman Bronze Eagle

2024-04-06T07:51:53Z

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==Query #12 - Roman Bronze Eagle==

'''01/07/1933'''

In the Museum of the Institution there is a “Roman Bronze Eagle.” It is said to have been found in Limpley Stoke and presented in 1868 by Mrs. Penruddocke. Can any reader supply a more exact site for the provenance of this relic?—A. T. W., Monkton Combe.

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Holed Stone at Claverton Down

2024-04-06T07:51:19Z

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==Query #11 - Holed Stone at Claverton Down==

'''01/07/1933'''

In the field called Bushey Norwood, on Claverton Down, is an upright stone with a hole in it. As this has been and may be again taken for a holed stone of prehistoric origin, such as the Cornish Menan-Tol and others of like nature, it may be well to know its origin. The hole in the stone is obviously due to the limestone weathering when the stone was recumbent on its bed. I have heard two accounts of its origin, firstly that it was erected to commemorate the fatal duel between Viscount du Barri and Count de Rice, and more prosately that it commemorates a favourite horse. Can anyone give accurate information on this point? —A. T. W., Monkton Combe.

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'''29/07/1933'''

Some years ago I asked a friend the history of this stone, and was told that it was a rubbing post for horses or cattle. They were tethered to it—a rope being passed through hole in the stone, and that such stones were not uncommon. I do not know if this is correct. —M. A., Bath.

'''05/08/1933'''

Mr. Gerald Grey writes, "I know the stone of old. There were many like it when first I knew Bushey Norwood. They were lying on the surface. The late squire, Mr. Henry Duncan Skrine, had this particular stone raised upright to mark the spot where he had one or two favourite horses buried. The rest of the stones were used in the Bath Botanical Gardens and the Clifton Zoo for making rockeries. The site of the Du Barri duel was on the boundary of Claverton and Hampton Downs. A rough stone against the wall marks the spot where Du Barri lay all day before he was removed to Bathampton for the inquest and burial."—A. T. W ., Monkton Combe

'''05/08/1933'''

I was much interested in reading about the holed stone found on Claverton Down. There is a holed stone on one of the islands on the west coast Ireland; it is very ancient and is curiously incised with quaint figures and writing. It is held in great veneration by the peasantry, and articles of clothing of sick people are drawn through the hole in hope of their recovery.—C. B., Henrietta Street, Bath.

'''12/08/1933'''

So far, the response to the inquiry of A.T.W. for exact information concerning the holed stone Bushy Norwood, has been far from exact, and fails to touch the significance that really attaches to the stone. Its upright position is immaterial, and may have served some comparatively modern pastoral purpose; but it was so standing in the boyhood of old inhabitants of Claverton Down, and inquiries made by me some years ago failed to confirm the report that marked the grave of one of Mr. H. D. Skrine's favourite horses. Members of the Skrine family knew nothing about it.

The importance of the stone lies in the fact that is one of a great number that once formed a stone avenue to the summit of Hampton Down, before ever the " Camp " there existed. Everything that has been written by Prebendary Scarth about the stone circles and avenues on the North side of Hampton Camp, pointing to the existence of a Temple of the Sun there, centuries before the Roman occupation, applies to the vestiges which still remain in Bushy Norwood on the South. Numbers of the stones lie cast down, still sufficiently in situ to indicate an avenue, but most of them were removed at different periods to the grounds of Claverton Manor, where some of them may be seen as rock-work, and some set upright in the farm-drive to the back of the Manor probably marking the graves of favourite animals.

There can be little doubt but that these stones were connected with the religious rites of Ancient Britons, and they were probably deliberately cast down either in military attack or to end, by forcible means, the religious practices of the Priests of the Sun. A likely period for this to have happened was in the time of Cunobelin, who is known to have taken steps against the practices of the Druids in Britain, and who celebrated by the issue of a coin inscribed Solidunum some feat against place of that name. Numismatists cannot place Solidunum elsewhere than at Bath.

From the early ages Bushy Norwood has never been under agricultural cultivation, and the numerous antiquities that are there were first discovered in 1887 by Mr. H. D. Skrine, who did much to explore the field and to clear the ground of brushwood, which he considered to be remains of the primeval forest that once encircled the Down. The name of the wood which borders the field is Hen, which means Ancient. Prebendary Scarth had apparently no knowledge of the antiquities hidden by the bushes of this field; but the stone avenue had been noticed by the Rev. John Skinner, of Camerton, and is mentioned in his MS. writings. There is still a rich field of exploration waiting there, unconfused by the golf bunkers, rifle butts and waterworks that mingle with the ancient earthworks on the North. The present hot weather should show dried circles in the field, which I have seen, denoting the presence of the foundations of ancient buildings. One, as I saw it, surrounded a very large stone that stands not far from the holed stone.

The stones given by Mr. H. D. Skrine for the Bath Botanical Gardens did not come from Bushy Norwood, but from the northern slope of Hampton Down, whereby the Druidical remains noticed by Prebendary Scarth were wrecked. These had, however, been charted for him on a huge map of Hampton Camp, which still exists in the office of Mr. Keith W. Calvert.

About the stones taken to the Clifton Zoo I know nothing; but years ago a great circle of stones in Bushy Norwood were uncovered for a visit of the British Association from Bristol, and were subsequently removed —only the holes remaining. Perhaps it was to Clifton that they went, for they were not taken into the grounds of Claverton Manor.

In connection with the holed stone it is interesting to find that a pierced stone (thyrllan stan) is one of the Saxon boundary marks of Hampton, given in the Abbey Cartulary (vol. 7, S.R.S., p. 21), coming between the boundary brook from the Avon and the Camp nose (headland) and dyke.

The stones referred to are all great slabs of the layer of rock that lies above the oolite formation, and holes in them are frequently found caused by the action of water or of tree roots as the rock was forming. The Druids would have found them to hand in abundance for their temples and avenues. According to Wood, the elder, Ralph Allen's roads were made of the smashed atoms of a Druid's Temple that was destroyed in the building Prior Park mansion.

I write with some reluctance, away from means of giving exact references, but may mention that the Bath Literary Institution, in Queen Square, possesses a valuable MS. volume by the Rev. John Skinner that contains unique information; and also has an unbound number of Vol. XIII., Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1857, which contains an important account of Hampton Camp Preb. Scarth. K.E.S., Exmouth.

'''19/08/1933'''

The reply of K.E.S. raises a number of points outside my original query. My query was an endeavour to find out when and why the stone was raised. That it was raised at no distant date is, I believe, proved by the relatively small amount of weathering on what was the underside. It may or may not have been raised in memory of a horse. It is in fact improbable that a horse was buried at the stone itself because there is practically no soil covering the rock at that point.

The second point is the statement that this stone was one of an avenue of stones leading to Bathampton Down. In support of this it is said that the stone avenue had been noticed by the Rev. John Skinner, of Camerton. I have a very considerable acquaintance with Mr. Skinner's Journals (Brit. Mus. Add MSS 33633-33728, A.D. 1788-1839). He paid many visits to Bathampton Down, either exploring it for antiquities, or acting as guide to those antiquities for the instruction of relatives and visitors, or digging into the barrows and mounds. In spite of his habit of continually repeating the same information in different contexts, I cannot recall any reference to this avenue. I think that if there had been an avenue of stones here, so near to Bath, a city which attracted so many people of curiosity and intelligence, whether as temporary or permanent residents, it would not have escaped notice all these years.

The next point is the significance of the stones that used to be visible on the north slope of Bathampton Down. I have seen the large scale plan in Mr. Calvert's office. It is, I believe, the original of the plan in Mr. Skrine's pamphlet, to which reference was made in the "Chronicle and Herald" year or so ago, and a copy of which is now in the Municipal Reference Library. No coherent plan could be detected in the stones as depicted. Had they formed a prehistoric monument of importance, it is most unlikely that they would have been missed by the indefatigable Stukeley, the 18th century, or by the careful antiquary, Aubrey, who noted other remains the Bath district a century earlier.

One of the most interesting features of prehistoric Bath is the fine state of preservation of the Celtic field banks on some the Downs. An air photograph of those on Bathampton Down is given in "Wessex from the Air" (Crawford and Keiller). It is to be hoped the Golf Club will spare them. In even better preservation are those on Charmy Down, some of which are on land in the ownership of the City Council. The stones on the north slope of Bathampton Down were, I believe, incorporated in these field banks. John Wood in his "Particular Description of Bath," mentioned "the infinite footsteps of stone walls." (I quote from, memory). He was writing of Charmy Down or Bathampton Down. The description probably applies to both. Skinner also mentions the stones occasionally, and on one occasion drew a rough sketch of some of them. He considered that they were connected with the paths and field banks of the "Belgic" settlement.

In addition to the "thyrllan stan," or holed stone in the Saxon bounds of Hampton, mentioned by K.E.S., a "Thyrla Stan" is, given in the bounds of Priston in the 1932 volume of the Proceedings of the Somerset A. and N. H. Society, and there was "Le Thurlestone" in the Perambulation of Mendip Forest, A.D. 1298, also called "petra perforata" in the bounds of the Witham lands at Charterhouse, A.D. 1180. These holed stones are particularly likely to occur in limestone districts and to this day, as I have had evidence, the country folk take a primitive interest in them.— A. T. W., Monkton Combe.

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Sedan Chairs

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==Query #10 - Sedan Chairs==

'''24/06/1933'''

I have been trying to find the date the Sedan Chairs ceased to ply on the streets of Bath. Can any reader give me the required information. —A.V.G., Bath.

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'''01/07/1933'''

A note to Thomas Jeans' "Season in Bath" 1855 states (p. 68), "Only one or two mouldy old Sedans are extant. That most convenient locomotive has been completely 'run off' the pavement by the modern wheel chairs." The last date in which Regulations for Sedan Chairs appear in the Bath Directory is 1868-9, though the entry may have continued for some years after the chairs had ceased to ply.—Library.

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Curious Legend

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==Query #9 - Curious Legend===

'''24/06/1933'''

There is an old story that the inhabitants of Bishop's Cannings, near Devizes, manured the steeple of their church in an endeavour to increase its height. Can the origin of this legend be traced.—All Cannings.

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'''08/07/1933'''

The story of the manuring of a steeple is one of "Baron Munchausen's Tales," a collection of very tall stories published by an unknown author in the 18th century. Bishop's Cannings, as far as I remember, was not mentioned in the original story.— Swindon Reader.

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A Bath Artist

2024-04-06T07:49:36Z

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==Query #8 - A Bath Artist==

'''24/06/1933'''

I shall be pleased to receive information on John Wheeler, a local artist and animal painter, who lived in Bath 1858-1877.— R.W.

==Replies==

'''01/07/1933'''

There were two persons, father and son, named Wheeler, but I do not know the forename of either. The father used to paint animals, principally horses for the Duke of Beaufort possibly the grandfather of the present Duke. His son also painted. I have now the paintings of two horses and a cow. The father acquired some reputation for his work and the son had similar skill or talent, but I think he died as young man, and from the date named it is the son now mentioned.—Observer.

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Beating the Bounds

2024-04-06T07:49:00Z

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==Query #7 - Beating the Bounds==

'''24/06/1933'''

When was the last occasion on which "Beating of the Bounds" took place in any parish in the City of Bath? Inquirer.

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'''01/07/1933'''

I have no knowledge of beating the bounds in any parish in Bath. The Freemen of the city met annually on May 29th at the Park Farm, when the accounts for the past year were passed and the amount of the balance payable to the Freemen declared. After which the bounds were beaten and all returned to the farm, when each man received a large bun and one shilling for refreshment. The apprentices had a similar bun and sixpence, which was generally spent at the Park Farm dairy in curds and whey. The estate was purchased by the city in 1879, and the last time the bounds were beaten was in May, 1878.— E. L.

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Horse-Collar Oak

2024-04-06T07:47:37Z

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==Query #6 - Horse-Collar Oak==

'''17/06/1933'''

Can some of your readers tell me the date of the throwing or felling of the Horse-collar Oak on the Warminster Road, and what became of the Horse-collar formed by the junction of the two branches. I was informed by the late Mr. Murry Fisher that there were only two specimens in existence, one being this oak at Bath. Perhaps some one can give the habitation of the second. Soft wood trees often form horse-collars, but such a freak is rare in the harder woods, therefore it was a pity that such a curiosity was destroyed or the horse-collar was not preserved in our museum.—A. V. G., Bath.

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Order of Druids

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==Query #5 - Order of Druids==

'''17/06/1933'''

A Lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids was supposed to have been held in 1790 at the Seven Dials Tavern in Westgate Place, Bath, which tavern was demolished on May 1831. Information as to the meetings of this ancient order in Bath would be welcomed.—R. W., Bath.

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Gainsborough Trees

2024-04-06T07:43:17Z

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==Query #4 - Gainsborough Trees==

'''17/06/1933'''

Various trees round Bath, more particularly oaks, have been styled "Gainsborough" trees. One is situated at Lambridge, one on Hampton Down, one at Shockerwick, and another—a sycamore-in a field on the Warminster Road, just before St. George's Hill walking from the city. The latter tree has in the first week of this month been felled to clear the space for building plots. Can any of your readers add to this list, or can they give the exact position of the Gainsborough oak on Hampton Down, as it known to me only by a water colour drawing? E. A. R., Bath.

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'''24/06/1933'''

There was one standing in a field attached to Bridge Farm, Bathford, on the opposite side of Messrs. Moore and Sons' Garage. It was an elm with large spreading branches and short trunk. It was blown down in 1892 and was purchased by me from the owners, the Misses Briscoe, on condition that I made them a table from a portion of it. This was done and kept by them with the painting in their drawing room at Briscoe House, Bathford. At their deaths, which occurred 1899 within a few weeks of each other, the painting and table passed into the possession of their nephew, a Rev. Gibbs. F. W. Cannings, Church Street, Bathford.

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Gainsborough Trees

2024-04-06T07:43:08Z

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==Query #4 - Gainsborough Trees==

'''17/06/1933'''

Various trees round Bath, more particularly oaks, have been styled "Gainsborough" trees. One is situated at Lambridge, one on Hampton Down, one at Shockerwick, and another—a sycamore-in a field on the Warminster Road, just before St. George's Hill walking from the city. The latter tree has in the first week of this month been felled to clear the space for building plots. Can any of your readers add to this list, or can they give the exact position of the Gainsborough oak on Hampton Down, as it known to me only by a water colour drawing? E. A. R., Bath.

==Replies==

'''24/06/1933'''

There was one standing in a field attached to Bridge Farm, Bathford, on the opposite side of Messrs. Moore and Sons' Garage. It was an elm with large spreading branches and short trunk. It was blown down in 1892 and was purchased by me from the owners, the Misses Briscoe, on condition that I made them a table from a portion of it. This was done and kept by them with the painting in their drawing room at Briscoe House, Bathford. At their deaths, which occurred 1899 within a few weeks of each other, the painting and table passed into the possession of their nephew, a Rev. Gibbs. F. W. Cannings, Church Street, Bathford.

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