Temple Cloud Petty Sessions
Introduction
This page is an incomplete listing of pubs, beer houses, landlords and other beery goings on as reported in the Temple Cloud Petty Sessions in the mid to late 19th Century - as reported in the various local papers of the time.
This is very much a work in progress - there is tons still to do to make this anywhere near a complete record.
1850s
| Date | Paulton Pubs | Other Pubs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
1860s
| Date | Paulton Pubs | Other Pubs | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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." |
Western Daily Press - 29 August 1862 |
| 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 |
| 16/02/1864 | William Winter, Geroge 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 |
| 23/08/1864 | Unjust measures convictions: Grace Carter, Paulton Inn |
George Hathaway of Farmbough, fined for keeping open his beerhouse at unlawful times Unjust measures convictions: |
Shepton Mallet Journal - 26 August 1864 Frome Times - 31 August 1864 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |