Offences for over-pricedalewere an annual occurrence, and the same defendants appeared regularly.
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The rich and middling were presumably expected to drinkaleor wine.
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I have not heard of many men giving four goldadorned treasures to another on theale-bench in a more friendly way!
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Here, the rare word is alegar, a kind of vinegar made fromale.
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In particular, it was considered important that suppliers of food staples, such as bread andale, were traded honestly, as the maintenance of these supplies was vital to social order.
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Could not these ales and stouts be provided as medical comforts?
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It cannot be collected and grouped in the way that one brings together two pounds of potatoes or three pints ofale.
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The difficulty was to arrive at a definition which would include a licensed restaurant, but would not include analehouse, tavern or public house.
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The amendments, if accepted, will ensure that there is more growth in caskaleproduction than heretofore.
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They come within its scope, but, generally speaking, the ordinary hotel, the beer-house, theale-house and the inn, do not come within it.
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The places where they sold new spirits and strong beer and ales might have the top licence.
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They were driven from strongaleto stronger whisky, and now they have been driven from whisky by the tax to lighter beer.
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I am delighted that real ales are now more freely available in off-licences around the country.
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He spoke particularly of the then endemic problem of under-age children and youths being sent to public houses to fetchalefor their fathers.
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