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Exploring the History of Ceredigion's Pubs

Cakes & Ale

Source: Cambrian News 09/02/1877       Date: 1877
Copyright:       Type: Newspaper
Description: Unclear which pub they used to run

Transcript:
Cakes and Ate.Mr. Pocock, excise officer, Aberystwyth, summoned William and Jane Evans, Llanbadarn, for selling beer without a licence.—-W. Byrne, stationed at Welshpool, said he visited Wm. Evans's house on the 4th November. He asked to be supplied with a glass of beer. Mrs. Evans said that "the way she managed now was to sell cakes with the beer." She brought him the cakes in one hand and the. beer in the other. He drank the beer and asked for another glass, when she again brought some cakes with the beer. He gave her 3d. for the beer. The cakes, two of which were brought on each occasion, were about the size of a penny, and were not worth 3d. He just tasted one of the cakes. —Mr. Pocock said from what the woman said about managing led him to think that it was an attempt to evade the law.—Defendant said he formerly held a licence, and his wife had allowed it to drop unknown to him. They had a little beer left in the barrel, and they sold cakes and not the beer.—Mr. David Hughes, excise officer, Aberystwyth, was called to prove that the licence expired on the 10th October, and that Mrs. Evans had called at his house when he was away fromlfome, and asked if she could sell cakes—and beer. His (witness) wife said she believed it could not be done. Witness therefore called upon defendant's wife, and told her that she could not sell the beer in that way. He also called upon defendant on the 10th October, and cautioned him not to sell on the 11th. The Bench said the defendants had acted very wrongly. The only thing that weighed with them was the man's large family. The full penalty was £20, they would reduce it to £5, and recommend that it be further reduced to £ 2.
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