Newton Abbot: Petty Sessions: Tuesday (Before H. Chichester, Esq., Chairman); H. Cartwright, C.H. Munro, and J. Woodley, Esqrs. Magistrates … … Refused Transfer of License: Mr. Lugg, the late landlord of the Turk’s Head Inn, Newton, applied to have the license of that Inn transferred to Mr. Avery, the late landlord of the Rising Sun. Mr. Francis supported the application on behalf of Mr. Pinsent, the proprietor of the premises, and Mr. Flamank, the magistrate’s clerk, opposed on his own behalf. Mr. Flamank said that the house in question was opposite his own residence and that Avery had hitherto kept a house of disreputable character in the town and had been fined by the magistrates for doing so. Inspector Barker said that he had seen prostitutes at the Rising Sun, during the time Avery kept it, and there had been disturbances, to which the witnesses’ attention had been repeatedly called, but Avery himself had always assisted to restore order, and clear his house. Mr. Francis spoke at considerable length, in favour of the application, and produced a paper recommending Avery as a fit person to keep the house, signed by some of the guardians, overseers, and most respectable persons in the town …
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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901