Printed notice, issued by the magistrates for the 'Hinkford Hundred, in Essex', enjoining 'all licenced alehouse-keepers within this hundred, to maintain and keep good order and rules'.

Printed on one side of a piece of laid paper roughly 320 x 190 mm. On light-aged paper, with slight discoloration, and wear to the fold line repaired on the reverse with archival tape. Twenty-one lines of text, clear and entire, with 'Hinkford Hundred, in Essex}' in the left-hand margin. The Justices of the Peace for Hinkford Hundred, 'taking into consideration the great and general licentiousness and profligacy of the lower class of people, so unhappily subversive of decency and good order, and the apparent cause of excessive expences to parishes for maintenance of the poor, and being of opinion these enormities are encreased by too great number of Alehouses, licenced within this and many other Hundreds, andn the irregularities permitted in such houses, Do strictly enjoin all licenced alehouse-keepers within this hundred, to maintain and keep good order and rules in such their respective houses, and be very observant whom they entertain as guests, and in particular that they receive no vagrants, or other idle and disorderly persons into their houses. | They are further required to shut up their doors, and draw no liquor to any person whatever, after Eleven o'Clock in the evening during the summer months; and Ten o'Clock in the evening during the winter months, as they will answer the contrary.' Addressed in manuscript in a contemporary hand on the reverse 'Mr. Isaac Hills | at the Swan | Braintree'.