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Question: When did the Dutton family and their heirs cease to issue licenses for minstrels and whores in Cheshire!?
According to Sir Peter Laycester's Antiquities of Cheshire (1673), one of the medieval Earls of Cheshire was besieged by the welsh, when his steward Dutton gathered together a bunch of minstrels and whores gathered together in the Chester fair!. The Welsh thought it was a considerable army and pulled out!.
As a reward, the Earl granted Dutton of Dutton and his heirs a perpetual right to license minstrels and whores in Cheshire!. There was a procession of minstrels every year in Chester, and it was still going on in Leycester's time (he says nothing about a procession of whores)!.
The question is, when did all this lapse!? Apparently the licence was only fourpence, but, hey, it does add up!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
I don't have a clue as to your question!.
I am too busy laughing my posterior off, that someone automatically assumes that any historical question, MUST be someone's homework!.
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The licences are still available ,if you know how and where to apply,however ,these days,apart from the whores,there are no takers!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
The Duttons are unlicensed!?! Good Lord, why didn't anyone tell me!?! I will take my business elsewhere!Www@QuestionHome@Com