The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History by John Bickerdyke

CHAPTER I.

Suppression of Beer-shops in Egypt 2,000 B.C. — Brewing in a Teapot. — Ale Songs. — Distinctions between Ale and Beer. — Ale-Knights’ objection to Sack. — Hogarth and Temperance. — Importance of Ale to the Agricultural Labourer. — Sir John Barleycorne introduced to the Reader . . . 1

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Chapter 1 Ch.1
CHAPTER I. Ch.2
CHAPTER II. Ch.3
CHAPTER III. Ch.4
CHAPTER IV. Ch.5
CHAPTER V. Ch.6
CHAPTER VI. Ch.7
CHAPTER VII. Ch.8
CHAPTER VIII. Ch.9
CHAPTER IX. Ch.10
CHAPTER X. Ch.11
CHAPTER XI. Ch.12
CHAPTER XII. Ch.13
CHAPTER XIII. Ch.14
Introduction. — Value to the Working Classes. — Anecdotes. — “A Pot of Ch.15
CHAPTER XIV. Ch.16
CHAPTER XV. Ch.17
CHAPTER I. Ch.18
PROLOGUE. Ch.19
CHAPTER II. Ch.20
2. 712.). Ch.21
CHAPTER III. Ch.22
CHAPTER IV. Ch.23
CHAPTER V. Ch.24
1641. Received of the Vintner at the Catt in Queene Ch.25
1644. Received of three poor men, for drinking on the Ch.26
1648. Received from Isabel Johnson, at the Cole Yard, for Ch.27
1655. Received of a Mayd taken in Mrs. Jackson’s Ale-house Ch.28
1658. Received of Joseph Piers, for refusing to open his Ch.29
CHAPTER VI. Ch.30
CHAPTER VII. Ch.31
1741. A writer at that date says:—“The Ale-wives, whose province of Ch.32
CHAPTER VIII. Ch.33
CHAPTER IX. Ch.34
CHAPTER X. Ch.35
CHAPTER XI. Ch.36
CHAPTER XII. Ch.37
CHAPTER XIII. Ch.38
Chapter V. The Glastonbury Peg Tankard, illustrated in the cut, is made Ch.39
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