MDMD(1): Chapter 3 detail

Paul Mackin mackin at allware.com
Mon Jun 9 09:54:55 CDT 1997


Eric Alan Weinstein writes:
> Is it a safe bet that most Inns (B & B's, Hotel's, etc)
> would have included a pub-like area, or a 
> eating area where in any case beer was served?

>>>>Don't know, but it occurs to me that drinking places in
Britain are called licensed premises. Would this tradition have dated 
to the 18th Century and been the bother then it is now?

				P.




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