The only two references yet known is of informer Moses Pegg charging John Millis of the Golden Fleece, Woodboy Street in November 1833. Pegg claimed Millis was serving ale after 10pm. In contradiction, a Mrs Curtis swore she called at the beerhouse before 10pm and found it closed. Other witnesses deposed the same. Case dismissed so Pegg would receive no remuneration for this one.
Moses Pegg would lay information against nineteen beer houses at this one ‘special sitting’ of the magistrates. In the 1830s, he became during the most hated man in the town amongst publicans.
The only other reference of the Golden Fleece in Woodboy Street was in the obituary column of the LC when the death was announced of Elizabeth Millis, wife of the landlord of the Golden Fleece in October 1835. She was aged sixty six. The newspaper reported that she passed away after a long and painful illness borne with Christian fortitude and resignation
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