Providence in colonial times . and two and sixpence from the partie concerned. We are tempted to enter thefield of conjecture in quest of a possible satisfactoryreason with which to appease the worthy liquor selling at two and sixpence the pint, itis evident that the oflftcers opportunities for enter-tainment presented large possibilities in any townat all given to protracted conviviality. After these attractive suggestions of evening gos-sip, spiced with the ordinarie keepers favoritebrew, it is somewhat disconcerting to realize that theordinary of Roger Mowry, where town-meeti
Providence in colonial times . and two and sixpence from the partie concerned. We are tempted to enter thefield of conjecture in quest of a possible satisfactoryreason with which to appease the worthy liquor selling at two and sixpence the pint, itis evident that the oflftcers opportunities for enter-tainment presented large possibilities in any townat all given to protracted conviviality. After these attractive suggestions of evening gos-sip, spiced with the ordinarie keepers favoritebrew, it is somewhat disconcerting to realize that theordinary of Roger Mowry, where town-meetingswere convened, travellers entertained, and the Indianprisoner Waumanitt given howse room for himselfand his guard during some eight or ten nights, wouldimpress us as a far from commodious years ago the house itself was still standing, andin a state of very good preservation. It was built The Roger IXIowry Tavern Later the Whipple House, on Abbott Street, torn downin 1900. From a wood-cut made about The Seventeenth Century 111 certainly as early as 1653, ^^^ originally containedtwo rooms. The lower, or fire room, was enteredfrom the street, and had a huge stone chimney, whichentirely filled one end of the house, save for a spaceof some six feet at the side, where a steep staircaseled to the chamber above. The dimensions of thefire room were sixteen by seventeen feet. Thedoor, with its large step of a single flat stone, was inthe southwest corner. The house was a story and ahalf in height, so that the overhead chamber was nomore than a loft. It would be interesting to knowwhere the host bestowed the bed . . and victualsfor the entertayning of strangers, which were, in1661, added to the list of essentials demanded ofthose who would retayle wine or lyckers. If we were to form our opinion of the amount oflyckers required to quench the thirst of the townof Providence from the supplies brought there, orsuch part of them as are entered on the town recordsfo
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