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There were thousands of alehouses, inns, and taverns in Elizabethan England
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Historical sources confirm that early modern English towns contained a vast multiplicity and thousands of inns, taverns, and alehouses.

Evidence for · 7
Wikipedia: Prostitution in early modern England
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Judged against statistical and reference sources.

More for · 6
Wikipedia: Puritans
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Wikipedia: Shoreditch
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Oxford University Press: Vexed and troubled Englishmen, 1590-1642
1976 · cited by 0
Explicitly references the multiplicity and thousands of Taverns, Inns, and Alehouses in towns.
New York, Oxford University Press: Vexed and troubled Englishmen, 1590-1642
1968 · cited by 0
Identifies the abundance and multiplicity of taverns, inns, and alehouses where towns swarm.
Hutchinson University Library: A social history of Western Europe, 1450-1720 : tensions and solidarities among rural people
1984 · cited by 0
Notes alehouses and taverns as meeting places in early modern England.
Yale University Press: The personal rule of Charles I
1992 · cited by 0
Mentions alehouses and drunkenness in early England, but lacks broad statistical enumeration.
Everything we examined (13)
  1. Wikipedia: Prostitution in early modern Englandreferencesupports
  2. Wikipedia: Puritansreferencesupports
  3. Wikipedia: Shoreditchreferencesupports
  4. Book: City Womenreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  5. Book: The Chester Cycle in Context, 1555–1575referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. Oxford University Press: Vexed and troubled Englishmen, 1590-1642referencesupports
  7. New York, Oxford University Press: Vexed and troubled Englishmen, 1590-1642referencesupports
  8. Hutchinson University Library: A social history of Western Europe, 1450-1720 : tensions and solidarities among rural peoplereferencesupports
  9. Internet Archive: The English A Social History 1066-1945referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  10. Norton: The English : a social history, 1066-1945referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Guild Publishing: The English: A Social History 1066-1945referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. Grafton: The English : a social history, 1066-1945referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  13. Yale University Press: The personal rule of Charles Ireferencesupports
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