Against  the  Beer-Carouses  during  Execution

Decree of Charles I., Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (1713-1780) prohibiting the bad habit of seizure-drinking at the expense of the seized. Published Wolfenbüttel October 31, 1747. Without place + printer (1747). 33.7 x 41 cm. 1 page. With large woodcut initial. With the ducal signature printed together with the L(oco) S(igilli) mark and that of A. A. v. Cramm.

of unused freshness with only quite fine appearance of foxing in the upper field. There in the middle contemporary registration no. in brown ink, too. – The large initial with the simple decoration used until 1749. – Typographic + figurative watermark. – Untrimmed margins up to 5.5 cm.

Reprimanding the “bad habit (spread and tolerated) in many parishes … to drink after done seizures immediately and at the expense of the seized a ton or half a barrel of beer or more … and since this habit is as unfair as detrimental to the seized … Order by this all of Our superior and civil servants and court authorities … not to allow such abuse any longer …”

On Charles, nephew of the Emperor Charles VI., brother-in-law of Frederick the Great, founder of the Collegium Carolinum, governing since 1735, see ADB XV, 266 ff.
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