Lent informers report

The Tudor government relied on informers to maintain the law. This document describes two incidents in 1557. The first entry describes the illegal preparation of a 'pygge dysshe' in the house of Richard Ashton in Charterhouse Lane during Lent. The informer is unable to say whether the pig was 'rosted or eaten there' and moreover 'who was at the eating of it'. The second presentment refers to William Sapperton of Clerkenwell, gentleman, who had allowed his servant to maintain a 'tippling house' beside the 'pysse' [public lavatories] in Clerkenwell, contrary to statute and without obtaining a licence.

Transcription:
Itm we presente that on passion sondaye in lente laste paste there was a pygge dysshe in the house of rycharde aston in Charterhowse lane in the Cowntie of Middx But whether the samme pygge were rosted or eaten there we no or who was at the eating of it we know not nor kannot sertonly understande. Itm we presente that one wyliam sapperton of Clerkenwell gentlyllman doth maynteyne on antony gates his man to kepe a typpling howse at the sayde pysse of Clerkenwell contrary to the forme of the Statute thereof made wythout lycense on Maye daye laste.

Translation:
Item: We present that on Passion Sunday in Lent there was a pig dish in the house of Richard Aston in Charterhouse Lane in the County of Middlesex. But whether the same pig was roasted or eaten there is unknown, and I do not know who ate it. Item: We present that one William Sapperton of Clerkenwell gentleman does maintain at Antony Gates his man [a servant] to keep a tippling house [alehouse] at the said piss [public toilet] of Clerkenwell contrary to the
form of the statute therof made without license on May day last.