South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 6 September 1864.

Application for Licenses.

Mr. Tassell, solicitor of Faversham, applied for spirit licenses for the following beer houses on behalf of Messrs. Shepperd and Mares, Brewers.

The "Sun," Newrents, Ashford, kept by Amos Walder.......

The Bench refused the application.

From the Kentish Gazette, 5 September 1865.

Licensing Day.

The licenses of the public houses in the Ashford division were renewed. The following new licenses were applied for:-

Amos Walder, of the "Sun" beershop, New-rents, Ashford, was the next applicant, and Albert Lindfield, of the "Star" beershop, East Hill, Ashford, also applied for a license for his house. This was opposed by Mr. Langham on behalf of Mr. Butcher, of the "Queen’s Head Inn," and the solicitor produced a memorial against it from several highly respectable inhabitants living in the neighbourhood of the "Star," who complained of the way in which the house was conducted and the class of persons using it.

The Bench retired to consider the implications, and on returning into court announced that they had decided to refuse all of them with the exception of that for the "Man of Kent," Ashford, kept by William Richard Brown, and for that house they had decided to grant a license.