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John Ivie – a plague of reforms |
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Brewery for the people
By 1626, these arrangements for the employment of poor children had been added to those of the workhouse and brewery and they were detailed in the publication "Orders Touchinge the Poore" – these records are the clearest surviving record of the idealism and organisation of the new experiments.
The plans for the municipal brewery were modelled on a previously held experiment in Dorchester which did not survive – it was hit by the adverse reactions from the local brewers and the inability for the funds from sales to repay a loan that was taken out to set the scheme up. However, in Salisbury, Ivie urged alehouse keepers and innkeepers to patronize it to protect it against similar adverse reactions from Salisbury brewers.
An attempt to have an Act of Parliament passed to support it failed, as did a bill encouraging the establishing of common brewhouses to be called "houses of the poor", but the Salisbury Brewhouse survived.
The storehouse was John Ivie's personal crusade. He set it up when trading was severely disrupted during the 1627 plague, but it also continued after that date. 
Salisbury Council House, built c.1560 demolished c.1790
© Courtesy of John Chandler |
An initial starter fund of £100 was collected throughout Wiltshire for the relief of the infected poor of Salisbury. It was intended to provide victuals for the poor at cost price and also in the future a "parish relief" was to be set up by way of issuing tokens rather than cash – this was to stop the poor spending their dole money entirely on drink. Ivie described his full intentions in a letter to Recorder, Henry Sherfield:
"There should be provided a storehouse, stored with wholesome provision for the poor, as this year they have had it, which is, as I will prove, £100 saved in £300. And we would make certain tokens with the city arms in them.
"The tokens should be from a farthing to a sixpence, and this money should be current nowhere but at the storehouse where they should such diet as is fit for them, both for victual of bread, butter, cheese, fish, candles, faggots and coals, and some butchers appointed to take their money for flesh if need be. And the old course of collecting the monies should stand as before only they [the collectors] should bring it to the Mayor and take so much in [tokens] to pay the poor.
"So if they will needs be drunk they should either work for the money or steal it. In my opinion if this way takes effect we shall avoid drunkenness and beggary".
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