innholdern.

1463–4 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 252 Johannes Watson, inhalder.

?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Hvi Be thou none Inholder: hosteler, nor tauerner.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 74 They say that this Lady was at first an Inholder or Hostesse.

a1748 C. Pitt Imit. Horace Satire in Poet. Cal. (1763) X. 82 So rov'd wild Buckingham, the public jest, Now some Innholder's, now a monarch's guest.

1841 R. W. Emerson Nature & Lect. on Times 111 The very innholders and landlords of the country would muster with fury to their support.

1875 R. J. Hinton Eng. Radical Leaders 215 The ‘Licensed Victualler's Association’, as the Guild or Trades society of inn-holders and keepers of public houses is termed, is a wealthy and powerful body.

1911 Gaz. & Courier (Greenfield, Mass.) 8 Apr. 3/7 John Bullman has applied for a license to sell intoxicating liquors as a licensed innholder of the fourth Class at ‘Franklin House’.

1920 E. Benson Life in Mediæval City iii. 16 Innholders, who formed a trade company.

1965 Amer. Genealogist Jan. 24 Benjamin Williams, at one time an innholder of Easton.

2003 Oxoniensia 67 82 Perhaps the most significant group of traders profiting from the market were the innholders and victuallers, of whom 20 were noted in the town in 1587, with associated trades of maltster and distiller.

2013 North Adams (Mass.) Transcript 13 Feb. a 5/2 (legal notice) An application from HCC Orchards, LLC..for a transfer of an All Alcoholic Beverage Innholder License.