A Day in the life of George Cleeve, a vintner (afternoon)

This has been my home since 1618 – the Pheasant Inn. I married Joan, the daughter of its vintner, John Price. There was bad blood between John and me from the start. I married Joan for love but I was also promised a share of the inn. John went back on his word saying he needed it for his new young wife and that I was a man with a shady past who was planning to run off to Spain without Joan. We went to law over it and I came out of it well still with my share of the inn. Joan and her step-mother fought like cats and dogs for a while but we soon lived well enough under the same roof. John died eight years later, still in the Pheasant.

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These dramatised accounts have been created by the Discovering Shropshire's History team. We used information taken from biographies of these individuals as researched by Bill Champion, author of "Everyday Life in Tudor Shrewsbury". These biographies, with the sources he used, can be seen in full by clicking on the "in depth" buttons on each page.