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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4303184, member: 2844&quot;]Free beer certainly would have livened up council meetings.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Consumption of alcohol wasn&#039;t a problem in those days anyway, a result of poor water quality.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Botter family were already wealthy butter merchants though, hence the name, &#039;botter&#039; is Medieval Dutch for a butter merchant. They traded abroad, even across the sea to England. So presumably the Botters were already well-connected.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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