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Zecherlisten

English translation: tavern bills

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German term or phrase:	Zecherlisten
English translation:	tavern bills
Entered by:	Helen Shiner

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12:05 May 19, 2011

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German term or phrase: Zecherlisten

Wie die zahlreichen Erwähnungen in den Zecherlisten des wittenbergeschen Stadtarchivs belegen, scheint Amo eine typisch studentische Zeit in Wittenberg verbracht zu haben.

Es geht um Anton Wilhelm Amo, der 1703 – ca. 1759 lebte.

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tavern bills

Explanation:
This might be one way of saying it. I am sure there will be others.

http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1969/haslam.pdf

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Referring to a scene from Shakespeare:

It was later in this scene, be it remembered, that the portly knight was found fast asleep behind the arras, ‘snorting like a horse,’ and had his pockets searched to the discovery of that tavern bill - not paid we may be sure - which set forth an expenditure on the staff of life immensely disproportionate to that on drink, and elicited the famous ejaculation - ‘But one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!’

http://www.buildinghistory.org/primary/inns/inns.shtml

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Marlowe is killed in a Deptford tavern by one of a group of colleagues with whom he has spent the day. The official explanation is a row over the tavern bill, but it is possible that the event relates to his secret service activities. What is certain is that when he dies, short of his thirtieth birthday, he is already an extremely popular playwright with the London audience.

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?P...