innholder

In 1674 he was allowed by the town to sell beer and give entertainment, and in 1682 he was licensed as an innholder.

The innholder knew the public men of the country, for they had partaken of his sumptuous dinners, and had lodged at his inn.

He was a German innholder, and the count a wealthy, influential French nobleman, with a proper warrant for searching his house.