Inn og  gastegivsrier

Many of those who lived along the main roads could probably receive road users, serve food and drink and offer accommodation for a small fee. But if one was to carry out such activities on a slightly larger scale, one had to have a Royal Grant. It was the Rentekammeret in Copenhagen that gave these grants, probably following recommendations from the local officials. At the same time, these innkeepers and innkeepers were charged an annual fee, which it was the bailiff's task to collect. In the archive of the county governor in Buskerud, we therefore find a lot about who ran such a business.

By Rente Kammerets ordre, af Dato 3 Novbr 1759 til Fogden Egger Madsen Fisker.

"Da det allernaadigst haver behaget Hans Kongl. Mayestet at forunde efterskevne Kongelig aller-
most gracious appropriations on subsequent innkeeping and lodging in what it entrusted to him
Hurum, Røgen, Eger, Lier and Buskeruds Fogderie against answering this by annual fee for
without what was previously the order or hereafter had to be ordered as ":

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