Inns, Taverns, and Victualling Houses

Inns, Taverns, and Victualling Houses

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Alphabetical list of Inns, taverns, and Victualling Houses

The Beare Taverne in Cornhill (HCA 13/71 f.413r)
The Bell in Saint Nicholas Lane (HCA 13/72 f.17r)
The Blacksmiths Armes, upon Wapping Wall (HCA 13/65 f.XXX)
The Bull in Saint Nicholas Lane London (HCA 13/71 f.297r)
The fflushing in the parish of Saint Catherine neere the Tower of London (HCA 13/65 f.XX)
The ffleece taverne, Cornehill (HCA 13/72 f.245r)
The Golden Still and Anchor (HCA 13/73 f.18v)
The Great James in Bishopsgate (HCA 13/73 f.19r)
The Halfe Moone Taverne in Saint Cathernes Court neere the Tower of London (HCA 13/65 f.XX)
The Kingsheade Taverne on New ffish Streete Hill (HCA 13/71 f.413r)
The Mermaid Taverne in Cornwall (HCA 13/72 f.14r)
The signe of the Crowne a victualling house where this deponents said father and this deponent lodged, kept by one John Aberdyn (HCA 13/72 f.XX)
The signe of the Sea-Riddar a victualling house neare the CXapele SXXXgth, a place where many shipps are sold (in Amsterdam) (HCA 13/72 f.137v)
Unnamed taverne in Southampton (HCA 13/71 f.104r)
Unnamed victualling house on Copperwicke, Norway (HCA 13/65 f.XX)
Unnamed victualling house over against the house of the said Hammond

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HCA 13/65

The case of Thomas Awres vs XXX areveals the social role of inns and victualling houses amongst mariners and river and shore occupations near the river, with many of the depositions in the case referring to statements overheard or engaged in in various such places, or directly from victuallers

Victuallers

-- Thomas Harrison, age 32, Victualler, of the parishe of Saint Mary Matsellon alias Whitechappell: Deponent knows Henry Bennett; "hee this deponent being drinkeing a cupp of wyne which the said Bennet att the halfe moone Taverne in Saint Ca?thernes Court neere the Tower of London upon the 14th day of February last past did heare him say and declare that hee the said Bennet did in the moneth of June last past or thereabouts goe out from this Port of London as Comander of and in the ship called the Harry upon a man of warre=voyage and designe And that during the said voyage hee had taken many prizes but whither the ship and Corne now in question was one of the said prizes soe taken by him hee saith the said Bennet the said hee knewe not"

Victualling houses

-- Unnamed victualling house on Copperwicke, Norway: "The ship the Ark of Noah took in her ladeing of horses at a place called Copperwicke in Norway; the deponent and his precontest James Salmon were at Copperwicke "and were told by a Scotsman who kept a victualling house there that the ship the Arke of Noah was bound with her horses abord her for Scotland where the same were to bee delivered to the Scotts King or for his XXX either at dundee or Abderdeene" (James Browne)

-- The fflushing in the parish of Saint Catherine neere the Tower of London: ("the howse of one Taylor in the parishe of Saint Catherine neere the Tower of London which is a Victualling house and knowne by the signe of the Flushing did happen to bee in the same Roome where the arlate Michaell Groenenburgh was drincking a cup of Beere and discoursing with the arlate John Roane (whom this deponent well knoweth) touching the ship the Moses arlate and her ladeing; hee this deponent did then and there heare the said Michaell Groenenburgh very much endeavour to seduce and perswade him the said Roane to come and sweare as a wittnesse in this cause on the behalfe of the Owners of the said ship the Moses and her ladeing That the said ship was and had bin first taken by the ship the Harry arlate by her Company the Moses Company were and had bin turned out into Fisher boates which if hee would soe sweare the said Groenenburgh did in this deponents presence and heareing promise the said Roane to give unto him the summe of forty dollers, to which said proffer and perswasion the said Roane in this deponents heareing replyed that hee for his part would not sweare as the said Groenenburgh had then desired him for a hundred pownds. for that (as hee then said) hee should thereby doe much iniurye to such Seamen and marriners and the wives and children of such as by sufficient power and Comission had seized the said ship and her ladeing or hee saith the said Roane made answeare to the same effect. And further hee cannot depose" (William Falkoner/Falconer)

BACKGROUND

• "(June 8th, 1699) I am credibly informed they had appointed when they came to England to rendezvous or meet at the Flushing Pinck, which I take to be a little below St. Katherine's not far from the Tower. Signed, N. Blakiston."

• "Flushing - Court, St. Catherine's Street, — about 2/3 of a mile on the L. below Tower-hill, a few doors W. from Hermitage-bridge and nearly op. Hawley's wharf."

Taverns

Image is possibly a match for the Halfe Moone Taverne in Saint Cathernes Court neere the Tower of London

Original Title: I. Hutton and G. Jerard issued this trade token, worth a farthing, for their businesses in East Smithfield, Middlesex. Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 929; Obv inscription: I.HVTTON.G.IERARD (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A half moon and a stick of candles (in field); Rev inscription: IN.EASTSMITHFIELD (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A wheatsheaf (in field). Jerard seems to have been a baker, Hutton a chandler, working out of a premises at the sign of a half-moon, see J. H. Burn, A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-house Tokens current in the Seventeenth Century, presented to the Corporation Library by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, 2nd ed. (London, 1855), no. ....See also token number 8189 in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 62, The Norweb Collection: Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750, Part VIII - Middlesex and Uncertain Pieces. East Smithfield, lies in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, having formerly been part of, Stepney, Middlesex.; Production Date: mid 17th; ID no:96.66/431century; 1648-1673; URL: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Collections-Research/Collections-online/object.aspx?objectID=object-292274&start=96&rows=1, viewed 09/06/13

-- The halfe moone Taverne in Saint Cathernes Court neere the Tower of London: "hee this deponent being drinkeing a cupp of wyne which the said Bennet att the halfe moone Taverne in Saint Ca?thernes Court neere the Tower of London upon the 14th day of February last past did heare him say and declare that hee the said Bennet did in the moneth of June last past or thereabouts goe out from this Port of London as Comander of and in the ship called the Harry upon a man of warre=voyage and designe And that during the said voyage hee had taken many prizes but whither the ship and Corne now in question was one of the said prizes soe taken by him hee saith the said Bennet the said hee knewe not"

BACKGROUND

• "St. Catherine's Court, St. Catherine's Street, Tower-hill, - the first turning on the L. and then again on the R. in that from Tower-hill"

-- The Blacksmiths Armes, upon Wapping Wall: "In or about the Moneth of June last past hee this deponent being in the streete att Wapping Wall by accident mett with the said James Browne who then and there told this deponent that hee was now goeing out upon a desperate designe upon the tearmes and conditions of Noe Purchase Noe pay and then asked this deponent whether they should drinke together before his departure, to which this deponent condescended and soe went into the Blacksmiths Armes upon Wapping Wall together with the said Browne, And saith that about 3 weekes or a month since this deponent together with his contest John Hearne being att one Bells howse in Water lane in Tower streete London and heareing that the said James Browne and the arlate James Salmon were returned from a voyage which they had lately made to Sea in a man of warre sent for the said James Browne to come and drincke a cup of beere with them..."

-- The Mermaid Tavern in Cornwall

"did appointe him ?he the said producent to meete him att the Mermaid Taverne in Cornewall about ?three dayes after"

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HCA 13/71

The Beare Taverne in Cornhill (HCA 13/71 f.413r)

The Bull in Saint Nicholas Lane London (HCA 13/71 f.297r)

Unnamed Taverne in Southampton (HCA 13/71 f.104r)

George Garnham deposed XXX

"To the 7th Interrogatorie hee saith, that there were present when the sayd
horne, Cornelius and Richbell did subscribe the noate predeposed and mentioned
this deponent and the foresayd James Wheeler and an other person whose
name hee knoweth not who was a drawer in the Taverne in Southampton
where the same was subscribed and some others whose names hee remembreth not And further to this Interrogatorie saving
his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere otherwise than negatively/" HCA 13/71 f.104r

XXXX deposed XXXX

"To the fifth árticle of the said allegation (upon which alone hee is by
direction of the producent examined) hee saith and deposeth that on
a day happening in or about the moneth of November was a
twelve moneth, this deponent and went to Wapping to speake with the arlate
Richard hammond at his house there, and meeting with him they
went together to a victualling house over against the house of the
said hammond, and there having discourse together about the shipp
the Sisters arlate (whereof Gregory kerry was Master) this deponent
asked the said hammond what money the said shipp ought him, to which
hee answered shee owes mee eight pounds, and somewhat more I
thinke it is for beefe delivered to her use and provisioning, or words
to the same effect, and added that hee would order his wife and
servants that if there should be noe more delivered to her
till hee knew howe hee should get that money, which hee said
was alreadie due, speaking of the said eight pounds, or
betwixt eight and nine pounds, then and there being none other
present but the said hammond and this deponent saving the
said hammonds wife came in when they soe discoursed....

...To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING...

...To the second hee saith the said discourse happened in a lower
roome of the said house about nine or tenn of the clocke at the
forenoone, and saith that the said hammond said that the said eight
pounds, or betwixt eight or nine pounds was due to him over and
besides his part of the shipp, which was made over to him for
other moneys or to that effect, And otherwise hee cannot answer
saving hee said the bill of sale of the said part was made to him
in consideration of fiftie pounds worth of meate or thereabouts due
formerly by him delivered to the said shipp." HCA 13/71 f.453r

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HCA 13/72

The Bell in Saint Nicholas Lane (HCA 13/72 f.17r)

"To the second and third árticles hee saith and deposeth that within the
time aforesaid namely, on the tenth of May 1654 the said Adrian Vanderpost,
Jospeh Tilley and Robert Cordell, in the name of themselves and the
rest of the said owners did agree with and hire the said Robert Browning
to goe Masters Mate and assistant to the Sopra cargo of and in the said
shipp the ffortune in her then intended voyage from this port for
Salley in Barbary, thense to other ports and places beyond the seas, and
back againe to this port, at the rate and for the wages of foure pounds
per month for every moneth hee should soe serve in the said shipp
as Masters mate, and moreover fourtie shillings per hundred of and for
every hundred pounds worth of goods that the said shipp should carry
out thense or take into her in any port or place beyond the seas for
his wages or hire in assisting the Sopra cargo, which hee knoweth being
at the Bell in Saint Nicholas lane on the said tenth of May, on which
day hee the said Robert entred into pay for the said voyage."

The Sea-Riddar a victualling house neare the CXapele SXXXgth (HCA 13/72 f.137v)

XXX answered interrogatories regarding the XXX, which had been seized by the lizard frigot

"To the Interrogatories. CENTRE HEADING

To the first hee saith hee hath heard and beleeveth that the
said shipp was built at Lubeck, and that the said Scutt and
Potter about 18 or 20 monthes since bought her at Amsterdam
of Jacob van Eust ˹and his brother˺ for about five thousand gildars, which hee knoweth
being present at the bargaine at the signe of the Sea-Riddar
a victualling house neare the CXapele SXXXgth, a place where many
shipps are sold, and that afterwards they bestowed much cost in fitting
and furnishing her for this present voyage in question, which was
the first voyage wherein shee was by them imployed. And that hee was
thereupon constituted master by them but did not see the bill of sale
that being passed before a Notary as the manner thereis"

The signe of the Crowne a victualling house where this deponents said father and this deponent lodged, kept by one John Aberdyn (HCA 13/72 f.XX)

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HCA 13/73

The Mermaid Taverne in Cornwall (HCA 13/72 f.14r)

"the said Ashley did acknowledge and confessse in this deponents presence
and heareing that hee had taken such a shipp as the producent demanded, but saith
hee had condemned thesaid shipp in Court according to law, yet notwithstanding
did then tell the producent that hee would meete him att the Mermaid Taverne
in Cornwall (as this deponent remembreth) and treate with him about the
said shipp, which this deponent being by and heareing the premisses so had
and done and otherwise hee cannot depose/"

The Golden Still and Anchor in Eastsmithfeild (HCA 13/73 f.18v)

"To the first and Second article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth
that about twelve or thirteene monethes. since hee this deponent
was present and in Company with the arlate Mr Mitchell
and Nicholas Rippen, at the signe of the Golden Still and Anchor
in Eastsmithfeild, and the said Mitchell and Rippon having
discourse about goods and materialls delivered aboard the arlate ship the Roger
and Edmond at the said places. and the said Mitchell desiring
security for the said goods and materialls of and from the said [XXX GUTTER]
and this deponent being Caried by the said Rippen to the fore-
places, to that purpose; the said Rippen proffesed this Deponent
the said Mitchell to be his security; but the said Mitchell
refused to take this Deponent for his security"

The Great James in Bishopsgate (HCA 13/73 f.19r)

"To the 1: 2: 3 and 4th articles of the allegation hee saith that hee this
deponent being in Company at the Taverne called the Great James in Bishopsgate
streete with one Captaine Letton and others did there heare the sayd
Captaine Letton acknowledge and saye that hee the sayd Letton had
offered unto the Owners of the Shipp Consent (before the dammage
in question happened to her the summe of one thousand pounds sterling
for the sayd shipp her tackle and furniture, and that the sayd Owners

would not nor did then sell her to him at that rate"