INDEX

Acland Arms, Exmoor, 188 Addington, Angel, 23 Albion, South Norwood, 131 Alfriston, Star, 24, 201 Anchor, Hartfield, 78, 142 —— Liphook, 133 Angel, Addington, 23 —— Basingstoke, 23 —— Bury St. Edmunds, 23 —— Grantham, 23 —— Guildford, 23 —— Islington, 24 —— Theale, 175 —— Woolhampton, 285 Antelope, Godalming, 116 Ashbourne, Green Man and Black’s Head, 171 Ash Vale, Swan, 143 Aylesbury, George, 159 —— King’s Head, 59, 195 Bagworth, Maynard Arms, 236 Barking, Bull, 18, 22 Barley, Fox and Hounds, 165 Barley Mow, Hartford, 79 Basingstoke, Angel, 23 Battersea, Falcon, 122 Bear, Chelsham, 174 —— Maidenhead, 126 —— Southwark, 20 —— Wantage, 174 Bear and Ragged Staff, Cumnor, 124 Bee Hive, Grantham, 168 Bell, Edenbridge, 171 —— Edmonton, 154 —— Epping, 234 —— Finedon, 77 —— Westminster, 77 —— Warwick Lane, 77 Bermondsey, Simon the Tanner, 61 Bettws-y-Coed, Royal Oak, 157 Birdbrook, Plough, 243 Bird in Hand, Bromley, 139 Bishop Blaise, New Inn Yard, 61 Black Bear, Devizes, 151 Black Lion, Walsingham, 115, 151 Black Swan, Lichfield, 260 Bletchingley, White Hart, 146 Blue Boar, Leicester, 117 Blue Cap, Sandiway, 140 Book in Hand, Mabelthorpe, 166 Bournville Public House, 236 Bracknell, Hind’s Head, 187 Brentford, Three Pigeons, 153 Brentwood, White Hart, 41, 42, 199 Bricklayers’ Arms, Caxton, 61 Bridge Inn, Port Sunlight, 236 Brighton, Old Steyne, 216 Broadway, Lygon Arms, 244 Bull, Barking, 18, 22 —— Coventry, 133 —— Dartford, 18, 87 —— Long Melford, 21, 87, 197 —— Malling, 18 —— Newington, 19 —— Reading, 19 —— Rochester, 22, 204 —— St. Albans, 21 —— Sudbury, 198 —— Theale, 18 —— Woodbridge, 150 Bull and Bush, Hampstead, 148 Bull and Mouth, St. Martins le Grand, 82, 127 Bury St. Edmunds, Angel, 23 Cæsar’s Head, Great Palace Yard, 112 Canterbury, Chequers, 106 —— Falstaff, 152 —— Fountain, 1 Castle, Hurst, 75 —— Marlborough, 91 Castleton, George and Dragon, 234 Caxton, Bricklayers’ Arms, 61 —— George, 86 Chelsham, Bear, 174 Chequers, Canterbury, 106 —— Doddington, 107 —— Loose, 107 —— St. Albans, 107 —— Slapestones, 110 Chester, King Edgar, 112 Chiddingfold, Crown, 208 Chigwell, King’s Head, 158 Clare, Swan, 175 Clothiers’ Arms, Stroud, 235 Coach and Horses, Westminster, 86 Coal Hole, Strand, 236 Cock, Fleet Street, 24 Cock and Bell, Romford, 79 Cock and Tabard, Westminster, 23 Colnbrook, Ostrich, 37, 188 Combe St. Nicholas, Green Dragon, 240 Copt Hall, London, E.C., 236 Coventry, Bull, 133 Crown, Chiddingfold, 208 —— Dartford, 126 —— Hempstead, 151 —— Ospringe, 37 —— Rochester, 1 —— Shipton-under-Wychwood, 199 Crown and Treaty, Uxbridge, 133 Cumnor, Bear and Ragged Staff, 124 Dartford, Bull, 18, 87 —— Crown, 126 Derby, Dolphin, 100 Derby, Nottingham Castle, 99 Devizes, Black Bear, 151 Doddington, Chequers, 107 Dog and Doublet, Sandon, 236 Dolphin, Derby, 100 —— Portsmouth, 261 Dorking, White Horse, 26 —— Gun, 123 Dorset Arms, Withyham, 107 Duck in the Pond, Harrow Weald, 236 Duke of Wellington, High Beech, 178 Edenbridge, Bell, 171 Edmonton, Bell, 154 Elephant and Castle, London, S.E., 64, 163 Elm Tree, Oxford, 236 Elmers’ End, William IV, 235 Elmesthorpe, Wentworth Arms, 236 Enfield, King James and the Tinker, 126 Epping, Bell, 234 Falcon, Battersea, 122 Falstaff, Canterbury, 152 —— Gad’s Hill, 152 —— Newington, 153 Farnham, Jolly Farmer, 151 Faversham, Fleur de Lis, 123 Feathers, Ludlow, 204, 244 Feering, Sun, 199 Felstead, Swan, 51, 75 Fighting Cocks, St. Albans, 2 Finedon, Bell, 77 First and Last, Sennen, 162 Fittleworth, Old Swan, 158 Five Alls, Marlborough, 176 Fleur de Lis, Faversham, 123 Flyford Flavel, Union, 239 Fountain, Canterbury, 1 —— Portsmouth, 261 Four Swans, Waltham Cross, 171 Fox and Hounds, Barley, 165 Fox and Pelican, Haslemere, 231 George, Aylesbury, 159 —— Caxton, 86 —— Glastonbury, 39, 199 —— Hayes, 158, 236 —— Huntingdon, 78 —— Rochester, 37 —— St. Albans, 39 —— Southwark, 87 —— Winchester, 54 —— Wymondham, 39 George and Dragon, Castleton, 234 —— Wargrave, 158 General Wolfe, Westerham, 131, 180 Gipsy Queen, Norwood, 131 Glastonbury, George, 39, 199 Gloucester, New Inn, 32, 87, 199 Goat House, Norwood, 206 Godalming, Antelope, 116 —— King’s Arms, 10 —— Three Lions, 11 Godstone, Clayton Arms, 208 Golden Fleece, South Weald, 63 Golden Lion, St. Ives, 87 Green Dragon, Combe St. Nicholas, 240 Green Man, Croydon, Dulwich, Leytonstone, 65 —— Tunstall, 236 Green Man and Black’s Head, Ashbourne, 171 Grantham, Angel, 23 —— Beehive, 168 —— Blue Inns, 168 Greyhound, Strand, 235 Guildford, Angel, 23 —— White Hart, 41 —— White Lion, 117 Gun, Dorking, 123 Half Brick, Worthing, 169 Hampton-on-Thames, Red Lion, 114 Harrow Weald, Duck in the Pond, 236 Hartfield, Anchor, 78, 142 Haslemere, Fox and Pelican, 231 Hawkhurst, Queen’s Hotel, 142 Hemel Hempstead, King’s Arms, x Hempstead, Crown, 151 Henley-in-Arden, White Swan, 154 Henley-on-Thames, Red Lion, 154 Hereford, Raven, 151 High Beech, Duke of Wellington, 178 High Easter, Punch Bowl, 74, 76 Hind’s Head, Bracknell, 187 Hole in the Wall, Borough, 169 —— Waterloo Station, 169 Hollingbourne, Windmill, 179 Holy Blaise, Kidderminster, 61 Honest Miller, Wye, 168 Horse and Groom, Waltham St. Lawrence, 136 Hundred House, Purslow, 236 Huntingdon, George, 78, 87 —— Queen’s Head, 79 Hurst, Castle, 75 Isaac Walton, Ashbourne, 144 Islington, Angel, 24 —— Pied Bull, 120 —— Queen’s Head, 120 —— Sir Hugh Middleton, 120 Jack of Newbury, Reading, 131 Jack Straw’s Castle, Hampstead, 126 Jolly Farmer, Farnham, 151 Jolly Sailor, South Norwood, 131 Kelvedon, Wheatsheaf, 151 Kentish Drovers, Old Kent Road, 177 King Edgar, Chester, 112 King James and the Tinker, Enfield, 126 King’s Arms, Godalming, 10 —— Hemel Hempstead, x King’s Head, Aylesbury, 59, 195 —— Chigwell, 158 —— Roehampton, 118 King’s Heath, Red Lion, 236 Kingsbury, Plough, 109 Kidderminster, Holy Blaise, 61 Lamb, Eastbourne, 77 Lamb and Anchor, Bristol, 78 Lamb and Flag, Brighton, 78 —— Sudbury, Swindon, 78 Leicester, Blue Boar, 117 Lichfield, Black Swan, 261 Lickfold, Three Horseshoes, 108 Lincoln, Reindeer, 138 Liphook, Anchor, 133 Lisle Castle, Chalk, Gravesend, 208 Long Melford, Bull, 21, 87, 197 Loose, Chequers, 107 Loughton, Wheatsheaf, 234 Ludlow, Feathers, 204, 244 Lurgashall, Noah’s Ark, 207 Lygon Arms, Broadway, 244 Mabelthorpe, Book in Hand, 166 Maidenhead, Bear, 126 Maid’s Head, Norwich, 202, 245 Maidstone, Nelson, 129 Malling, Bull, 18 Manchester, Seven Stars, 1 Marlborough, Castle, 91 —— Five Alls, 176 Marquis of Granby, Deptford, 145 —— Epsom, 128 Martlesham, Red Lion, 174 Maynard Arms, Bagworth, 236 Midhurst, Spread Eagle, 7 Monster, Pimlico, 161 Nelson, Maidstone, 129 Newark, Ossington, 236 —— Saracen’s Head, 1 Newington, Bull, 19 —— Falstaff, 153 New Inn, Gloucester, 32, 87, 199 —— New Romney, 250 Noah’s Ark, Lurgashall, 207 Norwich, Maid’s Head, 202, 245 Norwood, Gipsy Queen, 131 —— Goat House, 206 —— Nautical Inns, 131 Nottingham Castle, Derby, 99 Nottingham, Ram, 1 Old Red House, nr. Newmarket, 79 Old Steyne, Brighton, 216 Old White House, Oxford, 236 Ossington, Newark, 236 Ospringe, Crown, 37 —— Ship, 37 Ostrich, Colnbrook, 37, 188 Oxford, Elm Tree, 236 —— Old White House, 236 Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane, 83 Papworth Everard, Three Horse Shoes, 108 Pelican, Speen, 125 Pied Bull, Islington, 120 Pleshy, White Horse, 98 Plough, Birdbrook, 243 —— Kingsbury, 109 —— Smallfield, 208 —— Upper Dicker, 109 Plumbley, Smoker, 141 Portsmouth, Dolphin, 261 —— Fountain, 261 Port Sunlight, Bridge Inn, 236 Prince Albert, Rodborough, 235 Punch Bowl, High Easter, 74, 76 Purslow, Hundred House, 236 Queen’s Head, Huntingdon, 79 —— Islington, 120 Queen’s Hotel, Hawkhurst, 142 Ram, Nottingham, 1 Raven, Hereford, 151 Reading, Bull, 19 Redbourne, Chequers, 107 Red House, Stratford-on-Avon, 216 Red Lion, Hampton-on-Thames, 114, 148 —— Henley, 154 —— King’s Heath, 236 —— Martlesham, 174 —— Sittingbourne, 114 —— Speldhurst, 114 —— Truro, 244 —— Wingham, 113, 195 Reformation, Reading, 169 Reindeer, Lincoln, 138 Rochester, Bull, 22, 204 —— George, 37 Rodborough, Prince Albert, 235 Roehampton, King’s Head, 118 Romford, Cock and Bell, 79 Rose, Wokingham, 94 Rose and Crown, Sudbury, 204 Royal Oak, Bettws-y-Coed, 157 Running Horse, Sandling, 141 Saffron Walden, Sun, 174 St. Albans, Bull, 21 —— Chequers, 107 —— Fighting Cocks, 2 —— George, 39 —— White Hart, 85 St. Anna’s Castle, Great Leighs, 165 Sandiway, Blue Cap, 140 Sandon, Dog and Doublet, 236 Saracen’s Head, Newark, 1 Scole, White Hart, 172 Sennen, First and Last, 162 Seven Stars, Manchester, 1 Shefford, Swan, 174 Ship, Norwood, 131 —— Ospringe, 37, 283 —— Wingham, 194 Shipton-under-Wychwood, Crown, 199 Sieve, Minories, E.C., 164 Simon the Tanner, Bermondsey, 61 Sir Hugh Middleton, Islington, 132 Sittingbourne, Red Lion, 114 Skittles, Letchworth, 231 Slapestones, Chequers, 110 Smallfield, Plough, 208 Smoker, Plumbley, 141 Sonning, White Hart, 236 South Weald, Golden Fleece, 63 Speen, Pelican, 125 Speldhurst, Red Lion, 114 Spread Eagle, Midhurst, 7 Spital, Stanmore, 189 Star, Alfriston, 24, 201 —— Great Yarmouth, 204 Star and Garter, Brighton, 155 Stratford-on-Avon, Red Horse, 216 Strand, Clothiers’ Arms, Greyhound, 235 Swan, Ash Vale, 143 —— Clare, 175 —— Felstead, 51, 75 —— Fittleworth, 158 —— Grasmere, 158 —— Shefford, 174 —— Sutton Valence, 116 —— Tarporley, 140 Swan and Maiden Head, Stratford-on-Avon, 152 Sudbury, Bull, 19, 198 —— Rose and Crown, 204 Sun, Feering, 199 —— Saffron Walden, 174 Sutton Valence, Swan, 116 Tabard, Southwark, 25 Tarporley, Swan, 140 Ten Bells, Leeds, Kent, 179 Theale, Angel, 175 Three Crosses, nr. Daventry, 263 Three Frogs, Wokingham, 123 Three Horseshoes, Lickfold, 108 —— Papworth Everard, 108 Three Lions, Godalming, 11 Three Pigeons, Brentford, 153 Tiger, Lindfield, 7 Truro, Red Lion, 244 Tunstall, Green Man, 236 Turpin’s Cave, High Beech, 170 Unicorn, Weobley, 121 Union, Flyford Flavel, 239 Upper Dicker, Plough, 109 Uxbridge, Crown and Treaty, 133 Walsingham, Black Lion, 115, 151 Waltham Cross, Four Swans, 171 Wantage, Bear, 174 Warbolt-in-Tun, Warbleton, 167 Warlingham, White Lion, 145, 208 Weobly, Unicorn, 121 Wentworth Arms, Elmsthorpe, 236 Westerham, General Wolfe, 132 Westminster, Cock and Tabard, 23 —— Coach and Horses, 86 West Wickham, White Hart, 235 Wheatsheaf, Kelvedon, 151 Wheatsheaf, Loughton, 234 —— Bletchingley, 146 White Hart, Borough, 176 —— Brentwood, 41, 199 —— Godalming, 117 —— Godstone, 208 —— Guildford, 41 —— St. Albans, 85 —— Scole, 172 —— Sonning, 236 —— West Wickham, 235 —— Witham, 89, 176 White Horse, Dorking, 26 —— Kensington, 148 —— Pleshy, 98 White Lion, Bristol, 117 —— Guildford, 117 —— Warlingham, 145 White Swan, Henley-in-Arden, 154 (See also Swan) William IV, Elmers’ End, 235 Winchester, George, 54 Windmill, Hollingbourne, 179 Wingham, Red Lion, 113, 195 —— Ship, 194 Witham, White Hart, 89, 176 Withyham, Dorset Arms, 107 Wokingham, Rose, 94 —— Three Frogs, 123 Woodbridge, Bull, 150 Wye, Honest Miller, 168 Wymondham, Green Dragon, 39 Yarmouth, Star, 204

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Footnotes:

[1] Parker’s “Manor of Aylesbury,” 14.

[2] “Paston Letters,” III, 304.

[3] See also J. J. Jusserand. “English Wayfaring Life,” p. 342.

[4] J. R. Green. “Town Life in the Fifteenth Century,” I, 55.

[5] At the George Inn, Winchester, in Elizabeth’s reign, the charge for a feather bed for one night was one penny; for a dinner of “Beef, mutton, or pigge,” sixpence.

[6] “All at Coventry.” By W. T. Montcrieff.

[7] Green. “Town Life in the Fifteenth Century,” II, 126.

[8] “Burnet’s Own Times,” II, 426.

[9] MS. 10. E. IV.

[10] “Piers the Plowman.” Text B., Passus V.; Text C., Passus VII.

[11] Literally “Harbourers.” Compare the French Auberge.

[12] “History of Signboards,” II, 45.

[13] Charles Lamb, who delighted in the old Queen’s Head, suggests that the liquid was not water but “Black Jack.”

[14] “Twelfth Night”; Act III, Sc. 3.

[15] Some of the rival establishments at Colnbrook contend that the above honours belong to them, and not to the Ostrich.

[16] “About Yorkshire.”

[17] Larwood and Hotten, in “The History of Signboards,” state that the sign of the Red Horse in their day was almost extinct. Longfellow’s description of “The Wayside Inn” contains the lines:

[18] “Three Deep; or All on the Wing.” A once favourite farcical play by Joseph Lunn.

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