Inns and Taverns of Old London

Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley

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Digital LibraryINNS AND TAVERNS
OF OLD LONDON
SETTING FORTH THE HISTORICAL AND
LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS OF THOSE ANCIENT
HOSTELRIES, TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT
OF THE MOST NOTABLE COFFEE-HOUSES,
CLUBS, AND PLEASURE GARDENS OF THE
BRITISH METROPOLIS
BY
HENRY C. SHELLEY
Author of "Untrodden English Ways," etc.
1909
PREFACE
For all races of Teutonic origin the claim is made
that they are essentially home-loving people. Yet
the Englishman of the sixteenth and seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries, especially of the latter, is
seen to have exercised considerable zeal in
creating substitutes for that home which, as a
Teuton, he ought to have loved above all else.
This, at any rate, was emphatically the case withthe Londoner, as the following pages will testify.
When he had perfected his taverns and inns,
perfected them, that is, according to the light of the
olden time, he set to work evolving a new species
of public resort in the coffee-house. That type of
establishment appears to have been responsible
for the development of the club, another substitute
for the home. And then came the age of the
pleasure-garden. Both the latter survive, the one in
a form of a more rigid exclusiveness than the
eighteenth century Londoner would have deemed
possible; the other in so changed a guise that
frequenters of the prototype would scarcely
recognize the relationship. But the coffee-house
and the inn and tavern of old London exist but as a
picturesque memory which these pages attempt to
revive.
Naturally much delving among records of the past
has gone to the making of this book. To enumerate
all the sources of information which have been laid
under contribution would be a tedious task and
need not be attempted, but it would be ungrateful
to omit thankful acknowledgment to Henry B.
Wheatley's exhaustive edition of Peter
Cunningham's "Handbook of London," and to
Warwick Wroth's admirable volume on "The
London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth
Century." Many of the illustrations have been
specially photographed from rare engravings in the
Print Boom of the British Museum.
H.C.S.CONTENTS
PREFACE
I. INNS AND TAVERNS OF OLD LONDON.
I. FAMOUS SOUTHWARK INNS.
II. INNS AND TAVERNS EAST OF ST PAUL'S.
III. TAVERNS OF FLEET STREET AND
THEREABOUTS.
IV. TAVERNS WEST OF TEMPLE BAR.
VI. INNS AND TAVERNS FURTHER AFIELD.
II. COFFEE-HOUSES OF OLD LONDON.
I. COFFEE-HOUSES ON 'CHANGE AND NEAR-
BY.
II. ROUND ST PAUL'S.
III. THE STRAND AND COVENT GARDEN.IV. FURTHER WEST.
III. THE CLUBS OF OLD LONDON.
LITERARY.
"SOCIAL AND GAMING".
IV. PLEASURE GARDENS OF OLD LONDON.
I. VAUXHALL.
II. RANELAGH.
III. OTHER FAVOURITE RESORTS.
INDEX
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
KING'S HEAD TAVERN, FLEET STREET
GEOFFREY CHAUCER TABARD INN,
SOUTHWARK IN 1810 BRIDGE-FOOT,
SOUTHWARK, SHOWING THE BEAR INN IN
1616 COURTYARD OF BOAR'S HEAD INN,
SOUTHWARK GEORGE INN WHITE HART INN,
SOUTHWARK OLIVER GOLDSMITH COCK INN,
LEADENHALL STREET PAUL PINDAR TAVERN
ANCIENT VIEW OF CHEAPSIDE, SHOWING THENAG'S HEAD INN A FRENCH ORDINARY IN
LONDON YARD OF BELLE SAUVAGE INN THE
CHESHIRE CHEESE—ENTRANCE PROM FLEET
STREET THE CHESHIRE CHEESE—THE
JOHNSON ROOM DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
TABLET AND BUST FROM THE DEVIL TAVERN
BEN JONSON FEATHERS TAVERN ADAM AND
EVE TAVERN A TRIAL BEFORE THE PIE-
POWDER COURT AT THE HAND AND SHEARS
TAVERN FALCON TAVERN, BANKSIDE
GARRAWAY'S COFFEE-HOUSE MAD DOG IN A
COFFEE-HOUSE TOM'S COFFEE-HOUSE
LLOYD'S COFFEE-HOUSE GRECIAN COFFEE-
HOUSE JOHN DRYDEN JOSEPH ADDISON SIR
RICHARD STEELE LION'S HEAD AT BUTTON'S
COFFEE-HOUSE BRITISH COFFEE-HOUSE
SLAUGHTER'S COFFEE-HOUSE OLD PALACE
YARD, WESTMINSTER DON SALTERO'S
COFFEE-HOUSE ST JAMES'S STREET,
SHOWING WHITE'S ON THE LEFT AND
BROOKS'S ON THE RIGHT THE BRILLIANTS
"PROMISED HORRORS OF THE FRENCH
INVASION" GAMBLING SALOON AT BROOKS'S
CLUB TICKETS FOR VAUXHALL ENTRANCE TO
VAUXHALL THE CITIZEN AT VAUXHALL SCENE
AT VAUXHALL VENETIAN MASQUERADE AT
RANELAGH, 1749 THE ASSAULT ON DR. JOHN
HILL AT RANELAGH MARYLEBONE GARDENS
WHITE CONDUIT HOUSE BAGNIGGE WELLS
FINCH'S GROTTO, SOUTHWARKI.
INNS AND TAVERNS OF OLD LONDON.