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A13460	The honorable, and memorable foundations, erections, raisings, and ruines, of divers cities, townes, castles, and other pieces of antiquitie, within ten shires and counties of this kingdome namely, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Surrey, Barkshire, Essex, Middlesex, Hartfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire: with the description of many famous accidents that have happened, in divers places in the said counties. Also, a relation of the wine tavernes either by their signes, or names of the persons that allow, or keepe them, in, and throughout the said severall shires. By John Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1636 (1636)	STC 23764A; ESTC S113524	21,803	64

manner the Lords rebelliously to compell the King and the King to defend his person and Royall Prerogative and at last after much councell and debating they forc'd the King to yield to such conditions as were never observ'd Stanes is a good through fare and hath these ●…avernes Thomas Wilkins Iohn Shorter and Margaret Venman the signes are the Bush the Bell and the Lyon This County had of Religious houses a ●…es Nunneries Priories Frieries Colleges and Hospitalls nine London within and without the Walles and Liberties thirty one It hath these hundreds or divisions Edmonton Gore Finsbury and Wenulocks Barne Osulston Elthorne Istleworth Spelthorne It hath seventy three Parishes three Market Townes and a hundred and one Wine savernes Essex ESsex or East Saxony is a good a great and a rich County stored plentifully with Wood Fish Flesh Butter Cheese Saffron and as good Calves as any other County or Countrey whatsoever in a word it is stored with any thing or all things needfull Colchester stands neere the River Colne it is 〈◊〉 wasled Towne with fifteene Churches and one other a most stately building now ruined with an old Castle which Time hath brought into a Consumption This Towne is famous for Adtiquity it was built by Coylus a good King of Britaine it is said that this Coylus was father to Queen Hellen who was borne or brought up in this Towne she was the mother of Constantine the great Emperor who ●…lt Constantinople Colchester hath these seven ●…e Tavernes Francis Kitteridg Iohn Portkell Lawrence Browne Mary Spilesby Mary Bloomfield Elizabeth Wyles Elizabeth Wade At Barking Ioan Gowen or George Lilly at the Bull. At Braintree two Iohn Sparhawke and Ralph Burton At M●…nningtree George Springet and Robert Heywood At Abridge Samuell Newbold At So●…field Anne Dae At Epping Iohn and Mary Archer at the Cock. At Grayes Thomas Farnell Edward Knightly At Danbury William Dickins At Harlow Iohn Iosceline At Rochfourd Iudith Rix. At Orsed neere Graies Anthony Web. At Raynam Iohn Slany At Wethersfield Iohn Aldridge At Sampford Magna Ireffrey Baker At Pritle well Thomas Wait. At Thacksted Edward Constable At Stork Charles Newman At Woodham-series Oliver Higham At Springfield Richard Smith At Thorpe Iohn Beriffe At Wivenhoe Iohn Parker At 〈◊〉 Dame Martha Harris B●…entwood or Burntwood is an ancient Towne and had a Market and a Faire allowed by King Stephen and continued ever since It hath these Tavernes the Crowne the Angell but there are three in all kept or allowed by Richard Smith Iane Taylor and Iohn Camper the Angell At high ●…asterne Robert Plat. At Dagnam Ioan Bird. At Lexden Iohn Pottler At Leigh Iames Hare At Southweald Edward Woodford At Aveley Lucy Ringsoll At Saint Ozith Thomas Rand. At Bardfield Iohn Rudland At South Ockenden Elizabeth Wortley At Dedham Iohn Wills At Horndon Nicholas Richold At Upminster Elizabeth Saward At Tarling Dina Has●…er At Blackmore Iohn P●…chy At Little Waltham Abel White At Eastcolne Samuell Burton Ingarstone a good Towne for Market and excellent neate entertainment for Travellers it hath these Tavernes Agnis White Iohn Bond. At Bocking Ioan Kent Francis Fit●…h At Chippingange●… Will. Stane Katherin Stane At Waltham Abby Tho More Mary Waterer At Walthamstow Ralph Baker Thomas Shaw Rumford is a sweet savery cleane and gainfull Market for Hoggs and all other sorts of swine and of what else is needfull for mans life It hath these Tavernes the Angell the Bell the White Hart and the Cocke At Rawleigh Rob. Luckin Tho Parker At Dunmow George Deane and Agnes Gynn At East Tiburly Iohn French At Boreham Iohn Lane At Halstead 3. William Thurstone Iohn Coe Thomas Harvie At Hithe neere Colchester Edward Legg Francis Allen. At Ilford Francis Blanchard the signe of the blew Boate. Wittam or Whittam is an ancient very faire through-faire It was built by King Edward the Elder in the yeare 914 which was 154 yeares before the Norman Conquest 722 yeares since It hath two Tavernes William Nevell alias Smith and Iohn Alexander At Stratford Langthon two Ralfe Keeling and William Lovell At Low Laighton or Laighton stone Roger Falkstone the signe of the Huntsman At Burnham Robert Rowdon At Hatfield Peverell Abigail Lane Hatfield Broadoake so called because a broad Oake being a goodly faire tree grew there that spread a great compasse It hath one Taverne kept by or for one Iohn Earle Chelmsford a faire goodly Market-towne hath these 4 Taverns Simon Wilmot George Solme Nicholas Sutton and Tho. Freeman the signes are the three Tunnes the Cock the Black boy and the Lyon At Bricksley Roger Greene. At Kelvadon Iohn Theedham Harwich hath an excellent good Road for shipping It is a good strong Towne well strengthened by Naturall scituation and Artificiall Fortresses it is not only full of people but honestly peopled for the most part of them The River Stoure there divideth Essex from Suffolke Harwich hath three Tavernes kept or allowed by Alice Farley Will. Hart and Margaret Moore At Brookstreet at the Bull Agmondesham Pickayes At Chigwell one allowed by Tho Pennington At Plashie and St. Annes Will. Chandler At Much Parindon Roger Worthington VValden or Saffron-walden so called for the great quantitie of Saffron that growes thereabouts It hath had a faire Castle which is now Ruinated It is a very good Market towne and it hath a Corporation with large Priviledges It hath three Tavernes allowed o●… inhabited by Simon VVillmott Katherine Bates and Thomas VVatton At Much Wakering Mawd Goldingham At newport Iohn Sell. At Little-baddo Abigail Lane At Much Waltham Abell VVhite Maldon was a Citie in the time of Calligula the Emperour above fourty yeares after Christ It was then called Camallodunum It hath beene spoyled by the Danes and since repayred by the Normans but by the industry of the people there it hath beene and is still a towne of great worth and reputation it hath a good Haven and a Taverne for a safe harbour kept or allowed by Ursula Edwards This Countie of Essex in the Reigne of King Henry 8. had at the suppression of Monasteries Abbies Nunneries Priories Frieries Colledges and Hospitals 35. Essex is divided into 20 severall Hundreds namely Vltford Hinckford Rorchford Chelmesford Chaford Winstree Lexden Dengie Ougar Tendring Thurstable Barstable Dunmow Waltham Freshwell Harlow Havering Clavering Becontree Wittham Essex hath one and twenty Market townes foure hundred and fifteene Parishes and one hundred and seven Tavernes Hartfordshire HArtfordshire is a County that surpasseth all Countries and Counties for making the best Malt and for good cleane High-waies conscionable short Miles meat drink lodging for travellers kind men women faire and honest and with any thing that is necessary this County is plentifully stored withall Barkhamstead is a good Market Towne and it had once a Castle there of strength the Ruines of it are there yet to be seene it hath been the habitation for Kings and Princes for the most noble Prince Richard Brother to the King of England dyed there

THE HONORABL●… AND MEMORABL●… Foundations Erections Raisings a●… Ruines of divers Cities Townes Castles and other Pieces of Antiquitie within ten Shires and Counties of this Kingdome Namely Kent Sussex Hampshire Sur●… Barkshire Essex Middlesex Hartfordshire Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire With the Description of many fam●… Accidents that have happened in diver●… places in the said Counties Also a Relation of the Wine Tavern●… either by their signes or names of the pe●…sons that allow or keepe them in and throughout the said severall Shires By JOHN TAYLOR LONDON Printed for HENRY GOSSON 1636 TO ALL THE GOOD-Fellowes in generall and particular that do keep inhabit allow or maintaine the Wine Tavernes or Inne Tavernes in the ten Shires and Counties before named MINE HOSTS I Hope I am not much mistaken in calling you Gentlemen or kind Friends if you be either it is as much as I looke for or can deserve you onely are the men that do truly merit the name and title of Mine Hosts for alas our Citie Tavernes have no other entertainment but Welcome Gentlemen a Crust and What Wine will you drinke But you Brave minded and most Ioviall Sardanapalitans have power prerogative Cum Privilegio to receive lodge feast and fe●… both man and beast you have the happiness to Boile Roast Broile and Bake Fish Flesh and Foole whilst wee in London have scarse the command of a Gull a Widgeon or a Wood●…ock and for your further and more high Reputation the most part of your Customers come riding to your houses where almost all our guests are footmen with you it is common for the Master to drinke pintes or quarts ●…ut of Pots whilst his horse is eating of Bottles Besides our Citie Tavernes are not troublesome to their Clients with many various Items and Reckonings but briefly so much for Sack Clarret or White whilst you have the predominance to assault a man with 〈◊〉 Bill and call him to a strait and strict ●…ccount not onely for himselfe but for the ●…oings of his horse the Iury is divided or ●…ven into five parts in the manner of Lin●…y Woolsey namely the Hostes the Drawer ●…e Chamberlaine the Tapster and the Hostler Who having view'd the Bill of Inditement They being themselves Accusers Evidence Plaintiffe Iury and Iudges the finall Sentence is pronounced at their owne Bar of ●…ustice where the Delinquents conscience knowing all to bee justly laid to his charge with patience and Fortitude suffers the irrevokeable doome to passe upon him paies the Reckoning puts the Bill out of all Force and Vertue paying his Fees hee is discharged with a Heartily Welcome Of all or the most part of such Accounts Actions Debts or Demands our Citie Tavernes have a long time pleaded not Guilty They cannot ●…ee tax'd with the deadly Sin of Gluttony nor are they troubled with the harsh musick of Trencher-Scraping so that if I were to be transform'd or metamorphos'd into a Hogg I would bee loath to dwell in one of our Tavernes because I should have such plenty of Wash and such scarcity of Graines But Gentlemen though I am bold a little to play the with you yet I assure you I love you well but for some more speciall love and favour that I beare to my selfe I have written this my second Booke of Tavernes I have not written Epigrams here as I did upon the former because in City and Country the signes and the Wines are all alike Yet to give all the respectfull content that I can to my Honorable Worshipfull and o●…rs of my good Friends that are to pay me money upon the receiving or this my ●…shing this small Booke I have recorded in stead of Epigrams some Monu●…ents of Ant●…quity which my hope is will ●…ee more profitable and delightfull And Gentlemen I meane you that are ingaged ●…nto mee in your just payment to mee you may wo●…ke a piece of a wonder which is ●…o make a Rich Poet but alas that stile is as much too high for mee as I am too low for 〈◊〉 That 's a Bull so much the better for almost all men are turn'd Grasiers and speake ●…ls familiarly and those are the Mounsier Vomusses who have sold their Wise Akers ●…efore they have sowed their Wilde Oates And these will censure harshly any thing ●…hey understand hardly whose knowledge is as much in the validitie and measure of a Verse as the Asse had that judg'd the Cuckoo's song to bee sweeter than the Nightingales I have laid the Foundation of this Project my selfe it is a Vineyard of mine own Planting the Grapes of mine owne Pressing the Wine of mine owne Vintage or Vantage the Tavernes of mine owne finding and the Vintoners my own friends in lieu of which I am not mine own man but theirs or yours or his or hers that wis●…eth mee well as far as my Intentions and Actions are Iust Lawfull o●… Laudable 〈◊〉 TAYLOR These Tavernes some of them were mistaken in the first Booke and some of them have been set up since the said Booke was Printed therfore to give satisfaction I have here inserted them ANgell neere St. Clements Church Angell neere Creechurch or Aldgate Bull within Bishopsgate Bull without Bishopsgate Bull or Buffles Head at Charing-Crosse Bush in Buttolph lane Castle without Cripplegate 3. Cranes neere the Customhouse Crowne neere Dowgate that was the Dolphin The Raine-Deere without Temple Barre Dog or Talbot in Long Lane Dog neere Bishopsgate ●…ountaine in Bloomesbury Hart in Basing lane Golden-fleece without Temple Bar. Greene Dragon at Breadstreet hill was the Castle Globe in Bedlam Hart in Little Moorefields Harrow in Southwarke Hoope in Purpoole lane neere Graysin-lane Horse neere the Bridge in Southwarke Kings head in Southwarke The golden Lyon in Fleetstreet Maydenhead in Pudding lane Mayden-he●…d in Bush-Lane Mermayd in White Crosse street Princes Armes in Fleetstreet late the Fountaine Princes Armes in St. Iohn street Princes Armes in Finch Lane was the 3 Flower de Lices Queenes Head neere the Wardrope Queenes Armes at Westminster Queenes Armes in St. Martins Rose in Turnbull street Sun in Thames street neere Dice Key Salutation in Bermondsey street Ship in Butolph lane Ship at Smithfield Pens A CATALOGVE OF Tavernes in tenne Shires about LONDON Kent FOr Noblemen Knights Gentlemen ●…ers Mariners Vertuous and ●…auteous Ladies and Women of meanest degrees comely pretty proper handsome cleanely neat and hon●…●…red with all sorts of Artificers and 〈◊〉 with ●…full and profitable Husbandmen famous for ●…o most ancient Cities whereof ●…ne is the 〈◊〉 Metropolitan seat of England It hath many faire M●…ket Townes ●…mpregnable Castl●…s s●…e and 〈◊〉 Havens and Harbours for S●…ipping abo●…nce of rich Villages and Ham●…s So that by the Almighties blessings and the pe●…es 〈◊〉 this old Kingdome County is for Fruit F●… Fl●…sh Fish Cloth Corne Wood and Cattle or 〈◊〉 or any thing that is for the use of Man to maintaine life and pleasure Kent is an●… hath bin renowned universally Deptford or Deepefourd so called by

Iohn Pettit The towne of Midhurst hath foure Taverners Iohn Kelsey Anne Carus Mary Hudson and Ioan White Hastings is a good and profitable Fisher-town a Nu●…sery for Mariners and Saylors It had a Mint to coyne Money in it in the time of King Athelstan and it is named the first of the ●…que Ports it had these ports ●…nd towns belonging to it namely Seaford Pemsey Hodney Bulver●… Winchelsea and Rye all which were at any time at command of the King to set out 21 serviceable ships for the service of their Prince and Country within forty dayes warning and to beare all the charge of the sayd shipps for the space of fifteene dayes and the King was to be at all the charges after the fifteene dayes were expired Hastings hath two Tavernes Iohn Phissenden and Francis Wennell Lewis a famous Market Towne which had a Mint in it in King Athelstanes Reigne for his Coine of Gold and Silver or other Mettals It hath 6. Churches and a goodly house belonging to the Earle of Dorset A mighty memorable Battle was fought there Anno 1264. betwixt King Henry the third and Simon Montfort Earle of Leaster where the Earle tooke the King and the King of the Romanes prisoners Lewis hath these Taverns or number of houses for the sale of Wines Agnes Thurgood Thomas Oliver Robert Carter and William Peake may keep two Tavernes if he will At Lingfield Beding and Bramborow Richard Meade At Billi●…ghurst Iohn Agate At V●…field field Iohn Forde At Backesteed Thomas Oliver At Cliffe Richard Meade and William Peake At Crawley and Worth Iohn Peake At Brighthelmeson Alice Harding and William Peake At Barreash Mayfield Pemsey and Westham Thomas Oliver At Dallington Henfield and Abfreston Thomas Oliver At East-Greensteed Iohn Langridge and Henry Baldwin the signes at East Greensted are the Crowne and the Cat. Rye is a good Towne and was made strong by William of Ipres A valiant Nobleman and Earle of Kent It was walled in the undefensible and weakest places by King Edward the 3. Terrible stormes and tempests hath done more for them then they could well have done for themselves for the blustring raging Winds hath formerly caused the violence of the Sea to make them a good Haven but great pitty it is for it is much decay'd For Rye is a brave flourishing Towne and serves London and many other places with Fish in aboundance It hath these Tavernes in name or number Richard Pecote Iohn Halsey Richard Thomas Sussex had at the suppression of Abbyes Nunneries Priories Frieries Colledges and Hospitalls 32. This County is devided into 6. Devisions or Hundreds called Rapes namely Chichester Arundell Bramber Lewis Pemsey and Hastings There are in Sussex 18 Market townes 312 Parishes and 61 Tavernes Middlesex MIddlesex doth almost round beguirt the two famous Cities of London and Westminster And although I have in my former Booke made mention of many of the Tavernes neere adjoyning to the sayd Cities yet to make this my second narration in the better forme and order I haue named some of the said Tavernes againe because I would play the part of an honest true Taylor and put in all the stuffe At Chelsey Richard Eeds the signe of the Dog At Fulham Ioseph Holden Richard Parkes the signes are the Kings Armes and the Nags head At Hammersmith Alice Robinson or Thomas Warner at the white Hart and Thomas Holden at the Goat or Ant●…lop At Chiswick Valentine Smith at the Kings head At Acton Iohn Cooth●…idge and William Aldridg their signes are the Cock and the Bell. At Old Br●…ntford and New B●…entford are these signes the Three Pidgeons the Halfe Moone the Lyon the Goat the George the Swan The Ga●…ter neere Hammersmith in London way towards Brentford At Hownslow Henry Needles and Martha Warwick the signes are the Katherin Wheele and the Georg●… At E●…gworth Henry Haley At Harrow hill Peter Iones At Strangreene Thomas Blithe At Northket Katherin Awceter At Thistleworth Anne Parks At Rayslip Margaret Price At Kenzington Annis Turbervill at the Lyon At Knightsbridge Richard Kellway Elizabeth Sharpe there are three Taverne signes G●…ave Ma●…rice the Swan and the Rose Uxbridge is a faire long Market towne it hath many Innes and foure of them be 〈◊〉 Iohn Raynor Edmund Morrice Sara Hitchcock and Michael Web The signes are the Chequer the George the Crowne and the White horse The Toy Taverne at Hampton-Court needs no signe At Twickenham Anne Palmer At Paddington Walter Whitlock At Kingsland George Willis the signe the King or Princes Armes At Newington Iohn Usher at the Sun At Islington are these signes and Tavernes the Angell the Globe the Lyon the Miter the Nags-head the Swan and the Sarazens head At Kentish Towne the Rose Gregory Machin At Whetstone the Lyon and the Princes Armes Samuell Augier Richard Taylor At White-chappell Habacuck Kirby At South M●…mms Thomas Avis the Bell. At Hillingdon Katherin Taylor At Pinner Margery Bateman At Saint Giles Iohn Prince VVilliam Pearpoynt At Kenton William Bird. At Tottenham Court Iohn Day At Tottenham-highcrosse Mathew Beuning at the Sun At Chiswell street Samuell Taylor At Cow-crosse Robert Iordane At Edmonton Stephen Goodyere At Highgate at the Mermayd Mary Sell. At Budfo●… Thomas Weldish At Hackney William Gore and William Cave the signes are the Mermayd and the Rose At Engfield Elizabeth Kirby and Mary Southwell At Hardington Elizabeth Osbourne At Totnam street Francis K●…y At Hayes Mary Hill At Feltham Robert Butler At Holloway street Ez●…hiel Cates●… the B●…ll At Black-wall Zachary 〈◊〉 ●…igne of the Armes of the East India Company The Crosse at Ratcliffe the Diagon the Kin●…s head the Mermayd the Ship the Queenes head the Lyon the ship at Dickshore and the Hoope and the three Kings In Ratcliffe high-way the Anker the Garter the Rose At Bow the Flower de Lice the George and the Kings head At Mile end the Nags-head At Lime-house Iohn Iennings At Wapping Iames Bull the Bull the Angell the Crosse the Dragon the Gunne the Ship the Popes-head the Rose and the Kings head At Popler the Ship the Lyon The Bull at Stepney and the Bull-head These that follow hereafter named are already in my former booke because they are so neere to the Cities of London and Westminster but because they are in this County of Middlesex I will name them once more Neere the Bowling Alley at Westminster Henrie Normaville 〈◊〉 Galley street Daniel Hitche 〈◊〉 Holborne William Matthewes Thomas Simcots In Saint Iohn street Margery Baines and Mary Motsley In Saint Martins in the fields Richard Ieyner Anne Parks and Gertred Swan In Silver street Iohn Thomas In Tuttle street Ieffrey George In Savoy Parish Robert Amery and Thomas Blunt In the Tower Liberties Thomas Foster Stanes is famous for a Meadow neere it called Rennimead or Running mead where in the twelfe or thirteenth yeare of the raigne of King Iohn the most part of the Lords and great States of England met and oppos'd the King in Warlike