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==Alphanetical list of Inns, taverns, and Victualling Houses
  
 
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==HCA 13/65==
 
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'''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'''
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-- 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"
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-- '''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)
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-- '''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)
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* "(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."<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=71043 'America and West Indies: June 1699, 21-30', Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Volume 17: 1699 and Addenda 1621-1698 (1908), pp. 291-308.], viewed 09/06/13</ref>
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* "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."<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books/reader?id=h5EKAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PT136 J. Lockie, Topography of London: Giving a Concise Local Description Of, and Accurate Direction To, Every Square, Street, Lane, Court, Dock, Wharf, Inn, Public Office, &c. in the Metropolis and Its Environs (London, 1810), unpaginated in original, Google Book p.136], viewed 09/06/13</ref>
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[[File:Half_Moon_tavern_Eastsmithfield_Farthing_1648-1673_MusOfLondon_090613.PNG|thumbnail|400px|none]]
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Image is possibly a match for the Halfe Moone Taverne in Saint Cathernes Court neere the Tower of London
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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
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-- '''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"
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* "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"<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books/reader?id=h5EKAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PT71 J.Lockie, Topography of London: Giving a Concise Local Description Of, and Accurate Direction To, Every Square, Street, Lane, Court, Dock, Wharf, Inn, Public Office, &c. in the Metropolis and Its Environs (London, 1810),, unpaginated, Google Book p.171], viewed 09/06/13</ref>
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-- '''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..."
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==HCA 13/72==
 
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HCA 13/72 f.137v
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XXX answered interrogatories regarding the XXX, which had been seized by the ''lizard frigot''
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39. To the Interrogatories. CENTRE HEADING
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40. To the first hee saith hee hath heard and beleeveth that the
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41. said shipp was built at Lubeck, and that the said Scutt and
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42. Potter about 18 or 20 monthes since bought her at Amsterdam
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43. of Jacob van Eust ˹and his brother˺ for about five thousand gildars, which hee knoweth
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44. being present at the bargaine at the signe of the Sea-Riddar
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45. a victualling house neare the CXapele SXXXgth, a place where many
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46. shipps are sold, and that afterwards they bestowed much cost in fitting
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47. and furnishing her for this present voyage in question, which was
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48. the first voyage wherein shee was by them imployed. And that hee was
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49. thereupon constituted master by them but did not see the bill of sale
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50. that being passed before a Notary as the manner thereis

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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."[2]


  • "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."[3]


Taverns

Half Moon tavern Eastsmithfield Farthing 1648-1673 MusOfLondon 090613.PNG

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"[4]


-- 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..."



HCA 13/71


HCA 13/71 f.194r

George Garnham deposed XXX

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

HCA 13/71 f.453r

XXXX deposed XXXX

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


HCA 13/72


HCA 13/72 f.137v

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

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

50. that being passed before a Notary as the manner thereis
  1. ↑ Electronic link to a digital source
  2. ↑ 'America and West Indies: June 1699, 21-30', Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Volume 17: 1699 and Addenda 1621-1698 (1908), pp. 291-308., viewed 09/06/13
  3. ↑ J. Lockie, Topography of London: Giving a Concise Local Description Of, and Accurate Direction To, Every Square, Street, Lane, Court, Dock, Wharf, Inn, Public Office, &c. in the Metropolis and Its Environs (London, 1810), unpaginated in original, Google Book p.136, viewed 09/06/13
  4. ↑ J.Lockie, Topography of London: Giving a Concise Local Description Of, and Accurate Direction To, Every Square, Street, Lane, Court, Dock, Wharf, Inn, Public Office, &c. in the Metropolis and Its Environs (London, 1810),, unpaginated, Google Book p.171, viewed 09/06/13

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