MRP: The Mermaid tavern, Cornhill
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The Mermaid tavern, Cornhill
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The Mermaid tavern in Cornhill was located at XXXX on Cornhill. Less well known to historians than the Mermaid tavern in Cheapside, it was nevertheless an important commercial location in the mid-seventeenth century, used by London merchants and others who had business at the nearby Exchange.
Elizabeth Dallison wrote to her brother Sir George Oxenden on April 1st 1663, informing him of business she had conducted on his behalf at the Mermaid tavern, Cornhill, and that she had sought to shift the business to East India House.
I desired y:e Comissioners y:t these witnesses might come before them, & they gave order they should, & when they saw them & had talked w:th them they weare very well satisfyed & said they weare sober understanding men; Pusey was out of Towne soo hee appeared nott at y:e mermayd Tavern:e in Cornwall but I desired the Commissioners, y:t in regard I must attend them, that they would meete at y:e East India house whear S:r Tho:s Chamberlan was willing wee should have all fitting accomodations...[1]
Background material on Mermaid tavern
The Sandwich, Kent born vintner, Boniface Tatam (alt. Tatham) was buried in St. Peter's, Cornhill. He presumably owned the Mermaid tavern, Cornhill, since in his will he "gave forty shillings yearly to the parson [of St. Peter's, Cornhill] for preaching four sermons every year, so long as the lease of the Mermaid in Cornhill (the tavern so called) should endure."[2]
Mention of three minor companies (?linked to the Wax Chandlers) post 1620 spending 2s. 2d. at the Mermaid tavern in Cornhill.'[3]
Background material on Cornhill=
The Angel, Cornhill
The Castle tavern, Cornhill
The Fleece tavern, Cornhill
The Golden Ball against the Royal Exchange, Cornhill
The Pope's Head, Cornhill
The Swan and Hoop tavern, Cornhill
St. Peter, Cornhill
St. Michael, Cornhill
Sources
Primary
1st April 1663, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO
Secondary
- ↑ BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Elizabeth Dallison to Sir George Oxenden, April 1st 1663, ff. 74-82
- ↑ William Boyne, Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland, vol. 1 (London, 1889), p. 574; PROB 11/109 Huddleston 1-47 Will of Boniface Tatam, Vintner of All Hallows Barking, City of London 20 February 1607
- ↑ John Dummelow, The Wax Chandlers of London: a short history of the Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers, London (XXXX, 1979), p. 64
