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The Ship, London

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The Ship mentioned in Sir George Oxenden's correspondence and in legal documents relating to Tobell Aylmer and Elizabeth Dallison was most likely the Ship on the west side of the Old Bailey, just to the north of Ludgate Hill. There were a number of other Ship taverns in London in the 1660s. They were located in XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, and XXXX.

Harben (1918) states that the Ship tavern in the Old Bailey was located in Ship Court, on the west side of Old Bailey; the court itself being named after the tavern.[1] The building was demolished in the nineteenth century and replaced by "Railway Companies' and carriers yards and stables."[2]

A February 1653/54 legal document states that the last meeting of alleged papish plotters was at the Ship tavern, Old Bailey, where they were arrested. The tavern master, Mr. Thomas Amps, denied any knowledge of the plot and though imprisoned with the alleged plotters, was later released without charge.[3]


Aylmer and Oxenden link with the Ship


Tobell Aylmer in a postscriptum to a letter to Sir George Oxenden mentioned that he was planning to drink to Sir George's health with their relatives Richard Masters (a merchant of Antwerp) and Richard Oxinden:

This day M:r Rich:d Masters M:r Rich:d Oxinden & my Selfe are gooing to y:e Shipp to Drinck to & Rememb:r o:r Indian Freinds in pticuler yo:r owne w:th a or Gunn of Ale[4]

This tavern would have been close to Aylmer's house, the address of which Aylmer gave in the same letter as "The Corner or Old Corner, near Ludgate (and Old Bailey)." A Chancery document confirms that Aylmer's house was near Ludgate.[5]

The Ship seems to have been a popular haunt for the Oxenden family and their London and Kentish relatives and friends. Richard Oxinden reported in a letter sent ten days after Tobell Aylmer's that:

yo:r Brother S:r Harry left this Citty y:e last weeke, his stay was very short but however wee went some tymes to y:e Ship our purpose to drinke á health to S:r George whome God preservem[6]


Postscriptum, Letter from Tobell Aylmer to Sir George Oxenden


"S:r
Yo:r most humble Serv:t
Tobell Aylmer

Ffrom y:e Old Corner neere
Ludgate London March y:e 20:th
1662

[As postscript]

This day M:r Rich:d Masters M:r Rich:d Oxinden & my Selfe are gooing to y:e Shipp to Drinck to & Rememb:r o:r Indian Freinds in pticuler yo:r owne w:th a or Gunn of Ale"[7]


Background material


Thomas Amps, vintner at the Ship, 1653


"This day (Feb: 18.) [1653] 11 prisoners were sent from James's to the Tower, accused to be actors in the late Plot...They had many meetings in several places about their business, but removed from one place to another; and their last meeting was Tuesday 14 Feb. 1653, at Mr. Thomas Amps, Vintner, at the Ship Tavern in the Old Bailey...and the master of the tavern protesteth that he knew not any thing of their design, only they came to drink; he was brought away prisoner with them, but because no charge was by any made against him, he was after let go again"[8]


William Meere, vintner at the Ship, date?


"William Meere, the vintner at the Ship at the Old Bailey"[9]


Lease of the Ship, Old Bailey, 1680

"Edward Gethin of Llandyrnog, gent, John Gethin's son, signs a one-year lease to a Peter Evans of London, merchant, of lands in Corfedwen, Llandyrnog and Lleweni. There is little means of identifying this Peter Evans however a few facts are known. It is known that he [Peter Evans] was a "citizen and fishmonger of London", that he acquired in 1680 the lease of the Ship Tavern in the Old Bailey (ms. 32)"[10]


Mentions of Ship tavern, Old Bailey, Ludgate & Holborn area


"The Ship Tavern, 12 Gate St, Holborn, London, WC2A 3HP. Holborn - The Ship Tavern was established in 1549 & has been at the heart of Holborn's social scene for over 500 years" [Note: This is not the Ship tavern, Old Bailey]

"The Ship Tavern, Temple Bar"[11] [Note: This is not the Ship tavern, Old Bailey]


Mentions of Ship tavern, near the Exchange


"[1637-1638 period] Since their return the plaintiff, Clobery, Bence, Johnson and Hooper met in the Ship tavern behind the Exchange, when witness gave Johnson a copy of his journal. That the crew consisted of 14 men and a boy."[12]


Ship Court


"Ship Court

West out of Old Bailey at No. 66, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M., 1677-Elmes, 1831).
Site now occupied by business houses.
Named after the Ship Tavern, which was standing there in 1654 (L. and P. Common. VII. 165)."[13]

"Ship Court, Old Bailey, west side, near Ludgate Hill; now absorbed in the Railway Companies' and carriers yards and stables..."[14]
  1. ↑ 'Ship Court-Shoemaker Row, Lane' in Henry A. Harben A Dictionary of London (London, 1918). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63308#s1 Date accessed: 08 October 2011
  2. ↑ Henry Benjamin Wheatley, London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, vol.3 (London, 1891), p. 239
  3. ↑ Anonymous, Cromwelliana: A chronological detail of events in which Oliver Cromwell was engaged, from the year 1642 to his death 1658, with a continuation of other transactions To the restoration (Westminster, 1810), pp. 134-135.
  4. ↑ BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, Letter from Tobell Aylmer to Sir George Oxenden, Old Corner, nr. Ludgate, 20th March 1662/63, ff. ?. See 20th March 1662/63, Letter from Tobell Aylmer to Sir GO, Old Corner, nr. Ludgate
  5. ↑ C 9/243/65 f. 1 'The joynt and severall answeres of Alexander Emerson Esquier & Frances his wife two of the defts to the bill of complaynt of Elizabeth Dallyson widow complaynant'
  6. ↑ BL, Add. MS. XX, XX Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir George Oxenden, March 30th 1663, ff. 67-68. See 30th March 1663, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, London
  7. ↑ BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, Letter from Tobell Aylmer to Sir GO, Old Corner, nr. Ludgate, 20th March 1662/63, ff. ? See 20th March 1662/63, Letter from Tobell Aylmer to Sir GO, Old Corner, nr. Ludgate
  8. ↑ Anonymous, Cromwelliana: A chronological detail of events in which Oliver Cromwell was engaged, from the year 1642 to his death 1658, with a continuation of other transactions To the restoration (Westminster, 1810), pp. 134-135.
  9. ↑ Michelle O'Callaghan, The English wits: literature and sociability in early modern England (Cambridge, 2007), p. 195, fn. 42
  10. ↑ Bangor University Pentre Mawr Deeds and Documents, http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id=39&coll_id=10909&expand=, viewed 08/10/11
  11. ↑ The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer, vol. 3 (XXXX, XXXX), p. 385
  12. ↑ XXX, High Court of Admiralty examinations (ms. vol. 53) 1637-1638, vol. 2 (XXXX, 1932), p.30
  13. ↑ 'Ship Court-Shoemaker Row, Lane', in Henry A. Harben A Dictionary of London (London,1918). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63308 Date accessed: 08 October 2011
  14. ↑ Henry Benjamin Wheatley, London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, vol.3 (London, 1891), p. 239

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