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THE OLD INNS OF OLD ENGLAND




WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR


The Portsmouth Road, and its Tributaries: To-day and in Days of Old.

The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.

The Bath Road: History, Fashion, and Frivolity on an Old Highway.

The Exeter Road: The Story of the West of England Highway.

The Great North Road: The Old Mail Road to Scotland. Two Vols.

The Norwich Road: An East Anglian Highway.

The Holyhead Road: The Mail-Coach Road to Dublin. Two Vols.

The Cambridge, Ely, and King's Lynn Road: The Great Fenland Highway.

The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford, and Cromer Road: Sport and History on an
East Anglian Turnpike.

The Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Haven Road: The Ready Way to South
Wales. Two Vols.

The Brighton Road: Speed, Sport, and History on the Classic Highway.

The Hastings Road and the "Happy Springs of Tunbridge."

Cycle Rides Round London.

A Practical Handbook of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction.

Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore. Two Vols.

The Ingoldsby Country: Literary Landmarks of "The Ingoldsby Legends."

The Hardy Country: Literary Landmarks of the Wessex Novels.

The Dorset Coast.

The South Devon Coast. [_In the Press._




[Illustration: A MUG OF CIDER: THE "WHITE HART" INN, CASTLE COMBE. _Photo
by Graystone Bird._]




  THE OLD INNS OF OLD ENGLAND

  _A PICTURESQUE ACCOUNT OF THE
  ANCIENT AND STORIED HOSTELRIES
  OF OUR OWN COUNTRY_


  VOL. II

  BY CHARLES G. HARPER


  [Illustration]

  _Illustrated chiefly by the Author, and from Prints
  and Photographs_


  LONDON:
  CHAPMAN & HALL, LIMITED
  1906

  _All rights reserved_




  PRINTED AND BOUND BY
  HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,
  LONDON AND AYLESBURY.




CONTENTS


  CHAPTER                                           PAGE

     I. A POSY OF OLD INNS                             1

    II. THE OLD INNS OF CHESHIRE                      58

   III. INNS RETIRED FROM BUSINESS                    79

    IV. INNS WITH RELICS AND CURIOSITIES             109

     V. TAVERN RHYMES AND INSCRIPTIONS               130

    VI. THE HIGHEST INNS IN ENGLAND                  144

   VII. GALLOWS SIGNS                                150

  VIII. SIGNS PAINTED BY ARTISTS                     161

    IX. QUEER SIGNS IN QUAINT PLACES                 184

     X. RURAL INNS                                   210

    XI. THE EVOLUTION OF A COUNTRY INN               235

   XII. INGLE-NOOKS                                  240

  XIII. INNKEEPERS' EPITAPHS                         245

   XIV. INNS WITH ODD PRIVILEGES                     255

    XV. INNS IN LITERATURE                           261

   XVI. VISITORS' BOOKS                              291




[Illustration: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS]


SEPARATE PLATES

  A MUG OF CIDER: THE "WHITE HART" INN, CASTLE COMBE.
  (_Photo by Graystone Bird_)                               _Frontispiece_

                                                               FACING PAGE

  THE CROMWELL ROOM, "LYGON ARMS"                                        8

  THE DINING-ROOM AT "THE FEATHERS," LUDLOW                             22

  COURTYARD OF THE "MAID'S HEAD," NORWICH, SHOWING THE JACOBEAN
  BAR                                                                   42

  THE "BELL," BARNBY MOOR: MEET OF LORD GALWAY'S HOUNDS                 56

  THE "FOUR SWANS," WALTHAM CROSS                                      152

  SIGN OF THE "PACK HORSE AND TALBOT," TURNHAM GREEN                   194

  THE "RUNNING FOOTMAN," HAY HILL                                      194

  INTERIOR OF "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN"                                      196

  "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN," BLUEPITTS, NEAR ROCHDALE                        196

  THE "TALBOT," RIPLEY. (_Photo by R. W. Thomas_)                      212

  THE "ANCHOR," RIPLEY, IN THE DAYS OF THE DIBBLES AND THE
  CYCLING BOOM. (_Photo by R. W. Thomas_)                              214

  THE "SWAN," SANDLEFORD                                               216

  THE "SWAN," NEAR NEWBURY                                             216

  THE INGLE-NOOK, "WHITE HORSE" INN, SHERE                             240

  INGLE-NOOK AT THE "SWAN," HASLEMERE                                  242

  THE INGLE-NOOK