Carlin and Belcher observe that the namesake of Bassett’s Inn is Sir Ralph Basset of Drayton, who opened it in about 1360. The inn was located on the east side of Gayspur Lane, just across from where it links to Addle Street. Bassett’s Inn was still operating by 1452 (Carlin and Belcher 65).

Bear Inn (Basinghall Street) was on Basinghall Street. It is not marked on the Agas map but is next to the Girdler’s Hall on the 1520 map ().

Was once [o]wned by William, Visount Beaumont and Lord Bardolf and [l]ater belonged to Francis, Viscount Lovell, [but] by his attainder in 1485 [it] fell to [the] Crown (Carlin and Belcher 65).

For information about the Bell Savage Inn, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the () article on Bell Savage Inn.

Benbridges Inn was a large house on the northwest corner of Lime Street. The Inn appears to be named after Ricardus de Pembrugge, a Knight and owner of a large piece of land in Lime Street Ward in 1376 (Harben; BHO). In 1454 the draper Ralph Holland bestowed the large messuage to the Master and Wardens of the Fraternity of Tailors and Linen Armourers of St John the Baptist (Harben; BHO). Soon thereafter they set up a fayre large frame of timber for a large house and built three other tenement buildings adjoining it (Stow).

An inn on the north side of Bridewell.

For information about the Black Bull Inn, Bishopsgate Street, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the () article on Black Bull Inn, Bishopsgate Street.

Located on St. Laurence Lane, Guildhall, Blossoms Inn was a travelers inn. Our Agas coordinates for the inn are based on Stow’s account and the position on the 1520 map (Stow 1598, sig. P4r).

Williams tells us that during Henry IV’s reign, the inn was known as Seynt Mary Inne (Williams 1465). John Boshman (or alternatively Boseman), acquired the Inn in 1382–1391 and it was known by 1405 as a great inn (Carlin and Belcher 67). In the fifteenth century it is also likely an Inn of Chancery (Carlin and Belcher 67).

Cardinal’s Hat Tavern was a tavern that likely sat at the meeting of Cornhill and Lombard Street. Stow mentions the Cardinal’s Hat Tavern only in passing, using the site as a reference for a path between the two streets.

Located south of the Aldgate Bars according to Stow’s 1633 (Stow 1633, sig. M2v), the Castle Tavern is not featured on the Agas map.

Columbe Brewhouse was located northwest of the Ironmongers’ Hall off of Fenchurch Street. Though little is known about the Columbe Brewhouse itself, the name dates back to at least 1425 (Carlin and Belcher 70). Taking after Eilert Ekwall, Carlin and Belcher propose that the namesake of Culver Alley is a brewhouse called Columbe (Carlin and Belcher 71, Ekwall 173).

For information about the Cross Keys Inn, Gracechurch Street, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the () page on Cross Keys Inn, Gracechurch Street.

Located east of St. Botolph, Aldgate, the Crown Inn was given to Christ Church in 1543 by William Cowch (Stow 1633, sig. L6r; Harben 188).

Falcon Inn was a tavern in the Bankside area and was a popular destination for many Elizabethan playwrights.

Golding’s Brewhouse was located in Southwark next to the Bridge House. According to John Stow, Golding’s Brewhouse was given to the City of London by George Monoux (Stow 1598, sig. Z3v). During Sir John Mundy’s time as mayor, the location of Golding’s Brewhouse was incorporated into the Bridge House property (Rendle 268).

Erected in the sixteenth century, the Hand and Shears Tavern originally hosted a Piepowder Court, where merchants from the Cloth Fair could settle their disputes. The tavern supposedly earned its name from the Lord Mayorʼs opening of the Bartholomew Fair in nearby Smithfield by cutting a piece of cloth (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 380).

The Inn and Garden of the Bishop of Chichester is located on both sides of Chancery Lane. During the reign of Henry III, Ralph de Neville acquired a plot on the west side of the lane where he built a noble palace (Williams 1520). This land was given to him by the Knights Templar and was likely granted soon after [Neville’s] appointment in 1226 to the Chancellorship (Williams 1521).

The inn was acquired between 1133 and 1216 (Carlin and Belcher 69).

According to Carlin and Belcher, [t]he abbot and convent owned property in the parishes of St Katherine Coleman and St Dunstan in the East by 1366 (Carlin and Belcher 73). It is also suggested that the Inn of the Abbot of Evesham is the fayre house described by Stow with diuers Tenements neare adioyning, sometime belonging to a late dissolued Priorie since possessed by Mistresse Cornewallies, widow and her heires, by the gift of king Henry the 8 (Stow 1:102-103).

The Inn of the Abbot of Faversham stood from 1147 to 1521, at which point it was pulled down and incorporated into Bridewell Palace (Carlin and Belcher 73).

The Inn of the Abbot of Glastonbury, or alternately The Abbot of Glastonbury’s Inn was, according to Victor Belcher and Martha Carlin, Acquired by abbot and convent in 1426-7 (Carlin and Belcher 74). The Inn was located near Smithfield between Cock Lane and Hosier Lane.

The Inn of the Abbot of Peterborough was on Carter Lane from 1204-1210, but in 1420 it moved to Fleet Street—the site identified on the Agas map (Carlin and Belcher 83). After it moved, the former site became home to The Bell (Carter Lane).

In 1212 the Inn of the Abbot of Reading resided in the Parish of St. Benet (Sherehog), but around 1327 it moved near the church of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe (Carlin and Belcher 84).

Harben explains that [t]his was the town house of the Abbots of St. Albans prior to the dissolution of the monasteries in the time of Henry VIII (Harben 1). Edward Catcher purchased the property in 1544, and it was later passed on to his son, John Catcher (Harben 1).

The Inn of the Bishop of Chester resided on the western side of the present entrance to Somerset House (Williams 1450). Not to be confused with Strand Inn’s original name, Chester Inn.

According to Sugden, the Mermaid Inn was located on the South side of Carter Lane, just north of Addle Hill (Sugden 342). MoEML consulted Taylor and Rocque 12Ca to locate this site on the Agas map.

The Mermaid Tavern was a drinking and dining establishment located between lower Bread Street and Friday Street, with entrances to both. Its location corresponds to the place between these two streets on current day London’s Cannon Street (Glinert). John Stow records in his that Bread Street was a location of diuers faire Innes and that the area was wholely inhabited by rich Marchants (Stow 1598, sig. T5r). The Mermaid Tavern was not far from Old Fish Street and the Blackfriars Theatre (Chalfant).

The Pope’s Head Tavern in Cornhill lay at the north end of Pope’s Head Alley, to which it gave its name. It was a substantial stone building dating back to the reign of Edward IV (Harben 479). The tavern was commonly believed to have once been a King’s Palace, but this belief may have arisen purely out of the fact that its walls carried the arms of England (Sugden 418; Moser 14). It was bequeathed to the Merchant Taylors’ Company in 1615, and they were still drawing rents from the property in the early twentieth century (Sugden 418, Harben 479). The tavern was in use until 1756.

The 1633 edition of Stow’s notes that the Priests’ Chambers were an extension of St. Mildred (Poultry).

A cooks’ house three houses west of the Old Swan Brewhouse.

The Six Clerks’ Office was located [o]n the west side of Chancery Lane, south of Carey Street, outside the City Boundary, opposite the Rolls (Harben 534). The office was formerly the Inn of the Prior of Nocton, but around the time that it was reconstructed in 1539, it was known as Harflete Inn or Harflu Inn.

The Sun Tavern was a victualing house on the east side of New Fish Street, just north of London Bridge between lower Thames Street and Little Eastcheap.

The Antelope was a victualling house located where Holborn meets Chancery Lane.

The Bishop was a hospice located near the south end of Gray’s Inn Road.

The Bolt and Tun was an old stage-coach inn which derived its name from Prior Bolton of St. Bartholomew, Smithfield, being a rebus on his name (Harben 89).

According to Elijah Williams, The Cock and Key was a tenement building on the east of the Boreshede, belonging to the Prior of Royston, the name of which was in use by the reign of Henry VIII (Williams 1313). Williams also notes that the Cock and Key was affected by the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538, when the property was seized from the Carmelites and a large portion of it was relinquished to Sir William Butts, the personal physician of to the King (Williams 1313).

The Crown was a tenement off of Philpot Lane so named for its sign (Harben 186). In describing the location, Henry Harben notes that The Crown was [e]ast out of Philpot Lane, in Billingsgate Ward (Harben 186). More specifically, The Crown seems to have been located midway between Eastcheap and Fenchurch Street.

The Dolphin in Temple Bar was in existence at least by 1544 (Carlin and Belcher 72). The location was immedately to the east of Temple Bar on the north side of Fleet Street.

The Falcon, which is also often referred to as le Fawcon, was a tenement off of Fleet Street that bordered the garden of the Inner Temple. The building was constructed no later than 1470 and was still standing until around 1544 (Carlin and Belcher 73, Williams 1403).

The George (Fleet Street) was located at the intersection between Fleet Street and Shoe Lane.

The Goat was a tavern at Smithfield, in operation from the mid fourteenth to late sixteenth centuries (Keene and Harding 85-96), after which it changed hands as a residence. It was commonly known as the Goat on the Hoop, a name that referred to the hoop in which the Goat’s sign would have hung (Harben).

Located in Bishopsgate Ward without the Wall, the Half Moon housed Robert Wood. His wife, Joane, left the yearly rents for the messuage and nearby Half Moon Alley to the Church of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate (Stow 1633, sig. Q1r-Q1v; Harben 285–286).

A tavern on the north side of Fleet Street, near the Middle Temple. Also referred to as The Horn in the Hoop and simply The Horn. Harben states that the tavern stood on the site of the now-removed Andertons Hotel at 164 Fleet (Harben 307).

According to Taylor, Maidenhead was a lodging house frequented by various carriers (Taylor A4v, B1r).Taylor identifies the Maidenhead as being in Cat-eatonſtreet, neere the guildhall (Taylor A4v). Norman corroborates this account and adds futher specificity by stating that it stands at the corner of Old Jewry and Gresham street [formerly Cateaton Street] (Norman 247). Being from 1889, the latter of these sources should be regarded with a degree of uncertainty as a source for early modern locations, hence the imprecision of the point on our Agas map.

Edward H. Sugden describes the Maidenhead in Ram Alley as the worst of all dens of infamy in that notorious court (Sugden 328).

The Panier, or The Payner was a functioning brewhouse by about 1425 (Carlin and Belcher 82). Eilert Ekwall notes that a variant name for the The Panier was atte panyer yn pater noster rewe (Ekwall 171).The brewhouse itself is located near and possibly derives its name form Panier Alley.

By 1521, the Pewter Pot was, according to Henry Harben, a famous coaching inn that was [o]n the south side of Leadenhall Street formerly called the Pewter Pott, the Pott on the Hoop, or Pot inn (Harben 473).

The 1633 edition of Stow’s notes that the The Three Tuns was a tavern located in Guildhall Yard.

Three Cranes Tavern was a popular tavern in early modern London, located on Three Cranes Lane.

The Three Cups Inn was located in Bread Street Ward at the southwest intersection of Bread Street and Watling Street. The Inn provided food, drink, and shelter for employees, guests, carriers and their horses. It was a hub for public transportation and shipping into and out of the capital and was a home to the inn holder, servants, and their families. It provided employment and a community meeting place. It acted as a landmark in the city for at least four hundred years.

Prior to being known as Trinity Hall, the space was known as The Falcon on the Hoop. The hall was, by 1417, a brewhouse that was acquired by [the] fraternity of Holy Trinity in St Botolph Aldersgate [and] became [the] fraternity’s hall sometime after 1463 (Carlin and Belcher 96). Beginning with that aquisition, the location became known as Trinity Hall.