INNS AND TAVERNS OF OLD LONDON 

SETTING FORTH THE HISTORICAL AND LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS OF THOSE
ANCIENT HOSTELRIES, TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOST NOTABLE
COFFEE-HOUSES, CLUBS, AND PLEASURE GARDENS OF THE BRITISH METROPOLIS 

BY 

HENRY C.  SHELLEY 

Author of "Untrodden English Ways," etc. 

1909 

PREFACE 

For all races of Teutonic origin the claim is made that they are
essentially home-loving people.  Yet the Englishman of the sixteenth
and seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially of the latter,