Rose & Crown
Innkeeping ran in Dick's family...
John Turpin, his father, ran the Blue Bell in Hempsted after retiring as a butcher.
Dick's grandfather Robert Nott, formerly a huntsman to Squire Harvey of Chigwell, in later years ran the Rose and Crown in Clay Hill, Middlesex.
Its proximity to the royal deerpark, Enfield Chase, will have been useful to Dick when arranging rendezvous to collect poached venison from the Gregorys. I suspect Granddad got a lot more visits then.
Tsk!
posted by Archie Pullen | 9:24 am
2 Comments:
what happened to the other half of the map?
I saw Dick gallop off with it tucked under his arm earlier this afternoon.
Seriously, this site has some excellent writing and fascinating pictures and I look forward to reading more.
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