BOAR'S HEAD
Friargate Brow
*
This inn is marked on a 1694 Map
held at L.R.O. (see below)
*
*
It may be that this inn is synonymous with the Seven Star(r)s Inn,
*
Anthony Hewitson, however, wrote the following in
his notes to the Preston Court Leet Records,
"The "Boarshead" was an inn, and presumably was, or
stood on the site of, the present 'Boar's Head Hotel,"
near the top of Friargate" He then gave the entry,
taken from the Records:
"Thomas Worden, Landlord at Boarshead, for suffering
prople's carts to stand in public street at night, without
any Light at his Door, and for every offence after notice,
we amerce him 6s 8d."
Court Leet Records October 23rd 1782
The evidence from the 1684 map seems conclusive that
the Boar's Head was on Friargate Brow at that time, and
would seem to lend weight to it being there 100 years later.
Pers. comm.
Anthony Hewitson, however, wrote the following in
his notes to the Preston Court Leet Records,
"The "Boarshead" was an inn, and presumably was, or
stood on the site of, the present 'Boar's Head Hotel,"
near the top of Friargate" He then gave the entry,
taken from the Records:
"Thomas Worden, Landlord at Boarshead, for suffering
prople's carts to stand in public street at night, without
any Light at his Door, and for every offence after notice,
we amerce him 6s 8d."
Court Leet Records October 23rd 1782
The evidence from the 1684 map seems conclusive that
the Boar's Head was on Friargate Brow at that time, and
would seem to lend weight to it being there 100 years later.
Pers. comm.
*
MINE HOST
1684 James Wittoll
1782 Thomas Worden
*
 |
| Fryer's Lane is now Marsh Lane. The numbers in front of each of the premises is their frontage in feet. * |
