References
Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
1663
- Dec
1667
1668
- Feb
1669
- Mar
Ship (Billiter Lane, Fenchurch St)
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4 Annotations
First Reading
Terry F • Link
Ship, Fenchurch St., north side, one house west of where Billeter Lane goes N, east beyond Ironmongers Hall, toward the right side of this segment of the 1746 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
Second Reading
San Diego Sarah • Link
Pepys describes The Ship on Billiter Lane, off Fenchurch St. as a neighborhood tavern, which evidently had rooms where meetings could take place. Pepys didn't like the one he was in on http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
San Diego Sarah • Link
"I find that the very pretty daughter at the Ship tavern, at the end of Billiter Lane, is there still, and in the bar: and, I believe, is married to him that is new come, and hath new trimmed the house."
"Mercer tells me that the pretty maid of the Ship tavern I spoke of yesterday is married there, which I am glad of."
July 19 and 20, 1667
So it is with surprise that I see we don't know the name of the proprietor, or of his pretty wife, since Pepys was certainly on her trail.
It was a large establishment and must have paid Chimney taxes.
San Diego Sarah • Link
In March, 1669, Pepys tells us that John Morris was the Landlord of the Ship Inn, on Billiter Lane near Fenchurch Street.
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…