The location on the map is that of Hercules Pillars Alley.
Crown (Hercules Pillars Alley)
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- Built-up London – London before the Fire
- City of London wall and Great Fire damage – London after the Fire
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References
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1668
- Jan
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San Diego Sarah • Link
"... a little ordinary in Hercules-pillars Ally — the Crown, a poor, sorry place, where a fellow, in twelve years, hath gained an estate of, as he says, 600l. a-year, which is very strange, and there dined, and had a good dinner, ..."
L&M: The landlord was William King.
San Diego Sarah • Link
The Crown was located just behind 22-28 Fleet Street, between the street and the river.
The landlord, William King, must have been in his fifties or older, because he had been recorded on a tithes list (a tax list) in 1638 when also living in Hercules Pillars Alley.
Source: “Taverns and Tokens of Pepys London” (1976) by George Berry, page 67.