Hartshorn Inne, Pie corner, West Smithfield, St Sepulchre EC1
St Sepulchre index
West Smithfield in 1682
170 Castle Inne ; 172 Ram Inne ; 173 Rose Inne ; 191 Kings head Inne ; 192 Grayhound Inne ; 193 George Inne ; 194 Antelope Inne ; 195 Dolphin Inne ; 197 Hartshorn Inne.
West Smithfield directory for 1832 and 1842
Historical London public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels.
Residents at this address.
A token exists between 1649-1672 which I am suggesting could be relevant:
B2253. Obverse. Stephen . Willcocks . at = A pair of antlers.
RR. spy . corner . brewhovse = s . w divided by flowers.
1666 - Great Fire of London - Besant:
The fire was stayed at length by blowing up houses at the Temple Church, at Pie Corner, Smithfield (where the figure of a boy still stands to commemorate the fact), at Aldersgate, Cripplegate, and the upper part of Bishopsgate Street. It had consumed five-sixths of the City, together with a great piece beyond the western gates. It had covered an area of 436 acres, viz., 387 acres within the walls, and 73 without; it had destroyed 132,000 dwelling-houses, St. Paul's Cathedral, eighty-nine parish churches, four of the City gates, Sion College, the Royal Exchange, the old Grey Friars Church, the Chapel of St. Thomas of Acon, and an immense number of great houses, schools, prisons, and hospitals. The area covered, roughly speaking, an oblong nearly a mile and a half{398} in length by half a mile in breadth. The value of the property destroyed was estimated at �10,000,000. There is no such fire of any great city on record, unless it is the burning of Rome under Nero.
The Morgans map of 1682 lists a reference in its key as - '197 Hartshorn Inne'. Looking at this map, it is just to the south side of West Smithfield. The Hartshorn is off of Pie corner.
Listed are : 170 Castle Inne ; 172 Ram Inne ; 173 Rose Inne ; 191 Kings head Inne ; 192 Grayhound Inne ; 193 George Inne ; 194 Antelope Inne ; 195 Dolphin Inne ; 197 Hartshorn Inne.
Sometimes the Horns are specified as the HART's HORNs Inn, Smithfield, near Pie Corner, one of the houses in the yard of which Joe Miller used to play during Bartholomew Fair time, when he was associated with Pinkethman at the head of a troop of actors. The London Daily Post for August 24, &c., 1721, contains several advertisements of his troop, and the parts played by himself.