The Old Inns of Old England, Volume 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY

The Old Inns of Old England!--how alluring and how inexhaustible a theme! When you set out to reckon up the number of those old inns that demand a mention, how vast a subject it is! For although the Vandal--identified here with the brewer and the ground-landlord--has been busy in London and the great centres of population, destroying many of those famous...