King's Head (Charing Cross)
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- Built-up London – Hollar's 1666 map before the Fire
- City of London wall and Great Fire damage – Hollar's 1666 map after the Fire
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A large and prosperous inn that was kept by Peter Griffith, a wealthy and charitable bachelor, and executor of the will of Hugh Roberts of the Harp and Ball which is also mentioned in the Diary. 25 hearths in 1665. Source: Latham and Matthews Companion volume 11. (Griffith and Roberts are surnames that are most common in Wales, perhaps there was some family or other link between them.)
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Called an Ordinary by Pepys in jan 1663
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Charing Cross is on the west side of this segment of the 1746 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/SeriesSearchPlat...