The Three Tuns

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

1) A tavern in Guildhall Yard. General Monk lodged at this tavern by Guildhall Gate, 1659 (Gent. Mag. Lib. XV. 165).


Wheatley mentions it as referred to by Webster. Not named in the maps.

2) A messuage so called in Thamystrete in parish of St. James at Garlickhive, 5 Ed. VI. (1551) (Lond. I. p.m. I. 110).

Not further identified.

3) A large messuage in Thamys-strete called the "Three Tunnes," in parish of St. Magnus the Martyr, and not far from the parish of St. Michael Crooked Lane, 1544 and 1563 (L. and P. H. VIII. D.S. XIX. Pt. I, p.615, and Lond. I. p.m. II. 12).

The sign represented the arms of the Vintners' Company.

See Three Tun Alley, Thames Street.

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