Little Crown

Above Google image, October 2016.

From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 14 November, 1857.

GREENWICH POLICE COURT. Monday.

Police Information's.

Mr. Traill was engaged some time in hearing summonses taken out against the following Licensed Victuallers, for opening their homes for the sole of liquors during prohibited hours on the previous Sunday morning:—

Henry Jewitt, landlord of the "Little Crown," Deptford. In this ease there were previous convictions, and the defendant was ordered to pay a fine of £5 and costs.

From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 21 November, 1857.

TRANSFER OF LICENSES, Nov. 14.

(Present — Sir T. M. Wilson, Bart. (Chairman), T. Lewin, J. Sutton, and E. Eagleton, Esqrs.)

Deptford.

"Little Crown," New-street, Henry Jewitt to William Jewitt.

From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 15 May, 1858.

Enlisting.

George and Christopher Benjamin were on Tuesday charged with defrauding a couple of recruiting sergeants each out of a shilling. The prisoners had been drinking for some hours at the "Little Crown," Deptford, where the recruiting sergeants addressed them. According to the sergeants’ statement, it appeared the prisoners were capable of understanding, and that they took the shilling as enlistment money, and after they each said he was single. They were really married men. The prisoners both swore that they said nothing about being single, that they did not take the money as enlistment money, that they laughingly said they would take as many shillings as the sergeants liked, and that they were both quite drunk. The magistrate suspecting that perhaps the prisoners were old offenders, remanded them till yesterday, refusing to take bail. Yesterday the men were again brought up, but the solicitor to the War Department not appearing, they were again remanded till Tuesday, bail, however, being token for their appearance.