Other Cardington Licensed Premises

Early References to Licensed Premises in Cardington

- 1701: George, son of George & Ann Gascoigne, innholder baptised 23 Jun;
- 1701/1702: James, son of Peter & Grace Squire, innholder, baptised 11 Oct; buried 26 Oct 1702;
- 1701: Alice, daughter of Peter & Grace Squire, innholder, baptised 31 Oct;
- 1701: William, son of George & Alice Thoroughgood, innholder, baptised 13 Dec George Thoroughgood is a ‘labourer’ when his next child is baptised 22 July 1705;
- 1703: Ann, daughter of Peter & Grace Squire, innholder, baptised 31 Oct;
- 1704: George Gascoigne, innholder married Alice Foot of Bedford 1 Oct;
- 1704: Ann, wife of George Gascoigne, innholder, buried 5 Apr;
- 1704: Peter Squire, innholder/alehouse keeper, buried 20 Apr;
- 1704: William, son of George Thoroughgood, innholder, buried 23 Jul;
- 1705: Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan & Grace Cranfield, , innholder, buried 6 Oct;
- 1706: Jonathan Cranfield, innholder, buried 5 May;
- 1726: Richard Bygrave, innholder, buried 19 Mar

Red Lion

This public house is known from two stray references shown below dating from 1692 to 1700 but may have been run by any of the families noted in the early references above.

References:
- Z8/3: mortgage taken out by Giles Tayler with John Howard on Gray hound assigned to Henry Whitbread: 1692;
- Z8/4: Lease for a year (first document in a conveyance by lease and release) of Red Lion, formerly Greyhound, from Giles Tayler of Cardington, blacksmith with his son and heir, Henry and his mortgagee John Howard to Henry Whitbread: 1700

List of Licensees: note that this is not a complete list. Italics indicate licensees whose beginning and/or end dates are not known:
- 1692: Giles Tayler;
- before 1700: Henry Tayler