Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1920 — "Ye Old King James." [ARTICLE]

"Ye Old King James."

The Tottenham magistrates have just transferred the license of “Ye Old King James and Ye Tinker.” This quaintly-styled tavern claims to have been established for over a thousand years. The house stands in White Webb’s Lane, near Waltham Cross, and not far from Theobald’s park. The king was James I, and the tinker was drinking beer there or quaffing ale, when his majesty stopped at the house during a royal hunt in Enfield Chase. The tinker expressed a desire to see a king in the flesh. James said he should, and took him along with him on his horse to where his nobles were awaiting him. He then disclosed his identity to the astonished tinker, and wound up the incident by conferring a knighthood upon him. That, at any rate, is the story. —London Mall.