Inn?

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

P. wonders:
"Is it a safe bet that most Inns (B & B's, Hotel's, etc)  
> would have included a pub-like area, or a
> eating area where in any case beer was served?
 
>>>>Don't know, but it occurs to me that drinking places in
Britain are called licensed premises. Would this tradition have dated
to the 18th Century and been the bother then it is now?"


Didn't Chaucer's pilgrims start out from  the Tabard Inn?

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)