1286 Memoranda K.R. 14 & 15 Edw. I 3 b Tauernes ke sunt en meimes la Meisun ke est assise par entre la Meison Thomas le Vineter vers le Su.]

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4024 Hor ydelnesse hom ssal bringe to sunne of lecherye, To tauerne & to sleuþe, & to hasardrie.

1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 1025 Tauerne ys þe deuylys knyfe Hyt sleþ þe, oþer soule or lyfe.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 56 Þe tauerne ys þe scole of þe dyeule huere his deciples studieþ.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 147 Þe tauerne is welle of glotonye, for it may be clepyd þe develys scolehous.

1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iv. f. 53 This done, they to the Tauerne go, or in the fields they dine.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. iii. 5 Can no man tell me of my vnthriftie sonne?.. Inquire at London, mongst the Tauernes there. View more context for this quotation

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tavernier,..a Victualler, of whom (as in our Tauernes of London) one may haue meat, and drink for his money.

1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 108 The Taverns are the Nurseries of Profaneness and Treason.

1710 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 14 I dined to-day at a tavern with Stratford.

1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times III. 76 When we reached London..we put up at one of those taverns called hotels.

1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. III. lxxii. 128 The doctor keeps a public house, or, as the term is, a tavern.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge ii. 241 This tavern would seem to be a house of call for all the gaping idlers of the neighbourhood!

1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) xi. 103 He seemed to feel that the Dons of his college would look shy upon him, and he expressed his opinion that it would be better for him to migrate to the Tavern. [Note] A name given to New Inn Hall, not only from its title..but also because the buttery is open all day, and members of the Hall can call for what they please at any hour.

1904 Westm. Gaz. 11 May 1/2 Richard Shute—the only first-class man ever produced by the defunct ‘Tavern’, as New Inn Hall [Oxford] used to be called.

1521 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 4 Al my tymber and bordes in the Taverne, except a kilnehouse of x postes that lieth in the laithe and in the gaitehouse.

1566 in S. O. Addy Evol. Eng. House (1905) 96 William Tomson for his taverne stare, iiij d.

1575 in S. O. Addy Evol. Eng. House (1905) 95 Payd to ij dykers for casting earth furth of the taverne iiij daies, ij s. viij d.

1583 Will Myles Fox (Somerset Ho.) My Shop with two under~shops or Taverins.

1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 428 Tavern, a cellar.

1905 S. O. Addy Evol. Eng. House 94–5 In England shops in front of town houses were sometimes known as ‘taverns’,..and were below the surface of the streets, like cellars... These ‘taverns’ were entered by stairs.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Acts xxviii. 15 Whanne bretheren hadden herd, thei runnen to vs til to the cheping of Appius, and to a place that is clepid Thre tauernes [L. tres Tabernas].

1611 Bible (King James) Acts xxviii. 15 They came to meet vs as farre as Appii forum, and the three Tauernes . View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 253 You shall..fear no more Tauerne Bils. View more context for this quotation

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 286 The appellation of ‘good man’, so frankly bestowed on him by the tavern-boy.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. i. 21 A tavern-bully beaten.

1553 tr. E. Bonner in tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obediencia: Oration Pref. f.ii Sence good Wine nedeth no tauerne bushe to vtter it.

a1668 W. Davenant News from Plimouth i. i, in Wks. (1673) 2/2 In the Metropolis,..Where still your Taverne Bush is green, and flourishing.

1787 J. Hawkins Life Johnson 87 I have heard him assert, that a tavern-chair was the throne of human felicity.

1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated Pref. 12 The subject of all tavern-discourses.

1474 Coventry Leet Bk. 400 Yf he sell any feetiff wyn his Tauerne durre to be sealed Inne, and he to make a fyne at the kynges wyll.

a1704 T. Brown London & Lacedemonian Oracles in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 124 The Oyster-wench in her lawful Occupation at the Tavern-door.

1709 C. Cibber Rival Fools i. 111 Can't you practice..upon a Tavern-Drawer, or a Box-keeper at the Play-House?

1899 Month June 613 The roystering joviality of Prince Harry's tavern~fellow.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 28462 Til tauerne huse my-seluen was wont, And draun men þer-til vmstont.

1763 F. Sheridan Discov. ii. i I don't doubt but he is going to some of his tavern-ladies.

1664 G. Etherege Comical Revenge iv. ii. 51 Go with a Tavern-Lanthorn before me at noon-day.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Tavernman, one who keeps a tavern.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §9 That vulgar and Taverne-Musick . View more context for this quotation

1979 Listener 30 Aug. 275/2 The best tavern music in South London is..jazz.

1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 30 Marlow was stabbed in a tavern quarrel.

1880 W. D. Hay Doom of Great City 46 One place I knew slightly, a tavern-restaurant, where I had occasionally dined.

1973 Washington Post 13 Jan. a3/6 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Grenwalt..were celebrating their 42nd wedding anniversary at the tavern-restaurant.

1714 B. Mandeville Fable Bees i. 16 Those, that remain'd,..when they paid their Tavern Score, Resolv'd to enter it no more.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VIII lxiii. 142 Without which Glory's but a tavern song.

1917 J. Masefield Lollingdon Downs 90 Within the tavern-song, hid in the wine.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xvi. 346 This jingle may be compared with the tavern song which was printed in Vinculum Societatis.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 439 He is the Whores Jackal,..and at Night has his Share in a Tavern-Supper.

1760 Cautions & Advices to Officers of Army 124 Tavern-Suppers are generally expensive.

1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. E3 Vrge no more, tis Tauerne talke.

1639 J. Ford Ladies Triall ii. sig. D4^v You are growne a Taverne talke, Matter for Fidlers songs.

1483 Cath. Angl. 378/2 A Tawern ganger, attabernio.

1797 T. Park Sonnets 82 Meeting with some tavern-goer.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Circumcelliones, tauerne haunters, or raylers aboute.

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie li. 305 These Tauernhaunters or Alehouse Knightes which counterfeit the preachers.

c1560 T. Becon Relikes of Rome sig. K.ii^v Pope Zozimus ordained, that priestes should be no Tauern-hunters.

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 53 Their lazinesse, their Tavern-hunting, their neglect of all sound literature.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tavernier,..a Tauerne-keeper.

1779 Mirror No. 46. ⁋23 Familiar..to the very tavern-keepers of this city.

1635 J. Taylor Life T. Parr C ij b Nor did hee ever hunt a Taverne Fox.

1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. iii. sig. C2 Drunk sir?..perhaps he swallow'd a tauerne token, or some such deuise sir. View more context for this quotation

1604 Meeting of Gallants sig. C^v Indeed he had swallowed downe many Tauerne-tokens, and was infected much with the plague of drunkennes.

1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore i. iv. 20 If he haue but..a spleene not so bigge as a tauerne token.

1851 Fraser's Mag. 44 425 The frequent tavernising, if we may coin a word, is another peculiarity. Pepys was a giant in this way, and sang and roystered..in the public houses of the day.

1897 ‘M. Twain’ More Tramps Abroad lxxi The Bishop..was once making a business-progress through the tavernless velt.

1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1746) I. iii. ii. 119 So returning him Thanks with Tavernly Phraze for his large Offers.

1866 Ld. Houghton Speech in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1890) I. ii. 75 The..low..ill-lit, cavernous, tavernous gallery.

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 102 Thay comptit and reknit for thair tavernrie with ther mistressis.

1892 Daily News 10 Mar. 2/4 Thirty young fellows..were promptly on the ‘double’ tavernwards.

1365 in W. H. D. Longstaffe & J. Booth Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis (1889) 38 Idem Johannes illud [tenementum] tabernavit sine licencia.

1365 in W. H. D. Longstaffe & J. Booth Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis (1889) 42 De Johanne Anderson pro licencia tabernandi unum cotagium.

1402 Charta (Du Cange) Ne scolaribus detur occasio mercandi seu Tabernandi.]

1534 Augm. Off., Convent. Leases, Yorks. No. 888 That the said Thomas and Roger his sonne..shall not taverne the said fermhold nor no parcell therof bot to dwell and remane of the said fermhold apon payn [etc.].

1551 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 72 If it happ my wife to latt or taverne any parte of said fermehold, (not beyng of habilitie to occupie the same) then I will that Roland my eldest sonne have it.

1575 Sir J. Forster in St. Papers Eliz., Borders XIX. 81 (P.R.O.) When anye Inhabitant here hath..a Tenement..scant sufficient for the meinteignaunce of one person, yf he chaunce to dye havinge two sonnes, he devydeth the said Tenement betwixt them bothe, and thus the taverninge of the Queynes lande ys hinderance for kepinge of hors and armor.

1577 R. Barnes in J. Raine Injunctions Eccl. Proc. Bishop of Durham (1850) 18 And doe not let out, lease out, or taverne out, their livings.