After the peace of Utrecht,  signed on March 31st, 1713,  are  the  following   entries   in   the  Chamberlain's accounts at pages 58 and  59,  Vol. VI of the Borough Records:—

1713.

By Mr. Major and they Chamberlains order spent at ye New Inn1 at Proclaiming ye Peace. £2 6 0

1713.

July 10. Extracts from bill for food etc. at the time of thanksgiving.

 

12 chickens

0

4

6

4 new cheeses

0

2

0

30 gallons of ale

2

0

0

for ye charity children

1

1

6

Chear woman

0

1

0

 

3s. 6d. spent when ye fish went to Mr. Lambs

0

3

6

and 2 6 when ye fished ye Swan Poole

0

2

6

and 3 2 when ye fished at Blatey

0

3

2

and 2 10 when ye fished for Mr. Major

0

2

10

 

and at page 60 is a payment of "ye sum of tenn shillings to William Barrow which he paid to the keeper of the parke belonginge to his Grace ye Lord Bishop of Durham being his fees for one buck given to ye Corporation."

From the fact that "ye fish went to Mr. Lambs," it may be assumed that the Castle Inn was the scene of part, at any rate, of the Feast and Thanksgiving, the cause of the expenditure incurred.

In 1714-15 and again in 1718-19, Mr. Lionel Lamb is referred to as a senior member of the Council: but afterwards there is no further reference to him—probably on account of his death.

Eleven years later in 1724-5 (page 103), included in the Bridgemasters' Rentalls, is an item:—

"Mrs. Lamb2 a Capital Messuage called the 'Castle Inn' £4 0 0."3

In 1727 the following entry appears in the County Sessions Records:—

"Mary Hart gave evidence touching some writeings taken from Mr. Hodges. She said 'that on ye 25th of November at Mr. Bowers at ye sign of ye Castle in Nott in discourse between ye said Hodges, Tho. Allen and others by the Fier in ye kitchen at the said sign of ye Castle, she heard Tho. Allens wife say to her husband (upon Hodges offering a Guinea to any person who should produce the said writeings) ' Give them to him for ye Reward' but that Allen said to his wife ' Hold ye tongue you fool, I will first make an end of ym- ',   which Hart interpreted was to destroy them." In  1731 the following entry appears in the County Sessions Book:—

"Memo. That there remaines due from Mrs. Mary Lamb widdow for rent of a house at Nottingham to the County £56 4 0."

There is no record as to where the house was situated that is here referred to. It might have been part of the Castle Inn. Wherever it was it may be assumed that the £56 45. 0d. represented accumulated arrears of rent for a number of years.

On the 27th August, 1731, the County Justices were prepared to treat for and sell such of the lands and tenements belonging to the county as are in the tenure or occupation of Mary Lamb, widow, and on the and October, 1732, they were conveyed for £190 to Mrs. Mary and Susannah Houlder. At this date they are described as "messuage garden and premises let to Mrs. Lambs or her sons possession."

From title deeds in the possession of the Notts. County Council it appears that on the 19th March, 1732, the Corporation of Nottingham conveyed to William Hallowes (the owner of the property now known as the Judges' Lodgings) for £300, the messuage etc., situated in High Pavement and lately commonly called and known by the name of the Castle Inn, being most of it now uninhabited, but some part thereof now occupied by Thomas Lamb, gent.,4 and Jonathan Storer or one of them, and bounded on the east side by a messuage belonging to the freeholders of the county of Nottingham, now occupied by Caleb Parr,5 and on the west by the sign of the "Cock and Hoop," and then in the possession of Jeffery Nixon and John Crampton or one of them, on the south by Narrow Marsh, and on the north by the High Pavement.

The Castle Inn was destroyed before 1744, as in Badder and Peat's map of that date a vista is shown on the site of the Inn. This would have low walls to street, central gate and railing as then fashionable. (See Willoughby House, Marshall Tallards House, etc.)

In 1771 the successors of William Hollowes sold his property to the Fellows family.

In 1833 it was purchased by the County Justices, and as before mentioned the site of the old Inn is now occupied by the County Police Station.

(1) . Where the New Inn was situated is not mentioned.
(2) Presumably the widow of Lionel Lamb.
(3) At page 339 of Volume VI. of the Borough Records, the Castle Inn is incorrectly described as an "Inn near Chapel Bar." Such an Inn existed about 1760 and probably came into existence after the Castle Inn, on the High Pavement, passed away.
(4)  Possibly the son of Lionel Lamb.
(5) i.e. the County House, Caleb Parr being the Governor of  the County Gaol.