Licensees :
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WILLIAM HERRING	1759
ROBERT TINKLER Seven Stars died 1764	to 1764
WILLIAM TINKLER Died Thursday 4th March 1776	1764 - 1776
Mrs MARY TINKLER re-married to Peter Hudson	1776 - 1778
PETER HUDSON senr (Went to Fleece October 1795)	09.1789
WILLIAM PEARSON	10.1795
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ROBERT LEEDER	1812 - 1813
THOMAS POWDITCH	to 01.1820
THOMAS WABON Died January 1829 - age 59	1822 - 1829
THOMAS SMITH Age 30 in 1841	1830 - 1841
WILLIAM WARNER	1845
RICHARD CARROWAY age 58 in 1851 & shopkeeper Died October 1859	1846 - 1858
GEORGE ELLIS BAKER & ropemaker	1861 - 1863
WILLIAM PLANE	*1865
SAMPSON SOUTHGATE & butcher	1867 - 1879
Monday 3rd June 1867 - Fine of 11s, including costs, for having unjust scales on his premises on 17th May 1867. Mr. Southgate said that he had since had his scales lined with zinc so as to prevent them getting out of order in future.
Fine of £2 and 15s costs having been found guilty of killing a hare on the grounds of the Earl of Leicester at Wighton on 17th May 1870. The dogs concerned in the incident  were not his, but it was deemed that he had been in charge of them.

The THREE TUNS is mentioned in Wells Manor Court Records. 1640. Also recorded 1751 and 1759.

The house apparently traded in 1764 as the SEVEN STARS, but given as the THREE TUNS INN in 1776 and 1777.

The Estate of the late Robert Sandford, deceased, was sold at the house of Mrs. Mary Tinkler, the Three Tuns, on 5th July 1777.
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William Pearson announced 7th October 1795 :-
`In returning his sincere thanks to his numerous Friends for their favours conferred upon him in the Carrying Business, which he has now declines, embraces this opportunity of informing them, and the public in general, that he has taken the TUNS INN at Wells which he has properly fitted up and, laid in Wine, Spirits, &c. of the best quality for their accommodation and hopes for their patronage and support in the undertaking'. ~

Meeting place for the Wells Club, an organisation to which Horatio Nelson made reference in a letter to his brother dated 1781.

Property owned by Peter Hudson to c1815

For Sale by Auction 1st January 1820, in occupation of Thomas Powditch, who had notice to quit.

Thomas Wabon (here by 1822 to 1829) had spent many years of his early life in the Royal Navy and later served as Signal Lieutenant at the Wayborne station.

George Ellis Baker, the bankrupt, applied for an Order of Discharge on Saturday 9th January 1864. His expenditure had been a total of £208 in the previous two years and had never been bankrupt before. His unsecured creditors lived mainly in Wells, Norwich, East Dereham and Blakeney. He gave up 5s 6d as the remainder of his `estate', which was returned to him along with an immediate Order of Discharge.