Pub London's pubs had closed. The closures have been ascribed to factors such as changing tastes, rise in the cost of beer due to applied taxes and the increase in the Muslim population. Inns and taverns feature throughout English literature and poetry, from The Tabard Inn in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" onwards. The highwayman Dick Turpin used the Swan Inn at Woughton-on-the-Green in Buckinghamshire as his base. Jamaica Inn near Bolventor in Cornwall gave its name to a 1936 novel by Daphne du Maurier and a 1939 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In the 1920s John Fothergill (1876–1957) was the innkeeper of
Jamaica Inn (1983 TV series) is not home. Mary also fails to meet the local squire/magistrate Bassatt at his home. However, his men accompany her back to the inn, where they find both her aunt and her uncle murdered. Bassatt and Davey show up at the inn, and Davey offers to take Mary in. At his home, she discovers paintings by him that show the two of them in a Druidic ceremony. They also prominently feature a Celtic symbol she recognizes as the one worn by the leader of the outlaw band. Meanwhile, the vicar has rejoined the squire and Jem and learns that the