see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale pages 86 and 87. Ousted Simon Place from his pub
The landlord of the Kings Arms in Arundel Street was a William Thomas, (rate books 1776) He went bankrupt (Oxford Journal 1.5.1779). The ratebooks for 1778 named George Hall there. In the trials of the Gordon rioters in 1780 a Mr Hill of the Kings Arms, Arundel Street was a witness.. Simon Place was there in the rate books of 1782 and 1785. In that year Thomas Thomas was in the ratebooks further down Arundel Street (presumably the Watermans Arms as Place stated). In 1789 to 1795 ratebooksThomas Thomas was at the Kings Arms, in 1795 as Thomas Charles Thomas. Thomas Thomas victualler of Arundel Street voted 1784, 1788 and 1790. In 1794 he was twice mentioned in Old Bailey trials as victualler of Kings Arms, Arundel Street.