 The inn became a staging post for carriers in the sixteenth century and was, until 1756, the London departure point for James Pickford, of the Pickfords family business.Thomas Nashe's "Have with You to Saffron-Walden" alludes to this, saying "Yet have I naturally cherisht and hugt it in my bosome, even as a carrier at Bosome's Inn doth a cheese under his arms".In 1835, an aged porter at the inn, John Neat, had hanged himself for the third time.