 Later that year, the landlord, Charles Barrett, was found guilty under the Mutiny Act 1703 for failing to provide sufficient straw for two horses of the 12th Royal Lancers who were billeted at the hotel on 20 September.The landlord in 1840 is listed as a Thomas Morgan, who was succeeded by his son Vaughn Morgan in 1848.He had taken it on a three-year lease initially, but this was stretched out.