Has anyone done any research on why we have so many pubs with this name?

 

I have been sent an article on a pub by that name in St.Mary Cray. Suggests that referred the name referred to meeting places for loyalist royalists during the Cromwell era – describes Charles II as having ‘Spanish ancestry, and as a consequence had very black hir and olive skin. His mother referred to him as ‘the black boy’ in a letter written when he was a toddler, and the name stuck’.

 

Marika