Excerpt from Lost Endeavour
I got my learning, such as it is, form Dr. Carter, who kept an Academy for the Sons of Gentlemen, in a great old haunted house which stood at that time (1690) near the coach road to Shooter"s Hill, on the southern border of Black Heath. Dr. Carter was one of the old school, "birch and bottle men" I think they called them, because they flogged without mercy, and drank port wine without stint; but he knew a great deal of Greek, they say, and he was always very good to me, so his faults may rest. His house, at one time, long before he came there, was one of the old, bad coaching inns.
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