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Identifier: besantsouthlondon00besa (find matches)
Title: South London
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Besant, Walter, Sir, 1836-1901
Subjects: London (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE OLD TABARD INTJ, SOUTHWARK at the horsetail from the Standard at Chepe, was cut up inquarters, which were displayed in various places in order tostrike terror into the minds of the people. I have spoken sufficiently of Chaucer already. TheTabard Inn, from which the famous Company set out, wasnamed after the ornamented coat or jacket worn by Kings atCoronations, and by heralds, or even by ordinary persons.In the fourteenth century it was the town house of the Abbot IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 269 of Hyde, Winchester. Does this mean that the Abbot allowedthe place to be used as an ordinary inn ? It is clear thatChaucer speaks of it as an ordinary inn. Yet in 1307 the
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ST. GEORGE, SOUTHWARK : NORTH-WEST VIEW(front an Engraving by D. Cole) 270 SOUTH LONDON Bishop of Winchester licenses a chapel at the Abbots Hos-pitium in the Parish of St. Margaret, Southwark. At theDissolution it is surrendered as * a hostelry called the Taberd,the Abbots place, the Abbots stable, the garden belonging,a dung place leading to the ditch going to the Thames. Itis explained in Spights Chaucer, 1598, that the old Tabardhad much decayed, but that it had been repaiied with theAbbots house adjoining. Until the inn was finally pulleddown, a room used to be shown as that in which ChaucersCompany assembled. This, however, was not the room,though it may have been rebuilt on the site of the old room.For on Friday, May 26, 1676, a destructive fire broke out,which raged over a large part of the Borough and destroyedthe Queens Head, the Talbot, the George, the White Hart,the Kings Head, the Green Dragon, the Borough Compter,the Meat Market, and about 500 houses. St. Thomass Hos-pit

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