| Inns And Taverns Of Old London Contributor(s): Shelley, Henry C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1162668237 ISBN-13: 9781162668239 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Food, Lodging & Transportation - Hotels, Inns & Hostels - History | Europe - General - Literary Collections |
| Dewey: 914.21 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (0.67 lbs) 170 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: No evidence is available to establish the actual date when the Tabard was built; Stow speaks of it as among the "most ancient" of the locality; but the nearest approach to definite dating assigns the inn to the early fourteenth century. One antiquary indeed fixes the earliest distinct record of the site of the inn in 1304, soon after which the Abbot of Hyde, whose abbey was in the neighbourhood of Winchester, here built himself a town mansion and probably at the same time a hostelry for travellers. Three years later the Abbot secured a license to erect a chapel close by the inn. It seems likely, then, that the Tabard had its origin as an adjunct of the town house of a Hampshire ecclesiastic. |