The best-known legend of The White Hart is that King Charles I spent a night there on 2 July 1644, at the height of the English Civil War. It’s a story that has survived in local oral history, but seems never to
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Originally called The White Hart, its most famous guest was Charles I, who stayed overnight on two occasions while on military manoeuvres during the English Civil War in 1644 and 1645. Memories of the first visit survived in local oral history, and have been the inn’s chief claim to …
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In the 1836 novel Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, the White Hart is where Samuel Pickwick encounters Samuel Weller and employs him as his manservant. [5] The inn's name survives in the street White Hart Yard, its former courtyard. [6]
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The Jacobite rebel, Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, stayed in the White Hart in 1746, on his way to the Tower of London. In the 1745 Jacobite rising Lovat had sent his son and his clansmen to fight for Bonnie Prince Charlie while he protested his loyalty to the government.
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John Hampden, who lived locally at Great Hampden near Aylesbury, played a key role in parliamentary opposition to Charles I. He was sent to trial for his refusal to pay ‘ship money’, one of the King’s extraordinary taxes raised without parliamentary approval. Hampden was killed early in the Civil War in 1643 but is something of a local hero.
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Grafton Regis is a small, but historically significant village in South Northamptonshire, England. Elizabeth Woodville (The White Queen) married Edward IV at the Hermitage and it was once home to one of King Henry VIII's grand palaces which he …
The Fate Of The White Hart | Spitalfields Life
2023年5月19日 · Charles Goss, one of the first archivists at the Bishopsgate Institute, was in thrall to the romance of old Bishopsgate and in 1930 he wrote a lyrical history of The White Hart, which he believed to be its most ancient tavern – originating as early as 1246.
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The short-lived monarch shares his supporters with his father: the white lion and the white hart. [17] A painting of the king's arms is found in St George's Chapel, beside the tomb of Oliver King, Bishop of Exeter. It shows dexter a lion argent and sinister a hind argent. [18] lion and hart King Richard III (1483–1485) two boars argent
Blythburgh White Hart pub shop threatened with closure
2011年6月17日 · A village pub's shop and post office, which Prince Charles praised, is threatened with closure. The tenant landlord of the White Hart in Blythburgh, who did not wish to be named, said it...
History of the White Hart – Nettlebed
King Charles I fled to Nettlebed after his defeat at the Battle of Reading in 1643. It is not known whether the King himself visited the WHH, as he would have probably descended on the manor house to stay in, but his troops stayed in the WHH prior to their surrender.