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Title: Walks in London
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834-1903
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Publisher: New York : G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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fSir John Fastolf, named Payne, was only saved from thesame fate by the intercession of one Robert Poynings, whenhe was sent from his masters house at Horsleydown toobtain the articles of the rebels demands. The inn whereCade staid was burnt in 1669 and again in 1676, but wasrebuilt in the same style, with the wooden balconies usedin w;\tching the open-air theatrical performances in thecourts below, by which the taverns were made popular.Shakspeares plays were probably acted in the courtyards ofsuch inns, he himself being an actor. The White Hartis described by Charles Dickens in the Pickwick Papers.Tne next inn, The George^ has double tiers of wooden 462 WALKS IN LONDON galleries. It is described by Stow as existing in his time,and is mentioned as early as 1554—35th Henry VIII.,when its name was the St. George. The original inn wasburnt in 1676, but it was rebuilt in the same style. But the most interesting of old hostelries was theTabard, mentioned even in 1598 by Stow as the most
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The George Inn, Southwark. ancient of the inns of Southwark, and which had becomefor ever celebrated, when Chaucer, at Woodstock, with the nightingales,At sixty, wrote the Canterbury tales. * Up to a few years before its destruction it was marked byan inscription, which said, *This is the Inne where SirJeffrey Chaucer and the nine and twenty pilgrims lay intheir journey to Canterbury, anno 1383. It was an old • Longfellow. THE TABARD, 463 house worthy of Nuremberg, and such as we shall never seeagain in London, with high roofs and balustraded woodengalleries supported upon stone pillars. A worn fadedpicture of the Canterbury Pilgrimage hung from thegallery in front of the Pilgrims Room. The fronttowards the street was* comparatively modern, havingperished in the fire of 1676, after which, says Aubrey, the I

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