Identifier: vanishingengland00ditc (find matches)
Title: Vanishing England
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: England -- Description and travel England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ortescues, near Winslow.Part of the inn was built by the Earl of Rochester in1663, and many were the great feasts and civic banquetsthat took place within its hospitable doors. The KingsHead dates from the middle of the fifteenth century andis a good specimen of the domestic architecture of theTudor period. It formerly issued its own tokens. Itwas probably the hall of some guild or fraternity. Ina large window are the arms of England and Anjou.The George Inn has some interesting paintings whichwere probably brought from Eythrope House on itsdemolition in 1810, and the Bulls Head has some finebeams and panelling. Some of the inns of Burford and Shrewsbury we haveseen when we visited those old-world towns. Wymondham,once famous for its abbey, is noted for its Green Dragon,a beautiful half-timbered house with projecting storeys,and in our wanderings we must not forget to see alongthe Brighton road the picturesque Star at Alfristonwith its three oriel windows, one of the oldest in Sussex.
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17 258 VANISHING ENGLAND It was once a sanctuary within the jurisdiction of theAbbot of Battle for persons flying from justice. Hithercame men-slayers, thieves, and rogues of every descrip-tion, and if they reached this inn-door they were safe.There is a record of a horse-thief named Birrel in thedays of Henry VIII seeking refuge here for a crime com- ^**»

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