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White Hart (Woolwich)
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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Terry F. • Link
"...The White Hart may have been the inn by this name which once existed (? at this period) in Hare St. (Info. from C.H. Turner.)" L&M, iii.150.n.2. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Cumgranissalis • Link
This be my guess, it [the pub ] be in Woolwich, not London city thereto.
Cumgranissalis • Link
Hare street of the London 1746 http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
Terry F. • Link
"Inns and Taverns of Old London" by Henry C. Shelley has it among the Famous Southwark Inns: base of operations for Jack Cade's insurrection,
celebrated by Shakespeare in Henry VI, Part II: "Hath my sword therefore broke through London gates, that you should leave me at the White Hart in Southwark?"..."
At the same unimproved White Hart, "In the Borough," for atmospherics, "[E]arly on the morning succeeding the events narrated in the last chapter....[we find] Sam Weller, making his first appearance" in Charles Dickens' "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club"..."In 1889, in the month of July, four hundred and thirty-nine years after it had received Jack Cade under its roof, the last timbers of the old inn were levelled to the ground." http://www.building-history.pwp.b…