 | Thomas Cromwell - 1821 - 314 pages
...was appended, till removed on forming the new pavement about 1767, was inscribed: " This is the Jnn where Sir Jeffrey Chaucer and the nine and twenty...pilgrims lay in their journey to Canterbury, anno 1383." An inscription to this purport is still to be seen in the yard. Southwark having been from a very remote... | |
 | Thomas Kitson Cromwell - 1821 - 300 pages
...was appended, till removed on forming the new pavement about 1767, was inscribed: " This is the Inn where Sir Jeffrey Chaucer and the nine and twenty...pilgrims lay in their journey to Canterbury, anno 1383." An inscription to this purport is still to be seen in the yard. Southwark having been from a very remote... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 478 pages
...five or six years there was also the following inscription : — " This is the Inne where Sir Jeffry Chaucer and the nine and twenty Pilgrims lay in their journey to Canterbury, anno 1383." This inscription was formerly on the frieze of a beam laid crosswise upon two uprights, which stood... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1854 - 294 pages
...1676. An inscription was afterwards set up to indicate the house : * This is the inne where Sir Jeflry Chaucer and the nine and twenty pilgrims lay in their journey to Canterbury, anno 1383.' No part of the existing inn is of the age of Chancer. In Speght's time it was ' newly repaired, with... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1861 - 476 pages
...Talbot, just opposite the Town Hall, there was this inscription, — This is the Inne where Sir Jeffry Chaucer, and the nine and twenty pilgrims lay in their journey to Canterbury, Anno 1383. The Town Hall is gone now — so old London disappears ; and the inscription, I grieve to say, is gone,... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1867 - 488 pages
...street in front of the inn-door, and on the cross-beam was inscribed, "This is the Line where Sir Jeffry Chaucer and the nine and twenty Pilgrims lay in their journey to Canterbury, anno 1383." The inscription was not ancient, and the date in it, doubtless, had no better authority than a shrewd guess.... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1867 - 492 pages
...street in front of the inn-door, and on the cross-beam was inscribed, "This is the Inne where Sir Jeffry Chaucer and the nine and twenty Pilgrims lay in their journey to Canterbury, anno 1383." The inscription was not ancient, and the date in it, doubtless, had no better authority than a shrewd guess.... | |
 | Godfrey Holden Pike - 1870 - 200 pages
...was removed, and passengers deprived of the pleasure of reading its inscription, " This is the Inne where Sir Jeffrey Chaucer, and the nine and twenty...pilgrims lay, in their journey to Canterbury, anno 1483." Winchester House, the religious associations of which are detailed on another page, was among... | |
 | J. Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 508 pages
...little more than the last thirty years, the following inscription : " This is the Inne where Sir Jeffry Chaucer and the nine and twenty pilgrims lay in their journey to Canterbury, anno 1383." This, then, was the identical and famous Tabard Inn, where the jovial troop of pilgrims assembled at... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 516 pages
...little more than the last thirty years, the following inscription: " This is the Inne where Sir Jeffry Chaucer and the nine and twenty pilgrims lay in their journey to Canterbury, anno 13S3." This, then, was the identical and famous Tabard Inn, where the jovial troop of pilgrims assembled... | |
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Southwark, was to be seen, till within little more than the last thirty years, the following inscription : " This is the Inne where Sir Jeffry Chaucer and the nine and twenty pilgrims lay in their journey to Canterbury, anno 1383. 
