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twelve discreet and trustworthy men, Knights or others, upon whose fidelity he can best rely, to meet him at
Lincoln, on the 7th of January 1308, very early in the mornin; at which place and time the Sheriff is to be in person to do and perform what shall be contained in the said write, and also what he shall be directed to do by the bearer of it.
338:). However, the Reverend B. Street, curate of Grantham, stated in 1857 after his own investigations that "such is not the case". "I have read a document drawn up at Grantham, October 15, 1291," he wrote, "which certainly refers to the property, as belonging to the Knights Templars, but not as being a Preceptory of the Order.".
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Item, I give to the alderman of
Grantham and his successor for ever, a rent charge of 40 shillings a year to be paid out of the Angel Inn in Grantham aforesaid every Michaelmas day, upon this trust, that he procure some able divine to preach a sermon in the afternoon the Sunday after every alderman's
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above, can still be seen today. Also still to be seen today is the gold-painted carved wooden figure of an angel over the entrance, beneath the oriel. Such a wooden figure, dating as it does to earlier than the seventeenth century, is rare for an inn. The entrance dates to the Tudor period, as do
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Grantham's various "blue" pubs are one example of this. The area has had, in its history, pubs named the Blue Pig, the Blue Lion, the Blue Horse, the Blue Dog, the Blue Bull, the Blue Cow, the Blue Ram, the Blue Sheep, the Blue Lamb, and (a single human amongst the animals) the Blue Man. (There is
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The Blues are reminded, that at the last
Election, in 1826, the Hon. FREDERICK TALMASH polled 563 votes, 280 of which were plumpers; that Mr. CHOLMELEY polled 338 votes, 37 of which were plumpers; and that the Hon. EDWARD CUST polled 312 votes, 99 of which were plumpers, who can still be brought in
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Welby (who took the seat) and
Thornton were supported by Lord Brownlow and the Duke of Rutland. Manners and Danvers were supported by William Manners. Before this election, voters had been paid two guineas per candidate for their votes. With this election, the price rose to ten guineas per voter
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The King is about to proceed to parts beyond the seas for a short time. During his absence, he wishes certain matters relative to the peace of the kingdom to be explained to the
Sheriff in a writ which the Sheriff will shortly receive. The Sheriff of Lincolnshire is therefore commanded to warn
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Election are informed, that they can shoot and fish, as hitherto, over the adjoining Manors of Grantham, Little Gonerby, Manthorpe, Somerby, Spittlegate, Houghton, and Walton, but over no other Blue Manors; that the can have the choice of 200 houses in Grantham, and of 200
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Wednesday, 10th January, 1308, very early in the morning, the Sheriff of Lincoln, with the twelve men summoned and sworn, is to attach and arrest all the Knights Templars in his Bailiwick. All their lands, goods, tenements, chattels, charters, writings, and muniments, are to be seized and
408:, used for issuing a death warrant, was delivered to the king by messenger "in a chamber called the King's chamber in the Angel Inn, in the presence of the Bishops of Worcester, Durham, St David's, and St Asaph, and of the Earls of Northumberland and Huntingdon, and of Sir Thomas Stanley".
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The Blue Pig pub, on the corner of Vine Street and
Swinegate. The ground storey is stone-faced, with the upper floor, overhanging the lower, having an exposed timber frame. The timbers were exposed, by removing rendering that had previously covered them, in the early
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Grantham church (in the ringing chamber of the church's bell tower), in 1706 a Mr. Michael Sullivan left a benefaction to the church for a sermon against drunkenness, to be paid by the Angel Inn. As recorded in the
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secured, and an inventory of them made, in the presence of the Custos of the Templar's house, and two witnesses. The Knights are to be kept in safe custody, but not in a straight or loathsome prison; and to be maintained out of the revenues of the Order.
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and chose blue as their colour. They bought several pubs and inns in the constituency, and added "blue" to their names. People could drink "blue ale" in the "blue" pubs, which was an inducement to vote for Whig candidates in the parliamentary elections.
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for Grantham, if he will cordially join the Blues on the day of Election, his brother owning by Kemp's map of the Borough 60 houses in Grantham, Welby's father only 4 houses, and Cholmeley neither house nor pig-sty within six miles of it.
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The front of what is now The Angel and Royal Hotel. Despite the many royal visits in previous centuries, the "and Royal" was only finally added to the name in 1866, when the inn was visited by the then Prince of Wales, later King
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on 1 June 1461. In her will of April 1495, she in turn bequeathed it to "Dame Jane Pesemershe, widow" for her lifetime. Le George reverted to the Crown in 1606, at that time known as the Queen's Inn, called Le
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portions of the courtyard buildings. Other rarities to have survived in the Inn include the stone twin-panel vaulting in the interior ceilings of the bay windows. The front of the building is built in
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105:). Pubs in the constituency declared political allegiances, and acted as gathering places for supporters of political factions. Where a person drank declared that person's political views.
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choice for ever, wherein the subject shall be chiefly against drunkenness and then pay the preacher 40 shillings for the same, I looking upon that sin to be the inlet of almost all others.
372:, a manuscript held in the British Museum), in place of the arms of the Templars that had been there, indicating that the Templars' property in Grantham had passed to the Hospitallers.
124:, Liberal member of Parliament for the constituency, by the Manners family, although a statue to him exists in Grantham town. However, in the 20th century the building of the defunct
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of the time, including the lofty arched entryway for coaches that was used for such inns starting in 1760. The date carved on the keystone of the central entranceway is 1789.
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The gateway arch of the Angel Inn, as it stood in the 19th century, was older than the rest of the front of the building. On either side of the arch were carved heads of
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The Durham Ox, on the corner of Welby Street and Wharf Road, which ceased to be a pub in 1961, and was demolished in order to build the Isaac Newton Centre in 1983.
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Grantham granting the release of Lucian of Arquill). The evidence for Richard III's visit he took from Rymer's Fædera, as quoted in Halstead's
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A List of the Poll, at the Contested Election at Grantham, on the 30th & 31st of July and on the 2nd & 3rd of August, 1830
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History, gazetteer, and directory of Leicestershire, and ... Rutland: together with the adjacent towns of Grantham & Stamford
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Closes adjoining Grantham; and that as many as please can have, at this time, work at Buckminster, near Grantham.
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The "lofty steeple" is that of the parish church of St Wulfram, which is only a few hundred metres from the pub.
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stone. The Angel thus lays claim to being the oldest surviving Inn in England, sitting on what was once the
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Diane Watson & Tony Watson (2004). "Pubs". In Stephan Harrison; Steve Pile & N. J. Thrift (eds.).
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The Chequers Inn in Butchers Row, demolished in the 1880s, only to be replaced by a pub of the same name.
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Nikolaus Pevsner; John Harris & Nicholas Antram (2002).
30:"Blue Bull" redirects here. For the Asian antelope, see
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Patterned ground: entanglements of nature and culture
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David Rothwell (2006). "Angel and Royal, Grantham".
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The Wesleyan reform union magazine. Christian words
576:(2nd ed.). Yale University Press. p. 324.
1001:W. M. Jacob (2002). "Lay people and philanthropy".
875:. Ayer Publishing. pp. 7–8, 97, 112, 223–224.
828:. High Street, Grantham: S. Ridge. 1830. p. 2.
438:The Beehive public house in Grantham sports a real
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History, gazetteer, and directory of Leicestershire
116:Grantham also once had a Manners Arms, named after
52:reflect to a great extent the history of the town,
1054:Historical Notes on Grantham, and Grantham Church
934:Historical Notes on Grantham, and Grantham Church
482:Other present and past pubs in Grantham include:
135:and turned into a public house, The Tollemache.
810:Thomas Allen (1834). "Grantham soke and town".
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1072:. Taylor & Francis. p. 103.
1051:B. Street (1857). "The George Inn".
690:. Reaktion Books. pp. 216–217.
56:, and Parliamentary constituency of
34:. For the breed of beef cattle, see
931:B. Street (1857). "The Angel Inn".
843:. Wordsworth Editions. p. 19.
718:. Wordsworth Editions. p. 48.
457:A lofty steeple and a living sign.
262:Sir Montague Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet
138:The constituency of Grantham was a
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980:. Reaktion Books. pp. 17–18.
978:Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion
937:. High Street, Grantham: S. Ridge.
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955:. Echo Library. p. 117.
543:The Royal Queen, Belton Lane.
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27:Hostelries in Lincolnshire
1070:The Dickens Encyclopaedia
951:P. H. Ditchfield (2007).
740:"History of Colsterworth"
652:Christian words (1878).
158:Grantham election, 1802
118:William Manners, Baronet
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18:The George Inn, Grantham
841:Dictionary of Pub Names
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240:Frederick Tollemache
122:Frederick Tollemache
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1083:"The Royal Queen"
953:Vanishing England
639:Notes and queries
614:Grantham in Focus
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