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Horse Ferry, according to early accounts, was established specifically to carry clergymen from their residence at Lambeth Palace to Westminster Palace across the river.
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Soldier, statesman, and Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Led the parliamentary forces in the English Civil Wars.
King of Scotland, England, and Ireland
Queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Bishop of London
Renter of Horse Ferry.
Owner of Horse Ferry.
The
Lambeth Palace, also known as Lambeth House and the Palace of the Archbishop, was and continues to be the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury (Stow 1633, sig. F1r; Encyclopedia Britannica). It is located on the south bank of the River of Thames by Lambeth Marsh, slightly south of being directly across the Thames from Westminster Abbey. St. Mary (Lambeth) is a part of the palace’s environs. The palace was first built in about The lambeht
on the Agas map and Lambeth Palace
on Google’s modern map (Google Earth).
Lambeth was a neighbourhood located on the southern bank of the Thames, directly opposite to Westminster (Lysons). Jeremy Boulton notes that Lambeth lay outside the
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Horse Ferry, according to early accounts, was established specifically to carry clergymen from their residence at Lambeth Palace to Westminster Palace across the river. The date the ferry began to run across the river is unknown, but there is a reference to it in the
Horse Ferry was the only way to cross from Lambeth to Westminster, and the controversial idea of building a bridge to replace the ferry was proposed multiple times, beginning in
Horse Ferry played a part in early modern lore and legend. One famous account involving the ferry is that of the escape of Thus with literally
(Strickland 198). The journey continued and the queen and her infant son arrived safely in France.only one frail plank between her and eternity
did the Queen of Great Britain cross the swollen waters of the Thames, with her tender infant of six months old in her arms
Local legend associated mishaps on the Horse Ferry with bad luck. In
Another part of the lore of Horse Ferry was the infamous character of its ferrymen, for the rudeness of the Horse Ferry operators was legendary. Their vulgarity and insolence became such a problem that in immodest, obscene and lewd
language with their passengers (qtd. in Weightman 50).