1 & 2 Hugh Place

Faversham

Above photo, date unknown by Arthur Percival.

It is suggested that this pub closed in 1653 and the name and license was transferred to the other "Fleur de Lis" situated in Preston Street.

The murder in February 1551 of Thomas Arden, the 1548 Mayor of Faversham, by his wife inspired the first English domestic drama, Arden of Faversham. Arden, who lived in the former Faversham Abbey's guest house (Arden's House, Abbey Street), was killed in his parlour by Alice Arden, and her lover, Thomas Mosby, aided by two hired thugs. The plot to kill Arden was hatched in this building, so it seems, but the landlord at the time, Adam Fowle, was cleared of any part in the killing of one of the town's most respected citizens. The events, reported in Holinshed's Chronicles, are immortalised in the 1592 play, attributed by some scholars to Shakespeare.

LICENSEE LIST

FOWLE Adam 1551+

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