Note 86 — II. The Necessity for Dissolution.
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In 1484 Wallingford formally allowed Thomas Hethnes, keeper of the George Inn, to have a chapel for the celebration of the Mass by the Chaplains of ‘such great men and nobles and others as should be lodging at this hostelry’ (Whethamstede II, xxxiii; also p. 269), a clear indication of the decline of the one-time famous hospitality.