scarcely have been here, because this was one of the inns changing their names about the time of the Reformation, or as the result of the altered conditions which that event produced. It has been seen how, as late as the seventeenth century, the Cross Keys secularised its sign, adopting doubtless the head of Queen Elizabeth. In making this change the owner or landlord followed an example set him about a century before at the inn now in question. Among other ecclesiastics who lodged in Southwark not the least important was the Abbot of Waverley, near Farnham, the earliest house of the Cistercian order in England, founded in 1128, by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester. In 1534 the Abbot, still apparently at his town dwelling near the river, wrote arranging an interview "at the Pope's Head in Southwark." This was the very year of the separation of the Church of England from Papal headship. About eight years afterwards our inn is marked in a Record Office map as the "Kynges Hed." In some deeds very kindly lent to the writer many years ago by Mr. G. Eliot Hodgkin, F.S.A., the famous collector, whose family for some generations possessed the property, many interesting points appear. The first, which is in

LAST OF THE KING'S HEAD INN,

SOUTHWARK, 1884

Originally the Pope's Head, the sign being changed at the Reformation. At one time it belonged to Thomas Cure, a noteworthy inhabitant of Southwark, and later to Humble, first Lord Ward, ancestor of the present Earl of Dudley. These remains were pulled down in 1885.