The usual explanation of the place name Beggars Bush is that it was a haunt of highwaymen or beggars. However, the record of Beggars boush in 1573 undermines these later explanations at Dublin, Donnybrook. Many historical works on Dublin give this. I believe they are examples of the tendency to adopt restrospective romantic explanations. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 30th, 2011 | Filed under: Places, Speculations | Tags: Baggotrath, Donnybrook, Dublin, False Trails, Ireland, beggars, early sites, folly, naming story, prints, proverb | No Comments »
There are four early prints purporting to show Beggars Bush at Donnybrook. It is difficult to identify these with any recorded features or with each other. It seems that the two later prints take liberties with the features to present an artistic scene. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 30th, 2011 | Filed under: Places, Speculations | Tags: Donnybrook, Dublin, False Trails, Ireland, beggars, prints, proverb | No Comments »
At the date of the earliest record in 1573 Baggotrath Castle would have been a prominent landmark in the countryside south east of the city. As However, as the record refers to both it appears to exclude the possibility that the place name Beggars Bush was an Anglicisation of Baggotrath. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 30th, 2011 | Filed under: Places, Speculations | Tags: Baggotrath, Donnybrook, Dublin, False Trails, Ireland, beggars, folly, prints | No Comments »
In 1573 “the Old Shore” of South Dublin continued to Townsend Street, then called Lazey or Lazar’s Hill (also Louseyhill, Louzy Hill and Lowsyhill) from the leper hospital. This is too far away to have any direct connection with Beggars Bush at Donnybrook.
I have encountered an article by Sean Donnelly which speculates that connects the two sites in Dublin through Poor Robin’s An Almanack of the old and new fashion (1694) which says “Since the King of the Beggars was married to the Queen of the Sluts at Lowzy-Hill near Beggars-Bush, being most splendidly attended by a ragged Regiment of Mumpers.” I do not believe this has anything to do with Dublin. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 30th, 2011 | Filed under: Places, Writers | Tags: Donnybrook, Dublin, False Trails, Ireland, Poor Robin, Winstanley, beggars, proverb | No Comments »
Clause, King of the Beggars, is a central character in The Beggars Bush (1622) and the later variations of it. At the end of the play it is revealed that he is actually Gerrard, a deposed Earl of Flanders, who before the action starts has rescued his heir Florez and apprenticed him to an English merchant Goswin, whose business and name Florez has inherited. Gerrard has taken the disguise of Clause the beggar, but his natural authority has lead to his election as the King of the beggars, in the episode which formed the droll The Lame Commonwealth. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 30th, 2011 | Filed under: Writers, Speculations, The Play | Tags: Francis Kirkman, Godmanchester, Izaak Walton, The Lame Commonwealth, The Play | No Comments »
The name is a “Hoisting Place” on the Laugharne Common Walk. This is a ceremony of beating the bounds held once every three years, when the people of the town, led by the Portreeve and the officials of the Court, retrace the town’s ancient boundaries. Ritual “hoisting” is used to remind younger walkers of the location and name of Hoisting Places – more civilised than the more corporal ways of getting young boys to remember bounds in some historical records. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 21st, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Carmarthenshire, Laugharne, William Bullein, derogatory | No Comments »
This name is given in John Field’s English Field-Names; A Dictionary, Newton Abbott, 1993, p.18.
There is also a Beggar Hill in Wroxton.
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Posted: May 21st, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Oxfordshire, Wroxton | No Comments »
Beggars Bush Lane runs off the A449 Stourbridge Road, The name is recorded in the 1841 Census and also as Beggars Bush Lodge, Himley Park, which was a gatehouse for Himley Hall. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 21st, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Warwickshire, Wombourne, pubs | 6 Comments »
A Lease dated 12 May 1790 of minerals rights (lead, copper, iron ores, coal and calamine) under Knowle Field refers to the adjoining wood, Knowle Paddock, and Beggars Bush Close in Henbury.
The Bristol Mercury, 16 Dec 1837, reported a meeting of the Trades at the Tailors Hall, Broad Street to support Mr Berkeley the “radical” candidate against a petition by the Tories for his removal on the basis his agents had offered bribes to the electors. Mr Sennington, “rising to move the first resolution” and remarking on the strength of the trades in Bristol referred to the signatories to the Tory petition;
“First there was Mr Bush: perhaps they all recollected a large tree on Durdham Down, which was called the Beggars’ Bush; now he could imagine a tall gigantic individual, lowly stooping to each passenger as he passed by soliciting a subscription in aid of the petition fund.”
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Posted: May 21st, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Bristol, Gloucestershire, Henbury | 1 Comment »
1891 Census Return, RG12/2479 for Bearley District, Bearley Parish, records at 139, Whitley Beggars Bush, with Samuel Shervington, Head, aged 64, a Farm Labourer, with a housekeeper and at 140, Beggars Bush, with Clement Weetman, Head, age 68, an Agricultural Labourer, with his wife, and adult son. Assuming the census taker is proceeding sequentially the location appears to be between Preston Green and Whitley House, along or near the Warwick Road east of Henley-in-Arden. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 21st, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Bearley, Warwickshire | No Comments »
