User:Pontificalibus/The Bear at Bridge Foot
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was a tavern located on the south bank of the river thames, at the foot of London Bridge in Southwark, England.
History
[edit]The tavern was often frequented by the aristocracy.
Records show that in 1463 John Howard paid for dinner there.https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9m05AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA430
A 1633 order to facilitate law enforcement stated that "all back doors to taverns on the Thames are commanded to be shut up, only the Bear at Bridge-foot is exempted, by reason of the passage to Greenwich". https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=R2MCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA32