BLACK PRINCE’S “GHOST”

Evening Star, Issue 18785, 8 November 1924, Page 9

BLACK PRINCE’S “GHOST”

LADY LIMERICK’S STORY. " WARNING TO BRITAIN.” Hall Place, the beautiful Kentish home] of Lady Limerick at Bexley Heath, is said, to be haunted by the spirit of the Black, Prince. Three times the ghost has been ] seen by Lady Limerick, and on each sion it has been cla-d in black armor and 1 surrounded by a- light. “ The last time I saw the ghost,” Lady Limerick said recently, ” was on a Sunday evening a few weeks ago. The figure was standing by the fireplace_ in the morning room, and when I went into the room with a friend it glided away through the window into the garden. On the two previous occasions the ghost appeared in the dusk of the evening. SometimeSj also, there are faint sounds of music, as if very sweet, old-fashioned instruments are being * C?ne of the theories advanced for the presence of the ghost is that the Black Prince is returning to the scene_ of Ida wooing of his cousin, Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent. Lady Limerick believes that tho Prince is giving warning of impending danger to Britain. It is believed that the body of the Black Prince rested in Hall Place for one night on its way to Canterbury for burial. The house and_ the district are rich in historical associations, and legends cluster thickly around it. Tho famous yew bo,vs of the English archers at Crecy were cut from tho yew trees round the district. Hall Place now belongs to Lady Limerick’s son-in-law, Mr Cox Brady, an American millionaire, who desires to preserve the fourteenth-century mansion for the nation. Lady Limerick, however, will continue to live in Hall Place. "I ha. ye always lived in this house,” ahs Baid,; “ and I said I would die in it,”- |