WHERE DRAKE SUPPED

Evening Star, Issue 18852, 29 January 1925, Page 3

WHERE DRAKE SUPPED

SEA DOGS OF DEVON. Another of Plymouth’s Tudor houses, the number of which is fast being reduced, is threatened with destruction. The former homo of one of tho. sea dogs of Devon, who helped to make history, its inhabitants doubtless looked down from their windows on ill-fated Katherine of Aragon as sho passed by on the way to her marriage with Bluff King Hal; ou John Davies" as he set, out for_ first exploration of tho Arctic; on Sir Walter Raleigh returning from Virginia with his discovery of tobacco ; on cook starting on bis last voyage; and on the Pilgrim Fathers as they passed to join the May’flower lying at the quay. Sir Richard GvevilJe and Sir John Hawkins passed by the door of this house many a tune when setting out in search of adventure. Sir Francis Drake no doubt supped under its massive oak timbers when he bad done bis day s wotk as churchwarden at the adjoining church of St. Andrew's, and probably be tarried on the day that ’Frobisher was buried in tho church.