THE GHOST OF THE BLACK PRINCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11831, 12 January 1933, Page 6

THE GHOST OF THE BLACK PRINCE.

■ If buildings could talk few would have as ■ enthralling a tale to tell as Hall Place, Bexley, Kent, the 600-year-old home of A! ay, Countess of Limerick, where many of the glamorous pageantries of the past took place. , Tjie tale was told in a pageant presented in tho grounds of Hall Place. Four thousand performers took part, and tho only scenery was tho house itself and its beautiful lawns and trees.

One of tho episodes of the pageant showed how the Black Pinrcc arrived to spend the first night of his honeymoon at Hall Place, after his marriage to the “Fair Maid of Kent” his cousin Joan, in 1361. There also lay his _ body on its; way to Canterbury, and it is reputed that Lady Limerick is convinced that, she has seen the ghost of tho Black Prince on three occasions, and felt its presence even more, recently. She said to a reporter of the “Daily Mail”

“The Prince is said to appear omy to avert national disaster. 1, was last aware of his spirit just before the last election, but I have seen hie swarthy face, tjie grey shadowy outline of his body on three occasions. Other spirits haunt the house, too. Tito ‘Fair Maid’ herself is said lo Tfave appeared, and last March I heard the low strains of singing, as of monies chanting. The house, I am satisfied, (was once a monastery.”