BLACK PRINCE’S GHOST.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 2053, 9 December 1924, Page 6

BLACK PRINCE’S GHOST.

RAID TO HAVE WARNED BRITAIN

The spirit of the Black Prince is said tot haunt Hall place, the Pith century mansion at* Bexley, Heath, Kent, whore Lady Limerick resides, states the Daily Chronicle. It is stated that the figure has been seen three times in recent years, always in black armour. Two of'its visits were during the war, at periods when the national outlook was particularly grim, and the latest was a few weeks back. Lady Limerick herself testifies to these ghostly apparitions ; and she believes that the Prince is giving warning of impending danger to Britain “The last time I saw the ghost was on a. Sunday evening,” she told a Daily Chronicle representative. “The figure was standing by the fireplace m the morning room, and when I went m-ijo 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 evening. Sometimes there have been faint sounds of music, as if very sweet oldfashioned instruments were being played ”

Lady Limerick lias declared that tho vision did not frighten her, although it stalled her for a. moment. In a. second) it had disappeared. She has long resided in the mansion—“and I have said I would die in it,” she added. It has been suggested 'that the ghost of the Black Prince lias been attracted to 'She spot because it is associated with his wooing of his cousin Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent. The belief is that bis body rested in Hall Place for a night, when being taken to Canterbury for burial. Historic links and legends cluster thickly around the house and neighbourhood. Hall Place is owned by Lady Limerick’s son-in-law. Mr Cox Brady, anAmerican millionaire, whose desire is that the famous building shall be preserved aft a national treasure. In the district around grew the yew trees from which the bows of the English archers at Crecy were cut