No evidence is available to establish the actual date when the
Tabard was built; Stow speaks of it as among the "most ancient" of
the locality; but the nearest approach to definite dating assigns
the inn to the early fourteenth century. One antiquary indeed fixes
the earliest distinct record of the site of the inn in 1304, soon
after which the Abbot of Hyde, whose abbey was in the neighbourhood
of Winchester, here built himself a town mansion and probably at
the same time a hostelry for travellers. Three years later the
Abbot secured a license to erect a chapel close by the inn. It
seems likely, then, that the Tabard had its origin as an adjunct of
the town house of a Hampshire ecclesiastic.
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