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The Bulletin
Fix this textTHE AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL SCENE PAGE 4
Fix this text“The Bulletin,” Vol. 78—No. 4023
Fix this textWednesday, March 20, 195?
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Fix this textRegistered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for transmission by Post as a Newspaper.
Fix this textNo. 34!: the Homeland Series by the House of Seppelt.
Fix this textRYE'S MERMAID INN HAS SHELTERED MANY A SMUGGLER
Fix this textTHE well-known song, “There’s an old-fashioned house in an old-fashioned
Fix this textstreet,” is said to have been written of Mermaid-street, in the Sussex town
Fix this textof Rye. 63 miles from London.
Fix this textThis cobblestoned street, which is sometimes claimed as the most
Fix this textpicturesque street in England, drops down the steep western slopes of the
Fix this texttown to the site of the vanished Strand Gate and the old harbor. The roadway
Fix this textis lined with attractive houses., which have been reprouduced in countless
Fix this textpaintings and sketches by artists whose ambition has been to capture the
Fix this textmellow atmosphere of Elizabethan England.
Fix this textHere stands the Mermaid Inn, which remains substantially unaltered since
Fix this textthe 16th century. It was known to at least one of Shakspeare’s contemporaries,
Fix this textthe dramatist John Fletcher, who was born at the Old Vicarage in 1579. Other
Fix this textliterary figures who lived in Rye were Henry James (1843-1916) and the late
Fix this textE. F. Benson, the author of the standard work on the life of Charlotte Bronte.
Fix this textThe Mermaid Inn is believed to have,been built in the early 15th century
Fix this textand at that time it covered the whole of Mermaid Passage. In coaching-days
Fix this textit was used as a hostelry and the horses were accommodated in stables behind
Fix this textthe inn. It was a popular resort of smugglers and highwaymen and much
Fix this textevidence of their visits was discovered in the form of booty when structural
Fix this textalterations were being made to the building. During recent years the inn
Fix this texthas been thoroughly restored and the decorations which were carried out
Fix this textby James Guthrie, the noted artist and printer, have added much to the
Fix this textmedieval atmosphere of this ancient inn.
Fix this textIn Elizabethan days Rye was one of the chief cross-Channel ports and
Fix this textMermaid-street led directly to the quay and the harbor. After the massacre
Fix this textof St. Bartholomew's Day (August 24, 1572) hundreds of French Protestant
Fix this textrefugees poured into Rye, which for many years became the centre of a large
Fix this textHuguenot community.
Fix this textRye received its charter of incorporation as a borough in 1289 and the
Fix this textMayor is entitled to the rare privilege of two maces, one as mayor of the
Fix this textborough and the other as the Queen’s bailiff.
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