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Two Running Horses

In late January, 1746, three gentlemen were arrested and taken to Hastings, accused of trying to obtain a boat at Hooe with the intention of taking several people, thought to be possible Jacobites, to France. The group fleeing the country included a Lady Byshoppe and her family.

One of the three accused was a James Byshoppe, the husband of Lady Byshoppe and one of the sons of Sir Cecil Byshoppe.

The witnesses included a James Blackman, identified as coming from Hooe and being the innkeeper of the “Two Running Horses”.

I give this snippet of information purely out of interest because I still have to trace the inn, but this report is, unfortunately, the only place where I have ever seen it mentioned.

Did Hooe, at one time, have a third inn or was this, perhaps, an earlier name for to-day’s Lamb pub? It couldn’t have been the “Red Lion” because this inn was well-known at that time, especially for its connection with smuggling - and better known, obviously, than the “Two Running Horses”!

This is something that I will come back to in the future, but, if anyone has any further information, I would be pleased to hear from them.

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