Horse Ferry
¶History
Horse Ferry, according to early accounts, was established specifically to carry clergymen from
their residence at Lambeth Palace to Westminster Palace across the river. The date the ferry began to run across the river is unknown, but
there is a reference to it in the 1513 manuscript of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, Register T, Folio 12, which records
that the archbishop of Canterbury rented the ferry out to a man by the name of Humphrey Trevilylan at the rate of 16d1 a year (
Lambeth Bridge). This grant specified that the archbishop and his servants, as well as his livestock and goods, could be ferried across the river at any time at no charge. Other grants from the early sixteenth century are still available for reference, one of which mentions the use of the ferry for horses in particular. The Horse Ferry remained in the hands of the archbishop until the Civil War, when it was taken out of the archbishop’s possession and sold to one Christopher Wormeall. After the Restoration in 1660, however, the archbishop of Canterbury was once more named the owner of Horse Ferry.
Horse Ferry was the only way to cross from Lambeth to Westminster, and the controversial idea of building a bridge to replace the ferry was proposed
multiple times, beginning in 1664. Repeatedly, however, objections from the watermen and residents of Lambeth hindered the project. But when an Act of Parliament caused the construction of Westminster Bridge in 1736, Horse Ferry slowly began to lose customers, just as the ferrymen had feared. Finally, in 1862,
the Horse Ferry was replaced by Lambeth Bridge. Horse Ferry then ceased to operate, but its memory has been preserved by a road that today bears
the name Horseferry Road.
¶Legend
Horse Ferry played a part in early modern lore and legend. One famous account involving the ferry
is that of the escape of Queen Mary of Modena, the wife of King James II, in 1688 at the beginning of the Glorious Revolution. Secretly fleeing the castle in the middle
of the night with the baby prince, Queen Mary and a few faithful supporters crossed the Thames on the Horse Ferry as they began the journey to exile in France. According to Agnes Strickland’s later
account of the river crossing, the night was so dark and stormy that the passengers
on the Horse Ferry could not see one another as they huddled together in the small boat. Strickland’s
record continues,
Thus with literally(Strickland 198). The journey continued and the queen and her infant son arrived safely in France.only one frail plank between her and eternitydid the Queen of Great Britain cross the swollen waters of the Thames, with her tender infant of six months old in her arms
Local legend associated mishaps on the Horse Ferry with bad luck. In 1633, the ferry sank while William Laud, his servants, and his horses were crossing the river. Fortunately, all of the passengers
survived, but the incident was remembered as an ill omen when the archbishop was later
executed for treason. Similarly, when Oliver Cromwell’s coach and horses suffered an accident on the Horse Ferry, people pointed to William Laud’s experience and said that the incident portended misfortune for Cromwell (
Lambeth Bridge).
Another part of the lore of Horse Ferry was the infamous character of its ferrymen, for the rudeness of the Horse Ferry operators was legendary. Their vulgarity and insolence became such a problem that
in 1701 a law was passed that required the ferrymen to pay a fine of 2s 6d if they used
immodest, obscene and lewdlanguage with their passengers (qtd. in Weightman 50).
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Lambeth Bridge and Its Predecessor the Horseferry.
Survey of London: Lambeth: South Bank and Vauxhall. Ed. Sir Howard Roberts and Walter H. Godfrey. Vol. 23. 1951. 118-121. Remediated by British History Online.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Strickland, Agnes. Lives of the Queens of England; From the Norman Conquest; With Anecdotes of Their Courts, Now First Published From Official Records and Other Authentic Documents. Private as Well as Public. Vol. 8. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1849. Print.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Weightman, Gavin. Londonʼs Thames: The River That Shaped a City and Its History. New York: St. Martin’s P, 2005. Print.This item is cited in the following documents:
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James II and VII
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Mary of Modena
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Renter of Horse Ferry.Humphrey Trevilylan is mentioned in the following documents:
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Lambeth Palace
Lambeth Palace, also known as Lambeth House and the Palace of the Archbishop, was and continues to be the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury (Stow 1633, sig. F1r; Encyclopedia Britannica). It is located on the south bank of the River of Thames by Lambeth Marsh, slightly south of being directly across the Thames from Westminster Abbey. St. Mary (Lambeth) is a part of the palace’s environs. The palace was first built in about 1200 with later additions coming in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Encyclopedia Britannica). Lambeth Palace was spoiled by rebels during the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt (Stow 1633, F1r). It is labelledThe lambeht
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Lambeth
Lambeth was a neighbourhood located on the southern bank of the Thames, directly opposite to Westminster (Lysons). Jeremy Boulton notes that Lambeth lay outside the Corporation of London’s jurisdiction and was instead controlled by Surrey authorities (Boulton 9). Lambeth is depicted on the Agas map, though it is partially covered by a descriptive cartouche. While the Agas map labels the area near Lambeth’s coordinates asThe lambeht,
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Perhaps more than any other geophysical feature, the Thames river has directly affected London’s growth and rise to prominence; historically, the city’s economic, political, and military importance was dependent on its riverine location. As a tidal river, connected to the North Sea, the Thames allowed for transportation to and from the outside world; and, as the longest river in England, bordering on nine counties, it linked London to the country’s interior. Indeed, without the Thames, London would not exist as one of Europe’s most influential cities. The Thames, however, is notable for its dichotomous nature: it is both a natural phenomenon and a cultural construct; it lives in geological time but has been the measure of human history; and the city was built around the river, but the river has been reshaped by the city and its inhabitants.The Thames is mentioned in the following documents:
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Parliament of England
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