DUKE OF CUMBERLAND Chapel-walks

DUKE OF CUMBERLAND

Chapel-walks

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MINE HOST:

?       Mr and Mrs Whiteside (wife called 'Mattie')

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"The 'Old Spread Eagle' situated near the site

of St. George's Church in Chapel-walks, was

later known as the "Duke of Cumberland"

(the anti-Catholic victor of the 1745 uprising.

When old Mattie Whiteside was the hostess of this 

inn, being strongly of Catholic sympathies, the 

caused the name of "The Duke" to be painted out.

When customers asked the reason, her husband

said, "It was Mattie's Whim."

So, until the licence was transferred, it was known as

"Mattie's Whim."

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