The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. III.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Tauerner : a tavernkeeper.

"Ryght as of a taverner
The grene busche that hangeth out
Is a sygne, it is, no dowte,
Outward folkys for to tell
That within is wyne to sell."

A family of this name was long seated at Elmham in Norfolk, where Ralph Le Taverner is mentioned in 1272, and only died out in 1682, leaving younger branches to flourish in Essex, Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire^[76] &c. John Taverner, we are told, distinguished himself at Agincourt. But it is simply impossible to believe that so thoroughly plebeian a name was not surreptitiously introduced into the Roll.