332 An Indenture for building a House at Salisbury. 
Street and Minster Street. The name of Blue Boar has generally 
been supposed to come from the sign of an inn which formerly stood 
on the site. The blue boar was a Yorkist badge and was borne by 
Richard, Duke of -York, father of Edward IV: he died in-1460. 
It is possible, however, that the name had an earlier and different - 
origin. The White Boar was also a popular Yorkist sign durmg 
the reign of Richard III., that king’s cognizance being a boar 
passant argent, whence the rhyme which cost the maker, William 
Collyngborne, his life :— 
“The Cat, the Rat, and Lovel the Dog 
Rule all England under the Hog.” 
The cat alludes to Catesby, the rat to Ratcliff, and the hog to King 
Richard. After Richard’s defeat the White Boars were changed 
into Blue Boars, this being the easiest and cheapest way of altering 
the sign, and so the white boar of Richard became the blue boar of 
the Earl of Oxford, who had lately contributed to place Henry VII. 
on the throne. An inn bearing the sign of the Blue Boar formerly 
existed on a spot near the Saracen’s Head, in the present Blue Boar 
Row. It was in the yard of this inn that the mutilated remains of | 
a body were discovered a few years ago, and supposed at the time to 
be those of the Duke of Buckingham, who was beheaded in the 
Market Place of Salisbury, in 1484. 
It seems probable that William Ludlow, for whom the house was 
built, was the Lord of Hill Deverill. In a MS. formerly preserved 
at Great Chalfield he is mentioned as “ William Ludlow, of Hill 
Deverell, Boteler to King Henry IV., and King Henry V. and VI., 
bore these Arms, Argent, a chevron Sable, three marten’s heads of 
the same erased; this gentleman is buried in St. Thomas’s Church 
in Salisbury, under a marble tomb, north side of the high altar, the 
south side of an aisle, which aisle he new ceiled and painted, and set 
with escutcheons of his own arms and his wife.” According to 
Hatcher, the altar-tomb of William Ludlow was taken, some years 
since, from the situation it had long occupied on the north side of 
the chancel, and broken to pieces, and the remains of himself, his — 
wife, and child, thrown into some unknown corner. As Ludlow’s 

