332 Aii 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 during 

 the reign of Richard III., that king's cognizance being a boar 

 passant argent, whence the rhyme which cost the maker, William 

 Colly ngborne, 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 " W T illiam 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 



