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The Eclipse Inn

Name: The Eclipse Inn
Address: 25 The Square, Winchester, England, GB

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September 17, 2019

The Eclipse has an important connection to the 1680’s. Dame Alice Lisle, the grand lady of Hampshire was held here for her execution after being sentenced to death for harbouring rebels by the notorious “hanging” Judge Jeffries. The jury prevaricated, believing her story that she gave food water and shelter to those who arrived at her door in need. Judge Jeffreys was beside himself with rage and as the jury made their deliberations he sought to bully a guilty verdict out of them and reluctantly they gave it. It was a decision that sat ill with the county and the country. Glance up at the upper storey window, from here she stepped out onto a scaffold structure specially erected for the occasion and was beheaded on 5th September 1685. Thought to now be haunted, there have been acclaimed repeated sightings down the years of a (friendly) ghost of the “Lady in Grey” in the passage outside the room where Lady Alicia was held."