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Richard III signed the death warrant for the treasonous Duke of Buckingham in the dining room here.
- Authors J.R.R Tolkien and C.S Lewis used to meet here to discuss their work.
- Tsar Peter the Great stopped here while on his mission to study boat building.
- The Society of United Irishmen plotted the 1798 uprising against British rule in Kelly's Cellars.
- This pub stands where Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
- The inn was used as a rallying point for Welsh national hero Owain Glyndwr as he led an uprising against the English.
- Philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels discussed ideas in this pub, shaping the Communist Manifesto.
- Acclaimed poet Robert Burns wrote a love song for the niece of the pub landlord, 'The Gowden Locks of Anna'.
- The Stranglers made their musical debut here.
- Here the Beatles played some of their earliest gigs as 'The Silver Beetles'.
- The gang behind the Great Train Robbery met in the bar to plan their famous heist.
- The Duke of Monmouth used the inn as his headquarters during the ill-fated rebellion against his half-brother, King James II.
- Murderers and body snatchers Burke and Hare picked out many of their victims at this pub.
- After the bloody events of the English Civil War, his Royalist sympathies led to the 7th Earl of Derby being executed for treason outside this pub.
- The decision to refuse King Charles I entry into Hull was taken in the pub. It is said to have been the trigger for the English Civil War.