St. Peter ad Vincula is of course the name of the royal chapel
on Tower Green where
The remains of prominent personages who where publicly executed
there,
are interred. http://www.camelotintl.com/tower_site/tower/chapel.html.
Along with other English parishes of that name, “Peter ad
Vincula” is believed
to have given rise to another literary place of fame in Thomas
Hardy’s The
Mayor of Casterbridge. A pub known as “Peter’s
Finger,” the site of an
important conspiracy in the novel, is probably a corruption of “
Peter ad Vincula”
corresponding to a site in Lytchett Minster ( http://www.victorianweb.org/photos/hardy/28.html.)
Hardy was very interested in the prehistoric and medieval roots
of settings in
his novels generally. Cf also James K.Robinson, ed.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Norton Critical Edition 1977 p. 194.
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