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Possible Answers: DALMATIAN.
Last seen on: Thomas Joseph – King Feature Syndicate Crossword – Feb 10 2018
Random information on the term “Spotted dog”:
The Spotted Dog is a Grade II listed public house at 212 Upton Lane, Forest Gate, London.
It dates back to the late 15th or early 16th century. It was probably once a hunting lodge for King Henry VIII.
In his 1921 book: A New Book About London: a Quaint and Curious Volume of Forgotten Lore the prolific chronicler of the capital and its buildings, Leopold Wagner, writes of a: “huge barn-like structure in the vegetable garden … (of the pub) … wantonly sacrificed by the new proprietors in the interest of a bottling store … (which had) … anciently enclosed the kennels for a pack of royal hounds”. He asserts that when Henry Vlll followed the chase in the Essex (Epping) Forest, he: “took up the hounds here at Upton” about a mile from the toll-gate which subsequently: “gave the name of Forest Gate to a new residential district.”
Some credence can be attached to this tale because having dissolved Stratford Langthorne Abbey in 1538 and seized all of its enormous land holdings in the borough Henry Vlll used his own money to purchase the nearby Hamfrith Wood from its owner, Sir Anthony Hungerford – presumably to facilitate his love of hunting. Mr Wagner provides some intriguing details in support of his account stating that what became the Spotted Dog was at the time the residence of Henry’s Master of the Hounds, who was granted the privilege of taking personal profit for refreshing travellers passing that way.