Editing Tabard (section)

==Cultural allusions==
A tabard was the [[inn sign]] of the [[The Tabard|Tabard Inn]] in [[Southwark]], London, established in 1307 and remembered as the starting point for [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s pilgrims on their journey to [[Canterbury]] in ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'', dating from about the 1380s.

In [[Edmund Clerihew Bentley|E. C. Bentley]]'s short story "The Genuine Tabard", published in his collection ''Trent Intervenes'' in 1938, a wealthy American couple purchase an antique heraldic tabard, having been told that it was worn in 1783 by Sir Rowland Verey, [[Garter King of Arms]], when proclaiming the [[Peace of Paris (1783)|Peace of Versailles]] from the steps of [[St James's Palace]]. The amateur detective Philip Trent is able to point out that it in fact bears the post-1837 [[Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom#Development|royal arms]].<ref>{{cite book |first=E. C. |last=Bentley |author-link=Edmund Clerihew Bentley |chapter=The genuine tabard |title=Trent Intervenes |orig-year=1938 |year=1953 |location=London |publisher=Penguin |pages=7–24 }}</ref>