Starting at the top we have on one side the old Booth Hall already described.  On this side the bay windows projecting from the level of the first floor add much to the quaint effect.  Almost opposite is “The Alley” continuing one side of High Street into Bridge Street and the Market Place.  As seen from the High Street side this narrow passage between the shops retains much of its old character, and the windows with their wooden frames and mullions are worth notice.  The house on the left next to the Bank with its prominent bay windows was at one time the town house of a family named Langstone, and it was here that King Charles the First stayed and held his “Court” in 1644.  Almost opposite is a stately front of brick dating from the next century, of elegant proportions and with well-designed spouts.  Further down on the right side is a much renovated gabled building of timber, possessing a fine doorway of the fifteenth century with its massive door and wrought-iron hinges intact.  Almost next door is “The Crown,” one of the old coaching inns with the courtyard opening on the street.  At one time an open gallery ran round the first floor, and traces of this may be seen on the further side.  A little above the old house we have just noticed was the White Hart Inn, the most celebrated house when country inns were in their prime.  It is now in the occupation of a market gardener and has been much altered, but some of the passages and rooms are still to be seen in the back premises.  An amusing story connected with the White Hart Inn has been revived by Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps, who by means of it has endeavoured to explain the line in “Troilus and Cressida.”  “The fool slides o’er the ice that you should break.”  The anecdote is related by Robert Armin, who claims to have been an eye-witness of the incident; and this would seem probable, as the local touches are correct and Armin was for some time a member of the company alluded to.  It is to be found in a work entitled, Foole Vpon Foole, or Sixte Sortes of Sottes, published in 1605, and re-edited and issued, with the author’s name attached, in 1608, as A Nest of Ninnies.  The fool referred to in the line quoted above is suspected to be not merely the imaginary representative of a type but the popular local Fool of Shakespeare’s time, a fellow of brilliant parts, but eccentric, and, we must suppose, lacking in balance and common sense.  We are told that one winter Lord Chandos’s players visited Evesham, and Jack Miller, our Fool, became greatly attached to the company and in particular to Grumball the clown; indeed, so greatly was he enamoured that he “swore he would goe all the world over with Grumball.”  The townspeople being loth to lose so popular a character, Jack was locked in a room at the back of the White Hart Inn from which he could see the players journeying on their way to Pershore, their next stage, by the road on the farther side of the river.  With difficulty he contrived