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A lease dating from 1523 states that The Bear Inn was bounded on the south by the cemetery of St Edward's Church, which lay where the present pub, The Bear, stands.
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It was known as The Bear Inn by 1457, and a transfer of tenancy from Robert Mychegood to Henry Stanley took place in 1522. In 1432, there is mention of an inn known as Le Tabard being leased to John and Joan Berford. The original building, Parn Hall, burnt down in 1421. It is thought that the two properties bequeathed by the wills (the dwelling house on High Street and the four shops on Alfred Street) were joined at some point and formed the yard and buildings of what became The Bear Inn. In 1277, a Thomas Pope, with his wife and son, were assured tenancy of Parn Hall (Pirnehalle), the messuage (dwelling house) on the High Street, for the rest of their lives for a sum of two marks per year, with a deposit of 30 marks. The wills gave property at the western corner of High Street and Alfred Street, and property to the south near the corner of Alfred Street and Blue Boar Street, which in total amounted to one messuage (a dwelling house with outbuildings) and four "seldis" (booths or shops), to the priory, though Christina Pady retained the right to live in and benefit from the properties. On 28 April 1241, via bequests in the wills of Laurence Kepeharme, the first Mayor of Oxford, and Jordan Rufus, both deceased husbands of Christina Pady, St Frideswide's Priory acquired the land and property on the High Street that would, by 1432, be an inn (Le Tabard). The Mitchells & Butlers pub, All Bar One on 124 High Street, along with the neighbouring shop, 123, now occupies the site of The Bear Inn on the High Street. The documented history of the site on the High Street has been traced to 1241, when it had a dwelling house, later called Parn Hall, which burned down in 1421, with evidence of an inn, Le Tabard, in existence by 1432 so there is a claim, via associated history, that The Bear is one of the oldest pubs in Oxford. When The Bear Inn was converted into private housing in 1801, The Jolly Trooper changed its name to The Bear (or The Bear Inn). It was converted from the early 17th century residence of the stableman ( ostler) for the coaching inn, The Bear Inn, which was on the High Street, Oxford. It stands on the corner of Alfred Street and Blue Boar Street, opposite Bear Lane in the centre of Oxford, just north of Christ Church, on the site of St Edward's churchyard. The Bear (historically associated with " The Bear Inn") is a pub in Oxford, England, that was founded in 1774 as The Jolly Trooper.