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Gadshill, near Rochester, the scene of Prince Hal's joke robbery of Falstaff in Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV (ii. ii); also the name of one of Falstaff's companions. Gadshill was the home of Dickens in his later years.

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Gadshill , low hill, Kent, SE England, near Rochester. In Shakespeare's Henry IV it was the scene of Falstaff's robberies. Charles Dickens lived there, at Gadshill Place, from 1856 until his death in 1870.

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