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Identifier: londonbesant00besa (find matches)
Title: London
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Besant, Walter, Sir, 1836-1901
Subjects: London (England) -- History London (England) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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CROSBY HOUSE, B1SHOPSGATE STREET welcome Edward IV. when he landed at Ravenspur; hewas sent by the King on a mission to the Duke of Burgundyand to the Duke of Brittany. Shakespeare makes Richardof Gloucester living in this house as early as 1471, four yearsbefore the death of Sir John Crosby, a thing not likely. Buthe was living here at the death of Edward IV., and here heheld his levees before his usurpation of the crown. In thishall, where now the City clerks snatch a hasty dinner, satthe last and worst of the Plantagenets thinking of the twoboys who stood between him and the crown. Here he PLANTAGENET 137 received the news of their murder. Here he feasted withhis friends. The place is charged with the memory of fVJI- nlL-* -II
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INTERIOR OF CROSBY HALL Richard Plantagenet. Early in the next century anotherLord Mayor obtained it, and lent it to the ambassador of 133 LONDON the Emperor Maximilian. It passed next into the hands ofa third citizen, also Lord Mayor, and was bought in 1516by Sir Thomas More, who lived here for seven years, andwrote in tins house his Utopia and his Life of Richard theThird. His friend Antonio Bonvici, a merchant of Lucca,

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