. London . VIEW OF THE SOUTH FRONT OF BAYNARD SCASTLE, ABOUT I64O Henry VIII. lived in this palace,~~^ ^ which he almost entirely rebuilt. PrinceHenry, after his marriage with Catherineof Aragon, was conducted in great state up the river, fromBaynards Castle to Westminster, the Mayor and Common-alty of the City following in their barges. In the time ofEdward VI., the Earl of Pembroke, whose wife was sister to «3-l LOXDi >N Queen Catharine Parr, held great state in this house. Herehe proclaimed Queen Mary. When Marys first Parliamentwas held, he proceeded to Baynards Castle, followed by 2000
. London . VIEW OF THE SOUTH FRONT OF BAYNARD SCASTLE, ABOUT I64O Henry VIII. lived in this palace,~~^ ^ which he almost entirely rebuilt. PrinceHenry, after his marriage with Catherineof Aragon, was conducted in great state up the river, fromBaynards Castle to Westminster, the Mayor and Common-alty of the City following in their barges. In the time ofEdward VI., the Earl of Pembroke, whose wife was sister to «3-l LOXDi >N Queen Catharine Parr, held great state in this house. Herehe proclaimed Queen Mary. When Marys first Parliamentwas held, he proceeded to Baynards Castle, followed by 2000 horsemen in velvet coats with their laces of gold andgold chains, besides sixty gentlemen in blue coats with hisbadge of the green dragon. This powerful noble lived to .***r. VIEW r- COLD HARBOUR, INTHAMES STREET, ABOUT 1600 entertain Queen Elizabethat Baynards Castle witha banquet, followed by fireworks. The last appearance of the place in history iswhen Charles II. took supper there just before the Fire sweptover it and destroyed it. Another house by the river was that called Cold Har- borough or Cold Inn. PLANTAGENET 135 This house stood to the west of the old Swan Stairs. Itwas built by a rich City merchant, Sir John Poultney, fourtimes Mayor of London. At the end of the fourteenth cen-turv it belonged, however, to John Holland, Duke of Exeter,soivof Thomas Holland, Duke of Kent, and Joan Plantage-net, the Fair Maid of Kent He was half-brother to KingRichard II., whom here he entertained. Richard III. gaveit to the Heralds for their college. They were turned out,however, by Henry VII., who gave the house to his mother,Margaret, Countess of Richmond. His son gave it to theEarl of Shrewsbury, by whose son it was taken down, oneknows not why, and
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