. London . f. This was the hall of thehouse built by John Gisors, Mayor in the year 1305. TheVintners Hall stands on the site of a great house built by-Sir John Stodie, Mayor in 1357. In the house called theVintry, Sir Henry Picard, Mayor, once entertained a very noblecompany indeed. Among them were King Edward III.,King John of France, King David of Scotland, the King ofCyprus, and the Black Prince. After the banquet they 144 LONDON gambled, the Lord Mayor defending the bank against allcomers with diet and hazard. The King of Cyprus lost hismoney, and, unfortunately, his Royal temper as well.
. London . f. This was the hall of thehouse built by John Gisors, Mayor in the year 1305. TheVintners Hall stands on the site of a great house built by-Sir John Stodie, Mayor in 1357. In the house called theVintry, Sir Henry Picard, Mayor, once entertained a very noblecompany indeed. Among them were King Edward III.,King John of France, King David of Scotland, the King ofCyprus, and the Black Prince. After the banquet they 144 LONDON gambled, the Lord Mayor defending the bank against allcomers with diet and hazard. The King of Cyprus lost hismoney, and, unfortunately, his Royal temper as well. To losethe latter was a common infirmity among the kings of those5. The Royal Rage of the proverb is one of those subjectswhich the essayist enters in his notes and never finds the timeto treat. Then up spake Sir Henry, with admonition in hisvoice: Did his Highness of Cyprus really believe that theLord Mayor, a merchant adventurer of London, whose shipsrode at anchor in the Cyprian Kings port of Famagusta,. gerrards hall should seek to win the money of him or of any other king ? My Lord and King, he said, be not aggrieved. I court notyour gold, but your play ; for I have not bidden you hitherthat you might grieve. And so gave the king his moneyback. But John, King of France, and David, King of Scot-land, and the Black Prince murmured and whispered that itwas not fitting for a king to take back money lost at the good old King Fdward stroked his grey beard butrefrained from words. Another entertainer of kings was Whittington. Whatsaycth the wise man ? PLANTAGENET 145 Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? He shallstand before kings. They used to show an old house in Hart Lane, rich withcarved wood, as Whittingtons, but he must have lived in hisown ^parish of St. Michaels, Paternoster Royal, and, one ispretty certain, on the spot where was afterwards built hiscollege, which stood on the north side of the church. Here heentertained Henry of Agincourt and Katherine hi
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