. London . 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,. INTERIOR OK PART OF CROSBY HALL, CALLED THE COUNCIL ROOM, LOOKING EAST next lived in the house. To him More wrote his well-knownletter from the Tower. William Ro
. London . 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,. INTERIOR OK PART OF CROSBY HALL, CALLED THE COUNCIL ROOM, LOOKING EAST next lived in the house. To him More wrote his well-knownletter from the Tower. William Roper, Mores son-in-law,and William Rustill, his nephew; Sir Thomas dArcy;William Bond, Alderman and Sheriff, and merchant adven-turer ; Sir John Spencer, ancestor of Lord Northampton ; PLANTAGENET 139 Mary, Countess of Pembroke, and sister of Sir PhilipSidney— The gentlest shepherdess that lived that day ; And most resembling, both in shape and spirit Her brother dear— the Earl of Northampton, who accompanied Charles I. toMadrid on his romantic journey ; Sir Stephen Langham— a_ pifc^t^:--^ . w^issijl
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