. The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere. ept at a house which still remains. Hutton, inhis Battle of Bosworth Field, thus describes tlieold house and its appurtenances :— In the North-gate Street yet stands a large handsome half-timberhouse, with one story projecting over the other, for-merly an inn, the Blue Boar; hence an adjoiningstreet derived its name, now corrupted irito Blubber-lane. In one of the apartments Richard restedthat night. The room seems to have been onceelegant, though now in disuse. He brought hisown bedstead, of wood, large, and in some placesgilt. It continued t
. The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere. ept at a house which still remains. Hutton, inhis Battle of Bosworth Field, thus describes tlieold house and its appurtenances :— In the North-gate Street yet stands a large handsome half-timberhouse, with one story projecting over the other, for-merly an inn, the Blue Boar; hence an adjoiningstreet derived its name, now corrupted irito Blubber-lane. In one of the apartments Richard restedthat night. The room seems to have been onceelegant, though now in disuse. He brought hisown bedstead, of wood, large, and in some placesgilt. It continued there 200 years after he left theplace, and its remains are now in the possession ofAlderman Drake. It had a wooden bottom, andunder that a false one, of the same materials, like afloor and its under ceiling. Between tliese two bot-toms was concealed a quantity of gold coin, worthabout 300/. of our present money, but then worthmany times that sum. Thus he personally watchedhis treasure, and slept on his military chest. 313 ILLUSTRATION OF ACT [Old Blue Boar Inn at Leicester.] The Earl of Richmond, says the Chronicler, i the town of Tamworth. Shakspere carefully fol-raised his camp, and departed from Lichfield to 1 lows the localities of the historians:— This foul swineLies now even in the centre of this isle,Near to the town of Leicester, as we leain:From Tamworth thither is but one days march.
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