The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts (1834) (14802236563)

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Title: The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854
Subjects: England -- Antiquities England -- Architecture England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chidley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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antof Henry IV. to whom he granted the wardship ofJoan, the daughter of John Jordaine, a wealthy fish-monger. This John Crosby might have married hisward, and thus established himself as a person of con-sequence in the city. His son, of whom I am speak-ing as the founder of Crosby Place, was an aldermanof London, and one of the sheriffs for that city in1470. In 1471, he met Edward IV. on his entryinto the city, and was then knighted. In the follow-ing year he was a commissioner for treating with theHanse Towns relative to some differences in whichthe Duke of Burgundy was concerned. Having obtained, in 1466, of Alice Ashted, theprioress of the Convent of St. Helens, Bishopsgate,a lease for ninety-nine years of certain lands and te-nements adjoining the precinct of her nunnery, at therent of 17 marks (£11. 65. Sd.) per annum, Sir JohnCrosby erected for himself the magnificent mansionnow under review. He died in 1475, and was buriedin the chapel of the Holy Ghost, near Agnes his (first)
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wife.* Their effigies, beautifully sculptured in ala-baster, remain in the church at this day, and his hel-met is suspended from the wall in the vestry. He issaid to have been a zealous Yorkist, and it is very re-markable that his effigy does not wear the Lancastrian * Numerous benevolent bequests were made by Sir John Crosby, (in his last will, bearing date March 6th, 1471, and proved on February the 6th, 1475,) to religious houses, prisons, buildings, &c, and the residue of his effects, in de- VOL. I. badge, the collar of SS., a very general distinction forpersons of gentility or noble blood, but a collar com-posed of roses and suns alternately disposed ;—thewhite rose and sun being the badge adopted byEdward IV. after the ominous parhelion which ap- fault of heirs, were, agreeably to the instrument, applied tocharitable uses under the direction of the Grocers Company.His will has been printed at length, in Goughs SepulchralMonuments. Appendix, No. IV. En. 82 THE GRAPHIC ILLUS