HISTORICAL HALL.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12015, 16 August 1907, Page 4

HISTORICAL HALL.

[ Crosby Hall, which is soon to disappear to make way for a bank, j has few rivals even among London I buildings in the richness and variety of historic associations. Built by 3 Sir John Crosby, grocer and woolstapler, about 1470, when Edward IV was King, it had for one of its eary iiest that prince of intrir guers, Richard Duke of Gloucester, , Who established his almost regal ' Court there, and in its council j chamber received the offer of the . crown. A little later it became the official home of successive Lord Mayors of London. Princess ( Katharine of Arragon was enterj tamed within its walls on the eve of her marriage to Prince Arthur; and . through its doors, so it is said, young Lord Compton carried off "rich Spencer's" heiress iv aflat topped baker's "basket. For some years Crosby Hall sheltered Sir Thomas Moore.