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CROSBIE HALL, BISHOPSGATE STREET ; 
THE RESIDENCE OF RICHARD THE THIRD. 
)PeNNANT, after Fabian, who lived ncar to the period, states that.on these premises 
Jodged Richard Plantagenet, then Duke of Gloucester; at the time when he had 
the infant sons of his deceased relative and sovereign conveyed to the Tower. The 
site of land on which the house and adjacent buildings stand, was. originally a part of 
the ‘possessions of the priory of female religious, :dedicated to St.. Helena, the disco- 
‘verer of the Cross. It was leased to Sir Jolin Crosbie, grocer and woulman, and'sheriff of 
London, in 1470, by Alice Ashfield, then the prioress of that house. By Sir John, a 
diberal benefactor to the city, this hall and:the bouse was built, and has been, as well 
ts the” 
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joining aquare, ever since known by’his name. 
e woollen-draper and wool-merchant, and is constantly visited by the curious, 
It is now occupied bya 
‘who oti ce its claims for its ancient magnificence, 
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Sit, 
OU cannot be indifferent to the 
4riumph which . civilization has 
hae /ov.er. barbarism, in the late 
‘acquisition of the important fortress of 
li di Romania by the.Greeks. ‘I 
ccordingly thought that a state- 
f the event, by an eye-witness, 
not be devoid of interest to you. 
‘Aware of the partial reports which find 
their way into the other parts of 
Burope,1 think it necessary to give a 
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into their power: 
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description .of sthis fortress, and. ito 
enter into adetail.of the circumstances 
«which. preceded its:surrender. 
Napoli de Romania, Situated al the 
-extremity of the gulf bearing that 
name, was one of the lastfortresses in 
the Morea .which submiited to the 
Turks; and it-was only after'a siege of 
(L. believe,) about thirty yeays, and 
during which the Mahometans lost:a 
hundred thousand men, that it fell 
The town, which is 
heck of land 
small, is situated on a 
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