'Hot how the exact age of the Com-ena' of Upper Thames treat: pany, but. its Master, Picard by] Tame, entertained five [Kings at inner inthe Company's hall in 4866, namely, the Kings of England, Scotland, France, 'Denmark and; Cypran. 'The present building erected' shortly" after "the. Great it contains a nable hall with minstrels' gallery, a lovely square] Mairease any, among other room 2 most beaulttully proportioned din-ug' room, panelled in dark oak. (0a in'mogt of the building) and adorn with portraits of the latter Stuart foyaitics. Spaciousness and. digni-tare "everywhere, and. in the attendants no Tess, many of whom come of families that. have served {e"company for centoness and are noble. There i a fascinating. boo prowl of their ancestry as, any be written about the old families the so-called lower orders Knew an eld nurse, who died in the house she had entered as nursemaid {7 years before, whose ancestry, all fisher folk, could be followed through the registers of her native parish
Ramsey pageant some 50 years {or over 400 yenrs, And atthe 2 Tineal descendant of Porkise the] Charcoal burner, who drove Willi Hutue's body to Winchester enacted
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