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I don't.'
'Yes. It was the Yorks' town house. It stood on the bank of the river just a little way west of St Paul's.'
'Oh. Well, he stayed there until June the 5th, when his wife arrived from the North and they went to stay in a house called Crosby Place.'
'It is still called Crosby Place. It has been moved to Chelsea, and the window Richard put into it may not still be there - I haven't seen it lately - but the building is there.'
'It is?' Carradine said, delighted. 'I'll go and see it right away. It's a very domestic tale when you think of it, isn't it. Staying with his mother until his wife gets to town, and then moving in with her. Was Crosby Place theirs, then?'
'Richard had leased it, I think. It belonged, to one of the Aldermen of London. So there is no suggestion of opposition to his Protectorship, or of change of plans, when he arrived in London.'
'Oh, no. He was acknowledged Protector before he ever arrived in London.'
'How do you know that?'
'In the Patent Rolls he is called Protector on two occasions - let me see - April 21st (that's less than a fortnight after Edward's death) and May the 2nd (that's two days before he arrived in London at all).'
'All right; I'm sold. And no
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