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Title: Memoirs of the city of London and its celebrities
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jesse, John Heneage, 1815-1874
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Publisher: Boston L.C. Page
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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There existed in each the same
high sense of honour, the same refinement of mind,
the same amiable interest in the sufferings and
wants of others. Sir Philip dedicated his Ar-
cadia to his sister, the being who best loved the
author, and who was the most competent to appre-
ciate his genius. By Doctor Donne it was said of
her that " she could converse well on all subjects,
from predestination to sleave-silk." Ben Jonson
wrote his famous epitaph on her death, and Spen-
ser eulogises her as —

" The gentlest shepherdess that lived that day;
And most resembling, both in shape and spirit,
Her brother dear."

Lady Pembroke lived to a very advanced age,
her later years having been unfortunately embit-
tered by the cowardice and misconduct of her
second son, Philip, the " memorable simpleton "
of Horace Walpole.
When, toward the close of the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, the Duc de Biron arrived in London
with his magnificent ambassadorial train, consisting
of nearly four hundred noblemen and gentlemen,
it was at Crosby Place that he was lodged.


Sully
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LONDON AND ITS CELEBRITIES. 265

Another French ambassador who was an occu-
pant of Crosby Place was the celebrated Duc de
Sully, who lodged here in great splendour on the
occasion of his embassy to England in the reign
of James the First. On the night after his arrival
an unfortunate accident occurred, which very
nearly led to Crosby Place becoming the scene of
outrage and bloodshed. "I was accommodated
with apartments," says Sully in his memoirs, "in
a very handsome house, situated in a great square,
near which all my retinue were also provided with
the necessary lodgings. Some of them went to
entertain themselves with women of the town. At
the same place they met with some English, with
whom they quarrelled, fought, and one of the Eng-
lish was killed. The populace, who were before
prejudiced against us, being excited by the family
of the deceased, who was a substantial citizen, as-
sembled, and began loudly to threaten revenge
upon all the French, even in their lodgings. The
affair soon began to appear of great consequence ;

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