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By oldeng

A Lavenham Scene

This building is approximately 500yrs old, at that time the following applies!

"If you could see how all the world here is rejoicing in the possession of so great a prince, how his life is all their desire, you could not contain your tears of joy. The heavens laugh, the earth exults, all things are full of milk, of honey, of nectar. Avarice is expelled from the country. Liberality scatters wealth with bounteous hand. Our King does not desire gold or gems or precious metals, but virtue, glory and immortality".

[Lord Mountjoy about Henry's accession to the throne in 1509]

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