Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1896 — London’s Oldest Restaurant. [ARTICLE]

London’s Oldest Restaurant.

Probably the oldest restaurant In London Is Crosby Hall, In street, In the city. This was built more than 500 years ago, was onceihe palace of Richard 111., and afterward the residence of Sir Thomas More. -It*was in this building that Shakspeare laid the scene of Richard’s plots for the murder of the young princes.

Something whizzed through the air at a distance of about ten feet from the head of William ’ the Cdnqueror. “Wasn’t that an arrow?’ J#ked the mofaarefr. “It went rather t«tt%ide for Rr narrow,” said the court ,Cfj»r; and from tihat moment bis bffice lfegan to lose in importance aud respectability.— Indianapolis Journal, ,