Note 83 — OF TOWERS AND CASTLES

Stow in his first edition says, “there practised for the crown ...;” and the admirable scene in Richard the Third (act III., sc. 7), in which Gloucester is by Buckingham, the mayor, and citizens of London, “enforced to a world of cares,” is laid by Shakspeare with great historic truth in “the court of Baynard’s castle.”