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Gerard ter Borch’s The Messenger, known as 'The Unwelcome News' was painted in 1653 and hangs at The Hague’s Mauritshuis Gallery.
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I called at the site of St Leonard’s Priory in London’s Bromley-by-Bow in the summer. Little remains, but some old foundations and a romantic, Victorian gateway. Geoffrey Chaucer, the great writer of the Canterbury Tales, once mocked its Prioress for the inaccuracy of her French and the old fashioned pronunciation of its words:
Ther was also a nonne, a prioresse,
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