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Using Thomas Cromwell’s Papers To Reconstruct His London Mansion

The compound at Austin Friars, known to readers of Hilary Mantel’s trilogy, was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. But a historian has used what’s survived of Cromwell’s own archives, along with later drawings and surveys, to work out a clearer idea of what it looked like. – CNN
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