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View from the deep cutting made through the hill at New Cross

Smith fecit et ex

Service of thanksgiving in St Paul's Cathedral

In reply to a question in the House

Edward IV of England and Lady Elizabeth Grey mb-width 5059 View from the deep cuttingEdward IV of England and Lady Elizabeth Grey, 1464 (1864). King Edward IV (1422 1483) calls in at Grafton, the residence of the Duchess of Bedford and her second husband, Richard Wodeville (Lord Rivers) during a hunting excursion in the Forest of Wychwood. There he meets and falls in love with Lady Elizabeth Grey (1437 1492), the widow of Sir John Grey, a Lancastrian noble. They were later married in secret.