It is therefore no mere flight of fancy, but a supposition founded on good evidence, that little Prince Richard may have beguiled some of the weary hours of his captivity by visits to the Almonry, watching the curious presses which struck off sheet after sheet of printing, and talking to the good-natured printer, who must, by all accounts, have been the cheeriest and busiest of men. The Almonry is gone. Bareheaded boys from Westminster School play foot-ball under the few remaining descendants of the old elms in Dean's Yard, and hurry in and out of the gateway with their school books under their arms. All that remains of the ancient Sanctuary is that blue plate with white letters. But within the great Abbey, the two little princes are in Sanctuary once more; never again to leave it while the fabric stands. And William Caxton sleeps in St. Margaret's Church close by, while his memory lives in every printed page of the English tongue. FOOTNOTES: [26] "Memorials of Westminster Abbey." p. 405. Dean Stanley. [27] Speech of Duke of Buckingham in Sir T. More's "Life of Richard the Third." [28] "Memorials of Westminster Abbey." p. 408. Dean Stanley. [29] Holinshed's Chronicle. Vol. 3. p. 300. [30] Sir Thomas More's History of Edward the Fifth, and Richard the Third. [31] Equal to about £2500 in the present day. [32] C. Knight's History of England. Vol. 2. p. 176. [33] More. [34] More. [35] "Memorials of Westminster Abbey," Dean Stanley. p. 411. [36] More's Life of Edward the Fifth. p. 40. [37] More. [38] "Memorials of Westminster Abbey." p. 412. [39] More. [40] More. [41] "King Richard the Third." Act III., Scene IV. [42] Dart. Vol. I. p. 170. CHAPTER V. KING EDWARD THE SIXTH. Between the death of Edward the Fifth and the coronation of another boy-king, Edward the Sixth, Westminster Abbey saw momentous changes. Its fabric and its constitution were alike altered by the stupendous transformation through which England passed in those seventy years.