For the reader who is not familiar with the myth, the story is as follows: Dick Whittington was a poor boy who was walking in London, at his home in Gloucestershire, to seek his fortune. He began working in the House of a wealthy merchant and soon fell in love with the daughter of his employer, Alice. Bedroom Dick was in the attic, but hampered by many mouse, Dick has decided to make a cat to solve the problem, but, when his boss gave the opportunity to invest in a company of sailing, Dick sold the cat to raise funds servants.
Dick later decided to leave London back to Gloucestershire, because he could not see any future for himself in London. He got as far as the Highgate Hill and order because he heard the bells ring in London - they seem to say: "Enable new, Whittington, three times Mayor of London".
Because Dick thought that it was a good omen, he returned home from Fitzwarren and learned that the ship in which it had invested had returned with very good news. The vessel came to a foreign land to discover the Court of the King was invaded by rats. Dick cat excludes all rats and grateful King paid a large sum of gold to buy the cat. Now, a very rich man Dick wife Alice and later became mayor of London.
But even those who are familiar with the story of Dick Whittington and cat who made his fortune, don't know "the man behind the myth." Richard Whittington has been very "real" in his time and was a friend of princes and of so many poor people.
Born in 1350's, it was Gloucestshire boy who was the youngest son of a Knight of Gloucester. Dick may well have been inspired by the sound of Bow bells and might even have a cat – for two portraits of the 16th century to describe the cat. He did not find the streets of London opened with gold, but he eventually "mercer" and provided canvas fine and valuable to the Royal Court. It became a very wealthy man, and it is said that when the King and Queen Catherine come to dinner with him in Hart, burned Whittington street back a link whereby Henri IV had to pay him £ 60,000.
In 1397, the King chose Whittington to become the new mayor. He was re-elected in the following year and once again to 1406-7 and 1419-20. This is Richard Whittington, the Mayor of London four times.
He used his wealth to build houses for the old and gives London a drinking fountain long before any other city had one. Because of his generosity, crumbling Hospital of Saint-Barthélemy and infamous Newgate prison, were reconstructed. In his will he left valuable land to the city and underprivileged London still benefit from the charity Whittington.
Whittington, who never had children, who died in March 1423 and was buried in St. Michael London Royal Paternoster. His wife Alice, daughter of Sir Ivo Fitzwaryn died before him and is buried beside her husband.
In 1821, a stone was placed on Highgate Hill in London, at the place where Dick is supposed to have sat and listened qualifier - 1964 Bow bells, a statue of a cat has been added.
This article is by Josephine Moss - web-master of spend in London: a free guide for your time in London.
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