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TERM

term originally for a See also:

booth or See also:

STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors

stall where goods were sold, and in most cases also made, now used chiefly in the sense of a See also:

ROOM

room or set of rooms in a See also:

BUILDING

building where goods are displayed for See also:

sale and sold by See also:

RETAIL

retail, also the building containing the rooms. Another application of the word is to the building or rooms in which the making or repairing of articles is carried on, a See also:

carpenter's shop, a repairing-shop, at See also:

ENGINEERING

engineering See also:

WORKS

works and the like. In See also:

AMERICA

America, in the smaller towns and rural districts the " shop " is usually styled a " See also:

STORE (from O. Fr. estor or estoire, Late Lat. staurum or instaurum, stock, provisions, supply, from the late use of instaurare, to provide, properly to construct, renew, restore)

store " (O.F. ester, See also:

LATE

Late See also:

Lat. slaurum, instaurare, to build, construct, in later use, to provide necessaries). While in. America in the larger cities the word " shop " is becoming applied to the retail places of sale, in See also:

ENGLISH

English usage " store " has in See also:

RECENT

recent years become the recognized See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form for the large retail places for universal See also:

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply. IV., is said to have been the daughter of See also:

Thomas Wainstead, a prosperous See also:

LONDON

London See also:

MERCER (through Fr. mercier, from popular Lat. mercerius, a dealer, merx, merces, merchandise)

mercer. She was well brought up, and married See also:

young to See also:

William See also:

SHORE

Shore, a See also:

goldsmith. She attracted the See also:

NOTICE

notice of See also:

EDWARD

Edward IV., and soon after 1470, leaving her See also:

HUSBAND

husband, she became the See also:

king's See also:

MISTRESS

mistress. Edward called her the merriest of his concubines, and she exercised See also:

GREAT

great See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence; but, says More, " never abused it to any See also:

man's hurt, but to many a man's comfort and See also:

RELIEF

relief." After Edward's See also:

DEATH

death she was mistress to Thomas See also:

Grey, See also:

marquess of See also:

DORSET, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF

Dorset, son of See also:

Elizabeth Woodville by her first husband. She also had relations with William See also:

Hastings, and may perhaps have been the intermediary between him and the Woodvilles. At all events she had See also:

POLITICAL

political importance enough to incur the hostility of See also:

Richard of See also:

Gloucester, afterwards King Richard III., who accused her of having practised sorcery against him in See also:

COLLUSION (from Lat. colludere, strictly, to play with)

collusion with the See also:

queen and Hastings. Richard had her put to public See also:

PENANCE (Old Fr. penance, fr. Lat. poenitentia, penitence)

penance, but the See also:

PEOPLE

people pitied her for her loveliness and womanly See also:

PATIENCE

patience; her husband was dead, and now in poverty and disgrace she became a prisoner in London.

There Thomas Lynom, the king's See also:

SOLICITOR

solicitor, was smitten with her, and wished to make her his wife, but. was apparently dissuaded. Jane Shore survived till 1527; in her last days she had to " beg a living of many that had begged if she had not been." More, who knew her in old See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age when she was " lean, withered and dried up," says that in youth she was " proper and See also:

FAIR

fair, nothing in her See also:

BODY

body that you would have changed, but if you would have wished her somewhat higher." Her greatest See also:

CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm was, however, her pleasant behaviour; for she was " merry in See also:

COMPANY

company, ready and See also:

QUICK

quick of See also:

ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

answer." She figured much in 16th-See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century literature, notably in the Mirrour for Magistrates, and in Thomas See also:

Heywood's Edward IV. The See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend which connected Jane Shore with See also:

SHOREDITCH

Shoreditch is quite baseless; the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place-name is very much older.

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