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King Edward the IV used to travel about London in disguise.
One day he fell in with a bunch of cobblers, and enjoyed their company so much
he declared that they shall all, of that trade, be gentleman for ever more.
Hence the name the "Gentle-Craft" and the collective noun of a "drunkship"
of cobblers! |
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St. Crispin, one of the patron saints of the craft,
so impressed the local roman governors's daughter with his kindness,
that she married him, and converted the natives to Christianity. |
