The clock strikers: "Before turning left into Corn Street, note the Quarter Jacks on Christ Church. Southey wrote how he often "stopt to see them strike…". The Quarter Jacks were originally part of an earlier church, demolished in 1786. Southey laid copper coins under the foundation stone of the present church. It was in this area that Bushey and Green, who figure in Shakespeare's Richard III, were executed by Henry Bolingbroke's men.
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