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    London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211

    2016-10-19 05:05 — [permalink]

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    Earlier this October, at a ceremony at the Royal Courts of Justice, London paid its rent to the Queen. The ceremony proceeded much as it had for the past eight centuries. The city handed over a knife, an axe, six oversized horseshoes, and 61 nails to Barbara Janet Fontaine, the Queen’s Remembrancer, the oldest judicial position in England

    London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211
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