niece Agnes a certain tendency to laesa majestas-it was only by the gentlest of posthumous rebukes that she and the world were to discover it. Her sister Margaret, he said, was to have the better of the two beds that he had bequeathed them." Linacre was buried in old St. Paul's before the rood screen of the west door, a spot chosen by himself. His grave was marked by no memorial for more than 30 years, wNhen John Caius, during his presidency of the College, erected a monument to his memory at his own cost. This perished when the cathedral was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666.
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