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Scene from "King Richard the Second", at the Princess' Theatre, 1857. London stage production of Shakespeare's "Richard II" with Charles Kean in the title role. 'The City trumpeters, banners, sword-bearers, sheriffs, lord mayor, aldermen, captains, and companies, in armour, with Royal banners, noblemen, and minstrels precede the Duke of Lancaster's banner, and the entry, attended with their knights, of Bolingbroke and the captive King on horseback...Bolingbroke then rejoined "My Lords and friends, here is King Richard: I deliver him into your custody, and beg you to do with him what you wish"...poor Richard himself appears, and is received by the people with ominous silence. "And as he...rode through London on a little horse, on his way to prison, they kept an open space round him that every one might see him...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.