"I am sure you will find no better wife anywhere.”"
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Thomasine Bonaventure
Thomasine, Lady Percival (born Thomasine Bonaventure; c. 1470 – c. 1530), was a Cornish benefactress and founder of a school.The story is of a woman tending sheep when she was approached by a London merchant and asked whether she would care to work in his house in London. Having agreed she found herself working for him and then marrying him; and after him a second citizen of London and then a third, who had the honour of being elected Lord Mayor. This third was Sir John Percival, Lord Mayor in 1
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