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The Central Panel 1. The enclosure of Greenwich Park; Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and brother of Henry V, enclosed the Park, stocked it with deer and built a tower where the Observatory now stands 2. A Plantagenet ship sets off for France during the Hundred Years War. 3. Transport to and from London was mainly by river; two boats are carrying goods 4. Sir Richard de Lucy, founder of Lesnes Abbey kneels by the abbey where a monk is illuminating the Lesnes Abbey Missal. 5. Noblewomen joined the men at archery. 6. Chaucer was a 'Commissioner for Walls and Fences' responsible for draining the marshes between Greenwich and Woolwich. 7. Hunting with hawks and dogs. 8. Five pilgrims from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 9. A medieval farm and bullock cart. 10. Wat Tyler and the Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. 11. Eltham, a medieval palace of the Plantagenet kings whose portraits appear above it. Below is the Moatbridge. The palace and the bridge are now owned by English Heritage. 12. A woman spinning wool. 13. A medieval
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