When Knighthood Was in Flower eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 335 pages of information about When Knighthood Was in Flower.

When Knighthood Was in Flower eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 335 pages of information about When Knighthood Was in Flower.
al these went to shippe and the sayde ladye toke her leaue of the quene in the castell of Douer, and the king brought her to the sea syde, and kissed her, and betoke her to GOD and the fortune of the see and to the gouernaunce of the French king her husband.  Thus at the hower of foure of the clock in the morenynge thys fayre ladye toke her shippe with al her noble compaignie:  and when they had sayled a quarter of the see, the wynde rose and seuered some of the shippes to Cayles, and some in Flaunders and her shippe with greate difficultie to Bulleyn, and with greate ieopardy at the entrying of the hauen, for the master ran the shippe hard on shore, but the botes were redy and receyued this noble ladye, and at the landyng Sir Christopher Garnysha stode in the water and toke her in his armes, and so caryed her to land, where the Duke of Vandosme and a Cardynall with many estates receyued her, and her ladies, and welcommed all the noble men into the countrey, and so the quene and all her trayne came to Bulleyn and ther rested, and from thence she remoued by dyuerse lodgynges tyll she came all most within iii miles of Abuyle besyde the forrest of Arders, and ther kynge Loyes vppon a greate courser met her, (which he so longe desired) but she toke her way righte on, not stopping to conurse.  Then he returned to Abuyle by a secret waye, & she was with greate triumphe, procession & pagiantes receyued into the toune of Abuyle the VIII day of October by the Dolphin, which receyued her with greate honor.  She was appeareilled in cloth of siluer, her horse was trapped in goldsmythes work very rychly.  After her followed xxxvi ladies al ther palfreys trapped with crymsyn veluet, embraudered:  after the folowed one charyott of cloth of tyssue, the seconde clothe of golde and the third Crymsyn veluet embraudered with the kynges armes & hers, full of roses.  After them folowed a greate nomber of archers and then wagons laden with their stuf.  Greate was the riches in plate, iuels, money, and hangynges that this ladye brought into France.  The Moday beyng the daye of Sayncte Denyce, the same kynge Leyes maried the lady Mary in the greate church of Abuyle, bothe appareled in goldesmythes woorke.  After the masse was done ther was a greate banket and fest and the ladyes of England highly entreteyned.
The Tewesdaye beyng the x daye of October all the Englishmen except a fewe that wer officers with the sayde quene were discharged whiche was a greate sorowe for theim, for some had serued her longe in the hope of preferment and some that had honest romes left them to serue her and now they wer out of seruice, which caused the to take thought in so much, some dyed by way returning, and some fell mad, but ther was no remedy.  After the English lordes had done ther commission the French kynge wylled the to take no lenger payne & so gaue to theim good rewardes and they toke ther leaue of the quene and returned.
Then the Dolphyn of Fraunce called Frauncys
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