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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-12 00:00:00

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her the cross to kis
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Sir William Bulmer,
rham, met her in company with
" honour of that coun-
r to Darnton. At the
'ae Vicar and his folk of
anor of the Bishop of
noon being the 20th of
am, was encountered by Sir
- with folk in their
; and the bride
wn, very richly

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number of fifty

And all her escort- attireil
le Earl of Northumberland,
red with et mines. He was
arness was of goldsmith's
ewn small bells, making a
and he did not spare gam-
ere dressed in long jackets
th his devices, as were all

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great man and

nor is he ever weary of describ-
d gowns, the gambades be per-
.ampanes) that chimed, sweetly
he equestrian_ capers were cut.

lord with faiour, perhaps, because he
cer-at-arms for the especial service of his
Northumberland Herald, who gave his
n this grand progress. My lord of North-
.plete with bells and tinsel, in the spring-
was no other than that solemn and couse-

vendish, who draws no very
g picture of my lord of Northumberland, when he nip-
s the bud the passion of his son Lord Percy, with the fair
31eyli. Queen Margaret lodged in the
immediate protection of the
e until the 24th of July, when
to Newcastle. She made her
.ntered that town, in which her
unusually brilliant; for, besides the religious
ith their banners and crosses upon the bridge-
were many children vested in white surplices, who
dious hymns, and played on instruments of divers
lie streets were hung with tapestry, and all the
oops and ship tops were full of people;' and 'there
emen and gentlewomen in such great numbers it

have beer

ribed 'by (

at Dur

am and

no artille6 or ordnance was
Is our herald thought. 'But

to his c

divelling.' The festival of
nt of Quee^. Margaret's w

lord, was

celebrated at Newcastle, that 25th of July. She
lay in the town, and was at the church-mass nobly

courtly gentleman

Ld, with his " small bell

n he moved," must have

.eception by James was worthy of so distinguished
t and sovereign ; and notwithstanding the disparity
letween them, the union might have been attended
erate happiness bad there not been a still greater
aray in their respective tastes and temperaments.
-e series of flatteries," says her biographer, " she bad
ienced in her bridal tour, had only puffed up the
v and presumption to which the female character at
age {fourteen) is peculiarly liable. The sedulous
• I and little fond indulgences with which her ac-
d lord had humanely endeavoured to soothe and
sole her for her removal from her country and parent
were all utterly thrown away on a thankless and murmur-
ing spirit." Nor did the object for which the marriage

y riiod

had Been contracted appear to be at all realized. Driven
by the discomforts of his domestic position almost to
desperation, James rushed into feuds with his powerful
nobles, and ultimately into a quarrel with England,
-which, together with the life of the monarch himself, came
to an issue upon the fatal field of Flodden. At the age of
twenty-four Margaret was left a widow, with one child,
afterwards James the. Fifth, during whose minority she
was to exercise the office of Regent, aided by the Lord
Chancellor, James Belon, Archbishop of Glasgow, the
Earls of Arran, Huntley, and Angus.
From this period the bad qualities in Margaret's cha-
racter rapidly developed themselves, the most prominent
being a grasping love of money, consummate treachery,
and a gross disregard to the sanctity of the marriage vow.
On the accession of Henry VIII., her brother, to the
English throne, she became his unwearied correspondent,
her letters consisting principally of importunate demands
for money, as the reward for repeated betrayals of the
best interests of the country committed to her keeping)
and of the rights of her young son. At the same time;
she maintained an equally dishonest and begging corm-.
spondence with' the Regent Albany, and with others of
the Scottish party. Her whole career indeed, up to her
death, appears to have been one of constant meanness,
rapacity, ingratitude, and unpatriotic intrigue. The
Nord feature, however, w liargaret'a character was her