Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-04-10
NJ IS c L L L A n Y.
ROYAL MARRIAGES IN ENGLAND

OF the ,,,,rr;,,,ns oF mas. of o,,, S,,,,, ,,s;
cessos l;.,in ;s t .,,'.1 80 a.
There WAS rho ,wc5Gn" or Lcthrntbei VI, ani i,t S
subsennct m,r,,', In ,bn iattnr '''r
there were some solemn nravcrs bui tbera ,y":
M octnnl con,rao, I, ,;,, ,;,I SO
Uonr tho E;rst ,f,. H. no. ~. 'nV ieiS VI
bc n.;rst tn so, 81 t,l9o thon NJ '"uGn' u!
wnddcd wirc :, and ,bo l,,;La !; a. W W ','i ~
,Ia ~ Wv Va ~ iiNV Sc.sv, i
tiSe thVe' ~, 10 ne IN! welded husband. Roy
al n0Oie' gehtle ana simple, were constrained
10 ,ohoW !he same form oi words:
0ohie tiihe elapsed subsequently to the Con
quest before Princess Of England was married
Oh rdShSh Srounu aiid even then the ceremo-
IL! hdd very much the air OF an Irish abduction
Case' Nome Oh thc daughters OF William the
flrst can be called LH5t'sh pnncesses. They
We're all Norman born.
IL Is not MI the reign OF Henry the First that
we meet with princess born on English soil,
4nd descended from the SaXons by her mother.
we aiiude to Matilda. She was but seven years
ola when an army OF German mobiles came hth-
er TO ask her hand for the Emperor Henry the
rlth' her sire was hard put to 1t to fit out this
niue lass with dowry, but the happy and nat
ural thought struck him that it would be most
seemly. and certainly most convenient. to COM
pei the patient public to furnish the "tocher."-
Accordingly. the enormous tax of IS. was levied
on every hide OF land throughout the kingdom :
since the establishment of that admirable pre-
to proyid, nortiops for tbo dorgbtors NJ kn,al
ity. Mary second douab,n of S,o,han II
ilrSt EnghSh Princess since the Conquest who
Second wns On tbe throre ,bo 81 oJ,. Ii"
was Abbess of tbe soian,, tarho,I ~, y ,,
in England She was also Comn,a.s or nonlo.,n.:
but her estate, like her person, belonged to the
Church and this circumstance rather perplexed
for while the mind of lover, William of Al
SAGE, who was favored by the King and not i'll
thought of by the lady. Matthew fancied if he
could securalize the Princess, her property would
fall into the same condition. Thereupon he
took with him fourteen stout gentlemen at arms;
crossed the Channel, sent herald of his coming
to the lady-nothing loth-married her, and
carried her away; while the cavaliers stood by
to keep off intruders. 1t was merry ride back
to the coast by moonlight, and there was bois-
ferrous passage over to Boulogne afterward but
all was well again, when the joyous party shook
their feathers and smoothed their silks, as they
stood on the territory of the Boulonnais Such
was the runaway match of the first Princess
Royal married on English ground.
1t ended badly. There was no wonderful i'm
age in Boulogne that would work a miracle so
long as the welded continued together and held
their property At the end of three years the
church disunited them, drove Matthew abroad
as wanderer, clapped the Princess into a con-
vent and assumed the guardianship of her two
daughters, with the stewardship of their prop
erty.
The first really lactM marriages of Princess
Royal, was that of Joanna the daughter ofking
John, who married Alexander the Second of
Scotland. The ceremony took place at York +;
whittier the bridegroom was too poor to proceed