The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-22

Curiously enough, the only peep we have at what went on within the locked gates is in the shape of fast
 day bill of fare, in which salt fish, fresh sturgeon caught ill the Thames,
 crabs and eels are succeeded by apples, oatmeal and cream, and these by 1 cheese, wafers and fruit as a dessert.
 One might fancy that bride and groom
 were preparing themselves by fasting
 aud prayer for the crusade of blood and fire inaugurated by Spanish rule The stipulation in the marriage contract
 that Philip should laid the queen in
 govern. ng her kingdoms" had been fol- lowed up by instructions to her privy
 councillor, written by her own hand, to
 tell the king the whole state of the
 realm, and to obey his commandment in all things"
 Behind and at the right of the gentle faced princess in the picture before us is the uncouth figure of "Jane the
 Fool" who had been attached to Marys
 person, and followed her journeyings
 for years as privileged jester and cham Der woman. Jane married servant in
 the household of the Princess Eliza
 beth before Marys coronation and mar
 riage. Had she been in attendance
 during the Hampton Court seclusion she might have told her royal mistress some stinging and salutary truths even proposed, after the manner of
 kings testers, to exchange titles with her.
 With all the acres of tapestries and
 paintings within doors, and the en-
 chanting miles of woods and water and
 pleasure grounds without in which he
 might roam unseen and undisturbed, Philip was desperately ennuye before the gloomy honeymoon was over. On the other hand the mature bride, for so long and so sadly lonely in heart, be-
 came the more madly enamored of the
 only being she had had the right to claim as her own since her mother died. The best authorities upon historical | dates now agree that the reconciliation
 of the estranged sisters, Mary and
 Elizabeth, took place in the second ! month of Mary's nominal mourning for Norfolk and real enjoyment of the soci-
 ety of her ungracious husband. The
 meeting was in Marys bed-chamber.
 A stormy dialogue concluded with kiss and the gift from the queen of a
 costly ring. Gossiping tradition will have 1t that Philip wrought upon his wife to recall her sister, and that he
 was concealed, with Mary's knowledge,
 behind the arras during the interview, that she might be strictly obedient to his instructions.
 We find the queen again at Hampton
 Court in April, 1855, when ''the king s
 grace'-he was that to the terrified na-
 tion from the hour he emerged from the
 gloomy seclusion of his honeymoon
 removed the queen to Hampton Court
 to keep Easter and to take her chamber there" The phrase had reference to the court etiquet that required the sov- ereign to keep her room for month
 before the birth of a child.
 Tennyson puts Magnificent into Mary's mouth with the beginning of the illusive hope, to which she was to cling until her forlorn case became the laughing stock of the nations:
 Oh, Philip, husband! now thy love to mine
 Will cling more close, and those bleak manners thaw,
 That made me shamed and tongue-tied in my love,
 is an apostrophe that is hardly a poeti- cal license. Her long silence and ab
 sence from public life were at length explained by a dispatch to the French king from plain spoken ambassador: | "The queens supposed state is by no
 means of the hopeful kind generally supposed, but rather some woful mala- | dy, for she sits whole days on the ground, crouched together, with her
 knees higher than her head" Fox cor roborates this in his history of the | martyrs of this blood-soaked reign. | Sometimes she laid weeks without | speaking, as one dead and more than once the rumor went that she had | died" Another pitying chronicler all ludes to her as 'the half-dead queen"
 while depicting the horrible cruelties
 perpetrated by Philip and his Heuten- ant, Gardiner, before the breath at last | forsook her dropscal body.
 l In 1857 Philip returned from a long i visit to Spain to fan the sinking flames of persecution, and to drag the invalid | from her bed into the light as evidence | that he had her warrant for all that he 1 did. His object gained he sailed again l for his native land, leaving her to bear | the onus of his deeds. It was after
 this second departure that, convinced | that he had deserted her, the tormented creature, old before her time, despised | (Coutinued on Seventh papa