The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-21

llol gaze enough OH tHlS SpleHulu-iooh-
ing emperor of fifty, this model of
manly activity and well proportioned
yigor. They doubtless whispered to-
one another the tales that came from
Paris as to his almost superhuman agil-
ity; how when the French king met
him outside Paris, offering him SPLEEN
did milk white horse, Manuel had
then and there, leapt from his own
Steed on to the strange courser without
so much as setting even one foot upon
the ground. They wondered at his
snow white beard--once of a full rich
golden hue-that fell down in profusion
over his broad breast-like the boards
of the French heroes in the greatest of
all medieval epics. They wondered at
his simple dress of flowing white and at
his piety as manifested in the daily
services he quented-Servces con-
Quoted in his own Greek tongue and not
in the foreign Latin idiom to which
they We're accustomed And they
heard, perhaps, with deeper interest
still, rumors of a strange band of mo
bles' still living in Constantinople who
claimed descent from British heroes
now dead a thousand years and more
''nobles' who still, in the far off me-
tropolis of the east, spoke their own
English tongue and still bore in their
hands the same huge battle axes that
had crushed the Norman down at Has
tings.
The next emperor TO visit England
was Sigismund-the emperor of the
west. He, like Manuel came to Eng
land from Paris, and he, too, had great
hopes of inducing the king of England,
Henry ", to make peace with the king
of France and join in one common eff
fort against the conquering Turk. He
was welcomed with a splendor that
surpassed even the welcome of Manuel.
Richard de Beauchamp, the great Earl
of Warwick, called the prince of
Courtesy" by his contemporaries, met
him at Calais. The kings youngest
brother, the Good Duke Humphrey of
Gloucester, the founder of the Bodleian
Library at Oxford, was sent down to re-
ceive him at Dover. At Canterbury he
was entertained by Archbishop Chiche-
ley, the founder Of All Souls college; at
Rochester and hartford he was met by
two more of the royal brothers, the
Dukes Of Bedford and Clarence; while
at Backheath stood the king himself
Henry ", fresh with all the glory of
Agincourt round his brow, and round
him gathered some five thousand of his
greatest knights and nobles-along with
the Mayor of London, Master Nicholas
Wotten the Draper accompanied by his
aldermen and the city companies in all
the splendor of their scarlet robes and
many colored liveries. With character
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perlal guest in his own palace at West
minister, while he himself sought an
humber lodging at Lambeth. Parlia-
ment was not allowed to break up till
the emperor had arrived; and, few
days later, Sigismund was hurried off
to Windsor to be made Knight of the
Garter under circumstances of unusual
splendor
Several of our old English chronicles
have preserved an elaborate account of
the inauguration banquet on this occa
sion and of the wonderful dishes set |
upon the royal table-dishes made up
to represent the exploits of that st. |
George the champion saint Of England, |
in whose honor the Order Of the Garter |
had been founded, and in whose name
Henry himself had hidden his little |
army strike home on the day of his
greatest victory; dishes of an artistic
perfection in design such as would /
have gladdened the heart of such |
master Of the cookman's craft as Alcide
de Mirobolant himself Like Manuel,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the most gifted
sovereign of his century-won the
hearts of all. When Henry heard of
the great victory gained by his brother
at Harfleur august is, 1910 he gal
Hoped off from the Kentish village in
which he was staying and would not
dismount from his horses back till he
had carried the news to Sigismund at
and then the two kings to-
gether entered the great minister to rem
der solemn thanks to God Sigismund's
courtesy found expression in his decla-
ration that not merely was Henry toNbe
on having gained so signal,
but his very captives We're to
be congratulated on having fallen into
the hands Of so noble conqueror. AS
they left Canterbury for the coast Sigis-
suite strewed the streets with