Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-10-12

3 account OF Mary journey TO france.
! Then when all things were redy for the
conveyance Of this noble Ladye, the
kyng her brother in the moneth of Au-
guste and the XIV daye, with the quene his
wife and his sayde sister and al the court
! came to Douer and there taryed, for the
/ wynde was troblous and the wether fowle
in so muche that shippe of the kynges
called the Libeck of Ike. tonne was
dryuen shore before Sangate and there
! brase K Of vi G. men scantely escaped
/ iiiC and yet the most part of them were
hurt with the wrecke. When the wether
/ was fayre, then al her wardrobe, stable
and riches was shipped, and such as were
appoyncted to geve their attendance on
! her as the duke of Norfoke, the Marques
of Dorset, the Bysshop of Durham, the
Earle of Surrey. the lorde Delawar, sir
Thomas Bulleyn and many other knights
Squyers, gentlemen & ladies' al these went
| to shippe and the sayde ladye toxic her
leaue of the Quene in the castell of Douer
J and the king brought her to the sea syde
! and kissed her, and betoke her to GOD
! and the fortune of the sea and to the
! gouernaunce of the French king her hus-
| band. Thus at the hover of foure of the
| clock In the morenynge thys fayre ladye
/ Toxic her shippe with al her noble COM
paignie: and when they had sayled a
quarter of the see, the wynde rose and
seuered some of the shippes to Cayles,
! and some in Flanders and her shippe
with great difficultie to Bulleyn, and with
great Jeopardy 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 toxic 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
mr. no nd oil hor
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
create courser met her. (Which he so longe
desired) but she toxic her way righte on,
not stopping to conurse. Then he re-
turned to Abuyle by a secret waye, & she
was with create triumphe, procession &
pagiantes receyued into the toune of
: Abuyle the VIII day of October by the
Dolphin, which receyued her with create
honor. She was appeareilled in cloth Of
siluer, her horse was trapped in gold
smythes work very RICHLY. After her fol-
lowed xxxvi ladies al Their palfreys trap
ped with crymsyn veluet. embraudered:
after the followed one charyott of cloth Of
TISSUE, the seconde clothe of golde and
the third Crymsyn veluet embraudered
with the kynges armes & hers, full of
roses. After them followed a great NOM
Der of archers and then wagons laden
with their stuff. Create was the riches in
plate, fuels, money, and languages that
this ladye brought into France. The
Moday beyng the daye of Sayncte Denyce,
the same kynge Leyes married the lady
Mary in the create church of Abuyle.
bottle appareled in goldesmythes woorke.
After the masse was done ther was a
create banket and fest and the ladyes of
England highly entreteyned.
The Tewesdaye beyng the x daye of Oc-
tober all the Englishmen except a fewe
that wer officers with the sayde Quene
were discharged whiche was a great sor-
owe 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 they wer out of service,
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 toxic Their
leaue of the quene and returned.
Then the DOLPHIN of Fraunce called
Frauncys duke of Valleys, or Fraunceys
d'Angouleme, caused a solempne iustes to
be PROCLAIMED, which shoulde be kept in
Parys in the moneth of Noueber next en-
suyng, and while al these thinges were
preparing, the Ladye Mary the V. daye
Of Noueber, then beying Sondaye was
with create sOlempnitee crowned Queen
| of Fraunce in the monasterye of Saynct
Denyce. and the Lorde DOLPHIN, who was
young, but very toward, al the season
held the crowune ouer her he'd, because it
/ was Of great waight, to her greuaunce.
Nine. Mary took her time, since a
more deliberate journey bride never
/ made to waiting bridegroom. She was
study during this whole period, weep
ing and angry by turns. She, who had
never known a moments illness in all
her days. took to her bed upon two oc-
casions from sheer antipathetic nerv-
BUSINESS. and would rest her head upon
/ James breast and cry out little, half
articulate prayers to God that she
might not kill the man who was her
husband when they should meet.
When we met the king about a league
this side of Abbeville, and when Mary
beheld him with the shadow of death
upon his brow, she took hope, for she
knew he would be but putty in her
J hands, so manifestly weak was he,
mentally and physically. AS he came
up she whipped her horse and rode by
him at a gallop, sending me back with
word that he must not be so ardent;
that he frightened her, poor, timid lit
tie thing, so afraid of-nothing in the
world! This shocked the French court
/ iers, and one would think would have
offended Louis, but he simply grinned
from ear to ear, showing his yellow
fangs, and said whimperingly: "Oh, the
game is worth the trouble Tell her
majesty wait at Abbeville."
The old king had ridden horse to
meet his bride In order that he might
appear more gallant before her, but a
{ litter was waiting to take him back to
Abbeville by shorter route, and they
were married again in person.
To be continued
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