The San Francisco call., 1903-01-25
CHAPTER Xxx.
DOWN INTO FRANCE.


So it came to pass that Mary was mar
ried unto Louis and went down into
France.
IAgain the editor takes the liberty Of
substituting Halls quaint account Of
Mary's 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 & of VI c. men scantely
escaped iiiC and yet the most part Of
them were hu- with the wrecke. When
the wether was fayre, then al her ward
robe, stable, and riches was shipped, and
such as were appoyncted to geue their at
tendance on her as the duke of Nor
folke. the Marques OF Dorset, Bysshop of
Durham, the Earle of Surrey the lorde
Delawar sir Thomas Bulleyn and many
other knights. Squyers. getlemen &c ladies,
al these went to shippe and the sayde
laGye to6e her leaue of the quene in the
castell of Douer, and the king brought
her to the sea syde, and kissed her, and
uetoke her to GOD and the fortune Of the
see and to the gouernaunce of the French
king her husband. Thus at the hover of
foure of the clock in the morenynge thys
fayrc ladye took her shippe with al her
noble campaignie; and when they had
sayled quarter of the see. the wynde
rose and seuered some of the shippes to
Cayles, and some in Flaunders and her
shippe with great difficultie to Bulleyn,
and with great jeopardy at the enrying 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 toke 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 la
dies, and welcommed all the noble men
into the cOuntrey. ana so the quene and
all her 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 for
rest of Arders, and ther kynge Loyes
vppon create courser met her. (Which
he so longe desired) but she toke her way
righte on, not stopping to conurse. Then
he returned to Abyle by a secret waye, &c
she was with create triumphe. procession
and 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 ofe
siluer, her horse was trapped in gold-
smythes work very RICHLY. After her fol-
lowed xxxvi ladies al ther palfrey
trapped with crymsyn veluet. embrau-
dere6: after the followed one charyott Of
cloth of tyssue, the seconde clothe Of
golde and the third Crymsyn veluet en-
braudered with the kynges armes & hers,
full of roses After them followed create
nombre of archers and then wagons laden
with their stuff. Create was the riches in
plate, iuels, money and hangynges that
this ladye brought into France. The Moday
geyng the day of Sayncte Denyce, the
same kynge Loyes married the lady
Mary in the create church of Abuyle,
both apareled in goldesmythes woorke.
After the masse was done ther was a
create banket and fest and the ladyes
of England highly entretyned.
The Tewesdaye beyng the daye of Oc-
tober all the Englishmen except a fewe
that wer officers with the sayde quene
were discharged whiche was create 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 now they wer ou. Of seruice,
which caused the to take thought In so
rpuch. some dyed by way returning, and
some fell mad, but ther was no remedy.