The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1903-04-01
CHAPTER III.

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much that would amount to none could
tell, rs the kings favorites were of
many sorts and taken from all condI-
lions of mon. There was Master VOL
sey, n butchers son, whom he had first
made almoncr, then chief counselor and
bishop of Lincoln, soon to be bishop of
York and cardinal of the holy Roman
church.
From the other extreme Of life came
young Thomas, lord Howard, heir to
the Earl of Surrey, and my Lord OF
Buckingham, premier peer OF the realm.
Then sometimes would the king take
a yeonian OF the guard and make him
his companion In tousts and tournu-
ments solely because OF his Drawn and
bone. Thcrc were others whom he
kept close by him In the palace be-
cause Of their wit and the entertain
ment they furnished, OF which class
was /. and, l flatter myself, no mean
member.
To begin with, being In no way de-
pendent on the king for money, 1 never
drew u farthing from tho royal treas
ury. This, you may be sure, did me no
harm, for, although the king sometimes
NS''5'tSN W Si'St hC away huSSu ~
pay. There were other good reasons,
too, why 1 should be n favorite with
h king.
My appointment as master Of the
dance, / am sure, was owing entirely
to my manner My brother, the baron,
who stood high with the king, was not
friendly toward me because my father
had seen fit to bequeath me so good a
competency In place Of giving 1t all to
the firstborn and leaving me dependent
upon the tender mercies of an elder
brother. So 1 had no help from him
nor from IN one else. / was quite
small OF stature and therefore unable
to compete with lance and mace with
bulkier men, but 1 would bet with any
man, Of my size, on any game, ut my
place and time, I'm any amount, and, IL
I do say 1t, who perhaps should not, /
basicd In the light of many n fair
smile which larger men had sighed for
In vain.
1 did not know when Brandon first
came to London. We had all remained
at Greenwich while the king went UP
to Westminster to waste his time with
matters of state and quarrel with the
parliament, then sitting, over the
amount Of certain subsidies.
Mary, the kings sister, then some
eighteen or nineteen years of age, n
perfect bud, just blossoming into a per-
feet flower, had gone over to Windsor
on n visit to her elder sister, Margaret
of Scotland, and the palace was dull
enough. Brandon, 1t seems, had been
presented to Henry during this time Mt
Westminster and had, to some extent
ut least, become n favorite before I
met him. The first time / saw him was
ut n joust given by the king at West
minister in celebration of the fact that
he had coaxed n good round subsidy
out Of parliament.
The queen and her aides had been in
vltcd over, and 1t was known that Ma
'ry would be down from Windsor and
come home with the king md the court
to Greenwich when we should return.
So we all went over to Westminster the
night before the jousts and were up
bright ard carly next morning to see nil
that was to be seen.
tHcrc the editor sees fit to Substitute
n description of this tournament taken
from the quaint old chroniclcr HALL
The morrow beyng after dynner, at tyne
commencement. the Quene with her Ladyes
repaired to sec the Iustos. the trompettes
brew vp. and In came many n noble man
and Gentlema. rychely appcareilcd, taxi
ynge vp thir horses. after whome folowed
certaync lordcs appareiied, they and thir
horses. In cloth OF Code and russell and
tynsell; knyghtcs In cloth OF Code. and
russet Veluct. And n create nomber Of
Gentlemen on fotc. In russell satyn and
ycalOw. and women In rtiqaet Dnnna lfa
and yealow. all the neither parte OF query
mans hosen Skarlet. and yealow cappes.
Then came the kynge vnder a Pauilion
of golde. and purpul Velvet Embroidered.
the compass OF the Pauilion about, and
valcnced with a fiat. gold beaten In wyre,
with an Imperiall croune In the top, of
tyne Golde. his bases and trapper of cloth
OF Golde, frctted with Damask Code, the
trappcr pedant to the tail. A crane and
chafron OF Btelc. in the front Of the chafro
was a goodly plume set full OF musers or
trimbling spangles of golde. After fol-
wed his three aydes. query OF them vnder
n Pauilion of Crymosyn Damaske &c pur-
pie. The nomber OF Gentlemen and yomen
n fote. appareiled In russell and yealow
was clxviii- Then next these Pauilions
came XII chyldren of honor. sitting query
one OF them on a create courser. rycheiy
trapped. and embroidered In seueraii
dcuises and falcons, where lacked neither
brouderie nor g~oldsmythes work. so that
query chyld and horse in deuice and
fascion was contrary to the other, which
was goodly to beholde.
Then on the counte parte, entered a
StraunRer, fyrst on h~orsebacke in a long
robe of Russell satyne. like q recluse or q
religious. and his horse trapped in the
same sewte. without dromme or noyso Of
mynstrelsye. puttinge n byll OF peticion to
the Quene, the effect whereof was, that *
1t would please her to license hym to
rune In her presence. he would do It
gladly. and IL not. then he would departe
as he came. After his request was
graunted, then he put Off hys sayd habyte
and was armed ut all poces with Yyohe
so did runne his horse to the tylte end,
where dieurs men on fote appareiied in
Russet gatyn awaited on him. Thereupon
he Heraulds cryed an Oyer! and the
Brownd shoke with the trompe of rush.
ynge stedes. Wonder II were TO write OF
the dedes OF Armes which that day toxic
place. where a man might haue seen many
q horse raysed on highe with galop, turno
and stoppe, maruay1ous to behold. C.xty
slaves were broke and the kynge being
lusty, he and the stranger toxic tho
prices.
When the queen had given the stran-
ger permission to run, and as he moved
away, there was a great clapping Of
hands and waving of trophies among
the ladies, for he was Of such noble
ME and comedy face as to attract the
gaze of every IL away from even the
glittering person Of his majesty the
king.
His hair, worn In It's natural length,
fell In brown curls back from his fore
head almost to the shoulder, n style