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MARGARET OP NOB WAY, 91
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-A*«-> • It Was Now The Year 1396, And T...
cloth of Cyprus , " and to the three subordinate envoys and the rest of And the sui now te , g durin ifts of - scarlet all the and _spring green and cloth summer and pieces of the of kerseymere year 1406 .
, g , out King" and Henry Queen of Eng Margare land t was busil as y busil preparin preparing g * to send to his receive daughter her .
One , of the largest vessels in the royal navy y was selected for her accommodationand a sergeant-at-arms was commissioned to visit
purpose the ports of seizing London , ten shi L ynn , four and barges all the , and coas t of many Norfolk mas , ters for the d d
mariners as would be necessary to man them , " the passage an safe conduct of the Queen of Denmark , and of the lords , ladies , knihtsclerksesquiresvaletsand other attendants" accompanying
g , , , , mi her ssioned on the to voyage command . Admiral the squadron Nicholas and Blackburn the Bishop was of then Bath com and
"Wells , Richard , younger brother of , the Duke of York , Sir Henry _Eitz Hugh , Sir Henry le Scroope , Sir Edward Courtenay , and others
to of at conclude her the marriage nobility a treaty , , were to negotiate of appoin alliance ted the between to arrangements escort Denmark the Princess for and her , to Eng dower be land present , . and the
These matters concluded , it now only remained to provision casks to shi embark ps of and beer . send Two for them Her pip es Hi to hness L M almsey 's , a whence ttendants for the the were royal Princess then table conveyed had , and decided thir on ty
in boar case d , tne of princi need . The vessel list g , which of offensive was , moreover appointments , , fitted out detaile for defence d by
Mrs and . we Green find , * it sounds difficult by to no understand means formidable how " two to guns our , modern forty poun ears ds ,
t orches pow , d er , for malle ty s t t , ones two firepans or ball , twent for t y -four guns bows , forty , an nt d tamp forty ot ions t sheaves , fou f r
of arrows" could ever have been considered sufficieprecion or a t A rave cco l lin p , g Princess ed as far . as Lynn by her parents and other relatives ,
the bride there waited for a . favourable wind , and , after a few days ' delay , sailed on the eleventh of August with all her suite . The voyage was tedious—so tedious that one is at a loss to understand landed at
and how o Helsing f Octob a they large b er contrived . concourse Being in South not there Sweden of to met nobility arrive and either sooner welcomed she during was —and conducted the by the Margaret first Princess or to second Lund and week Eric the ,
twenty ancient -sixth capital day of of Sweden the month , and married . , The following with great quaint splendour account on , the of the dding festivities is extracted from Mrs . Green ' s valuable work
we before-mentioned , and purports to be translated from the " Swedish Rhyme Chronicle . "
honor Queen " "When . immedia King they Eric tel reached y received made prepara the her Swedish well tions , as , for shore did the also , the King Margaret damsel ' s marriage the was Q landed . . ueen She . with pre The - _,
* Lives of the Princesses of England _,
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Margaret Op Nob Way, 91
MARGARET OP NOB WAY , 91
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 91, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/19/
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