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186 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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years , , , g rather Ma more i than s filled a year th t younger he quarrel than s of di his loma affianced tists and bride the _*
Henry chicaneries any page in of crowned that ¦ Catherine _Iheads each should trying be to sent overreach p to Eng the land other in .
order tha urg t she g might learn to speak French and grow accustomed , in earlth to the English mists and rain . Ferdinand more
and more y you unwilling to part with his darling child , because of " in the tri 200 , 000 and crowns his majes , her t s of tipula Spain ted dower tooped . to Intri the gue bas follo e usa wed e
of the gue J , , and sugges y ted in secret cyphers , how by a false g exchange the current value of the Spanish coin might be
lessened asking Henry ; and to further take , the tha g t more ' s clothes still and mig ht amen be gained ts as , by t
at paymen At Plymou leng t of th th the , on accompanied dower October . 2 nd "by , 1501 a train , the of lit attendants tle Catherine , of landed whom
d faithfu we ying need mis l follower but tress par and , who ticularize received in the one . day , s Dona o t f her gh Martin . adversity Her a education Salazar , flew to , was her the
confessor such as mig she ht could be gained sin from a few her dancing embroider master an , nurse altar , clo th but could ; not speak one g word of songs Enlish , or French . ,,
After a month ' s residence in E g ngland the royal nuptialswere celebrated .
" November 14 th , 1501 , the Prince of Wales and the Infanta were married to at St the . Paul steps ' s , b of y Hen the * altar y Deane b , Prince Archbishop Henry of Canterbury chubbchild , the of bride ten being To the led
wonder of the London citizens y and their wives , , the y Infanta wore a . Spanish before mantilla been , and had in her a gown London stuck street out with These hoops hoops —a thin however g which in had due never time
con grew tinued into in favour fashion seen with for the a coup city le of madam genera . s , tions and . " spite , , of satire , and sermon , , _,
At the time of the marriage Arthur ' s age was fifteen years s 1502 and ixteen two . the month A boy few -husban s short ; in twenty d month died s day at passed s Ludlow Catherine away Castle , and would . The A have pril editor been 2 nd ,.
because of endeavours the , difficulties upon in this this point earl relative y s hang tage to all the the the legality n subsequent arrative of to the clea even r marriage ts up which some , _, ,
to con the tributed separation to the of divorce the Church of Catherine of Englan , and d from in the rem jurisdiction ote degree of that of Rome . That d Henry VII . considered the marriage
in comp the lete possession is proved of beyon the Empress question of the hj a French very curious . It is letter addressed now
by the king of England to Ferdinand and Isabella , and
186 Notices Of Books.
186 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/64/
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