the Bride, tho' a Widow, was dreffed in White, to denote her Virginity, which fhe, and all her Friends. afferted to the last. nation. A few Days after the Marriage was confummated the King made twenty four Knights of the Bath in the Tower; and on the 24th of June their Majefties were crown'd at Westminster, by the Hands Their Coro- of Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, with the utmost Magnificence; when the Nobility, both Spiritual and Temporal, paid their Homage: And the People, according to antient Custom, being asked, Whether they would receive him for their King? they unanimoufly cried, with repeated Shouts, Yea! Yea! This Ceremony being performed, the King confirmed, to John Earl of Oxford, the Poffeffion of the Caftle of Colchester, granted to one of his Anceftors by the Emprefs Maud; nominated Sir Edmund Howard Standard-bearer; Sir Thomas Boleyn War· den The SECRET HISTORY of the CARDINAL, fent in this Manner to the Em peror in Flanders, then lying at Bruges, whom he did moit nobly entertain, difcharging all the Cardinal's Charges, and his Men's. There was no Houfe in the Town of Bruges, where in any one of my Lord's Gen⚫tlemen were locged, or had recourfe, but that the Owners of the Houfes were commanded 6 which they honeftly required, or defired to have. Alfo the Emperor's Officers every Night went through the Town from Houfe to Houfe, where any Englishman had recourfe, or lodged, and ferved their Livery for all Night, which was done on this Manner: Firit, the Officers brought into the Houfe a Cafteele of fine Manchet, then two Silver Pots of Wine, and a Pound of Sugar, white Lights, and yellow Lights, a Bowl of Silver, and a Goblet to drink in, and every Night a Staff- torch. This was the Order of their Livery every Night; and in the Morning, when the Officers 'came den of the Exchange at Calais; and appointed fifty Gentlemen to be Spear-men, each of them to have an Archer, a Demy Lance, and a Chryftal; and every Spear-man to have three great Horfe-men Attendants on his Perfon, of which Band the Earl of Effex was conftituted Lieutenant, and Sir John Pechie Captain But this Band did not hold long, being, fomewhat like the late King of Pruffia's tall Grenidiers, very expensive to maintain, and of little or no Ufe. Richmond's Some time after the King's Coronation, Countess of Margaret, Countefs of Richmond and Derby, the King's Grandmother, died, much lamented by the King and the whole Court. This Princefs was fo remarkable for her extenfive Charity, that the Publick, by her Death, fuftained a very great Lofs. Cambridge, in particular, will for ever honour her Memory, where the founded two Colleges for that By GEORGE CAVENDISH, Efq; came to fetch away their Stuff, they would account for the • Gentlemen's Cofts the Day be'fore. Uni 'much more, for he increased daily in the King's Favour, by ⚫ reafon of his Wit and Readinefs to do the King Pleasure in ⚫ all Things. In the one and twentieth Year of King Henry_the VIIIth's Reign, Anno Dom. 1529, this Emperor, Charles the Vth, came into England, 'who was nobly entertained. CHAP. VII. Of the Manner of his Going to Westminster-Hall. N OW muft I declare the Manner of his going to Westminster-Hall in the • Term Time. First, when he came out of his Privy Cham ber, he most commonly heard University; the one dedicated to our Saviour Chrift, and the other to St. John, and endowed them both with large Revenues. Befides Officers and Servants, there are 200 Students maintained in them. She left likewife Lands to both Univerfitiès, out of the Rents whereof, two Doctors, Profeffors of Divinity, annually receive Allowances. She was buried near her Son Henry the VIIth, according to the Dignity of fo great a Perfon, in a fair Tomb of Touchftone, whereon lies her Image of gilt Brafs. She had no Iffue by the Earl of Derby, her fecond Husband, who died in the Year 1504. Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, preached her Funeral Sermon, and threw these Flowers upon her Grave. Concerning her Birth, that he was the Daughter of John Duke of Somerset, lineally defcended from the most noble Prince Edward the IIId, King of England. That fhe was a fecond Martha, both for her Hofpitality and Readiness to do Good; would often The SECRET HISTORY of the CARDINAL, ⚫cellent Learning) that, what • Bufinefs foever the Cardinal had in the Day-time, he never went to-bed with any 6 part of his Service unfaid; no, not fo much as one Collect, in which I think he deceived many a Man, Then, going into his Chamber again, he demanded of fome of his Servants, if they were in readiness, and had furnished his Chamber of Prefence, and waiting Chamber; he then, being advertised, came out of his Privy Chamber about eight of the Clock, ready apparelled, and in red like a Cardinal, his upper Vefture was all of Scarlet, or elfe of fine Crimson Taffata, or Crimson Sattin in grained, his Pillion of Scarlet, with a black Velvet Tippet of Sables about his Neck, holding in his Hand an Orange, the • Meat or Substance thereof being ⚫ taken out, and filled again with a part of Sponge, with Vinegar and other Confections against peftilent Airs, the which he most commonly held to his Nofe when he came to the Preffes, or when he was peftered with many Suitors: And before him was borne the broad Seal of England, and the Cardinal's Hat, by fome Lords, or fome Gentlemen of Wor'fhip right folemnly; and as foon as he was entered into his • Chamber of Prefence, where there were daily attending on often drefs the Wounds of poor People with her own Hands, with many other manual Acts of Charity, frequently performed by the greatest Perfonages in thofe Days, tho' now much neglected. And, which was very extraordinary, when a Propofal was made for divers Princes to join in a War against the common Enemy of the Chriftian Faith, this Princefs, to encourage them in fo glorious an Expedition, offered even herfelf to attend them as a Laundrefs. The following Epitaph, composed by Erafmus, was infcribed upon her Tomb. MARGARETAE. RICHE. AE. QUAE. STIPENDIA. DVOB. ITEM. INTERPRAE- CHRISTO. ET. JOANNI. DISCIPVLO. ETVS. STRVXIT. AN. DOMINI M.D.IX.III. KAL. JVLII. By GEORGE CAVENDISH, Efq; him as well Noblemen of this * Realm, as other worthy Gen⚫tlemen of his own Family, his two great Croffes were 'there attending upon him ; 'then cry the Gentlemen Ufhers • that go before him bare-headed, On Mafters before, and 'make Room for my Lord! Thus 6 went he down into the Hall, ⚫ with a Serjeant of Arms before him, bearing a great Mace of Silver, and two Gentlemen 'carrying two great Plates of Silver; and, when he came to the Hall-door, there his Mule • ftood trapped all in Crimson 6 Velvet, with a Saddle of the ⚫ fame. Then was attending him, This when he was mounted, his two • Cross-bearers, his two Pillarbearers, all upon great Horfes, all in fine Scarlet; then he • marched on with a Train of Gentry, having four Foot-men about him, bearing every one ⚫of them a Pole-ax in his Hand; and thus paffed he forth till he came to Westminster, and there alighted and went in this Manner up to the Chancery, and ftaid a while at a Bar, made for him beneath the Chancery, and there he • communed fometimes with Judges, and fometimes with other Perfons, and then went up to the Chancery, and fat there till cleven of the Clock, ་ to This Princess was a great Encourager both of Religious and Learned Men, and from time to time preferred them in her Family, and afterwards recommended them to her Son Henry the VIIth, who generally indulged her Requefts. Among them Hugh Oldham, Dr. in Divinity, and one of this Princess's Chaplains, was preferred to the See of Exeter; and of her Will she made Sir John St. John and others Executors, who faithfully executed the Truft reposed in them. Sir John was of a very antient Family, being paternally defcended from the Ports, Lords of Bafing in Hampshire, who were great Barons at the Time of the Conqueft; and by maternal Descent he derived the Sur-name of St. John, in lineal Succeffion from William de St. John, and entered England with William (by fome called) the Conqueror.. * Sir John's Mother, Margaret, the Relict of Sir Oliver St. John, married John Beaufort, Duke of So The SECRET HISTORY of the CARDINAL, to hear Suits, and to determine Causes; and from thence he would go into the Starchamber as Occafion ferved him; he neither fpared High nor Low, but did judge < every one according unto Right. < Every Sunday he would re mer fort to the Court, being at 'Greenwich, with his former re'hearfed Train and Triumph, taking his Barge at his own Stairs, furnished with Yeomen ftanding upon the Sails, and his Gentlemen within and a'bout, and landed at the Three Cranes in the Vine-tree, and from * From this Gentleman, Henry Lord Viscount St. John, Lord St. John of Bletfo, and Sir Francis St. John, Bart. are defcended. The first named Lord ferved his Country in Parliament for the fpace of 21 Years, and was, on the 2d of July, in the zd of K. Geo. I. created Baron St. John of Batterfea, and Viscount St. John. Henry, his eldeft Son by his first Lady, was a Gentleman of fo great Learning and fprightly Parts, that he had but few Equals in the Kingdom; and, having diftinguith'd himself in the House of Commons, was made Secretary of War, and one of the Privy Counc |