DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.67417#0068
42
HAMPTON COURT
or io. at the most. Also, if he slept the first 6.
.homes, as he should be very desirous to doe, then
he raved and should die raving. It grew so much,
for in London, the tenth day of July there died
70. in the liberties and this day 120, and also one
of my gentlemen, and another of my groomes fell
sick and died, so that I removed to Ampton Court,
with very few of mine.”
Here Edward received the French ambassador,
the Marechai St. Andre, who came to bring him
the order of S. Michel and to treat of a marriage
which had been arranged between him and the little
Princess Elizabeth. The Marechai was lodged in
the Queen’s apartments, which, as Edward records,
were all hung with tapestries for the occasion,
as well as the hall and the King’s own lodgings.
“ After dinner, being brought into an inner chamber,
he told me he was come not only for delivery of
th’ Ordre, but also for to declare the great friend-
shippe the King his master bore me, which he desired
I would think to be such to me as a father beareth
to his sonne or brother. And although there were
divers persuasions to dissuade me from the King
his master’s friendshippe, and witless men made
divers rumours, yet he trusted I would not believe
them. I answered him that I thanked him for
th’ Ordre and also his love, and I would show like
love on all pointes. For rumours, they were not
alwais to be believed, and that I did sometime
provide for the worst, but never did any harme
upon their hearing.” The next day the ambassador
invested the King with the robes of the Order in
HAMPTON COURT
or io. at the most. Also, if he slept the first 6.
.homes, as he should be very desirous to doe, then
he raved and should die raving. It grew so much,
for in London, the tenth day of July there died
70. in the liberties and this day 120, and also one
of my gentlemen, and another of my groomes fell
sick and died, so that I removed to Ampton Court,
with very few of mine.”
Here Edward received the French ambassador,
the Marechai St. Andre, who came to bring him
the order of S. Michel and to treat of a marriage
which had been arranged between him and the little
Princess Elizabeth. The Marechai was lodged in
the Queen’s apartments, which, as Edward records,
were all hung with tapestries for the occasion,
as well as the hall and the King’s own lodgings.
“ After dinner, being brought into an inner chamber,
he told me he was come not only for delivery of
th’ Ordre, but also for to declare the great friend-
shippe the King his master bore me, which he desired
I would think to be such to me as a father beareth
to his sonne or brother. And although there were
divers persuasions to dissuade me from the King
his master’s friendshippe, and witless men made
divers rumours, yet he trusted I would not believe
them. I answered him that I thanked him for
th’ Ordre and also his love, and I would show like
love on all pointes. For rumours, they were not
alwais to be believed, and that I did sometime
provide for the worst, but never did any harme
upon their hearing.” The next day the ambassador
invested the King with the robes of the Order in