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EDWARD VI. AND QUEEN MARY 43
the Chapel, and kissed his cheek after the Com-
munion had been celebrated.
On the 19th of July, adds the King, “ the
Marechai supped with me, and the next morning
came to see mine arraying, and saw my bedchamber
and went a hunting with hounds, and saw me shoot
and all my guard shot together. He dined with me,
heard me play on the lute, ride, came to me in my
study, supped with me, and soe departed to Rich-
mond.” Further negotiations as to the marriage
treaty were held during the next few days, and on
the 26th the Marechai paid a farewell visit to the
King at Hampton Court. “ After dinner,” writes
Edward, “ he saw the strength of the English
archers, and at his departure I gave him a diamond
from my finger worth £150, both for paines and
also for my memory.” On the following Michael-
mas Day the King kept the Feast of the Order
with as great solemnity as that of St. George, and
invited the French envoy to Hampton Court for
the festival. The royal arms, and the badge of
the Order of St. Michel, were set up together in
the Chapel, and the ambassador was present at
the Communion service, “ where he saw the King
reverently with us of his Council communicate the
Sacrament, wherein, as we perceive, he seeth and
understandeth great difference betwixt our rever-
ence in our religion and the slanders thereof usually
spread by evill men.”
That same autumn, another distinguished guest
came to Hampton Court in the person of the Queen
Dowager of Scotland, Mary of Guise, who, on her
the Chapel, and kissed his cheek after the Com-
munion had been celebrated.
On the 19th of July, adds the King, “ the
Marechai supped with me, and the next morning
came to see mine arraying, and saw my bedchamber
and went a hunting with hounds, and saw me shoot
and all my guard shot together. He dined with me,
heard me play on the lute, ride, came to me in my
study, supped with me, and soe departed to Rich-
mond.” Further negotiations as to the marriage
treaty were held during the next few days, and on
the 26th the Marechai paid a farewell visit to the
King at Hampton Court. “ After dinner,” writes
Edward, “ he saw the strength of the English
archers, and at his departure I gave him a diamond
from my finger worth £150, both for paines and
also for my memory.” On the following Michael-
mas Day the King kept the Feast of the Order
with as great solemnity as that of St. George, and
invited the French envoy to Hampton Court for
the festival. The royal arms, and the badge of
the Order of St. Michel, were set up together in
the Chapel, and the ambassador was present at
the Communion service, “ where he saw the King
reverently with us of his Council communicate the
Sacrament, wherein, as we perceive, he seeth and
understandeth great difference betwixt our rever-
ence in our religion and the slanders thereof usually
spread by evill men.”
That same autumn, another distinguished guest
came to Hampton Court in the person of the Queen
Dowager of Scotland, Mary of Guise, who, on her