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return from France, was driven by a violent tem-
pest in the Channel to land at Portsmouth, and
was escorted by Lord and Lady Northampton and
a number of noblemen and ladies to the palace.
Once more the costly tapestries were brought out
to decorate the hall and royal lodgings, which were
all “ very finely dressed, and the evening was spent
in dancing and pastime.” “ On All-Hallows Day,”
adds the royal diarist, “ the Dowager perused the
house of Ampton Court and saw some coursing
of deer, and then came to London by water and
stayed at the Bishop’s palace.” 1
Both in June and again in the autumn of 1552,
the last year of his life, Edward spent some weeks
at Hampton Court, in the course of the summer
progress which he describes so pleasantly to
his old schoolfellow, Barnaby Fitzpatrick, Lord
Ormonde’s cousin, who was, according to Fuller, in
his boyhood the King’s whipping-boy or “ proxy for
correction.” 2 The young Irishman had, it is plain,
inspired his royal comrade with genuine affection, and
the letters which Edward addressed to Mr. Barnaby,
when he was sent to learn fashions and manners in
France, reveal the young King in a most attractive
light. “ Whereas, you all,” he wrote to Barnaby,
who was then in the French camp at Nancy, “ have
been occupied in killing of your enemies, in long
marchings, in peined journeys, in extreme heat, in
sore skirmishings and divers assaults, we have
been occupied in killing of wild beastes, in pleasant
1 J. G. Nichols, “Literary Remains,” ii. 346, 359, 360.
2 “Church History of Britain,” vii. 47.
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return from France, was driven by a violent tem-
pest in the Channel to land at Portsmouth, and
was escorted by Lord and Lady Northampton and
a number of noblemen and ladies to the palace.
Once more the costly tapestries were brought out
to decorate the hall and royal lodgings, which were
all “ very finely dressed, and the evening was spent
in dancing and pastime.” “ On All-Hallows Day,”
adds the royal diarist, “ the Dowager perused the
house of Ampton Court and saw some coursing
of deer, and then came to London by water and
stayed at the Bishop’s palace.” 1
Both in June and again in the autumn of 1552,
the last year of his life, Edward spent some weeks
at Hampton Court, in the course of the summer
progress which he describes so pleasantly to
his old schoolfellow, Barnaby Fitzpatrick, Lord
Ormonde’s cousin, who was, according to Fuller, in
his boyhood the King’s whipping-boy or “ proxy for
correction.” 2 The young Irishman had, it is plain,
inspired his royal comrade with genuine affection, and
the letters which Edward addressed to Mr. Barnaby,
when he was sent to learn fashions and manners in
France, reveal the young King in a most attractive
light. “ Whereas, you all,” he wrote to Barnaby,
who was then in the French camp at Nancy, “ have
been occupied in killing of your enemies, in long
marchings, in peined journeys, in extreme heat, in
sore skirmishings and divers assaults, we have
been occupied in killing of wild beastes, in pleasant
1 J. G. Nichols, “Literary Remains,” ii. 346, 359, 360.
2 “Church History of Britain,” vii. 47.