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NEE LEWORK OF ROYAL LADIES.
381
When the orphaned daughter of this lady, by
the lord admiral, was consigned to the care of the
Duchess of Suffolk, the furniture of “ her former
nursery” was to be sent with her. The list is rather
curious, and we subjoin it.
“ Two pots, three goblets, one salt parcel gilt, a
maser with a band of silver and parcel gilt, and
eleven spoons; a quilt for the cradle, three pillows,
three feather-beds, three quilts, a testor of scarlet
embroidered with a counterpoint of silk say belong-
ing to the same, and curtains of crimson taffeta; two
counterpoints of imagery for the nurse’s bed, six
pair of sheets, six fair pieces of hangings within the
inner chamber; four carpets for windows, ten pieces
of hangings of the twelve months within the outer
chamber, two quishions of cloth of gold, one chair
of cloth of gold, two wrought stools, a bedstead gilt,
with a testor and counterpoint, with curtains be-
longing to the same.’
Return we to Katharine of Arragon : her needle-
work labours have been celebrated both in Latin and
English verse. The following sonnet refers to spe-
cimens in the Tower, which now indeed are swept
away, having left not “ a wreck behind.”
“ I read that in the seventh King Henrie’s reigne,
Fair Katharine, daughter to the Castile king,
Came into England with a pompous traine
Of Spanish ladies which shee thence did bring.
She to the eighth King Henry married was,
And afterwards divorc’d, where virtuously
(Although a Queene), yet she her days did pass
In working with the needle curiously,
As in the Tower, and places more beside,
Her excellent memorials may be seen ;
Whereby the needle's prayse is dignifide
By her faire ladies, and herselfe, a Queene.
381
When the orphaned daughter of this lady, by
the lord admiral, was consigned to the care of the
Duchess of Suffolk, the furniture of “ her former
nursery” was to be sent with her. The list is rather
curious, and we subjoin it.
“ Two pots, three goblets, one salt parcel gilt, a
maser with a band of silver and parcel gilt, and
eleven spoons; a quilt for the cradle, three pillows,
three feather-beds, three quilts, a testor of scarlet
embroidered with a counterpoint of silk say belong-
ing to the same, and curtains of crimson taffeta; two
counterpoints of imagery for the nurse’s bed, six
pair of sheets, six fair pieces of hangings within the
inner chamber; four carpets for windows, ten pieces
of hangings of the twelve months within the outer
chamber, two quishions of cloth of gold, one chair
of cloth of gold, two wrought stools, a bedstead gilt,
with a testor and counterpoint, with curtains be-
longing to the same.’
Return we to Katharine of Arragon : her needle-
work labours have been celebrated both in Latin and
English verse. The following sonnet refers to spe-
cimens in the Tower, which now indeed are swept
away, having left not “ a wreck behind.”
“ I read that in the seventh King Henrie’s reigne,
Fair Katharine, daughter to the Castile king,
Came into England with a pompous traine
Of Spanish ladies which shee thence did bring.
She to the eighth King Henry married was,
And afterwards divorc’d, where virtuously
(Although a Queene), yet she her days did pass
In working with the needle curiously,
As in the Tower, and places more beside,
Her excellent memorials may be seen ;
Whereby the needle's prayse is dignifide
By her faire ladies, and herselfe, a Queene.