uments may, perhaps, be hereafter discovered to account for him
between the 18th of April, when he was certainly at York, and the 1st
of May, when he had returned to Westminster. At present we are left to
conjecture: but it cannot be thought improbable if we suppose that,
from his castle of Pontefract, (where he would have seen the Duke of
Orleans[220], then a prisoner there, whom he always treated with (p. 293)
respect and kindness, and whom he indulged with as much relaxation of
his confinement as was compatible with his safe custody,) he took the
route for Chester, the place where he had formerly landed on his
return from Trym Castle. Thence pointing out to his bride the country
of Glyndowrdy, in which he passed his noviciate in arms; and the whole
line of the Welsh borders, with which he had been long familiar, he
would probably have passed on to Shrewsbury, where he might have taken
Katharine to the spot in the battle-field on which Hotspur fell. From
Shrewsbury, his line would be through Worcester, in which city he had
often been stationed during the Welsh rebellion; and so onwards
through Oxford, (a place he probably had visited on his journey
northward, and where he would have been delighted to show Katharine
the "narrow chamber" assigned to him when he studied there,) thus
finishing his circuit where it began, at Windsor.

[Footnote 218: Walsingham says, that Henry put off
the celebration of the feast of St. George, (which,
being the 23rd of April, must have fallen on a day
after he had left York,) and directed it to be
celebrated at Windsor on the Sunday after
Ascension-day.]

[Footnote 219: His visits to the hallowed
resting-places of these saints are not at all
inconsistent with the opinion which we have
ventured already to give, that he was never heard
to address in the language of prayer or
thanksgiving any other being than the one true God.
A similar feeling of love for the holy men of God,
whether he could testify that love to the living,
or merely record it for the memory of the dead,
might have led him to the installation of the
Bishop of Lincoln, and to the tomb of John of