r, her horse
was trapped in goldsmythes work very rychly. After her followed
xxxvi ladies al ther palfreys trapped with crymsyn veluet,
embraudered: after the folowed one charyott of cloth of tyssue,
the seconde clothe of golde and the third Crymsyn veluet
embraudered with the kynges armes & hers, full of roses. After
them folowed a greate nomber of archers and then wagons laden with
their stuf. Greate was the riches in plate, iuels, money, and
hangynges that this ladye brought into France. The Moday beyng the
daye of Sayncte Denyce, the same kynge Leyes maried the lady Mary
in the greate church of Abuyle, bothe appareled in goldesmythes
woorke. After the masse was done ther was a greate banket and fest
and the ladyes of England highly entreteyned.

The Tewesdaye beyng the x daye of October all the Englishmen
except a fewe that wer officers with the sayde quene were
discharged whiche was a greate sorowe for theim, for some had
serued her longe in the hope of preferment and some that had
honest romes left them to serue her and now they wer out of
seruice, which caused the to take thought in so much, some dyed by
way returning, and some fell mad, but ther was no remedy. After
the English lordes had done ther commission the French kynge
wylled the to take no lenger payne & so gaue to theim good
rewardes and they toke ther leaue of the quene and returned.

Then the Dolphyn of Fraunce called Frauncys duke of Valoys, or
Fraunceys d'Angouleme, caused a solempne iustes to be proclaymed,
which shoulde be kept in Parys in the moneth of Noueber next
ensuyng, and while al these thinges were prepearyng, the Ladye
Mary, the V. daye of Noueber, then beying Sondaye was with greate
solempnitee crowned Queen of Fraunce in the monasterye of Saynct
Denyce, and the Lorde Dolphyn, who was young, but very toward, al
the season held the crowune ouer her hed, because it was of greate
waight, to her greuaunce.

Madame Mary took her time, since a more deliberate journey bride never
made to waiting bride-groom. She was a study during this whole
period--weeping and angry by turns. She, who had never known a
moment's illness in all her days, took to her bed upon two occasions
from sheer antipathetic nervousness, and would rest her head upon
Jane's breast and cry out little, half-articulate prayers to God that
she might not kill the man who was her husband, when they should meet.

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