Identifier: sidelightsonengl00hend (find matches)
Title: Side lights on English history;
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Henderson, Ernest F. (Ernest Flagg), 1861-1928
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Publisher: London : G. Bell and sons New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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continuesin favour and liking with all, especiallyat court, where he is now lodged in thelate lord treasurers lodgings. Yester-day night the Lady Elizabeth invitedhim to a solemn supper and a play,and they meet often at meals withoutcuriosity or crowing. On Sunday wassevennight he dined with the king andprince in the privy chamber, but satbare all the while, whether by customor rather, as is thought, to bear theprince company, who never comeabroad since that day, being seized bya fever that . . . hath continued aquotidian since Wednesday last andwith more violence than it began, sothat on Saturday he was let blood byadvice of most physicians, though But-ler, of Cambridge, was loth to consent.The blood proved foul ; and that after-noon he grew very sick, so that bothking, queen and Lady Elizabeth wentseverally to visit him, and revelling, and plays appointed for that night wereput off . . . He and the Count Pala-tine wore invited and piomised to theloiil mayors feast on Thursday last.
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(/I James I. 49 and great preparations were made forthem ; but by this accident he failed.The Count Palatine and his company,after they had seen the show in Cheap-side, went to Guildhall, and were therefeasted and welcomed by Sir JohnSwinnerton, the new made lord mayor,and presented toward the end of thedinner in the name of tlie city with afair standing cup, a curious basin andewer, with two large livery pots, weigh-ing altogether i 200 ounces, to the valuealmost of £500 . . . He behaved him-self very courteously and in very goodfashion at the feast, and would needsgo to see and salute the lady mayoressand her train where she sat. Theshow was somewhat extraordinary, withfour or five pageants and other devices. Nov. 12th, 1612. When I was closing up my letter toyou the last week, I understood more ofthe princes sickness than I was willingto impart; for I knew it could be nowelcome news anywhere ; and I was inhopes the world might amend. Butgoing the next morning, the tjth ofNovember,

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