This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... One of the company was crowned with an inverted cushion, or pillow, and enthroned upon a table, while the rest at the merrymakers danced around him singing. A jcg. brimming with ale, was then presented to the "Duke.* who was bound to drain it to the bottom, without spilling a drop, or permitting the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... One of the company was crowned with an inverted cushion, or pillow, and enthroned upon a table, while the rest at the merrymakers danced around him singing. A jcg. brimming with ale, was then presented to the "Duke.* who was bound to drain it to the bottom, without spilling a drop, or permitting the coronal cushion to (all from his head. On March 19th, 1538-9, terminated the chequered career of Lord Edmund Howard, Norfolk's elder surviving brother. and father of the unfortunate lady who was destined to become Queen Katharine Howard. This son of the victor of Flodden appears to have been a person of no great force of character, possessing neither the commanding talents of the third Duke, nor the stick-at-nothing heroiss of his other brother, the Lord Admiral. Yet he showed a stubborn courage at Flodden,1 where he was Kings standard-bearer and knight marshal, besides commanding the right wing of the first line. For his services in tfacs momentous fight he was granted a pension of 3J. 4* per diem* for the space of three years; and when this expired he seems to have been allowed "diets for taking thieves, ' at the daily rate of 20s* In this latter trade, scarcel}* a suitable one for a gentleman of his illustrious birth, be remained but fifteen months, when his marriage took place to Joyce Culpepper, widow of Ralph Leigh and secood daughter and co-heir of a Kentish knight of old descent. Sir Richard Culpepper of Oxenhoath.4 This lady, whose father had died in 1484, shared with her two sisters1 a considerable inheritance in Kent and Hampshire, and upon the strength of this Lord Edmund Howard proceeded to live recklessly in London, following the dangerous example of extravagance which the young King set to his courtiers. 1 See ant*, chap....
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