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tu Civium Londonienßum, qui jam ante Regis iram & indignationemcommeruifTe videbantur, fed nunc in gratiam redire coeperant, ianeq-bonæ ac Clementis Ama Reginæ interventu maxime, venit a domofuâ Schenenfi Londimm, ubi per ora Iliorum Civium Regio vultii pro-cedens, omni cum honore ac tripudio, quod hujus rei civitas avi-diffima, corporum, parietum, platearum omnifario ornatu, poterat oflen-tare, fufceptus efl : & amplis ac variis præterea donariis ad gratiam*& fili (ut vocant) Cubiculi favorem invitatus. Anno poflhac decimofeptimo, & Junij die feptimo : Clemens illa pia, ac gratiofà fœminanobiliffima Regina Anna defuncta eft, 5c Weßmonaßerii quemadmodumviva, Regis Richardi fili dilectiffimi, fic &: mortua^ lateri conjunóla jacet.Anno decimo nono Caleßi in Æde fàcrâ Divi Nicholas dominam IfabellamCaroli fèxti Gallorum Regis filiam in conjugem accepit, patre Deum om-nipotentem fèdulo deprecante, quatenus illud ipfe monumentum poftuxorem ac primogenitum fho Cordi dilectiflimum, fibi deinde retineret,

2 uod (ut fperabat) in Regni illius decus, ac præfidium, & in utriufqjrmiffimam amicitiam cederet impofterum. Atqui interim dum inhunc modum folennitas nuptiarum ageretur, Pater illic puellæ cum in-tigni numero, apparatuqj celebri defcendit ad Ardam, Urbem ultimamPicardi^, ubi intra fines fùos prædives ac fùmptuofûm Tabernaculumerexit, cui Richardus noffcer tantilliim ultra Guynis Caftrum fuum per-fimile pofüit, inter quæ feptuaginta paflus erant. In media autem pla-nitie

of London, nuho had a nubile before defervedly incurred the Kings An-ger und Difpleafure, but nuere nonu returning into Favour, and especiallyat the Interpofition of the good and gracious Queen Anne, he returned fromhis Palace of Schene to London ; nuhere fßfing nvith a majeßick Lookthrough the Acclamations of the Citizens, he nuas received nuith all the Ho-nour and Tranfport that the City, defirotìs of that Thing to the laß Degree,could by all Marnier of Ornaments in their Drefs, their Buildings, and theirStreets expreß -, and nuas likenuife by large and various Prefents courted forMs Grace, and the Favour (as they Term it) of his Bedchamber. After-nuards in the feventeenth Tear and feventh Day of June, that mild pious andgracious Lady, the moß noble Queen Anne died, and as fee had done nuhilß alive,Jo nonu being dead, fee lies by the Side of her moß beloved King Richard at Weft-minfter. In his nineteenth Tear at Calice, 'in the Church of St. Nicholas, he tookto Wife the Lady Ifabella, Daughter of Charles the Sixth , King of the French,her Father eameßly befeeching Almighty God, that he might from that Timeretain nuith him that Pledge, after his Wife and eldeß Son, the deareß tohis Heart, nuhich (he hoped) might for the future contribute to the Gloryand Safeguard of his, and the ßrmeß Friendfeip of both Kingdoms. Butin the mean Time, nuhilß the Solemnity of the Marriage nuas carried onafter this Manner, the Father of the Lady nuith a noble Retinue , and hand-fame Equipage came donun to Ardres, the laß City of Picardy, nuherenuithin his onun Borders, he ere&ed an exceeding rich and fumptuousTent, and our Richard pitched one like it a little beyond his Caßle ofGuynes, there being feventy Paces dißance betnueen them. There nuas likenuife in

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