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some reluctation, such as could be in those years, for 

 he was not twelve years of age, to be contracted with 

 the Princess Catharine. The secret providence of 

 God ordaining that marriage to be the occasion of 

 great events and changes. 



The same year were the espousals of James, King 

 of Scotland with the Lady Margaret, the king s 

 eldest daughter ; which was done by proxy, and 

 published at Paul s cross, the five and twentieth of 

 January, and Te Deum solemnly sung. But certain 

 it is, that the joy of the city thereupon shewed, by 

 ringing of bells and bonfires, and such other incense 

 of the people, was more than could be expected, in 

 a case of so great and fresh enmity between the na 

 tions, especially in London, which was far enough 

 off from feeling any of the former calamities of the 

 war; and therefore might be truly attributed to a 

 secret instinct and inspiring, which many times run 

 neth not only in the hearts of princes, but in the 

 pulse and veins of people, touching the happiness 

 thereby to ensue in time to come. This marriage 

 was in August following, consummate at Edin 

 burgh : the king bringing his daughter as far as 

 Colliweston on the way, and then consigning her to 

 the attendance of the Earl of Northumberland; who, 

 with a great troop of lords and ladies of ho 

 nour, brought her into Scotland, to the king her 

 husband. 



This marriage had been in treaty by the space 

 of almost three years, from the time that the king of 

 Scotland did first open his mind to Bishop Fox. The 

 sum given in marriage by the king, was ten thou- 



