WINDSOR CASTLE 



months the Round Tower to receive the Round 

 Table for his new Order of Knights of the 

 Garter, which he founded in 1349. In 1347 

 King David Bruce of Scotland was imprisoned 

 at Windsor ; and ten years later another prisoner, 

 King John of France, captured at Crecy, was 

 brought a captive here also. It was in the 

 same year that Chaucer visited Windsor, a visit 

 repeated in 1358. In 1406 Prince James of 

 Scotland (afterwards James I), when on his way 

 to school in France he was then eleven years 

 old was captured and imprisoned for seven- 

 teen years in the Norman Tower. He was 

 released in 1423 on payment of 60,000 marks, 

 on condition that he married an English lady 

 of good birth. Already the gentle, studious 

 youth, gazing out of his narrow window, had 

 made -his choice. The maiden (Joan Beaufort, 

 daughter of the Earl of Somerset), wandering 

 among the paths and flowers, had caught 

 with her fresh young beauty the weary eye 

 of the prisoner, and became the subject of 

 his poem full of sensitive feeling " The King's 

 Quair " " A garden faire, and in the corners 

 set, an Arbour green." 



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