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stancy during the nation's peril ; to the other, is conveyed 

 that nation's gratitude for his kindness and humanity to 

 her sovereign lord, by the king, creating him Earl of 

 Winchester. And surely the ceremony of that creation 

 is one of no ordinary interest. The king is passing now 

 into Whitehall, and thither too goes the queen from her 

 own apartment, wearing a crown upon her head, with 

 the young prince in his small robes of state, borne after 

 her in the arms of Master Vaughan. And thus the 

 king and queen, and that fair child, proceed through 

 the abbey church, to the shrine of St. Edward, where 

 their offerings are presented. Next, in the review of 

 pageantries and banquet-halls, hunting scenes and revels, 

 in the beautiful bowers of Eltham Palace, rises from out 

 the mingled scene, the rich and gorgeous spectacle of the 

 betrothing of the young Duke of York with Anne Mowbray, 

 the infant heiress of the duchy of Norfolk. St. Stephen's 

 chapel is being hung with arras of gold, and men are 

 employed both day and night in putting up the drapery, 

 which standing in its richness, must yet be gracefully 

 arranged in broad folds around the pillars and the 

 columns. All this is done, and the closed doors are 

 opened for the entrance of stately ladies and train- 

 bearers, great lords and their attendants, the beauty and 

 the chivalry of the house of York. And now the flourish 

 of loud trumpets and the clang of cymbals announce 

 the king's approach, and the full quire is pealing forth 

 its melody of mingled voices and high minstrelsy. The 



