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She rode on a palfrey attended by three serving men, and a litter 

 drawn by two horses followed, in which she rode when passing 

 through the towns upon her journey. John Price of Tynemouth 

 rode forth to meet her, attended by 30 horsemen and a company of 

 " homagers," his folks wearing his livery. 



After the battle of Flodden, 9th September 1513, Margaret, in 

 August 1514, married the Earl of Angus; she subsequently was obliged 

 to give up her children to the Commissioner, and tied across the 

 border to Harbottle Castle, where she bore a daughter. 



1515. On Monday, 16th November, the Queen of Scots removed 

 from Harbottle to a place of Sir Edw. Eatcliffes, called Cartington, 

 four miles o£P, where she remained four days. Removed on Saturday 

 to Bryngbourne, five miles from Cartington ; on Monday to Morpeth, 

 where she was met by the Lord Ogle, the Abbot of Newminster, and 

 other gentlemen, by appointment of the Lord Dacre. She was so 

 feeble that she could not bear horses in the litter, but Lord Dacre 

 caused his servants to carry it from Harbottle to Morpeth. Next 

 Saturday the Lord Chamberlain and others came out of Scotland to 

 meet her. " Her Grace was borne in a chair out of her bed chamber 

 into the great chamber, to the intent that her Grace should see all 

 such stuff as your highness had sent by me to be laid abroad. When 

 she had seen everything, she bid the Lord Chamberlain and other 

 gentlemen come in and look at it, saying, "'So my Lord, here ye 

 may see that the King, my brother, hath not forgotten me, and that 

 he would not I should die for lack of clothes.' " On Sunday, the 8th 

 December, came the Ambassador of France out of Scotland, sent by 

 Albany, to treat for peace. 



Though she has not been able to set forth on account of her 

 weakness, yet here a great house is kept. " Here is first, this 

 Christmas, my Lord of Angus, my Lord Chamberlain of Scotland, and 

 the Lady Bodwell his wife, Lord Dacre, Lord Ogle, the lady his wife. 

 Lady Musgrave, and many more who have come to see her, and to 

 certify Henry how the Lord Dacre hath decked his castle of Morpeth 

 to receive her. Never saw a Baron's house better trimmed in all my 

 life, to say of all the hangings of the hall and chambers with the 

 newest device of tapestry, and with all manner of things thereunto 

 belonging, his cupboard all of gilt plate, with a great cup of fine 

 o-old with the cup of assaye, and all the Lords board with the boards 

 end served all with silver vessels, lacking no manner of victual and 

 wild-fowl to be p^t in them." 



I think her one of the lowest brought ladies, with her great pain 

 of sickness, that I have seen and scape. Her grace hath such pain 

 in her right leg that this three weeks she may not endure to sitt 

 up while her bed is a making, and when her grace is removed it 

 would pity any man's heart to hear the shrieks and cries that her 

 grace giveth. Nevertheless, she has a wonderful love for apparel. 

 She has caused the gown of the cloth of gold, and the gown of the 



