. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . s deck (with other cargo) the first of the Lancastrians. Whenthey got to where the river broadens, the wind freshened and the sea rose,for the flood tide was against them. The master was in peril, he and hiscrew, and men in peril at sea have a fear of the dead. When therefore manyhours later they had safely landed, and the royal coffin had been borne withgreat pomp to Canterbury, the master and his crew went to drink with thetownspeople. They drank all together and when t
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . s deck (with other cargo) the first of the Lancastrians. Whenthey got to where the river broadens, the wind freshened and the sea rose,for the flood tide was against them. The master was in peril, he and hiscrew, and men in peril at sea have a fear of the dead. When therefore manyhours later they had safely landed, and the royal coffin had been borne withgreat pomp to Canterbury, the master and his crew went to drink with thetownspeople. They drank all together and when they were full of ale andhad become bold with it, and sung some songs, they told the tale that in thegale of the night they had lightened the ship lest it should founder; theyhad not lightened it of lead nor of iron nor of any part of the cargo, but theyhad lightened it secretly of an evil thing—they had jettisoned the body ofthe King. The coffin was buried in Canterbury Cathedral by the side ofLady Mary de Bohun, the Kings first wife and mother of his children. Authorities: H. Belloc; Chambers History of England. 31. Joan of Arc. Front a print by Marietta of the picture by \ ig-non. No. 14 The Death of Joan of Arc, called the Maid of 1412. Died 1431. ON the 23rd of May 1430, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, withthree or four hundred men, headed a sortie from Compiegne, whichplace was at that time invested by the Enghsh and Burgundianarmies. She was mounted on a fine dapple-gray charger and carried her ownstandard: at her side she bore the good blade which she had taken from aBurgundian prisoner at Lagny and over her armour she wore a surcoat ofcloth of gold. Such a conspicuous dress was unsuited for a sortie, but theinnocent pride of the village girl loved anything chivalrous and soon found that the enemy were in such force that her small body ofmen-at-arms could make no head against them, and her followers fell intoconfusion and began to retire.
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