The wonderful village; a further record of some famous folk and places by Chelsea reach . Ui D O X KO J w D C-i I THE LADIES OF THE MANOR HOUSE 17 her anxieties and unhappiness. For her impendingmotherhood—to which Elizabeth had probablyreferred in speaking of her undoubtfulness ofhealth —the Queen went in the summer of 1548to Sudeley, where her husband had made elaboratepreparations for the event; and here on the 29thof August, the lyttel knave to whom she hadnaively referred in her letters to him, was the little knave was a girl; and Somerset,who still cherished some personal affect


The wonderful village; a further record of some famous folk and places by Chelsea reach . Ui D O X KO J w D C-i I THE LADIES OF THE MANOR HOUSE 17 her anxieties and unhappiness. For her impendingmotherhood—to which Elizabeth had probablyreferred in speaking of her undoubtfulness ofhealth —the Queen went in the summer of 1548to Sudeley, where her husband had made elaboratepreparations for the event; and here on the 29thof August, the lyttel knave to whom she hadnaively referred in her letters to him, was the little knave was a girl; and Somerset,who still cherished some personal affection for hisbrother, though he dealt very faithfully with hispolitical delinquencies, wrote a charming letter ofcongratulation on the happy arrival of so pretie adaughter, and the Queens escape from felicitation, unhappily, was premature; forpuerperal fever set in a few days later, and Catherinedied, in the thirty-seventh year of her age, on 5thSeptember. In her fever, when the end was near,there was, according to Lady Tyrwhit, a strangelittle scene. • I am no


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