. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. / I g of France' iffered himself other, Isabella ked at Ports- nsuccessful in ;er a series of IX, to the great many of whom ed in the usual rth to another itrice, after her between their ice of five years then resolved to y amused them- js if Henry had jrh he was much id his moveable Le of Tail
. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. / I g of France' iffered himself other, Isabella ked at Ports- nsuccessful in ;er a series of IX, to the great many of whom ed in the usual rth to another itrice, after her between their ice of five years then resolved to y amused them- js if Henry had jrh he was much id his moveable Le of Taillebom-g. and, they landed at the principal ) London should th on horseback eir sovereign and on the continent, bringing about a Sancha, and the ,vho had recently lized in England, ted the affianced enry called upon d festivities whicli nuptials between ne Jew alone, the ^10 less than four â emling biography. ^^ i ft . ELEANOR OF "PROVENCE. 371 hundred marks of gold, and fom* thousand of silver; and the Jews of London were mulcted in hke proportion. The dinner at this bridal consisted of thirty thousand dishes. The countess of Provence, not contented with the splendour of her enter- tainment, thought proper, before she departed, to borrow four thousand marks of the king for the use of her husband. " The king," says the chroniclers of that day, " thought he never could do enough to testify his love for the queen and her ;* The misconduct of Eleanor's uncles, and their unfitness for the high and responsible situation in which they were placed in England, may be gathered from the following dis- graceful fracas, which took place between the archbishop Boniface and the monks of St. Bartholomew. In the year 1344, Boniface, archbishop of Canterbury, thought proper to intrude himself in the bishop of London's diocese, on a visit- ation to the priory of St. Bartholomew. The monks, though they hked not his coming, received him with respect, and came out
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