Coaching days and coaching ways . wncrown, which he kept on his head, was about as costly athing as he could have thought of. At Beckets shrineknelt Henry the Fifth, his cuises on his thigh, gallantlyarmed, but his beaver off on this occasion, I trust, thoughit was fresh from the splendid shocks of Agincourt. In1520 Henry the Eighth knelt here with a much greaterman—that is to say, with Charles the Fifth. The two/oung kings rode together from Dover, and entered thecity through St. Georges Gate. They sat in the samecoach—I mean under the same canopy, and Wolsey, whowas going strong at the time,
Coaching days and coaching ways . wncrown, which he kept on his head, was about as costly athing as he could have thought of. At Beckets shrineknelt Henry the Fifth, his cuises on his thigh, gallantlyarmed, but his beaver off on this occasion, I trust, thoughit was fresh from the splendid shocks of Agincourt. In1520 Henry the Eighth knelt here with a much greaterman—that is to say, with Charles the Fifth. The two/oung kings rode together from Dover, and entered thecity through St. Georges Gate. They sat in the samecoach—I mean under the same canopy, and Wolsey, whowas going strong at the time, was not far off. In pointof fact he rode in front, which was the right place forhim, if intellect took precedence in the processions of theage. Canterbury looked its best, I should imagine, on THE DOVER ROAD >65 that Whit-Sunday. The old streets lined with clergy infull ecclesiastical costume ; the best blood of Englandthronging about bluff King Hal ; the bluest blood ofSpain, acting as duly phlegmatic escort to the young. The Chequers of the Hopet Canterbury. monarch of Castile and Aragon, Granada, Naples,Sicily and Milan, Franche-Comte and the Netherlands,Peru and Mexico, Tunis and Oran, and the Philippines, and all the fair spiced islands of the East, 266 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS Archbishop Warham met this distinguished pair at thewest door of the Cathedral, and no dcubt performedwith due dignity the ornate duties of his distinguishedoffice. But it was not only in such purely official ex-ercises as these that this good archbishop shone. Hewas as good at a feast as at a reception—as he had provedsixteen years before. On the occasion indeed of his in-stallation, which must have been a very trying time, thisprimate gave a foolish trifling banquet in the archbishopspalace built by Lanfranc, which, from what I can readof it, would have made some of our most redoubtableseasoned aldermen stare, and on the morrow seek medicalaid. I should not like to name the number
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