. 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 ! '4 ELEANORA OF CASTILE. 423 was now a lovely young woman of twenty, to whose character the uncertainty of fortune had assuredly given a favoiu-able bias. The prince conveyed his restored wife to St. John's, Smithfield, after a magnificent welcome by the citizens. Eleanora afterwardi removed
. 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 ! '4 ELEANORA OF CASTILE. 423 was now a lovely young woman of twenty, to whose character the uncertainty of fortune had assuredly given a favoiu-able bias. The prince conveyed his restored wife to St. John's, Smithfield, after a magnificent welcome by the citizens. Eleanora afterwardi removed to the Savoy-palace,* which had been originally built by coimt Peter of Savoy, her husband's uncle, and afterwards purchased by Eleanor of Provence, as a London inn or residence for the younger branches of her family. This was the abode of Eleanora of Castile when she attended the court at Westminster, but her favourite residences were the castle of Windsor, and her own dower-castle of GuUdford. The memory of Eleanor's court at Guildford is preserved in one of the oldest of the Enghsh historical ballads, ' Adam o' Gordon,' which, if not quite as ancient as the days of Henry III., is nevertheless purely based on the narrations of the Latin contemporary chroniclers, Wikes and Hem- mingford; indeed, as to fact, it is but the history, versified with some poetical ornament, of prince Edward's encounter with the Proven9al outlaw in the woods near Guildford: his fierce combat, his generous pardon of the Gordon, were inci- dents that occurred during Eleanora's residence at Guildford- castle; and to his princess the heir of England brought the man he had conquered, both in mind and person. ⢠' " Prince Edward hath brought him to GuOdford-tower Ere that summer's day is o'er. He hath led him to the secret bower ' Of his wife, fair Eliaiiore. i ' ⢠His mother, the * ladye of gay Provence,* .1 , â¢, And his sire the king were there; ; Oh, scarcely the Gordon dared advance â '
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