South London . A SEAL OF ST. MARY OVERIES ST. MARY OVERIES 193 was given away by Henry IV., and her dowry was 100,000ducats. At her death she left the canons 6,000 crowns forthe good of her soul and that of her husband. The othermarriage was one of far greater importance. It was that of. SEALS OF ST. MARY OVERIES James the First, King of Scotland, the most pleasing figurein Scottish history, a poet and a scholar, of whom Drummondof Hawthornden wrote that * of former Kings it might be saidthat the nation made the Kings, but of this King, that he madethe people a nation. He married in 1424, bein
South London . A SEAL OF ST. MARY OVERIES ST. MARY OVERIES 193 was given away by Henry IV., and her dowry was 100,000ducats. At her death she left the canons 6,000 crowns forthe good of her soul and that of her husband. The othermarriage was one of far greater importance. It was that of. SEALS OF ST. MARY OVERIES James the First, King of Scotland, the most pleasing figurein Scottish history, a poet and a scholar, of whom Drummondof Hawthornden wrote that * of former Kings it might be saidthat the nation made the Kings, but of this King, that he madethe people a nation. He married in 1424, being then thirty O 194 SOUTH LONDON years of age, after a captivity of nineteen years, Joan, orJohanna, daughter of the Earl of Somerset, and niece ofCardinal Beaufort. She was a cousin, therefore, of KingHenry IV. The royal pair rode forth to Scotland laden withsuch gifts of plate and cloth of gold as Scotland had neverbefore seen. They were accompanied by the Cardinal andhis brother, the Duke of Exeter. Twelve years later, the
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