The Cathedrals of England and Wales : their history, architecture, and associations ; with a series of Rembrandt plates and many illustrations in the text (1906)
London ; New York : Cassell · leaf 200
s of Winchester, which stood be-tween the priory and the river, where it was built in 1107. It was inthis church, too, a few years subsequently (1424), that James I.of Scotland wedded the daughter of the Earl of Somerset, and nieceof the great Cardinal, the golden-haired beauty, Joan Beaufort,… … At all events, theking describes her inhis verses as The fairest and the freshestyonge flowerThat ever I saw, me-thought, before thathour. The marriage feast on this occasion, too, was kept in the great hall of Winchester Palace, in a style befitting the Cardinals magnificence. The marriage appears…
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