After the great subject came the smaller ones. The knighting of the young King by his uncle Somerset; the creation of a large batch of peers,--Somerset himself and his brother, the brother of Queen Katherine (made Marquis of Northampton), the half-brother of Lady Frances Basset (created Earl of Warwick), and Wriothesley the persecutor, who was made Earl of Southampton. These were only a few of the number, but of them we shall hear again. Then came the account of the coronation on Shrove Sunday: how that grave, blue-eyed child of nine years old, had been crowned and anointed in the venerable Abbey, by Archbishop Cranmer, in the presence of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal; and how he had sat in the throne at the coronation-feast in the Hall, with the crown of England on the little head, and all the nobles at separate tables below. [Note 10.] And throughout England rang the cry, "God bless him!" for England's hope was all in God and him. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note 1. Arabella; originally spelt Orabele or Orabilia, now Arbel or Arbella. Note 2. Constance, at this time pronounced Custance. Note 3. The members of the Tremayne family are imaginary persons. Note 4. A fictitious character. Note 5. The lost adjective of _compassion_. Note 6. "A Litel Geste of Robyn Hode." Note 7. "Scarborough warning--a word and a blow, and the blow come first."--Then a very popular proverb. Note 8. "He that would in Court dwell Must curry Favelle." Favelle was the mediaeval name for a chestnut horse, as Bayard for a bay, and Lyard for a grey. From this proverb has been corrupted our modern phrase "to curry favour." The word is sometimes spelt Fauvelle. Note 9. These expressions do no violence to her Grace's epistolary style. They are to be found in her genuine letters. Note 10. Diary of Edward the Sixth, Cott. Ms. Nero, c. x. folio 9, b. CHAPTER TWO. THE SILVER AND THE SABLE. "`We measure life by years and tears,' he said; `We live a little; then life leaves us dead, And the long grass grows greenly overhead.'"