[Footnote 20: MS. in St. Mark’s Library, class vii., No. 1233.] [Footnote 21: He is reported to have said that he had “liever have my lady princess, and though the king’s grace had ten children, than the King of Portingale’s daughter, with all the spices her father hath” (Cotton MS. Calig. D. viii., 40, Brit. Mus.).] [Footnote 22: _Hall’s Chronicle_, p. 604.] [Footnote 23: Sir Richard Wingfield had written from Paris that great search was being made there to bring to the meeting the fairest ladies that might be found, and he hoped that the Queen would bring such in her hand “that the visage of England, which hath always had the prize, be not lost” (Brewer, _Cal._, vol. iii., pt. i., 698).] [Footnote 24: Rymer, xiii., 719.] [Footnote 25: Cotton MS. Vesp. F. xiii., 129, Brit. Mus. Ellis’s _Letters_, 1st series, i., 174.] [Footnote 26: Cotton MS. Calig. D. vii., 231.] [Footnote 27: Sanuto Diaries, vol. xxix., p. 558. In February 1520, £40 was given by Henry to a gentleman sent by the French King and Queen with tokens for the Princess (see _The King’s Book of Payments_).] [Footnote 28: Brewer, _Calendar of State Papers_, vol. iii., pt. ii., 1437, 1439, 1533.] [Footnote 29: Cotton MS. Calig. E. i., art. 11, 46, Brit. Mus.] [Footnote 30: Brewer, _Cal._, vol. iii., pt. ii., 2306.] [Footnote 31: Cotton MS. Galba B. vii., 102, Brit. Mus.] [Footnote 32: Rawdon Brown, _Venetian Calendar_, vol. iii., 852 note.] [Footnote 33: Sanuto Diaries, vol. xxxix., p. 147.] [Footnote 34: Cotton MS. Vesp. C. ii., 93*, Brit. Mus.] [Footnote 35: Cotton MS. Calig. D. viii., 302, Brit. Mus.] [Footnote 36: Westminster, 3rd April 1525, Record Office.] [Footnote 37: Gayangos, _England and Spain, Cal._, vol. iii., pt. i., p. 82.] [Footnote 38: Sanuto Diaries, vol. xl., p. 17.] [Footnote 39: Cotton MS. Vesp. C. iii., f. 177, Brit. Mus.] [Footnote 40: Gayangos, _Cal._, vol. iii., pt. i., pp. 78, 191 _et seq._ Brewer, _Cal._, vol. iv., pt. i., p. 662.] [Footnote 41: Cotton MS. Vesp. C. iii., f. 62, Brit. Mus.] [Footnote 42: _Ibid._, f. 135.] CHAPTER II. PRINCESS OF WALES. 1525-1527. When Mary was about ten years old, her father, mindful it was said of his Welsh origin, turned his attention towards that principality, thinking wisely by redressing some of its grievances to reduce it to a more strict obedience. It was, therefore, determined by the King in Council, to send “our dearest, best beloved, and only daughter, the Princess, accompanied with an honourable, sad, discreet and expert counsayle, to reside and remain in the Marches of Wales and the parties thereabouts, furnished with sufficient power and authority to hold courts of _oyer_ and _determiner_, for the better administration of justice”.[43]