This is not the date usually given for her death but it is nearer the truth than the accepted one. Froissart, who states that she died at Whitsuntide (which that year was June 7), and who has been followed by all other writers, contradicts himself by saying that the King’s journey was deferred for two months in consequence of the Queen’s death, and that he set out about the 24th of June. In this case, she died about the 24th of April: a date shown to be near the truth by an entry on the Issue Roll, recording payment for the carriage of the waxen image to be borne on the coffin at her burial, on the third of June. There must therefore have been time, before this, to manufacture the wax statue, which assuredly never was commenced while the Queen was alive; nor only this, but to convey it by water from London to Richmond, which the entry informs us had been done. It was not until after the tenth of August that Roger set forth on his journey to Ireland. His retinue consisted of (his own) March Herald, two knights banneret, eight other knights, a hundred men-at-arms, 200 horsed archers, and 400 foot archers. With him, inseparable as his shadow, went Lawrence Madison. *CHAPTER VIII.* *MISCALCULATION.* "Keep them thy gifts for them that value gold Above their souls’ redemption and hearts’ love! What! shall I stain mine honour, lose my God, Do violence to mine heart, at such a price? This very bait the Devil fished withal For Christ our Master, urging Him to buy What was His own an hour too soon, and pay For the hour’s tinsel glory, hope and peace. Go, buy the traitors that will sell their souls! From thy perfidious hand I draw mine own, Clean of its lucre and its perfidy."