E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Jeannie Howse, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 17498-h.htm or 17498-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/4/9/17498/17498-h/17498-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/4/9/17498/17498-h.zip) +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | A number of obvious typographical errors have been corrected | | in this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of | | this document. | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth Rewritten and Rendered into Modern English from Sir Edwin Caskoden's Memoir by EDWIN CASKODEN [Charles Major] Julia Marlowe Edition With Scenes from the Play [Illustration] Indianapolis, U.S.A. The Bowen-Merrill Company Publishers Copyright, Eighteen Hundred Ninety Eight, and Nineteen Hundred One by The Bowen-Merrill Company Press of Braunworth & Co. Bookbinders and Printers Brooklyn, N.Y. _"There lived a Knight, when Knighthood was in flow'r, Who charmed alike the tilt-yard and the bow'r_." To My Wife CONTENTS The Caskodens 1 I The Duel 6 II How Brandon Came to Court 13 III The Princess Mary 23 IV A Lesson in Dancing 45 V An Honor and an Enemy 74 VI A Rare Ride to Windsor 89 VII Love's Fierce Sweetness 102 VIII The Trouble in Billingsgate Ward 128 IX Put Not Your Trust in Princesses 146 X Justice, O King! 169 XI Louis XII a Suitor 182 XII Atonement 202 XIII A Girl's Consent 213 XIV In the Siren Country 226 XV To Make a Man of Her 244 XVI A Hawking Party 256 XVII The Elopement 268 XVIII To the Tower 289 XIX Proserpina 302