Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1903 — Page 6

ssss<ss s«ssss<s € 4H* $ W € ♦WHEN KNIGHTHOOD i 8 WAS IN FLOWER I 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 4? tt ,T Rewritten a.nd Rendered Into Modern English From S*r Edwin Ciakodcn’s Memoir £*? By EDU/iN CASKODEN [CHARLES MAJOR] CojW/rtffhf, HfStinttUOf, t>i;ihe Bmren-.MerritlCompanv

. THE CASKODEHS. |w » r|E Casl-.odens take great pride IW I la our ancestry. Some persons, I know, hold all that to KssSl be totally un-Solonionlike and the height of vanity, but they usually have no ancestors of whom to be proud. The man who does not know who his great-grandfather was naturally enough would not care what he Aias. The Caskodens have pride of ancestry because they know both who uud Wliat We have a right to be proud, for there Is an unbroken male iihe from William the Conqueror down to the present time. Ln this lineal list are fourteen barons—the title lapsed when Cliarlbs I. fell—twelve KfilghtS dt the Garter and forty-seven Knights of the Bath and other orders. A Caskoden distinguished himself by gallant service under the great Norman and was given rich English lands and a fair Faxon bride, albeit an unwilling one, as his reward. With this fair, no willing Saxon bride and her long plait of yellow hair goes a very pretty, pathetic story, which 1 may tell you at some future time if you take kindly to this. A Caskoden was seneschal to William Itufus and sat at the rich, half barbaric banquets in the first great hall. Still another was one of the doughty barons who wrested from John the great charter, England’s declaration of independence; another was high in the councils of Henry V. I hav? omitted one whom 1 should not fail to mention, Adjodika Caskoden, who was a member of the dunce parliament of Henry IV., so called because there were no lawyers in it. It is true that in the time of Edward IV. a Caskoden did stoop to trade, but it was trade of the most dignified, honorable sort—he was a goldsmith, and Ills guild, as you know, were the bankers and international clearance house for people, kings and nobles. Now, it has been the custom of the Caskodens for centuries to keep a record of events as they have happened, both private and public. Some are in the form of diaries and journals, like those of I’epys and Evelyn: others iu letters, like the Pastons’; others, again, in verse and song, like Chaucer s and the Water Poet’s, and still others in the more pretentious form of memoir find chronicle. These records we always have kept jealously within our family, thinking it vulgar, like the Pastons. to submit our private affairs to public gaze. There can, however, be no reason why those parts treating solely of outside matters should be so carefully guarded. and I have determined to choose for publication such portions as do not divulge family secrets or skeletons, and which really redound to family honor. For this occasion I have selected from the memoir of my worthy ancestor and namesake. Sir Edwin Caskoden, grandson of the goldsmith and master of the dance to Henry VIII., the story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor. Sister to the king. This story is so well known to the Student of English history that I fear Its repetition will lack that zest which attends the development of an unforeseen denouement, but it is of so great interest and is so full in its sweet, fierce manifestation q£ the one thing insoluble by time—love--that 1 will nevertheless rewrite It from old Sir Edwin’s memoir. CHAPTER I. T#E lU- EJk-, Ew"|T sometimes happens, Sir Td--1 J win says, that when a woman JJS will she won’t, and when she won’t she w ill, but usually in the end the adage bokls good. That aentence may not .be luminous with meaning, but I will give you an illustration. I think it was In the spring of 1309— at siuy rate, soon nft« the death of the Modern Solomon. us Quepn-- Gatbefftie called her old fatiivr-jiidnis, |be Into King IlOtifj- Vft.—that Ids august maj: »*ty Henry VIH., “the vridnlMWfe flojver and very Heire of both the sayd TJftF eru." came to thd thrvne of Jlnglnnd

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and tendered me the honorable position I of master of the dance at his sumptuI ous court. As to “worldly goods.’’ as some of the new religionists call wealth, I was very comfortably off, having inherited from my father, one of the counselors of Henry VII., a very competent fortune indeed. How my worthy father contrived to save from the greedy hand of that rich old miser so great a fortune I am sure I cannot tell. He was the only man of my knowledge who did it, for the old king had a reach as long as the kingdom, and. upon one pretext or another, appropriated to himself everything on which he could lay his hands. My father, however, wai himself pretty shrewd in money hihfteM, having inherited along with his fortune a rare knack at keeping it. His father was a goldsmith iu the time of King Edward and enjoyed the marked favor of that puissant prince. Being thus in a position of affluence, I cared nothing for the fact that little or no emolument went with the office. It was the honor which delighted me. Besides, 1 was thereby an inmate of the king's palace and brought into intimate relations with the court, and. above all. with the finest ladies of the land—the best company a man can keep, since it ennobles his mind with better thoughts, purifies his heart with cleaner motives and makes him gentle without detracting from his strength. It was an office any lord of the kingdom might have been proud to hold. Now. some four or five years after my induction into this honorable office there came to court news of a terrible duel fought down in Suffolk, out of which only one of the four combatants had come alive—two, rather, but one of them iu a condition worse than death. The first survivor was a son o e Sir William Brandon, and the secont. was a man called Sir Adam Judson,, The story went that young Brandc and his elder brother, both just home 'rom the continental wars, had met Jlllson at an Ipswich inn. where there had been considerable gambling among them. Judson had won from the brothers a large sum of money which they had brought home. for. notwithstanding their youth, the elder being but twen-ty-six anil the younger about twentyfour years of age, they hud gained great honor anil considerable profit in wars, especially the younger, whose name was Charles. It is a little hard to fight for money and then to lose it by a single spot upon the die, but such is the fate of him who plays, and a philosopher will swallow his ill luck and take to fighting for more. The Brandons could have done this easily enough, especially Charles, who was an offhand philosopher, rather fond of a good humored tight, bad it not been that in the course of play one evening the secret of Judson’s winning had been’disclosed by a discovery that he cheated. The Brandons waited until they were sure, and then trouble began, which resulted in a duel on the second morning following. This Judson was a Scotch gentleman of whom very little was known except that he was counted the most deadly ; and most cruel duelist of the time. He was called the “Walking Death,” and it is said he took pride in the npi>ellation. He boasted that he had fought 1 eighty-seven duels, in which he had ' killed seventy-five men, and it was considered certain death to meet him. I got the story of the duel afterward I from Brandon as I give It here. | John was the elder brother and when ; the challenge came was entitled to tight f first, p birthright out of which Charles ' tried In vain to talk him. The broth--1 ers told their father, Sir William Brandon. and at the appointed time father i :uul sous repaired to the place of ineetI lug, when they found Judson and his two seconds ready for the fight. ! Sir William was still a vigorous man, i wtth few equal.- in sword play, and the , soiw, especially the younger, were better ,mep and more skillful than their father hail ever been, yet they felt that tMs-fiiie'F meant certain death, so great fame for skill and cruelty.. Sqtwithstanding they were so hand-

icapped with this feeling of impending evil, they met their duty without a tremor, for the motto of their bouse was “Malo Mori Quam Fedral.” It was a misty morning in March. Brandon has told me since that when his elder brother took his stand it was at once manifest that he was Judson’s superior both In strength mid skill, but after a few strokes the brother's blade bent double aud broke off short at the hilt when it should have gone home. Thereupon Judson, with a malignant smile of triumph, deliberately selected his opponent's heart and pierced it with his sword, giving the blade a twist as he drew it out in order to cut and mutilate the more. In an instant Sir William's doublet was off, and he was in his dead son's tracks, ready to avenge him or to die.

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“Fight, you bloodhound!" Again the thrust which should have killed broke the sword, and the father died as the son had died. [ After this came young Charles, expecting, but so great was his strong heart, not one whit fearing, to lie beside his dead father and brother. He knew he was the superior of both in ! strength and skill, and his knowledge of men and the noble art told him they I bad each bean the superior of Judson, but the fellow's hand seemed to be the hand of death. An opening came through Judson’s unskillful play which gave young Brandon an opportunity for a thrmrt to kill, but his blade, like his father's and his brother's, bent double without penetrating. Unlike the others. IjoweiTgr. It did not break, and the thrift reyeaietl the fact that Judson's skill us a duelist lay in a shirt of mail which it was useless to try to pierce. Aware of this, Brandon knew that victory was his and that soon he would have avengj-U the murders that had gone before. He saw that his adversary was strong neither In wind nor arm and bad not the skill to penetrate his guard in a week’s try Ing, so he determined to light on the defensive until Judson's strength should wane, and then kill him when and how he chose. After a time Judson began to breathe hard and his thrusts to lack force. "Boy. I would spare you.” lie said. “I have killed enough of your tribe. Put up your sword and call it qilits.” Young Brandon replied: “Stand your ground, you coward. You will be a dead man as soon as you grow a little weaker. If you try to run. I wil) thrust you through the neck as I would a cur. Listen how you snort. I shall soon have you. You are almost gone. You would spare me. would you? I could preach a sermon or dance a hornpipe while I am killing you. I will not break my sword against your < it of mail, but will wait until you fall from weakness, and then—you bloodhound!” A Judson was pale from exhajrM®U and his breatli was coming In g; jga t,T he tried to keep the merciless :■ -fwi ; from his throat. At last, by n dexterous twist of his blade, Brandon sent Jud- . sou's sword flying thirty feet away. The fellow started to run, but turned and fell upon hfs knees to beg for life. Brandon’s reply was a flashing circle of steel, and his sword point cut lengthwise through Judson's eyes and the bridge of his nose, leaving him sightless ‘ and hideous for life—a revenge compared to w hich death would have been j merciful. The duel created a sensation throughi out the kingdom, for, although little was known as to who Judson was. his ! fame as ,a duelist was as broad ns the | land. He had been at court upon several occasions, and at one time, upon the king's birthday, had fought in the royal lists. So the matter came in for ' Its share of consideration by king and courtiers, and young Brandon became a person of Interest. He became still more so when some gentlemen who had served with him In thecoutln'ental wars told the court of his daring and brav- | ery and related stories of deeds at arms worthy of the best knight in Christendom. He had an uncle at the court. Sir Thomas Brandon, the king's master of horse, who thought it a good opportunity to put his nephew forward and let him take his chance at winning royal favor. The uncle broached the subject to the king, with favorable Issue, and Charles Brandon, led by the hand of fate, camo to London court, where that same fate had In keeping for him events such as seldom full to the lot of man. CHAPTER 11. HOW’ BRANDON CAME TO COVtIT. WHEN wo learned that Brandon was coming to court, every jrAw onc Relieved be would soon gain the king's favor. How much that would amount to none could tell, ns the king's favorites were of many sorts nnd taken from all conditions of men. There was Master Wolsey, a butcher’s son, whom he had first made nlmuner, then chief counselor and bishop of Lincoln, soon to be bishop of

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York and cardinal of the holy Roman church. From the other extreme of life came young Thomas. Lord Howard, heir to the Earl of Surrey, and my Lord of Buckingham, premier peer of the realm. Then sometimes would the king take a yeoman of the guard and make him his companion In jousts mid tournaments solely because of his brawn and bone. There were others whom he kept close by him in the palace liecause of their wit and the entertainment they furnished, of which class was I, aud. I flatter myself, no mean member. To begin with, being In no way dependent on the king for money. I never drew a farthing from the royal treasury. This, you may be sure, did me no harm. for. although the king sometimes delighted to give, be always hated to pay. There were other good reasons, I too, why I should be a favorite with j the king. My appointment as master of the dance, I am sure, was owing entirely to my manner. My brother, the baron, who stood high with the king, was not friendly toward me because my father had seen tit to bequeath me so good a I competency in place of giving it all to the firstborn and leaving me dependent j upon the tender mercies of an elder ! brother. So I bad no help from him nor from any one else. I was quite , small of stature and therefore unable to compete with lance and mace with i bulkier men. but I would bet with any i man, of any size, on any game, at any j place and time, in any amount, and, if ! I do say it, who perhaps should not. I j basked in the light of many a fair | smile which larger men had sighed for , in vain. I did not know when Brandon first ; came to London. We had all remained at Greenwich while the king went up ■ to Westminster to waste his time with , matters of state and quarrel with the | parliament, then sitting, over the amount of certain subsidies. Mary, the king's sister, then some eighteen or nineteen years of age. a perfect bud, just blossoming into a perfect flower, had gone over to Windsor on a visit to her elder sister. Margaret of Scotland, and the palace was dull enough. Brandon, it seems, bad been presented to Henry during this time at Westminster and had. to some extent at least, become a favorite before I met him. The first time I saw him was at a joust given by the king at Westminster in celebration of the fact that he had coaxed a good round subsidy out of parliament. The queen and her ladies had been invited over, and it was known that Mary would be down from Windsor and come home with the king and the court to Greenwich when we should return. So we all went over to Westminster the night before the jousts and were up bright and early next morning to see all that was to be seen. I Here the editor sees fit to substitute ' a description of this tournament taken from the quaint old chronicler Hall.] i The morow beyng after dynner. at tyme conuenenient, the Quene with her Ladyes repaired to see the lustes, the trompettes brew vp. and in came many a noble man and Gentlema, rychely appeareiied, takynge vp thir horses, after whome Mowed certayne lordes apparelled, they and thlr horses, in cloth of Golde and russet and tynsell; Knyghtes in cloth of Golde. and russet Veluet. And a greate nomber of ! Gentlemen on fote. In russet satyn and Jealow and yomen in russ< t Damaske and yeulow. all the nether parte of euery mans bosen Skarlet, and yealow cappes. I Then came the kynge vnder a Paullfon I of golde, and purpui Veluet embroudered. the compass ot the Tauilion about, and Yftlwced with a flat, gold beaten in w.. re. with an Imperiall croune in the top. ot Golde, his bases and trapper as .loth of Golde. fretted with Damask Golde. the trapper pedant to the tall A crane and ehatron of stele. In the front ot the chafro was a goodly plume set full ot musers or . trlrhbllng spangles of golde After folowed his three aydes. euery of them vnder a PaulUqp of Crymosyn Damaske & purple. The nomber of Gentlemen and yomen u fote. apparelled in russet and jealow was clxviii. Then next these Pauilions . came xll ehyldren of honor, sitting euery ' one of them on a greate courser, rychely trapped, and embroudered in siu. rail deutses and faclons. where lacked neither I brouderie nor golusmythes work, so that euery chyld and horse in deuice an I fascion was contrary to the other, which was goodly to bob. due. Then on the counter parte, entered a Straunger, first on horsebacke in a long robe of Russet satyne, like a recluse or a religious, and bis horse trapped in tho I same sewte. without dromme or noyse ot I mynstrelsye. putting., r by 11 of petlclon tn I h-G.'-y, the effect whereof was, that if n< I' ' h€r tO Uc,n “ h * m to runt, in her presence, he would do it gladly, i nd if not. then he would departe ; us ho came After his request was I graunted, then he put off hys aayd habvte and was armed nt all pecsa w)th rychs ' bases * horse, also rychely trapped and so did runne his horse to the tyite end i where dleurs nun on fote apparelled In i Russet satyn awaited on him. Thereupon I the Heraulds cryed an Oy«s: and tne grownd shake with the trompe of rushynge stedes. Wonder it were to write of the dedes of Armes which that rtav toke Place, where a man might haue seen many a horse raysed on hlghe with galop turna and stoppe, maruaylous to behold, c xiv staves were broke and the kynge belt w lusty, he anu the straungeV th? M hen the queen bnd given the stratiRtr permission to run. and us he moved away, there wus u great clapping of bands ami waving of trophies among the ladles, for he was of such noble mien uud comely fa< T a s to attract the gaze of every oue away from even the Klitterlng person of majesty the Hla hair, worn in Its natural length fell In brown curls back from his forcheml nlinost to the shoulder, a stvle just then new. even In France. Ills eyes were n deep blue, und his complexion. though browned by exposure, held u tinge of beauty which the sun could not mar and a girl might envv He wore neither mustachio nor beard as men now disfigure their facessince I'rnneis 1, took a scar on his chin -and his clear cut profile, dilating nostrils and mobile though firm set mouth gave pleasing assurance of tenderness, gentleness, daring and strength. u ' • [TO BE CONTINUED.)

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