Colchester
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Margaret (his wife's name saint), and of St. John (his own name saint). Another indication of the ' special devotion ' of the borough to St. Helen.
In 1516 the town received another royal visit.
Queen Katharine of Aragon passed through and rested here one night with a great retinue on her pilgrimage to Our Lady of Walsingham. The officers of the cor- poration and burgesses met her at Lexden, and con- ducted her in great state to St. John's Abbey, where she lodged, and next day attended her agai...n to the further 131. Colchester boundary of the liberties of the Borough on the north road, and presented her with a purse containing forty pounds.
For the contemplated French war in 1544 King Henry VIII. required of the borough fifteen able foot- men, whereof three were to be archers, each furnished with a good bow in a case, and twenty-four arrows in a case, and a good sword and dagger ; the rest to be bill- men having besides their bill a good sword and dagger, ' clothed in coats and hosen of the colours appointed for the battle of our army.' This king was in some respects a benefactor to the town, for he granted to the corpora- tion the king's wood north of the Colne, as will be more fully stated in the municipal history.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Margaret (his wife's name saint), and of St. John (his own name saint). Another indication of the ' special devotion ' of the borough to St. Helen.
In 1516 the town received another royal visit.
Queen Katharine of Aragon passed through and rested here one night with a great retinue on her pilgrimage to Our Lady of Walsingham. The officers of the cor- poration and burgesses met her at Lexden, and con- ducted her in great state to St. John's Abbey, where she lodged, and next day attended her agai...n to the further 131. Colchester boundary of the liberties of the Borough on the north road, and presented her with a purse containing forty pounds.
For the contemplated French war in 1544 King Henry VIII. required of the borough fifteen able foot- men, whereof three were to be archers, each furnished with a good bow in a case, and twenty-four arrows in a case, and a good sword and dagger ; the rest to be bill- men having besides their bill a good sword and dagger, ' clothed in coats and hosen of the colours appointed for the battle of our army.' This king was in some respects a benefactor to the town, for he granted to the corpora- tion the king's wood north of the Colne, as will be more fully stated in the municipal history.
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