Excerpt from Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimage (April, 1386) And His Putting-Up Joust-Scaffolds, Etc., In West-Smithfield (May 1930): Being the Expenses of the Aragonese Ambassadors for 58 Days in England, 21 July to 16 Sept., 1415, Including Their 4-Days' Journey From London to Canterbury and Back, 31 July-3 Aug. 1415

The envoys arrived at 'southampton just as Henry was preparing to sail on his first expedition for the reconquest of Normandy, which eventuated in the victory at Agincourt. They probably had an interview with him in the castle at Winchester, but he must have been too much occupied to attend to matrimonial matters just then. They therefore travelled on to London to state their case to the Council, and after Spending six days in the capital made a journey down to Canterbury, probably to visit the Shrine. Two more days were spent in London on their way back, and they reached Southwick Priory on Aug. 8, 1415, where they saw the fleet on the inconstant billows dancing '1 just ready to start for Harfleur. The king had left Porchester the day before to go on board his ship, but they were probably able to have another interview with him, as he did not actually set sail till Aug. 11. Then followed their second journey to London, where they stayed from Aug. 27 to Sept. 1, and they seem to have returned to their own country on Sept. 16, after waiting for a fair wind for nine days at Southampton. In the meantime, John Waterton, who had had charge of their expenses, had been appointed on July 25, together with Master John Kempe (the future Archbishop) to visit King Ferdinand and continue the negotiations. Instructions were issued to these two English envoys on July 28 3 but they did not sail till October. They reached Bayonne after a fifteen days' passage, and had an interview with King Ferdinand at Perpignan on Dec. 5, in the stormy days that preceded his final breach with Benedict XIII. But Ferdinand had then but a few months to live. He died on April 2, 1416, and so the marriage project fell through, though desperate efforts were made to get it kept on foot; and two years afterwards Mary married Juan II, the young king of Castile.

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