FROM GRAY 3 MARCH 1754 79 anointed Queen of England. But alas! on second thoughts these words must mean St .102 Immediately after the battle of Bosworth, Aug. 22, 1485, the King sent Sir Robert Willoughby103 to the Castle of Sheriff Hutton in York­ shire with orders to conduct the Princess Elizabeth to her mother104 at London. He himself entered the city five days after;105 was crowned Oct. 30 by Cardinal Thomas Bourchier, ,106 and married Jan. 18, i486, at Westminster, being then in his 31st year, and Elizabeth turned of 20.107 He (you see) is in his kingly ornaments; but he would not suffer her to be crowned108 till almost two years after, when she had brought him a son.10' If you are sure the person who ac­ companies the King is a cardinal, it must be Bourchier, who died very soon after this marriage, for the writ, de custodia commissa to Jo[hn] Morton, ,110 who succeeded him, is dated July 13, i486.1" Bourchier was not Legate de latere, but perhaps may bear the Legatine double cross, as Archbishop of Canterbury, for both our archbishops were styled Apostolicce Sedis Legati (see Rymer, vol. xii, pp. 208 and 245); but I take the person there represented to be James, Bishop of Imola,112 who granted the dispensation for this marriage (they being in the fourth degree of consanguinity"3 to one another), and was then orator et commissarius cum potestate Legati de latere in regnis Anglice

102. (ca 1118-70), Abp of Canterbury who gives Henry VII's date of birth as 1455. 1162-70. According to a fifteenth-century The generally accepted date is 28 Jan. MS (Legg, op. cit. 169-71), the Virgin, with 1456/7 (DNB; James Gairdner, Henry the an eagle of gold in her bosom and a small Seventh, 1889, p. 3; Gladys Temperley, phial of stone in her hand, appeared to Henry VII, Boston, 1914, p. 1). Elizabeth Becket while he was in exile at Sens (1164- was born 11 Feb. 1466 (MacGibbon, op. cit. 70). After putting the phial into the eagle's 57). neck, she told Becket to hide the eagle at 108. 25 Nov. 1487. the Abbey of Poitiers. The subsquent his- 109. Arthur (1486-1502), Prince of Wales. tory of the eagle is given by Thomas Wal- He was born 19 Sept. i486 (DNB). Gray singham, Historia Anglicana, ed. H. T. evidently followed Anderson, op. cit. 748, Riley, 1863-4, ii. 239-40 (Rolls Ser.). where Arthur is said to have been born in 103. (ca 1452-1502), cr. (1488) K.G., (1491) Sept. 1487. Lord Willoughby de Broke. 110. John Morton (ca 1420-1500), Bp of 104. Elizabeth (1437-92), dau. of Sir Ely 1479-86, Abp of Canterbury 1486-1500; Richard Woodville (Wideville, Widwille), cardinal, 1493; , 1487. cr. (1466) E. Rivers. She m. (1) (ca 1452) Sir m. Rymer, Fcedera xii. 302-3. John Grey; m. (2) (1464) Edward IV of Eng- 112. Iacopo Pasarella (d. 1495), Bp of land. See David MacGibbon, Elizabeth Imola 1479-88, of Rimini 1488-95 (P. B. Woodville, 1938, pp. 6, 17, 35. Gams, Series episcoporum ecclesia catho- 105. See Stow, Annales, 1592, pp. 784-5. lica, Ratisbon, 1873, pp. 702, 722). 106. Thomas Bourchier (ca 1404 or 1405- 113. Edward III was both Henry VII's 86), Abp of Canterbury 1454-86. and Elizabeth's great-great-great-grand- 107. Gray probably followed James An- father. derson (Royal Genealogies, 1735, p. 748)