let Dut for OfpriPge, whence. te hi €0St flit morning, i aiked -fir Thomas's advice how tp aft : c For the prefent/ he laid* f do not PîÉ* forther attempts to announce yo^r irri?4, hit fblr low the king î tod I will take care* when he come? to his palace in this country, which he will do If twQ days, th# you fhall be well lodged, $» lûiféi the court tarries there/ ... The king was going to a beautiful palace in the county of Kent, called Leeds caftle, and I fol-lowed fir Thomas Percy's advice by taking the road to Ofpringç. J lodged m m inn wfcft 1 found a gallant knight of the king's chamber, but he had that morning fluid behind on account of * flight pain in his head that had feized him th$ preceding nigty. This knight, whofc name W3f fir William de Lifl* feting I wi$ t fprcigpçf a§4 a Frenchman (for all who fpeak the language of Oil are by the Englifh confidered as Frenchmen, whatever country they may come from), made ac-quaintance with me, and I with him, for the Eug* Jtfb are courteous to ftrangers. He afked my fituatkm and bufinefs in England, which I related to him at length, as well ' as what fir Thomas Percy had advifed rnc.to do. ffç rç-. plied, that 1 c&nJdnot hive had better advice, (of that the king would' on Friday be at Leeds cattle, and would find tkktt his uncle the duke *f York. I was well pleafed. to hear this,, for I had fetters to the duke, and, when young, was known tQ him while in the . household of the late kiag and queen. *• ' • 1 ¥ot. xi :/ * K' ' • :'nmmil Iff