Her lord challenged the gallant, and fell.

Some said that the abandoned woman witnessed the combat in man's attire, and others that she clasped her victorious lover to her bosom while his shirt was still dripping with the blood of her husband.

The honours of the murdered man descended to his infant son Charles.

As the orphan grew up to man's estate, it was generally acknowledged that of the young nobility of England none had been so richly gifted by nature.

His person was pleasing, his temper singularly sweet, his parts such as, if he had been born in a humble rank, might well have raised him to the height of civil greatness.