which lay the pope's legate, Cardinal Campeggio, whose infirmities
were so great that he could not move without assistance. Campeggio
was likewise attended by a numerous train.

After a long line of lords, knights, and esquires, came Henry the Eighth.
He was apparelled in a robe of crimson velvet furred with ermines, and
wore a doublet of raised gold, the placard of which was embroidered
with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, large pearls, and other precious
stones. About his neck was a baldric of balas rubies, and over his robe
he wore the collar of the Order of the Garter. His horse, a charger of the
largest size, and well able to sustain his vast weight, was trapped in
crimson velvet, purfled with ermines. His knights and esquires were
clothed in purple velvet, and his henchmen in scarlet tunics of the
same make as those worn by the warders of the Tower at the present
day.

Henry was in his thirty-eighth year, and though somewhat overgrown
and heavy, had lost none of his activity, and but little of the grace of his
noble proportions. His size and breadth of limb were well displayed in
his magnificent habiliment. His countenance was handsome and
manly, with a certain broad burly look, thoroughly English in its
character, which won him much admiration from his subjects; and
though it might be objected that the eyes were too small, and the
mouth somewhat too diminutive, it could not be denied that the general
expression of the face was kingly in the extreme. A prince of a more
"royal presence" than Henry the Eighth was never seen, and though he
had many and grave faults, want of dignity was not amongst the
number.

Henry entered Windsor amid the acclamations of the spectators, the