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Chap. XVIII. SOUVENIRS OF JAMES VI. 289
in the divisions of each side are sculptured two Tudor
roses, and in the ornamentation of the cornice is
constantly introduced the portcullis of the same family. The
date of this cornice is unknown; but it was ’in all
probability put up to commemorate the nuptials of the
King of Scots with the Princess Anne of Denmark.
Lucky for James was it that the embassy of Lord
Willoughby to Kronborg took place some few years
before his marriage, and that this Scottish assumption
of the English badge came not to the ears of the Virgin
Queen. Tudor he was in all right by his ancestress
Margaret, in the female line, and nearest heir to the
English throne; but Elizabeth, when the’ succession
was mooted, brooked no child’s-play. How she would
have stormed had she known it, and sent a fleet
perchance to intercept the return of James to his
dominions! and the youthful Anne might have found a
prison in Fotheringay, and a jailer in that exceeding
unpleasant individual Sir Amyas Paulet. Such are the
souvenirs of King James I have met with in the
chronicles of Kronborg.
One day, when on an excursion to the back slums of
the town of Elsinore, I came on a small, narrow lane,
dignified with the appellation—in honour, I suppose, of
the royal marriage—of Anna Qveen Street.*
* Many of the letters of King Christian IV. are dated from Kronborg,
a residence to which he was attached ; and it was from here that
Christina Munk, very uncomfortable at the gloomy state of her afiairs,
packed up her jewels and her valuables, and was on the point of escaping
to Sweden, in which affair two of her maids, “ Stumpy Dorthe and Miss
Maria,” appear to have been implicated, as Christian writes with his
own hand ordering their dismissal; “ they may go where they like, and
be paid their wagesbetter in luck than “ the lazy cook-boy who is
idle and don’t attend to his business,” and is ordered to be kept in irons.
VOL. I. U
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