Vulgar words in Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton (Page 1)
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On the 1st of April 1602, he was taken from his prison and mounted upon an ass, and, with three trumpeters preceding him, was led through the streets, a herald proclaiming at intervals:--"His Most Catholic Majesty hath commanded that this man be led through the streets of Naples with marks of infamy, and that he shall afterwards be committed to serve in the galleys for life, for falsely pretending to be Don Sebastian, king of Portugal."
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Here he became intimately acquainted with a married priest of the Greek Church, and made love to his wife; but the woman, the better to conceal the familiarity which existed between herself and the young courtier, led her husband to believe that he had an affection for her daughter, of which she approved.
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At first he asserted that the claimant, although undoubtedly the son of his deceased brother, was the bastard child of a kitchen wench.
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The dauphin was removed in the convenient basket of a laundress--perhaps the same basket which had held Naündorff, and the unfortunate bastard of Mr. Meves was left in his stead.