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Title: William De Morgan and his wife
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Stirling, A. M. W. (Anna Maria Wilhelmina)
Subjects: De Morgan, William Frend, 1839-1917 De Morgan, Mrs. (Evelyn) De Morgan family
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ous offenceof eating flesh in Lent and of walking about the streets ofLondon at night breaking the windows of the houses with stonesshot from cross-bows. These misdeeds, which sound like the resultof an inconvenient ebullition of youthful spirits, William at firstdenied, then confessed, and was forthwith imprisoned in theTower. But later he acquitted himself with such credit as toerase the memory of that luckless All Fools day, and afterthe accession of Queen Elizabeth, having amply proved hisprowess both in the field and in the more subtle strife of thediplomatic world, he apparently designed to live quietly at hishome, Pickering House, in the parish of St. Andrew Undershaft,London. Fate, however, was against his purpose, for we learnthat, being a brave, wise and comely English gentleman, he wasseriously thought of as a suitor for Elizabeths hand. The » I am here following the pedigrees compiled by the late W. VadeWalpole and by Edward Rowland Pickering, which are obviously correct.
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o ^ ^ < Q C THE STORY OF THE PICKERINGS 137 capricious Queen indeed showed him such marked preferencethat the ambitious courtiers with whom she was sun-oundedbecame alarmed. In 1559 we are told that the Earl of Arundel. . . was said to have sold his lands, and was ready to flee outof the kingdom because he could not abide in England if theQueen should marry Mr. Pickering, for they were enemies.*Another chronicler with a note of venom relates that so imperiouswas the speech of Sir William, so overbearing his demeanour,and so lavish his expenditure on the rich dress with which headorned his handsome person, that he thereby lent a handle tothose who would fain have wrought his undoing. Nevertheless,although he excited much jealousy, he successfully avoided thepitfalls which beset his path owing to the too open admirationof the Queen, and eventually succeeded—no mean feat underthe circumstances—in expiring peacefully with his comely headstill intact on his shoulders and his neck un

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