ABSTRACT
An English visitor from the City of London brought back a souvenir from the banquet celebrating Margaret Tudor’s reception into Edinburgh in 1503 as the new bride of James IV. Copied into The Great Chronicle of London in the Guild-hall library is a menu of the three courses of the feast: the last course opened with ‘Gely wyth tharmys of Scotland’ and ‘Gely wyth tharmys of Scotland England’. A great deal of expert work has been done on the ceremonial celebrations, the literature and the images connected with this marriage. The celebration of the betrothal and the accompanying ‘Treaty of Perpetual Peace’ in January 1502 was clearly a relief to both nations, although it does not seem to have been a source of spontaneous jubilation. There is one surprising and possibly suggestive element of Young’s account: his use of the phrase ‘was playd sum moralite’.
