ABSTRACT
Now we might say how could it be that the Lord King knew this not, when all prayed so openly for this event and everyone had been ordered to fast ? I answer and say that, throughout all the territory of the said Lord King, there was a command that orisons should be said every day, specially praying to God to establish peace and love between the said Lord King and the Lady Queen ; and to give them such offspring as would be pleasing to Him and be for the good of the kingdom ; especially every time the Lord King went to Montpellier, there was a splendid procession made for this. And
when they told him of it, he said : “ They do well; it will be as God pleases." And these fitting words the Lord King spoke, and other good words were spoken about it by the Queen and her people. Wherefore our Lord and true God brought it to a good issue when it pleased Him. And you shall hear further on why the Lord King thought nought about the prayers that were being said, just as no one knew either what was being disposed, except those who had been present at the council. And so the orisons and masses and other holy offices went on for seven days that week ; and meanwhile the knight acted in the matter and brought it to an issue, such as you have heard was planned. So that on Sunday night, when everybody in the palace had lain down to rest, the said twenty-four notables and abbots and priors and the bishop’s clerks, and religious, and the twelve ladies and the twelve damsels, with tapers in their hands, entered the palace, and the two notaries likewise, and all together they came to the door of the chamber of the Lord King, and into it entered my Lady the Queen, and they remained outside kneeling in prayer all together.
