Cal._, ii., 499, 500.] [Footnote 182: _Ibid._, ii., 511.] [Footnote 183: _L.

and P._, i., 5470.] [Footnote 184: _Ibid._, ii., 227.] She was probably fascinated less by Suffolk's virtue than by his bold and handsome bearing.

A bluff Englishman after the King's own heart, he shared, as none else did, in Henry's love of the joust and tourney, in his skill with the lance and the sword; he was the Hector of combat, on foot and on horse, to Henry's Achilles.

His father, plain William Brandon, was Henry of Richmond's standard-bearer on Bosworth field; and as such he had been singled out and killed in personal (p.

080) encounter by Richard III.