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FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 327 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FIELD OF THE See also:CLOTH OF See also:GOLD  , the See also:French See also:Camp du See also:drag d'or, the name given to the See also:place between See also:Guines and See also:Ardres where See also:Henry VIII. of See also:England met See also:Francis I. of See also:France in See also:June 1520 . The most elaborate arrangements were made for the See also:accommodation of the two monarchs and their large retinues; and on Henry's See also:part especially no efforts were spared to make a See also:great impression in See also:Europe by this See also:meeting . Before the See also:castle of Guines a temporary See also:palace, covering an See also:area of nearly 12,000 sq. yds., was erected for the reception of the See also:English See also:king . It was decorated in the most sumptuous See also:fashion, and like the See also:chapel, served by See also:thirty-five priests, was furnished with a profusion of See also:golden ornaments . Some See also:idea of the See also:size of Henry's following may be gathered from the fact that in one See also:month 2200 See also:sheep and other viands in a similar proportion were consumed . In the See also:fields beyond the castle, tents to the number of 2800 were erected for less distinguished visitors, and the whole See also:scene was one of the greatest animation . Ladies gorgeously clad, and knights, showing by their See also:dress and bearing their anxiety to revive the glories and the follies of the See also:age of See also:chivalry, jostled mountebanks, mendicants and vendors of all kinds . Journeying from See also:Calais Henry reached his headquarters at Guines on the 4th of June 1520, and Francis took up his See also:residence at Ardres . After See also:Cardinal See also:Wolsey, with a splendid See also:train had visited the French king, the two monarchs met at the Val See also:Dore, a spot midway between the two places, on the 7th . The following days were take up with tournaments, in which both See also:kings took part, banquets and other entertainments, and after Wolsey had said See also:mass the two sovereigns separated on the 24th . This meeting made a great impression on contemporaries, but its See also:political results were very small . The Ordonnance for the See also:Field is printed by J .

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Brewer in the See also:Calendar of See also:State Papers, Henry VIII. vol. iii . (1867) . See also J . S . Brewer, Reign of Henry VIII . (1884) .

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