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There is not space here to transcribe Cavendish's full account of the splendid entertainment accorded to "this great ambasset ... who were in number above fourscore and the most noblest and worthiest gentlemen in all the court of France"; but the biographer, who was gentleman-usher to the Cardinal, and thus well situated for giving an authoritative record of things, was also an admirable narrator, and from his description we may get a good idea of Tudor prodigality and splendour.
Though the ownership of Hampton Court had passed from the subject to the sovereign, the former continued on occasion to do the honours of the place to distinguished visitors. In 1527, for example, there came a noble "ambasset" from France, and arrangements were made for the due entertainment here of the French nobles and their retinue.
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