15 The powerful persecutors did not venture to make the blow at the duchess so fatal.

Whether the public sympathy at transactions so nefarious, or dread of her husband's yet remaining power, mitigated her doom, is not mentioned.

She had been imprisoned in Leeds castle ; but she was sentenced to be brought to London, and to do three times penance.

On Thursday, she was placed near the Temple gate, and was made to walk in public disgrace to St Paul's, with waxen tapers in her hands.

On Saturday, she was thus paraded from the Swan in Thames Street to Christchurch ; and on the Sunday from St Paul's to St Peter's in Cornhill.