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14 | <Metadata name="Title">Primary Sources: King Henry VIII has a jousting accident, 1524</Metadata>
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36 | <img border="0" src="_httpdocimg_/1524.gif" alt="Primary Sources: 1524: King Henry VIII has a jousting accident" width="367" height="105"><p align="center">&nbsp;</td>
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44 | <td valign="top" width="48%" bgcolor="#FFFFE8"><font size="2">The account
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45 | at right </font><font size="-1">was written by George Cavendish, Cardinal Wolsey's gentleman-usher.</font><p>
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46 | <font size="-1">Henry VIII was a superb athlete but, as he grew older, his
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47 | prowess often came at the expense of his health.&nbsp; Historians have
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48 | speculated that the injuries he suffered may have contributed to his
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49 | increasingly bad headaches (and correspondingly short temper.)</font></td>
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52 | <p>On 10 March the king, having a new armor made to his own design
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53 | and fashion, such as no armorer before that time had seen, though to test
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54 | the same at the tilt, and ordered a joust for the purpose.&nbsp; The lord
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55 | marquis of Dorset and the earl of Dorset and the earl of Surrey were appointed
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56 | to be on foot: the king came to one end of the tilt and the duke of Suffolk
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57 | to the other.&nbsp; Then a gentleman said to the duke: 'Sir the king is
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58 | come to the end of the tilt.'&nbsp; 'I see him not,' said the duke, 'by
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59 | my faith, for my headpiece blocks my sight.'&nbsp; With these words, God
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60 | knows by what chance, the king had his spear delivered to him by the lord
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61 | Marquis, the visor of his headpiece being up and not down or fastened,
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62 | so that his face as quite naked.&nbsp; The gentleman said to the duke:
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63 | 'Sir the king is coming.' </p>
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64 | <p>Then the duke set forward and charged with his spear, and the king likewise
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65 | unadvisedly set off towards the duke.&nbsp; The people, seeing the king's
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66 | face bare, cried hold, hold; the duke neither saw nor heard, and whether
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67 | the king remembered his visor was up or not few could tell.&nbsp; Alas,
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68 | what sorrow was it to the people when they saw the splinters of duke's
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69 | spear strike the king's headpiece.&nbsp; For most certainly the duke struck
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70 | the king on the brow right under the guard of the headpiece on the very
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71 | skull cap or basinet piece to which the barbette is hinged for strength
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72 | and safety, which skull cap or basinet no armorer takes heed of, for it
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73 | is always covered by the visor, barbette and volant piece, and thus that
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74 | piece is so protected that it takes no weight.&nbsp; But when the spear
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75 | landed on that place there was great danger of death since the face was
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76 | bare, for the duke's spear broke into splinters and pushed the king's visor
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77 | or barbette so far back with the counter blow that all the King's head
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78 | piece was full of splinters.&nbsp; The armorers were much blamed for this,
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79 | and so was the lord marquise for delivering the spear blow when his face
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80 | was open, but the king said that no one was to blame but himself, for he
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81 | intended to have saved himself and his sight.
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82 | <p>The duke immediately disarmed and came to the king, showing him the
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83 | closeness of his sight, and he swore that he would never run against the
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84 | king again.&nbsp; But if the king had been even a little hurt, his servants
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85 | would have put the duke in jeopardy.&nbsp; Then the king called his armorers
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86 | and put all his pieces of armor together and then took a spear and ran
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87 | six courses very well, by which all men could see that he had taken no
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88 | hurt, which was a great joy and comfort to all his subjects present.<p align="center"> &nbsp;</p>
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