text:  First of all the Viscount Lessingholm rode up from Yorkshire whither he had been gone three weeks attended by near a score of fine dressed serving-men and took up his abode at Mallerden Court; then came sundry others of the great lady's kinsfolk attended also by their servants in stately liveries; and we did expect that the proud imperial-minded lady was to go up with such great escort as should impress the king with a just estimate of her power and dignity