ueen was in little danger of being recognized; for, as one of
Margaret's historians expresses it, the peasants were so ignorant that
they could not conceive of any one's being a queen unless she had a
crown upon her head and a sceptre in her hand.

[Sidenote: Arrival at the hamlet.]

They all went up a little way into the country, and at length found a
small hamlet, where Margaret concluded to remain with the prince until
De Breze could go to Edinburgh and learn what the condition of the
country was, and so enable her to consider what course to pursue.

The report which De Breze brought back on his return was very
discouraging. Margaret, however, on hearing it, determined to go to
Edinburgh herself, to see what she could do. She found, on her arrival
there, that the government were not willing to do any thing more for
her. They would furnish her with the means, they said, if she wished,
of going back to England in a quiet way, with a view of seeking refuge
among some of her friends there, but that was all that they could do.

[Sidenote: Margaret reaches Bamborough.]

So Margaret went back to England, and remained for some little time in
the great castle of Bamborough, which was still in the hands of her
friends. She tried here to contrive some way of reassembling her
scattered adherents and making a new rally, but she found that that
object could not be accomplished. Thus all the resources which could
be furnished by France, Scotland, or England for her failing cause
seemed to be exhausted, and, after turning her eyes in every direction
for help, she concluded to cross the German Ocean into Flanders, to
see if she could find any sympathy or succor there.

[Sidenote: She sails for Flanders.]

[Sidenote: A storm.]

Compared with the number of attendants that were with her in her
flight into Scotland, the retinue of friends and followers by which
she was accompanied in this retreat to the Continent was quite large,
though it is probable that most of this company went with her quite as
much on their own account as on the queen's. The whole party numbered
about two hundred. They embarked from Bamborough on board two ships,
but very soon after they had left the land a storm arose, and the two
ships were separated from each other, and for twelve hours the one
which Margaret and the prince had taken was in imminent danger of
being overwhelmed. The wind rose to a perfect hurricane, and no one
expected that they could po