The wedding went off much as such affairs do.

[H]is vow was made in his ſickneſſe, whileſt reaſon was ſcarce as yet in the peaceable poſſeſſion of his mind, becauſe of the remnant dregs of his diſeaſe: […]

The peres and noble men seing their king reduced to such extremitie, moued with pitie and compassion, began secretly to pratise for him, some with threatninges, some with flatteries and persuasions: some went to the mother, declaring vnto her the eternall rest and quiet prepared for her and all her friendes, if she would persuade her daughter to encline to the kinge's mind, and contrariwyse the daunger iminent ouer her head.

Ma Chien-chi 馬建奇 has been mentioned as a Muslim in D.D. Leslie, Islamic Literature in Chinese, Canberra 1981, p. 32. He was a native of Tso-yün 左雲 in Shansi, who had become a Metropolitan Graduate in 1733.