The progresses, processions, and magnificent festivities, of King James the First, : his royal consort, family, and court, collected from original manuscripts, scarce pamphlets, corporation records, parochial registers, &c., & with notes, historical, topographical, biographical and bibliographical. . and all the rest will sayThat all the weeke they had their Royall pay! The Speech goes on : Now for the fruits then ;—flow forth, pretious Spring,So long and deerely sought for, and now bringComfort to all that love thee; loudly sing,And with thy christall murmur strucke together,Bid
The progresses, processions, and magnificent festivities, of King James the First, : his royal consort, family, and court, collected from original manuscripts, scarce pamphlets, corporation records, parochial registers, &c., & with notes, historical, topographical, biographical and bibliographical. . and all the rest will sayThat all the weeke they had their Royall pay! The Speech goes on : Now for the fruits then ;—flow forth, pretious Spring,So long and deerely sought for, and now bringComfort to all that love thee; loudly sing,And with thy christall murmur strucke together,Bid all thy true well-wishers welcome hither! At which words the floud-gate opens, the Streame let into the Cesterne ,drummes and trumpets giving it triumphant welcomes, and, for the close of thistheir honorable Entertainment, a peale of chambers. 1 The site of the New River Head had always been a pond, an open idell poole, says Howes, commonly called the Ducking Pond; being now by the Master of this worke reduced into a conilypleasant shape, and many wayes adorned with buildings, &c. The Bason is now thrice its originalsize. The adjoining house, belonging to the Company, was built in 1613, but having been newfronted in 1782, and recently much enlarged, has lost all external appearance of antiquity. 702 CREATION OF ROBERT CAR, EARL OF SOMERSET, l6l3. The fourth daye of November 16*13, and the eleventh yeare of the raigneof King James, Syr Robert Kerr, Vicount Rochester, was created Baron ofBranspeth, by the specification onely in the patent, for that he was formerly aBaron implicative by the dignitie and stile of a Vicount; and therefore notinvested in the roabes of a Baron. But [the following was the Ceremony of hisCreation as Earl of Somerset. He was] brought oute of the Councell-chamberover the tarras [terrace] into the Banqueting-house in this order: The Drummes and Trumpetts, but not sounding. The Pursevants and Heraldes of Armes, Clarenceux, and Norroy. Garter carieno
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