. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . imony ; on which subject he desires to knowthe kings further pleasure, for the time of the coronation is so instant, andso near at hand, that the matter requireth good expedition to be had inthe same. * Cranmer has himself fully described the grand ceremonial of queen Aaneacoronation: The Thursday next before the feast of Pentecost, the king and thequeen being at Greenwich, all the crafts of London thereunto well appointed,in several barges decked after the most gorge
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . imony ; on which subject he desires to knowthe kings further pleasure, for the time of the coronation is so instant, andso near at hand, that the matter requireth good expedition to be had inthe same. * Cranmer has himself fully described the grand ceremonial of queen Aaneacoronation: The Thursday next before the feast of Pentecost, the king and thequeen being at Greenwich, all the crafts of London thereunto well appointed,in several barges decked after the most gorgeous and sumptuous manner,with divers pageants thereunto belonging, repaired and waited altogetherupon the mayor of London, and so, well furnished, came all unto Greenwich,where they tarried and waited for the queens coming to her barge. Which80 done, they brought her unto the Tower, trumpets, shaums, and otherdivers instruments all the ways playing and making great melody, which, asis reported, was as comely done as never was like in any time nigh to ourremembrance. And so her Grace came to the Tower on Thursday at night,. Old Palace at Greenwich. about five of the clock, where also was such a peal of guns as hatli not beenheard like a great while before. And the same night and Friday all day, theking and queen tarried there; and on Friday at night the kings grace madeseventeen knights of the Bath, whose creation was not only so strange to hearof, as also their garments stranger to behold or look on ; which knightsthe next day, which was Saturday, rode before the queens grace throughoutthe city of London towards Westminster Palace, over and besides the mostpart of the nobles of the realm, which like accompanied her grace through-out the said city; she sitting in her Iiair upon a horse litter, riclily apparelled,and four kniglits of the five ports bearing a canopy over licr head. And afterber came four rich cliarettes, one of them empty, and tlireo other furnislicdwith div
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