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The chronicle of Queen Jane, and of two years of Queen Mary, and especially of the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat / Written by a resident in the Tower of London. Ed., with illustrative documents and notes, by John Gough Nichols.

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[1850]
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Credit: The chronicle of Queen Jane, and of two years of Queen Mary, and especially of the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat / Written by a resident in the Tower of London. Ed., with illustrative documents and notes, by John Gough Nichols. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    swordes borne before them ; and so proceeded to the hall, where they both dined under one cloth of estate. Of the marriage banquet the narrative of Edward Underhill supplies some account : * “On the maryage daye, the kynge and the quene dyned in the halle in the bushop’s palice, sittynge under the clothe of estate, and none eles att that table. The nobillitie satte att the syde tables. Wee? weare the cheffe sarveters, to cary the meate, and the yearle of Sussex ower capetayne was the shewer (sewer).° The seconde course att the maryage off a kynge is gevyne unto the bearers; I meane the meate, butt nott the disshes, for they weare off golde. It was my chaunce to cary a greate pastie of a redde dere in a greate charger, very delicately baked; wiche for the weyght theroff dyvers refused; the wiche pastye I sentt vnto London to my wyffe and her brother, who cherede therwith many off ther frends. I wyll not take vyppon me to wryte the maner off the maryage, off the feaste, nor off the daunssyngs of the Spanyards thatt daye, who weare greately owte off countenaunce, specyally kynge Phelip dauncesynge, when they dide se me lorde Braye, Mr. Carowe, and others so farre excede them ; butt wyll leve it unto the learned, as it behovithe hym to be thatt shalle wryte a story off so greate a tryoumffe.” . To the foregoing narrative a list of the Spanish grandees who visited England on this occasion is annexed, but they are evidently much disar- ranged, and nearly every name is repeated, and some more than once. They may be reduced to some order, as follows, though it would require a Spanish herald to give them their due precedency : ® MS. Harl. 425, f. 97. > 7%, e. the gentlemen pensioners. ¢ « At the banquet, the earl of Arundel presented the ewer, the marquess of Winchester the napkin; none being seated except the king and queen: but, as to the rest of the entertainment, it was more after the English than the Spanish fashion. The dinner lasted till six in the evening, after which there was store of music; and before nine all had already retired.’? Narrative from the archives of Louvaine, in Tytler, ii. 432,