knights Mm ,,rode und e r ridi payiîtôna, and the pages and attppd!àn|^ferèï'all
in splendid costume|mmany of them “powdered’” ip a simjlfl^ manner.Js. A
hundrèd add- sixty-eight.- gentlemen, fdDpwed;-'the pavifidhsdon--ft>qt;^and^p|elve
“ children of honour” came after them'-otfpich ’epufe’grad^
^gPhe Roir-rèpÉeÿnts the whole ‘procësêicùi^cîi^the scene? of these “ solemn e
jusfes,” and^fdrhidiêë usjthor doubt, withÿShtexact1' portraiture of the different
5^ ^ jm e s oÊ.khe-'perâohs, who’%urpd at it. t i t - i s very dong, and contains a
Igreat number of figures}.;^ The'.'whole*, was engraved On a reduced^ $tÆè, and
published dnuthel first! .volume, of .the ?Vétustaî Monumeüta. t;0 u r figufe is p a f
of those entitled-dn the original, Les "Sd&e, (TArmes. [ 1$ thé-^dmw îj^ ^arA 111|
e^ ^ ^ erate^ ^ have 'been' a -splendid pageant, requiring an immense
ex|||n<fiture • of money. At ''the conclusion,* the “spectators *’werO>~allowed to-
strip the knights, and: to scramble for the’ornaments oftheir dresses. ' ÎHoîling-
^hed tells !us that “ at this • sdlémriitie »--shipman ofritemdbâ caught/omeinc
letters, which he sold to a ’ goldsmith for j three .pounds i S ^ ^ t ^ ^ ts1uli®g'i
and'eight! pence; by reason wherofdt* àppeered' that.the-gapmehtsfv^erS'Pf
great value.” Hall the chronicler,' speaking dof ; the 'ceremonies .at f.his %a»g’’S
coronation,, observes very quaintly,: “T f l \shbuld ! declare ydiat pain^Siabour,
and diligence, the taylersÿ dtebrouderers,'and<golde7^^tih^^to'eke,^^^fe'tito
make and devise garmentes, for lardes; ladies, knightesj artfeMÉMB H ^ Ii
also for deekyng, trappyng, and.'adornyng of; c6ursers,’ jehotes^ and . palffreN,
it. wer to' long to rehersse, but; for, a. suretie,' moie^rirhd, .iforimbfe .htraVihge,
-nor m o rt curious workes hatknotbeen seen, thfen'!^r prepared against th:V
coronacion.”
_ At one , end of the roll is a copy of verses, in -five stanzas, iii 4wSL%;'Gfr^-h(:
king, beginning :—
“ Onre ryall rose, now reinyng rede and whyte,
Sure graftyd is on gronnde of nobylnes,
In Harry the viij. our joye and ouf dëlyte,
Subdewer of wronges, mayntenar of rightwysnes,
F owntayne of honer, exsampler qf larges ;
Our clypsyd son now cleryd is from the darke -
By Harry our kyng, the flowr of nateurs warke.”
In the fourth stanzathe king is put on a par with the nine worthies P-S®
- “ Thow ayre to Ector in armes and honor !
* July os, Judas, nor dewke Josewé, ■
In so short tyme their famys dyd nevere more flowre ;
Not Charles of Fraunce, nor Arthure the worths,
Alexander the great,fhll of liberalyté
Davyd nor Godfras larges was not lyke thyne':
Than why not'tliow the tenth, as well as they the nynô ?”■ ’
The figure at the foot of the preceding page is taken from a drawing preservèd
in a manuscript in the British Museum (MSC'-Cqtton. ' ' A,-. £ ) £ ! it was
evidently the design for a tent to be erected on some solemn occasion in the
reign of Henry VIII., perhaps at the famous meeting of the Field o f the Cloth
of Hold. I
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