The morrow, being the thirtéenth of Februarie af|ter dinner, at time conuenient, the queene with the ladies repaired to sée the iusts, the trumpets soun|ded,Gorgeous shewes in apparell. and in came manie a noble man and gentleman richlie apparelled, taking vp their horsses; after whom followed certeine lords apparelled, they and their horsses in cloth of gold and russet tinsell: knights in cloth of gold and russet veluet; and a great number of gentlemen on foot in russet sattin and yellow, and yeomen in russet damaske and yellow, all the nether part of euerie mans hosen scarlet and yellow caps. Then came the king vnder a pauilion of cloth of gold and purple veluet embrodered,The king vn|der a pauilion of cloth of gold and purple veluet, &c. and powdered with H. and K. of fine gold, the compasse of the pauilion a|boue embrodered richlie, and valansed with flat gold, beaten in wire, with an imperiall crowne in the top of fine gold, his bases and trappers of cloth of gold, fretted with damaske gold, the trapper pendant to the taile. A crane and chafron of stéele, in the front of the chafron was a goodlie plume set full of musers or trembling spangles of gold. After followed his three aids, euerie of them vnder a pauilion of crimsin da|maske and purple, powdered with H. and K. of fine gold, valansed and fringed with gold of damaske: on the top of euerie pauilion a great K. of goldsmiths worke.

The number of the gentlemen and yeomen at|tending on foot, apparelled in russet and yellow,Sir Charles Brandon on horssebacke in a long robe of russet satt [...]re like a religi|ous person. was an hundred thréescore and eight. Then next these paui|lions came twelue children of honour, sitting euerie of them on a great courser richlie trapped and em|brodered in seuerall deuises and fashions, where lac|ked neither broderie nor goldsmiths worke, so that e|uerie child and horsse in deuise and fashion was con|trarie to other, which was goodlie to behold. Then on the contrarie part entered sir Charles Brandon, first on horssebacke in a long robe of russet sattin, like a recluse or religious person, and his horsse trapped in the same sute, without drum or noise of minstrelsie, putting a bill of petition to the quéene, the effect wher|of EEBO page image 808 was, that if it would please hir to licence him to run in hir presence, he would doo it gladlie; and if not, then he would depart as he came. After that his re|quest was granted, then he put off his said habit, and was armed at all péeces with rich bases and horsse also richlie trapped, and so did run his horsse to the tilt end, where diuerse men on foot apparelled in russet sattin waited on him.

Henrie Guil|ford esquier in russet cloth of gold, with his deuise.Next after came in alone yoong Henrie Guilford esquier, himselfe and his horsse in russet cloth of gold and cloth of siluer, closed in a deuise, or a pageant made like a castell or a turret, wrought of russet sar|cenet Florence, wrought and set out in gold with his word or posie, and all his men in russet sattin & white, with hosen to the same, and their bonets of like co|lours, demanding also licence of the queene to run; which to him granted, he tooke place at the tilts end. Then came next the marquesse Dorset and sir Tho|mas Bullen like two pilgrims from saint Iames,The mar|quesse Dorset and sir Tho|mas Bullen like pilgrims. in taberds of blacke veluet, with palmers hats on their helmets, with long Iacobs staues in their hands, their horsse trappers of blacke veluet, their ta|berds, hats, and trappers set with scalop shels of fine gold, and strips of blacke veluet, euerie strip set with a scalop shell, their seruants all in blacke sattin with scalop shels of gold in their breasts. Soone after came in the lord Henrie of Buckingham earle of Wilshire, himselfe and his horsse apparelled in cloth of siluer, embrodered with his posie or word, and ar|rowes of gold in a posie, called La maison du refuge, made of crimsin damaske brodered with roses & ar|rowes of gold, on the top a greihound of siluer, bea|ring a tree of pomegranats of gold, the branches whereof were so large that it ouerspred the pageant in all parts.