Proclamati|on for the co|ronation of quéene Anne.In the beginning of Maie, the king caused open proclamations to be made, that all men that claim|ed to doo anie seruice, or execute anie office at the so|lemne feast of the coronation by the waie of tenure, grant, or prescription, should put their grant thrée wéekes after Easter in the Starrechamber before Charles duke of Suffolke, for that time high steward of England, and the lord chancellor and other com|missioners.The seuerall claimes of di|uerse honora|ble and wor|shipfull per|sons. The duke of Norffolke claimed to be erle marshall, and to exercise his office at that feast; the erle of Arundell claimed to be high butler, and to exercise the same; the erle of Oxford claimed to be chamberlaine; the vicount Lisle claimed to be pan|tler; the lord Aburgauennie to be chiefe larderer; and the lord Braie claimed to be almoner, and sir Henrie Wiat knight claimed to be ewrer. All these noble personages desired their offices with their fées.

Beside these, the maior of London claimed to serue the quéene with a cup of gold, and a cup of as|saie of the same, and that twelue citizens should at|tend on the cupboord, and the maior to haue the cup and cup of assaie for his labor: which petition was al|lowed. The fiue ports claimed to beare a canopie o|uer the quéens head the daie of the coronation with foure guilt belles, and to haue the same for a reward, which to them was allowed.

The recei|uing, conuei|eng, and coro|nation of queene Anne, wife to the high & migh|ty prince king Henrie the eight.

Edw. Hall. CCxij.

The kings letters to the maior of Lon|don, touching the corona|tion.

¶After that the kings highnesse had addressed his gratious letters to the maior and communaltie of the citie, signifieng to them, that his pleasure was to solemnize and celebrate the coronation of his most deare and welbeloued wife quéene Anne, at Westminster the Whitsundaie next insuing, wil|led them to make preparation, as well to fetch hir grace from Greenwich to the Tower by water, as to sée the citie ordered and garnished with pageants in places accustomed, for the honor of hir grace. When she shuld be conueied from the Tower to Westmin|ster, there was a common councell called, and com|mandement was giuen to the haberdashers (of which craft the maior sir Stephan Pecocke then was) that they should prepare a barge for the bachelors, with a wa [...]ter and a foist, garnished with banners and strea [...]ters likewise, as they vse to doo when the maior is presented at Westminster on the morrow after Simon and Iude. Also all other crafts were commanded to prepare barges, and to garnish them, not alonelie with their banners accustomed,The cities preparation. but also to decke them with targets by the sides of the bar|ges, and to set vp all such séemelie banners and ban|nerets as they had in their halles, or could get meet to furnish their said barges, and euerie barge to haue minstrelsie: according to which commande|ments great preparation was made for all things necessarie for such a noble triumph.