The font was of siluer,The christe|ning of quéene Elizabeth. and stood in the middest of the church, thrée steps high, which was couered with a fine cloth, and diuerse gentlemen with aperns and towels about their necks gaue attendance about it, that no filth should come in the font, ouer it hoong a square canopie of crimsin sattin, fringed with gold, about it was a raile couered with red saie: betweene the quier and the bodie of the church was a close place with a pan of fire, to make the child readie in. When all these things were ordered, the child was brought to the hall, and then euerie man set forward; first the citizens two and two, then gentlemen, esqui|ers and chapleins,The honou|rable traine of courtiers in their degrées. next after them the aldermen and the maior alone: next the maior the kings councell, the kings chappell in copes: then barons, bishops, earles, then came the earle of Essex, bearing the co|uered basins gilt, after him the marquesse of Exce|ster with the taper of virgin wax, next him the mar|quesse Dorset bearing the salt.

Behind him the ladie Marie of Norffolke, bear|ing the créesome which was verie rich of pearle and stone, the old dutches of Norffolke bare the child in a mantell of purple veluet, with a long traine furred with ermine. The duke of Norffolke with his mar|shall rod went on the right hand of the said dutches, and the duke of Suffolke on the left hand, and before them went the officers of armes. The countesse of Kent bare the long traine of the childs mantell, and betwéene the countesse of Kent and the child went the earle of Wilshire on the right hand, and the earle of Darbie on the left hand, supporting the said traine: in the middest ouer the said child was borne a cano|pie, by the lord Rochford, the lord Husée, the lord Wil|liam Howard,A canopie borne ouer the yoong princesse. and by the lord Thomas Howard the elder, after the child followed manie ladies and gen|tlewomen. When the child was come to the church doore, the bishop of London met it with diuerse bi|shops and abbats mitred.

When the ceremonies and christening were en|ded, Garter cheefe king of armes cried alowd, God of his infinite goodnesse send prosperous life & long to the high and mightie princesse of England Eliza|beth: & then the trumpets blew. Then the archbishop of Canturburie gaue to the princesse a standing cup of gold:Rich gifts giuen to the princesse. the dutches of Norffolke gaue to hir a standing cup of gold, fretted with pearle: the mar|chionesse of Dorset gaue thrée gilt bolles, pounced with a couer: and the marchionesse of Excester gaue thrée standing bolles grauen, all gilt with a couer. EEBO page image 935 Then was brought in wafers, comfets, & ipocrasse in such plentie, that euerie man had as much as he would desire. Then they set forwards, the trumpets going before in the same order towards the kings palace, as they did when they came thitherwards, sauing that the gifts that the godfather and the godmothers gaue, were borne before the child by foure persons, Who bare the gi [...]ts presen|ted to the princesse. that is to saie. First sir Iohn Dudleie bare the gift of the ladie of Excester, the [...]ord Thomas Ho|ward the yoonger bare the gift of the ladie of Dorset; the lord Fitzwater bare the gift of the ladie of Norf|folke, and the earle of Worcester bare the gift of the archbishop of Canturburie, & all the oneside as they went was full of staffe torches to the number of fiue hundred, borne by the gard and other of the kings seruants, and about the child were borne manie o|ther proper torches by gentlemen.