Against the twelfe daie or the daie of the Epipha|nie at night, [...] goodlie [...] of a moue| [...] pageant. before the banket in the hall at Rich|mond, was a pageant deuised like a mounteine, glistering by night as though it had béene all of gold and set with stones, on the top of which mounteine was a tree of gold, the branches and boughes frised with gold, spreading on euerie side ouer the moun|teine with roses and pomegranats, the which moun|teine was with vices brought vp towards the king, and out of the same came a ladie apparelled in cloth of gold, and the children of honour called the hench|men, which were freshlie disguised, and dansed a mo|rice before the king; and that doone, reentred the mounteine, which then was drawen backe, and then was the wassaill or banket brought in, and so brake vp Christmasse. Shortlie after and before the quéenes churching, the K. rode to Walsingham. The quéene being churched or purified, the king and she remooued from Richmond to Westminster, where was prepa|ration for solemne iusts in the honor of the quéene;A s [...]lemne [...] at West|minster. the king being one, and with him thrée aides: his grace being called Cure loial, the lord William erle of Deuonshire called Bon voloire, sir Thomas Kne|uet named Bon espoir, sir Edward Neuill called Va|liant desire, whose names were set vpon a goodlie table, & the table hanged in a tree curiouslie wrought, and they were called Les quater cheualiers de la for|rest saluigne, these foure to run at the tilt against all commers, with other certeine articles comprised in the said table.

A place in the palace was prepared for the king and queene, richlie hanged, the inner part with cloth of gold, & the vtter with rich cloth of arras. These iusts began the thirtéenth daie of Februarie. Now after that the quéene with hir traine of ladies had taken their places, [...] pageant [...] like a [...] forrest [...] into the palace was conueied a pageant of a great quantitie, made like a forrest with rockes, hils, and dales, with diuerse sundrie trées, floures, ha|thornes, ferne, and grasse, with six foresters standing within the same forrest, garnished in cotes and hoods of gréene veluet, by whome laie a great number of speares; all the trées, hearbs, and floures of the same forrest were made of gréene veluet, greene damaske, & silke of diuerse colours, as sattin & sarcenet. In the middest of this forrest was a castell standing made of gold, and before the castell gate sat a gentleman freshlie apparelled, making a garland of roses for the prise. This forrest was drawen as it were by strength of two great beasts, a lion and an ante|lop; the lion florished all ouer with damaske gold, the antelop was wrought all ouer with siluer of da|maske, his beames or hornes and tuskes of gold.

These beasts were led with certeine men apparel|led like wild men, or woodhouses, their bodies, heads, faces, hands, and legs couered with gréene silke flos|shed: on either of the said antelop and lion sat a la|die richlie apparelled, the beasts were tied to the pa|geant with great chaines of gold, as horsses be in the cart. When the pageant rested before the quéene,The foure knights issue out of the pa|geant all ar|med. the forenamed foresters blew their horns, then the deuise or pageant opened on all sides, and out issued the foresaid foure knights armed at all peeces, euerie of them a speare in his hand on horssebacke with great plumes on their heads, their bases and trappers of cloth of gold, euerie of them his name embrodered on his base and trapper. On the other part with great noise aswell of trumpets as of drums entered into the field, the erle of Essex, the lord Thomas Howard with manie other cleane armed, their trappers and bases all of crimsin satin embrodered with branches of pomegranats of gold and posies; with manie a fresh gentleman riding before them, their footmen well apparelled: and so the iusts began and endured all that daie.