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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 20 of 24:  Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth.
Snippet: 441 of 1201 (1587, Volume 6, p. 861)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On Wednesdaie the eleuenth of Iulie,The emperor commeth to Calis to king Henrie. the empe|rour and his aunt the ladie Margaret duchesse of Sauoy came with the king of England to the towne of Calis, and there continued in great ioy and so|lace, with feasting, banketting, dansing and masking vntill the fouretéenth of Iulie.

Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 927. Banketting house within the towne of Calis.

R [...]. Turpin.

¶ For the intertei|ning of these estates (the English lords and gentle|men displaced of their lodgings to serue the other and their traine) there was builded a banketting house eight hundred foot compasse, like a theatre, after a goodlie deuise, builded in such maner as (I thinke) was neuer séene, with sixtéene principals made of great masts, betwixt euerie mast foure and twentie foot, and all the outsides closed with boord and can|uas.

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Ouer it, and within round about by the sides, were made thrée scaffolds or lofts one aboue ano|ther for men and women to stand vpon. And in the midst of the same banketting house, was set vp a great piller of timber made of eight great masts, bound togither with iron bands, for to hold them to|gither: for it was an hundred and foure and thirtie foot of length,Goodlie work|manship with|in the banket|ting house. and cost six pounds thirteene shillings and fourepence to set it vpright. The banketing house was couered ouer with canuas, fastened with ropes and iron as fast as might be deuised. And within the said house was painted the heauens, with starres, sunne, mooue, and clouds, with diuerse other things made aboue ouer mens heads: and there were great images of wickers couered, and made like great men of diuerse strange nations: and diuerse reasons were written by them of the countries that they likened to be of, with the armes of those countries hanging by them.

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Also there was made as it were manie ships vn|der saile, and windmils going, and about the high pil|ler of timber that flood vpright in the middest, was made stages of timber for organs and other instru|ments to stand vpon, and men to plaie on them, & for other musicians & pageants to be plaied, when the K. of England & the emperor should be at their banket. But in the morning of the same day, the wind began to rise, & at night blew off the canuas,Banketting house defaced by tempest. and all the ele|ments, with the starres, sunne, moone, and clouds, and the wind blew out aboue a thousand torches, and other lights of wax, that were prepared to giue light to the banket, & all the kings seats that were made with great riches, besides all other things, were all dashed and lost.]

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