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An other pageant at the little conduit in Cheape next to Paules was made by the citie, where the al|dermen stood, & when the quéene came against them, the recorder made a short proposition to hir, and then the chamberleine presented to hir in the name of the maior and the citie,The recorder of London maketh a short spéech to the quéene passing by. a purse of cloth of gold, and a thousand marks of gold in it: then she rode foorth, and in Paules church-yard against the schoole, one master Heiwood sat in a pageant vnder a vine, and made to hir an oration in Latine & English.A Dutchman on the Wea|thercocke of Paules. Then was there one Peter a Dutchman that stood on the weather|c [...]cke of Paules stéeple, holding a streamer in his hand of fiue yards long, and wauing thereof, stood sometimes on the one foot, and shooke the other, and then knéeled on his knees, to the great maruell of all people. He had made two scaffolds vnder him, one aboue the crosse, hauing torches and streamers set on it, and an other ouer the ball of the crosse likewise set with streamers & torches, which could not burne, the wind was so great: the said Peter had sixteene pounds thirtéene shillings foure pense giuen him by the citie for his costs and paines, and for all his stuffe.

Then was there a pageant made against the deane of Paules gate,A pageant wherein the queeri|sters of Paules [...] on vials. where the quéeristers of Paules plaied on vials and soong. Ludgate was newlie re|pared, painted, and richlie hanged, with minstrels plaieng and singing there. Then was there an other pageant at the conduit in Fleetstréet, and the temple barre was newlie painted and hanged. And thus she passed to Whitehall at Westminster, where she tooke hir leaue of the lord maior, giuing him great thanks for his pains, and the citie for their cost. On the mor|row, which was the first daie of October, the quéene went by water to the old palace, and there remained till about eleuen of the clocke, and then went on foot vpon blew cloth, being railed on either side, vnto saint Peters church, where she was solemnlie crow|ned and annointed by Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester (for the archbishops of Canturburie and Yorke were then prisoners in the tower) which coro|nation and other ceremonies and solemnities then vsed according to the old custome,Quéene Ma|rie crowned quéene by Stephan Gardiner. was not fullie en|ded till it was nigh foure of the clocke at night that she returned from the church, before whom was then borne three swords sheathed, & one naked. The great seruice that daie doone in Westminster hall at din|ner by diuerse noblemen, would aske long time to write. The lord maior of London & twelue citizens kept the high cupboord of plate as butlers: and the quéene gaue to the maior for his fée a cupboord of gold with a couer weieng seuentéene ounces.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 At the time of this quéenes coronation,A pardon with excep|tions. there was published a generall pardon in hir name, being in|terlaced with so manie exceptions, as they that née|ded the same most, tooke smallest benefit thereby. In which were excepted by name no small number, not onelie of bishops and other of the cleargie, namelie the archbishops of Canturburie and Yorke, the bi|shop of London, but also manie lords, knights, and gentlemen of the laitie, beside the two chiefe iustices of England called sir Edward Montacute, and sir Roger Cholmeleie, with some other learned men in the law, for counselling, or at the least consenting to the depriuation of quéene Marie, and aiding of the foresaid duke of Northumberland, in the pretensed right of the before named ladie Iane, the names of which persons so being excepted, I haue omitted for shortnesse sake.

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