Compare 1577 edition: 1 On fridaie the two and twentith day of Iune, the king with the quéene being in the Tower of Lon|don, made foure and twentie knights of the Bath. And the morow following, being saturdaie the foure and twentith of Iune, his grace with the quéene de|parted from the Tower through London, the streets being hanged with tapestrie and cloth of arras, ve|rie richlie; and a great part of the south side of Cheape with cloth of gold, & so was some part of Cornehill. The stréets were railed & barred on the one side, from ouer against Grace church to Bredstréet in Cheape|side, [...] where euerie occupation stood in their liueries in order, beginning with base and meane occupations, and so ascending to the worshipfull crafts. Highest and lastlie stood the maior with the aldermen. The goldsmiths stals vnto the end of the Old change,A [...] sight [...] virgins in white, with branches of white wax. be|ing replenished with virgins in white, with branches of white wax: the priests and clearkes in rich copes, with crosses and censers of siluer, with censing his grace and the queene also, as they passed. The features of his bodie, his goodlie personage, his amiable vi|sage, princelie countenance, with the noble qualities of his roiall estate, to euerie man knowen, néedeth no rehersall, considering that (for lacke of cunning) I cannot expresse the gifts of grace and of nature that God indued him with all.

Yet partlie to describe his apparell, it is to be no|ted,K. Henries apparell at his coronatiõ. his grace ware in his vppermost apparell, a robe of crimsin veluet, furred with ermins, his iacket or coat of raised gold, the placard imbrodered with dia|monds, rubies, emerands, great pearles, and other rich stones, a great bauderike about his necke of great balasses. The trapper of his horsse damaske gold, with a deepe purfle of ermins. His knights and esquiers for his bodie in crimsin veluet; and all the gentlemen, with other of his chappell, and all his offi|cers and houshold seruants were appareled in scar|let. The barons of the fiue portes bare the canopie or cloth of estate. For to recite vnto you the great estates by name, the order of their going, the number of the lords spirituall & temporall, knights, esquiers, and gentlemen, and their costlie and rich apparell of seuerall deuises and fashions, who tooke vp his horsse best, or who was richest beseene; it would aske long time, and yet I should omit manie things, and faile of the number, for they were verie manie: wherefore I passe ouer. But this I dare well saie, there was no lacke or scarsitie of cloth of tissue, cloth of gold, cloth of siluer, broderie, or of goldsmiths works: but in more plentie and aboundance than hath beene séene or read of at anie time before, and thereto manie and great numbers of chaines of gold, & bauderikes both massie and great.

Also before the kings highnesse rode two gentle|men richlie apparelled,The kings traine and the [...] of the [...]. and about their bodies ouer|thwart, they bare two robes, the one of the duchie of Guien, and the other for the duchie of Normandie, with hats on their heads powdered with ermins, for the estate of the same. Next followed two persons of good estate, the one bearing his cloke, the other his hat, apparelled both in goldsmiths worke and brode|rie, their horsses trapped in burned siluer, drawen o|uer with cordes of gréene silke and gold, the edges and borders of their apparell being fretted with gold of damaske. After them came sir Thomas Brandon master of the kings horsse, clothed in tissue, brodered with roses of fine gold, and ouerthwart his bodie a great bauderike of gold, great and massi [...]; his horsse trapped in gold, leading by a raine of silke; the kings spare horsse trapped bard wise, with harnesse brodred with bullion gold, curiouslie wrought by goldsmiths. Then next followed the nine children of honor vpon great coursers, appareled on their bodies in blue vel|uet, powdered with floure delices of gold, & chaines of goldsmiths worke, euerie one of their horsses trap|ped with a trapper of the kings title, as of England and France, Gascoigne, Guien, Normandie, An|giou, Cornewall, Wales, Ireland, &c: wrought vp|on veluets, with imbroderie, and goldsmiths worke.