The maner of the same knights te|nure.After these seuerall proclamations doone, and of|fers made, the said knight or champion eftsoones re|paired to the kings presence, demanding drinke; to whome the kings grace sent a cup of gold with wine, whereof after this knight had drunke, he demanded the couer of the said cup, which to him also was deli|uered: that doone he departed out of the hall, with the said cup and couer as his owne. The maner of his tenure is this, that at the coronation of the king, he shall go to the armorie, and there take the kings best harnesse saue one, the best and rich bases sauing one, then of the plumes or other things for the garnish|ing of his creast or helme; and so to the stable, there taking the next courser or horsse to the best, with like trappers, & so furnished, to enter (as afore) and his of|fice doone, to haue all these things with the cup of gold and couer to his owne vse. After the departure of the said champion, the king of armes with all the heralds and other officers of armes, made procla|mations in seuerall places of the hall, crieng lar|gesse. Brieflie I passe ouer this high and long solem|nitie of this honorable coronation and feast, more ho|norable than of the great Cesar, whome manie hi|storiographers so highlie set out and magnifie.

Sir Stephã Genings ma|ior of London.Now when the tables were voided, the wafers were brought. Then sir Stephan Genings that time maior of London, whome the king before he sat downe to dinner had dubbed knight, which began the earles table that daie, arose from the place where he sat, to serue the king with ipocras in a cup of gold: which cup, after his grace had dronken thereof, was with the couer giuen vnto the said sir Stephan, like as other his predecessors, maiors of the said citie, were woont to haue at the coronation of the king. Then after the surnap laied, and that the kings grace and the quéene had washed, euerie of them vnder their cloths of estate, the tables being auoided, went vnto their chambers. For the more honour and in|nobling of this triumphant coronation,Iusts and turnement [...] there were prepared both iusts and turneis to be doone in the pa|lace of Westminster, where, for the kings grace and the quéene, was framed a faire house, couered with tapestrie, and hanged with rich clothes of arrais, and in the said palace was made a curious founteine and ouer it a castell, on the top therof a great crowne imperiall, all the imbatelling with roses and pome|granats gilded.

Under and about the said castell, a curious vine, the leaues and grapes thereof gilded with fine gold, the walles of the same castell coloured white & gréene losengis, and in euerie losing either a rose or a pome|granat, and a sheafe of arrowes, or else H. and K. gil|ded with fine gold, with certeine arches and turrets gilded, to support the same castell. And the targets of the armes of the defendants, appointed for the said iusts, therevpon sumptuouslie set. And out at seue|rall places of the same castell, aswell on the daie of the coronation, as on the said daies of the iusts & tur|neies, out of the mouthes of certeine beasts or gar|gels did run red, white, and claret wine. The enter|prisers of these iusts, was Thomas lord Howard,The enterpri|sers of the [...] iusts. heire apparant to the earle of Surrie, sir Edward Howard admerall his brother, the lord Richard bro|ther to the Marques Dorset, sir Edmund Howard, sir Thomas Kneuet, and Charles Brandon esquier. The trumpets blew to the field, the fresh yoong ga|lants and noble men gorgeouslie apparrelled, with curious deuises of cuts and of embroderies, as well in their coates as in trappers for their horsses, some in gold, some in siluer, some in tinsels, and diuerse o|ther in goldsmithes worke, goodlie to behold.