These first entred the field, in taking vp & turning their horsses, netlie and freshlie.Goodlie she [...] & delightfull. Then followed a de|uise (caried by strength of men and other prouision) framed like a castell, or a turret, wrought with fine cloth of gold: the top whereof was spred with roses and pomegranats, hanging downe on euerie side of the said deuise; wherein was a ladie, bearing a shield of christall named Pallas. After whom the said lord Howard with his companions followed, armed at all points, their bases and bards, or trappers, were of gréene veluet, beaten with roses and pomegra|nats of gold, brodred with fringes of damaske gold. The said deuise or turret,Pallas knights the defendants. being brought before the king, the ladie Pallas presented the said persons, whom she named hir scholers, to the kings highnes, beséeching the same to accept them as hir scholers, who were desirous to serue him, to the increase of their honours; which said scholers had about them on foot to the number of an hundred persons, freshlie ap|parrelled, in veluets of sundrie colours, with hose & bonets according to the same. And further, the said ladie desired the king, that it might please his grace, that hir said scholers might be defendants to all commers, which request was granted.

Then came in an other band of horssemen,Another band of horssemen richlie [...]. fresh|lie and well apparelled in cloth of gold, in siluer, in goldsmithes worke, & broderie, to the number of three score, with trappers according to their garments, with great bauderikes, collars, and chaines of gold about their necks and trauerse their bodies, euerie man with a coife of gold on his head, and a great EEBO page image 803 plume of feathers therevpon, some of one colour and some of an other, entering before into the field with drums and fifes a great number, euerie man taking vp his horsse in his best maner, as well for their la|dies, as also for laud or praise to be giuen them. After whome followed a good number of footmen, in vel|uets and other silkes, cut and embrodered, with hose to the same accordinglie, and bonets and other fur|niture, after a fresh and lustie fashion. Next to them came on horssebacke eight persons, whose names were,Eight knights ar|me [...] at all paints. sir Iohn Pechie, sir Edward Neuill, sir Ed|ward Guildeford, sir Iohn Carre, sir William Parre, sir Giles Capell, sir Griffith Dun, and sir Rouland, armed also at all points, with shields of their owne armes, with rich plumes, and other deui|ses on their head péeces, their bases and trappers of tissue, cloth of gold, siluer and veluet; and next before them, a gentleman on horssebacke, in a coat of blue veluet, embrodered with gold, and his horsse trapped in the same sute, with a speare of gold on his thigh, and the same presented to the quéene: saieng, that it was informed those knights of his companie, how that dame Pallas had presented six of hir scholers to the king, but whether they came to learne, or to teach feats of armes they knew not.

He further declared, that his knights were come to doo feats of armes, for the loue of ladies. Wherfore he besought hir grace, to licence those knights to prooue themselues against dame Pallas scholers: and that in case hir scholers brake more speares on the said knights, by the view of the iudges, and the report of the heralds, than the same knights should doo on them; then the said scholers of Pallas knights to haue the speare of gold for their prise. And if the knights brake more speares than dame Pallas scholers, the said knights to haue the christall shield. The which request to them granted, the iusts began, where euerie man did acquite himselfe well and va|liantlie: but who had the prise of other, I know not. The night cõming on, the iusts ended. The next daie approached the foresaid defenders, scholers to Pallas on horssebacke, armed From head [...]. cape a pie, the one side of their bases and bards of their horsses white veluet, embrodered with roses of gold and other embrode|ries; the other side gréene veluet embrodered with pomegranats of gold, euerie one of them on his head péece had an heare of flat gold of damaske, and so presented themselues before the king readie to tourneie.