The quéene from thence passed to Leaden hall, where was a goodlie pageant with a type and a hea|uenlie roofe, and vnder the type was a roote of gold set on a little mounteine inuironed with red roses and white: out of the type came downe a falcon all white & sat vpon the roote, and incontinent came downe an angell with great melodie, and set a close crowne of gold on the falcons head. And in the same pageant sat saint Anne with all hir issue beneath hir and vnder Marie Cleoph sat hir foure children, of the which children one made a goodlie oration to the queene of the fruitfulnes of saint Anne and of hir generation,An oration made to the quéene by one of the children in the page|geant. trusting that like fruit should come of hir. Then she passed to the conduit in Cornhill, where were thrée graces set in a throne, afore whom was the spring of grace continuallie running wine. Afore the founteine sat a poet declaring the properties of euerie grace: and that doone euerie ladie by hir selfe, according to hir propertie, gaue to the quéene a seuerall gift of grace.
That doone, she passed by the great conduit in chéepe,The conduit in Cheape runneth wine white and cla|ret. which was newlie painted with armes of de|uises: out of the which conduit by a goodlie founteine set at the one end ran continuallie wine both white and claret all that afternoone, and so she rode to the Standard which was richlie painted with images of kings and quéenes, and hanged with banners of armes, and in the top was maruellous swéet harmo|nie both of song and instrument. Then she went for|ward to the crosse, which was newlie guilt, till she came where the aldermen stood, and then master Ba|ker the recorder came to hir with low reuerence,The recorder presenteth a 1000 marks in gold to the quéene for a gratuitie in ye cities behalfe. ma|king a proper and briefe proposition, and gaue to hir in the name of the citie a thousand marks in a purse of gold, which she thankefullie accepted with manie goodlie words, and so rode to the little conduit, where was a rich pageant full of melodie and song.
In this pageant was Pallas, Iuno and Uenus, and before them stood Mercurie, which in the name of the thrée goddesses gaue to hir a ball of gold diui|ded in thrée, signifieng thrée gifts which the thrée god|desses gaue to hir, that is to saie, wisedome, riches, and felicitie. As she entered into Paules gate there was a pretie pageant, in which sat thrée ladies richlie clothed, and in a circle on their head was written Regina Anna prosperè procede & regna. T [...]e ladie in the middes had a tablet, in the which was written Venia|mica coronaberis, and vnder the tablet sat an angell with a close crowne, and the ladie sitting on the right hand had a tablet of siluer in which was written, Do|miné dirige gressius meos, & the third ladie had a tablet of gold with letters azure written, Confido in Domi|no, & vnder their féet was written in legible letters:
Regina Anna nouum regis de sanguine natumCùm paries, populis aurea seclatuis.