Abr. Fl. ex I. Stow 1067.¶On the seuen and twentith of September quéene Marie came to the tower by water, accompanied with the ladie Elizabeth hir sister, and other ladies, before whose arriuall there was shot a great peale of guns. The last of September quéene Marie rode through the citie of London towards Westminster, sitting in a chariot of cloth of tissue, drawne with six horsses all trapped with the like cloth of tissue. She sate in a gowne of purple veluet, furred with pow|dered ermins,Coronation of quéene Ma|rie, hir pompe and traine. hauing on hir head a kall of cloth of tinsell, béeset with pearle and stone, and aboue the same vpon hir head a round circlet of gold, béeset so richlie with pretious stones, that the value thereof was inestimable, the same kall and circle being so massie and ponderous, that she was faine to beare vp hir head with hir hand, and the canopie was borne ouer hir chariot.Who rode be|fore and after hir. Before hir rode a number of gen|tlemen & knights, then iudges, then doctors, then bi|shops, then lords, then the councell, after whome fol|lowed the knights of the Bath in their robes, the bi|shop of Winchester lord chancellor, and the marques of Winchester lord high treasuror, next came the duke of Norffolke, and after him the earle of Oxford, who bare the sword before hir, the maior of London in a gown of crimsin veluet bare the scepter of gold, &c. After the quéenes chariot sir Edward Hastings led hir horsse in his hand: then came another chariot hauing a couering of cloth of siluer all white, and six horsses trapped with the like: therein sate the ladie Elizabeth,The ladie Elizabeth and the ladie Anne of Cleue. and the ladie Anne of Cleue: then ladies and gentlewomen riding on horsses trapped with red veluet, and their gownes and kirtles like|wise of red veluet; after them folowed two other cha|riots couered with red sattin, and the horsses betrap|ped with the same, and certeine gentlewomen be|twéene euerie of the said chariots riding in crimsin sattin, their horsses betrapped with the same; the num|ber of the gentlewomen so riding were six and fortie, besides them in the chariots.

At Fanchurch was a costlie pageant made by the Genowaies:A pageant made by stran|gers. at Gracechurch corner there was an o|ther pageant made by the Easterlings. At the vpper end o [...] Gracesstréet there was an other pageant made by the Florentins verie high, on the top where|of there stood foure pictures, and in the middest of them and most highest, there stood an angell all in gréene, with a trumpet in his hand: and when the trumpetter (who stood secretlie in the pageant) did sound his trumpet, the angell did put his trumpet to his mouth, as though it had béene the same that had sounded, to the great maruelling of manie ignorant persons: this pageant was made with three thorough faires or gates, &c. The conduit in Cornehill ran wine,The conduit in Cornewall ran wine. and beneath the conduit a pageant made at the charges of the citie, and an other at the great con|duit in Cheape, and a founteine by it running wine. The standard in Cheape new painted, with the waits of the citie aloft theron plaieng. The crosse in Cheape new washed and burnished.

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.