Therefore was erected an arch of widnesse at the tornels beside the stréet of saint Anthonie, [...] for the said [...]usts. directlie before the bastell, on the which were set foure targets or scutchions, the one siluer, and he that set his name vnder that shield, to run at tilt according to the ar|ticles. He that put his name vnder the golden target should run with the sharpe speares and fight with sharpe swords. They that put their names to the blacke shield, should fight on foot with speares and swords for the one hand. And he that touched the taw|nie shield should cast a speare on foot with a target on his arme, and after to fight with a two hand sword. On this arch aboue stood the armes of the king & the queene, and beneath them stood the armes of the Dol|phin and his aids, and vnderneath stood the foure scut|chions that you haue heard of, and vnder them all the armes and names of such as set their names to anie of the said foure scutchions.

While all these things were preparing, the ladie Marie of England the fift daie of Nouember,The ladie Marie crow| [...] queéne of France. then being sundaie, was with great solemnitie crowned queene of France in the monasterie of S. Denise, and the Dolphin all the season held the crowne ouer hir head, bicause it was of great weight to hir gree|uance, at which coronation were the lords of Eng|land, all according to their degrées well intertei|ned. On mondaie the sixt daie of Nouember,She is recei|ued into Pa|ris. the said queene was receiued into the citie of Paris after the order that followeth. First the gard of the citie met with hir without saint Denise all in coats of gold|smiths worke, with ships gilt, and after them met hir all the priests and religious, esteemed to be thrée thou|sand. The quéene was in a chaire couered about (but not ouer hir person) in white cloth of gold; the horsses that drew it, in cloth of gold; on hir head a coronall all of great pearles, hir necke and brest full of iewels.

Before hir went a gard of Almans after their fashion, and after them all noblemen, as the Dol|phin, the duke of Alanson, the duke of Burbon, the duke of Uandosme, the duke of Longeuile, and the duke of Suffolke, the marquesse Dorset, fiue cardi|nals, and a great number of estates; about hir person rode the kings gard, which were Scots. Thus was this queene receiued into Paris, and so conueied to the cathedrall church, and there offered, & from thence to the palace, where she offered at the holie chappell; and from thence she went to hir lodging for that night: for whome was prouided a great supper, and the heralds cried a largesse, and had to them giuen a ship of siluer and gilt, and other plate,The heralds reward. to the value of two hundred marks, and after supper began dansing and pastime. On the morow began the iusts, and the Dolphin with his aids entered the field, the apparell and bards were cloth of gold, cloth of siluer, and crim|sin veluet kanteled togither all in one sute, they shewed themselues before the king and quéene, who were on a goodlie stage, and the queene stood so that all men might sée hir, and woondered at hir beautie: but the king was feeble & laie on a couch for weakenesse.