Now in the meane season euerie duches had put on their bonets a coronall of gold wrought with flowers, and euerie marquesse put on a demie coro|nall of gold, euerie countesse a plaine circlet of gold without flowers, and euerie king of armes put on a crowne of coper and guilt, all which were worne till night.The quéene and the ladies in their pompe When the quéene had a little reposed hir, the companie returned in the same order that they set foorth, and the quéene went crowned and so did the la|dies aforesaid. Hir right hand was susteined by the earle of Wilshire hir father, and hir left hand by the lord Talbot deputie for the earle of Shrewesburie and lord Forinfall his father. Now when she was out of the sanctuarie and appéered within the palace, the trumpets plaied maruellous freshlie, then she was brought to Westminster hall, & so to hir withdraw|ing chamber: during which time the lords, iudges, maior and aldermen put off their robes, mantels and clokes, and tooke their hoods from their necks and cast them about their shoulders, and the lords sat on|lie in their circots, and the iudges and aldermen in their gownes.The attire of the lords all the time that they serued. And all the lords that serued that daie serued in their circots and their hoods about their shoulders: also diuerse officers of the kings house being no lords had circots and hoods of scarlet edged with mineuer, as the treasuror, controllor, & master of the iewell house, but their circots were not guilt.

While the queene was in hir chamber,The order and sitting at dinner. euerie lord and other, that ought to doo seruice at coronations, did prepare them according to their dutie, as the duke of Suffolke high steward of England which was rich|lie apparelled, his doublet and iacket set with orient pearle, his gowne of crimsin veluet imbrodered, his courser trapped with a cloth trapper head and all to the ground of crimsin veluet, set full of letters of gold of goldsmiths worke, hauing a long white rod in his hand; on his left hand rode the lord William, deputie for his brother as earle marshall with the marshals rod, whose gowne was crimsin veluet, and his horsse trapper purple veluet cut on white sattin imbrodered with white lions. The earle of Oxenford was high chamberleine, the earle of Essex caruer, the earle of Sussex sewer, the earle of Arundell cheefe butler,Twelue citi|zens of Lon|don attendant at y^e cupboord. on whom twelue citizens of London did giue their attendance at the cupbord. The earle of Dar|bie cupbearer, the vicount Lisle pantler, the lord of Aburgaine chéefe larder, the lord Braie almoner for him and his coparteners, and the maior of Oxford kept the buttrie bar, and Thomas Wiat was chéefe eurer for sir Henrie Wiat his father.

When all things were redie, the quéene vnder hir canopie came to the hall, and washed and sat downe in the middest of the table vnder the cloth of estate. On the right side of the chaire stood the countesse of Oxford widow,The maner of sitting at the table. and on the left side stood the countesse of Worcester all the dinner season, which diuerse times in the dinner time did hold a fine cloth before the quéenes face when she list to spet or doo otherwise at hir pleasure. At the tables end sat the archbishop of Canturburie on the right hand of the quéene, and in the middest betwéene the archbishop and the coun|tesse of Oxford stood the earle of Oxford with a white staffe all dinner time, and at the quéenes féet vnder the table sat two gentlewomen all dinner time. When all these things were thus ordered, in came the duke of Suffolke and the lord William How|ard on horssebacke,The bringing in of the first course. and the sargeants of armes be|fore them, and after them the sewer, and then the knights of the bath bringing in the first course which was eightéene dishes, besides subtilties and ships made of wax maruellous gorgious to behold, all which time of seruice the trumpets standing in the window at the nether end of the hall plaied melo|diouslie.