Upon the daie of the christening, Edw. Hall. C [...]xvij. the maior sir Stephan Peacocke, in a gowne of crimsin vel [...]et, with his collar of SS, and all the aldermen in scar|let, with collars and chaines, and all the councell of the citie with them, tooke their barge after dinner, at one of the clocke, and the citizens had another barge, and so rowed to Gréenwich, where were ma|nie lords, knights, and gentlemen assembled. All the walles betwéene the kings palace & the friers were hanged with arras, and all the waie strawed with gréene rushes: the friers church was also hanged with arras.

The font was of siluer,The christe|ning of quéene Elizabeth. and stood in the middest of the church, thrée steps high, which was couered with a fine cloth, and diuerse gentlemen with aperns and towels about their necks gaue attendance about it, that no filth should come in the font, ouer it hoong a square canopie of crimsin sattin, fringed with gold, about it was a raile couered with red saie: betweene the quier and the bodie of the church was a close place with a pan of fire, to make the child readie in. When all these things were ordered, the child was brought to the hall, and then euerie man set forward; first the citizens two and two, then gentlemen, esqui|ers and chapleins,The honou|rable traine of courtiers in their degrées. next after them the aldermen and the maior alone: next the maior the kings councell, the kings chappell in copes: then barons, bishops, earles, then came the earle of Essex, bearing the co|uered basins gilt, after him the marquesse of Exce|ster with the taper of virgin wax, next him the mar|quesse Dorset bearing the salt.

Behind him the ladie Marie of Norffolke, bear|ing the créesome which was verie rich of pearle and stone, the old dutches of Norffolke bare the child in a mantell of purple veluet, with a long traine furred with ermine. The duke of Norffolke with his mar|shall rod went on the right hand of the said dutches, and the duke of Suffolke on the left hand, and before them went the officers of armes. The countesse of Kent bare the long traine of the childs mantell, and betwéene the countesse of Kent and the child went the earle of Wilshire on the right hand, and the earle of Darbie on the left hand, supporting the said traine: in the middest ouer the said child was borne a cano|pie, by the lord Rochford, the lord Husée, the lord Wil|liam Howard,A canopie borne ouer the yoong princesse. and by the lord Thomas Howard the elder, after the child followed manie ladies and gen|tlewomen. When the child was come to the church doore, the bishop of London met it with diuerse bi|shops and abbats mitred.