r joye of hym they were daunsyng,
They knelyd a doun alle in that tyde,
'Nowell,' 'Nowell,' alle thei gon syng.
Unto Poules thanne rood oure kyng,
XIIII bysshopes hym mette there right,
The grete bellys thanne did they ryng,
Upon his feet full faire he light.

And to the heighe auter he went right,
'Te Deum' for joye thanne thei gon syng;
And there he offred to God almyght:
And thanne to Westminster he wente withoute dwellyng.
In xv wokes forsothe, he wroughte al this,
Conquered Harfleu and Agincourt;
Crist brynge there soules all to blys,
That in that day were mort.

Crist that is oure hevene kyng,
His body and soule save and se;
Now all Ingelond may say and syng,
'Blyssyd mote be the Trinite,'
This jornay have ye herd now alle be dene,
The date of Crist I wot is was,
A thousand foure hundred and fyftene.
_Gloria tibi Trinitas._

Harflu fert Mauric Augincourt p'lia Crispin.

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P. 119. [A^{o} 10 Hen. VI.]--"John Welles, grocer, maior. This same
yere, the xvj day of Decembre, G beynge the dominical lettre, kyng
Herry the vj^{te} was crowned kyng of Fraunce at Parys, in the chirche
of Notre Dame, with gret solempnite and rialte; and anoon after he
turned ayen into Engelond, and landed at Dovorr the ix day of
Feverer', and come to London the xxj day of the same month, where he
was ryally resceyved, alle the craftes rydynge ayens hym, all in
white."

The following poem by Lydgate presents a very minute account of the
manner in which the young monarch was received into London after his
coronation as king of France, and of the pageant upon the occasion.
Two copies exist in MS. in the British Museum; one in the Harleian MS.
565, which has been literally transcribed; the other in the Cottonian
MS. Julius B. II; and the variations between them will be found in the
notes. About one third of this article, taken from the former of those
MSS., is printed in Malcolm's London, vol. ii. p. 89, but it conveys a
very imperfect idea of the whole composition; for not only has the
orthography of the extract been modernized, but the most interesting
descriptions do not occur. The annexed is therefore, it is presumed,
the only correct copy which has ever been published, and it cannot
fail to be deemed an exceedingly curious illustration of the passage
in "The Chronicle," as well as of the manners of the period. Lydgate
does not mention upon what day of the month the circumstance took