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of golde foystes[26] waytynge her upon decked[27] with a great shotte of ordynaunce whiche descended the ryuer afore all y{e} barges and the bachelers barge formest[28] and so folowynge in good araye and ordre euery crafte in theyr degree and ordre tyll they came to Greenwyche and there taryed abydynge the quenes grace which was a wonderfull goodly syght to beholde. Than at thre of the clocke the quenes grace cam to her barge and incontynent[29] all the cytezins with that goodly company set forth towards London in good arraye as before is sayd. And to wryte what nombre of gon shot what with chambres and great peces of ordynaunce were shotte as she passed by in dyuers places it passeth my memory to wryte or to tell the nombre of them and specially at Ratly and at lyme house out of certeyne shyppes. And so y{e} quenes grace in her ryche barge amonge her nobles the cytezyns accompanyed her to London unto the toure wharfe. Also or she came nere the toure there was shot innumerable peces of ordynaunce as euer was there by any mennes remembraunces where the Kyng receyued her grace with a noble louyng countenaunce and so gaue great thankes and prayse to all the cytezyns for theyr great kyndnesse and louynge labour and paynes in that behalfe taken to the greate ioye and comforte of all the citezyns. Also to beholde the wonderfull nombre of people that euer was seen that stode on the shore on bothe sydes of the ryuer was neuer in one syght out of y{e} cyte of London sene what in goodly lodgynges and houses that be on y{e} ryuer syde bytwene Grenwyche and London it passeth al mennes iudgementes to esteme the infinyte nombre of them. Wherein her grace with al her ladyes reioysed moche. Knyghtes made at Grenwyche the sonday before Whytsonday. And the sondaye before this tryumphe beyng the xxv daye of Maye the Kynge made at his maner of Grenwyche all these Knyghtes. Syr Christofer Danby. Syr Christofer Hylarde. Syr Brian Hastynges. Syr Thomas Methven. Syr Thomas Butteller. Syr Willyam Walgrave. Syr Wyllyam Feldeyng. The fryday made Knyghtes of the Bathe xix whose names foloweth. Also on fryday the xxx day of Maye y{e} Kynge treated and made in the towre of London, xix. noble men Knyghtes of the bathe whose names folowe. The lorde Marques Dorset. The erle of Derby. The lorde Clyfforde sone and heyre to therle of Cumberlande. The lorde Fitzwater sone and heyre to therle of Sussex. The lorde Ha
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