th fanes there within great plenty of swete
instrumentes w{h} chyldren syngyng the standarde of mason warke costly
made with ymages and aungels costly gylted with golde and asure with other
colours and dyuerse fortes of armes costly set out shall there contynue
and remayne and within the standarde a vyce with a chyme. Also there ranne
out of certayne small pypes great plenty of wyne all that after-noone. And
so her grace passed through the cyte to temple barre and so to Charyng
crosse and so thorowe Westmynster into Westmynster hall where that was
well and rychly hanged with cloth of Arras with a meruaylous ryche
cupborde of plate and there was a voyde[38] of spyce plates and wyne. And
y{t} done the quenes grace withdrewe her in to y{e} whyte hall for that
nyght and so to Yorke place by water. The sondaye in y{e} mornynge at
viij. of the clocke y{e} quenes grace w{h} noble ladyes in theyr robes of
estate w{h} al y{e} nobles aparayled in parlyament robes as dukes erles
archbysshops and bysshops w{h} barons and the barons of y{e} fyue
portes[39] with the mayre of y{e} cite the aldermen in theyr robes as
mantels of scarlet. The barons of y{e} fyve portes bare a ryche canopy of
cloth of golde with stanes of golde and four belles of syluer and gylt.
The abbot of Westmynster in his rygals[40] came in to y{e} hall in
pontificalibus w{h} his monkes in theyr best copes the Kynges chapell in
theyr best copes with y{e} bysshops rychely aourned[41] in pontificalibus
and the ray cloth blewe spredde from the hygh desses of y{e} kynges benche
unto the hygh aulter of Westmynster. And so every man procedynge to the
mynster in y{e} best order euery man after theyr degree apoynted to theyr
order and office as aperteyneth came vnto y{e} place apoynted where her
grace receyued her crowne w{h} al y{e} serymonyes therof as ther vnto
belongeth. And so al y{e} serimonyes done w{h} y{e} solempne masse they
departed home in their best orders euery man to the hal of Westmynster
where y{e} quenes grace withdrew her for a tyme in to her chambre apoynted
and so after a certayne space her grace came in to y{e} hall. Than ye
shulde haue sene euery noble man doyng their seruyce to them apoynted in
y{e} best maner y{t} hath ben sene in any suche serimony. The quenes grace
wasshed y{e} archbisshop of Canterbury sayd grace. Than y{e} nobles were
set to the table therw{h} came y{e} quenes seruice w{h} y{e} seruyce of
tharch bysshop a certayne space thre men wi
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