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and well to entret him. After that, his Highnes sent 

 certaine Knightes to met hym as fer as Rochester. 

 After them the Reverentz Faders in Gode the Bishope 

 of Durame, the Bishope of Excester, the Bishope of 

 Rochester, the Erie of Shrewsbury, the Erie of Wilt- 

 shire, the Lorde Morley, the Lorde Hastinges, and the 

 .Prior of Lantony, with many mor Lordes and Knyghtes 

 (whos names I have not) receyved hym at Blakheth, 

 and after theme the Bishope of Winchestre and the 

 Erie of Arundell met hym at Saint Georges in South- 

 werke, wher the Cappe was sette upon the pointe of 

 the suerde. And so the saide Cubiculer riding between 

 the Bishope of Winchester and the Erie of Arundell 

 openly bar the saide swerde thorowe Southwerke, and 

 on London Brigge, wher he was also receyved, and 

 wellcomed by the Maire of London and his Brethern. 

 As he procedede thens thorow the Cite to Poulles, 

 stode all the Craftes in ther clothings, and at the West 

 Ende of Poulles he was receyved by the Metropolitan 

 and divers outher Bishopes in Pontificalibus, and with 

 the Procession, and so preceded to the High Auter, 

 and from thens it was borne into the Revestry. In the 

 morne that same Day, the King removed from West- 

 minster to the Bishopes Pales, with the Quene and my 

 Lady the Kings Mouder. That Day ther was so grete 

 a miste upon Thames that ther was no man cowde telle 

 of a grete season in what place in Thames the King 

 was. When the King was comen into his Travers, the 

 Cape was brought oute of the Revestry, to byfore the 

 High Auter, by the said Cubiculer, accompanied with 

 the Bishope of Winchester and the Erie of Arundell, 

 and many outher nobles bothe Espirituel and Tem- 

 porell. Then the King came forth of his Travers, 

 wher the saide Cubiculer presentit the King a Letter 

 from the Pope, closit with Corde and Lede, that was 

 rede by the Reverent Fader in God the Lord John 

 Morton Archebishope of Canterbury, then Chanceler 

 of England. That doon the saide Cubiculer, holding 

 the saide Suerde and Cape, made a noble proposicion ; 

 to which the saide Lord Chanceler answerde full clerely 

 and nobly. Present the Ambassatours of Fraunce, 

 Ambassatours of the King of Romains, of the Kings of 

 Castille, of Bretaigne, and of Flanders, with divers 

 outher straungiers, as Scottis, Esterlings, and outher. 

 That finished, the King and all those Estates went a 

 Procession, and the Cape was borne on the Pomel of 

 the Swerde by the saide Cubiculer. When Procession 

 was done, during all the Masse, it was set on the High 

 Auter. The Messe doone, the Archbishope sang certain 

 Oraisons over the King, who came from his Travers 

 before the High Auter, to the Highest Stepe next the 

 Auter. Whiche Oraisons and Benediccions done, the 

 Archebishope, ;in ordre after the Booke whiche was 

 brought from Rome, gerdit the Suerde aboute the 

 King, and sett the Cape on his Hede : And so the 

 King returned to his Travers whilles Te Deum was 

 a singing and the Colet rede; and it was taken of 

 again, and, as before, borne by the said Cubiculer to 

 the Bishopes Palles, and there deliverit to the Cham- 

 berlain. That Day the King made a grete Feste, and 

 kept open Housholde, and bycause the Palays was so 

 littil for such a Feste, the said Cubiculer dynnyt on 

 the Downs Place [in the Dean's Place?] accompa'nyied 

 with divers Bishopis and Lordes, as the Lorde of Saint 



Johns, and outhres." — Leland's Collectanea, 2nd edit, 

 iv. 244, 245. 



It seems that Pope Alexander VI. also sent 

 Henry VII. a Hallowed Sword and Cap of Main- 

 tenance. Lord Bacon says : 



" This twelfth year of the King, a little before this 

 time. Pope Alexander (who loved best those Princes 

 that were furthest off, and with whom he had least do) 

 taking very thankfully the King's late entrance into 

 League, for the defence of Italy, did remunerate him 

 with an Hallowed Sword and Cap of Maintenance sent 

 by his Nuncio. Pope Innocent had done the like, hut; 

 it was not received in that Glory. For the King 

 appointed the Mayor and his Brethren to meet the 

 Popes Orator at London-Bridge, and all the Streets 

 between the Bridge-foot and the Palace of St. Paul's 

 (where the King then lay) were garnished with the 

 Citizens, standing in their Liveries. And the morrow 

 after (being All-hallows day) the King, attended with 

 many of his Prelates, Nobles, and principal Courtiers, 

 went in procession to St. Paul's, and the Cap and Sword 

 were borne before him. And after the Procession, the 

 King himself remaining seated in the Choir, the Lord 

 Archbishop, upon the greece of the Choir, made a long 

 Oration, setting forth the greatness and eminency of 

 that Honour, which the Pope (in those Ornaments 

 and Ensigns of Benediction) had done the King, and 

 how rarely and upon what high deserts they used to 

 be bestowed. And then recited the Kings principal 

 Acts and Merits, which had made him appear worthy 

 in the eyes of his Holiness of this great Honour."-— 

 Hist, of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh, edit. 1 676, 

 p. 101. 



In the Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VII. 

 are the following items : 



" 1496 £ s. d. 



" Nov. 1. To thenbassadour of Rome in 



rewarde - - - - 33 6 8 

 " 1497 

 " Jan. 20. To John Flee, for a Case for 

 the Capp and Swerde of 

 Mayntenance - - - 12 0." 

 Excerpta Historica, 110, 111. 



Lord Bacon would appear to have been mis- 

 taken in supposing that Pope Innocent's presents 

 " had not been received in that glory." 



With respect to the presentation of a Cap and 

 Sword by Pope Julius II. to Henry VIII., Hall, 

 under the sixth year of that king [1514], says : 



" The xix day of May was receuveyed into London 

 a Capp of Mayntenance and a Swerde sent from Pope 

 July, with a great compaignye of nobles and gentle- 

 men, which was presented to the Kyng on the Sonday 

 then next ensuyng with great solempnytie in the 

 cathedrall church of Sainct Paul." — Chronicle, ed. 1809, 

 p. 568. 



Pope Julius II. died in 1513; so that if the fore- 

 going event is really to be referred to May, 1514, 

 the Pope by whom the Cap and Sword were sent 

 was more probably Leo X. C. H. Coopek. 



Cambridge. 



