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from the Kinges side which led up the Prince, 

 arme in arme, unto his Father, but before he 

 came to his Father he. made three verie lowe and 

 humble curtesies, and after him followed the 

 Earle of Pembroke, and as some say the Earle of 

 Bedford, which carried the Princes robe after him, 

 betwixt them uppon theyer shoulders, the one 

 end of the robe lying uppon one of the Earles 

 shoulder, and the other end uppon the other 

 Eaill's shoulder, which robe he was to put on 

 afterward. After them followed two Haroldes of 

 armes, the one with a golden rod in his hande of 

 the length of an elle and a halfe, th'other carried 

 a sword in his hande with gilded hiltes, and a 

 black leather girdle and leather hangings, when 

 the Prince was come neare and right before his 

 Father the Kinge, where there stoode fower Ser- 

 giants with fower golden maces uppon theyer 

 shoulders, two of them uppon theyer right hande 

 and two uppon theyer lefte hande. There the 

 Prince kneeled uppon his knees for the space of a 

 quarter of an hour, while the Kinges pattents for 

 the princes creation were made in Lattine, in the 

 which letters he was first declared to be the heyer 

 apparent unto the Crowne of England, and also 

 unto the crowne of Scotland ; then he was de- 

 clared to be the Duke of Cornewall and the Earle 

 of Chester by his birthright. Afterward, by the 

 vertue of the same letters pattent he was created 

 the Prince of Wales, and also the Prince of 

 Patsie (?)* in Scotland. Then did two other 

 noblemen put on divers robes uppon the Prince, 

 and the Kinges Majesty himselfe did put a 

 Cronett of Golde and girde the foresaid sworde 

 uppon the Prince with his owne handes, and did 

 put the golden rod info his hande and a ring of 

 golde uppon his fynger and kisse him, and so 

 tooke him up from his knees. Then two of the 

 noblemen did place the prince uppon a royall 

 seate at the Kinges lefte hande; these things being 

 thus performed the Trumpeters and drum players 

 blewe theyer Trumpets, and shake up theyer 

 drums again with a verie pleasant noyse for the 

 space of a quarter of an hower, and so fynished 

 the creation of the Prince, with a verie joyfuU 

 and solempne applause, everie man rejoisinge and 

 praysinge God, and the Kinge, and the younge 

 prince, whose lyves God long continue in all 

 happiness and honor, and after this mortal lyfe, 

 grant them everlasting lyfe in the world to come. 

 Amen, Amen. 



This creation of the prince was uppon Monday 

 last: uppon Tuesday at Night there was great 

 maskinge at the court, whereof I was no eye 

 witness, for I love not such kind of spectacles ; 

 but as I have hearde there was exceeding braverie 

 both among Men and also among Women, with 

 such revellinge and daunsinge as belongeth to 



[* Dukeof Rothsay?] 



such workes as be done in the night, with no small 

 expences, I warrante you, bothe in apparell and 

 in manie other needles employments. Uppon 

 Wensdaye, in the afternoon, there was great run- 

 ninge of great horses at the Tilt, which had such 

 costlie furniture about them (as I have hearde) 

 that never the like was scene in England. I was 

 not present thereat for fear of hurtinge myselfe, 

 for I set more by mine own saftie than I do by all 

 the pomp and glorie in the worlde. It was saide 

 that it cost the noblemen no lesse than a thousand 

 pounds a piece, and some of them a great deale 

 more ; theyer Saddells and theyre Saddell clothes 

 were altogether layde over with golde laces as 

 thick as they could lye, and some of theyer Sad- 

 dell clothes were embroydered with golde and 

 besett with pearells ; and as it was saide the armor 

 which the noblemen did weare uppon theyer 

 backes were some of them of shininge silver, and 

 some of them were gilded over with golde, and 

 the plumes of feathers which they did weare in 

 theyer head-peeces were exceedinge great, un- 

 speakable costlie, every man havinge as many 

 coloures in his plume as could possibly be in- 

 vented and imagined. Many noblemen did be- 

 have themselves verie valiantlie in runninge at 

 the Tilt, but especially the duke of Lineage, the 

 earle of Arundell, and the Lorde Northe, who 

 never missed to breake theyer stafes one uppon 

 another most courageouslie ; but of all the noble- 

 men, it is thought that the Lorde Compton was at 

 twice so much charges as any of the rest; he 

 buylded himself as it were a bower uppon the top 

 of the walle which is next to S' Jeamcs' parke ; it 

 was made in the maner of a Sheepcote ; and there 

 he sate in a gay russet Cloke as longe as a Gowne, 

 and he had a sheepe crooke in one hande, with a 

 bottell hanginge thereon, and a dog in a chayne 

 in the other hande, as though he had bine a Shep- 

 pard ; and thorowe the top of the bower there 

 stoode up as it were the mast of a ship gilded 

 rounde about with golde, and uppon the topp 

 thereof there was fastened a pan with fyre burn- 

 inge in it, and as some thought there was pitch in 

 it, and an iron marke to raarke sheepe withal. 

 What the morall of this should be I cannot tell, 

 unless it should signifie that my Lorde Spenser, 

 his Father-in-lawe, was a great Sheepe master, 

 and that he fared much the better for the weightie 

 fleeces of his sheepe. After that he sent forth an 

 Ambassador unto the Kinges majestic, who looked 

 forthe of the windowe of the gallerie which is at 

 the upper end of the Tilt yarde, and as the Am- 

 bassador talked with the Kinge he would often- 

 times poynt backward with his hande toward the 

 bower where my Lorde Compton his master was: 

 what was the conference betwixt them I have not 

 heaide, and therefore I cannot tell. After that 

 Ambassador a Scottishe Lorde sent unto the 

 Kinge a pagiat made after the fasion-and forme of 



