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in blue velvet embroidered ; and two footmen on each 

 side in the like attire. The chariot was all of cedar, 

 gilt, and adorned with crystal ; save that the fore-end 

 had pan n els of sapphires, set in borders of gold, and 

 the hinder-end the like of emeralds l of the Peru colour. 

 There was also a sun of gold, radiant, upon the top, 

 in the midst; 2 and on the top before, a small cherub 

 of gold, with wings displayed. The chariot was cov 

 ered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. He had 

 before him fifty attendants, young men all, in w r hite 

 sattin lopse coats to the mid-leg ; and stockings of 

 srhite silk ; and shoes of blue velvet ; and hats of blue 

 velvet ; with fine plumes of divers colours, set round 

 like hat-bands. Next before the chariot went two men, 

 bare-headed, in linen garments down the foot, girt, and 

 shoes of blue velvet ; who carried the one a crosier, 

 the other a pastoral staff like a sheep-hook ; neither 

 r , of them of metal, but the crosier of balm-wood, the 

 pastoral staff of cedar. Horsemen he had none, neither 

 before nor behind his chariot: as it seemeth, to avoid 

 all tumult and trouble. Behind his chariot went all 

 the officers and principals of the Companies of the 

 City. He sat alone, upon cushions of a kind of ex 

 cellent plush, blue ; and under his foot curious carpets 



of silk of divers colours, like the Persian, but far finer. 



He held up his bare hand as he went, asjblessing the 

 people, but in silence. The street was wonderfully 

 well kept : 3 so that there was never any army had 

 their men stand in better battle-array, than the people 

 stood. The windows likewise were not crowded, but 



1 emerauds in orig. 



* Eliam in media verlicis cathedra, sol erat, ex auro radians. 



8 Plateau ita eranl ordinatce ut via ampla pateret, nullibi inlercluta. 



