London pageants. I. Accounts of fifty-five royal processions and entertainments in the city of London; chiefly extracted from contemporary writers. II. A bibliographical list of Lord Mayors' pageants / [Anon].

  • Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873.
Date:
1831
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Credit: London pageants. I. Accounts of fifty-five royal processions and entertainments in the city of London; chiefly extracted from contemporary writers. II. A bibliographical list of Lord Mayors' pageants / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1638, Mary, Queen dowager of France 1814, Alexander Emperor of Russia, and Frederick- William King of Prussia f The visit of Henry the Seventh to St. Paul’s, to offer his standards after the battle of Bosworth, is noticed in the fol¬ lowing pages, in connection with his first entrance into the City. Similar religious services were, previously to the Re¬ formation, of frequent and ordinary occurrence ; but the first Protestant ceremony of the kind, the first that deserves the name of a National Thanksgiving, was that which Queen Eliza¬ beth celebrated in 1588, after the defeat of the Spanish Armada.J In 1620, King James went in state to St. Paul’s, to give encou¬ ragement to the repairs of the Cathedral, then in progress.^ Queen Anne went several times to return thanks for her victories. It should also be noticed that, besides several occasions on which triumphs on the Thames were combined with those on land, as noticed in the following pages, there were others on which the citizens evinced their loyalty in merely aquatic exhi¬ bitions. Among these, there are printed tracts, on the Crea¬ tion of Henry Prince of Wales, in 1610 ; || on that of Charles * See the “ Histoire de l’Entree de la Reine Mere dans le Grande Bre¬ tagne. Par R. De la Serre, 1639,” 4to; re-edited by Richard Gough, esq. Director S.A., in 1775, 4to. One of the plates presents the best view we have of Cheapside before the great tire ; a portion of it is copied in Wilkinson’s Londina Illustrata. 4 See “An Account of the Visit of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, with their Imperial and Royal Majesties the Emperor of all the Russias and the King of Prussia, to the Corporation of London, in June 1814. Printed by order of the Corporation;” 4to. pp. 79, with a co¬ loured print of the interior of Guildhall during the entertainment. + See in Nichols’s Progresses of Queen Elizabeth an account of this solemnity, a table of the procession, and documents relating to it from the records of the Corporation, and the Company of Stationers. § See Nichols’s Progresses of King James the First, vol. iii. pp. 593 —602. || “ London’s Love to the Royal Prince Henrie, meeting him on the River of Thames, at hisreturne from Richmonde, with a worthie Fleet of Citizens, on Thursday the last of May 1610, with a briefe reporte of the water fight and the fireworkes. London, printed by Edw. Allde,for Na- thaniell Fosbroke, and are to be sold at the west end of Paules, neere to the Bishop of Londons gate, 1610.” 4to. pp. 29. A copy was sold in the