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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    II. KING EDWARD THE FIRST, 1274. [Matthew of Westminster.] Edward had been four years absent on an expedition to the Holy Land, and his father had been dead nearly half that time before he returned to England. He came to London on the 2d of August, 1274, where he was received with all the expressions of joy that could be devised. The streets were hung with rich cloths of silk, arras, and tapestry; the Aider- men and Burgesses of the City threw out of their windows handfuls of gold and silver, to signify their great gladness at his safe return, and the conduits ran plentifully with wine, white and red, that every creature might drink his fill. The Corona¬ tion took place on the 19th of the same month. III. QUEEN MARGARET, 1300. [Stow's Chronicle.] Margaret of France, the second wife of King Edward the First, was married to him in 1299. In the following year, after she had given birth to a son at Brotherton, in Yorkshire, she first came to London. The citizens rode to meet her four miles without the City, to the number of 600, in one livery of red and white, with the cognizance of their mysteries embroidered upon their sleeves, and so conveyed her to West¬ minster. IV. KING EDWARD THE SECOND, 1307-8. [Holinshed.] Edward, returning to England with his French bride Isa¬ bella, was joyfully received by the citizens early in February, and crowned on the 25th of that month.