The diary of Henry Machyn, citizen and merchant-taylor of London, from A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1563 / Edited by John Gough Nichols.

  • Henry Machyn
Date:
1848
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Credit: The diary of Henry Machyn, citizen and merchant-taylor of London, from A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1563 / Edited by John Gough Nichols. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mornars boyth lordes and knyghts and gentyli men, and then cam the lades mornars and gentyli women mornars ij C. [then the] gentyli men and gentyli women, and after cam in cotts ij C. ser- vandes and odur servandes, and she was bered by the tombe of [the duke] of Lankaster, and after her banars wher sett up over her [and her] armes sett on dyvers pelers,—the vj King Edward vjth. Thexvij day of Marche rod thrugh London unto [St.] James in the feld, the kyng(?s) plase, the kynges syster my [lady] Elsabeth, with a grett compeny of lordes and knyghtes and gentyli men? and after her a grett nombur of lades and gentyllwomen to the nombur of ij C. on horsse-bake, and yomen. The xix day of Marche cam from Saynt James thrught the parke to the court, and from Parke gate unto the courtt was struysa with sand fyne, and afor her came dukes, lordes, and knyghtes, and after lades and gentyllwomen a gret compeny, and so she was reseyuyd in to the courte goodly. .cared thrugh Nuwgatt and Smyth .... . . . s strett, and so a-ways,—the vj yer king Edward the vjth. The xxj day of Marche dyd ryd thrugh Lo [ndon on horseb] ake ij yonge feyllesb boyth of on horse, and on [of them] carehyng a spytt up ryght and a duke e rostyd, and . . . Nugatt, and ther they alyth of ther horse and . . and the duke at Nugatt, and so was led with the . . . begers thrugh Flett lane with many pepull won . . . to the Rose at the Flet bryge, the taverne wher . . . to have hetten d yt there, and I left them ther, and [came to] the court to dener; one of them dweltt at the Sun . . . The xxij of Marche was bered John Welle . . . myllner, dwellyng at the iiij mylls at Stratford, and . . . The ix day of Aprell was bered M. Morgayne, gold-smyth, in the parryche of Saynt Foster, in Foster . . . The xij day of Aprell was bered ser Umffrey . . knyght, with a standard and a penon, and a cott armur . . and sword, elmett, and mantylles, and vj dosen of skoychyons, meny gownes a Sic MS. for strewn. b fellows? c duck. d eaten.
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