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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01243	The mariage of Prince Fredericke, and the Kings daughter, the Lady Elizabeth, vpon Shrouesunday last VVith the shovves on land and water, before, and after the wedding, as also the maskes and reuells in his Highnes court, with the running at the ring, by the Kings Maiestie, the Palsegraue, Prince Charles, and diuers others of the nobilitie.; Marriage of the two great princes, Fredericke Count Palatine, &c: and the Lady Elizabeth, daughter to the Imperial Majesties of King James and Queene Anne.		1613 (1613)	STC 11359; ESTC S105595	8,742	16

to satisfie the desirefull Reader I must thus speake of The Gentlemen of the Innes of Court in the best and rarest manner they could deuise prepared Maskes and Reuells in the Court that night to be presented and about the houres of eight or nine they passed from the Roles in Chancery-Lane to White Hall in as royall manner as euer gallants did to the Court of England First there rode some thrée score braue spirited Gentlemen vpon great Bard-horses most richly trapped with imbrothered furnitures themselues attired in cloth of golde and tissue most gloriously shining lighted by a number of torches to beautifie the showe with more Eye-pleasing delights After them some sixe and thirtie Maskers diuided by twelues in most strange Anticke sutes in a most admirable and stately manner Likewise vpon costly trapped stéedes each of them hauing a Blackamoore Page attending on Horse backe with torch lights burning in their hands After them followed thrée Charriots of Maskers and Reuellers in garments of a meruellous fashion so artificially disguised that they moued much wonder Vpon them attended a number of Footemen bearing burning torches and withall many trumpets sounding melodiously which was a sight both to Eye and Eare of an excéeding glorie These performed many delightfull dances in his Highnes presence and other pastimes of pleasure to the great comfort of all the beholders and to the high honours of this magnificent Marriage Of the Tryumphs and Reuells vpon the next night following being Shroue-tuesday THe next day being Shroue-tuesday a day of pleasure and Iollitie by custome but farre more delightfull by reason of this magnificent mariage which moued many occasions of mirth in his Highnes court for euery day in seuerall attires were the Nobilitie of the land seene flourishing in the chamber of presence and much was the cost spent in banqueting of forraigne estates as wel Princes Embassadors as the Péeres and Nobles attending vpon the Palsegraue which vpon this day was as royally performed as vpon the former The bountie of his Maiestie excéeded for his Highnes court was frée for all people of fashion as well Cittizens as others and few came thither that departed without kind entertainement for liberalitie with spredding armes kept open houshold whereby the time may well be recorded for a time of Princes pleasures by reason Princes were the maintainers thereof The night procéeding much expectation was made of a stage play to be acted in the great Hall by the Kings Players where many hundreds of people stood attending the same but it hapned contrarie for greater pleasures were preparing which in this manner were performed as vpon the night before a most famous maske came to court by the Gentlemen and studients of the lawe from the Roles Office by land so some thrée hundred Gentlemen more of the same estate and calling by water to equall them in statelines came likewise vp the Thames by water with a maske to White Hall at whose setting forth from Winchester-house in their Barges a peale of ordinance placed on the backeside séemed as it were thunder the Barges were beautified with many flagges and Streamers lighted with a number burning cressets and torches attended on by Drums and Trumpets which sounded all the way most melodiously the Gentlemen and maskers had most glorious and rich suites of cloth of gold and siluer with other Robes of much delight and pleasure their entertainements in Court were gratious and their performance as curious as the skill and Art of wit could deuise at which the King and all the royall assembly there present tooke high contentment The Kings Maiestie in the royaltie of his minde and in regard of these rare deuises of the Gentlemen of the Innes of Court being most of them sonnes to great states of the land inuited them all within few daies after to a royall banquet where not onely by his Highnes but by the Palsegraue and his Bride they had most kind and friendly thankes And now to conclude my discourse the ioyes hereof were declared in manie places as well Citie as Court for the Belles of London rung generally in euery Church and in euery stréete Bon-fires blazed abundantly there was neither cost nor paines spared by his Highnes subiects that any way might giue signes of ioy for the Marriage of his princely daughter to her royall Husband whom God blesse with long happines and Throanes of Angelles kéepe and defend Amen FINIS