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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43591	The famous and remarkable history of Sir Richard Whittington three times Lord Major of London, who lived in the time of King Henry the Fift, in the year 1419 : with all the remarkable passages and things of note which hapned [sic] in his time, with his life and death / written by T.H.; Whittington and his cat.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1656 (1656)	Wing H1780; ESTC R10116	14,660	56

the Lord Wllowby instead of the Earle of Arundell chief Butler the Lord Gray Kater Naperer the Lord Audley in the stead of the Earle of Cambridge Almner the Earle of Worcester was Lord High Marshall who rode about the Hall on a great Courser with many tip-stave about him to make room in the Hall In the which Hall next after the Queen the Barons of the Cinque-ports began the Table upon the right hand towards Saint Stevens Chappell and beneath them at the tables are the Vouchers of the Chancery and upon the left hand next to the Cupboord sate Sir Richard Whittington now the third time Lord Maior and his brethren the Aldermen of London The rest of the Bishops began the table over against the Barons of the Cinqueports the Ladies and chief noble women the table against the Lord Maior and the Aldermen At which two tables of the Bishops the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Durham sate highest at the one and the Countesse of Stafford and the Countesse of March on the other And for ordering of the service divers chiefe Lords were appointed Officers as Steward Controwler Surveyer and the like which places were supplyed by the Earles of Northumberland Westmerland the Lord Fizhue the Lord Furnevall the Lord Gray of Wilton the Lord Feres of Groby the Lord Poynings the Lord Harington the Lord Darcy the Lord Daker the Lord Delaware c. I have shewed you only the ordering of this rich Feast but the cost and sumptuousnesse of the fare would ask too large and long a circumstance to discourse what I have hitherto done was onely to shew to the World that at those high Solemnities Inaugurations and Coronations the Lord Maior of the City of London and the Aldermen have place and their presence is still required the City being the Kings Chamber and in an Interregnum hee the first and prime Officer in the Kingdom But I fear I have dwelt too long upon the premises which I hope none will hold for an unnecessary deviation I come now to deliver unto you of Sir Richard Whittingtons invitation of the King and Queen into the City where he bounteoussy feasted them in his own house and at his own proper charge How great and magnificent the Londoners feasts be even amongst themselves especially at that high and pompuous festivall at Guild-Hall the day after Simon and Iude at the solemn Inaugutation of his Lordship who but knowes as also the ordinary Tables of the Lord Maior and the Sheriffes where there is free and generous entertainment for all men of fashion and quality the like both for plenty of dishes and order of service it is not else where to be seen or found through Europe If then their dayly provision be so curious and costly what may we think their variety and rarity was at the invitation and entertainment of two such great Majesties I must therefore leave it to the Readers imagination being so far transcending my expression Let it therefore give satisfaction to any one that shall doubt thereof that it was performed to the everlasting reputation of the Inviter the honour of the City and great content of these Royall Personages invited The bounty of his Table not to be question'd I come to the fire that hee made in the Presence-chamber where the King and Queen then Dined which was only of sweet and odoriterous Wood far exceeding the smell of Iuniper for it was mixed with Mace Cinamon and other rare and costly spices which did cast such a pleasant and delightfull labour through the room that it pleased his Maiesty to call him unto him and say my good Lord Maior though your fare be both choice costly and abundant yet above all things I have observed in your noble entertainment this Fire which you have provided for me gives me most content To whom Sir Richard Whittington making a low obeysance made answer it much rejoyceth me Dread Soveraign that any thing which remaineth in my power can give your Highnesse the least cause to be pleased but since you praise this fiire already made I purpose ere yonr sacred Majesty depart the house to entertain you with one I hope that shall content you much better the King not thing it could be possible desired him to make a proof thereof when he having before provided himself for the purpose brought a great bundle of Bonds Indentures and Covenants under his arm said said thus to the King Royall Soveraign to whom I owe both my fortunes and my life I have here a faggot of purpose left for this Fire which I hope will smell much more sweetly than the rest in your nostrills for saith he here is first your Highnesse security for tenne thousand Markes lent you for the maintenance of your Royall Warrs in France by the Right Worshipfull Company of the Mercers which I here cancel and cast into the Fire Fifteen hundred lent by the City to your Majesty I send after the former two thousand Markes borrowed of the Grocers Company three thousand of the Merchant taylers one thousand of the Drapers one thousand of the Skinners one thousand of the Skinners one thousand of the Ironmongers five thousand of the Merchant-Staplers of the Goldsmiths three thousand of the Haberdashers as much of the Vintners Brewers and Brownbakers three thousand Markes All these you see are cancell'd and burnt saith he with divers other Bonds for money lent by my father in law Alderman Fitzwarren for the payment of your Souldiers in France which coming unto me by Exetutorship I have taken in and diseharged Others there are likewise due to me of no small summes by divers of your Nobility here present all which with the former I have sacrificed to the love and honour of my Dread Soveraign amounting to the sum of threescore thousand pounds sterling and can your Majesty saith he desire to sit by a fire of a more sweet sent and sovour At this the King was much extasi'd and the rather because it came so unexpectedly and from so free a spirit and imbracing him in his Arms said unto him That he thought never King had such a subject and at his departure did him all the grace and honour that could descend from a King to a Subject promising him moreover that he should ever stand in the first rank of those whom he favoured And so the Lord Maior bearing the sword before their two most sacred Majesties as far as Temple-bar the King for his former service and his most kind and loving entertainment at that time and the Noble men for that extraordinary courtesie offered them all unitedly and unanimously commended his goodnesse applauded his bounty and wished that he might live to perpetuall memory and so bid both him and the City for that time adteu FINIS