Untraced MS letter from Father Rivers to Sigr. Augustino Cornelio, Venegia,
describing the Royal Entry of 1604, printed in Foley, ed. (1877).
An untraced manuscript letter reproduced in H. Foley, ed., Records of the
English Province of the Society of Jesus, (
London
, 1877) from Father Rivers
to
'Sigr. Augustino Cornelio', briefly describing the coronation entry.
[page 59]
The next day, being the 15th of
March, His Majesty with the
Queen
and Prince, attended by all the nobility of
both sexes and the principal officers of his household, passed in most triumphant
manner
through
London
, where arches or pageants were made in the way; all the streets railed
and adorned on both sides, and the Companies of the
City
standing on one side all in
order from the Tower
to Temple Bar. The
Earl of Worcester
was Earl Marshal, the
Lord
Mayor
carried the sceptre, all the aldermen attended at the cross, and presented the
King
,
Queen
, and Prince with three fair standing cups of gold. The Earl of Arundell had
his place as primus comes. The
Queen
rode in an open chariot, and gave good
contentment by her pleasing countenance and affability to the people. The King
kept
greater state, saluting, by moving his cap, the Ambassadors of
France
and
Spain
, placed
in several houses in Cheapside. The like he did to the aldermen. The Lady
Arabella
and
the old Countess of Arundell followed the
Queen
in caroche, all the rest of the ladies
on horseback; both lords and ladies were richly and gallantly attired; and so they
passed to
Whitehall
.
Bibliography
Foley, ed. (1877), 1.59