Corporation of London Records
Office,Remembrancia 6, fol.88 (item 86)
Transcript of a letter from the
Earl of
Pembroke
on behalf of the king
to the
Lord Mayor
, dated 25 May
1626 from
Whitehall
, making arrangements to dismantle the pageants. The Remembrancia contain
correspondence transcribed by the City
Remembrancer between the sovereign,
Lord Mayor
, ministers, Privy Council,
Courts of Aldermen and Common Council. In a
volume of correspondence dating mainly from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth
centuries.
[fol. 88]
A lettere of the 25th of May 1626 from the Erle of Penbroke
Lord Chamberlin to his Majestie for the takinge Downe
the Pagentes erected in the honor of his Majesties
Coronacion.
My Lord
Whereas your Lordship s and the rest of that Court were formerly directed by
letteres from the right honnorable the Earle Marshall, to prepare and erect in severall
places
of
within the
Cittie, sondrie Pageantes for the fuller and More significant expression
of your Ioyes vppon his Majesties and his Royall Consortes
intended entrance throughe your said Cittie: His Majestie haveinge now
altered his said purpose, and given mee Command to signify so Much vnto
you, it may please your
Lordshipps to take notice therof by those, As also to
remove the said Pageantes, which besides the
particvlar Charge they cavse in the Cittie, Do Choke and hinder the
passages of suche as in Coaches, or with theire Carriages, have occasion
to passe vp and downe. This being all that for the present I haue to
trouble your Lordship with; I take my Leaue, And do remayne
your lordships and that Court
es most affectionat Freind
whithall this 25th of Maij 1626
Bibliography
Bergeron (1971), 92