Corporation of London Records
Office,
Repertory 39, fols. 172r-v and 183v
Minutes from 22 April and 2 May 1625 establishing
the organising committee and committing funds for the entertainment. In a folio-sized
book of minutes of the Court of Aldermen from Nov. 1624 to Oct. 1625.
[fol. 172]
Iovis xxijo die Aprilis 1625
...
Comittees to consider what is fitt to bee donne against the king
es Coronacion
Item for asmuch as it is conceiued that the Coronaci on of our Dread
soveraigne Lord kinge
Charles
is shortly to bee solempnized, Therefore that the Cittizens of this Cittie maye
shewe and performe theire loialties, and bounden duties
towardes his most excellent Majestie at his passage
through the same in preparing of Pagentes and other shewes and thinges
necessarie toward the solempnizacion of that his Royall
Coronacion in as stately and sompteous manner as hath bin heretofore
performed by this Cittie vnto any his noble progenitors It is ordered
by this Court that ... [names of Aldermen
]
[fol. 172v]
shall presently meete and informe themselues of antient
presidentes in this behalfe, and callinge before them all such
persons and men of Learninge quallitie and experience, as theye shall
thinke fitt, shall Consider of all matters & thinges whatsoever needfull and
necessarie, to bee performed by this Cittie, in the most
honorable manner that maye bee devised, for and against the tyme
aforesaid; And to acquaint this Court from tyme
to tyme for theire Councell and advise to bee had therein, as shalbe needfull, and
also
to consider what in theire Iudgmentes the whole charge for
performance of all the said services will amount vnto, and in what
sort and by whome to bee paid, And mr Mosse
and mr Latham or one of them to attend this
Comittee from tyme to tyme, And
Richard Walthewe
and Iohn Olliffe to warne and attend the
m
said Comittees;
[fol. 180v]
secundo die Maij 1625
...
[fol. 183v]
Item it is thought fitt, and soe ordered by this Courte that Mr.
Chamberlen shall from tyme to tyme satisfie and pay all such
sommes of money as he shall receiue order for vnder the
handes of Mr Alde rman Hammersley
Mr Ald
erman
Allen
,Mr Ald
erman Moulson,
Mr Nicholas Leate& Mr Thomas Stiles or any three or more of them for
payment of workmen and others imployed about the intended shewes
against the Coranacion Day of our Soueraigne Lord King
Charles
.
Bibliography
Bergeron (1971),
91-2