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Commemorative pageant book prepared for the inauguration of Sir Cuthbert Hacket as Lord Mayor of London in 1626. Pageants coordinated by Thomas Middleton on behalf of the Worshipful Company of the Drapers. Book printed by Nicholas Okes. Diplomatic transcription prepared by the MoEML Team. See https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/HEAL2.htm for full credits and editorial procedures.
Research Assistant, 2018-present. Lucas Simpson is a student at the University of Victoria.
Research Assistant, 2018-present. Chris Horne was an honours student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. His primary research interests included American modernism, affect studies, cultural studies, and digital humanities.
Assistant Project Manager, 2019-present. Research Assistant, 2018-present. Kate LeBere completed an honours degree in History with a minor in English at the University of Victoria in 2020. While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she also developed a keen interest in Old English and Early Middle English translation.
Junior Programmer, 2018-present. Tracey is a PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on Critical Technical Practice, more specifically Algorhythmics. She is interested in how technologies communicate without humans, affecting social and cultural environments in complex ways.
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Research Assistant, 2017-2019. Chase Templet was a graduate student at the University
of Victoria in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) stream. He was specifically
focused on early modern repertory studies and non-Shakespearean early modern drama,
particularly the works of
Research Assistant, 2014-2015. Katie McKenna was a third-year English literature major at the University of Victoria with an interest in the digital humanities, particularly digital preservation and typography. Other research interests included philosophy, political theory, and gender studies.
Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.
Research Assistant, 2012–2013. Cameron Butt completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2013. He minored in French and has a keen interest in Shakespeare, film, media studies, popular culture, and the geohumanities.
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present. Associate Project Director, 2015–present. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
Sheriff of London
Pirate, sea-captain, and explorer.
Sheriff of London
First mayor of London
Playwright.
Sheriff of London
Stationer.
Carver and sculptor. Artificer of mayoral shows.
Leader of the
Personification of government. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Sheriff of London
Sheriff of London
Sheriff of London
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
Surrounding St. Paul’s Cathedral, St. Paul’s Churchyard has had a multi-faceted history in use and function, being the location of burial, crime, public gathering, and celebration. Before its destruction during the civil war, St. Paul’s Cross was located in the middle of the churchyard, providing a place for preaching and the delivery of Papal edicts (Thornbury).
If monuments could speak, the Cheapside Cross would
have told a tale of kingly love, civic pride, and sectarian violence. The Cross, pictured but not labelled on the
Agas map, stood in Cheapside between Friday Street and Wood
Street. St. Peter Westcheap lay to its
west, on the north side of Cheapside. The
prestigious shops of
Wood Street ran north-south, connecting at its southernmost end with Cheapside and continuing northward to Little Wood Street, which led directly into Cripplegate. It crossed over Huggin Lane, Lad Lane, Maiden Lane, Love Lane, Addle Lane, and Silver Street, and ran parallel to Milk Street in the east and Gutter Lane in the west. Wood Street lay within Cripplegate Ward. It is labelled as Wood Streat
on the Agas map and is drawn in the correct position.
These digital editions are diplomatic transcriptions. Our goal has been to provide clean, readable TEI transcriptions of all the extant mayoral shows from 1585 to 1639. Because this corpus has never before been made available in one place, we provide XML base texts that other scholars can repurpose according to our Creative Commons Licence.
We treat title pages, dedications, and prefaces as front matter, encoded with the Finis
, as back matter, encoded with the
Our practice has been to preserve most of the typographical, orthographical, and compositorial features of the original text. We use CSS styling to describe the peculiarities of font and justification. We also include links to the page images on EEBO; users who subscribe to EEBO may thus view the pages at any point and judge our transcription thereof for themselves.
Our encoders follow these rules for preserving or regularizing the text:
We have interpreted and encoded toponyms, names, and dates. The encoding of toponyms requires some research to point the toponym to the right location file (and thence to the map), but the relative stability of the processional route has meant that we have high confidence in our encoding of toponyms in the mayoral shows. When our encoding has veered into interpretation, such as in our decision to encode abstract nouns as allegorical characters even when it is not completely clear that the abstraction is embodied by an actor, we have encoded with the goal of building analytical capacity into our texts, such as the capacity for users to search for characters like Time across the corpus of mayoral shows. For our treatment of early modern dates, see our encoding instructions at Encode a Date. Other than toponyms, names, and dates, we have undertaken no interpretative encoding.
Our editorial and encoding practices are documented in detail in the Praxis section of our website.
At your Lordſhips
Command,
IF you ſhould ſearch all Chro
nicles, Hiſtories, Records, in
what Language or Letter ſoe
uer; if the Inquiſitiue Man
ſhould waſte the deere Trea
ſure of his Time and Ey-ſight,
He ſhall conclude his life onely with his cer
tainety, that there is no Subiect vpon earth re
ceiued into the place of his Gouernement with
the like State and Magnificence, as is his Maie
ſties great Subſtitute into his Honorable charge
the Citty of London, bearing the Inſcription of
the Chamber Royall: which that it may now ap
peare to the world no leſſe illuſtrated with bro
therly Affection then former Tryumphall
times haue beene partakers of, this takes delight
to preſent it ſelfe.
And firſt to enter the worthy loue of his ho
norable Society, for his Lordſhips returne from
Weſtminſter, hauing receiued ſome ſeruice by
water, by the Triumphant Chariot of Honor, the
firſt that attends his Lordſhips moſt wiſhed Ar
riuall, beares the Title of the Beautifull Hill, or
Fragrant Garden, with flowry bankes, neere to
which, Lambes and Sheepe are a grazing, this
platforme ſo caſt into a Hill, is adorned and
garniſht with all variety of Odoriferous flow
ers, on the top Archt with an Artificial and curi
ous Raine-bow, which both ſhewes the Antiqui
ty of colours, the diuerſity and Nobleneſſe, and
how much the more glorious and highly to be
eſteem’d, they being preſented in that bleſſed
Couenant of Mercy, the Bow in the Clouds,
the worke it ſelfe incompaſt with all various
fruites, and beares the name of the moſt plea
ſant garden of England (the Noble City of Lon
don)
the flowers intimating the ſweete odors of
their Vertue and Goodneſſes, and the fruites of
their workes of Iuſtice and Charity, which haue
bene both Honorable Brothers, and bounteous
benefactors of this antient Fraternity, who are
preſented in
types and figures of their Vertues in their life
time, which made them famous then, and me
morable for euer, and ſince we are yet amongſt
the woolly Creatures that graze on the Beautie
of this beautifull platforme, come we to the
moderne vſe of this Noble myſtery of Antient
Drapery, and we ſhall find the whole Liuery of
this renowned and famous City furniſhed by it,
it clothes the honorable Senators in the high
eſt and chiefeſt wearing, all Courts of Iuſtice,
Magiſtrates and Iudges of the Land. But for the
better expreſſion of the purpoſe in hand, a Spea
ker giues life to theſe following words.
After this awaites his Lordſhips approach, a
Maiſter-peece of Triumph, called the Sanctuary
of Proſperity, on the Top Arch of which hangs
and Honorable Societies.
Paſſing from this, and more to encourage the
Noble endeauours of the Magiſtrate, his Lord
ſhip and the worthy Company, is gracefully
Conducted toward the Chariot of Honor, on
the moſt Eminent ſeate thereof is Gouernement
Illuſtrated, it being the proper Vertue by which
we rayſe the noble memory of Henry Fitz
Alwin
ous and a Nobe Houſe-keeper, one that hath
ſpent the yeare of his Magiſtracy, to the great
Honour of the City, and by the ſwe
his Diſpoſition, and the vprightneſſe of his
Iuſtice and Government, hath rayſ’d vp a fayre
laſting Memory to himſelfe and his Poſterity
for euer; at whoſe happy Inauguration, though
Tryumph was not then in ſeaſon, (Deaths Pa
geants being onely advanc’ſt vppon the ſhoul
ders of men,) His Noble deſervings were not
thereby any way ecllipſed.
At the cloſe of this Speech, this Chariot of
Honor, and Sanctuary of Proſperity, with all her
gracefull Concomitants, and the two other parts
of Tryumph, take leaue of his Lordſhip for that
time, and reſt from ſervice till the great Feaſt at
Guild hall be ended, after which the whole
bricke of the Triumph attends vpon his Ho
nour, both toward Saint Paules and homeward,
his Lordſhip accompanied with the graue and
Honourable Senators of the City, amongſt
whom the two worthy Shrieffes, his Lordſhips
Graue Aſſiſtants for the yeare, the Worſhipfull
and generous Maiſter
ſpect vnremembred, whoſe bounty and No
b
b
tweene the Croſſe and the entrance of Woodſtreet,
that part of Tryumph being planted, being the
Fragrant Garden of England, with the Raine
Bow to which the concluding Speech hath
FOR the Fabricke of Structure of the
whole Tryumph, in ſo ſhort a time, ſo
gracefully performed, the Commendation
of that, the Jnduſtry of Maiſter
Chriſmas
not onely excellent in his Arte, but faith
full in his Vndertakings.