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Commemorative pageant book prepared for the inauguration of Sir John Swynnerton as Lord Mayor of London on October 29, 1612. Pageants coordinated by Thomas Dekker on behalf of the Worshipful Company of the Merchant Taylors. Book printed by Nicholas Okes. Diplomatic transcription prepared by the MoEML Team. See https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/TROI1.htm for full credits and editorial procedures.
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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.
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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
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, 2013-2014. Zaqir Virani completed his MA at the University of Victoria in April 2014. He received his BA from Simon Fraser University in 2012, and has worked as a musician, producer, and author of short fiction. His research focused on the linkage of sound and textual analysis software and the work of Samuel Beckett.
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.
Research Assistant, 2013. Quinn MacDonald was a fourth-year honours English student at the
University of Victoria. Her areas of interest included postcolonial theory and texts, urban
agriculture, journalism that isn’t lazy, fine writing, and roller derby. She was the
director of community relations for
Research Assistant, 2004–2008. BA honours, 2006. MA English, University of Victoria, 2007. Melanie Chernyk went on to work at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria and now manages Talisman Books and Gallery on Pender Island, BC. She also has her own editing business at http://26letters.ca.
Research Assistant, 2012-2014.
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
Mark Kaethler, full-time instructor at Medicine Hat College (Medicine Hat, Alberta), is the assistant project director of mayoral shows for the
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.
First Duke of Clarence.
Playwright, poet, and author.
King of England
Personification of fame. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
God of the sea in Roman mythology.
Personification of virtue. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows. See also
Personification of the great river that the Greeks believed encircled the world. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Third Duke of Somerset. Lancastrian military commander during the Wars of the Roses.
God of healing, medicine, archery, music, poetry, and the sun in Greek and Roman mythology. Defined
as the god of divine distance since the time of
Goddess of the moon in Roman mythology.
Personification of the Thames. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of hearsay and rumour. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Greek personification of goodness and virtue. Appears as an allegorical character in
mayoral shows. Also referred to as
Personification of envy. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of lawfulness and fairness. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
God of merchandise and merchants in Roman mythology. Equated with
Personification of wisdom. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of desire. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of industry. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of ignorance. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of laziness. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of oppression. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of disdain. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of uprising and disorder. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of slander and defamation. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
God of wine and ecstasy in Roman mythology. Equated with
Wind gods in Greek mythology. Appear as a set of four allegorical characters in mayoral shows.
Duke of Aquitaine and First Duke of Lancaster.
King of England
King of England
King of England and Lord of Ireland
King of England
Prince of Wales. Son of
Sixth Earl of Kent and Duke of Surrey. Father of
First Duke of Gloucester. Prince, soldier, and literary patron. Huaband of
First Duke of York and Earl of Cambridge.
Personification of love. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Fourth Duke of Norfolk.
Stationer.
Second Duke of Suffolk.
King of England
King of England and Lord of Ireland
Sheriff of London
Personification of time. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of truth. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Duke of Gloucester. Husband of
Third Duke of York. Father of
Queen of England
First Duke of Bedford. Not to be confused with
Third Duke of Buckingham. Buried at Austin Friars.
Duchess of Gloucester. Wife of
Duchess of Gloucester. Wife of
Bookseller.
Bishop of Rochester
Abbot of Chertsey.
Bishop of Winchester
Bishop of Worchester
Archbishop of Canterbury
Personification of geometry, one of the liberal sciences. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of astronomy, one of the liberal sciences. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of music, one of the liberal sciences. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of arithmetic, one of the liberal sciences. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of logic, one of the liberal sciences. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of rhetoric, one of the liberal sciences. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of grammar, one of the liberal sciences. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of innocence. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Personification of integrity. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
Bishop of London
Bishop of Durham
Personification of moral guidance. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
Paul’s Chain was a street that ran north-south between St Paul’s Churchyard and Paul’s Wharf, crossing over Carter Lane, Knightrider Street, and Thames Street. It was in Castle Baynard Ward. On the Agas map, it is labelled Paules chayne
. The precinct wall around St. Paul’s Church had six gates, one of which was on the south side by Paul’s Chain. It was here that a chain used to be drawn across the carriage-way entrance in order to preserve silence during church services.
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).
Cheapside, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside was the centre of London’s wealth, with many mercers’ and goldsmiths’ shops located there. It was also the most sacred stretch of the processional route, being traced both by the linear east-west route of a royal entry and by the circular route of the annual mayoral procession.
The Little Conduit in Cheapside, also known as the Pissing Conduit, stood at the western end of Cheapside outside the north corner of Paul’s Churchyard. On the Agas map, one can see two water cans on the ground just to the right of the conduit.
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
St. Saviour (Southwark) dates back at least
to Overies
referring to its being over
the
Thames, that is, on its southern bank.
After S. Mary Owber
.
Westminster Abbey was a historically significant church, located on the bottom-left corner of the Agas map. Colloquially known as
St. Paul’s Cathedral was—and remains—an important church in London. In
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.
HONOR (this
day) takes you by the Hand,
, Voices
I preſent (Sir) vnto you, theſe labours of my Pen, as the
firſt and neweſt Congratulatory Offrings
were a Brother, and This Day a Father) who moſt freely haue beſtowed theſe their Loues
TRyumphes, are the moſt choice and
dain
tieſt fruit that ſpring from Peace and Abundance;
Eye, as to make it
learne that there is ſome Excellent, and
Extraordinary Arme from heauen thruſt downe
to exalt
a Superior man, that thereby
the Gazer may be drawne to
more
obedience and admiration.
In a happy houre therefore did your Lordſhip take
vpon you this inſeperable
burden (of Honor and Cares)
becauſe your ſelfe being Generous of mind, haue met
with men,
and with a Company equall to your Selfe in
Spirit. And vpon as fortunate a Tree haue they ingraf
ted their Bounty; the fruites whereof ſhoot forth and
ripen, are gathered, and taſte ſweetly, in the mouthes
not onely
of this Citty, but alſo of our
beſt-to-be-belo
ued friends, the Nobleſt
ſtrangers. Vpon whom, though
none but our Soueraigne King can beſtow Royall welcomes; yet ſhall it be a
bene free in Welcomes, her purſe open, and her hands
liberall. If you thinke I ſet a flattering glaſſe before you,
do but ſo
much as lanch into the Riuer, and there the
all the Honors, which this
day hath
beſtowed vpon her: And that done, ſtep a
gaine vpon the Land, and
Trumpet proclaime what I ſpeake; And her I
hope you
cannot deny to beleeue, hauing at leaſt twenty thou
ſand eyes
about her, to witneſſe whether ſhe be a Truetong’d Fame or a
By this time the Lord Maior hath taken his oath, is
ſeated in his barge
againe; a lowd thundring peale of
Chambers giue him a Fare-well as he paſſes by. And
ſee!
how quickly we are in ken of land, as ſuddenly there
fore
let vs leap on ſhore, and there obſerue what hono
rable entertainement the
Citty affoords to their new
Prætor, and what ioyfull ſalutations to her
noble Viſitants.
THE Lord Maior, and Companyes being landed, the
firſt
Deuice which is preſented to him on
the ſhore,
ſtands ready to receiue him at the end of Pauls-Chayne,
(on the ſouth ſide
the Church) and this it is.
A Sea-Chariot artificially made, proper
for a God of
the ſea to ſit in; ſhippes dancing round about it, with
Dolphins and other great Fiſhes playing or lying at the
foot of the ſame, is drawne by two Sea-horſes.
In this Chariot ſits
Coronet of ſiluer, Scollup-ſhels, ſtucke with branches of
Corrall, and hung thicke with ropes of pearle;
be
cauſe ſuch things as theſe are the treaſures of the Deepe,
and are found in the
ſhels of fiſhes. In his hand he holds
a ſiluer Trident, or Three-forked-Mace, by which
ſome
Writers will haue ſignified the three Naturall qualiies
proper to
Waters; as thoſe of fountaines
to bee of a de
litious taſte, and Chriſtalline colour: thoſe of the
Sea,
to bee ſaltiſh and vnpleaſant, and the colour ſullen, and
greeniſh: And laſtly, thoſe of ſtanding Lakes, neither
ſweet nor
bitter, nor cleere, nor cloudy, but altogether
vnwholeſome for the
taſte, and loathſome to the eye.
His roabe and mantle with other
ornaments are corre
ſpondent to the quality of his perſon; Buskins
of pearle
and cockle-ſhels being worne vpon his legges. At the
lower part of this Chariot ſit Mer-maids, who for their
excellency in beauty, aboue any
other creatures belon
ging to the ſea, are preferred to bee ſtill
in the eye of
At Neptunes foot ſits
She is atired in light roabes fitting her ſtate and con
dition, with
a ſiluer Creſcent on her head,
expreſsing
both her power and property.
The whole Chariot figuring in it ſelfe that vaſt com
paſſe which the
ſea makes about the body of the earth:
whoſe Globicall Rotundity is Hieroglifically repreſented
by
the wheele of the Chariot.
Before this Chariot ride foure Trytons, who are feyned
by
Poets to bee Trumpeters to
cauſe
make way before him, holding ſtrange Trumpets
in their hands, which
they ſound as they paſſe along,
their habits being Antike, and
Sea-like, and ſitting vp
on foure ſeuerall fiſhes, viz. two
Dolphins, and two
Mer-maids, which are not (after the
old procreation)
begotten of painted cloath, and browne paper, but
are
liuing beaſts, ſo queintly diſguiſed like the natural fiſhes,
of purpoſe to auoyd the trouble and peſtering of Por
ters, who with
much noyſe and little comlineſſe are eue
ry yeare moſt
vnneceſſarily imployed.
The time being ripe, when the ſcope of this Deuice
is to be deliuered, Neptunes breath goeth forth in
theſe
The Trytons then ſownding, according
to his com
mand, Chariot paſſeth along before the
Lord Maior. The Windes
quality, and hauing both Faces and Limbes proportio
nable to their
bluſtring and boiſterous condition) driue
forward that Ship of which
concludes this firſt Triumph on the
Land.
Theſe two Shewes paſſe on vntill they
come into
Pauls-Church-yard, where ſtandes
another Chariot; the
former Chariot of Ship,
beeing con
ueyd into
Cheap-ſide, this other then
takes the place:
And this is the Deuice.
IT is the Throne of
tified with all things that
are fit to expreſſe the Seat
of
ſo noble and diuine a Perſon.
Vpon the height, and moſt eminent place (as wor
thieſt to be
exalted) ſits
ples ſhining with a Diadem of ſtarres, to
ſhew that her
Deſcent is onely from heauen: her
roabes are rich, her
mantle white (figuring Innocency) and powdred with
ſtarres of gold, as an Embleme that
ſhe puts vpon Men,
the
garments of eternity.
Beneath Her, in diſtinct places, ſit
the Seauen liberall Sciences, viz.
Grammer, Rhetoricke, Logicke, Muſicke, Arithmetike, Geometry,
Aſtronomy.
Hauing thoſe roomes alotted them, as being Mothers
to all Trades, Profeſsions, Myſteries and
Societies, and the
readieſt guide to Light
Roabes,
and Looſe (for
Knowledge ſhould be free.) On
their heads
they weare garlands of Roſes, mixt with other flowers,
whoſe ſweet Smels are arguments of their cleere
and vn
ſpotted thoughts, not corrupted with uice. Euery one
carrying in her hand, a Symbole, or
Badge of that Learning
which ſhe profeſſeth.
At the backe of this Chariot ſit
foure Cupids, to ſigni
fie
that
This Throne, or Chariot, is drawne by foure Horſes:
vpon the two formoſt
ride Mercury: the firſt,
Caduceus, or Charming Rod, his fethe
red Hat, his Wings, and other properties fitting
his con
dition,
Country-man, bearing
on his ſhoulder a Spade, as the Embleme of Labour.
Before this Chariot, or Throne (as Guardians and Protectors to
repreſenting the twelue ſuperior Companyes, euery one
carrying
vpon his left arme a faire Shield
with the armes
in it of one of the twelue Companies, and in his right
hand
a launce with a light ſtreamer or pendant on the top of
it, and euery horſe led and attended by a Footman.
The Lord Maior beeing approached to
this Throne,
This Chariot or Throne of
and followes that of Neptune, this taking place
iuſt
THe third Deuice is a Forlorne Caſtle, built cloſe to the
little Conduit in Cheap-ſide, by which as the Throne
of
boue (on the
battlements)
dreſſe of that infernall Place, and euery part of it guar
ded with perſons repreſenting all thoſe that are fellowes
and
followers of Fury,
her haire full of Snakes, her countenance pallid,
mea
gre and leane, her body naked, in her hand a knot of
Snakes,
crawling and writhen about her arme.
The reſt of her litter are in as
vgly ſhapes as the Dam, e
uery
one of
ready to bee
ſhot at Fort of
Furies, ſtand Gyants,
with clubs, who offer to keep back the Chariot of
and to ſtop her paſſage. All the reſt
likewiſe on the bat
tlements offering to diſcharge their blacke
Artillery at
her: but ſhe onely holding vp her bright ſhield,
dazzles
them, and confounds them, they all on a ſudden ſhrin
king in
their heads, vntill the Chariot
be paſt, and then all
of them appearing againe: their arrowes, which
they
ſhoote vp into the aire, breake there out in fire-workes,
as
hauing no power to do wrong to ſo ſacred a Deity as
This caue of Monſters ſtands
fixed to the Conduit,
which
poſe.
Either during this ſpeech, or elſe when it is done, certaine Rockets
flye vp into the aire; The Throne of
And this concludes this Triumphant aſſault of
conqueſt is to
come.
THis Throne of
come to the Croſſe in
Cheape, where the preſenta
tion of another Triumph attends to
welcome the Lord
Maior, in his paſſage, the Chariot of
then along, this other
that followes taking her place, the
Deuice bearing this
argument.
the Lord Maior ſafely,
of
nour ſhee can
bring him to, is to make him ariue at the
houſe of Pageant. In the vpper ſeat
ſits
&c. In
other ſeuerall places ſit Kings, Princes, and No
ble perſons, who
haue bene free of the
A perticular roome being reſerued for
one that repre
ſents the perſon of Wales
The onely ſpeaker heere is
wordes ſound out theſe glad welcomes.
Edward D. of BuckinghamHenry the
7
The Queene
ſpoken of, was Richard the 2
The
Elionor Dutcheſſe of GloſterH. the 5.
If I ſhould lengthen this number, it were but to trou
ble you with a
large Index of names onely, which I am
loath to do, knowing your
expectation is to bee other
wiſe feaſted.
The Speech of
downe before, this
Temple of Hers takes place next be
fore the
Lord Maior, thoſe of
ching in precedent order. And as this Temple is
carryed
along, a Song is heard, the Muſicke
being queintly con
ueyed in a priuate roome, and not a perſon
diſcouered.
And this concludes this fourth Triumph, till his
Lordſhips
returne from the Guild-hall.
In returning backe from the
Guild-hall, to performe
the Ceremoniall cuſtomes in
Pauls Church, theſe ſhewes
march in the ſame order as before: and comming
with
the Throne of Vertue, Enuy and her crue are as buſie a
This done, or as it is in doing, thoſe twelue that ride
armed
diſcharge their Piſtols, at
which
vaniſh, and are ſeene no more.
When the Lord Maior is (with all
the reſt of their Triumphes)
brought home,
THe Title-page of this Booke makes promiſe of all
the
Shewes by water, as of
theſe On the Land; but
hauing no hand in
them, I ſuffer them to dye by that
which fed them; that is to
ſay, Powder & Smoake.
Their