title: The Magnificent Entertainment Given to King James (The Entertainment through London)
title_page_title: <i>THE</i> Whole  Magnificent <i>Entertainment:</i> GIVEN TO KING <i>James</i>, Queene <i>Anne</i> his wife, and <i>Henry</i> Frederick <i>the Prince;</i> ... with the speeches and Songs, deliue<i>red in the seuerall Pageants</i>. And those speeches that before were publish’t in Latin, now newly set forth in English. [<i>var</i>.: "Magnifycent"]
title_page_author: <i>Tho. Dekker.</i>
title_page_performance: <i>vpon the day of</i> his Majesties Tryumphant Passage (from <i>the Tower</i>) <i>through his Honorable Citie</i> (and Chamber) of London, the 15. of March. 1603. <i>Aswell by the English, as by the Strangers</i>,
title_page_imprint: Imprinted at London by <i>E. Allde</i> for Tho. <i>Man</i> the  yonger. 1604.
paratext_charachter_list: "The Personages" [C1r]
stationer_entries_in_register: Apr 2, 1604: Entered to Thomas Man (2): "A Booke Called. The magnificent Entertainem<sup>t</sup>. gyven to .K. Iames. Q. Anne his wife. and Henr<i>y</i> ffriderick the prince vppon the day of his ma<sup>t<i>es</i></sup> triu<i>m</i>phant passage from the tower through his hon<i>our</i>able City & chamb<i>er</i> of London. the 15 of m<i>ar</i>che 1603".<br />May 14, 1604: Ordered in the dispute between Edward Blount and Thomas Man (2) about the book of the pageants, that Blount shall deliver his remaining stock of four hundred copies to Man at the rate of 6s. a ream: "ffor thendinge of the controu<i>er</i>sie betwene them about the booke of the pageant<i>es</i> yt is ordered that Edw Blunt shall delyu<i>er</i> all his Remayno<sup>r</sup> thereof, (w<sup>ch</sup> he saieth are 400) to Tho man. Receavinge of hym vj<sup>s</sup> for euery Reame thereof. W<sup>ch</sup> yt is ordered that the said Tho Man shall pay vnto him" (Court Book C, fol. 3<sup>b</sup>).
stationer_additional_notes: For the printers of this edition, see Adrian Weiss, "Bibliographic Methods for Identifying Unknown Printers in Elizabethan/Jacobean Books," <i>Studies in Bibliography</i> 44 (1991): 183-228; R. Malcolm Smuts, "The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment," in <i>Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture</i>, 498-501.
transcript_modern_spelling: The whole magnificent entertainment given to king James Queen Anne his wife and Henry Frederick the Prince upon the day of his majesty's triumphant passage from the tower through his honorable city and chamber of London being the 15 of March 1603 as well by the English as by the strangers with the speeches and songs delivered in the several pageants and those speeches that before were published in Latin now newly set forth in English Tho. Dekker Imprinted at London by E. Allde for Tho. man the younger 1604