The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY. J UNE :.2; 1835.

procession of the king.fr,om the Tower, _to,
Westminste, • on-the-dly precedino• the coro-
nation, •is thus described by llolinshed
The citie was adorned in all sorts most
richlie. The water-conduits ran with wine
for the space of three hours together. In the
'upper end of Cheape was a -certain castell,
(made with inure towers ; out of the which•cas-
!tell, on two sides of it, ran forth wine abun-
!dandy. In the towers were placed foure beau-
itifull virgins, of stature and age like to the
king, apparelled in white vestures, in every
tower one, the which blew in the king's face;
at his approaching neere to them, leaves of
gold ; and as he approched also, they threw
on him and his horsse counterfeit florens cif
gold. When he was come 'before the eastell
they tooke cups of gold, and, filling them with
wine at the spouts of the castell, prosented
the same to the king and to his nobles. On
the top of the castell, betwixt the foure towers,
mood a golden ang-ell, holding a crowne in his
hands, which was so contrived, that when the
king came he bowed downe, and offered ta,
him the crowne_ In the midst of the king s
pallace was a marble pillar, raised hollow'
upon steps, on the top whereof was a great
gilt eagle placed, under whose feet in the
chapiter of the pillar divers kinds of 'wine'
came gushing forth at foure several places al)
the dais long, neither was ante forbids en t
'receive the same, were he never so poor.

, •
- ,t • t. HENRY VII.
Henry VII. was crowned October 30th,
1485, and his queen, Elizabeth. October 30th,
1487. The latter was remarkable for the
Procession by waxer from the palace of Green-
wich to the Tover, instead oT from W'4 est-
minster, as was usual. The queen was
escorted by the lord mayor, sheriffs, and the
heads of the different companies in their state
. barges, richly ornamented with silken pennons
and streamers, and also with the banners of the
different trades, on which their arms were em-
broidered in gold. One of these barges, called.
the bachelors' barge, contained an extraor-
dinary pageant, an enormous red dragon which
spouted streams of fire into the Thames. When
+Ate queen rade through the city on the follow-
ing day, choirs of children dressed as angels
were stationed in different places, who sang
hymns and songs as she passed by.

HENRY VIII.

Henry VIII. was extremely fond of pa-
geantry, • and he was particularly anxious
about V the ceremonials of his coronation.
The Londoners seconded his desires, and
when, after haying created twenty-four
knights of the Bath, he
,rode through London
from the Tower, June, 22, 1509, the streets
were bung with tapestry and ~,cloth of arras,
and a great part of the south side of Cbear
and part of Cornhill were hung with cloth of
gold. The several companies and civic
dignitaries lined the streets; and Hall tells
The geldsrniths' s;,111s unto the end of
the Old Change, being replenished with'
virgins in white, with branches of white wax ;;
the priestes and clearkes in rich copes, with
crosses and censers of silver, cetising his grace
and the' queen& also as they passed. The
queene Katherine was, sitting in hir litter,
borne by two white palfries, the litter covered
and richlie apparelled, and the palfries trapped
in white cloth of g-old ; hir person apparelled
in white satin imbroidered, hir haire hanging
docvne to hir backe, beautifull and goodlie to
behold, and on hir head a coronall set with
manie rich orient stones."
The coronation was celebrated with brilliant
“justs and turneics," which the king and queen
witnessed, from .‘ a faire house covered with
tapestric.

• HENRYIV
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alan on the 13th of Octobers 1399, and on this
occasion the ampulla was first employed.
After Henry had gone to the Tower he created
forty-six knights of the Path, among whom
were three of his own sons. The procession
from the Tower to Westminster was unusually
splendid, no less than six thousand horses
having been employed on the occasion.
Froissart . gives the following account
Henry I V.'s procession. " The duke of Lan•
caster left the Tower this Sunday after dinner
on his return to Westminster ;y he was bar
headed, and had round his neck the order o
the king of France. The prince of Wale '
six dukes, six earls, eighteen barons. acc
partied him, anti there were of knights an
other nobility from eight to nine hundred hors
in the procession. He passed through the
streets of London, which were all handsomely
decorated with tapestries and other rich 'hang-
ings : there were nine fountains in Cheapside
and other streets he passed through, that ran
perpetually with white and red wines. The
whole cavalcade amounted to six thousand
horse, that escorted the duke from the Tower
to Westwijaster."