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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 1

Note 506 — IV PAGEANTRY

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There are several extant portraits of Henry in tilting armour; one is engraved in Drayton's Polyolbion (1613). Dillon (A. J. lii. 125; lx. 132) notes that he had five suits of tilting-armour. One, given him by Lee, cost £200. Another, given by Prince de Joinville, is in the Tower. A third, at Windsor, was made by William Pickering at Greenwich, apparently on one of the designs by Jacobe now at South Kensington. As early as 18 Aug. 1604, when he was ten years old, the Constable of Castile saw Henry at pike and horse exercise, and gave him a pony (V. P. x. 178).

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