Note 489 — Chapter XXIII · MORALITIES, PUPPET-PLAYS, AND PAGEANTS
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The Annales Londonienses record at the visit of the Emperor Otho to King John in 1207 ‘tota civitas Londoniae induit solempnitatem pallis et aliis ornamentis circumornata,’ and at the entry of Edward II after his marriage in 1308 ‘tapeti aurei’ and the city dignitaries ‘coram rege et regina karolantes’ (Chronicles of the Reigns of Edw. I and Edw. II, R. S. i. 13, 152). At the coronation of Henry IV in 1399 was an ‘equitatio magnifica’ (Annales Hen. IV, R. S. 291), and the streets were hung with ‘paremens,’ and there were ‘nœuf broucherons a manière de fontaines en Cep a Londres, courans par plusieurs conduits, jettans vin blanc et vermeil’ (Froissart, Chroniques, ed. Kervyn de Lettynhove, xvi. 205).