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The mediaeval stage, volume 2 (of 2)

Note 502 — Chapter XXIII · MORALITIES, PUPPET-PLAYS, AND PAGEANTS

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A memorandum of ceremonial As ffor the ressaunge off a Quene and her Crownacion of the reign of Henry VII (Antiquarian Repertory, i. 302) has the following direction for the riding from the Tower to Westminster, ‘at the condit in Cornylle ther must be ordined a sight wᵗ angelles singinge and freche balettes yʳon in latene, engliche and ffrenche, mad by the wyseste docturs of this realme; and the condyt of Chepe in the same wyse; and the condit must ryn bothe red wyn and whit wyne; and the crosse in Chepe muste be araid in yᵉ most rialle wyse that might be thought; and the condit next Poules in the same wyse.’

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