The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat
p. 40
‘Note, apon thursday the queen cam (to) the yelde hall, all the gaarde being in harnesse, with her the lorde chancellor and the counsel. At Paules churchyard the erle of Pembroke mett hir, to whom she bowed herself partely lowe, and the lorde chancellor….bowed himself benethe the pomell of his saddell. She made an oration to the…in the…, and was retourned by water.’
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Diary of Henry Machyn
p. 52
‘And a-bowt iij of the cloke at after-non the Quen(‘s) grace cam rydyng from Westmynster unto yeld-hall with mony lords, knights and lades, and bysshopes and haroldes of armes, and trompeturs blohynge and all the gard in harness. (Then she declared, in an oration to the mayor and the city, and to her council, her mind concerning her marriage, that she never intended to marry out of her realm but by her council’s consent and advice; and that she would never marry but all her true) sogettes shall be content, (or else she would live) as her grace has don hederto.…(After this) the Quen(‘s) grace came from the yeld-hall and rod to the iij cranes in the vyntre, and toke her barge (to) Westmynster to her own place the sam day.’
