On this day…3rd August 1553

Diary of Henry Machyn
p.38

’(The iij day of August the Queen came riding to London, and so to the Tower; making her entrance at Aldgate, which was hanged,) and a grett nomnur of stremars ha(nging) about the said gate; and all the strett unto Ledynhalle and unto the (Tower wer laid with) grafffvell, and all the crafts of London stood (in a row, with) ther banars and stremars hangyd over ther heds. Her grace cam, and a-for her a M, velvet cotes and (cloaks) in brodere, and the mar of London bare the mase, and the erle of Arundell bare the sworde, and all the trumpets (blowing); and next her my lade Elssabeth, and next her the duchess of Norffoke, and next her the marqwes of Exseter (and other) lades…’



8th August 1553


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