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A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483: Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British MuseumAnonymous

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A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483: Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum

Name: A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483: Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum
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London (England) -- History -- To 1500; London (England) -- Social life and customs -- To 1500

Furmentie, with venyson. Viande Roial planted with losenges of golde.
Bore-hedes in castells of earmed with golde.[134] Beef. Moton. Signet.
Capon stued. Heron. Grete Pike. A redd Lech with lions corvyn theryn
of white. Custarde Roial with a leparde of golde sittyng theryn.
Fritour like a sonne with a flour de lice therynne. A Sotelte, Seint
Edward and seint Lowes armed in cote armours bryngyng yn bitwene them
the kyng in his cote armour with this scripture suyng:

     _Loo here twoo kyngs right profite and right good,
     Holy seint Edwarde and seint Lowes:
     And see the braunch borne of there blessid blode,
     Live among Cristen moost sovereigne of price,
     Enheretour of the floure de Lice;
     God graunte he may thurgh help of Crist J'hu
     This sixt Henry to reigne and be as wise,
     And them resemble in knighthod and vertue._

[Footnote 134: _Sic_ in the MS.]

     Here foloweth the second Course; that is to wite,

Viand blank, barrid of golde. Gely partid writen and notid _Te Deum
Laudamus_. Pigge endored. Crane. Bitore. Conyes. Chikyns endored.
Partrich. Pecok enhakill. Great breame. Leches white with an antelope
of redde corven theryn, a crowne about his neck with a cheyne of
golde. Flampayne poudred with lepardis and flours de lice of golde.
Fritour, a lepardis hedde with ij Ostrich fethers. A Sotelte,
themperour and the kyng that ded is, armed, and there mantells of the
garters; and the kyng that nowe is, knelyng before them with this
Reason.

     _Ageinst miscreaunts themperour Sigismond
     Hath shewid his myght which is Imperial:
     Sithen Henry the Vth so noble a knyght was founde
     For Crists cause in actis martial
     Cherisshyng the chirch Lollardes had a falle
     To give example to kyngs that suitede
     And to this branche in especiall
     While he dothe regne to love God and drede._

     The iij^{d} Course sueth; that is to say,

Blaunde Surrey poudrid with quatrefoilis gilt. Venyson rostid.
Egrettes. Curlewe. Cokkes. Plover. Quailis. Snytes. Grete birdes.
Larkes. Carpe. Crabbe. Lech of iij colours. A colde bakemete like a
shelde quarterly redde and white, set with losengs and gilt, and
flours of borage. Fritour crispes. A Sotelte of our lady sittyng and
hir childe in hir lappe, and she holdyng in hir hand a crowne and
seint George knelyng on that oo side and seint Denyse on that other
side, presentyng the kyng, knelyng to our lady, with this Reason
folowyng;

     _O blessid lady, Cristes moder dere,
     And thou seint George, that callid art hir knyght,
     Holy seint Denyse, O martir moost entier,
     The sixt Henry here present in your sight,
     Shewith of grace on hym your hevenly light
     His tender yougth with vertue both avaunce
     Bore by discent and by title of right
     Justly to reigne in England and in Fraunce._"

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A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483: Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British MuseumAnonymous

History

A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483: Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum

Anonymous

London (England) -- History -- To 1500; London (England) -- Social life and customs -- To 1500

Furmentie, with venyson. Viande Roial planted with losenges of golde.
Bore-hedes in castells of earmed with golde.[134] Beef. Moton. Signet.
Capon stued. Heron. Grete Pike. A redd Lech with lions corvyn theryn
of white. Custarde Roial with a leparde of golde sittyng theryn.
Fritour like a sonne with a flour de lice therynne. A Sotelte, Seint
Edward and seint Lowes armed in cote armours bryngyng yn bitwene them
the kyng in his cote armour with this scripture suyng:

     _Loo here twoo kyngs right profite and right good,
     Holy seint Edwarde and seint Lowes:
     And see the braunch borne of there blessid blode,
     Live among Cristen moost sovereigne of price,
     Enheretour of the floure de Lice;
     God graunte he may thurgh help of Crist J'hu
     This sixt Henry to reigne and be as wise,
     And them resemble in knighthod and vertue._

[Footnote 134: _Sic_ in the MS.]

     Here foloweth the second Course; that is to wite,

Viand blank, barrid of golde. Gely partid writen and notid _Te Deum
Laudamus_. Pigge endored. Crane. Bitore. Conyes. Chikyns endored.
Partrich. Pecok enhakill. Great breame. Leches white with an antelope
of redde corven theryn, a crowne about his neck with a cheyne of
golde. Flampayne poudred with lepardis and flours de lice of golde.
Fritour, a lepardis hedde with ij Ostrich fethers. A Sotelte,
themperour and the kyng that ded is, armed, and there mantells of the
garters; and the kyng that nowe is, knelyng before them with this
Reason.

     _Ageinst miscreaunts themperour Sigismond
     Hath shewid his myght which is Imperial:
     Sithen Henry the Vth so noble a knyght was founde
     For Crists cause in actis martial
     Cherisshyng the chirch Lollardes had a falle
     To give example to kyngs that suitede
     And to this branche in especiall
     While he dothe regne to love God and drede._

     The iij^{d} Course sueth; that is to say,

Blaunde Surrey poudrid with quatrefoilis gilt. Venyson rostid.
Egrettes. Curlewe. Cokkes. Plover. Quailis. Snytes. Grete birdes.
Larkes. Carpe. Crabbe. Lech of iij colours. A colde bakemete like a
shelde quarterly redde and white, set with losengs and gilt, and
flours of borage. Fritour crispes. A Sotelte of our lady sittyng and
hir childe in hir lappe, and she holdyng in hir hand a crowne and
seint George knelyng on that oo side and seint Denyse on that other
side, presentyng the kyng, knelyng to our lady, with this Reason
folowyng;

     _O blessid lady, Cristes moder dere,
     And thou seint George, that callid art hir knyght,
     Holy seint Denyse, O martir moost entier,
     The sixt Henry here present in your sight,
     Shewith of grace on hym your hevenly light
     His tender yougth with vertue both avaunce
     Bore by discent and by title of right
     Justly to reigne in England and in Fraunce._"

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483: Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum

A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483: Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum

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