29. All Mayors, Bailiffs, etc., to be aiding and assisting the Masters or Governors in the execution of their offices. TESTE meipˀo apud Westm̃ Tricesimo die Januarij Anno Regno nr̃i Anglie ffrancie et Hibernie sc̃do et Scotie Tricesimo octavo. pˀ Brẽ de privato Sigillo. Christian IV, King of Denmark, brother-in-law of James, paid a visit to England in 1606, and was sumptuously entertained. In accordance with the custom of the time, there was a grand pageant and procession in the City, in which all the Companies took part, and the following precept for the same was received by us;-- BY THE MAIOR. TO THE M{R} & WARDENS OF THE } COMPANY OF BARBOR SURGEONS } FFOR the bewtefieinge of the streetꝭ and lanes w{th}in this Cittie against the passage of the Kingꝭ most excellent mat{ie} and the Kinge of Denmarke their nobilitie and trayne from the Tower through this Cittie. THEIS are in his Ma{t}ꝭ name straightlie to charge and command you that all delayes & excuses sett aparte you have and provide yo{r} rayles in a readines for the livery of yo{r} company to stand in and to be sett up in the streetꝭ against wednesday the xxx{th} day of July at the furthest. AND likewise that yo{r} railes against that tyme be hanged with blew azure cloth & garnished w{th} Banners & streamers in the most bewtifull manner that may be, as formerlie in like solempnities hath bin accustomed. AND that you likewise have and provide sixe whifflers at the least to evˀy score of yo{r} livery well apparrelled w{th} white staves in their handes to stand with their backꝭ to the Common railes over against your yo{r} Companies railes for the better and quieter ordering of the streetꝭ through which his ma{tie} shall passe. AND hereof faile you not at yo{r} pˀill. This xxj{th} of July 1606. SEBRIGHTE. Three days after the receipt of the above, came another precept demanding £5 from the Barber-Surgeons towards the City’s expenses to be incurred about the Pageant. The two Kings landed at the Tower, from Greenwich, on the 31st July, on which day the City gave itself up to the gayest doings and rejoicings. A curious and interesting description of the pageant is to be found in a rare tract by H. R., 1606, preserved at Guildhall Library. Howes also gives an entertaining account of the proceedings, and relates how the King of Denmark “seriously observed the unimaginable number of gallant Ladies, beauteous virgins, and other delicate Dames filling the Windowes of every houss with kinde aspect saluting” him as he passed by. He also tells us of the melodious harmony, the Latin speech, the pastoral device, and the fountains which ran with wine, etc.