In the year of our Lord 1419, in which Sir Richard Whittington was the
third time inaugurated into the Mayoralty as is before mentioned King
Henry the fifth, who having conquered the greatest part of France and
espoused Katherine sole daughter to the King and heir to the crown,
taking leave of his father-in-law, embarked with his Royal bride and
landed at Dover upon Candlemas Day, leaving in France for his deputy
his brother the Duke of Clarence, from thence arrived in London the
fourteenth day of February, and the Queen came thither the one and
twentieth day of the same month, being met upon Black-Heath by the
Lord Mayor and three hundred aldermen and prime citizens in gold chains
and rich costly habits with other sumptuous and brave devices as
pageants, speeches and shows to the great delight and content of both
their Maiesties.
The four and twentieth day of February following being St. Mathew’s Day
her coronation was solemnized in St. Peter’s Church in Westminster;
which being ended, she was afterwards royally conveyed into the great
hall and there under a rich canopy of State sat to dinner, upon whose
right hand sate at the end of the table the Lord Archbishop’s grace of
Canterbury and Henry called the rich Cardinal Bishop of Winchester,
upon the left hand of the Queen sat the King of Scots in a chair of
State, and was served with covered dishes, as the Bishops were. But
after them and upon the same side next to the Boards end were seated
the Dutchess of York and Countess of Huntington, the Earl of March
holding a scepter in his hand, kneeling upon the right side, the Earl
Marshal in the like manner kneeled upon the left hand of the Queen:
the Countess of Kent sat under the table at the right foot, and the
Countess Marshal at the left foot of her Majesty.
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