Henry Machyn in Blackfriars, London - 20 September, 1558
from A London Provisioner's Chronicle, 1550-1563:
The twentieth day of September was buried my Lady Cicely Mansfield at Clerkenwell with a herald of arms. And brought unto the Blackfriars in Smithfield, the which was St. Bartholomew, with four banners of saints and a two dozen torches and two great white branches and four gilt candlesticks and arms on them, and many clerks singing and many mourners. … And the friars sang dirge after their song and buried her after their fashion—without clerks or priests. And after, to the place to drink. And the morrow, three masses sung Mass, and after two prick-song … more >>
Henry Machyn, and Colette Moore, Marilyn Miller and Richard W. Bailey (ed.), A London Provisioner's Chronicle, 1550-1563. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1507217925912 accessed: 16 April, 2024
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hide composers| Prick-song mass | |
| A dirge | performed by Friars |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 20 September, 1558 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |