Henry Machyn in Christ Church, London - 28 December, 1558
from A London Provisioner's Chronicle, 1550-1563:
The twenty-eighth day of December, [John] Christopherson, the late bishop of Chichester, was buried at Christ Church, London, with escutcheons and torches and eighteen staff torches … branch tapers, with four dozen pencels and four escutcheons and a half of buckram and a great banner of arms of the See of Chichester and his own arms and four banners of saints. And Mr. Clarenceux was the herald. And five bishops did offer at the Mass, and three sang masses that day.
cite as
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/1507548983727 accessed: 14 October, 2024
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hide composersMass | performed by Bishops |
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Date/Time | 28 December, 1558 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Mon, 09 Oct 2017 12:36:23 +0100
Approved on Fri, 01 Dec 2017 09:52:44 +0000