Henry Machyn et al. in River Thames to Westminster; St Paul's Churchyard, London - 29 October, 1555
from A London Provisioner's Chronicle, 1550-1563:
The twenty-ninth day of October there were two goodly pinnaces decked with guns and flags and streams and a thousand pencels, the pinnace painted, one white and blue and the other yellow and red and the oars and gun like color, and with trumpets and drums and all the crafts in barges and streamers. And at nine o'clock my new lord mayor and the sheriffs and the aldermen took barge at the Three Cranes, with trumpets and shawms and the waits playing. And so rode to Westminster and took his oath in the exchequer. And all… 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/1507567134772 accessed: 21 November, 2024
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hide composersCeremonial and pageant music | performed by Waits |
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Date/Time | 29 October, 1555 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |