Henry Machyn in Westminster to Temple Bar, London - 27 January, 1555
from A London Provisioner's Chronicle, 1550-1563:
The twenty-seventh day of January there was a goodly procession came from Westminster unto Temple Bar with crosses and a hundred children in surplices and a hundred clerks and priests in copes singing. The which the copes were very rich of tissue and cloth of gold. And after that, Dean Weston carrying the Blessed Sacrament and a canopy borne over it and about it a twenty torches burning, and after it, a two hundred men and women.
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/1507202360464 accessed: 25 April, 2024
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hide composers| Religious procession | performed by Clerks priests and children |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 27 January, 1555 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:19:20 +0100
Approved on Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:28:28 +0000