The queen and her ladies had been invited over, and it was known that
Mary would be down from Windsor and come home with the king and the
court to Greenwich when we should return. So we all went over to
Westminster the night before the jousts, and were up bright and early
next morning to see all that was to be seen.

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[Here the editor sees fit to substitute a description of this
tournament taken from the quaint old chronicler, Hall.]

The morow beyng after dynner, at tyme conuenenient, the Quene with
her Ladyes repaired to see the Iustes, the trompettes blewe vp,
and in came many a noble man and Gentleman, rychely appeareiled,
takynge vp thir horses, after whome folowed certayne lordes
appareiled, they and thir horses, in cloth of Golde and russet and
tynsell; Knyghtes in cloth of Golde, and russet Veluet. And a
greate nomber of Gentlemen on fote, in russet satyn and yealow,
and yomen in russet Damaske and yealow, all the nether parte of
euery mans hosen Skarlet, and yealow cappes.

Then came the kynge vnder a Pauilion of golde, and purpul Veluet
embroudered, the compass of the Pauilion about, and valenced with
a flat, gold beaten in wyre, with an Imperiall croune in the top,
of fyne Golde, his bases and trapper of cloth of Golde, fretted
with Damask Golde, the trapper pedant to the tail. A crane and
chafron of stele, in the front of the chafro was a goodly plume
set full of musers or trimbling spangles of golde. After folowed
his three aydes, euery of them vnder a Pauilion of Crymosyn