chambers richly hung and decked over and above the gallant furniture
of the whole house, together with an ample and rich cupboard of
plate of all sorts, to furnish and serve him at all meals and other
services during his abode in London, which was, as is under-written,
until the third day of May; during which time, daily, divers
aldermen and the gravest personages of the said company did visit
him, providing all kinds of victuals for his table and his servants,
with all sorts of officers to attend upon him in good sort and
condition, as to such an ambassador of honour doth and ought to
appertain.

It is also to be remembered that, at his first entrance into his
chamber, there was presented unto him on the Queen's Majesty's
behalf for a gift and present, and his better furniture in apparel,
one rich piece of cloth of tissue, a piece of cloth of gold, another
piece of cloth of gold raised with crimson velvet, a piece of
crimson velvet ingrained, a piece of purple velvet, a piece of
damask purpled, a piece of crimson damask, which he most thankfully
accepted. In this beautiful lodging, refreshing and preparing
himself and his train with things requisite, he abode expecting the
King's Majesty's repair out of Flanders into England; whose Highness
arriving the one-and-twentieth of March, the same ambassador the
five-and-twentieth of March, being the Annunciation of Our Lady (the
day twelvemonth he took his leave from the Emperor his master), was
most honourably brought to the King's and Queen's Majesty's Court at
Westminster, where, accompanied first with the said viscount and
other notable personages and the merchants, he arriving at
Westminster Bridge, was there received with six lords, conducted
into a stately chamber, where by the Lords Chancellor, Treasurer,
Privy Seal, Admiral, Bishop of Ely, and other councillors, he was