[458] Sharpe, Letter Book, L. 187, prints an order of 23 Oct. 1481 forbidding from thenceforth any 'disguysyng nor pageoun', when the Mayor went from his house to the water or the water to his house, 'as it hath been used nowe of late afore this time'. Halle, ii. 232, describes the reception of Anne Boleyn.
[459] Machyn, 47, 72, 96, 117, 155, 270, 294. In 1553 were a 'duyllyll' and 'ii grett wodyn, with ii grett clubes all in grene, and with skwybes bornyng'. For 1540, cf. Mediaeval Stage, ii. 166. A fragment of a Salters' pageant, printed by E. D. Adams in M. L. N. xxxii. 285, from T. C. C. MS. B. 15, 39, may belong to 1530 or 1542, when they had Mayors.
[460] Clode, ii. 262; Nicholl, Ironmongers, 84; cf. ch. xii (Westminster). The subject in 1566 is not recorded. Richard Baker, painter-stainer, had £18 for the pageant and everything except the children and their apparel; John Tailor 40s. to find six children 'as well for the speeches as songs'; James Pele 30s. 'for his devise and paynes in the paggent'; and Thomas Giles of Lombard Street (cf. chh. iii, v) £5 10s. for apparel. The company paid 5s. 'to the prynter for printing of poses speches and songs, that were spoken and songe by the children in the pagent'.
[461] Clode, Memorials, 115; Nicholl, Ironmongers, 97, 'Paid unto James Pele and Peter Baker, for the devise of a pageant, which tok none effecte, xxvjˢ. viijᵈ.'
[462] W. Smythe, A breffe description of London (1575); cf. Mediaeval Stage, ii. 165. Dramatic allusions are 2 Promos and Cassandra, i. 6, '[Enter] Two men, apparrelled lyke greene men at the Mayor feast, with clubbes of fyreworke'; Cobbler's Prophecy, 469, 'comes there a Pageant by, Ile stand out of the green mens way for burning my vestment'; Dutch Courtesan, iii. 1, 117, 'all will scarce make me so high as one of the giants' stilts that stalks before my Lord Mayor's pageant'; Northward Hoe, ii. 1, p. 195, 'Simon and Jude's gentlemen ushers'.
[463] 2 R. Hist. Soc. Trans. ix. 252, 'a representation in the shape of a house with a pointed roof painted in blue and golden colours and ornamented with garlands, on which sat some young girls in fine apparel, one holding a book, another a pair of scales, the third a sceptre. What the others had I forget.' He gives full details of all the installation ceremonies.
[464] Chamberlain, 93.
[465] Clode, Early History, i. 264, 390, cites payments for a ship, a pageant, a lion, and a camel, and to Mr. Haines, schoolmaster of the Merchant Taylors school, for a wagon and the apparel of ten scholars, who represented Apollo and the Muses before the Mayor in Cheapside. Young, Barber-Surgeons, 111, prints the Lord Mayor's letter of 22 Oct. 1603 directing that there should be no show that year. Felix Kingston entered 'a thing touching the pagent' in S. R. on 29 Oct. 1604 (Arber, iii. 273).
[466] Machyn, 261, 309.
[467] Stowe, Annales (1615), 887.