The Story of London

by Henry B. Wheatley

[113] Gregory’s Chronicle (Historical Collections of a Citizen of London, ed. J. Gairdner, Camden Society, 1876), p. 165. This Chronicle contains a full description of the coronation and of the banquet in Westminster Hall.

[114] This description is taken from Fabyan’s Chronicle. The speeches in the pageant were by Lydgate, who also wrote a long poem on the ‘Coming of the King out of France to London.’

[115] The particulars respecting the sermon on Edward IV.’s title were obtained by Dr. J. Gairdner from a Latin Chronicle, printed by the Camden Society (Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles, 1880, pp. xxii. 173), as also his sitting in the royal seat (sedes regalis), which Dr. Gairdner supposes to be the King’s Bench.

[116] Stow’s Chronicle, p. 416.

[117] Information on London pageants can be obtained from a small octavo volume published by J. B. Nichols & Son in 1831, and from Nichols’s Progresses of Queen Elizabeth and James I.

[118] Liber Custumarum, p. 579.

[119] Riley’s Memorials, p. 42.

[120] See Mr. Riley’s Introduction to the Liber Custumarum, pp. xlviii.-liv.

[121] Liber Custumarum, p. xxxii.

[122] Glossary to Liber Custumarum, p. 795.