Monday, being the 18th day [of April 1603], His Majesty was feasted by the Lord Mayor of York, whom he knighted by the name of Sir Robert Walter [co. York]: at whose house there was such plenty of all delicates [delicacies] as could be possibly devised.
After dinner, His Majesty, following the rule of mercy he had begun with, commanded all the prisoners to be set at liberty, except Papists and wilful murderers.
Which deed of charity effected, he left York, and rode to Grimstone [Hall], being a house of Sir Edward Stanhope's; where he lay that night, and dined the next day: His Majesty and all his train having their most bountiful entertainment; all the Offices in the house standing open for all comers, every man without check eating and drinking at pleasure.
Before His Majesty's departure from Grimstone, he knighted these Gentlemen:
| Sir Roger Aston | [co. Chest.] |
| Sir Thomas Aston | [co. Chest.] |
| Sir Thomas Holt | [co. Chest.] |
| Sir James Harington | [co. Rutl.] |
| Sir Charles Montague | [co. Northt.] |
| Sir Thomas Dawney | [co. York] |
| Sir William Bambrough | [co. York] |
| Sir Francis Lovell | [co. Norf.] |
| Sir Thomas Gerrard | [co. Lanc.] |
| Sir Robert Walter [Lord] Mayor of York | [co. York] |
| Sir Ralph Con[n]i[g]sby | [co. Hertf.] |
| Sir Richard Musgrave | [co. York] |
The 19th day [of April 1603] being Tuesday, His Majesty took his journey towards Doncaster. Where, by the way, he went to Pomfret [Pontefract], to see the Castle: which when he had at pleasure viewed; he took horse and rode to Doncaster where he lodged all night at the sign of the Bear in an Inn; giving the host of the house, for his good entertainment, a lease of a Manor House in a reversion, of good value.
The 20th day [of April 1603], being Wednesday, His Majesty rode towards Worsop [Manor], the noble [Gilbert Talbot] Earl of Shrewsbury's House: and at Batine [? Bawtry] the High Sheriff of Yorkshire took his leave of the King, and there Master [Roger] Askoth [or Ascough, or Ayscue] the High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire received him; being gallantly appointed both with horse and man.
And so he conducted His Majesty on, till he came within a mile of Blyth: where His Highness lighted, and sat down on a bankside to eat and drink.