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Within the gate, the houses were gaily decorated, the
windows being hung with tapestry, and filled with “lordes,
ladyes, gentylwomen and gentylmen ; and in the churches
of the towne, bells rang for myrthe.” Here they were
received by the chapter and prebendaries of St Gilea’s
Church in their richest vestments, and bearing the arm of
their patron saint, which they presented to their Majesties
to kiss ; while the good city vied with the ecclesiastics in
testifying their joy by pageants and quaint mysteries,
suited to the auspicious occasion. Nigh to the cross, at
which a fountain flowed with wine, whereof all might drink,’ they were received by Paris
and the rival goddesses, “with Mercure that gaffe him the apylle of gold for to gyffe to
the most fayre of the thre.” Further on was the salutation of the Angel Gabriel to the
Virgin ; while on another gate, probably the Netherbow, appeared the four virtues-Justice,
treading Nero under her feet; Force, bearing a pillar, and beneath her Holofernes, all
armed ; Temperance, holding a horse’s bit, and treading on Epicurus , and Prudence,
triumphing over Sardanapalus ! while the tabrets played merrily as the royal prdcession
passed through, and ao proceeded to the Abbey. There they were received by the Archbishop
of St Andrews, accompanied by a numerous retinue of bishops, abbots, and other
ecclesiastics, in their official robes, and conducted to the high altar, at which they
knelt, while the (‘ Te Dam” was sung, and then passed through the cloisters into the
Palace.
In the great chamber (the hangings of which represented the history of Troy, and the
windows filled with the arms of Scotland and England, and other heraldic devices, in
coloured glass), were many ladies of great name and nobly arrayed ; and the King letting
go the Queen, till she had kissed all the ladies, the Bishop of Moray acted as Master of
the Ceremonies, naming each as she saluted her :-“ After she had kyssed them all, the
Kyng kyssed her for her labour, and so took her again with low cortesay and bare hed,
and brought hyr to hyr charmer, and kyssed her agayn, and so took his leve right
humble ! ” ‘‘ The eighth day of the said month, every, man apointed himself richly for the marriage,
the ladies noblyaparelled, some in gowns of cloth of gold, others of crimson, velvet, and
black; others of satin, tynsell, and damask, and of chamlet of many colours; hoods,
chains, and collars upon their necks. . . . . . The Kyng sat in a chape of cramsyn
velvet, the pannells of that sam gylte, under hys cloth of astat of blew velvet fygured of
gold; ” with the Archbishop of York at his right hand, and the Earl of Surrey on his
left; while the Scottish bishops and nobles led the Queen frold her chamber, “crowned
with a varey ryche crowne of gold, garnished with pierry and perles, to the high altar,
where the marriage was solemnised by the Archbishop of Glasgow, amid the sound of
trumpets and the acclamation of the noble company.” At the dinner which followed, the
Queen was served at the first course with ‘‘ a wyld borres hed gylt, within a fayr platter,”
followed by sundry other equally queenly dishes. The chamber was adorned with hangl
Lelaod’e Collectan- vol. iv. p. 289.
VIoNmm-Ancient padlock, dug up in Greytiara’ Churchyard, 1841.
