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ANTIQIJTTIES OF ENGLAND.
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PLATE XVIII.
THE CORONATION OF HIS QUEEN, ANNE OF BOHEMIA.
Take the following account of the same from Holinshed :
" News came (says that author) that the lady Anne, sister to the emperoure
Wenslaus, and fyanced wife to the kyng of England, was come to Caleis; wherupon
the parliamente was prorogued till after Christmas, that in the mean time marriage
myght be solemised, which was appointed after the Epiphanye : and forthwith
great preparation was made to receyve the bryde, that she myght be conveyed with
all honour unto the kyng's presence.
" Such as shoulde receyve hir at Dover, repayred thither, where, at hir
landing, a marvellous and right straunge wonder happened; for shee was no sooner
out of hir shippe, and got to lande in safety with all hir companye, but that forth-
with the water was so troubled and shaken, as the like thing had not in any man's
remembrance ever bin hearde of: so that the shippe in which the appoynted queene
came over, was terribly rent into pieces, and the residue so beaten one agaynste
another, that they were scattered heere and there, after a wonderfull manner.
Before hir comyng to the citye of London, shee was met on Blackheath, by the
mair and citizens of London, in most honourable wise, and so with greate triumph
convey'd to Westminster, where at the time appoynted, all the nobilitie of the
realme being assembled, shee was joyned in marriage to the king, and crowned
queene, by the archebyshop of Caunterbury, with all the glory and honour that
might be devised.
" There were also holden, for the more honour of the same marriage, solemne
justes for certayne dayes together, in which, as well the Englishmen as the new
queene's countrymen, shewed proofe of their manhoode and valiancie, whereby
prayse and commendation of knightly prowes was atchieved, not withoute domage
of both the parties."
35
PLATE XVIII.
THE CORONATION OF HIS QUEEN, ANNE OF BOHEMIA.
Take the following account of the same from Holinshed :
" News came (says that author) that the lady Anne, sister to the emperoure
Wenslaus, and fyanced wife to the kyng of England, was come to Caleis; wherupon
the parliamente was prorogued till after Christmas, that in the mean time marriage
myght be solemised, which was appointed after the Epiphanye : and forthwith
great preparation was made to receyve the bryde, that she myght be conveyed with
all honour unto the kyng's presence.
" Such as shoulde receyve hir at Dover, repayred thither, where, at hir
landing, a marvellous and right straunge wonder happened; for shee was no sooner
out of hir shippe, and got to lande in safety with all hir companye, but that forth-
with the water was so troubled and shaken, as the like thing had not in any man's
remembrance ever bin hearde of: so that the shippe in which the appoynted queene
came over, was terribly rent into pieces, and the residue so beaten one agaynste
another, that they were scattered heere and there, after a wonderfull manner.
Before hir comyng to the citye of London, shee was met on Blackheath, by the
mair and citizens of London, in most honourable wise, and so with greate triumph
convey'd to Westminster, where at the time appoynted, all the nobilitie of the
realme being assembled, shee was joyned in marriage to the king, and crowned
queene, by the archebyshop of Caunterbury, with all the glory and honour that
might be devised.
" There were also holden, for the more honour of the same marriage, solemne
justes for certayne dayes together, in which, as well the Englishmen as the new
queene's countrymen, shewed proofe of their manhoode and valiancie, whereby
prayse and commendation of knightly prowes was atchieved, not withoute domage
of both the parties."