Hampton Court ... Illustrated with forty-three drawings by Herbert ...

FESTIVITIES 37
satin paned, and caps of the same, with visors of
good proportion of visnomy; their hairs and beards
either of fine gold wire or of silver, or else of good
black silk; having sixteen torch-bearers, beside three
drums, and other persons attending them, with
visors, clothed all in satin, of the same colour.
And before his entering into the hall, ye shall
understand, that he came by water to the watergate,
without any noise; where were laid divers
chambers, and guns charged with shot, and at
his landing they were shot off, which made such
a rumble in the air, that it was like thunder.
It made all the noblemen, gentlemen, ladies, and
gentlewomen to muse what it should mean coming
so suddenly, they sitting quiet at a solemn
banquet ; under this sort: First, ye shall perceive
that the tables were set in the chamber of presence,
banquet-wise covered, and my Lord Cardinal sitting
under the cloth of estate, there having all his service
alone;and then was there set a lady and a nobleman,
or a gentleman or gentlewoman, throughout
all the tables in the chamber on the one side, which
were made adjoining as it were but one table. All
which order and devise was done and devised by
the Lord Sandes, then Lord Chamberlain to the King;
and by Sir Henry Guilford, Controller of the King's
Majesty's house. Then immediately after this great
shot of guns, the Cardinal desired the Lord Chamberlain
and the said Controller to look what it should
mean, as though he knew nothing of the matter. They,