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THE EURES. 155
In it Sir Francis Eure is duly mentioned as one of the justices. It
seems to have consisted of a stately procession of all the officials of the
Council and " Court, having another company of waits and good concerts
" of musicke, as cornets, sagbuts, and other winde instruments, playing
" and sounding
all the way before them ;
a great voley of shott was dis-
" charged by the muskettiers and calivers, which so pierced the ayre with
" the great noyse of drummers and sound of trumpets, fifes and flutes, and
" other instruments, as the like in these parts has not been seen, to the great
" admiration and rejoicing of all the spectators." To the church they
proceeded, where, after prayers and psalms, " one Mr. Thomas Picorn, a
" grave divine and worthy preacher, made a very learned sermon of an hour
" and a half long, on Psalm Ixxii. i ." Then to the market-place, where the
scholars of the school "pronounced" several speeches from a platform.
Thence to the court-house, where Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, Chief Justice
of Chester, "made a long oration in praise of the prince, "whereunto all the
" people with a loud voice prayed, and cried Amen, Amen." " Then, being
" full one of the clocke in the afternoon," to the castle, where there was a
great feast provided, " with excellent musicke, and drinking to
the happie
" health and prosperitie of our said gracious Prince of Wales." After which
the day closed with "evening sacrifice" at the " chappell, when much
" rejoicing was within doors, and excellent musicke of voyces in singing
" many psalms and new anthems within the said chappell." All the
banners used were then " orderlie placed in the said chappell, where " they
now remain as remarkable trophies of that solemnitie."
And the following morning they all reassembled there to hear another
"very learned sermon preached by Master Thomas Kaye, the King's
" chaplaine attending the Lord President and Council, on Ps. cxvi. 12, 13."
After which " every man returned to their home
;
the musicke, " ringing,
and bonfires continuing, to the great comfort of all his Majesty's said
" loving and faithful subjects, all the said day."
Lord Eure seems to have resigned the same year, and died the year
following. His first wife, Mary, daughter of Sir John Dawnay, of Sessay,
died in 1612, and was buried in Ludlow Church, where her monument, in
black and white marble, is on the south side of the chancel. His second
wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Spenser, of Althorp, and widow, first,
of George Gary, Lord Hunsdon, and second of
Sir Thomas Chamberlain,
only survived him twelve months, dying 1617.
Lord Gerard and Lord Northampton succeeded him ;
after whom
John, first Earl of Bridgwater, was appointed, in succession, Lord President
in 1633. In his tenure of office occurred that which has shed an
undying halo on the office, and on the Castle of Ludlow, viz., the performance
of Milton's " Masque of Comus." Lord Bridgwater being appointed
Lord President of Wales, entered upon his official residence with great