to take care for the bringing of the pageant from Mr. Halsie's to the Hall and to set it up there. Mr. Harrison gave notice that he and Mr. Gorte did agree to give xliijs for the hire of six horses to carry the men in armour, and three men to wait uppon them. In consideration of Anthony Mundy's good pformance of his business undertaken, and of the spoyling of his pageant apparaile by the foule weather, it was agreed to give him three pounds as a free guift of the Companie besides and above the contract. The figures introduced into the next page are copied from an ancient drawing in the possession of the Fishmongers' Company, representing the principal objects in the pageant provided for the mayoralty of Mr. Alderman Leman, and before alluded to.* This pageant, entitled "Chrysanaleia, the Golden Fishing; or, Honour of Fishmongers," was also the production of Anthony Munday; † and we may reasonably conclude that some of the characters and costumes which he exhibited in 1616 would again be made use of, in the pageant of 1618 without any material alteration. The first of these figures is one of six tributary kings, who rode on "either side of the King of the Moors, who in full royal costume, crown, and sceptre, is gallantly * A description of this pageant, with some interesting particulars of the Fishmongers' Company, written by John Gough Nichols, Esq., F.S.A., illustrated with fac-simile engravings of the original drawings, still preserved at Fishmongers' Hall, was printed at the expense of that company in 1844, and forms a very elegant volume. Anthony Munday was born in 1553, and followed the trade of a draper in Cripplegate, and was also a member of the Drapers' Company. He was a voluminous writer, and, besides his Continuation of Stowe's Survey of London, was the author of various plays and ballads. His first pageant is supposed to have been written in 1605, for the Merchant Taylors, and from 1614 he continued for several years to be the favourite city poet. He died the 10th August, 1633, and was buried at St. Stephen's Coleman Street, where a monument was erected to his memory. In the drawing they are represented walking. ་་་་་་་ ་ mounted on a golden leopard, and scatters gold and silver coin everywhere about him." The tributary kings carry each one a dart and an ingot of gold or silver. The other two figures represent a standard-bearer and a halberdier. No stipulations appear to have been made with Munday in 1618 for providing the Ironmongers' Company with printed books of the speeches, nor is there any charge of this description in the expenses of the pageants, which are entered considerably at length and contain some curious particulars. Paid Robert Drowdge for a kettle drum with 4 trumpeters on horseback More paid to Mr. John Richardson for 6 green men and More paid in full for 32 trumpeters More paid to Thomas Lockwood, for 6 drummers and 3 fifes, at 18s a peece. More paid John Owens, for 10 fencers to provide themselves scarfes More paid the cittie waights, their fee 5 2 5 12 0 1 5 0 4 0 0 . 8 10 0 200 More for 48 yds. of Levant taffety, at 16a; 4 ells of 5 doz. and 2 round redd capps with bands 4 long redd capps without ribbons More paid Mr. Arthur Hall, clothmaker, 2 Suffolk azures, More paid Abraham Cartwright, for 8 blew clothes More for 4 almond comfits put in the bullets of the cannon 0 4 ( More paid Anthony Munday and Grinkin, in pt of the More paid them in full payment More paid Anthony Munday, for pageant More for the standing of the pageant at the Bell in Carter For removing of the pageant to the Hall For the ostridge More paid Thomas Steele, for his gowne. More paid Thos. Susam, for a greene cloth More paid Oliver Geldino", for his gowne More paid Mr. Bell, for marshalling the showe More paid Francis Lownds, for furnishing plate and linen More paid William Winshell, for painting worke More paid Robert Munday, for two cettle drum bañers For 2 new streamers of eight yards For 2 new streamers of five yards For 3 new streamers of 2 yds. and 2 new do. of 11⁄2 yard 2 10 0 6 15 0 0 16 0 For 58 scutcheons paynting 3 17 4 For mending a q' of the banner wh the King's armes For mending 2 cettle drum banners For 2 staves of 22 foot a pece for the standard, and 4 staves of 11 ft a pece for the supporters For 4 banner staves of 18 ft a pece 0 6 8 0 10 0 0.10 0 For 14 doz. of whiffling staves and 1 doz. of truncheons For working and colouring of an old ancient staffe, and a faire new head to the same For y caridge of the hangings of the Mercers to the For the clerk of the Mers his fee for the same For taynter hooks to hang the cloth on For hanging them up, taking them down, and folding More paid the porter of Blackwell Hall More paid Mr. Leate, for dinner charges, as per bill More for 5 single peces of redd Muccadoes, and 61 yards do. 19s More paid Mr. Edwards, the cittie carpenter, for taking More paid for taking up the sparr at Paul's gate More paid to S. Peters, in charge for the waights standing streamer More paid Mr. Jerma, for a tapestry chaire for the Geald hall show . 5 2 10 0 More paid John Yate and Edward Ballard, to pvide meate for the children's breakfasts More paid for carrying the whifflers to Westminster and back again More paid for making 62 blue gownes, and 52 cotes and sleves 6 4 For a barrell of powder, for the cannon for the chambers, and for 4 soldiers on foote For a dinner for the 40 soldiers at Young's in Cornhill For a piece and a half of match for the foot soldiers. 62 20 0 0 6 0 014 For the loan of 12 feathers for six horses and their riders . 2 10 |