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 Provider: University of Victoria Database: The Map of Early Modern London Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - ELEC A1 - Peele, George ED - Jenstad, Janelle T1 - The Device of the Pageant Borne before Wolstan Dixie T2 - The Map of Early Modern London ET - 7.0 PY - 2022 DA - 2022/05/05 CY - Victoria PB - University of Victoria LA - English UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/DIXI2.htm UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml/standalone/DIXI2.xml ER - Peele, George. The Device of the Pageant Borne before Wolstan Dixie. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/DIXI2.htm. Peele, George. The Device of the Pageant Borne before Wolstan Dixie. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/DIXI2.htm. Peele, G. 2022. The Device of the Pageant Borne before Wolstan Dixie. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/DIXI2.htm.

Commemorative pageant book prepared for the inauguration of Sir Wolston Dixie as Lord Mayor of London on October 29, 1585. Pageants coordinated by George Peele on behalf of the Worshipful Company of the Skinners. Book printed by Edward Allde. Diplomatic transcription prepared by the MoEML Team. See https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/DIXI2.htm for full credits and editorial procedures.

 Chris Horne Chris Horne CH

Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Chris Horne was an honours student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. His primary research interests included American modernism, affect studies, cultural studies, and digital humanities.

 Kate LeBere Kate LeBere KL

Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. She published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. During her time at MoEML, Kate made significant contributions to the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey of London, old-spelling anthology of mayoral shows, and old-spelling library texts. She authored the MoEML’s first Project Management Manual and quickstart guidelines for new employees and helped standardize the Personography and Bibliography. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.

 Tracey El Hajj Tracey El Hajj TEH

Junior Programmer 2018-2020. Research Associate 2020-2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019-20 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life. Tracey was also a member of the Linked Early Modern Drama Online team, between 2019 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.

 Joey Takeda Joey Takeda JT

Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.

 Chase Templet Chase Templet CT

Research Assistant, 2017-2019. Chase Templet was a graduate student at the University of Victoria in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) stream. He was specifically focused on early modern repertory studies and non-Shakespearean early modern drama, particularly the works of Thomas Middleton.

 Tye Landels-Gruenewald Tye Landels-Gruenewald TLG

Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.

 Zaqir Virani Zaqir Virani ZV

Research Assistant, 2013-2014. Zaqir Virani completed his MA at the University of Victoria in April 2014. He received his BA from Simon Fraser University in 2012, and has worked as a musician, producer, and author of short fiction. His research focused on the linkage of sound and textual analysis software and the work of Samuel Beckett.

 Quinn MacDonald Quinn MacDonald QM

Research Assistant, 2013. Quinn MacDonald was a fourth-year honours English student at the University of Victoria. Her areas of interest included postcolonial theory and texts, urban agriculture, journalism that isn’t lazy, fine writing, and roller derby. She was the director of community relations for The Warren Undergraduate Review and senior editor of Concrete Garden magazine.

 Sarah Milligan Sarah Milligan SM

Research Assistant, 2012-2014. MoEML Research Affiliate. Sarah Milligan completed her MA at the University of Victoria in 2012 on the invalid persona in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese. She has also worked with the <ref target="http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/">Internet Shakespeare Editions</ref> and with Dr. Alison Chapman on the Victorian Poetry Network, compiling an index of Victorian periodical poetry.

 Kim McLean-Fiander Kim McLean-Fiander KMF

Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.

 Mark Kaethler Mark Kaethler MK

Mark Kaethler is Department Chair, Arts, at Medicine Hat College; Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, with MoEML; and Assistant Director for LEMDO. They are the author of Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama (De Gruyter, 2021) and a co-editor with Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Janelle Jenstad of Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge, 2018). Their work has appeared in The London Journal, Early Theatre, Literature Compass, Digital Studies/Le Champe Numérique, and Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, as well as in several edited collections. Mark’s research interests include digital media and humanities; textual editing; game studies; and early modern drama.

 Janelle Jenstad Janelle Jenstad JJ

Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).

 Martin D. Holmes Martin D. Holmes MDH

Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.

 Edward Allde Edward Allde 1555/56-1563/64 1627/28

Printer and bookseller. Husband of Elizabeth Allde. Son of John Allde. Father of Jonathan Allde.

ODNB Wikipedia Sir Wolstan Dixie Sir Wolstan Dixie Sheriff Mayor 1524/25-1525/26 1594/95

Sheriff of London 1575-1576. Mayor 1585-1586. Member of the Skinners’ Company. Knighted on 6 February 1586. Buried at St. Michael Bassishaw.

MASL ODNB Wikipedia Elizabeth I Elizabeth I Queen of England Queen of Ireland Gloriana Good Queen Bess 1533-09-17 1603-03-24

Queen of England and Ireland 1558-1603.

ODNB EB Wikipedia Virtue Virtue

Personification of virtue. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows, Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London and John Stow’s Survey of London. See also Arete.

 Country Country

Personification of the nation and land. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Thames Thames Thamesis

Personification of the Thames. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 London London

Personification the city of London. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 George Peele George Peele 1566/67 1596/97

Playwright.

ODNB Wikipedia Time Time

Personification of time. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows and John Stow’s Survey of London.

 Troya-Nova Troya-Nova New Troy

Personification of the geographic area and settlement of Roman London. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Ceres Ceres

Goddess of agriculture in Roman mythology.

EM Wikipedia Loyalty Loyalty

Personification of loyalty. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral pageants.

 Magnanimity Magnanimity

Personification of magnanimity. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 First Nymph

Minor female nature deity drawn from Greek and Roman mythology. Appears as a character in mayoral shows.

 Second Nymph

Minor female nature deity drawn from Greek and Roman mythology. Appears as a character in mayoral shows.

 Third Nymph

Minor female nature deity drawn from Greek and Roman mythology. Appears as a character in mayoral shows.

 Fourth Nymph

Minor female nature deity drawn from Greek and Roman mythology. Appears as a character in mayoral shows.

 Sailor Sailor

Stock sailor character. Appears in mayoral shows.

 Science Science

Personification of science. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral pageants.

 Soldier Soldier

Stock soldier character. Appears in mayoral shows.

 Lud Lud King of Britain

King of Britain. Appears in Geoffrey of Monouth’s History of the Kings of Britain. Early modern Londoners believed him to be a historical figure.

EM OR Wikipedia Him that Rid on a Luzarne Him that Rid on a Luzarne

Unnamed character who appears in mayoral shows.

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The EEBO-TCP is a partnership with ProQuest and with more than 150 libraries to generate highly accurate, fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts corresponding to books from the Early English Books Online Database. Website.

 This work, the earliest extant mayoral show, survives in a single copy held by the Bodleian Library at Oxford University [Call number: Gough Lond. 122 (1)]. The quarto volume has 8 leaves. Collation: A4 (A2 signed). The Bodleian copy was filmed for Early English Books I in 1976 (Reel 1526:11), STC 19533; the film was digitized for Early English Books Online. Zaqir Virani and Quinn MacDonald prepared the transcription from the EEBO images, independently of the EEBO-TCP transcription. Virani checked the transcription against EEBO-TCP’s transcription. Janelle Jenstad checked Virani’s transcription against the EEBO images. Jenstad viewed the Bodleian copy in 2004. DEEP 122. Dyce, Alexander, ed. The Works of George Peele. 2 vols. London: William Pickering, 1829. Print. EEBO-TCP (EEBO Text Creation Partnership). [The Text Creation Partnership offers searchable diplomatic transcriptions of many EEBO items.] Early English Books Online (EEBO). Proquest LLC. London

The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (London).

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Added xml:ids to pb elements using utilities/add_sig_ids_to_shows.xsl.Added xml:ids to pb elements using utilities/add_sig_ids_to_shows.xsl. Checked transcription and tagging. Began implementing into new template. Collapsed element rendition using XSLT. Changed calendar value from "julian" to "julianSic" using XSLT. Standardized respStmts for JENS1, MCFI1, and HOLM3 and added TAKE1 as Junior Programmer. Added XInclude for listPrefixDef in the header. Added global publicationStmt through XInclude. CSS document styling Eliminated superfluous catRef elements from the header. Completed formatting, pagebreak, toponyms, dates, and all other base level encoding outside of FRONT DESC and PERS work. Put change elements inside revisionDesc into the correct (latest first) order. Added profileDesc containing document type information expressed in catRef elements. Began encoding. Created document and began entering docTitle info.
Printer’s ornament surrounds title-page text
THE DEVICEof the Pageant bornebefore Woolſtone Dixi LORD Maior of theCitie of London. An. 1585.October 29.
Printer’s ornament
IMPRINTEDat LONDON byEdward Allde.1585. *
FRom where y͑ Sun dooth ſettle in his wayn And yoakes his Horſes to his fiery Carte, And in his way giues life to Ceres Corne, Euen from y͑ parching Zone behold I come A ſtraunger ſtraungely mounted as you ſée, Seated vpon a luſty Luzerns back. And offer, to your Honour (good my Lord) This Emblem thus in ſhowe ſignificant. Loe louely London riche and fortunate, Famed through the Worlde for peace and happineſſe: Is héer aduaunc’t and ſet in Higheſt ſeat, Beawtified throughly as her ſtate requires. Firſt, ouer her a Princely Trophey ſtandes, Of beaten golde: a riche and Royall Armes: Wher-too this London euer more bequeathes, Seruice of Honour and of Loyaltie. Her props are well aduiſed Maieſtrates, That carefully attend her perſon ſtill. The honeſt Franklin and the Huſband-man, Layes downe his ſackes of Corne at Londons feet, And bringes ſuch preſents as the Countrie yeeldes. The pleaſaunt Thames a ſweet and daintye Nymphe, For Londons good conuayes with gentle ſtreame, And ſafe and eaſie paſſage what ſhee can, And keepes her leaping Fiſhes in her lappe. The Souldier and the Sayler franckly bothe, For Londons ayde are all in readines, To Uenture and to fight by Land and Sea. And this thriſe reuerend honorable Dame, Science the ſap of euery common wealth. Surnamed Mechanicall or Liberall Is vowed to honour London with her ſkill, And London by theſe freendes ſo happy made: Firſt thankes her God the Author of her peace, And next, with humble geſture as becomes, In meeke and lowly manner dooth ſhe yeeld, Her ſelfe her welthe with hart and willingnes. Unto the perſon of her gracious Queene, Elizabeth renowned through the world, Stall’d and annointed by the higheſt powre,  The God of Kings that with his holy hand,  Hath long defended her and her England. This now remaines right honourable Lord, That carefully you doo attend and Keep, This louely Lady rich and beautifull, The Iuel wherwithall your ſoueraigne Queene, Hath put your honor louingly in truſt: That you may adde to Londons dignity, And Londons dignity may adde to yours, That woorthely you may be counted one, Among the number of a many moe: Carefull leeftenaunts, carefull Maieſtrates, For Londons welfare and her worthines. NEW Troye I hight whome Lud my Lord ſurnam’d,  London the glory of the weſtern ſide: Throughout the world is louely London fam’d,  So farre as any ſea comes in with tide. Whoſe peace and calme vnder her Royall Quéene: Hath long bin ſuch as like was neuer ſéene. Then let me liue to caroll of her name, that ſhe may euer liue and neuer dye:  Her ſacred ſhrine ſet in the houſe of fame, conſecrate to eternall memorie.  My peerles miſtreſſe ſoueraigne of my peace:  Long may ſhe ioy with honours great increaſe. THe Cuntry and the Thames affoord their aide, and carefull Maieſtrates their care attend: All Engliſh harts are glad, and well appaide, in readines their London to defend. Defend them Lord and theſe faire Nimphs likewiſe: that euer they may doo this ſacrifice. THe greateſt treaſure that a Prince can haue, dooth louely London offer to her Queene, Such loyaltie as like was neuer ſeene. and ſuch as any Engliſh hart can craue. FOr Londons aide the Cuntry giues ſupplie, of needfull things, and ſtore of euery graine: London giue thanks to him that ſits on hie, had neuer Towne leſſe cauſe for to complaine, And loue and ſerue the ſoueraigne of thy peace: Under whoſe raigne thou haſt this rich encreaſe. WIth ſiluer glide my pleaſant ſtreames doo runne, where leaping fiſhes play betwixt the ſhores: This gracious good hath God and kinde begun, for Londons vſe with help of Sailes and Ores. London reioyce and giue thy God the praiſe: For her whoſe highnes lengths thy happy daies.  ARmour of ſafe defence the Souldier hath, So louely London carefully attends: To keep her ſacred ſoueraigne from ſkathe, That all this engliſh land ſo well defends.  And ſo farre London bids her ſouldiers goe, As well may ſerue to ſheeld this land from woe. THe Sayler that in colde and quaking tide, the wrathfull ſtormes of Winters rage dooth bide  With ſtreamers ſtretcht, prepares his mery bark, for cuntries welth to ſet his men awark. That Queene and Cuntry eazely may ſee: The Sea-man ſerues his Prince in his degree. FOr Londons ſafety and her happines,  the Souldier and the Sayler may you ſee: All well prepar’d and put in redines,  to doo ſuch ſeruice as may fitting be, and Arte with them doo ioyne and they with me. London then ioy and let all ages knowe, What duty to thy ſoueraigne thou doo ſhowe. THus with the morning Sun and euening ſtarre, theſe holy lights ſhall burne, the cheerfull flame  With ſweeteſt odour ſhalt perfume as farre  as India ſtands in honor of her name. Whoſe Trophey we adore with ſacred rights: With ſweeteſt incenſe and with endles lights. SO long as Sunne dooth lend the world his light, or any graſſe dooth growe vpon the ground: With holy flame, our Torches ſhall burne bright, and fame ſhall brute with golden trumpets ſound  The honor of her ſacred regiment: That claimes this honorable monument. OUr holy lights ſhall burne continually, to ſignifie our duties to her ſtate: Whoſe excellent and princely maieſtye, approoues it ſelfe to be moſte fortunate. VErtue ſhall witnes of her woorthines,  and fame ſhall regiſter her princely deeds: The world ſhall ſtill pray for her happines, from whome our peace and quietnes proceeds. Gallia victa dedit flores inuicta Leones, Anglia, ius Belli in flore, Leone ſuum: O ſic ô ſemper ferat Anglià laeta triumphos, Inclita gallorum Flore, Leone ſuo.
Donne by George Peele Maiſter ofartes in Oxford.
Printer’s ornament