The Device of the Pageant Author Thomas Nelson Editor Mark Kaethler Editor Janelle Jenstad Transcriber EEBO-TCP Transcriber Zaqir Virani Encoder Zaqir Virani Encoder Chase Templet Markup Editor Kate LeBere Markup Editor Chris Horne CSS Editor Zaqir Virani CSS Editor Chase Templet CSS Editor Chris Horne Transcription Proofreader Chris Horne Data Manager Tye Landels Junior Programmer Joey Takeda Programmer Martin Holmes Associate Project Director Kim McLean-Fiander Project Director Janelle Jenstad The Map of Early Modern Londonhttp://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/includes.xmlVictoria, BC, Canada
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 Provider: University of Victoria Database: The Map of Early Modern London Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - ELEC A1 - Nelson, Thomas ED - Jenstad, Janelle T1 - The Device of the Pageant 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/DEVI3.htm UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml/standalone/DEVI3.xml TY - UNP ER - Nelson, Thomas. The Device of the Pageant. 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/DEVI3.htm. Draft. Nelson, Thomas. The Device of the Pageant. 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/DEVI3.htm. Draft. Nelson, T. 2022. The Device of the Pageant. 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/DEVI3.htm. Draft. Original transcription from EEBO-TCP, STC 18423; new transcription by Zaqir Virani. 131. 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).

(LOND5.xml)

Commemorative pageant book prepared for the inauguration of Sir John Allott as Lord Mayor of London in 1590. Pageants coordinated by Thomas Nelson on behalf of the Worshipful Company of the Fishmongers. Printer unknown. Diplomatic transcription prepared by the MoEML Team. See https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/DEVI3.htm for full credits and editorial procedures.

The Julian calendar, in use in the British Empire until September 1752. This calendar is used for dates where the date of the beginning of the year is ambigious.

The Julian calendar with the calendar year regularized to beginning on 1 January.

The Julian calendar with the calendar year beginning on 25 March. This was the calendar used in the British Empire until September 1752.

The Gregorian calendar, used in the British Empire from September 1752. Sometimes referred to as New Style (NS). Years run from January 1 through December 31.

The Anno Mundi (year of the world) calendar is based on the supposed date of the creation of the world, which is calculated from Biblical sources. At least two different creation dates are in common use. See Anno Mundi (Wikipedia).

Regnal dates are given as the number of years into the reign of a particular monarch. Our practice is to tag such dates with calendar=regnal, and provide an equivalent date using a more systematic calendar (usually Julian) in a custom dating attribute.

 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.

 Fame Fame

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

 Peace Peace

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

 Wisdom Wisdom

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

 Plenty Plenty

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

 Richard II Richard II King of England

King of England 1377-1399. Buried at Westminster Abbey.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Time Time

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

 Sir William Walworth Sir William Walworth Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1370-1371. Mayor 1374-1375 and 1380-1381. Member of the Fishmongers’ Company. Known for killing Wat Tyler. Founder of a college at St. Michael, Crooked Lane. Appears in Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London. Buried at St. Michael, Crooked Lane.

MASL Wikipedia Sir John Allott Sir John Allott Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London from 1580-1581. Mayor 1590-1591. Member of the Fishmongers’ Company. Knighted in 1591. Died in office. Monument at St. Margaret Moses.

MASL Wikipedia Ambition Ambition

Personification of ambition. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows and Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London.

 Commonwealth Commonwealth

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

 Concord Concord

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

 God’s Truth God’s Truth

Personification of God’s truth. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Him that Rideth on the Unicorn Him that Rideth on the Unicorn

Unnamed character who appears in mayoral shows.

 Him that Rideth on the Merman Him that Rideth on the Merman

Unnamed character who appears in mayoral shows.

 Hob Carter Hob Carter

Participant in the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.

 Jack Straw Jack Straw

Leader of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.

 Labour Labour

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

 Loyalty Loyalty

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

 Policy Policy

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

 Science Science

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

 Tom Miller Tom Miller

Participant in the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.

 Thomas Nelson Thomas Nelson

Ballad writer.

ODNB Wikipedia Wat Tyler Wat Tyler

Leader of the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Worshipful Company of FishmongersFishmongers’ Company

The Fishmongers’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London, formed in 1536 out of the merger of the Stock Fishmongers and the Salt Fishmongers. The Fishmongers were fourth in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers is still active and maintains a website at https://fishmongers.org.uk/ that includes a history of the company.

The coat of arms of the Fishmongers’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size image]
Worshipful Company of GoldsmithsGoldsmiths’ Company

The Goldsmiths’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Goldsmiths were fifth in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths is still active and maintains a website at https://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company and explains the company’s role in the annual Trial of the Pyx.

The coat of arms of the Goldsmiths’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size image]
Early English Books Online–Text Creation PartnershipEEBO-TCP

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.

Most MoEML documents, or significant fragments with xml:id attributes, can be addressed using the mol: prefix and accessed through the web application with their id + .xml.

The molagas prefix points to the shape representation of a location on MoEML’s OpenLayers3-based rendering of the Agas Map.

Links to page-images in the Chadwyck-Healey Early English Books Online (EEBO) repository. Note that this is a subscription service, and may not be accessible to those accessing it from locations outside member institutions.

Links to page-images in the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA).

The mdt (MoEML Document Type) prefix used on catRef/target points to a central taxonomy in the includes file.

The mdtlist (MoEML Document Type listing) prefix used in linking attributes points to a listings page constructed from a category in the central MDT taxonomy in the includes file. There are two variants, one with the plain xml:id of the category, meaning all documents in the specified category, and one with the suffix _subcategories, meaning all subcategories of the category.

The molgls (MoEML gloss) prefix used on term/corresp points to a a glossary entry in the GLOSS1.xml file.

This molvariant prefix is used on ref/target attributes during automated generation of gazetteer index files. It points to an element in the generated variant spellings listing file which lists all documents which contain a particular spelling variant for a location.

This molajax prefix is used on ref/target attributes during the static build process, to specify links which point to MoEML resources which should not be loaded into the source page during standalone processing; instead, these should be turned into links to the XML source documents, and at HTML page load time, these should be turned into AJAX calls. This is to handle the scenario in which a page such as an A-Z index of the whole site would end up containing virtually the whole site inside itself.

The molstow prefix is used on facs attributes to link to the HCMC verison of the Stow facsimiles. Usually the first group is the year (1633) and then last is the image number (0001).

The molshows prefix is used on facs attributes to link to the copies of page-images from mayoral shows stored in the london account on the HCMC server. The first group is the year (1633), the second is the source repository, and then last is the image file name.

The sb prefix is used on ref/target attributes to link to Stow’s Books URLs at UToronto.

These digital editions are diplomatic transcriptions. Our goal has been to provide clean, readable TEI transcriptions of all the extant mayoral shows from 1585 to 1639. Because this corpus has never before been made available in one place, we provide XML base texts that other scholars can repurpose according to our Creative Commons Licence.

MoEML transcriptions of the mayoral shows are based intially on the EEBO-TCP transcriptions. A MoEML research assistant or contributing scholar has carefully checked the TCP transcription at least once against the EEBO images (and sometimes against the Early English Books I microfilms when the film is clearer). We silently correct errors in TCP transcriptions and fill in many of the gaps left by TCP transcribers. When we make surmises about characters or supply characters in places where the text has been cropped, damaged, overinked, or underinked, we record our supplied values using supplied. The transcription is checked again by another MoEML research assistant, and finally by the Project Director or Assistant Project Director. Users may report transcription errors via the Send Feedback link on each page.

We treat title pages, dedications, and prefaces as front matter, encoded with the front element. We treat speeches, narrative descriptions, and interpretations as the body of the text, encoded with the body element. We treat colophons and concluding statements, including the word Finis, as back matter, encoded with the back element.

Our practice has been to preserve most of the typographical, orthographical, and compositorial features of the original text. We use CSS styling to describe the peculiarities of font and justification. We also include links to the page images on EEBO; users who subscribe to EEBO may thus view the pages at any point and judge our transcription thereof for themselves.

Our encoders follow these rules for preserving or regularizing the text: Textual Component Rule Long ſ

TCP transcriptions do not preserve the long ſ. We have restored the long ſ through a series of find-and-replace functions based on typical early modern printing house habits, followed by a careful human checking against the digital images of the original.

 Capitalization

We preserve the capitalization of the source, including the second upper-case letter after a woodblock dropped capital.

 Italicization

We preserve the italicization of words by tagging them with a hi element with a style value of font-style: italic;. We consider italicization to be a bibliographic code rather than a linguistic code.

 Interchangeable Characters

We retain the interchangeable u/v and i/j and the use of vv for w. These are not marked up with any encoding.

 Ligatures

We retain the vowel digraphs using the appropriate Unicode characters (e.g., æ). Typographical ligatures (e.g., fl) have been silently expanded.

 Nasal Tildes

We retain the nasal tilde over vowels (e.g., õ) using the appropriate Unicode characters.

 Spacing Within Lines

MoEML closes up extra spaces between words and punctuation marks. However, we retain the spacing in authorial initials, such as A. M. (for Anthony Munday). We have added a single space after a comma when the comma has been used to separate two words.

 Lineation

MoEML preserves the line breaks in verse sections and the line wrapping in prose sections of mayoral shows. Prose line breaks have been encoded with a self-closing lb element. All line breaks in verse are produced by the use of l elements contained by lg elements.

 Hyphenation

MoEML transcriptions of mayoral shows preserve the hyphenation of words, both within and at the end of lines.

 Quotation Marks

All quotation marks are retained in the text and are represented by appropriate Unicode characters. We do not use the quote element for quotations in primary-source texts. MoEML practice calls for curly apostrophes and straight double quotation marks in both transcriptions and born-digital texts.

We have interpreted and encoded toponyms, names, and dates. The encoding of toponyms requires some research to point the toponym to the right location file (and thence to the map), but the relative stability of the processional route has meant that we have high confidence in our encoding of toponyms in the mayoral shows. When our encoding has veered into interpretation, such as in our decision to encode abstract nouns as allegorical characters even when it is not completely clear that the abstraction is embodied by an actor, we have encoded with the goal of building analytical capacity into our texts, such as the capacity for users to search for characters like Time across the corpus of mayoral shows. For our treatment of early modern dates, see our encoding instructions at Encode Dates. Other than toponyms, names, and dates, we have undertaken no interpretative encoding.

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Our editorial and encoding practices are documented in detail in the Praxis section of our website.

An abbreviated form of the. This character takes the form of a small latin letter y with a reversed hook above. The closest Unicode character we have to represent this is a small latin letter y with a combining left half ring above. This character appears only twice in the text, which is in black letter gothic. y͑ ye þe the An abbreviated form of that. This character takes the form of a Author A person or organization chiefly responsible for the intellectual or artistic content of a work, usually printed text. This term may also be used when more than one person or body bears such responsibility. MoEML uses the term author to designate a contributor who is wholly or partly responsible for the original content of either a born-digital document, such as an encyclopedia entry, or a primary source document, such as a MoEML Library text. Data manager A person or organization responsible for managing databases or other data sources. MoEML uses the term data manager to designate contributors who maintain and manage our databases. They add and update the data sent to us by external contributors or found by MoEML team members. They also monitor journals and sources regularly to ensure that our databases are current. Editor A person or organization who prepares for publication a work not primarily their own, such as by elucidating text, adding introductory or other critical matter, or technically directing an editorial staff. MoEML uses the term editor to designate a person who creates a modern edition of a work based on one of our encoded diplomatic transcriptions of a primary source. We use the term commentator to designate a person who adds editorial or explanatory notes to one of our diplomatic transcriptions. Markup editor A person or organization performing the coding of SGML, HTML, or XML markup of metadata, text, etc. MoEML uses the code mrk both for the primary encoder(s) and for the person who edits the encoding. MoEML’s normal workflow includes a step whereby encoders check each other’s work. We use the term encoder to designate the principal encoder, and markup editor to designate the person who checks the encoding. Project director A person or organization with primary responsibility for all essential aspects of a project, or that manages a very large project that demands senior level responsibility, or that has overall responsibility for managing projects, or provides overall direction to a project manager. MoEML’s Project Director directs the intellectual and scholarly aspects of the project, consults with the Advisory and Editorial Boards, and ensures the ongoing funding of the project. Proofreader A person who corrects printed matter. MoEML uses the term proofreader to designate a contributor who checks a transcription against an original document, or a person who corrects formatting and typographical errors in a born-digital article. Note that we use the term markup editor to designate a person who proofreads and corrects encoding. Programmer A person or organization responsible for the creation and/or maintenance of computer program design documents, source code, and machine-executable digital files and supporting documentation. MoEML uses the term programmer to designate a person or organization responsible for the creation and/or maintenance of computer program design documents, source code, and machine-executable digital files and supporting documentation. Research team head A person who directed or managed a research project. MoEML uses the terms research term head and assistant project manager interchangeably. Transcriber A person who prepares a handwritten or typewritten copy from original material, including from dictated or orally recorded material. MoEML uses the term transcriber to designate the person or organization that transcribes a primary source. In the case of EEBO-TCP transcribers, we do not know the names of the transcribers. Acceptable names for this role are transcriber, first transcriber (often the EEBO-TCP transcriber), or MoEML transcriber. CSS editor MoEML uses the term CSS Editor for a person who adds CSS styling to the transcription of a primary source. We use CSS styling to describe the bibliographic features of the texts we transcribe. For further information, see our page on CSS styling. Replaced obsolete charProp with localProp. Assigned XML:IDs to all dropcaps to assist Tracey in countering the styling in the PDFs. Changed glyph encoding to abbreviation and expansion. Added xml:ids to pb elements using utilities/add_sig_ids_to_shows.xsl. Checked transcription and inline CSS. Began implementing show into 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 markup and formatting. Eliminated superfluous catRef elements from the header. Put change elements inside revisionDesc into the correct (latest first) order. Added profileDesc containing document type information expressed in catRef elements. Created document THEDEVICE OFthe Pageant: Set forth by the VVorſhipfull Companie of the Fiſhmongers, for the right honorable Iohn Allot: eſtablished Lord Maior of London, and Maior of the Staple for this preſent yeere of our Lord 1590. By T. Nelſon.
Printer’s Ornament
London. 1590.
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ATtend my Lord, and marke the tale I tell, Whoſe forme you ſee is monſtrous, ſtrange and rare. Before a manlike ſhape, behinde a fiſhes fell, this ſtrange diſguiſe doth make full many ſtare, And ſince they preaſe to know why I come here, Let them be ſtill, the cauſe ſhall ſoone appeare. WIthin this cōmoncommon-wealth (my Lord) all thoſe y‘that liue in awe Do ſeeke each-daie for to performe & keep the ſtabliſht law, Yea ſuch do keep y‘the ſabboth day in reuerence as they ought And fiſh dais too as wel as fleſh, which many ſet at naught Yet if the ſame were well obſerude, fleſh ſeldome would be deere, And fiſh abound at each mans boord more plentie in each yeere, Then Englands ſtore would be increaſt with butter, cheeſe & beefe And thouſands ſet to worke for fiſh, that now beg for releefe. This ſhape ſo ſtrange, ſhew they are ſtrange, & do digres frõfrom reaſon That ſhun in eating fiſh and fleſh, to keepe both time and ſeaſon, Which fault reformd, our cõmoncommon wealth would floriſh in ſuch wiſe, As neuer anie did beholde the like with mortall eies. OH worthie Citie now reioyce in Chriſt, for through his grace with peace he hath thee bleſt Hee ſends thee ſtill ſuch godly magiſtrates, as dailie ſeekes to keepe thee from vnreſt. Muſe not my Lord, to ſee the Sunne doth ſhine on Englands peace, who ſits in princely throne, It doth preſage her Sunne ſhine ſtill ſhall laſt, and make her foes afeard at euerie blaſt. A 2 So 4 So long as peace directed is by truth, and Gods pure word receiued as it ought, So long the Lord will bleſſe this little land, and make it flow with plentie in each place. Rule now my Lord and keepe this Citie well, reforme abuſes crept into the ſame, So ſhall your fame eternizde be for aie, and London ſtill preſerued from decaie. And I that do ſupport the Goldſmiths armes, which long in loue to you haue bin vnited, Will do my beſt to ſhadow you from harmes, and finde the meanes your loues may be requighted. THe bleſſed peace which England doth poſſeſſe, and ſo hath done this thirtie two yeres ſpace. I Fame am ſent and chargde to do no leſſe, with trumpets ſound, but ſpread it in each place. That all may wiſh with hearts which do not faine, our roiall peace in England ſtill may raine. I Repreſent your peace and chiefeſt good, that euerie houre doth praie for your defence, I ſit as ſhadow for that roiall bloud, whoſe life is pure, and ſtill hath this pretence, That whileſt ſhe liues euen with her heart and might, ſhe ſeekes in peace for to defend your right. VVIſedome ſupporteth ſtill the publike ſtate, Wiſedome foreſeeth ere it be too late. YEa pollicie preuents each traiterous fact, And doth performe full many a famous act, Both 5 Both Pollicie and Wiſedome will not ceaſe, Each night and daie for to preſerue this peace. GOds ſacred truth loe here I repreſent, whom Englands peace doth ſtil maintain in place, I bring you comfort for your ſoules content, which Englands peace doth willingly imbrace: And for her ſake by whom Gods truth doth ſtand, the God of heauen doth bleſſe this little land. Prudence and vertue ſhades our peace each daie, chaſt is her life, and therewith reſts content, In vaine delights ſhe ſhuns to runne aſtraie, her vertues are moſt rare and excellent. Long may ſhe liue ſtill to preſerue this peace, Lord ſtill I pray her health and ioyes increaſe. THis famous fleece doth ſo adorne our land, which daily doth with milke and honie flow, That Fame doth make all nations vnderſtand, like peace and plentie neuer man did know, For wool and lead, for tin, corne, beere and beefe, Of Chriſtian nations England is the cheefe. Muſe not to ſee this famous fleece doth ſtand vpon a wooll packe, fixt at peaces feete, The reaſon is, as you may vnderſtand, worthie Iohn Allot for his place moſt meete. Is Maior of London and the Staple too, And will performe in both what hee ſhould doo. Faithfull and loyall are hir ſubiects ſeene, Concord vnites them ſtill in loyall bands, Their tender hearts is linked to our Queene, and concord craues no other at their hands, Thus loyaltie and concord doth agree, That London ſtill therein ſhall famous bee, A 3 Ambition. 6 AMbition ſtill puft vp with hate and pride, Doth dailie ſeeke to worke ſweete Englands fall, He neuer reſts, but ſeekes each time and tide, How Englands peace might ſoone be brought in thrall. And common wealth plungde into ciuill broiles, That forraine foes might triumph in our ſpoiles. OUr Senates graue and worthie magiſtrates, Shall ſtill indeuor to maintaine our peace, By baniſhing ambition from our gates, And ſeeking meanes this peace may neuer ceaſe: Yea vertue ſo by him aduanſt ſhall be, That vice ſhall flie and not be ſeene in me. SCience ſtill ſeekes thoſe things we dailie wiſh, and Labour toiles to bring vs fleſh and fiſh, Yea Science ſure doth practiſe euerie daie, that Labor might keepe England from decaie, Science and Labour ſtill preſerues mans health, and are chiefe props of this our common wealth. HElpe Walworth now to dant this rebels pride. Aſke what thou wilt thou ſhalt not be denide. IAcke Straw the rebell I preſent, Wat Tyler was my aide, Hob Carter and Tom Miller too; we all were not afraid, For to depriue our ſoueraigne king, Richard the ſecond namde, Yet for our bad ambitious mindes by Walworth we were tamde, He being Maior of London then, ſoone danted all our pride, He ſlew me firſt, the reſt ſoone fled, and then like traitors dide. I Repreſent ſir William Walworths place, A fiſhmonger, and Maior of London twice, I 7 I ſlew Iacke Straw, who ſought my kings diſgrace, and for my act reapt honors of great price, Firſt Knight was I of London you may reade, and ſince each Maior gaines knighthood by my deede. Yea for that deede to London I did gaine, this dagger here in armes giuen as you ſee, I won my companie this creaſt which doth remaine, this to my ſelfe and my poſteritie. Thus did the King with honors me adore, and Fame her ſelfe ſtill laudeth me therefore.

It is to be vnderſtood that ſir William Walworth pointeth to the honors wherewith the king did endue him, which were placed neere about him in the Pageant.

The firſt was the dagger giuen in the ſhield to the Citie of London, the ſecond was the Creaſt giuen to the Companie, namely two armes bearing vp a crowne, and the third was to the ſaid Walworth and his poſterity for euer, two armes bearing vp a milſtone, ſhewing thereby that thee ſaid ſir William Walworth performed a matter ſo vnpoſſible, as it is for a man to holde vp a milſtone betweene both his armes.

 Time ſerues for all things, Time runneth faſt, VVe craue your patience, for the time is paſt. FINIS.