¶ The traduction & marriage of the princess.   marriage of the princess Katherine  
¶ A remembrance for the traduction of the Princess Kateryne daughter to the right high and right mighty Prince the king and queen of Spain as here in articles it doth ensue.  
IN primis it is agreed that in the month of August or of Septembre next coming the said princess kateryne with her company shallbe transported god willing in to Hampton watur/ It is thought good for asmuch as the ships which shall pass which her noble person shall more we to come near by iij or iiij miles unto the king's port and Town of Southamp/ ton/ That the two Berkis which the king our sovereign lord caused to be rigged anent the last voyage/ and arm by water that his grace did to be made into scotland be richly appointed and other bargis and great bootis to attend upon the said company be in like wise well arrayed & well furnsshed for to bring her said noble person and them of her company the more easily & the more assuerdly unto the kings town and port aforesaid.  
¶ Item it is according that in the said ij Barkies there be some noble ꝑsonagiss of men to receive the same princess at her Ship.  
¶ Item there be lords spiritual & temporal appointed to attend upon the landing and first meeting on land/ whose names be in the roll of the first meeting/ And therefore letters be necessary to be sent unto them for the same purpose in time convenient  
¶ Item there be ladies also appointed for to give their attendance upon the said princess atte her landing whose names be in a roll specified/ wherefore it is requisite that the queens letters be semblably sent forth unto the same ladies for that intent.  
¶ Item that a proposition be made at the first receiving of the said princess into my lord Stuardes hands by such one as my said lord shall move the king to do that act.  
¶ And sithence forth with upon the landing of the said princess/ It seemeth that she & her company own to enter into the charge of the king/ his grace should appoint some heed office and other of his most noble household to make her costis and expenses and the provis you for the same.  
¶ Item that these ten persons following be appointed to attend upon my lord steward when he shall call or send for them.  
… ter to be done. Than that xii or twenty gentilined with short tippid staffs. and lxxx or a. ¶. tall yeomen/ & likely ꝑsonagiss with long tipped staffs do th'office that unto them in such case appertaineth.  
¶ Item that in asmuch as sir Thomas Brandon & sir john Digby be heed officers under the marshal of England/ it is thought that they should have the conduit of all tipped staffs foresaid/ And beside those estates and other knights that the king's highness hath appointed to give their attendance upon the said Duke/ as in the same roll for the Duke of york appeareth. It is thought that the said Duke of yorkis counsel should beside the kings letters do make out the Dukys own writyngiss for that cause to such as be and shallbe retained with his grace.  
¶ By the queens commandment.  
¶ Item before this entry into london the said princess must have the richer litter to sir in as it is before rehearsed & the same litter to be with her at croyden at good hour for the same intent.  
¶ By the queens commandment.  
¶ Item that such provision be made by A B etc. that iii henchmen in side sadillis & hurnes all of one suit do follow next to the said litter.  
¶ Item that a fair Palfrey with a pylion richly arrayed and led in houde for the said princess do follow next to the said Henxmen.  
¶ By the queens commandment.  
¶ Item that xi palfreys all in a suit be ordained for such ladies as shallbe appointed to follow next unto the pillion.  
¶ Item that v Chares be ordained diversly appareled whereof one of the chief must be richly garnished for the said princess/ & the other iiij to serve such ladies as shallbe appointed to follow in order by. A.B. having the charge of the said charis  
¶ Item & any other chair's happyn to come beside these v before provided/ than they so to be ordered as shall accord with thestatis of them that shallbe in them.  
¶ The iiij meeting  
¶ Item the forth attendance shallbe made by the More of London & by the citizens of the same like as it is agreed between the said mayor & divers of the kings counsel to devise the manner thereof with all other solempnytes/ & ceremonies necessary for the honour of the city and of the feast.  
¶ My lord steward.  
¶ And sithen it is but vii small miles between the said Croyden and the Cite of London. It is thought that the said princess Katherine should be straight conveyed through the high stretis of London in such case accustomed to the west door of the church of Paul's there to be received with procession.  
¶ Item and sithence this princess shallbe receivid with procession at the west door of Paul's/ It is thought that the Bishop of london being in pontificalibus and accompanied with as many miters of his diosise as he can get attend at the said west door there to receive this said princess. And from thence with the quere of the church processionally to go before her to the high altar and further to do them and there as in such case it is accustomed.  
¶ By the queens appointment.  
¶ Item that after this princess shall have made her offering/ it seemeth unto us that a lady of great estate assigned thereto by the king should give her attendance upon the said princess at the little door against the concistorie in the church that leadeth into the bishop of London's palaces and so from that door to conduit the princess into her chamber.  
¶ My lord steward.  
¶ Master Controllor.  
¶ And by cause the said princess shallbe laboured and travailed in her journey. It is thouhte good therefore and for other considerations that she tarry at the said bishoppis palace one hole day at the lest before the day of the said marriage.  
¶ Item after the day of the marriage It seemeth unto us that her conveyance from Hampton should be so ordered that the princess should come too the Bisshoppis palys of London upon a Thursday or else upon a friday rather than otherwise too th'intent that the day of the fest of the marriage should be upon a sunday for the more solemnity of the same  
¶ Item that the marriage take beginning somewhat before ix at the clock.  
¶ And in asmuch as the cardinal archbishop of Canterbury hath taken upon him to be executir officii at the marriage of the said princess. It is thought good that the bishop of his province/ and great abbots lords of the parliament should in pontificalius give their attendance upon him for the more honour of the said marriage wherefore it is necessary that the kings letters be directed out unto the said bishops & abbottis to advertise them thereof to th'intent that every of them may be the more ready to do that unto him belongeth in that behalf/ and in like wise that every bishop/ and abbot lord of the parliament make ready a barge or a boat to await upon the king in his going to his palace of westminster as in another article it is expressed more at large.  
¶ And because the prince should be more in a readiness It is thought according that the same prince should lodge at the dean of poulis place the night before the said marriage/ and for to make his entry into the church before the princess come thither which entry is devised to be at the south door next west ward to our lady of grace in the body of the church and with the pryncez household servants to give their attendance and convey him to the haute place to be made before the Consistory in the said body of the church.  
¶ Item that the said Princess kateryne go out at the great gate of the bishops palace/ and accompanied with great astatis of lords and ladies she make her entry at the great west door of the church and so to go to the same haute place led with such it great estatis Bachelors that have not be married as the king shall assign  
¶ Clerk of the works by the oversight of master controller.  
¶ Item for the more easy coming of the said princess. It is devised that barris shallbe made fro the said palleiss gate unto the said great west door of the church/ And from the said great west door so all along the church to the quere door of the same.  
¶ Md also that the church of Powlis be hanged with arays against the said marriage.  
¶ Item that the trompettis stand on fit over the same west door and blow continually after the first coming out of the princess out of the great gate of the said palace till the time she be in the church upon the haute place/ and than forth with when she shallbe there the trompettis to scase.  
¶ Clerk of the works by the over sight of master controller.  
¶ This haute place is devised to be set in the nave and body of the church even anent the Consistory to th'intent that the king and the queen may secretly go out into the bishops palace and see & here the Seremonyes of their marriage at their pleasure. And for this cause a back door must be made there in the same consistory by thaduys of warkemen which may be soon done and at little charge/ for the said consistory hath been well over sen● by us.  
¶ Item this said haute place in fashion is devised to be made like unto an haute place at a Coronation or semblable to the haught place at a christening of one of the kings children with brood and large greeys and steppis and with a good large space all on height on fit to th'intent that the Cardinal and the ministers of the church necessary for that act. And the prince and the princess may be together & no man above in the said space all on height on lot than be necessary/ And the bishops abbotis and other prelatis and Officers may stand lower upon the said steppis and of haute place/ so as thereby there grow none impediment to the sight of the people.  
¶ Master Secretery/ and the Master of the Rollis.  
¶ And when the said Prince and princess shall be on the said haute place on fit and the Bannes asked than some doctor of the law named in the roll bring in objections openly against the said Bannes and marriage allegginge that the said marriage can not be lawful for such reasons as he shall exhibit there supposed to be grounded in the law of Christ's church. whereunto some other famous doctor named also in the roll as then master of the rolls and the Secretery if it so please the king shall reply and declare solemnly the said marriage to be good & effectuell in the said law of crisths' church the same objections made or any other to be made against the same natwistandinge this dialogue and replication/ to be had for the more honour of the said marry age/ and though there be no cause of substance nor in effect why the same aught to be done.  
¶ And in Case it be requisite after the manner of Spay: be as it is after the custom of England that some man shall give the bride. Thank who shall give this princess as bride. Is to be despited unto further knowledge be had. Who shall have commission from the king and queen of Spain so to do. and else the matter to be remitted unto the kings highness as the cas shall require.  
¶ Iten when all shallbe finished that is to be done upon the said haute place for the matrimony than shall the prince and the princess go together hand in hand all along the body of the said Church straight afore heed up to the quere and through the quere towardis the high altar to their Places appointed there.  
¶ Item as soon as the said prince & princess shall begin to depart from the said haute place than shall all the mynstrelliss every man after his faculty being all on height in the vawtis of the church do their points in music continually as it shall come to their course/ & as the prince and princess shall before the said high altar/ & than all the mynstrelliss to seize.  
¶ And to th'intent that the Prince and the princesses may have alway some place secretly to resort unto for such casueltees may fall during the high mass. It is forseyne that the prince shall have a  
¶ Item the cardinal th'archbishop of york the duke of Bukyngham the lord marquis with other lords spiritual & temporal & with abbots lords of the parliament to be in barges or boats either of their own or else boroed or hired & to attend upon the king queen prince & princess foresaid that day.  
¶ Item besydis this provision that there be one barge purposely devised & kept for such estrangers as shall come with the said princess.  
¶ Item that the mayre of london the aldermen & every craft & fellowship being in the cloth of their craft after one suete & livery of the same craft have their barges or great botis in like wise appointed as they be used yearly to be when they go for the presentment of their Mayor for to take his oath at the kings exchequer at westminster.  
¶ Item that the mayre and the Cite be warned at season convement of the kings determination to go to westminster by water to the intent that they make in time & at good leisure puision for their bargis & for their great boats shypbotis or other for by likeliness it shallbe needful they so to do. Sithen the bargis & botis of the lords spiritual and temporal that were wont to serve the said city at the presentment of their mayre must of necessity now serve for the lords themself.  
¶ And when all these bargis and botis not only of the lords spirituel and temporal/ but aswell of the abbots as of the mayor and of the crafts of London shallbe disappointed/ Than the said lords abbottis the mayre and the crafts foresaid/ hover and attend every man in his barge or boat for his part upon the kings barge at the said beynardis castle Than all the other bargis and botis to row by the king after the king and about the king as the space of the river with thebb or flood as good order shall lead them to the time his grace shallbe landed add the great bridge of westminster and no barge nor boat to land but such as shallbe assigned/ All the other to hover still to the time the king & the lords appointed be landed. And after that done all other bargis and botis not appointed to land shall depart to their lodgings with the kings special thanks.  
¶ And as justys' tourneys and such other Ceremonies it is remitted to the said master Comptroller Sergeant of the kings armoury.  
¶ Md to know between the king & the bishop of london how the bishops palace shallbe repaired   


Richard: pynson   printer's device of Richard Pynson (1492-1530) with his monogram on a shield, which is held up by a girl and a boy and surmounted by a helmet