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count is made for providing a fecond Mantle, when theProxy of a Stranger came hither which, had the Sove-reign been at fuch Charge, would not have been omit-ted.

The ProSor's Cavalcade to Windfor.

^ 6 . The Day appointed for the Inftallation drawingon, the Proxy was heretofore accompanied from Londonto Wmdfor, with the Sovereign’s Lieutenant and his Af-liftants, (if the Feaft of St. Georg; was then alfo celebra-ted,) or otherw.ife the Sovereign’s Commiflloners with agreat Retinue.

Among the reft, when the Deputy of the French King,Francis I. rode to Windfor, Anno i 9 Hen. VIII. all theKtiights-Companions that were in Com million for that So-lemnity, affembled at the Lord Sandy's Place near St.Paul's Church in London, whence they rode to the Deputy’sLodging, and thence accompanied him with a gallantEquipage to the Caftle of Windfor, where Lodgings wereprepared for him at the Deans Houfe.

: In like manner, Anno 8 E/2'4. the Earls of Sufjex andLsicefler, arid Lord Clinton, (three of the four Commif-lioners appointed for the Inftallation of the French King,Charles IX.) with other Lords and Gentlemen, took theirHorfes at the Court Gate at Weftminjler, and with a greatTrain rode to the Lodgings of the faid King’s Proxy, (be-ing then at St, Mary’s Spittle in London,) whence theywent through Holboiim towards Windfor ; the Earl ofSouthampton, Vifcount "Mountague, Sir Plenty Lea, and SirEdward Vmpton, met them at Langford near Colbrookjwith their Hawks, and fitew’d the Proxy variety of fporr,with which, he being well p'eafrd, they rode to his Lodg^ings at the beans Houfe at Windfor, the ufual Place ofentertaining the Strangers Proxies.

Supper after his Arrival there .

ji 7. The Evening of their arrival palfeth with a fum-puious Supper, but the principal Entertainment is referv’dfor the following Day’s Dinner. At the Inftallation of theFrench King, Francis I. all the Commiffioners met to-C c 4 gethef