1527... hanged into a chambre faire and large the door whereof was made with masonry, embattled with jasper, and within that a porch with a tipe [?], and crockets gilt, this chamber was raised with stages, five degrees on every side, and railed and coutrera [?] led borne by pillars of azure, full of stars and flower delice of gold, every pillar had at the top a basin silver, wherein stood great branches of white wax, the degrees were all of marble colei [?], and the rails like white marble: in the midst of this chamber, was a gate, the arches whereof stretched from side to side, this arche was figured masonry on water tables with haunses [?] receiving piller [?] wrapped, being Dormants Autike, and over the gate stood the pictures of Hercules, Scipio, Julius, Pompei and such other conquerers, the ventes and embowes were of very strange work, with leaves, balls, and other garnishings, all gold, and in the hole airlie was nothing arche was nothing but fine Bice and gold, the roof of this chamber was cunningly made by the Kinges Astronomer (age 40), for on the ground of the roof, was made the hole earth environed with the sea, like a very map or carte, and by a cunning making of another cloth, the zodiac with the twelve signs, and the fine circles or girdles and the two poles opened on the earth and water compassing the same, and in the zodiac were the twelve signs, curiously made, and above this were made the seven pianettes, as Mars, Jupiter, Sol, Mercurius, Venus, Saturn, and Luna, everyone in their proper houses made according to their properties, that it was a conning thing and a pleasant sight to behold.

1527. When the King and the Queen, were set under their cloths of estate which were rich and goodly, and the ambassadors set on the right side of the chambre, then entered a person clothed in cloth of gold, and over that a mantel of blue silk, full of eyes of gold, and over his head a cap of gold, with a garland of laurel set with berries of fine gold, this person made a solemn oration, in the Latin tongue, declaring what joy was to the people of both the realms of England and France, to here and know the great love, league, and amity, that was between the two Kings of the same Realms, giving great praise to the King of England for granting of peace, and also to the French King for suing, for the same, and also to the Cardinal for being a mediator in the same: and when he had done, then entered eight of the King’s Chapel with a song and brought with them one richly apparelled: and in likewise at the other side, entered eight other of the said Chapel bringing with them another person likewise apparelled these two persons played a dialog the effect whereof was whether riches were better than love, and when they could not agree upon a conclusion, each called in three knights, all armed, three of them would have entered the gate of the Arche in the middle of the chamber, and the other ill resisted and suddenly between the six knights, out of the Arche fell down a bar all gilt, at the which barre the six knights fought a fair battle, and then they were departed, and so went out of the place: then came in an olde man with a silver beard, and he concluded that love and riches both be necessary for princes (that is to say) by love to be obeyed and served, and with riches to reward his lovers and friends, and with this conclusion the dialogue ended.

Then 1527. Then at the nether end, by letting down of a curtain, appeared a goodly mount, walled with towers and vamures [false walls] al gilt, with all things necessary for a fortress, and all the mount was set full of crystal corals, and rich rocks of ruby curiously counterfeited and full of roses and pomegranates as though they grew: on this rock sat eight lords apparelled in cloth of tissue and silver cut in quarter-foils, the gold engrailed with silver, and the silver with gold, all loose on white satin, and on their heads caps of black velvet set with pearl and stone, they had also mantels of black satin: and then they suddenly descended from the mount and took ladies, and danced divers dances.

1527. Then out of a cave issued out the Lady Mary (age 10) daughter to the King and with her seven ladies, all apparelled after the Roman fashion in rich cloth of gold of tissue and crimson tinsel bendy and their hair wrapped in cauls of gold with bonnets of crimson velvet on their heads, set full of pearl and stone: these eight ladies danced with the eight lords of the mount, and as they danced, suddenly entered six personages, apparelled in cloth of silver and black tinsel satin, and whodes [?] on their heads with tippets of cloth of gold, there garments were long after the fashion of Iseland [Ireland or Iceland?], and these persons had visors with silver beards, so that they were not known: these maskers took Ladies and danced lustily about the place.

1527. Then suddenly the King and the Viscount of Torraine were conveyed out of the place into a chamber thereby, and there quickly they two and six other in masking apparel of cloth of gold and purple tinsel satin, great, long, and large, after the Venetian’s fashion and over them great robes, and there faces were visored with beards of gold: then with minstrelsy these eight noble personages entered and danced long with the ladies, and when they had danced there fill, then the Queen plucked of the King’s visor, and so did the ladies the visors of the other lords, and then all were known: then the King gave to the viscount of Torraine, the masking apparel that the King himself wore and also the apparel that the Viscount himself masked in, which were very riche, for the which he thanked him.

1527. Then the King Queen and the ambassadors, returned to the banquet chamber, where they found a banquet ready set on the board, of so many and marvellous dishes, that it was wonder to see, then the King sat down and there was joy, mirth and melody: and after that all was done the King and all other went to rest, for the night was spent, and the day even at the breaking.