By midnight the revelry was at its height. Now came one of those picturesque

Spectacles so admired in that old day. A description of it is still extant in the

quaint wording of a chronicler who witnessed it:

'Space being made, presently entered a baron and an earl appareled after the

Turkish fashion in long robes of bawdkin powdered with gold; hats on their

Heads of crimson velvet, with great rolls of gold, girded with two swords,

Called simitars, hanging by great bawdricks of gold. Next came yet another

Baron and another earl, in two long gowns of yellow satin, traversed with

White satin, and in every bend of white was a bend of crimson satin, after the

Fashion of Russia, with furred hats of gray on their heads; either of them

having an hatchet in their hands, and boots with pykes' (points a foot long),

'turned up. And after them came a knight, then the Lord High Admiral, and

With him five nobles, in doublets of crimson velvet, voyded low on the back

And before to the cannel-bone, laced on the breasts with chains of silver; and,

Over that, short cloaks of crimson satin, and on their heads hats after the

dancers' fashion, with pheasants' feather in them. These were appareled after

The fashion of Prussia. The torch-bearers, which were about an hundred, were

Appareled in crimson satin and green, like Moors, their faces black. Next