FRENCH KING'S ENTRY INTO ROUEN [lOTH OCT
wearing sandals only This order may have but one habit for a
man during his life , they feed standing and sleep sitting, they
live by alms and are much esteemed of the people Secondly
came the Grey Friars , which order hath a library in their house
containing six and fifty paces in length with three rows of desks
all along, replenished with many excellent books both of
philosophy and of the Fathers, the most part manuscript
Thirdly followed the Carmelites and Celestins, the Jacobins,
the Augustines Then proceeded the priests and chantries of
the town in their surplices, singing, bearing forty-two crosses of
silver, and every cross with the great banner of a Saint
Then followed the mint-masters of Normandy, the merchants,
receivers, customers, treasurers, advocates, procurators, and
other officers of the palace Then came Bachelors and Masters
of Art, Doctors of Physic, Civil Law and Divinity, clothed in
very fair and reverent garments of damask, satin and black
velvet, and for the most part riding upon mules
Then followed the officers and chancellors of the Chamber of
Normandy, Judges and officers of estate in scarlet, to the
number of forty , and the four Presidents of Normandy in robes
of scarlet furred, wearing on their heads great caps of maintenance
Then proceeded the several bands of the town, containing
four regiments of foot and three cornets of horse, suited in
green, russet and carnation satin and velvet, garnished with
silver lace, their hats, plumes, scarfs and shoes white After
upon great coursers rode forty enfants d'honneur or henchmen,
the properest and choicest young men of the town Then came
all the gallants and young gentlemen of the French Court,
corvetting and fetching up their great horse, accompanied with
divers of the nobility, Barons, Viscounts, Earls , the Knights of
the Holy Ghost, being known by their blue ribbons and white
crosses hanging thereat
Then marched the King's three guards after then- drums and
fifes , the Swissers with shot and pikes, the Scots and French
-with halberds, the King's trumpets in horsemen's coats of green
velvet and very well mounted
At last came the King himself, mounted on a white courser,
bis own apparel, plumes and horses white, wearing the order
of the Holy Ghost at a broad blue ribbon about his ntclr
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