Event Comment: Newdigate newsletters (
Folger Shakespeare Library), 22 Oct. 1687:
There are to be 5 Pageants on
the Ld Mayors day one representing Liberty by a Beautifull young Lady attended with Riches Plenty and ffreedom &c. (transcribed by
Professor John Harold Wilson).
Luttrell (
A Brief Relation, I, 418):
The 29th was
the anniversary of
the lord mayors show,
the new one, sir John Shorter, now entring on his office;
the shew was splendid and
the entertainment great, according to custome: his majestie, with
the prince of Denmark, did
the citty
the honour to dine with
them at
Guildhall, as also
the nobility, foreign ministers, amongst which was
the popes nuncio (who was invited particularly by some of
the aldermen):
the streets were new gravell'd all that morning on one side of
the way, from
Charing-crosse to
the citty, for his majesties passage. His majestie was well satisfied with
the whole entertainment.
The Duke of Beaufort to
the Duchess, 29 Oct. 1687 [a summary, apparently]: Has just come from
the greatest entertainment he ever saw at a
Lord Mayor's feast in
the city, and
the best ordered, though
there was
the greatest concourse
there and in
the streets that was ever known, and
the greatest acclamations, all through
the city as
the King passed.
The Queen did not dare venture, remembering that
the Bristol entertainment had put her out of order, but all
the nobility in town, and
the foreign ministers were
there.
The Pope's Nuncio in particular was invited by
the Lord Mayor and nobly entertained (
HMC, 12th Report, Appendix,
Beaufort MSS., Part IX, pp. 90-91)