London pageants. I. Accounts of fifty-five royal processions and entertainments in the city of London; chiefly extracted from contemporary writers. II. A bibliographical list of Lord Mayors' pageants / [Anon].

  • Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873.
Date:
1831
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Credit: London pageants. I. Accounts of fifty-five royal processions and entertainments in the city of London; chiefly extracted from contemporary writers. II. A bibliographical list of Lord Mayors' pageants / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 “ This collection is an interesting and useful supplement to Mr. Nichols’s for¬ mer work, the Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, and, we think, excels it in variety and attractiveness of subjects. The splendour of the Court, the pageantries of the City, and the hospitalities of loyal towns and mansions, here recorded by an amiable and industrious Antiquary (now no more), often excite a feeling deeper than that of gratified curiosity, as we approach the period of the great national storm by which all such glories were for a time heavily obscured. “ In tracing the minute record which Mr. Nichols has formed of James’s ha¬ bits and occupations, it is amusing to contrast the simple and comparatively blameless tenor of life thus exhibited, with the fiercely coloured representations of those memoir-writers, who have * dressed him to posterity’ as a monster of corruption and crime.’’—Quarterly Review. ft This work is, in fact, the domestic history of the reign. It is chiefly a com¬ pilation of the gossip of the period, conveyed in letters, or preserved in autobio¬ graphy. That such a work must be eminently amusing is unquestionable; and it would be difficult to name a compilation that will better repay perusal.”— Retrospective Review. 3. In 8vo, price 5s. COLLECTIONS relative to the CLAIMS at the CORO¬ NATIONS of several of the KINGS of ENGLAND, beginning with King Richard II. being curious and interesting Documents, derived from authentic sources. 4. In royal 8vo. with numerous Plates, price 145. A CIRCUMSTANTIAL ACCOUNT of the Pre¬ parations for THE CORONATION of King Charles the Second, and a Minute Detail of that Splendid Ceremony, with all the particulars connected with it; including the Installation of Knights, Creation of Peers, &c. to which is prefixed, an Account of the Landing, Reception, and Journey of His Majesty from Dover to London. From an Original Manuscript, hy SIR EDWARD WALKER, Knight, Garter Principal King at Arms at that period. 5. Handsomely printed in 8vo, Price 5s. A Brief Account of the GUILDHALL of the CITY of LONDON. By J. B. NICHOLS, F. S. A. Embellished with an Internal View, by J. C. Buckler ; and an Original View of the Old Front, by J. Schnebbelie ; and dedicated to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Corporation.