Vpon Saturday, which was the xiiii. day of Januarie in the yere of our Lord God .1558. about .ii. of the clocke at after noone, the most noble, and christian princesse, our moste dradde soueraigne Ladie Elizabeth by the grace of god Queen of England, Fraunce & Ireland, defendour of the faythe &c marched from the towre to passe through the citie of London towarde Westminster, richely furnished, & most honorablye accompanied, as wel with gentlemen, Barons, and other the nobilitie of thys realme, as also with a notable trayne of goodly and beawtiful ladies, richely appoynted. And entring the citie was of the people receiued merueylous entierly, as appeared by thassemblie, prayers, wisshes, welcomminges, cryes, teder woordes, and all other signes, whiche argue a wonderfull earnest loue of most obedient subiectes towarde theyr soueraygne. And on thother syde her grace by holding up her handes, and merie countenaunce to such as stoode farre of, and most tender and getle language to those that stode nigh to her grace, did declare her selfe nolesse thankefullye to receiue her peoples good wille, than they louingly offredit unto her. To all that wished her grace wel, she gaue heartie thankes, and to suche as bade God save her grace, she sayd agayne god saue them all, and thanked them with all her heart. So that on eyther syde ther was nothing but gladnes, nothing but prayer, nothing but comfort. The Quenes maiestie reioysed merueylouslye to see, ye, so excedingly shewed toward her grace, which all good princes have ever desyred, I meane so earnest loue of subiectes, so euidently declared euen to her graces own persone being caried in the middest of them. The people again wer wonderfully rauished with the louing answers and gestures of their princesse, like to the which they had before tryed at first coming to the towreb from Hatfield. This her graces louing behauiour preconceiued in the peoples heades upon these consideracions was then throughly confirmed, and in dede emplanted a woonderfull hope in them touching her woorthie gouernment in the rest of her reygne. For in all her passage she did not only shew her most gracious loue toward the people in generall, but also priuately if the baser personages had either offred her grace any flowres or such like as a significacion of their good will, or moued to her any sute, she most gently, to the common reioysing of all the lookers on, and priuate comfort of ye partie, staid her chariot, and heard theyr requestes. So that if a man should say well, he could not better tearme the citie of London that time, than a stage wherin was shewed the wonderfull spectacle, of a noble hearted princesse toward her most louing people, & the peoples excading comfort in beholding so worthy a soueraign, & hearing so princelike a voice which could not but haue set thenemie on fyre, since ye vertue is in ye enemie alway commended, much more could not but enflame her naturall, obedient, and most louing people, whose weale leaneth onely uppon her grace, and her gouernement. -- Transcribed by Jennie Butler, 2000