In the fore-front was a man of goodly
personage, who bare the sceptre or mace before the king; whereupon
hanged two crowns, a less and a bigger, with three chains of a
marvellous length. The crowns were made of knit work, wrought
artificially with feathers of divers colours. The chains were made of a
bony substance, and few be the persons among them that are admitted to
wear them; and of that number also the persons are stinted, as some ten,
some twelve, etc. Next unto him which bare the sceptre, was the king
himself, with his guard about his person, clad with coney skins, and
other skins. After them followed the naked common sort of people, every
one having his face painted, some with white, some with black, and other
colours, and having in their hands one thing or another for a present.
Not so much as their children, but they also brought their presents.
In the meantime our General gathered his men together, and marched
within his fenced place, making, against their approaching, a very
warlike show. They being trooped together in their order, and a general
salutation being made, there was presently a general silence. Then he
that bare the sceptre before the king, being informed by another, whom
they assigned to that office, with a manly and lofty voice proclaimed
that which the other spake to him in secret, continuing half an hour.
Which ended, and a general _Amen_, as it were, given, the king with the
whole number of men and women, the children excepted, came down without
any weapon; who, descending to the foot of the hill, set themselves
in order.
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