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BAPTISME OF THE PRINCE OF SCOTLAND.
173
[WARRENDER
The relatioun of the pastyme and devyces vsed
AT THE BAPTISME THE 2Q OF [AUGUST, I594].1
The king purposing to decore by magnificence this actioun
committed the chairge tharof to the lord,2 quha be his3
industrie and inventioun and diligence brought it to [that] 4
schew quhilk the schortneft of tyme and other considerations
cul[d] permitt. So they having consulted togeather concluded
[that] th[o]se exercises that wer to be vsed for the decoratioun
of that solem[nitie] wer to be devyded baith in feild pastymes
and in hous[hold],4 the field to be used at tua dayes : the first 10
[to be] of [thrie] turks, thrie Christians, knights of malta, thrie
amazones, and thrie Moers; bot be reasoun of the absence
or at leist the uncertene presence of the thre last gentlemen
quha suld [have] 4 susteaned these personages, it was thought
gud that the number5 of that mask suld consist of nyne
actours, nyne pages, and nyne laqueys, quhilk cumming fra
soundry [parts]4 and by dyvers tymes, togeather -with the
diuersetie of thair appa[rell], suld bring some noveltie to the
behaldours. The place maist expedient for this action was the
valey, quhilk being prepared for that vsage baith in carrier 20
and In sca[f£old],4 efter the repairing of her mazesde -with
her YumorabiM ladye[s]4 togeather witA the stranger em-
bassadours, the thrie Christians entred the feild wftA sou[n]d
of truwpet quhilk was besett 6 by the hargubusiers of Edm-
burgh at that tyme. The King maiestie, the erle mar, and thomas
ersking, gentleman of his bed chalmer, maid vp this number. 26
1 From the Warrender Papers, A. ff. 34-35. Printed in The Warrender
Papers, ed. Dr Annie I. Cameron (Scot. Hist. Socy.), 1932, vol. ii. pp.
258-262.
The text is in Fowler’s hand. The original readings before correction
by Fowler are given in the footnotes. The punctuation is editorial.
2 abbot of Lenders and Mr William Fou[ler].
3 thair.
* MS. defective.
5 bodye.
8 guarded.
173
[WARRENDER
The relatioun of the pastyme and devyces vsed
AT THE BAPTISME THE 2Q OF [AUGUST, I594].1
The king purposing to decore by magnificence this actioun
committed the chairge tharof to the lord,2 quha be his3
industrie and inventioun and diligence brought it to [that] 4
schew quhilk the schortneft of tyme and other considerations
cul[d] permitt. So they having consulted togeather concluded
[that] th[o]se exercises that wer to be vsed for the decoratioun
of that solem[nitie] wer to be devyded baith in feild pastymes
and in hous[hold],4 the field to be used at tua dayes : the first 10
[to be] of [thrie] turks, thrie Christians, knights of malta, thrie
amazones, and thrie Moers; bot be reasoun of the absence
or at leist the uncertene presence of the thre last gentlemen
quha suld [have] 4 susteaned these personages, it was thought
gud that the number5 of that mask suld consist of nyne
actours, nyne pages, and nyne laqueys, quhilk cumming fra
soundry [parts]4 and by dyvers tymes, togeather -with the
diuersetie of thair appa[rell], suld bring some noveltie to the
behaldours. The place maist expedient for this action was the
valey, quhilk being prepared for that vsage baith in carrier 20
and In sca[f£old],4 efter the repairing of her mazesde -with
her YumorabiM ladye[s]4 togeather witA the stranger em-
bassadours, the thrie Christians entred the feild wftA sou[n]d
of truwpet quhilk was besett 6 by the hargubusiers of Edm-
burgh at that tyme. The King maiestie, the erle mar, and thomas
ersking, gentleman of his bed chalmer, maid vp this number. 26
1 From the Warrender Papers, A. ff. 34-35. Printed in The Warrender
Papers, ed. Dr Annie I. Cameron (Scot. Hist. Socy.), 1932, vol. ii. pp.
258-262.
The text is in Fowler’s hand. The original readings before correction
by Fowler are given in the footnotes. The punctuation is editorial.
2 abbot of Lenders and Mr William Fou[ler].
3 thair.
* MS. defective.
5 bodye.
8 guarded.
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