The citizens rendezvoused and were
mustered early in the morning at Mile
End, and before nine in the forenoon be-
gan their march, when entering Aldgate,
they proceeded through the city, in ad-
mirable order, to Westminster; where
they passed in review before the King and
most of the nobility, who were highly
delighted at their splendid appearance.
From thence they marched round St.
James's Park, and down Holborn to
Leadenhall, where they separated at five
o'clock in the evening.  So far our au-
thor.

But if we add to this splendid caval-
cade, that every man wore his beard and
hair, which were probably neatly curled
and powdered, we must be sensible that
the citizens, in this procession, had a
strange mixture of gravity and foppery,
and that, fond as we are of dress, we were
greatly outdone in this particular by our
ancestors.  King Henry however loved
shew, and the citizens took great pains
to please him, of which the following is
another remarkable instance, which, tho'
very long, we shall insert, in order to give
our readers an idea of the taste of the ci-
tizens of that age, in regard to elegance
and grandeur: and we chuse to select this
instance, as the city appears to have been
decorated with greater pomp than at any
time before or since.

The King having divorced Queen Ca-
tharine, and married Anne Boleyn, or
Boloine, who was descended from God-
frey Boloine, Mayor of this city, and in-
tending her coronation, sent to order the
Lord Mayor, not only to make all the
preparations necessary for conducting his
royal consort from Greenwich, by water,
to the Tower of London; but to adorn
the city after the most magnificent man-
ner, for her passage through it to West-
minster.