*p1660 10 29 city The Royal Oake. Tumbling-Dyamond.*c1660 10 29 city Edition of 1660: <i>The Royal Oake</i>, with Other various and delightfull Scenes presented on the Water and the Land, Celebrated in Honour of the deservedly Honoured $Sir Richard Brown=, Bar. <i>Lord Mayor</i> of the $City of London=, The 29th day of October...and performed at the Costs and Charges of the Right Worshipfull $Company of Merchant-Taylors=. [$Tatham= refers to $Dyamond=, a $Lightfoot=, Paynter; $Thomas Whitein=, Joyner; and $Richard Cleere=, Carver.] <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: And I...at the <i>Key</i> in <i>Cheapside</i>; where there was a company of fine ladies, and we were very civilly treated, and had a very good place to see the pageants, which were many, and I believe good, for such kind of things, but in themselves but poor and absurd. <i>Evelyn, Diary</i>: My Lord Majors shew stop'd me in cheape-side: one of the Pageants represented a greate Wood, with the royal Oake, & historie of $his Majesties= miraculous escape at <i>Bosco-bell</i> &c.