Event Comment: Edition of 1660:
The Royal Oake, with Other various and delightfull Scenes presented on the Water and the Land, Celebrated in Honour of the deservedly Honoured
Sir Richard Brown, Bar.
Lord Mayor 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.]
Pepys, Diary: And I...at the
Key in
Cheapside; 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.
Evelyn, Diary: 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
Bosco-bell &c
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Royal Oake