Event Comment: Newdigate newsletters (
Folger Shakespeare Library), 22 Oct. 1687: There are to be 5 Pageants on the
Ld Mayors day one representing Liberty by a Beautifull young Lady attended with Riches Plenty and ffreedom &c. (transcribed by
Professor John Harold Wilson).
Luttrell (
A Brief Relation, I, 418): The 29th was the anniversary of the lord mayors show, the new one, sir John Shorter, now entring on
his office; the shew was splendid and the entertainment great, according to custome:
his majestie, with the
prince of Denmark, did the citty the honour to dine with them at
Guildhall, as also the nobility, foreign ministers, amongst which was the popes nuncio (who was invited particularly by some of the aldermen): the streets were new gravell'd all that morning on one side of the way, from
Charing-crosse to the citty, for
his majesties passage.
His majestie was well satisfied with the whole entertainment. The
Duke of Beaufort to the
Duchess, 29 Oct. 1687 [a summary, apparently]: Has just come from the greatest entertainment he ever saw at a
Lord Mayor's feast in the city, and the best ordered, though there was the greatest concourse there and in the streets that was ever known, and the greatest acclamations, all through the city as the King passed. The
Queen did not dare venture, remembering that the
Bristol entertainment had put her out of order, but all the nobility in town, and the foreign ministers were there. The
Pope's Nuncio in particular was invited by the Lord Mayor and nobly entertained (
HMC, 12th Report, Appendix,
Beaufort MSS., Part IX, pp. 90-91)