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A Banquet at Westminster Hall; For All
Topic Started: Mar 19 2014, 08:13 PM (180 Views)
King Henry VIII
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When the ceremony was finished, the lords spiritual and temporal paid homage to the king and returned to Westminster Hall - each one beneath his canopy - where the lord marshal bearing his staff of office ushered all to their seats. Each noble and lord proceeded to his allotted place arranged earlier according to seniority. The nine-piece table being set with the king's estate, the first course of the banquet was announced with a fanfare. At the sound the duke of Buckingham entered riding a huge charger covered with richly embroidered trappings, together with the lord steward mounted on a horse decked with cloth of gold. The two of them led in the banquet which was truly sumptuous, and as well as a great number of delicacies also included unusual heraldic devices and mottoes.

How can I describe the abundance of fine and delicate fare prepared for this magnificent and lordly feast, produced both abroad and in the many and various parts of this realm to which God has granted his bounty. Or indeed the exemplary execution of the service of the meal itself, the clean handling and distribution of the food and the efficient ordering of the courses, such that no person of any estate lacked for anything.

[align=center]Tudor chronicler Edward Hall, on the banquet celebrating Henry VIII's coronation[/align]
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