¹ Cleland, 1766
² Bon Gate = Bon Guet. Guet expresses either watch or the person, or persons entrusted with the duty of watching.
³ St. Peter's, Westcheap, was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, and the parish was afterwards annexed to St. Matthew's, Friday Street. When that church was pulled down in 1886, St. Vedast's, Foster Lane, became the church of the united parishes. There is a fine plane-tree on the site of St. Peter's which enjoys legal protection, and the surrounding buildings cannot be raised while the tree lives.
⁴ Tapestry, so named from the town of Arras, long famous for its manufacture, especially in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
⁵ The Chapel at the east end of the Guildhall, pulled down in 1822, called London College at one time, and dedicated to Our Lady, St. Mary Magdalen, and all Saints. It was built about 1299. The Mayors attended the weekly services, and on the occasions of their Elections and Feasts.
⁶ St. Ethelburga, Bishopsgate. The name of this Saint has appeared in many different forms; Alborough was the medieval spelling, and Ethelborough that of the Reformation period.
⁷ As has been heard.
⁸ Banner-bearers
⁹ A band
¹⁰ Matthew Lock (1630?-1677). Famous as a composer in his day, and the fine music to Davenant's adaptation of "Macbeth" was for long attributed to him. He composed the music for "ye King's saggbutts and cornets" for the progress of Charles II. through the City in 1661.
¹¹ Christopher Gibbons (1615-1676). Second son of Orlando Gibbons. Chorister of the Chapel Royal, and afterwards of Exeter Cathedral. Organist of Winchester Cathedral, 1638. Joined the Royalist Army, 1644. Organist of Westminster Abbey, 1660, and private organist to Charles II. Some of his compositions are extant.
¹² Dr. Charles Colman (d. 1664). Chamber Musician to Charles I. and Composer to Charles II.
¹³ William Gregory (d. 1663) was a musician in the households of Charles I. and Charles II. Composed sacred and secular music.
¹⁴ The Portuguese and Spanish Expedition.
¹⁵ Jane Seymour, the mother of Edward VI.
¹⁶ In the British Museum, in a collection of MS.' music once in the possession of the Egerton family, is an arrangement of this march (without the Trio) for the harp.. The name of the once popular composer, Louis von Esch, is placed over it. He was probably the arranger, certainly not the composer. (Addl. MSS. 25077.)