Presently the sound of trumpets smote his ear, and a numerous and
splendid retinue was seen advancing, consisting of nobles, knights,
esquires, and gentlemen, ranged according to their degrees, and all
sumptuously apparelled in cloths of gold and silver, and velvets of
various colours, richly embroidered. Besides these, there were pages
and other attendants in the liveries of their masters, together with
sergeants of the guard and henchmen in their full accoutrements.
Among the nobles were the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk--the king being
desirous of honouring as much as possible her whom he had resolved
to make his queen. The former was clothed in tissue, embroidered with
roses of gold, with a baldric across his body of massive gold, and was
mounted on a charger likewise trapped in gold; and the latter wore a
mantle of cloth of silver, pounced in the form of letters, and lined with
blue velvet, while his horse was trapped bardwise in harness
embroidered with bullion gold curiously wrought. Both also wore the
collar of the Order of the Garter. Near them rode Sir Thomas Boleyn,
who, conscious of the dignity to which his daughter was to be
advanced, comported himself with almost intolerable haughtiness.
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