Next followed the pursuivants,
heralds, and provincial kings-of-arms, making like reverences, and
ranging themselves with the alms-knights. Then came the knights-
companions, who performed double reverences like the others, and
took their stations under their stalls; then came the black-rod, Garter,
and register, who having gone through the same ceremony as the
others, proceeded to their form, which was placed on the south side of
the choir before the sovereign's stall; then came the chancellor and
prelate, whose form was likewise placed before the royal stall, but
nearer to it than that allotted to the other officers; and, lastly, Henry
himself, with the sword borne before him by the Duke of Richmond, who
as he approached the steps of his stall bowed reverently towards the
altar, and made another obeisance before seating himself.
Meanwhile the Duke of Richmond posted himself in front of the royal
stall, the Earl of Oxford, as lord chamberlain, taking his station on the
king's right, and the Earl of Surrey, as vice-chamberlain, on the left. As
these arrangements were made, the two cardinals arrived, and
proceeded to the altar.
Mass was then said, and nothing could be more striking than the
appearance of the chapel during its performance.
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