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CHARLES G. ADDISON, ESQ.
The history of the Knights Templars, Temple Church, and the Temple
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CHARLES G. ADDISON, ESQ.
The history of the Knights Templars, Temple Church, and the Temple
page 398
handsome young gentlemen, made the most glorious and splendili ^ho w that ever was beheld in England."
These gallant Templars were accompanied by the finest band
of picked musicians that London could afford, and were followed
by the anlimasque of beggars and cripples, who were mounted on
'· the poorest, leanest jades that could be gotten out of the dirt
carts." The habits and dresses of these cripples were most inge
niously arranged, and as the " gallant Inns of Court men" had
their music, so also had the beggars and cripples. It consisted of
keys, tariffs, and gridirons, " snapping and yet playing in concert he
fore them." After the beggars' antimasque came a band of pipes,
whistles, and instruments, sounding notes like those of birds, of
all sorts, in excellent harmony ; and these ushered in " the anti
masque of birds," which consisted of an owl in an ivy bush, with
innumerable other birds in a cluster about the owl, gazing upon
her. " These were little boys put into covers of the shape of
those birds, rarely fitted, and sitting on small horses with footmen
going by them with torches in their hands, and there were some
besides to look unto the children, and these were very pleasant to
the beholders." Then came a wild, harsh band of northern
music, bagpipes, horns, &c , followed by the " antimasque of pro
jectors," who were in turn succeeded by a string of chariots drawn
by four horses a breast, filled with " gods and goddesses," and
preceded by heathen priests. Then followed the chariots of the
grand masquers drawn by four horses abreast.
The chariots of the Inner and Middle Temple were silver and
blue. The horses were covered to their heels with cloth of tissue,
and their heads were adorned with huge plumes of blue and white
feathers. " The torches and flaming flatnboys borne by the side
of each chariot made it seem lightsom as at noonday It
was, indeed, a glorious spectacle."
Whitelock gives a most animated description of the scene in
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