the Lord
Granthuse's servants, as touching to the abundant welfare, like as it
is according to such a banquet. And when they had supped my Lady
Elizabeth, the King's eldest daughter, danced with the Duke of
Buckingham and divers other ladies also. Then about nine of the clock,
the King and the Queen, with her ladies and gentlewomen, brought the
said Lord of Granthuse to three chambers of plesance, all hanged with
white silk and linen cloth, and all the floors covered with carpets.
There was ordained a bed for himself of as good down as could be
gotten. The sheets of Rennes cloth and also fine fustians; the
counterpane, cloth of gold, furred with ermines. The tester and ceiler
also shining cloth of gold; the curtains of white sarcenet; as for his
head-suit and pillows, they were of the Queen's own ordonnance. In the
second chamber was likewise another state-bed, all white. Also, in the
same chamber, was made a couch with feather beds, and hanged with a
tent, knit like a net, and there was a cupboard. In the third chamber
was ordained a bayne (_bath_) or two, which were covered with tents of
white cloth. And, when the King and the Queen with all her ladies and
gentlemen had showed him these chambers, they turned again to their
own chambers, and left the said Lord Granthuse there, accompanied with
the Lord Chamberlain (Hastings), who undressed him, and they both went
together to the bath.--And when they had been in their baths as long
as was their pleasure, they had green ginger, divers syrups, comfits,
and ipocras, and then they went to bed. And in the morning he took his
cup with the King and Queen, and returned to Westminster again."

In 1465 Edward the Fourth and his Queen kept Christmas in the Abbey at
Coventry, and for six days (says _William Wyrcester_) "the Duke of
Clarence dissembled there."

In 1478 the King celebrated the Christmas festival at Westminster with
great pomp, wearing his crown, feasting his nobles, and making
presents to his household; and in 1482-3 he kept a splendid Christmas
at Eltham, more than two thousand people being fed at his expense
every day. Edward almost entirely rebuilt Eltham Palace, of which the
hall was the noblest part. In that hall he kept the Christmas
festival, "with bountiful hospitality for high and low, and abundance
of mirth and sport."

One of the continental visitors who participated in the royal
festivities of this period was Leo von Rozmital, brother of George,
King