It being now dark, lamps were burning at intervals in the galleries.

Brass chandeliers, with wax candles, illuminated the rooms, lighting

them like the side aisles of a church. None but officials were present.

In one room, which the procession crossed, stood, with heads

respectfully lowered, the four clerks of the signet, and the Clerk of

the Council. In another room stood the distinguished Knight Banneret,

Philip Sydenham of Brympton in Somersetshire. The Knight Banneret is a

title conferred in time of war, under the unfurled royal standard. In

another room was the senior baronet of England, Sir Edmund Bacon of

Suffolk, heir of Sir Nicholas Bacon, styled, Primus baronetorum

Anglicæ. Behind Sir Edmund was an armour-bearer with an arquebus, and

an esquire carrying the arms of Ulster, the baronets being the

hereditary defenders of the province of Ulster in Ireland. In another

room was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with his four accountants, and

the two deputies of the Lord Chamberlain, appointed to cleave the

tallies.[21]

At the entrance of a corridor covered with matting, which was the

communication between the Lower and the Upper House, Gwynplaine was

saluted by Sir Thomas Mansell of Margam, Comptroller of the Queen's

Household and Member for Glamorgan; and at the exit from the corridor by

a deputation of one for every two of the Barons of the Cinque Ports,

four on the right and four on the left, the Cinque Ports being eight in

number. William Hastings did obeisance for Hastings; Matthew Aylmor, for

Dover; Josias Burchett, for Sandwich; Sir Philip Boteler, for Hythe;

John Brewer, for New Rumney; Edward Southwell, for the town of Rye;

James Hayes, for Winchelsea; George Nailor, for Seaford. As Gwynplaine

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