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316 JAPAX. A. D. 10,00 1G02. " The prince's own numerous train, marching in an admirable and curious order, is divided into several troops, each headed \>y a proper commanding officer, as, 1. Five, more or less, fine horses, each led by two grooms, one on each side, two footmen walking behind. '2. Five or six, and sometimes more, porters, richly clad, walking one by one, and carrying lackered chests, and jttpanncd neat trunks and baskets, upon their shoulders, wherein are kept the wearing apparel and other necessaries for the daily use of the prince, each porter attended by two footmen, o. Ten or more fellows, walking one by one, and carrying rich scymitars, pikes of state, fire-arms, and other weapons, in lackered wooden cases, as, also, quivers with bo\vs and arrows. Sometimes, fur magnificence sake, there are more chest-bearers and led horses following this troop. 4. Two, three, or more men, who carry pikes of state, as the badges of the prince's power and authority, adorned at the upper end with bunches of cock feathers, or other ornaments peculiar to such or such a prince. They walk one by one, and are attended each by two footmen. f>. A gentleman, attended by two footmen, carrying the prince's hat, worn as a shelter from the heat of the sun, and which is covered with black velvet. 0. A gentleman carrying the prince's sombrero, or umbrella, which is covered in like manner with black velvet, this person also attended by two footmen. 7. Some more bearers of trunks, covered with varnished leather, with the prince's coat-of-arms upon them, each with two men to take care of it. 8. Sixteen, more or less, of the prince's pages, and gentlemen of his bed-chamber, taken out from among the first quality of his court, richly clad, and walking two and two before his norimon. 9. The prince himself, sitting in a stalely uorimon, carried by six or eight men, clad in rich liveries, with several others walking at the norimon's sides, to take^it up by turns ; also, two or three gentlemen of the prince's bed-chamber, to give him what he wants and asks for, and to assist and support him in getting in or out. 10. Two or three horses of state, the saddles covered with black. One of these horses carries a large elbow-chair, which is sometimes covered with black velvet. These horses are attended each by several grooms and footmen in liveries, and some are led by the prince's own pages. 11. Two pike-bearers. 12. Ten or more people, carrying each two baskets of a

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