f 104v (26 May)
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The xxvj day of may theywhent ffrom ye byssope how<..> to powlles warff & toke barge & so to parys garden ffor ther was boyth bare & bull baytyng & ye capten with a C of ye gard to kepe rowm ffor them to see ye baytyng.
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The reference to Paris Garden is presumably to the Paris Garden Stairs, the landing near bearbaiting locations on the Bankside. Machyn records details of the 23–8 May visit to London by the French ambassadors on ff 104–5.
Record title: Henry Machyn's Diary
Repository:
BL
Shelfmark: Cotton Vitellius F.v
Repository location: London
Henry Machyn (c 1496–1563), was a merchant taylor of London and parish clerk of Holy Trinity the Less. Between 1550 and his death in 1563 he kept a chronicle of heraldic funerals as well as other news and events in the period.
The manuscript of his chronicle or diary was one of many badly damaged in the early eighteenth-century fire in the famous library of the antiquarian Robert Cotton. A complete digital edition, with manuscript images, transcriptions, and text modernizations, has been made available on the open access website A London Provisioner's Chronicle, 1550-1563, by Henry Machyn, Richard W. Bailey, Marilyn Miller and Colette Moore (eds).
1550–63; English; paper; v + 162 + iv; dimension of original leaves obscured by loss along sides and tops during the fire, remounted size 370mm x 240mm; 19th-c. pencil foliation, top outer corner, repeating 19th-c. ink foliation bottom right corner of original leaves; considerable damage and loss of text from Cotton library fire, upper edges of leaves charred, some smudges, smoke damage and small holes; repaired, remounted in 19th-c. paper leaves and rebound in 19th-c. medium brown board and buckram with brown leather corners and gold-tooled spine with gold-stamped title on drak green leather strips: 'DIARY | OF | HENRY | MACHIN | BRIT. MUS. | COTTON MS. | VITELLIUS F.V |'.