Noailles Full Account of the coronation of the English Queen Mary I. Page 3.

& après avoir demouré ung temps & veu que personne ne prenoit son gant, fist le semblable en deux ou trois lieux de la salle, & revenu au lieu ou il avoit esté premièrement, fist semblant d'attendre si quelqu'un luy contredisoit, & ne venant aulcun, fist révérence à sa majesté, monitrant toutesfois de se resjouir avecques elle, laquelle ayant prins une coupe d'or pleine de vin, but à luy & luy donna la coupe, laquelle, luy sortant, porta en main. & en après estant le bancquet finy, sa majesté fist venir à elle les ambassadeurs, & avecques tres honnestes parolles devisant avecques eulx, & les remerciant de leur peyne, leur donna licence, & elle se leva de la table & se retira.

& after having waited a time & and seen that no one took up his gauntlet, he did the same in two or three places in the hall & returned to the place where he had been at first, there peering to descry anyone that might contradict him, & no one coming forward, he bowed to her majesty, showing all that he rejoiced in her, who took and filled a cup of gold with wine, drank to him & presented him the cup, the which, departing, he carried in his hand. & the banquet being ended, her majesty called to her the ambassadors, & with very honest words conversed with them, & thanking them for their pains, gave them license, & she rose from the table and retired.

 Source: Abbe Vertot. Ambassades: De Messieurs de Noailles en Angleterre (1763). II.199-203.

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