[The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 by W. Harrison Ainsworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Star-Chamber, Volume 2 CHAPTER IX 4/8
Besides this he has four spare horses, led by his pages, in housings equally gorgeous and costly.
These pages have cassock coats, and Venetian hose, of cloth of silver, laid with gold lace, and caps with gold bands and white feathers, and white buskins.
His retinue consists of forty gentlemen and yeomen, and four trumpeters.
His companions-at-arms are all splendidly accoutred, and mounted on richly-caparisoned chargers.
The most noticeable figure amongst them, however, is that of Sir Giles Mompesson; and he attracts attention from the circumstance of his armour being entirely sable, his steed jet black, and his housings, plumes, and all his equipments of the same sombre hue. At this juncture, a page, in the Prince's livery of white and gold, approaches Sir Jocelyn, and informs him that his highness desires to speak with him before they proceed to the tilt-yard.
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