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St. Albans Pageant, 1907: Queen Elizabeth at Gorhambury.

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Chester Historical Pageant
In the foreword to the Official Souvenir Book of the pageant, the Master of the Pageant, George Hawtrey, claimed that: ‘Of all the cities in England there is none that binds the life of to-day so c...
The Historical Pageant of British Music, 1200-1682
The Cambridge Historical Pageant of British Music was one of hundreds of pageants held up and down the country during the Festival year, though no other pageant was specifically dedicated to music....
Shropshire Historical Pageant
The Shropshire Pageant, held in the same season as the Runnymede Pageant, managed to combine a grandeur and spectacle of performance with a distinctive local feel, eschewing the more generic visits...

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Composer: Lawes, William

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1 Ludlow, Shropshire, England
1 Chester, Cheshire, England
1 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

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1 Ord, Boris
1 Hawtrey, George P.
1 Baring, Edward

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2 Milton, John
1 Spurling, Claribel
1 Seaman, Sir Owen
1 Scott, Walter
1 Morris, Rupert
1 Macdonald, S.F.
1 Lovell, A.E.
1 Hawtrey, George P.
1 Drinkwater, John
1 Collard, Avalon
1 Clay, Beatrice

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3 Lawes, William
2 Sullivan, Arthur
2 Purcell, Henry
2 Lawes, Henry
1 Smart, Henry
1 Saville, John
1 Morley, Thomas
1 Holst, Gustav
1 Hilton, John
1 Hann, Lewis
1 Handel, George Frideric
1 Fornsete, John of
1 Flemming, F.
1 Elgar, Edward
1 Dykes, John Bacchus
1 Dunstable, John
1 Collard, Avalon
1 Byrd, William
1 Bury, Frank
1 Bridge, Dr J.C.
1 Bennel, John
1 Bateson, Thomas

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2 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
2 Edward I
1 Æthelred II [Ethelred; known as Ethelred the Unready]
1 Ælfthryth
1 William II [known as William Rufus]
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Sidney, Sir Philip
1 Sidney, Sir Henry
1 Richard II
1 Percy, Henry, first earl of Northumberland
1 Oswald [St Oswald]
1 Ostorius Scapula, Publius
1 Mildburg [St Mildburg, Milburg, Milburga, Milburgh]
1 Matilda [Matilda of Flanders]
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Leofric, earl of Mercia
1 King James I
1 Kenneth II [Cináed mac Maíl Choluim]
1 Julius Agricola, Gnaeus [known as Agricola]
1 James VI and I
1 Henry V and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke]
1 Henry I
1 Harold II [Harold Godwineson]
1 Grosvenor, Sir Richard, first baronet
1 Greville, Fulke, first Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court
1 Godgifu [Godiva]
1 Gerald of Wales [Giraldus Cambrensis, Gerald de Barry]
1 Elizabeth I England and Ireland
1 Edward [St Edward; known as Edward the Confessor]
1 Edward [St Edward; called Edward the Martyr]
1 Edward V
1 Edith [Eadgyth]
1 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
1 Eadric [Edric] the Wild [Eadric Cild]
1 Dunstan [St Dunstan]
1 Dafydd ap Gruffudd
1 Cnut [Canute]
1 Charles II England, Scotland, and Ireland
1 Charles I
1 Cartimandua [Claudia Cartimandua, Julia Cartimandua]
1 Caratacus [Caractacus]
1 Byron, John, first Baron Byron
1 Baldwin [Baldwin of Forde]
1 Avranches, Hugh d', first earl of Chester
1 Ashton, Thomas
1 Anselm [St Anselm]
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Alcock, John

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