Study & Research European Renaissance and Reformation 1350-1600: Arts

Item: On the Sunday after Our Lady's Assumption [August 19 1520] I saw the Great Procession from the Church of Our Lady in Antwerp, when the whole town of every craft was assembled, each dressed in his best clothes according to his rank. And all the ranks, and guilds had their signs, by which they might be known. In the intervals great costly pole-candles were carried, and their long, old Frankish silver, trumpets. There were also in the German fashion many pipers and drummers. All the instruments were loudly and noisily blown and beaten.

Isaw the Procession pass along the street, the people being arranged in rows, each man some distance from his neighbor, but the rows close behind one another. There were the goldsmiths, the masons, the painters, the embroiderers, the sculptors, the joiners, the carpenters; the sailors, the fishermen, the butchers, the leatherers, the clothmakers, the bakers,...
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