Ricksdag; they also rode three and three abreast.  After them rode Mr. Gabriel Gabrielson, Marshal of the Court, and was followed by all the senators then in town, being about thirty, riding two and two abreast, grave in their habits for the most part, and well horsed.  Then came the Ricks-Stallmaster and the Hof-Stallmaster—­that is, the Master of the Horse of the Kingdom, and the Master of the Horse of the Court—­riding bareheaded.  After them came the Queen, gallantly mounted, habited in her usual fashion in grey stuff, her hat on her head, her pistols at her saddle-bow, and twenty-four of the Gardes-du-Corps about her person.  After the Queen followed the Great Chamberlain, Grave Jacob de la Gardie, and Grave Tott, Captain of the Guards, both bareheaded.  After them the Grave Donae, Gustavus Oxenstiern, and Gustavus Jean Banier, riding bareheaded.  Then rode all the gentlemen of the Queen’s chamber, then the pages of her chamber.  After them, in the last place, marched Colonel Line, in the head of four companies of the Guards, well armed, and indifferently well habited.

In this order they marched about half a league out of town, to the place appointed to meet the Prince, who was there attending.  When they came thither, Major-General Wrangel marched to the left, leaving sufficient room that the Guards might pass to the right hand, the volunteers and Queen’s servants likewise turned to the left hand, and the Marshal of the Nobility to the right, with the Hof-Marshals; and all this train kept excellent order and discipline, as did the Prince’s train, which was also very great.

The Prince was alighted from his horse before the Queen came very near to him.  When the Queen alighted, all the senators likewise alighted from their horses, but the nobility did not alight from horseback.  After his Royal Highness had kissed the Queen’s hand, she discoursed a little with him, he being bareheaded all the time, and showing great respect to her as to his Queen.  Then the Queen mounted again on horseback, the Prince waiting on her.  The troops marched back to the town in the same order as they came forth, with great addition to their numbers.  The Prince’s gentlemen and servants, who were a great number, fell into the troop where those of the Queen were, betwixt her gentlemen and the senators’ gentlemen,—­his pages after the Queen’s.  Himself rode after the Queen, and sometimes she would call him (as she did in the street) to speak with him, and then he rode even with her, but all the way bareheaded whilst he rode by the Queen and she talked with him.

The Prince was in a plain grey cloth suit of a light colour, mounted upon a very brave grey horse, with pistols at his saddle and his sword by his side.  The Queen’s lacqueys were in rich yellow liveries; the Prince’s lacqueys in blue liveries, near twenty, walking by them.  There were many led horses of the Queen’s and of the Prince’s, and seven or eight sumpter-horses of the Prince’s; the sumpter-clothes all of blue velvet, with the Prince’s arms embroidered on them, and rich silver fringe about them; the grooms and sumpter-men in the same livery, about twenty of them.