THE ENTRY into London of Charles V and Henry VIII took place on the evening of Friday 6 June 1522. According to Edward Hall's account, Charles and Henry rode side-by-side in identical ‘Coates of Clothe of Golde, embraudered with Siluer’, and they were serenaded on their way towards Southwark by Sir ThomasMore, who ‘made to theiman eloquent Oracion, in the praise of the twoo princes, and of the peace and loue betwene theim’. The procession met with the first pageant at the gate to London Bridge, which was flanked with the two giants Hercules and Samson. Between them they held aloft an iron chain, upon which was listed the lands and dominions over which Charles ruled as Emperor-elect. The list is included in the anonymous Descrypcion of the pageantes, a second, slightly variant account preserved on six manuscript folios contemporary with the entry, and now bound into Corpus Christi College Cambridge, MS 298. The second pageant had been erected on London Bridge itself. It depicted the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece. According to Hall, the armed figure of Jason stood behind the Golden Fleece and was flanked by the ‘fiery Dragon’ (sig.QQq6v) that legend has Phrixus deploy to guard the fleece, and by a ‘fayre mayde representyng the lady Medea’ (sig. RRr1r), the sorceress who helped Jason defeat the dragon and seize the fleece. A child explained to the Emperor that his coming to London had brought as much joy to its residents as had been brought to the citizens of Colchis by Jason's conquest of the Fleece.