page 113 note 2 As early as 1522, when Charles V came to London, the Drapers exhibited “a pagiaunt of the story of Jason and medea wyth the dragon and ij bollys (bulls) beryng the goldyn flese, by cause the emperowr is lorde and gever of the tewson (Toison d'Or) and hedde & maker of all the knyghtys off the tewson, lyke as the kyng or englonde is of the ordyr of the knyghtys off the garter” Corp. Christi (Cantab.) ms. 298; cf. also on this entry, Stow, Annals, p. 516; Hall, pp. 637 f.; Grafton, ii, pp. 322 f. My own English Pageantry—an Historical Outline, which is in preparation, will contain a detailed account of this “royal-entry.”
In 1615 Munday wrote the show for the inauguration of Sir John Jolles, Draper, as Lord Mayor. (The pamphlet is in the British Museum, Guildhall, and Bodleian; it is reprinted in John Nichols, Progresses, &c. of James I, iii, pp. 107 f.). In this show a goodly Argo, with Jason, Medea, and the Argonauts appeared on the Thames; the companions of Jason were “seated about him in their several degrees, attired in fair gilt armors.” Jason also appeared in the 1621 show; he sat in the “Chariot of Honour.” See Bullen,, op. cit., vii, pp. 339 f.