After dinner he took to singing and playing on every musical instrument, and exhibited a part of his very excellent endowments.

At length he commenced dancing," and, continues another narrator, "doing marvellous things, both in dancing and jumping, proving himself, as he is in truth, indefatigable." On another day there was "a most stately joust." Henry was magnificently attired in "cloth of silver with a raised pile, and wrought throughout with emblematic letters".

When he had made the usual display in the lists, the Duke of Suffolk entered from the other end, with well-nigh equal array and pomp.

He was accompanied by fourteen other jousters.

"The King wanted to joust with all of them; but this was forbidden by the council, which, moreover, decided that each jouster was to run six courses and no more, so that the entertainment might be ended on that day....