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Marching Watch

A splendid pageant on Midsummer Eve, which Henry VIII. took Jane Seymour to Mercersʹ Hall to see. In 1547 Sir John Gresham, the Lord Mayor, restored the pageant, which had been discontinued on account of the sweating sickness.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.