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| Date | Description | Source | Reference |
| 1520 A.D. | Twenty pavilions consisting of main backbone with five cross tents
in the Tudor livery of green and white. Interior green, ridge in gold,
decorated with fleur-de-lis. Several tents similar to this appear in the
painting of the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
Twenty eight (?) pavilions consisting of a grid of nine intersecting corridors. Navy blue with gold decoration and gold ridges decorated with fleur-de-lis. Interior gold. Nineteen (?) pavilions, main backbone with ten "rooms" to the sides. Crimson and gold. The poles are crowned with the "King's Beasts" (lions, dragons, greyhounds, harts and heraldic antelopes). Royal badges appear along the ridge and the royal mottoes "Dieu et mon droit" and "Semper vivat in eterno" along the eaves. Ropes and pegs are clearly shown on all three tents. |
Three Designs for Royal Tents Paper, 425 x 950mm, 460 x 640mm, 215 x 650mm. Cotton MS, Augustus III.11, 18, 19, British Library. | Starkey, D., (Ed.), Henry VIII A European Court in England, Collins and Brown, London, 1991, p. 53. |
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