which was most remarkable was this that about midnight arrived there Mr. Downing who did the affairs of England to the Lords the Estates in quality of Resident under Oliver Cromwel and afterward under the pretended Parliament which having changed the form of the government after having cast forth the last Protector had continued him in his imploiment under the quality of Extraordinary Envoy He began to have respect for the King's person when he knew that all England declared for a free Parliament and departed from Holland without order as soon as he understood that there was nothing that could longer oppose the re-establishment of Monarchal government with a design to crave Letters of recommendation to General Monk This Lord considered him as well because of the birth of his wife which is illustrious as because Downing had expressed some respect for him in a time when that eminent person could not yet discover his intentions He had his Letters when he arrived at midnight at the house of the Spanish Embassadour as we have said He presented them forthwith to the King who arose from table a while after read the Letters receiv'd the submissions of Downing and granted him the pardon and grace which he asked for him to whom he could deny nothing Some daies after the King Knighted him and would it should be believed that the strong aversions which this Minister of the Protector had made appear against him on all occasions and with all sorts of persons indifferently even a few daies before the publick and general declaration of all England proceeded not from any evil intention but only from a deep dissimulation wherewith he was constrained to cover his true sentiments for fear to prejudice the affairs of his Majesty Sunday the 30 of May the King would in the morning hear a Sermon and to that purpose it was ordained that Mr. Hardy one of the Ministers which came from England with the Commissioners of the City of London should preach before the King in the Chappel of the Court which serves for Church to the French that live at the Hage at eleven a clock in the forenoon as soon as the French had ended their ordinary devotions And to the end to prevent the disorder among the people which were come there in crowds from the neighbour towns the company which had the guard was commanded to seise themselves of the avenues of the Chappel and particularly to possess the dore which leads into a little Partition where the Princes of Orange heretofore caused a bench to be made cloathed with black velvet and covered with a canopy of the same stuff for themselves and for persons of quality that were ordinarily of their train but they dreamed not to remedy another inconvenience which deceived all the other precautions that they used For the French instead of giving place to the English and of using the civility which they were accustomed to have for strangers would not go out of the Church and even the persons of condition which sate in the little partition whereof we have spoken and who were for the most part Dutch refused to make place for the Lords which were in great number about the King's person without considering that this very incivility hindred them absolutely to satisfie the curiosity they had to see the King and to be present at the English Liturgy The Reader of the Church exhorted the people to withdraw and likewise the Pastor who made the Sermon went up again into the Pulpit and represented to them the wrong they did themselves as well as their brethren of the same religion and strangers as they in this country in obstinately staying thus in their seats after having heard the word of God in a place where they had been fed and in failing of respect to the King to whom that very Temple was given by their Superiours and where the English were to hear it after them in their tongue But these exhortations made no impression on spirits prepossessed no more then the other reasons which he alledged so that the King was enforced to do his devotions in the place where her Royal Highness is accustomed to have her preaching particularly since most important considerations hindred her to go to the English Church where there entred as many as it could hold of the Lords of that nation The Minister took his text in the 26 Chapter of the Prophet Isaiah verse 19 which he applied to the present estate of the affairs of England and made so learned and so pathetick a discourse that there was not any one there which was not touched and edified therewith After the Liturgy and Sermon were ended there presented themselves many persons sick of the Evil which the King was to touch after many others he had touched Friday and Saturday the 28. and 29. of this moneth in private And for as much as this ceremony is done with circumstances very remarkable and different from those which accompany it in France when the King there toucheth the sick it shall not be from our purpose to speak here of all the particulars thereof since they make as well one of the essential parts of our relation which is to omit nothing of what his Majesty did at the Hage But before we engage us in this recital it will be necessary to undeceive the spirit of those that believe that that which the Kings of England do on this ocasion is but a copy of that which is done in France and that it is not but because of the pretension which they have to that Crown and by vertue of the title which they take and from the arms of France wherewith they charge their Escuchion that they attribute to themselves a grace which is given to the eldest Son of the Church For it is most certain that the King of Great Britain hath this right and advantage not as King of France though he takes the quality thereof in his titles but as King of England and because the Kings his Predecessours have used it efficiaciously since the reign of Edward surnanamed the Confessour that is to say since the beginning of the 11. age and long before the Kings of England had declared their pretensions as they did when Philip of Valois came to the Crown Now this ceremony is performed in the manner as we shall at present relate Those that feel themselves afflicted with the disease commonly called the Kings-evill because the King cureth it are obliged to address themselves to his Majesties chief Chyrurgion who visits them and if he judgeth that it is the disease which the King cureth he appoints them a day and hour to be at the Chappel where the King is to touch them As in France the ceremony of touching the sick is done in the morning after the King hath communicated so was it this day done in the Chappel of the Princess Royal after the King had been at the sermon and publick prayers For the preaching
and other Barks capable to transport the King the Princes and Princess of the Royal House with all their Court Train and Baggage should immediately repair to the higher Swaluwe in Brabant to attend there the orders which the Deputies of the Estates of Holland should give them for that purpose They caused also to be written to all the Colonels and other Major Officers as well of Foot as of Horse who were quartered in the neighbour-hood of that Town that they should be the first day at the Hague to serve the Estate there and to appear splendidly at the Ceremonies of the reception and treatment which they had resolved to make to his Majesty As for the Deputies of Holland not only Mr. Beverweert who knew the intention of the King by the Marquess of Ormond had one the 18 sent an express to the Hage to advertise the Deputy Councellours therewith in the absence of the Estates of Holland who brake up from the evening of Pentecost but they dispatched also themselves a Post immediately after they arrived at Breda praying urgently that without delay necessary orders might be given for the reception and entertainment of his Majesty at the entrance into this Province and during his voiage to the Hage and to that purpose the Deputy Councellours who do in the Province of Holland what the Councel of Estate doth in regard of the United Provinces imployed the three daies following after having required Mr. de Wimmenum President in their Colledge to take upon him the whole conduct of this affair as also the order of all the expence which they had resolved to make for the King's table and for the Lords which belonged to him as his attendance whereof they left unto him the full disposing during the voiage and first day that his Majesty arrived at this Town The Deputies had also written to the Magistrate of the Town of the Briel to advertise him of the resolution which the King had taken to pass into Holland to the end that if there arrived there Posts from the Commissioners of Parliament he should send them to the Hage where the King made account to arrive in a very short time And indeed the same day the Deputies as well of the Estates General as those of the Estates of Holland knew that the King had resolved to depart from Breda on Munday the 24 of May and to this purpose to embark himself the same day at Moordike to the end to be at the Hage the next day by water about four a clock in the evening Upon the advertisement which they gave thereof the same day to their Superiours the Estates General resolved Friday the 21 that Mr. the Count de Flodorp de Wimmenum d'Amerongen and de Ripperda de Hengelo should give order conjunctively with two Councellours of Estate of the United Provinces that his Majesty and the Princes his brothers should be sumptuously treated and defrayed with all their Train during the whole time that his Majesty should remain in the Country of their obedience from Wednesday the 26 of May to the day of his embark'ment The same advertisement which had been carried at one time into divers Towns of the Province made to return to the Hage the most part of the Deputies which compose the Estates of Holland and which as we have said brake up the eve of Pentecost so that the most part being returned on Friday in the evening they began their Assembly the next morning being the 22 of May and fixed on this that Tuesday following the 25 of the said moneth they should send towards Delf at a place convenient to make the complement all Coaches of four and six horses that could be gotten for the Convoy with which they intended to receive his Majesty and should cause also as many pinnaces and other Barks to beready as was necessary to transport the train and baggage They ordained also that besides the Deputies which they had sent to Breda Mr. Buckhurst Lord of Wimmenum Deputy Ordinary from the Noblity to the Colledge of the Deputy Councellours or Councel of Estate of Holland should join himself to the other Deputies at Delf and forasmuch as he was charged with the conduct of the whole treatment which the Province intended to make to his Majesty aswell on the way as in this town as Deputy from the Estates that in this quality he should stay by the King whil'st he dined to receive the honour of his commandments after the other Deputies should be retired The Estates General of their side required Mr. d'Amerongen of the House of Rhede one of the chief Nobles of the Province of Utrecht Deputy in their assembly from the Nobility of the same Province lately extraordinary Embassadour in Denmark and now nominated for Spain to go to Breda and to report from thence an exact estate of the Kings whole Court and train of the Princes as also of the number of the Lords of the Councel and of his Majesties House to the end that necessary proportions might be taken for the lodgings pointed out for the Lords for the Tables which were to be furnished and for the mouths to be fed during the residence which the King should make at the Hage And to the end not to come short they made the same day a foundation of three hundred thousand gilders for the expence that should be made for it They had the same day Letters from Breda which signified that the day before Sr. Peter Killegrew brother to him who comands an English Regiment of Foot in the service of the Lords the Estates and who so gloriously fought in the Battel of Funen that it is his merit rather then the alliance which he hath with General Monck that makes him to be considered was arrived there from London from whence he had been dispatched express to carry to the King the news of his proclamation which was done the 19 of the same moneth with great ceremonies and extraordinary testimonies of joy and affection not only in the City of London but also in divers other neighbour Towns But forasmuch as these particularities are of the History of England which will not fail to publish all the wonders of this great revolution we will not make our relation of it which in speaking of all that passed in the Country is obliged to make known here the affection of the Magistrates of Dort of Delf and of Rotterdam who sent to beseech the King by Deputies express to do them the honour to pass through their Towns and to refresh himself there by the way But his Majesty excused himself as well upon the present estate of his affairs which permitted him not to stay any where as because that his passage could not but incommodate the inhabitants unto whom he should not cease to find himself sensibly obliged for the tenderness they expressed to him Sunday the 23 there was nothing remarkable if not that at Breda solemn thanks were rendred to God
the tables were perfectly served therewith and in so great aboundance that the English Stewards though very much accustomed to aboundance were astonished thereat and confessed that they could not comprehend how they could make ready in Boats and agitation twenty or five and twenty great dishes for every Table The intention of the King was to dine at Noon in entring into the Yacht and indeed the Steward who was appointed there by the Estates of Holland had caused the meat to be made ready but the wind was so strong and the water so tossed that the Princess Royal not able to endure the violent motion of the vessel lost her appetite and finding her self incommodated with the sea-sickness was enforced to lie upon the bed Hence was it that the King caused the Captain to be asked if there was means to shelter them somewhat under some rising land or trees to ease the Princess a little but the Captain having answered that there was no rest to be hoped for but at Dort where they might arrive in an hour and a half or there about they went on upon this hope Notwithstanding they came not in sight of Dort till between three and four of the clock in the afternoon The Rampart and Key were bordered with Citizens which were put into arms and with a battery of great Cannon which made many volleys as well as the Muskets whil'st the Fleet passed there during and after the repast which was taken in sight of the town and as long as they could discover the flag of the ship which carried the person of the King with all the Royal family they thundered The Fleet stopped a quarter of a league below the town with design to cast anckor that evening and to stay the whole night following at the mouth of the river of Leck which gives its name to one of the fairest territories of Mr. de Beverweert and which is very well known through the great number of Salmons which are taken there every year But there happened two things which obliged the King to change resolution The first was the return of Sir John Greenvil who arrived from England whil'st the King dined and reported that the Parliament was resolved to beseech his Majesty to come to take possession of the Crown without any condition or reserve and that Admiral Montague was at sea with a good number of ships to come to receive him in Holland to transport him unto his Kingdom The other was the advertisement which his Majesty received almost at the same time by an express that that Fleet appeared in the morning in sight of Scheveling and at nine a clock had cast anckor in the Rode about half a league from the shore The King presently imparted it to Mr. Beverweert as to the chief of the Deputation of Holland and caused the Duke of York to tell him who was in person in the Deputies Yacht which joined side by side with his that it was true he had made accompt not to arrive at Delf till the next day about noon to the end to be able to make his entrance into the Hague at the hour which he had appointed for his reception but that he had received intelligence which obliged him to change his design and to anticipate the hour that was resolved on because it was of the highest importance for him to speak as soon as might be with the Officers of the Fleet and so that he should be constrained to go the whole night to the end to arrive at Delf at the break of day whereof he prayed him to give advertisement to the Lords the Estates immediately and by an express to the end that the Coaches designed for his reception might be there at seven a clock precisely Mr. Beverweert remonstrated to his Royal Highness the difficulties that would accur in the change of the orders which were already given in telling him that the Poste which he was to dispatch could arrive at the Hague but very late and perhaps at an unseasonable hour when it would be almost impossible to make the Estates to assemble and without that they could not change the time which it pleased his Majesty himself to appoint Notwithstanding if the King desired it absolutely the Deputies would not fail to write immediately and to advertise their Superiours therewith since they were there but to obey his Majesty and to serve him The Duke of York replied that it was through an invincible necessity and with an extream regret that the King did thus but that he hoped the Lords the Deputies would consider the estate of his affairs and oblige very much his Majesty in losing no time to dispath their Poste and in contributing by that means to the advancement of his voyage and embarkment in this pressing conjuncture The Letters went away about five a clock in the after-noon the King caused anckor to be weighed and passed at evening before the town of Rotterdam where the contrary wind enforcing the Fleet to board or tack about and by this means to draw neer the haven two or three times gave the town leasure to salute his Majesty by the musket shot of the Burgers who were all in arms with flying colours on the rampart and port and with all the artillery of the town as well as with all the Cannon of the Ships which were there in the rode He passed next to Delfs-haven where they had made a battery of sixteen peeces of Cannon and staied not till he came to Owerschie a village scituate between Delfs-haven and Delf where he would attend the day The Estates of Holland had resolved to cause his Majesty to be received at the powder Magazin upon the channel which serves for line of communication for the two towns Delf and Rotterdam for the town of Delf having been partly ruined by an accident of fire which met with the powder some years since they thought it fit to lodge it without the walls and without cannon shot of the town But the King having caused the Fleet to set sail as soon as the Sun began to appear on the Horizon they were at the suburbs of Delf by five a clock in the morning before the Deputies could give order to make the Fleet to stay at the place designed for the reception All the Citizens of the town were in arms from three a clock in the morning and a part had their poste upon the Key before the port where the King was to dis-imbarck and the Magistrate came there in body to do reverence to the King in the Yacht as soon as he understood he was arrived and to beseech him to do them the honour to repose and refresh in their town whil'st his Majesty should attend the Deputies of the Estates of Holland but the King excused himself on the Estate of his affairs which was so far from permitting him to stay by the way that it had obliged him to prevent the hour which he had taken and
into the Hage had the leisure to cut some little streets and to come to put themselves behind and so to make a guard from the Highstreet and along the great Place even to the Viverberg where the Regiment of the Guards had taken its Post and made a guard on both sides even to the House of Prince Maurice of Nassau which the Estates of Holland had caused to be furnish'd and accommodated for the King's lodging As soon as the first coaches were entred into the Court and the King alighted the Deputies of the Estates General retired and left the honour of the reception and entertainment for that day to the Estates of Holland The King being gone up found on the top of the stairs the Queen of Bohemia his Aunt led by the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg who had the honour to salute and to entertain the King at Breda and the Princess Dowager of Orange led by Prince William Frederick of Nassau her son-in-law and accompanied with the two Princesses her daughters Madam the Princess of Nassau and the young Lady of Orange The King saluted them all and being entred into the chamber where he was followed by the Deputies of the Estates of Holland he received there another small complement from them by the mouth of the Pensionary Councellour who said no other thing but that the Estates of Holland would give themselves the honour to come in full body to render their duty to his Majesty when they might do it without incommodating him The King answered him that they should alwaies be welcome and that after he had dined they might take their audience But the Pensioner replied that his Majesty being without doubt weary with his journy they would not trouble his repose that day but would send to receive his orders the next The King who was weary indeed expressed a willingness to dine in private so that there staied no body by him but Mr. of Wimmenum who was charged with the order of making his Majesty to be served at dinner and in whatsoever it should please him to command The Princess Royal who had not slept the night before was the first that withdrew and obliged the others by her example to do the like The Queen of Bohemia and the Princess Dowager of Orange followed her and the King who would lead them and who took the Queen by the hand had the goodness after he had put her into the coach to turn about to the end to help the Princess Dowager to go up There staied with the King at dinner none but the two Dukes his brothers who dined with him His Majesty before he sate at Table would do Mr. of Wimmenum the honour to make him to take his napkin to present it him but that Gentleman who knew how to behave himself civilly excused himself through modesty and yeelded that advantage to him of his Officers who used to perform that function about the person of his Majesty The toil of the journy and little rest he had taken the two former nights made him desire to withdraw And indeed they would have made the musketteers to forbear shooting who gave continual volleys if it had been possible to smother the universal joy which the whole world would express on this occasion To these volleys answered those of a battery of eight and thirty peeces of Canon which were planted on the Viverberg reinforced with another of five and twenty peeces of a greater stamp which they were enforced to plant behind the Cloister Church of the Voorhout upon the rampart in turning the mouth towards the field for fear the noise of that thunder might shake the walls of the old Palace and of all the adjoining buildings The Estates General had ordained the precedent day Mr. de Heyde their Agent to go to Prince Maurice his House and to know immediately after the King's arrival at least as soon as civility would permit him when it would please his Majesty to receive the duty which they had resolved to render him in coming to do him reverence in a body and his Majesty having granted it them at four a clock in the afternoon it was resolved that they should all meet in the ordinary chamber of their assembly half an hour after 3 a clock to go from thence in a body to the house of Nassau They met accordingly at the hour appointed to the number of five and twenty viz. Mr. van Swanenburgh Burgemaster of Leiden and Deputy to the Estates General from the Province of Holland who at his turn was President that week the Baron of Gent M rs van Bemmel Braeckel Balveren Vande Steen Ripperda of Buirse the Count of Flodorff Schimmelpennick Vander Oyen Huygens and Ommeren Deputies from the Dutchy of Gelders Meerman of Horn and the Pensionary Councellour from the Province of Holland de Veth Crommon Vrybergen Lampsins and Kien for Zealand Renswoude and Amerongen Deputies from the Province of Utrecht Velsen for the Province of Freesland Ripperda of Hengelo for Overyssel and Schulenbourg and Isbrants for the town of Groning and the adjacent country with which it makes also a Province As soon as they were assembled they went forth two and two in the same order as we have named them going directly to the King's lodging which is separated from the Palace but by a Ditch whose two sides are joined by a stone bridge That Palace is named the Court or the Court of Holland because it served sometime for dwelling to the Counts as it comprehends now in its inclosure the apartments where the Estates General assemble the Councel of Estate of the United Provinces the Estates of Holland the Councel of Estate of the same Province the Reckoning-chambers of the Generality and of the Province of Holland The two Courts of Justice and the apartments assigned for the lodging of the Princess Royal and of the Prince of Orange Before the Estates marched Prince William Frederick of Nassau Governour and Lievtenant General of Freesland of Groning and of Overyssel the Rhine Grave Commissary General of the Horse of the United Provinces and Governour of Mastricht Mons de Hauterive Chasteau neuf Collonel of a Regiment of French Foot in the service of the Estates and Governour of Breda and many other Collonels Lievtenant Collonels and other Officers as well of Foot as of Horse all bareheaded At the entrance into the King's lodging they were met with by the Lord Crafts one of the four Gentlemen of the bed-chamber accompanied with a great number of gentlemen The Marquess of Ormond Lord Deputy of Ireland and in this quality the first and most considerable person of all England after the Dukes came to receive them at the stairs and brought them into the King's chamber All the high Officers that marched before being entred the Lords the Estates could scarce make way through the press which was extraordinary great there but at last being come to the King the Baron of Gent as chief Deputy
Britain The King answered him that the testimonies of affection which he rendred him on this occasion from the King of Swethen were very acceptable to him and that he should find him alwaies disposed not only to execute with sincerity the ancient treaties which common interest hath caused to be made between England and Swethen but also to confirm them by new and streighter alliances After this his Majesty informed himself of the age of the King of Swethen that reigns now of the place where the Queen lives and causeth the King her son to be brought up at present and of many other things which denoted the great goodness with which his Majesty would receive the Ministers of Princes with whom his Predecessours had alwaies lived in good correspondence After this familiar discourse wherewith the Embassadour came of very well he went to the Dukes of York and of Glocester and afterward saw also the Chancellour of England to whom he spake of the present estate of the affairs of the North and gave him to understand that they were in terms of accommodation between the two Crowns of Denmark and of Swethen After this audience the King gave the rest of the day to the affairs of his Kingdom being in continual conferences with the Commissioners of the Parliament and of the City of London It shall not be from our purpose to say here a word of the manner wherewith the King was served at his ordinary repasts and of the Estate of the expence which was made every day for his Majesty We have spoken of his Table and how the Royal persons that did eat there were seated They served up great Dishes in Oval form at five courses each containing five dishes and twelve trenchers because they changed the dishes twice at every service and every dish was so massive that one shall not be troubled much to represent the expence thereof when he shall know that there was two dozen of Pheasants in one dish and that all the other dishes were furnished accordingly They served besides that five tables for the Lords and one for the Ladies as for the Marquess of Worcester c. all at four courses and almost as full and furnished with the same meats as those of the King's table except one course which was between the pottages and the rost All the sweet meats as well at the King's table as at the Lords and Ladies were pillaged at every meal and exposed to the discretion of the people who were ordinarily there at those hours by the King in crowds And not only they served all sorts of delicious wines at the tables but the sources steamed therewith continually day and night and were never dry as well for the English of what condition soever they were as for all those of the town that came to demand it Every Table was of twelve coverings and had its Steward it s four Butlers as many assistants in the buttery and twelve men that serv'd up the meat and drink But for the King's mouth it was particular there was a Clark of the Kitchin for the pottages another for the courses another for the pastry one more for the rost and one for the meats between the courses every Clark having four Cooks under him for each service There hapned this day a thing which for having made a great noise in the beginning deserves well to be spoken of here with circumstances which might make one beleeve the truth of what was spoken of then A man of a most mean condition French by birth being about 9 a clock in the evening in a remote place towards the Rampart presented himself at the dore of a Millars house wholly affrighted and almost senseless as he appeared out of breath and said unto him that having been enforced to draw off for some necessity of nature he stooped down towards that little rising which serves for entrenchment to the Hage and which we called Rampart where being almost hidden as well because that the place where he put himself was low as because it was neer night he presently saw three men to come whereof two were cloathed in grey and the third in black who said one to another with displeasure as he could judge thereof in bad French as he reported that they failed twice because of the great number of people that were about him and serv'd him for guards but they would so well take their advantage from the two sides of the Coach that he should not escape them That rising upon this the others wholly surprised to see a man in a place where they were come because they thought to find no body there said that they were discovered and must dispatch him that might reveal them That thereupon one of the three shot of a Pistol whose bullet pierced his hat which he shewed wherewith he staggered but that the other thinking the stroak was not mortal shot a second so neer that he burned his hair This had so astonished him the he fell to the ground where having lain a while untill the three men were retired he arose and went streight to the house of that Millar And indeed he gave such an alarm there that the Millar went presently forth with him and taking two of his neighbours with him that armed themselves with stones like him they pursued those three men but to no purpose because they met them not therefore they went to the place where he said he saw them at first and where they found indeed the cloak which he said fear had made him to quit The affair was judged of such importance that the Court of Justice was ordered the next day to make a most strict and most exact inquiry thereof The Informer being questioned herein by Commissioners persisted in his first depositions which were believed at first to be so much the more true as the accuser though incommodated enough in his domestick affairs witnessed to be much uninterested and demanded no recompence Those notwithstanding that staied not much at fair apparences and would that they should proceed to a more exact examination of an affair of this nature spake of it as of a deceit which the laws should either justifie or punish with the severest punishment Howsoever it was it produced this effect that the Estates judging that they could not bring too much care to the conservation of the precious pledge which they had with them caused some troops of horse to advance with all speed which were already commanded and which being arrived kept guard with the standard on the avenues of the Palace where the King was lodged and of which there was alwaies a brigade which followed the Coach wheresoever his Majesty went And for as much as it was known that there was found in the Fleet a man bould enough to have resolved to put fire to the powder when the King should go to see the Vessel where he served in quality of Marriner which obliged Admiral Montague to
him that charge through the intermission of the King after having given him the conduct which his Father had of her affairs The Estates of Holland gave also a company of Walloon Foot with the hope of a troop of horse to Mr Languerack a Gentleman of the Country of the House of Boetselaer who till then had found great obstacles to his advancement They ordained also that M rs of Wimmenum from the Nobility Halling of the town of Dort of Marseveen of Amsterdam and Hooglant of Alcmaer should go to salute from them the Commissioners of the two Houses of Parliament and the Deputies of the City of London and to endear upon the affection with which they procured the King's return and on the zeal wherewith they laboured to re-establish the affairs of the Kingdom in the same estate they were under their last Monarchs being then in the most flourishing estate of the world They found the Commissioners assembled in the same places where the Deputies of the Estates General had met them viz. some at the Earl of Oxford's and the others with the Lord Fairfax and Mr. of Wimmenum said unto them That the Lords the Estates of Holland who had so much cause to rejoice for that great Catastrophe which they saw in England could not be silent in that wonderfull conjuncture and in that publick and universal joy but found themselves obliged to express it with them that contributed the most to it and are the principal Authors thereof That the Parliament of England had this advantage to be as the foundation of the Estate but that those which compose it now had gained this glory to all posterity that they had not only drawn the Kingdom from its greatest calamity to carry it to the highest felicity but also that they had been the first of the three Kingdoms to declare themselves for so glorious an enterprise That the Lords the Estates who in living with England as they lived during the Anarchy and disorder had manifested how dear the amity of the English was to them participated therein as they ought assured the Lords Commissioners of the perseverance of their affection and praied God for the continuation of the prosperity of the affairs of the Kingdom and of their persons in particular with all the fervency that could be expected from an allied Estate and from persons perfectly affectionated to their good and interests The Commissioners answered by the mouth of the Lords whom we have named and after they had thanked the Lords the Estates for the affection which they had for the King and for the Kingdom whereof they have every day such glittering proofs they thanked the Deputies for the pains they would take in coming to give them the greatest assurances thereof in their particular offering to acknowledge both one and t'other by their personal services and by a perpetual and inviolable amity of their Estate with this Republick and conducted the Deputies even to the coach Saturday the 29 of May the Deputy Councellours which make the Councel of Estate of Holland considering the expence which the Province had made for the reception of the King in his voiage from Breda and that which they must make yet as well for the Feast which they prepared against the next day as for the presents which they purposed to offer to his Majesty and to the Princes his brothers represented to the Estates of Holland that it would be requisite to make forthwith a sum of six hundred thousand Gilders The Estates consented thereunto immediately and found it fit to furnish for the King the Bed and the apprutenances which the last deceased Prince of Orange had caused to be made for the lying-in of the Princess Royal and which she never used because of the death of the Prince her husband who deceased eight daies before the birth of the Prince his son This bed is without doubt the fairest and richest that ever was made at Paris and besides the teaster the seats the skreens the hangings and the other peeces necessary to make a furniture compleat the Estates would add thereunto a most perfect fair hanging of the richest tapistery imbossed with gold and silver which they cause to be made of purpose with a great number of excellent pictures as well of Italy as of the countries ancient and modern and whatsoever can compose a chamber worthy to lodge so great a Monarch in his greatest magnificence The same Councel of Estate ordained also that all the fisherbarks of the Villages of Scheveling and of Heyde should be stayed for the service of the Estate to the end to serve the imbarkment of the Court and King's baggage and that for the same purpose the Village of Catwick on the sea should send the next Munday to Scheveling ten and those of Nortwijck Santvoort and Wijck upon the sea each eight barks They also gave order to Captain du Charoy to cause thirty open wagons to be in readiness to bring a part of the baggage to Scheveling Munday following and a like number with forty close wagons to conduct the train Tuesday which was the day that the King had nominated for his departure though it was deferred since till Wednesday the second of June as we shall see hereafter The same day the Duke of York brother to the King accompanied with the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg and with a great number of English and Dutch Lords and Gentlemen went to Scheveling to take the Marriners oath of fidelity in quality of Admiral of England but the wind being contrary and the sea so moved that the Lord Montagu Vice-Admiral thought it not fit to send boats from aboard him to fetch his Royal Highness and the fishermen of the Village refusing to put him aboard he was enforced to return to the Hage to dinner Monsieur Weiman Councellour in the Councel of Estate of the Elector of Brandenbourg and his Chancellour in the Dutchy of Cleveland had the opportunity to do reverence to the King at Breda where he went about the affairs of the wardship of the Prince of Orange wherewith his Electoral Highness would charge himself in part Therefore he would not press his audience during the first daies after his arrival when his Majesty was burthened with complements But as soon as Prince Maurice of Nassau who with the government of the town of Wesel and charge of Lieutenant General of the Horse in the service of the Estates General of the United Provinces ceaseth not to be Governour of the Dutchy of Cleveland and of the Provinces annexed to it in the name of the Elector of Brandenbourg was arrived they judged fit to make a solemn complement to his Majesty in the name of his Electoral Highness The Prince was there the same Saturday accompanied with Mr. Weiman who notwithstanding the imploiments which he hath elsewhere forbears not to reside some years at the Hage about the affairs of the wardship of the Prince of Orange and with
Mr. Copes ordinary Resident from the Elector to the Lords the Estates The discourse of the Prince was like a Cavaleer so that after the King had answered his complement they spake of indifferent affairs which have nothing of common with this relation The same day Monsieur Vicquefort Knight Resident with the Lords the Estates for the Land-Grave of Hessen made his complement for the Prince his Master which was so much the better received as in his particular he had had an occasion to render most important services to his Majesty as well as to the deceased King his Father of glorious memory He had the honour to do reverence to his Majesty at Breda when in the voiage which he made there some daies before with the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg the King expressed unto him that he remembred the affection which he had for his service He spake also for the Duke of Courland in such sort that the King who witnessed to be touched with the affliction of that Prince protested that he would not fail to acknowledge the good offices which that Prince rendred to the deceased King and to his own person during the disorders of his Kingdom Monsieur Walter de Raet Councellour in the Court of Holland Zealand and West-Freesland being gone to Bruxels in the beginning of the moneth of March this present year with Mr. Goes his Colleague by vertue of a Commission from the Court to speak to the Princess Royal of the affairs of the Principality of Orange understood that there was notice given that General Monck dissembled in a manner no more the inclination which he had for the King's interests and for the re-establishment of the affairs of England and from thence took the liberty to felicitate the King His Majesty received him so well as also the words which he said unto him when being gone since about the same affairs at Breda where his Majesty betook himself he gave him to understand the occasion which hindred the Lords the Estates at present to complement him on the estate of the affairs of the Kingdom of England that he said unto him that he should never see him but he would remember the good will he expressed to him in this conjuncture And indeed this very day the 29 of May the King remembring those marks of affection sent him his in presenting him by Mr. Oudart Councellour to the Princess Royal and to the Prince of Orange her son with Letters Pattents under the great Seal of England by which he gives to Mr. Raet and to his issue male the quality and rank of Knight Barronet for ever And for as much as those whom the King honours with this title are obliged to maintain thirty foot souldiers for the service of Ireland or to pay into the hands of the Treasurer the sum of a thousand fourscore and fifteen pounds his Majesty caused the first Letters to be accompanied with a second dispensing him of paying that sum and acquitting him in general terms and his posterity after him to perpetuity of the said sum We have said elsewhere that Don Stephen of Gamarra ordinary Embassadour of Spain to the Lords the Estates went to meet the King at Moordike to express there to his Majesty the joy that he had for his re-establishment The residence which the King had made for some years at Bruxels where Don Stephen of Gamarra had the honour to lodge some daies in the house of the two Princes the King's brothers made him to be considered quite otherwise then he could hope from his character in a time when there was open war between Spain and England though against the intention of the two Kings The caresses which the Princes made him on this occasion and the extraordinary civilities which he had received from the King proceeded from a particular affection as well as the goodness wherewith the same Dukes of York and of Glocester prayed to dine with him on thursday the 27 of this moneth The Marquess of Ormond and many other Lords had dined there the day before with the same familiarity wherewith the Lords German Earl of St. Albans and Craft went to dine with the Embassadour of France the day the King arrived at the Hage and upon the recital which these Lords had made to their Royal Highnesses of the great cheer the Embassadour of Spain had made them they resolved to dine there the next day But the King who would dine that day in publick with the Queen of Bohemia the Princess Royal the Prince of Orange and the Deputies of the Estates General having desired that the Princes his brothers might be of the company the Embassadour who had expected their Royal Highnesses gave himself the liberty to complain to the King in raillery for taking away his guests from him His Majesty had the goodness to tell him that he did it of purpose to hinder their dining with him because he would be also of the Party And indeed that very Saturday the King after he had ridden to Scheveling where he saw the Fleet and at his return visited the Queen of Bohemia went in the evening to the house of the Spanish Embassadour where were also the Queen of Bohemia the Dukes of York and Glocester the Princess Royal the Prince of Orange the Marquess of Ormond the Lords Digby Craft and Taff the Lady Stanhop Widow to the Lord Heenvliet to whom the King gave the title of Countess of Chesterfeild and Madam Howard her daughter-in-law Lady of honour to the Princess Royal. The table was covered in the Hall which is one of the fairest and greatest of the whole Hage but it would be very difficult to make a pertinent discription of this feast because that although they served up there but fish and sallats it was without doubt one of the most splendid and stately that ever was seen at a private house There was two great services of fish or rather of Sea-monsters besides the pottages the courses and the inter-meats and there was served up so great a quantity of sweet meats dry and liquid that all the persons of quality which were come in great number to see the order of that supper returned thence all loaden For the Master of the house had given order that they should have enough and that the servants should present Limonada Hypocras and all sorts of delicious wines to all those that should demand it whil'st the Officers of his Majesty and of their Royal Highnesses were magnificently treated in the other apartments of the house The King appeared there in the best humour that ever he was seen to be and expressed so much content in this company which was composed of none almost but of his family and of persons whom he saw every day that he staied there even until one a clock after midnight notwithstanding without the least disorder or confusion that might trouble their conversation and divertisement Every thing there was high and magnificent but that
and who is no less considerable through the prudence wherewith he governeth then through the honour which he hath to be the of same house with the King of Denmark who shall be partly his heir willing to give an extraordinary proof of the respect which he alwaies hath had for the Kings of Great Britain who of their side have from all time much esteemed him dispatched this Gentleman as soon as he understood that the King was to depart from Breda to come into Holland not so much to acquit himself of that duty by a simple complement as to assure his Majesty that the first day he would send to render his respect unto him in his Kingdom by a person who is very near unto him whom he considereth and loveth extreamly The King who is much more sensible of the good he receiveth then of the injuries his enemies have done him would make known by a most civil reception and accompanied with much tenderness and by a most obliging answer which he made to the complement of that Gentleman that if he could forget the ill usage he had received from some of his people he was incapable to lose the remembrance of the obligation which he had to the Count of Oldenbourg We have said before that the Duke of York as Admiral of England would go Saturday last to the Fleet to take there the Oath of Fidelity of the Officers and Marriners and that he was hindred by the contrary wind and the tempest But this day the last of May he embarked himself and was aboard the Admiral The Fleet declared it self for the King when it was yet at anckor in the Downs immediately after it understood the intention of the Parliament upon the Letter and Declaration of his Majesty whereof we have spoken in the beginning of this Relation and it was not lately that the Lord Montague who commands the Fleet now as Vice-Admiral under the authority of the Duke of York had made his good will so wel to appear that not only the King could not doubt thereof but also that he had given some suspition thereof to those of the contrary party But it was necessary to disingage the Officers Souldiers and Marriners of the Oath which they had done to the last Parliament and to be assured there of by a new Oath of Fidelity for the King their Soveraign Lord. Therefore the Duke being arrived at the Admiral 's Ship where he was received by the Lord Montague with extraordinary honour and submissions he caused the Captain of the other ships to come aboard there and took their Oath which the Captains caused to be administred since to the inferiour Officers and to all the rest of the seamen in the other ships The Lord Montague had caused the flag to be changed before he departed from the coast of England and made the arms of the Common-wealth to be raâ—ed out which appeared for some years on the castle of his proud poop but he had reserved the honour for his Royal Higness to change the name of the ship which Cromwel caused to be called the Naesby in memory of the great Battel where the deceased King was defeated and by which the Rebellion gained principally the strenght which made it to subsist even to this last revolution The Duke thinking that he could not give it a name which should be more pleasingly received then that of the King made it to be called The Charls It is certainly one of the handsomest frames that ever sailed upon the sea For although it be of the greatest size that hath been seen after that which they call in England the Soveraign and carries fourscore peeces of brass Cannon amongst which more then twenty are of 48 pound bullet it is notwithstanding one of the best sailers of the whole Ocean She had aboard her above six hundred men as well Souldiers as Sailors and the Chambers and Galleries of the Castle where the King was to lodge and where the Lord Montague lodgeth ordinarily were all wanscotted and gilded and furnished with fair beds of the finest cloth of England fringed with gold and silver and with foot Turcky tapistry for the Royal persons But that which was most remarkable was that in the Admirals Kitchin there were six Clarks that laboured but for the mouth and that his table was better served on the sea then those of many Princes are in their Dominions The plate which was all of silver was of so prodigious a greatness that they were seen to be loaden with peeces of rost beef whereof the English have reason to make one of their delicates which weighed neer a hundred pounds and the other dishes of plate which accompanied that were without comparison massier then the greatest washing basons that are ordinarily used and so loaden with meat that it seemed the whole Fleet was to be fed with the remains of that table though they were intended but for the attendants of my Lord the Duke He dined there at the ordinary of the Vice-Admiral which might pass for a great feast and in going thence he was saluted with the artillery of the whole Fleet which did him the same honour when he came aboard The same day the King received Letters from a certain kind of people which are called in England Quakers because that in the ordinary hours when they make their devotions or prayers there takes themselves a certain trembling in all parts of the body which they say to be a violent motion caused by the spirit of God wherewith they would make men be-believe that they are possessed It would be very hard to say whether these people are fanatick or hyponchondriack that is mad or melancholy but it must needs be that so great a disorder of spirit as that which is observed in all their actions proceedeth from an ill disposition of the body They have not only lost the respect they ow unto Princes and Magistrates but they fail also in the duties which are inseparable from the civil life And they are so far from humility which is a vertue not known but since the birth of Christianity that hitherto there was never seen an animal so impudent and so proud The Letter was ridiculous and impertiment throughout but particularly in most places it pronounced the threatnings of Gods judgment against the King if he protected not that Sect and entred not into those thoughts The King having made known the day before to Mr. the Veth Deputy from the Province of Zealand to the Estates General and President that week for his Province that his design was to render them a visit the next morning in their assembly as we have said it was resolved that they would receive this honour with all imaginable respect and to that purpose would dispose of all things in such manner that his Majesty should carry away from his visit the satisfaction which he might lawfully promise to himself from thence And indeed Tuesday morning
us of an immutable affection for the good of this Republick We render most humble thanks unto your Majesty for them and particularly for the illustrious proof which it pleased you to give us thereof by the glorious visit wherewith you honoured our assembly We shall conserve the memory of it most dearly and make the marks of that goodness to pass to our last posterity to the end you acknowledge it with the same respect with which we have received it The constitution wherein we see your Majesty ready to take horse for the continuation of your voiage forbids us to enlarge our selves upon a subject which would never weary us if we had words conformable to our respectful sentiments But we have no mind to increase the just impatience which your Majesty should have to see your self returned into your Kingdom We pray God SIR that it be quick and happy and that as he hath disposed the hearts and affections of your subjects to acknowledge their lawfull and soveraign Prince it will please him also to command the sea and winds to favour your voiage to the end that after you have received on your own coast the same prayer which we shall reiterate you may enjoy in your royal person and in your posterity forever all the felicity and prosperity which your most humble servants wish unto your Majesty The King thanked the Lords the Estates of Holland for the civilities they had done him during the residence he had made in their Province as also for the affection they had expressed unto him by the prayers they made for the success of his voiage and prosperity of his reign He promised them also that he would not only continue to live with that Republick in a perfect good correspondence but would also take a great pleasure to make a good and most streight alliance with it After this the King who staied but till this complement was ended went forth of his chamber at the same time the Estates of Holland retired He took his way to the Princess Royal her apartment whom he would visit at home before he took horse and seeing that the Lords the Estates conducted him he would not be covered from his house to the chamber of the Princess Royal where being come the Estates retired to take coach when they saw the King to go a horse back The conversation which his Majesty had with the Princess was but a moment for immediately after he went thence and came down into the Court of the Palace where he mounted a horse back with the Princes his brothers and took his way for Scheveling with the report of the great artillery which thundred from the Rampire marching in the mid'st of those two Princes and having before him the Prince of Orange accompanied with Prince William of Nassau Governour of Freesland with Mr of Wassenaer Lieutenant Admiral of the Province and with many other persons of condition The Queen of Bohemia the Princess Royal the Princess Dowager and the Princesses her daughters took coach as well as the Estates of Holland who would accompany him in body even to the place of his embarkment The Embassadours and other Ministers of forraign Princes who sent not there their coaches for the same reason that had dispensed them thereof at the entrance and almost all persons of condition took the avantguard and disposed themselves along the coast where the Citizens the Horse and the Regiment of the Guards stood in Battalia A great part of the inhabitants of the neighbour Towns were there already and those that came not forth of the Hage early in the morning or the nightbefore followed the Royal Persons in so great a multitude that that place which is very populous and could not lodge the people that were come there from all places of the Province was abandoned and converted into a desart in very few hours As soon as they saw the King to appear on the hill which covereth the village of Scheveling on the sea side the Cannon which was transported two daies before from the Viverberg upon the strand saluted him with its whole battry which ceased not to shoot continually untill being drawn off from those coasts could see no longer the honour they indeavoured to render him The Citizens and the Guards answered thereunto with their vollies of Musket shot and the Cavallery with their Carbines and invited thereby the Fleet to make all their artillery to thunder which afving lightened the air filled it with so thick a smoak that those great floating Castles disappeared in a moment to the eys of those that were on the land The King being alighted received the last complement of the Lords the Estates of Holland who had conducted him in body to the very brink of the sea and left him Deputies to conduct him to his ship by the mouth of the Pensionary Councellour His Majesty next took leave of the Duke of Brunswick-Lunenbourg of the Princess Dowager of Orange of the Princess of Nassau and of the young Lady of Orange her daughter and of all the other persons of quality which could not follow him or might trouble him in waiting on him to the Fleet There were none but his nearest relations the Queen of Bohemia the Princess Royal and the Prince of Orange that conducted him aboard the Admiral ship which was to pass him into England The Estates of Holland had caused one of the greatest barks of the place to be fitted for the Royal persons The body of the vessel was garnished with Tapistry its Mast carried the Royal Flag and its yards were loaden with garlands and crowns of verdure and flowers amongst which there was one fastned accompanied with a streamer which carried for Devise Quo fas fata to denote that the King in embarking himself went to the place where the justice of his cause and the providence of God called him and to allude to the ordinary Motto of the Kings of England Dieu mon droict The King entred there with all the Royal Family but seeing a shallop to approach covered glased and tapistred which the Admiral Montague had sent from aboard him as soon as he saw the King to appear on the Strand he entred into her and the Queen of Bohemia followed him This Shallop was accompanied with many others and was rowed with oars by the sea men who seeing themselves in possession of their Soveraign Prince made the whole neigbour shore to resound with their shouts and expressed their joy by all the marks that could be required from persons of that quality some in casting their caps up into the air and others in casting them into the sea to which some likewise abandoned their doublets and wastcoasts The Lord Montague who had changed the Flag of the pretended Republick before he departed from the coast of England and born that of the three Kingdoms whil'st he was in the rode seeing the King to approach caused the Royal Flag to be put to
but the two Princes expressed that they should see that exercise with much satisfaction And indeed the next day being the 27 th the Regiment of the Guards having been in the field from the beginning of the morning stood in battalia half the way to Scheveling by the house where Mr. Catz sometime Pensionary Counsellour and Keeper of the great Seal of Holland made his retirement after he had passed through the fairest imploiments wherewith his country could have acknowledged his merit in a very pleasant and fair plain where the two Princes the Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburg the Prince of Orange Prince William of Nassau Governour of Freesland the Rhine-Grave and all persons of quality that were at the Hage repaired about ten a clock in the morning and after they had seen all that which skil could make a body perfectly exercised and disciplined to do both in marching and fight under good Officers they made a course even upon the banks of the sea from whence they considered the Fleet and went from thence to dinner the Dukes of York and of Glocester with some English Lords to the Duke of Lunenburgs and the rest to the Court The Estates General deputed there to accompany the King that day M rs de Gent of Gelders of Merode and Navander of Holland Lampsins of Zealand Renswoud of Utrecht Velsen of Freesland Ripperda of Hengelo of Over-Ysel and Isbrants of Groning The King was from the morning shut up with Mr. Hide his Chancellour who for being chief of his Councels and his most confident Minister was lodged in the same house because that being incommodated with the gout his Majesty would that he should be lodged in a place where he might make use of his councels at all hours of the day He was with him more then an hour and a half sitting on his bed-side and sometimes leaning upon the bed it self in a very secret conference After the King was gone out of the Chancellour's chamber the extraordinary Embassadours of Denmark caused his Excellence to be prayed to appoint them an hour for a particular audience which they obtained for the after-noon They received in this audience new assurances of the good intentions of his Majesty to the advantage of the King their Master who would have profited notably thereby if the treaty of peace with Swethen had not been too much advanced as indeed it was concluded a few daies after We said that the precedent day the King had promised the Pensioner of Amsterdam that he would certifie the Duputies of the same town when he could give them audience to the subject of the request which they had to make unto him touching the journy wherein they indeavoured to engage him And indeed the same evening he sent them the Lord Wotton second son to the Lady Stanhop since Countess of Chesterfield who was to advertise them that they might see his Majesty the next day at nine a clock in the morning This Deputation was composed of Mr. Cornelius of Vlooswick Lord of Vlooswick Diemerbrouck and John de Huydecooper Lord of Marseveen Bourgemasters in charge Conrade Burg sometime extraordinary Embassadour in Moscovia Conrade of Beuningen heretofore extraordinary Embassadour in Denmark and in Swethen and now named for the extraordinary Embassadour into France Senatours and Peter de Groot Pensionary of the same town The last after he had made a low reverence to his Majesty spake in these terms SIR The Burgemasters and Magistrate of the town of Amsterdam who yeeld not in devotion and zeal for the glory and interests of your Majesty to any person of the world thinking that they have not satisfied neither their duty nor their affection by the general testimony which they have rendred thereof by the mouth of the Lords the Estates General and likewise by that of the Estates of this Province have commanded us to beseech your Majesty to grant them a particular audience where they may give stronger proofs both of one and t'other Your Majesty shall see them in the extream joy which they have for the glorious re-establishment of your Majesty upon the throne of your Ancestours the circumstances whereof are so much the more considerable as this miraculous revolution is made without effusion of blood and as your Majesty is obliged for it but to the powerful hand of God only who hath wrought therein by means altogether extraordinary But you shall find the proofs thereof particularly in the most humble prayer which we have order to make you to honour their town with your Royal presence for the few daies the time will allow you to remain in this Province to the end that so many strangers wherewith their town is inhabited may be witnesses of the publick and real demonstrations which they intend to make of the veneration which they have for the person of your Majesty and of the passion which they have for your service Nothing can be added to the obliging words with which the King answered the complement of the Deputies of Amsterdam in thanking them with much affection for that of theirs whereof he said he had received most illustrious proofs witnessing to be very sorry that he could not satisfie their request seeing that he had no less inclination for that journy then the Lords of Amsterdam could have passion to see him in their town and assuring them that he would eternally remember the amity they had for him The Deputies replied in the most submiss terms that respect could put into their mouths and after they had prayed for the prosperity of his Majesty and for the perpetual felicity of his reign they retired Mr. Coyet Knight Extraordinary Envoy of the King of Swethen to the Estates General of the United Provinces had demanded audience the day before but those which his Majesty found himself obliged to give to the Estates of Holland and next to the Commissioners of the Parliament and of the City of London made him to refer it to this Thursday at eleven a clock in the morning Mr. Coyet being come into the fore chamber at the hour appointed the King sent immediately unto him Mr. Wentworth one of the four Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber to entertain him till affairs permitted his Majesty to come to speak with him as he did presently after in the Presence-chamber The Envoy made known to his Majesty that he would speak Latine to him and as he was very wel versed in that language he had prepared a very elegant discourse for him but for as much as his Majesty signified to him that that tongue was not familiar enough to him to serve his turn to answer readily he made him his complement in French as the Ministers of all the other strange Princes did extending himself on the present revolution of the affairs of England on the excellent and great qualities of his Majesty and of the amity which the Kings and Crown of Swethen had from all time received from the Kings of Great