Soveraign Lord. The Duke being received with extraordinary honour and submission caused the Captains of the other Ships to come aboard him and take the Oath of Allegiance which the Captains caused afterwards to be administred to the inferiour Officers and to all the rest of the Sea-men in the other Ships The Lord Mountague had caused the Flag wherein were the States Arms to be changed before he departed from the Coast of England and made the Arms thereof in the stern to be defaced and pulled down but reserved the Honour for his Royal Highnesse to change the name of the Ship which Cromwell had caused to be called the Naseby in memory of that fatal place where the King deceased received his totall overthrow who thinking no name great enough for so immense a structure being certainly one of the handsomest and biggest Frames for war and yet the best sailer that ever sailed upon the Seas next after the Soveraign carrying fourscore peices of Brasse Canon and six hundred men on board her nor so welcome to the Fleet gave her the name of the Royal Charles It will not be amisse to set down a little breif of the Dukes entertainment here he dined in that Chamber or Gallery where the King was to lodge which was all new wainscotted and guilded and furnished with a fair bed of the finest Cloth of England fringed with Gold and Silver the Floor laid with Turky Tapestry In the Generals Kitchen there were six Clerks that laboured but for the mouth his Table being as well served at Sea as many Princes were in their Dominions The dishes which were all of Silver were of so vast a bignesse most of them that Surloines of Beef and Chines likewise were served up in them The Duke dined at this ordinary of the Generals which might passe for a great feast and in going thence was saluted with the Artillery of the whole Fleet which did him the same Honour when he came on board At this time the King received letters from the Quakers in England full of impertinences and menaces against him if he protected not their Sect and entred not also into those thoughts The King having made known the day before to Monsieur de Veth Deputy from Zeland to the Estates General The King visits the States General in their Assemblie and President that Week that his purpose was to render them a visit the next morning in their Assembly preparation was made to receive him with all imaginable respect and so ordered a Deputy for every Province to wait upon him from his lodgings thither two of them being to march before the King bare-headed to the place where the Estates would receive him and from thence to the seat which was prepared for him They had also provided a great train of Coaches to wait on him thither but his Majesty had no sooner answered the Complement of the Deputies but being upon the stone stairs of the Court he caused the Lords of the train to advance and expressed a willingnesse to walk that little way on foot which is between Prince Maurice his House and the Palace Prince William of Nassau put himself immediately before the King who not disposed to cover himself in the way the Deputies of the Estates that followed him put themselves in the same condition and in this order between two files of Souldiers they arrived at the foot of the stairs of the great hall where the Estates General came in a body to meet him made him a low reverence and opened themselves to make him passe in the midst of them and followed him thus two and two along the Hall and then through the Gallery where they sell pictures but their Shops that day shut up and their with-drawing Chamber unto that of their ordinary Assembly his Majesty and the Estates being still uncovered This Hall is rather long then large The manner of His Majesties sitting in the Assembly of the States General having in the midst of it a Table capable to hold about Thirty persons in the middle whereof is a place for the President which changeth every week according to the number and rank of the united Provinces but the President for that Week quitted it then and sate in that which is over against it where the Ambassadours and Ministers of Forrain Princes are seated when publique Audience is given them and on the usual seat of the President they made an ascent or foot-bank of seven or eight foot broad covered over with a foot-cloth of Tapistry which reached along the passage even to the door of the with-drawing Chamber on the Foot-bank was placed a Chair of Green Velvet aud over head a Cloath of Estate or Canopy of the same Coloured Velvet which was hung between the Pourtraits of the four last Princes of Aurange of the House of Nassau there standing which were so separated that those of Prince William and Maurice were of one hand father and son together and those of Prince Henry Frederick brother to Prince Maurice and his son William the second Husband to the late Princesse Royal on the other side of the Canopy The King being come to this place which was a kind of a Throne Prince William Frederick of Nassau and some English Lords put themselves behind the seat and his Majesty who stood still and uncovered till all the Members that compose that illustrious Senate were entred which were numerous that day because of the Extraordinary Deputies when they were after a while disposed in their places sate down then and covered himself but remained not long in that posture For as soon as he saw the seats full and all the Deputies covered he arose and putting off his Hat in very kind and obliging expressions for all the civilities they had shewed him since he arrived in their Countrey he assured them of the constancy of his Amity and affection for the good of that Common-wealth and here more solemnly recommended unto them the persons and interests of the Princesse Royal his Sister and of the Prince of Aurange his Nephew to which the President made a reply in such terms as sufficiently made known the respect wherewith they resented this Honour they had received This being done his Majesty retired the same way and in the same manner he entred Prince William marching in the head and the Estates two by two following him and conducting the King into the Court to the foot of the Stairs of the great Hall where they had received him Here the Lords States of the Province of Holland to whom the King had promised the like honour of his presence in their Assembly came to meet his Majesty in a body They had likewise before them Prince Maurice of Nassau Lieutenant General of the Horse and Governour of Wesel marching alone and bareheaded performing the same place which Prince William had done with the Estates General Nothing being new or what varied from the manner of his Majesties reception and sitting in
unto him with the Quality of Colonel On the same consideration they gave a Troop of Horse to Mr. Kâ—rkhoven Baron of Wooton Son of the Deceased Lord Heenvhâ—t and the Countess of Stanhop being in the room of his Father great Forrester of Holland and Superintendant of his Highnesses the Prince of Auranges Affairs Another Complement was also Ordered to be given the aforesaid Commissioners of England A Speech made to the Commissioners of Parliament by Deputies from the Province of Hol. the sum whereof meeting them in the same place where the Deputies of the States General saluted them being uttered by M. Wimmenum was this That the Lords the Estates of Hol. who had so much caus to rejoyce for that great Catastrophe which they saw in Eng. could not be silent in that wonderful juncture and in that publick and universal Joy but found themselves obliged to express it to thens that contributed most to it and were 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 Undertaking That the Lords Estates who in the Anarcâ—y and disorder had for their parts retained their due sentiments of the English Nation though necessitated to a War which was meerly personal on the English side against a Faction and prevalent Party did take this happy advantage of assuring their Lordships of the Perseverance of their Affection and prayed God for the continuance of the Prosperity in the Kingdoms of his Majesties Dominions and of their Persons in particular with all the fervency and earnestness that might be expected from an allied State and from Persons perfectly affectioned to their Good and Interests To this the Commissioners answered by the mouth of those Noblemen that spoke to the King That they thanked the States for their great Affection to the King and his Kingdoms the memory whereof they should alwaies keep and particularly for the pains they had taken in coming to give them a Visit with such Assurances of their Respect and Friendship which they would endeavour to require by their personal Services and by a perpetual and inviolable Amity with that Republick and so conducted them to their Coaches On the 19th of May Sixty thousand Pound added to the expence for the Kings Entertainment an Addition of threescore thousand Pound was Ordered for the Expence which they would now magnificently bestow on the Kings Entertainment the States intending to make him a Feast and to give him and his Brothers some Presents upon which account they thought also fit to furnish for his Majesty the Bed and Appurtenances which the last Deceased Prince of Aurange had caused to be made for the lying in of the Princess Royal and which she never used because of the death of the Pâ— her husband who deceased eight dayes 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 Tester the Seats and Skreens the Hangings and the other pieces necessary to make a Furniture compleat the Estates would add thereunto a most perfect fair Hanging of the richest Tapestry embossed with Gold and Silver which they caused to be made of purpose with a great number of excellent Pictures as well of Italy as of other Countries both ancient and modern and whatsoever can adorn a Chamber worthy to lodge so great a Monarch in his greatest Magnificence It is now set up at Hampton-Court The Council of State ordained also that all the Fisher-Barks of the Villages of Scheveling and of Heyde should be stayed for the Service of the State Order given for the Embarquement of the Baggage to the end to serve the imbarquement of the Court and Kings Baggage and that for the same purpose the Village of Catwyck on the Sea and other Dorps adjacent should send 20 Barks and caused 30 open Waggons to be made ready also to bring the said Baggage down to Scheveling the Monday following being the 21th with 40 close Waggons to conduct the Train on Tuesday which was the day that the King had designed for his departure though deferred till Wednesday as we shall see hereafter The same day the Duke of York accompanied with the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg The Duke of York taketh the Oath of Allegiance from the Mariners and with a great number of English Dutch Lords and Gentlemen went to Scheveling to take the Mariners Oaths of Fidelity in quality of Admiral of England but the Wind being contrary and the Sea boysterous the Lord Montague thought it not fit to send Boats from aboard him to fetch his Royal Highness and the Fishermen of the Village refused likewise to put him aboard so that he was forced to return to the Hague to Dinner At this time came also the Ambassadour of the Marquess of Brandenburg The Ambassadour of the Marquess of Brandenburgh his audience Monsieur Weyman to salute the King upon his restitution brought in by Prince Maurice of Nassau the same that was extraordinary Ambassadour here since from the said Elector after the King had answered the Complement they spake of indifferent Affairs which have nothing common with this Relation Monsieur Vicque first Resident with the States Ambassanours likewise from the Landgrave of Hesse for the Landgrave of Hessen made likewise his Complement for the Prince his Master which was so much the better received as in his particular he had an Occasion in the business of the Palatinate to which House he hath constantly bin allied to render most important Service to his Majesty as well as the Deceased King his Father He had the Honour to do reverence to his Majesty at Breda with the Duke of Lunenburg where the King remembred the affection which he had for his Service The King added so sensibly did the touches of other afflicted Princes condition incite him to a generous Sympathy and protested himself as well as his Father obliged to the Duke of Curland who had in the War in England supplied him with Arms and Ammunition and that he never would fail to acknowledge those good Offices done them both during the Disorders of his Kingdoms After these verbal Ceremonies were past other oral as we may say followed several Invitations were made from the Ambassadours to the Lords of the Kings Train to dine with them the Ambassadour of France had treated the Earl of St. Albans and the Lord Crofts and some other Lords at a Dinner and the Spanish Ambassadour was bespoke by the two Dukes of York and Glocester being of long Familiarity with him to entertain them at his House where before the Marquess of Ormond had been
serve for the ensuing Parliament which was to set down on the 25th then instant were honest Patriots and well affected to his Majesty and that they would labour indubitably for the re-establishment of the King assoon as it should be compleat and that their sitting down would certainly commence the day prefixed and appointed From that time forward there passed not a day almost that the King received not some remarkable News upon which he might ground infallible hopes of his Restauration On the 15th of the same Moneth Sr. John Greenvile since Earl of Bath and Sr. John Boys brought him Intelligence of the deseat of Gen. Lambert he had been Prisoner in the Tower of London by vertue of an Ordinance of the Council of State and had made an escape thence with design to put himself in the head of those who were strugling to continue the Anarchy and our Ruine but he was suddenly supprest and taken by Col. Ingoldsby 〈◊〉 Edge-hill where to the greater Honour and content of the King and his Felicity the last dying effort of the Rebellion was quell'd where its first potent Arms opposed it self against his Royal Father Remarkable also was the manner of the dissipation of those Rebels for never did Lambert betray such meanness and abjection of Spirit as in that rendition of himself to his formerly fellow-Colonel a most evident sign that God had consternated and utterly confounded them not only one among and against another but even in themselves perplexing and distracting their thoughts and dashing and turning their greatest Resolutions He was brought back to his former Prison the Tower and there better secured and since removed to the Isle of Jersey The King received the same day Letters from General Montagne then riding in the Downs which assured him of the good estate of the Affaires of the Kingdom and of the sincerity of his Intentions of which he had already given Proofs many moneths before when S. George Boeth took up Arms for the King in Cheshire Now his Majesty thought it time to appear to his People The Kings Letters and Declarations to Parliament and Army and City from out of that obscurity wherein his hard Fortunes had so long while concealed him which he did with such a sudden Brightness that struck Joy and Chearsulness into the Eyes and Faces of all his Subjects For presently he sent away the Lord Viscount Mordant and Sr. John Greenvile to London with his Declaration and Letters dated from this place to the 2 Houses and the Lord Mayor and Common Council of the said City and the General and Officers of the Army who arrived soon after the sitting down of the Parliament and on the 2 of May delivered them to the Speakers That Sacred Name of the King which not long time was the aversion and abhorrence of base mechanick fellows and Phanaticks was heard with veneration and inspired into that Illustrious Assembly such extraordinary and advantageous motions for the King that it is impossible to express them It will be enough for the honour thereof to say that whereas not above 3 or 4 moneths before it had been a Crime of High Treason to speak in Parliament in behalf of the King no sooner now is that great name pronounced than a general Joy appeared in the countenances of all the Commons and most high and dutiful Respects for that Divine Character By Vote of the Houses therefore Sr. John is desired to enter the Speakers receive the Kings Letters from his hand the Clerk read them every one in the mean time with the greatest expressive submission in the world standing bare-headed His majesty had thereunto as before said added a most excellent Declaration for the safety and repose of those who cortur'd in their thoughts for having partaken in the Rebellion might fear the punishment of it and in that fear might oppose the tranquility of the State and the calling in of their Lawful Prince There never was seen a more perfect Assembly of all the most excellent natural Quilities and of all the vertues as well Royal as Christian where with a great Prince may be endowed than was found in those two wonderful Productions as was evident in their acceptance and entertainment They were full of Piety and Zeal for the Glory of God and for Religion of tenderness towards the Afflictions of his People Esteem for the Parliament Firmness for the Conservation of his own Rights an admirable Prudence for the regulating of Affairs and an inexemplar conduct for the re-establishing of the Government in its former state Love for the good indulgence for the seduced and a more than Christian Clemency for Criminals or rather for Crime it self for a Crime I say so black and so abominable that as there was not an Example of it in History since the Creation of the world so his Majesty hath not altogether been so wrought upon by his innate Goodness as to let it pass for an example unpunished to Future Ages Both these Papers wrought the Effect which the King promised himself from them since they absolutely gained the hearts of the people which the miseries of the time past had already very much disposed to the acknowledging their Prince For they were no sooner read but the Parliament declared that the Tenders and Sentiments of the King were Gracious Good and Generous and Conformable to the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom the Government whereof ought to confist of King Lords and Commons and forthwith ordered that most humble Thanks should be returned to his Majesty for the Gracious Letters and Declarations aforesaid and that for a present supply of his Majesties occasions and in order to speed his Return the sum of fifty thousand Pounds was appointed for a Present to which the City of London added ten thousand more They likewise ordered that General Montague should sayl with his Fleet to attend the Kings Pleasure on the Coasts of Holland That the Two Houses and City of London should send Commissioners respectively from them to beseech him to come and take possession of his Kingdoms which God and his Right had given him and that in the mean time Sr. John Greenvile should be disparched with the Parliaments Answer and should carry to Brada the Resolutions and Prayers of the Two Houses or rather the impatience which the Nation had to see again their Natural Soveraign after a sad absence of many calamitous and miserable years But that which was most remarkable in these Resolutions was that they were not taken after a long contestation consult or dispure nor upon a simple acquiescement of the Parliament in a major Vote but by the express Suffrages and Votes upon the universal and unanimous consent of all the Members of both Houses who strove in aeleg mulation of each other which should give the greatest Proof of Affection The Parliament also gave Liberty to the Noble General to send Mr. Clarges now Sr. Thomas being Knighted by the King at Breda his
had declared for him and had witnessed their Joy by the fire of Cannon and Musquets and expected his Majesties Commands for the Government of the place These concurrent Accessions to the Kings fortune together with Letters newly come from the States Ambassadors in London made the States General redouble their Orders to their Deputies touching the Complement and Offices which they were to do to the end to acquit themselves thereof with zeal and Affection so that on the morrow by 11 at Noon the King sent the Lord Gerard to conduct them to their Audience in the Castle where the King lodged The Marquess of Ormond met them on the stayâ—head and brought them into the Kings Chamber who was standing in the midst of it covered but assoon as he saw them he uncovered himself and came 2 or 3 paces forward to meet them After they had made most low Reverences and were approached the King Monsieur Ripperda would begin to speak but the King would needs have them put on their Hats which they not willing being not in the quality of Ambassadors as in their own Countrey to do he also continued uncovered all the while The main of this Speech was this That the States General of the United Provinces The Speech of the Deputies to the King had understood with an extream joy the alteration of Affairs in England That they knew the good God had so well touched the heart of his Subjects that there was not any person almost that cried not on the name of the King and wished passionately to see him returned to his Kingdom That upon certain Advertisments which the States General had thereof they thought fit to send their Deputies to his Majesty to witness unto him the part they take to congratulate him in so important an occasion and to wish him and all his Royal Family all the Blessings of Heaven and all the Prosperity he could hope for from God after so long and such bitter Afflictions That the States General made those Prayers with so much the more ardour as they knew that the repose of their Commonwealth depended in some kind on that of its Neighbours That they would not willingly enjoy the Amity of the English but under the Monarchical Government of his Royal House That they hoped to enjoy it still for the future under his Majesties happy Government and to this purpose they desired that of his goodness he would be pleased to renew with the United Provinces the Alliance which they had alwaies considered as one of the chief Points of State and as the Foundation of the preservation of the common Interests of both Nations That moreover they had Order from their Superiors to remonstrate to his Majesty that the residence of Breda was inconvenient and distant and to beseech him most humbly to chuse one in their Provinces which he should judge more proper for his Affairs for his Residence and for his Embarquement That the States General had commanded them to follow his Majesty in his Voyage and to serve him with whatsoever the United Provinces possessed The King thanked them very much for their Civility and the Testimonies of their Affection saying in very obliging words to them The Kings Reply I love this Commonwealth not only because the Princess Royal my Sister and the Prince of Aurange two persons who are extreamly dear unto me remain here but also through Interest of State for the good of my Kingdom and through a very strong inclination to their good I love truly Sirs these Provinces and so strongly that I should be jealous if they gave a greater part in their Amity to another Prince than to me who think that I ought to have much more therein than any other Prince since I love them more than all the other Soveraigns together After they had had this Audience of the King my Lord Jermyn conducted them to the Two Dukes severally where they gave and received the like Civilities as also to the Princess Royal. And the next day after while they were in consultation about ordering the Charge of the Kings Remove the States of Hollands Deputies had Audience likewise on the 10 h. of May when Mr. Bâ—verweert spoke as followeth Sir It is now the third time that my Lords the States of Holland have congratulated with your Majesty upon the coming to the Crown The first was when you attained thereunto by the Fundamental Law of your Estate immediately after the Decease of the Late King your Father of most Glorious and Eternal Memory and the other when the Commissioners from the Committee of Estates and Parliament of Scotland came to this Place to invite your Majesty to go and take possession of one of the Crowns of your Ancestors It is but with great grief that we remember those two disastrous Encounters but on the contrary it is with a transport of Joy that we are now to congratulate your Majesty upon the present happy state of your Affairs and this with so much the more reason as they know that the reciprocal Amity between England and this Republick hath never suffered the least alteration under the Government of her Kings The rest was like that of the States General and concluded with the like Invitation of his Majesty to make his Court in their Province protesting all thankfulness for the Honour done them if he pleased to accept thereof The King returned an Answer near the same he gave before and used the Deputies with the same civilities as the other entring into a Discourse with them concerning the Northern Affairs betwixt Sweden and Denmark for the latter of whom he openly declared himself It is high time now to cast an eye into England where on the aforesaid 8th of May the King was Proclaimed in great State and more than usual Solemnity The Copy of which Proclamation here follows for that as the Occasion required it was drawn up in an unusual Form The Copy of the Proclamation and the manner of Proclaiming it ALthough it can no way be doubted but that his Majesties Right and Title to his Crowns and Kingdoms is and was every way compleated by the death of his most Royal Father of Glorious Memory without the Ceremony or solemnity of a Proclamation Yet since Proclamations in such cases have been alwaies used to the end that all good Subjects might upon this occasion testifie their Duty and Respect and since the armed violence and other the Calamities of many years last past have hitherto deprived us of any such opportunity wherein we might express our Loyalty and Allegiance to his Majesty We therefore the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament together with the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of London and other Freemen of this Kingdom now present do according to our Duty and Allegiance heartily joyfully and unanimously Acknowledge and Proclaim That immediately upon the Decease of our Late Soveraign Lord King Charles the Imperial Crown of the Realm
and Felicity which redounded thence to his Majesty but also because of the advantage which the King and Kingdom of Denmark would draw from thence which had not been afflicted and unjustly oppressed so long if that of England had been in a condition to hinder it That the King their Master would not fail to witness himself by a solemn Ambassage the joy which he received from so surprizing and so extraordinary a revolution assoon as he was advertised thereof and that they hoped in this happy Conjuncture that his Majesty would continue to live with the King their Master in the Amity Allyance and firm Confidence in which their Majesties have alwaies lived and which for some years was not interrupted but to the irreparable Prejudice of both And so that his Majesty would oppose himself generously to the violence which is done their King and succour him against the unjust invasion wherewith his Kingdom was afflicted Besides they thanked his Majesty for the honour he had done them in admitting them into his Royal Presence and for the Particular Grace which they received from thence in their persons The King thanked the Ambassadours for the Affection they had expressed to him and said that he knew very well that not only from long Antiquity there was a most streight Alliance between the Kings of England and Denmark but also that the Deceased King his Father had such great Obligations to the Deceased King of Denmaâ—k his good Cozen and to the present King himself that one of his chief cares after his Entry into his Kingdoms should be to renew that Friendship betwixt the two Crowns protesting his clear Affection to that King and his interest being touched with those Injuries that had been done him The same day also he Complemented by the Spanish Ambassadour was complemented by Don Estevan de Gamarra a Count and Councellor in the King of Spains Councils of Estate and War and Ordinary Ambassadour at the Hague but without Ceremony or demanding of Audience only he was admitted as a private Person uncovered because of the Zeal he particularly alwaies manifested to the Kings Service in many private and publick affairs being a very near Acquaintance of his Majesty's The reason why he was not admitted as an Ambassadour was because of the open Wars betwixt Spain and England at that time though no Acts of Hostility passed and the King considered mâ—tters in statu quo But the Portugal Ambassadour there the Count of Miranda could not be admitted to Audience unless he had had Letters of Credence from his Master to the King and that because the Spanish Ambassadour had it not in the quality of a publick Minister from whose Soveraign he had received all kinds of Civilities but as Sir Edward Nichâ—las who was sent from the King on this Errand told the Ambassadour that the King would be ready when he should be returned into his Kingdom to receive the Ministers of Portugal as oft as with Credential Letters they should be sent to him As was said before the King had received notice that General Montague was arrived with part of the Fleet in sight of Scheveling on the 14. of May having Orders from the Parliament to sayl thither and to await his Majesties Commands which was signified to the King by an Express from the General The Fleet at first coming thither consisted of about 18 great ships which before the King embarked were numbred to 38. being the Frigots that carried over the Commissioners of Parliament and the City of London whither we must a little return The Parliament having Voted that the Government of the Kingdom by the Fundamental Lawes thereof was vested in the King and his Parliament after they had with all Expressions of Duty testified their Joy of this happy Revolution ordered several Commissioners to be chosen by Glasses out of each House to go for the greater solemnity and Lustre of his Majesties Court to attend on him in Holland with the desires of the Parliament for his speedy return to the exercise of his Royal Authority The Lords that were chosen of the House of Peers were six the Names of them as followeth For the House of Lords Earl of Oxford Earl of Warwick was sick of the Gowtâ—and went non Earl of Middlesex Lord Visc Hereford Lord Barkley Lord Brook For the House of Commons Lord Fairfax Lord Bruce Lord Faulkland Lord Castleton Lord Herbert Lord Mandevil Sir Horatio Townsend Sir Aâ—th Ashley Cooper Sir George Booth Denzil Hollis Esq Sir John Halland Sir Henry Châ—lmley These were the prime and the most Honourable Members of that House and therfore pickt out for this extraordinary Honour of waiting on the King Not were the Citizens of London less curious in their choyce and Election of Commissioners having obtained leave of the Parliament to the same purpose and were all men of Estates and Reputation and of conspicuous Loyalty having manifested it in the late Danger of the City they were taken and composed partly out of the Magistracy partly from the principal Citizens and partly out of the Militia they were more numerous than both the other and very splendid and gallant in their Retinue being 20 in number whose Names are as follows Sir James Bunce Baron Alderman Langham Alderman Reynardson Alderman Browne Sir Nicholas Crisp Alderman Tomson Alderman Frederick Alderman Adams Recorder Wilde Alderman Robinson Alderman Bateman Alderman Wate Theophilus Bidulph Richard Ford. Will. Vincent Tho. Bludworth Will. Bateman J. Lewis Esq M. Chamberlain Col. Bromfield The Lords likewise were attended with a great number of Gentlemen and store of Servants 〈◊〉 in very rich and costly Liveries They arrived the said 14th day of May but came not on shore till the 15th but because they were not of the Kings Train and had no Letters of Credence to the State they were not treated at their Charge only out of civil respect to the Lords they had Lodgings provided for them by Billet They came to the Hague in Coaches sent by the States that Evening but they did not reverence to the King till the next day being the 16th The Estates of the Province of Holland had audience the day before in a very magnificent and solemn way and were dismissed from it with great and ample demonstrations of the Kings affection the like did the Deputies of Amsterdam in behalf of that Town and were complemented in like manner by him His Majesty vouchsafing if his Affairs would permit to accept of their Inâ—itation thither but Time and his Affairs required a dispensation from that Civility He admitted also their Request concerning the Barge or Brigandine which they tendred to him and gave them thanks for their great respects to his Person which he promised to keep in inviolable remembrance But that the King might not be troubled with multitudes of Visits every Corporation or Body of subordinate Courts purposing to demand Audience of him they forbid them by Proclamation informing them that the States of
and Mr. William Swan both Gentlemen of this County received the Honour of Knighthood from His Majesty The Maior and Corporation of the City presented His Majesty with a Bason and Ewer of Silver guilt of a good value which was well received Betwixt four and five in the morning Hâ—s Majesty took His journey from Rochester the Militia Forces of Kent lining the wayes and the Maidens in White Wascoats which kind of Rural Triumph the City Virgins by a request to my Lord Maior desired to perform and imitate strewing herbs and flowers in the way he passed and the several Towns hanging out White Sheets At the approach of His Majesty to Dartford the Addresse of the Army above mentioned was presented and at Black Heath the whole Army was drawn up where His Majesty received them giving out many Expressions of His Gracious Favour to the Army which were received with loud Shoutings and Rejoycings Several Bonfires were made as His Majesty came along and one more remarkable at Greenwich for its bignesse all waves were invented and used to expresse the Peoples gladnesse though never so uncustomary where the States Arms were burned Thence the Army being drawn his Majesty who had come in his Coach to Suitors Hill and there took horse to shew himself to his longing desirous people pursued his way towards London And because God himself when he would set a mark of observance upon his own Magnalia hath taken notice of the circumstance of time it was very considerable here that it was his Majesties Birth-day He was heir apparent when first born but had Jus in re now when entring the Metropolis of the Kingdome he took possession All Lets and Hindrances which have intervened since his Majesties just Rights are now so many arguments of his Future fixed and peaceable enjoyment This the Ancients intimated when they tell us that Jupiter himself was not quiet in heaven till after a long war with the Gyants And it is a greater and more marvellous conquest Hostem conciliare quam debellare especially in and after civil contests and dissentions When his Majesty came to St. Georges-field the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen were in a Tent ready to receive him among whom for the notoriety of the person was Alderman Ireton once a rude enemy to the King and his Friends whose Company was neverthelesse dissembled to let the giddy world see whose Councells and directions they followed in those late miserable times men that could cry Cruâ—i fige and Hosanna in one breath when the K was come to the Tent the Lord Mayor delivered unto his Majesty the Sword upon his knees which his Majesty gave back to him again After a short repast taken there and drinking a glasse or two of Wine and the respective reverences and gratulations done to the King by each individual Alderman the King Knighted the Lord Mayor and made him a Baronet and set forward to White-hall in this order and manner All the Houses being richly laid with Tapistry out of the Windows and a Lane made by the Militia from Southwark to Temple-Bar on one side of the Streets and the Liveries on the other the Generals Foot making the like Lane from Temple-Bar till they joyned with a party of Foot all Gentlemen and Officers in the Kings Army in White Doublets and Black Breeches under the command of Sir John Stawell expressing their joy for the Kings restitution and their sorrow for his Royal Fathers Martyrdome who having accosted the King at Black-Heath and shewed themselves followed not the King through London but turned off at Newington and passed the Thames and placed themselves in two Files making a Lane from Charing-Crosse to White-hall Gates First of all marched a Troop of Gentlemen led by Major General Brown Brandishing their Swords all in Doublets of Cloth of Silver in all about 300 besides their Servants then another Troop of about 200 all in Velvet Coats their Footmen and Liveries in Purple then another Troop led by Sir John Robinson with Buff Coats Silver Sleevs and green Scarfes and Feathers in a circular fashion After this a Troop of Blew Liveries and Silver lace Colours Red fringed with silver about 130. After that a Troop six Trumpets seven footmen in Sea green and Silver their Colours Pinck fringed with silver then a Troop with their Liveries gray and blew with silk and silver laces 30 Footmen four Trumpets consisting of about 220 their colours Sky fringed with silver Another Troop of gray Liveries six Trumpets colours Sky and Silver of about 110 Gentlemen another Troop of 70. Gentlemen five Trumpets colours Sky and Silver another Troop led by the Lord Cleveland of about 300 Noblemen and Gentlemen Colours Blew fringed with Gold another Troop of about 300. After these came two Trumpets with his Majesties Arms the Sheriffs men in red cloaks and Silver lace with Javelins 79 in number Then followed the several Gentlemen of the Companies of London on Horseback in Velvet Coats and Golden Chains with their Streamers carried before them Every company having their Footmen of their several Liveries Three Trumpets in Liveries richly laced in Cloth of Silver Sleeves rode before the company of Mercers after all these came a Kettle Drum five Trumpets and three Streamers and very rich Red Liveries with silver lace The number of these Citizens were about 600. After these Twelve Ministers another kettle drum four Trumpets Then his Majesties Life-guard led by the the Lord Gerard another party led by Sir Gilbert Gerrard and Major Roscarock and the third Division by Collonel Blague Then three Trumpets in rich coats and Sattin Doublets the City marshall with eight Footmen in French green trimmed with Crimson White the City Waits the City Officers in order Dr. Warmsley the two Sheriffs and all the Aldermen of Lâ—nd in their Scarlet Gowns with Trappings with footmen in Liveries with red coats laced with silver the Hearlâ—s and Maces in their rich coats The Lord Mayor bare carrying the Sword the Duke of Buckingham and his Excellency bare and then the Glory of all his Sacred Majesty rode between the two Dukes his Brothers with a Red circular Feather about his Hat in a Deer coloured Tabby Doublet the Belt of his sword of the same colour Afterwards followed a Troop bare with white colours then the Generals lifeguard after which another Troop of Volunteer Gentry their colours fringed with Gold after which 5 Regiments of the Army Horse led by Collonel afterwards Sir Ralph Knight viz. His excellencies Regiment Collonel Knight Collonel Cloberryes the Lord Falconberges and Lord Howards after whom came two Troops more of Nobility and Gentlemen that marched brandishing their Swords all along Soon after his Majesty was passed the Musqueteers of the Trained-bands who by order of their Officers had presented to his Majesty as he passed the Butt end of their Musquets gave and discharg'd a great many Vollies of shot His Majesty thus conducted came to his Royal Palace at White-hall
His Majesty whose most glorious Birth day it was and on which he triumphantly entred His Royal City and Chamber of London where he married himself to the affections of his People so that all the honours of this Triumph so intended were but the Handmaids and Attendants of the Kings whose Nativity was to be followed by no lesse Grandeurs then the Conjunct resplendencies of the 2 lately most Potent Princes of Europe By the same designation the King of Spain was expected at Fontarabia the 22 of May and several dayes after appointed for these Ceremonies the 25. the Duke of Crequi was to carry the presents from the French King to the Infanta the 26 the first view was to be between the King of Spain and the Queen Mother of France the 27. the two Kings were to meet the 28. the Infanta was to be delivered into the Hands of the Queen her Aunt the 29. her Marriage was to be consummated Some of these Dayes indeed afterward by some casuâ— interventions were altered but mark how rightly that Marriage was calculated to that Meridian Star of Glory at the Kings Nativity take a full account of it as it passed On the 23. of May about 7. a Clock at Night the King of Spain with the Infanta and all the Grandees of his Court arrived at Fontarabia many Trumpets sounding before him and with the Noyse of all the Canon and the Shot of the Musqueteers of that Place who gave fire above an hour together In the mean time the said King went into the Castle of the Town prepared before for His Reception and hung with very rich Arras Till 9. of the Clock his Majesty and his Noblemen refreshed themselves being extremely weary of a long march in a very rainy day About that time his Majesty called all his Grandees to him and in their presence demanded of the Infanta her renunciation to the Crown of Spain which she gave very willingly under her hand on the 24. his Catholick Majesty came to the Infanta's Lodgings to let her know that she was to be married that day desiring her to be ready about a 11. of the Clock to go with him to the chief Church of that place About One of clock in the Afternoon the Bishop of Pampelune being informed that the King of Spain was a coming took on him Pontifical Habits and the Crosse and the Pastoral Hook being carried before him with Musick he came to the Church dore to receive his Majesty who alighting from his Coach was conducted by the said Bishop the Infanta being on the Kings left hand both under a Canopy with Curtains on all sides but that which looked towards the Altar The King and the Infanta were no sooner upon their knees but the Bishop began a little or low Masse which was a very short one During which the Bishop of Frejus took his place by the Patriarch of the Indies being both the respective witnesses for their respective Princes The Masse ended the Eishop put off his Priestly Garments and took on him the Episcopal Robes and coming down from the Altar drew near to the Canopy under which the King of Spain and the Infanta were All this while Don Lewis de Haro was behind the Canopy but then coming near and having made a very low obeysance to the said King and Infanta as Ambassador for the most Christian King he presented to the Bishop the Proxy he had of the said King to marry the Infanta which being read publiquely and accepted of the Infanta fell at the King her Fathers Feet where after many reciprocal tears for their near separation that Princesse assured him of her constant and perpetual submission and demanded his Blessing which he gave her with many kisses which notwithstanding his manly resolutions drew again a flood of tears from his Eyes Then the said Infanta having given her consent to the Marriage as well as Don Lewis de Haro in the most Christian Kings Name after the usual words pronounced by the Bishop the said Don Lewis put a rich ring on the Infantaes finger and the rest of the Ceremonies being ended the King of Spain looking now upon his Daughter as a Forreign Queen gave her the right hand and conducted her to her Coach And entertained her at a costly Dinner prepared for that Solemnity The King of France was there himself incognite and was very much made of by the King of Spain who assured him of a perpetual Peace and Amity for a token of which he gave him his Daughter the preciousest Jewell he had After mutual Oaths for the performance of what they were agreed before concerning that peace and Amity in such a solemn manne as the like is not to be found recorded the most Christian King retired Madamoyselle of Orleans was there also incognito and very much made of though no notice taken of her Quality The next day being the 25 the Queen Mother with Mounsieur the Kings brother went to the Palace of the Conference whether the King of Spain was to bring his Daughter himself incognito the 3 next dayes the 2 Courts met again and the personal Marriage was made on Tuesday the 29. the new Queen being brought to the Isle of the â—onference on Monday night in the mean time several Visits past in private together with some publick ones between the two Kings and Queens the personal Marriage was performed in this manner The Church of St. John de Luz within the French Dominions the Queen being delivered over to the French King the Night before was appointed for this great Solemnity being adorned with all possible Pomp and Bravery All the Court repaired thither about Noon by a Bridge made purposely from the Queen Mothers Lodgings to the said Church whereof both sides were guarded by a double File of the French and Switzers Guards The Kings Musqueteers on Horseback were in the middle of the place before the Kings House all in new and rich Cassocks The Company of the Archers of the grand Provost of the Kings Houshold went before then that of the 100 Switzers the Kings footmen the Pages of the great and small Stables in great number the Pages of his Majesties Bedchamber all in new and magnificent Liveries and several Grandees in black Clothes with Clokes lined with golden Stuffs and Laces mingled with Embroidery of Gold Then came along Cardinal Mazarine 12. Gentlemen of the Ordinance round about him After him came the King richly apparell'd and marching in great Majesty between the Marquiss of Pegillen and the Marquiss of Humieres and 2 Gentlemen of his Chamber on each side The Marquiss de Charost Captain of the Guards followed him with two of the said Guards Then came the Queen with her retinue in the same Splendor as before the Queen Mother next being led by her Knight of Honour and one of her Gentlemen â—â—â—â—ers the Countesse of Flex her Lady of Honour carrying her Train Madaâ—selle followed having her Train carried by Monsieur
two behind them went next The Provost all alone before the Scotch Nobility and Gentry that were in Town and two Bailiffs with the Dean of Gild and Treasurer followed after their Guards neer six hundred Citizens in comely apparrel armed with swords and partizans The crosse was covered with artificiall Vines loaden with Grapes both white and good Claret Wines springing out from all it's Pipes or Channels on it's Head a Bacchus bestriding a Hogshead with two or three Satyrs did with their mimick Gestures entertain the beholders A little below the Crosse within a rail was erected a Scaffold six foot high on which was placed a large Table covered with a rich Banquet served up in Glasse and representing divers forms and devices as his Majesties Arms the Arms of the City and divers exotick Trees were raised loaden with their leavs and fruits c. the Table being surrounded by above an 100 persons of Eminency The Musick and breaking of glasses were seconded by three general Vollies of the Horse and Foot who received an handsome answer from the great Guns of the Castle Citadell and Ships in the Road and all were ecchoed by joyfull acclamations of the people After this the Forces drew of affording the Civilities of view to the people amongst whom the Dishes and Banquet were hurled and so arose and marched down to the Piazzo of the Palace of Holy Rood house first the Comissioners next the Major General with his Army and after them the City Magistrates with their Guards whence after the Musquets had saluted them there with divers Volleys and had received a return from the great Guns of the Castle Citadel and Sea as formerly they marched back again quite through the City up to the Castle Hill from whence every one apart returned to spend the rest of the Enemy with their Friends in mirth and mutual joy and Entertainments Major General Morgan after a health to His Majesty began to the Earl of Seaford fired the great Canon called Mounce Meg a Gun never fired but on extraordinary occasions after which followed a round Peal from all the Ordinance thereabouts A plentiful Largesse was bestowed amongst the Souldiery to heighten them in their joyes about 1500 Bonfires were made on Arthurs Seat one of forty Load of Coals and at the Major Gen. Dore one almost as big After this was variety of Fire works some burned in the water others flew into the Air two Castles firing one against another the several Boxes thrown into the Air and falling in several shapes which with divers others gave great content to the Spectators Not to omit here that Thursday the 21. of June was appointed by the Parliament of England for a peculiar Thanksgiving day throughout England and Wales for His Majesties Restitution The two Divisions of Wales into North and South made their Addresses to the King the first desiring as the Completion of their joy the Restoration also of the Liturgy and the Divine Worship as it stood Established in the dayes of His Royal Grandfather and Father and the latter after the enumeration of those Blessings which attends His Majesties Return the aversion of that blood guiltinesse perpetrated on his Royal Father by bringing the Authors and Abettors of it to condigne punishment and exauctorating all whosoever had but the least finger in that horrid Businesse The University of Cambridge likewise in their Formalities made an Addresse to the King Doctor Love their Vice-Chancellour pronouncing a Speech in Latin the King graciously accepted them as afterwards he did the University of Oxford both presenting Copies of Verses made by the respective Students On the 20. of June the Baron of Peluitz Master of the Horse Chamberlain and Collonel of the Regiment of the Guards of His Electoral Highnesse of Brandenburgh and his extraordinary Envoy to His Majesty had Audience at White-hall The Master of the Ceremonies went to fetch him from his House with two rich Coaches each with 6 horses and so conducted him to His Majesty through the Gallery full on both sides of Gentlemen His Majesty was bare during the whole Audience His Speech contained a Congratulation c. with the joy his Master had for His Majesties Restitution The King returned a very obliging answer suitable to those Marks of Affection which his Highnesse made to him formerly and also because he was the first Forreign Minister with Credentialls to His Majesty The Audience being ended the Lord Chamberlain conducted him through the said Gallery to the Stairs head the Vice-chamberlain to the Coach and the Master of the Ceremonies and the two Coaches aforesaid brought him home again an honour we have not heard of conferred before upon any Forreign Envoy by a King of England and now done to shew those Sentiments of affection His Majesty at the Hague professed to have for that Elector for his former kindnesse to him when all the World gave his Affairs over for Desperate On the 27. of June De Colladon Deputy from the Commonwealth of Geneva having presented unto His Majesty the Letters of the Lords Syndicks and of the Ministers and Pastors of that place Congratulating c. His Majesty was pleased to return them thanks and give him a gracious Answer to his Complement On Thursday the 4. of July The King is treated magnificently at Diâ—â—â—r by the City July 5. His Sacred Majesty and both Houses of Parliament were entertained by the City of London at Guild-Hall the raining unseasonable Weather took off much of the Solemnity which was intended to be performed so that His Majesty went into London attended only by his own Houshold Guards which proceeded in this order Adjutant General Miller rode before at some distance to make way after whom went Sir William Throckmorton Knight-marshall his Servants and Footmen waiting on each side of him before 6 Trumpets then a Kettle Drum another classe of 7 Trumpets 6 Maces the Heraulds in rich coats the Pages and Footmen and next His Majesties Coach with six Horses guarded on both sides with His Majesties Royal Bond of Pensioners walking on Foot with Pistolls in their hands under the command of the most Noble and Valiant Earl of Cleveland the Equerries several of His Majesties Servants next them came the Yeomen of the Guard then the Lord Chancellour in his Coach the Duke of Buckingham and so all the Nobility in their order The Speaker of the House of Commons in his Coach with 6 horses attended by a Troop of Horse that were upon the Guard that day And after them the House of Commons in Coaches In London several of the Pent-houses and Windowes were adorned with Tapistry A Lane made by the Liveryes of the several Companies and many Pageants in the Streets at Pauls Gate the Lord Maior Aldermen and several other of the City richly accoutred met His Majesty and conducted him to Guildhall The Gentlemen of the Artillery led by the Valiant and Learned Lord Lucas at Cheapside opened to the right and left
personages Noble and prudent Conduct whose generosity did prompt every mans expectation of the ensuing miraculous Revolution He was further created Knight of the most Honourable order of the Garter Vice-Admiral under his Highnesse the Duke of York and Master of his Majesties Wardrope and one the Commissioners of his Treasury and lastly of his most Honorable Privy Council which Honours with his merit and virtues may he transmit to late posterity On the second of June before the Prince Elector Palatine sent a congratulatory Address to the King by the Captain of his life-guard of Horse Christopher Clas of Keyemberg An Embassy from the Prince Elector Palatine who was kindly received by his Majesty and an answer by him dispatcht to the said Prince with which he returned on the second of August In the middle of July my Lord Crosts was sent Ambassador from the King to their Majesties of France being conducted to his Audience at the Castle of Vinâ—ennes by the Sede Berleze Introductor of Ambassadors who came to fetch him in the Kings Coaches at Pallace Cardinal He complemented their said Majesty in the name of the King his Master concerning their happy Marriage which being performed he went back to the Louvre to complement the Queens Majesty a great retinue of English and Jrish Lords attending him in a most stately Equipage For a remark of this happy revolution may we add a relation of unquestionable credit which came to hands soon after In the Town of Dundalchin an English Castle-Town in the County of Louth in Jreland there is a chief and very ancient seat belonging to the Noble family of Bellew Sir Christ pher Bellew being the four and twentieth Knight of that Family lineally descended all faithfull Subjects to the Crown About this House and Town were many Ash-trees where on many thousand Rooks did constantly breed but when the late troubles began about twenty years since all the Rooks quitted the place which had been their constant Habitation Winter and Summer for above three hundred years and were never since discovered there abouts till the end of April 1660. about the time of the Kings restauration at which time many thousand Rooks came again to the same place though the Trees were most of them cut down where for want of Boughs to rest on the greater part sate upon Hedges and banks of Ditches spreading themselves upon the Mole hills whereof all the Countrey took notice and remembring when they fled concluded their return to be an auspicious presage of the blessed Turn that immediately followed The like of this happened else where so that hereafter these Rooks shall be the Bonae Aves and sacred onely to Majesty and Empire Nor may another more rational piece of Honor be omitted here the Royal Exchange of London had been deprived and forsaken of one of its Tutelar Angels The Kings statues erected at the Exchange and had another excluded from his seat therein It was therefore most pious most due and a most just veneration and reverence as it was the greatest glory among the Romans which the City of London did to both Princes together The statue therefore of King Charles the first which the malice of his Rebels had first decollated and having understood how ridiculous they were taken it wholly down was now replaced in the same nick in its full proportion with a Scepter in the K. right hand a Church in his left Arme a Globe at his left foot and on his Shield Magna Charta On the Base stood this Inscription CAROLVS Primus Monarcharum Magnae Britanniae secundus FRANCIAE HIBERNIAE Rex Martyr ad Coelum missus penultimo Ianu. Anno Dom. 1648. And the Statue of King Charles the second supplyed the vacancy of the next Vault or Nick being erected with a Scepter in his right hand a Globe in his left hand and on his Shield Amnestia OBLIVION CAROLVS Secundus Monarcharum Magnae Britanniae Tertius FRANCIAE HIBERNIAE Rex Aetatis suae Anno Tricesimo Regni Duodecimo Restaurationis primo 1660. It was almost elapsed through the overdazeling of this subject to give an account of the Triumphs of the Irish which therefore we must of necessity contract in this Epitome that they were not wanting in the same excesses of gladness which upon the News of his Majesties Return were carried over with a full Sea and reciprocated it back again in the substantial evidences of their joy by a present of twenty thousand pound to his Majesty which was delivered among other congratulations by a select number of Persons of quality from the convention then assembled there in the nature of our Free Parliament here but not so Regular though as Legall And as a more especial Honour to the King He who had first by his prevalent vertues subdued the hearts of the Army now by his own Royal Command The Army disbanded and with a word of his mouth when all the strength of England lately all his Fathers Forces before could not so much as resist them disarms them totally and so secured the perpetual peace of this Nation as in all humane reason it was thought the onely expedient conducing thereunto Carolus Beatus Pacificus On the thirteenth of September came that splendid congratulatory extraordinary Embassy from the King of Spain The Prince of Ligâ—'s gratulatory Embassy delegated to the Prince de Ligne a Burgundian formerly of his Majesties acquaintance in Flanders very Nobly attended by persons of the best rank from his Master and with a very illustrious and large retinue On the seventeenth of that moneth he han Audience from the King at the Banqueting House of White-hall where he was waited upon by seventeen of his own Coaches and thrice as many more of the English It was indeed one of the gallantest pieces of Courtship the Spaniard ever boasted of in England and as well received by his Majesty he departed on the third of October following About that time also a Kings Frigot the Henrietta was attending on the Coast of Spain to bring hither the Baron of Batteville in the quality of Ambassador in ordinary But that which clouded this Triumph was the death of that most excellent Prince Henry Duke of Glocester now lest the meeting and conflict of two various Tides should transport me beyond my bounds I will give way to the present stream and current of my discourse as the stronger for sorrow was so far banish'd from the face of all men that Fate had need of a powerful instance to reclaim and tell us that our gladnesse by this Princes death so ho-nourably was it treated and admonished could not be perpetual On the twentieth of September his Majesty had the glory of being actually the Restorer of the Church The Government by Bishops established For the most Reverend Father in God William Lord Bishop of London who was present on the Scaffold with Charls the Martyr was by Charles the Restorer placed in
Majesties Coming from Putney the Lord Maior being to lead the way down the River before their Majesties The grand Pageants appointed for this day were placed thus The first at Chelsey The second between Fox-hall and Lambeth The third at the private Stairs at Whitehall Those three entertained their Majesties with Speeches in their motion to Whitehall There are two Drolls one of Watermen the other of Seamen continually imployed in dancing and singing The first Entertainment on the Water was a Sea-Chariot drawn with Sea Horses IN the front whereof was seated ISIS her hair of a light brown colour somewhat consorted her head adorned with an Anadem or Crown of all manner of Flowers belonging and relating to Gardens as the Red White and Damask Roses Pinks July flowers Violets c. Her Garment of white Silk intermixed with a pale green In her right hand she bore a Scepter made up like a Cornu-copia out of which all sorts of Flowers seem'd to sprout In her left hand she held a Watring pot to denote her the Lady of the Western Meadowes and Wife to THAM At her feet were placed several inferiour Water Nymphs belonging to small Rivulets who were Contributaries to her their habits answerable to hers This View was presented to their MAJESTIES at Chelsey in the head of the Lord Mayor's and Companies Barges And upon the motion of their Majesties Barge ISIS directed her self to Them in a Speech which I omit for it's prolixity Isis having ended her Speech their MAJESTIES Train passed by another view or Pageant in the nature of a Droll of Watermen placed not far distant from that of Isis in their passage the Watermen who were continually in action consort into a Song being set for three parts The which ended His Majesty moved on towards another View being the Second Entertainment Which was a Pageant made in the manner of an Island floating and presented between Fox-Hall and Lambeth with a Lion and a Unicorn standing in the Front the Supporters of the Arms of ENGLAND upon whose backs were placed two bigg Boyes the one a Scotch the other an English and habited accordingly with Banners in their hands whereon was the Armes of either Nation In the middle of this View was seated THAM represented in an Old Man with long Hair and Beard which may signifie the Weeds and Sedges of the River On his head he wore a Crown of Flowers such as belong to Meads and fruitfull Pastures as the Primrose Dazy Blewbottle and the like In his right hand he held a Trident as he is Viceroy to Thetis and King of Rivers In his left hand he bore a Pitcher of Water as he is Son to Achelous the Father of Rivers and Grandchild to Oceanus He wore a long Silk robe tincted with several colours like the Rainbow On his right hand was placed a Nymph of the Water on whose head was the Figure of Greenwich Castle On his left hand another Nymph on whose head was placed the Figure of Windsor Castle which two Nymphs were holding Banners in their hands habited in Blew and White Upon his Majesties approach THAM presents himself with a Speech which I omit likewise Which ended and their Majesties Barge ready for landing at the Private Stairs at White Hall The third View receives them being a Sea Chariot made in manner of a Scollop shell drawn with two Dolphins on whose Backs are placed two Tritons In the front of the Chariot is seated Thetis her hair long and grey dishevel'd On her head is placed a triple Crown to denote and distinguish her three Estates as she is supposed to be Mother of all the Gods Goddess of the Sea and Empress of all Rivers On the upper part of the Crown is fixed a Star on the middle circle a silver Crescent on the triplicite part a Wreath of Flags deep green her Robe likewise of deep green with a loose Mantle of several colours In the right hand she held a Scepter in the left a Chart or Map her Attendants were four Sea Nymphs cloathed in White and Sea green Robes Thetis Addresseth her self to their Majesties in these words alluding to the Storm and Joy of the Portugues which happened at one and the same time Most Sacred Pair FAME having eccho'd in our ears your choice We summon'd all Our Daughters to rejoyce That to the five Hill'd City do belong Whose Murmurs did consort a Nuptial Song The Golden footed Tagus many more That wanton 'bout the Fam'd Ulissian shore They being sprightly met a sudden sound As though th' imprison'd Winds had broke the ground Supriz'd our Joyes we guest not what it meant Till seconded by th' Upper Element At which the Voyce of yrens became loud Though soft before the humbl'd Waves grow proud To caper into some seditious trick And Prey upon the Body Politick For so is Traffick held The Cannons plaid And Fires like scaling-ladders t'wards heaven laid As though the Quarrells and long-buried Odds Betwixt the daring Giants and the Gods Were now reviv'd what then they could not do With their Heap'd-hills Flames should aspire unto This gave Great Oceanus cause to call A helpfull Councell who concluded All So mighty a Conjunction could not be Without a Miracle or Prodigie The glorious heir to Great Braganzaes Name And the Worlds Wonder Englands Charlemain Th' Result being past a trusty Triton straight Who at the Councell-Table then did wait Was forthwith sent the ranging Waves to quell And to inquire the cause they did Rebell Scarce could you think ere clad in a cold sweat He did return to make our hopes compleat Declar'd that all was clear the Skie serene And Ships in Safety rode where th' Storm had bin That the Four Winds had Liberty to meet Not to Destroy but Whistle to Youv Fleet Though rudely tunes of Joy in different Seats Only to shew they were Joves Flagerets And every Element in its Degree Exprest a Power knit in a Jubilee Thus Heaven and Earth did your blest Nuptials keep As well as we that Revell'd in the Deep Thetis her self none else allow'd to bring This intermixed Tale to Britains King Which ended with my Wishes I begin Not ' gainst your Patience to commit a Sin May You out-live the Malice of Your Foes While they subjected to Your Justice Close May You grow strong too in Your peoples love Which will your Treasure and your armour prove And You Blest Queen so Fam'd for Piety May Your Deeds ever Live Your Self ne're Dye After their Majesties and the Nobility were Landed the Companies Barges that were in the Front fell into the Rear and so hasted to their severall homes The Lord Maior and the Aldermen attended the Kings coming at Chelsey whence upon notice of his approach they plyed their Oars and having met his Barge they all stood up and made obeysance and nimbly rounded it and saluted their Majesties on that side also and presently fell in just before their Majesties and led the way