being finished they placed a great chair for the King in a place somewhat distant from the people And as soon as the King was sate one of the Clarks of the Closet stands at the right side of the chair holding on his arm or rather in his right hand as many gold Angels every one tied to a ribband of white silk as there were sick to be touched which were then to the number of eight and forty But for as much as the Angels which is a kind of gold so named because it hath the figure of an Angel upon it are so rare that they can scarce be gotten especially in these Provinces the King useth ordinarily as he did on this present occasion the ten shillings peeces which are near of the same value The Chaplain that makes the sermon before the King and who for this purpose takes ordinarily a text proper for the ceremony performs the office afterward and stands on the left side of the chair whilst the Chyrurgion takes place with the sick right over against the King but at a certain distance Notwithstanding in the occasion whereof we speak now the Ministers text had nothing common with the ceremony and it was not the Pastor who made the sermon that assisted there but Doctor Brown Chaplain to the Princess Royal who did all the functions thereof representing the King's Chaplain as he did on all the like occasions at Breda whil'st his Majesty resided there After his Majesty had taken his place having by his side the Secretary or Clark of the Closet and the Chyrurgion before him the Chaplain who held a New-Testament in his hand chused there the text in the Gospel of Saint Mark the 16 Chapter from the 14 Verse even to the end of the Chapter and at the same time the Chyrurgion taking one of the diseased by the hand after having both made three low reverences came with him to put themselves on their knees before the King close to the chair and whil'st the Chaplain pronounced these words of the same Gospel They shall lay their hands on the Sick and they shall be healed the King laied his hand on the two cheeks of the sick This being done he that was touched retired himself and they brought another to the King who touched him in the same manner the Chaplain repeating the same words as many times as there were sick for the King to touch and as they brought them one after another at his Majesties feet The Chyrurgion who was alwaies on his knees whil'st the King touched arose not till the King had made an end of touching and then he made again three low reverences and retired with the sick to the place where they were before and stood there till the Chaplain had made an end of reading the rest of his text which he continued not to read till after the King had touched the last of the sick This being done the Chaplain began again another Gospel taken out of the first Chapter of Saint John from the first verse to the 15 and whil'st he read it the Chyrurgion brought again the persons touched to the King in the same manner as he did before and his Majesty taking from the Secretary of the closet whil'st the Chaplain pronounced these words of the Gospel That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world one of these gold Angels hanging on a silk riband and put it on the neck of one of the diseased which approached one after another in the same manner as they did when the Chyrurgion brought them to be touched the Chaplain repeating also those words as many times as there were persons touched After this they all retired again to their first place and then the Chaplain made an end of reading the Gospel to the verse which we have denoted He read after that some other passages of the Holy Scripture and concluded the whole service with the Lord's Prayer and a prayer which they make unto God that it would please him to bless the ceremony which the King had performed The Liturgy being finished the Gentleman Usher it was then Mr Sands who performed that function brought a bason an ewer and a towel and being accompanied with two Lords or Earls viz. the Lord Leonel Cranfield Earl of Middlesex and the Lord Henry German to whom the King gave since the quality of Earl of Saint Albans he presented the bason and ewer to the youngest of the two who stood on the left hand of the Gentleman that carried the towel taking the right hand of the elder of the two Lords The last finding himself in the midst of them they marched in this order towards the King and after making three low reverences they put themselves all three on their knees before his Majesty and whil'st the Earl of Saint Albans poured forth the water on the King's hands the Earl of Middlesex took the towel from the Gentleman Usher and presented it to his Majesty who wiped his hands therewith After this the two Lords and the Gentleman Usher rose up made again three great reverences to the King and retired And after that the King arose also and went thence to the Princess Royal her chamber It is certain that the King hath very often touched the sick as well at Breda where he touched two hundred and sixty from Saturday the 17. of April to Sunday the 23. of May as at Bruges and Bruxels during the residence he made there and the English assure that not only it was not without success since it was the experience that drew thither every day a great number of those diseased even from the most remote Provinces of Germany but also that there was no person healed so perfectly who was not infected again with the same disease if he were so unfortunate to lose through negligence or otherwise the medal which the King hangs on his neck after he hath touched him without any hope to be cured of it if he be not touched again and have another Angel about his neck We have been loath to have touched on this particular if many grave persons whom one cannot suspect of superstition or deceit spake not thereof as of a most constant thing and of which there is no doubt Coming from thence the King and Princes went to dine with the Princess Royal where they passed a part of the day to divert themselves in private Towards the evening he made a visit to the Queen of Bohemia and at the beginning of the night all the Royal Family were at Prince Maurice his house where the Estates of Holland had prepared a most magnifick and stately feast for his Majesty There is more then one dore that gives entrance into the dining chamber which makes one of the fairest peeces of the whole building and in entring through the middle dore which is over against the great stairs one of the fairest and costliest of all Europe because it is double most large
and all built of a most rare Indian wood one discovers it fully so that wee see at one and the same time the cross barr'd windows which front upon the Viver and Viverberg the two chimnies of both sides and in the mid'st above an overture which makes a roundel fashioned like the foot of a lamp shut with glass and environed with a gallery or with a ballister which makes the tower of the lover or open roof From the center of this lover descended low a Royal Crown very gallantly made in the midst of four lusters or christal candlesticks which with many other candlesticks arms of silver and a great number of torches enlightned all corners much better then the Sun could have done at midday They gave particularly a marvellous lustre to the two bottoms of the chimny which is on the left side where two partitions of painted wood shut up as many cupboards of christal glasses and a great store of vessels and of silver plate and vermilion gilt The Hall was furnished with ordinary Tapistry which is of crimson damask and had no other adornments but that here and there there were some fair Pictures and that the ends of the chimnies and the void place above the cross bar windows were adorned with garlands wreaths and figures of trees loaden with oranges and mingled with all sorts of flowers which formed not only a very regular compartment but wonderfully refreshed also the chamber and charmed no less the smel by their perfume then they pleased the sight through the diversity of their rich enamel The Table was made in double potence and laied so that that part where the Royal family sate was a thwart before the chimny of the right hand thrusting from its middle a trunck or skirt which possessed more then two thirds of the length of the Hall and it was shut up with a balustrade of three foot high which reigned round about yet so that there was space enough between the ballister and seats of those which were of the feast to hold the persons designed for their service This balustrade had divers wickets whose entrance was recommended to the care of some Officers of the guards which hindred strangers to present themselves there The King took his place under a cloath of Estate of the same stuff whereof the rest of the furniture was made between the Queen of Bohemia his Aunt who was on his right hand and the Princess Royal his sister who was on his left The King 's two brothers were at one of the two ends on the Queen of Bohemias side and the Prince of Orange at the other end on the side of the Princess his Mother The King sate so that from his place he saw easily all the Deputies of the Estates of Holland who possessed that part of the Table which came from the mid'st of the King 's and were seated according to the rank which the Nobles and Towns hold in their Assemblies They would fain that the Rhine-Grave Commissary General of the Horse and Governour of Mastricht should have the honour to give the napkin to the King but his Majesty would be served the whole meal by Officers of his own as well as the other Royal persons by theirs Mr. de Buat Captain of the troop of light horsemen which was formerly that of the Guard of the deceased Prince of Orange and now of the Estates of Holland and Mr. Itersum Lieutenant Collonel of a Regiment of foot and Drossart of Rolduck in the Country of Over-Meas did the office of carvers and served the meat before the King and before all the Royal family standing for this purpose in the empty space which the Estates of Holland had left between their places and the table of his Majesty Mr. of Boetzelaer younger son of the deceased Baron of Asperen Mr. of Taillefer eldest son of Mr. of Mauriack Collonel of a Regiment of French foot Mr. of Steeland son to Mr. of Steeland Lieutenant Collonel to the foot Regiment of Mr. of Beverweert and Drossart of Buren and Mr. Desloges son to the deceased Collonel of that name did the same functions at the table of the Estates standing between the ballister and the table and taking the dishes from the hands of the publick Messengers whose custom is to follow the Deputies of the towns to the Assemblies of the Estates to serve up the meat to the Lords The King's table was served with six great dishes in oval form and with two more laid a cross the other all loaden like pyramides and they changed the services five times There was on the Estates table eight and twenty great dishes and many plate trenchers but they changed them no more then four times to the end to make some difference between their table and his Majesties In the ordinary daies they served but seven tables with the King 's besides the servants but this day there were sixteen seven of which served as ordinarily in the other apartments of the King's house and the rest in the Castellany which is as it were the Prison of the Castle where they had given express order to receive and treat all the English which presented themselves It is forbidden me to speak of the expence but I think I may alledge here the person of the King and affirm that he said the next day to Mr. of Wimmenum that he never better supped then the day he arrived at the Hage and that in all the feasts which were made as well in France as Spain in Germany and in the Low-countries where he had met stately ones and among others that which the Arch-Duke Leopoldus made in the moneth of May 1656 when he went out of the Low-countries to go into Germany he saw nothing come neer that wherewith the Estates of Holland had entertained him the day before It was two daies since the Lords the Estates caused the Troops of Horse to come to the Hague whereof we have spoken elsewhere and this evening they caused a part of them to be lodged in little squadrons upon the avenues of the King's house and the rest to be put into battalia in the Plain which is a place by the house worthy to be called for the beauty of the buildings which environ it the Royal Place of the Hague The Regiment of the Guards had their Post from one of the corners of the house to the Viverberg and all a long that fair walk even to the other end towards the Place behind the battery of the Cannon As soon as they begun to drink the King's health they gave the signal with a torch at one of the windows of the house which looks upon the Viver to make them fire the Cannon to which answered the Musketeers of the Guards and next the Carbines of the Cavallery and the artillery from the Rampart Four times this musick served for intermedium to that which passed in the Palace during supper whil'st it lasted there was made to come forth from a
with Arras After that the King went up the great stairs to the Hall where the Estates of Holland use to assemble when they are convocated in body It is a building made so few years since that the proud work could not yet be finished whose roof is seeled nor the rich Tapistries wherewith it is to be furnished but notwithstanding it is very fair and most magnifick as it is being highly raised its planched roof makes an arch and the Hall opened with many great windows which butt upon the Viver between two fair chimnies The place is so vast that to the end the voice of those that speak there may not be lost in the air they were constrained to make a kind of cutting off with great curtains which reach from the roof to the floor at the place where a balustrade is to be made which shall shut up that part of the Hall to which one may lawfully give the name of Areopage or rather of Sanctuary because it contains the seats of those who deliberate upon the most important affairs of the Province and consequently of all the Estate whereof it makes one of the principal parts The seats are disposed so that in entring one sees from the dore the back of a bench of three stories made like a Councel board with leaning pillows which are revested with green cloath as well as the seats This bench is accompanied with two others which are as two wings That which is on the right hand is composed of a low seat and that on the left is of two stories and these two benches are a little separate from the first which by this means is in the mid'st through a little intervale which may serve for passage The great bench is over against one of the two chimnies before which it forms it self by that means a great empty space which is filled between the two wings with a long table encompassed with back chairs for the Deputies of the Nobility of the Province which are now but nine and for the Pensionary Councellour who though Minister of the Estate ceaseth not to have place there because that having the charge to propose affairs to go to the suffrages and to conclude he can from the place where he is speak conveniently to all the Deputies of the Nobility who deliver their opinion first and are to be agreed among themselves before they can form the voice only which they have in the Estates of the Province The Deputies of Dort of Haerlam of Delf and of Leyden possess the bench on the right hand The first story of the great bench which is over against the chimny is wholly for the Deputies of Amsterdam which are in great number because they will have them at all the extraordinary deputations which are made for the affairs whose discussion would consume too much time if it were made in full assembly The second story is for the Deputies of Tergow and Rotterdam and the third for those of Gercum Schedam Schoonhoven and the Bril and the bench of the left wing is for the Deputies of the towns of North Holland which are called in the publick acts VVest-Freesland and are Alcmaer Horn Enchuisen Edam Munickendam Medemblick and Purmerent It was necessary to make this little description of the Hall to the end to represent better all the circumstances of that remarkable visit in the subject whereof I must say again that they had taken away the ordinary table of the Nobility instead of which they had placed that of the Deputy Councellours which is not so long as the other not just in the place of the first but a cross before the chimny which is at the end of the Hall between the chimny and table was made a foot-bank raised with three steps taking up the whole length of the table towards the chimny from whence it was a reasonable distance of and they had drawn the Secretaries table towards the windows to the end to free the passage The foot-bank was covered with a fair Tapistry and charged with a velvet chair under a cloth of Estate of the same stuff which reached to the chimny In entring into the Hall they conducted the King along the back of the bench on the right wing to his place where his Majesty stood untill all the Deputies of the Nobility and Towns were placed in their ordinary seats Prince William Governour of Freesland held his left hand upon the back of the King's chair and Prince Maurice who joined himself to the Estates of Holland after he had performed his functions with the Estates General and put himself on the left hand of the King had his right hand there and between them and the chimny were four Lords of the King's attendance As soon as the Deputies of the Nobility had taken theirs at the two other ends of the table and before yet so that forming a kind of half moon which opened in the mid'st they took not away the sight of the benches from the King his Majesty who had stood still and uncovered sate down and covered himself but the King remained no longer so then till the rest of the assembly were sate and covered and then arising and uncovering himself he spake if not in the same terms at least upon the same subject wherewith he had entertained the Estates General in the visit he had made them It was but an obliging acknowledgment of the civilities which his Majesty said he had received from the Estates of Holland but most sincere protestations of a perpetual and inviolable friendship with this Province and recommendations of the person and interests of the Princess Royal and of the Prince of Orange her son The Pensionary Councellour who was placed so that he was almost over against the King answered thereto in the name of the Estates of Holland with his usual eloquence in thanking his Majesty for the honour he did the assembly and in witnessing unto him the acknowledgment which the Province should eternally have of the fair mark of his affection and Royal good will which appeared so evidently in that illustrious and splendid visit He said that the Lords the Estates of Holland considered as an effect of his Majesties goodness the satisfaction which he said to have from the little service which the time and estate of the country permitted them to do for to express the universal joy which his Majesty might observe in the countenances of all the inhabitants rather then in the reception or entertainment which the Estate had made him That they received with respect the assurances which his Majesty gave them of his amity and that he might fully assure himself that his sole consideration would oblige them to embrace fervently the interests of the Princess Royal and of the Prince of Orange her son though they should not be obliged thereunto by other reasons as they are to aknowledge the affection and inclination which her Royal Highness hath alwaies had for the good
A RELATION IN FORM of JOURNAL OF THE VOIAGE And RESIDENCE Which The most EXCELLENT and most MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLS THE II KING OF GREAT BRITAIN c. Hath made in Holland from the 25 of May to the 2 of June 1660. Rendered into English out of the Original French By Sir WILLIAM LOWER Knight HAGUE Printed by ADRIAN VLACK Anno M. DC LX. with Priviledge of the Estates of Holland and West-Freesland THE PRINTER TO THE READER IF ever was a Relation whose truth might be indubitable it is questionlesse this which I give you at present It was composed on the Publick Acts drawn from the Registers of the Estate and exposed to the eys of those who were ey-witnesses of the things whereof it treateth and made the speeches which are inserted there and which are so faithfully related that except one onely there is none which was not pronounced in the same manner as you see them here written After this one cannot doubt that it may not one day serve advantagiously the History of the time whose mervellous revolution of the affairs of England shall make one of the principal parts It is requisite the world should know the particularities which you shall not find but in this discourse and I think to oblige my Country in publishing the marks of affection and good will which one of the first Kings of Christendom hath left it The Relation is French because the King would use that tongue during the residence whereof you have here the recital though he that composed it hinders it not to be extant in other languages but would that all people of the Universe should know it I confess it would have been more proper to have put it forth as soon as it was made immediately after the Kings departure and I would have given you this satisfaction if the diligence of those men that graved the Plates had answered my desire But I cease not to hope that it will not be ill received and that this production though tardive will have its agreements as well as the fruits which though given by nature but in a late season please notwithstanding and are carefully preserved I confess also that some faults are escaped in the Impression which all the diligent care of the Corrector could not avoid There is not any though that I know which alters the sense and which your discretion may not either correct or excuse Extract out of the Priviledge of the Estates of Holland and West-Freesland THe Estates of Holland and West-Freesland make known that Adrian Vlack dwelling at the Hague having remonstrated to us that he had caused to be printed at his great expense a Book entitled A Relation of the Voyage and Residence which the most Excellent and most Mighty Prince CHARLS THE SECOND King of Great Britain c. Hath made into Holland from the 25 of May to the 2 of June 1660. Enriched with divers fair Plates not only in the French tongue but also in the Dutch and English c. And fearing that some one might counterfeit it to his great Damage We have consented and granted by these Presents that the said Adrian Vlack may cause the said Book to be imprinted with prohibition to all other persons to imprint or distribute in our Province the said Book or part of it in any language or form whatsoever nor counterfeit the said Plates in any kind during the space of ten Years on pain of Confiscation of all the Copies and of three hundred pounds besides A RELATION Of the VOYAGE AND RESIDENCE Which His Most Excellent MAIESTY CHARLS THE II KING OF GREAT BRITAIN c. Hath made in Holland from the 25 of May to the 2 of June 1660. WHen the Parliament began at London the fourth day of May in this present Year 1660. it was no new thing in the noble breast of his Excellence the Lord General Monck Commander in Chief of the English Army in Scotland as sensibly touch'd with the calamities wherewith he saw his poor country so long afflicted to think of the means to establish there the Monarchal government grounded upon the old and primitive Laws of the Estate This could not be a free Parliament and such a one as the whole Kingdom demanded if it were not composed of two Houses viz. the Higher House of Lords or Peers and the Lower House of Commons or Deputies of the Provinces For the same violence which had destroyed the essential form of the estate had so disfigured that illustrious Body in cutting off one of its principal members that being incapable to act for the important affairs which made the convocation of that great assembly to be judged absolutely necessary if it opened not the Higher house which tyranny had shut up it must of necessity find it fit to repeal the Lords who had voice and place there for so many Ages I say many Ages because it may be truly affirmed that this custom is no lesse ancient then Monarchy it self since that from the time that it came out of the hands of the Britans and Saxons to passe into the family of those that possesse it at present the Estates of England never assembled but the Peers were called as well as the Deputies from the towns of the Kingdom The resolution which was taken on this occasion was not so soon executed and scarce had the two Houses began their assemblies to labour in regulating the government which the pass'd disorders had perverted into a miserable Anarchy but there appeared on the twelfth of the same moneth of May at the dore one of the Gentlemen of the King's Bed-chamber named Sir John Greenvil who demanded permission to present Letters to the House from his Majesty That Sacred name which not long since was the aversion of varlets and fanaticks was heard with veneration and inspired into that illustrious assembly such extraordinary and advantagious motions for the King that it was impossible for it to expresse them as we also will not undertake to represent them here upon paper It sufficeth to say that not above three or four months before it had been a crime of high treason to speak in Parliament in behalf of the King but now no sooner is that great name pronounc'd then one sees a general joy in the countenance of all the commons and observes a most high respect for that divine character They caused the Gentleman to enter The Speakers of the two Houses receive the King's Letters from his hand and make the Secretary to read them every one in the meane time with the greatest expressive submission of the world standing bare headed The two Houses compose but one sole Parliament and they are two members of one and the same body so that the King in writing to each of them upon one and the same subject might well make use of one Letter and addresse it not only under divers inscriptions to the two Houses but also to General Monck for the Army to
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
were by his person after the defeat was brought to the house of a countryman who changed cloaths with him and shewed him a tree where he passed the night How afterward being come to the house of Mistris Lanes father her brother received him as servant to wait on him in his chamber and how in this quality he rid a journy before that Gentlewoman How he had a care of the horses in the journy and what encounters he met there because all these things are not of the subject of our relation and deserve well a particular one But we think it not amiss to say that the Lord Wilmot deceased Earl of Rochester who had been extraordinary Embassadour at the Diet of Ratisbon in the year 1653. and who was he that gave orders for the King's passage being come at the place where his Majesty was to embark and seeing the Master of the ship to enter into the chamber where they supped to tell them that the tide would be good about midnight and that they should do well to embark before night praied him to sit at table and to sup with them But the Master had no sooner taken his place and observed the features of the King's face but he whispered Mr. Wilmot in the ear saying that he knew that illustrious person and that it was indubitably the King the other denied it and would have him to relinquish that thought but the Master though he made semblance to acquiess therein during supper said notwithstanding in rising from the table that whatsoever they would make him to beleev he knew the King so well that he could not be deceived because that having been brought before him a few years since when his Majesty being with a Fleet in the Downs where he caused some fishermen to be stopped to whom he gave liberty presently after he had caused them to be brought to his presence and he with the rest he had so well considered him that since that time he could not lose the Idea of him But that they needed to fear nothing that the person of the King should be alwaies sacred to him and in safety in his hands Wilmot persisted in his negative caused the King to embark and said no more to the Captain untill that his Majesty being landed on the coast of Normandy he feared not to tell him that it was indeed the King that he assisted to save and that his Majesty would remember his fidelity and affection when there should be an occasion to acknowledge one another And indeed after the King had perfectly well received him at his closet dore the Lord Craft who had presented him to his Majesty assured him that he might hope for any favours from him The English Officers that are in the service of the Lords the States and were come to this town did him reverence also and among the rest Mr. Cromwel Maior of a Regiment of foot of the same nation He is Cosen German but issued from an elder brother of him who is known to have sacrific'd the King his Soveraign to his irregular ambition and detested that brutal and horrible action but seeing some apparent establishment in the fortune of the Protectour he passed into England where he rendered considerable services to those of the good party and even gave himself the liberty to remonstrate sometimes to his Cosen what belonged to his duty so that insteed of making his fortun there he could draw from the Protectour for himself and for his brother who commands a Regiment of foot in the service of the Lords the Estates but a gratification of two thousand pounds sterling whereof they have received but the half though the Major made an expence at London where with he shall be long time incommodated The King who know the intentions of this honest man and permitted his brother to take the surname of Williams instead of that which shall be eternally in execration to all Englishmen and who had many good proofs of them received him perfectly well This day came also to salute the King Sir William Davison a Scott by birth but since some yeares established at Amsterdam His Majesty had considered him as a person most affectionate to his service and was not deceived therein because that those who know how he behaved himself cannot doubt that he was most usefull and that he acted if not directly for the re-establishment of the affairs of England at least it cannot be denied that he hath not been unprofitable therein It was not long before that the King had given him some proofs of his acknowledgement in making him Knight Baronet but this day he confirmed that quality to him by letters pattents in adding thereunto a pension without comparison more considerable then that title The King gives it with very litle ceremony in making the Novice kneel before him he laies his sword on his shoulder and sayth unto him Rise Knight Baronet Those that are invested with this quality follow the Barons and precede the ordinary Knights After this the King went to visit the Queen of Bohemia his Aunt but it was without ceremony as he used to do the whole time of his residence at the Hague during which there passed not a day almost that he saw her not From thence he went to the House of the Princess Dowager of Orange who received him on the stone stairs that go up into the Court. The King presented her presently his hand and led her through that fair hall and through the Guard Chamber to that which they call the Chamber of presence where the King treated her with much civility refusing to sitt till the Princess took her place at the same time After a conversation of half an hour the King took leave and retired himself but perciving in the fore-chamber that the Princess followed him he turned about and would hinder her to go further untill that seeing after a contestation very agreeable and very obliging that he could not overcom her he took her again by the hand and led her to the foot of the stairs where he made her again some civility but seeing her obstinate to render him her devoirs even in the Court he yeelded at last went up into his coach and betook him to the Princess Royal his Sister where he met the Embassadour of France who had the honour to discourse there with his Majesty a good while The King having spoken in the evening at supper to the advantage of the Regiment of the Guards which he had seen at his coming and of which he had alwaies a Company in arms in the Court of his lodging the Deputies of the Estates General who were by his person at the hours of his repast offered to shew it him the next day in battel to the end his Majesty might judge as favourably of their skil as he had judged of their shew The King promised to be present if his affairs permitted him to give himself that divertisement
row Of beautious buildings much indeed I ow To their rich merit but I cannot stay Prince Maurice Palace calls my thoughts away To contemplate its beauties and the rare Magnifick structure which may well compare With any modern VVork in all respects Of the best and the skilfull'st Architects But its chief glory is that it can say It lodged him whom Nations must obey Great Britains King Let 's make but one step more And only look upon the Court before VVe take our leave here do the Prince and States Meet and resolve on all their wise debates Here is their Councel here their Residence Here is their gain and here is their expence Our survey's ended we have gone the round It resteth only that the Peece be crown'd WILL LOWER THE GREAT FEAST The Estates of Holland made to the King and to the Royal family Pag. 80. THe Roman Story tells us that the feasts Lucullus made to entertain his guests Were such and so prodigious that the Sea The Land and Air were emptied every day To serve his table with all delicates Of Fish of Flesh of Foul and dainty cates Great Master of the mouth voluptuous Lord Had'st thou liv'd now to see this Princely bord This stately and magnifick service here Thou would'st cry out mine was but homely cheere This a repast for pallets all divine As those that sit here in these orbs and shrine Rap'd too with admiration thou would'st say That all the Elements do strive to pay A voluntary tribute to th' Estates Of their most rich and choicest delicates And that their fin'd and winged subjects all Offer themselves in sacrifice and fall Into the dishes of their own accord To furnish and adorn this Royal bord What is there wanting here that may invite The quaintest and most curious appetite Ladies feed freely 't is no mortal meat 'T is rather an Ambrosia that ye eat Will you drink Nectar Princes here 's a Wine That 's richer more delicious more divine Th' Italian Malvoisy cannot compare With this rare Juice sent down here from the air To please your tasts and to be swallowed In every health drunk to the Crowned Head The joyful thunder of th' Artillery Proclaims it louder then that of the Sky The Violins and other Instruments Strike pleasant airs here to delight the sense In an harmonious consort and the Spheres Descend with Musick to enchant those ears WILL. LOWER His Majesty taking his leave in the Assembly of the Estates Generall Pag. 90. SO look'd great Caesar when from his high Throne He would descend sometime to honour Rome By sitting in the Senate but we see Not the least sign of any Sympathy Between these modern Hero's here and those Old Senators whose surly brows spake foes Under a false respect unto their King Though his bright glory through the world did ring 'T is different here these brave Estates though free And Soveraign pay yet humility And lowly reverence through a candid love Unto this Prince as if he were their Jove And they his subjects see with what respects They entertain him by their sweet aspects And sober postures how they seem to say You shall rule here Sir and we will obey Mount our Tribunal all your words shall be Our Oracles and all your actions free As saving to us since so wise a King Draws them from perfect justice as their Spring WILL. LOWER HIS MAJESTY TAKING HIS leave in the Assembly of the Estates of Holland Pag. 93. STrange revolution Fate here 's Monarchy In Councel met with Aristocracy Though different in themselves here they agree And by their pleasant gestures seem to be Unanimous in all things what the one Demands the other grants division Is banish'd hence here is all harmony Love and alliance perfect amity A lasting League reciprocally sign'd By promises and both have but one mind Though different bodies and a different frame Of constitution as a different name In cordial terms here they congratulate Each others happy government and state Like twin-born brothers they salute embrace The one vows fealty and the other grace Long may they live united thus and never By any chance in their affections sever So shall they flourish both grow great and be Feared throughout the Worlds vast Monarchy WILL. LOWER ON HIS MAJESTIES DEPARTURE from the Hage to his Fleet before Scheveling Pag. 105. THus from the Belgick States delicious Seat Triumphantly departed Charls the Great The VVorld assembled from all parts to see This Monarch pass unto his Dignity The Continent could not contain the press VVhich crowded in all places to express Their common joy the Military Bands Of Horse and Foot were ranged on the sands To make a Royal Guard young Mars stood by Th' Illustrious Duke who by his hand and ey Gave full directions all the Cannon were Dispos'd in order by his Martial care The Sky was cleer the Winds were still the Sea Look'd like a fair Bride on her Marriage day When from the Crowned Bark the King betook Himself to Sea with Her whose only look Can calm the Tempests in the Skiff they went Sent from the Fleet the Seamens high content To see their Soveraign cannot be express'd But by their shouts the Seas most loyal breast Sweetly receiv'd its Master the old God Freely resign'd his trident Mace and Rod To him who better could command and sway That Element The gentle Dolphins play About the Boat they dance in rounds they skip And make a Sea-guard for him to his Ship Thus was the King embark'd when suddenly The thunder of the Cannon shook the sky From Sea to Shore the smoak obscur'd the Sun And made a night ere half the day was done Th' Artillery and small shot on the Strand Mov'd the Sand-hills and terrifi'd the Land As if it felt an Earth-quake but at last All this dissolv'd and that great Triumph past When our bright Star which grac'd the Belgick Sphere Drew off from thence his clouded own to cleer WILL LOWER AN ACROSTICK POEM In honour of his Majesty Call all those Sages whose extended hearts Heaven fils with light in th' Astrologick Arts Ask their opnions of this Monarch they Reply he 's born the Universe to sway Look on this calculation read his Star Seven Planets here all in conjunction are They smile upon his birth no rude jars here Hinder his motions under any Sphere Excellent Aspects long live this great King Supream of all let his bright glory ring Even round about that Globe held in his hand Can earthly powers his conquering Arm withstand Or check his fortune which the Stars proclaim Not possible since Heaven inspires his claim Draw presently with an immortal pen Kings in their colours some quick Cherubin In Characters drop'd drown suiting their souls Note revolutions in these sacred Rolls Greatly to the advantage of our State Of much import to make us fortunate For many years under this glorious Reign Giving us hopes of th' golden Age again Return