from the Province of Gelders which is the chief Province of the Union because of its quality of Dutchy and as a person most fit for an action of this nature as well because of his handsom presence as of his natural eloquence made the speech and spake word by word in these terms SIR The Estates General of the United Provinces of the Low-countries after having expressed to your Majesty by the Deputies they sent unto you at Breda how they participated in the happy successes which follow your wise conduct and the joy which they have to see you going to your Kingdom of England to take there the Scepter of great Britain come here now in a body to uphold the truth and sincerity thereof by stronger and more solemn declarations It is the same Company SIR which had the honour to present it self to your Majesty in this very place in a sad and mournfull equipage and which with more grief in heart then it could express by words pronounced the lamentable accents of a most bitter sorrow which came then to strike the soul not only of your Majesty but also universally of all the Members of this Estate From the same principle which divided then their affliction SIR proceeds now their rejoicement to wit from that of a most tender and most respectfull affection for the sacred person of your Majesty and from a most submissive zeal for your service and for the good of your affairs The cause thereof is so just and so touching SIR that we hope your Majesty will be easily perswaded of the truth of the protestations which the Estates General of this Republick make thereof here in your Royal presence And we may boldly say that their joy exerciseth it self in its full extent which is so much the more vast as these admirable events arrive in a time when all human apparence seemed to remove them wholly So must it be confessed that they are the marvellous effects of divine providence which hath made the hearts of the children to return to their father that is to say of the subjects to their lawfull King and levelled the waies by which your Majesty walks at present so peaceably and without effusion of bloud upon the magnifick and superb steps of your glorious and triumphant throne The Estates General of these United Provinces wish SIR that these great and important prosperities which surprise us no less them we have wished them may be followed with the constant obedience of your people with the respect of your neighbours and with the love of both and that the Diadem which the great God hath put upon the anointed and sacred head of your Majesty being accompanied with all the favours of heaven may stand there a long train of years with a happy and glorious reign for your sacred person and remain perpetually in your Royal posterity even to the end of the world We will finish this discourse SIR by most humble thanks which we render to your Majesty in that it hath pleased you to chuse this country rather then any other to pass from thence into your Kingdom for which the Estates General will alwaies esteem themselves honoured and obliged with the regret notwithstanding to see that the reception which they cause to be made unto you with so good a heart is not accompanied with all the pomp and magnificence that the Majestical splendour of so great and potent a Monarch deserveth who is so dear and precious to this Estate and of whose gracious favour they shall indeavour to acquit themselves by all the respects and services which your Majesty may desire from your true friends most faithfull allies and most humble servants 'T is observable in this visit that the King made not so much as a shew to be willing to be covered not that his design was to hinder the Estates General who were there in a body to be covered since he did do that honour to their Deputies when they did him reverence at Breda and seeing that he did it since at home in their assembly but without doubt to the end to do something more for them then he could do for an Embassadour Which appeared evidently in the visit he made in person to the Estates General and to the Estates of Holland when he took leave of them of which the sequel of this relation will oblige us to speak hereafter where he would fain be covered to give them the liberty to be covered also and to uncover himself afterward when he began to speak and to remain in this condition whil'st he was in their assembly as we shall say elsewhere The Lords the Estates were conducted in departing from the audience by the same Lords that received them and being returned in the same order to their ordinary Hall they separated themselves The two other Soveraign colledges composed of Deputies of all the Provinces to wit the Councel of Estate and the Reckoning-chamber were at the audience after the Estates General Prince William Frederick of Nassau made the complement for the Councel of Estate as President and Mr. de Cauwer ven-Reigersberg Deputy to the Reckoning-chamber of the United Provinces from the Province of Zealand those who are here from Holland being excused spake for the Chamber the one and t'other with so much applause of those who were present there and with as much satisfaction of the King's side being returned to the assembly they were thanked for it by their Colleagues Some doubted if the Embassadours and Ministers of the Kings Princes and strange Estates which were at the Hague should be received to make their complements to the King without Letters of Credence or if after it were acknowledged that their character legitimated them for that they might be covered since that having no character towards this Monarch they could not be considered but as particular persons to him The difficulties which arose here were taken away by the following considerations They said that Embassadours having a general Commission and not being as they said missi ad hoc they might and ought to do that which their Masters would do if they were there present in person and so being certain that there is no Prince in Europe that would not do civility to the King of England if he should meet him in his passage their Ministers who were in the place could not fail therein also without being wanting to civility and to their duty Notwithstanding since his Majesty was not in his Kingdom he might use them as he pleased yet so that although it was in his choice to admit the Embassadours or not he could not dispense himself of treating them according to the dignity of their character and of making them to be covered after having admitted them since they might and were obliged to make their character appear in all their publick actions in an Estate where every one acknowledgeth them for Embassadours And indeed Mr. de Thou Count of Meslay Privy Councellour
to the most Christian King and President in his Parliament of Paris ordinary Embassadour of France having about three a clock or a little after obtained the first audience as well for that having demanded it first as for that there was no other Embassadour at the Hage that would come into competency with him he was met in the Court by one of the chief Gentlemen of the Chamber and on the top of the stairs by the Captain of the Life-guards which did on this occasion the functions of introductours As soon as the Embassadour had made his reverences and would begin to speak the King covered himself forthwith and shewed thereby to the Embassadour what he had to do His complement was very well received but his audience was short M rs Otte Krag Lord of Welberg Bayly of Nieburg and Senatour of the Crown of Denmark and Godsche of Bugwaldt Lord of Gieresbeeck Prevost of the Covent of Uttersen and Councellour of Estate to his Majesty Extraordinary Embassadours from the King of Denmark had their audience after the French Embassadour and after they were received and treated in the same manner as the other was the first who is of a most illustrious birth in the Kingdom as his Colleague is also in the Country of Holstein and a personage of a full experience betook himself to speak in these terms That since it had pleased the Almighty God to call again his Majesty into his Kingdoms where his great merit should have established him long ago as well as the right of his birth they would not fail to come to congratulate him and to acquit themselves by this means of the duty which they have as well to the neer affinity which is between his Majesty and the King their Master as because of the streight alliance which is and hath been alwaies between the two Kingdoms of England and Denmark That they had cause to rejoice for this happy change not only because of the glory 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 condition to hinder it That the King their Master would not fail to witness himself by a solemn Embassage the joy which he received from so surprising and so extraordinary a revolution as soon 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 alliance and firm confidence in which their Majesties have alwaies lived and which for some years was not interrupted but to their irrepairable prejudice of both one and t'other And so that his Majesty would oppose himself generously to the violence which is done to their King and succour him against the unjust invasion wherewith his Kingdom was afflicted Besides that they thanked his Majesty for the honour he had done them to admit them into his Royal presence and for the particular grace which they received from thence in their persons The King thanked the Embassadours 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 tie between the Kingdoms of England and Denmark but also that the deceased King his Father had such great obligations to the deceased King of Denmark father of him that reigns now his good Cosen and to the present King himself that one of the chief cares whereunto he would apply himself in entring into his Kingdom should be to renue the ancient amity with him to make known that the interests of the King of Denmark were as dear unto him as those of his own Estates Of which he praied the Lords Embassadours to assure the King their Master and that though he should not naturally have horrour for oppression and injustice he could not but be touched with those which were done him and could not deny them the proofs of affection which they demanded Don Estevan de Gamarra Councellour to the Catholick King in his Councell of Estate and War General Field Martial of his Armies in the Low-countries and his ordinary Embassadour with the Lords the Estates General of the United Provinces saw also the King the same day but it was without demanding audience and without ceremonies his Majesty having given him to understand that the affection which he had had for his interests when he was at Bruxels permitted him to see him every day and at all hours So covered he not himself because the open war which for some years was and is between Spain and England hindred him to make his character appear there whereas the particular devotion which this Lord hath alwaies had for the service of his Majesty obliged him to be continually at the Court and by his person As on the contrary Don Enriques de Souza de Tavares Count of Miranda Governour of the arms of the Senate of the town and castle of Porto and extraordinary Embassadour from the King of Portugal to this Republick could not obtain audience what instance soever he made for it But withall to the end not to reject him altogether the King who is without doubt the best and civillest Prince of the world sent unto him the next day Sir Edward Nicholas Secretary of Estate and of his commands to tell him that if the Lord Embassadour of Portugal had Letters of Credence for his Majesty he would make no difficulty to give him audience but being not in his Kingdom nor in a place where he might treat of affairs of Estate he praied his Excellence to consider how unhandsom it would look if in going out of the country under the obedience of the King of Spain where he had received all kinds of civilities he should give without any necessity audience to his declared Enemy But that he might assure himself that when he should be returned into his Kingdom he should alwaies be ready to give audience to the Ministers of Portugal which should be addressed to him with Letters of Credence After the publick audiences the King received the complements of many persons of quality and at evening went to make a visit to the Queen of Bohemia his Aunt and next to the Princess Royal his sister The Lords the Estates of Holland had a purpose to depute some of their body to accompany his Majesty at supper but for as much as it was made known unto them that the King would be very glad to sup in private and to retire himself in good time after the toil of the two former daies and particularly after the visits and complements which he had been obliged to receive and wherewith he had been almost oppressed that day they would not hinder him to take his repose but resolved to reserve to themselves that honour for another time when they might receive it
Mr. Copes ordinary Resident from the Elector to the Lords the Estates The discourse of the Prince was like a Cavaleer so that after the King had answered his complement they spake of indifferent affairs which have nothing of common with this relation The same day Monsieur Vicquefort Knight Resident with the Lords the Estates for the Land-Grave of Hessen made his complement for the Prince his Master which was so much the better received as in his particular he had had an occasion to render most important services to his Majesty as well as to the deceased King his Father of glorious memory He had the honour to do reverence to his Majesty at Breda when in the voiage which he made there some daies before with the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg the King expressed unto him that he remembred the affection which he had for his service He spake also for the Duke of Courland in such sort that the King who witnessed to be touched with the affliction of that Prince protested that he would not fail to acknowledge the good offices which that Prince rendred to the deceased King and to his own person during the disorders of his Kingdom Monsieur Walter de Raet Councellour in the Court of Holland Zealand and West-Freesland being gone to Bruxels in the beginning of the moneth of March this present year with Mr. Goes his Colleague by vertue of a Commission from the Court to speak to the Princess Royal of the affairs of the Principality of Orange understood that there was notice given that General Monck dissembled in a manner no more the inclination which he had for the King's interests and for the re-establishment of the affairs of England and from thence took the liberty to felicitate the King His Majesty received him so well as also the words which he said unto him when being gone since about the same affairs at Breda where his Majesty betook himself he gave him to understand the occasion which hindred the Lords the Estates at present to complement him on the estate of the affairs of the Kingdom of England that he said unto him that he should never see him but he would remember the good will he expressed to him in this conjuncture And indeed this very day the 29 of May the King remembring those marks of affection sent him his in presenting him by Mr. Oudart Councellour to the Princess Royal and to the Prince of Orange her son with Letters Pattents under the great Seal of England by which he gives to Mr. Raet and to his issue male the quality and rank of Knight Barronet for ever And for as much as those whom the King honours with this title are obliged to maintain thirty foot souldiers for the service of Ireland or to pay into the hands of the Treasurer the sum of a thousand fourscore and fifteen pounds his Majesty caused the first Letters to be accompanied with a second dispensing him of paying that sum and acquitting him in general terms and his posterity after him to perpetuity of the said sum We have said elsewhere that Don Stephen of Gamarra ordinary Embassadour of Spain to the Lords the Estates went to meet the King at Moordike to express there to his Majesty the joy that he had for his re-establishment The residence which the King had made for some years at Bruxels where Don Stephen of Gamarra had the honour to lodge some daies in the house of the two Princes the King's brothers made him to be considered quite otherwise then he could hope from his character in a time when there was open war between Spain and England though against the intention of the two Kings The caresses which the Princes made him on this occasion and the extraordinary civilities which he had received from the King proceeded from a particular affection as well as the goodness wherewith the same Dukes of York and of Glocester prayed to dine with him on thursday the 27 of this moneth The Marquess of Ormond and many other Lords had dined there the day before with the same familiarity wherewith the Lords German Earl of St. Albans and Craft went to dine with the Embassadour of France the day the King arrived at the Hage and upon the recital which these Lords had made to their Royal Highnesses of the great cheer the Embassadour of Spain had made them they resolved to dine there the next day But the King who would dine that day in publick with the Queen of Bohemia the Princess Royal the Prince of Orange and the Deputies of the Estates General having desired that the Princes his brothers might be of the company the Embassadour who had expected their Royal Highnesses gave himself the liberty to complain to the King in raillery for taking away his guests from him His Majesty had the goodness to tell him that he did it of purpose to hinder their dining with him because he would be also of the Party And indeed that very Saturday the King after he had ridden to Scheveling where he saw the Fleet and at his return visited the Queen of Bohemia went in the evening to the house of the Spanish Embassadour where were also the Queen of Bohemia the Dukes of York and Glocester the Princess Royal the Prince of Orange the Marquess of Ormond the Lords Digby Craft and Taff the Lady Stanhop Widow to the Lord Heenvliet to whom the King gave the title of Countess of Chesterfeild and Madam Howard her daughter-in-law Lady of honour to the Princess Royal. The table was covered in the Hall which is one of the fairest and greatest of the whole Hage but it would be very difficult to make a pertinent discription of this feast because that although they served up there but fish and sallats it was without doubt one of the most splendid and stately that ever was seen at a private house There was two great services of fish or rather of Sea-monsters besides the pottages the courses and the inter-meats and there was served up so great a quantity of sweet meats dry and liquid that all the persons of quality which were come in great number to see the order of that supper returned thence all loaden For the Master of the house had given order that they should have enough and that the servants should present Limonada Hypocras and all sorts of delicious wines to all those that should demand it whil'st the Officers of his Majesty and of their Royal Highnesses were magnificently treated in the other apartments of the house The King appeared there in the best humour that ever he was seen to be and expressed so much content in this company which was composed of none almost but of his family and of persons whom he saw every day that he staied there even until one a clock after midnight notwithstanding without the least disorder or confusion that might trouble their conversation and divertisement Every thing there was high and magnificent but that
of the Estate and for that of the Province of Holland in particular And as for the Prince of Orange that the merit of his Ancestours was still so present to their memory that there was no doubt but the desires of his Majesty should be fulfilled of that side After that the King retired in the same manner and order as he came the Estates of Holland following him in body with design to conduct him even to his house But the King being descended into the Court by the same way he went took that towards the Princess Royal her apartment which is in the same Palace and the Estates having conducted him even to the first story took leave of him and returned through the gallery to the Hall of their Assembly Every one was extreamly surprised with so obliging and so gallant a manner of proceeding but this joy was in some kind moderated because the place being so vast that notwithstanding the cutting off the most part of the Deputies lost either the sense or words of the King's discourse The Pensionary Councellour who answered thereto said unto those that ask'd it him in writing that he had perfectly well comprehended the intention of the King but that he would not undertake to relate word by word what his Majesty said concerning the Princess Royal and the Prince of Orange which was that they most desired to know The King being advertised of the displeasure of the Estates of Holland had the goodness to call for pen ink and paper in the Princess Royal her Chamber and to send to the Pensionary Councellour this following note written and signed with his hand Sirs whereas I leave here in your hands the Princess my Sister and the Prince of Orange my Nephew two persons which are extreamly dear unto me I pray you Sirs to take their intersts to heart and to make them to resent the effects of your favour in the occasions which the Princess my Sister shall request you either for her self or for the Prince her son assuring you that all the effect of your good will towards them shall be acknowledged of me as if I had received them in my own person and was signed CHARLS R. The Pensionary Councellour answered thereunto by a formal discourse and most elegant the substance whereof we shall only declare and so it imported no other thing but that this note whereof a copy was sent to the Estates General was inserted in the Registers of the resolutions of the Generality and of the Province of Holland Mr de Thou Count of Meslay Embassadour of France took this day his audience of leave with the same ceremonies he took the first Mr. Otte Krag and Mr. Gotsche of Bugwald Extraordinary Embassadours from the King of Denmark took theirs also and added to the complement they made his Majesty upon his happy voiage a most humble prayer that being upon his return into England it would please him to remember his good Cosen and Ally the King of Denmark their Master and the estate of his affairs as the King their Master of his side would acknowledge as lnog as he lived the good Offices which his Majesty should render him on so pressing an occasion The King after he had thanked the Embassadours for their complement upon the subject of his voiage said that he could not be ignorant that it was partly for his sake that the King of Denmark suffered and that he should be no sooner returned into his Kingdom then he would imploy all possible means to declare the part he took in the interests of that Prince his neer Cosen chiefly in a cause the justness whereof was so evident and wherein he was interested in his particular And that he hoped that the peace not being so far advanced as they were made to believe he should have leisure to give him proofs of his good will After that the Embassadours retired to go visit the Earl of Oxford chief of the Deputies of the Higher House of Parliament The Embassadours had caused the King to be sounded if he were pleased that they should see the Commissioners of the two Houses whereas his Majesty expressed to them that they should do him a pleasure therein they had often caused audience to be asked both of one and t'other but their continual imploiments upon the King's person joined to the difficulty that was to assemble persons that diverted themselves in a place where occasions were not wanting to them and in a time when all the world rejoiced opposed alwaies their satisfaction untill that the Earl of Oxford who indeavoured what he could to make the Commissioners of the Higher House to assemble but to no purpose They prayed at last the 31 day of May audience of the Lower House with the Lord Fairfax who had assembled some of them in the house of the Baron of Asperen where he was lodged and the next day which was Tuesday the Earl of Oxford did as much in receiving them at home with him in the house of Mr. Buysero Griffeer or Secretary of the Councel of the Prince of Orange Coming from the audience of the King both one and t'other treated the Embassadours with much honour and respect but they talked of the affairs of the North as of a thing whereof the King should have for the future the disposition since that in entring into the Kingdom he should have solely the whole conduct of the affairs of the Estate We have said elsewhere that the Embassadour of Spain saw not the King but as his particular servant and that he of Portugal saw him not when his Majesty arrived Hence was it that there were no other forraign Ministers that would trouble him with their complements upon his voiage after having officiated with him upon his coming to the Crown There was but Prince Maurice of Nassau who having had the honour to lodge the King in his house which is without doubt the only one in the Hage capable to receive so great a Monarch as well because of its seat being scituated in the fairest place of the Town and chief avenue of the Palace to which the Viver serves for Mote as because of the decoration of its apartments in one of which he caused to be represented the Princes of his House one of the most ancient and most illustrious of all Germany which would chuse there an Emperour in a time when there was none to be found in the other families There was but that Prince Isay who willing to acknowledge the honour he had received at home and at the same time to officiate with his Majesty for his Electoral Highness of Brandenburg made him also a complement upon his voiage His Majesty received him perfectly well did him civility in his particular speaking very advantagiously of the merit of his person and thanking him for the affection which he would express unto him but it was with an extraordinary resentment that the King spake of that which the Duke of Brandenbourg
us of an immutable affection for the good of this Republick We render most humble thanks unto your Majesty for them and particularly for the illustrious proof which it pleased you to give us thereof by the glorious visit wherewith you honoured our assembly We shall conserve the memory of it most dearly and make the marks of that goodness to pass to our last posterity to the end you acknowledge it with the same respect with which we have received it The constitution wherein we see your Majesty ready to take horse for the continuation of your voiage forbids us to enlarge our selves upon a subject which would never weary us if we had words conformable to our respectful sentiments But we have no mind to increase the just impatience which your Majesty should have to see your self returned into your Kingdom We pray God SIR that it be quick and happy and that as he hath disposed the hearts and affections of your subjects to acknowledge their lawfull and soveraign Prince it will please him also to command the sea and winds to favour your voiage to the end that after you have received on your own coast the same prayer which we shall reiterate you may enjoy in your royal person and in your posterity forever all the felicity and prosperity which your most humble servants wish unto your Majesty The King thanked the Lords the Estates of Holland for the civilities they had done him during the residence he had made in their Province as also for the affection they had expressed unto him by the prayers they made for the success of his voiage and prosperity of his reign He promised them also that he would not only continue to live with that Republick in a perfect good correspondence but would also take a great pleasure to make a good and most streight alliance with it After this the King who staied but till this complement was ended went forth of his chamber at the same time the Estates of Holland retired He took his way to the Princess Royal her apartment whom he would visit at home before he took horse and seeing that the Lords the Estates conducted him he would not be covered from his house to the chamber of the Princess Royal where being come the Estates retired to take coach when they saw the King to go a horse back The conversation which his Majesty had with the Princess was but a moment for immediately after he went thence and came down into the Court of the Palace where he mounted a horse back with the Princes his brothers and took his way for Scheveling with the report of the great artillery which thundred from the Rampire marching in the mid'st of those two Princes and having before him the Prince of Orange accompanied with Prince William of Nassau Governour of Freesland with Mr of Wassenaer Lieutenant Admiral of the Province and with many other persons of condition The Queen of Bohemia the Princess Royal the Princess Dowager and the Princesses her daughters took coach as well as the Estates of Holland who would accompany him in body even to the place of his embarkment The Embassadours and other Ministers of forraign Princes who sent not there their coaches for the same reason that had dispensed them thereof at the entrance and almost all persons of condition took the avantguard and disposed themselves along the coast where the Citizens the Horse and the Regiment of the Guards stood in Battalia A great part of the inhabitants of the neighbour Towns were there already and those that came not forth of the Hage early in the morning or the nightbefore followed the Royal Persons in so great a multitude that that place which is very populous and could not lodge the people that were come there from all places of the Province was abandoned and converted into a desart in very few hours As soon as they saw the King to appear on the hill which covereth the village of Scheveling on the sea side the Cannon which was transported two daies before from the Viverberg upon the strand saluted him with its whole battry which ceased not to shoot continually untill being drawn off from those coasts could see no longer the honour they indeavoured to render him The Citizens and the Guards answered thereunto with their vollies of Musket shot and the Cavallery with their Carbines and invited thereby the Fleet to make all their artillery to thunder which afving lightened the air filled it with so thick a smoak that those great floating Castles disappeared in a moment to the eys of those that were on the land The King being alighted received the last complement of the Lords the Estates of Holland who had conducted him in body to the very brink of the sea and left him Deputies to conduct him to his ship by the mouth of the Pensionary Councellour His Majesty next took leave of the Duke of Brunswick-Lunenbourg of the Princess Dowager of Orange of the Princess of Nassau and of the young Lady of Orange her daughter and of all the other persons of quality which could not follow him or might trouble him in waiting on him to the Fleet There were none but his nearest relations the Queen of Bohemia the Princess Royal and the Prince of Orange that conducted him aboard the Admiral ship which was to pass him into England The Estates of Holland had caused one of the greatest barks of the place to be fitted for the Royal persons The body of the vessel was garnished with Tapistry its Mast carried the Royal Flag and its yards were loaden with garlands and crowns of verdure and flowers amongst which there was one fastned accompanied with a streamer which carried for Devise Quo fas fata to denote that the King in embarking himself went to the place where the justice of his cause and the providence of God called him and to allude to the ordinary Motto of the Kings of England Dieu mon droict The King entred there with all the Royal Family but seeing a shallop to approach covered glased and tapistred which the Admiral Montague had sent from aboard him as soon as he saw the King to appear on the Strand he entred into her and the Queen of Bohemia followed him This Shallop was accompanied with many others and was rowed with oars by the sea men who seeing themselves in possession of their Soveraign Prince made the whole neigbour shore to resound with their shouts and expressed their joy by all the marks that could be required from persons of that quality some in casting their caps up into the air and others in casting them into the sea to which some likewise abandoned their doublets and wastcoasts The Lord Montague who had changed the Flag of the pretended Republick before he departed from the coast of England and born that of the three Kingdoms whil'st he was in the rode seeing the King to approach caused the Royal Flag to be put to
the main mast and to the Castle of the poop and received his Majesty with the greatest submission that could be rendred to a Prince at the top of the ladder by which one goes up unto the ship The King rendred him all the testimonies of goodness and affection which he could expect from a Soveraign who acknowledged perfectly the important services he had done him as having been one of the most powerful instruments of his re-establishment whereof he had given him assurances long before and a most certain proof when he departed from the Sound upon the King's orders to favour the design of Sir George Booth who had taken arms for the service of his Majesty under pretence of demanding the convocation of a free Parliament It was past eleven a clock when the King arrived at the Fleet so that as soon as his Majesty was never so little disingaged of a part of those that would follow him to the ship he put himself at table in the gallery of the poop with the other Royal Persons and caused some persons of condition and the most confident of his Majesty to be entertained in the other apartments the Lord Montague making as fair an expence at this repast and at all the others following as at this passage of the King which was but of two daies he imploied more then two thousand Jacobusses though the Lords the Estates had provided his ship and the rest of the Fleet with all kinds of provisions and refreshments necessary beyond what needed for so little a passage After dinner the King received again the last complements of some particular persons express'd great civility to the Deputies of the Estates of Holland for whom Mr of Wassenaer Lieutenant Admiral of the Province uttered the speech and sent them away with new protestations of affection and amity The Sea was calm and the Heaven so cleer that the King had a desire to discover once again a Country where he had received so many testimonies of respect and love to this purpose he went up on the top of the poop and seeing that the people with which he had left the Downs covered remained there still he could not chuse but say that he must confess it was impossible that his own subjects could have more tenderness for him then those people on whose affections he saw that he reigned no less then he was going to reign on the wils of the English After this he embraced the Prince of Orange with the same tenderness as he could have had for his own Son and gave him his blessing and took leave of the Queen of Bohemia But when he was to depart from the Princess Royal his Sister that Princess who had with so much courage and without grief almost look'd all pass'd misfortunes in the face and who had vertue enough to fortifie that of her brothers had need of all his constancy to resolve her self to suffer this separation which she had wished with so much impatience and whose consequences were to be so glorious both to one and t'other The King himself who had had resolution enough to witness no weakness in his greatest misfortunes cannot resist the tears of a Sister whom many other considerations as strong as those of birth render extreamly dear unto him She would have been inconsolable but for the hope she had to see again shortly the King her brother in his Kingdom and they would have been troubled to disingage her from the arms of his Majesty if Admiral Montague had not caused the ankors to be weighed and given signal to the other ships to set sail The Admiral ship was already under sail for England when the Queen of Bohemia the Princess Royal and the Prince of Orange descended into the Bark which was to bring them back again to the land All the artillery of the Fleet saluted those Royal Persons and the Battry of the Downs answered it with the small shot of the Citizens and Guards It was about four a clock in the after-noon that the Fleet did set sail and about six a clock it was gotten so far of that the people which stir'd not from the Downs having lost sight of it retired themselves whil'st the King continued his way towards his Kingdoms with the same prosperity which was seen lately to accompany all his affairs FINIS THE DEPUTIES OF THE ESTATES of Holland complement the King at Delf Pag. 30. WHat 's this we see presented to the ey In such a neat and handsom Symetry Let us survey the Peece in every part And then pass sentence on the Graver's art Behold a Town here which is known to be Famous of old for many things which we VVould instance largely here if we had room But being tied to an Epitom VVe can but touch surely the site is sweet The buildings well compos'd in every street And regular its priviledges great And which is more it is the ancient Seat Of the Auranian Princes t' is their Tomb Their Monument where they must sleep till doom 'T is called Delf and if you think it fit VVe 'll add the Fair as its just Epithet Here did th' Estates first in most Princely wise Receive the King by their chief Deputies Here you may see their humble postures and Their lowly reverence when they kiss his hand And from their Body thank him for the grace They did receive to see him in that place And next at home where to conduct him they VVere come express on this their Holy-Day All this and more is with the Graver's knife Carv'd as in colours done unto the life The Steel and Pencil have not differ'd here If one draws smooth the other cuts as cleer Now give your censures and your judgments right Can any thing exceed this black and white WILL. LOWER A POETICAL DESCRIPTION Of the Batavian Court Pag. 34. BEhold a Royal Prospect here 's a Wood Fair Palaces and in the mid'st a Flood Now call'd the Crowned Viver since the beams Of Majesty so richly gilt its streams The Graver hath done wonders let us stand First on the Place and view that peece of land Adjoining to 't that sweet and Princely Grove The Viverberg or rather Walk of Love Where our scorch'd Gallants to avoid the Sun When the Dog reigns under its shadows come To cool their heats and pittifully meet With fiercer flames which from the windows creep Into their souls on either side the Stream First the Court ey and then the Country beam Make massacres of miserable hearts Which from all quarters feel those flaming darts And fall as bleeding Victims do But we Stay too long here what is that house we see So fair is 't not the Doel that stately Inn Where Gamesters come with an intent to win And to be rich but oft go beggar'd thence A place indeed of a brave vast expence Where the Town meets and sometimes quaff a health Unto the Prince th' Estate and Common-wealth Let 's proceed further and observe that
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
Admiral Montague for the Fleet and to the Major of London for the Capital town of his Kingdom which were all united with one and the same affection and laboured unanimously to make one and the same design to succeed His Majesty added thereunto an excellent Declaration for the safety and repose of those who tortured in their consciences for having partaken in the rebellion might fear the punishment of it and in that fear might oppose the tranquility of the Estate and the calling in of their lawful Prince It is printed and published as well as the Letter but that shall not hinder me to say that there was never seen a more perfect assemblage of all the most excellent natural qualities and of all the vertues as well Royal as Christian wherewith a great Prince may be endowed then was found in those two wonderfull productions They breath but piety and zeal for the glory of God and for Religion but tendernesse for the afflictions of his people but esteem for the Parliament but firmness for the conversation of the King 's rights an admirable prudence for the regulating of affairs an inexemplar conduct for the re-establishment of the government in its former estate love for the good indulgence for the seduced and a more then Christian clemency for criminals or rather for crime it self for a crime I say so black and so abhominable that as there hath not been an example in history since the creation of the world so it is to be hoped that the goodnesse of his Majesty will not make it serve for example to the following ages Both one and t'other wrought the effect which the King promised to himself from them since they fully gained the hearts which the miseries of the time pass'd had already very much disposed to acknowledge their Prince For the Letter and Declaration were no sooner read but the Parliament declared that the sentiments of the King were good lawful generous and conformable to the fundamental laws of the Estate the government whereof ought to be composed of a King of Lords or Peers and of Commons and judging that the people would be well satisfied in the Declaration which the King had granted them the Parliament ordained at the same time that most humble thanks should be returned to his Majesty for the favourable Letter which he graciously had written to them That to disingage his Majesty from the place where he was and to facilitate his passage they ordered him presently a sum of fifty thousand pounds sterling which was increased with another of ten thousand by the inhabitants of the City of London That the Admiral Montague should go with his Fleet to attend the King's orders on the coast of Holland That the two Houses and City of London should send to beseech him by their Deputies to come forthwith to take possession of the Kingdoms which God and his Right had given him and that in the mean time Sir John Greenvil should be dispatched with the Parliaments answer and should carry to Breda the resolutions and prayers of the two Houses or rather the just impatience which all England had to see again their Soveraign after a sad absence of so many years But that which is most remarkable in these resolutions is that they were not taken after a long contestation nor upon a simple acquiesment of the assembly but by the expresse suffrages and upon the universal and unanimous consent of all the Deputies of the two Houses who laboured in emulation of each other which should give the most proofs of affection The Parliament also permitted General Monck to send Mr. Clarges his brother-in-law accompanied with some Officers of the Army to assure his Majesty of the fidelity and obedience of the Army which had made publick and solemn protestations thereof after the Letter and Declaration was communicated unto them by the General But to the end one may see plainly what the sentiments were of all the English on this occasion I will not fear to report here the very words which the Speaker of the house of Commons said to the Gentleman which had delivered him Letters from his Majesty It is impossible for me said he to expresse the acknowledgment and submission with which the Commons assembled here in Parliament have received the Letter wherewith his Majesty was pleased to honour them The thing speaks it self you have seen it with your eys and heard it with your ears Our Bels our Bonfires and the report of our Artillery have already begun to proclaim the King and to publish our joy We have made known to the People that our King the glory of England is returning unto his Kingdom and have heard resound in our ears these agreeable protestations that they are ready to receive him and their hearts open to lodge him and as well the Parliament as People have already cried aloud together with one voice in their prayers to the King of Kings Long live King Charls the second I have also to tell you continued he that the Parliament not willing that you should return without some mark of acknowledgment to the King your Soveraign and ours hath ordained you the sum of five hundred pounds sterling to buy you a Jewel to make you to remember the honour which his Majesty hath done you in charging you with a Commission of this nature whereof you have so well acquitted your self that the Parliament hath commanded me to give you thanks We must confesse that there is something very extraordinary in this marvellous revolution but it is also certain that there is nothing miraculous in it The King was not surprised thereat God used him in the conduct of this great work He had laboured therein he had observed the dispositions and knew the progresses thereof and in this foresight he departed from Bruxels the last of Mareh to go to Breda And though since in the same month he went sometimes to Bruxels and to Antwerp he was resolved notwithstanding not to remain there but to betake him to the Princess Royal his sister Many considerations obliged him to depart the Territorres under the obedience of the King of Spain in this conjuncture of affairs but the sole convenience which he had at Breda to receive at all times Posts from England which passed and repassed every day and hour and to go from thence unto Holland to expedite the return into his Kingdom might invite him to transfer his Court there for a while He arrived there the 14. of April and was the same day complemented by Mr. Snel old Burgemaster in the name of the Magistrate who would likewise oblige the Town to make a solemn entrance to his Majesty but the Princess Royall hindred it for most considerable reasons The 17 the Lord Mordant arrived there with full assurances of the good will of the Parliament and that it would labour indubitably for the re-establishment of the King as soon as it should be compleat
seise himself on the key of the powder Magazine and to ordain all the Captains of the other ships of the Fleet to do the like aboard them and to carry alwaies the key with them the King was advised to chuse a guard of fourscore Gentlemen under the charge of the Lord Gerard Captain of his Life-guards and one of the four Gentlemen of his Bed-chamber which served by Brigades so that there was alwaies twenty which marched on both sides the coach having one hand on the supporting staff of the boot and holding a sword drawn out of the belt but in the scabberd in the other But as this posture was some what irregular and offensive in a country where the person of his Majesty was no less dear then in his Kingdom the King considering that to hinder approach to his person was sufficient to secure it would that they should wear their swords by their sides and carry a cane in their hand which assured their countenance and made their quality and charge to be respected The same day the Estates of Holland gave Commission to M rs of Wimmenum Deputy from the Nobility to the Councel of Estate of Holland Halling of Dort Marseveen of Amsterdam and Hoogland of Alcmaer to go to felicitate the Queen of Bohemia the Dukes of York and Glocester the Princess Royal the Princess Dowager of Orange and the Prince of Orange upon the re-establishment of the King of Great Britain They executed this commission immediately after dinner Mr. of Wimmenum made the complement every where and which was most admirable never using twice the same cogitation nor the same words in all his speeches The Estates of Holland gave charge also to Mr. of Wimmenum to know of his Majesty if it pleased him that they should make him a supper where the Estates of Holland might have the honour to treat him in private and if he desired that in this case the Estates should be there in a body to render him the more honour or if he would rather they should send there Deputies Whereupon his Majesty having expressed an acceptance of what they desired and made known that by the deputation of a single person of each member he should be as well satisfied as if the Estates were there in body they fixed on Sunday following for the day being the 30 of the same moneth They prayed Mr. of Wimmenum to take upon him the whole ordering of the Feast and to give necessary orders for it and the Estates named Commissioners which should be there from them viz. Mr. of Wassenaer Lieutenant Admiral of Holland and Mr. of Wimmenum for the Nobility De Wit of Dort Fabricius of Haerlem Graswinckel of Delf Buytevest of Leiden Marseveen of Amsterdam Cant of Tergow Vander Meyde of Rotterdam Vander Colck of Gorcum Vander Eyck of Schiedam Vander Croest of Schoonhoven Vander Berg of the Briel Teylingen of Alckmaer Jager of Horn Romer Cant of Enchuysen Houtuyn of Edam Houting of Munickendam Stellingwerf of Medenblick and Roothooft of Purmerent to whom were added Mr. de Wit Pensionary Councellour and Mr. of Beaumont Secretary to the Estates of the same Province But to the end that nothing might be wanting to the testimonies of affection which the Estates would render to his Majesty those of Holland ordained the same day that all kinds of refreshments should be sent to the Admirals ship to the Vice-Admirals and to the Rear-Admirals to be afterward distributed to the whole Fleet. They communicated hereupon with Mr. of Wassenaer Lieutenant Admiral of Holland and caused so much Wine Victuals Citrons Oranges and other provisions to be bought that the Lord Montagu was constrained to confess that he never saw so much Notwithstanding they sent them not aboard before the King had fixed on the day of his embarkment and the Deputy Councellours who were to execute the orders of the Estates of Holland gave the commission thereof to Mr. of Valquenbourg of the Bosse Captain in the Regiment of the Guards who caused the provisions to be carried aboard the Admiral to whom it was judged fit they should leave the disposing to cause them to be distributed to the other Ships according to his orders The Estates General of their side writ to the Colledge of the Admiralty of Rotterdam that they should provide and furnish such a number of Hoys and other Vessels as the Officers of the King's stable of the Duke of York and of Glocester should judge necessary for the transportation of the horses and of a part of his Majesties baggage and of their Royal Highnesses and order was given that they should be kept and stabled in the town of Rotterdam till they could be embarked and that the ships should be provided of hay of oats and of straw for the time that probably they might be upon the sea Friday the 28 of May the Estates General who knew they should please the King in doing civility to the Parliament deputed the Lords Ripperda of Buirse of the Province of Gelderland and Schulenbourg of Groning to go with a complement to the Commissioners of the two Houses of Parliament and of the City of London upon the present Estate of the affairs of England The Lords Deputies of the Higher House assembled in the House of the Earl of Oxford who was lodged at Mr. Buisero's Griffier or Secretary of the Councel to the Prince of Orange and the Commissioners of the Lower House at the Lord Fairfax's who was lodged in the House of the Baron of Asperen Deputy from the Province of Holland to the Colledge of the Admiralty of Amsterdam and received this civility with much satisfaction The same day the Estates of Holland having deliberated upon the recommendation which the King had made them when they saluted his Majesty in a body of some persons and English Officers which are in the service of this Estate whose affection which they expressed to him in his affliction as well for his interests as for the person of the Princess Royal his sister ordained that the three Regiments of Scots foot which were reformed and reduced to two in the year 1655 should be brought again to their first estate in behalf of Lieutenant Collonel Henderson and that the command of the third should be given unto him with the quality of Collonel I say the quality because that some years since and in consideration of the peace where the Major Officers are without function the Colonels have but the title only with the pay of the Major Estate of Lieutenant Colonel They gave on this very consideration a troop of Horse to Mr. Kerkhoven son to the deceased Lord Heenvliet in his life time great Hunter or as they say Forrester of Holland under the deceased Prince of Orange and Intendant of the Princess Royal her house who would acknowledge the services of the Father and the affection of the Lady Stanhop his Widow whom the King made Countess of Chesterfield in procuring