Holland did it comprehensively for all of them and that it would be unseemly to incommodate his Majesty with so many Visits so that by this means the University of Leyden then in a readiness was put by from their address and Gratulations Indeed there would have been no end of those Ceremonies otherwise so passionately did each place and degree of men strive to shew their joy and affection for his Majesty therefore not to clog the Reader we will forbear any particular Narratives concerning them Come we now to the manner of the Entertainment of the King at Dinner The manner of the Entertainment of the King at Dinner for which as before said a Sum of 30000 l. from the day of his coming to the Hague was alotted as a foundation for expences till he should depart in his Voyage seven Lords were appoynted to attend constantly at his meat and see the Royal Family served The Table was doubly furnished at the head of which and in the midst sate the King having on his left hand the Princess Royal and on his right his Aunt the Queen of BohemiA At the end of the Table on the same side were the Dukes of York and Glocester and at the other end by the Princess Royal was the Prince of Aurange her Son This Order was observed in all Repasts only in the absence of the Prince of Aurange the two Princes his Majesties Brothers separated and placed themselves at the two ends of the Table By this means one could well serve all those that were there because they were all at a certain distance which permitted the Officers to do their Functions and places as also the Deputies of the Estates left space enough between the Kings Table and theirs for the convenrence of those which served the meat before the Royal persons putting themselves at the two ends of the skirt before the King who would not that the Deputies Table should be separated from his There was commonly a Set of Violins which played and divertised the King during Dinner and in the Healths that were drunk as the King never failed almost to drink the Prosperity of the States the Cannon of the Viverberg thundred from every Battery On the 16th day of May Audience of the Commissioners before his Majesty after his Majesty had dined the Commissioners of Parliament and the City of London came to do reverence to his Majesty They came from the House where the extraordinary Ambassadours are lodged and the military house of the Citizens in this Order both the Lords and the other went forth afoot walking two and two having before them a very great number of Gentlemen Among them the Lord Fairfax drew upon him the curiosity and eyes of all men as known to them by name to have been Captain General of the Parliaments Army he desired to see the King privately and to ask him pardon for the past Offence with all submission which afterwards he did Being brought into the Kings Chamber they made a very low and most submiss Reverence The Earl of Oxford spake for the higher House in a short but pithy Oration Denzil Hollis for the House of Commons whose Elegant Speech is Printed at large the Occasion of which Publication was some exceptions or sinister Reports made of it and therefore that Lord vindicated himself and it He insisted therein chiefly upon the miseries under which the Nation had so long groaned and upon the Usurpation and Tyranny of Cromwel whereas on the contrary they were assured by his Majesties innate Goodness as well as indubitable Right of enjoying themselves their Lands and Liberties in a full repose and serenity of Peace beseeching him in the Name of the people of England to return forthwith into his Kingdom and to resume again the Scepter of his Ancestors â—ee and unburdened from any Conditions or Limitations as Sr. John Greenvile had before reâ—orted The King received them with much Frankness together with the protestations of obedience Fidelity which they made him in the Name of the Lords and Commons of England and of the City of London in particular whose 〈◊〉 to the King were expressed and delivâ— by Sir William Wyld the Recorder in few but sincere words and therewithal gave them his hand to kiss and welcomed them After they had taken leave of the King they addressed themselves to the Dukes to whom they rendered the Complements from the Parliament and City and thence in the same order on Foot to the Qâ—en of Bohemia and the Princess Royal where they performed after the same manner To compleat this Gratulation both from home and abroad from States Parliaments Princes Kings The Emperors Resident complements the Kiâ— the Emperours Resident at the Hague had also Audience of the King declaring unto him that this change of his Affairs would be the most welcom News to his Master in the world since he hoped his Majesty knew what a sincere Friend and Lover of him and his Interest the Deceased Emperour Ferdinand had on all Occasions expressed himself There was also that day admitted to the Kings Presence the Master of that Barque which conveyed his Majesty from the Coast of Sussex over to Deep in France after his Escape from Worcester The King was well pleased with the sight of him in this turn of his condition which rendred his just greatness now more pleasant to him by that contrariety of Fortune He dismist therefore this faithful Person with assurance of his respect and Favour to him The King also received to the honour of his Hand many Persons of Quality who in the impatience to see his Majesty had passed the Sea voluntarily without any particular Commission they all did him Reverence in the same manner the Commissioners had done The English Officers in the pay and Service of the States came and presented themselves to his Majesty among whom was Major Cromwel whose Elder Brother commanded a Regiment whereof he was Major being the Sons of Sr. Oliver Cromwel Unkle to the Usurper the King shewed him no other Countenance than to any of his good Subjects but received him very well permitting them to change their Name of Cromwel into their ancienter name of Williams On the 17th day the Swedish Ambassadour Mr. Coyet had Audience also of the King who in the Close thereof enquired particularly of the young King of Sweden and the Queen Regent and the place of his Breeding and so with usual Civilities dismist him professing his desire and readiness to continue the Allyance between the two Crowns The rest of that day was spent in private Conferences with the Commissioners of the Parliament It will now not be amiss to our purpose since we shall presently speak of the Kings intention to depart The manner how the King was served to speak a word of the manner wherewith the King was served at his ordinary Repasts and of the estate of the expence which was made every day for his Majesty having
and guarded both sides of the way while His Majesty passed through Being come down to Guild-hall Carpets were spread down from the Hall to the Councel-chamber for his Majesty to tread upon Before Dinner Sir Will. Wylde the Recorder made a Speech to His Majesty declaring the great Honour that His Majesty was pleased to confer on them in vouchsafing formerly to send to them His Gracious Letter and Declaration and now to add to that kindnesse by affording by affording them His Royal presence At the upper end of the Hall in the Hustings towards the West was raised 3. ascents where was placed a Chair of State and a rich Canopy where His Majesty and His two Royal Brothers dined His Majesties Servants and several Aldermen and Common-councel men giving attendance The two Houses of Peers and Commons dined at other Tables in the great Hall attended likewise by Aldermen and Common-Councel-men At the sound of loud Musick the whole Service was set upon the Table and during the whole dinner-time they were entertained with variety of Musick both instrumental and Vocal After Dinner was a very costly Banquet and then an Enterlude where a Rustick was represented to the Content of His Majesty and the rest of the Spectators Aser this His Majesty retired him into a withdrawing room where he was pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood on Alderman Reynoldson Mr. Cleyton the Chamberlain of London and Mr. Thomas Player his Son The 3. of Iuly was a Day of Prayers and Solemn Thanksgiving appointed to be kept by the Prince Elector Palatine the Kings Cousin German through all his Electoral Dominions for his Majesties happy Restauration Before the Town house in Heydelbergh was erected a stately Fountain adorned with all sorts of Fruits and Flowers from whence flowed several sorts of Wine after Sermon the rest of the day was spent in Feasting and Jollity with sounding of Drums and Trumpets the noise of the Cannon and at night many curious Fire-works were performed But that which was most of honour to the King was a ray of honour from him darted and influenced upon the Eminent loyalty and signall Services of that great Warrier and faithfull Subject his Excellency the Lord General Monck whom his Majesty was then graciously pleased to dignifie with these high Titles of Honour George Duke of Albemarle Earl of Torrington Baron Monck of Potheridge Beauchamp and Teys Captain General and Commander in Chief of all his Majesties Forces in his Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland Master of his Majesties Horse Knight of the most honourable Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councill and as an addition to this may well be annexed the honour God himself hath conferred on him in making him the chief Instrument in restoring his Sacred Majesty and in his Majesty peace plenty and happinesse to the three Kingdomes According to these Honours his Grace accompanied by the Duke of Buckingham and other Personages of high quality took his place in the House of Peers where long may he and while this shall be a Kingdome which he hath with such prudence and fidelity asserted may his Posterity set as everlasting Ornaments and Pillars of that thrice noble Estate Observe we also in the lusture of this Title the glorious Prognostick of some future greatness pointed at by his Majesty This Honour hath lain extinct ever since the reign of H. 4 when it expired in one of the Heirs of the House of York some while before that almost entire Conquest of France under H. 5. aâ—d this Dutchy lies in Normandy the Inheritance of the Kings of England now a Province of the French A Slip of that Royal Line hath now resumed the said Honour whose Martial prowesse Conduct and Heroick Atcheivments incited and raised by a just claim to a local investiture and possession the French honours being more then Titular by which our Ancestors were recompenced for their valour may in a due time restore his Majesty to that fourth Kingdome of France as well as to his 3 other Crowns of Great Brittain and Ireland especially when it shall be called to remembrance how rudely and uncivilly the French for Oliver's sake cast his Majesty out for worse then an Intruder The adapted and competent quarrel which solely challengeth the successeful Sword of this most noble Duke Nor were the triumphs of Ioy though not altogether so magnificent less expresive in forrain Countreys especially at Lisbon in Portugal Triumphs at Lysbon where upon news from Don Francisco de Mello that his Majesty of England was arrived safe to his Pallace of White-hall in quiet and peaceable possession of his Haereditary Kingdoms and welcomed from all parts of his Kingdom by the Nobility Gentry and Commons as well assembled in Parliament as out of it that came flocking to congratulate his arrival and kisse his hand the King of Portugal presently gave order that the same night all the great Guns of the Castle of the Town and of all the Forts and Castles of the Harbour should be fired in token of his joy and contentment which was accordingly performed and at the same time all the Navy-Ships and Merchant-men in the Port shot off all their Cannons All that night the whole City was adorned with Luminaries In every window of the Kings Pallace two great Torches of white Wax the Ambassadors house being set out in the same fashion The next morning his Majestie with the Infanta went forth in solemn manuer attended by all the Nobility and Gentry of the Court and City in a Noble and splendid Equipage to the Church of St. Anthony of the Capucins returned to the same Pallace in the same pomp all the Bells ringing the while This was followed after with the sport of Los Toures the Royal Reales Bull baiting never used but in the like August Solemnities which was to continue nine days The Main-mast in the middle Pallace-yard all the while bearing the Flag of England The next day Don Antonio de Souza who lived many years in London Resident and Acted so fervently for the King of England as that the Parliament sent him home having most happily laid the foundation of the glorious match between his Majesty and our Soverain Lady the Queen then an Infant done other offices to the advantage of our late as well as our present Soverain sent for many of the chief English Merchants and gave them a treatment which cost him five hundred Crowns with the greatest expressions of joy imaginable On the 26th of July the King to honour his Restitution with another glorious memorial thereof General Mountague made Earl of Sandwich confirmed the dignity of the Earldom of Sandwich Viscounty of Hinching-Brook and Barony of St. Neots upon the right Honorable Edward Mâ—untaâ—ue who had been so eminently and happily instrumental towards his reduction and had manifested his Allegiance to the King before there were any hopes visible but what were reposed in this
Brother in Law accompanied with some Gentlemen to assure his Majesty of the Fidelity and Obedience of the Army of which upon the communicating of his Majesties Letters and Declaration aforesaid they had made Publick and Solemn Protestations Nothing can more sully speak the sense of the English Nation on this great Change and Occasion The Speakers Speech to Sr. John Greenvile at the Delivery of the Letters and Declaration than what Sr. Harbottle Grimston the Speaker of the House of Commons said to Sr. John Greenvile after his delivery of the Letters It is impossible for me said he to express the acknowledgment and submission with which the Commons Assembled here in Parliament have received the Letters with which His Majesty was pleased to honour them The thing speaks it self you have seen it with your eyes heard it with your ears our Bels our Bonefires 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 they have resounded in our ears these chearful Protestations that they are ready to receive him and their hearts open to entertain him and both Parliament and People have already cried out in their Prayer to the King of Kings Long live King Charles the Second I am also to signifie to you that the Parliament not willing that you should return without some Mark of acknowledgment to the King your and our Soveraign hath Ordered the Sum of 500 l. Sterling to buy you a Jewel to give 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 Thankes Never was a Scene so altered as the Face of the City which but two moneths before being at the very Brink of Destruction The Joy at London upon the Parliaments acknowledgment of his Majesty was now overflowed with a full Tide of Gladness for during two dayes in which the Letters aforesaid were delivered and Printed to publick View there was a perfect Vacation from all business every man indulging himself his share in the general satisfaction in such a measure that London seemed rather a Theatre of Pleasure than a Seat of Trassique and as they say of Florence was fit only then to be seen on Holidaies The Prince of Aurange a little before was at Breda Several Princes visit the King and every day some Prince or Person of quality came to rejoyce with his Majesty for the happy change of his Fortune whereof there were growing Assurances Prince Frederick of Nassau Brother to Prince Maurice arrived there on the 22th of April with the Princess his Wife from his Government of Bergen ap Zoom and the Duke of Brlinswick Lunenbergh who resides at Hannover came thither four dayes after betwixt whom and his Majesty several Civilities passed On the 4th of May The King informed of the Votes of the Paâ—l the King was fully assured of the happy revolution of the Affairs of his Kingdom through the advertisement of what was done in Parliament which News the next day after being of that great importance were sent to the Hague by Letters from the Princess Royal which were read in the Assembly of the States General The Estates of the Province of Holland who were at that time assembled in a Body and had by their wisdom foreseen in the disposition of the Affairs of England the change which would apparently arrive there had also foreseen by their Prudence the Advertisement which was given of the Declaration of the Parliament For on the 3d of May before it could possibly be known what happened at London that Illustrious Senate reflecting on the present Constitution of Affairs and the certain apparences of the near restitution of the King resolved that Monsieur de Beverweert and others The States of Holland send Deputies to the King should depart immediatly after they knew the Intention of the Parliam to make known to the King the Affection of that Province to the Person of his Majesty and to all the Royal Family to restifie unto him the Joy and Satisfaction they had to see infallible Dispositions almost ready to place him in the Throne of his Ancestors and to assure him of the strong Inclinations they had to make with him and his Kingdoms a firm and indissolvible Allyance for the mutual conservation of the common Interests of his Estate and of that Commonwealth But chiefly to make him Offers of Service and to beseech him to do that Province the Honour to reside there as in a place most commodious for communication with his Subjects and for his Passage into England and to receive there the Effects of the most sincere Protestations of Respect and Amity which they caused to be made unto him by their Deputies They had also Order particularly to insist upon the last Point as on the most important of their Commission and to use to that purpose the most civil and engaging terms that Interest of State and Affection for the good of their Countrey could dictate unto them They enjoyned also the same Deputie to officiate with the Dukes of York and Glocester and with the Princess Royal and that instance should be made in the Assembly of the States General that the same Offices might be made of their part with his Majesty and with all the Royal Persons The States General being thus informed they agreed therein with the Province of Holland naming Monsieurs de Ripperda and Merode with others to the same Deputation In the mean while the States of Holland pretending that it would take no effect until they should have notice of the Declaration of Parliament not that they doubted of its Intention but because they judged that it imported the Service of the King so to use it as not to prevent the Parliament and do any thing rashly in an Affair of that consequence Civility done out of season being incommodious and unprositable but because it was necessary that his Majesty should know the good Affection of the States they so ordered that the King should have assurances thereof under-hand to this purpose the Lord Beverweert the Governour of the Bosch a principal Person was pitcht upon as being also akin to the Duke of Ormond by the Earl of Ossory's Alliance with his House and for his particular respects for the King during his Troubles All considerations which might oblige him to see the King before he appeared in the quality of a publick Minister He arrived at Breda the 5th of May and executed his Commission so happily that the King reserving but the open Declaration of his Good Will for the Deputies when they should be arrived was very well pleased with his Address which proved of great moment both to the States The Spaniard complements his Majesty
had declared for him and had witnessed their Joy by the fire of Cannon and Musquets and expected his Majesties Commands for the Government of the place These concurrent Accessions to the Kings fortune together with Letters newly come from the States Ambassadors in London made the States General redouble their Orders to their Deputies touching the Complement and Offices which they were to do to the end to acquit themselves thereof with zeal and Affection so that on the morrow by 11 at Noon the King sent the Lord Gerard to conduct them to their Audience in the Castle where the King lodged The Marquess of Ormond met them on the stayâ—head and brought them into the Kings Chamber who was standing in the midst of it covered but assoon as he saw them he uncovered himself and came 2 or 3 paces forward to meet them After they had made most low Reverences and were approached the King Monsieur Ripperda would begin to speak but the King would needs have them put on their Hats which they not willing being not in the quality of Ambassadors as in their own Countrey to do he also continued uncovered all the while The main of this Speech was this That the States General of the United Provinces The Speech of the Deputies to the King had understood with an extream joy the alteration of Affairs in England That they knew the good God had so well touched the heart of his Subjects that there was not any person almost that cried not on the name of the King and wished passionately to see him returned to his Kingdom That upon certain Advertisments which the States General had thereof they thought fit to send their Deputies to his Majesty to witness unto him the part they take to congratulate him in so important an occasion and to wish him and all his Royal Family all the Blessings of Heaven and all the Prosperity he could hope for from God after so long and such bitter Afflictions That the States General made those Prayers with so much the more ardour as they knew that the repose of their Commonwealth depended in some kind on that of its Neighbours That they would not willingly enjoy the Amity of the English but under the Monarchical Government of his Royal House That they hoped to enjoy it still for the future under his Majesties happy Government and to this purpose they desired that of his goodness he would be pleased to renew with the United Provinces the Alliance which they had alwaies considered as one of the chief Points of State and as the Foundation of the preservation of the common Interests of both Nations That moreover they had Order from their Superiors to remonstrate to his Majesty that the residence of Breda was inconvenient and distant and to beseech him most humbly to chuse one in their Provinces which he should judge more proper for his Affairs for his Residence and for his Embarquement That the States General had commanded them to follow his Majesty in his Voyage and to serve him with whatsoever the United Provinces possessed The King thanked them very much for their Civility and the Testimonies of their Affection saying in very obliging words to them The Kings Reply I love this Commonwealth not only because the Princess Royal my Sister and the Prince of Aurange two persons who are extreamly dear unto me remain here but also through Interest of State for the good of my Kingdom and through a very strong inclination to their good I love truly Sirs these Provinces and so strongly that I should be jealous if they gave a greater part in their Amity to another Prince than to me who think that I ought to have much more therein than any other Prince since I love them more than all the other Soveraigns together After they had had this Audience of the King my Lord Jermyn conducted them to the Two Dukes severally where they gave and received the like Civilities as also to the Princess Royal. And the next day after while they were in consultation about ordering the Charge of the Kings Remove the States of Hollands Deputies had Audience likewise on the 10 h. of May when Mr. Bâ—verweert spoke as followeth Sir It is now the third time that my Lords the States of Holland have congratulated with your Majesty upon the coming to the Crown The first was when you attained thereunto by the Fundamental Law of your Estate immediately after the Decease of the Late King your Father of most Glorious and Eternal Memory and the other when the Commissioners from the Committee of Estates and Parliament of Scotland came to this Place to invite your Majesty to go and take possession of one of the Crowns of your Ancestors It is but with great grief that we remember those two disastrous Encounters but on the contrary it is with a transport of Joy that we are now to congratulate your Majesty upon the present happy state of your Affairs and this with so much the more reason as they know that the reciprocal Amity between England and this Republick hath never suffered the least alteration under the Government of her Kings The rest was like that of the States General and concluded with the like Invitation of his Majesty to make his Court in their Province protesting all thankfulness for the Honour done them if he pleased to accept thereof The King returned an Answer near the same he gave before and used the Deputies with the same civilities as the other entring into a Discourse with them concerning the Northern Affairs betwixt Sweden and Denmark for the latter of whom he openly declared himself It is high time now to cast an eye into England where on the aforesaid 8th of May the King was Proclaimed in great State and more than usual Solemnity The Copy of which Proclamation here follows for that as the Occasion required it was drawn up in an unusual Form The Copy of the Proclamation and the manner of Proclaiming it ALthough it can no way be doubted but that his Majesties Right and Title to his Crowns and Kingdoms is and was every way compleated by the death of his most Royal Father of Glorious Memory without the Ceremony or solemnity of a Proclamation Yet since Proclamations in such cases have been alwaies used to the end that all good Subjects might upon this occasion testifie their Duty and Respect and since the armed violence and other the Calamities of many years last past have hitherto deprived us of any such opportunity wherein we might express our Loyalty and Allegiance to his Majesty We therefore the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament together with the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of London and other Freemen of this Kingdom now present do according to our Duty and Allegiance heartily joyfully and unanimously Acknowledge and Proclaim That immediately upon the Decease of our Late Soveraign Lord King Charles the Imperial Crown of the Realm
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 more strong and solemâ— 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 mourâ—ful Equâ—page and which with more grief in heart than it could express in words pronounced the most bitter lamentable Accents of a most deep sorrow which came then not only to strike the Soul of your Majesty but also universally of all the Members of this State From the same Principle which divided then their Afflictions proceeds now their common rejoycement to wit from that of a most tender and most respectful Affection for the Sacred Person of your Majesty and from a most submissive zeal for the Service and for the good of your Affairs The Cause thereof is so just and so touching that we hope your Majesty will be easily perswaded of the Truth of the Protestations which are made 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 humane appearance seemed to remove them wholly For it must be confessed that they are the Effects of Divine Providence which hath made the hearts of the Children return to their Father that is to say of the Subjects to their Lawful King and levelled the waies by which your Majesty walkes at present so peaceably and without Effusion of Blood upon the magnifick and superb steps of your Glorious and Triumphant Throne The Estates General of the United Provinces wish Sir that these great and important Prosperities which surprize us no less than we have wished them may be followed with the constant Obedience of your People with the respect of your Neighbours and the Love of both and that the Diadem which God hath put upon the Anoynted 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 Raign 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 chase this Countrey rather than any other to pass from thence into your Kingdom for which we shall alwaies think our selves obliged and honoured with the regret notwithstanding to see that the Reception which we cause to be made unto you with so good a heart is not accompanied with all the Pomp and Magnificence that the Majestical splendor of so great and potent a Monarch deserveth who is so dear and precious to this State and of whose Gracious Favour they shall endeavour to acquit themselves by all the Respects and Services which your Majesty may desire from your true Friends most faithful Allies and Humble Servants 'T was observed in this Visit that the King never offered to be covered as was thought to shew that he would do somthing more for them than he could do for an Ambassadour After this Speech ended the Lords the Estates were conducted in departing from the Audience by the same Lords that received them and being returned in their ordinary Hall they separated themselves Two other Audiences were given to the foresaid Colledges which being over some doubt was made though this Difficulties upon the audience of Ambassadours Solemn Magnificent Occasion well might and did dispence with Customes and Punctilio's whether the Ambassadours and Ministers of the Kings Princes and forraign 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 Ambassadours 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 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 choyce to admit the Ambassadours or not he could not dispense himself of treating with them according to the dignity of their Character and of making them to be covered after he had admitted them since they might The King complemented by forreign Ambassadours and were obliged to make their Quality appear in all their publick actions in an Estate where every one acknowledgeth them for Ambassadours And on this account that nothing might be omitted which might conduce to the honour of the King and the Glory of his Restitution Monsieur de Thou Count of Meslay The French Ambassadour hath Audience Ordinary Ambassadour of France in Holland obtained the first Audience as well for having demanded it first as for that there was no other Ambassadour at the Hague that would stand in competition with him He was met in the Court by one of the chief Gentlemen of the Chamber and on the top of the Stayrs by the Captain of the Life-guard who was as the Mâ—ster of the Ceremonies Assoon as he had made his Reverences and would have begun to speak the King covered himself presently and shewed thereby to the Ambassadour what he had to do His complement and gratulation of his Majesties and his Kingdoms Happiness was well received but his Audience was short Monsieur Oâ—te Krag The King of Denmarks Ambassadours next and Mr. Godsch of Bugwaldt extraordinary Ambassadors from the King of Denmark had their Audience after the French Ambassadour and after they had been received and treated as the other the first of them bespake the King in these words That since it hath pleased God to call again his Majesty unto 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 near Affinity which is between his Majesty and the King their Master as because of the streight Allyance which hath alwaies been between the Kingdoms of England and Denmark That they had cause to rejoyce 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 a condition to hinder it That the King their Master would not fail to witness himself by a solemn Ambassage the joy which he received from so surprizing and so extraordinary a revolution assoon as he was advertised thereof and that they hoped in this happy Conjuncture that his Majesty would continue to live with the King their Master in the Amity Allyance and firm Confidence in which their Majesties have alwaies lived and which for some years was not interrupted but to the irreparable Prejudice of both And so that his Majesty would oppose himself generously to the violence which is done their King and succour him against the unjust invasion wherewith his Kingdom was afflicted Besides they thanked his Majesty for the honour he had done them in admitting them into his Royal Presence and for the Particular Grace which they received from thence in their persons The King thanked the Ambassadours for the Affection they had expressed to him and said that he knew very well that not only from long Antiquity there was a most streight Alliance between the Kings of England and Denmark but also that the Deceased King his Father had such great Obligations to the Deceased King of Denmaâ—k his good Cozen and to the present King himself that one of his chief cares after his Entry into his Kingdoms should be to renew that Friendship betwixt the two Crowns protesting his clear Affection to that King and his interest being touched with those Injuries that had been done him The same day also he Complemented by the Spanish Ambassadour was complemented by Don Estevan de Gamarra a Count and Councellor in the King of Spains Councils of Estate and War and Ordinary Ambassadour at the Hague but without Ceremony or demanding of Audience only he was admitted as a private Person uncovered because of the Zeal he particularly alwaies manifested to the Kings Service in many private and publick affairs being a very near Acquaintance of his Majesty's The reason why he was not admitted as an Ambassadour was because of the open Wars betwixt Spain and England at that time though no Acts of Hostility passed and the King considered mâ—tters in statu quo But the Portugal Ambassadour there the Count of Miranda could not be admitted to Audience unless he had had Letters of Credence from his Master to the King and that because the Spanish Ambassadour had it not in the quality of a publick Minister from whose Soveraign he had received all kinds of Civilities but as Sir Edward Nichâ—las who was sent from the King on this Errand told the Ambassadour that the King would be ready when he should be returned into his Kingdom to receive the Ministers of Portugal as oft as with Credential Letters they should be sent to him As was said before the King had received notice that General Montague was arrived with part of the Fleet in sight of Scheveling on the 14. of May having Orders from the Parliament to sayl thither and to await his Majesties Commands which was signified to the King by an Express from the General The Fleet at first coming thither consisted of about 18 great ships which before the King embarked were numbred to 38. being the Frigots that carried over the Commissioners of Parliament and the City of London whither we must a little return The Parliament having Voted that the Government of the Kingdom by the Fundamental Lawes thereof was vested in the King and his Parliament after they had with all Expressions of Duty testified their Joy of this happy Revolution ordered several Commissioners to be chosen by Glasses out of each House to go for the greater solemnity and Lustre of his Majesties Court to attend on him in Holland with the desires of the Parliament for his speedy return to the exercise of his Royal Authority The Lords that were chosen of the House of Peers were six the Names of them as followeth For the House of Lords Earl of Oxford Earl of Warwick was sick of the Gowtâ—and went non Earl of Middlesex Lord Visc Hereford Lord Barkley Lord Brook For the House of Commons Lord Fairfax Lord Bruce Lord Faulkland Lord Castleton Lord Herbert Lord Mandevil Sir Horatio Townsend Sir Aâ—th Ashley Cooper Sir George Booth Denzil Hollis Esq Sir John Halland Sir Henry Châ—lmley These were the prime and the most Honourable Members of that House and therfore pickt out for this extraordinary Honour of waiting on the King Not were the Citizens of London less curious in their choyce and Election of Commissioners having obtained leave of the Parliament to the same purpose and were all men of Estates and Reputation and of conspicuous Loyalty having manifested it in the late Danger of the City they were taken and composed partly out of the Magistracy partly from the principal Citizens and partly out of the Militia they were more numerous than both the other and very splendid and gallant in their Retinue being 20 in number whose Names are as follows Sir James Bunce Baron Alderman Langham Alderman Reynardson Alderman Browne Sir Nicholas Crisp Alderman Tomson Alderman Frederick Alderman Adams Recorder Wilde Alderman Robinson Alderman Bateman Alderman Wate Theophilus Bidulph Richard Ford. Will. Vincent Tho. Bludworth Will. Bateman J. Lewis Esq M. Chamberlain Col. Bromfield The Lords likewise were attended with a great number of Gentlemen and store of Servants 〈◊〉 in very rich and costly Liveries They arrived the said 14th day of May but came not on shore till the 15th but because they were not of the Kings Train and had no Letters of Credence to the State they were not treated at their Charge only out of civil respect to the Lords they had Lodgings provided for them by Billet They came to the Hague in Coaches sent by the States that Evening but they did not reverence to the King till the next day being the 16th The Estates of the Province of Holland had audience the day before in a very magnificent and solemn way and were dismissed from it with great and ample demonstrations of the Kings affection the like did the Deputies of Amsterdam in behalf of that Town and were complemented in like manner by him His Majesty vouchsafing if his Affairs would permit to accept of their Inâ—itation thither but Time and his Affairs required a dispensation from that Civility He admitted also their Request concerning the Barge or Brigandine which they tendred to him and gave them thanks for their great respects to his Person which he promised to keep in inviolable remembrance But that the King might not be troubled with multitudes of Visits every Corporation or Body of subordinate Courts purposing to demand Audience of him they forbid them by Proclamation informing them that the States of
already spoken of his Table and how the Royal persons that did eat there were seated They served up great Dishes in Oval Form at five Courses each containing five Dishes and 12 Trenchers because they changed the Dishes twice at every Service and every Dish was very massive besides the Load in them there being two dozen of Pheasants in one Dish and all the oâ—her Dishes were served accordingly They served besides that five tables for the Lords and for the Marquess of Worcester c. and one for the Ladies all at four Courses and almost as full and furnished with the same meats as those of the Kings Table except one course which was between the Boyl'd and the Roast All the sweet meats as well at the Kings Table as at the Lords and Ladies were scrambled for at every meal and exposed to the discretion of the people who were ordinarily there at those hours by the King in Crowds And not only they served all sorts of delicious Wines at the Table but the Sources streamed therewith day and night and were never dry as well for the English of what condition soever they were as for all those of the Town that came to demand it Every Table was of twelve Coverings and had its Steward it s four Butlers as many Assistants in the Buttery and twelve men that served up the meat and drink But for the Kings Diet it was particular there was a Clark of the Kitchin for the Broths another for the Courses another for the Pastry one for the Roast and one for the meats between the Courses every Clark having four Cooks under him for each Service There was a rumour spread this day of some attempt intended against the Kings person 't was discovered by a mean Frenchman who was in danger of his Life for overhearing of it in a private place in the Rampart from whence coming out three men espied him who as he said spoke to one another in bad French these words That they failed twice because of the great Number of People that were about him and served him for Guards but they would so well take their Advantage from the two sides of the Coach that he should not escape them He received two shots of a Pistol but the Fellows upon his calling out sled away Upon his persistance in this Affirmation a Guard of Horse were presently added to the Foot a Cornet of whom alwaies stood in the avenues of the Palace where the King was lodged and of which there was alwaies a Squadron which followed his Coach wheresoever he went And forasmuch as it was known that there was found in the Fleet a man bold enough when the King should come to see the Vessel where he served as a Mariner to give fire to the Powder an Order was made by the General as he himself did that every Captain should take the Key of the Powder to himself This invited the King to chuse a Guard of fourscore Gentlemen which are now improved into a greater number under the command of the Lord Gerard Captain of the Life-guard which served by squadrons so that there was alwaies twenty which marched on both sides the Coach having one hand on the supporting staffe of the Boot and holding a sword drawn out of the Belt but in the Scabberd in the other But as this Posture was somwhat irregular and offensive in a Country where the Person of his Majesty was no less dear than in his Kingdoms 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 hands which assured the Passage and also made their Quality and Charge to be respected On Sunday the 20th of May The States of Holland dine privately with the King the States of Holland by their Deputies dined in private with the King and that nothing might be wanting to the Testimonies of Affection which the Estates would render to his Majesty they ordained the same day that all kind of refreshments should be sent to the Admirals Ship to the Vice-Admirals and the Reer-Admirals to be afterwards distributed to the whole Fleet. They communicated thereupon with their Admiral Lieutenant and caused so much Wine Victuals Citrons and Oranges to be bought and sent that the Lord Montague confessed that he never saw so much Notwithstanding they sent them not aboard before the King had fixed on the day of his Embarquement when they were carried aboard the Admiral to whose disposal they were left The Estates wrote also to the Colledge of the Admiralty to provide such a number of Hoyes other vessels as the officers of the Kings stable of the Duke of York and Glocester should judge necessary for the transporting of the Horses and of a part of his Majesties Baggage and of their Royal Highnesses and Order was given that they should be stabled and kept in the Town of Rotterdam till they could be embarqued and that the ships should be provided of Hay Oats and Straw for the time that probably they might be upon the Sea Friday the 18th of May the Estates General who knew they should highly please the King in doing such a civility to him The English Commissioners complemented deputed three of their Lords to go with a Complement to the Commissioners of the 2 Houses of Parliament and of the City of London upon the present Estate of Affairs in England The Lords Commissioners of the House of Peers assembled in the House of the Earl of Oxf. who was lodged at M. Buysero's Greffier or Secretary of the Council to the Pr. of Aurange the said Noble Earl having at that time a Regiment as his warlike Progenitors before in the States Service and the Commissioners of the Lower House were lodged in the House of the Baron of Asperen and received this Civility from them with much satisfaction Innumerable in the mean while was the Concourse of People and as multiplied the Excesses of those Kindnesses done to any that could but say he pertained to the King of Great Britain no other Business being minded but what concerned the Honour and Pleasure of the King in which they thought themselves never too much sedulous and diligent 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 were in the Service of that State whose Duty and Affection which they expressed unto him in the midst of his Affliction as well for his Interests as those of his Sister and Nephew the Prince of Aurange now minded him of their Concerns did ordain that the five 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 Lieut. Col. Henderson whom the King respected and that the Command of the third should be given
unto him with the Quality of Colonel On the same consideration they gave a Troop of Horse to Mr. Kâ—rkhoven Baron of Wooton Son of the Deceased Lord Heenvhâ—t and the Countess of Stanhop being in the room of his Father great Forrester of Holland and Superintendant of his Highnesses the Prince of Auranges Affairs Another Complement was also Ordered to be given the aforesaid Commissioners of England A Speech made to the Commissioners of Parliament by Deputies from the Province of Hol. the sum whereof meeting them in the same place where the Deputies of the States General saluted them being uttered by M. Wimmenum was this That the Lords the Estates of Hol. who had so much caus to rejoyce for that great Catastrophe which they saw in Eng. could not be silent in that wonderful juncture and in that publick and universal Joy but found themselves obliged to express it to thens that contributed most to it and were the principal Authors thereof That the Parliament of England had this Advantage to be as the Foundation of the Estate but that those which compose it now had gained this Glory to all Posterity that they had not only drawn the Kingdom from its greatest Calamity to carry it to the highest Felicity but also that they had been the first of the three Kingdoms to declare themselves for so Glorious an Undertaking That the Lords Estates who in the Anarcâ—y and disorder had for their parts retained their due sentiments of the English Nation though necessitated to a War which was meerly personal on the English side against a Faction and prevalent Party did take this happy advantage of assuring their Lordships of the Perseverance of their Affection and prayed God for the continuance of the Prosperity in the Kingdoms of his Majesties Dominions and of their Persons in particular with all the fervency and earnestness that might be expected from an allied State and from Persons perfectly affectioned to their Good and Interests To this the Commissioners answered by the mouth of those Noblemen that spoke to the King That they thanked the States for their great Affection to the King and his Kingdoms the memory whereof they should alwaies keep and particularly for the pains they had taken in coming to give them a Visit with such Assurances of their Respect and Friendship which they would endeavour to require by their personal Services and by a perpetual and inviolable Amity with that Republick and so conducted them to their Coaches On the 19th of May Sixty thousand Pound added to the expence for the Kings Entertainment an Addition of threescore thousand Pound was Ordered for the Expence which they would now magnificently bestow on the Kings Entertainment the States intending to make him a Feast and to give him and his Brothers some Presents upon which account they thought also fit to furnish for his Majesty the Bed and Appurtenances which the last Deceased Prince of Aurange had caused to be made for the lying in of the Princess Royal and which she never used because of the death of the Pâ— her husband who deceased eight dayes before the Birth of the Prince his Son This Bed is without doubt the fairest and richest that ever was made at Paris and besides the Tester the Seats and Skreens the Hangings and the other pieces necessary to make a Furniture compleat the Estates would add thereunto a most perfect fair Hanging of the richest Tapestry embossed with Gold and Silver which they caused to be made of purpose with a great number of excellent Pictures as well of Italy as of other Countries both ancient and modern and whatsoever can adorn a Chamber worthy to lodge so great a Monarch in his greatest Magnificence It is now set up at Hampton-Court The Council of State ordained also that all the Fisher-Barks of the Villages of Scheveling and of Heyde should be stayed for the Service of the State Order given for the Embarquement of the Baggage to the end to serve the imbarquement of the Court and Kings Baggage and that for the same purpose the Village of Catwyck on the Sea and other Dorps adjacent should send 20 Barks and caused 30 open Waggons to be made ready also to bring the said Baggage down to Scheveling the Monday following being the 21th with 40 close Waggons to conduct the Train on Tuesday which was the day that the King had designed for his departure though deferred till Wednesday as we shall see hereafter The same day the Duke of York accompanied with the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg The Duke of York taketh the Oath of Allegiance from the Mariners and with a great number of English Dutch Lords and Gentlemen went to Scheveling to take the Mariners Oaths of Fidelity in quality of Admiral of England but the Wind being contrary and the Sea boysterous the Lord Montague thought it not fit to send Boats from aboard him to fetch his Royal Highness and the Fishermen of the Village refused likewise to put him aboard so that he was forced to return to the Hague to Dinner At this time came also the Ambassadour of the Marquess of Brandenburg The Ambassadour of the Marquess of Brandenburgh his audience Monsieur Weyman to salute the King upon his restitution brought in by Prince Maurice of Nassau the same that was extraordinary Ambassadour here since from the said Elector after the King had answered the Complement they spake of indifferent Affairs which have nothing common with this Relation Monsieur Vicque first Resident with the States Ambassanours likewise from the Landgrave of Hesse for the Landgrave of Hessen made likewise his Complement for the Prince his Master which was so much the better received as in his particular he had an Occasion in the business of the Palatinate to which House he hath constantly bin allied to render most important Service to his Majesty as well as the Deceased King his Father He had the Honour to do reverence to his Majesty at Breda with the Duke of Lunenburg where the King remembred the affection which he had for his Service The King added so sensibly did the touches of other afflicted Princes condition incite him to a generous Sympathy and protested himself as well as his Father obliged to the Duke of Curland who had in the War in England supplied him with Arms and Ammunition and that he never would fail to acknowledge those good Offices done them both during the Disorders of his Kingdoms After these verbal Ceremonies were past other oral as we may say followed several Invitations were made from the Ambassadours to the Lords of the Kings Train to dine with them the Ambassadour of France had treated the Earl of St. Albans and the Lord Crofts and some other Lords at a Dinner and the Spanish Ambassadour was bespoke by the two Dukes of York and Glocester being of long Familiarity with him to entertain them at his House where before the Marquess of Ormond had been
the Assembly of the States General t will be needlesse to repeat them here onely this requires a remark that the King speaking near the same words at least the same sense in both Assemblies and concluding with his recommendation of the Prince and Princesse of Aurange to their affection the states of Holland taking advantage by a pretence that they did not perfectly hear not understand that clause ordered their President to request the King that he would be pleased to signifie his pleasure therein again to the said President which he consented to and to satisfie the Estates of Holland Sent their President this following Note signed in the Princess Royal her Chamber with his own hand SIrs whereas I leave here in your hands the Princesse my Sister and the Prince of Aurange my Nephew two persons which are extremely dear to me I pray you Sirs take their interest to heart and to cause them to resent the effects of the Favour in the occasions which the Princesse my Sister shall request of you either for her self or the Prince her son assuring you that all the effect of your good will towards then shall be acknowledged of me as if I had received them in my own person Signed Charles R. THis was meerly procured from the King to do him greater Honour for that not knowing how to get a Copy of his Speech which they would have recorded they find this way to be sure of a parcell of it under his own hand a Copy whereof being therefore transmitted to the Estates General was inserted in the Registers of the Resolutions of the Generality and of the Province of Holland in perpetuam rei memoriam and to manifest their readinesse of complying with the King in all things Monsieur de Thou Count of Meslay the French Ambassadour had this day his Audience of leave with the same Ceremonies as he was received at first so likewise had the Ambassadours of Denmark and from him they went to visit the Earl of Oxford as Cheif of the Commissioners from the House of Lords The Ambassadours had caused the King to be sounded if he were pleased that they should see the Commissioners of the two houses to which question his Majesty expressed himself that they should do him a pleasure therein They had before often caused Audience to be asked of both Commissioners but their continual imployments on the Kings person joyned to the difficulty there was to assemble persons that diverted themselves in a place where occasions of their entertainment were not wanting to them and in a time when all the world rejoyced opposed alwayes their satisfaction therein Only the Earl of Oxford endeavoured what he could to make the Commissioners of the Higher house to assemble but to no purpose They prayed therefore at last the one and twentieth of May audience of the lower House with my 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 day before the Kings imbarking the Lord of Oxford did as much receiving them at the House of Mr. Buysero Secretary of the Council to the Prince of Aurange They were civilly entertained from the Consideration of the respect the King had shewed them but as to their affairs my Lord told them that the King for the future was to have the sole disposition of such matters since that in returning to his Kingdomes the sole conduct of the State appertained and was remitted to him Prince Maurice of Nassau did now likewise complement the King upon his departure from himself and also officiated for the Duke of Brandenburgh to both of whom the K. professed a very great affection to the Prince for his lodging residence and other Civilities shewed him at his house to the Duke for those Testimonies of that kindnesse he had for his affairs when all the world believed them desperate and further said that he would conserve eternally the remembrance of the good offices which his Highnesse had rendred him in the Empire and of the great obligations which he laid upon him in a time when there was no Prince almost that dared to declare for his Interests Monsieur Coyet Ambassadour from the Swede because he would not be troublesome to the King in this dispatch for England contented himself to signifie to his Majesty that his Master would send an Ambassadour extraordinary to complement him together for all his felicities upon his arrival to his Kingdome But the Estates General who had received an Honour by the Kings presence in their Assembly The Estates General do the like whose memory they intend shall be precious to all posterity thought themselves bound to acknowledge it and to give him aparting complement on his voyage which was uttered by the Baron of Gaunt in these Elegant words SIR THe Estates General of the Vnited Provinces having been advertised from your Majesty that you purpose to Embarque to morrow to compleat your voyage for England return here again to receive the Honour of your Commands on the paint of your departure If your Majesty finds not in their faces the same cheerfulnesse which you might observe there when they had the Honour to salute you at your Arrival it is because of the sorrow to see themselves ready to be deprived of the Splendour of so fair a light which your Majesty hath made to shine in their Estate during the little time you would remain there That which comforts them Sir in some kind is that they know that the interests of your Majesty presse your departure and the good of the affairs of your Crown permits you not to defer it longer Neverthelesse the little residence which it hath pleased your Majesty to make amongst us and the goodnesse wherewith ye would receive our endeavours we have made to be able to please you leaves them such signal strong and indubitable marks of your goon will towards us that we shall for it eternally blesse that providence to which we owe these incomparable advantages The Presence of your Majesties sacred person in their Assembly and the obliging expressions which your Royal mouth made in the Senate are such evident Testimonies of the disposition which you have to Honour this Estate with your Royal good will that they deserve that all Posterity should find them written in Letters of Gold in their Registers as we have deeply graved them in our hearts If the entertainment which hath been made to your Majesty and which it hath pleased you to accept in so engaging a manner hath no proportion with the greatnesse of so potent a Monarch we beseech you most humbly to believe that this defect proceedeth rather from the indigence of our County then from the will of the Inhabitants in whose acclamations and joy we are perswaded that your Majesty may observe visibly the zealous devotions and ardent prayers they put forth unto Heaven for the prosperity of your affairs and
and Titles of 2 of the most illustrious Families in England viz. THe Right Noble Thomas Howard Earl of Arundel Surry and Norfolk was restored to the dignity and Title of Duke of Norfolk by an Act of the Parliament begun at VVestminster the 25 of April in the 12 year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second and in the year of our Lord 1660 c. The Right Noble William Seymour Marquess of Hertford was restored to the Dukedome of Somerset by an Act of the Parliament begun at Westminster the 25 of April in the 12th year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second 1660. both which are since confirmed Other Creations The Right honourable Heneage Finch Earl of Winchelsey was created Baron Fitzherbert of Eastwell in the County of Kent by Letters Patents bearing date at VVestminster the 26 of Iuly in the twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second in the year of the Lord 1660. which Honour is entailed on him and the Heirs males of his body lawfully begotten with all Rites Priviledges and preheminences thereunto belonging The Right Honourable Elisabeth Viscountesse of Kynelmeky was created Countesse of Guilford during her life by Letters Patents bearing date at VVestminster the 14 day of Iuly in the twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second with all priviledges thereunto belonging and Fee of 20 l. per annum out of the Exchequer c. The Right Honorable Iames Butler Duke and Marquiss of Ormâ—nd in the Kingdom of Ireland was created Baâ—on Butler of Lanthony in the County of Glocester and Earl of Brecknock in Wales by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster the 20. day of Iuly in the twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second which said Honours are granted to him and the Heirs males of his body lawfully begotten with the Fee of 20 l. per annum together with all priviledges c. he was in the same year also made Lord Steward of his Majesties houshold Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most honourable Privy Council BARONS The Right honorable Thomas VVindsore de VVindsor alias Hickman was restored and confirmed to the Barony Title and Dignity of Baron Windsor by Letters Patents bearing date at VVestminster the 16 day of June in the twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second which said honor is granted to him and his Heirs for ever with the same precedency and place in Parliament and else where in England as Henry and Thomas VVindsor Barons VVindsor whilst they lived successively enjoyed and all other Dignities and preheminences to a Baron of Parliament belonging c. 1661. A Roll of the PEERS of the Kingdom of ENGLAND according to their Birth and Creations DUKES of the Blood Royal IAmes Duke of York and Albany Lord High Admiral of England Rupert Duke of Cumberland These take places in respect of their Offices Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer of England DUKES Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk William Seymour Duke of Somerset George Villiers Duke of Buckingham Charles Stuart Duke of Richmond George Mâ—nck Duke of Albemarl MARQUISSES Iohn Paulett Marquiss of Winchester Edward Somersett Marquiss of Worcester William Cavendish Marquiss of Newcastle Henry Pierpoint Marquiss of Dorchester EARLES These three take p'ace in respect of their Offices Mountague Berte Earl of Lindsey Lord High Chamberlain of England Iames Butler Earl of Brecnock Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold Edward Mountague Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold EARLS Awbery Vere Earl of Oxford Algernoon Piercy Earl of Northumberland Francis Talbott Earl of Shrewsbury Gray Earl of Kent Infra etat Charles Stanley Earl of Derby Iohn Mannours Earl of Rutland Hastings Earl of Huntingdon Infra etat Thomas Wriothsley Earl of Southampton William Russel Earl of Bedford Philip Herbert Earl of Pembrook and Mountgomery Theophilus Clinton Earl of Lincoln Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham Iames Howard Earl of Suffolk Richard Sackvill Earl of Dorsett William Cecil Earl of Salisbury John Cecil Earl of Exeter John Egerton Earl of Bridgewater Robert Sidney Earl of Leicester Iames Compton Earl of Northampton Charles Rich Earl of Warwick William Cavendish Earl of Devon Basâ—l Feilding Earl of Denbigh George Digby Earl of Bristol Liâ—nel Cranfeild Earl of Middlesex Henry Rich Earl of Holland Iohn Hollis Earl of Clare Oliver St. John Earl of Bullingbrook Mildmay Fane Earl of Westmerland Edward Mountague Earl of Manchâ—ster Thomas Howard Earl of Berkshire Thomas Howard Earl of Cleveland Edward Sheffeild Earl of Mulgrave Henry Cary Earl of Monmouth Iames Ley Earl of Marlborough Thomas Savage Earl Rivers Mountague Barrye Earl of Lindsey Lord great Chamberlain of England Nicholas Knollys Earl of Banbury Henry Cary Earl of Dover Henry Mâ—rdant Earl of Peterborough Henry Gray Earl of Stamford Hâ—neage Finch Earl of Winchelsey Charles Dormer Earl of Carnarvan Mâ—untjoy Blunt Earl of Newport Philip Stanhop Earl of Chesterfeild Iohn Tuston Earl of Thanett Ierâ—me Weston Earl of Portland William Wentworth Earl of Strafford Robert Spencer Earl of Sunderland Iames Savill Earl of Sussex George Goring Earl of Norwich Nicholas Leak Earl of Scaâ—sdale Wilmott Earl of Rochester Infra etat Henry Iâ—rmyn Earl of St. Albans Edward Mountagne Earl of Sandwich Iames Butler Earl of Brecknock Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon Arthur Capel Earl of Essex Thomas Brudenell Earl of Cardigan Arthur Anensley Earl of Anglesey Iohn Greenvile Earl of Bâ—th Charles Howard Earl of Carlisle VISCOUNTS Leicester Devereux Viscount Hereford Fracis Brown Viscount Mountague James Fienes Viscount Say and Seal Edward Conway Viscount Conway Baptist Noell Visconnt Cambden William Howard Viscount Stafford Thomas Bellasis Viscount Faulconberg Iohn Mordant Viscount Mordant BARONS Iohn Nevil Lord Abergavenny Iames Tutchett Lord Audley Charles West Lord Dela Warr. George Barkley Lord Barkley Thomas Parker Lord Morley and Mounteagle Francis Leinard Lord Dacres Conyers Darcy Lord Darcy William Stourton Lord Stourton William Lord Sandys De la Vine Edward Vaux Lord Vaux Thomas Windsor Lord Windsor Thomas Wentworth Lord Wentworth Wingfield Cromwell Lord Cromwell George Fure Lord Fure Philip Wharton Lord Wharton Francis Willoughby Lord Willoughby of Parham William Pagett Lord Pagett Dudley Nâ—rth Lord North. VVilliam Bruges Lord â—haundes Iohn Câ—ry Lord Hunsdon VVilliam Petre Lord Petre Dutton Gerrard Lord Gerrard Charles Stanhâ—pp Lord Stanhopp Henry Arundell Lord Aâ—undell of Warder Christopher Roper Lord Tenham Foulk Grevill Lord Brook Edward Mountague Lord Mountague of Boughton Charles Lord Howard of Charleton William Gray Lord Gray of Wark Iohn Roberts Lord Roberts William Craven Lord Craven Iohn Lovelace Lord Lovelace Iohn Paulett Lord Paulett William Maynard Lord Maynard Thomas Coventrey Lord Coventrey Edward Lord Howard of Eserick Warwick
day his Hopes advanced by the division of the Parliament and Army he presently posted away for St. Jean de Luz The King so Saint Jean de Luz on the Confines of Sp. in and France where the two great Ministers of France and Spain were met in Treaty of Peace and Marriage betwixâ— both Crownes Here he was received by Don Lewis de Haro the Spanish Favourie with all possible open demonstration of dutiful Respect and proffer of taking his Concern into that Treaty on his Masters part very observable also was that Obeysarce which the Don made to his Majesty at his coming to his Appartiments upon his knees in the Mire so sagacious was the Spaniard in finding out where the Wind blew The like private Assurances and secret Visits his Majesty received from Cardinal Mazarine while the Rumps Ambassadour Lockhart was transcting for his Misters at that place But the French cunningly reâ—porized no way affecting our Peace and Settlement in that critical juncture of the Kings Restitution But however the Cardinal reserved himself Returns back the French Courtat his Majesties Return from that Conference did him the publick honours due to so great a Prince more especially he was with all Mâ—gnificence treated by his Unk'e the Duke of Orleans who in the worst of his times had manifested abundance of Respect and Affection both to his Person and Service He was visred also and complemented on the hopes of his Affairs in England by many of the Peers of France the Dukes of Lorrain and Guise and other Grandees His re-assumption to his Kingdoms growing every day more visible as appeared by the sudden Observance and Reverence of his person by all sorts of people though it drew all his good Subjects and some Indifferents too as well as Forreigners eyes upon him yet it no way awakened his divided and quarrelling Rebels out of that stupidity into which the Magical Charms of Soveraignty had cast them so that great and insensible progress was made in his Majesties return every remove of his Court for it was now grown to that repure as it was nearer England was so much nearer his Throne With great and universal acclamations he passes thus out of France Comes to Brusselss and came to Brussels again where at his arrival he had intelligence of those irreconcileable Feuds and Animosities which were arisen betwixt the Usurpers and that now the Renowned General Monk had opportunely and with the expected advantage put himself into the Quarrel and set up another moderate Party between the two Antagonists while having felt the Pulse of the Kingdom and tampered with the perplexed Interest of the Parliament and Army he in an instant crushed and suppressed both reseating the Secluded Members who were forcibly excluded in 1648 before the subversion of the Government The Felicity of this Hero's Atchievements doth very justly challenge a great share of these Magnificences General Monk appears in the rupture of Parliam Army not to silence his Illustrious Extraction from the Royal Lire which adaquared him to his Enterprize that would have become none but a Princely Descendant The Crown had been taken off by rude mean and base hands it exacted therefore a Noble and Princely Arm to set it on and assert it Next if we consider the peculiar and singular Honour of his Undertaking and Triumph not a drop of Bloud spilt in the whole manage of it when the desperate guilt of his Majesties enemies threatned a more furious bloudy period than was its miserable continuance So much are the Trophies of a Loyal Submission to be preferred to the Spoyles of a debellated Rebellion This wonderful innocent Peace was next consirmed by the same men who at the first overthrew it The secluded Members contribute to his Restitution the united Remains of the Long Parliament Their sollicitous expedite endeavours towards the reduction of his Majesty proceeded with as much speed as his Majesty could wish who had searce so much leisure of those happy Minutes free from the trouble of Expresses and Advisoes which might indulge him the Contemplation of his Prosperity But the main Additament of Honour to his Majesties plenary Restitution was reserved for more untainted persons whose hands and hearts were free from those sanguine pollutions of the Land Providence so ordering that none should put his hand to that Plough who had looked back to the Profits and Advantages of Anarchy and Usurpation By this means all Articling Conditions and Limitations were avoyded and his Majesties Soveraignty from the minute of his Recognition left free and inviolate This Absoluteness infinitely contributed to his Glory not so much in point of Greatness as of his Mercy which being so voluntarily and extensively offered to all persons referring his Justice to the Parliament did not only conciliate his peoples Affection but so heighten them that he became their only desire and as another Titus Delitia Gentis Britanâ—ica so that this Glory was founded upon the surest Basis and was real and solid and as it was well observed at his entrance into London dispensed with or rather refused the Helps of Art and Pageantry The King was yet at Brussels where the Marquoss Caracena Governour for the King of Spain used the same Grandeurs of Honour to him as are redevable to Soveraign Princes but in a more sincere and opener way than is usual with the Spaniard Much Discourse there was in England that his Majesty would have been stopped in those Provinces by the Rebel-Phanaticks this arose from his Majesties frequent Journeys to Antwerp and back to Brussels as if that were his utmost limit but nothing was so far distanced from the honourable demeanour of that Governour and Court who with all imaginable civilities humbly took their leaves the chief Persons of the Nobility attending on him as far as his Majesty would suffer them in his way which required a greater privacy than their pressing respects would admit Many Considerations obliged him to depart the Territories under the obedience of the King of Spain in this Conjuncture of Affairs The King departs out of Flanders to Breda 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 thereby the better accommodating and expediting his more solemn return into England invited him to transfer his Court into Holland for the little remainder of time he had to continue abroad On the 4th of April therefore our stile he arrived at Breda was the same day complemented by Mounsieur Snel the chiefest and ancientest Burge-Master in the name of the Magistrate who would likewise have obliged the Town to make a solemn Entrance to his Majesty but the Princess Royal hindred it for most considerable Reasons On the Seventh of the same Moneth the Lord Viscount Mordant newly then created to that Dignity arrived there with full assurances that the Members who were then elected to
serve for the ensuing Parliament which was to set down on the 25th then instant were honest Patriots and well affected to his Majesty and that they would labour indubitably for the re-establishment of the King assoon as it should be compleat and that their sitting down would certainly commence the day prefixed and appointed From that time forward there passed not a day almost that the King received not some remarkable News upon which he might ground infallible hopes of his Restauration On the 15th of the same Moneth Sr. John Greenvile since Earl of Bath and Sr. John Boys brought him Intelligence of the deseat of Gen. Lambert he had been Prisoner in the Tower of London by vertue of an Ordinance of the Council of State and had made an escape thence with design to put himself in the head of those who were strugling to continue the Anarchy and our Ruine but he was suddenly supprest and taken by Col. Ingoldsby 〈◊〉 Edge-hill where to the greater Honour and content of the King and his Felicity the last dying effort of the Rebellion was quell'd where its first potent Arms opposed it self against his Royal Father Remarkable also was the manner of the dissipation of those Rebels for never did Lambert betray such meanness and abjection of Spirit as in that rendition of himself to his formerly fellow-Colonel a most evident sign that God had consternated and utterly confounded them not only one among and against another but even in themselves perplexing and distracting their thoughts and dashing and turning their greatest Resolutions He was brought back to his former Prison the Tower and there better secured and since removed to the Isle of Jersey The King received the same day Letters from General Montagne then riding in the Downs which assured him of the good estate of the Affaires of the Kingdom and of the sincerity of his Intentions of which he had already given Proofs many moneths before when S. George Boeth took up Arms for the King in Cheshire Now his Majesty thought it time to appear to his People The Kings Letters and Declarations to Parliament and Army and City from out of that obscurity wherein his hard Fortunes had so long while concealed him which he did with such a sudden Brightness that struck Joy and Chearsulness into the Eyes and Faces of all his Subjects For presently he sent away the Lord Viscount Mordant and Sr. John Greenvile to London with his Declaration and Letters dated from this place to the 2 Houses and the Lord Mayor and Common Council of the said City and the General and Officers of the Army who arrived soon after the sitting down of the Parliament and on the 2 of May delivered them to the Speakers That Sacred Name of the King which not long time was the aversion and abhorrence of base mechanick fellows and Phanaticks was heard with veneration and inspired into that Illustrious Assembly such extraordinary and advantageous motions for the King that it is impossible to express them It will be enough for the honour thereof to say that whereas not above 3 or 4 moneths before it had been a Crime of High Treason to speak in Parliament in behalf of the King no sooner now is that great name pronounced than a general Joy appeared in the countenances of all the Commons and most high and dutiful Respects for that Divine Character By Vote of the Houses therefore Sr. John is desired to enter the Speakers receive the Kings Letters from his hand the Clerk read them every one in the mean time with the greatest expressive submission in the world standing bare-headed His majesty had thereunto as before said added a most excellent Declaration for the safety and repose of those who cortur'd in their thoughts for having partaken in the Rebellion might fear the punishment of it and in that fear might oppose the tranquility of the State and the calling in of their Lawful Prince There never was seen a more perfect Assembly of all the most excellent natural Quilities and of all the vertues as well Royal as Christian where with a great Prince may be endowed than was found in those two wonderful Productions as was evident in their acceptance and entertainment They were full of Piety and Zeal for the Glory of God and for Religion of tenderness towards the Afflictions of his People Esteem for the Parliament Firmness for the Conservation of his own Rights an admirable Prudence for the regulating of Affairs and an inexemplar conduct for the re-establishing of the Government in its former state Love for the good indulgence for the seduced and a more than Christian Clemency for Criminals or rather for Crime it self for a Crime I say so black and so abominable that as there was not an Example of it in History since the Creation of the world so his Majesty hath not altogether been so wrought upon by his innate Goodness as to let it pass for an example unpunished to Future Ages Both these Papers wrought the Effect which the King promised himself from them since they absolutely gained the hearts of the people which the miseries of the time past had already very much disposed to the acknowledging their Prince For they were no sooner read but the Parliament declared that the Tenders and Sentiments of the King were Gracious Good and Generous and Conformable to the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom the Government whereof ought to confist of King Lords and Commons and forthwith ordered that most humble Thanks should be returned to his Majesty for the Gracious Letters and Declarations aforesaid and that for a present supply of his Majesties occasions and in order to speed his Return the sum of fifty thousand Pounds was appointed for a Present to which the City of London added ten thousand more They likewise ordered that General Montague should sayl with his Fleet to attend the Kings Pleasure on the Coasts of Holland That the Two Houses and City of London should send Commissioners respectively from them to beseech him to come and take possession of his Kingdoms which God and his Right had given him and that in the mean time Sr. John Greenvile should be disparched with the Parliaments Answer and should carry to Brada the Resolutions and Prayers of the Two Houses or rather the impatience which the Nation had to see again their Natural Soveraign after a sad absence of many calamitous and miserable years But that which was most remarkable in these Resolutions was that they were not taken after a long contestation consult or dispure nor upon a simple acquiescement of the Parliament in a major Vote but by the express Suffrages and Votes upon the universal and unanimous consent of all the Members of both Houses who strove in aeleg mulation of each other which should give the greatest Proof of Affection The Parliament also gave Liberty to the Noble General to send Mr. Clarges now Sr. Thomas being Knighted by the King at Breda his
to pass through his Provinces and Monsieur Beverweert for Don John de Monroy arrived the same day at Breda and prayed his Majesty from the Marquess Caracena to take his way through Flanders and to embirk in one of the Ports of those Quarters to return to his Kingdoms assuring the King for the better inducement that as he passed the Arrears of those Troops which the King of Spain entertained for his Majesty being ready at Brussels should be paid them but this appeared no more than what passed in the Conference which the Duke of York had some daies before with the Marquess Caracena himself in the Town of Antwerp by Order of the King who would not go there in person though he was pressed thereunto through the consideration of the Important Affairs which he said he had to communicate to his Majesty The King excused himself with the same firmness now from the Civilities which he sent to be made unto him by refusing him upon the facility which he found for his passage where he was present Among other Reasons of his complying with the Dutch Request not to speak of any hazard of detention of his Person if he should have returned by the way of Flanders without certain Articles or Conditions to be signed by him there two appeared to be the chiefest 1. Because of the number of the Commissioners from the Parliament who were said to bring with them a Train of 400 Gentlemen besides Domesticks which must needs spend time in going from the Sea to Breda and the other the Court was already so great and full and the Town so streightened and unfurnished of Provisions that it would be impossible to lodge them all there and the weather being hot permitted not Victuals to be brought from other remote places So real and so permanent an Honour and Glory did the States think the Presence and their entertainment of the King to be that because of avoyding all disputes for precedency which each Province challengeth in its own Countrey so that they suffer not the Generality to have other advantage in the Provinces than that which is due unto them by vertue of their Union and not to give the King any displeasure by their disorder in his reception they resolved of a course whereby that Province which was at the most cost might be taken notice of accordingly The Eslates of Holland therefore who had caused the King to be prayed in particular to honour their Province with his Presence would have him to be received and saluted in their Name upon the Frontier and would defray the Charges on his way from the time he entred into their Province and till the first day he should arrive at the Hague as making part of his Voyage The Estates General who represent not indeed in general but what every Province possesseth in particular left to the Province of Holland all the marks of Soveraignty and consented to this that their deputies after they had congratulated the King conducted his Majesty to the entrance of Holland should remain in the quality of private persons on condition notwithstanding that the Deputies of Holland should give the Honour of the House and give them precedence in the places where they should meet together So nice and strict were they upon the punctilio in this Affair from whence they had designed themselves Reputation and Renown which if so famous to the giver could not but be infinitely honourable to the Illustrious Receiver The Estates General for their part of the Magnificence resolved that same day that the Kings Charges should be defrayed during the whole time he stayed in the United Provinces and ordained likewise Provision to be made accordingly which though they met with many difficulties they at last abundantly performed as we shall see hereafter On the 6th of May another thing of Remark happened Sr. Sam. Moreland comes to Court Mr. Samuel Moreland Secretary Thurlo's chief Clerk during the Usurpation under Oliver Cromwel who lay Resident at the Court of Savoy and had held Intelligence with the King whereby he was from time to time informed of the Cabals and Designs of his Rebels being a man of a pregnant wit and other abilities arrived at Breda where he brought divers Letters and Notes of most great importance whereby the Perfidiousness of some of his Majesties own Party who were famed men in the la e War and who owed the King more Fidelity for particular Favours shewed them were plainly discovered The King received him with good Affection and rendred him this publick testimony that he had received most considerable Services from him for some years past The 7th of May the Deputies of the Estates General aforesaid departed from the Hague in the Afternoon and imbarqued themselves the same day at Rotterdam where the Jachts or Pinnaces which the States had caused to be in readiness attended them Those of Holland departed in the Morning but they made not the sâ—me hast as well because they would not be in the first place where the Estates were to precede as because they had divers Orders concerning the Entertainment and Reception of the King to leave in the places of his Passage On the 8th day of May. memorable for a greater Magnificence in England of which by and by the Deputies arrived at Breda being met out of Town in the Village of Terheyda The Deputies complement the King at Breda with four Cornets of Horse and arriving at the Town to render this Service to the King more solemn and splendid they passed by 12 Companies of Foot Drawn in Baitalia which saluted them with their shot whilst the Artillery thundred round the wals and Bulwarks When they were come to the House prepared for them they intimated their arrival to his Majesty the two Dukes and Princess Royal and towards the Evening the King and their Royal Highnesses sent them a Complement by Gentlemen of their own Until these Deputies came the Major of that famous and noted Garrison received all his Orders from the Princess Royal but now they transferred that Honour on the King who gave the Word Amsterdam It seems the King had some respects for the Magistrates of that Town who had deported themselves very respectfully to him somtime before The same day arrived also Dr. Clarges the Generals Brother in law who was introduced by the Kings Order with some Coaches of 6 horse apiece by my Lord Gerard exceeding welcom he was made by the whole Court who had owed so much veneration and respect to the General particularly the King entertained a private Conference with him two hours and afterwards Knighted him shewing him the Kindnesses sutable to the Message and business he was sent and employed in Neither did this dayes good Fortune ceâ—se here but by an Express from Dunkirk where the King had graciously some while before bestowed an Invitation upon Lockhart the Governor though unmannerly slighted by him his Majesty was certified that the Garrison
of England and of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to the same did by inherent Birth-right and lawful and undoubted succession descend and come to his most Excellent Majesty Charles the Second as being lineally justly and lawfully next Heir of the Bloud Royal of this Realâ—s and that by the Goodness and Providence of Almighty God He is of England Scotland France and Ireland the Most Potent 〈◊〉 Mighty and Undoubted King And thereunto we most humbly and faithfully do submit and oblige our selves our Heirs and Posterities for ever God save the KING Will. Jessop Clerk of the Commons House of Parliament The Proclamation being ended the Lords and Commons took their Coaches and proceeded in this order First the Head-Bâ—yliffe of Westminster and his Servants did ride along with white staves to prepare the way Then followed a gallant Troop of Officers of the Army and other Gentlemen with Trumpets before them then the Life-guard very stately mounted and richly cloathed after them a Class of six Trumpets and three Heralds then a Herald between the Serjeant to the Commons and the Mace of the Council next Mr. Ryley King at Arms in his rich Coat of â—he Kings Arms between Serjeant Norfolk and Serjeant Middlâ— after whom came the Usher of the Black Rod and Mr. Bish together These thus ushering the way came the Right Honourable the Eatl of Manchester in his Coach and six Horses the Speaker of the House of Commons in his then his Excellency the Lord General Monk in his after which followed both Houses of Lords and Commons some in Coaches of six Horses some four some two and then a Troop of Horse In this manner they came to Whitehal where they proclaimed his Majesty a second time and then in like Order proceeded Being come to Arundel House they made a stand where Mr. Ryley King at Arms taking one of the Heralds and six Trumpets with him advanced forward toward Temple-Bar perceiving at a distance the Gates open he paused a while Col. Alderman Bateman and some other Gentlemen came to acquaint him that the Lord Mayor Aldermen Colonels and other Officers of the City were there ready to receive him Whereupon the King at Arms having some Discourse with the Colonel the Colonel went back to Temple-Bar and caused the Gates to be shut upon this the King at Arms with Trumpets before him went to the Gate knocked and demanded Entrance The Lord Mayor appointed some to ask who it was that knocked the King at Arms replied that if they would open the Wicket and desire the Lord Mayor to come to the Gate he would deliver to him his Message The Lord Mayor came on Horseback attended with several Officers to the Gate and Col. Bateman told the King of Arms that he might now deliver his Message to the Lord Mayor who was come to receive it The Trumpets immediatly sounded after which silence being made it was demanded of the King of Arms Who he was and what was his Message to which he answered on Horseback with his Hat on We are the Heralds at Arms appointed and commanded by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled to demand Entrance into the Famous City of London to Proclaim Charles the Second King of England Scotland and Ireland and we expect your speedy Answer to this Demand To this they returned If it please you Sir to have a little Patience we shall speedily give you an Answer to your Message shutting the wicker again After some little conference between the Lord Mayor and Aldermen the Colonel returned and opening the Wicker told the King at Arms That his Message was accepted and the Gates should be immediatly opened which was done accordingly The King at Arms entred trumpets sounding before him and was joyfully received by the Lord Mayor in his Crimson Velvet Gown and Hood the Aldermen and Sherisses in Scarlet and the Officers of the Militia gallantly accoutred on Horseback Both sides of the Streets were guarded by the Militia Forces of London from Temple-Bar to the Old Exchange and stood all with their swords drawn as also the Officers and several spectators in Windows The City Horse fell in next the Life-guard then the Lord Mayor and Aldermen after whom the Heralds and the rest as formerly When they came to Chancery Lane end they proclaimed his Majesty a third time where at the Word CHARLES the Second in the Proclamation the King at Arms lifting himself up with more than ordinary cheerfulness and expressing it with a very audible voyce the people presently took it and on a sudden carried it to the Old Exchange which was pursued with such shouts that near a quarter of an hour was spent before silence could be made to read the rest of the Proclamation After this they went to Cheapside where his Majesty was Proclaimed a fourth time where the shouts of the people were so great that though all the Bells in the City rung Bow Bels could not be heard there Thence to the Old Exchange where his Majesty was again Proclaimed and the Solemnity ended The Shouts and Acclamations of the People to this gallant and well ordered Procession are not easily to be exprest The numberless number of Bonefires the Ringing of Bels and shooting off the Guns and the joyful Expressions of the People did declare them beyond the Art of any Pen. The infected Herd of the Vulgar did hereby purifie and cleanse the Ayr of London dispelling those dark Mists of the Rebellion with the thunder of their Applauses and rejoycing at this Solemnity Nor could a less Atonement acquit the frantick multi ude from their mad Tumults and their former Riot at that very Cross So that the Kings felicity consisted not only in redeeming them from Slavery but restoring them to their senses the happy use thereof by the Magick of his excellent Name The whole Solemnity was concluded with Bonesires at every door almost congratulation of Friends and Acquaintance indeed strangers were such then so great the freeness of mens minds concerning this happy and long desired Revolution The like was afterwards done in the Country in the several Cities and Burroughs and with proportionable Triumphs and Gladness At this time the martyred Kings Statue was re-erected at Guild-hall and the Arms of the Commonwealth every where pull'd down and defaced and his Majesties set in their places as likewise restored to their former Stations in Churches and Courts of Judicature wâ— now acted in the Kings name and cancelled that opprobrious stile of the Keepers of the Liberties of England and all Persons in Office or trust impowered to continue and discharge the same in his Majesties Name and by his Authority The King having accepted the Offer of the Deputies of Holland The King accepts the Invitation into Holland and having exprest himself that he intended to come into Holland by water the Estates General understanding thereof gave order that all the Pinnaces and other Barks capable to transport
Morning But before they went out of the Hall of the Castle the Burgo-masters presented themselves and M. Snel in the name of the rest delivered this Oration Sir The Magistrate and Council of â—en of this Town of Breda The Speech of the Burgo-master of Breda present themselves again with a most low reverence before your Majesty to render you most humble Thanks for the honour it hath pleased you to do the Town by the residence you have made here and to bring you a last proof of the perfect Joy which the wonderful success of your Majesty hath caused as it is the powerful hand and infinite Providence of God which hath drawn your Majesty out of a Gulf of dangers and hath conducted you through a Desart of Afflictions even unto the Entrance of the Greatness which your Predecessors have gained to their Royal posterity This is the Subject of our Joy Sir when we know that after the success of 〈◊〉 Battels Victories gained at the price of the blood of Subjects may content the Ambition of a Prince transported yet your Majesty is of that debonnair disposition and so good a Prince your thoughts so generous and magnanimous as to prefer an innocent Triumph before all other advantages of the world We praise with all our hearts that great God who hath begun this great Work in the Person of your Majesty and pray him ardently that it will please him to hear the Devotions which we shall continue to make uncessantly for the prosperity of the voyage and Reign of your Majesty The King answered That he thanked the Magistrate Council for the Affection they expressed to him and should endeavour to acknowledge it on all Occasions that should be presented unto him Whereupon the Burgomaster having taken the liberty to reply That since his Majesty had the Goodness to accept the Affection and Zeal they had for his Service he besought him most humbly to remember the Grace which he had made them to hope for when he concluded in that place by Treaty with the Deputies of Scotland some years since that he would be pleased to honour the Town of Breda and its Inhabitants with all the Favour which the Laws of his Kingdom would permit to grant them The King answered That he rememembred it very well and that he was obliged to do so much for a Town where he had received such acceptable News and which had rendred him so many testimonies of Respect and Affection The King took Coach after this Audience and betwixt eleven and twelve of the Clock came to Marvaert His Majesty embarques He found some Squadrons of Horse there in Battalia and the Deputies of the States of Holland who presented themselves at the Boot of his Coach and made him their Complement in the name of their Superiours at the entrance of their Province After some Addresses and short Salutations he proceeded to the end of the Causey or Dike where they had made a Bridge from the Dike to the Pinnace to facilitate his Embarquement For that splendid Occasion they as formerly they used to do for a Coach to conduct Ambassadors requested the Pinnace or Barge of the Princess Dowager of Aurange which should represent that of the States But the King having viewed it and some others chose one which by his former use of it as delighting much to pass by water he knew commodious and because that of the Princesses was not great enough to lodge the King and the Princess Royal of Orange who would pass the night by the King her Brother with persons necessary for their Service That Barge was formerly made for the Prince of Aurange and was the biggest of the Fleet which consisted of thirty great Barges besides innumerable other Barks called Yachts a kind of little Frigots The Vessel the King was in so pleased him that he said in Discourse to the Deputies of Holland that he would cause one to be made in the same manner as soon as he should arrive into England to serve him upon the Thames above Bridge This gave occasion to one of the Deputies Mr. de Vlooswick of Amsterdam to tell the King that lately they had made one in their Town of the same bigness at least as commodious every way which he took the liberty to offer to his Majesty The King neither accepted nor declined so that Order was privately sent to Amsterdam to make it ready and gild it with curious Paintings inside and outside which at his going away was presented to him and is now the Brigandine his Majesty useth on the River The Distribution of the other Yachts to the Lords and their Retinue The Order of the Fleet. was transferred upon the King no person of the Dutch being able without some disgust to appoint them The Duke of York Admiral The King therefore in this occasion ordained that the Duke of York should perform the Office of Admiral in consigning the Yachts under his Authority and in his Presence so that his Royal Highness gave himself the Yacht of the Princess Dowager of Orange The Duke of Glocester had that of the States of Holland the Princess Royal to attend her one of the Yachts of the Council of State The Deputies of Holland were shipt in Mr. Beverweerts Yacht where Don Estevande Gamarra who went to meet the King at Moordike not in quality of Ambassador of Spain but as a particular servant of his Majesty the Rhinegrave the Lord Crofts and other English Lords The Chancellor of England and S. Edw. Nicholas embarqued themselves in a little Pinnace call'd the Maid of Zeland the Marquess of Ormond in another the Marquess of Worcester in the Postillion of Zeland the Lord St. John and Bellasis in that of the Admiral Lieut. of Holland St. Thomas Clargy's with his Attendants in the Yacht of the Town of Dort the Lord Gerard and other Noblemen in the Governours of Sluce The Prince of Oranges Yacht was reserved for the Chamber and Wardrobe of the Princess Royal. Every of these Vessels had its Steward and all other Officers necessary for the Kitchin and Buttery and they which had not the commodity to have their Kitchin aboard themselves were accompanied with other Barks where Chimnies were made for the Kitchin and Ovens for the Pastery and Provision of so prodigious a quantity of all sorts of Meats of Fowl of Sweet-meats of Wine that all the Tables were plentifully served therewith and in such great abundance that the English Stewards that are known to be rather superfluous than otherwise being accustomed to large provisions were astonied thereat and confessed that they could not comprehend how they could make ready in Boats which were so tossed twenty or five and twenty great Dishes for every Table I insist the longer upon this Naval Story because never any such thing happened before in Holland there is a Character of that Nation that they dwell upon the Waters and certainly it was verified here such a multitude
board the Princesse Royal and the Prince of Aurange that conducted him aboard the Admiral Ship which was to passe 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 among which there was one fastned and accompanied with a streamer which carried for its devise Quo Fas et Fata to denote that the King embarking himself went to the place where his right and the providence of God called him alluding to the ordinary Motto of the Kings of England Dieu Et Mon Droit The King entred there with all the Royal Family but seeing a Shallop or Brigandine to approach glazed and covered with Tapistry which General Montague had sent from aboard him as soon as he saw the King to appear in 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 Seamen who seeing themselves in possession of their Soveraign prince made the Neighbouring shore to resound with their shoutes and expressed their joy by all the signs and 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 Wastcoats and Doublets The King approaching the General 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 Stairs by which he ascended to the Ship The King again rendred him all the testimonies of goodnesse and affection that could be imagined or expected from a Soveraign who acknowledged perfectly the important Services he had done him as having been one of the most powerful instruments of his reestablishment whereof he had given him Assurances long before and a most certain proof when he departed from the Sound presently after Richards disappointment whither he was sent to assist the Swede under pretence to mediate between the Dane and that Nation upon his Majesties Orders to favour the design of Sir George Booth who then was in Arms for his Majesty under the fair pretence 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 but a little disengaged of a part of those that would follow him on board he sate down at a Table in the great Gallery with the other Royal persons while some other of his Lords and others great ones of Holland were entertained in other appartments In the Kings passage the two dayes at Sea the General expended above two thousand pounds though the Lords the Estates had provided his Ship and the Rest of the Fleet with all kind of necessary refreshments and provisions beyond what needed for so short passage After Dinner was ended the King received again the last complements of some particular persons expressing great civility to the Deputies of the States of Holland for whom the Leiutenant Admirall Wassenaer made the Speech and sent them away with new protestations of affection and Amity The Sea was calm and the heaven so clear 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 to take his full and last view thereof he ascended to the top of the poop and seeing the people with which he had left the Downes covered remaining there still he was pleased to acknowledge that it was impossible his own Subjects could have more tendernesse for him then those people on whose Affections he perceived he reigned no lesse then he was going to reign on the Wills of the English After this he embraced the Prince of Aurange 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 Princesse who had with so much courage and without grief almost looked all past misfortunes in the Face and who had vertue enough to fortifie that of her Brothers needed now 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 to them both The King himself who had resolution enough so as to show no weaknesse in his greatest misfortunes could not resist the tears of a Sister whom many other considerations as strong as those of Birth render'd extremely dear unto him She would have been comfortlesse amidst so many joyes but for the hopes she had again shortly to see the King her Brother in his Kingdome The former mutuall endearments between them were alwayes so passionate and sincere that much adoe there would have been to disengage her from the Arms of his Majesty if the General had not caused the Anchors to be weighed and the signal to be given the Fleet. The Royal Charles newly so Christened was now under sail for England when the Q. of Bohemia the Princesse Royal and the Prince of Aurange descended into the Bark which was to bring them back again to Land All the Artillery of the Fleet saluted those Royal persons and the Battery on the Downes of Holland answered them with the small shot of the Citizens and Guards It was about four in the afternoon Wednesday the 23. of May that the Fleet did set sail and about six a Clock it was gotten so far off that the people which all this while stir'd not from the Downes having lost sight of it retired themselves whilest the King continued his way towards his Kingdomes with the same Serenity that was seen lately to accompany all his affairs Thus ended these Dutch Triumphs which while the King remained there possessed the minds of all men who could not chuse but stand at gaze to see the stupendious alteration of his condition His often and familiar residence amongst that people procured their universal love the sudden glories of his unexpected Restitution rendred him their veneration and general reverence They are what ever their enemies say to the contrary because their Reasons of state sometime have made them recede from the direct wayes of Justice the most open hearted people in the world for the generality so that one may reade their thoughts in their countenance And next to England it may be presumed they shared as much felicity and joy and as truely manifested it as any other Nation whatsoever That which in the Kings residence there as was said possessed their minds then now altogether employed their Tongues in relating the miraculous providences and as propitious Grandeurs of this Monarch Extolling his virtue and Fortune with
to Land while he had notice of his approach About three of the Clock in the afternoon the King landed and upon his knees kissed the Shore with the Duke of York Duke of Gloucester and many of his Nobles Every man now with the greatest observation drew as near as he could to see the meeting and gratulation of the best of Kings and most deserving of Subjects All were afraid there could be no apt expedient in matter of Courtesie The Admirers of Majesty were jealous on the Kings behalf of two low a condescention and the Lovers of duty fearfull on the other side of an ostentation of Merit The King and General meet but such an humble prostration was made by his excellency kneeling and so sutable a Reception by his Majesty kissing and embracing him that all parties were satisfied After this and a mutual Complement which was not full of words their Hearts being in their Mouths and precluding their passage his Majesty taking the General by the hand walked up the Hill with him a Canopy being carried over his Head and a Chair of State by him towards his Coach In his Passage to the Town the Mayor and Aldermen of Dover with Mr. Redding the Minister met his Majesty and after a short Speech Mr. Redding presented his Majesty with a Large Bible with Gold Clasps His Majesty thanked him and betook himself to his Coach into which also entred the Duke of York who sate with the King at one end and the Duke of Gloucester and his excellency at the other with the Duke of Buckingham in the Boot after them several Coaches with six Horses and the respective Troops besides particular Gentlemen on their own Accompt About two Miles from Dover his Majesty having had a large conference with the General with a mutuall complacency in one another alighted out of his Coach and took horse the two Dukes on the right hand of the King and the Generall on the left bare after whom followed the Duke of Buckingham and several of the Nobility likewise bare to Canterbury where the Mayor Aldermen and the Recorder Mr. Francis Lovelace of that City met his Majesty who after an Elegant Speech afterwards printed presented the King with a Gold Tankard and so conducted him to the palace made ready and furnished for him where he continued till Monday Here his Majesty was pleased to invest the renowned General with the most Honourable Order of the Garter putting it with his own Royal hands upon his Neck while the Dukes of York and Gloucester put on the Garter all the three Brothers joyning unanimously together to honour him who had joyned three Kingdoms together to do honour and reverence to them The King also Knighted Sir William Morrice and made him a Privy Councellour the Earl of Southampton and Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper sworn at the same time a Gentleman of Devonshire a Privado and trusty Friend of the Generals acquainted with and highly instrumental in his Majesties Restitution But a list of all the Knights made by this King are reserved for a particular place at the end of this Narrative Dr. Reynolds and Mr. Calamy of the Presbyterian perswasion were here admitted his Majesties Chaplains From thence on Saturday a Letter to the House of Commons was brought by the Lord Bartlet from his Majesty signifying that He intended to be at London on Tuesday the 29. of May by Twelve of the Clock at noon whereupon speedy Order was taken in that City for his Majesties reception which they had before put in some readinesse in this ensuing manner The persons appointed for the Service of the day The manner of the Cities Reception of the K. on Tuesday met together in the new Artillery Ground every one Mounted on Horseback except the Persons hereafter mentioned First the two Marshalls Twelve men in Green Coloured Habit John Bibby the City Drum Major with his Kettle Drums fixt to his Saddle Bow 3. Twenty Trumpetters divided in three noise or Pageants each having the Cities Banner fixt to his Trumpet 4. The two Marshalls of the City 5. The City waits 6. The Scoutmaster for the day 7. The four Quarter-masters 8. The Sergeant of the Channel with a Banner in his hand of the Irish Badge with the three Serjeants of the Chamber each of them having a Pennant in his hand with the Cities Arms 9. The three City Carvers each of them with a Banner in his hand one with the Scotch Badge or Coat the other with the Kings Crest or Coat the 3. with the crosse or English Badge 10. The Water Bailiff carrying the Cities great Banner 11. The Common Hunt carrying the great Banner of the King 12. The Conductors or chief Directors of the whole dayes march distinguished from the rest of the City Servants who wore the Kings and Cities Colours on their hats and a Scarf of Crimson silk about their waste tyed with a white Ribbon by a black scarfe mixt or added to their Crimson as they are Citizens of quality besides 13. Thirty four Gentlemen of the Grocers who in regard that Sir Thomas Alleyn is a member of that Compeny are chief 27. of the Mercers 24. of the Drapers 29 of the Fishmongers 28 of the Goldsmiths 27 of the Skynners 30 of the Merchant Taylors 30 of the Haberdashers 23. of the Salters 21 of the Iron-mongers 24 of the Vintners and 34 of the Clothworkers which said persons make the second grand Division the first being that of the Lord Mayor with the Aldermen and their Attendants The Third grand Division is supplyed by 18 Gentlemen of the Company of Dyers by 20 of the Brewers by 24 of the Leathersellers by 12 of the Pewterers by 20 of the Barber Surgeons by 8 of the Cutlers by 8 of the Wax Chandlers by 8 of the Armorers by 14 of the Girdlers The Fourth grand division is supplyed by 14 gentlemen of the Sadlers by 8 of the Carpenters by 5 of the Cordwayners by 15 of the Apothecaries by 11 of the Paynter stayners by 11 of the Woodmongers by 10 of the Stationers and by 8 of the Embroiderers Every of the said Companies having a Pennant with the Companies Arms therein carried by one mounted on Horse-back and every Gentleman in a Plush Coat and Sword with a chain of Gold about his shoulders and a Page on Foot by his Horse side clothed in a loose Garment agreeable to their Companies Colours the said Companies Attendants Officers Trumpets and Drums being in their distinct Habit. About 7. of the clock in the morning the four Quartermasters by direction and oversight of the Conductors began to rank out the said Companies two by two beginning at the Junior Gentlemen of the last Companies and in the intervall between Company and Company placed that Companies Pennant that had lead the Van. The said Companies being thus rank'd out in the head of each grand Division are placed six Trumpets and the Kettle-Drums in the head of the Grocers Company In
this Equipage they marched to Guild-hall where the Lord Mayor expected them having two Pages in Plush Coats attending him The Aldermen each of them with two Pages in loose Habits of Scarlet coloured Cloth and the Sheriffs with like number of Pages together with their Officers in Scarlet Cloak and Javelins trim'd neer the Beards with the same Colour The Sword-bearer and Common Cryer mounted and likewise Mr. Chamberlayn the Town Clerk the Common Serjeant the two Judges of the Sheriffs Court the City Counsell the Comptroler the Sollicitor the Remembrancer the two Bridge-masters the four Attorneys and Secondaryes of each Counter with each of them a Page making up as was generally hinted before the first grand Division Then the Common Hunt and the Water Bailiff marched away from their station placing themselves in the head of that first Division the two Conductors aforesaid Quarter-master Cox and Muster-master Burroughs of the Military Bands of the City and the City Wayts in the Head of the said Conductors The fifth and last grand Division was supplyed by the aforesaid Sheriffs Officers alone who ranked themselves two by two the Cities two Marshals before them and six Trumpets in the Head of them the whole Body marched up through St. Laurence Lane through Cheapside up Cornhill down Grace-Church-Street Fish-street Hill over London-Bridge through the Borough of Southwarke into St. George's Feilds at the South end whereof neer the Fishmongers Colledge or Alms-house was placed a Tent for the reception of his Majesty and a Chair of State therein by the Lord Mayor into which his Lordship and the Aldermen entered and stayed untill intelligence came by the Scout-master that his Majesty was near at hand Now the other Trumpeters which lead the Van that is to say the two Marshalls and Sheriffs Officers removed themselves into the rear of the youngest or last Company likewise the Trumpets Banner and Pennant-bearer of each grand Division do likewise remove themselves into the fear of their own Division with the Trumpets and Kettle Drums and Waits the two Conductors the Water Bailiff the Common Hunt the two Secondaries four Attorneys two Bridgemasters the Remembrancer the Sollieitor the Comptroller the four Counsellors the two Judges the Common Serjeant the Town Clerk and Mr. Chamberlain are by the Quarter-masters removed into the rear of the Aldermen The Chamberlain being placed next the Junior Alderman and all facing about the Juniors of each Division and the grand Division are become Leaders and the Elder both Commons and Aldermen Bringers up His Majesty being received and refreshed if he shall so please all Troops of Gentlemen or others lead the Van in the Rear of whom fall the Sheriff Officers after them the fourth grand Division of inferiour Companies after them the third grand Division after them the second grand Division after them the first after them the Lords or Barons of the Kingdom if any present ride on Horseback after them Viscounts after them Earls after them Marquesses after them Dukes after them the Lord Maior Lord Chancellor the two Dukes His Majesties Brethren in the midst of whom as His Majesty thought fit and used in Holland before the King himself rid then the Master of the Horse next the Band of Pensioners though not established then the Life Guard after them several Regiments of his Excellencies Horse In this Equipage the whole Body marched through Southwark the same way His Lordship came only the Trained Bands of Southwark make a Guard through which the whole Body passe to London Bridge where the Green Regiment are ready on both sides of the way to receive and guard them by the way towards Cheapside and Temple Bar all which way a Guard was made on the right hand by the several Companies of London in their Rails adorned with the several Banners and Streamers and on the left by the other five Regiments of the City Trained Bands His Majesty and the whole Body being arrived at Temple Bar are there likewise conducted to Whitehall by a Guard of his Excellencies Foot but the Marshal and Sheriffs officers who conduct the Citizens being come near the Exchange in the Strand do open to the right and left every man placing himself before his Leader and every maniple or Company of Citizens successively file away the one to the right the other to the left placing themselves before their Leaders but the Lord Maiors Attendants and Aldermen do file to the right and left and not face in opposition till the senior Aldermen terminate at Whitehal-Gate The whole Body being faced in opposition become a new Guard through which the whole Body of the Nobility do passe and march through Tuthill Street but the Lord Maior marched unto Whitehall where taking leave not only of His Majesty and His two Brothers the Dukes he from thence repaired to his Brethren the Aldermen and each Party falling in as at first in the morning are by the Care of his Excellencies Troops who brought up the rear conducted back to his Lordships House And in several places as he passed in this dayes Triumph as at the Gate of the Bridge Exchange St. Peters Cheap Ludgate and Temple Bar He was entertained with Wind Musick and Grace Church Conduit the four Spouts Cornhil Conduit Pissing Conduit Standard in Cheapside and Fleetstreet do all run with Claret Wine to expresse the Cities and heighten the joy of the Partakers This was the Cities designation and is writ in a style part as future and part past because all their intendments did not take effect but magnificence they aimed at which in good measure as the shortnesse of the time for preparations permitted they attained And therefore the true and real Triumph of this day in the whole Progresse order and State of it take in this more exact Transcript On Monday the 18 of May His Majesty came into Rochester about 5 of the Clock in the Afternoon and went immediately into Col. Gibbâ—ns his houâ—e a Colonel then of the Army where that Night His Majesty and the Dukes of York and Gloucester lodged After His Majesty had in His Chamber eat something to refresh himself he went to Chatham to see the Royal Soveraign and the rest of his Navy there riding at Anchor after the view he did Commissioner Pett one of the chief for Building so much Honour as to receive the entertainment of a Banquet from him Thence he returned to Rochester and about 8 of the Clock supped shewing himself very courteous and gracious to the Colonel who presented to His Majesty a very Dutiful Addresse signed by himself and all the Officers of his Regiment in behalf of themselves and the Souldiers under his Command which His Majesty received very graciously and by many expressions to the Colonel gave a testimony of his affection to him in particular and to all the Army in General of which His lodging with His Royal Brothers in his House was not the least Demonstration The next morning early Mr. Francis Clerk
where after the Lord Mayor had taken his leave of him his Majesty went to the Lords who were assembled in one of the Rooms there where he was welcomed in a Speech made by the Earl of Manchester Speaker then of the House of Lords and from thence he went to the Banquetting house where the House of Commons were assembled and was likewise welcomed by the Speaker thereof in another Speech to the Originals of both which the Reader is referred wherein he may find the glad and joyfull sense of the whole kingdome Vide The Speeches of the E. of Manchester and Sir Harbottle Grymston at his MAJESTIES comming to White-Hall Printed by the Printers of both Houses TO these Speeches His Majesty returned a short but obliging Answer That he was so wearied with his journey and the applause and noise of the People in his passage which yet he said was very acceptable and pleasant to Him that he should say little to them at present but referred and reserved what he had to speak to them while his meeting them in Parliament And so taking his leave retired himself and supped with the two Dukes in the Chart Chamber privately The Solemnity of this Day was concluded with all demonstrations and testimonies of universall joy which most of all appeared in the light and cheerfull Countenances of the People which by reflection kindled such an infinite number of Bonfires that all the Houses seemed to be Chimneys being supposed to equall very near half the Habitations of the streets where with safety they might blaze both in London and Westminster Among the rest a costly one was made in the City of Westminster where the Essigies of Oliver Cromwell was set upon a high post with the Arms of the Common-wealth which having for a while been exposed there to publique view with Torches lighted that every one might take notice of them were both burnt together The Forrein Ambassadors and publick Ministers here resident did likewise highly express their Joy for His Majesties happy Arival here on Tuesday last by their publique Demonstrations especially the Ambassadors of France and Portugal and the Plenipotentiaries of the King of Sweden who in particular besides bonfires and giving of wine and throwing of money among the People made very gallant Emblems upon the businesse of the day That King was Oliver's greatest Confederate and this Fire did in a manner purge and Expiate the pollutions of that Filthy League Thus the King returned to us Thus he bestowed and brought the Blessings of Peace and Honour to these his distracted infamous Kingdomes yet the Glory of this his Restitution was not Nobis to Us alone but to the greatest part of the Christian World besides For at this time the Peace in the North was Cemented by the Pacification and Agreement between the two Kings of Denmarke and Sweden now questionlesse consolidated and firmed for ever by the indubitable affection and assistance of this Crown to that of Denmarke in case of a Rupture If His Majesty could in the dawn and but glimmering of his Restitution by his Commands to Gen. Montague awe the daring design of the Swede by standing a Neuter how much more will he be able to bridle and represse the attempts of that quarrelsome People when in the greatness and height of Power and absolute Dominion he shall undertake to vindicate his near Ally for whose Interests he had such pregnant respects as to declare himself when his own were in dubio and uncertain This was but one Concomitant see a more illustrious and most August which passed under the Famous and celebrated Name of a GENERALL PEACE between the two Crowns of France and Spain whose united Ambition presumed to blesse the Christian World with such a Rarity that was only attributable to the single and singular Grandeur of our Monarch on whom the Divine Providence was pleased to accumulate all those Felicities which through his alone influence have ever since vouchsafed Prosperity to the Nations round about us O Nimium Dilecte Deo And because there may happen some inquiry hereafter concerning those Transactions which were concluded in a Marriage betwixt the French King and the Infanta of Spain of which among us sometime before there were other Hopes and Discourses it will not be impertinent to relate the Solemnity of it here for in the Conclusion of this Discourse it is probable we shall see a more illustrious Paralell not to say to cry quits with it because it is matter of State and an Arcanum Imperiâ— which we dive not into the weaknesse of our eyes being dazeled and scarse able to behold the apparent lustre of the publique The Narrative thereof follows as an aditionall necessary ornament and appendix This Treaty between the two Crowns was Commenced about the middle of Summer 1659. when Sir George Booth first appeared in Cheshire for the King It had been long before in project and designation but cannot be derived so far as that of the Kings Restitution The place of meeting was at a Confine of both Kingdomes an Island called by the name of St. John de Luz on a river which divides the French and Spanish Dominions where only the two great Favourites and Ministers of each Crown met the Cardinal Mazarine and Don Lewis de Haro His Majesty of Great Brittain was here himself present to conceâ— his Affairs in the Treaty as also Lockhart from his Masters at Westminster under the guard and protection of the French in so much danger besides privacy he resided there Much time it took up in composing and stating the severall Pretensions when His Majesty was called away by his unquestionable and undubitable right which was adjudged without any praeliminary terms or limitation to attend his own Affairs and leave them disputing theirs which upon secret intelligence and their own judgement and opinion they perceived would so readily advance as might if a present Conclusion were not made put both Crowns to new Councels such as the strangeness of the English Revolutions would render very difficult and perplext if after such a progresse either Party should recede so that the King did more than hold the Ballance already Therefore Mounsieur de Lyonne of the French side and Don Piementell of the Spanish made many journeys to and fro between both Courts to hasten the Conclusion of all the present Transactions The Bishop of Aurange likewise much stirred about the same The Popes Nuncio laboured therein together with the Venetian Ambassador to whose Arbitration the remaining Differences were at last referred Shortly after on the 18. of May 1660. the Count of Fuensaldagne arrived at St. John de Luz bringing all satisfaction from his Catholique Majesty so that all things being regulated between the two Crowns the Marriage might be celebrated on the 23d of May at Fontarabia Castle on the Spanish side and Consummated in the 29. of the same month Never could any thing fall patter or sute better with the Honour of
his Archpiscopal seat being translated to Canterbury The solemnization whereof was performed in Hen. 7â— Chappel where and in that Cathedral many more right Reverend Fathers of the Church were afterwards consecrated as Bishops to the establishment of the Kingdom in Peace and Unity Monsieur Philip Frier a German in the quality of an Extraordinary Envoy to the King from the Duke of Curland had audience on the 20 of September at White-hall An Extraordinary Envoy from the Duke of Curland with more then usuall Ceremonies his Highness the Duke of York being present with many other of his Majesties cheif Officers and other noble persons who gave attendance on the King His Commission was received and a gracious answer returned by the King who alwayes had expressed as alwayes he had received from the said Duke real Testimonies of his affection For this Duke though as remote as Poland bordering between that Kingdome and Muscovia had supplied his late Majesty with mony shipping and Arms in our late disloyal and uncivil wars Towards the end of September Her Highness the Princess Royal of Aurange arrived in England to compleat her joyes in the fruition of her Brothers Company The Princess of Aurange arrives in England Septem 23. now established in his Throne as soon as the King had notice that she was come up within the River of Thames having endured a storm at Sea which portended no good to her He went with his Royal Brother the Duke of York to meet her brought her Highness up in his Barge the Guns from the Ships all along their passage saluting her till the Barge came to White-hall where her Highness was received with joyfull acclamations which at night were converted into Bells and Bonfires But they proved funeral Fires and instead of enjoying her Brother she was passed to a greater felicity the Company of her dear and blessed Father near whose place of Martyrdome she deposited her mortality by her brother lies enterred with a private funeral in King Hen. 7th Chappell at Westminster There was indeed as much Honour in that privacy as there was vain and profane solemnity in the guegaw Exequies of Oliver which wanted of their due Grandeurs till his Execution In opposition therefore to that rabble medly of a Funeral it will not be extravagant to set down here the compact yet Illustrious manner of this Princesses to shew this difference betwixt Princes and Ring-leaders of the Rout. On Saturday December the 26. but 5 days after her decease the cheifest of the Nobility and Gentry met together in the House of Peers to attend the Royal corps of the Princess which was brought about 9 a clock at night from Sommerset-house thither from whence they proceeded with the Funeral through a lane of Guards of the Duke of Albemarle's Regiment of foot First went several Gentlemen and Knights next the servants of his Highness the Duke of York then-then the servants of the Queen after whom came his Majesties servants next those of the deceased Lady then 2 Heralds before James Marquess now Duke of Ormâ—nd Lord Steward of his Majesties houshold Edward Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of the same after whom went Edward Lord. Hide Lord Chancellor of England with the purse and mace born before him after whom came another Herauld with a Coronet upon black velvet and then the Royal Corps carried by her own servants the Pall being supported by 6 Earls and the Canopy carried over it by several Baronets His Highness the Duke of York as principal mourner followed the Corps with a Herald before him divers persons of quality bearing his Train In this order they came to Henry the 7ths Chappel where she was interred in a Vault particularly set apart for the Royal Line This Princess and the Duke of Gloucesterc who preceded her to blisse needed no Effigies to represent them to our Eyes being like Vertue not to be pictur'd and can have no resemblances but in the minde where with immortality they have placed their monuments to dure and last with aeternity it selfe Reader pardon this obsequious digression This was a great allay to the contentation the King had newly received by the arrival of his Mother the Queen with his other Illustrious sister the princess Henrietta when the whol Royal family like a bright censtellation made the court Alba Aula vaild with cypress those white robes of his mercy which he had lately shewed to his Rebel subjects in his Act of Oblivion Indemnity and sabl'd the Rubrick of that Festivall of his Nativity May the 29 which by the General suffrage and applause of the Kingdome was consecrated and set apart to the memory of our temporall Redemption and restitution on that day Anno Dom. 1660. Lo He that could save and redeem the innocent the guilty could did preserve multitudes from the stroake of death which they had incurred by their revolt could an enliven us allby the Anniversary of his Nativity must be so far subject to Fate as to have a sad Subject of its power in his own Royal Family beyond his Controll and arbitrement But stil the glory of his parentation to his Martyrd Father is not in the least overcast The radiancy of his Justice the cheife Gem ' of his Crown was most resplendent for to satisfy that duty he owed his Royal Father and the universal demand of his people for justice against those horrid Regicides soon after he had extended his Grace and favour to others notoriously yet lesse peccant then they he gave order for their Araignment and Tryal which was held at the Sessions house in the Old-Baily in October 1660. In the compasse of which moneth ten of those wretches viz. Mai. Gen. Harrison John Carew John Cook the Solicitor and Hugh Peters the Agitator Thomas Scott the Secretary Gregory Clement Adrian Seroop and John Jones were hang'd drawn and quartered at the rail'd place in Charing Cross with their faces set towards the broad place against Whitehall where that execrable murther against the King by their designment was perpetrated and at Tyburn two others Col. Francis Hacker who had the guard of the King at his death and Col. Daniel Axtel who guarded the Court at his Tryal Sixteen more for that bloody crime were condemned but out of some respect to his Majesties Proclamation which was favourably wrested to a reprieve upon which they submitted and rendred themselves they were remitted to the Tower where they still remain under the quick sense of guilt and deserved punishment Heaven was well pleased but not appeased with this victim and therefore provided it selfe of a more competent Sacrifice so signally did it contribute to the glory of this most just and most pious Action For when with Cain some of those murderers wandering as fugitives abroad thought to escape divine vengeance it suddenly surprized and overtook them three of them Miles Corbet Col. Iohn Okey and Col. Iohn Barkstead being taken at Delf and transmitted
thereafter at his Royal Fathers inauguration and was now Boded and bespoke with the like contagion when never were the influences of Heaven more curiously propitious the two Serene days of that Solemnity exsiecating and exhaling these vapors which a long moisture to the danger of a Flood did seem to portend Lastly this was that Crown whose just and ancient descent unwhichder we have flourished ever since we were a Nation till our late Anarchy upon the head of this miraculous Prince now vindicated it selfe from the indignities and assaults of base and insolent Demagogues who from our Kings regardlesness of State and Soveraignty have evermore wrought their contempt in the Subject who now with a like joy of revenue fear and love beheld this awful and most delightfull Triumph which we here relate HIs Majesty on the twenty second of April early in the morning passed from Whitehall to the Tower by water from thence to goe through the City to Westminster Abby there to be Crowned Two dayes were allotted to the consummation of this great and most celebrated Action The relation of His Majesties passage to his Coronation the wonder and admiration and delight of all persons both Forraign and Domestick and pity it was that the solid and lasting happiness it portended should not have taken up a month and given it the name Coronalis but reall glory will not linger nor will time be officious but to the permanent felicities of his Majesties long and aged raign First therefore we begin with the City of London which participating the greatest share of that inexpressible happiness that the three Kingdoms received by the auspicious restoration of the King to his Throne and of us to our Lawes Religion and Liberties after a dismall night of confusion and oppression and therefore proportionably exceeding in their Loyalty took occasion to expresse in this Triumph of his Majesties Coronation their joy and gladness with the greatest magnificence imaginable They spared not there in any cost to manifest their affectionate duty to the King considering that if ever excessive charges might be justified this signalizing their affection to their Prince might well be allowed This being the most miraculous and joyfull of any happiness that ever yet blest the Nation The first triumphall Arch through which the King passed was erected in Leaden Hall street neer the end of Lime-street which represented a Woman figuring Rebellion with her attendant Confusion in monstrous and deformed shapes Opposite to her was a representation of Britains Monarchy with a prospect painting of his Majesties landing at Dover above it ADVENTVS AVG. To The Return of the King The whole Tablet representing his Majesties blessed arrivall with this motto In solido rursus Fortuna locavit part of the foregoing verses in Virgil thus rendred The various works of time and many dayes Often affairs from worse to better raise Fortune reviewing those she tumbled down Sporting restores again unto the Crown On the other side a Trophy of the example of Gods justice upon those rebels that commited that horrid murther of the King Vltor a Tergo Deus Gods vengeance rebels at the feetpersues The Statues of King James and King Charles the first and second with the picture of Usurpation flying before them The whole inscribed to his present Majesty in commemoration of his most happy returne to his Kingdoms with Speeches suitable Near the Exchange in Cornhill was erected the second being a Naval Arch relating to his Majesties Dominion of the Seas inscribed Neptuno Brittanico Carolo 2. To the Brittish Neptune Charles the second The third Triumphall Arch stood near Woodstreet not far from the place where the Cross stood it represented the Temple of Concord Aedem Concordiae In Honorem Optimi Principis c. In Honor of the best of Princes intimateing the Vnity and peace of the Kingdoms In Fleetstreet neer White Fryars stood the fourth Arch representing the garden of Plenty whose Title was Veribah Aug. Extincto Belli Civilis Incendio clusoque Jant Templo Vbefitati Aram Celsissimam construxis SPQL. The Civil War being extinguished and Janus Temple which concluded vvith speech oâ— shut the Londoners consecrated this Arch to Plenty Those 4 letters importing the City of London were subscribed to all the inscriptions Thus much for the City now for the Court which in order challenged the first place but t is valour to deal with the biggest first and those Colossus in London were indeed Gigantick of stupendious greatness Come we now to the Knights of the Bath made at this Coronation who appearing at the Court of Requests in Westminster were called over by the Lords Commissioners appointed for that purpose viz. The Duke of Ormond the Earls of Northumberland Suffolk Lindsey Manchester Their names were as follows Sir Fiennes Lord Clinton heir apparent to the Earl of Lincoln Sir Egerton Lord Brackley son and Heir apparent to the Earl of Bridgewater Sir Philip Herbert second son to the Earle of Pembrook and Montgomery Sir William Egerton second son to the Earl of Bridgewater Sir Vere Fane second son to the Earl of Westmerland Sir Charles Berkley eldest son to the Lord Berckley Sir Henry Bellasis eldest son to the Lord Bellasis Sir Henry Hide now Viscount Cornbury eldest son to Edward Earl of Clarendon Sir Rowland Bellasis brother to the Lord viscount Faulconberg Sir Henry Capeâ— brother to the Earl of Essex Sir John Vaughan second son to Richard Earl of Carbery Sir Charles Stanley Granchild to James late Earl of Derby Sir Francis and Sir Henry Fane Grandchildren to the late Earl of Westmerland Sir William Prettyman Baronet Sir Richard Temple Baronet Sir William Ducy Baronet Sir Thomas Trevor Knight and Baronet Sir John Scudamore Baronet Sir William Gardner Baronet Sir Charles Cornwallis son to Frederick Lord Cornwallis Sir John Nicholas eldest son to his Majesties principal Secretary Sir John Monson Sir Bourchier Wray Sir John Coventry Sir Edward Hungerford Sir Iohn Knevet Sir Philip Boteler Sir Adrian Scroop son of Sir Gervas Scroop who received 19 wounds in one Battle in his Majesties service Sir Richard Knightley Sir Henry Heron Sir Iohn Lewknor Sir George Brown Sir William Tyringham Sir Francis Godolphin Sir Edward Baynton Sir Grevil Verney Sir Edward Harlow Sir Edward Walpool Sir Francis Popbam Sir Edward Wise Sir Christopher Calthorp Sir Richard Edgecomb Sir Williams Bromley Sir Thomas Bridges Sir Thomas Fanshaw Sir Iohn Denham Sir Nicholas Bacon Sir Iames Altham Sir Thomas Wendy Sir Iohn Monson Sir George Freeman Sir Nicholas Slanning Sir Richard Ingoldsby Sir Iohn Rolle Sir Edward Heath son of Sir Robert Heath late Lord chief Justice of England Sir William Morley Sir Iohn Bennet Sir Hugh Smith Sir Simon Leech Sir Henry Chester Sir Robert Atkins Sir Robert Gayâ—r Sir Richard Powle Sir Hugh Duey Sir Stephen Hales Sir Ralph Bash Sir Thomas Whitmore In number sixty eight After their calling over they proceeded in their usual habits each of them between his two
of New-Sarum in the County of Wilts Esquire created Baronet the second of February in the Thirteenth of Charles the Second Anno predict John Husbands of Ipsley in the County of Warwick Esquire created Baronet the second of February Anno predict Thomas Morgan of Wangatock in the County of Monmouth Esquire created Baronet the seventh of February Anno predict John Lane of Talske in the County of Roscommon in the Kingdom of Ireland created Baronet the ninth of February Anno predict George Wakefren of Beckford in the County of Glocester Esquire created Baronet the thirteenth of February Anno predict Benjamin Wright of Cranham-hall in the County of Essex Esquire created Baronet the fifteenth of February Anno predict John Celleton of the City of London Esquire created Baronet the eighteenth of February Anno predict Sir James Modiford of the City of London Knight created Baronet the eighteenth of February Anno predict Thomas Beaumont of Staughton Grange in the County of Leicester created Baronet the one and twentieth of February Anno predict Edward Smith of Eshe in the County of Durham Esquire created Baronet the three and twentieth of February Anno predict John Napeir alias Naper alias Sands Esquire created Baronet the fourth of March Anno predict Thomas Gifford of Castle-Jordan in the County of Meath in the Province of Lemster in the Kingdom of Ireland Esquire created Baronet the fourth of March Anno predict Thomas Clifton of Clifton in the County of Lancaster Esquire created Baronet the fourth of March Anno predict William Wilson of Eastborne in the County of Sussex Esquire created Baronet the fourth of March Anno predict Compton Reed of Barton in the County of Berks Esquire created Baronet the fourth of March Anno predict Sir Bryan Broughton of Broughton in the County of Stafford Knight created Baronet the tenth of March Anno predict Robert Slingsby of Newsels in the County of Hertford Esquire created Baronet the sixteenth of March Anno predict Sir Ralph Verney of Middle Claydon in the County of Bucks Knight created Baronet the sixteenth of March Anno predict John Crofts of Stowe in the County of Suffolk Esquire created Baronet the sixteenth of March Anno predict Robert Dicer of Vphal in the County of Hereford Esquire created Baronet the eighteenth of March Anno predict Sir John Bromefield of Suffolk-place in the County of Southwark in the County of Surrey Knight created Baronet the twentieth of March Anno predict Thomas Rich of Sunning in the County of Berks Esquire created Baronet the twentieth of March Anno predict Edward Smith of Edmondthorpe in the County of Leicester Esquire created Baronet the five and twentieth of March Anno predict Walter Long of Whaddon in the County of Wilts Esquire created Baronet the six and twentieth of March Anno predict John Fettiplace of Chilbrey in the County of Berks Esquire created Baronet the eighth of April Anno predict Walter Hendley of Coutchfield in the County of Sussex Esquire created Baronet the eighth of April Anno predict William Parsons of Langley in the County of Bucks Esquire created Baronet the ninth of April Anno predict John Cambel of Woodford in the County of Essex Esquire created Baronet the ninth of April Anno pred Sir Charles Gawdy of Cowshel in the County of Suffolk Knight created Baronet the twentieth of April Anno predict William Morrice of Werrington in the County of Devon Esquire created Baronet the twentieth of April Anno predict Sir William Cayly of Brompton in the County of York Knight created Baronet the twentieth of April Anno predict Sir Charles Doyly of the City of London created Baronet the six and twentieth of April Anno predict William Godolphin of Godolphin in the County of Cornwal Esquire created Baronet the nine and twentieth of April Anno predict Thomas Cursen of Walter Perry in the County of Oxford Esquire created Baronet the thirtieth of April Anno pred Edmund Fowel of Fowels-Gembe in the County of Devon Knight created Baronet the first of May Anno pred John Cropley of Clarkenwel in the County of Middlesex Esquire created Baronet the seventh of May Anno pred William Smith of Radcliff in the County of Bucks Esquire created Baronet the tenth of May Anno pred George Cooke of Wheatley in the County of Yorke Esquire created Baronet the tenth of May Anno pred Charles Lloid of Garth in the County of Mountgomery Esquire created Baronet the tenth of May An. predict Nathaniel Powel of Enhurst in the County of Sussex Esquire created Baronet the fourteenth of May anno pred Denny Ashburnham of Broâ—nham in the county of Sussex Esquire created Baronet the fifteenth of May an pred Sir Hugh Smith of Long Asheton in the county of Somerset Knight created Baronet the sixteenth of May An. pred We will next cast a glance upon the rays of the Irish Diadem in the Honors conferred there upon these eminent and excellent Personages following IRELAND DUKES THe Right Noble James Marquess of Ormond was created Duke of Ormond in the Kingdom of Ireland by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster the thirtieth of March in the Thirteenth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second entailing the same to him and the heirs males of his body with all priviledges and prehemineâ—ces thereunto belonging with the Fee of 40 l. per annum payable in the Exchequer of Ireland for the better support of the said Honor. EARLS The Right honorable Roger Lord Broghill was created Earl of Orrery in the County of Corke within the Province of Munster in the Kingdome of Ireland by Letters Pattents bearing date at Westminster the fifth day of September in the Twelfth year of the reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second entayling the same honour to him and the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten with all rights priviledges c. belonging with the Fee of 20 l. per annum out of the Exchequer in Ireland The Right honourable Sir Charles Coote was created Baron Coote of Castle Cuffe Viscount Coote of Castle Coot and Earl of Mountrath in the Kindom of Ireland the said honors c. to him and the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten withall priviledges c. with the Fee of 20 l. per annum payable out of the Exchequer in Ireland by Letters Patents bearing the date at Westminster the sixth day of September in the twelfth year of the reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second The Right honourable Oliver Lord Viscount Fitz-Williams of Merwin in the Kingdom of Ireland was created Earl of Tirconnel in the said Kingdom by Letters Patents bearing date at VVestminster the 20 day of April in the thirteenth year of the reign of our most Gracious Soveraign King Charles the Second granting the same to him and the heirs males of his body for ever with all priviledges and preheminences thereunto belonging and also 20 l. per annum
out of his Majesties Exchequer in Ireland for the better support thereof There are likewise three other Earls but for want of Irish Heraldry we must be content to name their Titles viz. The Earl of Mount Alexander the Earl of Drogbeday formerly Lord Moon and the Right Honorable Roger Palmer Earl of Castlemain VISCOUNTS The Right honourable Sir Iohn Clotworthy of Antrim in the County of Antrim in the Kingdom of Ireland Knight was created Baron of Lough Neagh and Viscount Maszereen in the said County by letters patents bearing date at VVestminster the 21 of November in the twelfth year of our Gracious Soveraign Lord c. with the said honours and also to him and the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten and for want of such â—ssue to Iohn Skiffingtou Baronet and the heirs of his body on the body of Mary the Daughter and heir apparent of the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy lawfully begotten together with all the rights priviledges and preheminences to a Baron and Viscount belonging The Right honorable Robert Cholmâ—ndeley Esquire was created Viscount Kellis in the County of Meth in the Kingdom of Ireland by letters patents bearing date at VVestminster the 29 of March in the thirteenth year of the reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second granting the same to him and the heirs males of his body with the remainder to Hugh Cholmondeley Esquire his Brother and the heirs males of his body with all priviledges and preheminences to a Viscount of Ireland belonging BARONS The Right honorable Sir Iohn King of the Abby of Boyle in the County of Roscommon in the Kingdom of Ireland Knight was created Baron Kingston of Kingston in in the County of Dublin to hold to him and the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten with all priviledges c. by letters patents bearing date at Westminster the fourth day of September in the twelfth year of the reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second The Right honourable Collonel Richard Coot was created Baron Coâ—te of Colrein in the County of Shyoe in the Kingdom of Ireland the same entailed to him and the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten with all priviledges c. by lettars patents bearing date at Westminster the sixth of September in the twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second in the year of our Lord 1661. Additions to the Honors conferred by His Majesty in the Thirteenth year of His Reign SIr Thomas Fanshaw of Ware Park in the County of Hertford the Elder Knight of the Bathe was created Viscount Fanshaw of Donnamore in the Kingdom of Ireland by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster the fifth of September Anno 13 Caroli Secundi BARONETS Robert Jenkinson of Walcot in the County of Oxford Esquire created Baronet by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster the eighteenth of May 13 Caroli Secundi William Glyne of Bissiter alias Bercester in the County of Oxford Esquire the twentieth of May Anno predict Sir John Charnock of Holcot in the County of Bedford Esquire the one and twentieth of May Anno pred Robert Brook of Norton in the county of Suffolk Esquire the one and twentieth of May. Anno pred Thomas Nevil of Holt in the county of Leicester Esquire the five and twentieth of May Anno pred Henry Andrews of Lothbury in the county of Bucks the seven and twentieth of May Anno pred Anthony Craven of Sparsholt alias Sparshale in the county of Berks Esquire the fourth of June Anno pred James Clavering of Axwel in the county of Durham Esquire Iune 5. an pred Thomas Derham of West-Derham in the county of Norfolk Esquire Iune 8. an pred Abraham Cullen of Eastsheen in the county of Surrey Iune 17. an pred Godfrey Copley of Spretborough in the county of York Iune 17 ut supra Griffith Williams of Pewrhyne in the county of Carnarvan Esquire ut supra James Rushort of Milast-green in the county of Essex Esquire ut supra Henry Winchcomb of Bucklebury in the county of Berks Esquire Iune 18. an predict Sir Thomas Viner of the city of London Knight ut supra Clement Clarke of Laune-Abbey in the county of Leicester Esquire ut supra John Segliard of Delaware in the county of Kent Esquire ut supra Christopher Guise of Elmore in the county of the city of Glocester Esquire Iuly 10. an pred Reynald Fester of East-Greenwich in the county of Kent Esquire Iuly 11. an pred Philip Parker of Erwarten in the county of Suffolk Esquire Iuly 16. an pred Sir Edward Duke of Benhal in the county of Suffolk Knight Iuly 17. an pred Edward Barkham of Wanfleet in the county of Lincoln Esquire Iuly 21. an pred Charles Hussey of Caythorp alias Caythrop in the county of Lincoln Esquire ut supra Thomas Norton of the city of Coventry in the county of Warwick Esquire Iuly 23. an pred Sir John Dormer of Grange in the county of Bucks Knight ut supra Thomas Carew of Haccombe in the county of Devon Esquire Aug. 2. an pred Mark Milbanck of Halvaby in the county of York Esquire Aug. 7. an pred Richard Rothwel of Ewerby and Stapleford in the county of Lincoln Esquire Aug. 16. an pred John Bancks of the city of London Esquire Aug. 22. an pred Henry Ingoldsby of Lethenborough in the county of Bucks Esquire Aug. 30. an pred Robert Jason of Broad-Somerford in the county of Wilts Esquire September 5. an pred Sir Iohn Young of Culliton in the county of Devon Esquire Sept. 26. an pred Francis Buckley of Attleborough in the county of Norfolk Esquire Sept. 30. an pred Iohn Frederick Van Freisendorf of Heerdick Lord of Kyrup one of the Privy Council to the King of Sweden and his Ambassador Extraordinary to the King of England His most Excellent Majesty created Baronet by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster the fourth of October in the Thirteenth year of King Charles the Second c. William Roberts of Willesden in the county of Middlesex Esquire Nov. 8. an pred William Luckin of Waltham in the county of Essex Esquire Novemb. 15. an pred Thomas Smith of Hill-Hall in the county of Essex Esquire Nov. 29. an pred Edwin Sadler of Temple Diâ—nesly alias Dinsley in the county of Hertford Esquire Dec. 3. an pred Sir William Windham of Orchard in the county of Somerset Kniâ—ht Dec. 19. an pred George Southcote of Bleborough in the county of Lincoln Esquire Janu 17. an pred George Trevellian of Nettlecome in the county of Somerset Esquire Janu 24. an pred The Reader is desired to excuse our omission of all the Scotch Dignities not onely because of National incuriosity but by reason there are very few of them except the Restitutory Honors of the Family of the Gurâ—ons to the Earldom of â—bâ—yn To omit also the Knights-Batchelors made by the King with the Honors of the several Offices
belonging to Him His Guards and other Commanders which assist these Grandeurs It will suffice to say that we were aâ—l raised from â—lâ—w and abject condition being â—he servants of servants to the honor of English Freemâ—n which is such a Genâ—y that sew people in the world are born to and having once forfeited it were ever restored to it These are the several Orbs and Spheres which make up this Firmament of His Majesties Glory A Firmament indeed not only because of its Lustre and Beauty but for its strength and durablenesse the Nobility and Gentry being the Pillars and Supporters of Monarchy against the violences and overthrowing tempests of the Multitude as was lamentably experienced in the late Democracy which laid aside the House of Peers before it cast off the King and His Government but leaving the other Planets we will addresse our sight to the bright Orb of the Moon that governs equally with our Sun our Soveraign King Charles His Majesty had now attained the utmost extent of humane Felicity having expanded the Rayes of His Greatnesse to all the parts of the World where his Wonders were heard and related with Extasie Yet as Adam placed in Paradice when the whole Dominion of the Universe was bestowed on him was not so perfectly happy but wanted a Companion to compleat him just so was it with our Soveraign who lacked the Communication of these His most prosperous Fortunes the Company and Converse of a meet Consort in whose Bosome and Womb he might recond and treasure up the inestimable value of those Sure Mercies he had received This Lovely Casket of such incomparable Jewels The Kings Intentions to marry with the Infanta of Portugal Nature and the Decrees of Heaven had more especially prepared and predisposed out of the Royal Family of the Kings of Portugal which having suffered an Ecclipse by the powerful interposition of the Spanish Monarchy for the space of neer a hundred years was now revisited in its former Splendor in the assumption of John Duke of Braganza the fourth of that name King of Portugal by almost as miraculous a Turn as that of our Captivity by the Kings Restitution So Providence was pleased to adapt and fit both these Princes Conditions and Estates to this happy juncture of them in the Royal and Happy Estate of Marriage This was designed by King John in the begining of our Troubles and of His Reign and was one of the first Acts of State he did with us managed here by Don Antonio de Souza his Embassador hither who was very instrumental in transacting His late Majesties Affairs of sorraign Concernment receiving and returning his dispatches One Ingredient no doubt in point of Civility and Honour among those other of Affection and Interest that make up this Princely Match Neverthelesse that Fortune might pay our Soveraign all the dues she owed him for those many unkindnesses He had formerly received from her she cared nor feared not to dispence with her favours to that Crown and to reduce it by the puissant Grandeur and entire Force of the Spaniards then employed against it in the year 1661 and so onward hitherto to a condition of so ill an Aspect as without some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be accounted by the Politico's of the Times to be no better then desperate the more to enhaunce and raise the Kings Reputation and Glory and to add to His other Honours and Stiles the Title of The Succourer of the Afflicted and Distressed So that at the same time that he bended His Arms to Her Majesties Embraces he outstretched them to the Aid and Assertion of Her People and Country being alike Love and War powerful Militating at one and the same time in the Camps of Cupid and Mars with the same generous valour and bravery to both which never any Prince had the like Competent Courage and Vertue the former softning and esseminating the latter roughening and uncivilizing the mind To the universal joy therefore of his People The King declares his resolution of Marrying to the Parliament He solemnly acquainted the Parliament which he had called by his own Writ on the 28 of May 1661 with this His Intention of Marrying the Infanta Dona Katharina of Portugal for several weighty reasons which he had offered to the Lords of His most Honourable Privy Council who generally approved of His Majesties choice which approbation was then transubstantiated into the Thanks of the Kingdome delivered by the two Houses to the King upon the same account so impossible it was for the King even in His most natural Actions whose Delight was recompence enough not to be magnified to such a degree of Love in his people that it can be ascribed to nothing better then a powerful Sympathy influenced on them from His own Love-possessed Breast The Treaty and Articles of Marriage were a little before concluded with the Conde Don Francisco de Mello that no subsequent alterations by private opinion should derogate from the Prerogative of His own most absolute cleerest judgement not to be profaned with common consideration and accordingly the said Embassador took leave of His Majesty in Order to his departure for Portugal with the ratification of the said Treaty of Marriage here where not long after he arrived and brought that Court but primarily and chiefly the Princely Bride the News thereof who with Her Majestick Constancy of Countenance gave it a solemn and serious welcome not touched with those change of passions which by the vicissitude of pallid and blushing looks discover the meannesse and inconsistency of other Virgin minds But though she did so prudentially and wisely conceal the joyes of the affection she had long nourished for the King The News thereof at Lisbon yet was Her Royal Brother and Mother most openly glad and joyful at the wisht successe of that Affair which was instantly communicated to the City of Lisbon the Chamber of that King by the Guns from all the Castles and Forts thereof which were Ecchoed from all the Cannon in the River both Portugese and Forraigners by which means without further Proclamation it was noised about the Town who like overjoyed People betook themselves to the presentest yet most solemn demonstrations thereof by Bonfires and Entertainments c. the Streets resounding with Healths al Re del Grand Bretanna which continued that night and the next whole day Not long after by an Expresse from England from the King to Her Donna Katharina is saluted Queen of Great Britain she was Complemented with the Stile of the Queen of Great Brittain which put the Court into a new Gayety both to Her Retinue and Attendance and all Honours and Duties done to Her as if she were actually crowned It will not be much material to insist on all the other particulars viz. those several Messages sent and returned betwixt those two Royal Lovers together with the intercourse betwixt the two Crowns in point of Alliance and Security
till the Evening the 13 of May from whence Sir Joseph took Post leaving the Duke of Ormond to make preparation for the Reception of Her Majesty That same Night the Royal Fleet with the Princely Bride came to St. Helens point the Eastermost Promontory of the Isle of Wight almost opposite to Portsmouth from whence had it not been too bold a venture to hazzard her Majesty in that narrow Streight of Sea and in a Night Tide they might have reached Portsmouth the next morning but making use of the day Tide which served about 10 of the Clock on Wednesday the 14 of May the Queen landed at Portsmouth about 4 a Clock in the Afternoon where she was received with all possible demonstrations of Honour the Nobility and Gentry and Multitudes of Londoners in most rich Apparel and in great numbers waiting on the Shore for Her Landing and the Maior and Aldermen and principal perlons of that Corporation being in their Gowns and with a Present and Speech ready to entertain Her the Cannons and small shot both from round that Town and the whole Fleet ecchoing to one another the loud Proclamations of their Joy It is observable that at Southampton the next Fort Westward two Sturgeons being of Royalty due to the King came into that River and were presented to the Maior as His Majesties chief Officer in that place who sent one to Portsmouth as a small but auspicious and fortunate Present to Her Majesty who was every day expected there and the other at a Feast was distributed amongst his Brethren of that Corporation The good people of that place taking them as happy Prognosticks being Male and Female of that blessed Union of their Majesties by a Princely Increase of Issue to succeed them The King having received the Expresse of His Queens Landing prepared to be gone forthwith to salute Her upon Her Arrival but His great Affairs of State and Bills to be ratified by Him into Acts of Parliament which were not quite ready for His Royal Assent delayed Him at Whitehall till Monday night the 19 of May having sent before Him the Bishop of London who departed on the 17. in Order to the Solemnizing of the Marriage His Majesty having signed all the Acts which are now so many wholsome and good Laws as no age of our Fore-fathers can boast of to adorn and honour His Queens Arrival posted away at 9 a Clock that Night with His ordinary Guards in the Earl of Northumberlands Coach Prince Rupert with Him only to Kingston where he came soon after 10. and at the end of that Town entred into the Earl of Chesterfields there set ready for Him and the Duke of Yorks Guards to attend Him and came before 12 at Night to Guilford being 25 miles where He lodged that Night and next morning posted with the same speed to Portsmouth where He arrived about Noon to the mutual Joy and Content of His Royal Self and Consort But because of Her indisposednesse which yet held Her in Her Chamber the King satisfied Himself by giving Her a Visit in private that day and then withdrew to His own appartiments much resenting the distemper She was in by Her long passage for His sake which He most affectionately signified to Her and made appear to all Persons attending on Him by His Melancholy and retired Comportment Yet it pleased God to restore Her Majesty to such a degree of Health that She was able to go abroad to Consummate the Marriage Rites which were performed in the Church of that Town Wednesday May 21. by the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of London according to the Ceremonies of the Church of England after which the Nuptials were concluded by His Majesties Bedding His most Excellent Lady that Night in this His Town of Portsmouth If the Reader shall now expect Her Character I may ingenuously and justly enough challenge the ablest Pen with a quis sufficit Flies cannot catch Eagles Her soaring and Excelse Vertues surmounting all Essayes of Flight or Pursuit after them so that no quill can trace or discover their Altitudes Let me invite only your present admiration and future Expectation of those Felicities which attend them to be their competent and illustrious Expositors Their Majesties having thus celebrated their Rites of Hymen for the better perfecting that Health so happily restored to the Queen purposed to stay a little time longer in that Town in which Interim Visits were given to the Grandees of Portugal who came over with the Queen by all the English Lords and Ladies and by them again returned until the Removal of the Gourt next Week to Winchester thence to Farnham to Windsor Castle and so to Hampton Court where their Majesties took up the most part of this Summer 1662 as well for the Salubrity as Majesty of the place being the most absolute compleat and magnificent Structure of all the Royal Palaces But that which is the most eminently great and gives the matchlesse Honour to this Marriage is the great accession that is made to the Crown of England in point of Trade and Commerce besides the Treasure and Territory we possesse as this Ladies Portion We have first an open Navigation into most part of the East-Indies where the Portugal is more potent then the Dutch having several Kingdomes there the principal thereof is that of Goa where for the Security of our Trade and other Considerations of State we have by this time several Forts that Command the Country delivered to some English Forces sent thither lately in a Fleet by His Majesties Command so that the Company trading thither will receive notable advantages to the thrusting out the Hollander from His Covetous Ambition of managing solely the Wealth and Riches of the East In the West Indies they are possest of Brasilia from whence in 1654 they valiantly expelled the said Dutch a place of good Traffique and now free to the English Marchant from whence are brought Commodities of good value But the chiefest place of Importance is the City of Tangier seated by the Mouth of the Straights of Gibralter on the Africk shore which serves not only to bridle and represse the Piracies of those Dens of Thievery Algiers Tripoli Tunis and the rest by being of necessity forced to passe in sight when they venture into the Atlantick Sea through that Straight but also if occasion be will be of same benefit and commodionsnesse as the Sound is to the King of Denmark as through which no Ships of what Nation soever trading into the Levant can passe or repasse without his Majesties leave if he shall please to keep some ships to that purpose in that Harbour I omit the Portion and store of money the Jewels and Pearls c. as great as any Princesse in Europe ever brought because I will not presume to meddle with those sublime particulars The Queen received the Addresses of all the Nobility and Submissions of the several Deputies for the Cities of
England more particularly from the Lord Maior Aldermen of London who by Sir William Wylde their Recorder who pronounced a Spanish Oration presented Her with a Purse of Gold In June came thither an Envoy from the great Duke of Muscovia Emperour of Russia to Complement the King upon his never enough gratulated Restitution being sent to prepare the way for three extraordinary Embassadors commissioned more largely to that purpose and had a very cordiate and splendid reception from His Majesty No lesse great was the Conflux to this Palace from all parts of the Kingdome then at His Majesties Coronation The King then being beheld as the Wearer She now as the Continuer of it to perpetual Succession which the beauteous and fit frame of Her person do infallibly promise to our first impatient Expectation of a Prince of Wales It was imagined Her Majesty would have made Her entrance by a Cavalcade through London from the Tower or through Southwark and so over the Bridge while the Triumphall Arches were yet standing But it pleased the King to order it otherwise and to honour Her Accesse to Whitehall with a new and unusual though as magnificent a Reception as had any of His Royal Progenitors that as the Queen had begun so She might finish her Princely Adventure by water on those Soveraign and Amorously combining Streams of Thames and Isis whose Floods hastening to the Sea to tell the News of Her coming swell'd back again with such a full Current and Spring the Brittish Marine Gods and Nymphs with all their Train rushing in to behold and Welcome Her to Her Home that their Banks were overflowed while neglecting their Bounds they stopt Her Barge and gazed on the Sight with a long and steady view The Order of that Triumph in brief was after this manner The RELATION of the Noble Reception of their Sacred MAJESTIES by the Honourable CITY of LONDON by Water from HAMPTON-COURT to their Landing at WHITE-HALL Saturday August 23 1662. THE Barges belonging to the several Companies were with the Morning-Tide carried up the River from White-Hall to Chelsey beginning with the Mercers Grocers c. and ending with the inferiour Companies which were placed at Chelsey most of the Barges were atttended with a Pageant The Pageants were placed at the Head of every Barge That which attended the Mercers was thus set forth under a Canopy of State was seated a Virgin on her head a Silver Coronet richly adorned Her Robe long of Violet coloured Velvet lin'd with Cloth of Silver Her Attendants were three Maids of Honour and six Pages Her Maids of Honour bore up her Train habited in Velvet their Heads neatly Ornamented Her Pages were habited in Cloth of Silver Doublets Cloaks of Velvet lin'd with Cloth of Silver and Velvet Breeches their Hats of Silver in which were Plumes of Feathers and in their hands several Banners and Escucheons They were placed three of each side the Pageant The Drapers Pageant was thus set forth Under a Canopy of State was represented a Grave Roman Magistrate habited in a long Robe on his head a Helmet in his right hand he held a Scepter in his left a Triple Crown a Sword girt to him His Attendants were four Loyalty Truth Fame and Honour Loyalty and Truth were placed in the Front at the two Corners Fame and Honour at the two Rear Corners Loyalty was habited like a Grave Citizen plain and decent in one hand he held a Banner of the Arms of England and Portugal impal'd in the other hand a Sword signifying his Resolution to defend their Right Truth was habited in white on her head a wreath of Stars in one hand she bore a Banner of the Companies Arms in the other a little Book Fame was represented in a long loose light Robe his head circled with a wreath of intermixed Colours in one hand he held a Trumpet in the other a wreath of Laurell as intended for Loyalty Honour was habited in Cloth of Gold on his head a Hat and Plume of Feathers in one hand he held a Shield in which was figured a Portuges with a Sword drawn holding it over some Indians that were figured kneeling in the other he bore an Escucheon with the Arms of England and Portugal impal'd The Merchant-Tailors Pageant was thus set forth The Stage being 12 foot long and 7 foot broad was Arched with a wild Arbour made in manner of a Wildernesse The two Camels supporters of the Companies Arms were back'd with two Indians bearing in one hand an Escuchion of the Arms of England and Portugal impal'd In the other hand they held Darts downwards betokening subjection Their Motto Lusitaniae Oriens Meridies There were two Moors that attended the Camels as their guiders In the Wildernesse was seated an Aged man representing a Pilgrim and habited accordingly In one hand he held a Staff in the other a Banner bearing the Figure of a Golden Lamb with this Motto Inter nocentes Innocens This alludes to St. John the Patron of their Company for his Attendants he had Faith Hope and Charity who were placed before Faith was presented in a flaming coloured Silk Robe her head circled with a Wreath of sprightly Colours dilated from the Sun In one hand she held a Shield on which was Figured a Young Man endevouring to fathom the Sea with a Staff with this Motto Nil Profundius In the other hand she held a Shield whereon was Figured a Crosse with this Motto Nil Salubrius Hope was presented in a sad Russet Garment close girt On her head she wore a Wreath of Linnen shadowed with the Sun-Beams In one hand she bore a Banner on which was Figured an Anchor with this Motto Superabo In the other hand she bore a Banner with the Companies Arms. Charity was habited in a carelesse Robe of White Silk and a Green Mantle On her head a Coronet of Stars In one had she held a Banner on which was Figured an Arm out of a Cloud reaching to an Almsbasket to relieve a poor person with this Motto Consummavi In the other hand she bore a Banner of the Companies Arms. The Goldsmiths Pageant was thus set out Under a Canopy of State sate Justice her hair dishevell'd She wore on her head a golden Crown her Garment gold colour girt with a girdle of Gold in one hand she held a Ballance in the other a Touch-stone At her feet were placed two Virgins their hair dishevell'd their heads were encompassed with Wreaths of Flowers of several Colours as the Blew Red and Yellow their habits answerable In one hand they held a golden Hammer in the other a golden Cup. The Barges were anchored some 40 or 50 yards distant in the middle of the River behind them was left an open passage for Boats to passe this side of the River was kept clear for their Majesties and their Train Between 8 and 9 of the Clock the Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen moved toward Chelsey where they attended their