de Manans The Ladies and the Maids of the two Queens closed the March being followed by the Queen Mothers Guards abundance of Trumpets blowing all the while The Ceremonies of the Rites of Marriage and the manner of performing them being Romish are not requisite being also strange and difficult to be understood to be inserted here The 2 of June the Pope's Nuntio the Ambassador of Venice the Resident of Genoa the Envoy of their Royall Highnesses of Savoy and the Deputies of the Parliament of Paâ— had Audience of their Majesties whom they Complemented about their Marriage and the next day they departed for Byonne where they were sumptuously received thence to Bourdeaux in the like but more sumptuous manner and so in conclusion to Paris where severall Triumphall Arches and Collossus were reared with in impresses relating to the Peace and their Nuptials being met without the Town near St. Germans by the Militia of that great City But all the Triumph and Honour they could render their Majesties together with the Auxiliary splendor of the Nobility came infinitely short of His Majesty of Great Brittain's Coronation and in truth of his Entrance which had appeared far brighter had it not been for the Dust that covered all the finery and sullied the rich Habits that were worn that day Except only some of the Princes of the Blood of France as the Prince of Conde and some four more which alone made it seem a Magnificence whereas in the Coronation of King Carles where was no distinction to be made by Strangers between the several Noble men of that Caralcade but of that hereafter Let us now look home to the subsequent and remaining Honours of the Kings Restitution On Thursday the last of May the most Illustrious Princes the Dukes of York and Gloucester took their places in the House of Peers threby restoring it to that veneration which the rudenesse of the vulgar and Anarchists had deprived it of for so many foregoing years where the Lords did unanimously concurr with the Commons in a Petition to be sent unto his Sacred Majesty to desire his Royal assent for an Anniversary Thanksgiving to be observed throuhout all the Kingdomes on the 29. of May for the great blessing the Lord had bestowed upon the Kingdome in restoring his Sacred Majesty But that wâ—ch mainly concerned the glory of his Majesty was that Justice should be done upon the Murtherers of his Royal Father the efore it was moved the â—ame day in the House of Commons that it be referred to the Committee to prepare a Proclamation to require all those to come in that late upon the Trial of his late Majesty or else to be left to the Justice of the Law On Friday following his majesty to compleat the Parliament went by Water to Westminster in the Brigandine where he passed the private 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 House of Lords the Yeomen of the Guard making a Lane the Heralds at Arms in their rich Coats the Maces before him and the Lord Generall bare before his Majesty When his Majesty came to the House the Usher of the Black rod went to acquaint them that his Majesty desiâ—ed to meet them at the House of Lords when they weâ—e entred his Majesty made a short Speech and gave his Royal assent to three Acts viz. 1 The Act for Confirmation of this Parliament 2 For the Tax of 70000 l. per mâ—nsem 3 For the continuance of Processe and Judiciall proceedings after which the Lord Chancellor made a Speech more at large Herein the King appeared in his proper and full Orb and spread those rayes which the long darknesse of his misfortunes had clouded and obscured constituting the parliament more by his presence then by this his assent The next thing was the filling up of his Majesties Privy Councill and supplying the Courts of Judicature there were honours ab intus let us see what others and those innumerable though small which do tantamount to great ones from his subjects and Foreign princes It were an endlesse labour almost to repeat those many Addresses presented to his Majesty let it suffice there was never a County in England that saluted not the Kings hands with some feeling gratulating expressions of his Majesties return being signed by all the Nobility and Gentry and Ministers thereof some particular Cities and Corporations presenting his Majesty with some more substantiall complements which yet for the most part consisted of Surrenders then called Gifts of his Majesties Majesties Fee Farm Rents particularly the City resigned their graunt from the State of New-Park by the mouth of the Recorder Sir William Wilde who told his Majesty that the City had been Stewards for him to preserve his Game and woods which they came to tender to his Majesty The King answered that he looked upon their tender not as from Stewards but would receive it as a gift from them for which he returned them many hearty thanks The like Addresses were made also from the respective Regiments of the Army new moulded again under other more Loyal Commanders so that as the Model revived it before his late Majesties Overthrow so the new model extinguished it as his present Majesties restoration On the 14 of June came out the aforesaid Proclamation against the Kings Judges many of them fled before divers of them now came in and rendred themselves as the Proclamation directed to the Speaker of the House of Commons who by order of the said House committed them to the Serjeant at Arms. It is fit we should bestow a glance The Triumphs at Edinbrough off from these satiatory Triumphs here to the imitation of them in his Majesties other Kingdoms to begin with Scotland which take in a Letter from Edenburgh The Magistrates of this City and Presbytery being most sensible of this great mercy received did appoint the 19. of June the day of their Publick Thanksgiving to God for his Signal love and kindnesse shewed to them in investing their most gracious Soveraign in his Thrones of England and Ireland and for restoring him to his Government over this his ancient Nation that for twenty hundred years hath flourished under the Scepter of his Royal Ancâ—stors and gave notice of this their Resolution to all the the Burghs and Presbyteries of Scotland desiring their Concurrence that as the cause was so their joy might be universal The Ministers that day in their Sermons with so much fervency and passionate expressions delivered what great kindnesse the Lord had done for them that it was observed their exhortations were never entertained with such attention and so plentiful Tears by their Auditory The English Officers of State and War observed the Thanksgiving with no lesse joy and devotion After Sermon and after the Magistrates had all dined together they marched from the Councell House to the Crosse in this Order The Town Councel in their Gowns with their Trumpets sounding before them went first then two Bailies before the English Commissioners and Officers and
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
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
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
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
two behind them went next The Provost all alone before the Scotch Nobility and Gentry that were in Town and two Bailiffs with the Dean of Gild and Treasurer followed after their Guards neer six hundred Citizens in comely apparrel armed with swords and partizans The crosse was covered with artificiall Vines loaden with Grapes both white and good Claret Wines springing out from all it's Pipes or Channels on it's Head a Bacchus bestriding a Hogshead with two or three Satyrs did with their mimick Gestures entertain the beholders A little below the Crosse within a rail was erected a Scaffold six foot high on which was placed a large Table covered with a rich Banquet served up in Glasse and representing divers forms and devices as his Majesties Arms the Arms of the City and divers exotick Trees were raised loaden with their leavs and fruits c. the Table being surrounded by above an 100 persons of Eminency The Musick and breaking of glasses were seconded by three general Vollies of the Horse and Foot who received an handsome answer from the great Guns of the Castle Citadell and Ships in the Road and all were ecchoed by joyfull acclamations of the people After this the Forces drew of affording the Civilities of view to the people amongst whom the Dishes and Banquet were hurled and so arose and marched down to the Piazzo of the Palace of Holy Rood house first the Comissioners next the Major General with his Army and after them the City Magistrates with their Guards whence after the Musquets had saluted them there with divers Volleys and had received a return from the great Guns of the Castle Citadel and Sea as formerly they marched back again quite through the City up to the Castle Hill from whence every one apart returned to spend the rest of the Enemy with their Friends in mirth and mutual joy and Entertainments Major General Morgan after a health to His Majesty began to the Earl of Seaford fired the great Canon called Mounce Meg a Gun never fired but on extraordinary occasions after which followed a round Peal from all the Ordinance thereabouts A plentiful Largesse was bestowed amongst the Souldiery to heighten them in their joyes about 1500 Bonfires were made on Arthurs Seat one of forty Load of Coals and at the Major Gen. Dore one almost as big After this was variety of Fire works some burned in the water others flew into the Air two Castles firing one against another the several Boxes thrown into the Air and falling in several shapes which with divers others gave great content to the Spectators Not to omit here that Thursday the 21. of June was appointed by the Parliament of England for a peculiar Thanksgiving day throughout England and Wales for His Majesties Restitution The two Divisions of Wales into North and South made their Addresses to the King the first desiring as the Completion of their joy the Restoration also of the Liturgy and the Divine Worship as it stood Established in the dayes of His Royal Grandfather and Father and the latter after the enumeration of those Blessings which attends His Majesties Return the aversion of that blood guiltinesse perpetrated on his Royal Father by bringing the Authors and Abettors of it to condigne punishment and exauctorating all whosoever had but the least finger in that horrid Businesse The University of Cambridge likewise in their Formalities made an Addresse to the King Doctor Love their Vice-Chancellour pronouncing a Speech in Latin the King graciously accepted them as afterwards he did the University of Oxford both presenting Copies of Verses made by the respective Students On the 20. of June the Baron of Peluitz Master of the Horse Chamberlain and Collonel of the Regiment of the Guards of His Electoral Highnesse of Brandenburgh and his extraordinary Envoy to His Majesty had Audience at White-hall The Master of the Ceremonies went to fetch him from his House with two rich Coaches each with 6 horses and so conducted him to His Majesty through the Gallery full on both sides of Gentlemen His Majesty was bare during the whole Audience His Speech contained a Congratulation c. with the joy his Master had for His Majesties Restitution The King returned a very obliging answer suitable to those Marks of Affection which his Highnesse made to him formerly and also because he was the first Forreign Minister with Credentialls to His Majesty The Audience being ended the Lord Chamberlain conducted him through the said Gallery to the Stairs head the Vice-chamberlain to the Coach and the Master of the Ceremonies and the two Coaches aforesaid brought him home again an honour we have not heard of conferred before upon any Forreign Envoy by a King of England and now done to shew those Sentiments of affection His Majesty at the Hague professed to have for that Elector for his former kindnesse to him when all the World gave his Affairs over for Desperate On the 27. of June De Colladon Deputy from the Commonwealth of Geneva having presented unto His Majesty the Letters of the Lords Syndicks and of the Ministers and Pastors of that place Congratulating c. His Majesty was pleased to return them thanks and give him a gracious Answer to his Complement On Thursday the 4. of July The King is treated magnificently at Diâ—â—â—r by the City July 5. His Sacred Majesty and both Houses of Parliament were entertained by the City of London at Guild-Hall the raining unseasonable Weather took off much of the Solemnity which was intended to be performed so that His Majesty went into London attended only by his own Houshold Guards which proceeded in this order Adjutant General Miller rode before at some distance to make way after whom went Sir William Throckmorton Knight-marshall his Servants and Footmen waiting on each side of him before 6 Trumpets then a Kettle Drum another classe of 7 Trumpets 6 Maces the Heraulds in rich coats the Pages and Footmen and next His Majesties Coach with six Horses guarded on both sides with His Majesties Royal Bond of Pensioners walking on Foot with Pistolls in their hands under the command of the most Noble and Valiant Earl of Cleveland the Equerries several of His Majesties Servants next them came the Yeomen of the Guard then the Lord Chancellour in his Coach the Duke of Buckingham and so all the Nobility in their order The Speaker of the House of Commons in his Coach with 6 horses attended by a Troop of Horse that were upon the Guard that day And after them the House of Commons in Coaches In London several of the Pent-houses and Windowes were adorned with Tapistry A Lane made by the Liveryes of the several Companies and many Pageants in the Streets at Pauls Gate the Lord Maior Aldermen and several other of the City richly accoutred met His Majesty and conducted him to Guildhall The Gentlemen of the Artillery led by the Valiant and Learned Lord Lucas at Cheapside opened to the right and left
the Hague Folio 50 Danish Ambassador Speech and Audience at the Hague Folio 54 Deputies of the Province of Holland complement His Majesty Folio 70 His Higness the Duke of York swears the Mariners of the Fleet Folio 72 Sir George Downing presents himself to His Majesty Folio 76 Duke of York goes aboard the English Fleet Folio 87 Death of the Duke of Glocester Folio 168 Duke of York attends Her Majesties arrival on the English Coast Folio 249 E. Estâ—tes of Holland dine privately with His Majesty 67. Complement the English Commissioners Folio 68 Edenburghs triumphs for His Majesties Restauration Folio 151 Extraordinary Envoy from the Duke of Curland Folio 169 Earls Created Folio 191 Envoy from the Emperor of Rssiuia comes to complement His Majesty Folio 255 F. French Ambassador had Audience at the Hague Folio 54 Feasts of the Estates of Holland Folio 81 G. Sir Harbotle Grimstons Speech to Sir John Greenvil which brought His Majesties Letters Folio 13 H. Doctor Hardy Preacheth before His Majesty at the Hague Folio 77 Honors conferred by His Majesty Folio 217 I. Joy at Lisbon when the Infanta of Portugal was saluted Queen of England Folio â—245 K. Knights of the Bath Folio 189 Knights of the Garter Folio 215 L. Londons great joy upon the Parliaments receipt of His Majesties Letters 14. It s unexpressible joy at Proclaiming His Majesty 31. It s reception of His Majesty Folio 124 Lords of Zealand Speech to His Majesty Folio 84 Sir Charles Lâ—cas and Sir George Lisle's Funeral at Colchester Folio 180 Lords created Folio 196 Londons noble entertainment of their Sacred Majesties in their passage from Hampton-Court Folio 257 M. His Majesty goes to St. Jean de Luz 3. Returns to Brussels 4. Comes to Breda 7. Sends Letters and Declarations to Parliament Army and City 9. Visited by divers Princes 14. Receives information of the Votes in Parliament 14. Invited into Holland 38. His Majesties Royal entertainment in Holland 38. Arrives at the Hague 47. His Majesties entertainment at the Hague 61 65. His Majesty gives Audience to the English Commissioners 62. His Majesty toucheth for the Evil 79. His Majesties sitting with the States General described 90. His Majesty comes to Scheveling 106. Takes shipping 110. Lands at Dover 121. Comes to His Royal Palace of Whithall 124. His Majesties passage to His Coronation 197. Manner of His Majesties Coronation 198. His Majesties resolutions to marry with the Infanta of Portugal 243. Goes to meet the Queens Majesty at Portsmouth 251. Is married at Portsmouth 252. Comes to Winchester Farnham Windsor and Hampton-Court Folio 253 Her Majesty imbarks for England 247. Lands at Portsmouth 250. Is married 251. Comes to Hampton-Court 253. Receives the Addresses of the Nobility Lord Major of London and others Folio 255 Marriage of the Infanta with the King of France Folio 142 General Moncks first appearance in Order to His Majesties Restauration 5. Receives His Majesty on shore 121. Created Duke of Albemarle Folio 159 Lord Mordant brings glad tidings to His Majesty Folio 8 Sir Samuel Moreland presents himself to His Majesty Folio 20 General Montague arrives with the Fleet to attend His Majesty 57. Made Earl of Sandwich Folio 162 Earl of Montross his Funeral Folio 176 N. Names of His Majesties most Honorable Privy Council Folio 211 Names of the Judges Folio 209 P. Proclamation for His Sacred Majesty Folio 28 Prince Maurice of Nassau complements His Majesty Folio 95 Prince of Lignes arrival in England Folio 167 Princess of Orange arrival in England Folio 169 Death and Funervl Folio 170 Princess Henrietta arrives in England Folio 172 Q. Queen Mother arrives in England Folio 172 R. The Resident for the Emperor complements His Majesty Folio 63 S. A glorious Star at His Majesties Birth Folio 2 Secluded Members contribute to His Majesties Restauration Folio 6 States of Holland send Deputies to His Majesty 15. As also the States General 16. They complement His Majesty Folio 95 Spanish Ambassador Treats His Majesty Folio 74 Statue of Mis Majesty seâ— up in the Royal Exchange Folio 165 T. Triumphs at Lisbon Folio 161 Traitors Araignment and Execution Folio 173 174 W. Wonderful things in Ireland Folio 164 THE MAGNIFICENCIES and GLORIOUS TRIUMPHS OF K. CHARLES the II. THE Grandeurs of this Monarch which we shall here narrate not undertaking the History of his Life too rudely hitherto attempted are so far beyond all what Fiction and Invention can offer in Ronsantick Hyperboles Magu in speciem adornal is verbis quam ut sentire videamur as they come near a Miracle which will require Language as strange as it self or else to be expressed in the plainest and most facile words that can convey and fit it to our Capacities To write it in a Stile like it self or to represent it any way in its full Glories no Traict but that of an Angels Plume can serve turn For Heaven was pleased to use a very like curiosity in the very Beginnings and Dawnings of that Splendor which hath now in its almost Meridian overspread the Universe For that the weak admiration of men at his Birth might be aided and assisted to a due veneration of his present and future Greatness then divined by most people a Bright Star appeared at Noon-day and ushered in the Auspicia of his Wonders May 29 1630. which benigne Luminary never wanted those propitious Influences which in the darkest times serened his Condition And such a Remarque of Heaven was never vouchsafed to any Nativity besides that of our Saviour To omit its Tutelage and Defence of him throughout the War covering his head in Battel and conveying him in safety abroad after the general ruine at home nor insist upon his Escape and avoydance of the English Fleet that lay in wait to intercept him in his Voyage for Scotland To take no notice of his Scotch Coronation though as solemn and magnificent as ever was known in that Kingdom to pass by his well-designed Advance into England and his more memorable Escape out of it from Worcester never enough to be admired because these Providences were as the cloud 〈◊〉 concealed and obscured him We will only observe the Pillar of Fire which after it had purified him in the Night of his Humiliation and Affliction at the end of that Darkness revealed him in Glory This Discourse is deduced no further than his Renascency from August 1659 when Sir George Booth's Design was impregnated with his Interest though all along the Usurpation some Appearances there were of its reviving particularly that Noble Attempt of Col. Penruddock c. which in Nine Moneths time computed thence ripened to a Full Deliverance During this Affair in England his Majesty was removed from his Retirement and private Recess at Colen where he had long sojourned the rather for the great Civility of that people to him and who at his departure most nobly treated him to Brussels where he stayed not long but after some dispatches for England where every
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
thence by Sir George Downing the Kings Resident there to the Tower of London from whence being brought to the Kings-bench Bar toward the end of April 1662. they were there condemned and received Sentence and suffered the same death with other their fellows at Tyburn with some little more acknowledgement of the Fact then those that suffered for the same crime before On the 30th of January 1660. that the Earth might no longer cover the blood which was impiously and traiterously spilt on that day vengeance persuing those wicked miscreants v en beyond the Sanctuary of the Grave the odious Carkasses of Cromwel Jreton and Bradshaw were digged out of the ground from those sumptuous monuments which as they did the Throne in their life they had now usurped in their death they were drawn in a Cart from Westminster Sejanns ducitur unco spectandus gâ—â—deant omâ—ts where they were first enterred to the Red Lyon in Helbâ—rn and thence on Sledges to Tyburn where they were pulled out of their Coffins and hang'd at the several Angles or Corners of that accursed Tree with the dregs of the peoples curses and execrations from ten a clock till Sun-setting and then cut down their loathsom bodys thrown in a deep hole under the Gallows their Heads cut off and placed aloft upon Westminster Hall quoe labra quis illis vultus erat where they will continue the Brand-marks of their posterity and the expiatory remains of their accursed crime But passe we from those deservedly ignominious shameful objects to the contrary real and solid Funeral Honours done to the memory of those Loyal Heroes the famous and immortal James Graham Marquesse of Montrosse and Sir John Hay of Scotland and Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle murdered in cold blood at Colchester in 1648. The several quarters of the renowned Montrosse had been taken down some time before and with great solemnity and procession deposited in the several Cities where before they stood advanced upon their Gates whence by order of the Parliament the whole body was reassembled and with great State and Magnificence by direction from his Majesty out of his entire love and affection to the memory of so loyal and dear a servant and friend interred after this manner there in as great pomp as ever was seen in that Kingdom the funerall proceeding from the Abby Church to St. Gyleses in Edenburg First went the Lord great Commissioners Lifeguard of Horse then two conductors in mourning with one Gumphione of twenty four sallies in long black Gowns and black Callots on their heads An open Trumpet with the defunct Colours at his Banners A Gentleman in compleat Armour with a plume of Feathers in his Arms of the colour of the deceased's Paternal coat his saddle Horse with a rich saddle led by two Lacquies servants of friends two and two in mourning John Graham of Dorchries carrying the great Pinsel of Honour with his full atchievement Thomas Graham of Polento carrying the great Standart of Honour with his full atchievement A Horse with a great Saddle Pistols and Holsters fit for service led by a Lacquey in Livery his particular servants two and two in mourning His Parliament Horse with a rich foot Mantle led by two Lacqueys in Liveryes with Badges back and breast Four Trumpets in mourning carrying the Arms of the deceased on both sides of their banner William Graham of Duntrume the younger carrying the great Gumphion on the point of a Lance George Graham of Carine the younger carrying the mourning Pinsel George Graham of Inchbecke the younger carrying a mourning Standart Lords friends two and two in mourning Walter Graham of Duntran the elder carrying the Spurs Alexander Graham of Druming carring the Gantlet George Graham of Menzie carrying the Crollet with back and breast Mungo Graham of Gorthie carrying the Head-piece 8 Gentlemen carrying the eight branches of the House and Family of Montross Capa in Bucklerin carrying the deceaseds Arms in black Taffata mourning Launces Four Trumpets with the like Banners six Heralds six Pursivants the two Secretaryes his Chaplain and Physitian James Graham carrying the Parliament Robes Robert Graham the Elder of Cairny carrying the Generals Batoon Patrick Graham the Elder of Inchbecky carrying the order of the Garter Graham Lord of Morfie carrying the Coronet Graham Lord of Phintry carrying the Commission and Purse His Coat of Arms carried by Lyon King at Arms in mourning Twelve Noblemen to carry the Pall viz. Viscounts of Sturmont Arbuthnot Kingstone the Lords Strenaw Kilmarris Montgomery Coldingham Fleming Task Drumlane Kirk Sinclar and Macdonald The Earls of Marr Athol Morton Eglington Cathnes Linlithgow ' Hume Roxburgh Tulibardin Seaforth Calendar Anandale Dundee Aboyne carried the Corps under the Pall Gentlemen of quality walking on both sides the Pall to relieve the Noblemen viz. Sir John Keath Knight Marshall Gordon son to the Earl of Sutherland Mr. Levnigston brother to the Earl of Linlithgow Sir David Ogilvy Son to the Earl of Ayrly the Lairrds of Pitaure Parry Cromlicks Abertarne Loud wanne Mac Intosel Glarat and Cowlbanne The chief mourners with Hoods and long Robes carried by Pages with Gentlemen uncovered on every side nine of the nearest Noblemen in the same habit marching three and three which were the Marquess of Dowglass the Earls of Marshall and Wigton the Earls of Southesk Lords Drummond Maderty and Napier Ralloe and the Laird of Lue. With this Illustrious train a triumph equally composed of Grief and Honour was this Marquess with the due rites to his super excellent merits laid in his Tombe which ambitiously declined his reception till the publique acknowledgements of that kingdom nay the whole world proclaimed its glory to be envied for its enclosed dust by the Pyramids and Mausolaea of ancient Sepulchres and if so how much more precious that monument his dear and gracious Masters affection in whose minde all those famous services he atchieved in his Cause are so indelibly written that they are by much aere prerenniora Neither was he attended onely by the living but as a completion of the Honours intended him Sir William Hay of Delgity the noble Reliques of his fidus Achates that renowned Collonel Sir William Hay of Delgitty who accompanied him in his Masters service and for that Canse suffered with lâ—m and was buried under that infamous Gibbet whereon they executed the Marquiss were taken up again and carried after the Marquiss in this order Captain George Hay son to Sir John Hay late Clerk Register carried the Standard of Honour William Ferguson of Badyfarrow the Gumphion Mr. John Hay the Pinsel of Honour Alexander Hay the Spurs and Sword of Honour Mr. Henry Hay the Croslet Mr. Andrew Hay the Gauntlet Next followed his four branches House of Arrel carried by Alexander Hay Lesley House of Bonwhein by George Lesley of Chappelton Forbes the House of Forbes by Forbes of Lesley Hay of Delgity by Robert Hay of Perk. Then came the Corps garnished with Scutchions and
Epitaphs attended by the Earl of Arrol Lord High Constable of Scotland the Earls of Buchan Tividel Dumfreize Kingston the Viscount of Fendraught the Lords Ray Fraser Foster Mr. Robert Hay of Dronlaw George Hay of Kinninmouth with a multitude of the name of Hays and other relations and was with the same ceremonies as well Ecclesiastical as military deposited to a more glorious resurrection Thus that which by malicious and barbarous cruelty and disloyal impotent revenge was sown in dishonour rose again to the sublimest pitch and attainment of Honour highly indeed glorious to the memory of these renowned Heroes to their families and grateful to good men but infinitely redevable to the felicity of the times and his Majesties most just Government yet further most signally obliged to his personal reflections and considerations of the sufferings of his faithful servants restoring them with himselfe making his restitution their resurrection The powerful justice of his Scepter reviving the sleepy Ashes of his Subjects communicating with them the miracle of his own never enough admired restauration Give me leave to add that those Noble persons were lighted to their Tombs by the funeral fires of the Covenant that Salamander and Incendiary whose cold Northern constitution had endured the scorching flames of a terrible war could not abide the glowing ashes of these Heroes but expired in a hissing and ignominious blaze by the hand of the common Hangman Let us now leave these two Laureats and at a nearer view contemplate the like reviviscency in another pair of English Commanders Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle reinterred at Colchester as famous in their stations and places Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle who were murdered as aforesaid at Colchester and by his Majesties special command with all becomming solemnity reinterred in the same Town on the same day 13 years they first took up Arms in Essex being the 7th of Iune 1661. On that day the two Companies of Train-bands met at one of the clock in the afternoon where appeared three hundred compleatly armed The Coffins were brought to the House of Mr. Recorder Shaw a Member of this Parliament being the place into which the Corps of these two Knights were first brought after they were shot and stripped About three in the afternoon the Trained Bands being come they first marched in the military manner customary at Burials after them marched Mr. Thurston who carried the guilt spurs upon a black staff after him a gilt Sword and a velvet Scabbard born by that valiant and Loyal Captain William Harris an Officer under Sir Charls Lucas from the beginning of the Warr the Gantlet carried by Mr. Thomas Tolcott the Helmet by Mr. Andrew Fromartel the Breast by Mr. Iohn Robinson and the Back by Mr. Iohn Merrydale Then Sir Charles Lucas his Escutchion was born by Mr. Thomas Puse and another for Sir George Lisle then two led Horses covered with mourning after them two Trumpets and then Mr. Layfield who preached the funeral Sermon attended by two Clergy-men one on each side Then followed Sir Charls Lucas his Coffin carried upon six Pikes tyed with match born by Captain Street Mr. Masen Mr Wigs and Mr. Soams in mourning all of Sir Charles his own Regiment and the Pall supported by 6 viz. Iohn Eldred Senior Hen. Ayliff Thomas Tolcott Frane Nicholas Iohn Eldred junior and George Sainford all Esquires of good quality in the County each of them attended by an Officer bare-headed Then followed three Clergy-men more and after them Sir George Lisle's coffin carried as the former upon pikes by four of his Officers in mournning and his Pall born by six proper Gentlemen each of these having an Officer bare-headed attending them After the Coffins was born the great Mace of the Town covered with black Cypress then followed in their black Gowns the Deputy Maior and the Recorder the Maior being out of Town then all the Aldermen with the Chamberlain Town-Clerk Assistants and Common Council in their Gowns accompanied with at least ten thousand Gentlemen and Inhabitants of the County and Town In this manner they marched through the chief streets of the Town to St. Gyleses Church who shall hereafter be a Patron for the martyr'd as well as the maimed for in a Church consecrated to that Saint the Marquesse of Montress was buried as just now we saw the place of interrment for the family of the Lord Lucasses After Sermon there Mr. Layfield made a â—anegyrick and Elogie of the life and death of Sir Charles who was well known to him and said as much as he knew of Sir George Lisle After this the doors of the Vault being opened where Sir Charl's Family lay the two Coffins were carried down and the Gentlemen that bore the Arms went down in the Vault the Drums beating a march until they came out and then the Musketeers gave three great Vollies concluding the ceremony with ringing of Bells in all the Churches of the Town And now least any of these scattered rayes and refractions of this Monarchs Glory should be dimmed or disappear in the obscurity of time we will translate them to their bright Orb as Jupiter is feigned to have stellified his Heroes encircle them in the Diadem eternize them in that spherical figure and fix them in his Crown the FIRMAMENT of his past present and future greatnesse the Celebrity of which action is not lesse due to the intrinsick matter then to the outward beauteous form it being not so much an excesse of pomp as a Boundary of Government not so much height of Glory as profoundness of State-reason in that large capaciousness may justly pass for the consummation and perfect excellence of all Regal felicity This was the Crown profaned by the lewd hands of those prostitute Members at Westminster when the Regalia were seiz'd on by them and by H. M. his advice thought fit to be alienated to the publique that is shared among the Usurpers This was the Crown afterwards violated deprived and widdowed of that sacred Royal head of King Charles the Martyr when its Gold turned pale and lay covered in the ruine the dust and ashes of three miserable and mourning Kingdoms This was the Crown which alone of all the Insignia of Majesty as Elijah of all the Prophets that had not bowed their knees to Baal abhorted the Idolatry of Cromwels usurpation and escaâ—ed the ravishing and polluted hands of that Tyrant when like Caligula that set the heads of the Gods upon his own statues he assumed all the other regalities of his rightful Soveraign but could no way fit this sacred Symbol of Majesty though he could all other Holy things and the Scripture it selfe to his impious designments This was that Crown which the malignity of a dire pestilence had envied the fight and blessing thereof to the City of London his Majesties imperial Chamber which sadly felt the other plagues of War and Want in a more forcible absence of it
England disrobed the King of St. Edwards Robes and delivered them to the Dean of Westminster Then his Majesty was newly arrayed with his Robes prepared for that day and came to the Comunion Table in St Edwards Chappel where the Lord Bishop of London for the Arch-Bishop set the Crown imperial provided for the King to wear that day upon his head Then his Majesty took the Scepter and the Rod and the Train set in order before him went up to the Throne and so through the Choyre and body of the Church out at the West-door to the Pallace of Westminster where his Majesty dined in great State and Magnificence A Table being placed at the upper end of the Hall I shall now relate the manner though pre-posterously of the proceeding of this Triumph from the Tower First went the Horse-guard of his Highness the Duke of York the Messengers of his Majestyes Chamber the Esquires of the Knights of the Bath 136 in number the Knight Harbenger the Serjeant Porter the Sewers of the Chamber the Quarter waiters of the six Clerks of the Chancery the Clerks of the Signet The Clerks of the Privy-Seal the Clerks of the Council the Clerks of both Houses of Parliament The Clerks of the Crown the Chaplains in ordinary having dignities ten in number the Kings Advocate and remembrancer the Kings learned Counsell at Law The Master of the Chancery the Kings puisne Serjeants The Kings Attorney and Solicitors The Kings eldest Serjeants the Secttarys of the French and Latine Toungs the Gentlemen Ushers daily waiters The Servers Carvers and Cup-bearers in ordinary the Esquires of the Body The Masters of standing offices being no Councellors viz. of the Tents Revels Ceremonies Armory Wardrope Ordinance Master of the Requests Chamberlyn of the Exchequer Barons of the Exchequer and Judges of the Law according to their dignity the Lord chief Baron the Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas Master of the Rolls the Lord chief Justice of England Trumpets The Gentlemen of the privy chamber the Knights of the Bath 68 in number the Knight Marshall the Treasurer of the Chamber the Master of the Jewell House Knights of the Privy Council Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold Two Trumpets and Serjeants Trumpets Two Pursivants at Arms. Barons eldest Sons Earls youngest Sons Vicounts eldest Sons Barons Marquesses younger Sons Earls eldest Sons Two Pursivants at Arms. Viscounts Dukes younger Sons Marquesses eldest Sons Two Heraulds Earls Earl Marshal and Lord Chamberlyn of the Houshold Dukes eldest Sons Serjeants at Arms on both sides the Nobility Clarencieux and Norroy Lord Treasurer Lord Chancellor Lord High Steward Duke of Ormond two persons representing the Duke of Normandy and Aquittain Gentleman Vsher Garter Lord Mayor Sir Rich. Brown The Duke of York alone The Lord High Constable of England Earl of Northumberland Lord Great Chamberlyn of England Earl of Lindsey The Sword born by the Duke of Richmond The King Equerries and Footmen next about his Majesty Gentlemen and Pensioners without them the Master of the Horse Duke of Albemarl leading a spare Horse the Vice Chamberlyn to the King Captain of the Pensioners Captain of the Guard the Guard the Kings Life-guard commanded by my Lord Gerrard the Generals Life-guard by Sir Phillip Howard a troop of Voluntier Horse and a company of Foot by Sir John Robinson The way from the Tower to Algate was guarded by the Hamblets from thence to Temple-Barr by the Trained-Bands of London on one side and lined with the Liveries on the other side with the Banners of each company The Windows were all along laid with the best Carpets and Tapestry Bands of Musick in several places and the Conduits running with Wine At the Arches the King was entertained with several Speeches and Songs and at Cheapside near the third Arch where the Temple of Concord stood Sir William Wyld Recorder of London with the Aldermen who in the name of the City did most cordially congratulate his Majesties access thither on that day upon that solemn occasion in a pithy Speech and as a signal of their Allegiance and Duty presented to his Majesty a purse of Gold In St. Pauls Church-yard stood the Blew-coat boys of Christ-Church Hospital One in behalfe of the rest declared their joy for his Majesties wonderful preservation in his absence and his arrival thither humbly beseeching his Majesties Gracious favour and indulgence according to the example of his Royal Ancestors and his Father of Blessed memory The King was very well pleased with this Speech and after conferred something on the Boy that spoke it In the Strand and through Westminster also the wayes were gravelled and rayled being guarded on both sides with the Trained Bands of that Liberty and City and his Majesties two Regiments of Foot under the command of his Grace The Duke of Albermarl and Col. John Russel Brother to the Earl of Bedford The Houses were also richly adorned with the Carpets and Tapestry and Musick particularly a stage of Morrice-dancers at the Maypole in the Strand in the several places all along his Majesties passage When his Majestie came through Temple-Barr into his ancient and native City of Westminster the Head Bayliff in a Scarlet Robe and High Constable in Scarlet received his Majesty with loud musick where alighting off their Horses and kneeling down to his Majesty the head Bayliff on behalf of the Dean and Chapter City and Liberty signified their joyful reception of his Royal person into that Liberty declaring how much more happy they were then any part of the Nation in that their Soveraign Lord and King was born within their Liberty and humbly desiring his Majesty to continue his Grace and Favour still to them whereby that City might still be enabled to do His Majesty service When the head-Bailiff had ended his Speech he and the High Constable mounted their Horses and fell in next after his Majesties Serjeants at Mace in which order they attended his Majestie to Whitehall Infinite and innumerable were the acclamations and shouts from all the parts as his Majestie passed along to the no less joy then amazement of the spectators who beheld those glorious personages that rid before and behind his Majesty Indeed it were in vain to attempt to express this Solemnity it was so far from being utterable that it is almost inconceivable and much wonder it caused in Outlandish persons who were acquainted with our late troubles and confusions to the ruine almost of three Kingdoms which way it was possible for the English to appear in so rich and stately a manner It is incredible to think what costly cloaths were worne that day the Cloaks could hardly be seen what silke or sattin they were made of for the gold and silver laces Embroydery that was laid upon them the like also was seen in their foot-cloathes Besides the inestimable value and treasures of Diamonds Pearle and other Jewels worn upon their backs and in their hats to