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
THE GLORIES AND Magnificent TRIUMPHS OF The Blessed RESTITVTION OF His Sacred MAJESTY K. Charles II. From His Arrival in Holland 1659 60 Till this Present Comprizing all the Honours and Grandeurs Done to and Conferred by HIM Culmen utrumque tenes nil CAROLE Magne relictum Quo Virtus â—nimo crescat vel Splendor Honore Claud Paneg. O Praesidium dalce DECUS Horat. By JAMES HEATH formerly Student of Ch. Ch. OXON London Printed and are to be sold by N.G. R.H. and O. T. at the Roâ— Exchange Westminster-hall and St. Paul's Churchyard 1662. TO THE QUEEN-MOTHERS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY May it please Your Majesty WITH the Most Humble and Most Prostrate Submission I lay at Your Feet this my Endevour which though for its own worth it may justly be debarr'd such bold Approaches yet for its Illustrious Subject and most Stupendious matter will well become Your Most August Presence That Elevated thought enforced this Addresse to Your Royal Hands the Lustre of Your Son Our Sacred Soveraign's Glory being so Dazeling to the rest of the Weak-Sighted World that it were a Presumptuous Vanity to Court any other Eye then Your Self the Fountain of this Marvellous Light In Your Blessed Womb Heaven Treasured and Matured those before Vnrevealed Exaltations of Humane Nature beyond all Her former most benigne and Industrious Excesses of Felicity which while other Princes have stooped to by some Politique Observances and Wooed their Difficult Scepters it most officiously hath Bowed and Humbled it Self to Our Dread Soveraign and obsequiously sollicited His Acceptance May Your Majesty be Graciously pleased therein to imitate Him who so much Resembles Your Self by Vouchsafing a Reception to this Reflexe but weak and imperfect Representation of those Magnificences Which as they did Primarily Proceed from Your Majesty so ought they principally to return thither to be the inseparable and fruitful Blessings and Delights of Your Bosome God Almighty never cease such Rewards of Your most Celebrated Vertues here and Crown them hereafter when He shall after a long Train of Prosperity change these Temporal into Eternal Glories So prayes Your MAJESTIES most Obedient and most Dutiful Servant JAMES HEATH To the READER IT is not to be doubted but that decaying and dim-eyed Time must very obscurely and dully render the Glories of His Majesties Restitution to the rich and pregnant Expectation of Posterity for even after the immediate Passage of the most famous of them no Fancy was able to reduce them to Memory neither in the Beauty or Order thereof such the Stunning and amazing Ravishments such the rare Curiosities and splendid unlook'd-for Bravery besides the Novelty and Modishnesse of its excelling Decorations We say Sermons have not that Efficacy in the Eye which they have in the Ear certainly these Triumphs will lose much of their Gallantry and Delight in the Relation and Hearing which they had in Seeing like the Filings of Gold they lose of their weight in every change of the Scale so that it is impossible to expresse them in any dresse of Language suitable to that Garb which Gods Providence or mans Joy attired and manifested them in their several Solemnities 'T was thought a fair and obliging Design howsover to trace them with the speediest indagation and quickest pursuit could be made to the recovery of as much of these Grandeurs as a research was capable of which beginning from Originals no lesse Sacred then miraculous may well be excused if it be at a losse sometimes being also outgone by their swift transiency and permeation into the lasting durable Firmament of His Majesties most assured Empire and Government But who am I who dare to attempt this Flight who have neither the Eagles eye nor his Plumes and have never trusted the Aire of Fame 'T is too sublime an Enterprize I must confesse for so mean an Undertaker but yet assisted by the Medium of publick Desire and Benefit which can no way better be delightfully advantaged then in the how rude soever Perpetuation of those Heaven-prepared Fineries I have adventured aloft with this couragious impulse Magnis tamen excidit Ausis But he who shall more intently and prudentially consider this discourse may perhaps observe some necessity thereof as well as pleasure the utile justly taking place of the dulce and challenging other more grave and laboured Argumentations and Defences of Regal Authority For 't is not in the power of Reason or Force of words to charm people and Subjects into that veneration of their Princes which the silent yet awful Majesty of their magnificent publick Appearances can most redoubtedly conciliate and Command By these glorious distances the regardful Subject is kept within his bounds and by such Pomp the Throne is raised from the Level of Plebeian Encroachment to its due height and most Sacred impervious Ascent Love and Fear the Great Props of Government being never more equally attempered in men to the harmonious Conservation of the Peace then by these State Grandezza's True Policy being like true Religion which once denuded of its Decency and Ceremonies is quickly profaned by the malapert vulgar and invaded by Sedition and impudent ignorance And we have sad Experiments of them Both. To redresse which confident Mischief Almighty God was pleased to proceed in His Majesties Restitution by the most Magnificent Method he ever showed in any of his works since the Creation and having brought about that glorious design did also inspire the hearts of His Subjects with a most extraordinary and cheerful reverence of His Majesties Person and Authority which to evidence and demonstrate to Him and the World they did express in these ensuing Anglorum Magnalia here digested and recorded as the most sumptuous Oblation of our Solemn Respects and Gladnesse upon His Majesties Return that after Ages may know how we valued this Mercy and as the Expiatory Sacrifice of all those Contumelious barbarous Indignities done to the Person of our late Martyr'd Soraign Vale. The Sum of the whole A. AMbassador of Spain Complements His Majesty at Breda 17. at the Hague Folio 56 Ambas of Sweden had Audience Folio 64 Ambas of Brandenburgh his audience Folio 73 Ambas of France his audience Folio 93 Ambas from the Prince Elector Palatine Folio 163 Army disbanded Folio 167 Advantage coming to England by His Majesties marriage Folio 254 B. Burgomasters of Breda Speech Folio 73 Baronets created Folio 210 C. Commissioners from the Lords Commons and City sent to His Majesty at the Hague Folio 58 City of London feast His Majesty at Guild-hall Folio 156 Church Government by Bishops Folio 168 Cromwel Ireton and Bradshaws Exequies descanted or celebrated Folio 174 Catalogue of the Archbishops and Bishops of England Folio 206 Catalogue of the Dukes Marquesses Earls Lords Viscounts Barons of England Folio 217 D. Doctor Clarges sent to His Majesty at Breda Folio 21 Deputies of the States General Speech to His Majesty Folio 23 Deputy of the Province of Gelders Speech to His Majesty at
nobly treated and had made such Relation thereof to their Highnesses But the King who would dine that day in publick with the Queen of Bohemia The Spanish Ambassador gives the King a Treatment the Princess Royal the Prince of Aurange and the Deputies of the States General having desired that the Princes his Brothers might be of the Company the Ambassadour who had accordingly expected their Royal Highnesses gave himself the liberty to complain to the King in raillery for taking away his Guests from him His Majesty used the Goodness to tell him that he did it of purpose to hinder their dining with him because he would also be of the Party And indeed that very Saturday the King after he had ridden to Scheveling where he saw the Fleet and at his return visited the Queen of Bohemia went in the Evening to the House of Don Stephen de Gamarra where were also the Qu. of Bohemia the Dukes of York and Glocester the Princess Royal the Prince of Aurange the Marquess of Ormond the the Lords Digby Craft and Taaff the Lady Stanhop to whom the King had lately have given the Title of the Countess of Chesterfield and Madam Howard her Daughter in law Lady of Honour to the Princess Royal. The Table was covered in the Hall which is one of the fairest and greatest of the whole Hague but it would be very difficult to make a pertinent description of this Feast because that although they served up there but Fish and Sallats but such a number of Sweet-meats dry and liquid that all the Persons of quality which were come thither to see the Order of the Supper returned home laden besides all sorts of delicious wines as Limnada Hipocras it was yet without doubt one of the most splendid stately that ever was seen at a private hous The King also for which particular reason we mention this Entertainment appeared here in the best Humour that ever he was seen to be and expressed so much content in this Company which was composed of none almost but of his Family and of Persons whom he saw every day that he stayed there even until one of the Clock after Midnight yet without the least Disorder or Confusion that â—ight trouble their Conversation and Divertisement Every thing here was indeed high and magnificent but that which was most remarkable was this Sir Gâ—o Downing presents himself to the King that about Midnight arrived there Mr. Downing who managed the Affairs of England with the Lords States having been Secretary to the Protectors Council in Scotland in quality of Resident for Oliver Cromwel and for a while afterward for the Pretended Parliament which continued him in the same Employment in the quality of extraordinary Envoy He was thought to have had a respect and Duty for the King long before when he was in Scotland and when he knew that all England declared for a Free Parliament he forthwith abandoned their Employment and departed from Holland without any Order of Revocation wisely foreseeing that there was nothing could longer oppose the re-establishment of Monarchal Government with an intent to crave Letters of Recommendation from General Monk who at his arrival out of consideration of his Faithfulness and Respect to him and his Undertakings when he could not discover his Intentions gave him such Letters With these he arrived at midnight at the House of the Spanish Ambessadour and presented them forthwith to the King who arose from the Table a while afterwards read the Letters and received the submissions of the said Gentleman and granted him the pardon and Grace which he had sued in His Name to whom he could deny nothing Some dayes after the King Knighted him Sir Geo Downing Knâ—ghted and would it should be believed that the strong aversions which this Minister of the Protectors had made appear against him on all occasions and with all sorts of Persons indifferently even a few dayes before the publick and general Declaration of all England proceeded not from any evil Intention but only from a deep and honest dissimulation wherewith he was constrained to cover his true Sentiments for fear to prejudice the Affairs of his Majesty Somthing must be said of that which was remarkable on Sunday the 20th Dr. Hardy Preacheth before the King at the Hague of May. The King had appointed that Morning to hear a Sermon and to that purpose it was ordained that Mr. Hardy one of the Ministers which came from England with the Commissioners of the City of London should preach before the King in the Chappel of the Court which serves for a Church to the French that live at the Hague at eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon assoon as the French had ended their ordinary Devotions And to the end to prevent disorder amongst the People which were come there in crouds from the neighbour Towns the Company which had the Guard was commanded to seize upon the Avennues of the Chappel and particularly to possess the door which leads into a little Partition where the Princes of Aurange heretofore caused a Bench to be made cloathed with black Velvet and covered with a Canopy of the same Stuffe for themselves and for Persons of Quality that were ordinarily of their train but they dreamed not to remedy another inconvenience which deceived all the other precautions that they used For the French in stead of giving place to the English and of using the civility which they were accustomed to have for strangers would not go out of the Church so greedy and resolute were they of seeing the King and the manner of his Worship and Religion And even the persons of Condition which sate in the little Partition whereof before and who were for the most part Dutch refused to make place for the Lords who were in great number about the Kings Person without considering that this very Incivility hindred them absolutely to satisfie the curiosity which they had to see the King and to be present at the English Liturgy The Reader of the Church exhorted the people to withdraw and likewise the Pastor who made the Sermon went up again into the Pulpit and represented to them the wrong they did themselves as well as their Brethren of the same Religion and strangers as they in this Countrey in obstinately staying thus in their Seats after having heard the Word of God and in fayling in that respect to the King to whom that very Temple was given by their Superiors and where the English were to hear it after them in their own Tongue But these Exhortations made no Impression on spirits prepossessed no more than the other Reasons which he alledged so that the King was enforced to do his Devotions in the place where her Royal Highness is accustomed to have her Preaching particularly since most important considerations hindred her in the time of the Usurpation to go to the English Church Into this place of hers entred as many as it could