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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20069	The magnificent entertainment giuen to King Iames, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, vpon the day of his Maiesties tryumphant passage (from the Tower) through his honourable citie (and chamber) of London, being the 15. of March. 1603. As well by the English as by the strangers: vvith the speeches and songes, deliuered in the seuerall pageants. Tho. Dekker.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1604 (1604)	STC 6510; ESTC S109541	27,136	70

their neighbor citie made to entertain her soueraigne though in greatnes they could not match her yet in greatnes of Loue and Duetie they gaue testimonie that both were equall And in token they were so hands and hearts went together and in the Strond erected vp a Monument of their affection The Inuention was a Rayne-bow the Moone Sunne and the seauen Starres called the Pleiades being aduaunced betweene two Pyramides Electra one of those seauen hanging in the aire in figure of a Comet was the speaker her words carrying this effect That as his Majestie had left the Citie of London happy by deliuering it frō the noyse of tumult so he would crowne this place with the like joyes which being done shee reckons vp a number of blessings that will follow vpon it The worke of this was thought vpon begun and made perfect in xij daies As touching those fiue which the Citie builded the Arbor in Cheap-side and the Temple of Ianus at Temple-bar were both of them begun and finisht in sixe weekes The rest were taken in hande first in March last after his Majestie was 〈◊〉 vpon which at that time they wrought till a Moneth after S. Iames his day following and then gaue ouer by reason of the sicknes At this second setting vpon thē six weekes more were spent The Citie elected sixteene Comitties to whom the Mannaging of the whole busines was absolutely referred of which number foure were Aldermen the other grauè Commoners There were also Committies appoynted as Ouerseers and Serueyors of the workes Artificum Operarium que in hoc tam celebri apparatu summa summa THe Citie imployed in the Framing building and setting vp of their fiue Arches these officers and worke-men A Clarke that attended on the Committies Two officers that gaue Summons for their meetings c. A clarke of the Workes Two master-Carpenters Painters Of which nnmber those that gaue the maine direction and vndertooke for the whole busines were only these seauen William Friselfield George Mosse Iohn Knight Paul Isacson Samuell Goodrick Richard Wood. George Heron. Caruers 24 Ouer whom Stephen Harrison Ioyner was appoynted chiefe who was the sole Inuentor of the Architecture and from whom all directions for so much as belonged to Caruing Ioyning Molding and all other worke in those fiue Pageants of the Citie Paynting excepted were set downe Ioyners 80 Carpenters 60 Turners 6 Laborers to them 6 Sawyers 12 Laborers during all the time and for the day of the Triumph 70 Besides these there were other Artificers As Plommers Smythes Molders To the Reader REader you must vnderstand that a regard being had that his Majestie should not be wearied with teadious speeches A great part of those which are in this Booke set downe were left vnspoken So that thou doest here receiue them as they should haue bene deliuered not as they were Some errours wander vp and downe in these sheetes vnder the Printers warrant which notwithstanding may by thy Authoritie be brought in and receiue their due Correction As in F. 2. For From his owne cleare strength Read cleare straight c. And within fewe lines beneath that In steede of Because alluring this tryumph Read because that during these c. In the Cant. likewise beginning thus Shine Titan Shine In steed of O this is Had read O this is He. And in the sixt staffe For Here stayd Had still But here Had list not tary Read for euery Had hee Other faults pardon these I thinke are the grosest FINIS Mart. Idem Fāchurch The 〈◊〉 Hault-boyes of London Gracious street Soper lane Astraea