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A77794	Londons triumph: or, The solemn and magnificent reception of that honourable gentleman, Robert Tichborn, Lord Major: after his return from taking his oath at Westminster, the morrow after Simon and Jude day, being October 29. 1656. With the speeches spoken at Fosterlane-end and Soperlane-end.	Bulteel, John, fl. 1683.; T. B. (Thomas Brewer),	1656 (1656)	Wing B5455; Thomason E892_7; ESTC R206557	6,710	16

LONDONS TRJUMPH OR The Solemn and Magnificent reception of of that Honourable Gentleman ROBERT TICHBORN Lord Major After his return from taking his Oath at Westminster the morrow after Simon and Jude day being October 29. 1656. With the Speeches spoken at Fosterlane-end and Soperlane-end London Printed for N. Brook at the Angel in Cornhill 1656. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR OF THE City of LONDON And the Right Worshipfull the MASTER WARDENS and ASSISTANTS of the Company of SKINNERS Right Honourable and Right Worshipfull I Present you with these labours of my Pen as the first and newest Offering tendered into your hands to welcome You to your new Office of Majoralty and to congratulate the Right Worshipfull Company which hath produc'd a person so well worthy to receive a dignitie so well worth the Cities bestowing May both you and they find as much joy at the last day of your wearing it as at the first day of your putting it on J confess I cannot deserve to have these lines accepted yet I hope you will give them a courteous entertainment through the noblenesse of your good Natures for to your lasting Memory I set this down and dedicate it to your generous dispositions desiring nothing more then the prosperity and glory of this renewned City Londons Triumph WEre it now the intention of our discourse to dwell upon so Noble a Theame I might quickly run beyond the limits of those few sheets to which I am tied in relating the glory and antiquity of this famous City For as the Romans to dignifie their great and potent City of Rome deduc'd the originall thereof from the Gods themselves so doe also our own Historians draw the foundation of this mighty City from as high a beginning It being by them affirmed that Brute descended from the loyns of Aeneas the son of Venus the daughter of Jupiter above a thousand years before the Nativity of Christ built this City upon the banks of the River Thames It was afterward repair'd and beautifi'd by King Lud and call'd after his name Lud's Town and in processe of time with a small depravation of the pronunciation London But letting pass the first foundation of it the uncontroul'd and fortunate estate thereof even to this day hath given evident proof that it was built in a lucky hour and mark'd out for life and a long continuance There being no City that hath more flourish'd nor any City that hath been lesse afflicted with calamities And indeed whether we consider the Politique government thereof or the wealth of the Inhabitants or the priviledges which it enjoyes there are few Cities in the world may compare with it Mark the publike government thereof and say where is lesse disturbance among such a multitude of men throng'd together Consider the order and decorum of the military force being furnished with a body of well trained and expert Souldiers for the defence thereof as no where is to be found the like Consider the fair provisions made for poor and sick and say where are to be found Alms-houses and Hospitals of larger extent and greater maintenance And though the learning of the Nation have its proper seat and aboad yet hath it for the admiration and recreation of strangers Schools Libraries and Colledges of no small note and fame And whereas Common-wealths and Cities cannot have next under God any surer foundation then the love and good will of one man towards another as also of the people obeying to the Magistrate Ruling that also is closely kept and maintained in this City And now I have made mention of the Magistrates of this City I shal likewise speak something of the Antiquity of the government now in being It is true that in old time the government of this City with the Law and customs us'd therein were register'd in a book call'd Domus Dei or Doomsday book which was written in the Saxon language but of latter times when those Laws and customs were chang'd that book was defac'd and the things therein imbazl'd and lost Notwithstanding we do find in other Records that in the time of Edward the Confessor this City had two Governours which were then called Portgraves which were no other then those who at this time are called Sheriffs For these Portgraves are in divers Records called Viscounts or Sheriffs because that they then us'd the same authority as now the Sheriffs do Others there be that call them Aldermen or Judges of the Kings Court. In the time of Edward the Confessor there were two officers of this nature that governd this City by name William Bishop and one other called Leofstane In the time of Will the Conquerour the aforesaid Will. Bishop and one Godfrey were Portgraves or Sheriffs In the reign of Will. Rufus one Godfrey de Magnavile was Portgrave or Sheriff and Richard de Par Provost or Major In the reign of Richard the first Hugh Buche was Portgrave and Leofstane Provost After them Aubery de vere was Portgrave and Robert Querel Provost In this posture of government stood the City till the beginning of the reign of Richard the first Which gave occasion to some Authors to liken and compare this City even to Rome it self It being in the first place divided into Wards and secondly having Sheriffs instead of Consuls and an assembly of Senators or Aldermen together with several Courts or general meetings upon certain dayes Now that we may come to the Office of Major in particular we must take notice that in the time of King Richard the first the Citizens of London obtained to have a Major for their principal Governour who was to enter into his Office at the feast of St. Michael the Arch-Angel Of the grandure of this dignity I shall speak more at large by and by It shall suffice at present to say thus much in reference to the present occasion that above fifteen of those who have sate in this seat of honour and dignity have been members of the worshipful company of Skinners so fruitful hath that society been of worthy Patriots and Magistrates to uphold the government of this City The wealth of this City is apparent by the sumptuousnesse of the buildings both private and publike and indeed I may affirm that there have not been greater actions either of charity or munificence done by any persons more then by the Citizens of this place Great Almshouses and Churches having been built by particular men What good lier sight can there be then to behold such numbers of tall Ships riding as it were under the walls of the City so well fraught with the merchandise of the whole earth bringing in yearly such a mass of wealth as if all the world pay'd tribute to this one City So that the rich live splendidly and the poorest are free from want To speak of the strength hereof it is a City glorious for manhood potent in Arms and furnish'd with such store of munition and inhabitants insomuch that