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A27254	The triumph-royal containing a short account of the most remarkable battels, sieges, sea-fights, treaties, and famous atchievements [sic] of the princes of the House of Nassau &c. describ'd in the triumphal arches, piramids, pictures, inscriptions, and devices erected at the Hague in Honour of William III, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland ...	Beek, J., fl. 1691-1702.	1692 (1692)	Wing B1686; ESTC R32563	25,299	179

on the hinder side Uyon the Top of this Triumphal Arch upon a fair Pedestal is to be seen the Statue of the King a Horseback resembling the colour of Brass as big as the Life And round the Pedestal these words REGI TRIUMPHANTI To the Triumphant King Above the King thus sitting a Horseback are to be seen two Arches thwarting one another and over them a Crown and two-Scepters laid a-cross Fig 30 * And on the other side IN REPRIMENDA TYRANNIDE ET RESTITUENDA SECULI FAELICITATE In Suppressing Tyranny and Restoring the Felicity of the Age. On the Right side of the same Border were to be read these words HEROUM PRIORI To the Chief of Hero's On the Left side ANTIQUIS MAJORI And Greater than his Ancestors On the side of the Pedestal where the King Rides toward the Upper End are to be seen two Currasses gilt and two cover'd with Silver together with several other Arms in the manner of Trophies In the Fore-part stand the Arms of England and upon the Hinder-part the King's Cipher On each side of this Arch are Erected two Wings adorn'd with Paintings both before and behind representing various Stories of Hercules Perseus Andromeda and Phaeton as shall be afterwards more amply describ'd At the Bottom of the Arch in the Forepart these words were display'd by the Glittering of the Lights SCEPTRIS EXERCITIBUS CLASSIBUS VOTIS. On the Hinder Part AUGUSTO ARMATO PARATO RECEPTO Which was thus to be read AUGUSTO SCEPTRIS ARMATO EXERCITIBUS PARATO CLASSIBUS RECEPTO VOTIS. To the August in Empire environ'd with Armies Potent in Fleets Received with all Men's Wishes And upon the Frontispiece stood this Inscription HAGA POSUIT COSS. DECRETO The Hague Erected this by Order of the Magistrates FIGURE XXXVI The 36th Figure is the Representation of two Naval Engagements in both which there was much Blood spilt between the Hollanders and the English and French then in Confederacy Fig 36. Fig 37. FIGURE XXXVII The 37th Figure represents the Famous Sea-Fight in the Downs between the Spaniards and the famous Dutch Admiral Martin Herperts Tromp in the Year 1639. wherein the Spaniards lost all their Fleet but Eighteen Ships to the great Amazement of all Men at that time FIGURE XXXVIII This Piece of Painting sets forth what pass'd at the Nuptials of Perseus and Andromeda at what time the Friends of his Rival whom he had Slain resolving to revenge his Death brake into the Festival Room But their Insolence remain'd not long unpunish'd For Perseus recovering his Shield upon which was Painted Medusa's Head partly slew partly chang'd into Stone all that oppos'd him By this Emblem we are given to understand what befel the King of England who thinking to have liv'd in the Quiet Possession of his Three Kingdoms yet met with many secret and open Enemies But his Generosity together with his Extraordinary Prudence will find a way to frustrate all their Wicked and Malicious Designs Fig 38. Fig 39 FIGURE XXXIX Here is a Man riding through the Air in a Chariot drawn by four Horses which he guides himself Beneath appears another Man laid sprawling upon the Earth by dint of Sword denoting the Triumph of Phaeton after he had put to Death the most Cruel of his Adversaries This Emblem also alludes to the Happy Success of the King of England after he had once undertaken to subdue the most Formidable of his Enemies FIGURE XL. In the first place you are to observe in this Figure a Woman with a Helmet and Plume of Feathers on her Head holding a Cap of Maintenance or Bonnet of Freedom in her Hand Another Woman takes her by the other Hand with an Intention to lead her to the Temple there to render Thanks to Heaven for the Peace they have obtain'd As she passes along she points down to a Virgin pensive and full of Sorrow leaning upon a Shield with a Lyon painted upon it at whose Feet lye several miserable Creatures some of which stretch forth their Hands as a mark of their being highly affected with the happy occasion of the other's Joy which was the general Delivery of Europe from Slavery At a distance appear several Armed men surrounding an Altar where they are giving Thanks to Heaven so ther same Felicity Fig 40 Fig 41. FIGURE XLI This Figure represents the Globe of the World swarming with Villains and Murderers and where Fraud and Breach of Faith are rampant in every corner of it In one part it is all enflam'd with the Fire of War and in another part of the Figure stands a Woman hood-winkt with a Sword in her Right Hand and a Pair of Scales in the other representing Justice on the other side appears another Woman with a Gorgons Head in her Hand denoting the Common Cause of the Confederates and signifying that Justice and a Good Cause are like Medusa's Face subduing and turning into Stones all the vain Opposers of Truth and the Regular Order of the World There are also to be seen a great Number of People slain of which some lye dead with their Weapons still in their Hands denoting such as have receiv'd the Punishment of Justice for the Violence and Wickedness of their Actions FIGURE XLII In this Figure you behold a Woman leaning upon a Shield bearing a Lyon Rampant She sits upon a heap of Arms among which lyes another Lyon as it were Guarding and watching over their Preservation To signifie the Vigilance of Holland which has always made it her chiefest care to preserve and secure whatever was entrusted to her Custody At the upper part of the same Piece appear the Portraitures of the King and Queen and below them a Mars leading to the Temple a Lady that carries a Palm Branch in her hand To signifie that the Confederates would fain be laying down their Arms were all their Just Designs accomplish'd Fig 42 Fig 43. FIGURE XLIII The two Figures placed upon the uppermost part of the Convex of the Terrestrial Globe one of which holds in her Hand an Olive-Branch and the other a Sword represent Peace and Justice embracing each other Beneath the Sphere of the Earth sits Ceres the Goddess of Corn with a Cornucopia in her Hand denoting the Freedom of the Country-man to Sow and Reap in time of Tranquillity The Peasant resting and sleeping upon her Knee with a Basket of Fruit in his Lap alludes to the Plenty and Felicity of Peace and the Satyrs Drinking and Sporting about her signifie that we are only to expect from a Happy Peace the Enjoyments of Repose and Abundance FIGURE XLIV Here Perseus mounted in the Air upon a Flying Horse and arm'd to Encounter the Sea Monster and rescue from his Fury Andromeda the Daughter of a King of whom he was deeply enamour'd and whom he sought in Marriage as the Recompence of his Victory in case he slew the hideous Monster that was approaching to devour her represents the King of England who inflam'd with a desire to

TRIOMPHE DV ROY THE Triumph-Royal CONTAINING A short Account of the most Remarkable Battels Sieges Sea-fights Treaties and Famous Atchievements of the Princes of the House of NASSAV c. DESCRIB'D In the Triumphal Arches Piramids Pictures Inscriptions and Devices Erected at the Hague in Honour of WILLIAM III. King of England Scotland France and Ireland Curiously Engraven in 62 Figures on Copper Plates with their Histories An Elaborate Piece of Curiosity First done in Dutch then into French and now into English Dedicated to Her Majesty LONDON Printed for Hen. Rhodes near Bride Lane in Fleetstreet and John Harris at the Harrow in the Poultry 1692. TO The GREAT and PUISSANT Queen MARIE By the Grace of God Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland Great and Puissant Queen IF in Ancient Times Hero's were Honour'd with Publick Monuments when they had perform'd any Extraordinary Atchievements to the end the Memory of their Actions might be preserved to Posterity and their Off-spring the more inflam'd to imitate their Virtues If the Romans among other the best regulated Governments strove as they did to excel all others in celebrating the Renown of their Kings their Emperors and famous Captains by erecting to their Honour sumptuous Statues lofty Pyramids and Magnificent Triumphal Arches when those Hero's return'd Victorious to Rome What then can be done too much at this time Great and Virtuous QVEEN to Honour at the Hague the Entrance of WILLIAM III. Your most Illustrious Husband He who by his Glorious Deeds has quite defaced whatever those Demi-gods so much celebrated in History perform'd of most Transcendent For whatsoever render'd so famous those Prodigies of Antiquity they only did in favour of their Country or rather to get themselves a Name but MIGHTY QVEEN WILLIAM the TRIVMPHANT had no other aim in all his Enterprizes but to advance the Glory of the King of Kings He was never capable of unjust Ambition or desire of Rule Only his Compassion upon the Miserable Suffering in a good Cause and his desire to deliver 'em from the yoak that Tyranny would have impos'd upon their Consciences were the sole Motives that rowz'd him up to Action The many Dangers to which he has already expos'd his Life to defend the Rights of Justice are too well known to all the World for me to enlarge upon ' em 'T is true Great QVEEN I have here a spacions Field to fill these Pages with the due Encomiums that belong to our Matchless Heroe and Your Majesty For what Great Things might not be said of Your Wisdom and Prudence Your Resolution and the Mildness of Your Government when in his Absence You held the Reins of Sovereign Rule But besides that I know You are above the reach of common Praise I have not Eloquence to acquit my self as the Grandeur and the Excellency of the Subject require Tha●'s a work for the Bold stroaks of the most accomplish'd Masters of Wit and Learning 'T is for them to take upon 'em the Care of making known to Posterity the Eternal Honor which the Heroe of our Age has acquir'd by the Favourable Revolution in England To which they may also add the happy Change of the deplorable Face of the Affairs of the Vnited-Provinces in the year 1672. There is no body but knows the Miseries into which they were then plung'd even within two fingers breadth of utter Ruine when this Great Prince being made Governor-General made it his chiefest Care to raise their drooping Hopes and forc'd a King no less Potent than Ambitious to restore the Usurpations of his Unjust War But MIGHTY QVEEN What might not also be farther said of You There is no body but knows besides the Grandeur of Your Soul how deeply sensible Your Majesty was of the unheard of Cruelties undergone by the persecuted Protestants in France who were driven by the Tempest into these Happy Provinces where they not only found an assured Sanctuary under the Protection of the Sovereigns of the Government but where they found the frequent and Extraordinary Marks of your Majesty's as also of that Generous Prince's Bounty wh●m Heaven ordained to be your Husband You have both Labour'd so effectually for the Welfare of the Church that it is plainly to be seen that God united your Majesties together on purpose to be the steady Pillars of it Nor is this enough Great Queen It behoves me also to add that the most solid Part of Europe looks upon You Two as the Principal Instruments that Heaven has made choice of to break the Fetters of her Slavery The Earnestness of so many Sovereign Princes to be your Allies is a Sacred Proof of this same Truth To which we might also farther add what so many Princes verify'd in waiting on his Majesty upon his first Return from England to the Hague where they altogether formed one Court the most splendid that has been seen for many Ages But I wander too far my aim is Humbly to beg Your Majesties Protection of these few Sheets in hopes of your Gracious acceptance as being not only a Collection in part of the great Atchievements of the Princes of the House of Nassau Your Glorious Ancestors but of those of his Britannie Majesty Your Illustrious Husband I was willing to believe that by representing to your Royal View the Homage that was paid him and which he had deservedly acquir'd I should in some measure discharge my Duty to your Majesty and that You would be so Gracious as to permit me with a most profound Respect to stile my self GREAT QUEEN Your Majesties Most Humble most Dutiful and most Obedient Servant J. BEEK TO THE READER WE Observe in all Histories that whenever any great Personages had Signaliz'd themselves by any Extraordinary Actions that merited to be preserved in Remembrance they erected in their Honours Trophies and Triumphal Arches not only to set sorth the Joy of the People but that they might serve as Eternal Monuments to perpetuate the Renown of those Great Heroes All Men know that what the King of England did while he was yet but P. of Orange in delivering England and Scotland from the Yoak under which they both groan'd and his Reducing Ireland after his Advancement to the Crown and all this in so little a Time were Actions altogether Generous and Glorious to the Highest Degree By that alone he restored the Rights Priviledges Liberties and Religion of a Nation which a Violent Government was labouring to Annihilate He re-establish'd the Republick of the United Provinces of which he is Governor and presently put himself into a Posture to break the Chains which a Prince no less Ambitious than Covetous had been a long-time forging to enslave all Europe Could they do less in a Country to which this Great Prince has always been so dear than erect at his Return those Tryumphant Arches which his Prowess had deserv'd And can I do a greater piece of Service to the Publick than by giving a Description and Explanation of all the