Successes which follow your wise Conduct and the joy which they have to see you going to your Kingdom of England to take there the Scepter of Great Britain come here now in a Body to uphold the Truth and Sincerity thereof by more strong and solemâ— Declarations It is the same Company Sir which had the Honour to present it self to your Majesty in this very place in a sad and mourâ—ful Equâ—page and which with more grief in heart than it could express in words pronounced the most bitter lamentable Accents of a most deep sorrow which came then not only to strike the Soul of your Majesty but also universally of all the Members of this State From the same Principle which divided then their Afflictions proceeds now their common rejoycement to wit from that of a most tender and most respectful Affection for the Sacred Person of your Majesty and from a most submissive zeal for the Service and for the good of your Affairs The Cause thereof is so just and so touching that we hope your Majesty will be easily perswaded of the Truth of the Protestations which are made thereof here in your Royal Presence And we may boldly say that their Joy exerciseth it self in its full extent which is so much the more vast as these admirable Events arrive in a time when all humane appearance seemed to remove them wholly For it must be confessed that they are the Effects of Divine Providence which hath made the hearts of the Children return to their Father that is to say of the Subjects to their Lawful King and levelled the waies by which your Majesty walkes at present so peaceably and without Effusion of Blood upon the magnifick and superb steps of your Glorious and Triumphant Throne The Estates General of the United Provinces wish Sir that these great and important Prosperities which surprize us no less than we have wished them may be followed with the constant Obedience of your People with the respect of your Neighbours and the Love of both and that the Diadem which God hath put upon the Anoynted and Sacred Head of your Majesty being accompanied with all the Favours of Heaven may stand there a long Train of Years with a happy and glorious Raign for your Sacred Person and remain perpetually in your Royal Posterity even to the end of the world We will finish this Discourse Sir by most humble Thanks which we render to your Majesty in that it hath pleased you to chase this Countrey rather than any other to pass from thence into your Kingdom for which we shall alwaies think our selves obliged and honoured with the regret notwithstanding to see that the Reception which we cause to be made unto you with so good a heart is not accompanied with all the Pomp and Magnificence that the Majestical splendor of so great and potent a Monarch deserveth who is so dear and precious to this State and of whose Gracious Favour they shall endeavour to acquit themselves by all the Respects and Services which your Majesty may desire from your true Friends most faithful Allies and Humble Servants 'T was observed in this Visit that the King never offered to be covered as was thought to shew that he would do somthing more for them than he could do for an Ambassadour After this Speech ended the Lords the Estates were conducted in departing from the Audience by the same Lords that received them and being returned in their ordinary Hall they separated themselves Two other Audiences were given to the foresaid Colledges which being over some doubt was made though this Difficulties upon the audience of Ambassadours Solemn Magnificent Occasion well might and did dispence with Customes and Punctilio's whether the Ambassadours and Ministers of the Kings Princes and forraign Estates which were at the Hague should be received to make their Complements to the King without Letters of Credence or if after it were acknowledged that their Character legitimated them for that they might be covered since that having no Character towards this Monarch they could not be considered but as particular Persons to him The difficulties which arose here were taken away by the following Considerations They said that Ambassadours having a general Commission and not being as they said missi ad hoc they might and ought to do that which their Masters would do if they were present in person and so being certain that there is no Prince in Europe that would not do Civility to the King of England if he should meet him in his Passage their Ministers who were in the place could not fail therein also without being wanting to Civility and to their Duty Notwithstanding since his Majesty was not in his Kingdom he might use them as he pleased yet so that although it was in his choyce to admit the Ambassadours or not he could not dispense himself of treating with them according to the dignity of their Character and of making them to be covered after he had admitted them since they might The King complemented by forreign Ambassadours and were obliged to make their Quality appear in all their publick actions in an Estate where every one acknowledgeth them for Ambassadours And on this account that nothing might be omitted which might conduce to the honour of the King and the Glory of his Restitution Monsieur de Thou Count of Meslay The French Ambassadour hath Audience Ordinary Ambassadour of France in Holland obtained the first Audience as well for having demanded it first as for that there was no other Ambassadour at the Hague that would stand in competition with him He was met in the Court by one of the chief Gentlemen of the Chamber and on the top of the Stayrs by the Captain of the Life-guard who was as the Mâ—ster of the Ceremonies Assoon as he had made his Reverences and would have begun to speak the King covered himself presently and shewed thereby to the Ambassadour what he had to do His complement and gratulation of his Majesties and his Kingdoms Happiness was well received but his Audience was short Monsieur Oâ—te Krag The King of Denmarks Ambassadours next and Mr. Godsch of Bugwaldt extraordinary Ambassadors from the King of Denmark had their Audience after the French Ambassadour and after they had been received and treated as the other the first of them bespake the King in these words That since it hath pleased God to call again his Majesty unto his Kingdoms where his great merit should have established him long ago as well as the Right of his Birth they would not fail to come to congratulate him and to acquit themselves by this means of the duty which they have as well to the near Affinity which is between his Majesty and the King their Master as because of the streight Allyance which hath alwaies been between the Kingdoms of England and Denmark That they had cause to rejoyce for this happy Change not only because of the Glory
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
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