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A02732	The arch's of triumph erected in honor of the high and mighty prince. Iames. the first of that name. King, of England. and the sixt of Scotland at his Maiesties entrance and passage through his honorable citty & chamber of London. vpon the 15th. day of march 1603. Invented and published by Stephen Harrison ioyner and architect: and graven by William Kip.	Harrison, Stephen, joiner and architect.; Kip, William, engraver.; Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632. Magnificent entertainment.; Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. B. Jon: his part of King James his royall and magnificent entertainement through his honorable cittie of London, Thurseday the 15. of March. 1603. Selections.	1604 (1604)	STC 12863; ESTC S122021	15,089	28

THE ARCH'S OF TRIVMPH Erected in honor of the High and mighty prince Iames the first of that name King of England and the sixt of Scotland at his Maiesties Entrance and passage through his Honorable Citty chamber of London vpon the 15th day of march 1603 Invented and published by Stephen Harrison Ioyner and Architect and graven by William Kip. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR THOMAS BENNET KNIGHT LORD MAIOR OF THIS CITIE THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULl the Aldermen his Brethren and to those Worshipfull Commoners elected Committies for the Managing of this Businesse THE loue which I beare to your Honour and VVorships and the duty wherewith I am bound to this honourable Citie makes me appeare in this boldnesse to you To whome I humbly Consecrate these fruites of my inuention which Time hath nowe at length brought foorth and ripened to this perfection That Magnificent Royalty and glorious Entertainement which you your selues for your part out of a free a cleare and verie bounteous disposition and so many thousands of woorthie Citizens out of a sincere affection and loyalty of his Maiestie did with the sparing of no cost bestowe but vpon one day is here newe wrought vp againe and shall endure for euer For albeit those Monuments of your Loues were erected vp to the Cloudes and were built neuer so strongly yet now their lastingnes should liue but in the tongues and memories of men But that the hand of Arte giues them here a second more perfect beeing aduaunceth them higher then they were before and warrants them that they shall doe honour to this Citie so long as the Citie shall beare a name Sory I am that they come into the world no sooner but let the hardnesse of the labour and the small number of handes that were busied about them make the faulte if it bee a faulte excusable I would not care if these vnpainted Pictures were more Costly to me so that they might appeare curious enough to your Lordship and VVorships yet in regard that this present Age can lay before you no President that euer any in this land performed the like I presume these my endeuours shall receiue the more worthie liking of you And thus Dedicating my Labours and Loue to your honourable and kinde Acceptations I most humbly take my leaue this 16 of Iune 1604 Most affectionately deuoted to your Lordship and Worships Stephen Harrision Ode Babell that stroue to weare A Crowne of Cloudes and vp did reare her forehead hye With an ambitious lust to kisse the skie Is new or dust or not at all proud Nymrods wall And all his Antique monuments Left to the world as presidents Cannot now shew to tell where they did stand So much in length as halfe the Builders hand The Mansolaean tombe The sixteene curious gates in Rome which times preferre Both past and present Neroes Theater That in one day was all gilt o're Ad to these more Those Columnes and those Pyramids that won Wonder by height the Colosse of the Sun Th' Aegyptian Obelisks are all forgotten Onely their names grow great themselues be rotten Deare friend what honour then Bestow'st thou on thy Country men Crowning with praise By these thy labors as with wreathes of bayes this royall City where now stand built by thy hand Her Arches in new state so made That their fresh beauties n'ere shall fade Thou of our English Triumphes rear'st the Fame Boue those of old But aboue all thy name Tho. Dekker Ode Triumphes were wont with swet and bloud bee croun'd To every brow They did allow The liuing Laurer which begirted round Their rusty Helmets and had power to make The Souldier smile while mortall wound did ake But our more ciuill passages of state like happy feast of In'-urd rest Which bels and woundlesse Canons did relate Stood high in Ioy since warlike Triumphes bring Remembrance of our former sorrowing The memory of these should quickly fade for pleasures streame is like a dreame Passant and fleet as is a shade Vnlesse thy selfe which these faire Models bred Had giuen them a new life when they were dead Take then good Country man and friend that merit which folly lends not iudgment sends To forraine shores for stranger to inherit Perfection must be bold with front vpright Though Enuy gnash her teeth whilst she would bite Ioh. Webster The Deuice called Londinium THese fiue Triumphall Arches were first taken in hand in the beginning of Aprill 1603. presently after his Maiesty was proclaimed It being expected that his passage would haue bene through his honourable City and Chamber to his Coronation vpon Saint Iames his day following But by reason of the sicknesse it pleased his Maiestie to be solemnely Crowned at Westminster without sight of these Triumphs Notwithstanding the businesse being set on foote went on with all expedition till Bartholmew-tide and then ceased because of the great mortalitie 40. dayes more was giuen for the preparing of this Triumphall Arch In which time the streetes for that purpose were diligently surueyed heights breadths and distances taken as it were to make Fortisications for the solemnities Seuen peeces of ground like so many fields for a battell were plotted forth vpon which these Triumphes should be erected The gladsome and long desired Morning at length is come In which the Streetes seeme to bee paued with people that in heapes flocke together to behold their proud heads that were aduanced in this manner THE first Pegme was erected in Fanchurch-streete the backe of it so learning on the East ende of the Church that it ouer-spread the whole streete And thus we describe it It was a Flat-square builded vpright the Perpendicular-line of the whole Frame that is to say the distance from the bottome to the top as the Ground-line is also in this so in all the rest to be found out and tried by the Scale diuided by 1. 2. 3. 4. and 5. and set at the lower end of the Peece By which figures feete are represented So that in all the descriptions where mention is to bee made of Heights Breadths or any other Commensurable proportions you shall find them left thus with a blancke because we wish you rather to apply them to the Scale your selfe then by setting them downe to call either your skill or iudgement in question And note withall that the Ground-plot hath not the same Scale which the vpright hath for of the two Scales which you see annexed the Lesser is of the Ground and standeth in the Ground-plot the Greater for the Edifice or Building it selfe This Gate of Passage then into which his Maiesty made his first entrance was deriued from the Tuscana beeing the principal pillar of those 5. vpon which the Noble Frame of Architecture doth stand for the Tuscane Columne is the strongest most worthy to support so famous a Worke as this Fabricke was considering that vpon his Rusticke Pillars the goodliest Houses Turrets Steeples c. within this City were to be borne And those

the beauties of it were a mixture taken from the rest he gaue it the name of Composita or Italica within the Temple stood an Altar with burning Incense vpon it before which a Flamin appears and to the Flamin comes the Genius of the City The principall person in this Temple was Peace At her feete lay Warre groueling At her right hand stood Wealth On the same hand likewise but somewhat remote and in a Cant by her selfe Quiet was seated the first hand maide of Peace whose feete stood vpon Tumult On the left hand at the former distance Liberty the second hand-maide of Peace had her place at whose feete Seruitude lay subiected Beneath these on distinct degrees sate two other hand maides of Peace Safety and Felicity Safety trampling vpon Danger and Felicity vpon Vnhappinesse Genius and Flamin spake thus much GEN. STay what art thou that in this strange attire Darst kindle stranger and vnhallowed fire Vpon this Altar FL. Rather what art thou That darst so rudely interrupt my vowe My habite speakes my name GE. A Flamin FL. Yes And Martialis cald G●. I so did gesse By my short view but whence didst thou ascend Hither or how or to what mysticke end FL. The noise and present tumult of this Day Rowsd me from sleepe and silence where I lay Obscur'd from light which when I wake to see I wondring thought what this great pompe might be When looking in my Kalender I found The Ides of Marche were entred and I bound With these to celebrate the Geniall feast Of Anna stil'd Perenna Mars his guest Who in this Month of his is yearely cal'd To banquet at his Altars and instald A Goddesse with him since she files the Yeare And knits the oblique scarse that gyrts the spheare Whilest foure fac'd Ianus turnes his vernall looke Vpon their meeting howers as if he tooke High pride and pleasure GE. Sure thou still dost dreame And both thy tongue and thought rides on the streame Of Phantasie Behold here Hee nor Shee Haue any Altar Fane or Diety Stoope read but this Inscription and then view To whome the place is consecrate T is trew That this is Ianus Temple and that now He turnes vpon the Year his freshest browe That this is Mars his moneth and these the Ides Wherein his Anne was honored Both the Tides Titles and Place we knowe But these dead rites Are long since buried and new power excites More highe and hartie flames Loe there is he Who brings with him a greater Anne then shee Whose strong and potent vertues haue defac'd Sterne Mars his statues and vpon them plac'd His and the worlds blest blessings This hath brought Sweete Peace to sit in that bright state she ought Vnbloudy or vntroubled hath forc'd hence All tumults feares or other darke portents That might inuade weake minds hath made men see Once more the face of welcome Liberty And doth in all his present acts restore That first pure world made of the better Ore Now Innocence shall cease to be the spoile Of rauenous Greatnesse or to sleepe the soile Of raised Pesantrie with teares and bloud No more shall rich men for their little good Suspect to be made guiltie or vile Spies enioy the lust of their so murdering eyes Men shall put off their Yron minds and hearts The Time forget his olde malicious artes With this new minute and no print remaine Of what was thought the former ages staine Backe Flamin with thy superstitious fumes And sense not heere Thy ignorance presumes Too much in acting any Ethnick rite In this translated Temple Heere no wight To sacrifice saue my deuotion comes That brings in steed of those thy Masculine gummes My Cities heart which shall for euer burne Vpon this Altar and no Time shall turne The same to ashes Heere I fixe it fast Flame bright flame high and may it euer last Whilest I before the figure of thy Peace Still tend the fire and giue it quicke increase With prayers wishes vowes whereof be these The least and weakest that no Age may leese The memory of this so rich a day But rather that it henceforth yearely may Begin our spring and with our spring the prime And first account of Yeares of Months of Time And may these Ides as fortunate appeare To thee as they to Caesar fatall were Be all thy Thoughts borne perfect and thy Hopes In their euents still crownd beyond their scopes Let not wide Heauen that secret blessing know To giue which she on thee will not bestow Blind Fortune be thy slaue and may her store The lesse thou seest it follow thee the more Much more I would but see these brasen Gates Make hast to close as vrged by thy Fates Here ends my Cities office here it breakes Yet with my tongue and this pure heart she speakes A short farewell and lower then thy feete With feruent thankes thy royall paines doth greete Pardon if my abruptnesse breed disease He merits not t' offend that hasts to please Lectori Candido READER The limmes of these great Triumphall bodies lately disioynted and taken in sunder I haue thou seest for thy sake set in their apt and right places againe so that now they are to stand as perpetuall monuments not to be shaken in peeces or to be broken downe by the malice of that enuious destroyer of all things Time VVhich labours of mine if they yeeld thee either profit or pleasure thou art in requitall thereof to pay many thankes to this honourable Citie whose bounty towards me not onely in making choise of me to giue directions for the intire workmanship of the fiue Triumphall Arch's builded by the same but also in publishing these Peeces I do here gladly acknowledge to haue bene exceeding liberall Nor shall it be amisse in this place to giue thee intelligence of some matters by way of notes which were not fully obserude nor freely inough set downe in the Printed Booke of these Triumphes amongst which these that follow are chiefest His Maiestie departed from the Tower betweene the houres of 11. and 12 and before 5. had made his royall passage through the Citie hauing a Canopie borne ouer him by 8. Knights The first Obiect that his Maiesties eye encountred after his entrance into London was part of the children of Christs Church Hospitall to the number of 300. who were placed on a Scaffold erected for that purpose in Barking Church-yard by the Tower The way from the Tower to Temple-Barre was not onely sufficiently grauelled but all the streetes lying betweene those two places were on both sides where the breadth would permit raild in at the charges of the Citie Paules Church-yard excepted The Liueries of the Companies hauing their Streamers Ensignes and Banerets spred on the tops of their railes before them reached from the middle of Marke Lane to the Pegme at Temple Barre Two Marshals were chosen for the day to cleere the passage both of them being well mounted and attended on by sixe men suteably attirde to each Marshall The Conduits of Cornehill of Cheape and of Fleetestreete that day ran Claret wine very plenteously which by reason of so much excellent Musicke that sounded foorth not onely from each seuerall Pegme but also from diuerse other places ran the faster and more merrily downe into some bodies bellies As touching the Oration vttered by Sir Henry Mountague Recorder of the City with the gifts bestowed on the King the Queene and the Prince beeing three Cups of gold as also all such songs as were that day sung in the seuerall Arch's I referre you to the Booke in print where they are set downe at large And thus much you shall vnderstand that no manner of person whatsoever did disburse any part towards the charge of these fiue Triumphes but onely the meere Citizens being all free-men heretofore the charge being borne by fifteenes and the Chamber of London as may appear by auncient presidents but now it was leauied amongst the Companies The other two Arch's erected by Merchant-Strangers viz the Italians and Dutchmen were only their owne particular charge The Citty elected 16. Committies to whom the managing of the whole businesse was absolutely referred of which number 4. were Aldermen the other 12. Commoners viz. one out of each of the 12. Companies Other Committies were also appointed as ouer-seers and surueyors of the worke Farewell Imprinted at London by Iohn Windet Printer to the Honourable Citie of London and are to be sold at the Authors house in Lime-Street at the signe of the Snayle 1604