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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58417	A Relation in the form of journal of the voiage and residence which the most mighty Prince Charls the II King of Great Britain, &c. hath made in Holland, from the 25 of May, to the 2 of June, 1660 rendered into English out of the original French by Sir William Lower ...	Lower, William, Sir, 1600?-1662.; Keuchenius, Robertus, 1636-1673.	1660 (1660)	Wing R781; ESTC R9642	103,435	176

with the Princess Dowager and with the Prince of Orange The same day Mr. Ripperda of Buirse having made report in the same assembly of what passed in the voiage he made with some other Deputies to the King at Breda in order to their resolution of the 14. of this moneth the Deputies were thanked for it And for as much as the Estates General as it was agreed upon with the Estates of Holland should be at all the expence that should be made for the King during the residence which his Majesty should make in the Country except that of his voiage and that from the day that he arrived at the Hage they laid down this day a foundation of three hundred thousand Gilders and they required the Lord Ripperda of Buirse Guldewagen Swanenburg Stavenisse Renswoude Velsen Ripperda and Schulenbourg to attend his Majesty at dinner The Table was doubly furnished at the head of which and in the mid'st sate the King having on his left hand the Princess Royal and on his right the Queen of Bohemia when she dined there At the end of the Table on the same side were the Dukes of York and Glocester and at the other end by the Princess Royal was the Prince of Orange her Son And this order was observed in all the repasts only in the absence of the Prince of Orange the two Princes his Majesties brothers separated and placed themselves at the two ends of the Table By this means one could well serve all those that were there because they were all at a certain distance which permitted the Officers to do their functions as also the Deputies of the Estates left space enough between the King's Table and theirs for the convenience of those which served the meat before the Royal persons putting themselves at the two ends of the skirt before the King who would not that the Deputies Table should be separated from his Most commonly there was a Set of Violins which divertised pleasantly the King during the repast and in the healths that were drunk as the King never failed almost to drink the prosperity of this Estate and very often of each Province in particular the Cannon of the Viverberg thundred from every Battery As soon as they arose from dinner the Commissioners of the Parliament and City of London came to do reverence to his Majesty The Higher House had nominated six viz. The Lord Aubery Veer Earl of Oxford the Lord Leonel Cranfield Earl of Middelsex Foulk Grevil Lord Brook the Lord Charls Rich Earl of Warwick the Lord Leicester Devereux Vicount of Herford and the Lord John Barcley but the Earl of Warwick being sick of the gout when the others embarked was constrained to stay at London The Lower House deputed the Lord Eairfax sometime General of the Parliaments Army who on that consideration drew upon him the curiosity and eys of every one and who would see the King privately to ask him pardon for the pass'd offence with extraordinary submissions The Lord Bruce the Lord Falkland the Lord Castleton the Lord Herbert the Lord Mandevil Sir Horatio Townsend Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper Sir George Booth he that levied an Army a year since for the calling of a Free-Parliament in behalf of the King Denzil Hollis Esquire Sir John Holland and Sir Henry Cholmly The Deputation of the City of London was much more numerous as being composed of twenty persons taken partly out of the Magistracy and partly from amongst the principal inhabitants and from the Militia of the City The chief assembled in the House of the extraordinary Embassadours and the others in the house where the Citizens exercise to shoot at the mark and learn to exercise arms Both one and t'other went forth a foot walking two and two and having before them a very great number of young Gentlemen that marched in the same order Being brought into the King's chamber they made a very low and most submiss reverence The Earl of Oxford spake for the Higher House but those that were there at that action agreed in opinion that never person spake with more affection nor expressed himself in better terms then Mr. Denzil Hollis who was the Orator for the Deputies of the Lower House to whom those of London were joined He insisted chiefly upon the miseries under which that Kingdom had groned for so many years and upon the government of Cromwel who tyrannized the English in their lives in their goods and in their consciences whereas on the contrary they could hope from the goodness of his Majesty but repose but sweetness and a lawful liberty beseeching him to return forthwith into his Kingdom and to take again the Scepter of his Ancestours without any condition which redoubled the joy of this Court though it were already assured thereof by the mouth of Sir John Greenvil The King received them with much goodness as well as the protestations of obedience and fidelity which they made him in the name of the Lords and Commons of England and of the City of London in particular and after the speech they did all reverence to the King in putting one knee to the ground and in kissing his hand After they came forth of the King's appartment they went to the Dukes to whom they also made complements from the Parliament and City they went there also a foot and from thence in the same order to the Queen of Bohemia and to the Princess Royal where they acquitted themselves also of the duty which they had order from the Parliament and City to render unto them After the audiences of the Deputies the King received many persons of quality who in the impatience to see his Majesty had passed the sea voluntarily without any particular commission they all did him reverence in the same manner the Commissioners had done Monsieur Friquet Councellour of Estate to the Emperour and extraordinary Envoy from his Imperial Majesty to the Estates General had also audience of the King and made him his complement in the name of the Emperour his Master whose Predecessour had expressed a most particular affection for the King even in the height of his persecutions In the number of those that came to render their duties to the King that day was the Captain or Master of the Ship which received the King aboard on the coast of England and passed him into France when that Illustrious Maid Mistris Lane saved the fortune of the Kingdom after the unfortunate battel of Worcester at least if one may give that Epithete to an accident which God hath so favourably blessed and who hath so favourably disposed the affairs in the glorious return of the King without any effusion of the blood of his subjects It is not our design to make here an unnecessary digression in making a perfect narrative of all that passed in the miraculous escape of the King after the loss of the battel nor in what manner the King being separated from the Officers that

Admiral Montague for the Fleet and to the Major of London for the Capital town of his Kingdom which were all united with one and the same affection and laboured unanimously to make one and the same design to succeed His Majesty added thereunto an excellent Declaration for the safety and repose of those who tortured in their consciences for having partaken in the rebellion might fear the punishment of it and in that fear might oppose the tranquility of the Estate and the calling in of their lawful Prince It is printed and published as well as the Letter but that shall not hinder me to say that there was never seen a more perfect assemblage of all the most excellent natural qualities and of all the vertues as well Royal as Christian wherewith a great Prince may be endowed then was found in those two wonderfull productions They breath but piety and zeal for the glory of God and for Religion but tendernesse for the afflictions of his people but esteem for the Parliament but firmness for the conversation of the King 's rights an admirable prudence for the regulating of affairs an inexemplar conduct for the re-establishment of the government in its former estate love for the good indulgence for the seduced and a more then Christian clemency for criminals or rather for crime it self for a crime I say so black and so abhominable that as there hath not been an example in history since the creation of the world so it is to be hoped that the goodnesse of his Majesty will not make it serve for example to the following ages Both one and t'other wrought the effect which the King promised to himself from them since they fully gained the hearts which the miseries of the time pass'd had already very much disposed to acknowledge their Prince For the Letter and Declaration were no sooner read but the Parliament declared that the sentiments of the King were good lawful generous and conformable to the fundamental laws of the Estate the government whereof ought to be composed of a King of Lords or Peers and of Commons and judging that the people would be well satisfied in the Declaration which the King had granted them the Parliament ordained at the same time that most humble thanks should be returned to his Majesty for the favourable Letter which he graciously had written to them That to disingage his Majesty from the place where he was and to facilitate his passage they ordered him presently a sum of fifty thousand pounds sterling which was increased with another of ten thousand by the inhabitants of the City of London That the Admiral Montague should go with his Fleet to attend the King's orders on the coast of Holland That the two Houses and City of London should send to beseech him by their Deputies to come forthwith to take possession of the Kingdoms which God and his Right had given him and that in the mean time Sir John Greenvil should be dispatched with the Parliaments answer and should carry to Breda the resolutions and prayers of the two Houses or rather the just impatience which all England had to see again their Soveraign after a sad absence of so many years But that which is most remarkable in these resolutions is that they were not taken after a long contestation nor upon a simple acquiesment of the assembly but by the expresse suffrages and upon the universal and unanimous consent of all the Deputies of the two Houses who laboured in emulation of each other which should give the most proofs of affection The Parliament also permitted General Monck to send Mr. Clarges his brother-in-law accompanied with some Officers of the Army to assure his Majesty of the fidelity and obedience of the Army which had made publick and solemn protestations thereof after the Letter and Declaration was communicated unto them by the General But to the end one may see plainly what the sentiments were of all the English on this occasion I will not fear to report here the very words which the Speaker of the house of Commons said to the Gentleman which had delivered him Letters from his Majesty It is impossible for me said he to expresse the acknowledgment and submission with which the Commons assembled here in Parliament have received the Letter wherewith his Majesty was pleased to honour them The thing speaks it self you have seen it with your eys and heard it with your ears Our Bels our Bonfires and the report of our Artillery have already begun to proclaim the King and to publish our joy We have made known to the People that our King the glory of England is returning unto his Kingdom and have heard resound in our ears these agreeable protestations that they are ready to receive him and their hearts open to lodge him and as well the Parliament as People have already cried aloud together with one voice in their prayers to the King of Kings Long live King Charls the second I have also to tell you continued he that the Parliament not willing that you should return without some mark of acknowledgment to the King your Soveraign and ours hath ordained you the sum of five hundred pounds sterling to buy you a Jewel to make you to remember the honour which his Majesty hath done you in charging you with a Commission of this nature whereof you have so well acquitted your self that the Parliament hath commanded me to give you thanks We must confesse that there is something very extraordinary in this marvellous revolution but it is also certain that there is nothing miraculous in it The King was not surprised thereat God used him in the conduct of this great work He had laboured therein he had observed the dispositions and knew the progresses thereof and in this foresight he departed from Bruxels the last of Mareh to go to Breda And though since in the same month he went sometimes to Bruxels and to Antwerp he was resolved notwithstanding not to remain there but to betake him to the Princess Royal his sister Many considerations obliged him to depart the Territorres under the obedience of the King of Spain in this conjuncture of affairs but the sole convenience which he had at Breda to receive at all times Posts from England which passed and repassed every day and hour and to go from thence unto Holland to expedite the return into his Kingdom might invite him to transfer his Court there for a while He arrived there the 14. of April and was the same day complemented by Mr. Snel old Burgemaster in the name of the Magistrate who would likewise oblige the Town to make a solemn entrance to his Majesty but the Princess Royall hindred it for most considerable reasons The 17 the Lord Mordant arrived there with full assurances of the good will of the Parliament and that it would labour indubitably for the re-establishment of the King as soon as it should be compleat