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A20053	Brittannia's honor brightly shining in seuerall magnificent shevves or pageants, to celebrate the solemnity of the Right Honorable Richard Deane, at his inauguration into the majoralty of the honourable citty of London, on Wednesday, October 29th. 1628. At the particular cost, and charges of the right vvorshipfull, worthy, and ancient Society of Skinners. Inuented by Tho. Dekker.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1628 (1628)	STC 6493; ESTC S115219	8,787	22

Brittannia's Honor Brightly Shining in seuerall Magnificent Shewes or Pageants to Celebrate the Solemnity of the Right Honorable RICHARD DEANE At his Inauguration into the Majoralty of the Honourable Citty of London on Wednesday October the 29th 1628 At the particular Cost and Charges of the Right VVorshipfull Worthy and Ancient Society of Skinners Mart. lib. 7. Ep. 5. Rursus 10 Magnos clamat noua-Troia Triumphos Inuented by THO. DEKKER TO GOD ONLY BE ALL GLORY To the Right Honorable Richard Deane Lord Maior of the most Renowned Citty of London And to the two worthy Sheriffes Mr. Rowland Backhouse and Mr. William Acton Honorable Praetor Noble Consuls YOu are this Yeare the Subiect of my Verse In You lye hid the Fires which heate my Braines To You my Songs Triumphant I rehearse From you a thankes brings in a golden Gaines Since You are then the Glory of my Muse But You whom can shee for her Patrons chuse VVhilst I rest Deuoted To your Lordship And worships In all seruice Tho. Dekker Brittannia's Honor Brightly shining in seuerall Magnificent Shewes or Pageants to Celebrate the Solemnity of the Right Honorable RICHARD DEANE at his Inauguration into the Majoralty of the Honorable Citty of London on Wensday the 29. of October 1628 WHat Honor can bee greater to a Kingdome than to haue a Citty for beauty able to match with the Fairest in the World A Citty renowned Abroad admired at Home London and her Royall Daughter Westminster are the Representatiue body of the general State for here our Kings and Queenes keepe their Courts heere are our Princes the Peeres Nobility Gentry Lords Spirituall and Temporall with the Numerous Communalty London in Forraine Countries is called the Queene of Cities and the Queene-mother ouer her owne She is her Kings Chamber-royall his Golden-Key His Store-house The Magazine of Merchandize the Mistris of Sciences a Nurse to all the Shieres in England So famous shee is for her Buildings that Troy has leap'd out of her own Cinders to build Her Wals So remarkable for Priority and Power that hers is the Master-wheele of the whole Kingdome As that moues so the maine Engine works London is Admirall ouer the Nauy royall of Cities And as she sayles the whole Fleete of them keepe their course Fully to write downe all the Titles Stiles and Honors of this our Metrapolis would weary a 1000. pennes Apollo shall haue a New Garland of Bayes to vndertake it As thus in State shee her selfe is Glorious so haue all our Kings held it fit to make her chiefe Ruler eminent and answerable to her greatnesse The Praetorian Dignity is therefore come from the ancient Romans to inuest with Robes of Honor our Lord Maior of London Their Consuls are our Sheriefes their Senators our Aldermen The extention of a Lord Maiors power is euery yeare to bee seene both by Land and Water Downe as low as Lee in Essex Vp as high as Stanes in Middlesex In both which places he keepes personall Courts His House is a Chancery He the Chancellor to mittigate the fury of Law Hee the Moderator betweene the griping Rich and the wrangling Poore All the City Orphans call him Father All the Widdowes call him their Champion His Table lyes spread to Courtiers and Free to all Gentlemen of fashion More to Proclaime his Greatnesse what Vice-roy is install'd with louder popular acclamations What Deputie to his Soveraigne goes along with such Triumphes To behold them Kings Queenes Princes and Embassadors from all parts of the World haue with Admiration reioyced These Triumphall passages are full of Magnificence for State Munificence for Cost and Beneficence for doing good For besides all the twelue Companies euery one of which is a gayner by this imployment it would puzzle a good memory to reckon vp all those Trades-men with other extraordinary Professions which liue not in the City who get money by this Action Then by this meanes are euery Yeare added to those that were before three Faire Spacious and Pallacious Houses Beautified Painted and Adorned The Lord Maior of London like a Prince hath likewise his Variety of Noble Recreations As Hunting Shooting Wrastling before him and such like Thus hauing as it were in Lantschip a farre off shewne you the Toppes onely of our City-Buildings and in a little Picture drawne the Face of her Authority giuing but a glimpse of her Praetor as hee passes by let mee now open a Booke to you of all those Ceremonies which this great Festiuall day hath prouided to Attend vppon him and doe him Honor The first Shew is called a Sea-Consort The first Salutation being on the VVater is furnished with Persons and Properties fitting the quality of that Element An Artificiall Rocke therefore is queintly contriued On whose highest Ascent fits Amphitrite Queene of the Seas habited to her State a Mantle frindg'd with siluer crossing her Body Her hayre long and disheuelled on her head a phantasticke dressing made out of a Fishes writhen shell interwouen with Pearle the shell is siluer on the top of it stands an Artificiall moouing Torroyse On each side of her swimme two Mermaides These two intic'd by the variety of seuerall instruments ecchoing to one another haue followed the Sea Soueraigne and waite vppon her as Maides of Honor Round about the Rocke are Sea-Nimphes and in places conuenient for them are bestowed our three famous Riuers Humber Trent and Seuerne aptly attired according to the quality of such Marine Persons who play vpon Cornets Amphitryte is the Speaker From whom are deliuered these lines HAile worthy Praetor Haile Graue Senators The Queene of Waues leauing Gray Neptunes Bowres waites here Faire Lord to serue you Fames Report so farre as old Oceanus Christall Court what Tryumphes Ceremony forth would Call To Swell the Ioyes of This Grand Festiuall Intic'de me with my Mermaydes and a Traine Of Sea-Nymphes hither Here this day shall Reigne Pleasures in State Maiesticke And to lend A brighter Splendor to them do Attend Three of my Noblest Children Humber Trent And Seuerne Glorious made by Punishment The Siluer-footed Thames my eldest sonne To Grace your Tryumphes by your Barge shall runne Your Fortunes led by a white-handed Fate Vp to this High Fame I Congratulate Glad am I to behold you Thus Set Round With Glories Thus with Acclamations Crownd So Circled and Hembd in on Euery side With Ecchoing Musicke Fishes euen take pride To Swimme along and listen Goe and Take The Dignity stayes for you whilst I make Smooth way Before you on This Glassy Floore Vshering your glad Arriuall to the Shore To Honors Temple now you haue not farre Hye and Come backe more Great than yet you Are On And so the Cornets playing one to Another they goe forward If her Maiestie be pleased on the Water or Land to Honor These Tryumphes with her Presence This following Speech in French is then deliuered to her with a Booke of the Presentations All the Couer being set thicke with Flowre de Luces in

neuer mourne Place in your eyes two Beacons to descry Dangers farre off which strike ere home they flie Kisse Peace let Order euer steere the Helme Left-handed Rule a State does ouer-whelme You are your Soueraignes Gardner for one yeare The Plot of Ground y' are trusted with lies here A Citty and your care must all bee spent To prune aud and dresse the Tree of Gouernment Lop off Disorders Factions Mutiny And Murmurations against those sit high May your yeares last day end as this beginnes Sphar'd in the loues of Noble Citizens Our third Presentation is call'd The Glory of Furres THis is a Chariot Triumphant garnished with Trophies of Armors It is drawne by two Luzernes The Supporters of the Skinners Armes On the two Luzernes ride two Antickes who dance to a Drum beating before them there aptly placed At the vpper end of this Chariot in the most eminent Seate carrying the proportion of a Throne are aduanced a Russian Prince and Princesse richly habited in Furres to the custome of the Country 1. Vnder them sits an old Lord Furred vp to his chin in a short cloake 2. By him a Lady with Martin skinnes about her necke and her hands in a Muffe 3. Then a Iudge in Robes Furred 4. Then an Vniuersity Doctor in his Robes furred 5. Then a Fro● in a short furred Cassocke girt to her 6. Then a Skipper in a furred Cap In all these Persons is an implication of the necessary ancient and general vse of Furres from the highest to the lowest On the Top of this Throne at the foure corners are erected the Armes of the Citty in foure Pendants On the point of the fore front a large square Banner plaies with the wind which Fame who is in this Chariot holds in her hand as she stands vpright Being the Speaker FAme's turne is now to Speake for who but Fame Can with her thousand Tongues abroad Proclaime Your this dayes Progresse rising like the Sunne Which through the yearely Zodiacke on must runne Fame hath brought hither from great Mosco's Court The seauen-mouth'd Volga spreading the report Two Russian Princes who to feast their eies With the rich Wonders of these rarities Ride in this glorious Chariot How amazde They looke to see streetes throng'd and windowes glaz'd With beauties from whose eyes such beames are sent Here moues a second starry Firmament Much on them startling admiration winnes To see these Braue Graue Noble Citizens So stream'd in multitudes yet flowing in State For all their Orders are Proportionate Russia now enuies London seeing here spent Her richest Furres in gracefull ornament More Braue and more Abounding than her owne A golden Pen he earnes that can make knowne The vse of Furres so Great so Generall All men may these their VVinter Armors call Th' inuention of warme Furres the Sunne did fret For Russians lap'd in these slighted his heate Which seene his fiery Steedes he droue from thence And so the Muff has dwelt in cold ere since VVhat royalties adde Furres to Emperors Kings Princes Dukes Earles in the distinguishings Of all their seuerall Robes The Furres worne here Aboue th' old Romane State make Ours appeare The reuerend Iudge and all that climbe the trees Of sacred Artes ascend to their Degrees And by the colours chang'd of Furres are knowne VVhat Dignity each Corporation Puts on by Furres witnesse these infinite eyes Thanke then the bringers of these Rarities I wish Graue Praetor that as Hand in Hand Plenty and Bounty bring you safe to Land So Health may be chiefe Caruer at that Board To which you hasten Bee as Good a Lord I' th' eyes of Heauen as this day you are Great In Fames applause Hye to your Honor'd Seate The fourth Presentation is Called Brittannia's watch-Tower THis is a Magnificent Structure Aduancing it selfe from the Platforme or Ground-worke vpward with the Bewty of eight Antique Termes By whose strength is supported a Foure square Building The Toppe of which is a Watch-Tower or Lanthorne with eight Columnes of siluer And on the Highest poynt of this Watch-Tower is Aduanced a Banner bearing the Cullors of the Kingdome At foure Corners of the vpper Square stand foure Pendants In which are the Armes of the foure Companies of which his Lordship is Free At each end of this Platforme stands a great Corynthian Brazen Pillar on a Pedestall of Marble On the Capitals of those Pillars stand two Angels in Postures ready to flye holding Garlands of Victory in one hand stucke with White and Red Roses and Branches of Palme in the other The Capitals and Bases of the Pillars are Gold and are Emblemes of the two Houses of Yorke and Lancaster once diuided but now Ioyned into One Glorious Building to Support This Royal Kingdom Consequently This Citty At Night in place of the Angels are set two Great Lights and so is the Watch-Tower at that Time Filld with lighted Tapers Vpon the same Square in foure seuerall Places are Aduanced foure stately Pyramides being Figures of the foure Kingdomes Embellished with Escutcheons In the vpper seate of all fashioned into a Throne is placed Britannia Maiestically attirde fitting to her Greatnesse Beneath Her and round about Her are these Persons viz. Magnanimity with a drawne Sword A Shipwright with a Mallet holding a Scutcheon in which is drawne a Ship vnder sayle Then A person representing Victory with a Palme Tree Prouidence with a Trumpet ready to Foresee Dangers and awaken Men to meete them All These haue bene and still are Watch-Towers and Lanthornes in the Nights of Feare and Trouble to Guard the Kingdome and in the Kingdome This Citty In other Eminent places are seated some of those Kinges of England in Robes Ermynd whose loues and Royall fauors in former times were Watch-Towers to Grace London stucke full with the Beames and Lights of Honors Titles Offices Magistracies and Royalties which they Bestowed vppon Her Edward Confessor called Londons Chiefe Ruler a Port-reue Richard 1. appointed two Bayliffes ouer London King Iohn gaue the Citty a Lord Maior and two Sheriffes Henry 3. added Aldermen These were Tender ouer the Renowne of the Citty and still heaped on her head Royalties vpon Royalties And albeit most of our Kinges haue in most of all of the twelue Companies Entred their Names as Free of the Societies thereby to Royallize their Brotherhoods And that many of our Kinges likewise besides Princes and Great Personages haue bin Free of This Company whose Names I forbeare to set downe because they haue in former yeeres beene fully exprest yet no Company did euer or can hereafter receiue such Graces from Kinges as This Antient and Honord Corporation of Skinners hath had and still haue In regard that All our Kinges and Princes sit in their high Courts of Parliament in Robes Ermynd being the richest Furre the workemanship of which goes through the Skinners fingers wearing likewise vnder their Crownes Royall Caps of Honor Ermynd Three of such Crownes beeing the rich Armes of This Company thereby