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A85582	Great Britains glory, or, A brief description of the present state, splendor, and magnificence of the Royal Exchange with some remarkable passages relating to the present engagement : humbly presented to the several merchants of the City of London, who daily meet, traffique, and converse in the said place / by Theophilus Philalethes.	T. P. (Theophilus Philalethes)	1672 (1672)	Wing G1667; ESTC R212964	13,847	32

stuff Whereof your Honours may have cause to snuff But they do come you freely to invite Into Great Britain where a stately sight You may behold which may be worth your cost To cross the Main and think no labour lost Read but these Lines and therein you shall find The Authors aim when first into his mind This Subject came which he did undertake Was pardon his boldness partly for your sake And when you venture shall on English Ground His Labours will and not till then be crown'd What is' t for you who have so great a Treasure To lay some by wherein you 'l take great pleasure To spend in other Countreys where you may Be freely welcome or to come or stay Your very presence in our Brittish Isle Will make our Countries and our Cities smile The Coyn you bring which if it be but currant Will be to them a good sufficient Warrant For your Pass-port where ever you shall call Without the least suspicion to Whitehall Of any danger that may thence ensue By letting in such noble Sparks as you Into our Island where you may be sure To find such Friends as will you soon procure That favour here which all esteem a bliss As 't is indeed our Caesars Hand to kiss Come therefore Gallants some of every Tribe To see this Place which we will now describe A Brief DESCRIPTION OF THE Royal Exchange WIthin the limits of Great Britains Land Where Charles the Second hath the sole Command Of Regal Power and of all that brings Safety to Crowns and Honour unto Kings There stands a City large fair and immense As well in Length as in Circumference Whose Banks are daily washed on each side By Thames great River every Eastern Tide i th' midst whereof this Royal Place doth stand Lately enlarged by the Kings Command In Statute-Law as plainly doth appear By those high Arches facing Front and Rear This is the Subject of our present Muse And if we thought we should not much abuse Your patience here some lines for to rehearse Wee 'll first present you in plain English Verse Not a Romantick but a real Story Which did of late eclipse Great Britains Glory The great Fire in London An. Dom. 1666. This City then was lately burned down LONDON by name though then a doleful Town As ever eyes beheld a dismal sight The Sun the Moon and Stars that shine so bright Were then out-vi'd by a most dreadful Flame Sent from above in great Jehovahs Name For to chastise us and to let us know That when luke-warm and have no heat to show He can straightway raise such an Eastern Gale As shall at length make all our faces pale As then he did because we wanted heat And now behold our very Houses sweat As well as Bodies by that scorching Fire Which then did burn and never did expire Until such time as it had burned down Twelve thousand Houses to the very ground Our stately Halls our Churches and our Quire Were the made fuel to that dreadful fire Our Royal Change which was of so great fame O're all the world unto this dreadful flame Was forc'd to stoop where now you might espy Our antient Kings in ashes there to lie This doleful object troubled us much more Then many sights which we had seen before Sir Thomas stood the Founder of the Place And this was deem'd by all an act of Grace That this great Torrent should him so be friend As not to pieces his Trunck breeches rend It spar'd no place where ever it did come But Giant-like rejoyc'd his race to run All hands were now at work the same to quench And now behold the Dutchmen and the French Some said were up in arms and in Moor-fields The noise whereof caus'd some to take their heels And to the Countreys round about did flye Where cutting throats was all their present cry Who can express the horrour of that night VVhen people cry'd Prepare your selves for flight The French and Dutch resolve to take our lives And when we are dead they 'l ravish all our Wives What shall we do in this most desperate plight But take our heels and save our selves by flight Though this prov'd false yet to the present crew It was all one as if it had been true Their fears their frights their terrours were the same Until the news into the Countrey came It was not so whereat the total Rout Who had escap'd began to face about And to the City once again inclin'd To fetch the Goods which they had left behind If not already burnt and stoln away By that rude sort who now did make a prey of peoples Goods and by this sinful itch Of stealing then they did themselves enrich The Alarum false much people now again Use all endeavours for to quench that flame Which by this time had run nigh well so far As those great Gates which we call Temple-bar Our King himself in person did appear To give Commands and Workmen for to chear The sight whereof did pierce his heart with grief Although his Presence gave us much relief In giving strict Commands unto his Guard Within our streets to keep strong Watch and Ward Lest the rude Rabble in this doleful hour Should pass the limits of his Kingly Power And getting head they should now in conclusion Bring all things here to ruine and confusion Which to prevent he marched round our City And of our present case did then take pity The pensive looks in his Majestick Face Did clearly shew how much he lov'd the place Our Pipes did run our Engines they did play Our Wives did cry our Ministers did pray But all in vain for still it did proceed Along our streets with sury and with speed But then at length in mercy to our City The Lord himself did of our case take pity He that doth say unto the raging Seas You shall not pass beyond the bounds I please He that doth send the dreadful claps of Thunder He that is seen in all his works of wonder 'T was he that said unto this dreadful Fire Stop in this place enough now of mine ire Call'd in his winds within their house of store And then straightway the fire burnt no more And having stayed his most dreadful hand Much people since from all parts in the Land Have been at work the same again to build Whereat our hearts with joy hath since been fill'd As formerly with grief in hopes that now If God will please but yet to speed the Plow And in our Land still to continue Peace Our City Trade shall more and more increase And in short time this place shall Hourish more Then it hath done for many years before Heavens say Amen and fend it with all speed This we will hope And now my muse proceed Unto thy main and principal design At first intended namely to define The present state and lastrie of that place Which now is built with so much greater grace Then

Great Britains Glory OR A brief Description of the present State Splendor and Magnificence of the Royal Exchange With some remarkable Passages relating to the present ENGAGEMENT Humbly Presented To the several Merchants of the City of LONDON Who daily Meet Traffique and Converse in the said place By THEOPHIL VS PHILALETHES With Authoritie LONDON Printed by Tho. Ratcliffe and Nat. Thompson for Jonathan Edwin at the three Roses in Ludgate Street Anno Domini 1672. To the Right Honorable AND To the Right Worshipful Merchants Of the City of LONDON Much Honoured Sirs I Have assumed the Dedication of these ensuing Lines wherein is a brief Description of the present State Splendor and Magnificense of the ROYAL EXCHANGE unto your Worthy selves many Reasons I could alledge for my inducement thereunto But that which I hope will give you the best satisfaction for my present presumption is namely this viz. because this stately Fabrick of the Royal Exchange may without a fallacy in some sense be called Yours for it was first built and since the late dreadful Fire again rebuilt chiefly for your sakes and for your accommodation And moreover because many of you as Aldermen Common-Council-men and as Members of the Right Worshipful Company of Mercers are at this day the proper and immediate Landlords thereof To whom therefore should a piece of this nature when extant be presented for Patronage but to your selves My aim and principal design in this present attempt is only yet farther to enhance the Fame Glory and Magnificence of Your said place and herein not only to my own Friends and Countreymen but also as you may perceive by the Introduction to Forreigners and Strangers beyond the Seas that so many of the Persons of Quality in the said places may be induced thereby among the rest of their Travels to embarque themselves for our Island to behold the State and Splendor thereof where I make no question not only the Citizens of LONDON in general but the present Inhabitants of the Royal Exchange in particular in regard such persons seldom travail into other Countreys without good store of chink in their pockets will bid them freely welcom unto the said place my hopes are that you also will be pleased as much as in you lies to promote and encourage this so honest and harmless a design which with much facility may be done when you shall either Write or Travail unto your Correspondents abroad In regard you will thereby be instrumental to promote advance the Trade of this once Famous and Renowned City of LONDON for the which I must confess I have so great and so Honourable a Respect and am much perplexed in my thoughts that although the City of LONDON is again rebuilt though contrary to the expectation of Thousands and that more Noble and commodious then ever and that the Royal Exchange in the said place is now built far more splendid and Magnificent then formerly I have been somewhat unwilling to expose this small piece to publick view by reason that we are fallen into an age wherein though a mans primary intentions in what he undertakes be never so good and warrantable yet if they do not succeed well and according to the humour and expectation of the vulgar they will immediately thereupon brand his innocence and reflect upon his Person as if he were guilty of some capital crime but inasmuch as since the late rebuilding of the Royal Exchange I have seen none yet extant upon this Subject I thereupon thought it great pity that so Famous and so Noble a Structure as this is should pass over in silence and not have something by way of Encomium exposed to the World as to the beauty and Iustre thereof And therefore if you will be pleased night Worthy and much Honoured Citizens but to make candid Interpretation of my present labours which were only the imployment of a few vacant hours I shall not then much value or esteem what the vulgar or common sort of People shall say or censure upon the same account and in so doing you shall for ever oblige him who is Your Honours and Worships most ready and Faithful Servant to Command Theophilus Philalethes To the courteous Reader Worthy Sir THese ensuing Lines now in thy hands do fairly salute you my hopes are that you will be so courteous as to give some small entertainment and although you shall find therein some passages not only of a Modern but of an antient standing Yet I hope they will not prove unsavory to your gust nor offensive to your occular Sence For as some of our English liquids half milde half stale is not only wholsom but toothsom and by most men esteemed a good composition So also here although there are some things which to you peradventure may seem somewhat impertinent and besides the matter in hand yet in as much as they did so freely present themselves to my mind when I was upon the Survey I could do no lesse in common civility then receive them into custody And now having mixed them together I do not question your complacency therein when you shall have leisure to peruse the same As for instance you will find here a brief Description of the late most Dreadful Fire in LONDON Anno Christi 1666. You will find also a small hint of the present Engagement between His Majesty of Great Britain and the States General of the United Provinces You shall find also how Queen Elizabeth of ever blessed memory with all her Nobles and Princely Train did come to this stately structure when first built by Sir Thomas Gresham and then gave it the name of the Royal Exchange by which denomination it hath continued until the day of the Date hereof wherein peradventure we are not so exact in all punctilloes as is thereby described inasmuch as our Ancestours have left us in the dark as to every particular circumstance at that juncture of time yet in all probability we may suppose the same You will find also what may probably ensue upon His Majesties late act of Indulgence for tender Consciences These cum multis aliis quae nunc praescribere longum est c. I have there inserted hoping they will not prove offensive to such as your self viz. Courteous Readers and so I bid you Farewell The Introduction MY Muse advance flye to Parnassus Hill Invoke the Nine for a Poetick Quill That by their aid thou may'st straightway rehearse To Forreign Nations in plain English Verse What thou hast seen and is a sight most strange The Stately Structure of the Royal Change That so thereby some may induced be To cross the Main this famous Place to see To you therefore who are of great Renown In every City and each Countrey Town Beyond the Seas these present Lines I send Hoping they will not in the least offend Your Ears to hear or Patience to peruse They come not here your Countreys to abuse With feigned stories or with frothy