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A63353	Londons great jubilee containing a description of the several pageants and speeches, together with a song, for the entertainment of Their Majesties, who with Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Denmark, the whole Court, and both Houses of Parliament, honour His Lordship this year with their presence / by M.T.	Taubman, Matthew, d. 1690?	1689 (1689)	Wing T242; ESTC R10359	10,361	22

Londons Great Jubilee Restor'd and Perform'd On Tuesday October the 29th 1689. For the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Pilkington Kt. LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON Containing a Description of the Several PAGEANTS and SPEECHES Together with a SONG For the Entertainment of Their MAJESTIES who with their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Denmark the whole Court and Both Houses of Parliament Honour his Lordship this Year with their Presence ALL SET FORTH At the Proper Cost and Charges of the Right Worshipful Company of SKINNERS By M. T. Londinum Vrbs Inclyta Regum London Printed for Langley Curtiss at Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's 〈…〉 To the RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Thomas Pilkington Kt. LORD MAYOR OF THE City of London THO' there be several Remarkable Occurrences Contributing to the Solemnity of this Day as the Presence of their Majesties the Court c. yet the general Joy and Satisfaction of the City is no less Worthy of Record which is an Universal as their PREPARATIONS are Publick Nor can it Chuse but add a Rubrick in the Kalender of Your Life that you were the first Advanced to the Pretorical Chair of this Great Metropolis after the Year of Redemption the Happy Day of Deliverance from Pagan and Egyptian Bondage by Miracles and Wonders When Idolatry like a Deluge had Over-spread the Land and the Church like the Ark lay Tottering upon the Billows then came the Dove with the Olive-Branch of Joy He Allay'd the Swelling of the Waters Restoring us to our Liberty and Religion When Arbitrary Force and Lawless Usurpation had Unreasonably Imposed upon us New Lords and New Laws contrary to the Practice and known Customs of this City Then did You in Defence of our Just Rights and Liberties stand in the Gap and Bravely Oppos'd the Violence of the Impetuous Torrent So great a Champion were You and so zealous an Asserter of these Rights that You prefer'd our Privileges before your Liberty and Glorying in Your Chains while You were yet a Magistrate became Twice a Prisoner Like Daniel You are taken out of the Lion's Den to be a Ruler over us Nor had those Ravenous Beasts any Power over You altho' their Malice was sufficiently Exasperated against You. Their Jaws were stop'd till the Delivering Monarch Order'd You Enlargement raising You Higher by Your Fall and a greater Object of His Favour by Your Sufferings This Royal Bounty of the Prince could not but beget in us a Grateful Emulation to Prefer You in the City for whose sake You had Suffer'd such long and severe Persecution The Chair being Vacant by the Death of Sir John Chapman with one Consent You are Chosen for the remaining Time and then with an Unanimous Heart and Voice of the Elective Assemblies to continue for the Ensuing Year My Lord we mention not this as a Favour done but as a Debt due to Your Sufferings and at last should think all this too little were it in our Power to do more This must stop the Mouth of Envy that all Tongues must confess Your own Merits have most justly Advanced You. You have Asserted our Rights Restor'd our Customs and Immunities Every thing runs clear in its proper Channel That it may never again be Disturb'd by the Violence of Impetuous and Arbitrary Men is the Prayer of My LORD Your Lordships most Obedient and most Devoted Humble Servant M. Taubman To the RIGHT WORSHIPFUL THE COMPANY OF SKINNERS Right Worshipful THere is not a Company in this famous City tho' yet more ancient has arrived to the Dignity you have done You have had the Honour to have Six Kings Members of your Society and this Year a KING and QVEEN for your Royal Guests in the First Year of their Reign and the First of your Deliverance from Arbitrary and Tyrannical Impositions There is yet another Remarkable Honour worthy to be Recorded the deserving Patriot of his Country Sir THOMAS PILKINGTON Lord Mayor whom Signaliz'd for his Sufferings you have most deservedly exalted from a Prison to the Pretorical Chair This will be your Applause for what is done that his Lordships own Merits have given him a Title thereunto Your costly Preparations Prudent Contrivance and bounteous Contribution towards so glorious an Entertainment is not only a Demonstration of your Respect to his Lordship but of Zeal to their Majesties That you have made me an humble Instrument to contribute towards the Preparations of this great Day requires the Acknowledgment of Your most humble Servant M. T. LONDON's great Jubilee Reviv'd in the Year 1689. SIR John Chapman being Deceased in the Year of his Mayrolty the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Pilkington was Chosen for the remaining Term. This being Expir'd He is again Chosen for the Ensuing Year This time of Election is on or about Michaelmas-Day there being a Month allow'd for the preparations of the Festival which falls on the 29th of October the next Day after Simon and Jude During this time there is a Committee Chosen of the most Judicious and Experienced Citizens to Contrive Consult Order and Debate of all Matters Relating to the Solemnity of this Day which for the Antiquity of its Institution the Grandeur of the Preparations the Splendor of the Pageants the Concourse of Nations and the Stateliness of their Entertainments may be called the greatest and most Costly in all the Univers This Year especially Claims the preheminence being Honoured with the Presence of their Most Sacred Majesties the Prince and Princess of Denmark with all the Principal Officers of Court and both Houses of Parliament The Bishop of London and all the chief Prelates of the Church The Lords Commissioners of the Privy-Seal the Lords Chief Justices of both Benches the Lord Baron and all the Learned Judges in the Law. The Four Dutch and all Foreign Embassadors Envoys and Residents who stand more Amaz'd at this Days Entertainment than any Feast they had either seen or heard of in all the World before It is Necessary before we come to the Description of the Pageants to make some Remarks on the preparations of the Morning Betwixt Seven and Eight a Clock in the Morning the whole Company design'd for the Duty of the Day meet at Skinners-Hall at Downgate 1. The Master Wardens and Assistants in Gowns faced 2. The Livery in Gowns Faced with Budg and their Hoods 3. Divers Foins Batchelors in Gowns and Hoods 4. Thirty Budg-Batchelors in Gowns and Scarlet Hoods 5. Thirty Gentlemen-Ushers in Velvet-Coats each of them a Chain of Gold about his Shoulder and a White-Staff in his Hand 6. Thirty other Gentlemen for bearing Banners and Colours some in Plush-Coats and some in Buff they also wearing Scarfs about their Shoulders of the Companies Colours The Motto in the Banners To God only be Glory 7. Several Drums and Fifes with Red Scarfs and the Colours of the Company in their Hats Red and Yellow 8. The Serjeant Trumpet and Thirty Six Trumpets more whereof Sixteen are their Majesties the Serjeant-Trumpet

Envy and placed it in his Shield This is peculiarly Adopted to his Lordship who has overcome his Malicious Enemies and this Day Rides in Triumph over them Minerva gives him a Golden shield Cover'd with a Goat Skin called Aegis which is an Hieroglyphick of the Companies He Rescues Andromeda from the Sea-Monster the Moral is the Church from the Deluge that was ready to Over-flow it How Applicable this is to the present Revolutions of this Year will need no Comment to Explain This Ship has on Board it a Jolly Brave Captain Master Gunner and his Mate Boatswain Pilot besides the ship's Crew continually Toping Bousing and Carousing who for Joy of coming into England having the Pot or Quarter-Can continually at their Noses get Merry with Drinking their Majesties and his Lordships Health discharging a Cannon at every Round The Boatswain giving the signal with his Whistle Three great Huzza's are given and the Health is renew'd with a Cannon as before and a Bowl of Punch Boatswain Sixty Fathoms and an half Ho Helm a Lee starboard hard a Port thus keep her thus there there fall not off brave Boy well steer'd Pilot and better Con'd Helm a Lee. This Son of a Whore he 'll Overset us Loof Loof you Dog No Near. What a yaw this Lubberly-Land Crab has made us steady steady Port there she scuds away The MARINERS SONG Captain NOw Boys our Voyage is out And we are Richly Fraught While Fools do stay At Home and Play We trace the World about Pilot. Wou'd I were in close Harbor From Noise of Port and Larbor Boatswain thou d'st run a Head With JENNY in Bed And Anchor in her Harbor Pilot. But if She shou'd not come to it If she shou'd not come to lt Boatswain If she has a Rudder As well as her Mother I 'll warrant thee Boy she will do 't Boatswain Sixteen Fathom and a Quarter Master Port. Captain Hawl in your main Braces Down with your Anchor and lore your Topsale to the Royal Sovereign of London The Captain 's SPEECH THro' Storms and Tempests I am here arriv'd Fierce as your Foes against your Life contriv'd The Seas the Winds our Ruin aid conspire Their Tumults Torrents their Hot Brains a Fire A Thirst of Ruling over Judg and Bench Which nothing but an Holland Draft could quench To trade to Turky we in vain had sail'd If Mahomet in England had prevail'd Or the most Christian Sultan nearer home By slie Intrigue had made her Slave to ROME But thanks to Providence the Storm is o're And we once more arriv'd on Native Shore We Boast not of the Riches brought from Far Vertue not Riches must support the Chair Justice and Peace your Pilot be to steer A steady Course thro' the Ensuing Year The Fourth Pageant THis is a Scene of Mirth and Jollity and called the Company 's Pageant in which are various strange Figures and Shapes is lively Representing their Mystery and Occupation It is a spacious Wilderness in which are Planted all sorts of Trees Bushes Shrubs Brambles Thickets and Groves In the former part the Orange-Tree with its Fruit flourishing in their Prime This Wilderness is Haunted and Inhabited with all manner of Wild-Beasts and Birds of various Shapes and Colours even to Beasts of Prey as Wolves Bears Panthers Leopards Sables and Beavers even to Dogs Cats Foxes and Rabbits which Tost up now and then into a Balcony fall oft upon the Companies Heads and by them Tost again into the Crowd affords great Diversion with these several Oranges of the Trees which are Planted at every Corner of the Wilderness which is no less Divertive In the Rere of this Wilderness is Erected a spacious Triumphal Arch the Banisters Richly Gilded all the Rails and Colomns Adorn'd with Ensigns and Coats of Arms of their Majesties the City's his Lordship and the Companies About the Column under the Lord Mayor's Coat is Painted this Inscription in Capital Letters DEPRESSVS SVRGO In the Front of this Triumphal-Arch which is of the First and Tuscan Order sits Amphion playing upon an Ho-Boy with Two Dryades or Wood-Nymphs one on each Hand These Wood-Nymphs seeming to be Charm'd with his Musick whose Melodious Harmony likewise Allays the Fury of the Wild Beasts who are continually Moving Dancing Curvetting and Tumbling to the Musick while the Birds are Chanting thir Wild Notes amongst the Trees in every Grove and Thicket These Dryades are Habited alike of a Brown and Tawny Complexion Hair Thick and Long hanging loose over their Shoulders and their Attire of a Dark Green. Amphyon a Young Man of a Ruddy Complexion in a Robe of Crimson Velvet on his Head a Coronet of Red and White Flowers with his Ho-Boy in his Hand making his Obeysance Expresses the Charms of his Melodious Harmony in this short Speech AMPHION's Speech IN this Wild Haunted Wilderness you see The Powerful Effects of Harmony This Harmony My Lord doth Represent UNION which is the Soul of Government London 's a Den where Savage-Beasts do Lurk Keep them in Concord and you do your Work. This being the Last Pageant placed at the End of King's street his Lordship moves to Guild-Hall where he is ready to Receive their Majesties who come Attended with the City Royal Regiment of Horse The Trumpeters Coats of Crimson Velvet Laced down with silver and gold Lace The Trumpets made with silver and several Damask Standards and Banners very Richly Embroidered with Kettle Drums While their Majesties are at Dinner they are Entertain'd with the following Song A SONG to their MAJESTIES in Guild-Hall 1 HOW great are the Blessings of Government made By the excellent Rule of Our PRINCE Who while Troubles and Cares do his Pleasures invade To his people all Joys do's dispense And while He for Us is still caring and thinking We have nothing to mind but our Shops and our Trade And then to divert us with Drinking And then to divert us with Feasting and Drinking CHORUS From Him we derive all our Pleasures our Pleasures and Wealth Then Fill me a Glass nay Fill it up Fill it up Higher My Soul is athirst for Their MAJESTIES Health And an Ocean of Drink cannot quench my Desire Since all we enjoy to His Bounty we owe 'T is fit all our Bumpers like that shou'd oreflow 'T is fit all our Bumpers 'T is fit all our Bumpers 2 Then whil'st in a Consort the Minstrels do play Let a Health to great CAESAR go round He who crowns with his Presence the State of this Day Whom all Conquering Lawrels have Crown'd And whil'st we enjoy the inestimat Blessing The Extent of our Freedom each Man his own way Let 's shew it in Thankful Caressing Let 's shew it in Thankful in Thankful Caressing CHORUS From Him we derive all our Pleasures our Pleasures and Wealth Then Fill me a Glass c. A Song to the LORD MAYOR and Company 1 COme Boys Drink an Health to the Chiefs of the CITY The Loyal LORD MAYOR and the Legal COMMITTEE The Emperial CITY this Year that with YOU Hath restor'd us our Lives and our Liberties too 2 With Justice and Peace may it ever be Floting May the Heads that support it agree in their Voting May a strong Tide of Vnion still flow in your HALL And no Sea of Faction e're beat down your Wall. 3 A Health to the DONS of the Company 's Table Crown every Bumper with Ermin and Sable If Ermin's the Emblem of Honour then You As well as their Lordships are Dignifi'd too 4 From Heats and Contentions for ever be Free Let CITY and COURT make one Harmony May never more Discord amongst You be found But one Loyal BUMPER for ever go round About the midd 〈…〉 Majesties Health is begun all the Hail 〈…〉 with 〈…〉 and Loud Acclamations His 〈…〉 begins his Lordships Health which is 〈…〉 as Loud Acclamations as before the 〈…〉 and Trumpets after the other Musick Beating and Sounding in their Turns The Songs 〈…〉 over their Majesties return back to White-hall in the same State and Order they came haing an Intire Regiment of Foot-Guards before the Coach Led by 〈…〉 the Lord Sidney the Guards of Horse behind with a Lane of the T●●in-Bands of the City on each side to Temple-Bar from thence by the Liberties of Westminster to Charing-Cross a Lane on each side the Streets The Lord Mayor 〈◊〉 to 〈…〉 where all the Silk-works Banners and Flags of the Company are Lodged The rest of the Companies to their Respective Habitations Also the famous Artillory Company that this Day Attended on his Lordship March'd off in Order at the same time The Painters and 〈◊〉 of the Pageants with the Speakers and Children having perform'd their Parts with Satisfaction and Applause Repair to Refresh themselves having sat all Day in their appointed Postures and Attire I will Conclude with the Motto of the Right Worshipful Company who have so 〈…〉 Contributed and Unanimously gone 〈…〉 Cost and Trouble of this Day Soli Deo Gloria FINIS