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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93777	A letter to the loyal apprentices in and about London and Westminster, for their making of a noble, extraordinary, rejoycing prossession, on Monday the eleventh of April, 1698 : being His Majesties coronation day, in congratulation of His Majestys safe return home; : and for the honourable, firm, and lasting peace. / written by Captain Anthony Stampe.	Stampe, Anthony.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5191A; ESTC R184574	3,046	2

A LETTER to the Loyal APPRENTICES In and about LONDON and WESTMINSTER for Their making of a Noble Extraordinary Rejoycing PROSSESSION on Monday the Eleventh of April 1698. being His Majesties Corronation Day in Congratulation of His Majestys safe Returne Home and for the Honourable Firm and Lasting PEACE Written by Captain Anthony Stampe 31. Dec. 1697. Gentlemen IT 'S out of my kind Respects I have made bold in this general Letter to you all who though you now live under Obedience to your Respective Masters till your Several Terms of Years are expir'd yet may in time come to be the Great Body of this his Majesties Emperial City as well as those you now Serve Therefore are you very Considerable in your Selves and equally concerned in Publick Rejoycings with those that are Freemen Now That you may not be thought deficient in your Loyalty nor insensible of the Blessings of Peace and the Benefits from thence to be received in a Free-Trade which in a small time will accrew to your own Profit and Enjoyment if I may be deemed Worthy to Advice you my Counsel to you should be for your bringing up of the Rear of all the Congratulations of the Kingdom being an Honourable Post in the Second degree of Dignity especially if in some way of Rejoycing distingushed from others and proper for you it would certainly gain you a lasting Reputation that Time shall not wear out To that good end I have invented and drawn a Scheme of a most Magnificent Triumphant Congratulatory Rejoycing Procession of Britannia and Four other Ladies that represents his Majesties Kingdoms The whole of it will be so fine and rare that it is not to be parallel'd I have designed that this Noble Procession shall be made by you on Monday the 11th of April being his Majesties Coronation Day as the only fit and most proper time for you to make your Rejoycings in Because by that time all the remaining Congratulations will be presented and all things relating to make the same Graceful will be got ready To gratify your Curiosity I am willing to give you an abstract of the intended Procession For if I should give you the Scheme at large it would take up some Sheets of Paper to Set down in Order all the perticulars thereof The Heads of the most Material parts of it are as followth which may Suffice at present There will be above Four Hundred Wind and String Instruments of Musick at least Twelve Thousand Flambeauxs a great Number of Footmen Pages and Pages of Honour all in Orange Liverrys Fifty Banners bore up if not more according to the Number of Divisions Every Division to contain about two Hundred and the Divisions you are to go in are to be Distinguished by your Habits one from another by your being in several Ranks and Qualitys For the Meaner sort of you ●re to go in the foremost Divisions they carrying their own Flambeauxs and the ●etter sort of you are to go in the latter Divisions with others to attend you with Flambeauxs The whole Procession is to be all in White Saving the Ladyes Pages and Footmen denoting Innocency and Peace in your Innoffencive Mirth Singing all the way you go a new proper Song to be made purposely for the Occasion and the Musick playing all the way the same Tune There will be five Champions in Armor to go before their Respective Ladys Britannia mighty Richly Attired siting in an Open Stately Triumphal Chariot to be drawn by Eight white Horses Lead by Sixteen Grooms and the other Ladies in very Rich Apparel siting in Four Distinct Beautiful Open Chariots differing one from another each of them to be Drawn by six white Horses and Lead by Twelve Grooms to each Set of Horses in Liverry as before and all the Chariots to be drawn without Coachmen or Postilians There is to be Morris-Dancers and Anticks with other strange Raritys The Procession is to proceed thro' the Street in regularly Order from Algate to the Cathedral-Church of St. Pauls so as to be there about Three of the Clock in the afternoon to heare the Divine Service for that day with a Congratulary Sermon to be Preached and at the close thereof Anthams also to be Sung before you made Purpusely for the late Blessings received when all this is ended you are then to proceed on to his Majesties Royal Palace-gate of White-Hall or to Chairing-Cross or St. James's Square as you shall be directed And when it begins to be duskish then you are to light all your Fambeauxes and not before because they may the better hold out till all things are acted and done For at one of those places is to be erected a most Glorious Throne Illuminated all over without and within with an inumerable Number of Lights them within infinitely Multiplyed where his Majesties Royal Heroick Vertues are wrote in Capital Letters with his Majesties Cyphers and Crownes to be seen and Read all in Glory with the Sun also When the Ladies Descend out of their Chariots they are to Ascend the Throne and to take their Places according to their Qualitys The four Ladies are to sit under Britannia all in State where the Ultimate Cerimony is to be performed on a large Stage placed before the Throne Gentlemen The performance of this will be a grateful acknowledgment of the Dutiful Obedience you Justly owe unto his Majesties High and Princely Merits And will let the World see that you Seriously consider and Thankfully own what his Majesty has done for his Subjects and the great Blessing to this Nation in general and this Honourable City of London in particular as in the following Instances First 'T was Divine Providence that brought his Majesty over to us to be our deliver from the then Impeding Slavery Popery and restore our Liberties Properties Secondly By his Majesties Protecting us in our Religion and his being not only the Deffender of the Ptotestant Faith at Home but a Broad also Thirdly For his Majesties Quelling of Scotland And Reducing of Ireland that might else have proved an utter Ruin to England And the Fight fought by him at the Boyne never to be forgotten Fourthly For the Miraculus Preservation of his Majesties Royal Person against Treasonable Practices that were designed both a Broad and at Home to take away his most Sacred Life purposely to Involue his Kingdoms into Confusion and Blood Fifthly For his Majesties frequent Crossing the Seas whereby he kept a destructive War out of his Kingdoms Sixthly For his Majesties Safe Return Home with Glory from the final end of this Dangerous War Seventhly For his Majesties Personal Valour and Prudent Conduct did force his Potent Enemy to Seek and Yeild to an Honourable Firm and Lasting Peace which his Majesty hath purchas'd with the often Hazards of his most Precious Life If all these Valuable Considerations shall as I suppose they will press home upon you so as to make the said Procession it will Visible Demonstrate to the World the Joy Zeal and Affection you Stedfastly have and bear to his Majesties Royal Person and Government and it will besides be a great Honour to your City and for your Selves it will erect you an everlasting living Monument of Fame Gentlemen My Request is That such of you as shall approve of this Laudable design of mine will with what convenient Speed you can be pleased to repare to the Marine Coffee-House in Birching-Lane near Cornhill on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Fridays from two of the Clock in the Afternoon where Attendance shall be given not only to shew the Scheme of the said Procession which I have Drawn at large but Likewise to Sign an Instrument to Impower me to Petition his Majesty on your Behalfes for his Royal Leave whereby you may make the said Procession accordingly and if you are Remote from thence and your occasions cannot permit you to come thither then I desire you with those others you meet withal that are Apprentices in any other part of the Town to draw up such a paper amongest your Selves and sign it to Impower me as aforesaid and send it by the Penny Post to the said Coffee-House for me and as soon as I have Obtained Leave for your making the said Procession I will give you Notice thereof in Print and likewise what is further Requisit to be done in Order to raise a Fund to Compleat the said design and the Money so raised to be disposed of for the use aforesaid by such Persons as shall be appointed by you The more you are in Number to make this Procession Prodigious will make the Charge thereof both Light and Ease to you all I am Your most Humble Servant Anthony Stampe The 31st of December 1697. ●ONDON Printed for E. Whitlock near Stationers-Hall 1697.