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A59352	The triumphs of London performed on Saturday, Octob. 29, 1692, for the entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir John Fleet, Kt., lord mayor the city of London : containing a true description of the several pageants, with the speeches spoken on each pageant, all set forth at the proper costs and charges of the vvorshipful Company of Grocers : together with an exact relation of the most splendid entertainments, prepared for the reception of Their Sacred Majesties / by E.S.	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.	1692 (1692)	Wing S2724; ESTC R37375	7,530	20

THE Triumphs of London Performed on Saturday Octob. 29. 1692. FOR THE Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir John Fleet Kt. LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON CONTAINING A True Description of the Several Pageants with the Speeches Spoken on each PAGEANT All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the VVORSHIPFUL COMPANY of GROCERS Together with An Exact Relation of the most Splendid Entertainments prepared for the Reception of Their Sacred MAJESTIES By E. S. Published by Authority LONDON Printed by James Orme And are to be Sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1692. To the RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir John Fleet Kt. LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON MY LORD AS it lies in my Duty to Congratulate Your Lordships Accession to the Pretorian Chair amongst the many unquestion'd Merits that have promoted You to that Dignity I must joyn with the Acclamations of all that have the Honour to know Your Lordship that You stand so qualified for Magistracy that I may truly say in Your Advance to the Seat of Justice You come Experienced to the Ballance You hold Your Commerce with the World and indeed Your whole Life has been such that the Scales of Justice have been Your constant Standart The Dealings of Your Lordship with all Mankind have always stood that Test That a hard Bargain an Over-reach a Rigour or Extremity those too common and indeed reputed Venials in Trade and Traffick have been so utterly Stranger to You that from Your Equality down to the poorest Person concern'd with You You never made a Murmurer A hard Word of Sir John Fleet is a sound that never came near You● Gates The common Voice that speaks Your true Worth and Goodness is without an Exception Universal And if 't is possibl● Your Lordship can have an Enemy he that is so must renounc● common Humanity and write Barbarian to qualifie for that Name Your known Integrity has been so remarkably signal that Chaffering or Factoring have been thought so unnecessary Preliminaries in dealing with Sir John Fleet that 't is enough You are the Mouth and Oracle both of Buyer and Seller Equity and Justice are left to Your own Decree insomuch that You sit Chancellor when You trade Merchant And that so fair a Character of Your Lordship is no artful nor borrow'd Colours but Your Natural and Substantial Complexion besides the Concurrence of all Tongues to give You this Right we have the particular Smiles of Providence to joyn in the Testimonial Your extraordinary Affluence of Blessings and so early and quick an Advance to such a Mass of Prosperity being undoubtedly the peculiar Showrs of Heaven in Reward of so much deserving Virtue But now my Lord to usher Your Lordship to Your Inauguration and the publick Manifestation of the General Applause that waits Your Lordships Enstallment here as too humble an Intruder I leave You to Your VVorthier Train of Votaries But in all the Honours of the Day the proudest of Your Triumph is Your Reception of Your Royal Guests and the Richest of Their Feast the hearty Zeal that entertains Them it being indeed to summ Your Merits no little Pride to all Good Men to have Two such Princes served by such a Magistrate In which Post of Glory I leave Your Lordship being in all Humility MY LORD Your Lordships most Dutiful Servant E. SETTLE TO THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF GROCERS Gentlemen WHEN I appear before You and enter'd under so Spacious a Roof presume on one Hand to survey the Worthy and Numerous Members of Your Honourable Society or on the other hand the more large Extent of your Commerce and Traffick either of which Contemplations are a Province above me I shall content my self to summ up my Speculation on so inviting a Subject by giving You this Due Gentlemen The whole World is but your Garden and Nature your Confectioner whilst all the Richest Sweets and Spices and all the Treasures of your own Phoenix Nest are so intirely Yours that I may justly say the softest Dew of Heaven falls for Your sakes and the warmest Beams of Day smile and cherish for You whilst the noblest Fruits and Products of the Earth only furnish your Granary And if the Creation since the shut Gates of Eden and the flaming Sword before it has any Remains of Paradice left 't is only in your Hands To tell the World how many Monarchs have vouchsafed to make themselves Members of the Grocers Company for Instance the Second Charles and our present Gracious William not to mention the several Nobility that have been proud of being enroll'd in the same List too plainly intimates your Particular Worth and Deserts when the Inclinations of so many Crown'd-Heads have singled out Your Favourite Society their Particular Election and Choice And when we look into the Records of Your Numerous Patrons and Benefactors methinks they stand a perfect Emulation of Piety and Bounty Nor has your own continued Splendour any ways derogated from the Luster of Your Great Founders Your Magnificence on all Occasions sometimes perhaps even to a Fault if Glory can be one and poor I may dare to call it so has ever been Extraordinary And if the Particular Gallantry design'd for this Day fall any ways short of your Intended Entertainment of his Lordship the Misfortune lies only in the Shortness of the Preparation occasion'd by his Lordships Translation to your Society not early enough to supply the Artists Hands with Time sufficient for a more sumptuous Cavalcade I have a very ample Feild before me but in recounting the many Honorus so justly Your Due alas I make you but a very slender Oblation when the Incense I offer is all your own for the Grandeur of so Honourable a Company challenges both that Eminence and Antiquity that the little Oratory of so poor a Pen is but a very feeble Illustration to Merits and Virtues so Conspicuous I shall therefore conclude with only one hearty Wish As You have been blest with so many Noble Founders may the Honorable Living be inspired by the Example of the Great Dead and may you never want what You shall always deserve the kindest of Benefactors Which shall be the Prayer of GENTLEMEN Your most Devoted humble Servant E. SETTLE The Movements of the Morning Between Seven and Eight in the Morning the whole Company design'd for the Duty of the Day meet at Grocers-Hall 1. THE Master Wardens and Assistants in Gowns saced with Foins and their Hoods 2. The Livery in their Gowns Faced with Budg and their Hoods 3. Forty Foyns Batchelors in Gowns and Scarlet Hoods 4. Forty Budg-Batchelors in Gowns and Scarlet Hoods 5. Forty Gentlemen Ushers in Velvet Coats each of them a Chain of Gold about his Shoulder and a White Staff in his Hand 6. Several Drums and Fifes with Scarfs and the Colours of the Company in their Hats Crimson and White 7. The Serjeant Trumpet and Twenty Four Trumpets more wherof Sixteen are their Majesties the Serjeant-Trumpet wearing Two Scarfs a

Companies The whole Temple is Dedicated to the Honour of the GROCERS in intimating these four Gods and Goddesses the Wisdom and Wit requisite for the Management of their Traffick through all parts of the Universe and the Ocean the proper Scene of their Commerce as importing from thence all their Spices and Fruits from the remotest Plantations of the World And the whole likewise applicable to his Lordship the Goddess of Wisdom being the principal Figure in the Front of the Temple implying the necessity of Wisdom to preside at the Helm in governing the Metropolis of England The Speech spoken by PALLAS WHen Arts Arms Wisdom in one Goddess joyn By such proud Attributes enstall'd Divine How bright must the Illustrious Pallas shine But hold why do I fill this borrow'd Throne And arrogate those Plumes are not my own To You Great Sir I all my Laurels owe Thy're only Plants which from Your Garden grow Arts Glorious Patron and their Founder too Are Titles Sir alone belong to You. Arms too are Yours Does the shrill Trumpet sound To Battle is the conquering Heroe Crown'd T is Wealth the Nerve of War the Soldier fires And the Rich City the rough Camp Inspires And Wisdom Sir that 's doubly Yours that fair And brightest Jewel that adorns Your Chair The Merit that advanc'd and fixt You there Let that Great Magistrate Your Councils guide And win all Hearts the Cities Love and Pride Then what Rich Blessings from Your power shall flow For Oh what Wonders cannot Wisdom do When Wisdom steers the Helm and rules the Stage She Plants a Golden ' midst an Iron Age. Hence the Lord Mayor the Sheriffs the Aldermen and this whole Honourable Train move to Guildhall where they finish the Triumphs of the Day in the Honour they receive of attending on Their Majesties at Dinner The Preparations for whose Reception are as follows UPon the Hustings at the Upper-end of the Hall is erected a stately Structure of the Corinthian Order This Structure is supported first by two noble Columns of Aegyptian Marble whose Bases and Capitals are Gold On the top of these are advanced two Pyramids of Modern Trophies as Banners Head-pieces c. Between these two Columns is planted an Arch on which is erected the King's-Arms in a most noble Shield with Festoons of Silver on each side and the Cities Arms beneath it On the Right and Left of these Columns stand four Pilasters of Lapis Lazari with Capitals and Bases of Gold Ornamented with Festoons and Shields of Silver On the tops of these Pilasters are erected Neptune and Pallas On the other two Pilasters are two Pyramids of Ancient Military Trophies as Helmets Plumes Bows Quivers c. Over all is a large Etableture of Silver in the middle of which between the Pilasters and Columns are planted eight Shields or Targets bearing the Arms of England Scotland France and Ireland interchanged The other four the Kings the Cities the Lord Mayors and the Grocers likewise interchanged Round the Columns are twisted this Motto relating to the Poetical Story of Perseus and Andromeda Huc volat hoc fugat hanc solvens cupiente potitur Thus Englisht Hither he flew this Monster he destroy'd And his dear Care the grateful Nymph enjoy'd On the Front of all annext to the Etableture are four Shields Two of which contain the King and Queens Effigies and the other two the late Memorable Fight at Sea with these Motto's FIDEI STATORES Thus Paraphrased T' our Faiths Defenders let our Homage bow Those Titular Names are solid Glories now Imperium Oceano Famam non terminet Astris Let the wide Ocean his Dominion bound But his loud Fame beyond the Stars resound Nassoviae nil non efficient Manus What Glories are for Nassau's Arms decreed His own Steel Pen shall Write and Ages Read In the two Naval Targets under the French Fleet is written this Motto Extincto sole victâ invincibili When Power meets Pride thus Insolence pursu'd Their Sun extinct Invincible subdu'd Under this Structure adorned with all other state and Magnificence suitable Dine their Majesties and the Ladies of the Bed-chamber On Their Right Hand on the Northside of the Hall on a rais'd Work sumptuously cover'd Dine the Foreign Agents and Principal Ministers of State On Their Left on a rais'd Work equally adorned Dine Their Majesties Privy Council and the other Lords Spiritual and Temporal On a second rais'd Work on the same side are seated the Commissioners of the Treasury and Custom-House c. Right over-against Their Majesties Table at the West end of the Hall sit the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and beneath on either hand Dine the Livery In the Lord Mayors Court above Dine the Lady Mayoress and the Aldermens Ladies And after Them at the same Table new spread are the Queens Maids of Honour are entertain'd In the Old Council-Chamber are seated all the Judges and Serjeants at Law And in the Orphans Court all the Clerks and their Retinue And in the Irish Chamber all those Honourable Attendants that wait on the King at Dinner The Entertainment is furnish'd with three Sets of Musick Their Majesties private Musick on a scaffold over the Hustings The King 's and City Musick in the Gallery of the Hall and the Trumpets and Kettle-Drums c. on a stage at the Lower end of the Hall the Serjeant-Trumpet on all occasions giving the Signal to the Trumpets and Kettle-Drums of Their Majesties and the Lord Mayor's Health from either Table Having thus far introduced my Reader into this glittering Scene of Gallantry I shall not pretend to give him any farther Particulars either in setting forth the Tables or Marshalling the Dishes I 'le omit that unnecessary Relation I believe there needs but little Description of that Feast where the Lord Mayor the Sheriffs and the Court of Aldermen c. are the Founders I leave my Reader therefore to his own Imagination to think how such Royal Guests may be entertain'd by such Inviters But among these gay and Jovial Guests I had almost forgotten a very important part of our Good Company viz. the numerous Crowd of Gazers and Spectators of both Sexes who though not altogether so well provided for as the other seated Guests and perhaps their Mouths go not so chearfully will have nevertheless all the rest of their Senses so highly Banqueted that undoubtedly they will receive that intire content and satisfaction as to depart with little less than the whole Pleasure and Riot of a perfect Festival And Gentlemen You that do me the Honour to peruse this short but exact Narration I have here made you being indeed no more than the Feast in Miniature were I that Artist as Apelles with his Grapes to give your well pleas'd Fancy any Relish or Taste of so glorious an Entertainment I should not a little pride my self in adding my Readers to the Number of the Guests Here leaving the City to their Pride and Glory in their humblest Tenders of their Loyalty and Zeal to their Royal Guests and Their Majesties Themselves to the unquestion'd Delight they shall receive from the Loyal Hearts and Knees that wait them there in all this Splendour and all the Honour and Quality that swell the Grandeur of the Day I beg the Readers leave in drawing to a Conclusion to thrust in my self so far a Sharer and Participater of the Feast as to joyn both with the Guests and Spectators in at least one of the chearfullest parts of the Entertainment viz. in the Universal Acclamations of Long Live our Gracious Soveraigns King WILLIAM and Queen MARY And ever Flourish the Honourable City of LONDON FINIS ADVERTISEMENT FAtal Friendship Or the Drunkards Misery Being a Satyr against that Pernicious Vice of Excessive and Hard Drinking With the Dangerous Consequences attending it both as to Body and Soul Offer'd to the Consideration of all but more especially the Younger sort Written by way of Essay by the Author of The Search after Claret Printed for and sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall Price Stitch'd Six Pence