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A46276	The triumphs of London performed on Friday, Octob. 29, 1675, for the entertainment of the Right Honourable and truly noble pattern of prudence and loyalty, Sir Joseph Sheldon, Kt., Lord Mayor of the city of London : containing a true description of the several pageants, with the speeches spoken on each pageant : together with several songs sung at this solemnity : all set forth at the proper costs and charges of the worshipful company of drapers / designed and composed by Tho. Jordan ...	Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?	1675 (1675)	Wing J1068; ESTC R31546	12,925	25

THE Triumphs of London Performed on Friday Octob. 29. 1675. for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable and truly Noble Pattern of Prudence and Loyalty Sir IOSEPH SHELDON K t Lord Mayor of the City of LONDON Containing a true description of the several Pageants with the Speeches spoken on each Pageant Together with the several Songs sung at this Solemnity All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the WORSHIPFUL COMPANY of DRAPERS Designed and Composed by Tho. Iordan Gent. LONDON Printed by I. Macock for Iohn Playford and are sold at his Shop near the Temple-Church 1675. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir IOSEPH SHELDON K t Lord Mayor Of the CITY of LONDON MY LORD SVccession Election and Desert by their Trinity of Power in a Vnity of Consent are manuductive in your ascension to that Chair of Equity prepared for those worthy Patriots who are to dispense Iustice impartially for the civil support of this great City for the which dignity Extraction Nature and Education have so copiously qualified your Lordship that you will be able in your Governing to satisfie the highest Expectation It was not long since the expression of an ingenious Gentleman who honoureth your Name and Family that as the Iews chose their first Monarch for the magnitude of his Corporeal dimensions You might have been more reasonably Elected Lord Mayor for the grandeur of your Animal and Intellectual Expansions That you deserve were not the Governing time of the City limited to fill the Iustice-Seat of this Emporeum so long a time as your Predecessor Sir Henry Fitz-Alwin a Member of this Company of Drapers who was the first Lord Mayor of this Antient Famous City and continued in that Dignity more than 24. years sans intermission Nor is this opinion confined to the indulgence of one single person but is the Vniversal Iudgment of all rational Citizens and such are the sober thoughts of My Lord Your Faithful and Humblest Honourer Tho. Iordan TO THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF DRAPERS Gentlemen YOVR own Vrbanity more than my Desert hath exalted my humble Genius to the Advancement of Designing and Describing this Days Triumph to which if when you have survey'd it you are pleas'd to object that I have not perform'd this Duty so exactly as I should I must ingenously confess I have done it as well as I can in Structure Figure Speech and Melody all which in their aptitude Consent and Concenter in Magnifying the Merit of the Magistrate and also elevating the deserved Dignity of the Antient and Splendid Society of Drapers And I hope that when you shall consider my subject matter in point of Trade is the great Manufacture of this Nation Cloth it may reasonably in the best sense be said My Wits went a Wool-gathering But with high intention that my Muse may like Jason bring in and magnifie The Golden Fleece whose splendour can never be sufficiently glorified nor this Worshipful antiently famous Company be illustrated by the weak Endeavours of Your most Obsequious Servant Thomas Iordan In proper Habits orderly Array'd The Movements of the Morning are Display'd SElected Citizens i' th' Morning All At seven a Clock do meet at Drapers-Hall The Master Wardens and Assistants joins For the first rank in their Gowns fac'd with Foins The second Order do in merry moods March in Gowns fac'd with Budg and Livery Hoods In Gowns and Scarlet Hoods thirdly appears A youthful number of Foins Batchellors Forty Budg Batchellors the Triumph Crowns Gravely attyr'd in Scarlet Hoods and Gowns Gentlemen Ushers which white Staves do hold Sixty in Velvet Coats and Chains of Gold Next thirty more min Plush and Buff there are That several Colours wave and Banners bear The Sergeant Trumpet thirty six more brings Twenty the Duke of York's sixteen the Kings The Serjeant wears two Scarfs whose Colours be One the Lord Mayor's tother 's o' th' Company The King's Drum Major follow'd by four more Of the Kings Drums and Fifes make London roar Seven Drums and two Fifes more in Vests of Buff March with waste Scarfs and Breeches of black stuff Two City Marshals mounted and attended Are by the Company with Scarfs befriended And next to th' Drums do troop it in the Rear But the Foot Marshal doth the next appear Who puts them all in Rank and File and wears A shoulder Scarf as broad and rich as theirs Attended by six persons that dare do What ere their Marshall may Command them to Next the Fence-Master Troops and to defend him Divers with drawn broad bright Swords do attend him Many poor Pensioners that march i th' Rear With Gowns and Caps Standards and Banners bear A numerous Troop of Persons that are poor In Azure Gowns and Caps one hundred more With Javelins and with Targets are all Actors And bear the Arms of their good Benefactors Being thus prepared By the Foot Marshals Judgment they are guided And into six Divisions are divided Rank'd out by two and two The first that stirs Are the poor Company of Pensioners But in the Front of them orderly be Placed the Ensigns of the Company ' i th' Rear of them four Drums and one Fife more Then Pensioners in Coats describ'd before Persons of worth who do in Martial manner Bear each of them a Standard or a Banner Four Trumpets more to them and in their Rear Two of the Drapers Ensigns march which bear As by the Herald Painter is exprest The draught of their Supporters and their Crest Six Gentlemen Ushers in order trudg And after them the Batchellors in Budg Marching in measur'd distance and indu'd With Order This Division doth conclude I' th' Rear of them six Trumpets do appear And after them two Gentlemen that bear Two Coats of Arms which appertaining be To th' City and the Draper's Company Then do march up Eight Gentlemen that wears The Golden Chains then the Foins Batchellors In amicable measure move like Friends Fill'd with one Joy So this Division ends Two Gentlemen in Velvet Coats array'd March after them with two Banners display'd Then succeed them ten Gentlemen Ushers more In Coats and Chains of Gold describ'd before And gradually after them you 'll see A very worthy large Society With each of them a Gown and Livery Hood And all Lord Mayors in the Potential Mood I' th' Rear of these with silver sounds to fitlye Do fall in divers Trumpets of the City And after them two Gentlemen accord To bear the Arms o' th' City and my Lord And then the Gentlemen with equal distance That Usher in the grave Court of Assistance I' th' Rear of them four Drums six Trumpets be Order'd to bring up the Catastrophe Three Gallants Successive follow them Bearing the Banners of the Diadem Kings Queens and City Ensigns which engages Six Gentlemen to wait on them as Pages The Masters and the Wardens bring up all And thus Equip'd they march from Drapers-Hall To my Lords House where th' Aldermen and He Take Horse and rank according to Degree

Which being done the whole Body in State Doth move towards Guild-Hall but at the Gate The new Lord with the old Lord Mayor unites Guarded by Gentlemen Esquires and Knights Then thus attir'd with Gown Furr Hood and Scarf March all through Kings-street down to three-Crane-Wharf Where the Lord Mayor and th' Aldermen discharge A few Gentlemen Waiters and take Barge At the West end o' th' Wharf and at the East The Court Assistant Livery and the best Gentlemen Ushers Such as stay on shore Are Ushers Foins and the Budg Batchellor Who for a time repose themselves and men Untill his Lordship shall return again Who now with several Companies make hast To Westminster but in their way is plac'd A Pleasure-Boat that hath great Guns aboard And with two Broadsides doth salute my Lord. They row in Triumph all along by th' Strand But when my Lord and Companies do Land At the new Pallace-Stairs orderly all Do make a Lane to pass him to the Hall Where having took an Oath that he will be Loyal and faithful to his Majesty His Government his Crown and Dignity With other Ceremonials said and done In order to his Confirmation Sealing of Writs in Courts and such like things As shew his power abstracted from the Kings He takes his leave o' th' Lords and Barons then With his Retinue he retreats again To th' Waterside and having given at large To th' poor of Westminster doth re-imbarge And scud along the River till he comes Up to Pauls Wharf where Guns and thundring Drums Proclaim his Landing when hee 's set a shore He is saluted with three Vollies more By the Military Glory of this Nation the Company of Artillery men under the Conduct of the most accomplished for Arms and Arts the Right Worshipful Sir Thomas Player Knight they being all in their Martial Ornaments of Gallantry some in Buff with Head-pieces many of Massy Silver of whose Honourable Society his Lordship hath been a worthy Member There is also the old Warlike Honour of this Nation bravely revived and is at this time a most Heroick Rarity which is that divers Gentlemen Archers compleatly Arm'd with long Bows and Swords with War Arrows and Pallisades with Hats turn'd upon one side on which are tied large Knots of green Ribon formed into a Company march under the Command of the Right Worshipful Sir Robert Peyton Knight c. From Pauls Wharf they march before my Lord through a Gallery of the aforesaid Batchellors and Gentlemen Ushers who did not go to Westminster and likewise the Pensioners and Banners being set in Order ready to march the Foot Marshal leads the way and in the Rear of the Companies up Paul's Wharf Hill into Cheapside where his Lordship is entertain'd by the first Scene or Pageant as followeth The first Pageant described A Scene of State containing an Imperial Throne of Gold every way richly adorned with several Banners of the Kings the Cities the Lord Mayors the Companies and Sir Henry Fitz-Alwine c. On this Throne there sitteth a comely Majestick person with a chearful look that representeth TRIUMPH in a cloth of Silver Robe a purple scarf fringed with Gold an Imperial Triple Crown upon a peruke of long fair hair skie-colour'd silk stockings on which are Golden buskins laced up half way the leg with purple and silver Ribon in surfles In her right hand she holdeth a Target bearing a Virgin the Companies Patroness and in the other the Golden Fleece On seats round about her sit the four Cardinal Vertues viz. Prudence Iustice Temperance and Fortitude all in their Emblematical Illustrations thus described Prudence In a Scarlet colour'd silk Robe a silver Mantle fringed with Gold black curl'd hair on which is a Chaplet of flowers silver buskins laced with watchet ribon in her right hand she beareth a shield Vert charged with a Serpent circular OR and in the centre a Dove volant argent in her left hand a Banner of the Kings Iustice In a crimsin sarsnet Robe girt about with Gold a purple mantle fringed with Gold and Silver fair curl'd hair a four corner'd Cap of Gold let with Jewels buskins of Gold laced with purple In one hand a Ballance in the other a Banner of the Cities Temperance In a white silk Robe a grass green mantle a brown curl'd hair on it a chaplet of White Lillies and damask Roses purple buskins laced and surfled with Gold In one hand a Target-sable charged with a Chalice OR viz. a Gold Cup in the other a Banner of the Companies Fortitude In a Robe of Aurora colour'd silk a Mantle of Silver a Silver Corslet about her neck a dark brown hair a Garland of oaken leaves tipp'd with Gold Silver buskins On a shield gules a Tower Argent in one hand in the other a Banner of my Lords And on four Pedestals one at each Corner of the Stage sit four Ladies eminently and properly drest Peace Purity Plenty and Piety all of them bearing proper Emblems as are significantly made more manifest by description Peace In an Olive-green sarsnet Robe semined with silver stars a Carnation Mantle fringed with Gold bright brown hair a Chaplet of Hearts-case call'd in Latin by Physicians Herba Trinitatis or Panseys yellow buskins laced with purple and silver ribon In one hand a Palm-tree in the other a Banner of the Supporters Purity In a white silk Robe a skie-colour'd Mantle starrified with Gold a dark brown hair a Garland of white Roses Orange-colour'd buskins laced with skie-colour'd and silver Ribon In one hand a Crystal Globe in the other a Banner of the Virgin Plenty In a Vest of Gold and Silver upon Roman Bases of Carnation richly adorn'd with Silver and Gold Lace a green silk and silver Mantle Purple Buskins laced up with Gold on her Head a blackish curl'd hair about which is a wreath of Fruits leaves and flowers In one hand a Cornucopia in the other a Golden Fleece Piety In a Sable Robe a silver Mantle a fair hair a Coronet of Golden Stars Golden Buskins laced with black ribon bearing a Buckler in one hand where on a Mount Vert is a Crucifix proper in the other a Banner on an Angelical Staff bearing a Cross Gules in a Field Argent His Lordship coming to a convenient stand TRIUMPH makes an Address to him in this Speech The Speech by TRIUMPH MY Name is LONDON Triumph Make me r●●● Hail to Your Lordship I am hither come With my Retinue to attend upon Bow Your Triple-crown'd Inauguration Which doth an Emblem of your Honour shroud You are the Sun-beams that break through the Cloud The Sun in Aries who are this year Brightly to shine in LONDON's Hemisphere The influence with which you are indu'd Are Prudence Justice Temperance Fortitude point to them To match with these four bright Beams more are sent ye Piety Peace with Purity and Plenty point to the other These are those Graces which did wait upon Fitz-Alwin Norman Capel Champion With many such that