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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63358	London's triumph, or, The goldsmiths jubilee containing a description of the several pageants and speeches, made proper for the occasion, together with a song, for the entertainment of His Majesty, who, with His Royal Consort, the Queen Dowager, Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Denmark, and the whole Court, honour His Lordship this year with their presence / by M. Taubman.	Taubman, Matthew, d. 1690?	1687 (1687)	Wing T243; ESTC R10412	11,440	16

London's Triumph OR THE Goldsmiths Jubilee PERFORMED On SATVRDAY October XXIX 1687. For the Confirmation and Entertainment OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir John Shorter Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of LONDON CONTAINING A Description of the several PAGEANTS and Speeches made proper for the Occasion Together with a SONG For the Entertainment of His Majesty who with His Royal Consort the Queen Dowager their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Denmark and the whole Court honour his Lordship this Year with their Presence All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful COMPANY of GOLDSMITHS By M. TAVBMAN Aurea prima sata est aetas quae fidem rectumque colebat Ovid. Printed and Published by Authority LONDON Printed by J. Leake in Jewin-street 1687. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir John Shorter Kt. Lord Mayor of the CITY of LONDON My Lord YOVR Advancement this Year to the Praetorial Chair of this Renowned City may render you the Object of our Wonder but not our Envy especially when it is considered it was Your right some Years before With Justice now reassuming Your seat it is a motive rather of Joy than Regret and an Argument to gratulate your Establishment with greater Alacrity The Ship that in a Storm over-shoots the Port may toss a while upon the driving Bellows but the next favourable Gale she Tacks about and makes the expected Haven with greater Expressions of Joy and Welcome We will not descant on the singular Favours of the Monarch which is a boundless Ocean nor on those extraordinary Indowments that have this Year deservedly advanced You to the Chair It is sufficient You have had the Choice and Approbation of the most Judicious and most Discerning Prince in the World to whose Royal Favours Your Essential Merits have most justly preferr'd You. It is He who with His breath can give You a successful passage into that Port from which You were retarded by contrary Winds who has this Year made You His Vicegerent in His Imperial City to bear that Sword of Justice of which He is himself the immediate Lord and Soveraign And it is hoped by Your wise Conduct and Management of this great Trust the Effects will be such that Your Lordship will render Him no less than reason to approve the Works of His own Hands But these few Sheets are a Description not a Directory a Scheme of Pageantry not a Scale of Government nor will I in a short Dedication exceed the narrow bounds of MY LORD Your Lordship 's Most devoted humble Servant Matt. Taubman TO THE Worshipful Company OF GOLDSMITHS Gentlemen THE Triumphs of London this Year may well be stiled the Goldsmiths Jubilee the King by His Favours has made it so this being the second Year of their Majoralty in which this Worshipful Company has been honoured with the Royal Presence The former in 74 by the Approach of His late Majesty of Renowned Memory and this of the present Monarch which is the first Honour of this kind done to the Imperial City since his Majesty's Accession to the Crown Your costly Preparations prudent Contrivance and bounteous Contributions towards so glorious an Entertainment is not only a demonstration of your Respects to his Lordship but also your high Sense and Acknowledgment of so Princely a Favour That his Lordship by his prudent Management may answer your Expectations and the end for which His Majesty committed this great Trust to his Hands to the Satisfaction of Prince and People shall be the unfeigned Wishes of Your most obsequious Humble Servant M. T. London's Triumph OR THE Goldsmiths Jubilee AMIDST all the memorable Triumphs of all Ages Ancient and Modern the Ovations of the Caesars or triumphal Arches of the neighbouring Monarch there 's none exceeds the Lustre of London this Day which for the Antiquity of its Institution the Grandeur of the Preparations the Splendor of the Pageantry and the Magnifice of the Entertainments may properly be styl'd Triumphant above all the Cities in the Universe It is a liberal and unanimous Assembly of all the Chiefs of the Imperial City of the most flourishing Kingdom in the Universe This Year adorn'd with the Presence of their most Sacred Majesties the King Queen Queen Dowager Prince and Princess of Denmark with all the chief Nobility and principal Officers of the Court the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and chief Prelates of the Church The Lord Chancellour Lord Chief Justice and all the learned Judges in the Laws with all foreign Ministers Embassadours Envoys Residents who having observed the Tables of the most Puissant Princes and seen the most hospitable Preparations of Foreign Nations rest here amaz'd at the Ne plus altra of all Entertainments Before we describe the Magnificence of the Pageantry we must not omit the stateliness of the Morning Procession and Progress by Water to Westminster where his Lordship once a Year as the Duke of Venice to the Sea weds himself to the Thames with a Ring of surrounding Barges that being also a part of his Dominion of which this Day he takes Possession and thus he exercises his double Sovereignty both by Land and Water Of which in their Order The Order of the Morning Procession THE most eminent and most accomplished Citizens selected for the Management of this Days Triumph assemble together at Seven of the Clock in the Morning at Goldsmiths Hall. I. The Master Wardens and Assistants in their Gowns fac'd with Foyns II. The Livery in Gowns faced with Budge and their Hoods III. Several Foyns Batchellors in their Gowns and scarlet Hoods IV. Thirty Budge Batchellors in Gowns and scarlet Hoods V. Sixty Gentlemen Ushers in Plush and some in Velvet Coats each of them a Chain of Gold about his Shoulders and a white Staff in his Hand VI. Thirty other Gentlemen for carrying Banners and Colours some of them being in plush Coats the other in Buff. VII The Serjeant Trumpet and Thirty six Trumpets more whereof Sixteen are his Majesties The Serjeant Trumpet wearing Two Scarfs one of the Lord Mayors Colours the other of the Companies VIII The Drum-Major to his Majesty wearing a Scarf of the Companies Colours cross his Shoulders with Four more of his Majesties Drums and Fifes IX Seven other Drums and Two Fifes more each of them except his Majesties Servants habited in Buff-coloured Dublets black Breeches and Scarfs about their Wasts X. The Two City Marshals riding each on Horsback and Six Persons attending with Scarfs and Colours of the Companies XI The Foot Marshal and Six Attendants with like Scarfs and Colours XII The Master of Defence with the same Scarf and Colours having Persons of his own Science to attend him XIII Several poor Men Pensioners accommodated with Gowns and Caps each of them imployed in bearing of Standards and Banners XIV Divers other Pensioners in green Gowns red Sleeves and Caps each of them carrying a Javelin in one Hand and a Target in the other whereon is painted the Coat Armour of the First