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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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