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A63343	London's anniversary festival, performed on Monday, October the 29th. 1688 For the entertainment of the right Honourable, Sr. John Chapman, Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London; being their great year of jubilee. With a panegyrick upon the restoring of the charter. And a sonnet provided for the entertainment of the King. By M. Taubman. Printed and published by authority.	Taubman, Matthew, d. 1690?	1688 (1688)	Wing T240; ESTC R220787	5,218	12

LONDON'S Anniversary Festival Performed On Monday October the 29th 1688. For the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sr. John Chapman Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London Being Their great Year of JUBILEE WITH A PANEGYRICK upon the Restoring OF THE CHARTER And a Sonnet provided for the Entertainment of the KING By M. TAVBMAN Virg. Lib. 6. Hic Rem Londinam magno turbante tumultu Sistet Eques Printed and Published by Authority London Printed for J. Fleming and Sold by the Booksellers 1688. To the Right Honourable Sir JOHN CHAPMAN Kt. Lord Mayor of the CITY of LONDON My LORD IF the Custom of a Dedication at this Time did not make it necessary your Eminent Merits do justly lay claim to the discharge of this Duty And though the present Impending Storm the Dread of a Foreign Invasion has Obnubilated the usual Splendor of this Day 's Solemnity such Remarkable Occurrences have happened this Year as will render your Name and Memory famous to all Posterity What is most to be Recorded is the Restoring of the Charter of London which happened in the Year of your Mayoralty 88. Auspicious 88 England's great Year of Jubilee twice Propitious to this Famous City First In Restoring our Lives and Estates Secondly Our Laws and Freedoms in the free Exercise of our Antient Establish'd Government What other Worthies durst not Attempt you like Jason bravely Adventur'd for the Prize and brought the Golden Fleece in Triumph home In the late threatning Deluge when the Ark was tost upon the Foaming Billows you like the Dove was sent Abroad and like the Dove returned with the Olive-Branch of Joy. This unspeakable Mark of Royal Bounty occurring this Year with your Right of Succession to the Praetorial Chair will Record your Name to future Ages beyond all the Witless Panegyricks of My LORD Your Lordships most Obedient and most Devoted humble Servant M. Taubman To the Right Honourable Sir John Chapman Knight Lord Mayor of the City of London on the Return of the CHARTER WElcome as Day to Nighted Travellers As Light to Darkness or as Peace to Wars Welcome as when the Six Months night is done To frozen Climates the Approaching Sun Who after a long Winters Storm does bring All the dear Blessings of a fertile Spring To You our Thanks as well as Praise is due In whom's Restor'd our Lives and Freedoms too What the loud Tumults lost in hot Debate Is Re-invested in its former state Your Patience has their Fury overcome The Captive Ark is brought in Triumph home The Charter is Return'd with cheerful Cries Our Rights our Customs and Immunities All which in 88 with You Restor'd In everlasting Annals we 'll Record The new exalted Meteors cease to shine And to the old Extinguish'd Lamps Resign Who in their former state their Freedoms hold Like Diamonds newly set in the same Gold. Tamely they bore the Cloud of their Disgrace While Stars less Radiant were advanc'd in place These may by Day cast forth a glimmering Spark While the true Gem shines brightest in the Dark This made the World your Loyalty admire And the bright Palm depress'd to mount the higher Then were you Loyal at that very time When to be Loyal was esteem'd a Crime This worthily Advanc'd you to the Chair When mean complying Intrest prov'd a Snare There was a Time when Loyalty prevail'd And on her Sons large Favours were Intail'd E're Temporizing Converts did Comply For Interest to Sell their Liberty This Bliss with you restor'd this Year we share The CHARTER to the Town and you the Chair Here the KING's Bounty as your MERIT 's Great Has made your Laws and Liberties Compleat With you this Year we are Possest of more Than all our Predecessors were before What they by Parcels scarce in Ages gain'd We have in Gross in one blest Day obtain'd Each Grant Enlarging our unbounded Power From Royal JAMES to the first Conquerour What Monarch yet e're Grac'd the British Throne But dropt a Royal Jewel from the Crown Like the Sword added to your Quarter'd Field T' Enlarge the CHARTER and adorn the GUILD No fierce Dragooner here for Quarter calls No Noise of War within your Peaceful Walls And what exceeds all Priviledges far You are not Summon'd from your Gates to War. No dreadful Trumpets Sound annoys your Ears All Innocent and Charming as the Spheres If Musicks softer Notes your Throne ascend 'T is such as on your harmless Mirths attend Musick which like a Consort does agree With LONDON's Government the soul of Harmony Nor in the Walls is this your only Friend Toll-free through England does your Power extend Even to the Surges of the boundless Sea The Wealthy Thames is made your Royalty Nor can we here your Liberties Confine Your CHARTER does extend beyond the Line Through the vast Globe you may with Drake be hurld A London Merchant's Freeman of the World. And shall that State which has the Sovereign Powers Of Sea and Land dread Foreign Conquerours Where is the Grandeur of our English Nation If we are Blasted at a Dutch Invasion In vain vast Armies and a Fleet oppose Against a Fate that is more strong than those That Grandeur which once met the Pride of Spain Like a huge City floating on the Main Met it and to the Bottom sunk it down The Gods and Winds fight for the English Crown Those Masts which lately seem'd to touch the Sky Now low in the vast Oceans Womb do lie And where th' Armada did its Pride display Fishes resort and wanton Dolphins play May the same Fate make all your Foes a Prey LONDON ' S Anniversary Festival For the Year 1688. ALthough the present Juncture of Affairs and the Rumour of a Foreign Invasion has Eclips'd the Glory of this Days Triumph yet since the Mayoralty has fallen in the First of Companies and in the time of so Eminent a Patriot I think my self in duty bound to Publish this short Description that what it wants in the Pageantry may be supplied by a Panegyrick to perpetuate the Occurrences of so remarkable a Jubilee The Right Worshipful the Company of Mercers who have the Honour and Charge of this Day 's Entertainment are the first in Order and Place having the Priority of all other Companies of London They were Established to be a Company and to purchase Lands in the 17th Year of the Reign of Richard the II 1393. Mercers Hall famous for the Magnificence of its Structure is the Seat of their Publick Assemblies where are likewise several spacious Rooms and Apartments for their private Courts Committees and Consultations This was formerly an Hospital Founded by Sir Thomas of Acon Militia Hospitalis saith the Record of Edward the III Founded by Thomas Fitz Theobald in the Reign of Henry the II. It was purchased by the Mercers in the Reign of King Henry the VIII by the Famous Sir Thomas Gresham The Chappel was Founded by that Eminent Patron and Benefactor Sir John Allen who lies there Intomb'd This