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A59314	Glory's resurrection being the triumphs of London revived, for the inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Francis Child, Kt. Lord Mayor of the city of London : containing the description (and also the sculptures) of the pageants, and the whole solemnity of the day : all set forth at the proper cost and charge of the honourable Company of Goldsmiths.	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.; Child, Francis, Sir, 1642-1713.	1698 (1698)	Wing S2688; ESTC R10579	6,456	19

GLORY's RESURRECTION BEING THE Triumphs of London REVIVED For the Inauguration of the RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Francis Child Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London CONTAINING The Description and also the Sculptures of the Pageants and the whole Solemnity of the Day All set forth at the proper Cost and Charge of the Honourable Company of GOLDSMITHS Publish'd by Authority LONDON Printed for P. Barnham in Little Britain 1698. To the Right Honourable Sir Francis Child Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London MY LORD IN Your Lordship's Accession to the CHAIR advanced by so many Eminent Merits to that High Post there needs but a very little Spirit of Prophecy to foretel with what true Glory Your Lordship will execute that Honourable Trust To say Your Lordship will answer the Expectation of the World speaks too little There 's something more than Expectation an Universal Assurance and Confidence of Your Lordship's Performance And whilst the Worshipful Company of GOLDSMITHS have after a three Years Cessation reviv'd the Customary Splendor of the City on this Solemn Occasion I dare not say 't is wholly their own Natural Grandeur and Magnificence so much as their Gratitude that furnishes the Entertainment Your Lordship makes so considerable a Lustre and gives that Ornament to their Society that this Publick Triumph on Your Inauguration-Day is not so much a Present they make You as a Debt they pay You. Of all Your Lordship's numerous Virtues the truly Noble Train that attend You thither Your Unshaken Constancy to Your Native Altars seems to carry the Leading Glory Your Lordship 's truly Christian Undivided Knees pay that greater and more entire Adoration to an Eternal Throne than to make at one time a Cain's and at another an Abel's Sacrifice Your Lordship would start at so poor a Prevarication with Omnipotence as to bring a Sheaf of Stubhle to Your Morning Oblation and a Lamb to Your Evening one Nor are Your Lordship's Moral Perfections less Conspicuous You ascend to this Metropolitan Dignity wholly untainted with the too common Avarice of Greatness No my Lord You come not thither to Gather but Shower the Gold whilst warm'd and animated by Your own innate Principles both of Charity and Hospitality those two Illustrious Ornaments of Magistracy Your Lordship has resolved to recal from their late Banishment And indeed those truly radiant Virtues could never appear on the Praetorian Chair with nobler Lustre than now considering they will so immediately break forth in that full Glory there after so total an Eclipse before 'T is thus Your Lordship designs in Your Administration of Your Mayoralty to waken and revive the late drooping and languishing Honour of the City And indeed to give a new Resurrection to the Grandeur of the Chair which I may honestly say has some time lain buried 'T is thus my Lord the Shades behind You will illustrate Your own Glories before You Or to speak in the Goldsmiths Dialect Those Foils will set off Your Diamond But what has yet more nobly signaliz'd Your Lordship In the late Suppression of the Defaced and Adulterated Coin at the time when all the Private and Publick Banks of England and indeed the whole Currency of Exchequers and Treasury's stood almost intirely stopt at that time when 't was no forfeited Credit even for the proudest Court or City Heads to play the Insolvents 't was then Your Lordship's Particular I might say Only Pride that when all the other Golden Veins of the Nation were stagnated Yours alone kept their whole open Circulation You answered all Bills with the same prompt and entire Satisfaction perhaps to the Wonder at least to the Envy of the World And tho' the then general Examples all round Ye might have excused You from that Stretch of Payment yet Your Lordship so valued Your Reputation as to do Justice even to a Supererrogation And here methinks Your Lordship's very Coat of Arms the long Hereditary Escutcheon of Your Family by a kind of Prophetical Herauldry seems to blazon the very Virtues of Your Lordship that bears them when Your Lordship 's Argent Eagles truly soard whilst your Neighbours flagg'd and droop'd But in enumerating Your Lordship's singular Worth and Deserts I am enter'd into too large a Field and therefore shall modestly retire with subscribing my Self My LORD Your Lordship 's most Devoted and most Dutiful Servant E. SETTLE TO THE Worshipful Company OF GOLDSMITHS AS we are all naturally Ambitious to serve the Noblest Masters You may believe Gentlemen that my humble Muse takes no common Pride in being call'd up to entertain You. For besides the particular commanding Merits of so many Honourable Members of Your Society I cannot but consider what extraordinary dazling Lustre even Your Profession it self carries with it When I enter into the Goldsmiths Laboratory methinks I see even Soveraignty it self shine there The very Strongest Nerves of War and the Richest Blessings of Peace in effect the only Product of Your Forge are all Your own Nay even Crown'd Heads hold their very Thrones but by a Precarious Tenure without Your Mints of Gold to support ' em The famous Columbus in his Peruvian Discovery found out a New World for little more than only to supply Your Furnace Nay the very Sun himself is but the Goldsmiths Fellow-Labourer whilst his most vigorous Beams warm the rich Beds and impregnate all the whole Mineral Veins to furnish Your Shops of Gold Gold I may honestly say Your Handy-work does all Things nay indeed is all Things or at least makes all Things its own 'T is from the Golden Mine that the Pallaces of Monarchs nay the very Temples and Altars of Heaven receive not only their Noblest Ornaments but even their very Foundation And tho' 't is true that sometimes that too fatal Mineral may be the Temptation of Vice or the Purchase of Shame and Injustice yet to over-ballance those more unhappy Influences 't is no less the highest Reward of Virtue Industry Study Labour and all the honest Toils of Life sweat only for that Prize In short we are all Smiths at Your Anvile and only hammer for the Gold Thus tho the Golden Show'r may sometimes fall into a wanton Danae's Lap yet 't is that very glittering Metal too that wreaths the Bracelets and moulds the very Coronets for a Diana But Gentlemen not to expatiate upon so voluminous a Subject 't is enough to Congratulate Your present Pride and Glory in having the fairest Royal or at least Deputy Royal Collar of SS's and the Richest Gold Chain of England among You To whom wishing all Continuance of Honour and Your Selves of Happiness I am GENTLEMEN Your most humble Servant E. S. The Procession and whole Solemnity as follows perform'd on Saturday October 29th 1698. THE whole Company selected for the Management of the Triumph meet at Seven in the Morning at Goldsmiths Hall viz. 1. The Wardens and Assistants in Gowns faced with Foyns 2. The Livery in Gowns with Budge and their Hoods 3.

out-shine my Gold The Third PAGEANT A Triumphant CHARIOT of Gold ASTRAEA the Goddess of Justice in a long Robe of Silver a Crimson Mantle fringed with Silver a Veil of Silver fringed with Gold on her Head a Plume of white Feathers set with precious Stones In her Right Hand a Touch-stone in her Left a Golden Ballance with Silver Scales At a Descent beneath this Goddess are placed Charity and Concord as the necessary Supporters of Justice and on a Seat remote sits another Virtue call'd Truth supporting the Reins and guiding the Chariot of Justice This stately Chariot is drawn by two Unicorns most exquisitely Carved and Gilded with equal Proportion to the Life On the Backs of these two Unicorns are mounted two Beautiful Young Princes one a Barbarian the other an European sounding forth the Fame of the Honourable Company of Goldsmiths At the Feet of these most Noble Creatures is seated four other Virtues as Prudence Temperance Courage and Conduct all properly attired each holding a Banner display'd with the Kings the Lord Mayors the City's and Company 's Arms. ASTRAEA thus Salutes His Lordship JUstice of old by long Oppression driven Left the Tyrannick World and flew to Heav'n But when Great NASSAW Albion's Scepter bore Our Laws and Rights sent kindly to restore She visited the Albion World once more Thus whilst our Caesar yields a Trust so large As proud Augusta to Your Guardian Charge As He from Heav'n His Sovereign Justice drew He 's Heav'ns Vicegerent His Vicegerent You. Astraea then must here her Pow'r resign Her brightest Glories in Your Hand shall shine You 'll best my Lord my Righteous Ballance hold No Poise so even as in the Scales of Gold The Chariot of Iustise TO THE WORSHIPFULL THE COMPANY OF GOLDSMITHS The Prints of these Pageants as a lasting Monument of this year's Triumphs are humbly dedicated The Fourth and Last PAGEANT The Temple of HONOUR THIS Pageant being the Representation of the true Merit that has rais'd His Lordship to that Honourable Dignity in the chief Seat in Front sits a noble Figure personating HONOUR with the Banner of the City's on his Head a Silver Head-Piece and a stately Plume of Crimson Feathers his Vest embroider'd with Gold Silver and precious Stones a Robe of Scarlet inrich'd with Embroidery of Tissue with Buskins and a Silken Scarf fringed with Gold On the same Basis in three other Seats are planted Peace Plenty and Liberality properly drest as the suitable Attributes and Attendants on HONOUR At the Feet of these are laid the four Principal Rivers of Trade as Tiber Nile Danube and Thames with their several Hierogliphicks in Rich Habits with Garlands of Flowers and Banners flying c. Ths Structure is formed of the Compositive Order most nobly set forth with Painting and Carving in Gold and Silver to an infinite Lustre being made of that precious Stone called Lapis Lazuli On the upper part over each Pilaster are four Pyramids of Trophies of Armour Bows Quivers c. being the ancient Emblem of Honour Love and Virtue and crown'd with the Four Imperial Crowns of England Scotland France and Ireland HONOUR's Speech WHilst my best Wreath decks those Deserving Brows To her lov'd Lord the pleas'd Augusta bows Augusta who Your humble Suppliant calls Once more for her old Hospitable Walls She wants to see her ancient Greatness raign When her proud CHAIR did all that State maintain That Visiting Princes fill'd her PRAETOR's Train Why do I court You to perform that Task When that 's already granted e're I ask Doubt not her ancient Grandeur You 'll restore You 'll be Your SELF and she needs ask no more His Lordship here moves to Guild-hall to Dinner being Graced by the Lords of the Council the Judges and the chief Nobility of England His Honourable Guests where the Solemnity of the Day is concluded with all the Festival Magnificence and Splendor suitable to so most Noble an Entertainment SONG TO Britain's Dread Caesar we 'll tune up our Joy To Caesar and Caesar's Great City-Viceroy T is Caesar has lent him the Scales and the Sword And Augusta salutes him her Guardian Lord. Whilst the World all around her 'Twixt Envy and Wonder Shall see her proud Chair like the Throne shine in Gold Of War he has ended the Toil and the Pain And WILLIAM's Work now is to Smile and to Raign In the soft Sweets of Peace in one Olive Bow'r The Crown and the Chair the whole Scepter of Pow'r All blooming like Aaron's old Wand we behold Whilst calmly possessing The Halcyon Blessing We 'll merrily troll round the Goblets of Gold The Ermin and Fir the Robe and the Gown On this side the Chaplet on that side the Crown Together shall taste that General Joy Which the whole Pow'r of Hell shall never destroy Our Albion thus blest this Scene to behold The Day shall shine brighter The Sun gallop lighter And Phoebus new-burnish his Chariot of Gold FINIS