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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46278	The triumphs of London performed on Tuesday, October XXIX, 1678, for the entertainment of the right honourable and truly noble pattern of prudence and loyalty, Sir James Edwards, knight, 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 songs sung in this solemnity, all set forth at the proper costs and charges of the worshipful company of grocers / designed and composed by Tho. Jordan, gent.	Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?; Grocers' Company (London, England)	1678 (1678)	Wing J1070; ESTC R31679	14,163	50

Designed and Composed by THO. IORDAN Gent. Quando magis dignos licuit spectare Triumphos London Printed for Iohn Playford at the Temple-Church 1678. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Sir JAMES EDWARDS Knight LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON MY LORD IN all flourishing Kingdoms throughout the Universe especially Islands honest Merchants and useful Merchandize have been ever had in a reverential Esteem Their Profession in all former Ages highly magnified and their Persons honourably valued In that by their Cost Adventures Diligence and Vigilance incognite Countries have been discovered Royal Amity introduced and confirmed with Transmarine Estates and Princes As also by reason of their generous Examples and prevalent Perswasions very brutish Nations with barbarous Natures have been reduced to Meekness Order and Civility By Merchants all Exotick Commodities from every Part of the World are made communicable in Traffick with us whose numerous Varieties pleasant Rarities and substantial Necessaries serve both for Delight and Profit to the Crown and Kingdom They increase Shipping multiply Navigators and employ all Handicrafts Many of them have not only been the Erectors of stately Structures but the Founders of great and famous Cities What may be said of Merchants and their Trafficks their Antiquity Dignity Magnanimity Generosity and Urbanity is fitter to fill a Volume than to be contracted in the narrow Bondage of a compendious Epistle Therefore since Your Lordship hath so ample an Interest in this precedent Character it is an especial Act of Almighty Providence to indulge and dignifie this Honourable City with such an Accomplished Magistrate whose Examples and Precepts are both prudent and pious and may justly provoke all Persons under Your Government to be regular and obedient which although but for One Year yet is the Epitome of a Life-time Thorow which that you may have the daily Manuduction of that Great Governour of Heaven and Earth the only Ruler of Princes shall be the assidual Wishes and devout Desires of My Lord Your Heartily Humble Servant THO. IORDAN TO THE WORTHY SOCIETY and WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF GROCERS GENTLEMEN IN obedience to Your Commands and punctual performance of my Promise I crave permission to salute You with a perfect Copy of this Years Triumphs wherein I have not express'd such sterility of Invention as to reiterate or imitate any thing which I have formerly done my self or any other Authors that heretofore have performed this Duty either in designation of the Whole or composition and order of the Parts relating either to the Figures Structures or Orations those things only excepted which are the Trophies of Antiquity and especial Marks of Distinction in the frequent Representation of the Worshipful Companies Crest and Supporters the Camel and Gryphons with all their Accomplishments and Decoration If in all or any thing I have made my Endeavours correspondent to Your Expectation I shall humbly hope I may deservedly acquire the Title of GENTLEMEN Your most humble and faithful Servant THO. JORDAN The Agitations of the Morning THE generous Citizens selected for the order of this days Triumph according to the dictates of Ancient Form and Custom assemble together at Seven of the Clock in the Morning at Grocers-Hall 1. Threescore poor Men accomodated with Gowns and Caps each of them imployed in bearing a Standard or a Banner 2. Fifty Gentlemen-Ushers in Velvet Coats each of them a Chain of Gold about his shoulder and in his hand a white Staff 3. A certain Number of Budg-Batchelors in Gowns and Scarlet Hoods 4. The Batchelors a part thereof in Gowns faced with Foins and their Hoods 5. The Livery in their Gowns faced with Budg and their Hoods 6. The Masters Wardens and Assistants in Gowns faced with Foins and their Hoods 7. Twelve 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 8. Thirty six Trumpets the Serjeant-Trumpet with his Scarf of his Lordship's Colours and of a Crimson about his shoulder and a Leading Staff in his hand 9. Fourteen Drums the Drum-Major with a crimson Scarf about his waste his Leading Staff in his hand and three Fifes with Banners 10. Divers Drums and Fifes with red Scarfs and the Colours of the Company 11. The two City-Marshals each of them riding on Horseback with six Servitors to attend them with Scarfs and Colours of the Company 12. The Foot-Marshal and six Attendants with the like Scarfs and Colours 13. The Master of Defence with the same Scarf and Colours having persons of his own Science to attend him 14. Divers other Pensioners in red Gowns white Sleeves and flat Caps each of them carrying a Javelin in one hand and a Target in the other wherein is painted the Coat-Armour of their Benefactors These Persons are set a part for the Duty of the Day who meeting at the Time and Place aforesaid proceed as followeth The Foot-Marshal ranks them out two and two beginning with the Pensioners in Gowns and in the Front of them placeth the Companies Ensigns Four Drums and one Fife in the Rere of them fall in the several Pensioners in Coats bearing several Banners and Standards after them six Trumpets after them the Gryphons and Camel Ensigns the Supporters and Crest of the Worshipful Company of Grocers and six Gentlemen Ushers after them the Budg-Batchelors who conclude this Division In the Rere of those fall six Trumpets after them two Gentlemen bearing two Banners the one of the Cities the other of the Companies after them follow two Gentlemen-Ushers after them the Foins-Batchelors concluding this Division In the Rere thereof first fall in the King 's Drum-Major and four other of the King's Drums and Fifes after them two Gentlemen-Ushers bearing two Banners the one the King 's the other the Cities after them ten Gentlemen-Ushers habited as is set down before and after them the Livery which endeth that Division In the Rere of them fall others of the City Trumpets after them two Gentlemen bearing the Banners of the City and the Lord Mayor twelve Gentlemen-Ushers appointed as aforesaid follow them and after them the Court of Assistants put a period to that Division In the Rere of them falls the Serjeant-Trumpet after him sixteen other of the King's Trumpets and Kettle Drums after them three other Gentlemen bearing the King 's the Duke of York's and St. George's Banner after them fourteen Gentlemen-Ushers to follow them are appointed four Pages and after them the Master and Wardens which terminate the first and chief Division Thus accomplish'd they March from their Place of meeting to Gold-Smiths-Hall beginning with the Pensioners until the Marshal comes and makes a Halt at the Gate till such time as his Lordship and the Aldermen are mounted Which being done the whole Body move toward Guild-Hall where the Lord Mayor Elect joyneth with the Old Lord Mayor and his Retinue so all of them march through King-street down to Three-Crane-Wharf where the Lord Mayor Aldermen and their