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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59355	The triumphs of London prepared for the entertaiment [sic] of the right honorable Sir Thomas Lane, knight, Lord Mayor of the city of London. Containing a full description of the pageants, speeches, songs, and the whole solemnity of the day. Performed one Monday the 29 of October, 1694. Set forth at the proper cost and charges of the honorable Company of Clothworkers. Published by authority.	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.	1694 (1694)	Wing S2727; ESTC R220134	6,299	33

THE Triumphs Of London Prepared for the Entertaiment of the Right Honorable Sir THOMAS LANE Knight Lord Mayor of the City of LONDON CONTAINING A full Description of the Pageants Speeches Songs and the whole Solemnity of the Day Performed one Monday the 29 of October 1694. Set forth at the Proper Cost and Charges of the HONORABLE COMPANY of CLOTHWORKERS Published by Authority LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by Richard Baldwin at the Oxford Arms Inn in Warwick-Lane 1694 TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Sir THOMAS LANE Knight LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON My Lord BEfore I congratulate Your Lordship's happy Inauguration to the Pretorial Dignity I must first pay my duteous Veneration to the Merit that advanced You thither Your Lordship had that Remarkable Triumph in Your Election that when You stood Candidate for the Chair You brought so fair a Mass of Virtues to intitule You to that Pretention that instead of Doubts and Scrutinyes the tedious Disputes and Jars of Voices and Parties too common in too many Elections 't was enough for such Merit as Sir Thomas Lane's only to enter the Lifts and carry the Conquest Divided Favours were utterly Strangers there Your Lordship was that universal Darling that less than an hour began and concluded the Choice insomuch that there wanted no more to fix Your Lordship's Wreath of Honour then only to present the Brow that wears it And as Magistracy especially in so high a Station as Your Lordship's is no less then the immediate Lievtenancy of Majesty the Deputy and Representative of Soveraign Power Your Lordship makes Your Entry to that Honorable Post of Trust with all those eminent Advantages as must fully answer the Expectation of the World For You bring with You that Vivacity and Sprightlyness of a fair and Active Youth to undertake it a Genius and a Soul and all the warmth of a Publick Spirit to execute it and to both these that unshaken Fidelity to Crown the Hand that holds it Nay not to want even the least Ornament or Decoration of Dignity You bring a Person too even to grace the Honour You wear Thus as a Vigilant and Faithful Magistrate is a true Crown Jewel Your Prince and Your Country those two great Ascendants being Your Lordships whole Influencing Powers You challenge all the Qualifications for the Highest and clearest Lustre that that truly Royal Jem can bear Nay Your Accession to Magistracy gives us this particular Observation that Your Lordship enters the Seat left You so warm with the Merit that fill'd it before You to whose worth and Virtues Your Lordship brings not only a Succession but an Allyance too Thus as the Encouragement of Religion and the Suppression of Vice have been so Exemplar a Labour and Endeavour before You Your Lordship Approaches enricht with those Principles and that Zeale for the effectual keeping up those Sacred Fasces of Authority so descended and lodged in Your Hand that all Good Men live in hopes that such Leading Originals may stand as lasting Patterns even to latest Generations And thus in this great Work so well begun and so continued though Your Lordship's Dignity is that Honour which You hold but one short Year nevertheless You will lay those Foundations of that Glory as will last to Ages in which true Propheticks give me leave to Write my self My Lord Your Lordships most Dutiful Servant E. SETTLE TO THE Honourable Company OF CLOTHWORKERS Gentlemen IN my Address to the Company of Clothworkers I am entred within those Walls that lead me to a very fair Survey of no common Worth and Merit For I may justly concede You this Fair Renown viz. That the whole Grandeur of England is in a high measure owing to your worthy Society For as the Gold of our Fleece and the Wealth of our LOOM is in a manner our whole English Peru And the back of the Sheep and not the Entrayls of the Earth is our chief Mine of Riches The Silkworm is no Spinster of ours and our Wheele and our Webb Gentlemen are all your own Thus as Trade is the life-blood of the English Nation and indeed the very Supporter of the Crown so the greatest Branch of the English Trade lies in the Clothworkers Hands Our Floating Castles I confess Our Naval Commerce bring us in both the Or and the Argent and indeed the whole wealth of the World They bring it in 't is true but when throughly examined 't is Your CLOTH sends out to fetch ' em And thus whilst the Imperial Britannia is so formidable to her Foes and so potent to her Friends her Strength and her Power when duly consider'd to the Clothworkers Honour I may justly say 't is Your Shuttle nerves her Arm and Your Woof that enrobes her Glory But not to insist upon that single Merit alone the Extent of Your Trade and the Reputation You have acquired these being no more than the common work of Your Industry no I have a Diviner Theme before me the Hundreds of Your poor Pensioners that yearly taste Your Bread and wear Your Cloth a Cloth so worne possibly the fairest Web in Your whole Loom Nor Gentlemen is Your Bounteous Goodness bounded here Your Charity confined within Your own Gates Your own Hospitable Roof only but Your more spreading Acts of Mercy and Humanity have a yet larger Extent Those two fair Sisters the Vniversities both Rivals to Your kind Favours lay their equal claim to Your Gracious Smiles witness your constant and generous Exhibitions Your cherishing Hand towards the Nursery of Arts and Sciences Thus not only our great Channel of Trade runs through the worthy Clothworkers but the two Great Fountains of Learning too must acknowledge You their Patrons and Benefactors Nay Your goodness deseends to cherish Literature even in Inferiour Schools of Youth supported and maintained by You and not only so but communicates its cherishing warmth to Age and Grey Hairs when besides Your Pensioners at home so many Alms-houses of both Sexes look up to the Honourable Clothworkers for their feeding Hand In recounting the Clothworkers Worth not to walk further into so spacious a Field 't is sufficient that Your Charity alone displays You truly Honourable For Charity as it is the highest Heavenly Vertue so ir carries likewise the highest worldly Honour too For whatever great Names and gay Scutcheons those emptier Blazons of Worth and Dignity may pretend there 's no Grandeur nor Magnificence equals this For even Statues and Pyramids are but faint Memorials and speak but dead Praise whilst fed Mouths and cloathed Nakedness are the living Monuments of Honour The cheerful and Thankful Praiers of the Poor are of all the loudest Trumps of Fame for their sound reaches Heaven and makes the sweetest and most greatful Musick there And Gentlemen as those soft Airs create so divine a Harmonies to encrease that tuneful Quire may You never want that generous and continued Succession of Charity those daily Benefactors with full Hands and open