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A59351	The triumphs of London performed on Monday Octob. 30th, 1693, for the entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir William Ashurst, Knight, lord mayor of the city of London : containing a true description of the several pageants : with the speeches spoken on each pageant, all set forth at the proper costs and charges of the worshipful Company of Merchant-Taylors : together with the festival songs for His Lordship and the Companies diversion / by E.S.	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.; Merchant Taylors' Company (London, England)	1693 (1693)	Wing S2723; ESTC R25618	9,503	23

THE Triumphs of London Performed on Monday Octob. 30 th 1693. FOR THE Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir William Ashurst Knight LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON CONTAINING A True Description of the several Pageants with the Speeches Spoken on each Pageant All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the WORSHIPFUL COMPANY of Merchant-Taylors Together with The Festival SONGS for His Lordship and the Companies Diversion By E. S. Published by Authority LONDON Printed by J Orme And are to be Sold by Benjamin Johnson near St. Paul's Church-Yard 1693. To the RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir William Ashurst Knight LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON MY LORD IN the present Solemnity of Your Lordship's Inauguration never was Entry made to that fair Post of Honour under more Expectations than from Your Lordship nor more Confidence of seeing those Expectations answered 'T is not only the more unthinking Crowd of Homagers those cheaper Lips salute You but Judgment and Sense have their Eyes fixt upon You as fully satisfied that You bring those ample Qualifications for Our Metropolitan Royal Representative that never Chapplet more fitted the Brow that wears it And as no little Illustration to the eminent Figure that so much Worth must make I may justly say of Your Lordship That Authority as it never approach'd a Fairer so it never entred under a more Prideless Roof than Your Lordship's For never certainly was Power more affable nor Command more familiar Your State and Your Regalia wait You no farther than Your Chair which more troublesome formal Attendants of Office are instantly dismist and Your more genuine softer Train all Your Sweetnesses of Conversation and the condescending Graces of Courtesie Goodness and Humanity are called in as Your gentler and nearer Menials And to all these there runs that Bravery of Spirit through You a Glory so particularly Your own that in all the Knees that bend before You You give an occasion to Thank wherethey Pray Your Lordships more generous Goodness is not worshipt by empty Gazers only but by a more sensible Zeal and Devotion But not to instance the acknowledgments of Duty and Gratitude the Addresses and Panegyricks You receive where You have bestowed Smiles and showr'd Favours Those are no more than the payment of Debts that are owing You and Greatness and Power every day meet such Homage No my Lord Your Lordship's Virtue soars a pitch yet higher a Virtue so attractive as creates You Votaries at a much farther distance For Your Lordship has reacht a Character so universally Grateful that You are every where honoured even where you never obliged And indeed 't is no more than the Common Justice of mankind to pay that Esteem to so noble and publick spirited a Principle as Your Lordship 's Your Lordship that think Your self made for the World as well as the World for You and consequently not like too many rising Favourites of Fortune that look no higher than home to be Rich to themselves and Poor to all mankind besides You make it an equal if not larger part of Your Ambition to hoard a fair Name as well as a fair Mass to leave behind You. But in all Your Personal Accomplishments to furnish out the Magistrate Your Lordships innate Gallantry and Honour are in a high measure owing to Your Generous Extract and as Generous Education Derivative from Your Veins and suckt in from Your Cradle Your Lordship that possibly has that extraordinary Advantage that Additional Weight in your Scale a Blazon so rare or at least not in every City Coat as to descend from that fair Original the Ashursts of Ashurst a Family that brought in the Gentility in their Blood and the Normand Fleur de Lis's in their Scutcheon with the First Great William and have ever since continued in that unbroken Chain both of Fortune and Reputation as has trod as near the Heels of Nobility as any First Rank Gentry in England And as one Honorable Derivative more of Your Lordship's Your Ancestors have been constant Assertors and Champions of Religion and Virtue Witness Your Lordship's Uncle in the Reign of King Charles the First who then High Sheriff of Lancashire had the hardy Christian Courage as to lay a Criminal by the Heels for the violation of the Sabbath day though a Transgressor in that kind and at that time within the Verge of Priviledge under the Umbrage and Protection of the then newly publisht Metropolitan Canterbury License and Authority But whilst my weak Oratory the meanest Trumpet of a Renown so conspicuous is only repeating of what all Tongues are already filled with I beseech You to believe That this Epistle is not addrest to the Right Honourable Your Lordship but the Right Worthy Sir William not any tributary Devoir to the Greatness You wear for a Year but the great Soul You wear always For as Your Lordship 's present Dignity is not presented You as a Gift but paid You as a Reward under that consideration to level at the true Object of our Veneration we must look beyond the Robe You wear to the Merit that put it on For the Foundation of True Honour is like that of the Pyramide The Basis is always larger than the Pinnacle that Crowns it 'T is in that capacity as both an Honour to the City and an Ornament to Your Country I Congratulate Your Lordship's Accession to Your Praetorian Chair and our proud Metropolis's Happiness in such a Member and such a Magistrate being with no little Pride MY LORD Your Lordship 's Most Devoted and most Obedient Servant E. SETTLE TO THE HONOURABLE COMPANY OF Merchant-Taylors Gentlemen WHEN I address to You as Merchant-Taylors that very Name alone without my particular Survey of the collected Body of so Honourable a Company is enough to take up no little part both of my Speculation and Veneration For do we visit the utmost Reach and Extents of Land and Sea make the very boundless Ocean a Tributary to the narrower Thames and bring home the Wealth of the Universe to our own Doors Who but the Merchant is that commission'd Purveyour and travelling Treasurer What 's the whole Mass and Wealth of Ransact Nature but his rich Hoard The very Jemms of Crowns and Robes of Kings Their Ermyn and their Purple their Pearls and their Rubies are all but his Richer Cargo Do the glittering Pallaces of Monarchs in all their Lustre and Magnificence so dazle our weak Eyes Their Splendor is no more than the Oar refined from the Merchants Mint and their Embroydery but his Drapery being all first the Riches of His Wooden Walls before they are the Ornaments of their Marble Roofs What is the Merchant but the Surrounder and Circler of the spacious Globe that draws the only Lines of Communication betwixt the Conversing and Commercing Regions of the Earth Were it not for the Merchant we had lived altogether in an unsociable World Our very next Neighbourhood had been a downright Terra-Incognita to us whilst pent

up in their own narrower untraffiking Precincts whole Kingdoms and Nations had been little less than a larger sort of Cloysters and Cells Then the product of our own Glebe only must have furnisht both our Kitchin and our Wardrobe Nay our very Monarchs themselves must have been contented to have taken up with a homlier mettald Crown possibly such another as the Isle of Mann's Diadem and their very Coronation Mantle though no Disparagement to our own native Growth the Fleece of the Sheep that buys the Jewels of the Crown instead of the richer Orient Embroydery the Silkworms softer Spinstry and the Ermins whiter Down must at highest have reacht but to Wooll and Lambskins Thus the Pavilion Royal is but justly a part of the Merchant-Taylors Scutcheon For whilst the Imperial Hero marches to the Field and sweats in Arms all Day he sleeps at Night under Your Umbrage whilst not only his Tent of War but his Canopy of Peace is all Your own Thus the Great Columbus in his Discovery of a new World only open'd a new Door to the Merchants Glory whilst after their long Addresses and Visits to their European Asian and African three old Mistresses they had found out a new fair American Sister to pay their new Court and Devoirs to and to plume themselves in the Wealth of the rich Dowr She brought them We may justly rank the whole Industry of mankind under these two Classes That of the Husbandman and this of the Merchant And indeed there 's so far an Allyance and proportion betwixt both their Toyls and Labours that 't is all but the Work of the Plough His that turns up the Glebe of the Earth and Yours Your Keele that ploughs the Main And as the Fruits of Bountiful Nature are his Harvest So the Riches of it are Yours Only with this Difference between You That the Husbandman is but the Subminister or Underfactor of the Merchant The sweat of His Brow gets the Bread But Your Gold pays that sweat and indeed drives both Plough and Ploughman Amongst the several Pageants of the Day all suited to the Lustre and Renown of Your Honourable Foundation the Fair Minerva in both her Capacities viz. the Goddess of Arts and Arms is but the true Emblem and Portrait of Your Glory For Arts are all so intirely Your own that You resemble the Ocean on which You Trade For as into that all the Lesser Rivers flow So the Toyls and Industry of the whole Land from the Spinstry of the Cottage to the Loom of the Burgh and the Woof of the City all Center in the Merchant And as the Wealth and Improvements of Peace are so justly Yours no less are the Prowess and Strength of Arms Your own too For as the Nerves and Sinews of Trade are the Life and Soul of War 'T is only as the Merchant leads the Battle moves And now Gentlemen having brought You thus far in Your fair Chace of Honour here I le leave You and heartily wish so may You all unanimously lead and make the Battle so successfully move That England may live to see her long Effeminacy shook off and have yet a Race of the Third Edward and Fifth Henry Boys as may still carry Terror to the too powerful neighbouring Lillies and raise up the Heads of her own Royal Lyons With this hearty Prayer I subscribe my Self GENTLEMEN Your most Faithful Servant E. Settle The Movements of the Morning Between Seven and Eight in the Morning the whole Company design'd for the Duty of the Day meet at Merchant-Taylors Hall 1. THE Master Wardens and Assistants in Gowns faced with Foins and their Hoods 2. The Livery in their Gowns faced with Budg and their Hoods 3. Forty Foins Batchelors in Gowns and Scarlet Hoods 4. Forty Budg-Batchelors in Gowns and Scarlet Hoods 5. Forty Gentlemen Ushers in Velvet Coats each of them a Chain of Gold about his Sholder and a White-Staff in his Hand 6. Several Drums and Fifes with Scarfs and Colours of the Company in their Hats Blew and White 7. The Serjeant Trumpet and Twenty Four Trumpets more whereof Sixteen are their Majesties the Serjeant-Trumpet wearing Two Scarfs a Blew and a White 8. The Drum-Major-general to the King wearing a Shoulder-Scarf of the Companies Colours with others of Their Majesties Household Drums and Fifes 9. The Two City-Marshals each of them Mounted on Horseback with rich Furniture Hoosings and Crupper all Imbroider'd Six Servitors likewise Mounted to Attend with Scarfs and Colours of the Companies 10. The Foot-Marshal with a Scarf and Six Attendants in Colours 11. The Master of Defence with the same Scarf and Colours Eight Persons of the same Science to Attend him 12. Twenty Pensioners with Coats and Caps employ'd in carrying of Standards and Banners 13. Seventy Pensioners in Blew-Gowns White-Sleeves and Blew Caps each of them carrying a Javeling in one Hand and a Target in the other wherein is Painted the Coat-Armour of their Founders and Benefactors of the Company All these are usher'd by Twenty personable Figures in Roman Crimson Habits and Silver Head-peices with the Arms of the Honourable Company the City and the Lord Mayor Back and Breast bearing Lictors Staffs and Silver Axes Thus order'd and accommodated they are commited to the management of the Foot-Marshal who distributes them in Seven Divisions rank'd all two by two beginning with the inferior part of the Standard Bearers In the head of them are placed two Drums one Fife and a Gentleman bearing the Companies Arms. In the Rear of them two Gentlmen bearing Banners containing the Arms of the deceased Benefactors After them march the aged Pensioners in Gowns and in the Centre of them fall two Drums In the Rear of them three Drums one Fife and two Gentlemen in Plush-Coats bearing two Banners one of Their Majesties the other of the Companies After them Six Gentlemen Ushers follow'd by the Budg-Batchelors The next two Gentlemen bearing two other Banners After them Six Gentlemen Ushers succeeded by the Foins Batchelors In the Rear fall in two Drums and a Fife Then two Gentlemen one bearing my Lord MAYORS the other the City Banners Then Twelve Gentlemen Ushers and after them the Court of Assistance which makes the last Division The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR with the Principal Aldermen and Sheriffs Mounts His Horse with the Aldermen two by two the Sheriffs in the Rear In this Equipage of two and two the whole Body move toward Grocers-Hall where the Lord Mayor Elect joyns with the Old Lord Mayor and his Retinue whence all of them in this Order march through Kingstreet down to Three-Crane-Wharf there entering into their several Barges which are gloriously adorned with Flags and Pendants His Lordship and this Gallant Company all Landing at Westminster is conducted to the Exchequer-Bar there having performed several Ceremonial and Customary Duties and taken the Oaths to their Majesties he returns again by Water to Black-Friers Stairs with Drums beating Trumpets sounding Musick playing c.

There his Lordship and the several Companies landing from their Respective Barges the rest of the Attendants that went not to Westminster waiting for his Reception the whole Body moves in Order before him towards Cheapside The First Pageant The LAMB UPon a Stage is a stately Pedestal richly ornamented whereon the Coat of the Honourable Company the Silver Lamb is planted On a Descent beneath on the four Corners are four Palm-Trees adorned with Crowns Coronets and Laurels being the emblematical Trophies of the Worthy Predecessors as Members or Benefactors of the Honourable Company of Merchant-Taylors On the four square sides Quadranglar ways are planted four Figures viz. Peace Humility Patience and Mercy in their proper Attire and Ornaments these four being the requisite Attendance of Innocence emblemiz'd in the Figure of the Lamb and the Palm tree being not only a proper Field for the Lamb but likewise alluding to Truth and Virtue which according to the Motto of the Palm Crescit sub pondere Virtus the more 't is depressed the higher 't will rise The Second Pageant The Temple of CONCORD A Lofty Structure is erected supported upon four noble Pillars or Columns with all the Etableture according to the Compositive order Over all is a stately Domo compleatly adjusted in circular Figure whereon is erected a Magnificent Cupulo with a Golden Lyon placed in Chief carrying a Banner of the Kings Arms. Underneath this Dome sit four Figures richly attired in silken Habits The first proper to the Hieroglyphich of Harmony and the other three Theological Virtues Faith Hope and Charity These thre Divine Virtues being not only the necessary Attendants of Harmony and Union but likewise very applicacable to the Honourable Company for their Foundations of Religion Learning and Charity These three Virtues bear three Scutcheons on which are inscribed their proper Mottoes At the four Corners of this Fabrick sit four more Figures properly habited as Temperance Truth Zeal and Constancy with silver Banners displayed with the Kings Cities and Lord Mayors and Companies Arms in all Respects suited to the Glory of the Day Harmony thus Addresses to His Lordship WHen the proud Towers of Concords Temple rise Her Basis stands on Earth and Head i th' Skyes Heavens darling Blessing and the Worlds fair Soul Concord the mighty Axis turns the Pole Till her fair Head above the Waters bore 'T was Chaos and Confusion all before Concord by whom Truth raigns and Empires stand States flourish all by her supporting Hand As such the Shrine and such the Deity What must the Founder of her Temple be That Sr's Your Work Our Concords Walls You build Whilst Our Praetorian Chair thus nobly fill'd Such Massy Worth and Morals so refin'd Such leading Virtue with true Honour joyn'd Shall stand those fair Examples for mankind Till Our blest Gates with Love and Union fill'd Fair Concords Brightest Wreath Your Brow shall guild Nor th' Happy London's only shall You bless But Your own Merchant-Taylors Walls no less With such United Worth enricht and stor'd 'Twixt such a Master there here such a Lord. The Third Pageant The CHARIOT UPon a very Large Stage is fixt a Noble Triumphant Chariot drawn by two Golden Camels richly and curiosly adorn'd with all the Glorious Ornaments of Carved Work as Art can perform in its gldiing and painting and all Illustration enricht with several Delightful Figures as well Artificial as Natural lively represented and properly appertaining to the Solemnity of the Day On the most Noble and Greatest Seate of this Structure sits Minerva the Goddess in Chief of all the Arts and Sciences a person of a Majestick Aspect attir'd with long thick bright curld Hair on her Head a Silver Head-peice graced with a high flourishing Plume of Feathers consisting of divers Falls she is attired in Rich Robe of Gold surfled with Silver and over all a Noble Scarf of Carnation silk fringed with Gold with a Crimson Mantle laid with Ermyn In one Hand she bears a Bannor of the Companies Arms in the other a Sheild of the Cities Arms. On a Descent beneath her are placed three Graces viz. Vigilance Diligence and Labour being exprest by the Kettle Drums and Trumpets In the Front of these remote from the former sits a Figure personating Time who holds the Reins of these two stately Camels excellently carved and gilded and painted in equal proportion to the Life with Trappings of Crimson and Silver and Crimson Bridles as being the supporters of the Honourable Company of Merchant-Taylors Arms. This Figure of Time is so order'd to hold the Reins of this Triumphant Chariot as intimating the Antiquity of this Honourable Company the Records of their Magnificence and Glory having lasted so many long Ages past and whose Chariot shall still drive on till Time it self shall finish On the Backs of the two Camels are seated or mounted two sweat young Yrinces a Negro and a Pawny the one an Asian and the other an African in their Richest Robes attired in the most Princely Dress of those Countries with Coronets on their Heads beset with plumes of variety of diverse coloured Feathers In their Right Hands they bear two displaid Banners one the Cities the other the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor intimating their Fealty and Submission to the Heroick Monarch of Great Britain the sole Soveraign of the Sea and so far Lord of the World from Our British Communion and Traffick in the Richest Asian and African Commerce c. And likewise implying their Ambition to hold an amicable Correspondence with this Renown'd City Moreover upon this Stage are placed three Figures representing the Seasons of the Day viz. Morning Noon and Evening attired in their proper Habits with gilded Banners suitable to 'em all intimating that Vigilence Diligence and Labour are the Duties of every Hour of Life and at each Corner is four Golden Cypress Trees His Lorship is saluted by Minerva in this Speech c. SIr in Your bright Inauguration Glory Amongst the humble Knees that bend before You With the just Tribute of her earlyest Vows Thus low the dutiful Minerva bows Arts and Wits Sacred Goddess with her fair Triumphant Chariot waits Your nobler Chair Yes Sir whilst London Europes proudest Town And Albion's fairest Head Your power must own Her Wheel her Loom her Industry are all But Menials Sir to Your commanding Call Her Arts encouraging Lord is only You Nor is Wits Patron less Your Title too Both Atributes so well You have deserved Wit I am sure ne're kinder Master serv'd Then Sir beneath the influence of Your Reign I and my Muses all Your Duteous Train Shall sing Your praises in that chearful Chorus From this blest Day smile the whole Year before us The Fourth Pageant The SHIP AS a farther Testimony of their Zeal and Esteem for his Lordship they present my Lord with a Ship named the William and Mary a Merchant Adventurer This Ship is laden with Cloth Silk and Stuffs of all sorts as representing the Traffick