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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62413	A true history of all the memorable transactions that have happen'd in England, Scotland, Ireland, Flanders, &c. relating to state affairs, sieges, battles, sea-fights, and other naval matters With a particular relation of all the plots and conspiracies against the life of King William and his government, at home and abroad: also by what means they were discovered and defeated, by signal providences: from his coming to the crown, to this present year, 1696. Especially a large account of the late horrid conspiracy, to assassine his sacred life, and bring in a French power. Likewise the confessions and executions of divers of the conspirators, and other things worthy of note.	J. S.	1696 (1696)	Wing S99A; ESTC R3293	88,755	215

and the next day arriving at Canterbury he was upon his Entrance into that City received by the Mayor Recorder Aldermen and Common-Council in their Robes with divers Gentlemen the Recorder made a very Loyal and Dutifull Speech to his Majesty expressing the great Joy his Royal Presence gave that City and assuring him of their Loyalty and Duty which was seconded by the loud and repeated Acclamations of all sorts of People the Mayor at that time surrendred the Keys of the City and had them returned by his Majesty when bearing the Sword and the eldest Alderman the Mace they marched before the King's Coach through the street which was lined by the Militia of the City and part of the Marine Regiment quartered in those parts and his Majesty's Lodgings were prepared at the Lady Coventry's House where the Sub-Deans and Prebends the Dean being absent waited upon his Majesty to pay their Duty to him and by the City he was presented with a splendid Banquet of Sweet-meats and the day was concluded with Healths and all Demonstrations of Joy by Bonfires and ringing of Bells accommodated the night But the King upon further consideration finding the Wind was set in Easterly and that a hard Frost was set in thinking at that time no safe Passage or Landing could be gained after he had done Sir Joseph Williamson the Honour to lye in his Return a Night at Cobham-Hall came to Kensington where he was received with all imaginable Demonstrations of Joy however taking the first opportunity of the Fair Wind and breaking off of the Frost he went to Graves-end where he embarked with divers of the Nobility and other Persons of Quality and the next day he was off of Margaret-Road standing with a fair Wind to the Coast of Holland where coming up with the Goree the Weather being thick and foggy and being informed by a Fisherman that he was not above a League and half from the Shore he left his Yatch and attended by the Duke of Ormond the Lord Steward and Lord-Chamberlain the Earls of Portland and Monmouth Monsieur Overkirk and Monsieur Zulestein and went off with Three Shallops designing to land in an hour or two but the difficulties he met with from the Ice and the fogginess of the Weather were such that it was about 8 the next Morning e'er his Majesty could reach the Goree where he went on Shore with his Retinue and after some Refreshment went into his Boat again and about Two in the Afternoon landed at Oramen Haak near Maesland Stuys and at Houslayerdyke was met by the Deputies of the States but his Majesty made no stay there but passed to the Hague where the States-General the States of Holland and Council of State with other Colleges made their Complements to him as also the foreign Ministers residing at that Court and a day being set apart for his Majesties more magnificent Reception the Preparations were extraordinary the States-General erecting one Triumphal Arch the Magistrates two the first to be set on the Piazza's called the Buyton Hoff the second in the publick Piazza and the third in the Market-place of the Hague The first was a triumphant Architecture compounded of the Dorick Orders with three open Gates the middlemost being the highest supported with eight Pillars upon large Basements backwards and forwards separated from the Body of the Work and upon each Basement stood two Pillars with a Copulo of 8 Faces upon the Overture in the middle and on the Copulo a Pedestal upon which his Majesty was represented on Horseback very richly gilded to the Horses on each side were fastened two Slaves or Statues of Brass colour prostrate and the whole Work as it were the colour of Freestone between the Pillars and upon each side inward and outward the Spaces are replenished with pictures in which are comprehended some Historical Representations and Hieroglyphical Figures referring to the Life and glorious Actions of his Majesty At the Frontispiece of that Arch and upon the Pillars as well backwards as forward and at each side are placed in the same order of both Sexes 8 Statues to proportion of Life and in the part of the Arch facing the end of the Town upon a high Pedestal is a Nep●une lying along with his Trident in his hand and this Motto Let him triumph upon the Seas At the other side of the Arch looking towards Cingel-street a Plough-man or Rustick stands upon a Pedestal with a Spade in his hand and this Motto Let him reach to Jupiter's Throne and about the Copulo was written viz. To the pious happy Renowned William the Third the triumphant Father of his Country Governour Stadtholder and Restorer of the Vnited Netherlands England's Liberator Scotland's Preserver and Ireland's Pacificator now returned Upon the Frontispiece underneath the Statues viz. After great things done at home and abroad as having made a strict League with the Princes the Revenger of his Subjects Wrongs and the Defender of the oppressed and upon a large Picture under that a Table upon which are represented several Armed Men fighting with a Dragon and this Motto viz. Being united they make a strong opposition and in the second hollow Seat this viz. Being passed beyond the Sea he has rescued great Britain and being adorned with Scepters of a vast extended power he has been received in his own Country with all demonstrations of publick Joy and in the Table beneath is represented Ballances in one Scale a Sword and in the other divers Crowns the Sword outweighing those Crowns and this Motto viz. Rewards are not answerable to Merit in the third hollow Seat viz. Our Country mourning and bewailing Europe in Tears the most ancient Family of Nassau fertile in producing Hero's Emperours and Princes afflicted A Phaenix in a Table underneath is represented burning with this Sentance viz. Born after his Fathers Death shines so much the more and in the Fourth hollow Seat viz. William born after his Fathers Death the Third of Great Britain and of Orange The hope of his own Country and the support of the Commonwealth And in a Table underneath is represented a Scepter and Three Crowns with this Motto viz. Tender Age is an Ornament to Diadems On the Backside of this Arch towards the Pallace were Four hollows in the Frontispiece with these Inscriptions First Fate favourable to Europe has bestowed him from Heaven and portending his future Majesty foxed him for Example when he was exceeding Young on the other side above a large Picture was a little Table and represented on it a young Eagle soaring to the rising Sun with this Motto viz. Young and Tender as he is he strives with all the force of his Wings against the Wind. In the Second viz. Who having spent his Youth in many Hardships tossed with Feuds Wars and Sedition in so much Hazard vanquished all before him and in the Table underneath was represented presented a Castle upon a Hill and a Spear planted at the Foot of it