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A93007	The Several speeches made to the Honorable Sir Richard Brown lord mayor of the city of London: on Monday the twenty ninth day of October, in the twelfth year of His Majesties most happy reign, Anno Dom. 1660. : With the manner of the celebration of this triumphant day; and the various scenes, figures, and pageants; representing the Royal Oak, and its pendant leaves, that preserv'd and enshadow'd our Graeious [sic] Lord and Sovereign King Charles, from the hands of his blood-thirsty enemies.	Browne, Richard, Sir, 1602?-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing S2812A; ESTC R183772	14,810	24

the bloudy stamp Dun hath turn'd Surgeon cur'd them of the Cramp Treason may flourish for a little space But Time at length writes Villain in its face Whil'st Julius Caesars death Revengless past Rome ne're was free from Sword Fire Plague and Wast Till Time reveal'd the Murderers and then Their better Genius did return agen And clos'd up Janus Temple Though Time hath Been curst by those had neither Wit nor Faith But rashly did conclude hee 'd never mend And therefore in Despair did wish his End Yet he for every sore and malady Hath brought you home a Soveraign Remedy Occasion is his fore-top which had some Long since ta'ne hold of bad dayes had not come 'T was not Times fault but theirs that let him go Hee 's swift of foot their Courage was but slow You have been wise in this Sir to your praise Oretak'n Time renew'd the Alchion Days With such A lacrity that poreing on with serious eye my Enchyridion That monstrous Murder that out-fac'd the Sun Appears to me as yesterday but done So home hath Justice follow'd them their heels Are now tript up each his own horrour feels This was Times work though Wisdome was the Scout Without Time nothing could be brought about Peace is restor'd Truth doth in Triumph ride Not long since scorn'd forsaken and deny'd Plenty their Hand-maid follows to maintain The Majesty of the Heroick Train It is a Maxime Trayters bitter Cup Wars maketh Thieves but Peace doth hang them up Since Time has done such Cures by Providence Let him not be abus'd under pretence Of this or that Seeds of Phanatick brains But while you govern Sir hold in the Reynes And while the glorious Star-bestudy'd Sky Retains a light your Fame shall never dy The Speech ended his Lordship and the whole Attendance passed down the old Jury through Catt-eaten street and Lad-Lane Maiden-lane from which place to his Lord-ships house a Gallery was made by the Company of Merchant-Taylors on the North and on the South by the Gentlemen of the Artillery and their Attendants where another Scene or Rock was placed on the top whereof a Figure representing Peace and upon his Lordships entring into his house Peace saluted him from the top of the Rock as followeth AFter so many various Sceans of strife Horrour and mischief acted to the life By those that seem'd to own the shapes of men But Monsters rather were of Cau●us Denn Whole sulphurous Nostrels breath'd intestine Jars Sword Fire and Famine the effect of Wars Peace that their hate and fury did exile Is once again return'd unto this Isle And with her brought Truth to Illuminate Your hearts to nourish Love and banish Hate Truth is the Center wherein all things meet The Chard by which Wisdome directs her feet The ground of Science Seal to Charity The unmov'd Rock tip of Eternity While Peace and truth do flourish in the Land Plenty shall wait on it with a full hand Ceres shall cram your Barns and Bacchus crown Your Boles no more of Penury be known Trade long since dead reviv'd shall be again By th'vertual Influence of your Soveraign Whose gracious Beams like to the Sun doth shine Upon his subjects by a Power Divine Whose Immence Majesty and Glory shall Out-last Times Age vnd the Worlds Funeral Blest be the happy minute of his birth That elevates our Joyes above the Earth Flora the Queen of May shall honoured be By all the Sons of Lyrick Poesy And you my Lord whose prudent care hath bin Imploy'd in the great Work to bring Him in Keep Faction down suppress Seditions seed The bag being broke did the Imposthume breed Let it not gather to a head again Infectious matter dwells in a bad brain So shall your years and happiness encrease Live in your Countries love and die in Peace The Speech being ended the Companies went to their respective Halls and the Gentlemen of the Artillery took leave and marched into the Artillery Ground taking leave of the truly honoured Sir John Robi●son by their several Vollies FINIS MERCVRIVS CALEDONIVS COMPRISING The Affairs now in Agitation in SCOTLAND WITH A Survey of Forraign Intelligence Conamur Tenues Grandia From Tuesday 8th Jan. to Wednesday 16. January 1661. HOw vast a difference there is twixt a true Representative of a Nation and that which is carried on by Faction may appear by the Firstlings of this intire Parliament which through His Majesties favour we now enjoy who to efface the transcendent enormities engendered by the corruption of the late Commotions under the Heathnish pretexts of a Glorious Reformation have vindicate themselves and the Nation of being Antimonarchical which will shortly appear by their Acts to be published in due time However this zeal of our Repentance though vigorous yet with such discretion it is mannaged as it derogateth nothing from the Loyalty and Wisedome of our Ancestours for we finde in our Records so many convincing Laws of Duty and Obedience as are able without the help of new decrees to secure the Interest of a Soveraign Propriator who is as we fi●mly acknowledge His present Sacred Majesty Charles the Second That severe sentence of Omne Malum ab Aquilone must not be laid at our doors for where such Heroick Ministers of State as the renowned Earle of Middleton His Majesties Lord High Commissioner The Noble and Learned Earle of Glencardin Lord Chancellour And the generous Earle of Crawford Lord Theasurer a Parliament of so excellent a constitution as sheweth it self by the uprightnesse of the Peers the ingenuity of the Barrons kindnesse and and affection of our Borroughs are may be expected all which is eminently vertuous especially in restoring the Ancient affection to Parliaments whose misdemeanours these 20 years past had allmost Shipwrack't their reputation Especially one thing wherewith our Nation is charged by the rash Act of a pretended Parliament for the late Kings delivery at Newcastle I confesse the reproach is great though performed by a perverse part of the Nation yet even they had the solemn Oaths and Engagements of the Lords and Commons in England Assembled then in Parliament though rebellious for all imaginable security of His Majesties Authority and Person in Honour Freedom and Safety as is visible in all the Printed Transanctions of the Time and if the same Lords and Commons had not mincingly and snakingly gone about to fetter the Royal Prerogative at the Isle of Wight the English rigid Presbyterian and bloody Anabaptist durst not have Covenanted to bave murtherd the best of Kings and ranverst the happiest of Governments But now blessed be God the misled people of all the three Nations is as Briske in their loyalty as is the most spotlesse soul that 's free of the Original guilt of both Coooovaenants Before I proceed to this Weeks Intelligence take along the last Weeks omissions occasioned by a chearful celebrating of our happy Restauration That whereas it was mentioned the Funerals of the late great Marquesse of Montrose was

decease of the young King she might be readmitted to the Crown and Government of Sweden in regard her former resignation had relation only to the late King for life and no longer which hath been the occasion that the States who were then upon dissembling their Assembly continued their consultations by some Commissioners deputed to consider of the premises who returned back to the Queen her proposals and oblieged her to subscribe a Paper wherein she renounceth all pretences to the Crown of Sweden for ever and contents her self with that revenew setled upon her for her maintenance during life she seemed at first to be somewhat unwilling but upon second thoughts and seeing that all the Countrey was against her yeelded to what was not to be avoided Which affair being determined it is thought that all the States will depart suddenly From Hamburgh Decemb. 15. The Count of Shippenbach taking shipping at Stockholm to go for Poland there to reside as Ambassador in ordinary for this Crown the ship that carried him was cast away at Sea on the 3. instant himself with 36 persons being drowned and 24. saved There is no certainty of the Queen Christina her return from Sweden some are apt to believe that she intends to stay there all the Winter The Swedes have lately mustered their Forces in the Dukedom of Bremen but upon what designe they are to be imployed is not yet known Some aver that they are to be sent to assist the Bishop of Munster against the City which if so a short time will discover it His Majesty passed several Acts at the dissolution of the Parliament but because most of them relateth to private businesses and Naturalizing Stranger I 'le only set down the most considerable An Act for the restoring of Henry Lord Arundel of Warder to the possession of his Estate An Act for restitution of Thhomas Earl of Arundel Surrey and Norfolk to the Dignity and Title of Duke of Norfolk An Act to restore to Wentworth Earl of Roscomon of the Kingdom of Ireland all the Honors Castles Lordships Lands Tenaments and Hereditaments in Ireland whereof James Earl of Roscomon his Great Grand-father or James Earl of Roscomon his Father c. An Act for restoring of Sir George Hamilton unto his Lands and Estate in Ireland An Act for the Attainder of several persons guilty of the horrid Murther of his late sacred Majesty King CHARLES the First An Act for prohibiting the planting setting or sowing of Tobacco in England and Ireland An Act for the levying of certain Moneys due upon the collection for the Protestants of Piedmont An Act for confirmation of Marriages An Act for confirmation of Leases and Grants from Colledges and Hospitals An Act for the further supplying and explaining certain defects in an Act for the speedy provision of money for disbanding and paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea An Act for the leavying of the Arrears of the Twelve months Assessment commencing 24. of June 1659. and the Six months Assessement commencing the 25. of December 1659. An Act for granting unto the King's Majesty 420000. l. by Assessment of 70000 l. by the month for Six months for disbanding of the Army and paying off the Navy An Act for erecting and establishing a Post-Office An Act for the better ordering the selling of Wines by retail and for preventing abuses in the mingling corrupting and vitiating of Wines and for setling and limiting the prizes of the same An Act for making the Precinct of Covent Garden Parochial An Act for raising of 70000 l. for a further supply of His Majesty An Act for prohibiting the exportation of Wool Wool-Fells Fullers-earth or any kind of scouring earth At the passing of these Acts after Sir Harbotle Grimston Master of the Rolles and Speaker of the House of Commons had made a Speech to His Majesty setting forth the unparalel'd goodnesse of His Najesty to His People and their Loyalty to His Majesty it pleased His Majesty himself to make a most Gracious Speech to both Houses wherein He was pleased to fix a name on this Parliament to live to all posterity viz. The Healing and the blessed Parliament declaring That it should be a Rule to His Actions and Councils to consider What is a Parliament like to think of this Action or this Council Adding how religiously He himself would observe the Act of Indempnity and would exact the observation of it from all others After which and other most Gracious Expressions he referred the rest to be spoken by the Lord High Chancellor who according to his custom excellently set forth the happinesse of His Majesty and His people which only strive which should expresse most affection to each other to the joy of all good men and the Terror of all that refuse their own happinesse by thoughts of embroyling the Kingdom in Blood whose Designs and Plots are particularly mentioned in his Lordships Speech which concluded with the Parliament for then it was dissolved but will never be forgotten for the good it hath done by the mercies of God to this late most wretched Nation And since we mention Plots we cannot but acquaint you that besides the prisoners in our last there are divers others secured as Colonel Payne Mr. Knight there are many Knights but that none may mistake him for a better man this is Knight the Potter who after turned preacher and reprobated all that kept their Allegiance Allen Courtney two who are not unknown to their Brethren of that army besides that faithful man of Reckoning Mr. Cook of the Bear at London-Bridge whom we must not remember to have come from the Bridge-foot to fit upon Peers in a High Court of Justice On Saturday last Decemb. 29. which we should have told you sooner but that we had no pleasure to mention so sad and universal a Losse the chiefest of the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom met in the House of Peers to attend the Royal Corps of Mary Princesse of Orange which being brought about 9 at night from Denmark-House to Westminster they proceeded through a Lane of Guards of the Duke of Albemarl's Regiment of Foot First went several Gentlemen and Knights next the Servants of his Highnesse the Duke of York then the Servants of the Queen after whom came His Majesties Servants and next the Servants of the deceased Princesse then two Heraulds before James Marquesse of Ormond Lord Steward of His Majesties Houshold and Edward Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Household after whom went Edward Lord Hyde Lord High Chancellor of England with the Purse and Mace born before him after whom came another Herald with a Coronet upon black Velvet and then the Royal Corps carried by her own Servants the Pall being supported by six Earls and the Canopy born over it by several Baronets His Highnesse the Duke of York following the Corps with an Herald before him and divers persons of Quality bearing his Train Thus they proceeded