him that charge through the intermission of the King after having given him the conduct which his Father had of her affairs The Estates of Holland gave also a company of Walloon Foot with the hope of a troop of horse to Mr Languerack a Gentleman of the Country of the House of Boetselaer who till then had found great obstacles to his advancement They ordained also that M rs of Wimmenum from the Nobility Halling of the town of Dort of Marseveen of Amsterdam and Hooglant of Alcmaer should go to salute from them the Commissioners of the two Houses of Parliament and the Deputies of the City of London and to endear upon the affection with which they procured the King's return and on the zeal wherewith they laboured to re-establish the affairs of the Kingdom in the same estate they were under their last Monarchs being then in the most flourishing estate of the world They found the Commissioners assembled in the same places where the Deputies of the Estates General had met them viz. some at the Earl of Oxford's and the others with the Lord Fairfax and Mr. of Wimmenum said unto them That the Lords the Estates of Holland who had so much cause to rejoice for that great Catastrophe which they saw in England could not be silent in that wonderfull conjuncture and in that publick and universal joy but found themselves obliged to express it with them that contributed the most to it and are the principal Authors thereof That the Parliament of England had this advantage to be as the foundation of the Estate but that those which compose it now had gained this glory to all posterity that they had not only drawn the Kingdom from its greatest calamity to carry it to the highest felicity but also that they had been the first of the three Kingdoms to declare themselves for so glorious an enterprise That the Lords the Estates who in living with England as they lived during the Anarchy and disorder had manifested how dear the amity of the English was to them participated therein as they ought assured the Lords Commissioners of the perseverance of their affection and praied God for the continuation of the prosperity of the affairs of the Kingdom and of their persons in particular with all the fervency that could be expected from an allied Estate and from persons perfectly affectionated to their good and interests The Commissioners answered by the mouth of the Lords whom we have named and after they had thanked the Lords the Estates for the affection which they had for the King and for the Kingdom whereof they have every day such glittering proofs they thanked the Deputies for the pains they would take in coming to give them the greatest assurances thereof in their particular offering to acknowledge both one and t'other by their personal services and by a perpetual and inviolable amity of their Estate with this Republick and conducted the Deputies even to the coach Saturday the 29 of May the Deputy Councellours which make the Councel of Estate of Holland considering the expence which the Province had made for the reception of the King in his voiage from Breda and that which they must make yet as well for the Feast which they prepared against the next day as for the presents which they purposed to offer to his Majesty and to the Princes his brothers represented to the Estates of Holland that it would be requisite to make forthwith a sum of six hundred thousand Gilders The Estates consented thereunto immediately and found it fit to furnish for the King the Bed and the apprutenances which the last deceased Prince of Orange had caused to be made for the lying-in of the Princess Royal and which she never used because of the death of the Prince her husband who deceased eight daies before the birth of the Prince his son This bed is without doubt the fairest and richest that ever was made at Paris and besides the teaster the seats the skreens the hangings and the other peeces necessary to make a furniture compleat the Estates would add thereunto a most perfect fair hanging of the richest tapistery imbossed with gold and silver which they cause to be made of purpose with a great number of excellent pictures as well of Italy as of the countries ancient and modern and whatsoever can compose a chamber worthy to lodge so great a Monarch in his greatest magnificence The same Councel of Estate ordained also that all the fisherbarks of the Villages of Scheveling and of Heyde should be stayed for the service of the Estate to the end to serve the imbarkment of the Court and King's baggage and that for the same purpose the Village of Catwick on the sea should send the next Munday to Scheveling ten and those of Nortwijck Santvoort and Wijck upon the sea each eight barks They also gave order to Captain du Charoy to cause thirty open wagons to be in readiness to bring a part of the baggage to Scheveling Munday following and a like number with forty close wagons to conduct the train Tuesday which was the day that the King had nominated for his departure though it was deferred since till Wednesday the second of June as we shall see hereafter The same day the Duke of York brother to the King accompanied with the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg and with a great number of English and Dutch Lords and Gentlemen went to Scheveling to take the Marriners oath of fidelity in quality of Admiral of England but the wind being contrary and the sea so moved that the Lord Montagu vice-Vice-Admiral thought it not fit to send boats from aboard him to fetch his Royal Highness and the fishermen of the Village refusing to put him aboard he was enforced to return to the Hage to dinner Monsieur Weiman Councellour in the Councel of Estate of the Elector of Brandenbourg and his Chancellour in the Dutchy of Cleveland had the opportunity to do reverence to the King at Breda where he went about the affairs of the wardship of the Prince of Orange wherewith his Electoral Highness would charge himself in part Therefore he would not press his audience during the first daies after his arrival when his Majesty was burthened with complements But as soon as Prince Maurice of Nassau who with the government of the town of Wesel and charge of Lieutenant General of the Horse in the service of the Estates General of the United Provinces ceaseth not to be Governour of the Dutchy of Cleveland and of the Provinces annexed to it in the name of the Elector of Brandenbourg was arrived they judged fit to make a solemn complement to his Majesty in the name of his Electoral Highness The Prince was there the same Saturday accompanied with Mr. Weiman who notwithstanding the imploiments which he hath elsewhere forbears not to reside some years at the Hage about the affairs of the wardship of the Prince of Orange and with
and who is no less considerable through the prudence wherewith he governeth then through the honour which he hath to be the of same house with the King of Denmark who shall be partly his heir willing to give an extraordinary proof of the respect which he alwaies hath had for the Kings of Great Britain who of their side have from all time much esteemed him dispatched this Gentleman as soon as he understood that the King was to depart from Breda to come into Holland not so much to acquit himself of that duty by a simple complement as to assure his Majesty that the first day he would send to render his respect unto him in his Kingdom by a person who is very near unto him whom he considereth and loveth extreamly The King who is much more sensible of the good he receiveth then of the injuries his enemies have done him would make known by a most civil reception and accompanied with much tenderness and by a most obliging answer which he made to the complement of that Gentleman that if he could forget the ill usage he had received from some of his people he was incapable to lose the remembrance of the obligation which he had to the Count of Oldenbourg We have said before that the Duke of York as Admiral of England would go Saturday last to the Fleet to take there the Oath of Fidelity of the Officers and Marriners and that he was hindred by the contrary wind and the tempest But this day the last of May he embarked himself and was aboard the Admiral The Fleet declared it self for the King when it was yet at anckor in the Downs immediately after it understood the intention of the Parliament upon the Letter and Declaration of his Majesty whereof we have spoken in the beginning of this Relation and it was not lately that the Lord Montague who commands the Fleet now as Vice-Admiral under the authority of the Duke of York had made his good will so wel to appear that not only the King could not doubt thereof but also that he had given some suspition thereof to those of the contrary party But it was necessary to disingage the Officers Souldiers and Marriners of the Oath which they had done to the last Parliament and to be assured there of by a new Oath of Fidelity for the King their Soveraign Lord. Therefore the Duke being arrived at the Admiral 's Ship where he was received by the Lord Montague with extraordinary honour and submissions he caused the Captain of the other ships to come aboard there and took their Oath which the Captains caused to be administred since to the inferiour Officers and to all the rest of the seamen in the other ships The Lord Montague had caused the flag to be changed before he departed from the coast of England and made the arms of the Common-wealth to be raâ—ed out which appeared for some years on the castle of his proud poop but he had reserved the honour for his Royal Higness to change the name of the ship which Cromwel caused to be called the Naesby in memory of the great Battel where the deceased King was defeated and by which the Rebellion gained principally the strenght which made it to subsist even to this last revolution The Duke thinking that he could not give it a name which should be more pleasingly received then that of the King made it to be called The Charls It is certainly one of the handsomest frames that ever sailed upon the sea For although it be of the greatest size that hath been seen after that which they call in England the Soveraign and carries fourscore peeces of brass Cannon amongst which more then twenty are of 48 pound bullet it is notwithstanding one of the best sailers of the whole Ocean She had aboard her above six hundred men as well Souldiers as Sailors and the Chambers and Galleries of the Castle where the King was to lodge and where the Lord Montague lodgeth ordinarily were all wanscotted and gilded and furnished with fair beds of the finest cloth of England fringed with gold and silver and with foot Turcky tapistry for the Royal persons But that which was most remarkable was that in the Admirals Kitchin there were six Clarks that laboured but for the mouth and that his table was better served on the sea then those of many Princes are in their Dominions The plate which was all of silver was of so prodigious a greatness that they were seen to be loaden with peeces of rost beef whereof the English have reason to make one of their delicates which weighed neer a hundred pounds and the other dishes of plate which accompanied that were without comparison massier then the greatest washing basons that are ordinarily used and so loaden with meat that it seemed the whole Fleet was to be fed with the remains of that table though they were intended but for the attendants of my Lord the Duke He dined there at the ordinary of the vice-Vice-Admiral which might pass for a great feast and in going thence he was saluted with the artillery of the whole Fleet which did him the same honour when he came aboard The same day the King received Letters from a certain kind of people which are called in England Quakers because that in the ordinary hours when they make their devotions or prayers there takes themselves a certain trembling in all parts of the body which they say to be a violent motion caused by the spirit of God wherewith they would make men be-believe that they are possessed It would be very hard to say whether these people are fanatick or hyponchondriack that is mad or melancholy but it must needs be that so great a disorder of spirit as that which is observed in all their actions proceedeth from an ill disposition of the body They have not only lost the respect they ow unto Princes and Magistrates but they fail also in the duties which are inseparable from the civil life And they are so far from humility which is a vertue not known but since the birth of Christianity that hitherto there was never seen an animal so impudent and so proud The Letter was ridiculous and impertiment throughout but particularly in most places it pronounced the threatnings of Gods judgment against the King if he protected not that Sect and entred not into those thoughts The King having made known the day before to Mr. the Veth Deputy from the Province of Zealand to the Estates General and President that week for his Province that his design was to render them a visit the next morning in their assembly as we have said it was resolved that they would receive this honour with all imaginable respect and to that purpose would dispose of all things in such manner that his Majesty should carry away from his visit the satisfaction which he might lawfully promise to himself from thence And indeed Tuesday morning
Majesty and pray him ardently that it will please him to hear the devotions which we shall continue to make incessantly for the prosperity of the voiage and reign of your Majesty The King answered that he thanked the Magistrate and Councel for the affection they expressed to him and should indeavour to acknowledge it on all occasions that should be presented unto him Whereupon the Burgemaster having taken the liberty to reply that since his Majesty had the goodness to accept the affection and zeal which they had for his service he besought him most humbly to remember the grace which he had made them to hope for when he concluded in that place his treaty with the Deputies of Scotland some years since that he would honour the town of Breda and its inhabitants with all the favour which the Laws of his Kingdom would permit him to grant them The King answered that he remembred it very well and that he was obliged to do it for a town where he had received such agreeable news and which had rendred him so many testimonies of respect and affection The King took coach after this audience and came between eleven and twelve a clock at Moervaert He found there some squadrons of Horse in batalia and the Deputies of the Estates of Holland who presented themselves at the boot of his Coach and made him their complement in the name of their Superiours at the entrance of their Province His Majesty staied but to hear the quaint and obliging words of Mr. de Beverweert who spake for all the other Deputies and to answer to that civility After this he persued his way to the end of the Causey or Dike where they had made a bridge from the Dike to the Pinnace to facilitate his embarkment The Estates General to give no jealousie to some persons of quality who have coaches with six horses make use ordinarily for the entrance of Embassadours and for other publick Ceremonies but of the Coach of the Princess Dowager of Orange which represents that of the Estates in those occasions Hence was it they desired that the pinnace or barge of the same Princess which she had lent for the same purpose should have the same honour on this occasion and had enjoined their Deputies to indeavour to make it acceptable to his Majesty But the King after he had considered them all chose another as well because he knew it was very commodious as having used it formerly as because indeed that of the Princess Dowager was not great enough to lodge the King and the Princess Royal who would pass the night by the King her brother with persons necessary for their service That whereinto the King entred was made formerly for the Prince of Orenge but it is now in the Colledge of the Admirality of Rotterdam and was without doubt the greatest of all that little Fleet which was composed besides other Barks almost innumerable of thirty great Barges commonly called Yachts and are a kind of little Frigats whereof persons of condition make use upon the Rivers in passing from one Province unto another for necessity or for divertisement And indeed the King found his Yacht so fit and so well fashioned that he said in discourse with the Deputies that he would cause one to be made of the same manner as soon as he should be arrived in England to serve him upon the Thames above the bridge Mr. de Vlooswick Burgemaster of Amsterdam and one of the Deputies of the Province of Holland taking occasion from thence to render a very considerable service to this country said to the King that lately they had made one in their town of the same bigness at least as commodious every way which he took the liberty to offer to his Majesty beseeching him to grace the Magistrate of the town of Amsterdam to accept it The King accepted it not absolutely but declined not so strongly that upon the advertisement which Mr. de Vlooswick gave to the Magistrate of what passed on this occasion he caused not that Yacht to be bought which the Colledge of the Admiralty had gotten of the East-India Company and put it in condition to serve for the divertisement of this great Prince And to give it the more lustre the Magistrate caused the outside to be richly gilt whil'st some of the best Painters of the country wrought upon the fair Pictures wherewith they have since adorned the inside No person would undertake the commission to distribute the Yachts among the Lords of the Court because it would be impossible to oblige them all equally and to disoblige none Therefore Mr. de Beverweert besought the King to be so gracious as to cause the distribution to be made since the Deputies had no other order but fully to obey the commandments of his Majesty which were absolutely necessary for them on this occasion The King would fain take the pains thereof himself and ordained that the Duke of York should ont his occasion perform the functions of Admiral in distributing the Yachts under his authority and in his presence so that his Royal Highness gave himself the Yacht of the Princess Dowager of Oreng The Duke of Glocester had that of the Estates of Holland The Princess Royal one of the Yachts of the Councel of Estate The Deputies of the Estates General had the other The Deputies of the Estates of Holland went into the Yacht of Mr. Beverweert which received also Don Estévan de Gamarra who went to meet the King at Moordijck not in quality of Embassadour of Spain but as particular servant of his Majesty the Rhinegrave the Lord Craft and many other English Lords The Chancellour of England with his family and Sr. Edward Nicholas principal Secretary of Estate and of the King's commands and one of his most affectionate Ministers embarked themselves in a Pinnace called the Maid of Zealand The Marquess of Ormond Lord Deputy of Ireland of the House of Butler one of the chief and most ancient of that Kingdom had the Pinnace of Captain Brouwer The Marquess of Worcester Edward Sommerset embarked himself with his Family in the Pinnace named the Postillion of Zealand The Lord St. John and Bellasis had that of Mr. Wassenaer Mr. Clarges brother-in-law to General Monck and his company composed of the Deputies of the Army had the Yacht of the town of Dort The Lord Gerard and many other English Lords entred into that of Mr. Noortwick Governour of Sluce and the 13th Yacht which was that of the Prince of Oreng was reserved for the Chamber and Wardrobe of the Princess Royal. Every Yacht had its Steward and all other Officers necessary for the Kitchin and buttery and they which had not the commodity to have their Kitchin aboard themselves were accompanied with other Barks where chimneys were made for the Kitchin and ovens for the pastery and provision of so prodigious a quantity of all sorts of meats of foul of sweet meats of wine that all
into the Hage had the leisure to cut some little streets and to come to put themselves behind and so to make a guard from the Highstreet and along the great Place even to the Viverberg where the Regiment of the Guards had taken its Post and made a guard on both sides even to the House of Prince Maurice of Nassau which the Estates of Holland had caused to be furnish'd and accommodated for the King's lodging As soon as the first coaches were entred into the Court and the King alighted the Deputies of the Estates General retired and left the honour of the reception and entertainment for that day to the Estates of Holland The King being gone up found on the top of the stairs the Queen of Bohemia his Aunt led by the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg who had the honour to salute and to entertain the King at Breda and the Princess Dowager of Orange led by Prince William Frederick of Nassau her son-in-law and accompanied with the two Princesses her daughters Madam the Princess of Nassau and the young Lady of Orange The King saluted them all and being entred into the chamber where he was followed by the Deputies of the Estates of Holland he received there another small complement from them by the mouth of the Pensionary Councellour who said no other thing but that the Estates of Holland would give themselves the honour to come in full body to render their duty to his Majesty when they might do it without incommodating him The King answered him that they should alwaies be welcome and that after he had dined they might take their audience But the Pensioner replied that his Majesty being without doubt weary with his journy they would not trouble his repose that day but would send to receive his orders the next The King who was weary indeed expressed a willingness to dine in private so that there staied no body by him but Mr. of Wimmenum who was charged with the order of making his Majesty to be served at dinner and in whatsoever it should please him to command The Princess Royal who had not slept the night before was the first that withdrew and obliged the others by her example to do the like The Queen of Bohemia and the Princess Dowager of Orange followed her and the King who would lead them and who took the Queen by the hand had the goodness after he had put her into the coach to turn about to the end to help the Princess Dowager to go up There staied with the King at dinner none but the two Dukes his brothers who dined with him His Majesty before he sate at Table would do Mr. of Wimmenum the honour to make him to take his napkin to present it him but that Gentleman who knew how to behave himself civilly excused himself through modesty and yeelded that advantage to him of his Officers who used to perform that function about the person of his Majesty The toil of the journy and little rest he had taken the two former nights made him desire to withdraw And indeed they would have made the musketteers to forbear shooting who gave continual volleys if it had been possible to smother the universal joy which the whole world would express on this occasion To these volleys answered those of a battery of eight and thirty peeces of Canon which were planted on the Viverberg reinforced with another of five and twenty peeces of a greater stamp which they were enforced to plant behind the Cloister Church of the Voorhout upon the rampart in turning the mouth towards the field for fear the noise of that thunder might shake the walls of the old Palace and of all the adjoining buildings The Estates General had ordained the precedent day Mr. de Heyde their Agent to go to Prince Maurice his House and to know immediately after the King's arrival at least as soon as civility would permit him when it would please his Majesty to receive the duty which they had resolved to render him in coming to do him reverence in a body and his Majesty having granted it them at four a clock in the afternoon it was resolved that they should all meet in the ordinary chamber of their assembly half an hour after 3 a clock to go from thence in a body to the house of Nassau They met accordingly at the hour appointed to the number of five and twenty viz. Mr. van Swanenburgh Burgemaster of Leiden and Deputy to the Estates General from the Province of Holland who at his turn was President that week the Baron of Gent M rs van Bemmel Braeckel Balveren Vande Steen Ripperda of Buirse the Count of Flodorff Schimmelpennick Vander Oyen Huygens and Ommeren Deputies from the Dutchy of Gelders Meerman of Horn and the Pensionary Councellour from the Province of Holland de Veth Crommon Vrybergen Lampsins and Kien for Zealand Renswoude and Amerongen Deputies from the Province of Utrecht Velsen for the Province of Freesland Ripperda of Hengelo for Overyssel and Schulenbourg and Isbrants for the town of Groning and the adjacent country with which it makes also a Province As soon as they were assembled they went forth two and two in the same order as we have named them going directly to the King's lodging which is separated from the Palace but by a Ditch whose two sides are joined by a stone bridge That Palace is named the Court or the Court of Holland because it served sometime for dwelling to the Counts as it comprehends now in its inclosure the apartments where the Estates General assemble the Councel of Estate of the United Provinces the Estates of Holland the Councel of Estate of the same Province the Reckoning-chambers of the Generality and of the Province of Holland The two Courts of Justice and the apartments assigned for the lodging of the Princess Royal and of the Prince of Orange Before the Estates marched Prince William Frederick of Nassau Governour and Lievtenant General of Freesland of Groning and of Overyssel the Rhine Grave Commissary General of the Horse of the United Provinces and Governour of Mastricht Mons de Hauterive Chasteau neuf Collonel of a Regiment of French Foot in the service of the Estates and Governour of Breda and many other Collonels Lievtenant Collonels and other Officers as well of Foot as of Horse all bareheaded At the entrance into the King's lodging they were met with by the Lord Crafts one of the four Gentlemen of the bed-chamber accompanied with a great number of gentlemen The Marquess of Ormond Lord Deputy of Ireland and in this quality the first and most considerable person of all England after the Dukes came to receive them at the stairs and brought them into the King's chamber All the high Officers that marched before being entred the Lords the Estates could scarce make way through the press which was extraordinary great there but at last being come to the King the Baron of Gent as chief Deputy
without incommodating his Majesty We said before that the King had advertisement the precedent day that Admiral Montagu was arrived with a part of the Fleet in sight of Scheveling which is but a village inhabited by a hundred or six score families of fishermen a good mile from the Hague which was found true For as soon as they understood in the Fleet then at anckor in the Downs which is a rode at the entrance of the channel that separates England from the main Land what passed in Parliament in behalf of the King and the publick Declaration which almost through the whole Kingdom was made it also declared for its lawful Prince and set sail upon the first orders of the Parliament with so favourable a wind that it appeared on the coasts of Holland on Munday morning the 24 of May and it had the same Admiral that dispatched an express to the King to let him know that he was come there with a part of the Fleet to receive his Majesties commands and to pass him into England It was composed at first but of eighteen or nineteen vessels but those that carried the Commissioners of the two Houses of Parliament and of the City of London having not yet joined with it there arrived others every day and hour so that before the King was in condition to embark there were reckoned eight and thirty great ships the most part of them bearing fifty sixty and seventy peeces of brass Cannon That of the Admiral called yet the Naseby carried fourscore where of the fir strank was of eight and forty pound bore the second of two and thirty and of four and twenty and the third of twelve pount bullet all of brass The Commissioners of the two Houses of Parliament and of the City of London arrived the same day but for as much as they were not of the King's train and had no Letters of Credence for the Estate it was resolved that they should not be treated nor lodged by Harbengers Notwithstanding the consideration which was had for the quality of the Commissioners of the House of Lords which were all followed with a great number of Gentlemen and store of servants clad in very fair and rich Liveries as also for some of the Lower House because of their birth or merit it was found good to lodge them by billets They went not a shore till the next day and the Estate was carefull to cause coaches to be sent for them by particulars which brought them at the Hage in the evening but they did not reverence to the King till Wednesday the 26. as we will say hereafter We have said also that the Estates of Holland would not take their audience the day that the King arrived to the end not to oppress him with complements when he had need of rest but they ordained Mr. Beaumont their Secretary to address himself to one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber and to pray him to know of his Majesty the hour of their audience the next day officiating in the mean time under hand by Mr. Beverweert that it would please his Majesty to do them the favour to hear them in private and to make all to depart the Chamber when they entred there except the Lords that were necessary for the service of his person Not that they had to entertain him with secret affairs in a publick audience where they were but to felicitate his Majesty upon the present estate of his Kingdom but because that being assembled in a very great number and having to make their complement in a body all the Deputies could not enter into the Hall nor approach the King if entrance should be allowed to all the world indifferently The reason which obliged them to give order to the Captain of the Regiment of the Guards to forbid that morning entrance into the House of Nassau to all the inhabitants of the country of what condition or quality soever they were They caused a Guard also to be made for them of some Companies from the dore of their apartment in the Palace even to that of the Prince his house and prevented by this means the confusion which they would hardly have avoided without it After then they had given these orders and understood that the King expected them at nine a clock they came about that time to the place of their ordinary assembly and went forth thence in the following order Mr Starenberg Collonel of the Regiment of their Guards marched first and alone bare-headed After him came the Estates of Holland in body two and two the Deputies of the Nobility which are M rs of Wassenaer of Beverweert of Schagen of Wimmenum of Nortwijck of Somelsdijck of Duyvenvoorde vander Mylen to wit Scagen Wimmenum and Merode are politick and as we say of the robe and the others have military charges according to the order of their reception and the other Deputies according to the rank which their towns hold in the assembly with this difference notwithstanding that the Pensionary Councellour who although in the assembly he hath his place at the table of the Nobility cannot as Minister of the Estates pretend rank but after all the other Deputies when the Estates are together in a body and yet takes place immediately after the Nobles because that being to make the speech he could not without disorder make through the press to approach the person of the King Being thus arrived a foot at the gate of the King's lodging they were received there in the same manner as the Estates General had been the day before The Pensionary Councellour made a very quaint discourse which would give without doubt much ornament to our relation if that Minister would have communicated it but it could not be obtained from his modesty which is so much the more incommodious on this occasion as it is wel known that all the productions of that accomplished wit have their perfection and that this little treatise cannot have it without that We must beleeve notwithstanding that he would not have rendred himself so difficult if he would have considered that it is not in his power to take away the knowledge thereof from posterity who will find one day his Speech in the Registers where the Estates would it should be inserted in the same manner as he pronounced it The subject was common to him with all those that had spoken to the King 15 daies before Therefore the answer of his Majesty must also relate to that which he made to the oher complements But that which was particular in this audience was this that his Majesty having given occasion to the Estates to enter into other matters and the Pensionary Counsellor making use thereof to speak of the Estate of the affairs of the North the King declared himself so openly and so favourably for the interests of the King of Denmark that though the Lords the Estates should draw no other advantage from the generosity and vigour with which they
Mr. Copes ordinary Resident from the Elector to the Lords the Estates The discourse of the Prince was like a Cavaleer so that after the King had answered his complement they spake of indifferent affairs which have nothing of common with this relation The same day Monsieur Vicquefort Knight Resident with the Lords the Estates for the Land-Grave of Hessen made his complement for the Prince his Master which was so much the better received as in his particular he had had an occasion to render most important services to his Majesty as well as to the deceased King his Father of glorious memory He had the honour to do reverence to his Majesty at Breda when in the voiage which he made there some daies before with the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg the King expressed unto him that he remembred the affection which he had for his service He spake also for the Duke of Courland in such sort that the King who witnessed to be touched with the affliction of that Prince protested that he would not fail to acknowledge the good offices which that Prince rendred to the deceased King and to his own person during the disorders of his Kingdom Monsieur Walter de Raet Councellour in the Court of Holland Zealand and West-Freesland being gone to Bruxels in the beginning of the moneth of March this present year with Mr. Goes his Colleague by vertue of a Commission from the Court to speak to the Princess Royal of the affairs of the Principality of Orange understood that there was notice given that General Monck dissembled in a manner no more the inclination which he had for the King's interests and for the re-establishment of the affairs of England and from thence took the liberty to felicitate the King His Majesty received him so well as also the words which he said unto him when being gone since about the same affairs at Breda where his Majesty betook himself he gave him to understand the occasion which hindred the Lords the Estates at present to complement him on the estate of the affairs of the Kingdom of England that he said unto him that he should never see him but he would remember the good will he expressed to him in this conjuncture And indeed this very day the 29 of May the King remembring those marks of affection sent him his in presenting him by Mr. Oudart Councellour to the Princess Royal and to the Prince of Orange her son with Letters Pattents under the great Seal of England by which he gives to Mr. Raet and to his issue male the quality and rank of Knight Barronet for ever And for as much as those whom the King honours with this title are obliged to maintain thirty foot souldiers for the service of Ireland or to pay into the hands of the Treasurer the sum of a thousand fourscore and fifteen pounds his Majesty caused the first Letters to be accompanied with a second dispensing him of paying that sum and acquitting him in general terms and his posterity after him to perpetuity of the said sum We have said elsewhere that Don Stephen of Gamarra ordinary Embassadour of Spain to the Lords the Estates went to meet the King at Moordike to express there to his Majesty the joy that he had for his re-establishment The residence which the King had made for some years at Bruxels where Don Stephen of Gamarra had the honour to lodge some daies in the house of the two Princes the King's brothers made him to be considered quite otherwise then he could hope from his character in a time when there was open war between Spain and England though against the intention of the two Kings The caresses which the Princes made him on this occasion and the extraordinary civilities which he had received from the King proceeded from a particular affection as well as the goodness wherewith the same Dukes of York and of Glocester prayed to dine with him on thursday the 27 of this moneth The Marquess of Ormond and many other Lords had dined there the day before with the same familiarity wherewith the Lords German Earl of St. Albans and Craft went to dine with the Embassadour of France the day the King arrived at the Hage and upon the recital which these Lords had made to their Royal Highnesses of the great cheer the Embassadour of Spain had made them they resolved to dine there the next day But the King who would dine that day in publick with the Queen of Bohemia the Princess Royal the Prince of Orange and the Deputies of the Estates General having desired that the Princes his brothers might be of the company the Embassadour who had expected their Royal Highnesses gave himself the liberty to complain to the King in raillery for taking away his guests from him His Majesty had the goodness to tell him that he did it of purpose to hinder their dining with him because he would be also of the Party And indeed that very Saturday the King after he had ridden to Scheveling where he saw the Fleet and at his return visited the Queen of Bohemia went in the evening to the house of the Spanish Embassadour where were also the Queen of Bohemia the Dukes of York and Glocester the Princess Royal the Prince of Orange the Marquess of Ormond the Lords Digby Craft and Taff the Lady Stanhop Widow to the Lord Heenvliet to whom the King gave the title of Countess of Chesterfeild and Madam Howard her daughter-in-law Lady of honour to the Princess Royal. The table was covered in the Hall which is one of the fairest and greatest of the whole Hage but it would be very difficult to make a pertinent discription of this feast because that although they served up there but fish and sallats it was without doubt one of the most splendid and stately that ever was seen at a private house There was two great services of fish or rather of Sea-monsters besides the pottages the courses and the inter-meats and there was served up so great a quantity of sweet meats dry and liquid that all the persons of quality which were come in great number to see the order of that supper returned thence all loaden For the Master of the house had given order that they should have enough and that the servants should present Limonada Hypocras and all sorts of delicious wines to all those that should demand it whil'st the Officers of his Majesty and of their Royal Highnesses were magnificently treated in the other apartments of the house The King appeared there in the best humour that ever he was seen to be and expressed so much content in this company which was composed of none almost but of his family and of persons whom he saw every day that he staied there even until one a clock after midnight notwithstanding without the least disorder or confusion that might trouble their conversation and divertisement Every thing there was high and magnificent but that
which was most remarkable was this that about midnight arrived there Mr. Downing who did the affairs of England to the Lords the Estates in quality of Resident under Oliver Cromwel and afterward under the pretended Parliament which having changed the form of the government after having cast forth the last Protector had continued him in his imploiment under the quality of Extraordinary Envoy He began to have respect for the King's person when he knew that all England declared for a free Parliament and departed from Holland without order as soon as he understood that there was nothing that could longer oppose the re-establishment of Monarchal government with a design to crave Letters of recommendation to General Monk This Lord considered him as well because of the birth of his wife which is illustrious as because Downing had expressed some respect for him in a time when that eminent person could not yet discover his intentions He had his Letters when he arrived at midnight at the house of the Spanish Embassadour as we have said He presented them forthwith to the King who arose from table a while after read the Letters receiv'd the submissions of Downing and granted him the pardon and grace which he asked for him to whom he could deny nothing Some daies after the King Knighted him and would it should be believed that the strong aversions which this Minister of the Protector had made appear against him on all occasions and with all sorts of persons indifferently even a few daies before the publick and general declaration of all England proceeded not from any evil intention but only from a deep dissimulation wherewith he was constrained to cover his true sentiments for fear to prejudice the affairs of his Majesty Sunday the 30 of May the King would in the morning hear a Sermon and to that purpose it was ordained that Mr. Hardy one of the Ministers which came from England with the Commissioners of the City of London should preach before the King in the Chappel of the Court which serves for Church to the French that live at the Hage at eleven a clock in the forenoon as soon as the French had ended their ordinary devotions And to the end to prevent the disorder among the people which were come there in crowds from the neighbour towns the company which had the guard was commanded to seise themselves of the avenues of the Chappel and particularly to possess the dore which leads into a little Partition where the Princes of Orange heretofore caused a bench to be made cloathed with black velvet and covered with a canopy of the same stuff for themselves and for persons of quality that were ordinarily of their train but they dreamed not to remedy another inconvenience which deceived all the other precautions that they used For the French instead of giving place to the English and of using the civility which they were accustomed to have for strangers would not go out of the Church and even the persons of condition which sate in the little partition whereof we have spoken and who were for the most part Dutch refused to make place for the Lords which were in great number about the King's person without considering that this very incivility hindred them absolutely to satisfie the curiosity they had to see the King and to be present at the English Liturgy The Reader of the Church exhorted the people to withdraw and likewise the Pastor who made the Sermon went up again into the Pulpit and represented to them the wrong they did themselves as well as their brethren of the same religion and strangers as they in this country in obstinately staying thus in their seats after having heard the word of God in a place where they had been fed and in failing of respect to the King to whom that very Temple was given by their Superiours and where the English were to hear it after them in their tongue But these exhortations made no impression on spirits prepossessed no more then the other reasons which he alledged so that the King was enforced to do his devotions in the place where her Royal Highness is accustomed to have her preaching particularly since most important considerations hindred her to go to the English Church where there entred as many as it could hold of the Lords of that nation The Minister took his text in the 26 Chapter of the Prophet Isaiah verse 19 which he applied to the present estate of the affairs of England and made so learned and so pathetick a discourse that there was not any one there which was not touched and edified therewith After the Liturgy and Sermon were ended there presented themselves many persons sick of the Evil which the King was to touch after many others he had touched Friday and Saturday the 28. and 29. of this moneth in private And for as much as this ceremony is done with circumstances very remarkable and different from those which accompany it in France when the King there toucheth the sick it shall not be from our purpose to speak here of all the particulars thereof since they make as well one of the essential parts of our relation which is to omit nothing of what his Majesty did at the Hage But before we engage us in this recital it will be necessary to undeceive the spirit of those that believe that that which the Kings of England do on this ocasion is but a copy of that which is done in France and that it is not but because of the pretension which they have to that Crown and by vertue of the title which they take and from the arms of France wherewith they charge their Escuchion that they attribute to themselves a grace which is given to the eldest Son of the Church For it is most certain that the King of Great Britain hath this right and advantage not as King of France though he takes the quality thereof in his titles but as King of England and because the Kings his Predecessours have used it efficiaciously since the reign of Edward surnanamed the Confessour that is to say since the beginning of the 11. age and long before the Kings of England had declared their pretensions as they did when Philip of Valois came to the Crown Now this ceremony is performed in the manner as we shall at present relate Those that feel themselves afflicted with the disease commonly called the Kings-evill because the King cureth it are obliged to address themselves to his Majesties chief Chyrurgion who visits them and if he judgeth that it is the disease which the King cureth he appoints them a day and hour to be at the Chappel where the King is to touch them As in France the ceremony of touching the sick is done in the morning after the King hath communicated so was it this day done in the Chappel of the Princess Royal after the King had been at the sermon and publick prayers For the preaching
the main mast and to the Castle of the poop and received his Majesty with the greatest submission that could be rendred to a Prince at the top of the ladder by which one goes up unto the ship The King rendred him all the testimonies of goodness and affection which he could expect from a Soveraign who acknowledged perfectly the important services he had done him as having been one of the most powerful instruments of his re-establishment whereof he had given him assurances long before and a most certain proof when he departed from the Sound upon the King's orders to favour the design of Sir George Booth who had taken arms for the service of his Majesty under pretence of demanding the convocation of a free Parliament It was past eleven a clock when the King arrived at the Fleet so that as soon as his Majesty was never so little disingaged of a part of those that would follow him to the ship he put himself at table in the gallery of the poop with the other Royal Persons and caused some persons of condition and the most confident of his Majesty to be entertained in the other apartments the Lord Montague making as fair an expence at this repast and at all the others following as at this passage of the King which was but of two daies he imploied more then two thousand Jacobusses though the Lords the Estates had provided his ship and the rest of the Fleet with all kinds of provisions and refreshments necessary beyond what needed for so little a passage After dinner the King received again the last complements of some particular persons express'd great civility to the Deputies of the Estates of Holland for whom Mr of Wassenaer Lieutenant Admiral of the Province uttered the speech and sent them away with new protestations of affection and amity The Sea was calm and the Heaven so cleer that the King had a desire to discover once again a Country where he had received so many testimonies of respect and love to this purpose he went up on the top of the poop and seeing that the people with which he had left the Downs covered remained there still he could not chuse but say that he must confess it was impossible that his own subjects could have more tenderness for him then those people on whose affections he saw that he reigned no less then he was going to reign on the wils of the English After this he embraced the Prince of Orange with the same tenderness as he could have had for his own Son and gave him his blessing and took leave of the Queen of Bohemia But when he was to depart from the Princess Royal his Sister that Princess who had with so much courage and without grief almost look'd all pass'd misfortunes in the face and who had vertue enough to fortifie that of her brothers had need of all his constancy to resolve her self to suffer this separation which she had wished with so much impatience and whose consequences were to be so glorious both to one and t'other The King himself who had had resolution enough to witness no weakness in his greatest misfortunes cannot resist the tears of a Sister whom many other considerations as strong as those of birth render extreamly dear unto him She would have been inconsolable but for the hope she had to see again shortly the King her brother in his Kingdom and they would have been troubled to disingage her from the arms of his Majesty if Admiral Montague had not caused the ankors to be weighed and given signal to the other ships to set sail The Admiral ship was already under sail for England when the Queen of Bohemia the Princess Royal and the Prince of Orange descended into the Bark which was to bring them back again to the land All the artillery of the Fleet saluted those Royal Persons and the Battry of the Downs answered it with the small shot of the Citizens and Guards It was about four a clock in the after-noon that the Fleet did set sail and about six a clock it was gotten so far of that the people which stir'd not from the Downs having lost sight of it retired themselves whil'st the King continued his way towards his Kingdoms with the same prosperity which was seen lately to accompany all his affairs FINIS THE DEPUTIES OF THE ESTATES of Holland complement the King at Delf Pag. 30. WHat 's this we see presented to the ey In such a neat and handsom Symetry Let us survey the Peece in every part And then pass sentence on the Graver's art Behold a Town here which is known to be Famous of old for many things which we VVould instance largely here if we had room But being tied to an Epitom VVe can but touch surely the site is sweet The buildings well compos'd in every street And regular its priviledges great And which is more it is the ancient Seat Of the Auranian Princes t' is their Tomb Their Monument where they must sleep till doom 'T is called Delf and if you think it fit VVe 'll add the Fair as its just Epithet Here did th' Estates first in most Princely wise Receive the King by their chief Deputies Here you may see their humble postures and Their lowly reverence when they kiss his hand And from their Body thank him for the grace They did receive to see him in that place And next at home where to conduct him they VVere come express on this their Holy-Day All this and more is with the Graver's knife Carv'd as in colours done unto the life The Steel and Pencil have not differ'd here If one draws smooth the other cuts as cleer Now give your censures and your judgments right Can any thing exceed this black and white WILL. LOWER A POETICAL DESCRIPTION Of the Batavian Court Pag. 34. BEhold a Royal Prospect here 's a Wood Fair Palaces and in the mid'st a Flood Now call'd the Crowned Viver since the beams Of Majesty so richly gilt its streams The Graver hath done wonders let us stand First on the Place and view that peece of land Adjoining to 't that sweet and Princely Grove The Viverberg or rather Walk of Love Where our scorch'd Gallants to avoid the Sun When the Dog reigns under its shadows come To cool their heats and pittifully meet With fiercer flames which from the windows creep Into their souls on either side the Stream First the Court ey and then the Country beam Make massacres of miserable hearts Which from all quarters feel those flaming darts And fall as bleeding Victims do But we Stay too long here what is that house we see So fair is 't not the Doel that stately Inn Where Gamesters come with an intent to win And to be rich but oft go beggar'd thence A place indeed of a brave vast expence Where the Town meets and sometimes quaff a health Unto the Prince th' Estate and Common-wealth Let 's proceed further and observe that
to the most Christian King and President in his Parliament of Paris ordinary Embassadour of France having about three a clock or a little after obtained the first audience as well for that having demanded it first as for that there was no other Embassadour at the Hage that would come into competency with him he was met in the Court by one of the chief Gentlemen of the Chamber and on the top of the stairs by the Captain of the Life-guards which did on this occasion the functions of introductours As soon as the Embassadour had made his reverences and would begin to speak the King covered himself forthwith and shewed thereby to the Embassadour what he had to do His complement was very well received but his audience was short M rs Otte Krag Lord of Welberg Bayly of Nieburg and Senatour of the Crown of Denmark and Godsche of Bugwaldt Lord of Gieresbeeck Prevost of the Covent of Uttersen and Councellour of Estate to his Majesty Extraordinary Embassadours from the King of Denmark had their audience after the French Embassadour and after they were received and treated in the same manner as the other was the first who is of a most illustrious birth in the Kingdom as his Colleague is also in the Country of Holstein and a personage of a full experience betook himself to speak in these terms That since it had pleased the Almighty God to call again his Majesty into his Kingdoms where his great merit should have established him long ago as well as the right of his birth they would not fail to come to congratulate him and to acquit themselves by this means of the duty which they have as well to the neer affinity which is between his Majesty and the King their Master as because of the streight alliance which is and hath been alwaies between the two Kingdoms of England and Denmark That they had cause to rejoice for this happy change not only because of the glory and felicity which redounded thence to his Majesty but also because of the advantage which the King and Kingdom of Denmark would draw from thence which had not been afflicted and unjustly oppressed so long if that of England had been in condition to hinder it That the King their Master would not fail to witness himself by a solemn Embassage the joy which he received from so surprising and so extraordinary a revolution as soon as he was advertised thereof and that they hoped in this happy conjuncture that his Majesty would continue to live with the King their Master in the amity alliance and firm confidence in which their Majesties have alwaies lived and which for some years was not interrupted but to their irrepairable prejudice of both one and t'other And so that his Majesty would oppose himself generously to the violence which is done to their King and succour him against the unjust invasion wherewith his Kingdom was afflicted Besides that they thanked his Majesty for the honour he had done them to admit them into his Royal presence and for the particular grace which they received from thence in their persons The King thanked the Embassadours for the affection they had expressed to him and said that he knew very well that not only from long antiquity there was a most streight tie between the Kingdoms of England and Denmark but also that the deceased King his Father had such great obligations to the deceased King of Denmark father of him that reigns now his good Cosen and to the present King himself that one of the chief cares whereunto he would apply himself in entring into his Kingdom should be to renue the ancient amity with him to make known that the interests of the King of Denmark were as dear unto him as those of his own Estates Of which he praied the Lords Embassadours to assure the King their Master and that though he should not naturally have horrour for oppression and injustice he could not but be touched with those which were done him and could not deny them the proofs of affection which they demanded Don Estevan de Gamarra Councellour to the Catholick King in his Councell of Estate and War General Field Martial of his Armies in the Low-countries and his ordinary Embassadour with the Lords the Estates General of the United Provinces saw also the King the same day but it was without demanding audience and without ceremonies his Majesty having given him to understand that the affection which he had had for his interests when he was at Bruxels permitted him to see him every day and at all hours So covered he not himself because the open war which for some years was and is between Spain and England hindred him to make his character appear there whereas the particular devotion which this Lord hath alwaies had for the service of his Majesty obliged him to be continually at the Court and by his person As on the contrary Don Enriques de Souza de Tavares Count of Miranda Governour of the arms of the Senate of the town and castle of Porto and extraordinary Embassadour from the King of Portugal to this Republick could not obtain audience what instance soever he made for it But withall to the end not to reject him altogether the King who is without doubt the best and civillest Prince of the world sent unto him the next day Sir Edward Nicholas Secretary of Estate and of his commands to tell him that if the Lord Embassadour of Portugal had Letters of Credence for his Majesty he would make no difficulty to give him audience but being not in his Kingdom nor in a place where he might treat of affairs of Estate he praied his Excellence to consider how unhandsom it would look if in going out of the country under the obedience of the King of Spain where he had received all kinds of civilities he should give without any necessity audience to his declared Enemy But that he might assure himself that when he should be returned into his Kingdom he should alwaies be ready to give audience to the Ministers of Portugal which should be addressed to him with Letters of Credence After the publick audiences the King received the complements of many persons of quality and at evening went to make a visit to the Queen of Bohemia his Aunt and next to the Princess Royal his sister The Lords the Estates of Holland had a purpose to depute some of their body to accompany his Majesty at supper but for as much as it was made known unto them that the King would be very glad to sup in private and to retire himself in good time after the toil of the two former daies and particularly after the visits and complements which he had been obliged to receive and wherewith he had been almost oppressed that day they would not hinder him to take his repose but resolved to reserve to themselves that honour for another time when they might receive it
seise himself on the key of the powder Magazine and to ordain all the Captains of the other ships of the Fleet to do the like aboard them and to carry alwaies the key with them the King was advised to chuse a guard of fourscore Gentlemen under the charge of the Lord Gerard Captain of his Life-guards and one of the four Gentlemen of his Bed-chamber which served by Brigades so that there was alwaies twenty which marched on both sides the coach having one hand on the supporting staff of the boot and holding a sword drawn out of the belt but in the scabberd in the other But as this posture was some what irregular and offensive in a country where the person of his Majesty was no less dear then in his Kingdom the King considering that to hinder approach to his person was sufficient to secure it would that they should wear their swords by their sides and carry a cane in their hand which assured their countenance and made their quality and charge to be respected The same day the Estates of Holland gave Commission to M rs of Wimmenum Deputy from the Nobility to the Councel of Estate of Holland Halling of Dort Marseveen of Amsterdam and Hoogland of Alcmaer to go to felicitate the Queen of Bohemia the Dukes of York and Glocester the Princess Royal the Princess Dowager of Orange and the Prince of Orange upon the re-establishment of the King of Great Britain They executed this commission immediately after dinner Mr. of Wimmenum made the complement every where and which was most admirable never using twice the same cogitation nor the same words in all his speeches The Estates of Holland gave charge also to Mr. of Wimmenum to know of his Majesty if it pleased him that they should make him a supper where the Estates of Holland might have the honour to treat him in private and if he desired that in this case the Estates should be there in a body to render him the more honour or if he would rather they should send there Deputies Whereupon his Majesty having expressed an acceptance of what they desired and made known that by the deputation of a single person of each member he should be as well satisfied as if the Estates were there in body they fixed on Sunday following for the day being the 30 of the same moneth They prayed Mr. of Wimmenum to take upon him the whole ordering of the Feast and to give necessary orders for it and the Estates named Commissioners which should be there from them viz. Mr. of Wassenaer Lieutenant Admiral of Holland and Mr. of Wimmenum for the Nobility De Wit of Dort Fabricius of Haerlem Graswinckel of Delf Buytevest of Leiden Marseveen of Amsterdam Cant of Tergow Vander Meyde of Rotterdam Vander Colck of Gorcum Vander Eyck of Schiedam Vander Croest of Schoonhoven Vander Berg of the Briel Teylingen of Alckmaer Jager of Horn Romer Cant of Enchuysen Houtuyn of Edam Houting of Munickendam Stellingwerf of Medenblick and Roothooft of Purmerent to whom were added Mr. de Wit Pensionary Councellour and Mr. of Beaumont Secretary to the Estates of the same Province But to the end that nothing might be wanting to the testimonies of affection which the Estates would render to his Majesty those of Holland ordained the same day that all kinds of refreshments should be sent to the Admirals ship to the Vice-Admirals and to the Rear-Admirals to be afterward distributed to the whole Fleet. They communicated hereupon with Mr. of Wassenaer Lieutenant Admiral of Holland and caused so much Wine Victuals Citrons Oranges and other provisions to be bought that the Lord Montagu was constrained to confess that he never saw so much Notwithstanding they sent them not aboard before the King had fixed on the day of his embarkment and the Deputy Councellours who were to execute the orders of the Estates of Holland gave the commission thereof to Mr. of Valquenbourg of the Bosse Captain in the Regiment of the Guards who caused the provisions to be carried aboard the Admiral to whom it was judged fit they should leave the disposing to cause them to be distributed to the other Ships according to his orders The Estates General of their side writ to the Colledge of the Admiralty of Rotterdam that they should provide and furnish such a number of Hoys and other Vessels as the Officers of the King's stable of the Duke of York and of Glocester should judge necessary for the transportation of the horses and of a part of his Majesties baggage and of their Royal Highnesses and order was given that they should be kept and stabled in the town of Rotterdam till they could be embarked and that the ships should be provided of hay of oats and of straw for the time that probably they might be upon the sea Friday the 28 of May the Estates General who knew they should please the King in doing civility to the Parliament deputed the Lords Ripperda of Buirse of the Province of Gelderland and Schulenbourg of Groning to go with a complement to the Commissioners of the two Houses of Parliament and of the City of London upon the present Estate of the affairs of England The Lords Deputies of the Higher House assembled in the House of the Earl of Oxford who was lodged at Mr. Buisero's Griffier or Secretary of the Councel to the Prince of Orange and the Commissioners of the Lower House at the Lord Fairfax's who was lodged in the House of the Baron of Asperen Deputy from the Province of Holland to the Colledge of the Admiralty of Amsterdam and received this civility with much satisfaction The same day the Estates of Holland having deliberated upon the recommendation which the King had made them when they saluted his Majesty in a body of some persons and English Officers which are in the service of this Estate whose affection which they expressed to him in his affliction as well for his interests as for the person of the Princess Royal his sister ordained that the three Regiments of Scots foot which were reformed and reduced to two in the year 1655 should be brought again to their first estate in behalf of Lieutenant Collonel Henderson and that the command of the third should be given unto him with the quality of Collonel I say the quality because that some years since and in consideration of the peace where the Major Officers are without function the Colonels have but the title only with the pay of the Major Estate of Lieutenant Colonel They gave on this very consideration a troop of Horse to Mr. Kerkhoven son to the deceased Lord Heenvliet in his life time great Hunter or as they say Forrester of Holland under the deceased Prince of Orange and Intendant of the Princess Royal her house who would acknowledge the services of the Father and the affection of the Lady Stanhop his Widow whom the King made Countess of Chesterfield in procuring
us of an immutable affection for the good of this Republick We render most humble thanks unto your Majesty for them and particularly for the illustrious proof which it pleased you to give us thereof by the glorious visit wherewith you honoured our assembly We shall conserve the memory of it most dearly and make the marks of that goodness to pass to our last posterity to the end you acknowledge it with the same respect with which we have received it The constitution wherein we see your Majesty ready to take horse for the continuation of your voiage forbids us to enlarge our selves upon a subject which would never weary us if we had words conformable to our respectful sentiments But we have no mind to increase the just impatience which your Majesty should have to see your self returned into your Kingdom We pray God SIR that it be quick and happy and that as he hath disposed the hearts and affections of your subjects to acknowledge their lawfull and soveraign Prince it will please him also to command the sea and winds to favour your voiage to the end that after you have received on your own coast the same prayer which we shall reiterate you may enjoy in your royal person and in your posterity forever all the felicity and prosperity which your most humble servants wish unto your Majesty The King thanked the Lords the Estates of Holland for the civilities they had done him during the residence he had made in their Province as also for the affection they had expressed unto him by the prayers they made for the success of his voiage and prosperity of his reign He promised them also that he would not only continue to live with that Republick in a perfect good correspondence but would also take a great pleasure to make a good and most streight alliance with it After this the King who staied but till this complement was ended went forth of his chamber at the same time the Estates of Holland retired He took his way to the Princess Royal her apartment whom he would visit at home before he took horse and seeing that the Lords the Estates conducted him he would not be covered from his house to the chamber of the Princess Royal where being come the Estates retired to take coach when they saw the King to go a horse back The conversation which his Majesty had with the Princess was but a moment for immediately after he went thence and came down into the Court of the Palace where he mounted a horse back with the Princes his brothers and took his way for Scheveling with the report of the great artillery which thundred from the Rampire marching in the mid'st of those two Princes and having before him the Prince of Orange accompanied with Prince William of Nassau Governour of Freesland with Mr of Wassenaer Lieutenant Admiral of the Province and with many other persons of condition The Queen of Bohemia the Princess Royal the Princess Dowager and the Princesses her daughters took coach as well as the Estates of Holland who would accompany him in body even to the place of his embarkment The Embassadours and other Ministers of forraign Princes who sent not there their coaches for the same reason that had dispensed them thereof at the entrance and almost all persons of condition took the avantguard and disposed themselves along the coast where the Citizens the Horse and the Regiment of the Guards stood in Battalia A great part of the inhabitants of the neighbour Towns were there already and those that came not forth of the Hage early in the morning or the nightbefore followed the Royal Persons in so great a multitude that that place which is very populous and could not lodge the people that were come there from all places of the Province was abandoned and converted into a desart in very few hours As soon as they saw the King to appear on the hill which covereth the village of Scheveling on the sea side the Cannon which was transported two daies before from the Viverberg upon the strand saluted him with its whole battry which ceased not to shoot continually untill being drawn off from those coasts could see no longer the honour they indeavoured to render him The Citizens and the Guards answered thereunto with their vollies of Musket shot and the Cavallery with their Carbines and invited thereby the Fleet to make all their artillery to thunder which afving lightened the air filled it with so thick a smoak that those great floating Castles disappeared in a moment to the eys of those that were on the land The King being alighted received the last complement of the Lords the Estates of Holland who had conducted him in body to the very brink of the sea and left him Deputies to conduct him to his ship by the mouth of the Pensionary Councellour His Majesty next took leave of the Duke of Brunswick-Lunenbourg of the Princess Dowager of Orange of the Princess of Nassau and of the young Lady of Orange her daughter and of all the other persons of quality which could not follow him or might trouble him in waiting on him to the Fleet There were none but his nearest relations the Queen of Bohemia the Princess Royal and the Prince of Orange that conducted him aboard the Admiral ship which was to pass him into England The Estates of Holland had caused one of the greatest barks of the place to be fitted for the Royal persons The body of the vessel was garnished with Tapistry its Mast carried the Royal Flag and its yards were loaden with garlands and crowns of verdure and flowers amongst which there was one fastned accompanied with a streamer which carried for Devise Quo fas fata to denote that the King in embarking himself went to the place where the justice of his cause and the providence of God called him and to allude to the ordinary Motto of the Kings of England Dieu mon droict The King entred there with all the Royal Family but seeing a shallop to approach covered glased and tapistred which the Admiral Montague had sent from aboard him as soon as he saw the King to appear on the Strand he entred into her and the Queen of Bohemia followed him This Shallop was accompanied with many others and was rowed with oars by the sea men who seeing themselves in possession of their Soveraign Prince made the whole neigbour shore to resound with their shouts and expressed their joy by all the marks that could be required from persons of that quality some in casting their caps up into the air and others in casting them into the sea to which some likewise abandoned their doublets and wastcoasts The Lord Montague who had changed the Flag of the pretended Republick before he departed from the coast of England and born that of the three Kingdoms whil'st he was in the rode seeing the King to approach caused the Royal Flag to be put to