and other Barks capable to transport the King the Princes and Princess of the Royal House with all their Court Train and Baggage should immediately repair to the higher Swaluwe in Brabant to attend there the orders which the Deputies of the Estates of Holland should give them for that purpose They caused also to be written to all the Colonels and other Major Officers as well of Foot as of Horse who were quartered in the neighbour-hood of that Town that they should be the first day at the Hague to serve the Estate there and to appear splendidly at the Ceremonies of the reception and treatment which they had resolved to make to his Majesty As for the Deputies of Holland not only Mr. Beverweert who knew the intention of the King by the Marquess of Ormond had one the 18 sent an express to the Hage to advertise the Deputy Councellours therewith in the absence of the Estates of Holland who brake up from the evening of Pentecost but they dispatched also themselves a Post immediately after they arrived at Breda praying urgently that without delay necessary orders might be given for the reception and entertainment of his Majesty at the entrance into this Province and during his voiage to the Hage and to that purpose the Deputy Councellours who do in the Province of Holland what the Councel of Estate doth in regard of the United Provinces imployed the three daies following after having required Mr. de Wimmenum President in their Colledge to take upon him the whole conduct of this affair as also the order of all the expence which they had resolved to make for the King's table and for the Lords which belonged to him as his attendance whereof they left unto him the full disposing during the voiage and first day that his Majesty arrived at this Town The Deputies had also written to the Magistrate of the Town of the Briel to advertise him of the resolution which the King had taken to pass into Holland to the end that if there arrived there Posts from the Commissioners of Parliament he should send them to the Hage where the King made account to arrive in a very short time And indeed the same day the Deputies as well of the Estates General as those of the Estates of Holland knew that the King had resolved to depart from Breda on Munday the 24 of May and to this purpose to embark himself the same day at Moordike to the end to be at the Hage the next day by water about four a clock in the evening Upon the advertisement which they gave thereof the same day to their Superiours the Estates General resolved Friday the 21 that Mr. the Count de Flodorp de Wimmenum d'Amerongen and de Ripperda de Hengelo should give order conjunctively with two Councellours of Estate of the United Provinces that his Majesty and the Princes his brothers should be sumptuously treated and defrayed with all their Train during the whole time that his Majesty should remain in the Country of their obedience from Wednesday the 26 of May to the day of his embark'ment The same advertisement which had been carried at one time into divers Towns of the Province made to return to the Hage the most part of the Deputies which compose the Estates of Holland and which as we have said brake up the eve of Pentecost so that the most part being returned on Friday in the evening they began their Assembly the next morning being the 22 of May and fixed on this that Tuesday following the 25 of the said moneth they should send towards Delf at a place convenient to make the complement all Coaches of four and six horses that could be gotten for the Convoy with which they intended to receive his Majesty and should cause also as many pinnaces and other Barks to beready as was necessary to transport the train and baggage They ordained also that besides the Deputies which they had sent to Breda Mr. Buckhurst Lord of Wimmenum Deputy Ordinary from the Noblity to the Colledge of the Deputy Councellours or Councel of Estate of Holland should join himself to the other Deputies at Delf and forasmuch as he was charged with the conduct of the whole treatment which the Province intended to make to his Majesty aswell on the way as in this town as Deputy from the Estates that in this quality he should stay by the King whil'st he dined to receive the honour of his commandments after the other Deputies should be retired The Estates General of their side required Mr. d'Amerongen of the House of Rhede one of the chief Nobles of the Province of Utrecht Deputy in their assembly from the Nobility of the same Province lately extraordinary Embassadour in Denmark and now nominated for Spain to go to Breda and to report from thence an exact estate of the Kings whole Court and train of the Princes as also of the number of the Lords of the Councel and of his Majesties House to the end that necessary proportions might be taken for the lodgings pointed out for the Lords for the Tables which were to be furnished and for the mouths to be fed during the residence which the King should make at the Hage And to the end not to come short they made the same day a foundation of three hundred thousand gilders for the expence that should be made for it They had the same day Letters from Breda which signified that the day before Sr. Peter Killegrew brother to him who comands an English Regiment of Foot in the service of the Lords the Estates and who so gloriously fought in the Battel of Funen that it is his merit rather then the alliance which he hath with General Monck that makes him to be considered was arrived there from London from whence he had been dispatched express to carry to the King the news of his proclamation which was done the 19 of the same moneth with great ceremonies and extraordinary testimonies of joy and affection not only in the City of London but also in divers other neighbour Towns But forasmuch as these particularities are of the History of England which will not fail to publish all the wonders of this great revolution we will not make our relation of it which in speaking of all that passed in the Country is obliged to make known here the affection of the Magistrates of Dort of Delf and of Rotterdam who sent to beseech the King by Deputies express to do them the honour to pass through their Towns and to refresh himself there by the way But his Majesty excused himself as well upon the present estate of his affairs which permitted him not to stay any where as because that his passage could not but incommodate the inhabitants unto whom he should not cease to find himself sensibly obliged for the tenderness they expressed to him Sunday the 23 there was nothing remarkable if not that at Breda solemn thanks were rendred to God
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
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
in his particular might serve for pretext to his voiage And indeed the person of this Lord should be extreamly agreeable not only because of the affection which he had witnessed for the affairs of his Majesty during his persecution and because of the alliance which the Lord of Ossery eldest son of the Marquess of Ormond Lord Deputy of Ireland of the illustrious House of Butler and now Lord Steward of England hath taken in his House but also and principally because of the great imploiments which he hath in his country and of the excellent qualities which are found in his person All considerations which obliged him to see the King before he did the functions of publick Minister He arrived at Breda on Saturday morning the 15 of May and executed his Commission so happily that the King reserving but the open declaration of his good will for the Deputies when they should be arrived disposed himself to receive the offers and civilities which they had order to make him with so much the more advantage and glory for this Estate and for Mr. Beverweert in particular as Don John de Monroy who arrived the same day at Breda had prayed his Majesty from the Marquess of Caracene General of the King of Spains Armies in Flanders to take his way through the Provinces under the obedience of his Catholick Majesty and to embark in one of the ports of those quarters to return to his Kingdoms Some report at that time and even those who took pains to observe what passed at Breda during the abode which the King made there as sure that Don John de Monroy had also made known to the King that the arrears due to the troops which the King of Spain entertained for the service of his Majesty were at Bruxels and that he might cause them to be paied as he passed But this appeared not no more then what passed in the conference which the Duke of York had some daies before with the Marquess of Caracene himself in the town of Antwerp by order of the King who would not go there in person though he was pressed thereunto through the consideration of the important affairs which he said he had order to communicate to his Majesty The King defended himself with the same firmness from the civilities which he sent to be made unto him in excusing himself upon the facility which he found for his passage in the place where he was at present I know that two reasons principally obliged the King to render himself at first to the request which Mr. Beverweert made him in the name of the Lords the Estates of Holland The first that having had advertisement that the Parliament and City of London sent a great number of Commissioners he would not they should lose time in going from the Sea to Breda and the other that the Court was already so great and the town so incommodated of provisions that it would be impossible to lodge there and diet the Deputies and their train which were said to be three or four hundred Gentlemen besides other Domesticks We have said that the news of the Parliaments Declaration of the Army and of the City of London was carried to Breda the precedentday by Posts express and that from thence it arrived the next day at the Hage where the estate of affairs being changed since the resolutions of the former daies as well the Estates General of the United Provinces as those of the Province of Holland pressed their Deputies to depart And those last in particular writ to Mr. Beverweert and gave him order to signifie to the King that they had nominated already some of their body which should be gone forthwith to congratulate his Majesty and in the mean time to dispose him to honour that Province with his presence and abode during the time that his affairs should oblige him to stay in the Country They writ also at the same time to the Magistrates of the towns where the King might passe in his way that they should make necessary preparations to receive his Majesty with all the honour and magnificence that was due to so great a Monarch The devotion of the day of Pentecost which hapned the 16 of May was cause that the Deputies departed not that day but it hindered them not from labouring in the regulation of a most important affair and which was judged by the Province of Holland to be of the greatest consequence This Estate is composed in such manner that notwithstanding the Soveraignity of al the United Provinces in one body every Province ceaseth not to be Soveraign in particular and they are all so jealous of their Soveraignity that they suffer not the Generality to have other advantage in the Provinces then that which is due unto them by vertue of their union and of the perpetual alliance which is in some kind more streight even then that of the Cantons Suizzers So that the Deputies of the Estates General being to meet with those of the Estates of Holland in the place where these pretended to represent the Soveraignity of their Province which acknowledgeth no superiour at home the difficulty was to order the rank between them and to conserve to each that which belongeth to it The Estates of Holland who had caused the King to be prayed in particular to honour their Province with his presence would have him to be received and saluted in their name upon the Fronteer would defray the charges on his way from the time he entred into the Province and till the first day he should arrive at the Hage as making part of his Voiage The Estates General who represent not indeed in general but what every Province possesseth in particular acquiesced therein left to the Province of Holland all the marks of Soveraignity and consented to this that their Deputies after they had congratuled the King and conducted his Majesty to the entrance into Holland should remain without functions conditionally notwithstanding that the Deputies of Holland should do the honour of the House and treating them of the Generallity with civility should give them precedence in the places where they might meet together The Estates General resolved the same day that the King's charges should be defrayed during the whole time he stayed in the United Provinces and ordained likewise that provision should be made for it but at first they met with so many difficulties that it was absolutely impossible to execute this resolution For the Town of Breda being already starved almost because of the great number of persons of quality which came there every day and the hot season permitting not provisions to be brought there from other places there was no body would undertake to treat the King and those that would have undertaken it could not have accomplish'd it so that the Estate would have had the displeasure to see their substance dissipated at the expense of its reputation We think to relate here as a
common interests of the two Nations That they had order also from their Superiours to remonstrate to his Majesty that the residence of Breda was inconvenient and distant and to beseech him most humbly to chuse one in their Provinces that he should judge more proper for his affairs for his residence and for his embarkment That the Estates General had commanded them to follow his Majesty in his voiage and to serve him with whatsoever the United Provinces possessed The King thanked the Lords the Estates for their civility and for the testimonies of affection which they caused to be made him by the mouth of their Deputies and assured them of his amity in such strong and obliging terms that knowing one shall be very glad to remember often the goodness of the King we fear not to relate here the same words which he used to conclude his discourse I love this Common-wealth said he not only because the Princess Royal my Sister and the Prince of Oreng two persons who are extreamly dear unto me remain here but also through interest of Estate for the good of my Kingdoms and through a very strong inclination towards their good I love truly SIRS these Provinces and so strongly that I should be jealous if they gave greater part in their amity to another Prince then to me who think that I ought to have much more therein then any other Prince since I love them more then all the other Soveraigns together After dinner the Deputies did reverence to the Dukes of York and Glocester the King's brothers and to the Princess Royal his sister where Mr. de Ripperda made again the complement Mr. German Gentleman of the Horse to the Duke of York came to take them at their lodging and conducted them to the audience of his Royal Highness At coming from whence he conducted them to the audience of the Duke of Glocester and coming forth of his appartment they met with Sir Alexander Humes Steward to the Princess who conducted them to his Mistress chamber which was not above fifteen or twenty paces from thence The two Princes made them a full civility in conducting them even to the dore almost of their apartments Thursday the 20. of May about eleven a clock in the fore-noon the Deputies of the Estates of Holland had their audience of the King unto which they were brought in by the same persons and with the same ceremonies wherewith that of the Estates General was accompanied The Marquess of Ormond who had the conduct of it giving them the hand Mr. de Beverweert Chief of the Deputation carried the Word and spake in these terms SIR It is now the third time that My Lords the Estates of Holland have congratulated with your Majesty upon your coming to the Crown The first was when you attained thereunto by vertue of the fundamental law of your Estate immediately after the decease of the late King your father of most glorious and eternal memory and the other when the Scots came to this place to invite your Majesty to go to take possession of one of the Crowns of your Ancestours It is but with great grief SIR that we remember those two disastrous encounters but on the contrary it is with a transport of joy that we come now from the Estates of Holland our Superiours to congratulate your Majesty upon the present happy estate of your affairs We may say that they see already your Majesty seated in the Throne and so that they take the part which they ow to the satisfaction which you are to have thence and this with so much the more reason as they know that the reciprocal amity between England and this Republick hath never suffered the least alteration under the government of her Kings So promise they themselves that it shall be better conserved then ever it was under that of your Majesty with whose alliance they shall feel themselves alwaies extreamly honoured as well as with the Royal good-will which your Majesty expresseth unto them They also most humbly beseech your Majesty to give them a proof thereof at present in transferring your Court into their Province for the litle time which your Majesty will have to stay in these quarters and to suffer that they cause to be rendered and render themselves in person unto you during that time all the services which they ow to so great and potent a Monarch whose amity is so precious and necessary to them The King made them very neer the same answer which he did the day before to the Deputies of the Estates General in saying that he was very much obliged to the Lords the Estates of Holland for the affection they expressed to him that he refused not the offer they made him of the commodity of another residence in a Province for which he had alwaies had a most particular inclination as well because of the dear pledge of the Princess Royal his sister and of the Prince of Oreng his nephew which they kept as trhough a secret motion and an interest of Estate indispensable This the King said with so much goodness and tenderness that the Deputies finding themselves insensily engaged in a discourse more particular and his Majesty making known that he heard speech of the affairs of the North with pleasure opened himself fully therein and feared not to say that he was obliged to assist the King of Denmark not only because of the neer affinity and affection which the present King as well as the deceased King his father had expressed for his interests but also because he judged that it extreamly imported England and all Europe to stop the progress of the Swed's Arms in those quarters The Deputies were after dinner with their Royal Highnesses where they were brought in by the same persons and received in the same manner that the Deputies of the Estates General had been treated and received the day before About five a clock in the evening the Estates General had a particular audience of the King in execution of the express order which they had to make known to his Majesty the inclination of the Estate for a most streight and perpetual alliance with his Majesty to which the King answered with much freeness and affection saying in most strong and most obliging terms That not one of the Kings his predecessors had ever had for this Common-wealth the affection which it should find alwaies in him not only because of the interests of the two persons so neer as the Princess Royal and the Prince of Oreng who live in the Estate and make as one may say a part thereof as he said unto them the day before but also through inclination and many reasons of Estate which obliged him to make with these Provinces a most streight alliance The same day the Estates General having understood by Letters from their Deputies that the King's design was to come into Holland by water gave order that all the Pinnaces
with the Princess Dowager and with the Prince of Orange The same day Mr. Ripperda of Buirse having made report in the same assembly of what passed in the voiage he made with some other Deputies to the King at Breda in order to their resolution of the 14. of this moneth the Deputies were thanked for it And for as much as the Estates General as it was agreed upon with the Estates of Holland should be at all the expence that should be made for the King during the residence which his Majesty should make in the Country except that of his voiage and that from the day that he arrived at the Hage they laid down this day a foundation of three hundred thousand Gilders and they required the Lord Ripperda of Buirse Guldewagen Swanenburg Stavenisse Renswoude Velsen Ripperda and Schulenbourg to attend his Majesty at dinner The Table was doubly furnished at the head of which and in the mid'st sate the King having on his left hand the Princess Royal and on his right the Queen of Bohemia when she dined there At the end of the Table on the same side were the Dukes of York and Glocester and at the other end by the Princess Royal was the Prince of Orange her Son And this order was observed in all the repasts only in the absence of the Prince of Orange the two Princes his Majesties brothers separated and placed themselves at the two ends of the Table By this means one could well serve all those that were there because they were all at a certain distance which permitted the Officers to do their functions as also the Deputies of the Estates left space enough between the King's Table and theirs for the convenience of those which served the meat before the Royal persons putting themselves at the two ends of the skirt before the King who would not that the Deputies Table should be separated from his Most commonly there was a Set of Violins which divertised pleasantly the King during the repast and in the healths that were drunk as the King never failed almost to drink the prosperity of this Estate and very often of each Province in particular the Cannon of the Viverberg thundred from every Battery As soon as they arose from dinner the Commissioners of the Parliament and City of London came to do reverence to his Majesty The Higher House had nominated six viz. The Lord Aubery Veer Earl of Oxford the Lord Leonel Cranfield Earl of Middelsex Foulk Grevil Lord Brook the Lord Charls Rich Earl of Warwick the Lord Leicester Devereux Vicount of Herford and the Lord John Barcley but the Earl of Warwick being sick of the gout when the others embarked was constrained to stay at London The Lower House deputed the Lord Eairfax sometime General of the Parliaments Army who on that consideration drew upon him the curiosity and eys of every one and who would see the King privately to ask him pardon for the pass'd offence with extraordinary submissions The Lord Bruce the Lord Falkland the Lord Castleton the Lord Herbert the Lord Mandevil Sir Horatio Townsend Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper Sir George Booth he that levied an Army a year since for the calling of a Free-Parliament in behalf of the King Denzil Hollis Esquire Sir John Holland and Sir Henry Cholmly The Deputation of the City of London was much more numerous as being composed of twenty persons taken partly out of the Magistracy and partly from amongst the principal inhabitants and from the Militia of the City The chief assembled in the House of the extraordinary Embassadours and the others in the house where the Citizens exercise to shoot at the mark and learn to exercise arms Both one and t'other went forth a foot walking two and two and having before them a very great number of young Gentlemen that marched in the same order Being brought into the King's chamber they made a very low and most submiss reverence The Earl of Oxford spake for the Higher House but those that were there at that action agreed in opinion that never person spake with more affection nor expressed himself in better terms then Mr. Denzil Hollis who was the Orator for the Deputies of the Lower House to whom those of London were joined He insisted chiefly upon the miseries under which that Kingdom had groned for so many years and upon the government of Cromwel who tyrannized the English in their lives in their goods and in their consciences whereas on the contrary they could hope from the goodness of his Majesty but repose but sweetness and a lawful liberty beseeching him to return forthwith into his Kingdom and to take again the Scepter of his Ancestours without any condition which redoubled the joy of this Court though it were already assured thereof by the mouth of Sir John Greenvil The King received them with much goodness as well as the protestations of obedience and fidelity which they made him in the name of the Lords and Commons of England and of the City of London in particular and after the speech they did all reverence to the King in putting one knee to the ground and in kissing his hand After they came forth of the King's appartment they went to the Dukes to whom they also made complements from the Parliament and City they went there also a foot and from thence in the same order to the Queen of Bohemia and to the Princess Royal where they acquitted themselves also of the duty which they had order from the Parliament and City to render unto them After the audiences of the Deputies the King received many persons of quality who in the impatience to see his Majesty had passed the sea voluntarily without any particular commission they all did him reverence in the same manner the Commissioners had done Monsieur Friquet Councellour of Estate to the Emperour and extraordinary Envoy from his Imperial Majesty to the Estates General had also audience of the King and made him his complement in the name of the Emperour his Master whose Predecessour had expressed a most particular affection for the King even in the height of his persecutions In the number of those that came to render their duties to the King that day was the Captain or Master of the Ship which received the King aboard on the coast of England and passed him into France when that Illustrious Maid Mistris Lane saved the fortune of the Kingdom after the unfortunate battel of Worcester at least if one may give that Epithete to an accident which God hath so favourably blessed and who hath so favourably disposed the affairs in the glorious return of the King without any effusion of the blood of his subjects It is not our design to make here an unnecessary digression in making a perfect narrative of all that passed in the miraculous escape of the King after the loss of the battel nor in what manner the King being separated from the Officers that
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
from the Province of Gelders which is the chief Province of the Union because of its quality of Dutchy and as a person most fit for an action of this nature as well because of his handsom presence as of his natural eloquence made the speech and spake word by word in these terms SIR The Estates General of the United Provinces of the Low-countries after having expressed to your Majesty by the Deputies they sent unto you at Breda how they participated in the happy successes which follow your wise conduct and the joy which they have to see you going to your Kingdom of England to take there the Scepter of great Britain come here now in a body to uphold the truth and sincerity thereof by stronger and more solemn declarations It is the same Company SIR which had the honour to present it self to your Majesty in this very place in a sad and mournfull equipage and which with more grief in heart then it could express by words pronounced the lamentable accents of a most bitter sorrow which came then to strike the soul not only of your Majesty but also universally of all the Members of this Estate From the same principle which divided then their affliction SIR proceeds now their rejoicement to wit from that of a most tender and most respectfull affection for the sacred person of your Majesty and from a most submissive zeal for your service and for the good of your affairs The cause thereof is so just and so touching SIR that we hope your Majesty will be easily perswaded of the truth of the protestations which the Estates General of this Republick make thereof here in your Royal presence And we may boldly say that their joy exerciseth it self in its full extent which is so much the more vast as these admirable events arrive in a time when all human apparence seemed to remove them wholly So must it be confessed that they are the marvellous effects of divine providence which hath made the hearts of the children to return to their father that is to say of the subjects to their lawfull King and levelled the waies by which your Majesty walks at present so peaceably and without effusion of bloud upon the magnifick and superb steps of your glorious and triumphant throne The Estates General of these United Provinces wish SIR that these great and important prosperities which surprise us no less them we have wished them may be followed with the constant obedience of your people with the respect of your neighbours and with the love of both and that the Diadem which the great God hath put upon the anointed and sacred head of your Majesty being accompanied with all the favours of heaven may stand there a long train of years with a happy and glorious reign for your sacred person and remain perpetually in your Royal posterity even to the end of the world We will finish this discourse SIR by most humble thanks which we render to your Majesty in that it hath pleased you to chuse this country rather then any other to pass from thence into your Kingdom for which the Estates General will alwaies esteem themselves honoured and obliged with the regret notwithstanding to see that the reception which they cause to be made unto you with so good a heart is not accompanied with all the pomp and magnificence that the Majestical splendour of so great and potent a Monarch deserveth who is so dear and precious to this Estate and of whose gracious favour they shall indeavour to acquit themselves by all the respects and services which your Majesty may desire from your true friends most faithfull allies and most humble servants 'T is observable in this visit that the King made not so much as a shew to be willing to be covered not that his design was to hinder the Estates General who were there in a body to be covered since he did do that honour to their Deputies when they did him reverence at Breda and seeing that he did it since at home in their assembly but without doubt to the end to do something more for them then he could do for an Embassadour Which appeared evidently in the visit he made in person to the Estates General and to the Estates of Holland when he took leave of them of which the sequel of this relation will oblige us to speak hereafter where he would fain be covered to give them the liberty to be covered also and to uncover himself afterward when he began to speak and to remain in this condition whil'st he was in their assembly as we shall say elsewhere The Lords the Estates were conducted in departing from the audience by the same Lords that received them and being returned in the same order to their ordinary Hall they separated themselves The two other Soveraign colledges composed of Deputies of all the Provinces to wit the Councel of Estate and the Reckoning-chamber were at the audience after the Estates General Prince William Frederick of Nassau made the complement for the Councel of Estate as President and Mr. de Cauwer ven-Reigersberg Deputy to the Reckoning-chamber of the United Provinces from the Province of Zealand those who are here from Holland being excused spake for the Chamber the one and t'other with so much applause of those who were present there and with as much satisfaction of the King's side being returned to the assembly they were thanked for it by their Colleagues Some doubted if the Embassadours and Ministers of the Kings Princes and strange Estates which were at the Hague should be received to make their complements to the King without Letters of Credence or if after it were acknowledged that their character legitimated them for that they might be covered since that having no character towards this Monarch they could not be considered but as particular persons to him The difficulties which arose here were taken away by the following considerations They said that Embassadours having a general Commission and not being as they said missi ad hoc they might and ought to do that which their Masters would do if they were there present in person and so being certain that there is no Prince in Europe that would not do civility to the King of England if he should meet him in his passage their Ministers who were in the place could not fail therein also without being wanting to civility and to their duty Notwithstanding since his Majesty was not in his Kingdom he might use them as he pleased yet so that although it was in his choice to admit the Embassadours or not he could not dispense himself of treating them according to the dignity of their character and of making them to be covered after having admitted them since they might and were obliged to make their character appear in all their publick actions in an Estate where every one acknowledgeth them for Embassadours And indeed Mr. de Thou Count of Meslay Privy Councellour
but the two Princes expressed that they should see that exercise with much satisfaction And indeed the next day being the 27 th the Regiment of the Guards having been in the field from the beginning of the morning stood in battalia half the way to Scheveling by the house where Mr. Catz sometime Pensionary Counsellour and Keeper of the great Seal of Holland made his retirement after he had passed through the fairest imploiments wherewith his country could have acknowledged his merit in a very pleasant and fair plain where the two Princes the Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburg the Prince of Orange Prince William of Nassau Governour of Freesland the Rhine-Grave and all persons of quality that were at the Hage repaired about ten a clock in the morning and after they had seen all that which skil could make a body perfectly exercised and disciplined to do both in marching and fight under good Officers they made a course even upon the banks of the sea from whence they considered the Fleet and went from thence to dinner the Dukes of York and of Glocester with some English Lords to the Duke of Lunenburgs and the rest to the Court The Estates General deputed there to accompany the King that day M rs de Gent of Gelders of Merode and Navander of Holland Lampsins of Zealand Renswoud of Utrecht Velsen of Freesland Ripperda of Hengelo of Over-Ysel and Isbrants of Groning The King was from the morning shut up with Mr. Hide his Chancellour who for being chief of his Councels and his most confident Minister was lodged in the same house because that being incommodated with the gout his Majesty would that he should be lodged in a place where he might make use of his councels at all hours of the day He was with him more then an hour and a half sitting on his bed-side and sometimes leaning upon the bed it self in a very secret conference After the King was gone out of the Chancellour's chamber the extraordinary Embassadours of Denmark caused his Excellence to be prayed to appoint them an hour for a particular audience which they obtained for the after-noon They received in this audience new assurances of the good intentions of his Majesty to the advantage of the King their Master who would have profited notably thereby if the treaty of peace with Swethen had not been too much advanced as indeed it was concluded a few daies after We said that the precedent day the King had promised the Pensioner of Amsterdam that he would certifie the Duputies of the same town when he could give them audience to the subject of the request which they had to make unto him touching the journy wherein they indeavoured to engage him And indeed the same evening he sent them the Lord Wotton second son to the Lady Stanhop since Countess of Chesterfield who was to advertise them that they might see his Majesty the next day at nine a clock in the morning This Deputation was composed of Mr. Cornelius of Vlooswick Lord of Vlooswick Diemerbrouck and John de Huydecooper Lord of Marseveen Bourgemasters in charge Conrade Burg sometime extraordinary Embassadour in Moscovia Conrade of Beuningen heretofore extraordinary Embassadour in Denmark and in Swethen and now named for the extraordinary Embassadour into France Senatours and Peter de Groot Pensionary of the same town The last after he had made a low reverence to his Majesty spake in these terms SIR The Burgemasters and Magistrate of the town of Amsterdam who yeeld not in devotion and zeal for the glory and interests of your Majesty to any person of the world thinking that they have not satisfied neither their duty nor their affection by the general testimony which they have rendred thereof by the mouth of the Lords the Estates General and likewise by that of the Estates of this Province have commanded us to beseech your Majesty to grant them a particular audience where they may give stronger proofs both of one and t'other Your Majesty shall see them in the extream joy which they have for the glorious re-establishment of your Majesty upon the throne of your Ancestours the circumstances whereof are so much the more considerable as this miraculous revolution is made without effusion of blood and as your Majesty is obliged for it but to the powerful hand of God only who hath wrought therein by means altogether extraordinary But you shall find the proofs thereof particularly in the most humble prayer which we have order to make you to honour their town with your Royal presence for the few daies the time will allow you to remain in this Province to the end that so many strangers wherewith their town is inhabited may be witnesses of the publick and real demonstrations which they intend to make of the veneration which they have for the person of your Majesty and of the passion which they have for your service Nothing can be added to the obliging words with which the King answered the complement of the Deputies of Amsterdam in thanking them with much affection for that of theirs whereof he said he had received most illustrious proofs witnessing to be very sorry that he could not satisfie their request seeing that he had no less inclination for that journy then the Lords of Amsterdam could have passion to see him in their town and assuring them that he would eternally remember the amity they had for him The Deputies replied in the most submiss terms that respect could put into their mouths and after they had prayed for the prosperity of his Majesty and for the perpetual felicity of his reign they retired Mr. Coyet Knight Extraordinary Envoy of the King of Swethen to the Estates General of the United Provinces had demanded audience the day before but those which his Majesty found himself obliged to give to the Estates of Holland and next to the Commissioners of the Parliament and of the City of London made him to refer it to this Thursday at eleven a clock in the morning Mr. Coyet being come into the fore chamber at the hour appointed the King sent immediately unto him Mr. Wentworth one of the four Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber to entertain him till affairs permitted his Majesty to come to speak with him as he did presently after in the Presence-chamber The Envoy made known to his Majesty that he would speak Latine to him and as he was very wel versed in that language he had prepared a very elegant discourse for him but for as much as his Majesty signified to him that that tongue was not familiar enough to him to serve his turn to answer readily he made him his complement in French as the Ministers of all the other strange Princes did extending himself on the present revolution of the affairs of England on the excellent and great qualities of his Majesty and of the amity which the Kings and Crown of Swethen had from all time received from the Kings of Great
Britain The King answered him that the testimonies of affection which he rendred him on this occasion from the King of Swethen were very acceptable to him and that he should find him alwaies disposed not only to execute with sincerity the ancient treaties which common interest hath caused to be made between England and Swethen but also to confirm them by new and streighter alliances After this his Majesty informed himself of the age of the King of Swethen that reigns now of the place where the Queen lives and causeth the King her son to be brought up at present and of many other things which denoted the great goodness with which his Majesty would receive the Ministers of Princes with whom his Predecessours had alwaies lived in good correspondence After this familiar discourse wherewith the Embassadour came of very well he went to the Dukes of York and of Glocester and afterward saw also the Chancellour of England to whom he spake of the present estate of the affairs of the North and gave him to understand that they were in terms of accommodation between the two Crowns of Denmark and of Swethen After this audience the King gave the rest of the day to the affairs of his Kingdom being in continual conferences with the Commissioners of the Parliament and of the City of London It shall not be from our purpose to say here a word of the manner wherewith the King was served at his ordinary repasts and of the Estate of the expence which was made every day for his Majesty We have spoken of his Table and how the Royal persons that did eat there were seated They served up great Dishes in Oval form at five courses each containing five dishes and twelve trenchers because they changed the dishes twice at every service and every dish was so massive that one shall not be troubled much to represent the expence thereof when he shall know that there was two dozen of Pheasants in one dish and that all the other dishes were furnished accordingly They served besides that five tables for the Lords and one for the Ladies as for the Marquess of Worcester c. all at four courses and almost as full and furnished with the same meats as those of the King's table except one course which was between the pottages and the rost All the sweet meats as well at the King's table as at the Lords and Ladies were pillaged at every meal and exposed to the discretion of the people who were ordinarily there at those hours by the King in crowds And not only they served all sorts of delicious wines at the tables but the sources steamed therewith continually day and night and were never dry as well for the English of what condition soever they were as for all those of the town that came to demand it Every Table was of twelve coverings and had its Steward it s four Butlers as many assistants in the buttery and twelve men that serv'd up the meat and drink But for the King's mouth it was particular there was a Clark of the Kitchin for the pottages another for the courses another for the pastry one more for the rost and one for the meats between the courses every Clark having four Cooks under him for each service There hapned this day a thing which for having made a great noise in the beginning deserves well to be spoken of here with circumstances which might make one beleeve the truth of what was spoken of then A man of a most mean condition French by birth being about 9 a clock in the evening in a remote place towards the Rampart presented himself at the dore of a Millars house wholly affrighted and almost senseless as he appeared out of breath and said unto him that having been enforced to draw off for some necessity of nature he stooped down towards that little rising which serves for entrenchment to the Hage and which we called Rampart where being almost hidden as well because that the place where he put himself was low as because it was neer night he presently saw three men to come whereof two were cloathed in grey and the third in black who said one to another with displeasure as he could judge thereof in bad French as he reported that they failed twice because of the great number of people that were about him and serv'd him for guards but they would so well take their advantage from the two sides of the Coach that he should not escape them That rising upon this the others wholly surprised to see a man in a place where they were come because they thought to find no body there said that they were discovered and must dispatch him that might reveal them That thereupon one of the three shot of a Pistol whose bullet pierced his hat which he shewed wherewith he staggered but that the other thinking the stroak was not mortal shot a second so neer that he burned his hair This had so astonished him the he fell to the ground where having lain a while untill the three men were retired he arose and went streight to the house of that Millar And indeed he gave such an alarm there that the Millar went presently forth with him and taking two of his neighbours with him that armed themselves with stones like him they pursued those three men but to no purpose because they met them not therefore they went to the place where he said he saw them at first and where they found indeed the cloak which he said fear had made him to quit The affair was judged of such importance that the Court of Justice was ordered the next day to make a most strict and most exact inquiry thereof The Informer being questioned herein by Commissioners persisted in his first depositions which were believed at first to be so much the more true as the accuser though incommodated enough in his domestick affairs witnessed to be much uninterested and demanded no recompence Those notwithstanding that staied not much at fair apparences and would that they should proceed to a more exact examination of an affair of this nature spake of it as of a deceit which the laws should either justifie or punish with the severest punishment Howsoever it was it produced this effect that the Estates judging that they could not bring too much care to the conservation of the precious pledge which they had with them caused some troops of horse to advance with all speed which were already commanded and which being arrived kept guard with the standard on the avenues of the Palace where the King was lodged and of which there was alwaies a brigade which followed the Coach wheresoever his Majesty went And for as much as it was known that there was found in the Fleet a man bould enough to have resolved to put fire to the powder when the King should go to see the Vessel where he served in quality of Marriner which obliged Admiral Montague to
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-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
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
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