and Titles of 2 of the most illustrious Families in England viz. THe Right Noble Thomas Howard Earl of Arundel Surry and Norfolk was restored to the dignity and Title of Duke of Norfolk by an Act of the Parliament begun at VVestminster the 25 of April in the 12 year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second and in the year of our Lord 1660 c. The Right Noble William Seymour Marquess of Hertford was restored to the Dukedome of Somerset by an Act of the Parliament begun at Westminster the 25 of April in the 12th year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second 1660. both which are since confirmed Other Creations The Right honourable Heneage Finch Earl of Winchelsey was created Baron Fitzherbert of Eastwell in the County of Kent by Letters Patents bearing date at VVestminster the 26 of Iuly in the twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second in the year of the Lord 1660. which Honour is entailed on him and the Heirs males of his body lawfully begotten with all Rites Priviledges and preheminences thereunto belonging The Right Honourable Elisabeth Viscountesse of Kynelmeky was created Countesse of Guilford during her life by Letters Patents bearing date at VVestminster the 14 day of Iuly in the twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second with all priviledges thereunto belonging and Fee of 20 l. per annum out of the Exchequer c. The Right Honorable Iames Butler Duke and Marquiss of Ormâ—nd in the Kingdom of Ireland was created Baâ—on Butler of Lanthony in the County of Glocester and Earl of Brecknock in Wales by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster the 20. day of Iuly in the twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second which said Honours are granted to him and the Heirs males of his body lawfully begotten with the Fee of 20 l. per annum together with all priviledges c. he was in the same year also made Lord Steward of his Majesties houshold Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most honourable Privy Council BARONS The Right honorable Thomas VVindsore de VVindsor alias Hickman was restored and confirmed to the Barony Title and Dignity of Baron Windsor by Letters Patents bearing date at VVestminster the 16 day of June in the twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second which said honor is granted to him and his Heirs for ever with the same precedency and place in Parliament and else where in England as Henry and Thomas VVindsor Barons VVindsor whilst they lived successively enjoyed and all other Dignities and preheminences to a Baron of Parliament belonging c. 1661. A Roll of the PEERS of the Kingdom of ENGLAND according to their Birth and Creations DUKES of the Blood Royal IAmes Duke of York and Albany Lord High Admiral of England Rupert Duke of Cumberland These take places in respect of their Offices Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer of England DUKES Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk William Seymour Duke of Somerset George Villiers Duke of Buckingham Charles Stuart Duke of Richmond George Mâ—nck Duke of Albemarl MARQUISSES Iohn Paulett Marquiss of Winchester Edward Somersett Marquiss of Worcester William Cavendish Marquiss of Newcastle Henry Pierpoint Marquiss of Dorchester EARLES These three take p'ace in respect of their Offices Mountague Berte Earl of Lindsey Lord High Chamberlain of England Iames Butler Earl of Brecnock Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold Edward Mountague Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold EARLS Awbery Vere Earl of Oxford Algernoon Piercy Earl of Northumberland Francis Talbott Earl of Shrewsbury Gray Earl of Kent Infra etat Charles Stanley Earl of Derby Iohn Mannours Earl of Rutland Hastings Earl of Huntingdon Infra etat Thomas Wriothsley Earl of Southampton William Russel Earl of Bedford Philip Herbert Earl of Pembrook and Mountgomery Theophilus Clinton Earl of Lincoln Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham Iames Howard Earl of Suffolk Richard Sackvill Earl of Dorsett William Cecil Earl of Salisbury John Cecil Earl of Exeter John Egerton Earl of Bridgewater Robert Sidney Earl of Leicester Iames Compton Earl of Northampton Charles Rich Earl of Warwick William Cavendish Earl of Devon Basâ—l Feilding Earl of Denbigh George Digby Earl of Bristol Liâ—nel Cranfeild Earl of Middlesex Henry Rich Earl of Holland Iohn Hollis Earl of Clare Oliver St. John Earl of Bullingbrook Mildmay Fane Earl of Westmerland Edward Mountague Earl of Manchâ—ster Thomas Howard Earl of Berkshire Thomas Howard Earl of Cleveland Edward Sheffeild Earl of Mulgrave Henry Cary Earl of Monmouth Iames Ley Earl of Marlborough Thomas Savage Earl Rivers Mountague Barrye Earl of Lindsey Lord great Chamberlain of England Nicholas Knollys Earl of Banbury Henry Cary Earl of Dover Henry Mâ—rdant Earl of Peterborough Henry Gray Earl of Stamford Hâ—neage Finch Earl of Winchelsey Charles Dormer Earl of Carnarvan Mâ—untjoy Blunt Earl of Newport Philip Stanhop Earl of Chesterfeild Iohn Tuston Earl of Thanett Ierâ—me Weston Earl of Portland William Wentworth Earl of Strafford Robert Spencer Earl of Sunderland Iames Savill Earl of Sussex George Goring Earl of Norwich Nicholas Leak Earl of Scaâ—sdale Wilmott Earl of Rochester Infra etat Henry Iâ—rmyn Earl of St. Albans Edward Mountagne Earl of Sandwich Iames Butler Earl of Brecknock Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon Arthur Capel Earl of Essex Thomas Brudenell Earl of Cardigan Arthur Anensley Earl of Anglesey Iohn Greenvile Earl of Bâ—th Charles Howard Earl of Carlisle VISCOUNTS Leicester Devereux Viscount Hereford Fracis Brown Viscount Mountague James Fienes Viscount Say and Seal Edward Conway Viscount Conway Baptist Noell Visconnt Cambden William Howard Viscount Stafford Thomas Bellasis Viscount Faulconberg Iohn Mordant Viscount Mordant BARONS Iohn Nevil Lord Abergavenny Iames Tutchett Lord Audley Charles West Lord Dela Warr. George Barkley Lord Barkley Thomas Parker Lord Morley and Mounteagle Francis Leinard Lord Dacres Conyers Darcy Lord Darcy William Stourton Lord Stourton William Lord Sandys De la Vine Edward Vaux Lord Vaux Thomas Windsor Lord Windsor Thomas Wentworth Lord Wentworth Wingfield Cromwell Lord Cromwell George Fure Lord Fure Philip Wharton Lord Wharton Francis Willoughby Lord Willoughby of Parham William Pagett Lord Pagett Dudley Nâ—rth Lord North. VVilliam Bruges Lord â—haundes Iohn Câ—ry Lord Hunsdon VVilliam Petre Lord Petre Dutton Gerrard Lord Gerrard Charles Stanhâ—pp Lord Stanhopp Henry Arundell Lord Aâ—undell of Warder Christopher Roper Lord Tenham Foulk Grevill Lord Brook Edward Mountague Lord Mountague of Boughton Charles Lord Howard of Charleton William Gray Lord Gray of Wark Iohn Roberts Lord Roberts William Craven Lord Craven Iohn Lovelace Lord Lovelace Iohn Paulett Lord Paulett William Maynard Lord Maynard Thomas Coventrey Lord Coventrey Edward Lord Howard of Eserick Warwick
had declared for him and had witnessed their Joy by the fire of Cannon and Musquets and expected his Majesties Commands for the Government of the place These concurrent Accessions to the Kings fortune together with Letters newly come from the States Ambassadors in London made the States General redouble their Orders to their Deputies touching the Complement and Offices which they were to do to the end to acquit themselves thereof with zeal and Affection so that on the morrow by 11 at Noon the King sent the Lord Gerard to conduct them to their Audience in the Castle where the King lodged The Marquess of Ormond met them on the stayâ—head and brought them into the Kings Chamber who was standing in the midst of it covered but assoon as he saw them he uncovered himself and came 2 or 3 paces forward to meet them After they had made most low Reverences and were approached the King Monsieur Ripperda would begin to speak but the King would needs have them put on their Hats which they not willing being not in the quality of Ambassadors as in their own Countrey to do he also continued uncovered all the while The main of this Speech was this That the States General of the United Provinces The Speech of the Deputies to the King had understood with an extream joy the alteration of Affairs in England That they knew the good God had so well touched the heart of his Subjects that there was not any person almost that cried not on the name of the King and wished passionately to see him returned to his Kingdom That upon certain Advertisments which the States General had thereof they thought fit to send their Deputies to his Majesty to witness unto him the part they take to congratulate him in so important an occasion and to wish him and all his Royal Family all the Blessings of Heaven and all the Prosperity he could hope for from God after so long and such bitter Afflictions That the States General made those Prayers with so much the more ardour as they knew that the repose of their Commonwealth depended in some kind on that of its Neighbours That they would not willingly enjoy the Amity of the English but under the Monarchical Government of his Royal House That they hoped to enjoy it still for the future under his Majesties happy Government and to this purpose they desired that of his goodness he would be pleased to renew with the United Provinces the Alliance which they had alwaies considered as one of the chief Points of State and as the Foundation of the preservation of the common Interests of both Nations That moreover they had Order from their Superiors 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 which he should judge more proper for his Affairs for his Residence and for his Embarquement That the States General had commanded them to follow his Majesty in his Voyage and to serve him with whatsoever the United Provinces possessed The King thanked them very much for their Civility and the Testimonies of their Affection saying in very obliging words to them The Kings Reply I love this Commonwealth not only because the Princess Royal my Sister and the Prince of Aurange two persons who are extreamly dear unto me remain here but also through Interest of State for the good of my Kingdom and through a very strong inclination to their good I love truly Sirs these Provinces and so strongly that I should be jealous if they gave a greater part in their Amity to another Prince than to me who think that I ought to have much more therein than any other Prince since I love them more than all the other Soveraigns together After they had had this Audience of the King my Lord Jermyn conducted them to the Two Dukes severally where they gave and received the like Civilities as also to the Princess Royal. And the next day after while they were in consultation about ordering the Charge of the Kings Remove the States of Hollands Deputies had Audience likewise on the 10 h. of May when Mr. Bâ—verweert spoke as followeth Sir It is now the third time that my Lords the States of Holland have congratulated with your Majesty upon the coming to the Crown The first was when you attained thereunto by 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 Commissioners from the Committee of Estates and Parliament of Scotland came to this Place to invite your Majesty to go and take possession of one of the Crowns of your Ancestors It is but with great grief that we remember those two disastrous Encounters but on the contrary it is with a transport of Joy that we are now to congratulate your Majesty upon the present happy state of your Affairs 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 The rest was like that of the States General and concluded with the like Invitation of his Majesty to make his Court in their Province protesting all thankfulness for the Honour done them if he pleased to accept thereof The King returned an Answer near the same he gave before and used the Deputies with the same civilities as the other entring into a Discourse with them concerning the Northern Affairs betwixt Sweden and Denmark for the latter of whom he openly declared himself It is high time now to cast an eye into England where on the aforesaid 8th of May the King was Proclaimed in great State and more than usual Solemnity The Copy of which Proclamation here follows for that as the Occasion required it was drawn up in an unusual Form The Copy of the Proclamation and the manner of Proclaiming it ALthough it can no way be doubted but that his Majesties Right and Title to his Crowns and Kingdoms is and was every way compleated by the death of his most Royal Father of Glorious Memory without the Ceremony or solemnity of a Proclamation Yet since Proclamations in such cases have been alwaies used to the end that all good Subjects might upon this occasion testifie their Duty and Respect and since the armed violence and other the Calamities of many years last past have hitherto deprived us of any such opportunity wherein we might express our Loyalty and Allegiance to his Majesty We therefore the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament together with the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of London and other Freemen of this Kingdom now present do according to our Duty and Allegiance heartily joyfully and unanimously Acknowledge and Proclaim That immediately upon the Decease of our Late Soveraign Lord King Charles the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England and
of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to the same did by inherent Birth-right and lawful and undoubted succession descend and come to his most Excellent Majesty Charles the Second as being lineally justly and lawfully next Heir of the Bloud Royal of this Realâ—s and that by the Goodness and Providence of Almighty God He is of England Scotland France and Ireland the Most Potent 〈◊〉 Mighty and Undoubted King And thereunto we most humbly and faithfully do submit and oblige our selves our Heirs and Posterities for ever God save the KING Will. Jessop Clerk of the Commons House of Parliament The Proclamation being ended the Lords and Commons took their Coaches and proceeded in this order First the Head-Bâ—yliffe of Westminster and his Servants did ride along with white staves to prepare the way Then followed a gallant Troop of Officers of the Army and other Gentlemen with Trumpets before them then the Life-guard very stately mounted and richly cloathed after them a Class of six Trumpets and three Heralds then a Herald between the Serjeant to the Commons and the Mace of the Council next Mr. Ryley King at Arms in his rich Coat of â—he Kings Arms between Serjeant Norfolk and Serjeant Middlâ— after whom came the Usher of the Black Rod and Mr. Bish together These thus ushering the way came the Right Honourable the Eatl of Manchester in his Coach and six Horses the Speaker of the House of Commons in his then his Excellency the Lord General Monk in his after which followed both Houses of Lords and Commons some in Coaches of six Horses some four some two and then a Troop of Horse In this manner they came to Whitehal where they proclaimed his Majesty a second time and then in like Order proceeded Being come to Arundel House they made a stand where Mr. Ryley King at Arms taking one of the Heralds and six Trumpets with him advanced forward toward Temple-Bar perceiving at a distance the Gates open he paused a while Col. Alderman Bateman and some other Gentlemen came to acquaint him that the Lord Mayor Aldermen Colonels and other Officers of the City were there ready to receive him Whereupon the King at Arms having some Discourse with the Colonel the Colonel went back to Temple-Bar and caused the Gates to be shut upon this the King at Arms with Trumpets before him went to the Gate knocked and demanded Entrance The Lord Mayor appointed some to ask who it was that knocked the King at Arms replied that if they would open the Wicket and desire the Lord Mayor to come to the Gate he would deliver to him his Message The Lord Mayor came on Horseback attended with several Officers to the Gate and Col. Bateman told the King of Arms that he might now deliver his Message to the Lord Mayor who was come to receive it The Trumpets immediatly sounded after which silence being made it was demanded of the King of Arms Who he was and what was his Message to which he answered on Horseback with his Hat on We are the Heralds at Arms appointed and commanded by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled to demand Entrance into the Famous City of London to Proclaim Charles the Second King of England Scotland and Ireland and we expect your speedy Answer to this Demand To this they returned If it please you Sir to have a little Patience we shall speedily give you an Answer to your Message shutting the wicker again After some little conference between the Lord Mayor and Aldermen the Colonel returned and opening the Wicker told the King at Arms That his Message was accepted and the Gates should be immediatly opened which was done accordingly The King at Arms entred trumpets sounding before him and was joyfully received by the Lord Mayor in his Crimson Velvet Gown and Hood the Aldermen and Sherisses in Scarlet and the Officers of the Militia gallantly accoutred on Horseback Both sides of the Streets were guarded by the Militia Forces of London from Temple-Bar to the Old Exchange and stood all with their swords drawn as also the Officers and several spectators in Windows The City Horse fell in next the Life-guard then the Lord Mayor and Aldermen after whom the Heralds and the rest as formerly When they came to Chancery Lane end they proclaimed his Majesty a third time where at the Word CHARLES the Second in the Proclamation the King at Arms lifting himself up with more than ordinary cheerfulness and expressing it with a very audible voyce the people presently took it and on a sudden carried it to the Old Exchange which was pursued with such shouts that near a quarter of an hour was spent before silence could be made to read the rest of the Proclamation After this they went to Cheapside where his Majesty was Proclaimed a fourth time where the shouts of the people were so great that though all the Bells in the City rung Bow Bels could not be heard there Thence to the Old Exchange where his Majesty was again Proclaimed and the Solemnity ended The Shouts and Acclamations of the People to this gallant and well ordered Procession are not easily to be exprest The numberless number of Bonefires the Ringing of Bels and shooting off the Guns and the joyful Expressions of the People did declare them beyond the Art of any Pen. The infected Herd of the Vulgar did hereby purifie and cleanse the Ayr of London dispelling those dark Mists of the Rebellion with the thunder of their Applauses and rejoycing at this Solemnity Nor could a less Atonement acquit the frantick multi ude from their mad Tumults and their former Riot at that very Cross So that the Kings felicity consisted not only in redeeming them from Slavery but restoring them to their senses the happy use thereof by the Magick of his excellent Name The whole Solemnity was concluded with Bonesires at every door almost congratulation of Friends and Acquaintance indeed strangers were such then so great the freeness of mens minds concerning this happy and long desired Revolution The like was afterwards done in the Country in the several Cities and Burroughs and with proportionable Triumphs and Gladness At this time the martyred Kings Statue was re-erected at Guild-hall and the Arms of the Commonwealth every where pull'd down and defaced and his Majesties set in their places as likewise restored to their former Stations in Churches and Courts of Judicature wâ— now acted in the Kings name and cancelled that opprobrious stile of the Keepers of the Liberties of England and all Persons in Office or trust impowered to continue and discharge the same in his Majesties Name and by his Authority The King having accepted the Offer of the Deputies of Holland The King accepts the Invitation into Holland and having exprest himself that he intended to come into Holland by water the Estates General understanding thereof gave order that all the Pinnaces and other Barks capable to transport
Soveraign Lord. The Duke being received with extraordinary honour and submission caused the Captains of the other Ships to come aboard him and take the Oath of Allegiance which the Captains caused afterwards to be administred to the inferiour Officers and to all the rest of the Sea-men in the other Ships The Lord Mountague had caused the Flag wherein were the States Arms to be changed before he departed from the Coast of England and made the Arms thereof in the stern to be defaced and pulled down but reserved the Honour for his Royal Highnesse to change the name of the Ship which Cromwell had caused to be called the Naseby in memory of that fatal place where the King deceased received his totall overthrow who thinking no name great enough for so immense a structure being certainly one of the handsomest and biggest Frames for war and yet the best sailer that ever sailed upon the Seas next after the Soveraign carrying fourscore peices of Brasse Canon and six hundred men on board her nor so welcome to the Fleet gave her the name of the Royal Charles It will not be amisse to set down a little breif of the Dukes entertainment here he dined in that Chamber or Gallery where the King was to lodge which was all new wainscotted and guilded and furnished with a fair bed of the finest Cloth of England fringed with Gold and Silver the Floor laid with Turky Tapestry In the Generals Kitchen there were six Clerks that laboured but for the mouth his Table being as well served at Sea as many Princes were in their Dominions The dishes which were all of Silver were of so vast a bignesse most of them that Surloines of Beef and Chines likewise were served up in them The Duke dined at this ordinary of the Generals which might passe for a great feast and in going thence was saluted with the Artillery of the whole Fleet which did him the same Honour when he came on board At this time the King received letters from the Quakers in England full of impertinences and menaces against him if he protected not their Sect and entred not also into those thoughts The King having made known the day before to Monsieur de Veth Deputy from Zeland to the Estates General The King visits the States General in their Assemblie and President that Week that his purpose was to render them a visit the next morning in their Assembly preparation was made to receive him with all imaginable respect and so ordered a Deputy for every Province to wait upon him from his lodgings thither two of them being to march before the King bare-headed to the place where the Estates would receive him and from thence to the seat which was prepared for him They had also provided a great train of Coaches to wait on him thither but his Majesty had no sooner answered the Complement of the Deputies but being upon the stone stairs of the Court he caused the Lords of the train to advance and expressed a willingnesse to walk that little way on foot which is between Prince Maurice his House and the Palace Prince William of Nassau put himself immediately before the King who not disposed to cover himself in the way the Deputies of the Estates that followed him put themselves in the same condition and in this order between two files of Souldiers they arrived at the foot of the stairs of the great hall where the Estates General came in a body to meet him made him a low reverence and opened themselves to make him passe in the midst of them and followed him thus two and two along the Hall and then through the Gallery where they sell pictures but their Shops that day shut up and their with-drawing Chamber unto that of their ordinary Assembly his Majesty and the Estates being still uncovered This Hall is rather long then large The manner of His Majesties sitting in the Assembly of the States General having in the midst of it a Table capable to hold about Thirty persons in the middle whereof is a place for the President which changeth every week according to the number and rank of the united Provinces but the President for that Week quitted it then and sate in that which is over against it where the Ambassadours and Ministers of Forrain Princes are seated when publique Audience is given them and on the usual seat of the President they made an ascent or foot-bank of seven or eight foot broad covered over with a foot-cloth of Tapistry which reached along the passage even to the door of the with-drawing Chamber on the Foot-bank was placed a Chair of Green Velvet aud over head a Cloath of Estate or Canopy of the same Coloured Velvet which was hung between the Pourtraits of the four last Princes of Aurange of the House of Nassau there standing which were so separated that those of Prince William and Maurice were of one hand father and son together and those of Prince Henry Frederick brother to Prince Maurice and his son William the second Husband to the late Princesse Royal on the other side of the Canopy The King being come to this place which was a kind of a Throne Prince William Frederick of Nassau and some English Lords put themselves behind the seat and his Majesty who stood still and uncovered till all the Members that compose that illustrious Senate were entred which were numerous that day because of the Extraordinary Deputies when they were after a while disposed in their places sate down then and covered himself but remained not long in that posture For as soon as he saw the seats full and all the Deputies covered he arose and putting off his Hat in very kind and obliging expressions for all the civilities they had shewed him since he arrived in their Countrey he assured them of the constancy of his Amity and affection for the good of that Common-wealth and here more solemnly recommended unto them the persons and interests of the Princesse Royal his Sister and of the Prince of Aurange his Nephew to which the President made a reply in such terms as sufficiently made known the respect wherewith they resented this Honour they had received This being done his Majesty retired the same way and in the same manner he entred Prince William marching in the head and the Estates two by two following him and conducting the King into the Court to the foot of the Stairs of the great Hall where they had received him Here the Lords States of the Province of Holland to whom the King had promised the like honour of his presence in their Assembly came to meet his Majesty in a body They had likewise before them Prince Maurice of Nassau Lieutenant General of the Horse and Governour of Wesel marching alone and bareheaded performing the same place which Prince William had done with the Estates General Nothing being new or what varied from the manner of his Majesties reception and sitting in
board the Princesse Royal and the Prince of Aurange that conducted him aboard the Admiral Ship which was to passe 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 among which there was one fastned and accompanied with a streamer which carried for its devise Quo Fas et Fata to denote that the King embarking himself went to the place where his right and the providence of God called him alluding to the ordinary Motto of the Kings of England Dieu Et Mon Droit The King entred there with all the Royal Family but seeing a Shallop or Brigandine to approach glazed and covered with Tapistry which General Montague had sent from aboard him as soon as he saw the King to appear in 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 Seamen who seeing themselves in possession of their Soveraign prince made the Neighbouring shore to resound with their shoutes and expressed their joy by all the signs and 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 Wastcoats and Doublets The King approaching the General 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 Stairs by which he ascended to the Ship The King again rendred him all the testimonies of goodnesse and affection that could be imagined or expected from a Soveraign who acknowledged perfectly the important Services he had done him as having been one of the most powerful instruments of his reestablishment whereof he had given him Assurances long before and a most certain proof when he departed from the Sound presently after Richards disappointment whither he was sent to assist the Swede under pretence to mediate between the Dane and that Nation upon his Majesties Orders to favour the design of Sir George Booth who then was in Arms for his Majesty under the fair pretence 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 but a little disengaged of a part of those that would follow him on board he sate down at a Table in the great Gallery with the other Royal persons while some other of his Lords and others great ones of Holland were entertained in other appartments In the Kings passage the two dayes at Sea the General expended above two thousand pounds though the Lords the Estates had provided his Ship and the Rest of the Fleet with all kind of necessary refreshments and provisions beyond what needed for so short passage After Dinner was ended the King received again the last complements of some particular persons expressing great civility to the Deputies of the States of Holland for whom the Leiutenant Admirall Wassenaer made the Speech and sent them away with new protestations of affection and Amity The Sea was calm and the heaven so clear 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 to take his full and last view thereof he ascended to the top of the poop and seeing the people with which he had left the Downes covered remaining there still he was pleased to acknowledge that it was impossible his own Subjects could have more tendernesse for him then those people on whose Affections he perceived he reigned no lesse then he was going to reign on the Wills of the English After this he embraced the Prince of Aurange 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 Princesse who had with so much courage and without grief almost looked all past misfortunes in the Face and who had vertue enough to fortifie that of her Brothers needed now 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 to them both The King himself who had resolution enough so as to show no weaknesse in his greatest misfortunes could not resist the tears of a Sister whom many other considerations as strong as those of Birth render'd extremely dear unto him She would have been comfortlesse amidst so many joyes but for the hopes she had again shortly to see the King her Brother in his Kingdome The former mutuall endearments between them were alwayes so passionate and sincere that much adoe there would have been to disengage her from the Arms of his Majesty if the General had not caused the Anchors to be weighed and the signal to be given the Fleet. The Royal Charles newly so Christened was now under sail for England when the Q. of Bohemia the Princesse Royal and the Prince of Aurange descended into the Bark which was to bring them back again to Land All the Artillery of the Fleet saluted those Royal persons and the Battery on the Downes of Holland answered them with the small shot of the Citizens and Guards It was about four in the afternoon Wednesday the 23. of May that the Fleet did set sail and about six a Clock it was gotten so far off that the people which all this while stir'd not from the Downes having lost sight of it retired themselves whilest the King continued his way towards his Kingdomes with the same Serenity that was seen lately to accompany all his affairs Thus ended these Dutch Triumphs which while the King remained there possessed the minds of all men who could not chuse but stand at gaze to see the stupendious alteration of his condition His often and familiar residence amongst that people procured their universal love the sudden glories of his unexpected Restitution rendred him their veneration and general reverence They are what ever their enemies say to the contrary because their Reasons of state sometime have made them recede from the direct wayes of Justice the most open hearted people in the world for the generality so that one may reade their thoughts in their countenance And next to England it may be presumed they shared as much felicity and joy and as truely manifested it as any other Nation whatsoever That which in the Kings residence there as was said possessed their minds then now altogether employed their Tongues in relating the miraculous providences and as propitious Grandeurs of this Monarch Extolling his virtue and Fortune with
nor the numerous resort of the English every day to worship this Sun of the East and pay their Early Devotions to Her It will be more unnecessary to relate those other Romances and Fictions made by the Phanatick Crew at Home that there were a Fleet of Spaniards and Hollanders that lay ready in her way to intercept Her Passage into England To passe over that noble Exploit of our Fleet under the Command of the Earl of Sandwich and Sir John Lawson Vice-Admiral at Algier to the forcing those Pyrates to very honourable Conditions for the English when at the same time the Hollanders had concluded with them upon base and insecure terms of Peace we will only mention the Happy Arrival of that Fleet and the Royal Charles from England with Sir Fanshaw sent to salute the Queen for His Majesty who now impatiently expected Her Arrival as did the whole Nation together with Him just at the same time the Earl of Sandwich now the second time visiting the Queen being appointed to attend her departure and to convey Her into England Now all things were preparing for the Voyage with such a Hurry yet glad intentnesse as if the Empire of the World had been removing into a more commodious Scituation and the Dii Gentiles were transferring their Altars to be present at the Celebration of those Espousals Such the Prayers such the devoted Oraisons and lifted up Hands for the Felicity of Her transportation The multitude placing themselves on the brink of the shore and playing with those blessed Waves in its wanton refluxes with the same Religion as they dipt their hands into Holy water At the same the King her Brother and Mother with his Nobles and the whole Court made as Solemn a procession and Cavalcade from his Palace where the English Gallantry there present assisted till She arrived at the River side the Golden Tagus whose Surface and Bottome were alike precious its Sand and Burden vying with each other where She entred a Stately Brigandine and the Naval Triumphs commenced their Glory Amidst the Volleys and Tire of a Thousand Cannon and an hundred Thousands of Farewell Acclamations on the 13 April 1661 She passed in the said Noble Company and Equipage to go on board the Royal Charles in which the King Her Husband was conveyed before from Holland to His Three Kingdoms and was there welcomed by the Thunder of the whole Fleet then in its pride with Streamers and Pendants flying and their Wast Clothes out to show it in its dreadful Lovelinesse where His Majesty gave Her the innocent resemblance of Joves Courtship to his beloved Semele Towards the Evening after a Princely Collation and Foy and many passionate parting expressions which Nature extorted and wrested from Love now system'd in a Matrimonial Affection to the Person of Her Lord and Husband After those Dividents of Joy and Grief which interchanged the Scene of this Entertainment the whole was summ'd up in loud apprecations that drowned the private and heavy fondnesses of the 3 Princes of a Bon voyage and a Canon from the Admiral gave signal of Her Majesties Resolution to depart when all Hands were set on work to weigh Anchor and let flye their Sails The King and Queen Mother and their Train with sudden Tears which shewed from what fountain they came generous great Spirits cannot force a Drop for any grief whatsoever like the sweet Influence of the Pleyades gave the first happy Omen to the Fleet which it received as They were reimbarquing for Lisbon and returned with the Discharge of all the Cannon and so immediately with a fair Wind and leading Gale began their course being as they past out of the River saluted by all the Block-Houses Forts anâ—â—astles with the imitation of their Thunder That Night and part of the next day the wind and weather was very propitious while Neptuâ—â— and his Goddesse with their Nymphs had paid their Homage to this Soveraign Lady of the Sea That Courtship being ended a râ—de wind came and with an Officious Incivility stopt Her in Her way till he had whistled out an un-welcome Complement It proved a long winded Harangue not was there other way to be rid of its importunity but by diversion laveering which so retarded the Voyage that in a Fortnights time they hardly got into the middle of the Bay of Biscay where the Queens Majesty dispatcht away Mr. Mountague Sir Th. Sands Sir Joseph Douglas on the 26 of April about 7 at Night to give an Account to the King of Her Condition which the untowardlinesse and aversnesse of the Wind had much altered by protracting Her longing desires of meeting the King and also incommodating Her by the tossing and topping of the Sea so that she lay sick for the most part of the Voyage until about the 5 of May with indefatigable working and Skill the whole Fleet reached the Islands of Scilly the furthermost western Dominions of England Her Arrival had bin every day expected a fortnight before which caused the King to send down his only Brother the Duke of York Lord High Admiral to attend on Her upon the Coast and to Complement Her in His name whereupon his Highnesse hasted to Portsmouth and on the 11 of May attended by the Duke of Ormond the Earls of Suffolk and Chesterfield the Lord Berckley and other persons of Quality went aboard the stately Yangh a curious Vessel with which the City of Amsterdam presented the King to coast about the isle of Wight to meet Her Majesty On the same day Sir Joseph Douglas making towards Portsmouth with an Expresse from Her Majesty to the King was met by his Highnesse the Duke of York 5 Leagues off the Isle of Wight who commanded him back with him to the Fleet. On Sunday Morning about 10. a Clock they discovered the Royal James but there was so great a Calm that they could not reach the Royal Charles till 6 at Evening No sooner had the General espied his Highnesse Yaugh but he went out in his Barge to meet him the Royal Banner being all the while vayl'd till he was aboard When his Highnesse came into the Ship the Soldiers gave three several shouts and all the great Guns in the Royal Charles which from that time till the Queens Entrance had been silent proclaimed his Welcome after which the several Ships of the Fleet paid him their Salutes Being conducted to Her Majesties Cabbin he was placed in a Chair on her right hand where after several Expressions of Joy for Her Majesties happy Arrival on the Coasts of England and having presented His Majesties high respects to Her and as exceeding affection for Her his Royal Highnesse took his leave to retire himself to his Yaugh for that Night and the next Morning Sir Joseph Douglas was again dispatched to the King in the illustrious Company of the said Duke of Ormond and Earls and was forced to tide it thence and sometime lay at Anchor and could not reach Portsmouth