Majesty and pray him ardently that it will please him to hear the devotions which we shall continue to make incessantly for the prosperity of the voiage and reign of your Majesty The King answered that he thanked the Magistrate and Councel for the affection they expressed to him and should indeavour to acknowledge it on all occasions that should be presented unto him Whereupon the Burgemaster having taken the liberty to reply that since his Majesty had the goodness to accept the affection and zeal which they had for his service he besought him most humbly to remember the grace which he had made them to hope for when he concluded in that place his treaty with the Deputies of Scotland some years since that he would honour the town of Breda and its inhabitants with all the favour which the Laws of his Kingdom would permit him to grant them The King answered that he remembred it very well and that he was obliged to do it for a town where he had received such agreeable news and which had rendred him so many testimonies of respect and affection The King took coach after this audience and came between eleven and twelve a clock at Moervaert He found there some squadrons of Horse in batalia and the Deputies of the Estates of Holland who presented themselves at the boot of his Coach and made him their complement in the name of their Superiours at the entrance of their Province His Majesty staied but to hear the quaint and obliging words of Mr. de Beverweert who spake for all the other Deputies and to answer to that civility After this he persued his way to the end of the Causey or Dike where they had made a bridge from the Dike to the Pinnace to facilitate his embarkment The Estates General to give no jealousie to some persons of quality who have coaches with six horses make use ordinarily for the entrance of Embassadours and for other publick Ceremonies but of the Coach of the Princess Dowager of Orange which represents that of the Estates in those occasions Hence was it they desired that the pinnace or barge of the same Princess which she had lent for the same purpose should have the same honour on this occasion and had enjoined their Deputies to indeavour to make it acceptable to his Majesty But the King after he had considered them all chose another as well because he knew it was very commodious as having used it formerly as because indeed that of the Princess Dowager was not great enough to lodge the King and the Princess Royal who would pass the night by the King her brother with persons necessary for their service That whereinto the King entred was made formerly for the Prince of Orenge but it is now in the Colledge of the Admirality of Rotterdam and was without doubt the greatest of all that little Fleet which was composed besides other Barks almost innumerable of thirty great Barges commonly called Yachts and are a kind of little Frigats whereof persons of condition make use upon the Rivers in passing from one Province unto another for necessity or for divertisement And indeed the King found his Yacht so fit and so well fashioned that he said in discourse with the Deputies that he would cause one to be made of the same manner as soon as he should be arrived in England to serve him upon the Thames above the bridge Mr. de Vlooswick Burgemaster of Amsterdam and one of the Deputies of the Province of Holland taking occasion from thence to render a very considerable service to this country said to the King that lately they had made one in their town of the same bigness at least as commodious every way which he took the liberty to offer to his Majesty beseeching him to grace the Magistrate of the town of Amsterdam to accept it The King accepted it not absolutely but declined not so strongly that upon the advertisement which Mr. de Vlooswick gave to the Magistrate of what passed on this occasion he caused not that Yacht to be bought which the Colledge of the Admiralty had gotten of the East-India Company and put it in condition to serve for the divertisement of this great Prince And to give it the more lustre the Magistrate caused the outside to be richly gilt whil'st some of the best Painters of the country wrought upon the fair Pictures wherewith they have since adorned the inside No person would undertake the commission to distribute the Yachts among the Lords of the Court because it would be impossible to oblige them all equally and to disoblige none Therefore Mr. de Beverweert besought the King to be so gracious as to cause the distribution to be made since the Deputies had no other order but fully to obey the commandments of his Majesty which were absolutely necessary for them on this occasion The King would fain take the pains thereof himself and ordained that the Duke of York should ont his occasion perform the functions of Admiral in distributing the Yachts under his authority and in his presence so that his Royal Highness gave himself the Yacht of the Princess Dowager of Oreng The Duke of Glocester had that of the Estates of Holland The Princess Royal one of the Yachts of the Councel of Estate The Deputies of the Estates General had the other The Deputies of the Estates of Holland went into the Yacht of Mr. Beverweert which received also Don Estévan de Gamarra who went to meet the King at Moordijck not in quality of Embassadour of Spain but as particular servant of his Majesty the Rhinegrave the Lord Craft and many other English Lords The Chancellour of England with his family and Sr. Edward Nicholas principal Secretary of Estate and of the King's commands and one of his most affectionate Ministers embarked themselves in a Pinnace called the Maid of Zealand The Marquess of Ormond Lord Deputy of Ireland of the House of Butler one of the chief and most ancient of that Kingdom had the Pinnace of Captain Brouwer The Marquess of Worcester Edward Sommerset embarked himself with his Family in the Pinnace named the Postillion of Zealand The Lord St. John and Bellasis had that of Mr. Wassenaer Mr. Clarges brother-in-law to General Monck and his company composed of the Deputies of the Army had the Yacht of the town of Dort The Lord Gerard and many other English Lords entred into that of Mr. Noortwick Governour of Sluce and the 13th Yacht which was that of the Prince of Oreng was reserved for the Chamber and Wardrobe of the Princess Royal. Every Yacht had its Steward and all other Officers necessary for the Kitchin and buttery and they which had not the commodity to have their Kitchin aboard themselves were accompanied with other Barks where chimneys were made for the Kitchin and ovens for the pastery and provision of so prodigious a quantity of all sorts of meats of foul of sweet meats of wine that all
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
carried their arms unto those quarters then the sole approbation of this great Monarch the glory which returns unto them from thence would pay in a manner the great expence they were at there It is not fit to speak here of the particularities of that discourse no more then of those of the secret audiences which the same Pensionary Councellour had after this general and publick one but it shall suffice us to say that the Estates of Holland remained very well satisfied with the civilities they had received in this and with the declaration which his Majesty had made there The Estates of Holland being retired the Deputies of the town of Amsterdam which made a part of them gave order to Mr. de Groot their Pensionary Councellour to demand a particular audience for them and to address himself for this purpose to Mr. Oneal one of the Grooms of the Bed-chamber to know the hour that it would please his Majesty to appoint them for that Mr. Oneal who is of most illustrious birth in Ireland and by the King's favour to be made a Count after he had spoken to the King thereof his Majesty said to him that he desired himself to speak with Mr. de Groot who presently was brought into the chamber where he found the King neer the chimny a little distant from some English Lords who were in affairs with his Majesty Mr. de Groot being come to the King said that the Burgemasters and Magistrate of the town of Amsterdam having understood that this Majesty was come to this Province of Holland had ordained their Deputies to go presently to the Hage most humbly to beseech his Majesty to honour their town with his Royal presence for so little time as the estate of his affairs should permit him to stay in the country and that the Deputies had ordained him to know of his Majesty when they might without incommodating him have the honour to do him reverence in private and to make him the same request in person The King answered that he had a very strong affection for the town of Amsterdam and that he was obliged thereunto by particular considerations so that he would be very glad to see once again that fair and great town and to thank the Magistrate before his departure for the proofs of tenderness which he had received thence but that he believed he should not be able to obtain it from the impressement with which the Commissioners of Parliament and City of London spake of the necessity of his speedy return into England Notwithstanding that he would see the Commissioners after dinner since they were already disimbarked and if they gave him never so little time he would imploy it in making a voiage to Amsterdam and that in the interim he would attend the Deputies as soon as he had dined The Pensioner replied that since his Majesty expressed an inclination to make a journy to Amsterdam he besought him most humbly to defer the audience of the Deputies untill that after the hearing of the Commissioners of Parliament he could resolve himself upon the most humble supplication which the Deputies made him Adding thereunto that his Majesty might be fully perswaded that there was no town even in his own Kingdom where he could meet with more tenderness and respect for his person and more zeal for his interests then in that of Amsterdam and that the Burgmasters and Magistrate had no stronger ambition then to be able to give him effectual and indubitable proofs thereof That they had understood that his Majesty had some design to cause a Yacht to be made in Holland on the model of that which had passed him from Breda into Holland and likewise that he had the goodness not to despise wholly the offer which Mr. Vlooswijck one of their Burgemasters had made him of one which is newly built at Amsterdam and which upon the advertisement given them thereof they had caused to be bought of the Colledge of the Admiralty to which it belonged but they judged it not a present worthy of his Majesty and that they should not without some confusion make him a present of this nature Notwithstanding if his Majesty would be pleased to accept it it would be necessary that he should send some one at the place to order the contrivances and accommodations as for their part they would indeavour to give it all the embellishmens which might render it pleasing to his Majesty The King answered that it was true that the commodity which he had found in that kind of building on diverse occasions and especially in his last voiage coming from Breda had given him some thought to make one to serve his use on the Thames but that his intention was not to oblige the Lords of Amsterdam to present him that which they had though he would not refuse to receive again this mark of their affection and to charge himself with a new obligation towards that fair and great town That to this effect he would send there the Captain of Mr. Beverweerts Yacht with order to cause that to be finished which he received from their hands in the best and most commodious manner that he should judge fit for his service Moreover that he would give notice to the Deputies of the hour he could appoint for their audience after he had heard the Commissioners of Parliament The Estates of Holland had understood that the Courts of Justice which they call the great Councel and the Court of Holland where of the last is composed but of subaltern Judges for the Province and for that of Zealand and the first serves for Parliament to the same Provinces for the appeals which are brought there from all the others Courts of Justice had a purpose to demand audience of the King and that after their example divers other Colledges might demand it as some of those which make no body took a priviledge to do it before the King was arrived at the Hage resolved that notice should be given to the two Courts of Justice to the Reckoning Chamber of the Province to the Consistory of the place to the University of Leiden whose Rector was come to the Hage for that purpose and to all the other bodies and Colledges that the Estate in making its complement did it for all its subjects and that it would not that the King should be troubled with other visits after that which the Estates of Holland had made him in a body The Estates General named this day M rs de Gent Deputy of Gelderland Guldewagen of Holland and Lampsins of Zealand to go to felicitate the Queen in her Palace and the Dukes of York and Glocester who were lodged at the House of the extraordinary Embassadours on the re-establishment of the King and on the revolution of the affairs of England and M rs of Renswoude of Utrecht Ripperda of Hengelo of Overysel and Isbrants of Groning were deputed to do the same office
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
and who is no less considerable through the prudence wherewith he governeth then through the honour which he hath to be the of same house with the King of Denmark who shall be partly his heir willing to give an extraordinary proof of the respect which he alwaies hath had for the Kings of Great Britain who of their side have from all time much esteemed him dispatched this Gentleman as soon as he understood that the King was to depart from Breda to come into Holland not so much to acquit himself of that duty by a simple complement as to assure his Majesty that the first day he would send to render his respect unto him in his Kingdom by a person who is very near unto him whom he considereth and loveth extreamly The King who is much more sensible of the good he receiveth then of the injuries his enemies have done him would make known by a most civil reception and accompanied with much tenderness and by a most obliging answer which he made to the complement of that Gentleman that if he could forget the ill usage he had received from some of his people he was incapable to lose the remembrance of the obligation which he had to the Count of Oldenbourg We have said before that the Duke of York as Admiral of England would go Saturday last to the Fleet to take there the Oath of Fidelity of the Officers and Marriners and that he was hindred by the contrary wind and the tempest But this day the last of May he embarked himself and was aboard the Admiral The Fleet declared it self for the King when it was yet at anckor in the Downs immediately after it understood the intention of the Parliament upon the Letter and Declaration of his Majesty whereof we have spoken in the beginning of this Relation and it was not lately that the Lord Montague who commands the Fleet now as Vice-Admiral under the authority of the Duke of York had made his good will so wel to appear that not only the King could not doubt thereof but also that he had given some suspition thereof to those of the contrary party But it was necessary to disingage the Officers Souldiers and Marriners of the Oath which they had done to the last Parliament and to be assured there of by a new Oath of Fidelity for the King their Soveraign Lord. Therefore the Duke being arrived at the Admiral 's Ship where he was received by the Lord Montague with extraordinary honour and submissions he caused the Captain of the other ships to come aboard there and took their Oath which the Captains caused to be administred since to the inferiour Officers and to all the rest of the seamen in the other ships The Lord Montague had caused the flag to be changed before he departed from the coast of England and made the arms of the Common-wealth to be raâ—ed out which appeared for some years on the castle of his proud poop but he had reserved the honour for his Royal Higness to change the name of the ship which Cromwel caused to be called the Naesby in memory of the great Battel where the deceased King was defeated and by which the Rebellion gained principally the strenght which made it to subsist even to this last revolution The Duke thinking that he could not give it a name which should be more pleasingly received then that of the King made it to be called The Charls It is certainly one of the handsomest frames that ever sailed upon the sea For although it be of the greatest size that hath been seen after that which they call in England the Soveraign and carries fourscore peeces of brass Cannon amongst which more then twenty are of 48 pound bullet it is notwithstanding one of the best sailers of the whole Ocean She had aboard her above six hundred men as well Souldiers as Sailors and the Chambers and Galleries of the Castle where the King was to lodge and where the Lord Montague lodgeth ordinarily were all wanscotted and gilded and furnished with fair beds of the finest cloth of England fringed with gold and silver and with foot Turcky tapistry for the Royal persons But that which was most remarkable was that in the Admirals Kitchin there were six Clarks that laboured but for the mouth and that his table was better served on the sea then those of many Princes are in their Dominions The plate which was all of silver was of so prodigious a greatness that they were seen to be loaden with peeces of rost beef whereof the English have reason to make one of their delicates which weighed neer a hundred pounds and the other dishes of plate which accompanied that were without comparison massier then the greatest washing basons that are ordinarily used and so loaden with meat that it seemed the whole Fleet was to be fed with the remains of that table though they were intended but for the attendants of my Lord the Duke He dined there at the ordinary of the Vice-Admiral which might pass for a great feast and in going thence he was saluted with the artillery of the whole Fleet which did him the same honour when he came aboard The same day the King received Letters from a certain kind of people which are called in England Quakers because that in the ordinary hours when they make their devotions or prayers there takes themselves a certain trembling in all parts of the body which they say to be a violent motion caused by the spirit of God wherewith they would make men be-believe that they are possessed It would be very hard to say whether these people are fanatick or hyponchondriack that is mad or melancholy but it must needs be that so great a disorder of spirit as that which is observed in all their actions proceedeth from an ill disposition of the body They have not only lost the respect they ow unto Princes and Magistrates but they fail also in the duties which are inseparable from the civil life And they are so far from humility which is a vertue not known but since the birth of Christianity that hitherto there was never seen an animal so impudent and so proud The Letter was ridiculous and impertiment throughout but particularly in most places it pronounced the threatnings of Gods judgment against the King if he protected not that Sect and entred not into those thoughts The King having made known the day before to Mr. the Veth Deputy from the Province of Zealand to the Estates General and President that week for his Province that his design was to render them a visit the next morning in their assembly as we have said it was resolved that they would receive this honour with all imaginable respect and to that purpose would dispose of all things in such manner that his Majesty should carry away from his visit the satisfaction which he might lawfully promise to himself from thence And indeed Tuesday morning