England disrobed the King of St. Edwards Robes and delivered them to the Dean of Westminster Then his Majesty was newly arrayed with his Robes prepared for that day and came to the Comunion Table in St Edwards Chappel where the Lord Bishop of London for the Arch-Bishop set the Crown imperial provided for the King to wear that day upon his head Then his Majesty took the Scepter and the Rod and the Train set in order before him went up to the Throne and so through the Choyre and body of the Church out at the West-door to the Pallace of Westminster where his Majesty dined in great State and Magnificence A Table being placed at the upper end of the Hall I shall now relate the manner though pre-posterously of the proceeding of this Triumph from the Tower First went the Horse-guard of his Highness the Duke of York the Messengers of his Majestyes Chamber the Esquires of the Knights of the Bath 136 in number the Knight Harbenger the Serjeant Porter the Sewers of the Chamber the Quarter waiters of the six Clerks of the Chancery the Clerks of the Signet The Clerks of the Privy-Seal the Clerks of the Council the Clerks of both Houses of Parliament The Clerks of the Crown the Chaplains in ordinary having dignities ten in number the Kings Advocate and remembrancer the Kings learned Counsell at Law The Master of the Chancery the Kings puisne Serjeants The Kings Attorney and Solicitors The Kings eldest Serjeants the Secttarys of the French and Latine Toungs the Gentlemen Ushers daily waiters The Servers Carvers and Cup-bearers in ordinary the Esquires of the Body The Masters of standing offices being no Councellors viz. of the Tents Revels Ceremonies Armory Wardrope Ordinance Master of the Requests Chamberlyn of the Exchequer Barons of the Exchequer and Judges of the Law according to their dignity the Lord chief Baron the Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas Master of the Rolls the Lord chief Justice of England Trumpets The Gentlemen of the privy chamber the Knights of the Bath 68 in number the Knight Marshall the Treasurer of the Chamber the Master of the Jewell House Knights of the Privy Council Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold Two Trumpets and Serjeants Trumpets Two Pursivants at Arms. Barons eldest Sons Earls youngest Sons Vicounts eldest Sons Barons Marquesses younger Sons Earls eldest Sons Two Pursivants at Arms. Viscounts Dukes younger Sons Marquesses eldest Sons Two Heraulds Earls Earl Marshal and Lord Chamberlyn of the Houshold Dukes eldest Sons Serjeants at Arms on both sides the Nobility Clarencieux and Norroy Lord Treasurer Lord Chancellor Lord High Steward Duke of Ormond two persons representing the Duke of Normandy and Aquittain Gentleman Vsher Garter Lord Mayor Sir Rich. Brown The Duke of York alone The Lord High Constable of England Earl of Northumberland Lord Great Chamberlyn of England Earl of Lindsey The Sword born by the Duke of Richmond The King Equerries and Footmen next about his Majesty Gentlemen and Pensioners without them the Master of the Horse Duke of Albemarl leading a spare Horse the Vice Chamberlyn to the King Captain of the Pensioners Captain of the Guard the Guard the Kings Life-guard commanded by my Lord Gerrard the Generals Life-guard by Sir Phillip Howard a troop of Voluntier Horse and a company of Foot by Sir John Robinson The way from the Tower to Algate was guarded by the Hamblets from thence to Temple-Barr by the Trained-Bands of London on one side and lined with the Liveries on the other side with the Banners of each company The Windows were all along laid with the best Carpets and Tapestry Bands of Musick in several places and the Conduits running with Wine At the Arches the King was entertained with several Speeches and Songs and at Cheapside near the third Arch where the Temple of Concord stood Sir William Wyld Recorder of London with the Aldermen who in the name of the City did most cordially congratulate his Majesties access thither on that day upon that solemn occasion in a pithy Speech and as a signal of their Allegiance and Duty presented to his Majesty a purse of Gold In St. Pauls Church-yard stood the Blew-coat boys of Christ-Church Hospital One in behalfe of the rest declared their joy for his Majesties wonderful preservation in his absence and his arrival thither humbly beseeching his Majesties Gracious favour and indulgence according to the example of his Royal Ancestors and his Father of Blessed memory The King was very well pleased with this Speech and after conferred something on the Boy that spoke it In the Strand and through Westminster also the wayes were gravelled and rayled being guarded on both sides with the Trained Bands of that Liberty and City and his Majesties two Regiments of Foot under the command of his Grace The Duke of Albermarl and Col. John Russel Brother to the Earl of Bedford The Houses were also richly adorned with the Carpets and Tapestry and Musick particularly a stage of Morrice-dancers at the Maypole in the Strand in the several places all along his Majesties passage When his Majestie came through Temple-Barr into his ancient and native City of Westminster the Head Bayliff in a Scarlet Robe and High Constable in Scarlet received his Majesty with loud musick where alighting off their Horses and kneeling down to his Majesty the head Bayliff on behalf of the Dean and Chapter City and Liberty signified their joyful reception of his Royal person into that Liberty declaring how much more happy they were then any part of the Nation in that their Soveraign Lord and King was born within their Liberty and humbly desiring his Majesty to continue his Grace and Favour still to them whereby that City might still be enabled to do His Majesty service When the head-Bailiff had ended his Speech he and the High Constable mounted their Horses and fell in next after his Majesties Serjeants at Mace in which order they attended his Majestie to Whitehall Infinite and innumerable were the acclamations and shouts from all the parts as his Majestie passed along to the no less joy then amazement of the spectators who beheld those glorious personages that rid before and behind his Majesty Indeed it were in vain to attempt to express this Solemnity it was so far from being utterable that it is almost inconceivable and much wonder it caused in Outlandish persons who were acquainted with our late troubles and confusions to the ruine almost of three Kingdoms which way it was possible for the English to appear in so rich and stately a manner It is incredible to think what costly cloaths were worne that day the Cloaks could hardly be seen what silke or sattin they were made of for the gold and silver laces Embroydery that was laid upon them the like also was seen in their foot-cloathes Besides the inestimable value and treasures of Diamonds Pearle and other Jewels worn upon their backs and in their hats to
omit also the sumptuous and rich Liveries of their Pages and footmen some suits of Liveries amounting to fifteen hundred pounds the numerousnesse of these Liveries and the orderly march of them as also that stately Equipage of the Esquires attending each Earl by his Horse-side so that all the world that saw it could not but confess that what they had seen before was but solemn mummery to the most August noble and true glories of this great day In this order the King arrived at Whitehall a good time before the evening and then retired himselfe to supper and so to his Rest to recommence the next day and to put an end to this Triumph All the Kingdome over great rejoicing was made by feasting and other showes as the several Bands of the Countreys with the additional voluntary Gentry in a new and gallant Cavalry which show'd the resurrection of their former Loyalty in its immutable State of peace and Glory not to be thereafter interchanged with the sullen humours and moods and most sawcy ridiculous presumptions of County Committee-men and such like venemous mushirooms It s the disgrace of this work to mention them and therefore in complyance with our subject omitting the same Triumphs in Scotland and Ireland with in the express resemblances of this Magnificence several Honors being conferred both by the Lord Commissioner his Grace and the Lord Justices on that solemnity we will take a full view of all our personal Dignities at home We proceed then to those magnificences of the King which are in Honorante not in Honorato After the miserable vulgarly multitude of those evil Councellors we had been opprest with for so many years who had raised themselves to the mysteries of Government by their publike scandals thereof in its former administration following the impious politicks of Absalâ—n see an Assembly of Princes met in his Majestyes most Honorable Privy Council whose superlative and eminent endowments assisted by their conspicuous Grandeur restored the Form of the Brittish Empire such as Palla â—gloried to be in the midst of Her Heavenly deâ—cent being sâ—ited with their Noble extractions and their excellencies in all pâ—udent menage of the publike accompâ—ished to Her own authentical institution of true Policy such Pâ—lots whose haâ—py and skilful hand could guide the tossed baâ—k of the Kingdom in the darkest night and the most affrightful tempests when there was neither Su Moon nor Stars no face of Authority no rule nor directions nor Chart to follow in the unexampled case of our late distractions without any other compasse then their Piety to God Duty to their Prince and love to their Countrey by which they confidently steered through all those shelves rocks and sands which eminently threatned its Shipwrack and Destruction Their sacred names for perpetual memory to the eternal Fame of this their blessed conduct understanding that by his Majesties call to this sublime eminent dignity their precedent services were signated and notified to the world as most Religiously and gratefully is due are here transmitted among the rest of his Majesties felicities to inquisitive posterity The names of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Council HIs Royal Highness the Duke of York Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer Lord Roberts Lord Privy Seal Duke of Albemarle Earl of Lindsey Lord High Chamberlain of England Duke of Ormond Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold Marquess of Dorchester Earl of Northumberland Earl of Leicester Earl of Berkshire Earl of Portland Earl of Norwich Earl of St. Albons Earl of Sandwich Earl of Anglesey Earl of Carlisle Viscount Say and Seal Lord Wentworth Lord Seymour Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster Lord Hellis Lord Cornwallis since deceased Lord Cooper Earl of Louderdale Sir Charles Berkley Sir George Carteret Sir Charles Compton Secretary Nicholas Secretary Morieâ— From these Glories of the Gown we are next invited to as illustrious those of Chivalry a medium betwixt war and peace that there might be nothing which his Majesties Fortunes could not comprehend The most Honourable Order of the Garter famous for its Martial and Civil atchievements had been dragd in the dirt and trampled under foot of Plebeian Anarchy and usurpation when the innocent charm of its motto Honi soit qui mal y Pense evil be to him that evil thinks which had preserved it so many ages found not veneration or respect being ridled by that monster of Rebellion to be a badge and significator of its certain though long lookt for Vltion avengment in its own dire retorts and self punishing revolutions It is not nor ever will be forgotten how they abased this Royal Ensign the highest Order of Knighthood in the world to the infimest and lowest avilements when it was derided by the most abjectest and meanest degree of the people when its True blâ—w was â—aâ—ned with the blotts of Fantise and imbecillity of courage its star was dimmd and lookt like a fallen meteor in the lower Region and St. George was enchanted by the Dragon Now the fates had decreed that our Charlemain should break this spel and recover this champions celebrated order to its greatest splendor by filling up those vacancies death had made by a new and solemn instalment Some of these most honourable Knights survived to his Majesties restitution some be made abroad others be decreed so and they were so de jure having had the order sent them but the investiture was wanting The rest of these Noble companions were allyed to the restoration all of them are ranked in the manner as they sate at VVindsor April the 23. 1662. being St. Georges day where after the usual magnificent procession his Majesty renewed the usual solemnitys and grandeurs thereof himselfe being there in person The fellows and Companions of the most Noble Order of St GEORGE commonly called the GARTER as they were the 23. of April in the 13. year of K. Charles the second 1661. CHARLES the second King of Great Brittain France and â—eland c. Iames Duke of York the Kings onely Brother Charles Lâ—dewick Prince Elector Palatine Frederick William Marquiss and Elector of Brandenburch Rupert Count Palatine of the Rhene and Duke of Cumberland Edward Count Palatine of the Rhene William of Nassau Prince of Orange Barnard Duke of Espernâ—n Charles Prince of Tarante William Cecil Earl of Salisbury Thomas Howard Earl of Beâ—â—shire Algernon Piercy Earl of Northumberland Iames Butler Duke of Ormâ—nd George Villierâ— Duke of Buckingham Thomas Wâ—iâ—thsley Earl of Southampton William Cavendish Marquiss of Newcastle George Digby Earl of Bristâ—ll Gasper Count of Marsha George Monk Duke of Albemarl Edward Mountague Earl of Sandwich Aubrey de Vere Earl of Oxford Charles Stuart Duke of Richmond and Lenox Mountague Bertie Earl of Lindsey Edward Mountague Eaal of Manchester William Wentworth Earl of Strafford With the like happy reviviscency of the dead ashes of the Noble Montrosse c. did His Majesty graciously revive the sleeping honors
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
THE GLORIES AND Magnificent TRIUMPHS OF The Blessed RESTITVTION OF His Sacred MAJESTY K. Charles II. From His Arrival in Holland 1659 60 Till this Present Comprizing all the Honours and Grandeurs Done to and Conferred by HIM Culmen utrumque tenes nil CAROLE Magne relictum Quo Virtus â—nimo crescat vel Splendor Honore Claud Paneg. O Praesidium dalce DECUS Horat. By JAMES HEATH formerly Student of Ch. Ch. OXON London Printed and are to be sold by N.G. R.H. and O. T. at the Roâ— Exchange Westminster-hall and St. Paul's Churchyard 1662. TO THE QUEEN-MOTHERS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY May it please Your Majesty WITH the Most Humble and Most Prostrate Submission I lay at Your Feet this my Endevour which though for its own worth it may justly be debarr'd such bold Approaches yet for its Illustrious Subject and most Stupendious matter will well become Your Most August Presence That Elevated thought enforced this Addresse to Your Royal Hands the Lustre of Your Son Our Sacred Soveraign's Glory being so Dazeling to the rest of the Weak-Sighted World that it were a Presumptuous Vanity to Court any other Eye then Your Self the Fountain of this Marvellous Light In Your Blessed Womb Heaven Treasured and Matured those before Vnrevealed Exaltations of Humane Nature beyond all Her former most benigne and Industrious Excesses of Felicity which while other Princes have stooped to by some Politique Observances and Wooed their Difficult Scepters it most officiously hath Bowed and Humbled it Self to Our Dread Soveraign and obsequiously sollicited His Acceptance May Your Majesty be Graciously pleased therein to imitate Him who so much Resembles Your Self by Vouchsafing a Reception to this Reflexe but weak and imperfect Representation of those Magnificences Which as they did Primarily Proceed from Your Majesty so ought they principally to return thither to be the inseparable and fruitful Blessings and Delights of Your Bosome God Almighty never cease such Rewards of Your most Celebrated Vertues here and Crown them hereafter when He shall after a long Train of Prosperity change these Temporal into Eternal Glories So prayes Your MAJESTIES most Obedient and most Dutiful Servant JAMES HEATH To the READER IT is not to be doubted but that decaying and dim-eyed Time must very obscurely and dully render the Glories of His Majesties Restitution to the rich and pregnant Expectation of Posterity for even after the immediate Passage of the most famous of them no Fancy was able to reduce them to Memory neither in the Beauty or Order thereof such the Stunning and amazing Ravishments such the rare Curiosities and splendid unlook'd-for Bravery besides the Novelty and Modishnesse of its excelling Decorations We say Sermons have not that Efficacy in the Eye which they have in the Ear certainly these Triumphs will lose much of their Gallantry and Delight in the Relation and Hearing which they had in Seeing like the Filings of Gold they lose of their weight in every change of the Scale so that it is impossible to expresse them in any dresse of Language suitable to that Garb which Gods Providence or mans Joy attired and manifested them in their several Solemnities 'T was thought a fair and obliging Design howsover to trace them with the speediest indagation and quickest pursuit could be made to the recovery of as much of these Grandeurs as a research was capable of which beginning from Originals no lesse Sacred then miraculous may well be excused if it be at a losse sometimes being also outgone by their swift transiency and permeation into the lasting durable Firmament of His Majesties most assured Empire and Government But who am I who dare to attempt this Flight who have neither the Eagles eye nor his Plumes and have never trusted the Aire of Fame 'T is too sublime an Enterprize I must confesse for so mean an Undertaker but yet assisted by the Medium of publick Desire and Benefit which can no way better be delightfully advantaged then in the how rude soever Perpetuation of those Heaven-prepared Fineries I have adventured aloft with this couragious impulse Magnis tamen excidit Ausis But he who shall more intently and prudentially consider this discourse may perhaps observe some necessity thereof as well as pleasure the utile justly taking place of the dulce and challenging other more grave and laboured Argumentations and Defences of Regal Authority For 't is not in the power of Reason or Force of words to charm people and Subjects into that veneration of their Princes which the silent yet awful Majesty of their magnificent publick Appearances can most redoubtedly conciliate and Command By these glorious distances the regardful Subject is kept within his bounds and by such Pomp the Throne is raised from the Level of Plebeian Encroachment to its due height and most Sacred impervious Ascent Love and Fear the Great Props of Government being never more equally attempered in men to the harmonious Conservation of the Peace then by these State Grandezza's True Policy being like true Religion which once denuded of its Decency and Ceremonies is quickly profaned by the malapert vulgar and invaded by Sedition and impudent ignorance And we have sad Experiments of them Both. To redresse which confident Mischief Almighty God was pleased to proceed in His Majesties Restitution by the most Magnificent Method he ever showed in any of his works since the Creation and having brought about that glorious design did also inspire the hearts of His Subjects with a most extraordinary and cheerful reverence of His Majesties Person and Authority which to evidence and demonstrate to Him and the World they did express in these ensuing Anglorum Magnalia here digested and recorded as the most sumptuous Oblation of our Solemn Respects and Gladnesse upon His Majesties Return that after Ages may know how we valued this Mercy and as the Expiatory Sacrifice of all those Contumelious barbarous Indignities done to the Person of our late Martyr'd Soraign Vale. The Sum of the whole A. AMbassador of Spain Complements His Majesty at Breda 17. at the Hague Folio 56 Ambas of Sweden had Audience Folio 64 Ambas of Brandenburgh his audience Folio 73 Ambas of France his audience Folio 93 Ambas from the Prince Elector Palatine Folio 163 Army disbanded Folio 167 Advantage coming to England by His Majesties marriage Folio 254 B. Burgomasters of Breda Speech Folio 73 Baronets created Folio 210 C. Commissioners from the Lords Commons and City sent to His Majesty at the Hague Folio 58 City of London feast His Majesty at Guild-hall Folio 156 Church Government by Bishops Folio 168 Cromwel Ireton and Bradshaws Exequies descanted or celebrated Folio 174 Catalogue of the Archbishops and Bishops of England Folio 206 Catalogue of the Dukes Marquesses Earls Lords Viscounts Barons of England Folio 217 D. Doctor Clarges sent to His Majesty at Breda Folio 21 Deputies of the States General Speech to His Majesty Folio 23 Deputy of the Province of Gelders Speech to His Majesty at
unto him with the Quality of Colonel On the same consideration they gave a Troop of Horse to Mr. Kâ—rkhoven Baron of Wooton Son of the Deceased Lord Heenvhâ—t and the Countess of Stanhop being in the room of his Father great Forrester of Holland and Superintendant of his Highnesses the Prince of Auranges Affairs Another Complement was also Ordered to be given the aforesaid Commissioners of England A Speech made to the Commissioners of Parliament by Deputies from the Province of Hol. the sum whereof meeting them in the same place where the Deputies of the States General saluted them being uttered by M. Wimmenum was this That the Lords the Estates of Hol. who had so much caus to rejoyce for that great Catastrophe which they saw in Eng. could not be silent in that wonderful juncture and in that publick and universal Joy but found themselves obliged to express it to thens that contributed most to it and were 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 Undertaking That the Lords Estates who in the Anarcâ—y and disorder had for their parts retained their due sentiments of the English Nation though necessitated to a War which was meerly personal on the English side against a Faction and prevalent Party did take this happy advantage of assuring their Lordships of the Perseverance of their Affection and prayed God for the continuance of the Prosperity in the Kingdoms of his Majesties Dominions and of their Persons in particular with all the fervency and earnestness that might be expected from an allied State and from Persons perfectly affectioned to their Good and Interests To this the Commissioners answered by the mouth of those Noblemen that spoke to the King That they thanked the States for their great Affection to the King and his Kingdoms the memory whereof they should alwaies keep and particularly for the pains they had taken in coming to give them a Visit with such Assurances of their Respect and Friendship which they would endeavour to require by their personal Services and by a perpetual and inviolable Amity with that Republick and so conducted them to their Coaches On the 19th of May Sixty thousand Pound added to the expence for the Kings Entertainment an Addition of threescore thousand Pound was Ordered for the Expence which they would now magnificently bestow on the Kings Entertainment the States intending to make him a Feast and to give him and his Brothers some Presents upon which account they thought also fit to furnish for his Majesty the Bed and Appurtenances which the last Deceased Prince of Aurange had caused to be made for the lying in of the Princess Royal and which she never used because of the death of the Pâ— her husband who deceased eight dayes 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 Tester the Seats and Skreens the Hangings and the other pieces necessary to make a Furniture compleat the Estates would add thereunto a most perfect fair Hanging of the richest Tapestry embossed with Gold and Silver which they caused to be made of purpose with a great number of excellent Pictures as well of Italy as of other Countries both ancient and modern and whatsoever can adorn a Chamber worthy to lodge so great a Monarch in his greatest Magnificence It is now set up at Hampton-Court The Council of State ordained also that all the Fisher-Barks of the Villages of Scheveling and of Heyde should be stayed for the Service of the State Order given for the Embarquement of the Baggage to the end to serve the imbarquement of the Court and Kings Baggage and that for the same purpose the Village of Catwyck on the Sea and other Dorps adjacent should send 20 Barks and caused 30 open Waggons to be made ready also to bring the said Baggage down to Scheveling the Monday following being the 21th with 40 close Waggons to conduct the Train on Tuesday which was the day that the King had designed for his departure though deferred till Wednesday as we shall see hereafter The same day the Duke of York accompanied with the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg The Duke of York taketh the Oath of Allegiance from the Mariners and with a great number of English Dutch Lords and Gentlemen went to Scheveling to take the Mariners Oaths of Fidelity in quality of Admiral of England but the Wind being contrary and the Sea boysterous the Lord Montague thought it not fit to send Boats from aboard him to fetch his Royal Highness and the Fishermen of the Village refused likewise to put him aboard so that he was forced to return to the Hague to Dinner At this time came also the Ambassadour of the Marquess of Brandenburg The Ambassadour of the Marquess of Brandenburgh his audience Monsieur Weyman to salute the King upon his restitution brought in by Prince Maurice of Nassau the same that was extraordinary Ambassadour here since from the said Elector after the King had answered the Complement they spake of indifferent Affairs which have nothing common with this Relation Monsieur Vicque first Resident with the States Ambassanours likewise from the Landgrave of Hesse for the Landgrave of Hessen made likewise his Complement for the Prince his Master which was so much the better received as in his particular he had an Occasion in the business of the Palatinate to which House he hath constantly bin allied to render most important Service to his Majesty as well as the Deceased King his Father He had the Honour to do reverence to his Majesty at Breda with the Duke of Lunenburg where the King remembred the affection which he had for his Service The King added so sensibly did the touches of other afflicted Princes condition incite him to a generous Sympathy and protested himself as well as his Father obliged to the Duke of Curland who had in the War in England supplied him with Arms and Ammunition and that he never would fail to acknowledge those good Offices done them both during the Disorders of his Kingdoms After these verbal Ceremonies were past other oral as we may say followed several Invitations were made from the Ambassadours to the Lords of the Kings Train to dine with them the Ambassadour of France had treated the Earl of St. Albans and the Lord Crofts and some other Lords at a Dinner and the Spanish Ambassadour was bespoke by the two Dukes of York and Glocester being of long Familiarity with him to entertain them at his House where before the Marquess of Ormond had been
the Souldiery the Oracle of the Sword was now to be fulfilled in turning it to Plow Shares and Pruning hooks the Long riddle of the War to be resolved into a lasting and certain Peace The great Alexander of the North qui cunctando restituit rem undid the Sword by the ties of his discreet and temporizing Allegiance The Obligations by his Prudence Worth Discipline Valour and Vigilance which he laid upon the Army civilized their untamed Spirits and brought them to a just sense of their obedience and knowledge of themselves the Diabolical illusions which had possessed most of them now the appearance of Englands Redeemer was at hand totally disappeared and they presently return to their innocence such as mistaken duty can be allowed for in this following Addresse to the King which because of its summing up all the Circumlocutions and mistakes of the Rebellion and most highly magnifies the wonder of the Kings Restitution is here transcribed in its own words it was drawn up while the King was at Sea and therefore it is placed here though delivered to Him on Dartford Heath May 29. the day of His Entrance WIth such a joy as flowes from Reverence and Love we present our selves before Your Sacred Majesty Besides our Reflection on the Common Good which in this happy change relates to our Particular intends this joy and renders it sincere For we can now please our selves in our selves while we are really performing that duty for which we were raised And with all thankfulness we acknowledge that care Your Majesty in Your late Letter and Declaration hath expressed of our necessary concerns We blesse God to see that day when the Serenity of every mans Countenance discovers the Tranquillity of his mind for this shewes Your Majesty to be the Soul of Your People since during Your absence the Nation was cast into such distractions as we have no pleasure to remember but had rather turn our thoughts and grateful acknowledgements to the happy Conduct of our noble General who hath thus far lead us in our duty to your Royal Person Yet as we cannot attribute too much to his merits so neither can we deprive our selves of that Honour and Comfort which we find in the accomplishment of his just designe Therefore in plain and Souldier-like though humble terms we say Your Majesty hath made us and the Nation happy in Your Return to this Your Native Kingdome which doubtlesse will nay we may say hath produced a Settlement upon the Foundation of our Ancient Laws by the due execution of which together with Your Majesties pious Inclinations we trust Libertisme and Profanenesse will be wholly suppressed the Protestant Cause and true Professors of it encouraged to the Comfort of all Your Religious and good People Your Majesty will now have Your great Councel about You who have already given proof of their Loyalty and Wisdome both to Your Majesty and Your People We professe and declare That as we have not been altogether uselesse in the Restauration as well of Your Sacred Majesty to Your Crowns and Kingdoms as the People to their just Rights so shall we for the future chearfully sacrifice our Lives or whatsoever can be more dear to us in the Service of Your Majesty against all Oppositions whatsoever and by a ready obedience to Your Commands expresse our Selves Your Majesties most loyal Subjects and obedient Servants Something hath been said already as to the Emblem of the Peace the Lawyers Cown but the Law was already restored and returned into its ancient Channells and Bounds the writs issuing in His Majesties Name and the Courts of Judicature setting by His Authority the States great Seal having been brought into the House of Commons and there broke and the pieces thereof given the Commissioners for their Fees now ensues some preparations for the Gospel The Sacred Name of the King like that of Jehovah with the Jews had been not out of reverence but danger or despight seldome or never indeed used in the Pulpit it being a piacular Crime to mention the King in our prayers when Curses and speaking ill of him though in despight of Solomons warning againâ—t such malediction of Princes was the safest and most advantageous Course Now God would Honour the place where his Name was to be called upon with due Veneration to that of his Vicegerent His Omniscience declaring that his terrible Name cannot be revered where his annointed Ones is despised Especially such a Prince whom he had so signally brought forth protected and restored The Pulpit therefore is reconsecrated which the impudent intrusion and blasphemy against God and the King had profaned The Purity of Divine Worship was to be recommenced with the acknowledgement of the Title and Style of his Majesty who bears not in vain the name of the Defendor of the Faith Accordingly in most of the Churches upon the first intimation of the order of Parliament to that purpose though some and many other Loyal congregations had antevened it the King was solemnly prayed for to the great heightning of the Peoples devotion and thanksgiving to Almighty God who had given an earnest of his Majesties personal by this nominall presence amongst them to the further exaltation of their praises to him But to refer these and other preparatory glories of the King to their consummation in his Return it will be time to look back to the Royal Fleet now floating on the Main and sailing very slowly the Sea priding her self in the burden of that Triumph she carried as loth to deliver the Treasure she possessed till at last on Friday about three of the Clock in the morning they came in sight of Dover The General attended with a great Train of the Nobility and Gentry having obtained leave of the House to attend his Majesties landing on Wednesday the 23. of May went from White-hall by Water to the Bridge-foot in order to meet his Majesty by the way of Kent having given order to several Gentlemen in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex to be ready with all manner of Civilities to receive the King if he should chance to land in those parts The Generall came to Canterbury on Thursday night whereabout quartered most of the Troops of those Lords which went down likewise to meet the King at his landing The names of which are as follow The Generals lifeguard the Earl of Clevelands the Earl of Shrewsburys the Earl of Northamptons the Duke of Richmonds the Earl of Norwiches the Lord Viscount Mordaunts Sir Richard Browns and Sir John Robinsons distinguished by their habit as well as by their Colours Liveries and Cornets A finer sight of men for bravery and gallantry was never seen in England each Troop consisting of 150. or thereabouts At this place of Canterbury an expresse was sent to the General to hasten him to Dover The King lands at Dover Friday the 25. of May. which he did accordingly and about one of the Clock came thither his Majesty refusing
and guarded both sides of the way while His Majesty passed through Being come down to Guild-hall Carpets were spread down from the Hall to the Councel-chamber for his Majesty to tread upon Before Dinner Sir Will. Wylde the Recorder made a Speech to His Majesty declaring the great Honour that His Majesty was pleased to confer on them in vouchsafing formerly to send to them His Gracious Letter and Declaration and now to add to that kindnesse by affording by affording them His Royal presence At the upper end of the Hall in the Hustings towards the West was raised 3. ascents where was placed a Chair of State and a rich Canopy where His Majesty and His two Royal Brothers dined His Majesties Servants and several Aldermen and Common-councel men giving attendance The two Houses of Peers and Commons dined at other Tables in the great Hall attended likewise by Aldermen and Common-Councel-men At the sound of loud Musick the whole Service was set upon the Table and during the whole dinner-time they were entertained with variety of Musick both instrumental and Vocal After Dinner was a very costly Banquet and then an Enterlude where a Rustick was represented to the Content of His Majesty and the rest of the Spectators Aser this His Majesty retired him into a withdrawing room where he was pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood on Alderman Reynoldson Mr. Cleyton the Chamberlain of London and Mr. Thomas Player his Son The 3. of Iuly was a Day of Prayers and Solemn Thanksgiving appointed to be kept by the Prince Elector Palatine the Kings Cousin German through all his Electoral Dominions for his Majesties happy Restauration Before the Town house in Heydelbergh was erected a stately Fountain adorned with all sorts of Fruits and Flowers from whence flowed several sorts of Wine after Sermon the rest of the day was spent in Feasting and Jollity with sounding of Drums and Trumpets the noise of the Cannon and at night many curious Fire-works were performed But that which was most of honour to the King was a ray of honour from him darted and influenced upon the Eminent loyalty and signall Services of that great Warrier and faithfull Subject his Excellency the Lord General Monck whom his Majesty was then graciously pleased to dignifie with these high Titles of Honour George Duke of Albemarle Earl of Torrington Baron Monck of Potheridge Beauchamp and Teys Captain General and Commander in Chief of all his Majesties Forces in his Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland Master of his Majesties Horse Knight of the most honourable Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councill and as an addition to this may well be annexed the honour God himself hath conferred on him in making him the chief Instrument in restoring his Sacred Majesty and in his Majesty peace plenty and happinesse to the three Kingdomes According to these Honours his Grace accompanied by the Duke of Buckingham and other Personages of high quality took his place in the House of Peers where long may he and while this shall be a Kingdome which he hath with such prudence and fidelity asserted may his Posterity set as everlasting Ornaments and Pillars of that thrice noble Estate Observe we also in the lusture of this Title the glorious Prognostick of some future greatness pointed at by his Majesty This Honour hath lain extinct ever since the reign of H. 4 when it expired in one of the Heirs of the House of York some while before that almost entire Conquest of France under H. 5. aâ—d this Dutchy lies in Normandy the Inheritance of the Kings of England now a Province of the French A Slip of that Royal Line hath now resumed the said Honour whose Martial prowesse Conduct and Heroick Atcheivments incited and raised by a just claim to a local investiture and possession the French honours being more then Titular by which our Ancestors were recompenced for their valour may in a due time restore his Majesty to that fourth Kingdome of France as well as to his 3 other Crowns of Great Brittain and Ireland especially when it shall be called to remembrance how rudely and uncivilly the French for Oliver's sake cast his Majesty out for worse then an Intruder The adapted and competent quarrel which solely challengeth the successeful Sword of this most noble Duke Nor were the triumphs of Ioy though not altogether so magnificent less expresive in forrain Countreys especially at Lisbon in Portugal Triumphs at Lysbon where upon news from Don Francisco de Mello that his Majesty of England was arrived safe to his Pallace of White-hall in quiet and peaceable possession of his Haereditary Kingdoms and welcomed from all parts of his Kingdom by the Nobility Gentry and Commons as well assembled in Parliament as out of it that came flocking to congratulate his arrival and kisse his hand the King of Portugal presently gave order that the same night all the great Guns of the Castle of the Town and of all the Forts and Castles of the Harbour should be fired in token of his joy and contentment which was accordingly performed and at the same time all the Navy-Ships and Merchant-men in the Port shot off all their Cannons All that night the whole City was adorned with Luminaries In every window of the Kings Pallace two great Torches of white Wax the Ambassadors house being set out in the same fashion The next morning his Majestie with the Infanta went forth in solemn manuer attended by all the Nobility and Gentry of the Court and City in a Noble and splendid Equipage to the Church of St. Anthony of the Capucins returned to the same Pallace in the same pomp all the Bells ringing the while This was followed after with the sport of Los Toures the Royal Reales Bull baiting never used but in the like August Solemnities which was to continue nine days The Main-mast in the middle Pallace-yard all the while bearing the Flag of England The next day Don Antonio de Souza who lived many years in London Resident and Acted so fervently for the King of England as that the Parliament sent him home having most happily laid the foundation of the glorious match between his Majesty and our Soverain Lady the Queen then an Infant done other offices to the advantage of our late as well as our present Soverain sent for many of the chief English Merchants and gave them a treatment which cost him five hundred Crowns with the greatest expressions of joy imaginable On the 26th of July the King to honour his Restitution with another glorious memorial thereof General Mountague made Earl of Sandwich confirmed the dignity of the Earldom of Sandwich Viscounty of Hinching-Brook and Barony of St. Neots upon the right Honorable Edward Mâ—untaâ—ue who had been so eminently and happily instrumental towards his reduction and had manifested his Allegiance to the King before there were any hopes visible but what were reposed in this
his Archpiscopal seat being translated to Canterbury The solemnization whereof was performed in Hen. 7â— Chappel where and in that Cathedral many more right Reverend Fathers of the Church were afterwards consecrated as Bishops to the establishment of the Kingdom in Peace and Unity Monsieur Philip Frier a German in the quality of an Extraordinary Envoy to the King from the Duke of Curland had audience on the 20 of September at White-hall An Extraordinary Envoy from the Duke of Curland with more then usuall Ceremonies his Highness the Duke of York being present with many other of his Majesties cheif Officers and other noble persons who gave attendance on the King His Commission was received and a gracious answer returned by the King who alwayes had expressed as alwayes he had received from the said Duke real Testimonies of his affection For this Duke though as remote as Poland bordering between that Kingdome and Muscovia had supplied his late Majesty with mony shipping and Arms in our late disloyal and uncivil wars Towards the end of September Her Highness the Princess Royal of Aurange arrived in England to compleat her joyes in the fruition of her Brothers Company The Princess of Aurange arrives in England Septem 23. now established in his Throne as soon as the King had notice that she was come up within the River of Thames having endured a storm at Sea which portended no good to her He went with his Royal Brother the Duke of York to meet her brought her Highness up in his Barge the Guns from the Ships all along their passage saluting her till the Barge came to White-hall where her Highness was received with joyfull acclamations which at night were converted into Bells and Bonfires But they proved funeral Fires and instead of enjoying her Brother she was passed to a greater felicity the Company of her dear and blessed Father near whose place of Martyrdome she deposited her mortality by her brother lies enterred with a private funeral in King Hen. 7th Chappell at Westminster There was indeed as much Honour in that privacy as there was vain and profane solemnity in the guegaw Exequies of Oliver which wanted of their due Grandeurs till his Execution In opposition therefore to that rabble medly of a Funeral it will not be extravagant to set down here the compact yet Illustrious manner of this Princesses to shew this difference betwixt Princes and Ring-leaders of the Rout. On Saturday December the 26. but 5 days after her decease the cheifest of the Nobility and Gentry met together in the House of Peers to attend the Royal corps of the Princess which was brought about 9 a clock at night from Sommerset-house thither from whence they proceeded with the Funeral through a lane of Guards of the Duke of Albemarle's Regiment of foot First went several Gentlemen and Knights next the servants of his Highness the Duke of York then-then the servants of the Queen after whom came his Majesties servants next those of the deceased Lady then 2 Heralds before James Marquess now Duke of Ormâ—nd Lord Steward of his Majesties houshold Edward Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of the same after whom went Edward Lord. Hide Lord Chancellor of England with the purse and mace born before him after whom came another Herauld with a Coronet upon black velvet and then the Royal Corps carried by her own servants the Pall being supported by 6 Earls and the Canopy carried over it by several Baronets His Highness the Duke of York as principal mourner followed the Corps with a Herald before him divers persons of quality bearing his Train In this order they came to Henry the 7ths Chappel where she was interred in a Vault particularly set apart for the Royal Line This Princess and the Duke of Gloucesterc who preceded her to blisse needed no Effigies to represent them to our Eyes being like Vertue not to be pictur'd and can have no resemblances but in the minde where with immortality they have placed their monuments to dure and last with aeternity it selfe Reader pardon this obsequious digression This was a great allay to the contentation the King had newly received by the arrival of his Mother the Queen with his other Illustrious sister the princess Henrietta when the whol Royal family like a bright censtellation made the court Alba Aula vaild with cypress those white robes of his mercy which he had lately shewed to his Rebel subjects in his Act of Oblivion Indemnity and sabl'd the Rubrick of that Festivall of his Nativity May the 29 which by the General suffrage and applause of the Kingdome was consecrated and set apart to the memory of our temporall Redemption and restitution on that day Anno Dom. 1660. Lo He that could save and redeem the innocent the guilty could did preserve multitudes from the stroake of death which they had incurred by their revolt could an enliven us allby the Anniversary of his Nativity must be so far subject to Fate as to have a sad Subject of its power in his own Royal Family beyond his Controll and arbitrement But stil the glory of his parentation to his Martyrd Father is not in the least overcast The radiancy of his Justice the cheife Gem ' of his Crown was most resplendent for to satisfy that duty he owed his Royal Father and the universal demand of his people for justice against those horrid Regicides soon after he had extended his Grace and favour to others notoriously yet lesse peccant then they he gave order for their Araignment and Tryal which was held at the Sessions house in the Old-Baily in October 1660. In the compasse of which moneth ten of those wretches viz. Mai. Gen. Harrison John Carew John Cook the Solicitor and Hugh Peters the Agitator Thomas Scott the Secretary Gregory Clement Adrian Seroop and John Jones were hang'd drawn and quartered at the rail'd place in Charing Cross with their faces set towards the broad place against Whitehall where that execrable murther against the King by their designment was perpetrated and at Tyburn two others Col. Francis Hacker who had the guard of the King at his death and Col. Daniel Axtel who guarded the Court at his Tryal Sixteen more for that bloody crime were condemned but out of some respect to his Majesties Proclamation which was favourably wrested to a reprieve upon which they submitted and rendred themselves they were remitted to the Tower where they still remain under the quick sense of guilt and deserved punishment Heaven was well pleased but not appeased with this victim and therefore provided it selfe of a more competent Sacrifice so signally did it contribute to the glory of this most just and most pious Action For when with Cain some of those murderers wandering as fugitives abroad thought to escape divine vengeance it suddenly surprized and overtook them three of them Miles Corbet Col. Iohn Okey and Col. Iohn Barkstead being taken at Delf and transmitted
day his Hopes advanced by the division of the Parliament and Army he presently posted away for St. Jean de Luz The King so Saint Jean de Luz on the Confines of Sp. in and France where the two great Ministers of France and Spain were met in Treaty of Peace and Marriage betwixâ— both Crownes Here he was received by Don Lewis de Haro the Spanish Favourie with all possible open demonstration of dutiful Respect and proffer of taking his Concern into that Treaty on his Masters part very observable also was that Obeysarce which the Don made to his Majesty at his coming to his Appartiments upon his knees in the Mire so sagacious was the Spaniard in finding out where the Wind blew The like private Assurances and secret Visits his Majesty received from Cardinal Mazarine while the Rumps Ambassadour Lockhart was transcting for his Misters at that place But the French cunningly reâ—porized no way affecting our Peace and Settlement in that critical juncture of the Kings Restitution But however the Cardinal reserved himself Returns back the French Courtat his Majesties Return from that Conference did him the publick honours due to so great a Prince more especially he was with all Mâ—gnificence treated by his Unk'e the Duke of Orleans who in the worst of his times had manifested abundance of Respect and Affection both to his Person and Service He was visred also and complemented on the hopes of his Affairs in England by many of the Peers of France the Dukes of Lorrain and Guise and other Grandees His re-assumption to his Kingdoms growing every day more visible as appeared by the sudden Observance and Reverence of his person by all sorts of people though it drew all his good Subjects and some Indifferents too as well as Forreigners eyes upon him yet it no way awakened his divided and quarrelling Rebels out of that stupidity into which the Magical Charms of Soveraignty had cast them so that great and insensible progress was made in his Majesties return every remove of his Court for it was now grown to that repure as it was nearer England was so much nearer his Throne With great and universal acclamations he passes thus out of France Comes to Brusselss and came to Brussels again where at his arrival he had intelligence of those irreconcileable Feuds and Animosities which were arisen betwixt the Usurpers and that now the Renowned General Monk had opportunely and with the expected advantage put himself into the Quarrel and set up another moderate Party between the two Antagonists while having felt the Pulse of the Kingdom and tampered with the perplexed Interest of the Parliament and Army he in an instant crushed and suppressed both reseating the Secluded Members who were forcibly excluded in 1648 before the subversion of the Government The Felicity of this Hero's Atchievements doth very justly challenge a great share of these Magnificences General Monk appears in the rupture of Parliam Army not to silence his Illustrious Extraction from the Royal Lire which adaquared him to his Enterprize that would have become none but a Princely Descendant The Crown had been taken off by rude mean and base hands it exacted therefore a Noble and Princely Arm to set it on and assert it Next if we consider the peculiar and singular Honour of his Undertaking and Triumph not a drop of Bloud spilt in the whole manage of it when the desperate guilt of his Majesties enemies threatned a more furious bloudy period than was its miserable continuance So much are the Trophies of a Loyal Submission to be preferred to the Spoyles of a debellated Rebellion This wonderful innocent Peace was next consirmed by the same men who at the first overthrew it The secluded Members contribute to his Restitution the united Remains of the Long Parliament Their sollicitous expedite endeavours towards the reduction of his Majesty proceeded with as much speed as his Majesty could wish who had searce so much leisure of those happy Minutes free from the trouble of Expresses and Advisoes which might indulge him the Contemplation of his Prosperity But the main Additament of Honour to his Majesties plenary Restitution was reserved for more untainted persons whose hands and hearts were free from those sanguine pollutions of the Land Providence so ordering that none should put his hand to that Plough who had looked back to the Profits and Advantages of Anarchy and Usurpation By this means all Articling Conditions and Limitations were avoyded and his Majesties Soveraignty from the minute of his Recognition left free and inviolate This Absoluteness infinitely contributed to his Glory not so much in point of Greatness as of his Mercy which being so voluntarily and extensively offered to all persons referring his Justice to the Parliament did not only conciliate his peoples Affection but so heighten them that he became their only desire and as another Titus Delitia Gentis Britanâ—ica so that this Glory was founded upon the surest Basis and was real and solid and as it was well observed at his entrance into London dispensed with or rather refused the Helps of Art and Pageantry The King was yet at Brussels where the Marquoss Caracena Governour for the King of Spain used the same Grandeurs of Honour to him as are redevable to Soveraign Princes but in a more sincere and opener way than is usual with the Spaniard Much Discourse there was in England that his Majesty would have been stopped in those Provinces by the Rebel-Phanaticks this arose from his Majesties frequent Journeys to Antwerp and back to Brussels as if that were his utmost limit but nothing was so far distanced from the honourable demeanour of that Governour and Court who with all imaginable civilities humbly took their leaves the chief Persons of the Nobility attending on him as far as his Majesty would suffer them in his way which required a greater privacy than their pressing respects would admit Many Considerations obliged him to depart the Territories under the obedience of the King of Spain in this Conjuncture of Affairs The King departs out of Flanders to Breda but the sole convenience which he had at Breda to receive at all times Posts from England which passed and repassed every day and hour thereby the better accommodating and expediting his more solemn return into England invited him to transfer his Court into Holland for the little remainder of time he had to continue abroad On the 4th of April therefore our stile he arrived at Breda was the same day complemented by Mounsieur Snel the chiefest and ancientest Burge-Master in the name of the Magistrate who would likewise have obliged the Town to make a solemn Entrance to his Majesty but the Princess Royal hindred it for most considerable Reasons On the Seventh of the same Moneth the Lord Viscount Mordant newly then created to that Dignity arrived there with full assurances that the Members who were then elected to
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