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
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
Morning But before they went out of the Hall of the Castle the Burgo-masters presented themselves and M. Snel in the name of the rest delivered this Oration Sir The Magistrate and Council of â—en of this Town of Breda The Speech of the Burgo-master of Breda present themselves again with a most low reverence before your Majesty to render you most humble Thanks for the honour it hath pleased you to do the Town by the residence you have made here and to bring you a last proof of the perfect Joy which the wonderful success of your Majesty hath caused as it is the powerful hand and infinite Providence of God which hath drawn your Majesty out of a Gulf of dangers and hath conducted you through a Desart of Afflictions even unto the Entrance of the Greatness which your Predecessors have gained to their Royal posterity This is the Subject of our Joy Sir when we know that after the success of 〈◊〉 Battels Victories gained at the price of the blood of Subjects may content the Ambition of a Prince transported yet your Majesty is of that debonnair disposition and so good a Prince your thoughts so generous and magnanimous as to prefer an innocent Triumph before all other advantages of the world We praise with all our hearts that great God who hath begun this great Work in the Person of your Majesty and pray him ardently that it will please him to hear the Devotions which we shall continue to make uncessantly for the prosperity of the voyage and Reign of your Majesty The King answered That he thanked the Magistrate Council for the Affection they expressed to him and should endeavour to acknowledge it on all Occasions that should be presented unto him Whereupon the Burgomaster having taken the liberty to reply That since his Majesty had the Goodness to accept the Affection and Zeal 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 by Treaty with the Deputies of Scotland some years since that he would be pleased to honour the Town of Breda and its Inhabitants with all the Favour which the Laws of his Kingdom would permit to grant them The King answered That he rememembred it very well and that he was obliged to do so much for a Town where he had received such acceptable News and which had rendred him so many testimonies of Respect and Affection The King took Coach after this Audience and betwixt eleven and twelve of the Clock came to Marvaert His Majesty embarques He found some Squadrons of Horse there in Battalia and the Deputies of the States 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 After some Addresses and short Salutations he proceeded to the end of the Causey or Dike where they had made a Bridge from the Dike to the Pinnace to facilitate his Embarquement For that splendid Occasion they as formerly they used to do for a Coach to conduct Ambassadors requested the Pinnace or Barge of the Princess Dowager of Aurange which should represent that of the States But the King having viewed it and some others chose one which by his former use of it as delighting much to pass by water he knew commodious and because that of the Princesses was not great enough to lodge the King and the Princess Royal of Orange who would pass the night by the King her Brother with persons necessary for their Service That Barge was formerly made for the Prince of Aurange and was the biggest of the Fleet which consisted of thirty great Barges besides innumerable other Barks called Yachts a kind of little Frigots The Vessel the King was in so pleased him that he said in Discourse to the Deputies of Holland that he would cause one to be made in the same manner as soon as he should arrive into England to serve him upon the Thames above Bridge This gave occasion to one of the Deputies Mr. de Vlooswick of Amsterdam to tell 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 The King neither accepted nor declined so that Order was privately sent to Amsterdam to make it ready and gild it with curious Paintings inside and outside which at his going away was presented to him and is now the Brigandine his Majesty useth on the River The Distribution of the other Yachts to the Lords and their Retinue The Order of the Fleet. was transferred upon the King no person of the Dutch being able without some disgust to appoint them The Duke of York Admiral The King therefore in this occasion ordained that the Duke of York should perform the Office of Admiral in consigning the Yachts under his Authority and in his Presence so that his Royal Highness gave himself the Yacht of the Princess Dowager of Orange The Duke of Glocester had that of the States of Holland the Princess Royal to attend her one of the Yachts of the Council of State The Deputies of Holland were shipt in Mr. Beverweerts Yacht where Don Estevande Gamarra who went to meet the King at Moordike not in quality of Ambassador of Spain but as a particular servant of his Majesty the Rhinegrave the Lord Crofts and other English Lords The Chancellor of England and S. Edw. Nicholas embarqued themselves in a little Pinnace call'd the Maid of Zeland the Marquess of Ormond in another the Marquess of Worcester in the Postillion of Zeland the Lord St. John and Bellasis in that of the Admiral Lieut. of Holland St. Thomas Clargy's with his Attendants in the Yacht of the Town of Dort the Lord Gerard and other Noblemen in the Governours of Sluce The Prince of Oranges Yacht was reserved for the Chamber and Wardrobe of the Princess Royal. Every of these Vessels 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 Chimnies were made for the Kitchin and Ovens for the Pastery and Provision of so prodigious a quantity of all sorts of Meats of Fowl of Sweet-meats of Wine that all the Tables were plentifully served therewith and in such great abundance that the English Stewards that are known to be rather superfluous than otherwise being accustomed to large provisions were astonied thereat and confessed that they could not comprehend how they could make ready in Boats which were so tossed twenty or five and twenty great Dishes for every Table I insist the longer upon this Naval Story because never any such thing happened before in Holland there is a Character of that Nation that they dwell upon the Waters and certainly it was verified here such a multitude
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
Esquires and a Page following the Heraulds going before them with their Coats not put on but onely hangîng loose on their Arms to King Hen. 7th Chappel where after the wonted reverence performed they took their seats Prayer being done they returned to the Painted Chamber and the other Rooms adjoyning to repose themselves till the supper of two hundred dishes at his Majestyes charge was brought to the Court of Requests where they placed themselves according to their Seniority on the Tables by the wall side their Esquires and Pages wayting on them on the other Supper ended the Lord Cornwallis and Sir Charles Berckly the Tresurer and Comptroler of his Majesties Houshold gave them His welcome and then conducted them to the painted Chamber and to the Lords House adjoining and some other near rooms where their bathing vessells and beds which were Pallets with Canopies were prepared being covered with red say There after they had bathed more or lesse as each of them found convenient they remained all night early in the morning were bade good morow by his Majesties musick Then arising and apparelling themselves in a Cordeliers habbit being a long russet gowne with wide sleeves and hood tied close about the middle with a cordon of Ash-coloured and russet silke reaching down almost to the knees and a white Napkin or handkercheife hanging thereat they proceeded to H. 7th Chappel in the same order as the night before doing the same reverence and heard Divine Service and took the usual Oath before the said Lords Commissioners which was read to them by Sir Edward Walker Principal King of Arms in these words Right dear Brethren GReat worship be this Order to every of you You shall honour God above all things You shall be stedfast in the faith of Christ and the same maintain and defend to your power You shall love your Soveraigne above all earthly things and for your Soveraigns right live and dye You shall defend Maidens Widdows and Orphans in their right You shall suffer no extortion as far as you may nor sit in any place where wrong judgement shall be given to your knowledge And of as great Honour be this Order to you as ever it was to any of your Progenitors or others This done they returned in the same order they came to the painted Chamber and put on the habit of the order which was a Mantle and Surcoat of red Taffata lined and edged with white Sarcenet and thereto fastned two long strings of white silk with buttons and tossels of red silk and gold and a pair of white gloves tyed to them a white Hat and white Feather in this garb they dined in the painted Chamber thence girded with a sword the Pummel and cross Hilt whereof were guilt the Scabbard of white leather and Belt of the same with gilt spurs carried by their Pages they marched on horseback by seniority to White-hall with the Heraulds before them from the old Pulace round about the New and so through King-street going round about the place where Charing-Cross stood and then to Whitehall where they alighted and after they had gone about the first Court they were conducted up by the Heraulds to the banqueting House where his Majesty sate under a cloath of State to receive them They were brought up by six and six each between his two Esquires with his Page carrying his Sword before him In their approaches towards his Majestie they made three obeysances and each Knight being presented by his two Esquires upon their knees to the King the Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold receiving the Knights sword from the Pages and delivering it to the King who with the sword of State ready drawn conferred upon them their respective Knighthoods by laying the sword upon their shoulders and so put the presented sword upon the Knights neck in such sort that it might hang on his left side and then the said Scabbard with the order hanging in it Which done the Knight made his obeysance of gratitude to his Majesty and falling back the rest were brought up and Knighted in like manner After this they went down into his Majesties Chappel and there heard Divine Service with the Organ and Anthems and then went up six at a time to the Altar and offered up their swords where Gilbert Lord Bishop of London Dean of his Majesties Royal Chappel received them and laid them upon the Altar and afterwards restored them with this admonition By the Oath which you have taken this day I exhort and admonish you to use these swords to the Glory of God and defence of the Gospel to the maintainance of your Soveraigns right and honour and to the upholding of Equity and Justice to your power So help you God This done they returned from the Chappel where the Kings Mr. Cook stood with his chopping knife in his hands challenging their Spurs which were severally redeemed with a Noble in money As they past by he said Gentlemen you know what a great Oath you have taken which if you keep it will be great honour to you but if you break it I must hack off your Spurs from your heels When they came into the great Hall the Officers at Arms acquainted them that on Monday following they were to attend his Majestie from the Tower to Whitehall on Horseback in the same Robes wherein they were Knighted and on Tuesday to meet early in the Painted Chamber in their Purple Sattin habits thence to goe before his Majestie to his Coronation at Westminster This Ceremony being over the King to honour this great Solemnity advanced some eminent persons to higher degrees of honour to be as Iewels to that Crown which should be placed on his head they were twelve in number six Earls and six Barons The names of whom are as followeth Edward Lord Hyde of Hendon Lord High Chancellor of England was created Earl of Clarendon Arthur Lord Capel was created Earl of Essex Thomas Lord Brudenell was created Earl of Cardigan Arthur Viscount Valentia in Jreland was created Earl of Anglesey Sir John Greenvile Gentleman of his Majesties Bed-chamber and Groom of the Stool was created Earl of Bath Charles Howard of his Majesties privy Council was created Earl of Carlisle Denzill Hollis Esq was created Lord Hollis of Ifeld Sir Fredrick Cornwallis was created Lord Cornwallis of Eye in Suffolk an ancient Barony Sir George Booth Baronet was created Lord de-La-Mere Sir Horatio Townsend was created Baron of Lyn Regis Sir Anthony Ashly Cooper was created Baron of Winterbourn St. Gyles John Crew was created Lord Crew of Stene The Earls at their Creation had two Earls their supporters their Cap and Coronet carried by one their Sword by another and their Mantle by a third The Lords were likewise supported by 2 Lords their Cap and Mantle in the same manner but no Sword These Peers being thus led up Garter King of Arms attending them to the King upon their several approaches their Patents were presented
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
Mohun Lord Mohun William Botiller Lord Botiller Percy Herbert Lord Powis Edw. Herbert Lord Herbert of Cherbury Francis Seamour Lord Seamour Thomas Bruce Lord Bruce Francis Newport Lord Newport Thomas Leigh Lord Leigh of Stone-Leigh Christopher Hatton Lord Hatton Henry Hastings Lord Loughborough Richard Byron Lord Byron Richard Vaughan Lord Vaughan Charles Smith Lord Carington William Widderington Lord Widderington Humble Ward Lord Ward Thomas Lord Culpepper Isaac Astley Lord Astley Richard Boyle Lord Clifford Iohn Lucas Lord Lucas John Bellasis Lord Bellasis Lewis Watson Lord Rockingham Charles Gerrard Lord Gerrard of Brandon Robert Lord Sutton of Lexington Charles Kirkhoven Lord Wooton Marmaduke Langdale Lord Langdale William Crofts Lord Crofts Iohn Berkley Lord Berkley Denzill Hollis Lord Hollis of Ifeild Frederick Lord Cornwallis George Booth Lord de la Mere. Horatio Townsend Lord Townsend Anthony Ashley Cooper Lord Ashley Iohn Crew Lord Crew By the inadvertency of the Press we must be beholding to a Schâ—lastical Distinction and place these Reverend Fathers and Prelates according to the order of time not of dignity as they they should have preceded the Barons the time most duly to be computed from the Restitution when the Church rose again to its pristine splendor by an Act of Parliament restoring this Sacred Function to all their Honors and in them the Kingdoms making a main part of these magnificences A DOctor Will. Juxon Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate and Metropolitan of all England was consecrated Bishop of London 1633. translated from London to Canterbury 1660. A. Dr. Accepted Frewen Lord Archbishop of York and Metropolitan of England was consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield 1644. translated from thence to York 1660. Y. Dr. Gilbert Shelden Lord Bishop of London was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. John Ceuzens Lord Bishop of Durham was consecrated December 2. 1660. Y. A. Dr. Brian Duppa Lord Bishop of Winchester This See is now possessed by Dr. Morley translated hither from the See of Worcester Prelate of the Garter and Bishop Lord Almoner he was consecrated Bishop of Chichester 1638. from thence translated to Sarum 1640. and from thence to Winchester 1660. and deceased 1662. A. Dr. William Peirs Lord Bishop of Bathe and Wells consecrated 1632. A. Dr. Matthew Wren Lord Bishop of Ely was consecrated Bishop of Hereford 1634. thence translated to Norwich 1635. from thence to Ely 1638. A. Dr. Robert Skinner Lord Bishop of Oxon consecrated Bishop of Bristol 1636. thence translated to Oxon 1640. A. Dr. Wâ—ll Roberts Lord Bishop of Bangor and Sub-Almoner was consecrated 1637. A. Dr. John Warner Lord Bishop of Rochester was consecrated 1637. A. Dr. Henry King Lord Bishop of Chichester was consecrated 1641. Dr. Humphry Henchman Lord Bishop of Salisbury was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. George Morley Lord Bishop of Worcester was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. Robert Sanderson Lord Bishop of Lincoln was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. George Griffith Lord Bishop of St. Asaph was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. William Lucy Lord Bishop of St. Davids was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Benjamin Laney Lord Bishop of Peterborough was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Hugh Lloyd Lord Bishop of Landaff was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Richard Stern Lord Bishop of Carlisle was consecrated December 2. 1660 Y. Dr. Brian Walton Lord Bishop of Chester was consecrated December 2. 1660. Y. This See was possest by Dr. Fernâ— who dying also Dr. George Hall is now Lord Bishop thereof Dr. John Gauden who dying Dr. Sithe Ward is now Lord Bishop thereof Lord Bishop of Exeter was consecrated Decemb. 21 1660. Dr. Gilbert Irenside Lord Bishop of Bristol was consecrated January 13. 1660. Dr. Edward Reynolds Lord Bishop of Norwich was consecrated Jan. 13. 1660. Dr. William Nicholson Lord Bishop of Glocester was consecrated Jan. 13. 1660. Dr. Nicholas Monck Lord Bishop of Hereford was consecrated Jan. 13. 1660. who dying Dr. Herbert Crofts was consecrated in this place Dr. John Hacket Lord Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield A. Notes the Antient Bishops Y. the Diocesses in the Province of York all the rest are in the Province of Canterbury The Names of the Judges EDward Earl of Clarendon Lord High Chancellor of England Sir Robert Foster Knight Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Sir Harbottle Grimston Baronet Mr. of the Rolls Sir Orlando Bridgman Knight and Baronet Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Matt. Hale Chief Baron of the Exchequer Justices of the Kings Bench Sir Tho. Mallet Knight Sir Tho. Twisden Knight Sir Wadham Windham Kt. Justices of the Common-Pleas Sir Robert Hide Knight Sir Thomas Terril Knight Sir Samuel Brown Knight Barons of the Exchequer Sir Edward Atkins Kt. Sir Christopher Turner Kt. Sir Jeffrey Palmer Kt. Attorny General the Kings Serjeants at Law Sir John Glynne Kt. Sir William Wilde Kt. The two Principal Secretaries of State persons eminent for their faithful and industrious loyalty are Sir Edward Nicholas of the same place to His late Majesty and Sir William Morrice the onely Confident the Renowned General the Duke of Albemaâ—le used in those blessed Counsels towards the Restitution of the King and Kingdom THE Names of the BARONETS made by Letters Patents since His Majesties most happy Restauration Anno 1660. Anno Duodecimo Caroli Regis Secundi With the times of their several Creations SIr Orlando Bridgeman Knight was created Baronet the seventh day of June in the Twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second in the year of our Lord 1660. Sir Jeffery Palmer Knight was created Baronet the seventh of June Anno predict Sir Henâ—age Finch of Raveaston alias Rauston in the County of Bucks Knight was created Baronet the seventh of June Anno predict Sir John Langham of Cottesbrook in the County of Northampton Knight created Baronet the seventh day of June Anno predict Sir Robert Abdy of Albins in the County of Essex Knight created Baronet the ninth of June Vâ—supra Thomas Draper of Suminghill-Park in the County of Berks Esquire was created Baronet the ninth of June Anno pred Humphry Winch of Hamnes in the County of Bedford Esquire created Baronet the 9 of June Anno pred Jonathan Rease Esquire created Baronet the ninth of June Anno pred Henry Wright of Dagenham in the County of Essex Esquire created Baronet the 9 of June Anno pred Hugh Spâ—ke of Haselbury in the County of Wilts Esquire created Baronet the 12th of June Anno pred Nicholas Gould of the City of London Esquire created Baronet the 13th of June Anno predict Sir Thomas Adams of the City of London Knight created Baronet the 13th of June Anno predict Richard Atkins of Clapham in the County of Surrey Esquire created Baronet the 13th of June Anno predict Thomas Allen of the City of London Esquire created Baronet the 14th of June Anno predict Henry North of Mildnal in the County of Suffolk Esquire was created Baronet the fifteenth of June Anno
the Hague Folio 50 Danish Ambassador Speech and Audience at the Hague Folio 54 Deputies of the Province of Holland complement His Majesty Folio 70 His Higness the Duke of York swears the Mariners of the Fleet Folio 72 Sir George Downing presents himself to His Majesty Folio 76 Duke of York goes aboard the English Fleet Folio 87 Death of the Duke of Glocester Folio 168 Duke of York attends Her Majesties arrival on the English Coast Folio 249 E. Estâ—tes of Holland dine privately with His Majesty 67. Complement the English Commissioners Folio 68 Edenburghs triumphs for His Majesties Restauration Folio 151 Extraordinary Envoy from the Duke of Curland Folio 169 Earls Created Folio 191 Envoy from the Emperor of Rssiuia comes to complement His Majesty Folio 255 F. French Ambassador had Audience at the Hague Folio 54 Feasts of the Estates of Holland Folio 81 G. Sir Harbotle Grimstons Speech to Sir John Greenvil which brought His Majesties Letters Folio 13 H. Doctor Hardy Preacheth before His Majesty at the Hague Folio 77 Honors conferred by His Majesty Folio 217 I. Joy at Lisbon when the Infanta of Portugal was saluted Queen of England Folio â—245 K. Knights of the Bath Folio 189 Knights of the Garter Folio 215 L. Londons great joy upon the Parliaments receipt of His Majesties Letters 14. It s unexpressible joy at Proclaiming His Majesty 31. It s reception of His Majesty Folio 124 Lords of Zealand Speech to His Majesty Folio 84 Sir Charles Lâ—cas and Sir George Lisle's Funeral at Colchester Folio 180 Lords created Folio 196 Londons noble entertainment of their Sacred Majesties in their passage from Hampton-Court Folio 257 M. His Majesty goes to St. Jean de Luz 3. Returns to Brussels 4. Comes to Breda 7. Sends Letters and Declarations to Parliament Army and City 9. Visited by divers Princes 14. Receives information of the Votes in Parliament 14. Invited into Holland 38. His Majesties Royal entertainment in Holland 38. Arrives at the Hague 47. His Majesties entertainment at the Hague 61 65. His Majesty gives Audience to the English Commissioners 62. His Majesty toucheth for the Evil 79. His Majesties sitting with the States General described 90. His Majesty comes to Scheveling 106. Takes shipping 110. Lands at Dover 121. Comes to His Royal Palace of Whithall 124. His Majesties passage to His Coronation 197. Manner of His Majesties Coronation 198. His Majesties resolutions to marry with the Infanta of Portugal 243. Goes to meet the Queens Majesty at Portsmouth 251. Is married at Portsmouth 252. Comes to Winchester Farnham Windsor and Hampton-Court Folio 253 Her Majesty imbarks for England 247. Lands at Portsmouth 250. Is married 251. Comes to Hampton-Court 253. Receives the Addresses of the Nobility Lord Major of London and others Folio 255 Marriage of the Infanta with the King of France Folio 142 General Moncks first appearance in Order to His Majesties Restauration 5. Receives His Majesty on shore 121. Created Duke of Albemarle Folio 159 Lord Mordant brings glad tidings to His Majesty Folio 8 Sir Samuel Moreland presents himself to His Majesty Folio 20 General Montague arrives with the Fleet to attend His Majesty 57. Made Earl of Sandwich Folio 162 Earl of Montross his Funeral Folio 176 N. Names of His Majesties most Honorable Privy Council Folio 211 Names of the Judges Folio 209 P. Proclamation for His Sacred Majesty Folio 28 Prince Maurice of Nassau complements His Majesty Folio 95 Prince of Lignes arrival in England Folio 167 Princess of Orange arrival in England Folio 169 Death and Funervl Folio 170 Princess Henrietta arrives in England Folio 172 Q. Queen Mother arrives in England Folio 172 R. The Resident for the Emperor complements His Majesty Folio 63 S. A glorious Star at His Majesties Birth Folio 2 Secluded Members contribute to His Majesties Restauration Folio 6 States of Holland send Deputies to His Majesty 15. As also the States General 16. They complement His Majesty Folio 95 Spanish Ambassador Treats His Majesty Folio 74 Statue of Mis Majesty seâ— up in the Royal Exchange Folio 165 T. Triumphs at Lisbon Folio 161 Traitors Araignment and Execution Folio 173 174 W. Wonderful things in Ireland Folio 164 THE MAGNIFICENCIES and GLORIOUS TRIUMPHS OF K. CHARLES the II. THE Grandeurs of this Monarch which we shall here narrate not undertaking the History of his Life too rudely hitherto attempted are so far beyond all what Fiction and Invention can offer in Ronsantick Hyperboles Magu in speciem adornal is verbis quam ut sentire videamur as they come near a Miracle which will require Language as strange as it self or else to be expressed in the plainest and most facile words that can convey and fit it to our Capacities To write it in a Stile like it self or to represent it any way in its full Glories no Traict but that of an Angels Plume can serve turn For Heaven was pleased to use a very like curiosity in the very Beginnings and Dawnings of that Splendor which hath now in its almost Meridian overspread the Universe For that the weak admiration of men at his Birth might be aided and assisted to a due veneration of his present and future Greatness then divined by most people a Bright Star appeared at Noon-day and ushered in the Auspicia of his Wonders May 29 1630. which benigne Luminary never wanted those propitious Influences which in the darkest times serened his Condition And such a Remarque of Heaven was never vouchsafed to any Nativity besides that of our Saviour To omit its Tutelage and Defence of him throughout the War covering his head in Battel and conveying him in safety abroad after the general ruine at home nor insist upon his Escape and avoydance of the English Fleet that lay in wait to intercept him in his Voyage for Scotland To take no notice of his Scotch Coronation though as solemn and magnificent as ever was known in that Kingdom to pass by his well-designed Advance into England and his more memorable Escape out of it from Worcester never enough to be admired because these Providences were as the cloud 〈◊〉 concealed and obscured him We will only observe the Pillar of Fire which after it had purified him in the Night of his Humiliation and Affliction at the end of that Darkness revealed him in Glory This Discourse is deduced no further than his Renascency from August 1659 when Sir George Booth's Design was impregnated with his Interest though all along the Usurpation some Appearances there were of its reviving particularly that Noble Attempt of Col. Penruddock c. which in Nine Moneths time computed thence ripened to a Full Deliverance During this Affair in England his Majesty was removed from his Retirement and private Recess at Colen where he had long sojourned the rather for the great Civility of that people to him and who at his departure most nobly treated him to Brussels where he stayed not long but after some dispatches for England where every
nor the numerous resort of the English every day to worship this Sun of the East and pay their Early Devotions to Her It will be more unnecessary to relate those other Romances and Fictions made by the Phanatick Crew at Home that there were a Fleet of Spaniards and Hollanders that lay ready in her way to intercept Her Passage into England To passe over that noble Exploit of our Fleet under the Command of the Earl of Sandwich and Sir John Lawson Vice-Admiral at Algier to the forcing those Pyrates to very honourable Conditions for the English when at the same time the Hollanders had concluded with them upon base and insecure terms of Peace we will only mention the Happy Arrival of that Fleet and the Royal Charles from England with Sir Fanshaw sent to salute the Queen for His Majesty who now impatiently expected Her Arrival as did the whole Nation together with Him just at the same time the Earl of Sandwich now the second time visiting the Queen being appointed to attend her departure and to convey Her into England Now all things were preparing for the Voyage with such a Hurry yet glad intentnesse as if the Empire of the World had been removing into a more commodious Scituation and the Dii Gentiles were transferring their Altars to be present at the Celebration of those Espousals Such the Prayers such the devoted Oraisons and lifted up Hands for the Felicity of Her transportation The multitude placing themselves on the brink of the shore and playing with those blessed Waves in its wanton refluxes with the same Religion as they dipt their hands into Holy water At the same the King her Brother and Mother with his Nobles and the whole Court made as Solemn a procession and Cavalcade from his Palace where the English Gallantry there present assisted till She arrived at the River side the Golden Tagus whose Surface and Bottome were alike precious its Sand and Burden vying with each other where She entred a Stately Brigandine and the Naval Triumphs commenced their Glory Amidst the Volleys and Tire of a Thousand Cannon and an hundred Thousands of Farewell Acclamations on the 13 April 1661 She passed in the said Noble Company and Equipage to go on board the Royal Charles in which the King Her Husband was conveyed before from Holland to His Three Kingdoms and was there welcomed by the Thunder of the whole Fleet then in its pride with Streamers and Pendants flying and their Wast Clothes out to show it in its dreadful Lovelinesse where His Majesty gave Her the innocent resemblance of Joves Courtship to his beloved Semele Towards the Evening after a Princely Collation and Foy and many passionate parting expressions which Nature extorted and wrested from Love now system'd in a Matrimonial Affection to the Person of Her Lord and Husband After those Dividents of Joy and Grief which interchanged the Scene of this Entertainment the whole was summ'd up in loud apprecations that drowned the private and heavy fondnesses of the 3 Princes of a Bon voyage and a Canon from the Admiral gave signal of Her Majesties Resolution to depart when all Hands were set on work to weigh Anchor and let flye their Sails The King and Queen Mother and their Train with sudden Tears which shewed from what fountain they came generous great Spirits cannot force a Drop for any grief whatsoever like the sweet Influence of the Pleyades gave the first happy Omen to the Fleet which it received as They were reimbarquing for Lisbon and returned with the Discharge of all the Cannon and so immediately with a fair Wind and leading Gale began their course being as they past out of the River saluted by all the Block-Houses Forts anâ—â—astles with the imitation of their Thunder That Night and part of the next day the wind and weather was very propitious while Neptuâ—â— and his Goddesse with their Nymphs had paid their Homage to this Soveraign Lady of the Sea That Courtship being ended a râ—de wind came and with an Officious Incivility stopt Her in Her way till he had whistled out an un-welcome Complement It proved a long winded Harangue not was there other way to be rid of its importunity but by diversion laveering which so retarded the Voyage that in a Fortnights time they hardly got into the middle of the Bay of Biscay where the Queens Majesty dispatcht away Mr. Mountague Sir Th. Sands Sir Joseph Douglas on the 26 of April about 7 at Night to give an Account to the King of Her Condition which the untowardlinesse and aversnesse of the Wind had much altered by protracting Her longing desires of meeting the King and also incommodating Her by the tossing and topping of the Sea so that she lay sick for the most part of the Voyage until about the 5 of May with indefatigable working and Skill the whole Fleet reached the Islands of Scilly the furthermost western Dominions of England Her Arrival had bin every day expected a fortnight before which caused the King to send down his only Brother the Duke of York Lord High Admiral to attend on Her upon the Coast and to Complement Her in His name whereupon his Highnesse hasted to Portsmouth and on the 11 of May attended by the Duke of Ormond the Earls of Suffolk and Chesterfield the Lord Berckley and other persons of Quality went aboard the stately Yangh a curious Vessel with which the City of Amsterdam presented the King to coast about the isle of Wight to meet Her Majesty On the same day Sir Joseph Douglas making towards Portsmouth with an Expresse from Her Majesty to the King was met by his Highnesse the Duke of York 5 Leagues off the Isle of Wight who commanded him back with him to the Fleet. On Sunday Morning about 10. a Clock they discovered the Royal James but there was so great a Calm that they could not reach the Royal Charles till 6 at Evening No sooner had the General espied his Highnesse Yaugh but he went out in his Barge to meet him the Royal Banner being all the while vayl'd till he was aboard When his Highnesse came into the Ship the Soldiers gave three several shouts and all the great Guns in the Royal Charles which from that time till the Queens Entrance had been silent proclaimed his Welcome after which the several Ships of the Fleet paid him their Salutes Being conducted to Her Majesties Cabbin he was placed in a Chair on her right hand where after several Expressions of Joy for Her Majesties happy Arrival on the Coasts of England and having presented His Majesties high respects to Her and as exceeding affection for Her his Royal Highnesse took his leave to retire himself to his Yaugh for that Night and the next Morning Sir Joseph Douglas was again dispatched to the King in the illustrious Company of the said Duke of Ormond and Earls and was forced to tide it thence and sometime lay at Anchor and could not reach Portsmouth