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england_n	english_a	king_n	scot_n	6,292	5	9.4575	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18475	A true discourse of all the royal passages, tryumphs and ceremonies, obserued at the contract and mariage of the high and mighty Charles, King of Great Britaine, and the most excellentest of ladies, the Lady Henrietta Maria of Burbon, sister to the most Christian King of France Together with her iourney from Paris to Bulloigne, and thence vnto Douer in England, where the King met her, and the manner of their enterview. As also the tryumphant solemnities which passed in their iournies from Douer to the citie of London, and so to Whitehall, &c.		1625 (1625)	STC 5030; ESTC S111856	16,502	55

of old rusty custome or some other knot which my weake braine is not able to vntie I know not but most assured it is that neither the Portereeue nor any of his brethren gaue the King or Queene any entertainment or tender of seruice vntill their highnesses were come into the very midst and as it were the very Center of their Towne and there they made tender of their seruice and obedience which was receiued withall Royall alacrity both of the King and Queene and so they passed away in state towards the Bridge where the Barges of State attended their approach here they dismounted and all the Nobilitie attending on each side of the Bridge with a world of Ladies and Gentlewomen here they tooke sollemne leaue of the King and Queene and kissed both their hands but such was the excellent disposition of the Queene and so royall and bountifull her grace and fauour that to euery Ladie that came to kisse her hand shee bowed her selfe downe and kissed their cheekes Assoone as the King and Queene were entred into their Barge of Estate and had a little put off from the shoare the Blocke-house which standeth vpon the Kentish shoare first let flie all her Ordnance and sent foorth a peale that the Rockes and Chaulkie Cliffes resounded againe which was no sooner finished but immediately the Blocke-house which standeth on the Essex shore made answere with the like Musicke and discharged all her Ordnance so that the smoake mixing and meeting together made a cloud which enterposed betwixt the earth and the Sunnes brightnesse making an Euening at Noone day After the Blocke-houses had thus discharged all their Ordnance then as the King and Queene passed along the Shippes which lay and anchored in the way discharged their vollies distinctly after one another Insomuch that the vollie was hardly euer found to cease for the passage of twelue or fifteene miles together And the neerer the King and Queene came to the Citie of London the greater and greater still the volley increased Lastly a little before the King and Queene had shot the Bridge the Tower of London let flie her Ordnance which did so thunder and rattle in the aire that nothing could be heard for the terror of the noice The throng of spectatours was so great that about two hundred being in a shippe that lay almost drie and leaning against the Wharfe they with their waight and motion ouerthrew the Shippe into the Thames And by the way during all this long passage both the King and Queene stood publiquely in the open Barge and not onely discouered themselues to euery honest and chearefull beholder but also with all Royall affabilitie and grace distributed their fauours to all those which came to admire them so that there was not a liuing soule which did not in heart conclude and say with the Poet Quā bene cōueniunt et in vna sede morātur Maiestas Amor. And thus at last the King and Queene came to the Kings Palace at White-hall where they were receiued with all the acclamations of ioy that might bee and where I am now inforced to leaue them with this true and euer heartie prayer that it would please God to blesse them together with daies of the longest extent that euer made happie any mortall creature to send them faire and flourishing Issue and when they shall of necessitie be translated from this life that they may raigne with God in glory euerlasting Amen ¶ The Feasting of the Duke de Cheueres and the two French Embassadours with the declaration of the Mariage of the King and Queene THe Tuesday being the 21. of Iune the great Banquetting-house of Whitehall was prepared and hung very richly with hangings of Silke and Gold where at the one end of the house was placed the Chaires and Cloth of State at the other end a sumptuous Cupbord of Plate in manner of an arch in the middle of the house was placed one other Cupbord not so great but of a farre greater value being Basons Ewers Cups Salts c. all set with Iewels and of Christall at the root Then about eleuen of the clock the the King leading his Queen accompanied with the Duke de Cheueres and his Dutches with the two French Embassadors with all the rest of the Nobilitie and Ladies as well English as Scots and French in most glorious attires and brauery and such like as neuer before hath been seene in England so that the Iewels of the Duke de Cheueres were reported to be worth an hundred thousand pounds The King being placed on this manner with the Queene on his right hand the Articles of the Marriage were read there in publique assembly and approued by the King and the French Embassadors After the which blessing being giuen by a Bishop the King kissed the Queene in presence of the whole people After which they retired to the Priuie Chamber while the dinner was prepared which was brought vp after warning giuen with Drummes and Trumpets whereunto the King with the Duke and the two Embassadors came the King sate in his Chaire of Estate the Duke at the end of the Table with one Embassadour at either hand where in the time of Dinner the King dranke three Healthes to the Embassadors which was proclaimed all ouer the house one to the King of France one to the Queene and one other to the Queene Mother Thus being feasted with three great seruices and musicke playing all the while they ended the Banquet at foure of the clocke and retired backe to the Priuie Chamber where they continued one houre and after the King and the Queene the Duke and the rest of the Nobilitie Lords and Ladies returned where they had dancing for the space of one houre which being done the Duke returned to Somerset-house in great State his Coach hauing eight horses Coach-harnesse and all being embrodered together with three or foure score of Coaches of the richest that euer was seene in England accompanied with diuers of the Nobilitie FINIS