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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59354	The triumphs of London performed on Tuesday, Octob. 29, 1695, for the entertainment of the right honourable Sir John Houblon, Kt., Lord Mayor of the city of London, containing a true description of the several pageants, with the speeches spoken on each pageant : all prepared at the proper costs and charges of the worshipful Company of Grocers : to which is added, a new song upon His Majesty's return / by E.S.	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.	1695 (1695)	Wing S2726; ESTC R41718	4,608	16

THE Triumphs of London Performed on Tuesday Octob. 29. 1695. FOR THE Entertainment of the Right Honourable S R. John Houblon K T. LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON CONTAINING A True Description of the Several Pageants with the Speeches Spoken on each PAGEANT All Prepared at the proper Costs and Charges of the WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF GROCERS To which is added A New Song upon His Majesty ' s Return By E. S. Published by Authority LONDON Printed by Jer. Wilkins And are to be Sold by Richard Baldwin at the Oxford-Arms in VVarwick-Lane 1695. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Iohn Houblon Kt LORD MAYOR OF THE City of London MY LORD IN this Dedication to the Right Honourable Sr. John Houblon One of the Lords of the ADMIRALTY Governour of the Royal BANK of England and now the great Lieutenant Royal of this Metropolitan City methinks I am enterd into so spacious a Field with such various attracting Prospects before me as even divide my Veneration The Homage is on all Sides so equally Due that I know not Where to Kneel first For Your Lordship by an Accumulation of Glories has perhaps so far out-run the Common Race of Honour that in Your Accession to the CHAIR as considerable a Triumph as it gives you instead of being Your Highest Ascendant of Renown is only an Addition to Your more ample Pile of Trophies whilst You have so far out-stript the Candidates of Dignity before You that You bring the Right Honourable to Your Praetorian Seate not come to find it there Not that this publick Address I now make Your Lordship is intended for any Piece either of Panegyrick or Herauldry to Illustrate or Blazon the High Promotions to which Your Lordship has so eminently Arrived No my Lord I have a fairer Theme a Speculation above them For 't is not Preferment Titles or State 'T is the Virtue the Merit Principle and Integrity that both mount and fill the Seats of Power and Trust are the embodyed Mass when the others are but the meer Drapery of HONOUR 'T is in this last Capacity not the Pomp and Splendour of Advancement but Your Lordships Double Qualifications of Fidelity and Ability to Execute in those Exalted Posts that render You the Subject of an Universal Applause And though my present Address is chiefly to Congratulate Your Lordship's Inauguration into this August Magistracy in which both the Pride and Gratitude of the Honourable Company of GROCERS make their profoundest Tenders of Respect to so Conspicuous a Member and Ornament to their Society Yet all this is but an inconsiderable Tribute compared to what the World has yet to Pay You For Your Lordship has taken Care for a more lasting Triumph so vast is the Difference betwixt Glittering for a Day and Shining for a Life I should dwell longer upon this inviting Theme were I not not sensible that to all Your other Accomplishments Your Lordship has that innate Modesty that You rather study to deserve Encomiums than to hear them which only Consideration shall check my Pen and make me the sooner hasten to Subscribe my self MY LORD Your Lordships Most Obedient and Dutiful Servant E. SETTLE To the Worshipful Company of GROCERS GENTLEMEN IT is now but Three Years since I had this Honour before and If I am come so soon again to tender my new Service to my Worthy old Masters I have only this to say That You live in a Warm Sun and a Fruitful Soyl where WORTH and VIRTUE spring up apace amongst You when you have so often the Pride of Filling the CHAIR from a Member of the Honourable COMPANY of GROCERS Your Griffons are truly a Bird of Wing when they Fly so High and Mount so Fast But indeed it is less to be wondred that Growing HONOUR should Root so Strong and Flourish so Eminently with You when the very ROYAL-FOUNTAIN of it makes One amongst You whilst not only the Lord of it but likewise the SOVERAIGN of the Chair too Great WILLIAM himself if a Member of Your SOCIETY And though it 's true so many Crown'd Heads before had so often Blest Your Happy Roof Yet let it suffice that this last Glory consummates Your whole Renown And whilst You stand thus highly Graced with that Illustrious and Adorable Name Inrolled amongst You As by the Reach of Your Charter the whole Spicy-Nest was all Your own before I may now add this Prouder Blazon to Your Scutcheon that You have the Phaenix too Dic quibuscum sis dicam quis es Worth is known by the Company it Keeps Was a Celebrated True Adage of Old which you Gentlemen have amply Veryfied For it is sufficient for the truly Honourable G R O C E R S to their Noblest Reputation to tell the World that the Darling of Britain the Champion of Christendom and the Pride of Europe the English LYON Herds with You And the particular Inclination of the Albion CAESAR in Electing Your SOCIETY His Favourite Choice is an ample Demonstration that His Encouragement for such an Election was that undoubtedly he found those Virtues amongst You Nearest His Own and Worthiest such Royal Favour And Gentlemen whatever other Conspicuous Merits You challenge 't is enough that this single Plume in Your Fair Crest shall Entitule You to no common Share of Fame and 't is with my Congratulation of This and all your Other Happiness I subscribe my Self GENTLEMEN Your most Devoted Humble Servant E. SETTLE The Movements of the Morning Between Seven and Eight in the Morning the whole Company designed for the Duty of the Day meet at Grocers Hall 1. THE Master Wardens and Assistants in Gowns Faced with Foins and their Hoods 2. The Livery in their Gowns Faced with Budg and their Hoods 3. Forty Foins Batchelors in Gowns and Scarlet Hoods 4. Forty Budge-Batchelors in Gowns and Scarlet Hoods 5. Forty Gentlemen Ushers in Velvet Coats each of them a Chain of Gold about his Shoulders and a White Staff in his Hand 6. Several Drums and Fifes with Scarfs and the Colours of the Company in their Hats Crimson and White 7. The Serjeant Trumpet and Twenty Four Trumpets more whereof Sixteen are His Majesties the Serjeant-Trumpet wearing Two Scarfs a Crimson and a White 8. The Drum-Major to the King wearing a Shoulder-Scarf of the Companies Colours with others of His Majesties Drums and Fifes 9. The Two City Marshals each of them Mounted on Horse-back with Rich Furniture Hoosings and Crupper all Embroider'd Six Servitors likewise Mounted to Attend with Scarfs and Colours of the Companies 10. The Foot-Marshal with a Scarf and Six Attendants in Colours 11. The Master of Defence with the same Scarfe and Colours Eight Persons of the same Science to attend him 12. Twenty Pensioners with Coats and Caps employed in carrying the Standards and Banners This Ordered and accomodated they are committed to the management of the Foot-Marshal who distributes them in Seven Divisions and ranked all Two by Two begining with the inferior part of the