Hero that undertakes a Glorious Enterprize with a firm Assurance of Divine Assistance Fig 10. Fig 11. FIGURE XI The Eleventh Figure represents the Confederacy enter'd into by several Hero's that is to say Prince William of Nassau H. L. M. together with his Valiant Brothers out of an Unshaken and Magnanimous Resolution to Deliver the Low Countries from the Tyranny under which they groan'd and which they perform'd with an Undaunted Prowess with this Imprese RES POSCIT OPEM ET CONSPIRANT AMICE The Exigency calls for speedy Aid and friendly they Conspire to give it FIGURE XII In the Twelfth Figure was Pictured a Woman with her Hair about her Ears representing Despair a roaring Lyon at her Feet signifying Holland and the Condition to which she was reduced at that time by the Tyranny of Spain especially in the Year 1572. when she was almost hopeless of all Human Succour and under the Figure this Motto PATIENTIA LAESA FUROR EST. Patience Injur'd turns to Fury Fig 12. Fig 13. FIGURE XIII The Thirteenth Figure represents a Jupiter in the Air sitting upon an Eagle that seems to fly with a rapid swiftness At the same time the whole Sky appears to be fill'd with dusky Clouds darting nothing but Thunder and Lightning upon the Debaucheries of Babylon Underneath appears a Woman all overwhelm'd with Sorrow and Sadness representing the Miserable Condition of Holland at that time She is attended with Seven Virgins that signifie the Seven United Provinces stretching forth their Hands one to another and consulting by what means to alter the sad and lamentable State of their Affairs into a Posture of Prosperity and Gladness according to the Common Motto CONCORDIA RES PARVAE CRESCUNT Concord advances Low Beginnings FIGURE XIV The Fourteenth Figure describes a Person to whom is Presented a Cap or Bonnet of Freedom holding in his Hand the Arms of Holland which is a Lion To signifie the Change that happen'd in the Year 1672. at what time the States of Holland Presented to William III. now King of England the Government of the Provinces and the Administration of the Military Affairs and after what manner he accepted of them and took his Oath of Fidelity In the same Figure is also Presented to him a Sword and a Pair of Scales to shew that Justice ought to be Administred without Exception of Persons At the bottom of the Figure are a great Number of Persons of all Ages ready to assist him with Money in such a Conjuncture and Time of Need as that was And above is also to be seen the Temple of Justice Fig 14. Fig 15. FIGURE XV. The Fifteenth Figure shadows forth the Birth of William III. wherein is to be seen a Virgin holding a Shield with a Stork Painted upon it which represents the Hague the Place of the Prince's Nativity Close by the Laver stands a Lyon stedfastly beholding the Infant To shew that Holland which is signified by the Lyon was greatly concern'd for the Birth of the Prince In the middle of the Plate stand Three Figures one of which points up to Heaven with one of her Fingers having before her a little Box fill'd with pretious Odours the Perfumes of which ascend to the Sky betokening Religion and Divine Worship which engage us to render the Homage of our Thanks to God for the Birth of the Infant as a most pretious Gift bestow'd by Heav'n upon us FIGURE XVI The Sixteenth Figure represents the willing Submission of the Kingdom of England to King William and his Conquest of Ireland from King James The Standard with a Cuirass and Helmet at the Top of it denotes King William's Triumphs in England over his Enemies The other Battoon advanc'd with WILLIAM above Three Crowns and a Dove at the upper End signifies that he had no other Intention in Crossing over into England and Ireland than to Protect those that were well Affected and to deliver the Protestants of those Kingdoms from the Tyranny under which they groan'd And the Buckler with the Lyon upon it denotes That Holland had a great share in the Expedition notwithstanding the Great Damages she had sustain'd but a little before both by Sea and Land Fig 16. Fig. 17. FIGURE XVII The Seventeenth Figure sets forth the Universal Joy that all Europe received by the Truce for Twenty Years in 1684. tho' it lasted not long To which purpose you see Bacchus seated upon a large Tun to whom others make their Presents as desirous to partake in the General Jubilee Liberty Triumphs and Pallas makes one of the Number In another part of the Figure four Warriours seem to joyn their Bucklers together in token of Harmonious Unity In another part sits Hatred in a furious Posture upon the Ground and enraged to see Peace descending upon the Earth would fain cut the Band of Union with the Scissors which she holds in her Hand FIGURE XVIII The Eighteenth Figure shews an Amazon seated upon a Trophy of Arms with a Helmet and Plume of Feathers upon her Head holding in the one Hand a Pike and a Helmet in the other On the one side of her appear several Souldiers arm'd Cap-a-Pe and on the other side two Persons giving to each other their Hands with certain Ships appearing over head at a distance To signifie that after the Rupture of a Truce or Alliance it behoves a Nation to betake themselves again to their Arms without losing time for fear of exposing themselves by a pernicious delay to the Surprises of the War and to put themselves into a Posture of Action both by Sea and Land which is the good Counsel hinted in the following Motto REPETENDA QUIESCANT Lay thoughts of Peace aside And Arms and Men provide Fig 18. Fig 19. FIGURE XIX This Figure is a Prospect of the Famous Battel fought in Flanders between Prince Maurice and the Spaniards under the Leading of Duke Albert wherein after a long and obstinate Fight the Prince became the Victor and took Eight hundred Captains all Gentlemen Prisoners This Battel was fought the Second of July New Style the same Month and Day that about Three hundred and two Years before the Emperor Adolphus of Nassau was Defeated by Duke Albert of Austria Underneath was written NON UNO VIRTUS CONTENTA TRIUMPHO Not satisfied with single Triumph FIGURE XX. This Figure calls to remembrance one of the most Remarkable Combats that are to be read of in History which was called the Battel of Furnhout wherein Prince Maurice with only 800 Horse not only sustain'd the Charge of Four Veterane Regiments Germans Spaniards Walloons and Italians but charg'd 'em with that Extraordinary Vigour that he laid Two thousand Eight hundred dead upon the Place took Six hundred Prisoners and brought away Eight Colours which were all Hung up in the Great Hall at the Hague This was done uyon the 24th of January in the Year 1667. At the Bottom was this Inscription FORTIS PROMISSA JUVENTAE The Fruits of Daring Youth Fig 20. Fig
TRIOMPHE DV ROY THE Triumph-Royal CONTAINING A short Account of the most Remarkable Battels Sieges Sea-fights Treaties and Famous Atchievements of the Princes of the House of NASSAV c. DESCRIB'D In the Triumphal Arches Piramids Pictures Inscriptions and Devices Erected at the Hague in Honour of WILLIAM III. King of England Scotland France and Ireland Curiously Engraven in 62 Figures on Copper Plates with their Histories An Elaborate Piece of Curiosity First done in Dutch then into French and now into English Dedicated to Her Majesty LONDON Printed for Hen. Rhodes near Bride Lane in Fleetstreet and John Harris at the Harrow in the Poultry 1692. TO The GREAT and PUISSANT Queen MARIE By the Grace of God Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland Great and Puissant Queen IF in Ancient Times Hero's were Honour'd with Publick Monuments when they had perform'd any Extraordinary Atchievements to the end the Memory of their Actions might be preserved to Posterity and their Off-spring the more inflam'd to imitate their Virtues If the Romans among other the best regulated Governments strove as they did to excel all others in celebrating the Renown of their Kings their Emperors and famous Captains by erecting to their Honour sumptuous Statues lofty Pyramids and Magnificent Triumphal Arches when those Hero's return'd Victorious to Rome What then can be done too much at this time Great and Virtuous QVEEN to Honour at the Hague the Entrance of WILLIAM III. Your most Illustrious Husband He who by his Glorious Deeds has quite defaced whatever those Demi-gods so much celebrated in History perform'd of most Transcendent For whatsoever render'd so famous those Prodigies of Antiquity they only did in favour of their Country or rather to get themselves a Name but MIGHTY QVEEN WILLIAM the TRIVMPHANT had no other aim in all his Enterprizes but to advance the Glory of the King of Kings He was never capable of unjust Ambition or desire of Rule Only his Compassion upon the Miserable Suffering in a good Cause and his desire to deliver 'em from the yoak that Tyranny would have impos'd upon their Consciences were the sole Motives that rowz'd him up to Action The many Dangers to which he has already expos'd his Life to defend the Rights of Justice are too well known to all the World for me to enlarge upon ' em 'T is true Great QVEEN I have here a spacions Field to fill these Pages with the due Encomiums that belong to our Matchless Heroe and Your Majesty For what Great Things might not be said of Your Wisdom and Prudence Your Resolution and the Mildness of Your Government when in his Absence You held the Reins of Sovereign Rule But besides that I know You are above the reach of common Praise I have not Eloquence to acquit my self as the Grandeur and the Excellency of the Subject require Thaâ—'s a work for the Bold stroaks of the most accomplish'd Masters of Wit and Learning 'T is for them to take upon 'em the Care of making known to Posterity the Eternal Honor which the Heroe of our Age has acquir'd by the Favourable Revolution in England To which they may also add the happy Change of the deplorable Face of the Affairs of the Vnited-Provinces in the year 1672. There is no body but knows the Miseries into which they were then plung'd even within two fingers breadth of utter Ruine when this Great Prince being made Governor-General made it his chiefest Care to raise their drooping Hopes and forc'd a King no less Potent than Ambitious to restore the Usurpations of his Unjust War But MIGHTY QVEEN What might not also be farther said of You There is no body but knows besides the Grandeur of Your Soul how deeply sensible Your Majesty was of the unheard of Cruelties undergone by the persecuted Protestants in France who were driven by the Tempest into these Happy Provinces where they not only found an assured Sanctuary under the Protection of the Sovereigns of the Government but where they found the frequent and Extraordinary Marks of your Majesty's as also of that Generous Prince's Bounty whâ—m Heaven ordained to be your Husband You have both Labour'd so effectually for the Welfare of the Church that it is plainly to be seen that God united your Majesties together on purpose to be the steady Pillars of it Nor is this enough Great Queen It behoves me also to add that the most solid Part of Europe looks upon You Two as the Principal Instruments that Heaven has made choice of to break the Fetters of her Slavery The Earnestness of so many Sovereign Princes to be your Allies is a Sacred Proof of this same Truth To which we might also farther add what so many Princes verify'd in waiting on his Majesty upon his first Return from England to the Hague where they altogether formed one Court the most splendid that has been seen for many Ages But I wander too far my aim is Humbly to beg Your Majesties Protection of these few Sheets in hopes of your Gracious acceptance as being not only a Collection in part of the great Atchievements of the Princes of the House of Nassau Your Glorious Ancestors but of those of his Britannie Majesty Your Illustrious Husband I was willing to believe that by representing to your Royal View the Homage that was paid him and which he had deservedly acquir'd I should in some measure discharge my Duty to your Majesty and that You would be so Gracious as to permit me with a most profound Respect to stile my self GREAT QUEEN Your Majesties Most Humble most Dutiful and most Obedient Servant J. BEEK TO THE READER WE Observe in all Histories that whenever any great Personages had Signaliz'd themselves by any Extraordinary Actions that merited to be preserved in Remembrance they erected in their Honours Trophies and Triumphal Arches not only to set sorth the Joy of the People but that they might serve as Eternal Monuments to perpetuate the Renown of those Great Heroes All Men know that what the King of England did while he was yet but P. of Orange in delivering England and Scotland from the Yoak under which they both groan'd and his Reducing Ireland after his Advancement to the Crown and all this in so little a Time were Actions altogether Generous and Glorious to the Highest Degree By that alone he restored the Rights Priviledges Liberties and Religion of a Nation which a Violent Government was labouring to Annihilate He re-establish'd the Republick of the United Provinces of which he is Governor and presently put himself into a Posture to break the Chains which a Prince no less Ambitious than Covetous had been a long-time forging to enslave all Europe Could they do less in a Country to which this Great Prince has always been so dear than erect at his Return those Tryumphant Arches which his Prowess had deserv'd And can I do a greater piece of Service to the Publick than by giving a Description and Explanation of all the
Figures Paintings and Devises which adorn'd those Sumptuous Triumphant Arches The Fame of these Pieces as being the Workmanship of most Skilful Masters drew to the Hague where they were Erected innumerable Crouds of People that thronged from all parts far and near to be both the Spectators and Admirers of so glorious and unwonted a Spectacle And this alone is sufficient to recommend the following Sheets to the World and secure the Sale of the Book If it be favourably receiv'd as I hope it will be it will encourage me to continue the marks of my Zeal for the Publick upon all Occasions of the like Nature J. BEEK THE Glorious Reception OF William III. King of ENGLAND At his Entrance into the Hague the 5th of February in the Year 1691. NEVER was Prince more ardently long'd for in a State as was the King of England in the beginning of this Year expected at the Hague not only by all the People of the Vnited Provinces but also by the greatest part of the Princes of Europe where he was stay'd for either by the Princes themselves or by their Ambassadors being look'd upon by all as the most solid support of their Dominions and the Repairer of all the Losses they had sustain'd by the Violences of their Common Enemy This Great Monarch who knows not what it is to be sparing of his own Person when all are contending for the Common Cause made no scruple to expose himself upon the rude Ocean in a Season the most incommodious and most dangerous to satisfie their Wishes This was upon the 26th of January in the Year 1691. for then it was that he departed a second time from London and arrived upon our Coasts the 31st of the same Month in the Afternoon where he threw himself into Dangers perhaps the greatest that ever were hazarded The Tide was against him but the Weather Calm however accompanied with a thick Fog which lasted three Days so that neither the Yachts nor the Men of War that attended him durst venture near the Shoar Which obliged him contrary to the Advice of his Captains and several other expert Seamen to hazard himself in a Sloop accompanied only by the Earl of Devonshire Nassau Ouwerkerk the Earls of Nottingham and Portland one Valet de Chambre and three Lacqueys in hopes no doubt that he might get ashoar in some Port or Land at least in some other Place But the Sloop finding it self incumber'd with the Ice and having the Tide contrary could make no way to any Landing-Place so that the King was constrain'd to lye by though without shelter from the Weather for the space of Two and twenty Hours environ'd with Ice open to imminent Danger and the Extremity of a piercing and rigorous Season Nor did he set foot ashoar till the next day about Noon at Orange Polder a little League distant from the Village of Naetwijck Upon his going out of the Sloop he met by good hap with a Post-Boy's Horse that was newly come to the place of which he made use to get to a Countryman's House where he warm'd himself together with the Lords that attended him till the Coaches that were sent for arrived and which he ordered to drive directly to Honshlaerdijck He was Complimented by the way by some of the Deputies of the States that is to say by Monsieur d'Opdam in the Name of the Chevalry and Nobility of Holland and West-Frise by Mr. Belarts in the name of the City of Dordreck by Mr. Witsen in the Name of the City of Amsterdam and by Mr. Vryburgh in the Name of the City of Alcmaer The same Ceremonies were also performed by the Imperial and Spanish Ambassadors the Counts de Berka and Colonna and the Governour of Frise and some other Lords of greatest Note At length he arrived Incognito at the Hague about Six a Clock in the Evening extremely discomposed by a Defluxion of Rhume occasioned by the vehemency of the cold which he had endured all the while that he lay in the Sloop He was no sooner alighted out of the Coach but he was Complimented by their High and Mightinesses the States of Holland and West-Frise who at that time were assembled together and Mr. Heinsius was the Person who carried the Message in the Name of the whole Body to which the King made Answer in few words but in most obliging Terms After which he sate down to Dinner and fed with a good Appetite notwithstanding the Indisposition of his Catarrh and rested very well the following Night The certain News of the King 's Landing was no sooner arrived at the Hague but Orders were given for Three Discharges of the Great Guns to the number of Thirty Pieces of Cannon that were planted upon the Vyverbergh and to Ring all the Bells which was done again the same Day at the very moment of his Entrance into the Hague And then it was that the extraordinary Zeal appear'd of every particular Person to testifie their unfeigned Joy some several times discharging those lesser Pieces of Artillery which they kept in their Houses others not only making Bonfires before their Doors but Sporting at their Windows with Variety and Curiosity of Fire-works But the most part expressed their Gladness with their Glasses in their Hands Drinking the King's Health and wishing him all manner of Prosperity togegether with Long Life so that there were very few that returned home to their own Houses but with light and chearful Hearts Nevertheless the Streets were so numerously throng'd all the Night long that you shall seldom see the most enflam'd Seditions muster more People together The Transports of their Joy might be easily read in their Countenances and some there were that could hardly be convinced the King was arrived as doubtful whether they deserved of Heaven so great a Happiness In the mean time the Post-Offices both of Amsterdam and other Places were so throng'd with Letters that Night while every body was desirous to send the Pleasing News to his Friends that it was hardly known that ever so many had been seen deliver'd into the Offices at one time The Day following His Majesty was Complimented by all the Ambassadors Corporations and Persons of Quality And then it was that they found he had so little Inclination to make his Publick Entry into the Hague that he refus'd it altogether However at length he suffer'd himself to be over-rul'd by the earnest Importunities of some of the Bodies of the State and the Magistracy of the Hague who besought him several times that he would vouchsafe that Satisfaction to the Publick in regard the Charges were already disburs'd and all things in a readiness Thereupon the Monday following being the Fifth of February 1691. was fixed for the Solemnity And then it was that such a number of People from the Cities and Provinces adjoyning crouded in Throngs to the Hague that there was hardly any passing in the broadest Streets of the Town And the number had been infinitely
rescue Holland from the Violence of her Enemies and deliver England from the Tyranny that threaten'd her utter Desolation pass'd over into that Kingdom to Expel the Greedy Monster that began to prey upon her Bowels Fig 44. Fig 45. Fig 45. * FIGURE XLV In this Assembly of Hero's with Helmets and Plumes of Feathers on their Heads and every one a Sword in his Hand which they hold up and lay athwart one upon another according to the Manner of the Ancients who were wont to meet in the Temple of Vulcan and use this Ceremony over the Altar when they enter'd into any solemn Confederacy for the Defence of their Country You have a Prospect of the Confederacy enter'd into by the Heroick Princes of this Age and by them confirm'd by all that is most Sacred and Inviolable The two Virgins kneeling with their Hands stretch'd forth to Heaven denote the Hopes which the Hero's have of the great Advantages which this confirm'd Alliance will produce The Monster which you behold at the top of the Figure set upon on every side and wounded by several Armed Men is the Emblem of France And the most daring and most forward of those Champions with a Lyon upon his Shield represents Holland which is always the foremost and most hardy to attack the common Enemy To this Figure belong'd two Motto's of which the first was UNITI FORTIUS OBSTANT United they withstand with greater Force The Following words were set over the Figure POST MAXIMAS RES DOMI FORISQUE GESTAS ARCTISSIMO CUM PRINCIPIBUS ICTO FOEDERE SUORUM VINDEX DEFENSOR OPPRESSORUM After most Renown'd Atchievements perform'd at Home and Abroad and a strict League confirm'd with Princes unjustly wrong'd the Avenger of his own and Defender of the Oppressed Fig 46. FIGURE XLVI Presents to our View the King of England a Horseback in his return from Ireland after he had subdu'd that Kingdom to his Obedience carrying a Standard in his Hand as being an Honour which was always allow'd by the Ancients to Triumphant Victors Two Damosels also meet him and present him with a Scepter and a Crown to shew that he was no less beholden for the Possession of that Kingdom to the Good Will and Affection of his People as to his Conquering Arms and under a Cornucopia of Silver stands this Inscription PRAEMIA NON AEQUANT The Guerdons are not Equal To signifie that he has shew'd so much of Generosity Vertue and Prudence in his Conduct since his Ascending the Throne that his Three Crowns with all their Riches are but a due Reward of his Merit At the Upper End of the Figure hang a Pair of Scales with a Crown in one Balance and a Sword in the other to signifie that he has been constrain'd to make use of Force of Arms to gain the Crown which belong'd to him Which is all Epitomiz'd in the following words written over Head MARE TRANSUECTUS LIBERAT BRITANNIAM ET LATE DOMINANTIBUS ORNATUS SCEPTRIS IN PATRIAM PUBLICA CUM LAETITIA RECEPTUS EST. Crossing the Sea He sets Great Britain Free and having obtain'd a spacious Empire is welcom'd to his Native Country with the Publick Joy of the People Fig 47. FIGURE XLVII In this Figure are to be seen several Virgins going to attend a certain Priest who has rais'd an Altar by laying together a Heap of Wood with an Intention to offer up Oblations for the renowned House of Orange The Figures plac'd about the Temple represent the Four last Progenitors of the Reigning Prince Not far from whence appears a Phoenix burning in the Flames of her Nest from the Ashes of which arises a young Phoenix with this Motto PRAELUCET POSTHUMA PROLES The Posthumous Offspring outshines the Rest To shew that the Reigning King of England has advanc'd the Grandeur of his Family more than all his Ancestors Intimated in the tacit supply of these words inscrib'd upon the Figure CUM PATRIA LANGUERET PRAE TRISTITIA CUM TOTA EUROPA LACHRIMARET ET ANTIQUISSIMA NASSONIORUM DOMUS HEROIBUS MAGNISQUE FOECUNDA PRINCIPIBUS LUCTUOSIS OBRUERETUR TENEBRIS When his Native Country lay overwhelm'd with Sorrow when all Europe languish'd and the Ancient House of Nassau fertile in Hero's and great Princes suffer'd a Mournful Ecclipse FIGURE XLVIII This Figure represents the Happy and Joyful Birth of this Great Monarch The Infant grasps two Serpents one in one Hand the other in the t'other which he kills like a second Hercules To signifie that from his tender Years he gave assured Marks of that same Inbred Generosity that would enliven him one day to Triumph o'er his Enemies The Upper Part of this Figure displays a Scepter with Three Crowns and a Row of large Pearl environing an open Scallop-shell with this Inscription TENUES ORNANT DIADEMATA CUNAS The Cradle of his Infancy such DIADEMS Adorn To signifie that the Malice of his Enemies nor all their Scorn of his Princely Youth could hinder his being Crown'd Monarch of Three Kingdoms notwithstanding all their Opposition to prevent it Not far from this was another Inscription in these words GULIELMUS POSTHUMOUS BRITANNORUM ARAUSIONENSIUMQUE Fig 48. TERTIUS PATRIAE SPES REIPUBLICAE PALLADIUM William the Posthumus Third of that Name King of England Prince of Orange the Hope of his Country Palladium of the Common-weal To signifie that next under God this Prince is the Only Support upon which the United Provinces rely FIGURE XLIX This whole Piece of Workmanship is a perfect Prospect of the Roman Triumphs when their Captains and Emperors made their Pompous Entries into Rome after they had signaliz'd their Conduct and their Valour by the utter overthrow of their Enemies All the Booty the Captives the Treasures the Elephants and Camels follow'd the Triumphal Chariot in the mid'st of the Loud Acclamations of the People who Attended the Victor to the Capitol there to Pay their Vows to the Gods for all their Favours So that the Intention of this Piece of Painting was to shew the General Hopes of Europe in Honour of King WILLIAM now rang'd in the Number of those Victorious Chieftains no less amply signify'd in the following Devise ATTINGAT SOLIUM JOVIS Thus may He reach the Throne of Jove Fig. 49. FIGURE L. The Youth describ'd in this Figure is the King of England as yet very Young yet such was his Prudence at those Years that here he comes to ask Counsel The Crowns that shew themselves at a distance in the Clouds call to our Remembrance the Crowns that were seen in the Air at Orange over the Place where the States of that Principality were Assembled in the Years 1665. and 1688. Portending Heaven by that same Prodigy foretelling what afterward we saw fulfill'd by his obtaining the Three Crowns of England Scotland and Ireland The Upper Part of this Figure shews ye a young Eagle flying directly against the Beams of the Sun with this Motto TENER ADVERSIS ENITITUR ALIS Tho Young He strives against the Sun This same Eaglet
21. Fig 22. FIGURE XXII The 22d Figure sets before your Eyes two Indians with their Hands manacled behind their Backs On the one side stands a Soldier with a Sword in his Hand as it were Insulting over the Captive And on the other side in the same Posture another Soldier with an Ensign display'd denoting some Important Conquest And no question this Figure was set up to shevv that the Dutch had extended their Dominion by the Force of their Arms even to the remote Regions of the Indies which is fairly intimated by this Imprese ULTRA GARAMANTES Et INDOS Beyond the Garamants and Indians FIGURE XXIII The 23d Figure is the Representation of a Battel fought not far from Bergopsom between the Spaniards and Prince Maurice's Army the 4th of September 1643 wherein the Hollanders won a Considerable Victory and took above Four hundred Prisoners from the Enemy Express'd by the following Imprese CRESCUNT NUMERO CRESCENTE TROPHAEA Number of Victories augment the Trophies Fig 23. Fig 24. FIGURE XXIV This Figure Illustrates the Siege and Taking of Geertruydenbergh by Prince Maurice This Siege began the 15th of March in the Year 1653. and ended by the Surrender of the Town upon the 15th of June in the same Year The Inscription underneath was this DEOS IN PRAELIA CONFERT He joyns the Gods his Adjutants in Battel To shew how much that Renowned Prince always rely'd upon the Assistance of Heaven whose Aid he still most ardently implor'd when ever he undertook any Enterprise of Importance FIGURE XXV The 25th Figure comprehends a Pyramid erected upon a Pedestal upon which there is a Piece of Painting with this Devise THURE TUO REDOLENT ARAE Our Altars with thy Incense smoak The Ascent of the Pyramid is embellish'd with Three several Pictures of which the one is an Emblem the other two certain Trophies and Queen Mary's Name in Cipher and at the Top of the Pyramid the Queen her self is plac'd as big as the Life with this Inscription below REPRIMIT ET REFIGIT She both Represses and Refixes Fig 25. Fig 26. FIGURE XXVI The 26th Figure discovers another Pedestal containing this Inscription HANC ACCIPE MAGNE CORONAM It is also adorn'd with three more Pieces of Painting that is to say a Devise an Altar smoaking with Incense and the King's Name in Cipher The upper part of the Pyramid is adorn'd with Foliage and Grotesco work and at the top of all stands the King as big as the Life with this Inscription below QUIS GRATIOR APPULIT ORIS More welcom who to these our Coasts FIGURE XXVII This Figure shews you a Person with a Glory about his Head a Bow in his Hand and a Youth standing by him with a Quiver full of Arrows under his Arm. At his Feet sit Three of the Muses Clio Urania and Polyhimne to shew that all the Designs and Atchievements of vertuous Princes aim at Heaven and consequently that King William's Enterprises had Crown'd him with Immortality Besides that Apollo was no less famous for Killing Tyrants with his Bow and Arrows than for any of his other Vertues Fig 27. Fig 28. FIGURE XXVIII The 28th Figure exposes to our View a Hercules Trampling upon a Dragon with his Club heav'd up to knock that Furious Monster on the Head To shew the Preparations of the King of England to suppress the Tyranny of the Common Enemy that threatens the Destruction of all Europe and whom the King opposes not only by his Prudent Conduct but by Powerful Musters of his Forces FIGURE XXIX The 29th Figure is the Representation of an Armed Amazon holding a Gorgon's Head in her left Hand To shew the Fear and Dread of the Common-Enemy who now began to tremble at the formidable Countenance of the Present War much more Dreadful and Killing than it was before as also to signifie that the Confederates were resolv'd to be no less united than the Gorgons who had but one Eye and one Tooth among ' em Fig 29. Fig 30. FIGURE XXX In the 40th Figure appears a Neptune Drawn in a fair Scallop-Shell by two Horses with the Goddess Thetis sitting by him and underneath this Inscription MEA JURA TUERE Maintain my Rights FIGURE XXXI The 31st Figure is the Representation of a Woman over-whelm'd with Grief stretching forth her Hands in a Posture of Despair and crying out ERIPE RAPTORI MISERAM Rescue a Miserable Creature from the Ravisher To signifie the Unfortunate Condition of Europe environ'd on every side by Thieves and Murderers that Rob her of her Peace and Tranquillity while she lyes altogether helpless and can find no way to shelter herself from their Violences Fig 31. Fig 32. FIGURE XXXII This Figure represents the Memorable Battel which King William won over King James's Army at the Passage of the Boyne in Ireland where the Rebels were utterly defeated losing all their Baggage and a great Number of Men slain upon the Place Never was Battel of Greater Importance in regard that upon the Success of that Combat depended the Happiness of Europe Here we behold the King according to his usual Custom appearing at the Head of his Men never hesitating to expose his Life to the greatest of Dangers when he deem'd it necessary for the Welfare of his Subjects and his Allies FIGURE XXXIII The first Thing that strikes the Sight in this Piece is a Hercules half naked bearing his Club upon his Shoulders He marches along setting his Feet strongly to the Ground and with a daring Courage toward his Enemy Achelous who not finding himself able to Encounter him took upon himself the shape of a Bull. The Virgins behind him are making Garlands and Posies of various Flowers to Crown him at his Return from the Combat in token of their Joy for the Victory he had won others are to be seen Playing in Consort upon several Musical Instruments to Celebrate the Triumph of their Victorious Preserver To signifie that the Prosperous Successes of King William in England were such as merited a Triumphal Reception by the People of Holland at his Return to the Hague Fig 33. Fig 34. FIGURE XXXIV The Battel represented in this Figure seems to be very Bloody while all the Combatants fought hand to hand with Javelins and Bucklers This was the Battel which Perseus fought with his Rival that would have forc'd his Mistress Andromeda from him whom he had deliver'd but a little before from the Whale that was to have devour'd her See how he pierces the Sides of his Enemies with his Lance and at length enjoys the Possession of his Beloved by a Marriage which he had procur'd at the Price of so many Dangers FIGURE XXXV The Second large Figure is another Triumphal Arch a Piece of beautiful Architecture supported both before and behind by red Marble Pillars the rest of the Structure being of black and white Marble the Bases and Chapters are Gilt and adorn'd with four Large Pictures Painted in most Lively Colours two on the fore part and two
on the hinder side Uyon the Top of this Triumphal Arch upon a fair Pedestal is to be seen the Statue of the King a Horseback resembling the colour of Brass as big as the Life And round the Pedestal these words REGI TRIUMPHANTI To the Triumphant King Above the King thus sitting a Horseback are to be seen two Arches thwarting one another and over them a Crown and two-Scepters laid a-cross Fig 30 * And on the other side IN REPRIMENDA TYRANNIDE ET RESTITUENDA SECULI FAELICITATE In Suppressing Tyranny and Restoring the Felicity of the Age. On the Right side of the same Border were to be read these words HEROUM PRIORI To the Chief of Hero's On the Left side ANTIQUIS MAJORI And Greater than his Ancestors On the side of the Pedestal where the King Rides toward the Upper End are to be seen two Currasses gilt and two cover'd with Silver together with several other Arms in the manner of Trophies In the Fore-part stand the Arms of England and upon the Hinder-part the King's Cipher On each side of this Arch are Erected two Wings adorn'd with Paintings both before and behind representing various Stories of Hercules Perseus Andromeda and Phaeton as shall be afterwards more amply describ'd At the Bottom of the Arch in the Forepart these words were display'd by the Glittering of the Lights SCEPTRIS EXERCITIBUS CLASSIBUS VOTIS. On the Hinder Part AUGUSTO ARMATO PARATO RECEPTO Which was thus to be read AUGUSTO SCEPTRIS ARMATO EXERCITIBUS PARATO CLASSIBUS RECEPTO VOTIS. To the August in Empire environ'd with Armies Potent in Fleets Received with all Men's Wishes And upon the Frontispiece stood this Inscription HAGA POSUIT COSS. DECRETO The Hague Erected this by Order of the Magistrates FIGURE XXXVI The 36th Figure is the Representation of two Naval Engagements in both which there was much Blood spilt between the Hollanders and the English and French then in Confederacy Fig 36. Fig 37. FIGURE XXXVII The 37th Figure represents the Famous Sea-Fight in the Downs between the Spaniards and the famous Dutch Admiral Martin Herperts Tromp in the Year 1639. wherein the Spaniards lost all their Fleet but Eighteen Ships to the great Amazement of all Men at that time FIGURE XXXVIII This Piece of Painting sets forth what pass'd at the Nuptials of Perseus and Andromeda at what time the Friends of his Rival whom he had Slain resolving to revenge his Death brake into the Festival Room But their Insolence remain'd not long unpunish'd For Perseus recovering his Shield upon which was Painted Medusa's Head partly slew partly chang'd into Stone all that oppos'd him By this Emblem we are given to understand what befel the King of England who thinking to have liv'd in the Quiet Possession of his Three Kingdoms yet met with many secret and open Enemies But his Generosity together with his Extraordinary Prudence will find a way to frustrate all their Wicked and Malicious Designs Fig 38. Fig 39 FIGURE XXXIX Here is a Man riding through the Air in a Chariot drawn by four Horses which he guides himself Beneath appears another Man laid sprawling upon the Earth by dint of Sword denoting the Triumph of Phaeton after he had put to Death the most Cruel of his Adversaries This Emblem also alludes to the Happy Success of the King of England after he had once undertaken to subdue the most Formidable of his Enemies FIGURE XL. In the first place you are to observe in this Figure a Woman with a Helmet and Plume of Feathers on her Head holding a Cap of Maintenance or Bonnet of Freedom in her Hand Another Woman takes her by the other Hand with an Intention to lead her to the Temple there to render Thanks to Heaven for the Peace they have obtain'd As she passes along she points down to a Virgin pensive and full of Sorrow leaning upon a Shield with a Lyon painted upon it at whose Feet lye several miserable Creatures some of which stretch forth their Hands as a mark of their being highly affected with the happy occasion of the other's Joy which was the general Delivery of Europe from Slavery At a distance appear several Armed men surrounding an Altar where they are giving Thanks to Heaven so ther same Felicity Fig 40 Fig 41. FIGURE XLI This Figure represents the Globe of the World swarming with Villains and Murderers and where Fraud and Breach of Faith are rampant in every corner of it In one part it is all enflam'd with the Fire of War and in another part of the Figure stands a Woman hood-winkt with a Sword in her Right Hand and a Pair of Scales in the other representing Justice on the other side appears another Woman with a Gorgons Head in her Hand denoting the Common Cause of the Confederates and signifying that Justice and a Good Cause are like Medusa's Face subduing and turning into Stones all the vain Opposers of Truth and the Regular Order of the World There are also to be seen a great Number of People slain of which some lye dead with their Weapons still in their Hands denoting such as have receiv'd the Punishment of Justice for the Violence and Wickedness of their Actions FIGURE XLII In this Figure you behold a Woman leaning upon a Shield bearing a Lyon Rampant She sits upon a heap of Arms among which lyes another Lyon as it were Guarding and watching over their Preservation To signifie the Vigilance of Holland which has always made it her chiefest care to preserve and secure whatever was entrusted to her Custody At the upper part of the same Piece appear the Portraitures of the King and Queen and below them a Mars leading to the Temple a Lady that carries a Palm Branch in her hand To signifie that the Confederates would fain be laying down their Arms were all their Just Designs accomplish'd Fig 42 Fig 43. FIGURE XLIII The two Figures placed upon the uppermost part of the Convex of the Terrestrial Globe one of which holds in her Hand an Olive-Branch and the other a Sword represent Peace and Justice embracing each other Beneath the Sphere of the Earth sits Ceres the Goddess of Corn with a Cornucopia in her Hand denoting the Freedom of the Country-man to Sow and Reap in time of Tranquillity The Peasant resting and sleeping upon her Knee with a Basket of Fruit in his Lap alludes to the Plenty and Felicity of Peace and the Satyrs Drinking and Sporting about her signifie that we are only to expect from a Happy Peace the Enjoyments of Repose and Abundance FIGURE XLIV Here Perseus mounted in the Air upon a Flying Horse and arm'd to Encounter the Sea Monster and rescue from his Fury Andromeda the Daughter of a King of whom he was deeply enamour'd and whom he sought in Marriage as the Recompence of his Victory in case he slew the hideous Monster that was approaching to devour her represents the King of England who inflam'd with a desire to
represents the King of England who though very Young with Forces far inferiour adventur'd to make Head against the King of France who is here signify'd by the scorching Rays of the Sun and over this Figure was this Inscription PUERUM EXEMPLAR CONSTITUIT Heaven sent a Youth to be our Great Exemplar Fig 51. FIGURE LI. Here Vulcan throws several pieces of Armour upon the Ground before a young Champion mounted a Horseback in order to obey the Commands of Venus Mars also gives him a Sword in Testimony of his Favour and Assistance in the Wars which he is going to undertake Which was all Embellish'd with this Inscription QUI JUVENTUTE STRENUE TRANSACTA FUNESTIS JACTATUS BELLIS AC DISSIDIIS IN TANTO RERUM DISCRIMINE The same so strenuous in his Youth that though turmoyl'd with Dismal Wars and Intestine Discords yet in this dangerous Condition of Affairs c. Which words contain an Epitome of what befel the Prince in his Youth At the Upper End of the Figure is to be seen a Castle seated upon a Mountain at the Foot of which a Pike is fix'd in the Ground with several Laurel Branches shooting from it Embellish'd with this Motto CONTORTA TRIUMPHOS PORTENDIT Lanc'd with a Vigorous Arm it Victory Portends Fig 52. FIGURE LII The 52 Figure represents a Hero holding a Battoon of Command in his Hand with a Helmet and Plume upon his Head He is supported standing upon a Shield by four other Hero's every one wearing a Helmet and Plume and environ'd with Armed Soldiers with this Inscription over head NUTANTIS BELGII QUA MARI QUA TERRA ADMOTUS IN PRISTINUM DECUS GUBERNACULI GLORIAM ARAS ET FOCOS RESTITUIT Where e'er he mov'd by Sea or Land he restor'd the Glorious Government the RELIGION and Liberty of Tottering Belgium to their Pristin Lustre This alludes to the Prince of Orange's being restor'd to the Government in the Year 1672. according to the Custom of the Ancients who when they advanc'd any Person to Supreme Dignity used to have him born upon a Shield by Four Hero's that he might be conspicuous to the People Which demonstrates to us that the Prince by vertue of his ancient Dignity restor'd became the Restorer of the United Provinces to their Liberty which was in great Jeopardy in the Year 1672. and that the Battoon of Command belong'd as well to him as to his Ancestors who had carry'd it before Fig 53. FIGURE LIII The Fifty third Figure fansies two Persons standing at the Entrance into a Temple and next to them on the one side Justice on the other Prudence which calls to our Remembrance the Marriage of the King and Queen Solemniz'd at London in the Year 1678. It farther also denotes that the Prince was a Personage who would act with Prudence in all his Undertakings and that at all Times and in all Places he would be a Maintainer of Justice MERITIS FAMAM EXSUPERANTIBUS TROPHAEIS PRINCIPI ATAVIS EDITAE REGIBUS FELICIBUS JUNCTUS HYMENAEIS Deserved Trophies far exeeeding Fames Report in happy Wedlock joyn'd him to a lovely Princess sprung from a long Race of Kings FIGURE LIV. This Figure represents the Solemnities in use among the Ancients when they granted a Triumphal Entry to those that had signaliz'd themselves in any Sea-Engagement Among the rest it was one of their Customs to take off the Prows from the Ships which they had taken and after they had hung 'em up in their Forum or Hall of Publick Judicature which was therefore call'd Rostra they Erected a Statue in perpetual Honour both of the Victor and the Victory Over head was this Inscription TRIUMPHET IN UNDIS May He also Triumph upon the Seas Fig 54. Fig 55. FIGURE LV. The Portraiture in the Upper Part of this Figure supported by two little Cupids of which the one holds a Garland of Flowers in his Hand is the Portraiture of the Queen of England Underneath she is Painted sitting on a Throne with a Crown upon her Head surrounded with Armed Souldiers At her Feet stand several other People laden with Cornucopia's and Purses of Money in their Hands To signifie That her Subjects accompting themselves Happy under her Government are ready to Sacrifice their Lives and Estates in her Defence FIGURE LVI This Figure that surpriz'd the Eyes of the Beholders represents a Lady most charmingly Beautiful yet holding a Sword in her Hand with a stern and menacing Aspect and surrounded with her Armed Guards to denote the Noble Indignation of the Queen when she understood the Miscarriage of the Fleet and the Treachery of those that suffer'd the Hollanders to bear the Brunt of the Engagement At what time one would have thought the Amazonian Age had been reviv'd while she took a Resolution to have march'd her self at the Head of her Army against her Enemies had they attempted any Invasion upon the Coasts At the Bottom of the Figure appear several Poor People to whom others are distributing Money to signifie Her Majesties extraordinary Bounty to those that were Wounded in that Engagement and to the Widows and Orphans of those that were Slain Fig 56. Fig 57. FIGURE LVII This Figure delights the Eye with one of the most Daring Actions that ever History recorded That is to say King William's forcing his Passage over the River Boyn in Ireland where his Enemies Superior to Him in Number and Commanded by King James in Person lay entrench'd upon the Banks of the River to Oppose Him But our Couragious Monarch deeply sensible that he had then a Game to Play upon the good or bad Success of which depended the Ruin or Prosperity of all Europe as well as of his own Affairs march'd with an undaunted Prowess at the Head of his Men and mauger all the Thunder of the Enemies both great and small Shot Foarded the River forced their Entrenchments and constrain'd 'em to a speedy Flight Which struck such a Terrour into the Hearts of the Vanquisht that the Victory was attended by the Surrender of the Chief City of the Kingdom and several other Towns of great Importance as also by the Flight of King James himself who durst not stand a second Tryal but hasten'd into France to save one 'T is true so great a Courage had like to have cost the Victor his life for that two Cannon Bullets very narrowly miss'd him one of which came so near him as to graze upon his Shoulder and raze the very Skin it self and the other carry'd away a piece of his Boot which was the reason that the Report of his Death was spread abroad in France with that assurance that for Joy of such welcom News they rose at Midnight in Paris to make Bonfires from whence the glad Tidings dispiercing themselves put several other Cities of that deluded Kingdom in a blaze By which Extravagant Joy for an Imaginary Death we may assuredly conclude the Dread which all France is in of such a formidable Hero Fig 58. FIGURE LVIII This
so that the Bellowing of the Cannon the Thunder of the Small shot both Musquets and Harquebuses which were the Volleys of the Regiments of Frissem and Itersum drawn up in the Vivier together with the Bounces of the Petards and the Shouts and Acclamations of the People were Testimonies so sufficient of the Publick Joy as afterwards in the Relation rung but a harsh and unpleasant Peal in the Ears of the Common Enemy Besides all these there were several Bonfires and Fireworks before the Houses of Particular Persons of Quality and divers Burghers of the Hague In the first place before the Spanish Ambassador's Palace there were a great Number of large Flambaux and Fireworks with Arms and Devises As also before the Palace of the Baron de Suasse in the Great Hoogstraet Before the House of Major Duckene in the West End Upon the Piazza before Swaen Before the House of the Sieur Ravens Apothecary Before the House of the Sieur Van Oyen upon the Kneuterdijck Before the House of the Sieur Sulendonck in the Noble Straet Monsieur Schuylenbourg Register of the Council was more particularly signal for several Rarities embellish'd with Ingenious Motto's and Devises Among the rest there was one in the form of a Lion with this Sentence GENEROSUS ABORTU Generous from his Birth Another represented a winged Pegasus that by his Strength and Agility mounted a steep Rock with this Motto SUPERAT CAELESTIBUS ALIS With Wings Celestial he surmounts In a Third was seen His Majesty holding a Lance and a Person kneeling before him to Congratulate his Return with these words REGI GULIELMO REDUCI To King William return'd In a Fourth were to be seen on the one side Armies Marching and some Battels On the other an Eagle cleaving the Air with her Wings and holding a Jupiter's Thunder in her Taloon with this Sentence TRANSITQUE FERITQUE As she makes way she strikes In a Fifth was to be seen the King and Queen with their Crowns upon their Heads and a Train of several Persons Bare attending 'em with this Motto IMPERIA AUGUSTO Empires are only to Augustus due Before the House of Advocate Henry Vander Haer were to be seen the Arms of England with this Devise VIVANT GULIELMUS ET MARIA REGINA Long live King William and Queen Mary Underneath appear'd in Writing these words TANDEM BONA CAUSA TRIUMPHAT At length the Righteous Cause Triumphs On the one side FORTITUDO On the other VICTORIA On the Right side of the said Arms was the Picture of an Orange-Tree bearing Flowers and Fruit with this Motto DAT FLORENS FRUCTUS It Blossoms and bears Fruit. On the Left side was another Picture of a Rose-Tree and the Seven United Provinces with these words SUAVIS ODOR REFICIT The fragrant Smell refreshes On the Right side between the Arms and the Orange-Tree was a Pallas with a Crown Imperial a Sword in her Hand and under her Feet an Eagle in Flames with a Cornucopia garnish'd with Arms Crowns and Scepters with this Motto REGUM DECUS THE GRACE OF REGAL DIGNITY On the Left hand between the Arms and the Rose-Tree was the Picture of the Queen holding a Mirror in her right Hand and a Cornucopia in the other trampling upon a Serpent and the Motto for this Devise was PRUDENTIA AUGUSTA Prudence Revear'd Underneath the said Arms was an Oval wherein was Painted Three Lions and an Imperial Crown and over the said Lions this Inscription LEO BRITANNICUS NASSAVIUS BELGICUS The British Nassavian Belgick Lion And under the Three Lions these words QUID TANTIS CONJUNCTIS VIRIBUS OBSTET What can withstand so great a Force UNITED In short should we go about to Enumerate here all the Illuminations Fireworks Devises Sentences Verses c. which were to be seen in the Principal Streets of the Hague it would require the Inlargement of a Volume However here is enough to shew how highly this Great Monarch is belov'd by the People of these Provinces and how Superlative their Joy appear'd to see him return Triumphant to his Native Country THE END