the rest of the Dukes So also did the Marquesses of Worcester and Dorchester Next the Earl of Oxford did Homage after the same manner for himself and the rest of the Earls who attended upon him to signifie their Consents After him Viscount Hereford did the like for himself and the rest of the Viscounts and then the Drums beat and Trumpets sounded again and the People shouted Lastly the Baron Audley in like manner did Homage for himself and all the Baronage who also accompanied him to the Throne in testification of their Consents which being finished Drums Trumpets and Shouts followed Afterwards the Duke of YORK and all the Nobility singly ascended the Throne and touched the King's Crown promising by that Ceremony to be ever ready to support it with all their power During the performing of this Solemn Ceremony the Lord High-Chancellour went to the South West and North-sides of the Stage and proclaimed to the People the King 's General Pardon being attended by Mr. Garter to the South-side and by a Gentle-man-Vsher and two Heralds to the other two Sides CAROLVS-II-DG ANG-SCO-FR-ET-HI-REX VEVâ—Eâ—O-MISSVS SVCCVâ—â—â—EE SECLO-XXIII APR. 1661 The King being thus enthronized the Gentlemen of His Chapel began this following Anthem Behold O Lord our Defender and look upon the Face of thine Anointed At the ending of which Anthem the Trumpets sounded and Drums beat again In which time the Bishop of London went up to the High Altar and began the Communion and immediately the King took off His Crown and delivered it to the Lord High-Chamberlain to hold the Scepter with the Cross to Mr. Henry Howard and that with the Dove to the Duke of Albemarle The EPISTLE taken out of the First Epistle of St. Peter the second Chapter and beginning at the eleventh Verse was read by the Bishop of Chichester The GOSPEL being part of the twenty second Chapter of St. Matthew beginning at the fifteenth Verse by the Bishop of Ely After which the Nicene Creed was began by the Bishop of London and sung by the Gentle-men of the Chapel All which time the King stood by His Throne But towards the end of the Creed He took again His Crown from the Lord Great-Chamberlain and put it on His Head as also the Scepter with the Cross from Mr. Howard and that with the Dove from the Duke of Albemarle and prepared for His Descent from His Throne towards the Altar to receive the Communion And as soon as singing of the Creed was fully ended the King descended with the Crown on His Head and Scepters in both Hands the Bishops of Duresm and Bath and Wells supporting Him with the four Swords naked before all the great Officers attending In the time of which Proceeding the Quire sung Let my Prayer come up into thy presence as the Incense and the lifting up of my Hand be as an Evening-Sacrifice Here the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury retired from the Ceremonies into Saint Edward's Chapel and thence went home leaving the remainder of his Duty to be performed by the Bishop of London At the King's approach to the Altar the Bishop of Ely delivered unto Him Bread and Wine which He there offered and then returned to the Fald stool on the South side of the Altar near His Chair of State before which He kneeled down and laid His Crown upon the Cushion before Him towards His right Hand and the Scepter with the Dove on His left and gave again to Mr. Howard the Scepter with the Cross who held it kneeling on the King 's right Hand the Grand Officers and the Noble-men with the four Swords naked and erect standing about Him Then the Bishop of London said this Prayer Bless O Lord we beseech thee these thy Gifts and sanctifie them unto this holy Vse c. At the end of which the Lord Cornwallis Treasurer of the Houshold delivered another Wedg of Gold which goeth under the name of the Mark of Gold to the Lord Great-Chamberlain who presenting it to the King He offered it into the Bason kneeling still at His Fald-stool whil'st the Bishop of London said the following Prayer beginning thus Almighty God give Thee the Dew of Heaven and the Fatness of the Earth and abundance of Corn and Wine c. And next pronounced this Blessing Bless O Lord the virtuous carriage of this KING and accept the Work of His Hands c. Then the Bishop proceeded to the Consecration of the Sacrament which being finished he first of all received next the Dean of Westminster then the Bishop of Bath and Wells and lastly the Bishop of Duresm These four Prelates having communicated and Preparation made for the King 's Receiving who kneeled all this while before the Fald-stool the Bishop of London gave the King the Bread and the Dean of Westminster the Cup. As soon as the King had received this Anthem was begun by the upper Quire O hearken unto the voice of my Calling my King and my God c. In the mean while the King returned to His Throne upon the Theatre with the Crown on His Head and bearing the Scepters in His Hands When He came thither He first put off His Crown and delivered it to the Lord Great-Chamberlain then the Scepter with the Cross to Mr. Howard and that other with the Dove to the Duke of Albemarle After this the Bishop of London went on with the Communion which being finished the King attended as before descended from His Throne crowned with both the Scepters in His Hand the rest of the Regalia being carried before Him and thence proceeded into Saint Edward's Chapel where He took off Saint Edward's Crown and delivered it to the Bishop of London who immediately laid it upon Saint Edward's Altar all the rest of the Regalia being given into the hands of the Dean of Westminster and laid there also Then He retired into a Traverse where He was disrobed of the Robes He was crowned in which were delivered to the Dean of Westminster to lay up with the rest of Regalia and invested with His Royal Robes of Purple Velvet He came near to Saint Edward's Altar where the Bishop of London standing ready with the Imperial Crown in his hands set that upon His Head All which being performed He took the Scepter with the Cross in His right Hand and the Globe in His left and proceeded to Westminster-Hall the same way that He came and attended after the same manner saving that the Noble-men and Bishops who brought the Regalia to the Abbey Church went not now immediately before Him as they did then but were ranked in places according to their Degrees all the Noble-men having their Coronets and Caps on their Heads and the Kings of Arms their Coronets The Proceeding being entred into Westminster-Hall the Nobility and others who had Tables assigned them went and placed themselves thereat but the King attended with the Great Officers with-drew into the Inner-Court of Wards for half an hour In the mean time all the
jerks Air with Serpents dire Of Tisiphone Virgil Aen. vi Continuò sontes ultrix accincta flagello Tisiphone quatit insultans torvósque sinistrâ Intentans angues vocat agmina saeva sororum Cruel Tisiphone insulting shakes Her dreadful Whip and arm'd with twisted Snakes In her left hand straight on the guilty falls And Troops of unrelenting Furies calls Pindar calls Sedition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a bad Nurse for Children The reason may be taken from these Verses of Homer describing the consequents of it Iliad xxii 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My slaughter'd Sons my Daughters ravish'd see My Court destroy'd and from the Nurses knee Their tender Babes snatch'd by the cruel Foe And in one Sea their Bloods commixed flow The HYDRA on which Rebellion is mounted the Ancients have very variously represented * In Corinthiacis Pausanias attributes but one Head to it Pisander Camirensis †Ibid. many Alcaeus nine Simonides fifty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whom Virgil follows Quinquaginta atris immanis hiatibus Hydra Aen. vi Savior intus habet sedem Hydra with fifty ugly Jaws one more Cruel then this by half 's within the door On the South Pedestal is a Representation of BRITTAIN'S MONARCHY supported by LOYALTY both Women Monarchy in a large Purple Robe adorn'd with Diadems and Scepters over which a loose Mantle edg'd with blue and silver Fringe resembling Water the Map of Great Britain drawn on it on her Head London in her right Hand Edinburgh in her left Dublin Loyalty all in White three Scepters in her right Hand three Crowns in her left Purple is call'd by Tertullian Regiae dignitatis insigne De Idololat a Badg of Royal Dignity Lactantius Lib. iv cap. vii In Rufinum Lib. ii Et sicuti nunc Romanis indumentum Purpurae insigne est Regiae dignitatis assumptae sic illis c. Claudian of Rufinus Imperii cerius tegeret ceu Purpura dudum Corpus ardentes ambirent tempora gemmae Certain of Empire as if Purple now Had cloath'd his Limbs and Gems impal'd his Brow So Strabo says that the Posterity of Androclus Son of Codrus King of Athens had at Ephesus besides many other Honours granted them a Purple Robe in token of their Royal descent According to which we finde in Sidonius Apollinaris Purpuratus to be equivalent with Imperator Epist lib. ii Qui videbatur in jugulum Purpurati jamjam ruiturus Epist xiii Who seem'd ready to murder the Emperour and Serò cognoscunt possereum Majestatis pronunciari etiam eum qui non adfectâsset habitum Purpuratorum They too late understand that even he that affected not the Habit of the Emperours might be found guilty of Treason From whence the Civilians observe that it was Treason to assume the Royal Robes And Ammianus Marcellinus speaks of a Woman who had suborn'd several to accuse her Husband of High Treason for having stoln the Emperour Diocletian's Purple Vest out of his Sepulchre and hiding it Eusebius He Diocletian first beautified his Shoes with Gold and Pearls and pretious Stones For the Kings before him were honoured in the same manner with the Consuls having onely a Purple Vest for a badge of their Royalty The same saith Paeanius who translated Eutropius The Royal Robe before was distinguish'd only by its Purple colour Wherefore when any resolv'd Tyrannically to sieze upon the Royal Dignity they immediately usurp'd a Purple Robe which they sometimes forc'd from a Standard In Gordianis as Trebellius reports of Saturninus The same Authour Gordianum Proconsulem reclamantem se terrae affligentem opertum Purpurâ imperare coëgerunt primò quidem invitus Gordianus Purpuram sumpserat postea verò quum vidit neque filio neque familiae id latam esse volens suscepit Imperium They forc'd Gordian the Proconsul who denied and cast himself upon the ground to be vested in Purple and receive the Title of Emperour at first he was very unwilling to receive the Purple Robe but when he saw that that was unsafe for his Son and Family he receiv'd the Empire willingly Where Purpurant sumere and sumere Imperium are the same Sometimes they committed Sacrilege upon the Statues of the Gods In Saturnino Vopiscus Depositâ Purpurâ ex simulachro Veneris cum cyclade uxoria à militibus circumstantibus amictus adoratus est Taking a Purple Robe from the Statue of Venus and his Wife 's inner Vest of Gold he was invested and adored by the Souldiers as Emperour Trebellius Celsum Imperatorem appellaverunt peplo Deae Coelestis ornatum They put on Celsus the Vest of the Goddess of Heaven and call'd him Emperour Wherefore when we read of the Consular Purple Robes under the Romane Emperours as in that of Latinus Pacatus Quorum alter post amplissimos Magistratus purpuras Consulares and of Sidonius Te picta Togatum Purpura plus capiat quia res est semper ab aevo Rara frequens Consul Purple should rather thee affect since we One often made a Consul seldome see it must be understood either of the Senatorian Segments added to their Consular Robes or of a Purple mix'd with some other Dye which is mentioned in Theodosius's Code as a Warp of Purple the Woof of another colour or the like For the Imperial Interdict comprehends all of whatsoever degree Temperent universi cujuscunque sint sexûs dignitatis artis professionis generis ab hujúsmodi speciei possessione quae soli Principi ejusque domui dedicatur Let every one of what Sex Dignity Art Profession and Birth they be forbear the possession of this sort of Purple which is appropriated to the Prince alone and his house The first Imperial Edict of this nature is conceived to be in the time of the Emperour Nero which is to be understood de holoveris of pure unmix'd Purple Neither was Purple peculiar to the Imperial Robes onely but to their Pens too The Emperour Leo forbad that any Rescripts of his should bear other then a Purple Inscription So Nicetas in the Life of Manuel the Emperour says That at his entrance upon the Empire he sent Letters to Constantinople written with Purple Constantinus Manasses in his Annals The Emperour granted the request of his Sister and taking a Pen in his hand confirm'd the Paper in Purple Letters Epitome Chron. Werweronis And Palaeologus the Emperour swearing subjection to the Roman See in the Church of Santo Spirito at Rome subscribed in Letters of Purple The art of making this Purple both for Robes and Ink L. Sacri C. de diver Rescr is still preserv'd but we meet not with the materials though we have left us both the place and manner of taking preparing and whatsoever is necessary for that purpose Monarchy is said to be supported by Loyalty because the Love of the Subject is the securest Guard of the Prince
and a King be Crown'd Then as He riseth sink we under Ground Rebellion having ended her Speech Monarchy entertains His Majesty with the following To Hell foul Fiend shrink from this glorious Light And hide thy Head in everlasting Night Enter in Safety Royal Sir this Arch And through your joyful Streets in Triumph march Enter our Sun our Comfort and our Life No more these Walls shall breed Intestine Strife Henceforth Your People onely shall contend In Loyalty each other to transcend May Your Great Actions and immortal Name Be the whole Business and Delight of Fame May You and Yours in a Perpetual Calm Be Crown'd with Laurel and Triumphant Palm And all Confess whilst they in You are Blest I MONARCHY of Governments am Best Monarchy having ended her Speech the Trumpets sound pleasant Levets and the Drums beat a lofty English March whilst His Majesty the Nobility and the Rear-Guard pass on The next Entertainment is at Corn-hill-Conduit on the top of which stand eight Nymphs clad in White each having an Escutcheon in one Hand and a Pendent or Banner in the other On the Tower of the said Conduit a Noise of seven Trumpets THE SECOND ARCH NEAR the Exchange in Corn-hill is erected the Second Arch which is Naval On the East-side were two Stages erected on each side of the Street one In that on the South-side was a Person representing the River Thames his Garment Loose and Flowing Colour Blew and White waved like Water a Mantle over like a Sail his Head crown'd with London Bridg Flags and Ozier like long Hair falling o'ver his Shoulders his Beard long Sea-green and White curl'd an Oar in his right Hand the Model of a Ship in his left an Vrn beside him out of which issued Water four Attendants in White representing the four fresh Streams which fall into the River Thames viz. Charwel Lea Coln and Medway The Antients did very much differ in the Description of their Rivers as Aelian * Var. Hist lib. ii cap. xxxiii relates Those that worship Rivers and those that make their Images some form them in the likeness of Men others in the likeness of Oxen. The Stymphalians liken the Rivers Erasinus and Metope the Lacedaemonians Eurotas the Sicyonians and Phliasians Asopus the Argives Cephissus unto Oxen. The Psophidians liken Erymanthus the Heraeans Alphaeus the Cherronesians that came from Cnidus the River Cnidus to Men. The Athenians worship the River Cephissus under the form of a Man but wearing Horns In Sicily the Syracusians liken Anapus to a Man but the Fountain Cyane to a Woman Virgil * Georg. iv describes Eridanus in the Form of an Ox. Et gemina auratus taurino cornua vultu Eridanus quo non alius per pinguia culta In mare purpureum violentior influit amnis Golden Eridanus with a double Horn Fac'd like a Bull through fertile Fields of Corn Then whom none swifter of the Ocean's Sons Down to the Purple Adriatick runs On which place says Probus It 's feign'd like a Bull either because its noise is like the lowing of a Bull or because its Banks are crooked like Horns The same says Cornutus The Scholiast on Sophocles renders other reasons either because they cut the ground like Oxen or because Meadows Pasture of Oxen are always adjacent to them HORACE tauriformis Aufidus So we finde in Pindar that the Bull †Pyth. which Perillus gave to the Tyrant Phalaris was the Image of the River Gelon Very frequently we finde Horns attributed to them as in Virgil * Aen. lib. viii Corniger Hesperidum fluvius regnator aquarum Adsis ô tandem propius tua numina firmes Horn'd Flood of all th' Hesperian Rivers King Now shew thy power and us assistance bring Ovid Cornibus hic fractis viridi malè tectus ab ulva Decolor ipse suo sanguine Rhenus erat Here Rhine with Vine and Reeds ill cover'd stood His Horns being broke distain'd with Native Blood Claudian * De land Etiliconis lib. i. Rhenùmque minacem Cornibus infractis adeò mitescere cogis and threatning Rhyne His Horns being broke thou did'st to Peace incline And again of Eridanus De vi Consul Honorii ille caput placidis sublime fluentis Extulit totis lucem spargentia ripis Aurea roranti micuerunt cornua vultu Non illi madidum vulgaris arundine crinem Velat honos rami caput umbravêre virentes Heliadum totÃsque fluunt electra capillis Palla tegit latos humeros currúque paterno Intextus Phaëthon glaucos incendit amictus Raising his Head above his Wat'ry Ranks His Golden Horns reflecting tip'd the Banks With sprinkled light Drops trickling from his Face He his moist Hair veil'd not with Oziers base And vulgar Reeds fresh Pop'lars Shade his Brows And Amber from his curled Tresses flows A Robe his Shoulders hides Phaethon's wrought there His blew Vest burning in his Father's Chair S.P.Q.R. OPTIMO PRINCIâ—â— DANVVIVS SALVS REIP. DANVBIVS Claudian * De Prob. Olyb of Tyber crispo densantur gramine colla Vertice luxuriat toto crinalis arundo c. taurina levantur Cornua temporibus raucos sudantia rivos c. Palla graves humeros velat quam neverat uxor Ilia percurrens vitreas sub gurgite telas his Neck ripe Harvest bound An interwoven Reed his Temples crown'd c. And from his rising Horns distils A Sweat which swells to Crystal Rills c. A Vest he wore which Ilia his Spouse With Crystal Looms wove in her Wat'ry House OVID Metam capitis quoque fronde salignâ Aut superimpositâ celatur arundine damnum the damage of his Brows He shades with flaggie Wreaths and sallow Boughs The Statue indeed of the River Tyber now extant in Rome ha's its Head inviron'd with several sorts of Leaves and Fruits to signifie the fertility of the places near it caused by the same yet it recedes not so far from the Fiction of the Poets but that it holds a Reed in its Hand And the reason is because these thrive best in watry places They are ordinarily described too leaning on an Vrn out of which issues Water VIRGIL describing the Shield of Turnus Caelatâque amnem fundens pater InachusVrnâ And Inachus powrs Water from his Vrn CLAUDIAN †De vi Consul Honorii of Eridanus Fultáque sub gremio caelatis nobilis astris Aethereum probat urna decus An Urn he bore grav'd with Coelestial Signs That prov'd his high descent So is Danubius represented in the Coyns now mentioned There is a little Image of Nile leaning on its right Hand with its left Hand powring out Water from three Urns with one handle about which play sixteen little Children Why Nile should be figured with three Urns this reason is given because the Aegyptian Priests attributed the encrease of it to three several causes especially rejecting all other opinions which were innumerable The sixteen Children are the Hieroglyphick of sixteen Cubits the proper encrease of
in Median Tapestry PETRONIUS ARBITER Tuo palato clausus pavo pascitur Plumato amictus aulaeo Babylonico A Peacock shall be cram'd for thee Adorn'd like Median Tapestry SIDONIUS Peregrina det supellex Ctesiphontis ac Niphatis Juga texta belluásque Rapidas vacante panno Acuit quibus furorem Bene ficta plaga cocco Jaculoque ceu forante Cruor incruentus exit Vbi torvus per artem Resupina flexus ora It equo reditque telo Fugiens fugánsque Parthus From Ctesiphont straight get enough And Niphates fair Houshold stuff Wrought with Hills and Wilde Beasts which The empty Prospect may enrich Who by well-feignd Wounds enrag'd Seem more desperately engag'd From Javelins fixed in their sides Blood in Bloodless Rivers glides Where the Parthian with such Art O're his Shoulder throws his Dart His Horse now charging then retreats And flying so his Foe defeats AFRICA a Woman in her Hand a Pomegranate on her Head a Crown of Ivory and Ears of Wheat at her Feet two Ships laden with Corn. Thus we finde the Statue of Africk at Florence leaning upon its left Hand in which there is a Pomegranate in her right Hand an Vmbrella to defend her from the heat of the Sun for her Pillow two great Waters signifying the Mediterranean and Atlantick Seas So at Mycenae the Statue of Juno Protectrice of Carthage the Metropolis of Africk made by Polyclet holds in one Hand a Scepter in the other a Pomegranate Therefore when the Queen sacrificed to Juno she wore a Rod of Pomegranate upon her Head called by the Ancients Inarculum FESTUS Inarculum virgulta erat ex malo Punico incurvata quam Regina sacrificans in capite gestabat Seld Mar. claus lib. 3. De Bello Gildonico The same Authour implicitely describes her in the same manner in another place mediis apparet in astris Africa rescissae vestes Spicea passim Serta jacent lacero crinales vertice dentes Et fractum pendebat ebur Amidst the Stars next Africa appears Her Garments torn her Wreath of Wheaten Ears Scatter'd about Teeth braided on her Crown And broken Ivory hung The Ivory on her Head alludes to the great number of Elephants bred in that part of the World Plin. Nat. Hist viii xi especially in that part of Africa beyond the Syrtick Solitudes and Desarts Aethiopia Trogloditica and Mauritania Petronius Quaeritur in silvis Mauri fera ultimus Ammon A frorum excutitur ne desit bellua dente Ad mortes pretiosa suas The Libyan Wilds we seek and th' utmost South To finde a Monster out whose pretious Tooth Proves its own bane JUVENAL Dentibus ex illis quos mittit porta Syenes Sat. ii Et Mauri celeres From whiter Teeth which the Syene sends And the swift Moors Whence the Romans in their Triumphs over Africa usually had Elephants led before them to denote the place of their Victory Plin. lib. viii cap. vii as L. Metellus in whose Coyns we finde either an Elephant or his Triumphal Chariot drawn by two of them or a Head of one of them under his Chariot Pier Hierogl Pliny says Lib. Peod cap. vii that the Chariot of Pompey was drawn by four Elephants in his African Triumph And we finde that the Fifth Legion bore the Effigies of an Elephant on their Colours because they successfully manag'd a Battel against them in the War betwixt Caesar and L. Scipio The two Ships at her Feet relate to the Classis Frumentaria which came yearly to Rome from Africk frequently mention'd in the Roman Writers which was instituted by Commodus the Emperour Of whom Lampridius Classem Africanam instituit quae subsidio esset si fortè Alexandrina frumenta cessassent He appointed an African Navy which should furnish the City in case the Corn from Alexandria should fail Of which Claudian Tot mihi pro meritis Libyam Nilumque dedêre De Bello Gildonico Vt dominam plebem bellatoremque Senatum Classibus aestivis alerent geminóque vicissim Littore diversi complerent horrea venti Stabat certa salus Memphis si fortè negasset Pensabam Pharium Getulis messibus annum Frugiferas certare rates latéque videbam Punica Niliacis concurrere carbosa velis They gave me Libya and the Aegyptian Shore For my deserts that they might with their Store The People and the Warlick Senate feed And with contrary Winds supply their need Famine farewel if Memphis should deny Getulian Harvests will our Wants supply Freighted with Corn I saw the Punick Fleet And Ships from Nilus in our Harbours meet And Laude Serenae Riginae Phariae segetes Punica messis Castrorum devota cibo dat Gallia robur Militis c. Aegyptian Crops and Punick Grain Our Camps with Bread Gaul doth with Men maintain De Providentia Dei Lib. vi Wherefore Salvian after he had mention'd the Destruction of Sardinia and Sicily the Vital Veins he calls Africa the Soul it self of the Common-Wealth of Rome Prudentius In Symmachum Respice num Libyci desistat raris arator Frumentis onerare rates ad Ostia Tibris Mittere triticeos in pastum plebis acervos See if the Libyan Swain neglects to load Our Ships with Corn and to the Ostian Road Sends Wheaten Mountains for the Peoples Food AMERICA Crown'd with Feathers of divers Colours on her Stole a Golden River in one Hand a Silver Mountain So Pompey in his Triumph over Methridates among the rest of his Silver and Golden Representations carried Montem aureum quadratum Pliny Nat. Hist Lib. xxxvii cap. xi cum cervis leonibus pomis omnis generis circumdatâ vite aureâ A square Golden Mountain encompassed with a Vine of Gold with Harts and Lions upon it and all manner of Fruit. The Mountain in her Hand is Potosis in Peru whose Treasure ha's been accounted inexhaustible Josephus Acosta relates that in that Mountain there was found a Vein of Silver Nat. Hist Ind. lib. iv cap. vi about the height of a Spear above the Superficies of the Earth three hundred Foot long and thirteen broad The same Authour witnesses that the King of Spain receives yearly from thence a Million of Ducats and that onely from the fifth part of the Silver We have read of indeed of Silver Mountains in Europe as that mention'd by Strabo in Spain Not far from Costaon is a Mountain whence flows the River Baetis call'd the Silver Mountain in relation to the Silver Mines there And of a Golden Mountain in Asia mention'd by Menander 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 presently after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Where King Chaganus himself was on a Mountain call'd Ectag that is the Golden Mountain And Appian before him Many Fountains bring down small Shavings of Gold from the Mountain Caucasus the Inhabitants sinking Fleeces of Wooll very deep take up what Shavings stick to them But these are all so considerable in respect of the inestimable
Italiam tantóque fragore Eruta convulsis prosternes oppida muris Thou do'st see The War so much desir'd and sought by Thee Thee greatest Wars attend the dreadful Fall Of Woods and Forests with high Storms that all The Face of Heav'n disturb the Slaughter Thee And Death of Men the great Calamity Of the Idaean Race and saddest Fate Do follow and upon thee daily wait As great and terrible as that dire Snake Which now the Mountains with his Scaly Back Depopulates and drives the Forests through The Fields before him and doth Earth imbrue With frothy Poison Such thou having past And overcome the Alps with War shalt wast All Italy and with a Noise as great The Cities and their Walls shalt ruinate Mr. ROSS Which is evidently seen in some Medaigles of the Roman Emperours as in this Reverse of Augustus's Num. C. CAES OCTAV CAESAR IMP VII RECEPTA ASIA Where two Serpents that is the Hostility and Dissension of the Roman Empire divided into two Factions that of Augustus and Antony are separated by an intervening Victory that of Augustus at Actium and Alexandria That upon these Victories this Coyn was stamp'd may be collected from the Inscription on the other side CAESAR IMP. VII that is annus U. C. DCCXXIV in which * Dio Lib li. Year he triumph'd for the two Victories before-mention'd The same is to be seen in a Reverse of M. Antony's Num M. ANTONII III VIRI M. ANTONIVS IMP. COS DESIG ITERITâ—â—â— III. VIR R. P. C. Where a Woman supposed to be CONCORD with the Face of Octavia Sister to Augustus and Wife to M. Antony in a long Stole holding in her left Hand a pure Spear in her right a Pontifical Vessel parts two Serpents signifying the Armies of Augustus and Antony Which Interpretation of this Coyn is very much confirm'd from History For this Pacification obtain'd by the Prudence of Octavia happened anno U. C. DCCXVI Agrippa and Gallus being Consuls That this Coyn was stamp'd after the Year DCCXIV Vide Pighii Annal. ad cum annum the time of the Peace between Sext. Pompey C. Caes Octavianus and Antony appears from the Inscription on the other side M. ANTONIUS IMP. COS. DESIG ITER ET TERT. for Appian * De Civil Bel. Lib. v. says that after that Peace the Consulships were appointed for the next four Years For the first Antony and Libo which Antony had been Consul before with Julius Caesar next Caesar and Pompey after them Ahenobarbus and Sossius last Caesar and Antony 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then to become the third time Consuls On the West-side the third great Figure a Woman standing at the Helm of a Ship in her left Hand a Cornu-copiae the Word FORTUNAE REDUCI FORTVNE was not more various and unconstant in her Motions then those that painted her in their Descriptions The first was Bupalus who put a Celestial Orb which Pierius unhappily chang'd by the mistake of one Vowel into a Foal on her Head and a Cornu-copiae in her left Hand as we finde her in a Reverse of a Coyn of the Emperour Gallienus with this Inscription 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Afterwards some feigned her either standing upon a Stone or the top of some Mountain exposed to the Winds or upon a Wheel others upon the Prow of a Ship holding a Sail with both her Hands which is frequent in Greek Medaigles PAUSANIAS makes mention of a Temple of Fortune in which there was her Statue holding a young Plutus the God of Riches in her Hand as we finde her in ARISTOPHANES * In Pluto to signifie that she was the Mother and Nurse of Wealth Some attributed Wings to her as EUSEBIUS mentions HORACE †Lib. iii. Od. 29. si celeres quatit Pennas resigno quae dedit If she her nimble Pinions wave I straight resign whate're she gave The Scythians both Wings and Hands but no Feet When APELLES was asked why he made Fortune sitting he answered Because she never stood But we shall onely take notice of what is here before us In the same manner we finde her described in a Stone insculp'd on both sides with this Inscription on one NUM DOM. AUG SACRUM FORTUNAE CONSERVATRICI HORRE OR GALBANORUM M. LORINUS FORTUNATUS MAGISTER S. P. B. D. with the Image of Fortune holding in her left Hand a Cornu-copiae in her right the Helm of a Ship and so we finde her too in a Reverse of a Coyn of TRAJAN the Emperour mention'd by OCCO. The like says LACTANTIUS * Lib. iii. Effingebatur quidem Fortuna cum Cornucopia Gubernaculo tanquam opes tribuere putaretur humanarum rerum regimen obtinere Fortune was made with a Cornu-copiae and the Helm of a Ship as if she were reputed the Disposer of Wealth and had the Government of Humane Affairs And PLUTARCH †De fortuna Romanorum after various instances on each side at length concludes that the Roman Empire ought more to Fortune then to Valour or Prudence and therefore says that having left the Persians and Assyrians she lightly flew over Macedonia and presently she shaked off ALEXANDER then passing through Aegypt and Syria often tryed the Carthaginians but when she had once passed the Tyber and entered the Palace she laid aside her Wings put off her Talaria and forsook her unfaithful and ever-mutable Sphere as if she intended to stay there for ever Indeed the Romans did confess as much who having dedicated sundry Temples to Fortune with all variety of Honour in the most eminent places of the City never erected one to Virtue or Valour till the time of Marcellus that took Syracuse or of Scipio Numantinus about the †Helvicus Chron. pag. 75. d. five hundred sixty and third year after the building of the City To Prudence never dedicated to any Among the rest of Fortune's Titles none more frequent then this of REDUX to whom we read that DOMITIAN the Emperour built a Temple mention'd by MARTIAL * Lib. vii Hìc ubi FORTUNAE REDUCI fulgentia latè Templa nitent Here where bright Fanes to RETURN'D FORTUNE shine Temples of the like nature are mention'd too by CLAUDIAN Aurea FORTUNAE REDUCI si Templa priores Ob reditum vovêre Ducum non digniùs unquam Haec Dea pro meritis amplas sibi posceret aedes c. If they to FORTUNE REDUX vow'd of old Their Chiefs return'd with Conquest Fanes of Gold The Goddess never more deserv'd then now That we should stately Temples her allow CAESARI AVGVSTO FORT RED CAIS-AVO-S P.Q.R Above there are eight living Figures with Pennons and Shields representing the four Cardinal Virtues each with an Attendant PRUDENCE on her Shield Bellerophon on a Pegasus running his Javelin into the Mouth of a Chimera the Word CONSILIO ET VIRTUTE Bellerophon was the Son of Glaucus King of Corinth renown'd both for Prudence Courage Beauty and Modesty Of whom thus HOMER †Iliad vi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
Tables in the Body of the Hall were served viz. before the King's Service came up and were placed in this manner On the right hand viz. the South-East side of the Hall were set two Tables one beneath the other at the upper end of the first which had two Side-Tables to serve it sate the Bishops and below them the Judges with the rest of the Long-Robe At the second Table which had two Side-board Tables likewise to serve it sate the Masters of the Chancery and the Six Clerks At which likewise the Barons of the Cinque-Ports were then necessitated to sit by reason of a Disturbance which some of the King's Footmen made in offering to take the Canopy from them although the upper end of the first Table was appointed for them On the other side of the Hall was placed likewise a long Table which reached down near to the Common-Pleas-Court whereat the Nobility dined And behind this close to the Wall at a shorter Table sate the Lord Maior Aldermen Recorder and twelve chief Citizens of London Lastly within the Court of Common-Pleas was a Table set for the Officers at Arms whereat they also dined Each Table being furnished with three Courses answerable to that of the King 's besides the Banquet At the upper end of the Hall where upon an ascent of Steps a Theatre was raised for His Majestie 's Royal Seat at this great Solemnity a large Table being placed the Serjeant of the Ewry two Serjeants at Arms with their Maces going before him bringing up the Covering was spread by the Gentlemen-Vshers and Serjeant of the Ewry This being done the Officers of the Pantry with two Serjeants at Arms also before them brought up the Salt of State and Caddinet A little before the King returned to Diner two Esquires of the Body took their Seats upon two little Foot-stools on either side of the Foot of the King's Chair placed opposite to the middle of the Table and there sate until the King came in to Diner when rising and performing their Duty in placing the King's Robes for His better conveniency of sitting they sate down again at the King's Feet some part of Diner-time until the King gave them leave to rise On the right Side of the Throne was erected a Gallery for the Officers at Arms. And opposite to that on the other side another for the Musick and below on the old Scaffolds next the Court of Common Pleas stood the King's Trumpeters The Proceeding at carrying up of the First Course to the KING'S TABLE The two Clerks Comptrollers The two Clerks of the Green Cloth And the Cofferer of His Majestie 's Houshold All in Black Velvet Gowns trimm'd with Black Silk and Gold Lace with Velvet Caps raised in the Head Six Serjeants at Arms two and two The Earl-Marshal on the left Hand The Lord-High-Steward The Lord High-Constable on the right Hand All three mounted on Horse-back in their Robes and with their Coronets on their Heads having their Horses richly trapped Six Serjeants at Arms two and two The Comptroller of the Houshold The Treasurer of the Houshold with their White Staves Earl of Dorset Sewer Earl of Chesterfield his Assistant The Knights of the Bath carrying up the Service two and two to a Dish which was set upon the Table by the Earl of Lincoln Carver assisted by the Earl-Sewers In the Rear came up the three Clerks of His Maiestie's Kitchin all suted in Black Fugar'd Satin Gowns and Velvet Caps in fashion like those worn by the Clerks Comptrollers Diner being set on the Table the King came forth from the Inner-Court of Wards in His Royal Robes with the Crown on His Head and Scepter in His Hand having the three Swords born naked before Him and having wash'd sate down to Diner the Bishop of London saying Grace On the King 's right Hand the Noble-men that carried the three Swords stood holding them naked and erected all the Diner-while at His left Hand stood the Lord High-Chamberlain to whom the King had given the Scepter to hold And at the Table 's end on the King 's left Hand sate the Duke of YORK in his Robes and Coronet Soon after Diner was begun the Lord Allington by virtue of his tenure of the Manor of Wymundeley in the County of Hertford served the King of His first Cup which was of Silver Gilt and after the King had drank he had the Cup for his Fee Next Thomas Leigh Esquire was brought up to the Table with a Mess of Pottage called Dillegrout by reason of his tenure of the Manour of Addington in the County of Surrey Afterwards a little before the second Course was ready Sir Edward Dymock Knight being the King's Champion as being seized of the Manor of Scrivelsby in the County of Lincoln entred the Hall on a goodly White Coursier armed at all Points and there having made a stand for some time advanced in maner following First Two Trumpets Then the Serjeant-Trumpeter with his Mace After him two Serjeants at Arms with their Maces Then one Esquire carrying his Target having his Arms depicted thereon and Another Esquire carrying the Champion's Lance upright After them YORK-Herald at Arms. The Earl-Marshal on his left Hand The Champion The Lord High-Constable on his right Hand Both likewise on Horseback Being come on some few steps he made a stand whereupon the said Herald proclaimed his Challenge in these following words IF any Person of what degree soever high or low shall deny or gain-say Our Sovereign Lord King CHARLES the Second King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith Son and next Heir to Our Sovereign Lord CHARLES the First the last King deceased to be right Heir to the Imperial Crown of this Realm of England or that He ought not to enjoy the same here is His Champion who saith that he lyeth and is a false Traytor being ready in person to Combate with him and in this Quarrel will adventure his Life against him on what day soever he shall be appointed Whereupon the Champion threw down his Gantlet which lying some small time and no body taking it up it was delivered unto him again by the same Herald Then he advanced further forward until he came to the middle of the Hall where the Herald having reiterated the same Proclamation the Gantlet was again thrown down taken up and returned unto him And lastly advancing to the Foot of the Steps to the Throne of State the said Herald again proclaimed the same Challenge whereupon the Champion threw down his Gantlet again which no body taking up it was delivered unto him This being done the Earl of Penbroke and Montgomery assisted as before presented on the Knee to the King a Gilt Cup with a Cover full of Wine who drank to the Champion and by the said Earl sent him the Cup which having received he after three Reverences drank it all off went a little backward and so departed out of the Hall taking the
Happiness by His Majestie 's Arrival the Motto FELIX TEMPORUM REPARATIO On the Royal Oak in a Label ROBUR BRITANNICUM In allusion to His Majestie 's Royal Navy those Floating Garrisons made of Oak For Themistocles ha's observ'd that †Tull. ad Attic. Lib. i. Ep. vii Whosoever desires a secure Dominion by Land must first get the Dominion of the Sea And therefore when the Oracle in the Median War wish'd the Athenians to provide a Wall of Wood for their Defence he * Plutarch in vita Themistoclis and De vitando are alieno interpreted it a Navy Over the Great Table REDEUNT SATURNIA REGNA Which are at large described by †Metam Lib. i. Ovid Aurea prima sata est aetas quae vindice nullo Sponte suâ sine lege fidem rectúmque colebat c. The Golden Age was first which uncompel'd And without rule in Faith and Truth excel'd As then there was nor Punishment nor Fear Nor threatning Laws in Brass prescribed were Nor suppliant crouching Pris'ners shook to see Their angry Judge but all was safe and free To visit other Worlds no wounded Pine Did yet from Hills to faithless Seas decline Then unambitious Mortals knew no more But their own Countrie 's Nature-bounded Shore Nor Swords nor Arms were yet no Trenches round Besieged Towns nor strifeful Trumpet 's sound The Souldier of no use In firm content And harmless ease their happy days were spent The yet-free Earth did of her own accord Vntorn with Ploughs all sorts of Fruit afford 'T was always Spring warm Zephyrus sweetly blew On smiling Flowers which without setting grew Forthwith the Earth Corn unmanured bears And ev'ry year renews her Golden Ears With Milk and Nectar vvere the Rivers fill'd And Honey from green Holly-Oaks distill'd Mr. SANDYS Vnder King CHARLES the Second RESTITUTOR URBIS The Painting on the South-west side represents the Lord Mayor delivering to the King the Keys of the City In the Niches are four Figures The first on the South-side a Woman in pleasant Colours the Emblem on her Shield a Terrestrial Globe the Sun rising Bats and Owls flying to the Shadovv the Word EXCOECAT CANDOR The Second hath on her Escutcheon a Swarm of Bees whetting their Stings the Word PRO REGE EXACUUNT Pliny ha's observed that of Animals none but a Bee ha's a King Their Loyalty to him he ha's at large described Nat. Hist lib. xi cap. xvii The Obedience of the Communalty is to be admired Whensoever the KING goes forth the whole Hive accompanie him gather round about him encompass him protect him and suffer him not to be seen Whensoever the Communalty is at work he oversees them and is alone free from the labour About him there is constantly a certain Guard the daily preservers of his authority When they go forth every one desires to be next the King and rejoyces to be seen in his duty When he is weary they ease him with their shoulders when he is altogether tired they carry him Claudian says that they reverence their Prince at his Birth sic mollibus olim Stridula ducturum pratis examina Regem Nascentem venerantur apes So for their new-born King the Bees take Arms Who 's through the Meads to lead their humming swarms From whence the Aegyptians made a BEE the Hieroglyphick of a Loyal People The Third on the North side hath on her Shield a Mountain burning Cities and Vine-yards destroyed and ruined the Word IMPIA FOEDERA The Covenant in abhorrence of which villainous Combination according to this Order of both Houses it was burnt by the Common Hangman Die Lunae 20. Maii 1661. THE Lords in Parliament assembled having considered of a Paper sent unto them from the House of Commons for burning of the Instrument or Writing called The Solemn League or Covenant by the Hands of the Common Hangman Do Order that the said Instrument or Writing called The Solemn League and Covenant be burned by the Hand of the Common Hangman in the New-Palace at Westminster in Cheapside and before the Old-Exchange on Wednesday the Twenty second of this instant May. And that the said Covenant be forthwith taken off the Record in the House of Peers and in all other Courts and Places where the same is recorded And that all Copies thereof be taken down out of all Churches Chapels and other publick places in England and Wales and in the Town of Barwick upon Twede where the same are set up JO. BROWN Cleric Parliamentorum The Fourth hath on her Escutcheon an Arm as it were out of the Clouds in the Hand a naked Sword the Motto DISCITE JUSTITIAM MONITI Eight Mutes above on Pedestals four in White four in Crimson The Musick of this Fabrick is ten Drummers flanking REBELLION twelve Trumpets flanking MONARCHY Aloft under the two Devastations twelve Trumpets four Drums Within the Arch on two Balconies six Trumpets four Drums While the Train passeth along the Drums beat the Marches of several Countries and the Trumpets sound several Levets At which Time His Majesty drawing near the Drums turn their March to a Battel the Trumpets sound a Charge and on a sudden REBELLION rowseth up her Self at which Drums and Trumpets ceasing REBELLION addresses to His Majesty the following Speech Stand Stand who ' ere You are this Stage is Ours The Names of Princes are inscrib'd on Flow'rs And wither with them Stand You must Me know To Kings and Monarchy a deadly Fo Me who dare bid You ' midst Your Triumphs stand In the great City of Your Native Land I am Hell's Daughter Satan's Eldest Child When I first cry'd the Powers of Darkness smil'd And my Glad Father Thund'ring at my Birth Vnhing'd the Poles and shook the fixed Earth My dear Rebellion that shall be thy Name Said He Thou Emperours and Kings shalt tame No Right so good Succession none so long But thou shalt vanquish by the Popular Throng Those Legions which t' enlarge our Pow'r we send Throughout the World shall Thee my Dear attend Our mighty Champions the Sev'n Deadly Sins By Malice Profit Pleasure all their Gins Bring to our Kingdom some few spotted Souls Thou shalt by Treason hurry them in Shoals Would You now know what Int'rest I have here Hydra I ride great Cities are my Sphear I Sorc'ry use and hang Men in their Beds With Common-wealths and Rotas fill their Heads Making the Vulgar in Fanatique Swarms Court Civil War and dote on Horrid Arms 'T was I who in the late unnatural Broils Engag'd three Kingdoms and two Wealthy Isles I hope at last to march with Flags unfurl'd And tread down Monarchy through all the World At which Words Monarchy and Loyalty unveiling themselves Rebellion starts as affrighted but recollecting her self concludes her Speech thus Ah! Britain Ah! stand'st thou Triumphant there Monarchick Isle I shake with horrid Fear Are thy Wounds whole Vpon thy Cheek fresh Smiles Is Joy restor'd to these late mournful Isles Ah! must He enter
Maid kindly woo'd She stroak'd and kiss'd him and the Foam that lay Upon his Lip wip'd with her hand away He softly bellow'd such an humming sound Forth breathing as Mygdonian Pipes resound Down at her Feet he kneels viewing the Maid With writhed Neck and his broad Back displai'd When she to th'fair-haird Virgins thus doth say Come hither dear Companions let us play Securely with this Bull and without fear Who like a Ship all on his Back will bear He tame appears to sight and gently kind Diff'ring from others a discursive mind Bearing like Men and onely Voice doth lack This said she smiling gets upon his Back Which the rest off'ring the Bull leaps away And to the Sea bears his desired Prey She cals with stretch'd-out hands she turns to view Her Friends alass unable to pursue Down leaps he Dolphin-like glides through the Seas Up from the Deep rise the Nereides Mounted on Whales to meet her on the way Whilst hollow-sounding Neptune doth allay The Waves and is himself his Brothers guide In this Sea-Voyage Tritons on each side The Deep 's inhabitants about him throng And sound with their long shels a nuptial song She by transformed Jupiter thus born With one hand holding fast the Bull 's large Horn Her purple garment with the other saves Unwet by the swoln Ocean's froathy waves Her mantle flowing o're her shoulders swell'd Like a full sail and the young maid upheld Now born away far from her native coast Her sight the wave-washt shore and mountains lost She sees the Heav'ns above the Seas beneathe And looking round about these Cries doth breathe O whither sacred Bull who art thou say That through undreaded floods canst break thy way The Seas are pervious to swift Ships alone But not to Bulls is their fear'd voyage known What food is here or if some God thou be Why dost what misbeseems a Deity Upon the Land no Dolphins no Bulls move Upon the Sea Thou Sea and Land dost prove Alike whose feet like Oares assist thy hast Perhaps thou 'lt soar through the bright Air at last On high and like the nimble Birds become Me most unhappy who have left my home A Bull to follow voyages unknown To undertake and wander all alone But Neptune thou that rul'st the foaming Main Be pleas'd to help me sure I shall obtain A sight of this great God who is my guide Nor else could I these fluid paths have tride The largely horned Bull thus answer'd Maid Be bold nor of the swelling waves afraid For I am Jove who now a Bull appear And whatsoever shape I please can wear In this to measure the wide Sea constrain'd For love of thee thou shalt be entertain'd By Creet my Nurse our Nuptials shall be there Perform'd and thou of me great Sons shalt bear To whose imperious Scepters all shall bow What he had said event made good Creet now Appears in view Jove his own form doth take And loos'd her Zone the Hours their Bed did make She late a Virgin Spouse to Jove became Brought him forth Sons and gain'd a Mothers name Mr. STANLEY ASIA On her Head a Glory her Stole of Silk with several Forms of Wild Beasts wrought on it Among the Poets we frequently find Asia called Aurora from the rising of the Sun there as in CLAUDIAN Jam Princeps molitur iter gentésque remotas Colligit Aurorae tumidus quascunque pererrat Euphrates quos lustrat Halys quos ditat Orontes c. The Prince his Progress now designing calls Remotest Eastern Nations they whose Walls Euphrates Halys and Oront improves The Arabs leave their Incense-bearing Groves c. Totam pater undique secum Moverat Auroram mistis hic Colchus Iberis Hic mitrâ velatus Arabs hic crine decoro Armenius the Eastern World he rais'd There with Iberians Colchians mix'd and there Wilde Arabs and fair-hair'd Armenians were And speaking of Asia going to sollicite Stilico for Assistance Tendit ad Italiam supplex Aurora potentem To Italy Aurora supplyant bends From whence they represented her like the Rising Sun Claudian implicitely delivers her ordinary Dress though in regard of her calamity at that time in mourning Non radiis redimita comam nec flammea vultum Nec croceum vestita diem stat livida lucta No Raies nor Glory dress'd her Brows nor clad In Purple day but pale she look'd and sad Her Mantle of Silk speaks her ancient Propriety in it which came so late into Europe that we finde no name for it in Homer among his so frequent Descriptions of the Vestments both of Gods and Men. Nay not in the Poets of the Old or Middle Comedy some hundreds of Years after Homer Whence we conjecture it was first brought into Europe after the Conquest of Alexander the Great After it was brought over the Europaeans seem to have had no certain knowledge how it was made For by what we can finde they thought it to have grown naturally on the Trunk or Leaves of some Trees in Asia So Virgil Quid nemora Aethiopum molli canentia lanâ Velleráque ut foliis depectant tenuia Seres Of Trees in Aethiopia white with Wool How from the Leaves the Seres Fleeces cull PLINY The Seres are the first who are known to have a Woolly substance to grow on their Trees which they comb off after they have sprinkled it with Water And Julius Pollux * Onomastis speaks it as a report of some that the Seres gathered their Silk from certain Worms like unto the Bombyces of the Island Coos Whence it appears that in the time of Commodus the Emperour in whose time Pollux wrote it was generally believed to have been otherwise and after that too for Claudian who flourish'd under the Emperour Honorius agrees with Pliny pollice docto Jam parat auratas trabeas currúsque micantes Stamine quod molli tondent de stipite Seres Frondea lanigerae carpentes vellera Sylvae she rarely taught Rich Robes prepar'd and Golden Chariots wrought With Thred which from the Bark the Seres cull Shearing from spreading Boughs the Fleecy Wooll Servius indeed who lived in the time of Theodosius as appears by his being cotemporary with †Macrob. Saturnal Macrobius had a right opinion of it as appears from these words of his in the fore-cited place of Virgil Amongst the Indians and Seres are certain Worms upon the Trees which are called Bombyces which like Spiders spin a very fine Thred from whence is made Silk In the time of Justinian * Zonaras the whole Mystery was disclos'd by some Monks who brought from the Indies some of the Eggs of the Worms Since which time that Manufacture ha's been constantly used in Europe That she ha's several Shapes or Forms of strange Beasts wrought on her Vest is agreeable to the ancient Customs of that Countrey Aristophanes †Ranis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Myne not like your Prodigious Monsters be Such as are wrought
annual Feasts will celebrate This said the Nymphs obeying thither throng The Walls and Roof with stately Arras hung His Wat'ry Court with Royal Purple shone And Boards enchac'd with Pearl and pretious Stone The River Thames having ended his Speech the three Sea-men who entertain'd the Nobility with the former Song addressed the following to His Majesty I. King CHARLES King CHARLES great Neptune of the Main Thy Royal Navy rig And We 'll not care a Fig For France for France the Netherlands nor Spain The Turk who looks so big We 'll whip him like a Gig About the Mediterrane His Gallies all sunk or ta'ne We 'll seize on their Goods and their Monies Those Algier Sharks That Plunder Ships and Barks Algier Sally and Tunis We 'll give them such Tosts To the Barbary Coasts Shall drive them to Harbour like Conies Tan tara ran tan tan Tan tara ran tan tara Not all the World we fear-a The great Fish-Pond Shall be thine-a Both here and beyond From Strand to Strand And underneath the Line-a II. A Sail a Sail I to the Offin see She seems a lusty Ship Hoise all your Sails a-trip We 'll weather weather her whate're she be Your Helm then steady keep And thunder up the Deep A Man of War no Merchant She We 'll set her on her Crupper Give Fire Bounce Bounce Pickeering Villains trounce Till Blood run in Streams at the Scupper Such a Break-fast them we shall Give with Powder and Ball They shall need neither Dinner nor Supper Tan tara ran tan tan Tan tara ran tan tara Pickeering Rogues ne're spare-a With Bullets pink Their Quarters Vntil they stink They sink they sink Farewel the Devil's Martyrs III. They yield they yield shall we the poor Rogues spare Their ill-gotten Goods Preserv'd from the Floods That King CHARLES and we may share With Wine then chear our Bloods And putting off our Hoods Drink to His MAJESTY bare The King of all Compassion On our Knees next fall T' our Royal Admiral A Health for His Preservation Dear JAMES the Duke of YORK Till our Heels grow light as Cork The second Glory of our Nation Tantara ran tan tan Tantara ran tan tara To the Royal Pair-a Let every man Full of Wine-a Take off his Can Though wan though wan To make his Red Nose shine-a The Sea-men having ended their Song the several sorts of Musick performed their Duty whilest His Majesty passed on towards Cheapside At the Stocks the Entertainment was a Body of Military Musick placed on a Balcony consisting of six Trumpets and three Drums the Fountain there being after the Thuscan Order venting Wine and Water In like manner on the Top of the great Conduit at the Entrance of Cheap-side was another Fountain out of which issued both Wine and Water as in a Representation of Temperance and on the several Towers of that Conduit were eight Figures habited like Nymphs with Escutcheons in one Hand and Pendents or Banners in the other and between each of them Winde-Musick the number eight On the Standard also in Cheap-side there was a Band of Waits placed consisting of six Persons THE THIRD ARCH THE third Triumphal Arch stands near Wood-street end not far from the place where the Cross sometimes stood It represents an Artificial Building of two Stories one after the Corinthian way of Architecture the other after the Composite representing the TEMPLE of CONCORD with this Inscription on a Shield AEDEM CONCORDIAE IN HONOREM OPTIMI PRINCIPIS CUJUS ADVENTU BRITANNIA TERRA MARIQ PACATA ET PRISCIS LEGIBUS REFORMATA EST AMPLIOREM SPLENDIDIOREMQ RESTITUIT S. P. Q. L. CONCORD was reputed by the Romans in the number of their Goddesses as we finde in JUVENAL Cui colitur Pax atque Fides Concordia Virtus and had several Temples upon various occasions vowed and dedicated to her There arose a dangerous Feud which continued for some Years between the Senate and People of Rome whereupon Furius Camillus * Anno U.C. cccxxcvi turning himself to the Capitol desired of the Gods that he might speak and act that which might tend to the benefit of the Commonwealth and reconciliation of the two dissenting Parties and to that end vowed a Temple to CONCORD Wherefore having called the Senate after a long and various Debate upon certain Conditions brought the Senate and People to an Agreement Which Temple according to his Vow by a Decree of the Senate was erected and dedicated to CONCORD This is mention'd though obscurely in tabulis Capitolinis but plainly by OVID * Fastor Lib. i. Nunc bene prospicies Latiam CONCORDIA turbam Nunc te sacratae constituêre manus Furius antiquus populi superator Etrusci Voverat voti solverat ille fidem Caussa quòd à Patribus sumptis secesserat armis Vulgus ipsa suas Roma timebat opes Now maist thou CONCORD Rome with kindness see Now sacred Hands a Fane erect for thee Furius who conquer'd the Etrurian made A solemn Vow which solemnly he paid Because the People did their Princes beard Taking up Arms and Rome her own Wealth fear'd The like Vow was made by L. Manlius †Anno U.C. DXXXV upon a Mutiny of the Army under his Command and the Year after the Temple was erected and dedicated by M. and C. Atilius Regulus elected for that purpose So in the Sedition of Gracchus * Anno U.C. DCXXXII who encamped on the Aventine and refused the Conditions offered him by L. Opimius Consul the Consul immediately vowed a Temple to CONCORD and after his Victory over those seditions Conspirators dedicated it in Foro. Which did highly incense the Communalty who thought that CONCORD could not be founded on the Slaughter of their Fellow-Citizens and some of them adventured to add this Inscription to the Title of the Temple VECORDIAE OPUS AEDEM FACIT CONCORDIAE We finde mention of the like Temples in several Inscriptions collected by Gruter as in this D.N. CONSTANTINO MAXIMO PIO FELICI AC TRIUMPHATORI SEMPER AUGUSTO OB. AMPLI CATAM TOTO ORBE REM PUBLICAM FACTIS CON SILIISQ S. P. Q. R. DE DICANTE ANICIO PAULINO JUNIORE C.V. COS ORD PRAET. URBI S. P. Q. R. AEDEM CONCORDIAE VETUSTATE COL LAPSAM IN MELIOREM FACIEM OPERE ET CULTU SPLENDIDIORE RESTITUE RUNT And in another not unlike the former AEDEM CONCORDIAE VETUSTATE COLLAPSAM AMPLIOREM OPERE CULTUQ SPLENDIDIOREM RESTITUIT S. P. Q. R. In the Spandrils of the Arch there are two Figures in Female Habits leaning One representing PEACE the other TRUTH That of Peace hath her Shield charged with an Helmet and Bees issuing forth and going into it the Word PAX BELLO POTIOR TRUTH on the other side in a thin Habit on her Shield TIME bringing Truth out of a Cave the Word TANDEM EMERSIT Over the great Painting upon the Arch of the Cupula is represented a large GERYON with three Heads crowned in his three right-Hands a Lance
But when from Plunder of the Town agen The Gen'ral by the Trumpet 's sound his Men Had call'd a Noble Cherisher of great Attempts to Milo from his lofty Seat He thus began Lanuvian Youth whom we From Juno Sospita receive from me This Martial Honour for thy Victory Accept and 'bout thy Tower'd Temples try This Mural Crown Mr. Ross. And in another place †Lib. xv phaleris hic pectora fulget Hic torque aurato circumdat bellica colla Ille nitet celsus Muralis honore coronae here shining stood One with rich Trappings on his Breast and there Another on his Warlick Neck did wear A Golden Chain this with a Mural Crown Was honour'd The Castrensis belong'd to him that first entered the Tents of the Enemy which in the Infancy of the Roman Empire was made of Leaves With such an one Romulus rewarded Hostâ—us Hostilius Grand-Father to Tulâ—us Hostilius King of Rome afterwards of Gold This without question is the same with that which otherwise is call'd Vallaris CA But that which gave us occasion to mention these is the Corona Civica given to him that in single Combat had rescued a Citizen and slain the Enemy on the place and this was made of Oak LUâ—â—N †Lib. i. EmeritÃque gerens insignia doni Servati civis referentem praemia quercum Crown'd with an Oaken Wreath Rewards for such a Roman sav'd from Death CLAUDIAN * Lib. iii. Stilich Mos erat in veterum castris ut tempora quercus Velaret validis fuso qui viribus hoste Casurum potuit morti subducere civem 'T was th' ancient Guise in Camps an Oaken Bough Should wreath his Temples who had slain a Fo And off a Citizen in danger brought And in another place †De lande Serenae Hunc cingit Muralis honos hunc Civica quercus Nexuit hunc domitis ambit Rostrata carinis This Mural Honour crowns that Civick Boughs This wreaths his Head with conquer'd Gallies Prows These were ordinarily prefix'd the Entrance of the Emperour's Palaces as being populi Servatores OVID * Fast Lib. i. Ante fores stabis mediámque tuebere quercum Protegat nostras querna corona fores Thou shalt protect the middle Oak before The Gates let Oaken Garlands save our Dore. In another place En domus haec dixi Jovis est quod ut esse probarem Augurium menti querna corona dabat Behold said I this is Jove's House I know By th' Oaken Wreath that needs it must be so Which seems to be derived from JULIUS CAESAR of whose Statues thus APPIAN speaking of the Honours decreed to him There were several Figures inscribed on his Effigies on some a Crown of Oak as dedicated to the Saviour of his Countrey And DIO of Augustus When he denied the Monarchy and discoursed of dividing the Provinces it was decreed that Laurels should be set up before his Palace and a Crown of Oak hung over them to signifie that he was constantly overthrowing his Enemies and saving his Fellow-Citizens The memory of which Honour conferred on him is preserved in several of his Coyns in one there is a Crown of Oak betwixt two Branches of Laurel CAESAR OB CIVIS SER AVGVSTVS In another the same Crown betwixt two CAPRICORNS he was born under that Sign with a Globe and the Helm of a Ship DIVO AVGVSTO S. P. Q. R. OB CIVIS SER In one this Inscription within the Crown of Oak SALUS HUMANI GENERIS to which PLINY * Nat. Hist lib. xvi cap. xii without question alluded in those words Dedit AUGUSTUS Rostratam coronam AGRIPPAE sed CIVICAM à genere humano recepit ipse There are several reasons propounded by PLUTARCH and others after him why this Crown should be made of this material but none so probable as this because the Oak was sacred to JUPITER and JUNO Conservatoribus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Habit of VENUS 't is something difficult in particular to deliver the antient Artists having been more willing to form her naked as appears from the Statues of her still remaining in Rome and from this Poem of ANACREON upon VENVS engraved on a Basin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. What bold Hand the Sea engraves Whilst it s undermined Waves In a Dishe's narrow round Art 's more pow'rful Rage doth bound See by some Promethean mind Cytherea there design'd Mother of the Deities Expos'd naked to our Eyes In all parts save those alone Modesty will not have shown Which for Cov'ring onely have The thin Mantle of a Wave On the Surface of the Main Which a smiling Calm lays plain She like frothy Sedges swims And displays her Snowy Limbs c. Mr. STANLEY Yet because there is something of it particular to her we shall give some account of it from CLAVDIAN who thus describes her Dress when she was going to the Wedding of HONORIVS the Emperour natum gremio Cytherea removit Et crines festina ligat peplúmque fluentem Allevat blando spirantem numine ceston Cingitur impulsos pluviis quo mitigat amnes Quo mare quo ventos iratáque fulmina solvit Venus the Boy lays from her Breast Binds up her Hair and tucks her flowing Vest Girds on her Cestus breathing pow'rful love Which calms swoln Rivers by a Deluge drove The raging Seas rough Winds and thund'ring Jove What this Cestos is may best be known from HOMER †iliad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who is the first that mention'd it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This saying off she takes her curious Cest Where all Allurements were of Love exprest Dalliance Desire Courtship and Flatt'ries which The wisest with their Sorceries bewitch The Roses and Dolphin in the Hands of CUPID signifie his Dominion on Land and Sea of which there is extant an Epigram of PALLADAS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Dolphin he nor Roses holds in vain In this Hand Earth in that he holds the Main ANACREON 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Roses of all Flow'rs the King Roses the fresh Pride o' th Spring Joy of ev'ry Deity Love when with the Graces he For the Ball himself disposes Crowns his Golden Hair with Roses Of the Dolphin largely OPPIAN 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. The Dolphin rules the Scaly Flocks endow'd With Strength and Swiftness of his Beauty proud He like a Lance discharg'd through Billows flyes And dazling Flames darts from his glaring Eyes Finding out Fish that frighted sculk in Holes Or Caves and bed themselves in Sand like Moles As Eagles monarch it '
finish'd now in hand Many of these by angry Jove are thrown From Heav'n to Earth the rest as yet not done Three parts of Hail three of a Wat'ry Cloud As much of Fire and three of Winde allow'd Upon which place SERVIUS Nonnulli manubias Fulminis his Numinibus Jovi Junoni Marti Austro vento asserunt attribui quod ex hoc Maronis loco ostendunt Of this Winde we have the Picture in Antoninus's Pillar at Rome remarkable for the History in which is represented the Rain that fell in the Tents of the Romans ready to perish for Drouth and the Thunder and Lightning which at the same time destroyed the Enemy obtain'd by the Prayers of a Christian Legion as the Fathers of those times relate it by others attributed either to the Piety of the Emperour or the Magick of Arnuphis of which CLAUDIAN Laus ibi nulla Ducum nam flammeus imber in hostem Decidit hunc dorso trepidum flammante ferebat Ambustus sonipes hic tabescente solutus Subsedit galeâ liquefactáque pulvere cuspis Canduit subitis fluxêre liquoribus enses Tunc contenta polo mortalis nesciateli Pugna fuit Chaldaea mago seu carmina ritu Armavêre Deos seu quod reor omne Tonantis Obsequium Marci mores potuêre mereri The Chiefs no Fame got there the Enemie's force A fiery Show'r dispers'd a burning Horse Bore this on 's flaming Back this over-turn'd His Cask did melt in Dust his Jav'lin burn'd And melting Swords in smoaking Rivers glide Heaven's Arcenal did for this Fight provide Weapons destroying more then Mortal Arms. Either the Gods were arm'd by Magick Charms Or Jove so much to Marcus merits ow'd That all this kindness he on him bestow'd It is thus described by DIO You might see at the same time Rain and Fire fall from Heaven some were wet and drank others were burnt and died The Fire touch'd not the Romans if it fell among them it was immediatly quench'd The Rain did their Adversaries no good but rather like Oil increased the flame They sought for Water while the Rain fell on them Some of them wounded themselves as if they meant to quench the Fire with their Blood others ran over to the Romans who alone had the Water could save them and those Antoninus sav'd The same Authour who liv'd in the time of Commodus Son to Antoninus mentions from a Report in his time the Magick of Arnuphis as a cause of it as it is delivered by Xiphiline Patriarch of Constantinople 'T is reported that Arnuphis an Aegyptian Magician then in company of the Emperour Marcus Antoninus had invoked with his Magick Art among other Gods the aerial Mercury by whose assistance he obtain'd the Showr And thus the Story is told by SUIDAS * In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Others mention Julian the Magician The Christians had a fair Plea for what they pretended an acknowledgment from the Emperour himself by Letter to the Senate had not that Letter still remaining upon examination prov'd counterfeit The Picture being rare we have caused here to be publish'd Baronius mistook it for Jupiter Pluvius who is never represented with Wings This Winde is excellently describ'd by OVID †Metam lib. i. madidis Notus evolat alis Terribilem piceâ tectus caligine vultum Barba gravis nimbis canis fluit unda capillis Fronte sedent nebulae rorant pennaeque finúsque With moist Wings Notus flies in sable Bags His sowre Face hid his Beard with Tempest sags His Hair sheds Crystal Drops dark Clouds encamp Upon his Brows his Wings and Bosom damp His Thunder-Bolt is mention'd too by Lucretius Altitonans Volturnus Auster ulmine pollens ZEPHYRUS like an Adonis with Wings the Emblem a Flowery Plain the Word TEPENTIBUS AURIS DEMULCET So CLAUDIAN describes * De raptu Proserp lib. ii Pater ô gratissime Veris Qui mea lascivo regnas per prata volatu Semper assiduis irroras flatibus annum c. ille novo madidantes nectare pennas Concutit glebas foecundo rore maritat Quáque volat vernus sequitur color omnis in herbas Turget humus medióque patent convexa sereno Sanguineo splendore rosas vaccinia nigro Induit dulci violas ferrugine pingit Bless'd Father of the Spring all Hail Who rul'st my Meadows with a wanton Gale And dew'st the Season with a constant breeze c. From his moist Wings he richest Nectar sheds And the hard Glebe with pregnant Moisture weds Colour the Spring attends and every where Earth swells with Herbage Heav'n's high Fore-head clear Roses in Red Berries in Black he dies And gives the Violets Purple Liveries LUCRETIUS calls it the Messenger of Venus Et ver Venus Veneris praenuntius antè Pennatus graditur Zephyrus vestigia propter The Spring and Venus warming Zephyre brings Love's gentle Herbinger on painted Wings PHILOSTRATUS †Imag. represents it thus A Youth smooth-fac'd with Wings on his Shoulders and on his Head a Garland of several Flowers The Seat of this Winde was feigned by the Antients to be in Spain SENECA * In Hercule O. taeo quae Zephyro Subdita tellus stupet aurato Flumine clarum radiare Tagum The Lands where Zephyre dwells behold With wonder Tagus shine in Gold CLAUDIAN †In laudibus Serenae Deseritur jam ripa Tagi ZephyrÃque relictis Sedibus Aurorae famulas properatur ad urbes He Tagus banks and Zephyr's Court forsakes And haste to Conquer'd Eastern Cities makes Not so much from the Vernal temperature of the place as that it was esteem'd the remotest place from whence Italy received these Western Gales The great Figure on the top of all represents PLENTY crowned a Branch of Palm in her right Hand a Cornu-copiae in her left The Musick aloft on both sides and on the two Balconies within were twelve Waits six Trumpets and three Drums At a convenient distance before this Structure were two Stages erected divided planted and adorned like Gardens each of them eight Yards in length five in breadth Upon that on the North-side sate a Woman representing PLENTY crowned with a Garland of divers Flowers clad in a Green Vestment embroidered with Gold holding a Cornu-copiae her Attendants two Virgins At His Majestie 's approach to the Arch this Person representing PLENTY rose up and made Address to him in these Words Great Sir the Star which at Your Happy Birth Joy'd with his Beams at Noon the wond'ring Earth Did with auspicious lustre then presage The glitt'ring Plenty of this Golden Age The Clouds blown o're which long our joys o'recast And the sad Winter of Your absence past See! the three smiling Seasons of the Year Agree at once to bid You Welcome here Her Homage Dutious Flora comes to pay With Her Enamel'd Treasure strows Your Way Ceres and Pales with a bounteous Hand Diffuse their Plenty over all Your Land And Bacchus is so lavish of his Store That Wine flows
the Houshold and laid it upon the Altar saying the Prayer beginning thus Hear our Prayers we beseech thee O Lord and vouchsafe by thy right Hand of Majesty to bless and sanctifie this SVVORD c. This Prayer finished the Arch-Bishop and Bishops assisting delivered the Sword back to the King saying Accipe gladium per manus Episcoporum Whereupon the Lord Great-Chamberlain girt it about the King and the Arch-Bishop said Receive this Kingly Sword which is hallowed for the defence of the Holy Church c. After this the Dean of Westminster took the * Armillae sunt in modum Stolae ab utraque scapula usque ad Compages Brachiorum erunt dependentes in ipsis Compagibus laqueis sericeis connexae Armil made of Cloth of Tishue and put it about the King's Neck tying it to the bowings of His Arms the Arch-Bishop standing before the King with the Bishop of London on His right Hand and saying Receive the Armil of Sincerity and Wisdom c. Next the Mantle or open Pall being made of Cloth of Gold and lined with red Taffaty was put upon Him by the said Dean the Arch-Bishop likewise using the words of Signification viz. Receive this Pall c. In the next place the Arch-Bishop took Saint EDWARD'S Crown and blessed it saying God the Crown of the Faithful c. In the mean time Saint EDWARD'S Chair was removed into the middle of the Isle and set right over against the Altar whither the King went and sat down in it and then the Arch Bishop brought Saint EDWARD'S Crown from the Altar and put it upon His Head Whereupon all the People with loud and repeated shouts cryed God save the KING and by a Signal then given the great Ordinance from the Tower were also shot off At the ceasing of these Acclamations the Arch-Bishop went on saying God crown Thee with a Crown of Glory and Righteousness c. Adding thereunto the Prayer beginning thus O God of Eternity c. Bless this thy Servant who * At which words the King bowed His Head boweth His Head unto thy Majestie c. After which Prayer the Arch-Bishop read the Confortare Be strong and of a good Courage and observe the Commandments of the Lord to walk in his ways c. In the mean while the Quires sung this Anthem The King shall rejoyce in thy strength O Lord. Exceeding glad shall He be of thy Salvation c. Upon this the Dukes Marquesses Earls and Viscounts put on their Coronets the Barons their Caps And Mr. Garter and the Provincial Kings put on their Coronets Then the Master of the Jewel-House delivered to the Arch-Bishop the Ring who consecrated it saying Bless O Lord and sanctifie this Ring c. After which he put it upon the fourth Finger of the King 's right Hand and said Receive this Ring of Kingly Dignitie and by it the Seal of Catholick Faith c. And then used the Prayer beginning thus O God to whom belongeth all Power and Dignity give unto thy Servant CHARLES the Fruit of His Dignity c. Which Prayer being finished the Linen Gloves were delivered to the KING by the Lord Great-Chamberlain Then the KING went to the Altar ungirt His Sword and offered it which being redeemed by the Lord-Chamberlain of the Houshold was drawn out of the Scabbard and carried naked by him all the following part of the Solemnity Then the Arch-Bishop took the Scepter with the Cross from off the Altar and delivered it into the KING'S right Hand saying Receive this Scepter the Sign of Kingly Power the Rod of Kingdoms the Rod of Virtue c. Whilst this was pronouncing by the Arch-Bishop Mr. Henry Howard Brother to Thomas Duke of Norfolk delivered by virtue of his Tenure of the Manour of Wirksop in the County of Norfolk to the King a rich Glove for His right Hand which having put on He then received the Scepter And after that the Arch-Bishop said the Prayer beginning thus O Lord the Fountain of all good things c. Grant we beseech thee to this thy Servant CHARLES that He may order aright the Dignity which He hath obtained c. During which time the said Mr. Howard performed the Service ratione tenurae dicti Manerii de Wirksop of supporting the King 's right Arm. Next of all the Arch-Bishop took the Scepter with the Dove and gave it into the King's Hand also saying Receive the Rod of Vertue and Equity learn to make much of the Godly and to terrifie the Wicked c. After which the King kneeled holding both the Scepters in His Hands whilst the Arch-Bishop thus blessed Him The Lord bless Thee and keep Thee and as He hath made Thee King over his People so he still prosper Thee in this World and make Thee partaker of his Eternal Felicity in the World to come Amen Then the KING arose and set Himself again in Saint Edward's Chair whil'st the Arch-Bishop and Bishops present one after another kneeled before Him and were kissed by Him Whcih done the KING returned to that Chair placed on the Theatre behind His Throne having then also the four Swords born naked before Him the Arch-Bishops Bishops and Great Officers attending at whose arrival there the Arch-Bishop said this Prayer Grant O Lord that the Clergie and People gathered together by thine Ordinance for this service of the KING c. Then the King reposed Himself in the said Chair whilst both the Quires sung Te Deum When Te Deum was ended the King ascended His Throne placed in the midst of the Theatre the Swords and Great Officers standing on either side as also the Bishops the Arch-Bishop then saying Stand and hold fast from henceforth that Place whereof hitherto You have been Heir by the Succession of Your Fore-Fathers c. After this the Bishops and Nobility did their Homage to the King in manner following And first the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury kneeled down before the King's Knees and said I WILLIAM Arch-Bishop of CANTERBURY shall be Faithful and True and Faith and Truth bear unto You Our Sovereign Lord and Your Heirs Kings of ENGLAND and shall do and truly acknowledg the Service of the Land which I claim to hold of You in right of the Church So help me God Which said he kissed the King 's left Cheek The like did all the other Bishops that were present Then came up the Duke of YORK with Garter Principal King of Arms before Him and His Train born by two Gentle-men who being arrived at the Throne kneeled down before the King put off His Coronet and did His Homage in these words I JAMES Duke of YORK become Your Liege-man of Life and Limb and of Earthly Worship and Faith and Truth I shall bear unto You to live and die against all manner of Folk So God me help At which the Drums beat Trumpets sounded and all the People shouted The like did the Dukes of Buckingham and Albe-marle for themselves and