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A33253	Gesta Grayorum, or, The history of the high and mighty prince, Henry Prince of Purpoole ... who reigned and died, A.D. 1594 : together with a masque, as it was presented (by His Highness's command) for the entertainment of Q. Elizabeth, who, with the nobels of both courts, was present thereat.	Canning, William, fl. 1686-1690.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Davison, Francis, 1575?-1619?; Gray's Inn.	1688 (1688)	Wing C444; ESTC R5680	47,507	73

England being of our Society deserved honoura●le Remembrance for his liberal and noble Mindfulness of us and our State who undesired sent to the Prince as a Token of his Lordship's Favour 10 l. and a Purse of ●ine rich Needle-work When all these things sorted so well to our Desires and that there was good hope of ●ffecting that that was taken in hand there was dispatched from our State a Messenger to our ancient allied Friend the Inner Temple that they might be acquainted with our Proceedings and also to be invited to participate of our Honour which to them was most acceptable as by the Process of their Letters and ours mutually sent may appear The Copies of the Letters that passed betwixt the two most flourishing Estates of the Grayans and Templarians To the most Honourable and Prudent the Governors Assistants and Society of the Inner Temple Most Grave and Noble WE have upon good Consideration made choice of a Prince to be predominant in our State of Purpoole for some important Causes that require an Head or Leader And as we have ever had great Cause by the Warrant of Experience to assure our selves of your unfeigned Love and Amity so we are upon this Occasion and in the Name of our Prince Elect to pray you that it may be continued and in Demonstration thereof that you will be pleased to assist us with your Counsel in the Person of an Ambassador that may be Resident here amongst us and be a Minister of Correspondence between us and to advise of such Affairs as the Effects whereof we hope shall sort to the Benefit of both our Estates And so being ready to requite you with all good Offices we leave you to the Protection of the Almighty Your most Loving Friend and Ally Grays-Inn Dated at our Court of Graya this 14 th of December 1594. To the most honourable State of the Grayans Right Honourable and most firmly United IF our Deserts were any way answerable to the great Expectation of your good Proceedings we might with more Boldness accomplish the Request of your kind Letters whereby it pleaseth you to interest us in the Honour of your Actions which we cannot but acknowledge for a great Courtesie and Kindness a thing proper to you in all your Courses and Endeavours and repute it a great Honour intended towards our selves In respect whereof we yield with all Good Will to that which your honourable Letters import as your Kindness and the Bond of our ancient Amity and League requireth and deserveth Your assured Friend The State of Templaria From Templaria the 18 th of December 1594. The Order of the Prince of Purpoole's Proceedings with his Officers and Attendants at his honourable Inthronization which was likewise obs●rved in all his solemn Marches on grand Days and like Occasions which Place every Officer did duly attend during the Reign of His Highness's Government A Marshal A Marshal Trumpets Trumpets Pursuevant at Arms Lanye Towns-men in the Prince's Livery with Halberts Yeomen of the Gua●d three Couples Captain of the Guard Grimes Baron of the Grand Port Dudley Baron of the Base Port Grante Gentlemen for Entertainment three Couples Binge c. Baron of the Petty Port Williams Baron of the New Port Lovel Gentlemen for Entertainment three Couples Wentworth Zukenden Forrest Lieutenant of the Pensioners Tonstal Gentlemen-Pensioners twelve Couples viz. Lawson Devereux Stapleton Daniel Rotts Anderson Glascott Elken Davison cum reliquis Chief Ranger and Master of the Game Forrest Master of the Revels Lambert Master of the Revellers Tevery Captain of the Pensioners Cooke Sewer Archer Carver Moseley Another Sewer Drewry Cup-bearer Painter Groom-porter Bennet Sheriff Leach Clerk of the Council Iones Clerk of the Parliament Clerk of the Crown Downes Orator Heke Recorder Starkey Sollicitor Dunne Serjeant Goldsmith Speaker of the Parliament B●llen Commissary Greenwood Attorney Holt. Serjeant Hitchcombe Master of the Requests Faldo Chancellor of the Exchequer Kitts Master of the Wards and Idiots Ellis Reader Cobb Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Briggs Master of the Rolls Hetlen Lord Chief Baron of the Common Pleas Damporte Lord Chief Justice of the Prince's Bench Crew Master of the Ordnance Fitz-Williams Lieutenant of the Tower Lloyd Master of the Jewel-house Darlen Treasurer of the House-hold Smith Knight-Marshal Bell. Master of the Ward-robe Conney Comptroller of the House-hold Bouthe Bishod of St. Giles's in the Fields Dandye Steward of the House-hold Smith Lord Warden of the four Ports Damporte Secretary of State Iones Lord Admiral Cecill Richard. Lord Treasurer Morrey Lord Great Chamberlain Southworth Lord High Constable Lord Marshal Knaplock Lord Privy Seal Lamphew Lord Chamberlain of the House-hold Markham Lord High Steward Kempe Lord Chancellor Iohnson Archbishop of St. Andrews in Holborn Bush. Serjeant at Arms with the Mace Flemming Gentleman-Usher Chevett The Shield of Pegasus for the Inner-Temple Scevington Serjeant at Arms with the Sword Glascott Gentleman-Usher Paylor The Shield of the Griffin for Grays-Inn Wickliffe The King at Arms Perkinson The great Shield of the Prince's Arms Cobley The Prince of Purpoole Helmes A Page of Honour Wandforde Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber six Couples A Page of Honour Butler Roger. Vice-Chamberlain Butler Thomas Master of the Horse Fitz-Hugh Yeomen of the Guard three Couples Towns-men in Liveries The Family and Followers Upon the 20 th Day of December being St. Thomas's Eve the Prince with all his Train in Order as above set down marched from his Lodging to the great Hall and there took his place in his Throne under a rich Cloth of State His Counsellors and great Lords were placed about him and before him below the Half-pace at a Table sate his learned Council and Lawyers the rest of the Officers and Attendants took their proper Places as belonged to their Condition Then the Trumpets were commanded to sound thrice which being done the King at Arms in his rich Surcoat of Arms stood forth before the Prince and proclaimed his Style as followeth By the sacred Laws of Arms and authorized Ceremonies of the same maugre the Conceit of any Malecontent I do pronounce my Sovereign Liege Lord Sir Henry rightfully to be the high and mighty Prince of Purpoole Arch-Duke of Stapulia and Bernardia Duke of the High and Nether Holborn Marquis of St. Giles's and Tottenham Count Palatine of Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell Great Lord of the Cantons of Islington c. Knight of the most honourable Order of the Helmet and Sovereign of the same After that the King at Arms had thus proclaimed his Style the Trumpets sounded again and then entred the Prince's Champion all in compleat Armour on Horse-back and so came riding round about the Fire and in the midst of the Hall stayed and made his Challenge in these Words following If there be any Man of high Degree or low that will say that my Sovereign is not rightly Prince of Purpoole as by his King at Arms right-now hath been proclaimed I am ready here to maintain

read by the Sollicitor the Prince made a short Speech to his Subjects wherein he gave them to understand that although in Clemency he pardoned all Offences to that present time yet notwithstanding his me●ning thereby was not to give any the least occasion of Presumption in breaking his Laws and the Customs laudably used through his Dominions and Government Neither did he now so graciously forgive all Errors and Misdemeanours as he would hereafter severely and strictly reform the same His Will was that Justice should be administred to every Subject without any Partiality● and that the Wronged should make their Causes known to himself by P●tition to the Master of the Requests And further excused the Causes of the great Taxes and Sums of Money that were levied by reason that his Predecessors had not left his Coffers full of Treasure nor his Crown so furnished as became the Dignity of so great a Prince Then His Highness called for the Master of the Revels and willed him to pass the time in Dancing So his Gentlemen-Pensioners and Attendants very gallantly appointed in thirty Couples danced the Old Measures and their Galliards and other kind of Dances revelling until it was very late and so spent the rest of their Performance in those Exercises until it pleased His Honour to take his way to his Lodging with Sound of Trumpets and his Attendants in order as is above set down There was the Conclusion of the first grand Night the Performance whereof increased the Expectation of those things that were to ensue insomuch that the common Report amongst all Strangers was so great and the Expectation of our Proceedings so extraordinary that it urged us to take upon us a greater State than was at the first intended And therefore besides all the stately and sumptuous Service that was continually done the Prince in very Princely manner and besides the daily Revels and such like Sports which were usual there was intended divers grand Nights for the Entertainment of Strangers to our Pass-times and Sports The next grand Night was intended to be upon Innocents-Day at Night at which time there was a great Presence of Lords Ladies and worship●ul Personages that did expect some notable Performance at that time which indeed had been effected if the multitude of Beholders had not been so exceeding great that thereby there was no convenient room for ●hose that were Actors by reason whereof very good Inventions and Conceipts could not have opportunity to be applauded which otherwise would have been great Contentation to the Beholders Against which time our Friend the Inner Temple determined to send their Ambassador to our Prince of State as sent from Frederick Templarius their Emperor who was then busied in his Wars against the Turk The Ambassador came very gallantly appointed and attended by a great number of brave Gentlemen which arrived at our Court about Nine of the Clock at Night Upon their coming thither the King at Arms gave notice to the Prince then sitting in his Chair of State in the Hall that there was come to his Court an Ambassador from his ancient Friend the State of Templaria which desired to have present Access unto His Highness and shewed his Honour ●urther that he seemed to be of very good sort because he was so well attended and therefore desired that it would please His Honour that some of his Nobles and Lords might condu●t him to His Highness's Presence which was done So he was brought in very solemnly with Sound of Trumpets the King at Arms and Lords of Purpoole making to his Company which marched before him in order He was received very kindly of the Prince and placed in a Chair besides His Highness to the end that he might be Partaker of the Sports intended But first he made a Speech to the Prince wherein he declared how his excellent Renown and Fame was known throughout all the whole World and that the Report of his Greatness was not contained within the Bounds of the Ocean but had come to the Ears of his noble Sovereign Frederick Templarius where he is now warring against the Turks the known Enemies to all Christendom who having heard that His Excellency kept his Court at Graya this Christmas thought it to stand with his ancient League of Amity and near Kindness that so long hath been continued and increased by their noble Ancestors of famous Memory and Desert to gratulate his Happiness and ●lourishing Estate and in that regard had sent him his Ambassador to be residing at His Excellency's Court in honour of his Greatness and token of his tender Love and Good Will he beareth to His Highness the Confirmation whereof he especially requir●d and by all means possible would study to increase and eternize Which Function he was the more willing to accomplish because our State of Graya did grace Templaria with the Presence of an Ambassador about thirty Years since upon like occasion Our Prince made him this Answer That he did acknowledge that the great Kindness of his Lord whereby he doth invite to further degrees in firm and Loyal Friendship did deserve all honourable Commendations and effectual Accomplishment that by any means might be devised and that he accounted himself happy by having the sincere and sted●ast Love of so gracious and renowned a Prince as his Lord and Master deserved to be esteemed and that nothing in the World should hinder the due Observation of so inviolable a Band as he esteemed his Favour and Good Will. Withal he entred into Commendations of his noble and cou●ageous Enterprizes in that he chuseth out an Adversary fit for his Greatness to encounter with his Honour to be illustrated by and such an Enemy to all Christendom as that the Glory of his Actions tend to the Safety and Liberty of all Civility and Humanity yet notwithstanding that he was thus employed in this Action of honouring us he shewed both his honourable Mindfulness of our Love and Friendship and also his own Puissance that can afford so great a number of brave Gentlemen and so gallantly furnished and accomplished And so concluded with a Welcome both to the Ambassador himself and his Favourites for their Lord and Master's sake and so for their own good Deserts and Condition When the Ambassador was placed as aforesaid and that there was something to be performed for the Delight of the Beholders there arose such a disordered Tumult and Crowd upon the Stage that there was no Opportunity to effect that which was intended There came so great a number of worshipful Personages upon the Stage that might not be displaced and Gentlewomen whose Sex did privilege them from Violence that when the Prince and his Officers had in vain a good while expected and endeavoured a Reformation at length there was no hope of Redress for that present The Lord Ambassador and his Train thought that they were not so kindly entertained as was before expected and thereupon would not stay any longer at that time

but in a sort discontended and displeased After their Departure the Throngs and Tumults did somewhat cease although so much of them continued as was able to disorder and confound any good Inventions whatsoever In regard whereof as also for that the Sports intended were especially for the gracing of the Templarians it was thought good not to offer any thing of Account saving Dancing and Revelling with Gentlewomen and after such Sports a Comedy of Errors like to Plautus his Menechmus was played by the Players So that Night was begun and continued to the end in nothing but Confusion and Errors whereupon it was ever afterwards called The Night of Errors This mischanceful Accident sorting so ill to the great prejudice of the rest of our Proceedings was a great Discouragement and Disparagement to our whole State yet it gave occasion to the Lawyers of the Prince's Council the next Night after Revels to read a Commission of Oyer and Terminer directed to certain Noble-men and Lords of His Highness's Council and others that they should enquire or cause Enquiry to be made of some great Disorders and Abuses lately done and committed within His Highness's Dominions of Purpoole especially by Sorceries and Inchantments and namely of a great Witchcraft used the Night before whereby there were great Disorders and Misdemeanours by Hurly-burlies Crowds Errors Confusions vain Representations and Shews to the utter Discred●t of our State and Policy The next Night upon this Occasion we preferred Judgments thick and threefold which were read publickly by the Clerk of the Crown being all against a Sorcerer or Conjurer that was supposed to be the Cause of that confused Inconvenience Therein was contained How he had caused the Stage to be built and Scaffolds to be reared to the top of the House to increase Expectation Also how he had caused divers Ladies and Gentlewomen and others of good Condition to be invited to our Sports also our dearest Friend the State of Templaria to be disgraced and disappointed of their kind Entertainment deserved and intended Also that he caused Throngs and Tumults Crowds and Outrages to disturb our whole Proceedings And Lastly that he had ●oisted a Company of base and common Fellows to make up our Disorders with a Play of Errors and Confusions and that that Night had gained to us Discredit and it self a Nick-name of Errors All which were against the Crown and Dignity of our Sovereign Lord the Prince of Purpoole Under Colour of these Proceedings were laid open to the View all the Causes of note that were committed by our chiefest States-men in the Government of our Principality and every Officer in any great Place that had not performed his Duty in that Service was taxed hereby from the highest to the lowest not sparing the Guard and Porters that suffered so many disordered Persons to enter in a● the Court-Gates Upon whose aforesaid Indictments the Prisoner was arra●gned at the Bar being brought thither by the Lieutenant of the Tower for at that time the Stocks were graced with that Name and the Sheriff impannelled a Jury of Twenty four Gentlemen that were to give their Verdict upon the Evidence given The Prisoner appealed to the Prince his Excellency for Justice and humbly desired that it would please His Highness to understand the Truth of the Matter by his Supplication which he had ready to be offered to the Master of the Requests The Prince gave leave to the Master of the Requests that he should read the Petition wherein was a Disclosure of all the Knavery and Juggling of the Attorney and Sollicitor which had brought all this Law-stuff on purpose to blind the Eyes of his Excellency and all the honourable Court there going about to make them think that those things which they all saw and preceived sensibly to be in very deed done and actually performed were nothing else but vain Illusions Fancies Dreams and Enchantments and to be wrought and compass●d by the Means of a poor harmless Wretch that never had heard of such great Matters in all his Life Whereas the very Fault was in the Negligence of the Prince's Council Lords and Officers of his State that had the Rule of the Roast and by whose Advice the Commonwealth was so soundly mis-governed To prove these things to be true he ●rought divers Instances of great Absurdities committed by the greatest and made such Allegations as could not be denied These were done by some that were touched by the Attorn●y and Sollicitor in their former Proceedings and they used the Prisoners Names for means of Quittance with them in that behalf But the Prince and States-men being pinched on both sides by both the Parties were not a little offended at the great Liberty that they had taken in censuring so far of His Highness's Government and thereupon the Prisoner was freed and pardoned the Attorney Sollicitor Master of the Requests and those that were a●quainted with the Draught of the Petition were all of them commanded to the Tower so the Lieutenant took charge of them And this was the End of our Law-sports concerning the Night of Errors When we were wearied with mocking thus at our own Follies at length there was a great Consultation had for the Recovery of our lost Honour It was then concluded that first the Prince's Council should be reformed and some graver Conceipts should have their places to advise upon those things that were propounded to be done afterward Therefore upon better Consideration there were divers Plots and Devices intended against the Friday after New-years-day being the 3 d. of Ianuary And to prevent all unruly Tumults and former Inconveniences there was provided a Watch of Armed Men to ward at the four Ports and Whifflers to make good Order under the four Barons and the Lord Warden to over-see them all that none but those that were of good Condition might be suffered to be let into the Court And the like Officers were every where appointed On the 3 d. of Ianuary at Night there was a most honourable Presence of Great and Noble Personages that came as invited to our Prince as namely the Right Honourable the Lord Keeper the Earls of Shrewsbury Cumberland Northumberland Southampton and Essex the Lords Buckhurst Windsor Mountjoy Sheffield Compton Rich Burleygh Mounteagle and the Lord Thomas Howard Sir Thomas Henneage Sir Robert Cecill with a great number of Knights Ladies and very worshipful Personages All which had convenient Places and very good Entertainment to their good Liking and Contentment When they were all thus placed and setled in very good Order the Prince came into the Hall with his wonted State and ascended his Throne at the high End of the Hall under His Highness's Arms and after him came the Ambassador of Templaria with his Train likewise and was placed by the Prince as he was before his Train also had Places reserved for them and were provided for them particularly Then after variety of Musick they were presented with this Device At