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A58417	A Relation in the form of journal of the voiage and residence which the most mighty Prince Charls the II King of Great Britain, &c. hath made in Holland, from the 25 of May, to the 2 of June, 1660 rendered into English out of the original French by Sir William Lower ...	Lower, William, Sir, 1600?-1662.; Keuchenius, Robertus, 1636-1673.	1660 (1660)	Wing R781; ESTC R9642	103,435	176

him in speaking of the testimonies of affection which the Estates of Holland had rendred him said to his Majesty that the intention of the Lords the Estates of Holland was to do something more if there were any rarities in their Estate that might be presented to so great a Prince Notwithstanding that they would give themselves the liberty to cause him to be accommodated and to send him on the first occasion some Presents which they would beseech his Majesty to consider as proofs of their good will rather then as effects of their power The King would put if off in saying that he needed no other assurances of the affection of the Lords the Estates of Holland then those they had given him on this present occasion that he was satisfied therewith and thanked them not only for the effects pass'd but also for the good will they expressed unto him for the future Those Presents which they had designed for him were not yet ready as wel because the stately bed of the Princess Royal which was to make a part of them was not yet perfected as because they knew not yet what his Majesty would like most Therefore was it that Mr of Wimmenum would insist no more therein but went from thence to the House of the Duke of York to whom he said that the Lords the Estates of Holland willing to give some mark of their affection to his Royal Highness had sought every where for something that might be worthy of him and that having found nothing because of the small residence which his Majesty and the Princes his brothers had made in the country and yet not able to resolve themselves to let his Royal Highness depart without giving him a testimony of their respect and good will they prayed him to accept a bill of Exchequer of seventy five thousand Gilders which make seven thousand pounds which he might cause his Treasurer to receive either at present in this Town of Mr. Berckel Receiver General of the Province or at London or elsewhere for no body will refuse to give it immediately The Duke received the bill with many testimonies of acknowledgment and signified that it was without repugnance that he charged himself with this obligation towards the Lords the Estates The Duke of Glocester to whom Mr. Wimmenum presented also a bill of a like sum received it also very kindly and thanked the Lords in most obliging terms The Lords the Estates of Holland had also designed a Present to the value of four thousand Gilders for my Lord Craft one of the four Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber that brought them into the audience of the King but they deferred to give it him for the same reason that made them defer the King's because a chain of gold of that price could not be made in so few daies At this time the daies were at their full length and yet it may be said that not only the Hague saw Wednesday the 2 of June some thing more early then the Sun but also that there was in a manner no night between Tuesday and Wednesday particularly for those who finding no hole to put their heads because the houses not being able to lodge the crowd of people which ran there from all the neighbour Towns the most part were constrained to walk the streets There was no night for more then fifty thousand persons who from the precedent evening were gone to take up place on the Downs or sand-hils which border on the sea along the coast of Holland from whence they might discover the Fleet and from whence they intended to see the King to embark The Boute-selle awaked the Cavallery before day and at two a clock in the morning instead of the Moon Drum did beat the assemble as well for the Citizens as for the souldiers In the King's house it self every one was imploied the whole night in causing the rest of the baggage to be loaden and sent away and there was seen nothing but Wagons and Coaches full of English who went to embark themselves before the barks appointed for his Majesties service were possessed by his domestick people and servants who were to attend upon his person The Citizens came together at their ordinary rendezvous of the Viverberg and the Regiment of the Guards in the outer-Court commonly called Buitenhof and both one and t'other marched from thence to Scheveling where they stood in Batalia on the sea shore from both sides of the Battery of the Cannon which was brought there from the Hague The King was soon ready and received the submissions and complements of many particular persons that would do him reverence in expecting the Estates of Holland who had caused audience to be asked to take leave in body They came about eight a clock in the morning to the Hall where they had received the King's visit the day before and went from thence to Prince Maurice his house in the same manner and order as they observed when they made him their first complement All the persons of quality that were about his Majesty came to meet them and conducted them to the chamber where the King had given the most part of his publick audiences The Pensionary Councellour who his the organ by which this great body useth to express it self and who had place because of that immediately after the Nobles and before the Deputies of the towns spake neer in these terms If one may judge of the displeasure which we have to see your Majesty depart from our Province by the satisfaction we have had to possess you we shall have no great trouble to make it known unto you Your Majesty might have observed in the countenance of all our people the joy they had in their hearts to see amongst them a Prince cherished of God a Prince wholly miraculous and a Prince that probably is to make a part of their quietness and felicity Your Majesty shall see presently all the streets filled all the waies covered and all the hils loaden with people which will follow you even to the place of your embarkment and would not leave you if they had wherewith to pass them into your Kingdom Our joy is common unto us with that of our Subjects but as we know better then they the inestimable value of the treasure which we possess so are we more sensible of this sad separation It would be insupportable to us SIR if we re-entred not into our selves and considered not that it is the thing of the world we most desired and the greatest advantage also that we could wish to your Majesty We acquiess therein because we know that this removal is no less necessary for us then glorious to your Majesty and that it is in your Kingdom that we must find the accomplishment of the prayers we have made and make still for you and us So we shall not fail to profit thence as well as from the assurances which it hath pleased you to give

in all the Churches on the revolution of the affairs of England in behalf of the King all the Ministers of the Churches English Dutch and French expounding Texts proper for the matter After the Sermons the Magistrate and Consistory were incorporated to make their complement to his Majesty and to their Royal Highnesses and at evening bonfires of joy were made through the whole Town all the Bels rung and many volleys were discharg'd from all the Artillery the Deputies of the Estates General those of the Estates of Holland the Magistrate and the particular persons emulating one another which should express most joy and satisfaction in this great day They began in the mean time to load and to send away the baggage whil'st they finished at the Hague to furnish Prince Maurice his House designed for the King's lodging to appoint lodging for the whole Court and to make necessary provisions for its subsistance when it should be come and whil'st it should remain there Munday the 24 there hapned at the Hague a thing very remarkable and which might be of great importance in its consequences if they had taken councel of ambition rather then of prudence By the fix'd resolution of the Estates General of the 16 of this moneth it was said that the Estates of Holland might cause the King to be received and complemented at the entrance of the Province and that they might make the honour of the House as being the Masters of it But the former had made known since that their intention was to cause the King to be received either by a greater number of Deputies then there had been from them at Breda or if the Estates of Holland went in a body to receive his Majesty by Delf towards Rotterdam in this case the States General would go also in a body to complement his Majesty between Delf and the Hage at the place where they are accustomed to receive Embassadours and that in conducting him their Coaches should follow immediately the King 's The Estates of Holland being advertised hereof likewise that the Estates General would send Deputies to their Assembly and pretending that formerly there passed too many things to the prejudice of the right of their Soveraignity they named the Deputies of the Towns of Dort Harlem Amsterdam Alckmar and Horn to enter into conference with the Deputies of the Estates General to the end to dispose fitly this affair And indeed they negotiated so happily that they were agreed at last among themselves that if the Estates of Holland caused the King to be received at Delf by Deputies they should remain both in the terms of the resolution of the 16 of this moneth by vertue of which the Lords the Estates of Holland might alone do the honours in their Province and cause the King to be complemented wheresoever he pleased and that the Deputies of the Estates General which were by his Majesties person should continue to be treated with respect as representing strange Soveraigns and that in this quality their Coach or Coaches if they judged fit to encrease the number of their Deputies which notwithstanding they promised by mouth that they would not do should follow immediately the King 's and precede those of the Deputies of the Province After this the Estates of Holland ordained that Mr. de Wassenaer Lievtenant Admiral of Holland should be joined to the Deputies named in the resolution of the 13 of May and to Mr. de Wimmenum who had been named the 22 and that every Town should depute one of its body to go to make the complement together with the Pentionary Councellour at the disbarkment of his Majesty by Delf And forasmuch as there was reason to fear that there might happen some disorder about the rank of the Coaches that should be sent to meet the King not so much because the Embassadours were not well agreed among themselves about precedence but chiefly because there were some of them that would make their Coach to go before that of the Prince of Oreng who ought to be considered here not only because of his quality of Soveraign Prince but also as Nephew to the King and consequently as chief Prince of the blood of England after the two Dukes as well the Estates General as those of Holland judged fit to cause the Embassadours of the Crowned-heads to be prayed by their Agent not to send their Coaches but to leave the conduct and whole honour of this ceremony to the Estate to the end to prevent the confusion which otherwise would be unavoidable They all acquiesced therein without repugnance and would fain have that respect for the King and condescendence enough for the desire of the Lords the Estates not to trouble the publick joy which the whole world indeavoured to make resplendent on this occasion The whole Court in the mean time departed from Breda the same day being the 24 of May. The Deputies of the Estates of Holland departed thence at four a clock in the morning to the end to have the leasure to chuse a fit place to put the five troops of Horse which were commanded into Battel and to give necessary orders for his Majesties embarkment The Deputies of the Estates General departed about two hours after and the King took coach with the Dukes of York and Glocester and the Princess Royal about 8 or 9 a clock in the morning But before they went out of the Hall of the Castle the Burgemasters and Councel of Ten presented themselves again to the King and caused to be made unto him by the same Mr. Snel who made him a speech when he arrived at Breda this following discourse for which the publick is oblig'd to a Gentleman of the King's House who had a care to write word by word and to communicate to the authour of the relation all the orations where he was present when they were spoken SIR The Magistrate and Councel of Ten of this town of Breda present themselves again with a most low reverence before your Majesty to render you most humble thanks for the honour it hath pleased you to do the town by the residence you have made here and to bring you a last proof of the perfect joy which the wonderfull success of your Majesty as it is the powerfull hand and infinite providence of God which hath drawn your Majesty out of a Gulf of dangers and conducted you through a desert of afflictions even unto the entrance of the greatness which the right of your Predecessours hath gained to all their posterity This is the subject of our joy Sir but that after the success of many battels Victories gained at the price of the blood of Subjects may content the ambition of a Prince transported but a good Prince whose thoughts are generous and magnanimous prefers an innocent triumph before all other advantages of the world We praise with all our hearts that great God who hath began this work in the person of your

being finished they placed a great chair for the King in a place somewhat distant from the people And as soon as the King was sate one of the Clarks of the Closet stands at the right side of the chair holding on his arm or rather in his right hand as many gold Angels every one tied to a ribband of white silk as there were sick to be touched which were then to the number of eight and forty But for as much as the Angels which is a kind of gold so named because it hath the figure of an Angel upon it are so rare that they can scarce be gotten especially in these Provinces the King useth ordinarily as he did on this present occasion the ten shillings peeces which are near of the same value The Chaplain that makes the sermon before the King and who for this purpose takes ordinarily a text proper for the ceremony performs the office afterward and stands on the left side of the chair whilst the Chyrurgion takes place with the sick right over against the King but at a certain distance Notwithstanding in the occasion whereof we speak now the Ministers text had nothing common with the ceremony and it was not the Pastor who made the sermon that assisted there but Doctor Brown Chaplain to the Princess Royal who did all the functions thereof representing the King's Chaplain as he did on all the like occasions at Breda whil'st his Majesty resided there After his Majesty had taken his place having by his side the Secretary or Clark of the Closet and the Chyrurgion before him the Chaplain who held a New-Testament in his hand chused there the text in the Gospel of Saint Mark the 16 Chapter from the 14 Verse even to the end of the Chapter and at the same time the Chyrurgion taking one of the diseased by the hand after having both made three low reverences came with him to put themselves on their knees before the King close to the chair and whil'st the Chaplain pronounced these words of the same Gospel They shall lay their hands on the Sick and they shall be healed the King laied his hand on the two cheeks of the sick This being done he that was touched retired himself and they brought another to the King who touched him in the same manner the Chaplain repeating the same words as many times as there were sick for the King to touch and as they brought them one after another at his Majesties feet The Chyrurgion who was alwaies on his knees whil'st the King touched arose not till the King had made an end of touching and then he made again three low reverences and retired with the sick to the place where they were before and stood there till the Chaplain had made an end of reading the rest of his text which he continued not to read till after the King had touched the last of the sick This being done the Chaplain began again another Gospel taken out of the first Chapter of Saint John from the first verse to the 15 and whil'st he read it the Chyrurgion brought again the persons touched to the King in the same manner as he did before and his Majesty taking from the Secretary of the closet whil'st the Chaplain pronounced these words of the Gospel That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world one of these gold Angels hanging on a silk riband and put it on the neck of one of the diseased which approached one after another in the same manner as they did when the Chyrurgion brought them to be touched the Chaplain repeating also those words as many times as there were persons touched After this they all retired again to their first place and then the Chaplain made an end of reading the Gospel to the verse which we have denoted He read after that some other passages of the Holy Scripture and concluded the whole service with the Lord's Prayer and a prayer which they make unto God that it would please him to bless the ceremony which the King had performed The Liturgy being finished the Gentleman Usher it was then Mr Sands who performed that function brought a bason an ewer and a towel and being accompanied with two Lords or Earls viz. the Lord Leonel Cranfield Earl of Middlesex and the Lord Henry German to whom the King gave since the quality of Earl of Saint Albans he presented the bason and ewer to the youngest of the two who stood on the left hand of the Gentleman that carried the towel taking the right hand of the elder of the two Lords The last finding himself in the midst of them they marched in this order towards the King and after making three low reverences they put themselves all three on their knees before his Majesty and whil'st the Earl of Saint Albans poured forth the water on the King's hands the Earl of Middlesex took the towel from the Gentleman Usher and presented it to his Majesty who wiped his hands therewith After this the two Lords and the Gentleman Usher rose up made again three great reverences to the King and retired And after that the King arose also and went thence to the Princess Royal her chamber It is certain that the King hath very often touched the sick as well at Breda where he touched two hundred and sixty from Saturday the 17. of April to Sunday the 23. of May as at Bruges and Bruxels during the residence he made there and the English assure that not only it was not without success since it was the experience that drew thither every day a great number of those diseased even from the most remote Provinces of Germany but also that there was no person healed so perfectly who was not infected again with the same disease if he were so unfortunate to lose through negligence or otherwise the medal which the King hangs on his neck after he hath touched him without any hope to be cured of it if he be not touched again and have another Angel about his neck We have been loath to have touched on this particular if many grave persons whom one cannot suspect of superstition or deceit spake not thereof as of a most constant thing and of which there is no doubt Coming from thence the King and Princes went to dine with the Princess Royal where they passed a part of the day to divert themselves in private Towards the evening he made a visit to the Queen of Bohemia and at the beginning of the night all the Royal Family were at Prince Maurice his house where the Estates of Holland had prepared a most magnifick and stately feast for his Majesty There is more then one dore that gives entrance into the dining chamber which makes one of the fairest peeces of the whole building and in entring through the middle dore which is over against the great stairs one of the fairest and costliest of all Europe because it is double most large