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A46246	The goldsmiths' jubile, or, Londons triumphs containing, a description of the several pageants, on which are represented, emblematical figures, artful pieces of architecture, and rural dancing : with the speeches spoken on each pageant : performed Octob. 29, 1674, for the entertainment of the Right Honourable and truly noble pattern of prudence and loyalty, Sir Robert Vyner, Kt. & Bar, Lord Mayor of the city of London : at the proper costs and charges of the worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, the Kings Most Sacred Majesty and His Royal Consort, Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dutchess of York, Prince Rupert, the Duke of Monmouth, several foreign embassadours, chief nobility, and secretaries of state, honouring the city with their presence / composed by Tho. Jordan.	Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?	1674 (1674)	Wing J1033; ESTC R17337	11,616	16

The Goldsmiths Iubile OR Londons Triumphs CONTAINING A Description of the several PAGEANTS On which are Represented Emblematical Figures Artful Pieces of Architecture and RURAL DANCING With the SPEECHES Spoken on each PAGEANT Performed Octob. 29 1674. for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable and truly Noble Pattern of Prudence and Loyalty Sir ROBERT VYNER K t Bar t LORD MAYOR of the CITY of LONDON At the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of GOLDSMITHS The Kings Most Sacred Majesty and His Royal Consort Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dutchess of York Prince Rupert The Duke of Monmouth several Foreign Embassadours Chief Nobility and Secretaries of State honouring the City with Their Presence Composed by THO. JORDAN London Printed by W. Godbid for Iohn Playford 1674. To the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT VYNER K t Bar t Lord Mayor of the City of LONDON MY LORD PErmit the humblest of your Honourers to present you with the Cordial Salutations and fervent Wishes of much Ioy and Essencial Felicity in the possession and fruition of your deserved Dignities whose legal Choice hath administred the happy occasion of this dayes Triumph The generality of the most Generous Citizens are unanimously Ioyful of your Election and Establishment in that Seat which your Lordship will irradiate with your Abilities in the display and dispensation of those Diviner Beams that Illuminate the World Love Truth and Equity Divers worthy Persons of good Quality make their presencial appearance this day in their Love and Service to augment your Solemnity amongst which be pleased in the meanest Rank of your Admirers to accept of the Duty and pardon the Infirmities of Your Lordships most obedient and sincerely faithful Servant THO. IORDAN To the Worshipful Company of GOLDSMITHS Worthy Gentlemen WHen by your own Indulgence more than my Desert I was preferr'd to the Honour of this Imployment you were frequently pleased to Admonish me that I should be careful in my Studies and rally up all my Abillities in the performance of this Duty from a consideration that the great and good object of my Addresses would deservedly require my choicest Thoughts and accutest Contemplations which since upon deliberate disquisition I have found so true that in my very first attempt I was discouraged for the Lustre of the Subject began to dim the Eyes of my Fantasie and wrought in me a fear That to render Him his merited Commendation would prove beyond the reach of all my Rhetorick and that I should but vainly endeavour to discover the Sun in his Meridian by the bashful Beams of a Wax Candle But my Lord is so mercyful as to make my Errors venial And by his gracious Example I hope you will be pleased to pass by the Oversights and Errors of Gentlemen Your old faithfully Humble Servant THO. IORDAN The Mornings Preparation THe Persons appointed for the Service of the Day meet about Seven of the Clock in the Morning at Goldsmiths-Hall 1. The Master Wardens and Assistants in Gowns faced with Foyns 2. The Livery in Gowns faced with Budge and their Hoods 3. Divers Foyns Batchelors in Gowns and Scarlet Hoods 4. Thirty Budge Batchelors in Gowns and Scarlet Hoods 5. Sixty Gentlemen Ushers in Plush and some in Velvet Coats each of them a Chain of Gold about his shoulders and a white Staff in his hand 6. Thirty other Gentlemen for carrying Banners and Colours some of them being in Plush Coats the other in Buff. 7. The Serjant Trumpet and Thirty six Trumpets more whereof Sixteen are His Majesties the other the Duke of York's The Serjeant Trumpet wearing not only a Scarf of the Lord Mayors Colours allowed by his Lordship as his Fee but also another of the Companies Colours 8. The Drum Major to His Majesty wearing a Scarf of the Companies Colours cross his shoulders four more of His Majesties Drums and Fises attend the Service also seven other Drums and two Fifes more each of them except His Majesties Servants are habited in buff-coloured Doublets black Breeches and Scarfs about their wasts 9. The two City Marshals riding each of them on Horseback with six persons to attend them with Scarfs and Colours of the Companies 10. The Foot Marshal and six Attendants with like Scarfs and Colours 11. The Master of Defence with the same Scarf and Colours having persons of his own Science to attend him 12. Many poor Men Pensioners accommodated with Gowns and Caps each of them employed in bearing of Standards and Banners 13. Divers other Pensioners in green Gowns red Sleeves and Caps each of them carrying a Javelin in the one hand and a Target in the other whereon is painted the Coat Armour of their Benefactors Being thus ordered They are by the Foot Marshal divided into several Divisions and ranked out by two and two beginning with the Pensioners in Gowns and in the Front of them placeth the Companies Ensigns four Drums and one Fife which is the lowest and most inferiour Division In the Rere of them fall in four Drums and one Fife after them the several Pensioners in Coats bearing several Banners and Standards after them four Trumpets after the Unicorns and Crest Ensigns of the Company six Gentlemen Ushers after them the Budge Batchelors which conclude the next Division In the Rere of those fall six Trumpets after them two Gentlemen bearing two Banners the one of the Cities the other of the Companies Arms after them follow eight Gentlemen Ushers and then the Foyns Batchelors which make up another Division After them two Gentlemen Ushers bearing two Banners after them ten Gentlemen Ushers habited as is set down before and after them the Livery In the Rere of these fall other of the City Trumpets and after them two Gentlemen bearing the Banners of the City and my Lord Mayor and then the Gentlemen and the Court of Assiants these conclude that Division In the Rere of them fall in four Drums and six Trumpets after them three other Gentlemen bearing the Kings Queens and Cities Banners and after them four Gentlemen Ushers to follow them are appointed four Pages and after them the Masters and Wardens which conclude all the Divisions In this Equipage they March from Goldsmiths-Hall to his Lordships House beginning with the Pensioners until the Marshal comes and makes a halt at the Gate till such time the Lord Mayor and Aldermen are mounted Which being done the whole Body move towards Guildhall and at Guild-hall Gate the new Lord Mayor joyneth with the old Lord Mayor and his Attendants So all of them march through King-street down to Three-Crane Wharf and then the Lord Mayor Aldermen and their Attendants at the West end of the said Wharf take their Barge the Court of Assistants the Livery and the Gentlemen Ushers of those three Divisions at the East end of the said Wharf whilst the residue of the Retinue that remain behind viz. some Gentlemen Ushers the Budge Batchelors and Foyns Batchelors repair to places of repose The Lord Mayors the

their ralling and drolling on Tricks of the Strand To pen us a Ditty in praise of the City their Treasure and Pleasure their Pow'r and Command Their Feast and Guest so temptingly drest their Kitchens all Kingdoms replenish Their Lives and Wives in plenitude thrives they want neither Meat nor Money In bountiful Bowls they do succour their Souls with Claret Canary and Rhenish The promised Land 's in a Londoner's hand they wallow in Milk and Honey II. For Laws and good Orders L. Mayor and Recorders And Sheriffs with Councils keep all in decorum The Simple in safety from Cruel and Crafty When crimes of the Times are presented before 'um No Town as this in Christendom is So quiet by Day and Night No Ruffin or Drab dares pilfer or stab And hurry away by flight Should dangers come at Beat of Drum It is in such strong condition An Army 't would raise in very few days With Money and Ammunition III For Science and reading true wit and good breeding No City's exceeding in bountiful Fautors No Town under Heaven doth give or has given Such portions to sons or such dowries to daughters Their name and fame doth through the world flame For Courage and gallant Lives No Nation that grows are more curst to their foes Or kinder unto their Wives For Bed and Board this place doth afford A quiet repose for Strangers The Lord Mayor and Shrieves take such order with Thieves Men sleep without fear of dangers IV. For Gown●en and Swordmen this place did afford men That were of great Policy Pow'r Renown A Mayor of this City Stout Valliant and Witty Subdu'd a whole Army by stabbing of One A Traytor that ten thousand men gat Together in War-like swarms And for this brave Feat his Red Dagger is set In part of the City Arms Should I declare the Worthies that are And did to this place belong 'T would puzzel my wit and I think it more fit For a Chronicle than a Song V. One meanly Descended and weakly attended By Fortune befriended in this City plac'd From pence unto crowns frō crowns unto pounds Up to hundreds and thousands hath risen at last In chain of Gold and treasure untold In Skarlet on Horse-back to boot To th' Joy of his Mother when his elder Brother It may be has gone a foot Such is the Fate of temporal State For Providence thinks it fit Since the Eldest begat must enjoy the Estate The Youngest shall have the Wit VI. Plague Famin Fire Sword as our stories record Did unto this City severely fix And flaming September will make us remember One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty Six When House and Hall and Churches did fall A Punishment due for Sin No Town so quick Burn'd into Ashes was turn'd And sooner was Built agen Such is the Fate of London's Estate Sometimes th' has a sorrowful Sup Of Miseries Bowl But to quicken her S●ul For Mercy doth hold her up VII Our Ruines did show five or six Years ago Like an object of wo to all eyes that came that came nigh 〈◊〉 Yet now 't is as gay as a Garden in May Guildhall and th' Exchange are in statu quo pri●● Our Feasts in Halls each Company calls To treat 'um as welcome Men The Muses all Nine do begin to drink Wine Apollo doth Shine agen True Union and Peace makes Plenty encrease And every Trade to Spring The City so Wall'd may be properly call'd The Chamber of CHARLES our King VIII Our Princes have been as on Record is seen Good Authors and Fautors of love to this place By many good Charters to strengthen our quarters With divers Indulgences Favour and Grace Their Love so much to London is such They do as occasion calls Their Freedoms partake For Society sake Kings have been made free of Halls If City and Court together Consort This Nation can never be undon Then let the Hall ring with God prosper the King And bless the Lord Mayor of London CHORVS of 5. Voices But for this honour'd Company whose kindness this day Prepar'd all these Triumphs we have somthing to say For all their future Welfare we heartily Pray That the Goldsmiths the Goldsmiths The Gold and Silver Goldsmiths may With Gold and Silver Plenty And Treasures never empty Thrive on 'till the latter Day Dinner b●ing ended His Lordship being attended by a Retinue of his own Company takes Coach and is conducted to his own House a very stately Structure and every way accommodated with Beauty and convenience for a Seat of Mayoralty When his Lordship is housed those that attend on him depart with decency and order The Triumphs and Si●kworks are by the care of the Masters and Artificers lodge● for that night in Blackwell-Hall 'till the next day following POSTSCRIPT INformation coming too late we are constrained to put a remarkable and Heroick Rarity into th● narrow limits of a Postscript which is that divers Gentlemen Archers compleatly Armed with long Bows and Swords with War-Arrows and Pallisades with Hats turn'd up on one side upon which ar● knots of green Ribon formed into a Company March under the Command of Sir Robert Peyton Kt. There is newly R●printed Choice Ayres and Dialogues to Sing to the Theorbo or Bass-Viol being mos● of the newest Ayres and Songs su●g at Court and at the Publick Theaters Composed by several Gentlemen of His Majesties Musick to which in this new Edition are added many more new Songs and also Those Songs sung in the famous Play call'd the Tempest sold by Iohn Playford near the Temple Church Devil appears and St. Dunstan catcheth him by the Nose

her Ears a black woolly-curl'd Hair on it a Coronet of upright Feathers an Indian Gown very rich of divers Colours a Girdle of Feathers about her middle a Sky-coloured Scarf worn like a Shoulder belt a Quiver of Arrows at her Back an Indian Bow in her left hand and a Banner of my Lords in her right AMERICA A strait stout Person with a Tann'd Face Neck and Breast with a triple Chain of Diamonds about her Neck sleek black Hair a Coronet of Gold with a great plume of Feathers rich Jewels in her Ears a short Vest of Gold on short Bases of Silver Sky-coloured-Silk-hose and Silver Buskins lac'd with Gold Ribon in puffs in the one hand a Dart in the other a Banner of the Companies About these four Quarters of the World in a Quadrangular form fit the Four Seasons of the Year Spring Summer Autumn and Wintsr all kindly Attired SPRING A grass-green Robe Painted with many colour'd Flowers proper to the Seasons production as Violets yellow Daffadils Dazies the Peach-Tree in Blossom Cornelian-Trees in blossom a long bright Hair and a Garland about her Head of Sweet-Bryer Wall-flowers Stockgilly-flowers Flowers de lis Lillies of all natures Tulips double Pionies In her right Arm a Cornucopia containing French Hony-Suckles Cherry-Tree Blossoms Plumb-Tre●s in Blossoms pale Daffadil and in the other Hand a Banner of the Kings SVMMER A French green Robe Painted with Pinks Roses Damask Red White and Yellow Hony-Suckles French Mary-golds Gilly-flowers Lillies of the Valley and on a Head of long brown Hair a wreath of Flowers mingled with Fruits as early Pears Plumbs Green-Figs Ginnitings Quadlings Cherries interlayed with Lavender-flowers Raspes Vine-leaves and Flowers in one Hand a Silver Rake in the other a Banner of my Lords AVTVM A Person of brown Complexion with long yellow Hair about her Head a wreath of ripe Wheat and Barley mi●gled with Berries Filberds Mus● Melons Queen-Apples Poppies of all Colours Quinces wearing a Robe Coloured Foli-mort Painted with Holy-oaks Medlers Bullices Services Grapes with red green and yellow Leaves Apricocks Kathern-Pears Pom-waters Moncks-hoods in one Hand a Silver Sickle in the other a Banner of the Companies WINTER An Old Man with a white-grey Hair and Beard in a grey Gown girt about his Wast with a Girdle a pan of Charcoal lighted with one Hand over it about his Head a Wreath of Carrots Turnips Leeks Parsnips Skirrots mix'd with Rose-mary and Baies and a Cabbage Cap a Bandalier of Onions worn like a Belt bearing in the other Hand a Banner of the Fishmongers My Lord being prepared with attention Europa riseth up with application to his Lordship in this Poetical Composition as followeth The Third SPEECH by EUROPA THis Rich Resplendent Temple round and high Is Dedicated to the Deity Of bright Apollo He that doth inspire Man's Intellectuals with Sciential Fire Who by his Influential power doth hold Commerce betwixt the Goldsmith and the Gold We Four that have our Banners thus unfurl'd Do personate the Four Parts of the WORLD Those are the Seasons of the Year which guided By the Sun's Course are equally divided My Name 's Europa who led by Opinion Am come to view this Part of my Deminion With these my Neighbours London holds Commerce With all the Regions of the Vniverse And hearing they have made so wise a Choice Of their Chief Magistrate come to Rejoice And bid you Welcome to your Iustice Seat A Place that your own Merit will make Great Your Temperance your Piety and Pity Will captivate the Hearts of the whole City And I have pregnant Cause to think My Lord You 'l oftner use the Ballance than the Sword For like the Goldsmiths Crest you 'l find it fit To exercise the Touchstone of your Wit More than your Weapon though without dispute When properly provok'd they 're both acute And at all times shall serviceable be To th' KING the City and your Companie The Loyal Goldsmiths who for your dear sake With Cost and Care did these Provisions make For this Days Triumph and by Iudgment led Bring all their Members to attend the Head May Plenty spread her Wings over your Fold May both the Indies furnish you with Gold That as you Place of Office is of Trust You may have Power and Treasure to be Just. Thus Europe doth congratulate your Day As a Debt due and though she cannot pay The Principal be pleas'd at her Request T' accept good wishes for the Interest May the Four Seasons with Weeks Days and Hours Prosper your Rule My Lord This Year is Yours The Speech being ended the Foot-Marshal placing the Assistants Livery and the Companies on both sides of King-street and their Pensioners with their Targets hung on the tops of their Javelins in the Rere of them and the Ensign-bearers Drums and Fifes in the Front he hastens the Foyns and Budge Batchelors together with the Gentlemen Ushers to Guildhall where his Lordship is again saluted by the Artillery-men with three Vollies more which conclude their Duty His Land Attendants pass through the Gallery or Lane so formed into Guildhall after which the Companies repair into the Hall to Dinner and the several Silk-works and Triumphs are likewise conveyed into Blackwel-Hall and the Officers aforesaid and the Children that sit in the Pageants there refresh themselves until his Lordship hath Dined at Guildhall where to make the Feast more famous his Lordship is dignified with the Gracious Presence of the King and Queen together with Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dutchess of York Prince Rupert the Duke of Monmouth the Archbishop of Canterbury and all the other Bishops at this time in London all the Resident Embassadors and Envoys all the Lords of the Privy Council all the Principal Officers of State all the Judges and Serjeants at Law with their Ladies His Majesty with the Duke of York and Prince Rupert Dines at a Table raised upon the Hustings at the East end of the Hall The Foreign Embassadours the Lords of the Council and others of the Peerage and Nobility at the two next Tables raised on each side of the Hall The Lord Mayor and the Aldermen Dine at a Table raised at the West end of the Hall and the Citizens of the Liveries at several Tables which fill the whole Body of the Hall His Lordship beginning the several Healths of His Majesty the Queen and Their Royal Highnesses the Hall is fill'd with Shouts and Acclamations After Dinner His Majesty is entertained with a Royal Banquet glorious to the Eye and delicious to the Palate served in with excellent conformity The whole Service managed with as good order and decency as the Circumstances can possibly admit nothing being omitted by the City that may express their Duty to Their Majesties and the humble sense they have in particular of their Royal Appearance A SONG sung at the LORD MAYOR's Table in Honour of the CITY and the GOLDSMITHS COMPANY VERSE I. LEt all the Nine Muses lay by their Abuses

Goldsmiths and the several Companies Barges hasten to Westminster and near White-Fryers a Pleasure-boat adorned with Flags and Streamers salutes his Lordship with several great Guns His Lordship the Aldermen the Company of Goldsmiths and other Companies landing at Westminster have a Lane made them through which they pass to the Hall And there having performed several Ceremonial Duties and Obligations as an Oath to be true and faithful to His Majesty and Government established with Sealing of Writs in the Courts there held and having taken leave of the Lords and Barons of the Exchequer c. and doing some charitable offices to the poor of that place return to their Barges and a Lane being made as before for their passage to the Waters side they there imbarge His Lordship with those attending him the Companies land at Pauls-Wharf and other places in order to their Stands in Cheapside where he and they are saluted with three Vollies by the Military Glory of this Nation the Company of Artillery Men under the Conduct of the most accomplished for Arms and Arts the Right Worshipful Sir Thomas Player they being all in their Martial Ornaments of Gallantry some in Buff with Head-pieces many of massy Silver of whose Honourable Society his Lordship hath been a worthy Member From Pauls-Wharf they March before my Lord through a Gallery of the aforesaid Batchelors and Gentlemen Ushers who did not go to Westminster and likewise the Pensioners and Banners being set in order ready to March the Foot-Marshal leads the way and in the Reer of the Artillery-Company up Pauls-Wharf-hill to the South Church-yard of St. Pauls where his Lordship is entertained by the First Scene or Pageant as followeth A Description of the First PAGEANT A Large Triumphant Chariot of Gold richly set with divers inestimable and various-colour'd Jewils of dazleing splendor adorned with sundry curious Figures Fictitious Stories and delightful Landskips an Ascent of Seats up to a Throne whereon a Person of Majestick Aspect sitteth The Representer of Iustice Hieroglyphically attired in a long Red Robe and on it a golden Mantle fringed with Silver on her Head a long dishevel'd Hair of Flaxen colour curiously curld on which is a Coronet of Silver In her left Hand she advanceth a Touch-stone the Tryer of Truth and Discoverer of Falshood In her right Hand she holdeth up a golden Ballance with Silver Scales Equi-ponderant to Weigh Justly and Impartially Her Arms dependent on the heads of two Leopards which Emblematically intimate Courage and Constancy This Chariot is drawn by two Golden Vnicorns in excellent Carving work with equal Magnitude to the Life on whose backs are mounted two beautiful Raven-black Negrees attired according to the dress of India on their Heads Wreaths of divers colour'd Feathers In their right hands they hold golden Cups in their left hands two display'd Banners the one of the Kings the other of the Companies Arms. All which represent the Crest and the Supporters of the Ancient Famous and Worshipful Company of Gold-Smiths My Lord Mayor with the Aldermen drawing near and viewing the Curiosity of this Model is Complemented by the Figure of Iustice in this Congratulatory POEM The First SPEECH spoken by JUSTICE VVHat Reverend Person doth approach my Sight Filling my Soul with Intellectual Light That Velvet Robe and Collar Answers strait 'T is Loyal LONDON's new-Sworn Magistrate Who is to guide his Course through this Years Tract 'Till Phoebus have run round the Zodiack And there 's much hope that He in Truth will shine No less than Sol in his Ecliptick Line Then I address my Self Great Sir to you To whom this Touch-stone aud these Scales are due The Sword of Justice your own hand doth Gripe You are the Truth my Lord I 'm but the Type The Active Power is seated in your Breast You are the Heart I only am the Crest Of your Indulgent Company who now To Serve you have sent their Supporters too Unicorns with such Antlers that when Your Fame shall be invenom'd by Vile men May prove safe Antidotes for here of late The best of men have born the worst of Fate But you my Lord by Dignity of Spirit Vrbanity and Probity do merit The Love and high applause of every Creature That is endu'd with Virtue and good Nature No matter what malicious Persons vent A bad man's Praise is a Disparagement But all Wise-men will their due Praises bring To You that serve your COUNTRY and your KING The Speech being ended his Lordship giving a signal of acceptation and rides with his Retinue through Cheap-side where he is Jocally obstructed by a Second Pageant of Humour Fancy and Drollery delineated in this Manner A Description of the Second PAGEANT IN the Reer of this Pageant is a Rustick Building in a Quadrangular form where sitting on four Neeches are four Figures on the right Hand sitteth Bacchus a Person of a swarthy Complexion with short brown curld Hair wearing a loose Robe of Purple a Scarf from the Right Shoulder to the left side of Grapes and Leaves a Garland of Ivie on his Head in his right hand a large Rummiken half fill'd and in his left hand a Banner of my Lord Mayors On the left side sitteth Sylvanus God of the Woods in a long Russet Robe painted all over with Trees Birds and Beasts on his Head a Peruke of long curl'd grey Hair and about it a Chaplet of Oaken leaves intermingled with Sprigs of Acorns and their Apples in his right Hand a Wood-bill with a long Silver Staff and in his left a Banner of the Companies Arms. In the Reer upon a Third Angle sitteth Phigalia a Dryad or Wood Nymph in a Robe of French Green with a Scarf of Gold a long curld brown Hair and about her Head a Garland of Wild-flowers and under her left Arm a Cornucopia of wild Fruits and in her right Hand a Banner of the Fishmongers On the Fourth Angle another Nymph with a Silk Ash-colour'd Robe with a Scarf fringed with Green and Silver with a Banner of the City The ascent to this Rustick Mansion is natively imbroider'd with Brambles Thorns and Bryers of all sorts bearing large visible clusters of Berries red black and green Hipps and Haws c. with small Trees laden with wild Fruits and at the foot of this building on the right Hand under Bacchus flourisheth an orderly planted Vineyard wearing green and yellow Leaves as in Autum intermingled with large Clusters of plump Grapes with Vinitorians and Vine-dressers in naked Tauny Shapes with Grapes and Leaves bound about their Heads and Middle On the left hand is a Forrest properly accomodated and wildly adorned with variety of Trees Ravenous Beasts and Birds Inhabited by Satyrs which are form'd like Goats from the middle downwards with Goats Feet and Mens Heads with short black curl'd Hair and upright Horns with hairy Bodies Also divers Wood Nymphs the Dryades and Hamadryades significantly attired in green Silk Robes and gray Silk Mantles fringed with