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A63343	London's anniversary festival, performed on Monday, October the 29th. 1688 For the entertainment of the right Honourable, Sr. John Chapman, Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London; being their great year of jubilee. With a panegyrick upon the restoring of the charter. And a sonnet provided for the entertainment of the King. By M. Taubman. Printed and published by authority.	Taubman, Matthew, d. 1690?	1688 (1688)	Wing T240; ESTC R220787	5,218	12

LONDON'S Anniversary Festival Performed On Monday October the 29th 1688. For the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sr. John Chapman Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London Being Their great Year of JUBILEE WITH A PANEGYRICK upon the Restoring OF THE CHARTER And a Sonnet provided for the Entertainment of the KING By M. TAVBMAN Virg. Lib. 6. Hic Rem Londinam magno turbante tumultu Sistet Eques Printed and Published by Authority London Printed for J. Fleming and Sold by the Booksellers 1688. To the Right Honourable Sir JOHN CHAPMAN Kt. Lord Mayor of the CITY of LONDON My LORD IF the Custom of a Dedication at this Time did not make it necessary your Eminent Merits do justly lay claim to the discharge of this Duty And though the present Impending Storm the Dread of a Foreign Invasion has Obnubilated the usual Splendor of this Day 's Solemnity such Remarkable Occurrences have happened this Year as will render your Name and Memory famous to all Posterity What is most to be Recorded is the Restoring of the Charter of London which happened in the Year of your Mayoralty 88. Auspicious 88 England's great Year of Jubilee twice Propitious to this Famous City First In Restoring our Lives and Estates Secondly Our Laws and Freedoms in the free Exercise of our Antient Establish'd Government What other Worthies durst not Attempt you like Jason bravely Adventur'd for the Prize and brought the Golden Fleece in Triumph home In the late threatning Deluge when the Ark was tost upon the Foaming Billows you like the Dove was sent Abroad and like the Dove returned with the Olive-Branch of Joy. This unspeakable Mark of Royal Bounty occurring this Year with your Right of Succession to the Praetorial Chair will Record your Name to future Ages beyond all the Witless Panegyricks of My LORD Your Lordships most Obedient and most Devoted humble Servant M. Taubman To the Right Honourable Sir John Chapman Knight Lord Mayor of the City of London on the Return of the CHARTER WElcome as Day to Nighted Travellers As Light to Darkness or as Peace to Wars Welcome as when the Six Months night is done To frozen Climates the Approaching Sun Who after a long Winters Storm does bring All the dear Blessings of a fertile Spring To You our Thanks as well as Praise is due In whom's Restor'd our Lives and Freedoms too What the loud Tumults lost in hot Debate Is Re-invested in its former state Your Patience has their Fury overcome The Captive Ark is brought in Triumph home The Charter is Return'd with cheerful Cries Our Rights our Customs and Immunities All which in 88 with You Restor'd In everlasting Annals we 'll Record The new exalted Meteors cease to shine And to the old Extinguish'd Lamps Resign Who in their former state their Freedoms hold Like Diamonds newly set in the same Gold. Tamely they bore the Cloud of their Disgrace While Stars less Radiant were advanc'd in place These may by Day cast forth a glimmering Spark While the true Gem shines brightest in the Dark This made the World your Loyalty admire And the bright Palm depress'd to mount the higher Then were you Loyal at that very time When to be Loyal was esteem'd a Crime This worthily Advanc'd you to the Chair When mean complying Intrest prov'd a Snare There was a Time when Loyalty prevail'd And on her Sons large Favours were Intail'd E're Temporizing Converts did Comply For Interest to Sell their Liberty This Bliss with you restor'd this Year we share The CHARTER to the Town and you the Chair Here the KING's Bounty as your MERIT 's Great Has made your Laws and Liberties Compleat With you this Year we are Possest of more Than all our Predecessors were before What they by Parcels scarce in Ages gain'd We have in Gross in one blest Day obtain'd Each Grant Enlarging our unbounded Power From Royal JAMES to the first Conquerour What Monarch yet e're Grac'd the British Throne But dropt a Royal Jewel from the Crown Like the Sword added to your Quarter'd Field T' Enlarge the CHARTER and adorn the GUILD No fierce Dragooner here for Quarter calls No Noise of War within your Peaceful Walls And what exceeds all Priviledges far You are not Summon'd from your Gates to War. No dreadful Trumpets Sound annoys your Ears All Innocent and Charming as the Spheres If Musicks softer Notes your Throne ascend 'T is such as on your harmless Mirths attend Musick which like a Consort does agree With LONDON's Government the soul of Harmony Nor in the Walls is this your only Friend Toll-free through England does your Power extend Even to the Surges of the boundless Sea The Wealthy Thames is made your Royalty Nor can we here your Liberties Confine Your CHARTER does extend beyond the Line Through the vast Globe you may with Drake be hurld A London Merchant's Freeman of the World. And shall that State which has the Sovereign Powers Of Sea and Land dread Foreign Conquerours Where is the Grandeur of our English Nation If we are Blasted at a Dutch Invasion In vain vast Armies and a Fleet oppose Against a Fate that is more strong than those That Grandeur which once met the Pride of Spain Like a huge City floating on the Main Met it and to the Bottom sunk it down The Gods and Winds fight for the English Crown Those Masts which lately seem'd to touch the Sky Now low in the vast Oceans Womb do lie And where th' Armada did its Pride display Fishes resort and wanton Dolphins play May the same Fate make all your Foes a Prey LONDON ' S Anniversary Festival For the Year 1688. ALthough the present Juncture of Affairs and the Rumour of a Foreign Invasion has Eclips'd the Glory of this Days Triumph yet since the Mayoralty has fallen in the First of Companies and in the time of so Eminent a Patriot I think my self in duty bound to Publish this short Description that what it wants in the Pageantry may be supplied by a Panegyrick to perpetuate the Occurrences of so remarkable a Jubilee The Right Worshipful the Company of Mercers who have the Honour and Charge of this Day 's Entertainment are the first in Order and Place having the Priority of all other Companies of London They were Established to be a Company and to purchase Lands in the 17th Year of the Reign of Richard the II 1393. Mercers Hall famous for the Magnificence of its Structure is the Seat of their Publick Assemblies where are likewise several spacious Rooms and Apartments for their private Courts Committees and Consultations This was formerly an Hospital Founded by Sir Thomas of Acon Militia Hospitalis saith the Record of Edward the III Founded by Thomas Fitz Theobald in the Reign of Henry the II. It was purchased by the Mercers in the Reign of King Henry the VIII by the Famous Sir Thomas Gresham The Chappel was Founded by that Eminent Patron and Benefactor Sir John Allen who lies there Intomb'd This

particular Record I thought necessary to make that the want of a Shew might not Derrogate from the Grandeur of so Antient and Honourable a Society Nevertheless though the Pageantry was Omitted there wanted nothing that could contribute to make it Great both by Land and Water nay rather more Sumptuous in the Magnificence of their Cavalcade which was in the manner following The CAVALCADE ABout Eight a Clock in the Morning to attend his Lordship in Mercers-Hall do meet the Right Worshipful the Company of Mercers and the most eminent Citizens appointed for that purpose I. The Master Wardens and Assistants in their Gowns fac'd with Foyns with their Hoods II. The Livery in their Gowns fac'd with Sattin and their Hoods III. Threescore poor Men in Gowns and Caps march in the Front each of them employed in bearing a Banner IV. Fifty Gentlemen-Ushers in Velvet-Caps follow next each of them having a Chain of Gold about his Shoulders and in his right Hand a White Staff. V. A splendid Train of Batchelors invested in Gowns and Scarlet-Sattin Hoods which in this Company above all others are most numerous called The Rich Batchelors who often bear the Charge of this Day 's Solemnity VI. Another Division of Batchelors VII Twelve more Gentlemen for bearing Banners and Colours some in Plush-Coats and some in Buff with Scarfs about their Shoulders of the Company 's Colours VIII Thirty-six Trumpets The Serjeant-Trumpeter with a Rich Scarf of his Lordships Colours about his Waste and a Leading-Staff in his Hand IX Fourteen of his Majesty's Drums The Drum-Major with a Crimson Scarf about his Waste and a Leading-Staff in his Hand And Three Fifes with Banners X. Divers other Drums and Fifes with Scarfs of the Colours of the Company XI The Two City-Marshals on Horseback and six Servants to attend them with Scarfs and Colours of the Company XII The Six Foot-Marshals with Scarfs and Colours of the same XIII The Master of Defence with Scrafs and Colours likewise of the same having Persons of the same Noble Science to attend him XIV Divers other Pensioners invested with Red Gowns with Sleeves and flat white Caps each of them carrying a Javelin in one Hand and a Target in his other wherein is painted the Arms of Rich. II. the first Founder and Sir Thomas Gresham the first Benefactor of the Company XV. As an Addition to this Solemnity and to supply the defect of the Pageants is added the Artillery Company in the Rear led up by that Eminent and Worthy Citizen Sir John Moor. The Order of their March. THE Foot Marshals with an Assistant appointed for that purpose rank them out two by two beginning with the Pensioners in Gowns and in the Front of them placeth the Companies Ensigns four Drums and one Fife In the Rear of these fall in the several other Pensioners in Coats bearing several Banners and Standards after them the Arms of the Kight Worshipful the Company of Mercers which is the Maiden-Head with this Motto HONOR DEO which is also inserted in the other Banners Standards and Streamers appertaining to the Company whereof this as the Largest is attended with six Gentlemen Ushers and after them follow the Batchelors who conclude this Division In the Rear of those fall six Trumpets after them two Gentlemen bearing two Banners the one of the City's the other of the Companies after them follow two Gentlemen Ushers and after them the Foyne Batchelors who conclude this Division In the Rear of them fall others of the City Trumpets after them two Gentl●m●n bearing the Banners of the City and the Lord Mayor After those follow twelve Gentlemen Ushers Equipped and appointed as before and after them the Court of Assistants who puts a period to that Division In the Rear of them follow the Sergeant-Trumpet with sixteen other of the King's Trumpets and Kettle-Drums after them three other Gentlemen bearing the King 's the Lord Mayor's and St. George his Banner attended by fourteen Pages And after them the Master and Wardens who Terminate the first and chiefest Division Being Placed in this Order They march from the Place of Meeting to Grocers-Hall till such time as his Lordship with the Sheriffs and his Brethren the Aldermen are mounted Which being done the whole Body march towards Guild-Hall where the Lord Mayor Elect with his new Equipage joyns with the other Companies marching in great Order and Decency through Kingstreet and Cheapside down to the Three Crane-Wharf where the Lord Mayor Aldermen and their Attendants take Barge the whole Company of Mercers do likewise Embarque with the rest of the Companies as many as have Conveniencies some of their Barges being at present imployed in his Majesty's Service His Lordship the Aldermen and the Right Worshipful the Company of Mercers with such other Companies as have the Conveniencies of their Barges Landing at Westminster have a Lane made them from Kings-Bridg from which they pass through Westminster-Hall where having taken the Accustomed Oaths before the Lords and Barons of the Exchequer they Return to their Barges where a Lane made as before to the Water-side they go back by Water being often Saluted by their Majestles from White-Hall both going and coming with several Shots and Salutations from the Pleasure-Boats who for that purpose are all the way playing upon the River His Lordship with the Companies attending him Landing at Black-Friars are welcomed there with three Volleys by the famous Artillery Company all Adorned in their Martial Ornaments in Buff and shining Head-Pieces of Massy Silver From Black Friars they March before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen in the same State Order and Decency as before through Cheapside to Guild-Hall where his Lordship is Received by the Ld. Chancellor Ld. Chamberlain and Principal Officers of His Majesty's Houshold The Principal Secretaries the President and most Eminent Lords of the Council all Ambassadors and Ministers of State both Foreign and Domestick all the Learned Judges and Principal Officers both of Court and City who all Dine that Day in Guild-Hall His Majesty having Himself promised to Confer that Honour upon his Lordship if the present Juncture and his Care for the Publick do not otherwise Divert him This Anniversary Festival is for the Magnificence of their Entertainment the greatest that has been ever seen in any Nation All the time of Dinner the Hall Echoing with Huzza's and Healths to His Majesty who Returns the same to his Lordship wishing him Success and Happiness in the Discharge of his Trust for the Year ensuing Dinner being ended his Majesty is Entertain'd with the following Song SONG for the Entertainment of His Majesty WIth Hearts united and Exerted Souls Brim full of Loyalty as are our Bowls To Mighty James a grateful Health go round The Jewel lost so long this Year is found This Name our Bounteous Charters Grant inrols For this new Grace a just Oblation due But why his Praise do I in vain pursue It is that Name that Sacred Name must give To Indigested Verse a power to Live And make our Loyal Song Immortal too Chorus To the Son of the Martyr Who Restored us the Charter Let French Dutch and Spaniard beware it While the Foes that invade us With their sinking Armado's We drown in an Ocean of Claret The Laws to every City does prescribe Their Bounds and Limits be they nere so wide Amongst the Wives whom Ties of Nature bind London a Royal Bride sits unconfind By Land-mark bound nor Circumscrib'd by Tyde As far as Royal James that does Defend From Silver Thames his Scepter does extend Whose Empire yet no Foe cou'd e're confine From the Bleak North beyond the Tropick Line Ev'n there our Boundless Charter knows no End. Chorus To the Son of the Martyr c. Augusta who so long bore the Renown Of Soveraignty next to the Royal Crown Does yet this Year a greater Glory share Where Loyalty's advanc'd into the Chair To Rule as long before the joyful Town In this above her Neighbouring Sisters blest The Royal Chamber The bright Phoenix Nest Where one Expiring ' midst the sweet Perfumes Another strait his Image re-assumes Her Lords with Immortality possest Chorus To the Son of the Martyr c. THE END