appointed for his reception In the mean time the Letters of the Deputies were brought to the Hage at midnight and immediately after the Estates assembled and caused the orders to be changed which were given for the King's reception at four a clock in the afternoon into others more pressing and they sent word to the Deputies by the same Poste that they might assure his Majesty that they would not fail to receive him at the hour he had appointed them or at eight a clock in the morning at furthest And indeed about two a clock after midnight they caused the drums to beat to summon to arms the six Companies of Burgers and the Regiment of the Guards of the States of Holland of which there is but four garrisoned in the Hage and the other six in the neighbour towns from whence they were made to come and at six a clock they were all at their Rendezvous The first on the Viverberg and the others in the outward Court of the Palace where the Coaches assembled almost at the same time Those who took the most pain in causing these orders to be executed and who have without doubt the most part in the honour which is due unto those who had the conduct of this affair as they have that of the most important of the Province are M rs of Wimmenum and the Pensionary Counsellour who were seen to act every where each in his functions with so much assiduity care and judgment that if the King drew any satisfaction from the honour they rendred him here this Estate is partly obliged to the pains of these two great Personages The Coaches began to file towards Delf about seven a clock in the morning and immediately after the Burgers who stood in Battalia in the great Place marched towards the way which goes to Delf and the souldiers went to take their Poste on the Viverberg where they made a guard even to the house of Prince Maurice of Nassau which was prepared to lodge his Majesty The Estates Deputies being arrived at Delf and having spoken with those who had complemented the King at Breda and had had the conduct of his person in the voyage informed his Majesty of the order they had given for his entrance for his lodging and for his treatment to the end that as their intention was to submit wholly to the absolute will of his Majesty they made that to be changed therein which might displease him And after that the King had given them his approbation and that they had invited the Deputies of the Estates General to honour this ceremony with their presence and to take place immediately after the King's Coach they gave order that the Coaches should be drawn into a file along the Key of the Suburb This done the Deputies of Holland entred all into the King 's Yacht and said unto him in very few words by the mouth of the Pensionary Councellour that they were there from the Estates of Holland who had sent there a Deputy of each member of their Province to offer their most humble services to his Majesty to expresse unto him their respectfull passion for his person and to conduct him to the place designed for his lodging at the Hage The King thanked the Deputies with words full of goodness and civility for the pain which they had taken and for the proofs of affection and zeal which the Lords the Estates of Holland caused to be given him They staied in the Barge or Yacht but to discourse a moment with the company which was composed besides the King's person of the Dukes of York and Glocester of the Princess Royal of the Prince of Orange who was come there from the Hage early in the morning of the Deputies of the Estates General and of some English Lords and immediately after the King went forth thence to go into the coach of the Princess his sister which had that day the honour to carry all the Royal Family The King put himself in the mid'st with the Princess the Duke of York and the Duke of Glocester sate before and the Prince of Orange in one of the boots and as soon as they were placed the whole company began to advance to enter into the town of Delf The King but passed there the Citizens who were in arms with displaied colours from break of day marched on both sides of the Coach more then a musket shot from the gate which leads to the Hage where they staied and saluted his Majesty with their volleys whil'st all the bels rung and the Artillery thundred from the bulwarks and rampires of the town It was neer ten a clock when he departed thence and past eleven when he came at the Hage where the six Companies of Citizens which could hardly be distinguished from the Souldiers because that being born in war and bred in exercises of arms they could not be known from the Military men but by their cloaths their plumes and their scarfs wherewith they were covered had in the mean time taken their post and made a guard on the way towards Delf even to the bridge which serves for a gate to this illustrious Village which hath without doubt an advantage over all the fairest towns of Europe and may be put in parallel likewise with some of the greatest In the head of the whole train marched some trumpets of the Estate clad in their coats of crimson velvet embroidered with gold and silver After them came a long file of Officers belonging to the war of Young Lords and Gentlemen very gallant and bravely mounted Next to that marched a great number of English Gentlemen and Officers of the King's house of the two Dukes of the Princess Royal and of the Prince of Orange After them came Mr. of Wimmenum who performed here the function of Master of the Ceremonies in his coach where were also some Lords preceding immediately that of the Princess Royal which carried his Majesty and all the Royal House as we have said The Deputies of the Estates General filled the two first after the King 's Those of the States of Holland the six following and the other Coaches which amounted in all to the number of seventy and odd each having six and four horses were filled with English and Dutch Lords It must be confessed that this entrance was not made with an extraordinary pomp and glory worthy so great a Monarch but it was impossible to make greater preparations in the time the King had appointed for it and even when they were constrained to change in a manner the first orders which without doubt would have rendred it much more resplendent had it not been for this change And yet the crowd was so great because the curiosity to see this miraculous Prince had drawn a great part of the inhabitants of the neigbour towns to this entrance that they were constrained to go very softly so that the Companies of Citizens who had the van-guard at the entrance
which was most remarkable was this that about midnight arrived there Mr. Downing who did the affairs of England to the Lords the Estates in quality of Resident under Oliver Cromwel and afterward under the pretended Parliament which having changed the form of the government after having cast forth the last Protector had continued him in his imploiment under the quality of Extraordinary Envoy He began to have respect for the King's person when he knew that all England declared for a free Parliament and departed from Holland without order as soon as he understood that there was nothing that could longer oppose the re-establishment of Monarchal government with a design to crave Letters of recommendation to General Monk This Lord considered him as well because of the birth of his wife which is illustrious as because Downing had expressed some respect for him in a time when that eminent person could not yet discover his intentions He had his Letters when he arrived at midnight at the house of the Spanish Embassadour as we have said He presented them forthwith to the King who arose from table a while after read the Letters receiv'd the submissions of Downing and granted him the pardon and grace which he asked for him to whom he could deny nothing Some daies after the King Knighted him and would it should be believed that the strong aversions which this Minister of the Protector had made appear against him on all occasions and with all sorts of persons indifferently even a few daies before the publick and general declaration of all England proceeded not from any evil intention but only from a deep dissimulation wherewith he was constrained to cover his true sentiments for fear to prejudice the affairs of his Majesty Sunday the 30 of May the King would in the morning hear a Sermon and to that purpose it was ordained that Mr. Hardy one of the Ministers which came from England with the Commissioners of the City of London should preach before the King in the Chappel of the Court which serves for Church to the French that live at the Hage at eleven a clock in the forenoon as soon as the French had ended their ordinary devotions And to the end to prevent the disorder among the people which were come there in crowds from the neighbour towns the company which had the guard was commanded to seise themselves of the avenues of the Chappel and particularly to possess the dore which leads into a little Partition where the Princes of Orange heretofore caused a bench to be made cloathed with black velvet and covered with a canopy of the same stuff for themselves and for persons of quality that were ordinarily of their train but they dreamed not to remedy another inconvenience which deceived all the other precautions that they used For the French instead of giving place to the English and of using the civility which they were accustomed to have for strangers would not go out of the Church and even the persons of condition which sate in the little partition whereof we have spoken and who were for the most part Dutch refused to make place for the Lords which were in great number about the King's person without considering that this very incivility hindred them absolutely to satisfie the curiosity they had to see the King and to be present at the English Liturgy The Reader of the Church exhorted the people to withdraw and likewise the Pastor who made the Sermon went up again into the Pulpit and represented to them the wrong they did themselves as well as their brethren of the same religion and strangers as they in this country in obstinately staying thus in their seats after having heard the word of God in a place where they had been fed and in failing of respect to the King to whom that very Temple was given by their Superiours and where the English were to hear it after them in their tongue But these exhortations made no impression on spirits prepossessed no more then the other reasons which he alledged so that the King was enforced to do his devotions in the place where her Royal Highness is accustomed to have her preaching particularly since most important considerations hindred her to go to the English Church where there entred as many as it could hold of the Lords of that nation The Minister took his text in the 26 Chapter of the Prophet Isaiah verse 19 which he applied to the present estate of the affairs of England and made so learned and so pathetick a discourse that there was not any one there which was not touched and edified therewith After the Liturgy and Sermon were ended there presented themselves many persons sick of the Evil which the King was to touch after many others he had touched Friday and Saturday the 28. and 29. of this moneth in private And for as much as this ceremony is done with circumstances very remarkable and different from those which accompany it in France when the King there toucheth the sick it shall not be from our purpose to speak here of all the particulars thereof since they make as well one of the essential parts of our relation which is to omit nothing of what his Majesty did at the Hage But before we engage us in this recital it will be necessary to undeceive the spirit of those that believe that that which the Kings of England do on this ocasion is but a copy of that which is done in France and that it is not but because of the pretension which they have to that Crown and by vertue of the title which they take and from the arms of France wherewith they charge their Escuchion that they attribute to themselves a grace which is given to the eldest Son of the Church For it is most certain that the King of Great Britain hath this right and advantage not as King of France though he takes the quality thereof in his titles but as King of England and because the Kings his Predecessours have used it efficiaciously since the reign of Edward surnanamed the Confessour that is to say since the beginning of the 11. age and long before the Kings of England had declared their pretensions as they did when Philip of Valois came to the Crown Now this ceremony is performed in the manner as we shall at present relate Those that feel themselves afflicted with the disease commonly called the Kings-evill because the King cureth it are obliged to address themselves to his Majesties chief Chyrurgion who visits them and if he judgeth that it is the disease which the King cureth he appoints them a day and hour to be at the Chappel where the King is to touch them As in France the ceremony of touching the sick is done in the morning after the King hath communicated so was it this day done in the Chappel of the Princess Royal after the King had been at the sermon and publick prayers For the preaching
the first day of June the Lords the Estates General being come to their chamber about ten a clock in the forenoon they named M rs of Gent from the Province of Gelderland of Merode and Guldewagen of Holland Stavenisse of Zealand Renswoude of Utrecht Velsen of Freesland Ripperda of Hengelo of Over-Ysel and Sculenbourg for Groning who repaired to the King's Court and told him from the Estates that they knew well their duty obliged them to come to receive his Majesties orders at his house but since it pleased him to do the Estates General the honour to transport himself in person into their assembly they should receive that grace in a most submissive manner and that to this purpose they were there by the command of their Chiefs to serve his Majesty and to conduct him unto the Hall of the Councel They prayed the Estates of Holland to cause their Regiment to make a double guard upon the avenues from Prince Maurice his house to the Palace and Prince William Frederick of Nassau Governour of Freesland was required from them by Mr. of Velsen and of Schulenbourg Deputies of the two last Provinces of the Generality to go to Prince Maurice his house and to march before the King bare-headed to conduct him from his lodging to the place where the Estates would receive him in a body and from thence even to the seat which was prepared for him They caused a great train of coaches to come for the King's convenience but his Majesty had no sooner answered the complement of the Deputies but being upon the stone stairs of the Court he caused the Lords of his train to advance and expressed a willingness to walk a foot that little way which is between Prince Maurice his house and the Palace Prince William of Nassau put himself immediately before the King who not disposed to cover himself on the way the Deputies of the Estates that followed him put themselves in the same condition and in this order between two files of Souldiers they arrived at the foot of the stairs of the great Hall where the Estates General came in a body to meet him made him a low reverence opened themselves to make him to pass in the mid'st of them and followed him thus two and two a long the Hall and then through the Gallery where they sell Pictures but whose shops were shut up that day and through the withdrawing chamber unto that of their ordinary assembly his Majesty and the Estates being still uncovered This Hall is more long then large and there is seen in the mid'st a Table which reacheth even from one end to the other of the length of the Hall capable to hold about thirty persons The President of the Assembly which changeth every week according to the number and rank of the United Provinces hath his place in the mid'st of the Table but he quitted it then to that which is over against where the Embassadours and Ministers of forraign Princes are seated when publick audience is given them and in the ordinary place of the President they had made a foot-bank of seven or eight foot broad covered with a foot cloth of Tapistry which reached along the passage even to the dore of the with-drawing chamber On the foot-bank was placed a chair of green velvet and over head a cloath of Estate or Canopy of the same coloured velvet which was hung between the Portraits of the four last Princes of Orange of the house of Nassau which were separated so that those of the Princes William and Maurice were on the right side and those of Frederick Henry and of William the second his son on the left side of the Canopy The King being come to his place which represented a kind of Throne Prince William Frederick of Nassau and some English Lords put themselves behind the seat and his Majesty who stood till all those which compose that illustrious Senate which is called the Estates General and whose number was very great that day because of the extraordinary Deputies which were come upon this occasion were entred would not sit nor be covered till all the Deputies were disposed in their places and then he sate and covered himself but he remained not in that posture for as soon as he saw all the seats full and all the Deputies covered he arose and uncovering himself again he thanked the Estates General in very obliging terms for all the civilities he had received from them since he arrived in the country assured them of the constancy of his amity and affection for the good of that Common-Wealth and recommended unto them the persons and interests of the Princess Royal his Sister and of the Prince of Orange his Nephew in the manner as we shall have occasion to say hereafter Mr. Veth who Presided then for the Province of Zealand as we have said and was over against the King answered in the name of the assembly in terms which made known the respect wherewith they resented the honour they had received This being done his Majesty retired the same way and in the same manner as he entred Prince William marching in the head and the Estates who went two and two after him conducting him in body even into the Court to the foot of the stairs of the great Hall where they had received him It was there that the Estates of Holland came to meet his Majesty in body They had before them Prince Maurice of Nassau Lieutenant General of the Horse and Governour of Wesel marching alone and bare-headed and performing by them the same function which Prince William had done with the Estates General The order which was given for the conveniency of the passage was so well observed that there was no encumbrance in the Court so that the Lords of the King's retinue and the Gentlemen and Officers of the Country walked at ease between two files of Souldiers drawn so into a guard Those of the King's Court and the Officers went before the King's person and the Estates of Holland followed him going two and two first the body of the Nobility and next the Deputies of the Towns directly from the great stairs to the dore of the Estates of Holland their apartment In entring they turned presently on the left hand through a little Gallery which leads into the chamber where the Deputy Councellours assemble which compose the Councel of Estate of Holland the beauty of whose simetry the King admired considered particularly in passing by the seat of those Lords who in the absence of the Estates are as Soveraigns in this part of the Province which is called South-Holland which is in a bar shut up with a long balustrade and covered with a heaven sustained by four columns the ground all white embellished with flowers and leaves of gold in embroidred work Coming forth thence they passed through the withdrawing chambers whose planching is painted but in another manner then the first and which are also very richly hung
in his particular might serve for pretext to his voiage And indeed the person of this Lord should be extreamly agreeable not only because of the affection which he had witnessed for the affairs of his Majesty during his persecution and because of the alliance which the Lord of Ossery eldest son of the Marquess of Ormond Lord Deputy of Ireland of the illustrious House of Butler and now Lord Steward of England hath taken in his House but also and principally because of the great imploiments which he hath in his country and of the excellent qualities which are found in his person All considerations which obliged him to see the King before he did the functions of publick Minister He arrived at Breda on Saturday morning the 15 of May and executed his Commission so happily that the King reserving but the open declaration of his good will for the Deputies when they should be arrived disposed himself to receive the offers and civilities which they had order to make him with so much the more advantage and glory for this Estate and for Mr. Beverweert in particular as Don John de Monroy who arrived the same day at Breda had prayed his Majesty from the Marquess of Caracene General of the King of Spains Armies in Flanders to take his way through the Provinces under the obedience of his Catholick Majesty and to embark in one of the ports of those quarters to return to his Kingdoms Some report at that time and even those who took pains to observe what passed at Breda during the abode which the King made there as sure that Don John de Monroy had also made known to the King that the arrears due to the troops which the King of Spain entertained for the service of his Majesty were at Bruxels and that he might cause them to be paied as he passed But this appeared not no more then what passed in the conference which the Duke of York had some daies before with the Marquess of Caracene himself in the town of Antwerp by order of the King who would not go there in person though he was pressed thereunto through the consideration of the important affairs which he said he had order to communicate to his Majesty The King defended himself with the same firmness from the civilities which he sent to be made unto him in excusing himself upon the facility which he found for his passage in the place where he was at present I know that two reasons principally obliged the King to render himself at first to the request which Mr. Beverweert made him in the name of the Lords the Estates of Holland The first that having had advertisement that the Parliament and City of London sent a great number of Commissioners he would not they should lose time in going from the Sea to Breda and the other that the Court was already so great and the town so incommodated of provisions that it would be impossible to lodge there and diet the Deputies and their train which were said to be three or four hundred Gentlemen besides other Domesticks We have said that the news of the Parliaments Declaration of the Army and of the City of London was carried to Breda the precedentday by Posts express and that from thence it arrived the next day at the Hage where the estate of affairs being changed since the resolutions of the former daies as well the Estates General of the United Provinces as those of the Province of Holland pressed their Deputies to depart And those last in particular writ to Mr. Beverweert and gave him order to signifie to the King that they had nominated already some of their body which should be gone forthwith to congratulate his Majesty and in the mean time to dispose him to honour that Province with his presence and abode during the time that his affairs should oblige him to stay in the Country They writ also at the same time to the Magistrates of the towns where the King might passe in his way that they should make necessary preparations to receive his Majesty with all the honour and magnificence that was due to so great a Monarch The devotion of the day of Pentecost which hapned the 16 of May was cause that the Deputies departed not that day but it hindered them not from labouring in the regulation of a most important affair and which was judged by the Province of Holland to be of the greatest consequence This Estate is composed in such manner that notwithstanding the Soveraignity of al the United Provinces in one body every Province ceaseth not to be Soveraign in particular and they are all so jealous of their Soveraignity that they suffer not the Generality to have other advantage in the Provinces then that which is due unto them by vertue of their union and of the perpetual alliance which is in some kind more streight even then that of the Cantons Suizzers So that the Deputies of the Estates General being to meet with those of the Estates of Holland in the place where these pretended to represent the Soveraignity of their Province which acknowledgeth no superiour at home the difficulty was to order the rank between them and to conserve to each that which belongeth to it The Estates of Holland who had caused the King to be prayed in particular to honour their Province with his presence would have him to be received and saluted in their name upon the Fronteer would defray the charges on his way from the time he entred into the Province and till the first day he should arrive at the Hage as making part of his Voiage The Estates General who represent not indeed in general but what every Province possesseth in particular acquiesced therein left to the Province of Holland all the marks of Soveraignity and consented to this that their Deputies after they had congratuled the King and conducted his Majesty to the entrance into Holland should remain without functions conditionally notwithstanding that the Deputies of Holland should do the honour of the House and treating them of the Generallity with civility should give them precedence in the places where they might meet together The Estates General resolved the same day that the King's charges should be defrayed during the whole time he stayed in the United Provinces and ordained likewise that provision should be made for it but at first they met with so many difficulties that it was absolutely impossible to execute this resolution For the Town of Breda being already starved almost because of the great number of persons of quality which came there every day and the hot season permitting not provisions to be brought there from other places there was no body would undertake to treat the King and those that would have undertaken it could not have accomplish'd it so that the Estate would have had the displeasure to see their substance dissipated at the expense of its reputation We think to relate here as a
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
into the Hage had the leisure to cut some little streets and to come to put themselves behind and so to make a guard from the Highstreet and along the great Place even to the Viverberg where the Regiment of the Guards had taken its Post and made a guard on both sides even to the House of Prince Maurice of Nassau which the Estates of Holland had caused to be furnish'd and accommodated for the King's lodging As soon as the first coaches were entred into the Court and the King alighted the Deputies of the Estates General retired and left the honour of the reception and entertainment for that day to the Estates of Holland The King being gone up found on the top of the stairs the Queen of Bohemia his Aunt led by the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg who had the honour to salute and to entertain the King at Breda and the Princess Dowager of Orange led by Prince William Frederick of Nassau her son-in-law and accompanied with the two Princesses her daughters Madam the Princess of Nassau and the young Lady of Orange The King saluted them all and being entred into the chamber where he was followed by the Deputies of the Estates of Holland he received there another small complement from them by the mouth of the Pensionary Councellour who said no other thing but that the Estates of Holland would give themselves the honour to come in full body to render their duty to his Majesty when they might do it without incommodating him The King answered him that they should alwaies be welcome and that after he had dined they might take their audience But the Pensioner replied that his Majesty being without doubt weary with his journy they would not trouble his repose that day but would send to receive his orders the next The King who was weary indeed expressed a willingness to dine in private so that there staied no body by him but Mr. of Wimmenum who was charged with the order of making his Majesty to be served at dinner and in whatsoever it should please him to command The Princess Royal who had not slept the night before was the first that withdrew and obliged the others by her example to do the like The Queen of Bohemia and the Princess Dowager of Orange followed her and the King who would lead them and who took the Queen by the hand had the goodness after he had put her into the coach to turn about to the end to help the Princess Dowager to go up There staied with the King at dinner none but the two Dukes his brothers who dined with him His Majesty before he sate at Table would do Mr. of Wimmenum the honour to make him to take his napkin to present it him but that Gentleman who knew how to behave himself civilly excused himself through modesty and yeelded that advantage to him of his Officers who used to perform that function about the person of his Majesty The toil of the journy and little rest he had taken the two former nights made him desire to withdraw And indeed they would have made the musketteers to forbear shooting who gave continual volleys if it had been possible to smother the universal joy which the whole world would express on this occasion To these volleys answered those of a battery of eight and thirty peeces of Canon which were planted on the Viverberg reinforced with another of five and twenty peeces of a greater stamp which they were enforced to plant behind the Cloister Church of the Voorhout upon the rampart in turning the mouth towards the field for fear the noise of that thunder might shake the walls of the old Palace and of all the adjoining buildings The Estates General had ordained the precedent day Mr. de Heyde their Agent to go to Prince Maurice his House and to know immediately after the King's arrival at least as soon as civility would permit him when it would please his Majesty to receive the duty which they had resolved to render him in coming to do him reverence in a body and his Majesty having granted it them at four a clock in the afternoon it was resolved that they should all meet in the ordinary chamber of their assembly half an hour after 3 a clock to go from thence in a body to the house of Nassau They met accordingly at the hour appointed to the number of five and twenty viz. Mr. van Swanenburgh Burgemaster of Leiden and Deputy to the Estates General from the Province of Holland who at his turn was President that week the Baron of Gent M rs van Bemmel Braeckel Balveren Vande Steen Ripperda of Buirse the Count of Flodorff Schimmelpennick Vander Oyen Huygens and Ommeren Deputies from the Dutchy of Gelders Meerman of Horn and the Pensionary Councellour from the Province of Holland de Veth Crommon Vrybergen Lampsins and Kien for Zealand Renswoude and Amerongen Deputies from the Province of Utrecht Velsen for the Province of Freesland Ripperda of Hengelo for Overyssel and Schulenbourg and Isbrants for the town of Groning and the adjacent country with which it makes also a Province As soon as they were assembled they went forth two and two in the same order as we have named them going directly to the King's lodging which is separated from the Palace but by a Ditch whose two sides are joined by a stone bridge That Palace is named the Court or the Court of Holland because it served sometime for dwelling to the Counts as it comprehends now in its inclosure the apartments where the Estates General assemble the Councel of Estate of the United Provinces the Estates of Holland the Councel of Estate of the same Province the Reckoning-chambers of the Generality and of the Province of Holland The two Courts of Justice and the apartments assigned for the lodging of the Princess Royal and of the Prince of Orange Before the Estates marched Prince William Frederick of Nassau Governour and Lievtenant General of Freesland of Groning and of Overyssel the Rhine Grave Commissary General of the Horse of the United Provinces and Governour of Mastricht Mons de Hauterive Chasteau neuf Collonel of a Regiment of French Foot in the service of the Estates and Governour of Breda and many other Collonels Lievtenant Collonels and other Officers as well of Foot as of Horse all bareheaded At the entrance into the King's lodging they were met with by the Lord Crafts one of the four Gentlemen of the bed-chamber accompanied with a great number of gentlemen The Marquess of Ormond Lord Deputy of Ireland and in this quality the first and most considerable person of all England after the Dukes came to receive them at the stairs and brought them into the King's chamber All the high Officers that marched before being entred the Lords the Estates could scarce make way through the press which was extraordinary great there but at last being come to the King the Baron of Gent as chief Deputy
without incommodating his Majesty We said before that the King had advertisement the precedent day that Admiral Montagu was arrived with a part of the Fleet in sight of Scheveling which is but a village inhabited by a hundred or six score families of fishermen a good mile from the Hague which was found true For as soon as they understood in the Fleet then at anckor in the Downs which is a rode at the entrance of the channel that separates England from the main Land what passed in Parliament in behalf of the King and the publick Declaration which almost through the whole Kingdom was made it also declared for its lawful Prince and set sail upon the first orders of the Parliament with so favourable a wind that it appeared on the coasts of Holland on Munday morning the 24 of May and it had the same Admiral that dispatched an express to the King to let him know that he was come there with a part of the Fleet to receive his Majesties commands and to pass him into England It was composed at first but of eighteen or nineteen vessels but those that carried the Commissioners of the two Houses of Parliament and of the City of London having not yet joined with it there arrived others every day and hour so that before the King was in condition to embark there were reckoned eight and thirty great ships the most part of them bearing fifty sixty and seventy peeces of brass Cannon That of the Admiral called yet the Naseby carried fourscore where of the fir strank was of eight and forty pound bore the second of two and thirty and of four and twenty and the third of twelve pount bullet all of brass The Commissioners of the two Houses of Parliament and of the City of London arrived the same day but for as much as they were not of the King's train and had no Letters of Credence for the Estate it was resolved that they should not be treated nor lodged by Harbengers Notwithstanding the consideration which was had for the quality of the Commissioners of the House of Lords which were all followed with a great number of Gentlemen and store of servants clad in very fair and rich Liveries as also for some of the Lower House because of their birth or merit it was found good to lodge them by billets They went not a shore till the next day and the Estate was carefull to cause coaches to be sent for them by particulars which brought them at the Hage in the evening but they did not reverence to the King till Wednesday the 26. as we will say hereafter We have said also that the Estates of Holland would not take their audience the day that the King arrived to the end not to oppress him with complements when he had need of rest but they ordained Mr. Beaumont their Secretary to address himself to one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber and to pray him to know of his Majesty the hour of their audience the next day officiating in the mean time under hand by Mr. Beverweert that it would please his Majesty to do them the favour to hear them in private and to make all to depart the Chamber when they entred there except the Lords that were necessary for the service of his person Not that they had to entertain him with secret affairs in a publick audience where they were but to felicitate his Majesty upon the present estate of his Kingdom but because that being assembled in a very great number and having to make their complement in a body all the Deputies could not enter into the Hall nor approach the King if entrance should be allowed to all the world indifferently The reason which obliged them to give order to the Captain of the Regiment of the Guards to forbid that morning entrance into the House of Nassau to all the inhabitants of the country of what condition or quality soever they were They caused a Guard also to be made for them of some Companies from the dore of their apartment in the Palace even to that of the Prince his house and prevented by this means the confusion which they would hardly have avoided without it After then they had given these orders and understood that the King expected them at nine a clock they came about that time to the place of their ordinary assembly and went forth thence in the following order Mr Starenberg Collonel of the Regiment of their Guards marched first and alone bare-headed After him came the Estates of Holland in body two and two the Deputies of the Nobility which are M rs of Wassenaer of Beverweert of Schagen of Wimmenum of Nortwijck of Somelsdijck of Duyvenvoorde vander Mylen to wit Scagen Wimmenum and Merode are politick and as we say of the robe and the others have military charges according to the order of their reception and the other Deputies according to the rank which their towns hold in the assembly with this difference notwithstanding that the Pensionary Councellour who although in the assembly he hath his place at the table of the Nobility cannot as Minister of the Estates pretend rank but after all the other Deputies when the Estates are together in a body and yet takes place immediately after the Nobles because that being to make the speech he could not without disorder make through the press to approach the person of the King Being thus arrived a foot at the gate of the King's lodging they were received there in the same manner as the Estates General had been the day before The Pensionary Councellour made a very quaint discourse which would give without doubt much ornament to our relation if that Minister would have communicated it but it could not be obtained from his modesty which is so much the more incommodious on this occasion as it is wel known that all the productions of that accomplished wit have their perfection and that this little treatise cannot have it without that We must beleeve notwithstanding that he would not have rendred himself so difficult if he would have considered that it is not in his power to take away the knowledge thereof from posterity who will find one day his Speech in the Registers where the Estates would it should be inserted in the same manner as he pronounced it The subject was common to him with all those that had spoken to the King 15 daies before Therefore the answer of his Majesty must also relate to that which he made to the oher complements But that which was particular in this audience was this that his Majesty having given occasion to the Estates to enter into other matters and the Pensionary Counsellor making use thereof to speak of the Estate of the affairs of the North the King declared himself so openly and so favourably for the interests of the King of Denmark that though the Lords the Estates should draw no other advantage from the generosity and vigour with which they
carried their arms unto those quarters then the sole approbation of this great Monarch the glory which returns unto them from thence would pay in a manner the great expence they were at there It is not fit to speak here of the particularities of that discourse no more then of those of the secret audiences which the same Pensionary Councellour had after this general and publick one but it shall suffice us to say that the Estates of Holland remained very well satisfied with the civilities they had received in this and with the declaration which his Majesty had made there The Estates of Holland being retired the Deputies of the town of Amsterdam which made a part of them gave order to Mr. de Groot their Pensionary Councellour to demand a particular audience for them and to address himself for this purpose to Mr. Oneal one of the Grooms of the Bed-chamber to know the hour that it would please his Majesty to appoint them for that Mr. Oneal who is of most illustrious birth in Ireland and by the King's favour to be made a Count after he had spoken to the King thereof his Majesty said to him that he desired himself to speak with Mr. de Groot who presently was brought into the chamber where he found the King neer the chimny a little distant from some English Lords who were in affairs with his Majesty Mr. de Groot being come to the King said that the Burgemasters and Magistrate of the town of Amsterdam having understood that this Majesty was come to this Province of Holland had ordained their Deputies to go presently to the Hage most humbly to beseech his Majesty to honour their town with his Royal presence for so little time as the estate of his affairs should permit him to stay in the country and that the Deputies had ordained him to know of his Majesty when they might without incommodating him have the honour to do him reverence in private and to make him the same request in person The King answered that he had a very strong affection for the town of Amsterdam and that he was obliged thereunto by particular considerations so that he would be very glad to see once again that fair and great town and to thank the Magistrate before his departure for the proofs of tenderness which he had received thence but that he believed he should not be able to obtain it from the impressement with which the Commissioners of Parliament and City of London spake of the necessity of his speedy return into England Notwithstanding that he would see the Commissioners after dinner since they were already disimbarked and if they gave him never so little time he would imploy it in making a voiage to Amsterdam and that in the interim he would attend the Deputies as soon as he had dined The Pensioner replied that since his Majesty expressed an inclination to make a journy to Amsterdam he besought him most humbly to defer the audience of the Deputies untill that after the hearing of the Commissioners of Parliament he could resolve himself upon the most humble supplication which the Deputies made him Adding thereunto that his Majesty might be fully perswaded that there was no town even in his own Kingdom where he could meet with more tenderness and respect for his person and more zeal for his interests then in that of Amsterdam and that the Burgmasters and Magistrate had no stronger ambition then to be able to give him effectual and indubitable proofs thereof That they had understood that his Majesty had some design to cause a Yacht to be made in Holland on the model of that which had passed him from Breda into Holland and likewise that he had the goodness not to despise wholly the offer which Mr. Vlooswijck one of their Burgemasters had made him of one which is newly built at Amsterdam and which upon the advertisement given them thereof they had caused to be bought of the Colledge of the Admiralty to which it belonged but they judged it not a present worthy of his Majesty and that they should not without some confusion make him a present of this nature Notwithstanding if his Majesty would be pleased to accept it it would be necessary that he should send some one at the place to order the contrivances and accommodations as for their part they would indeavour to give it all the embellishmens which might render it pleasing to his Majesty The King answered that it was true that the commodity which he had found in that kind of building on diverse occasions and especially in his last voiage coming from Breda had given him some thought to make one to serve his use on the Thames but that his intention was not to oblige the Lords of Amsterdam to present him that which they had though he would not refuse to receive again this mark of their affection and to charge himself with a new obligation towards that fair and great town That to this effect he would send there the Captain of Mr. Beverweerts Yacht with order to cause that to be finished which he received from their hands in the best and most commodious manner that he should judge fit for his service Moreover that he would give notice to the Deputies of the hour he could appoint for their audience after he had heard the Commissioners of Parliament The Estates of Holland had understood that the Courts of Justice which they call the great Councel and the Court of Holland where of the last is composed but of subaltern Judges for the Province and for that of Zealand and the first serves for Parliament to the same Provinces for the appeals which are brought there from all the others Courts of Justice had a purpose to demand audience of the King and that after their example divers other Colledges might demand it as some of those which make no body took a priviledge to do it before the King was arrived at the Hage resolved that notice should be given to the two Courts of Justice to the Reckoning Chamber of the Province to the Consistory of the place to the University of Leiden whose Rector was come to the Hage for that purpose and to all the other bodies and Colledges that the Estate in making its complement did it for all its subjects and that it would not that the King should be troubled with other visits after that which the Estates of Holland had made him in a body The Estates General named this day M rs de Gent Deputy of Gelderland Guldewagen of Holland and Lampsins of Zealand to go to felicitate the Queen in her Palace and the Dukes of York and Glocester who were lodged at the House of the extraordinary Embassadours on the re-establishment of the King and on the revolution of the affairs of England and M rs of Renswoude of Utrecht Ripperda of Hengelo of Overysel and Isbrants of Groning were deputed to do the same office
seise himself on the key of the powder Magazine and to ordain all the Captains of the other ships of the Fleet to do the like aboard them and to carry alwaies the key with them the King was advised to chuse a guard of fourscore Gentlemen under the charge of the Lord Gerard Captain of his Life-guards and one of the four Gentlemen of his Bed-chamber which served by Brigades so that there was alwaies twenty which marched on both sides the coach having one hand on the supporting staff of the boot and holding a sword drawn out of the belt but in the scabberd in the other But as this posture was some what irregular and offensive in a country where the person of his Majesty was no less dear then in his Kingdom the King considering that to hinder approach to his person was sufficient to secure it would that they should wear their swords by their sides and carry a cane in their hand which assured their countenance and made their quality and charge to be respected The same day the Estates of Holland gave Commission to M rs of Wimmenum Deputy from the Nobility to the Councel of Estate of Holland Halling of Dort Marseveen of Amsterdam and Hoogland of Alcmaer to go to felicitate the Queen of Bohemia the Dukes of York and Glocester the Princess Royal the Princess Dowager of Orange and the Prince of Orange upon the re-establishment of the King of Great Britain They executed this commission immediately after dinner Mr. of Wimmenum made the complement every where and which was most admirable never using twice the same cogitation nor the same words in all his speeches The Estates of Holland gave charge also to Mr. of Wimmenum to know of his Majesty if it pleased him that they should make him a supper where the Estates of Holland might have the honour to treat him in private and if he desired that in this case the Estates should be there in a body to render him the more honour or if he would rather they should send there Deputies Whereupon his Majesty having expressed an acceptance of what they desired and made known that by the deputation of a single person of each member he should be as well satisfied as if the Estates were there in body they fixed on Sunday following for the day being the 30 of the same moneth They prayed Mr. of Wimmenum to take upon him the whole ordering of the Feast and to give necessary orders for it and the Estates named Commissioners which should be there from them viz. Mr. of Wassenaer Lieutenant Admiral of Holland and Mr. of Wimmenum for the Nobility De Wit of Dort Fabricius of Haerlem Graswinckel of Delf Buytevest of Leiden Marseveen of Amsterdam Cant of Tergow Vander Meyde of Rotterdam Vander Colck of Gorcum Vander Eyck of Schiedam Vander Croest of Schoonhoven Vander Berg of the Briel Teylingen of Alckmaer Jager of Horn Romer Cant of Enchuysen Houtuyn of Edam Houting of Munickendam Stellingwerf of Medenblick and Roothooft of Purmerent to whom were added Mr. de Wit Pensionary Councellour and Mr. of Beaumont Secretary to the Estates of the same Province But to the end that nothing might be wanting to the testimonies of affection which the Estates would render to his Majesty those of Holland ordained the same day that all kinds of refreshments should be sent to the Admirals ship to the Vice-Admirals and to the Rear-Admirals to be afterward distributed to the whole Fleet. They communicated hereupon with Mr. of Wassenaer Lieutenant Admiral of Holland and caused so much Wine Victuals Citrons Oranges and other provisions to be bought that the Lord Montagu was constrained to confess that he never saw so much Notwithstanding they sent them not aboard before the King had fixed on the day of his embarkment and the Deputy Councellours who were to execute the orders of the Estates of Holland gave the commission thereof to Mr. of Valquenbourg of the Bosse Captain in the Regiment of the Guards who caused the provisions to be carried aboard the Admiral to whom it was judged fit they should leave the disposing to cause them to be distributed to the other Ships according to his orders The Estates General of their side writ to the Colledge of the Admiralty of Rotterdam that they should provide and furnish such a number of Hoys and other Vessels as the Officers of the King's stable of the Duke of York and of Glocester should judge necessary for the transportation of the horses and of a part of his Majesties baggage and of their Royal Highnesses and order was given that they should be kept and stabled in the town of Rotterdam till they could be embarked and that the ships should be provided of hay of oats and of straw for the time that probably they might be upon the sea Friday the 28 of May the Estates General who knew they should please the King in doing civility to the Parliament deputed the Lords Ripperda of Buirse of the Province of Gelderland and Schulenbourg of Groning to go with a complement to the Commissioners of the two Houses of Parliament and of the City of London upon the present Estate of the affairs of England The Lords Deputies of the Higher House assembled in the House of the Earl of Oxford who was lodged at Mr. Buisero's Griffier or Secretary of the Councel to the Prince of Orange and the Commissioners of the Lower House at the Lord Fairfax's who was lodged in the House of the Baron of Asperen Deputy from the Province of Holland to the Colledge of the Admiralty of Amsterdam and received this civility with much satisfaction The same day the Estates of Holland having deliberated upon the recommendation which the King had made them when they saluted his Majesty in a body of some persons and English Officers which are in the service of this Estate whose affection which they expressed to him in his affliction as well for his interests as for the person of the Princess Royal his sister ordained that the three Regiments of Scots foot which were reformed and reduced to two in the year 1655 should be brought again to their first estate in behalf of Lieutenant Collonel Henderson and that the command of the third should be given unto him with the quality of Collonel I say the quality because that some years since and in consideration of the peace where the Major Officers are without function the Colonels have but the title only with the pay of the Major Estate of Lieutenant Colonel They gave on this very consideration a troop of Horse to Mr. Kerkhoven son to the deceased Lord Heenvliet in his life time great Hunter or as they say Forrester of Holland under the deceased Prince of Orange and Intendant of the Princess Royal her house who would acknowledge the services of the Father and the affection of the Lady Stanhop his Widow whom the King made Countess of Chesterfield in procuring
him that charge through the intermission of the King after having given him the conduct which his Father had of her affairs The Estates of Holland gave also a company of Walloon Foot with the hope of a troop of horse to Mr Languerack a Gentleman of the Country of the House of Boetselaer who till then had found great obstacles to his advancement They ordained also that M rs of Wimmenum from the Nobility Halling of the town of Dort of Marseveen of Amsterdam and Hooglant of Alcmaer should go to salute from them the Commissioners of the two Houses of Parliament and the Deputies of the City of London and to endear upon the affection with which they procured the King's return and on the zeal wherewith they laboured to re-establish the affairs of the Kingdom in the same estate they were under their last Monarchs being then in the most flourishing estate of the world They found the Commissioners assembled in the same places where the Deputies of the Estates General had met them viz. some at the Earl of Oxford's and the others with the Lord Fairfax and Mr. of Wimmenum said unto them That the Lords the Estates of Holland who had so much cause to rejoice for that great Catastrophe which they saw in England could not be silent in that wonderfull conjuncture and in that publick and universal joy but found themselves obliged to express it with them that contributed the most to it and are the principal Authors thereof That the Parliament of England had this advantage to be as the foundation of the Estate but that those which compose it now had gained this glory to all posterity that they had not only drawn the Kingdom from its greatest calamity to carry it to the highest felicity but also that they had been the first of the three Kingdoms to declare themselves for so glorious an enterprise That the Lords the Estates who in living with England as they lived during the Anarchy and disorder had manifested how dear the amity of the English was to them participated therein as they ought assured the Lords Commissioners of the perseverance of their affection and praied God for the continuation of the prosperity of the affairs of the Kingdom and of their persons in particular with all the fervency that could be expected from an allied Estate and from persons perfectly affectionated to their good and interests The Commissioners answered by the mouth of the Lords whom we have named and after they had thanked the Lords the Estates for the affection which they had for the King and for the Kingdom whereof they have every day such glittering proofs they thanked the Deputies for the pains they would take in coming to give them the greatest assurances thereof in their particular offering to acknowledge both one and t'other by their personal services and by a perpetual and inviolable amity of their Estate with this Republick and conducted the Deputies even to the coach Saturday the 29 of May the Deputy Councellours which make the Councel of Estate of Holland considering the expence which the Province had made for the reception of the King in his voiage from Breda and that which they must make yet as well for the Feast which they prepared against the next day as for the presents which they purposed to offer to his Majesty and to the Princes his brothers represented to the Estates of Holland that it would be requisite to make forthwith a sum of six hundred thousand Gilders The Estates consented thereunto immediately and found it fit to furnish for the King the Bed and the apprutenances which the last deceased Prince of Orange had caused to be made for the lying-in of the Princess Royal and which she never used because of the death of the Prince her husband who deceased eight daies before the birth of the Prince his son This bed is without doubt the fairest and richest that ever was made at Paris and besides the teaster the seats the skreens the hangings and the other peeces necessary to make a furniture compleat the Estates would add thereunto a most perfect fair hanging of the richest tapistery imbossed with gold and silver which they cause to be made of purpose with a great number of excellent pictures as well of Italy as of the countries ancient and modern and whatsoever can compose a chamber worthy to lodge so great a Monarch in his greatest magnificence The same Councel of Estate ordained also that all the fisherbarks of the Villages of Scheveling and of Heyde should be stayed for the service of the Estate to the end to serve the imbarkment of the Court and King's baggage and that for the same purpose the Village of Catwick on the sea should send the next Munday to Scheveling ten and those of Nortwijck Santvoort and Wijck upon the sea each eight barks They also gave order to Captain du Charoy to cause thirty open wagons to be in readiness to bring a part of the baggage to Scheveling Munday following and a like number with forty close wagons to conduct the train Tuesday which was the day that the King had nominated for his departure though it was deferred since till Wednesday the second of June as we shall see hereafter The same day the Duke of York brother to the King accompanied with the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg and with a great number of English and Dutch Lords and Gentlemen went to Scheveling to take the Marriners oath of fidelity in quality of Admiral of England but the wind being contrary and the sea so moved that the Lord Montagu Vice-Admiral thought it not fit to send boats from aboard him to fetch his Royal Highness and the fishermen of the Village refusing to put him aboard he was enforced to return to the Hage to dinner Monsieur Weiman Councellour in the Councel of Estate of the Elector of Brandenbourg and his Chancellour in the Dutchy of Cleveland had the opportunity to do reverence to the King at Breda where he went about the affairs of the wardship of the Prince of Orange wherewith his Electoral Highness would charge himself in part Therefore he would not press his audience during the first daies after his arrival when his Majesty was burthened with complements But as soon as Prince Maurice of Nassau who with the government of the town of Wesel and charge of Lieutenant General of the Horse in the service of the Estates General of the United Provinces ceaseth not to be Governour of the Dutchy of Cleveland and of the Provinces annexed to it in the name of the Elector of Brandenbourg was arrived they judged fit to make a solemn complement to his Majesty in the name of his Electoral Highness The Prince was there the same Saturday accompanied with Mr. Weiman who notwithstanding the imploiments which he hath elsewhere forbears not to reside some years at the Hage about the affairs of the wardship of the Prince of Orange and with
Mr. Copes ordinary Resident from the Elector to the Lords the Estates The discourse of the Prince was like a Cavaleer so that after the King had answered his complement they spake of indifferent affairs which have nothing of common with this relation The same day Monsieur Vicquefort Knight Resident with the Lords the Estates for the Land-Grave of Hessen made his complement for the Prince his Master which was so much the better received as in his particular he had had an occasion to render most important services to his Majesty as well as to the deceased King his Father of glorious memory He had the honour to do reverence to his Majesty at Breda when in the voiage which he made there some daies before with the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg the King expressed unto him that he remembred the affection which he had for his service He spake also for the Duke of Courland in such sort that the King who witnessed to be touched with the affliction of that Prince protested that he would not fail to acknowledge the good offices which that Prince rendred to the deceased King and to his own person during the disorders of his Kingdom Monsieur Walter de Raet Councellour in the Court of Holland Zealand and West-Freesland being gone to Bruxels in the beginning of the moneth of March this present year with Mr. Goes his Colleague by vertue of a Commission from the Court to speak to the Princess Royal of the affairs of the Principality of Orange understood that there was notice given that General Monck dissembled in a manner no more the inclination which he had for the King's interests and for the re-establishment of the affairs of England and from thence took the liberty to felicitate the King His Majesty received him so well as also the words which he said unto him when being gone since about the same affairs at Breda where his Majesty betook himself he gave him to understand the occasion which hindred the Lords the Estates at present to complement him on the estate of the affairs of the Kingdom of England that he said unto him that he should never see him but he would remember the good will he expressed to him in this conjuncture And indeed this very day the 29 of May the King remembring those marks of affection sent him his in presenting him by Mr. Oudart Councellour to the Princess Royal and to the Prince of Orange her son with Letters Pattents under the great Seal of England by which he gives to Mr. Raet and to his issue male the quality and rank of Knight Barronet for ever And for as much as those whom the King honours with this title are obliged to maintain thirty foot souldiers for the service of Ireland or to pay into the hands of the Treasurer the sum of a thousand fourscore and fifteen pounds his Majesty caused the first Letters to be accompanied with a second dispensing him of paying that sum and acquitting him in general terms and his posterity after him to perpetuity of the said sum We have said elsewhere that Don Stephen of Gamarra ordinary Embassadour of Spain to the Lords the Estates went to meet the King at Moordike to express there to his Majesty the joy that he had for his re-establishment The residence which the King had made for some years at Bruxels where Don Stephen of Gamarra had the honour to lodge some daies in the house of the two Princes the King's brothers made him to be considered quite otherwise then he could hope from his character in a time when there was open war between Spain and England though against the intention of the two Kings The caresses which the Princes made him on this occasion and the extraordinary civilities which he had received from the King proceeded from a particular affection as well as the goodness wherewith the same Dukes of York and of Glocester prayed to dine with him on thursday the 27 of this moneth The Marquess of Ormond and many other Lords had dined there the day before with the same familiarity wherewith the Lords German Earl of St. Albans and Craft went to dine with the Embassadour of France the day the King arrived at the Hage and upon the recital which these Lords had made to their Royal Highnesses of the great cheer the Embassadour of Spain had made them they resolved to dine there the next day But the King who would dine that day in publick with the Queen of Bohemia the Princess Royal the Prince of Orange and the Deputies of the Estates General having desired that the Princes his brothers might be of the company the Embassadour who had expected their Royal Highnesses gave himself the liberty to complain to the King in raillery for taking away his guests from him His Majesty had the goodness to tell him that he did it of purpose to hinder their dining with him because he would be also of the Party And indeed that very Saturday the King after he had ridden to Scheveling where he saw the Fleet and at his return visited the Queen of Bohemia went in the evening to the house of the Spanish Embassadour where were also the Queen of Bohemia the Dukes of York and Glocester the Princess Royal the Prince of Orange the Marquess of Ormond the Lords Digby Craft and Taff the Lady Stanhop Widow to the Lord Heenvliet to whom the King gave the title of Countess of Chesterfeild and Madam Howard her daughter-in-law Lady of honour to the Princess Royal. The table was covered in the Hall which is one of the fairest and greatest of the whole Hage but it would be very difficult to make a pertinent discription of this feast because that although they served up there but fish and sallats it was without doubt one of the most splendid and stately that ever was seen at a private house There was two great services of fish or rather of Sea-monsters besides the pottages the courses and the inter-meats and there was served up so great a quantity of sweet meats dry and liquid that all the persons of quality which were come in great number to see the order of that supper returned thence all loaden For the Master of the house had given order that they should have enough and that the servants should present Limonada Hypocras and all sorts of delicious wines to all those that should demand it whil'st the Officers of his Majesty and of their Royal Highnesses were magnificently treated in the other apartments of the house The King appeared there in the best humour that ever he was seen to be and expressed so much content in this company which was composed of none almost but of his family and of persons whom he saw every day that he staied there even until one a clock after midnight notwithstanding without the least disorder or confusion that might trouble their conversation and divertisement Every thing there was high and magnificent but that
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
and all built of a most rare Indian wood one discovers it fully so that wee see at one and the same time the cross barr'd windows which front upon the Viver and Viverberg the two chimnies of both sides and in the mid'st above an overture which makes a roundel fashioned like the foot of a lamp shut with glass and environed with a gallery or with a ballister which makes the tower of the lover or open roof From the center of this lover descended low a Royal Crown very gallantly made in the midst of four lusters or christal candlesticks which with many other candlesticks arms of silver and a great number of torches enlightned all corners much better then the Sun could have done at midday They gave particularly a marvellous lustre to the two bottoms of the chimny which is on the left side where two partitions of painted wood shut up as many cupboards of christal glasses and a great store of vessels and of silver plate and vermilion gilt The Hall was furnished with ordinary Tapistry which is of crimson damask and had no other adornments but that here and there there were some fair Pictures and that the ends of the chimnies and the void place above the cross bar windows were adorned with garlands wreaths and figures of trees loaden with oranges and mingled with all sorts of flowers which formed not only a very regular compartment but wonderfully refreshed also the chamber and charmed no less the smel by their perfume then they pleased the sight through the diversity of their rich enamel The Table was made in double potence and laied so that that part where the Royal family sate was a thwart before the chimny of the right hand thrusting from its middle a trunck or skirt which possessed more then two thirds of the length of the Hall and it was shut up with a balustrade of three foot high which reigned round about yet so that there was space enough between the ballister and seats of those which were of the feast to hold the persons designed for their service This balustrade had divers wickets whose entrance was recommended to the care of some Officers of the guards which hindred strangers to present themselves there The King took his place under a cloath of Estate of the same stuff whereof the rest of the furniture was made between the Queen of Bohemia his Aunt who was on his right hand and the Princess Royal his sister who was on his left The King 's two brothers were at one of the two ends on the Queen of Bohemias side and the Prince of Orange at the other end on the side of the Princess his Mother The King sate so that from his place he saw easily all the Deputies of the Estates of Holland who possessed that part of the Table which came from the mid'st of the King 's and were seated according to the rank which the Nobles and Towns hold in their Assemblies They would fain that the Rhine-Grave Commissary General of the Horse and Governour of Mastricht should have the honour to give the napkin to the King but his Majesty would be served the whole meal by Officers of his own as well as the other Royal persons by theirs Mr. de Buat Captain of the troop of light horsemen which was formerly that of the Guard of the deceased Prince of Orange and now of the Estates of Holland and Mr. Itersum Lieutenant Collonel of a Regiment of foot and Drossart of Rolduck in the Country of Over-Meas did the office of carvers and served the meat before the King and before all the Royal family standing for this purpose in the empty space which the Estates of Holland had left between their places and the table of his Majesty Mr. of Boetzelaer younger son of the deceased Baron of Asperen Mr. of Taillefer eldest son of Mr. of Mauriack Collonel of a Regiment of French foot Mr. of Steeland son to Mr. of Steeland Lieutenant Collonel to the foot Regiment of Mr. of Beverweert and Drossart of Buren and Mr. Desloges son to the deceased Collonel of that name did the same functions at the table of the Estates standing between the ballister and the table and taking the dishes from the hands of the publick Messengers whose custom is to follow the Deputies of the towns to the Assemblies of the Estates to serve up the meat to the Lords The King's table was served with six great dishes in oval form and with two more laid a cross the other all loaden like pyramides and they changed the services five times There was on the Estates table eight and twenty great dishes and many plate trenchers but they changed them no more then four times to the end to make some difference between their table and his Majesties In the ordinary daies they served but seven tables with the King 's besides the servants but this day there were sixteen seven of which served as ordinarily in the other apartments of the King's house and the rest in the Castellany which is as it were the Prison of the Castle where they had given express order to receive and treat all the English which presented themselves It is forbidden me to speak of the expence but I think I may alledge here the person of the King and affirm that he said the next day to Mr. of Wimmenum that he never better supped then the day he arrived at the Hage and that in all the feasts which were made as well in France as Spain in Germany and in the Low-countries where he had met stately ones and among others that which the Arch-Duke Leopoldus made in the moneth of May 1656 when he went out of the Low-countries to go into Germany he saw nothing come neer that wherewith the Estates of Holland had entertained him the day before It was two daies since the Lords the Estates caused the Troops of Horse to come to the Hague whereof we have spoken elsewhere and this evening they caused a part of them to be lodged in little squadrons upon the avenues of the King's house and the rest to be put into battalia in the Plain which is a place by the house worthy to be called for the beauty of the buildings which environ it the Royal Place of the Hague The Regiment of the Guards had their Post from one of the corners of the house to the Viverberg and all a long that fair walk even to the other end towards the Place behind the battery of the Cannon As soon as they begun to drink the King's health they gave the signal with a torch at one of the windows of the house which looks upon the Viver to make them fire the Cannon to which answered the Musketeers of the Guards and next the Carbines of the Cavallery and the artillery from the Rampart Four times this musick served for intermedium to that which passed in the Palace during supper whil'st it lasted there was made to come forth from a
and who is no less considerable through the prudence wherewith he governeth then through the honour which he hath to be the of same house with the King of Denmark who shall be partly his heir willing to give an extraordinary proof of the respect which he alwaies hath had for the Kings of Great Britain who of their side have from all time much esteemed him dispatched this Gentleman as soon as he understood that the King was to depart from Breda to come into Holland not so much to acquit himself of that duty by a simple complement as to assure his Majesty that the first day he would send to render his respect unto him in his Kingdom by a person who is very near unto him whom he considereth and loveth extreamly The King who is much more sensible of the good he receiveth then of the injuries his enemies have done him would make known by a most civil reception and accompanied with much tenderness and by a most obliging answer which he made to the complement of that Gentleman that if he could forget the ill usage he had received from some of his people he was incapable to lose the remembrance of the obligation which he had to the Count of Oldenbourg We have said before that the Duke of York as Admiral of England would go Saturday last to the Fleet to take there the Oath of Fidelity of the Officers and Marriners and that he was hindred by the contrary wind and the tempest But this day the last of May he embarked himself and was aboard the Admiral The Fleet declared it self for the King when it was yet at anckor in the Downs immediately after it understood the intention of the Parliament upon the Letter and Declaration of his Majesty whereof we have spoken in the beginning of this Relation and it was not lately that the Lord Montague who commands the Fleet now as Vice-Admiral under the authority of the Duke of York had made his good will so wel to appear that not only the King could not doubt thereof but also that he had given some suspition thereof to those of the contrary party But it was necessary to disingage the Officers Souldiers and Marriners of the Oath which they had done to the last Parliament and to be assured there of by a new Oath of Fidelity for the King their Soveraign Lord. Therefore the Duke being arrived at the Admiral 's Ship where he was received by the Lord Montague with extraordinary honour and submissions he caused the Captain of the other ships to come aboard there and took their Oath which the Captains caused to be administred since to the inferiour Officers and to all the rest of the seamen in the other ships The Lord Montague had caused the flag to be changed before he departed from the coast of England and made the arms of the Common-wealth to be raâ—ed out which appeared for some years on the castle of his proud poop but he had reserved the honour for his Royal Higness to change the name of the ship which Cromwel caused to be called the Naesby in memory of the great Battel where the deceased King was defeated and by which the Rebellion gained principally the strenght which made it to subsist even to this last revolution The Duke thinking that he could not give it a name which should be more pleasingly received then that of the King made it to be called The Charls It is certainly one of the handsomest frames that ever sailed upon the sea For although it be of the greatest size that hath been seen after that which they call in England the Soveraign and carries fourscore peeces of brass Cannon amongst which more then twenty are of 48 pound bullet it is notwithstanding one of the best sailers of the whole Ocean She had aboard her above six hundred men as well Souldiers as Sailors and the Chambers and Galleries of the Castle where the King was to lodge and where the Lord Montague lodgeth ordinarily were all wanscotted and gilded and furnished with fair beds of the finest cloth of England fringed with gold and silver and with foot Turcky tapistry for the Royal persons But that which was most remarkable was that in the Admirals Kitchin there were six Clarks that laboured but for the mouth and that his table was better served on the sea then those of many Princes are in their Dominions The plate which was all of silver was of so prodigious a greatness that they were seen to be loaden with peeces of rost beef whereof the English have reason to make one of their delicates which weighed neer a hundred pounds and the other dishes of plate which accompanied that were without comparison massier then the greatest washing basons that are ordinarily used and so loaden with meat that it seemed the whole Fleet was to be fed with the remains of that table though they were intended but for the attendants of my Lord the Duke He dined there at the ordinary of the Vice-Admiral which might pass for a great feast and in going thence he was saluted with the artillery of the whole Fleet which did him the same honour when he came aboard The same day the King received Letters from a certain kind of people which are called in England Quakers because that in the ordinary hours when they make their devotions or prayers there takes themselves a certain trembling in all parts of the body which they say to be a violent motion caused by the spirit of God wherewith they would make men be-believe that they are possessed It would be very hard to say whether these people are fanatick or hyponchondriack that is mad or melancholy but it must needs be that so great a disorder of spirit as that which is observed in all their actions proceedeth from an ill disposition of the body They have not only lost the respect they ow unto Princes and Magistrates but they fail also in the duties which are inseparable from the civil life And they are so far from humility which is a vertue not known but since the birth of Christianity that hitherto there was never seen an animal so impudent and so proud The Letter was ridiculous and impertiment throughout but particularly in most places it pronounced the threatnings of Gods judgment against the King if he protected not that Sect and entred not into those thoughts The King having made known the day before to Mr. the Veth Deputy from the Province of Zealand to the Estates General and President that week for his Province that his design was to render them a visit the next morning in their assembly as we have said it was resolved that they would receive this honour with all imaginable respect and to that purpose would dispose of all things in such manner that his Majesty should carry away from his visit the satisfaction which he might lawfully promise to himself from thence And indeed Tuesday morning
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
the main mast and to the Castle of the poop and received his Majesty with the greatest submission that could be rendred to a Prince at the top of the ladder by which one goes up unto the ship The King rendred him all the testimonies of goodness and affection which he could expect from a Soveraign who acknowledged perfectly the important services he had done him as having been one of the most powerful instruments of his re-establishment whereof he had given him assurances long before and a most certain proof when he departed from the Sound upon the King's orders to favour the design of Sir George Booth who had taken arms for the service of his Majesty under pretence of demanding the convocation of a free Parliament It was past eleven a clock when the King arrived at the Fleet so that as soon as his Majesty was never so little disingaged of a part of those that would follow him to the ship he put himself at table in the gallery of the poop with the other Royal Persons and caused some persons of condition and the most confident of his Majesty to be entertained in the other apartments the Lord Montague making as fair an expence at this repast and at all the others following as at this passage of the King which was but of two daies he imploied more then two thousand Jacobusses though the Lords the Estates had provided his ship and the rest of the Fleet with all kinds of provisions and refreshments necessary beyond what needed for so little a passage After dinner the King received again the last complements of some particular persons express'd great civility to the Deputies of the Estates of Holland for whom Mr of Wassenaer Lieutenant Admiral of the Province uttered the speech and sent them away with new protestations of affection and amity The Sea was calm and the Heaven so cleer that the King had a desire to discover once again a Country where he had received so many testimonies of respect and love to this purpose he went up on the top of the poop and seeing that the people with which he had left the Downs covered remained there still he could not chuse but say that he must confess it was impossible that his own subjects could have more tenderness for him then those people on whose affections he saw that he reigned no less then he was going to reign on the wils of the English After this he embraced the Prince of Orange with the same tenderness as he could have had for his own Son and gave him his blessing and took leave of the Queen of Bohemia But when he was to depart from the Princess Royal his Sister that Princess who had with so much courage and without grief almost look'd all pass'd misfortunes in the face and who had vertue enough to fortifie that of her brothers had need of all his constancy to resolve her self to suffer this separation which she had wished with so much impatience and whose consequences were to be so glorious both to one and t'other The King himself who had had resolution enough to witness no weakness in his greatest misfortunes cannot resist the tears of a Sister whom many other considerations as strong as those of birth render extreamly dear unto him She would have been inconsolable but for the hope she had to see again shortly the King her brother in his Kingdom and they would have been troubled to disingage her from the arms of his Majesty if Admiral Montague had not caused the ankors to be weighed and given signal to the other ships to set sail The Admiral ship was already under sail for England when the Queen of Bohemia the Princess Royal and the Prince of Orange descended into the Bark which was to bring them back again to the land All the artillery of the Fleet saluted those Royal Persons and the Battry of the Downs answered it with the small shot of the Citizens and Guards It was about four a clock in the after-noon that the Fleet did set sail and about six a clock it was gotten so far of that the people which stir'd not from the Downs having lost sight of it retired themselves whil'st the King continued his way towards his Kingdoms with the same prosperity which was seen lately to accompany all his affairs FINIS THE DEPUTIES OF THE ESTATES of Holland complement the King at Delf Pag. 30. WHat 's this we see presented to the ey In such a neat and handsom Symetry Let us survey the Peece in every part And then pass sentence on the Graver's art Behold a Town here which is known to be Famous of old for many things which we VVould instance largely here if we had room But being tied to an Epitom VVe can but touch surely the site is sweet The buildings well compos'd in every street And regular its priviledges great And which is more it is the ancient Seat Of the Auranian Princes t' is their Tomb Their Monument where they must sleep till doom 'T is called Delf and if you think it fit VVe 'll add the Fair as its just Epithet Here did th' Estates first in most Princely wise Receive the King by their chief Deputies Here you may see their humble postures and Their lowly reverence when they kiss his hand And from their Body thank him for the grace They did receive to see him in that place And next at home where to conduct him they VVere come express on this their Holy-Day All this and more is with the Graver's knife Carv'd as in colours done unto the life The Steel and Pencil have not differ'd here If one draws smooth the other cuts as cleer Now give your censures and your judgments right Can any thing exceed this black and white WILL. LOWER A POETICAL DESCRIPTION Of the Batavian Court Pag. 34. BEhold a Royal Prospect here 's a Wood Fair Palaces and in the mid'st a Flood Now call'd the Crowned Viver since the beams Of Majesty so richly gilt its streams The Graver hath done wonders let us stand First on the Place and view that peece of land Adjoining to 't that sweet and Princely Grove The Viverberg or rather Walk of Love Where our scorch'd Gallants to avoid the Sun When the Dog reigns under its shadows come To cool their heats and pittifully meet With fiercer flames which from the windows creep Into their souls on either side the Stream First the Court ey and then the Country beam Make massacres of miserable hearts Which from all quarters feel those flaming darts And fall as bleeding Victims do But we Stay too long here what is that house we see So fair is 't not the Doel that stately Inn Where Gamesters come with an intent to win And to be rich but oft go beggar'd thence A place indeed of a brave vast expence Where the Town meets and sometimes quaff a health Unto the Prince th' Estate and Common-wealth Let 's proceed further and observe that
return divine Astrea now Enter our Land You shall not see one brow Among so many furrowed with a frown Treason is dead and foul Injustice down Behold our true Protectour to his Right Restor'd th' Impostour stinks in blackest Night Iustice again is seated in the Throne Ti'd and alli'd unto Religion And wing'd with Wisedom Policy and Art In the Reserve with Vertue have a part No powers of Hell shall ever shake this frame So well compos'd but must retreat with shame WILL. LOWER AN ACROSTICK POEM On the most Illustrious and most Heroick Prince JAMES DUKE OF YORK Judicious Nature in this Prince's birth Advanc'd her Work above a frame of earth Making in him perfections all divine Equally lustrous as well those that shine So splendidly without as those that be Dearly preserv'd in his minds Treasury Ualour and Conduct here hold equal ranks Kings have receiv'd their fruits with highest thanks Each of his warlike actions is admir'd Of all Heroick Princes and desir'd For imitation sake to be enrol'd Yearly in leaves and Letters writ with gold Open your curtains all ye azure Spheres Rap'd with his glory strike our ravish'd ears Kindly with musick whose sweet accents may Loudly proclaim York's triumphs every day AN ACROSTICK POEM In honour of his Excellence the Lord General Monck Duke of Albemarl c. Great Patron of this Isle George stiled Saint Envy thou mayst in thy old Monument Our second Champion of that glorious Name Rais'd by his acts to an immortal Fame Glory thou hadst for quelling Monsters fell Even so hath this for scattering those of Hell March bravely on mount as thou hast begun On vertues wings and shine still in the Sun Never eclipse nor set untill bright Fame Calls for a second Order of thy Name Kings may be proud to wear when thou art dead Since by the best thou art so honoured WILL. LOWER ANGLIA TRIUMPHANS SIVE IN INAUGURATIONEM SERENISSIMI POTENTISSIMI AC INVICTISSIMI PRINCIPIS CAROLI II DEI GRATIA MAGNAE BRITANNIAE FRANCIAE ET HIBERNIAE REGIS c. FIDEI DEFENSORIS c. POËMATION AUCTORE ROBERTO KEVCHENIO JC to BELGA HAGAE-COMITIS Ex Typographia ADRIANI VLACQ Anno M. DC LX. CAROLO II. DEI. GRATIA MAGNAE BRITANNIAE FRANCIAE ET HIBERNIAE REGI FIDEI DEFENSORI TRIUMPHATORI PIO FELICI AUGUSTO REgia jam tandem votis famulantibus Orbi Numina indigetes radiant ad Sceptra Tiarae Exorantque Deos Superûm Clementia Terris Annuit domito furiis fatalibus Anglo Insontesque Rosas deploratumque reformat Imperium fractâ discors Testudine Regni Circumvallat Ebur veteresque ulciscitur iras Nec jam Fata Fidem nec tollere celsius Orbis Vota queant nec adorandi Sublimior Ostri Purpura Regalem sceptris ostendere Tantis Progeniem quà m Se nunc Defensore STUARTO Evehat Alcidasque infrà se spectet inermes Extulit Haeredem Solio Fortuna Suisque Transcripsit CAROLUM Regnis Secura trumphos Aspicit unanimique favens Natura Britanno Inchoat Augustum radiis regalibus Ortum Albionumque Diem Thamesique affundit Olympum Luminibus mundique Deos Numina quamvis Aequa minus pavidaeque tremant ad culmina Musae Palladiosque procul superent Diademata fasces Maxime Rex Non condignis dum tolleris Ostro Numen adorabo Vestrum sub honoribus aut His Advolvar coram Imperiis Non thure Britannum Pancheo venerabor Ebur flammisque sonantes Tot Sceptris adolebo rogos Non aemula Persis Dona litaturus veniam aut cumulantibus Aulam Fulgidus ingrediar Trabeis tantoque Triumpho Passa salutandis tangam Palatia Divis Regalesque Thronos Quin dedignata Tiaris Subsidit Sors nostra Tuis Solioque STUARTUM Territat horrentem instaurans Reverentia Cyrrham Dum Superûm Te tollit amor Celsumque Coronis Majestas Tamesina Caput dum coelitus astris Prona Triumphantem resonant Te Numina Regem Anglicaque exertis radiant Diademata Sceptris Dum CAROLO se pandit Ebur rutilansque Verendam Purpura Regali circumdat Corpore Pallam Tutatamque Fidem Proavis venerandaque Regni Symbola augustos longo capit ordine Fasces Eloquar indignis tamen haec praeconia Musis Advena Tergeminoque Decus sub murice fulgens Exemplo regnante canam subvectus ovando Semideos inter quamvis trans aequora Patres Eminus auguriis consors Regalibus omen Suffundam Tantoque minus semotus ab Ostro Fausta Caledonio advolvam praesagia Regno Viderat exacto Fidei titubantibus astris Defensore novis Solium confundere Turbis Rem Britonum Summosque apices culmina rerum Degeneres calcare Joves subvertere Cinnas Desaevire Scines jam fastidire Superbos Motibus Divo Mariis turbantibus Aulam Sanguine spumantem circum rubuisse securim Inversam trepidare Tyrum Populique Tribunal Tot Brutis jurasse nefas cum Regia tandem Et Jurata Fides veteri venerabile Regno Praesidium Rectoris egens Te Sospite Sceptris Annuit laceri Corpus juvenescere Regni Augusto moderante jubet Mox Celsius istis Ominibus Diadema patet Tantoque Triumphans Redditur Imperio Deus sub fascibus Haeres Induit exutum fatis melioribus orbem Tunc enses stupuêre feri stupuêre furores Et dementatae junctis Rectoribus uni Succubuêre minae Tunc imperterritus iris Palluit Magno docuit parere Monarchae Mars Pater atque aliâ illuxit Reverentia Luce Adventu gavisa Tuo Regique litantes Convenêre Deae quarum devota verendum Excipit Haeredem Pietas Sacrisque Deorum Imbuit magno exemplum sub Numine format Huic comes augusto incedens Clementia vultu Parcere Subjectis debellare Superbos Imperat geminis ostentans legibus ensem Te veniam Nemesinque pari distringere Voto Regis ad exemplum Majestatemque verendam Prona jubet Varios mox involvuntur in usus Agmina Virtutum Infractâ Metus exulat Aulâ Illum Relligio Justique innixa columnis Calcat impavidis urget Constantia plantis Dum Regno sua forma redit claustrisque solutae Tristibus exsangues redeunt sub Vindice Leges Haud aliter quam cum superato Gorgone Perseus Terribilis domito Furiis luctantibus Orco Et fractis Erebi monstris jactantior alis Iret aetherias Victor conscenderet arces Sic Superis Auguste Tuis subvectus iniquum Vis Regno trepidare nefas fassumque subactis Exemplis horrere scelus formidine Poenas Exuis solo quamvis liventia damnas Toxica contemptu castigandosque ferorum Consiliis spernis major Regalibus ausus Et regno laudanda facis jam clara Priorum Excutitur Regum facies avita regendo Suppeditant exempla fidem generosa STUARTIS Sceptra probas tantisque vigens Rectoribus ostrum Et fortunatam Proavis veneraris Iërnem Quà que triumphatis Victrix trans aequora terris Albion domitas pelago gens Martia classes Stravit hostilem toties turbavit Iberum Celtarumque truces populos