honours as freely to our Nation as their harts would wish as creating Knights of gentlemen Lordes of Knights and Earles of Lords no doubt hereafter Dukes of Earles I and raised vp an honor to England that to this day haue bin long in obliuion which as now it is honorably liuing so it will neuer die I meane our noble knights of the Bath young and gallant worthy and valiant nay see the beauty of our all kinde Soueraigne not onely to the indifferent of worth and the worthy of honor did he freely deale about thiese causes but to the meane gaue grace as taking to him the late Lord châmberlaines seruants now the Kings acters the Queene taking to her the Earle of Worsters seruants that are now her acters the Prince their sonne Henry Prince of Wales full of hope tooke to him the Earle of Nottingham his seruants who are now his acters so that of Lords seruants they are now the seruants of the King Queene and Prince But to returne againe to our time Triumphant now the hower is come and the day appointed the preperation of which is mightye I and so great as neither can my tongue tell or my pen set downe yet to make a flourish of a flourish thus it was our heretjcke King hearing of the preparation to be great aswell to note the other thinges as that was desirous priuately at his owne pleasure to visit them and accompanied with his Queene in his Coach be came to the Exchange there âo see for their recreation and thinkeing to passe vnknowne the wylie Multitude perceiuing something began with such hurly burly to run vp and downe with such vnreuerent rashnes as the people of the Exchange were glad to shut the staire dores to kéepe them out heare they âost the pleasing sight they might haue enioyde but for their rashnes when his Highnes had beheld the Marchantes from a Windowe all below in the walkes not thinking of his comming whose presence else would haue binne more they like so many pictures ciuilly séeming all âare stood silent modestie commanding them so to doe which sight so delighted the King that he greatly commended them saying ãâã neuer more delighted then seeing so many of diuers and sundry on s so well ordred and so ciuill one with the other but with all ãâã mended the rudenes of the Multitude who regardles of time ãâã person will be so troublesome And contrymen let me tell you this if you hard what I hâââ concerning that you would stake your feete to the Earth at such ãâã ere you would runne so regardles vp and downe say it is highneââ sure to be priuate as you may note by the order of his commingââ you then be publique and proclaime that which loue and duty câlence too this she wes his loue to you but your open ignorance ãâã you will say perchance it is your loue will you in loue prease ãâã your Soueraigne thereby to offend him your Soueraigne perââ mistake your loue and punnish it as an offence but heare mââ hereafter comes by you doe as they doe in Scotland stand still ãâã and vse silence so shall you cherish his visitation and see him thââ once amongst you but I feare my counsell is but water turndâââ Tems it helps not But to our Solempnitie they couet the Citty and country ãâã preparation to they day the couet the order for the Kings persââ in the Cittie his welcome to it and his quiet passe through theââ the country they post vp to attend so that all are bussed to thiâââ nity and reason I trow being the day of Triumph so long ãâã The Tower was emptye of his prisoners and I beheld the ãâã Walter Rawly the late Lord Cobham the late Lord Gray Mââ with others convaid some to the Marshalsies others to the gâââ and others appointed paisonres the Tower it selfe prepared vââ pompe as eye neuer sawe such glory in the hangings such Mââ the Ornaments of the chambers such necessarie prouiston ãâã I beheld it I could no lesse then say God giues KING IAMES the place And glory of the day As neuer King possest like place That came the Northen way And since the heauens will haue it so what liuing soule dares answere no. Vpon the Thames the water workes for his entertainm Mirraculus and the Fire workes on the water passed pleasing as a Castell or fortresse builded on two barges seeing as a settled Forte in of an Iland planted with much munition of defence and two pinnases ready rigde armd likewise to assault the Castle that had you beheld the mannaging of that fight with onset on the Castle repulse from the Castle and then the taking of it in it was a show worthy the sight of many Princes being there plast at the cost of the Sincke-ports whereat the King all pleasd made answere that their loue was like the wilde Fire vnquenchable And I pray God it may euer be so Well from the Tower he came heare cost was quite careles desire that was fearelesse and content flourisht in aboundance but so Royally attended as if the Gods had summond a Parliament were all in their steps of Triumph to Ioues high court This worthy traine ending so Maiestique a presence and the companies of London in their liueries plast in streete double raild for them and the passingers the Whiflers they in their costly suites and Chaines of Gold walking vp and downe not a conduit betwixt the Tower and Westminster but runnes Wine drinke who wil comming thus with his Royal assembly all so gallantly mounted as the eie of man was amazed at the pomp In Fanchurch street was erected a stately Trophie or Pageant at the Citties Charge on which stood such a show of workmanship and glorie as I neuer saw the like top and top gallant whereon were showes so imbrodered and set out as the cost was incomparable who speaking spéeches to the King of that excellent eloquence and as while I liue I commend The Cittie of London very rarely and artificially made where no church house nor place of note but your eye might easilye find out as the Exchange Coleharber Powles Bowe Church c. There also Saint George and Saint Andrew in compleat Armour not in one combate fought for the victorie but an old hermitt passing by in an Dration ioynd them hand in hand and so for euer hath made them as one harte to the ioy of the King the delight of the Lords and the vnspeakeable comfort of the comminallty Our gratious Queene Ann milde and curteous plaste in a Chariot of excéeding beauty did all the way so humbly and with mildenes salute her subiects neuer âeauing to bend her body to them this way and that that women and men in my sight wept with ioy The young hopeful Henry Fredericke or Fredericke Henry Prince of Wales smiling as ouer-ioyde to the peoples eternall comfort salute them with many a bende beforâ the Lord Mayor of the Cittie
in a Crimson Velnet gowne ãâã his in amiled golden Mace vpon his shoâlder vsherd the King and Prince who bringing them to Temple-barre ââke his leââ receiued many thankes of the King and Queene who was afââ by the Aldermen Sheriffes who came to guard him home ãâã glory of that show past the King and his traine past on throngââââous stréete but their let me tell you I was not very neare bââ eye it was super excellent Iustice as I take it attired in beatâ holding a crowne in her hand guarded with Shalmes and Cââ whose noyse was such as if the Triumph had béene endles thââ wise were on both sides spéeches spoken showes appointed wââââârall harmonies of drums trumpets and musique of all sorte ãâã Italians spared no spending in that behalfe at whose charge thâââââous prospect was so pompous and full of show to the wonder ãâã beholder both for the height strength quallitie through it ãâã and his traine past and at the corner of the stréete stood me onââ man with a white beard of the age of three-score 19. who ãâã the change of 4. Kings Queenes now behold the Triumpâ 5. which by his report excéeded all the rest wherefore as hope ãâã to behold the like yet he would of his own accord doe that whicâ shew his duty and old loue that was to speake a fiue lines that hââ had made him which lines were to this purpose he himselfe a gréene Peereles of honor heare me speake a word Thy welcom'd glory and inthroan'd renowne Being in peace of earthly pompe and State To furnish forth the beauties of thy crowne Age thus salutes thee with a dawny pate Threescore and nineteene is thy seruants yeares That hath beheld thy predissestors foure All flourishing greene whose deaths the Subiectes Mingled with mine did many times deplore But now againe since that our ioyes are fiue Fiue hundreth welcomes I doe giue my King And may thy change to vs that be aliue Neuer be knowne a fifth extreame to bring My honest hart be patterne of the rest Who euer praide for them before now thee Both them and thine of all ioy be possest Whosâ liuely presence we all blesse to see And so passe on God guide thee on thy way Olde Hinde concludes hauing no more to say But the narrow way and the preasing multitude so ouershadowd him and the noyse of the showe that oppertunitie was not fauourable to him so that the King past by yet noting his zeale I haue publiquely imprinted it that all his fellow Subiectes may sée this olde mans forwardnes who myst of his purpose by the concourse of people beside the King apointed no such thing but at seueral stays appointed places Along Cornehill they trooped with great Matestie but his highnes being right ouer the Exchange smilde looking toward it belike remembring his last being there the grace of the Marchants and the rudenes of the multitude casting his eye vp to the third Trophie or Pagant admirde it greatly it was so goodly top and top many stories and so hie as it séemd to fall forward On the top you might behold the sea Dolphins as droping from the clouds on the earth or looking to be hold the King pictures of great arte cost and glory as a double ship that being two was so cunningly made as it séem'de but one which figured Scotland and England in one with the armes of both in one Scutchin sayling on two seas at once heare was a speech of woÌder deliuered too but the glorie of this show was in my eye as a dreame pleasing to the affection gorgeous and full of ioy and so full of show and variety that when I held down my head as wearyed with looking so hie me thoght it was a griete to me to awaken so soone but thus the Dutch French spared for no cost to gratifie our King stll the streets stood raild and the Liueries of al the companies on both sides guarding the way the stroÌg streame of people violently ruÌning in the midst toward Cheap-side ther our Triumphant rides garnisht with troups of royalty gallant personages passing by the great cundyt on the top thereof stood a prentise in a black coate a flat cap seruant like as walking before his Maisters shop now whether he spake this or no I heard not it but the manner of his spéech was this comming to me at the 3. or second hand What lack yon gentleman what wil you buy Silkes Sattens Taffaties c But stay bold tonge stand at a giddie gaze Be dim mine eyes what gallant traine are heare That strikes mindes mute and puts good wits in mazâ O t is our KING Royall KIâG IAMES I say Passe on in peace and happy be thy way Liue long on Earth Englands great Crowne to swââ Thy Cittie gratious King admires thy fame And on their knees prayes for thy happy state Our women for thy Queene ANN whose rich name Is their created blisse and sprong of late If womens wishes may preuaile thus being They wish you both long liues and good agreeit Children for Children pray before they eate At their vprising and their lying downe Thy sonnes and daughters princely all compleat Roy all in bloud children of high Renowne But generally togither they incline Praying in one great King for thee and thine Whether he were appointed or of his owne accord I know howsoeuer forward loue is acceptable and I would the King hâ them but the sight of the Trophie at Soper-lane ende made ãâã more forward there was cost both curious and comely but the ãâã of that a farre off I could not coniecture but by report it was exâââ it made no huge high show like the other but as pompous both ãâã rie matter a stage standing by on which were enacted strangâ after which an Oration deliuered of great wisedome both the ãâã this Pagant were deckt gallantly and furnisht as all the broââ as the King past shewd like a paradice but heare his grace miâââ loue of his Subiects who at that time are excéeding in the shoâing by the crosse beutifully guilded and adorned there the recorââ Aldermen on a scaffold deliuered him a gallant Oration and a cup of beaten gold so he past on to the pagant at the litle conduit ââtificial indéede of no exceeding height but prety pleasing in the ãâã of an arbor wherein were placed all manner of wood inhabitaââ uers shows of Admiration as Pompions Poungarnets all fruit which the Lords highly coÌmended where after strange muââ hath giuen plenty of harmony he passed towards Fleete-street ãâã Ludgatâ where the cunduits dealt so plenteously both before after he was past as many were shipt to the I le of sléepe that had no leasurs for snorting to behold the days Triumph when he came to the Trophie in Fleetestreete the Lords considered that the same for Royalty was so richly beautified so plenteous of show that with the bredth of the streete it séemed to them to haue gone back againe and where but then at the crosse in Cheape but otherwise saluted as with varietye of spéeches all sundry sorts of Mvsiques by the Cittie appoinied two as that at the little Cunduit all else but the Exchange gratious street on the top of this pageant was placed a Globe of a goodly preperation this whil wondring at the glory of it setting on vnawares were they on the Pageant at Templebarre neither great nor smal but finely furnisht some compared it to an Exchange shop it shined so in the dark place was so pleasing to the eie where one a yongman an Acter of the Cittie so deliuered his mind the manner of all in an Oration that a thousand giue him his due deseruing commendations In the Strand was also an other of smal motion a piramides fitly beséeming time place but the day far spent the King States I am sure wearied with the shows as the stomack may gluttoÌ the daintiest courts staid not long but passed forward to the place appointed when I leaue them to Gods protection their owne pleasures Thus you haue hard a short description of this dayes progresse in which all the Peares and Lords of England part of Scotland were assembled to beautifie the Triumphs of their most gracious King The multitude of people at this present were innumerable but to conclude God be thanked for it such was the great care of the worshipfull Cittizens of London al things so prouidently foreséene by them that little or no hurt or daunger ensued to any which was greatly feared of many to haue hapned by reason of the great multitudes that were in the Cittie being come both farre néere thither to sée this most glorious happy show And I beséech the Almighty God of his infinite mercy and goodnes so kéepe our King Queene and Prince and all their princely progenie that no harm neuer come neere them nor touch theÌ but that they may euer liue to his gret glory to maintaine his must glorious Gospell for euermore Amen FINIS
THE Time Triumphant Declaring in briefe the ariual of our Sâââraigne liedge Lord King IAMES into Englâââ His Coronation at Westminster Together with his late royaââââgresse from the Towre of London through the Cittie to ãâã Highnes mannor of WhiteHall Shewing also the Varieties Rarietiâââââal the sundry Trophies or Pageants erected aâ ãâã by the worthy Cittizens of the honorable Cittie of London a ãâã by certaine of other Nations Namely Italians Dutch aââ French With a rehearsall of the King and Queenes late ãâã comming to the Exchaunge in London By Gilbert Dugdale IN DOMINO CONFIDO ¶ At London printed by R. B. 1604. ⧠A Dedicatorie poem to the Triumââ of our most dreade and Soueraigne Lorde King Iames. HONOR attend thy gratious Maiestie Blisse be her Partner in thy Soueraigntie Though Dayes are yet young olde Ioyes wil hast When fearefull times are dateles deade and gone Thy gouerning hand that neuer yet knew other Then a Rulers equall suckt from thy faire Mother Whose carefull thoughtes in thee by Gods commaunde Hast from thy Childe-hoode helde a happie hande By which fayre hand Gods grace hath led thee hither To plant thy peace plenty and grace together So as our Tryumphs glorious be in showe So Tryumph-like Ioy may with quiet goe That both in one and one both wayes may be A double Ioy in this Solempnitie So Tryumph sings this song of Ioy and Mirth King IAMES live happie happiest on the Earth That God all seeing may so blesse thy Lande That seeing all may all thy evils withstande Death Spurneth Life starteth By Eliza. Life returneth Death departeth By K. Ia The time Triumphant The refayners inhabitants both young and olde of that excellent order and gouerment nothing of that giddie rashnes as in times before they were accustomed to be but all in one and one in all most worthely receiued the Imperiall name of King Iames and fréely consented to his Titles as by the grace of God of England Scotland Fraunce Irelande King Defender of c. The Day then generally knowne of his comming forwarte to the possession of the Regall seate let me tell you by the way the ioy was not so great in England by the English to fetch him as the sorrowe was in Scotland of the Scots to leaue him and that was more confounding to their Ioyes then the rest the parting betwixt his Quéene and him in the open stréete in the full eye of all his subiects who spent teares in aboundance to behold it heare English and Scottish in one simpathy Ioyned first in hartie affected loue in signe whereof the flouds of their eyes drawne froÌ their kind harts conioyned there Amitie and no doubt they that in kindnes being possessed with one ioy can wéepe togither they wil now and at all times liue and die together but to make hast to the principall whereof this is part towards England he comes his Royal entertainment in Barwicke I néede not set downe both of the traine of England Souldiers there yet I will tell you of a wise answere of the King to a question propounded when he entered in the town it rayned smal drops whereby some things had hinderance which should have Royalizd the time but his Grace gratiously being attended in his Chamber on the sudden looking from his window might sée the sunne shine one by of no small account began to question thus I muse why the temperate season was so quickly ouercast by a shower of raine and now that raine so ouerthrowne by this sunne-shine it presages somewhat sure the King smiling no great matter quoth he onely this imagine the first faire shew of Weather my prosperous setting forwards by Gods sufferance The latter shower the vniuersall teares of my Cuntrey to leaue their King and this suddaine Sun-shine the Ioy of Englande for my approach which vndoubtedly it was so as it appeared for the Cost Paynes loue of his Subiects was such all the way from Barwicke to Yorke from thence to Stamforde from thence to Theobals so to the Charter-house in London where hee remayned for certaine dayes and then he went to the Tower of London and so seating his most royall Person héere as the like hath seldome binne or ãâã euer will be againe to the worlds end to any mans immaginatâââ Well heere he is happily planted hartely welcome what ãâã then but his blessed Corronation at which was no small ãâã For had you seene him in progresse to it as many did when ãâã Barge at White Hall on S. Iames his day such was his saluââââ the people and theirs to him but anon comes foorth England âââumph the worth of women Anne Quéene of Englande anâ ãâã Wife to our most gratious King whose father was a King âââther no lesse he a King and whose husband fower Kings in ãâã companied with louely Ladies the onely wed starres of the wââââ beautye and good graces following her deare Husband to ââââtion with her seemely hayre downe trailing on her princely ãâã shoulders on which was a crownet of Gold she so mildely salâââââ Subiectes that the women wéeping ripe cryed all in one voâââblesse the Royall Queene welcome to England long to liue ãâã so to Westminster they went and tooke on them the Royalty ãâã the compleat order of Coronation and by a generall and freâââââ enioyd the rights of Royaltye and were insest in honour ãâã Maiesty owners of Royaltie and made the onely Commauââââ principalitie the Triumph of that time I omitte but let me London whose heartes were wilde Fire and burned vnqueââââ in loue to this Royall couple and expressing her desires ãâã heads togither to solemnize in Triumph that happy day whâââer of glory was dasht by the omnipotencie of Gods power vââââtally visitting the Cittie and land with a general visitation hâ ãâã that time taking thousands to his mercye and laide their head ãâã that else in thiese actions would haue held them hie yet sée aââââ newe loue of his Maiestie he noblie regarding the cost togetâââ there loues and that there expectations should goe currant aâ ãâã when the full possession of their Ioyes should be that was ãâã âââangery hand of God had workt the will of his all commaundââââer when the Infection ceased then should the Triumph of tââ ãâã solemnized to this consent cost prepared and the Cittie with âââââgers Marchants and others erected Trophies of glory Pagâââââ that magnificence the like was neuer well the time appoinââââ his highnes would set forward should be in the holy time in ãâã âoyfull spâing time when the ground in Triumph of the time should âike wise flourish in ample equipage and she no niggard of her pompe attires hers in a gréene liuery Imbrodered with flowers of a thousand âullers diuers and sundry thus heauen and earth applaudes the Triumph of King Iames mortals al agree to make that hower famous In the meane time his grace together with his Queene and children progrest in the country and dealt