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The royal oake with other various and delightfull scenes presented on the water and the land / by John Tatham.
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Tatham, John, fl. 1632-1664.
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1660
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Wing T232; ESTC R10302
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THE ROYAL OAKE WITH Other various and delightfull Scenes presented on the Water and the Land Celebrated in Honour of the deservedly Honoured Sir RICHARD BROWN Bar. Lord Mayor OF THE CITY OF LONDON The 29th day of October in the 12th Year of his Majesties most happy happy Reign An. Dom. 1660. And performed at the Costs and Charges of the Right Worshipfull Company of Merchant-Taylors Being twice as many Pageants and Speeches as have been formerly showen By JOHN TATHAM London Printed by S. G. for R. B. 1660. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir RICHARD BROVVN Knight and Barronet Lord MAYOR of the City of LONDON My Lord IT is said by the Philosopher that he merits more Honour who can maintain a City in Peace then he that defendeth it in Warr which is rather fear'd then belov'd And Plutarch reports that Pyrrhus though a Mighty Vaunter confest that Cyneas had won more Citties by his Wisdome then he had Conquered with his Sword Corona Civica and Corona Ovalis the one of Oake the other of Mirtle were ever held more lawdable by the Romans than their Corona Aurea the Golden Crown otherwise Corona Triumphalis when the Chariot Wheeles swet Blood When a City is to be punisht with Warr Sword and Flame any hair-braind Phaeton will serve the turn but to preserve it in Peace and Vnion requires the Management of a solid and wise Magistrate My Lord it is your happiness in this days Triumph to come with Corona Civica the Cities Love and I may say and flatter not the soberer and better part of the Nations The Company of Merchant-Taylors Honoueed by the Brotherhood of so many * * Edw. the 3. Rich. the 2d and Queen Ann his wife Hen. the 4th Hen. the 5th Hen. the 6. Edw. the 4. Rich. the 3d. Hen. the 7. 22 Princes and Dukes 2 Dutchesses 1 Arch-Bishop 3 Embassadors 42. Earls 5. Countesses 1. Viscount 73. Barons and Lords Kings and Princes receive no small Ioy that you were pleased to become a Member thereof witness the readiness of the Court of assistants to promote the honour of the Day and in particular Mr. Mawrice Gethings Mr. Thomas Nevil and Mr. John Smart who took upon them the care of ordering and managing the whole business My Lord vouchsafe the acceptance of this Dedication as the early tender of my serviceable affection who am My Lord Your Honours Devoted Servant IOHN TATHAM TO THE WORTHILY HONOURED THE COMPANY OF MERCHANT-TAYLORS Gentlemen THough I may appear to you a stranger your Goodness hath not been so to me It is not long since I received a rellish thereof Wines are tryed at the first peircing not by quantity but taste and by a little We may conclude the rest My Ambition is satisfied in that this Year I have had the happiness to serve you if my endeavours fall short of your expectation I shall blush that my Abilities are not answerable to my Will and begg your Pardon assuring you that I have done asmuch as the short allowance of my time would permit but if in the Survey thereof any thing meet with your liking it will be honour enough to him who is thereby Licensed to subscribe himselfe Gentlemen The Humblest of your Servants IOHN TATHAM TO THE READER Reader I Know thou dost expect something to be performed this day more then hath been in ordinary Triumphs heretofore in regard it is Celebrated in Honour of a Person of that superlative loyalty and Integrity as the present Lord Mayor Not to deceive thy Curiosity herein let thine own eyes satisfie thee and to that end repair to the Water where the first Sceane will be presented against White-Hall consisting of a Rock and a Ship floating Rigg'd and Man'd On the Rock is placed several Figures Oceanus the Father of Rivers directs his Speech to the Lord Mayor and nere double the number of Pageants that formerly were are seen on the •and I shall detein thee no longer but referr thee to the shew it self or to the manner thereof set down in the Book Farewell THE Royall Oake With other various and delightfull Scaens presented on the Water and the Land and Celebrated in the Honour of the deservedly Honoured Sir Richard Brown Baronet Lord Mayor of the City of LONDON the 29. October in the 12. year of his Majesties most happy Reigne Anno Domi 1660. And performed at the Costs and Charges of the Right Worshipfull the Company of Merchant Taylors The Mornings Businesse The whole Body being met at Merchant Taylors hall that is to say FIrst the Master and Wardens in their Gowns faced with Foyns and Hoods each of them having a Page attending habited with blew Cassocks whire-stockings and flat Caps each Page bearing a Target with their Arms in one hand and a Trunchion in the other 2. The Assistants in their Gowns and Hoods 3. The Livery in their Gowns and Hoods 4. The Foyns Batchellors in Gowns and Hoods 5. The Budge Batchellors in Gowns and Scarlet Hoods 6. Forty eight Gentlemen Ushers in Plush Coats white Staves and Gold Chains 7. Eight other Gentlemen carrying Banners in Plush Coats and Skye coloured Scarffs about their Shoulders 8. Three Gentlemen more in Buff Coats and Sky coloured Scarffs about their middles 9. The Foot Martiall with a like coloured Scarff about his Shoulder with six Attendants and each of them habited in a white Fustian Dublet black Breeches blew stockings a white Hat and blew Hatband and every one of them a Trunchian in his hand 10. The Serjeant Trumpeter with a skye coloured Scarff about his Shoulders and eight other of his Majesties Trumpeters together with his Majesties Kettle Drums 11. His Majesties Drum Major with a like coloured Scarff about his Waste with his Majesties others Drums 12. Twenty other Trumpeters divided and disposed of into eight Pageants 13. Seven other Drums whereof Iohn Bibby Drum Major to the City is chief habited either in Buff coats or Buff coloured Dublets and blew Scarffs about their wastes 14. Francis Burgesse Master of Defence with his twelve Attendants 15. One hundred and twenty poore aged persons Free-men of the Company in blew Gowns with red Sleeves and red Caps each of them having a Javelin in one hand and an Escochin in the other Six other poore people also Free men of the said Company in blew Jackets and red Caps appointed to carry the Silk-works and twenty foure poore men in disguises commonly called Green men Being so met and habited as aforesaid about eight a clock the Foot Marshall Ranks them out by two and two FIrst the Pentioners in blew Gowns in the head of them is placed three Drums one Fife and the Ensigne whereon the Crest of the Company is painted Secondly The severall Banners and Streamers carried by the poore men in blew Coats in the Front of them four Drums and one Fife Thirdly The Budge Batchellors in the front of them eight Gentlemen Ushers the other two Colours and six Trumpets Fourthly The Foyns Batchellors
of bad daies had not come Twas not Times fault but theirs that let him go Hee's swift of foot their Courage was but slow You have been wise in this Sir to your praise Oretak'n Time renew'd the Alchion daies With such Alacrity that poreing on with serious eye my Enchyridion That monstrous Murder that outfac'd the Sun Appears to me as yesterday but done So home hath Justice follow'd them their heels are now tript up each his own horror feels This was Times worke though wisdome was the scout without Time nothing could be brought a bout Peace is restor'd Truth doth in Triumph ride not long since scorn'd forsaken and deny'd Plenty their hand-maid follows to maintain the Majesty of the Heroick Train It is a Maxime Traytors bitter Cupp warrs maketh Theives but Peace doth hang them up Since Time has done such Cures by Providence let him not be abus'd under pretence Of this or that seeds of Phanatick braines But while you Govern Sir hold in the Reynes And while the glorious starr-bestudy'd skye retains a light your Fame shall never dy The speech ended his Lordship and the whole Attendance pass down the old Iury through Catt-eaten street and Ladd Lane Mayden-Lane from which place to his Lordships house a Gallery is a made by the Company of the Merchant-Taylors on the North and on the South by the Gentlemen of the Artillery and their Attendants where another sceane a Rock is placed on the top whereof is seated a figure representing Peace and upon his Lordships entring into his house Peace salutes him from the top of the Rock PEACES SPEECH AFter so many various Sceans of strife Horror and Mischief acted to the Life By those that seem'd to owne th shapes of men But Monsters rather were of Caucus Denn Whole sulphurous Nostrells breath'd into stine Jarrs Sword Fire and Famine the effect of Warrs Peace that their hate and fury did exile Is once again return'd unto this Isle And with her brought Truth to Illuminate Your hearts to nourish Love and banish Hate Truth is the Center wherein all things meet The Chard by which Wisdome directs her feet The ground of science scale to Charity The unmov'd Rock Tip of Eternity While Peace and Truth do flourish in the Land Plenty shall wait on it with a full hand Ceres shall cram your Barns and Bacchus Crown Your Boles no more of Penury be known Trade long since dead reviv'd shall be again By th' Vertual Influence of your Soveraign Whose gracious Beams like to the Sun doth shine Upon his Subjects by a power divine Whose Immence Majesty and Glory shall Outlast Times Age and the Worlds Funerall Blest be the happy minute of his birth That elevates our Joys above the Earth Flora the Queen of May shall honoured be By all the sons of Lyrick Poesy And you my Lord whose Prudent care hath bin Imploy'd in the great work to bring him in Keep Faction down suppress Seditions seed The bag being broke did the Imposthume breed Let it not gather to a head again Infectious matter dwells in a bad brain So shall your years and happiness encrease Live in your Countries love and dye in Peace The Speech being ended the Companies hasten to their Hall the Gentlemen of the Artillery take leave by their severall Vollies In the undertaking of this days Triumph were imployed by a person of approved Judgment who designed and modelled the several Fabricks and Structures thereof Capt. Andrew Dakers Paynter Mr. William Lightfoot Paynter Mr. Thomas Whiteing Joyner Mr. Richard Cleere Carver all of them being the Cities Artificers and deserve in their several qualities ample Commendations