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A letter written from Dover to the Commissioners for the Customs, London, May 26, relating certain passages of His Majesties arrival and reception there
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Price, John, 17th cent.
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1660
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Wing P3338; ESTC R9269
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A LETTER Written from DOVER TO THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE CUSTOMS London May 26. Relating certain PASSAGES OF HIS MAJESTIES Arrival and Reception there London Printed for Thomas Iohnson 1660. A LETTER VVritten from DOVER to the Commissioners of the Custom-House London May 26. May it please your Worships ALthough I have nothing of Custom Affairs yet have I something of a more acceptable Resentment unto you at this time to impart unto you It hath pleased God to honor this Town yesterday at about three of the Clock in the Afternoon with the happy Arival of His Most Excellent Majesty with the Illustrious Princes the Dukes of York and Glocester many Noblemen Knights and Gentlemen with him The Town was very much filled with many Lords and persons of great Quality and their Attendants as also with several Troops of Horse and Gentlemen of the County attending the Right Honorable the Earl of Winchelsey who were very much increased by the Accession of his Excellency the Lord General Monck with a very great number of Gentlemen and several Troops of Horse who came to this Town at about one of the Clock after Dinner the same day to wait upon his Majesty at his first Landing who with many thousands of people of all degrees stood upon the Beach with longing expectation of that most pleasant vision When His Majesty left the Ship Charles the quondam 〈◊〉 in which be came and went into the Barge that brought him to Land the Guns from the whole Fleet and afterwards the Guns of the Castle roared like continued Claps of thunder during the space of about half an hour and the people contended with them to out-noise them if it were possible with joyful Shoutings and Acclamations which continued some short intermissions excepted to take breath until his Landing and a good while after the great Guns from the Castle also again thundering forth the Joys of that Garison Upon his Approach towards the shore his Excellency the Lord General Monck did hastily run unto the very extream of a Bridge made on purpose to accommodate His Majesties convenient Landing and kneeled down to receive His Majesty and His Majesty embraced him in his arms and His Majesty also kneeled down with his eyes and hands lifted up towards heaven but I have not heard of any words uttered then by him desiring it seems to be as much in secret as such an act at that time and place could permit him to be and to speak more to God in his minde then he thought mee◠should be heard by men The two Dukes also kneeled down congratulated his happy Arival and kiss'd his hand Then he advanced towards a Canopy a Chair Cushion and Carpet spread upon the Beach where the Mayor of the Town with his brethren the Jurats Common-Councel-Men all in their Gowns and Freemen of the best quality in the best equipage they could waited for his Majesties landing The Trumpets and Waits making all possible melody they could in the mean time When he came thither the Mayor upon his knee made a short speech his Majesty three times bidding him rise up and speak The Mayors speech contained a congratulation of his most happy and prosperous arival in such Honor peace and safety his great preservations in many difficulties and dangers the wonderful providence of God ordering and terminating all our late troubles and revolutions of Government with peace and without blood in the restauration of his Majesty and his People unto their respective rights the most cordial affections of all his people unto him and his gracious clemency and goodness declared unto them c. resigning up his white staff the badge of his authority unto his Majesty which he returned again unto the Mayor Then the Mayor by the hands of an ancient reverend and learned Minister Mr. Readdin presented his Majesty with a rich Bible prepared by the Townsmen for that purpose signifying in a very short speech the most confident presumptions of his people that nothing would be more acceptable unto him then the glory of God in the defence of the protestant religion contained in that Book The said Mr. Readdin upon his knees kist his Majesty's hand and beginning to speak his Majesty commanded him to rise up which accordingly he did and made a short but very pious and pithy speech importing the inestimable treasures of divine riches contained in that Book presuming and bespeaking his Majesty's most pious care of it and affections to it concluding with a holy wish that it might be unto him and his family as the Ark of old was unto the house of Obed-edom shuting up all with God save the King and let all the people say Amen which they did with a very great shout joy and cheerfulness His Majesty took the Book into his hands from the said Minister with a most gracious and pleasant Countenance and with a most grave serious and soft voice said that nothing was and should be more dear unto him then the Bible and so he gave it to a Gentleman next unto him and also called for the velvet bag to put it in and after it was put into his coach His Majesty then embraced several Noblemen who kissed his hand and the hands of the most Illustrious Princes his two brothers upon which his Majesty the said Princes and the Lord Monck went into his Majesty's Coach and immediatly road away with a very great number of Noblemen c. with him towards Canterbury This small Town being not able to entertain them so many thousands with their Horses Coaches and country people c. I had the honor and happiness of entertaining some of his Majesties family and other persons of honor interest intimacy with his Majesty from whom I had so many assurances convincing Arguments and instances of his Majesties piety clemency sweetness of nature temperance meekness patience mercifulness tenderness of spirit towards all honest peaceable men readiness to forgive aversness to revenge c. as I must confess I did not expect and which being true gives great cause to bewail and lament the evil of those that have otherways represented him especially if against their knowledge and consciences as also the unhappiness of the Nation that hath been so long injured by his detention from them And which gives great assurance of our future felicity if we know consider and wisely improve the things belonging unto our peace One of the said persons assured me that within these very few days his Majesty was speaking with some Gentlemen concerning his party in England and had these words I hear there are many swearers drunkards and profane persons that say they are of my party but they are of the devils party and not of my party I renounce them I have heard also several other expressions and instances to the same purpose which because they cannot be mentioned without some reflection of disparagement to persons who cannot but know themselves concerned and meant therein if it should be spoken of I think not fit to particularize I have seen also a letter of his Majesties own hand writing which was accidentally produced upon occasion of our discourse arguing a very pious and excellent temper and disposition in him which because his Majesties letter and fearing it should both offend his Majesty and also the Gentleman himself should that also be spoken of which his Majesty writ privately and was privately discoursed of by us I forbear to mention I pray pardon my prolixity and let the happiness of the occasion and subject thereof attain the same and accept of the humble respects of Right Worshipful Your Humble Servant Iohn Price Dover 26 May 1660. 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