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A75363 An Account of the magnificent publick entry which His Majesty of Great Britain made into the Hague on the 5th of February, s.n. 1691 (1691) Wing A319B; ESTC R173151 1,742 2

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AN ACCOUNT Of the Magnificent Publick ENTRY WHICH His Majesty of Great-Britain Made into the HAGUE On the 5th of February s n. As it was Communicated in a Person of Quality's Letter who was present at the Time of that Great Performance Licens'd January 31. 1690 1 HIS Majesty of Great-Britain having as you have been already informed surprized the States and people of the Hague with his suedain Arrival into that place which prevented not only the Burghers from appearing in their Arms but the Lords of that Countrey from performing the great Testimony of their Rejoycing at his coming among them by playing their Fire-works and making other publick Demonstrations of his safe and happy Arrival they besought the King though much against his Inclination as coming to do Business in their Countrey To permit that a Day might be prefixed and his Majesty be graciously pleased to do them the honour to make his publick Entrance into the Hague which he yielded to and ordered to be performed on the 5th of February S. N. Which began at three of the Clock that Afternoon Which was carried on and contained that Variety and Greatness of Splendour as to exceed any thing of that Nature these many Ages There were erected three very Costly Triumphal Arches imbellished with Gold Rich Carvings and Curiosity of Phantasies in Painting That before the Palace very Regular and Noble larger than any of the Gates of London and not unlike in Form to that of Temple-Bar and had the King's Effigies on Horse back Gilded and set upon the Top the whole painted in Frisco and had a great Portar and two smaller ones on each side The others were in different Forms with diverse Latine Devices or Motto's under them relating to the King and this present Occasion The King went out of the Back-Gate of the Pallace and fetching a Round in his Coach with his Attendants came into the further end of the Hague riding quite through the Town passed through all the Triumphal Arches the Streets being lined with the States soldiers and crowded with innumerable Throngs of People And made their Cavalcade in this like Order There preceeded a Party of the King's Horse-Guards with Trumpets and Kettle-Drums After them a Body of Switzers not much unlike our Yeomen of the Guard And were followed by his Majesties Footmen in excellent Order Then came one of the King's Coaches with six Horses carrying his Grace the Duke of Ormond with some other English Noblemen therein Which was succeeded by another of His Majesties Coaches filled with the Nobility in the third which was extraordinary Rich rode his Majesty and the Heer Overkirk with many Pages on both Sides After which came the Coach of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk with Pages and Footmen in very rich Liveries And was followed by that of the Earl of Devonshire and Earl of Dorset twelve Footmen running by the Side of their Horses with four Pages And the Lord Dursley His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary to the States General in his Coach With that of Mr. Johnson the King's Envoy Extraordinay at the Court of the Elector of Brandenburgh closed the Rear which making some Interval There were a great many Coaches of the Nobles Lords and States of that Countrey with a great Appearance of the Ministers of Foreign Princes Allies there made a Noble Cavalcade The Burghers being in the Nature of our Trained Bands marched in all their Gaiety and made a Handsome Appearance And when the King entred the Palace were drawn up and made several good Vollies and many great Guns brought thither on this Occasion proclaimed aloud the Rejoycing for this Inesteemable Benefite of the King's Presence When it came to be dark the Fire-Works which were very Curious and Divertising began to Play In short the Night concluded with Ringing of Bells Boon-fires and Illuminations with Candles set behind Transparent Painted Devices and Pictures in divers of the Windows in the Streets of the Town The Duke of Brandenburgh was just then arrived and the Elector of Bavaria expected in two days And all concluded with the greatest Order and Regularity imaginable Before the Court there is the Effigies of our King on Horse-back richly Embellished all over with Gold and on each side the Arch are Eight Statues of Copper above the Pedestal of the King's Horse and there is wrote POPVLI SALVS And round about the Cornish is wrote Pio Foelici Inclit● Gulielmo Tertio Triumphanti Patria Patri Gubernatori P. C. J. P. Restauratori Belgii Faederati Liberatori Angliae servatori Scotiae Pacificatori Hiberniae reduci The Substance whereof in English is thus To the Pious Happy Triumphing William III Father of his Countrey Restorer of the United Provinces of the Netherlands Deliverer of England Preserver of Scotland Pacifier of Ireland returned hither And there is Painted a Sword weighing down Three Crowns with this Motto PRAEMIA NON AEQUANT The Rewards do not equal his Merits And there are above One Hundred Motto's beside suitable to the Pictures Printed at London and Re-printed at Edinburgh by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties 1691.