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A14871	Monuments of honor Deriued from remarkable antiquity, and celebrated in the honorable city of London, at the sole munificent charge and expences of the right worthy and worshipfull fraternity, of the eminent Merchant-Taylors. Directed in their most affectionate loue, at the confirmation of their right worthy brother Iohn Gore in the high office of His Maiesties liuetenant ouer his royoll [sic] chamber. Expressing in a magnificent tryumph, all the pageants, chariots of glory, temples of honor, besides a specious and goodly sea tryumph, as well particularly to the honor of the city, as generally to the glory of this our kingdome. Invented and written by Iohn Webster Merchant-Taylor.	Webster, John, 1580?-1625?	1624 (1624)	STC 25175; ESTC S111504	7,759	22

as Antwerpe Paris Rome Venice and Constantinople vnder these sit fiue famous Schollers and Poets of this our Kingdome as Sir Ieffery Chaucer the learned Gower the excellent Iohn Lidgate the sharpe witted Sr. Thomas Moore and last as worthy both Souldier and Scholler Sir Phillip Sidney these being Celebrators of honor and the perseruers both of the names of men and memories of Cities aboue to posterity I present riding afore this Temple Henry de Royall the first Pilgrime or Gatherer of quartridge for this Company and Iohn of Yeacksley King Edward the thirds Pavillion maker who purchast our Hall in the sixt yeare of the aforesayd Kings gouernment These liued in Edward the firsts time likewise in the sixt of whose Raigne this Company was confirmed a Guild or Corporation by the name of Taylors and Linnin Armores with power to choose a Maister and Wardens at Midsomer these are decently habited and hooded according to the ancient manner My Lord is heere saluted with two Speeches first by Troynouant in these lines following The speech of Troynouant HIstory Truth and Vertue seeke by name To celebrate the Merchant-Taylors fame That Henry de Royall this wee call Worthy Iohn Yeacksley purchast first their Hall And thus from low beginnings their oft-springs Societies claime Brother-hoods of Kings I Troynovant plac't eminent in the eye Of these admire at my felicity Fiue Cities Antwerpe and the spacious Paris Rome Venice and the Turkes Metropilis Beneath these fiue learned Poets worthy men Who do eternize braue acts by their pen Chaucer Gower Lidgate Moore and for our time Sr. Phillip Sidney glory of our clime These beyond death a fame to Monarckes giue And these make Cities and Societies liue The next deliuered by him represents Sir Phillip Sidney TO Honor by our Wrightings Worthy men Flowes as a duty from a iudging pen And when we are emploid in such sweet praise Bees swarme and leaue their honey on our bayes Euermore Musically Verses runne When the loth'd vaine of flattery they shun Suruey most Noble Pretor what succeedes Vertue low bred aspiring to high deedes These passing on in the next place my Lord is incountred with the person of S. Iohn Hawkwood in compleate Armour his plume and Feath●r for his Horses shafforne of the Companies colours white and Wa●chet this worthy Knight did most worthy seruice in the time of Edward the third in France after serued as Generall Diuers Princes of Italy went to the Holy-land and in his returne backe dyed at Florence and there lyes buried with a faire Monument ouer him This worthy Gentleman was Free of our Company and thus I prepare him to giue my Lord entertainment Sir Iohn Hawkwoods Speech MY birth was meane yet my deseruings grew To eminence and in France a high pitch flew From a poore common Souldier I attaind The stile of Captaine and then Knight-hood gaind S●rud the Blacke Prince in France in all his warrs Then went t 'the Holy-land thence brought my scars And wearied body which no danger feard To Florence where it nobly lyes Inteerd There Sir Iohn Hawkewoods memory doth liue And to the Merchant-Taylors fame doth giue After him followes a Triumphant Chariot with the Armes of the Merchant-Taylors colored and guilt in seueral places of it and ouer it there is supported for a Cannopy a rich and very spatious Pauillion coloured Crimson with a Lyon Passant this is drawne with fower horses for Porters would haue made it moue tottering and Improperly In the Chariot I place for the honor of the Company of which Records remaine in the Hall Eight Famous Kings of this Land that haue bin free of this Worshipfull Company First the Victorious Edward the Third that first quartered the Armes of France with England next the Munificent Richard the Second that kept Ten-Thousand daily in his Court in Checkroult By him the Graue and discreet Henry the Fou●th in the next Chayres the Scourge and Terrour of France Henry the Fifth and by him his religious though vnfortunate Sonne Henry the sixt the two next Chayres are supplied with the Persons of the Amarous and Personable Edward the Fourth for so Phillip Commineus and Sir Thomas Moore describe him the other with the bad man but the good King Richard the third for so the Lawes he made in his short Gouernment doe Illustrate him But lastly in the most Eminent part of the Chariot I place the wise and politique Henry the Seauenth houlding the Charter by which the Company was Improued from the Title of Linin-Armorers into the name of Master and Wardens of Merchant-Taylors of Saint Iohn Baptist. The Chayres of these Kings that were of the House of Lancaster are garnisht with artificiall Red Roses the rest with white but the Vniter of the deuision and houses Henry the Seauenth both with White and Red from whence his Royall Maiesty how raigning tooke his Motto for one peice of his Coyne Henricus rosas regna Iacobus The speaker in this Pageant is Edward the third the last Line of his speech is repeated by all the rest in the Chariot Edward the Third VIew whence the Merchanttaylors honor springs From this most Royall Conuenticle of Kings Eight that Successiuely wore Englands Crowne Held it a speciall honor and renowne The Society was so worthy and so good T'vnite themselues into their Brotherhood Thus Time and Industry attaine the prise As Seas from Brookes as brookes from Hillocks rise Let all good men this sentence oft repeate By vnity the smallest things grow great The Kings By vnity the smallest things grow great And this repetition was proper for it is the Companies Motto Concordia paruaeres crescunt After this Pageant rides Queene Anne wife to Richard the second free likewise of this Company nor let it seeme strange for besides her there were two Dutchesse fiue Countesses and two Barronnesses free of this Society s●uenteene Princes and Dukes one Arch-bishop one and thirty Earles besides those made with Noble Prince Henry one Vicount twenty foure Bishops sixty six Barons seuen Abbotts s●uen prior or subprior and with Prince Henry in the yeare 1607. the Duke of Linox the Earles of Nottingham Suffolke Arundel Oxford Worcester Pembrooke Essex Northampton Salisbury Montgomery the Earle of Perth Vicount Cranborne Barons the Lord Euers Hunsden Hayes Borley Mr. Howard Mr. Sheffield Sir Iohn Harrinton Sir Thomas Chaliner besides States of the Low-Countries and Sir Noel Caroone their Legier Embassadour And in regard our Company are stild Brethren of the Fraternity of St. Iohn Baptist and that the ancient Knights of St. Iohn of Ierusalem to which now demolisht House in St. Iohns Streete our Company then vsing to go to offer it is recorded Henry the seuenth then accompaning them gaue our Mr. the vpper hand because these Knights I say were instituted to secure the way for Pilgrimes in the desert I present therefore two of the Worthiest Brothers of this Society of St. Iohn Baptist I can find out in Hystory The first Amade le Graunde

by whose ayde Rhodes was recouered from the Turkes and the order of Anuntiade or Salutation instituted with that of foure letters FERT signifying Fortitudo Eius Rhodum Tenuit and the other of Mounsieur Iean Valet who defended Malta from the Turkes inuation and expeld them from that impregnable Key of Christendome this stild Great Maister of Malta that Gouernour of Rhodes Next I bring our two Sea Tryumphs and after that the Shippe called the Holy-Lambe which brings hanging in her Shrowdes the Golden-Fleece the conceite of this being that God is the Guide and Protector of all Prosperous Ventures To second this follow the two beast the Lyon and Cammell proper to the Armes of the Company on the Camell rides a Turke such as vse to Trauaile with Carauans and one the Lyon a Moore or wild Numidian The fourth eminent Pagiant I call the Monument of Charity and Learning this fashioned like a beautifull Garden with all kind of flowers at the soure Corners foure artificiall Bird Cages with variety of Birds in them this for the beauty of the Flowers and melody of the Birds to represent a Spring in Winter in the middest of the Garden vnder one Elme-tree sits the famous and worthy Patriot Sir Thomas White who had a dreame that hee should build a Colledge where two bodies of an Elme sprang from one roote and beeing inspired to it by God first rod to Cambridge to see if he could find any such Failing of it there went to Oxford and surueighing all the grounds in and neere the Vniuersity at last in Gloster-Hallgarden he found one that somewhat resembled it vpon which he resolued to endow it with larger reuenew and to increase the foundation hauing set men at worke vpon it and riding one day out at the North-Gate at Oxford he spied on his right hand the selfe same Elme had bin figurd him in his dreame wherevpon he giues o're his former purpose of so amply inlarging Gloster-Hall yet not without a large exhibition to it purchases the ground where the Elme stood and in the same place built the Colledge of Saint Iohn Baptist and to this day the Elme growes in the Garden carefully preserued as beeing vnder God a motiue to their worthy foundation This I haue heard Fellowes of the House of approued credit and no way superstitiously giuen affirme to haue bin deliuered from man to man since the first building of it and that Sir Thomas White inuiting the Abbot of Osnye to dinner in the aforesayd Hall In the Abbots presence and the hearing of diuers other graue persons affirm'd by Gods Inspiration in the former receited maner he built and endowed the Colledge This relation is somwhat with the largest only to giue you better light of the figure the cheife person in this is Sir Thomas White sitting in his Eminent Habit of Lord Maior on the one hand sits Charity with a Pellican on her head on the other Learning with a booke in one hand and a Lawrel Wreath in the other behind him is the Colledge of St. Iohn Baptist in Oxford exactly modeld two Cornets which for more pleasure answere one and another interchangably and round about the Pageant sit twelue of the foure and twentie Cities for more would haue ouer-burthened it to which this worthy Gentleman hath beene a charitable Benefactor when my Lord approaches to the front of this peece Learning humbles her selfe to him in these ensuing verses The Speech of Learning TO expresse what happinesse the Country yeilds The Poets faign'd Heauen in th' Elizian fields We figure here a Garden fresh and new In which the chiefest of our blessings grew This worthy Patriot here Sr. Thomas White Whilst he was liuing had a dreame one night He had built a Colledge and giuen liuing too 't Where two Elme-bodies sprang vp from on root And as he dreamt most certaine t is he found The Elme neare Oxford and vpon that Ground Built Saint Iohns Colledge Truth can testifie His merrit whilst his Faith and Charity Was the true compasse measur'd euery part And tooke the latitude of his Christian heart Faith kept the center Charity walkt this round Vntill a true circumference was found And may the Impression of this figure strike Each worthy Senator to do the like The last I call the Monument of Gratitude which thus dilates it selfe Vppon an Artificiall Rocke set with mother of Pearle and such other precious stones as are found in quarries are placed foure curious Paramids charged with the Princes Armes the three Feathers which by day yeeld a glorious shew and by night a more goodly for they haue lights in them that at such time as my Lord Maior returnes from Pauls shall make certaine ouals and squares resemble pretious stones the Rocke expresses the riches of the Kingdome Prince Henry was borne Heire to the Piramids which are Monuments for the Dead that hee is deceased on the top of this rests halfe a Celestiall Globe in the middest of this hangs the Holy Lambe in the Sun-beames on either side of these an Angell vpon a pedestall of gold stands the figure of Prince Henry with his Coronet George and Garter in his left hand hee holds a Circklet or Crimson Veluet charged with foure Holy Lambes such as our Company choose Masters with in seuerall Cants beneath sits first Magistracy tending a Bee Hiue to expresse his Grauety in Youth and forward industry to haue proued an ab●olute Gouernour Next Liberality by her a Dromedary shewing his speed and alacrety in gratifying his Followers Nauigation with a Iacobs Staffe and Compasse expressing that his desire that his reading that way might in time grow to the practicke building to that purpose one of the goodliest Ships was euer launcht in the Riuer in the next Vnanimity with a Chaplet of Lyllies in her lap a sheafe of Arrowes shewing he loued Nobility and Communalty with an intire heart Next Industry on a hill where Antes are whording vp Corne expressing his forward inclination to all Noble exercise Next Chastity by her a Vnicorne shewing it is guide to all other vertues and cleares the Fountaine head from all poyson Iustice with her properties Then Obedience by her an Elephant the strongest Beast but most obseruant to man of any Creature Then Peace sleeping vpon a Canon alluding to the eternall Peace he now possesses Fortitude a Pillar in one hand a Serpent wreath'd about the other to expect his height of minde and the expectation of an vndaunted resolution These twelue thus seated I figure Loyalty as well sworne Seruant to this City as to this Company and at my Lord Maiors comming from Pauls and going downe Wood-streete Amade le Graunde deliuers this Speech vnto him The Speech of Amade le Graunde OF all the Triumphs which your eye has view'd This the fayre Monument of Gratitud This cheefly should your eye and eare Imploy That was of al your Brother-hood the Ioy Worthy Prince Henry fames best president Cald to a higher Court of Parliament In his full strength of Youth and height of blood And which Crownd all when he was truely good On Vertue and on Worth he still was throwing Most bounteous shewers where er'e he found them growing He neuer did disguise his wayes by Art But shooted his intents vnto his hart And lou'd to do good more for goodnesse sake Then any retribution man could make Such was this Prince such are the noble hearts who when they dye yet dye not in all parts But from the Integrety of a Braue mind Leaue a most Cleere and Eminent Fame behind Thus hath this Iewell not quite lost his Ray Only cas'd vp 'gainst a more glorious day And bee 't rememberd that our Company Haue not forgot him who ought ner'e to dye Yet wherfore should our sorrow giue him dead When a new Phnaeix springs vp in his stead That as he seconds him in euery grace May second him in Brother-hood and place Good rest my Lord Integrity that keeps The safest Watch and breeds the soundest sleeps Make the last day of this your houlding seate Ioyfull as this or rather more compleate I could a more curious and Elaborate way haue exprest my selfe in these my endeauors but to haue bin rather too teadious in my Speeches or too weighty might haue troubled my Noble Lord and pusled the vnderstanding of the Common People suffice it I hope 't is well and if it please his Lordship and my Wort●y Imployers I am amply sati●fied FINIS