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A46249	London in luster projecting many bright beams of triumph disposed into several representations of scenes and pageants : performed with great splendor on Wednesday, October XXIX, 1679, at the initiation and instalment of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Clayton, Knight, Lord Mayor of the city of London ... : all set forth at the proper cost and charges of the worshipful Company of Drapers / devised and composed by Tho. Jordan, Gent.	Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?; Drapers' Company (London, England)	1679 (1679)	Wing J1035; ESTC R5417	15,170	28

London in Luster PROJECTING Many bright Beams of TRIUMPH DISPOSED INTO Several Representations of Scenes and Pageants Performed with great Splendor ON WEDNESDAY OCTOBER XXIX 1679. At the Initiation and Instalment of the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT CLAYTON Knight LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON DIGNIFIED With divers delightful Varieties of Presentors with Speeches Songs and Actions properly and punctually described All set forth at the proper Cost and Charges of the Worshipful Company of DRAPERS Devised and Composed by THO. IORDAN Gent. Pictoribus atque Poëtis Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas Hor. de Arte Poet. London Printed for Iohn Playford at the Temple-Church 1679. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Sir ROBERT CLAYTON Knight LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON MY LORD THE most Generous Ingenious Persons do never think themselves more affronted than when most flatter'd because Imperfections commonly are the Objects of such Varnish but good Complexions defie Painting I shall therefore avoid all florulent Expressions and make my Addresses to your deserving Person with such Encomiums as are only delivered to me by the Dictates of Verity which are these By Divine Manuduction Ability Opportunity Legal Election and Regal Authority you are invested and confirmed a Vicegerent over the most Celebrious City of all Europe LONDON yet at such a Season when the Trouble of the Times will prove the Trial of the Magistrate in which an even Carriage may render you a good Governour of great Circumspection and an Example for Succession betwixt this and the Period of Time In order thereunto your Company have dignified your Day with much Cost disburs'd in delightful Devices of Triumphant Scenes and Significant Representations to illustrate your Lordships Inauguration and conduct you with splendour to your Center of Honour the Chair of Government Which that it may prove a Seat of Safety to your self and Security to the City shall be the daily devout Wishes of My Lord Your really obliged humble Servant THO. IORDAN TO THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF DRAPERS GENTLEMEN HAving Invented Composed Reviewed Corrected and Transcribed this Copy of Structures Figures Habits Gestures Postures Speeches and Songs contained in this Day 's Triumph wherein I hope I have Copiously accomplished your Commands I present them to your Judicial Examination and favourable Approbation with presumption that I have not at all prevaricated from the Substance of your Subject Matter or deviated from the Circumstance of your Instructions alluding to the Honour of my LORD the Glory of the CITY and deserved Dignity of this Worshipful SOCIETY And although our Triumphs are clouded with Troubles and the whole Kingdom is terrified with dismal Expectations yet the Magnificence and full Grandure of the Magistrate ought to flourish and bid defiance to Trechery as the true Method to encourage our Friends and disanimate our Enemies Which I hope will be confirmed by Providence who is the Author of peace Lover of Concord and Confounder of Cruelty who will I hope Conserve this City and Company from Desolation and Destruction according to the assidual Wishes and dayly Deprecations of GENTLEMEN Your humble and faithful Servant THO. JORDAN In proper Habits orderly Array'd The Movements of the Morning are display'd SElected Citizens i' th' Morning all At Sev'n a Clock do meet at Drapers-Hall The Master Wardens and Assistants Joyns For the first Rank in their Gowns fac'd with Foyns The second Order do in merry moods March in Gowns fac'd with Budge and Livery Hoods In Gowns and Scarlet Hoods Thirdly appears A youthful number of Foyns Batchellors Forty Budge Batchellors the Triumph Crowns Gravely attir'd in Scarlet Hoods and Gowns Gentlemen-Ushers which white Staves do hold Sixty in Velvet Coats and Chains of Gold Next Thirty more in Plush and Buff there are That several Colours wave and Banners bear The Sergeant Trumpet Thirty six more brings Twenty the Duke of York's Sixteen the Kings The Sergeant wears Two Scarfs whose Colours be One the Lord Mayors t' other 's the Company The King 's Drum-Major follow'd by Four more Of the Kings Drums and Fifes make LONDON roar Seven Drums and Two Fifes more in Vests of Buff March with Waste-Scarfs and Breeches of Black Stuff Two City Marshals mounted and attended Are by the Company with Scarfs befriended And next to th' Drums do Troop it in the Reer But the Foot Marshal doth the next appear Who puts them all in Rank and File and wears A Shoulder Scarf as broad and rich as theirs Attended by six persons that dare do What e're their Marshal may Command them to Next the Fence-Master troops and to defend him Divers with drawn broad bright Swords do attend him Many poor Pensioners that march i th' Rear With Gowns and Caps Standards and Banners bear A numerous Troop of Persons that are poor In Azure Gowns and Caps one hundred more With Javelins and with Targets are all Actors And bear the Arms of their good Benefactors Being thus prepar'd By the Foot-Marshals Judgment they are guided And into six Divisions are divided Rank'd out by two and two The first that stirs Are the poor Company of Pensioners But in the front of them orderly be Placed the Ensigns of the Company i th' Rear of them four Drums and one Fife more Then Pensioners in Coats describ'd before Persons of worth who do in Martial manner Bear each of them a Standard or a Banner Four Trumpets more to them and in their Rear Two of the Drapers Ensigns march which bear As by the Herald Painter in exprest The Draught of their Supporters and their Crest Six Gentlemen-Ushers in order trudge And after them the Batchelors in budge Marching in measur'd distance and endu'd With Order This Division doth conclude I' th Rear of them six Trumpets do appear And after them two Gentlemen that bear Two Coats of Arms which appertaining be To th' City and the Drapers Company Then do march up Eight Gentlemen that wears The Golden Chains then the Foins Batchelors In amicable measure move like Friends Fill'd with one Joy So this Division ends Two Gentlemen in velvet Coats array'd March after them with two Banners display'd Then succeed them Ten Gentlemen-Ushers more In Coats and Chains of Gold describ'd before And gradually after them you 'l see A very worthy large Society With each of them a Gown and Livery Hood And all LORD MAYORS in the Potential Mood I' th Rear of these with silver sounds to fit ye Do fall in divers Trumpets of the City And after them two Gentlemen accord To bear the Arms o' th' City and my Lord And then the Gentlemen with equal distance That usher in the grave Court of Assistants I' th' Rear of them four Drums six Trumpets be Order'd to bring up the Catastrophe Three Gallants gradually follow them Bearing the Banners of the Diadem Kings Queens and Cities Ensigns which engages Six Gentlemen to wait on them as Pages The Masters and the Wardens bring up all And thus equipp'd they march from Drapers-Hall

a Target with the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Merchant-Taylors In the other hand a Banner of the City 7. SEPTEMBER A Lady of merry chearful countenance in a purple Robe a French green and gold silk Scarf a brown flaxen Hair a wreath of white and purple Grapes Apples Plumbs Pears green Walnuts mixed with their leaves on her Forehead the Sign Libra with Wings of divers colours In one hand she bears a Shield charged with the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Skinners In the other a Banner of the Companies Her purple Robes sheweth how she reigneth like a Queen above other Months abounding with plenty of things pleasant and necessary for Man's life The Sign Libra is now an indifferent Arbiter between day and night poizing equal hours according to Virgil Libra dies somnique pares ubi fecerit horas This hath its name as being the seventh Month from March 8. OCTOBER A young Man in a Garment of yellow and carnation silk a farsnet scarf of Foli-mort colour a bright brown Hair on which is a Garland of Oaken leaves Acrons and Apples wearing yellow Wings and on his front the zodiacal Sign Scorpio yellow Buskins laced with purple Ribon In one hand he beareth the Shield adorned with the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers In the other a Banner of my Lord Mayor's 9. NOVEMBER A swarthy complexion'd Lady in a Robe of changeable green silk a black silk and gold Mantle with orange and purple Wings on her head a dark brown Hair about which is a Garland of Olives fruit and leaves and fronted with the Sign Sagittarius In one hand she beareth a Target dignified with the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Salters In the other a Banner of the City 10. DECEMBER An old Man of a crabbed visage his Nose red he is wrap'd in an Irish Rug girt about him an old white Peruke on which is no Garland but three or four Night-caps and over them a Turkish Turbant stuck with Holy Ivy and Misletow with black Wings and on his Forehead the Sign Capricornus On his hands are furr'd Mittens in one of which he holdeth a Buckler illustrated with the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers In the other hand a Banner of the King 's 11. JANUARY An old Woman clad all in white Flannel with a white shag'd Irish Mantle like the colour of the Earth at this time when apparel'd in Snow a gray long Hair with a wreath of Parsnips Cabbage Turnips and Carrots with milk-white Wings bearing the Sign Aquarius In one hand she beareth a Target beautified with the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Vintners In the other a Banner of the City 12. FEBRUARY An ancient Person in a Robe of dark sky-colour edg'd with light sky and silver Fringe semined all over with bright-shining and sparkling golden Stars which commonly glare and glister in freezing nights a Mantle of silver embroider'd with frost-work a Coronet of Ew Cypress Juniper Pine-leaves and their Apples tipp'd all of them with snow-drops black blew white and yellow Wings on her Forehead the pedal Sign of Pisces In one hand a Target enriched with the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Cloth-workers In the other hand a Banner of the Lord Mayor's OPPORTUNITY perceiving my Lord Mayor well fixt and setled in the posture of Attention endeavours to answer his expectaion by rising up bowing his Body and delivering with audible Elocution this following Speech The FIRST SPEECH Spoken by OPPORTUNITY TIME the Twelve Months with Opportunity In this fair Fountain are all come to be Actors and Speaker in your Jubilee For Love and Honour now in Triumph ride A Day your own Deserts have dignifi'd I speak the sence of all the City which Are Old and Young Wise Generous and Rich A Season that is Influenc'd by me Without whom nothing is done seasonably My Lord My Name is OPPORTUNITY The Twelve Months which these Persons represent Contain the Limits of your Government Who on their Garland Foreheads undertake To wear the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac The Shields on which their Honour much relies Contain the Arms of the Twelve Companies Plenty hath sent her Fountain too by me That you may take your Oppurtunity Without which Princes Politicians States Soldiers and Sea-men Merchants Magistrates Lovers and Labourers in each degree Shall simply Center in Uncertainty And lose the prosperous event of Fate By setting forth too Early or too Late I' th' restless Wheel of Time there is a Nick Which who so hits is Fortune's Politic But you my Lord know well by reading Men Both what and where and how and why and when To apt your Power though in this very point Of Time I doubt all things are out of joynt But when Extremes on either hand do sway 'T is safest sure to chuse the Middle-way Extremes are dangerous and apt to hurt us We read in medio consistit Virtus Virtue and Providence hath made you rise To serve the State in Two Capacities Which grow as near as Brother is to Brother Head of the One and Member of the Other If therefore you 'l gain good Esteem on Earth And dignifie your Name your Place and Birth If you will raise a future Fame and be A Precedent to all Posterity Let Equity with even hand my Lord Advance your Ballance and direct your Sword Nothing can make a Nation so well live As Justice when it is distributive And equally dispenc'd Consider that This Demi-Godlike Power of Magistrate Is given to try what Spirit you will be Then do not lose your Opportunity Advance true Virtue punish every Crime Y' have but a Year to Rule This is the time At the last period of this Oration we had just cause to presume by many significant Expressions in motion looks and gesture that his Lordship was well pleased who separating from his Station advanceth with his worthy Senators the Aldermen through an unruly throng of admiring Spectators 'till coming to Milk-street end he is intercepted and civilly importuned to apply his Observation to a Second Scene which is rendred more manifest by this following Explanation The Second Pageant IS the Shepherd's Sanctuary or Bower of Beatitude A very proper and pleasant Scene of quadrangular Form situate on a delightful Mount adorned with all the delectable Varieties that Art can present or Nature produce whose Center is circled with a fragrant boundary of beautiful Borders containing as much Diversity of Flowers and Fruits in as pleasurable a Plantation as Poetry hath pictured Paradise In the front of which sitteth the Royal-Shepherd attended by a double Pairroyal of Shepherds and Shepherdesses whose noble Names well adapted to their Virtuous Natures are these 1. Vigilius and Precaria 2. Canonicus and Evangelia 3. Orthodoxus and Protestantia 4. Fidelius and Bonopera which are the Pious Pastoral Courtiers that wait on the wise Commands of the Royal Shepherd who according to his Dignity is thus Attired A Close-bodied Coat of Scarlet-colour'd Sattin richly beautified