the tables were perfectly served therewith and in so great aboundance that the English Stewards though very much accustomed to aboundance were astonished thereat and confessed that they could not comprehend how they could make ready in Boats and agitation twenty or five and twenty great dishes for every Table The intention of the King was to dine at Noon in entring into the Yacht and indeed the Steward who was appointed there by the Estates of Holland had caused the meat to be made ready but the wind was so strong and the water so tossed that the Princess Royal not able to endure the violent motion of the vessel lost her appetite and finding her self incommodated with the sea-sickness was enforced to lie upon the bed Hence was it that the King caused the Captain to be asked if there was means to shelter them somewhat under some rising land or trees to ease the Princess a little but the Captain having answered that there was no rest to be hoped for but at Dort where they might arrive in an hour and a half or there about they went on upon this hope Notwithstanding they came not in sight of Dort till between three and four of the clock in the afternoon The Rampart and Key were bordered with Citizens which were put into arms and with a battery of great Cannon which made many volleys as well as the Muskets whil'st the Fleet passed there during and after the repast which was taken in sight of the town and as long as they could discover the flag of the ship which carried the person of the King with all the Royal family they thundered The Fleet stopped a quarter of a league below the town with design to cast anckor that evening and to stay the whole night following at the mouth of the river of Leck which gives its name to one of the fairest territories of Mr. de Beverweert and which is very well known through the great number of Salmons which are taken there every year But there happened two things which obliged the King to change resolution The first was the return of Sir John Greenvil who arrived from England whil'st the King dined and reported that the Parliament was resolved to beseech his Majesty to come to take possession of the Crown without any condition or reserve and that Admiral Montague was at sea with a good number of ships to come to receive him in Holland to transport him unto his Kingdom The other was the advertisement which his Majesty received almost at the same time by an express that that Fleet appeared in the morning in sight of Scheveling and at nine a clock had cast anckor in the Rode about half a league from the shore The King presently imparted it to Mr. Beverweert as to the chief of the Deputation of Holland and caused the Duke of York to tell him who was in person in the Deputies Yacht which joined side by side with his that it was true he had made accompt not to arrive at Delf till the next day about noon to the end to be able to make his entrance into the Hague at the hour which he had appointed for his reception but that he had received intelligence which obliged him to change his design and to anticipate the hour that was resolved on because it was of the highest importance for him to speak as soon as might be with the Officers of the Fleet and so that he should be constrained to go the whole night to the end to arrive at Delf at the break of day whereof he prayed him to give advertisement to the Lords the Estates immediately and by an express to the end that the Coaches designed for his reception might be there at seven a clock precisely Mr. Beverweert remonstrated to his Royal Highness the difficulties that would accur in the change of the orders which were already given in telling him that the Poste which he was to dispatch could arrive at the Hague but very late and perhaps at an unseasonable hour when it would be almost impossible to make the Estates to assemble and without that they could not change the time which it pleased his Majesty himself to appoint Notwithstanding if the King desired it absolutely the Deputies would not fail to write immediately and to advertise their Superiours therewith since they were there but to obey his Majesty and to serve him The Duke of York replied that it was through an invincible necessity and with an extream regret that the King did thus but that he hoped the Lords the Deputies would consider the estate of his affairs and oblige very much his Majesty in losing no time to dispath their Poste and in contributing by that means to the advancement of his voyage and embarkment in this pressing conjuncture The Letters went away about five a clock in the after-noon the King caused anckor to be weighed and passed at evening before the town of Rotterdam where the contrary wind enforcing the Fleet to board or tack about and by this means to draw neer the haven two or three times gave the town leasure to salute his Majesty by the musket shot of the Burgers who were all in arms with flying colours on the rampart and port and with all the artillery of the town as well as with all the Cannon of the Ships which were there in the rode He passed next to Delfs-haven where they had made a battery of sixteen peeces of Cannon and staied not till he came to Owerschie a village scituate between Delfs-haven and Delf where he would attend the day The Estates of Holland had resolved to cause his Majesty to be received at the powder Magazin upon the channel which serves for line of communication for the two towns Delf and Rotterdam for the town of Delf having been partly ruined by an accident of fire which met with the powder some years since they thought it fit to lodge it without the walls and without cannon shot of the town But the King having caused the Fleet to set sail as soon as the Sun began to appear on the Horizon they were at the suburbs of Delf by five a clock in the morning before the Deputies could give order to make the Fleet to stay at the place designed for the reception All the Citizens of the town were in arms from three a clock in the morning and a part had their poste upon the Key before the port where the King was to dis-imbarck and the Magistrate came there in body to do reverence to the King in the Yacht as soon as he understood he was arrived and to beseech him to do them the honour to repose and refresh in their town whil'st his Majesty should attend the Deputies of the Estates of Holland but the King excused himself on the Estate of his affairs which was so far from permitting him to stay by the way that it had obliged him to prevent the hour which he had taken and
appointed for his reception In the mean time the Letters of the Deputies were brought to the Hage at midnight and immediately after the Estates assembled and caused the orders to be changed which were given for the King's reception at four a clock in the afternoon into others more pressing and they sent word to the Deputies by the same Poste that they might assure his Majesty that they would not fail to receive him at the hour he had appointed them or at eight a clock in the morning at furthest And indeed about two a clock after midnight they caused the drums to beat to summon to arms the six Companies of Burgers and the Regiment of the Guards of the States of Holland of which there is but four garrisoned in the Hage and the other six in the neighbour towns from whence they were made to come and at six a clock they were all at their Rendezvous The first on the Viverberg and the others in the outward Court of the Palace where the Coaches assembled almost at the same time Those who took the most pain in causing these orders to be executed and who have without doubt the most part in the honour which is due unto those who had the conduct of this affair as they have that of the most important of the Province are M rs of Wimmenum and the Pensionary Counsellour who were seen to act every where each in his functions with so much assiduity care and judgment that if the King drew any satisfaction from the honour they rendred him here this Estate is partly obliged to the pains of these two great Personages The Coaches began to file towards Delf about seven a clock in the morning and immediately after the Burgers who stood in Battalia in the great Place marched towards the way which goes to Delf and the souldiers went to take their Poste on the Viverberg where they made a guard even to the house of Prince Maurice of Nassau which was prepared to lodge his Majesty The Estates Deputies being arrived at Delf and having spoken with those who had complemented the King at Breda and had had the conduct of his person in the voyage informed his Majesty of the order they had given for his entrance for his lodging and for his treatment to the end that as their intention was to submit wholly to the absolute will of his Majesty they made that to be changed therein which might displease him And after that the King had given them his approbation and that they had invited the Deputies of the Estates General to honour this ceremony with their presence and to take place immediately after the King's Coach they gave order that the Coaches should be drawn into a file along the Key of the Suburb This done the Deputies of Holland entred all into the King 's Yacht and said unto him in very few words by the mouth of the Pensionary Councellour that they were there from the Estates of Holland who had sent there a Deputy of each member of their Province to offer their most humble services to his Majesty to expresse unto him their respectfull passion for his person and to conduct him to the place designed for his lodging at the Hage The King thanked the Deputies with words full of goodness and civility for the pain which they had taken and for the proofs of affection and zeal which the Lords the Estates of Holland caused to be given him They staied in the Barge or Yacht but to discourse a moment with the company which was composed besides the King's person of the Dukes of York and Glocester of the Princess Royal of the Prince of Orange who was come there from the Hage early in the morning of the Deputies of the Estates General and of some English Lords and immediately after the King went forth thence to go into the coach of the Princess his sister which had that day the honour to carry all the Royal Family The King put himself in the mid'st with the Princess the Duke of York and the Duke of Glocester sate before and the Prince of Orange in one of the boots and as soon as they were placed the whole company began to advance to enter into the town of Delf The King but passed there the Citizens who were in arms with displaied colours from break of day marched on both sides of the Coach more then a musket shot from the gate which leads to the Hage where they staied and saluted his Majesty with their volleys whil'st all the bels rung and the Artillery thundred from the bulwarks and rampires of the town It was neer ten a clock when he departed thence and past eleven when he came at the Hage where the six Companies of Citizens which could hardly be distinguished from the Souldiers because that being born in war and bred in exercises of arms they could not be known from the Military men but by their cloaths their plumes and their scarfs wherewith they were covered had in the mean time taken their post and made a guard on the way towards Delf even to the bridge which serves for a gate to this illustrious Village which hath without doubt an advantage over all the fairest towns of Europe and may be put in parallel likewise with some of the greatest In the head of the whole train marched some trumpets of the Estate clad in their coats of crimson velvet embroidered with gold and silver After them came a long file of Officers belonging to the war of Young Lords and Gentlemen very gallant and bravely mounted Next to that marched a great number of English Gentlemen and Officers of the King's house of the two Dukes of the Princess Royal and of the Prince of Orange After them came Mr. of Wimmenum who performed here the function of Master of the Ceremonies in his coach where were also some Lords preceding immediately that of the Princess Royal which carried his Majesty and all the Royal House as we have said The Deputies of the Estates General filled the two first after the King 's Those of the States of Holland the six following and the other Coaches which amounted in all to the number of seventy and odd each having six and four horses were filled with English and Dutch Lords It must be confessed that this entrance was not made with an extraordinary pomp and glory worthy so great a Monarch but it was impossible to make greater preparations in the time the King had appointed for it and even when they were constrained to change in a manner the first orders which without doubt would have rendred it much more resplendent had it not been for this change And yet the crowd was so great because the curiosity to see this miraculous Prince had drawn a great part of the inhabitants of the neigbour towns to this entrance that they were constrained to go very softly so that the Companies of Citizens who had the van-guard at the entrance
him that charge through the intermission of the King after having given him the conduct which his Father had of her affairs The Estates of Holland gave also a company of Walloon Foot with the hope of a troop of horse to Mr Languerack a Gentleman of the Country of the House of Boetselaer who till then had found great obstacles to his advancement They ordained also that M rs of Wimmenum from the Nobility Halling of the town of Dort of Marseveen of Amsterdam and Hooglant of Alcmaer should go to salute from them the Commissioners of the two Houses of Parliament and the Deputies of the City of London and to endear upon the affection with which they procured the King's return and on the zeal wherewith they laboured to re-establish the affairs of the Kingdom in the same estate they were under their last Monarchs being then in the most flourishing estate of the world They found the Commissioners assembled in the same places where the Deputies of the Estates General had met them viz. some at the Earl of Oxford's and the others with the Lord Fairfax and Mr. of Wimmenum said unto them That the Lords the Estates of Holland who had so much cause to rejoice for that great Catastrophe which they saw in England could not be silent in that wonderfull conjuncture and in that publick and universal joy but found themselves obliged to express it with them that contributed the most to it and are the principal Authors thereof That the Parliament of England had this advantage to be as the foundation of the Estate but that those which compose it now had gained this glory to all posterity that they had not only drawn the Kingdom from its greatest calamity to carry it to the highest felicity but also that they had been the first of the three Kingdoms to declare themselves for so glorious an enterprise That the Lords the Estates who in living with England as they lived during the Anarchy and disorder had manifested how dear the amity of the English was to them participated therein as they ought assured the Lords Commissioners of the perseverance of their affection and praied God for the continuation of the prosperity of the affairs of the Kingdom and of their persons in particular with all the fervency that could be expected from an allied Estate and from persons perfectly affectionated to their good and interests The Commissioners answered by the mouth of the Lords whom we have named and after they had thanked the Lords the Estates for the affection which they had for the King and for the Kingdom whereof they have every day such glittering proofs they thanked the Deputies for the pains they would take in coming to give them the greatest assurances thereof in their particular offering to acknowledge both one and t'other by their personal services and by a perpetual and inviolable amity of their Estate with this Republick and conducted the Deputies even to the coach Saturday the 29 of May the Deputy Councellours which make the Councel of Estate of Holland considering the expence which the Province had made for the reception of the King in his voiage from Breda and that which they must make yet as well for the Feast which they prepared against the next day as for the presents which they purposed to offer to his Majesty and to the Princes his brothers represented to the Estates of Holland that it would be requisite to make forthwith a sum of six hundred thousand Gilders The Estates consented thereunto immediately and found it fit to furnish for the King the Bed and the apprutenances which the last deceased Prince of Orange had caused to be made for the lying-in of the Princess Royal and which she never used because of the death of the Prince her husband who deceased eight daies before the birth of the Prince his son This bed is without doubt the fairest and richest that ever was made at Paris and besides the teaster the seats the skreens the hangings and the other peeces necessary to make a furniture compleat the Estates would add thereunto a most perfect fair hanging of the richest tapistery imbossed with gold and silver which they cause to be made of purpose with a great number of excellent pictures as well of Italy as of the countries ancient and modern and whatsoever can compose a chamber worthy to lodge so great a Monarch in his greatest magnificence The same Councel of Estate ordained also that all the fisherbarks of the Villages of Scheveling and of Heyde should be stayed for the service of the Estate to the end to serve the imbarkment of the Court and King's baggage and that for the same purpose the Village of Catwick on the sea should send the next Munday to Scheveling ten and those of Nortwijck Santvoort and Wijck upon the sea each eight barks They also gave order to Captain du Charoy to cause thirty open wagons to be in readiness to bring a part of the baggage to Scheveling Munday following and a like number with forty close wagons to conduct the train Tuesday which was the day that the King had nominated for his departure though it was deferred since till Wednesday the second of June as we shall see hereafter The same day the Duke of York brother to the King accompanied with the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg and with a great number of English and Dutch Lords and Gentlemen went to Scheveling to take the Marriners oath of fidelity in quality of Admiral of England but the wind being contrary and the sea so moved that the Lord Montagu Vice-Admiral thought it not fit to send boats from aboard him to fetch his Royal Highness and the fishermen of the Village refusing to put him aboard he was enforced to return to the Hage to dinner Monsieur Weiman Councellour in the Councel of Estate of the Elector of Brandenbourg and his Chancellour in the Dutchy of Cleveland had the opportunity to do reverence to the King at Breda where he went about the affairs of the wardship of the Prince of Orange wherewith his Electoral Highness would charge himself in part Therefore he would not press his audience during the first daies after his arrival when his Majesty was burthened with complements But as soon as Prince Maurice of Nassau who with the government of the town of Wesel and charge of Lieutenant General of the Horse in the service of the Estates General of the United Provinces ceaseth not to be Governour of the Dutchy of Cleveland and of the Provinces annexed to it in the name of the Elector of Brandenbourg was arrived they judged fit to make a solemn complement to his Majesty in the name of his Electoral Highness The Prince was there the same Saturday accompanied with Mr. Weiman who notwithstanding the imploiments which he hath elsewhere forbears not to reside some years at the Hage about the affairs of the wardship of the Prince of Orange and with
Mr. Copes ordinary Resident from the Elector to the Lords the Estates The discourse of the Prince was like a Cavaleer so that after the King had answered his complement they spake of indifferent affairs which have nothing of common with this relation The same day Monsieur Vicquefort Knight Resident with the Lords the Estates for the Land-Grave of Hessen made his complement for the Prince his Master which was so much the better received as in his particular he had had an occasion to render most important services to his Majesty as well as to the deceased King his Father of glorious memory He had the honour to do reverence to his Majesty at Breda when in the voiage which he made there some daies before with the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg the King expressed unto him that he remembred the affection which he had for his service He spake also for the Duke of Courland in such sort that the King who witnessed to be touched with the affliction of that Prince protested that he would not fail to acknowledge the good offices which that Prince rendred to the deceased King and to his own person during the disorders of his Kingdom Monsieur Walter de Raet Councellour in the Court of Holland Zealand and West-Freesland being gone to Bruxels in the beginning of the moneth of March this present year with Mr. Goes his Colleague by vertue of a Commission from the Court to speak to the Princess Royal of the affairs of the Principality of Orange understood that there was notice given that General Monck dissembled in a manner no more the inclination which he had for the King's interests and for the re-establishment of the affairs of England and from thence took the liberty to felicitate the King His Majesty received him so well as also the words which he said unto him when being gone since about the same affairs at Breda where his Majesty betook himself he gave him to understand the occasion which hindred the Lords the Estates at present to complement him on the estate of the affairs of the Kingdom of England that he said unto him that he should never see him but he would remember the good will he expressed to him in this conjuncture And indeed this very day the 29 of May the King remembring those marks of affection sent him his in presenting him by Mr. Oudart Councellour to the Princess Royal and to the Prince of Orange her son with Letters Pattents under the great Seal of England by which he gives to Mr. Raet and to his issue male the quality and rank of Knight Barronet for ever And for as much as those whom the King honours with this title are obliged to maintain thirty foot souldiers for the service of Ireland or to pay into the hands of the Treasurer the sum of a thousand fourscore and fifteen pounds his Majesty caused the first Letters to be accompanied with a second dispensing him of paying that sum and acquitting him in general terms and his posterity after him to perpetuity of the said sum We have said elsewhere that Don Stephen of Gamarra ordinary Embassadour of Spain to the Lords the Estates went to meet the King at Moordike to express there to his Majesty the joy that he had for his re-establishment The residence which the King had made for some years at Bruxels where Don Stephen of Gamarra had the honour to lodge some daies in the house of the two Princes the King's brothers made him to be considered quite otherwise then he could hope from his character in a time when there was open war between Spain and England though against the intention of the two Kings The caresses which the Princes made him on this occasion and the extraordinary civilities which he had received from the King proceeded from a particular affection as well as the goodness wherewith the same Dukes of York and of Glocester prayed to dine with him on thursday the 27 of this moneth The Marquess of Ormond and many other Lords had dined there the day before with the same familiarity wherewith the Lords German Earl of St. Albans and Craft went to dine with the Embassadour of France the day the King arrived at the Hage and upon the recital which these Lords had made to their Royal Highnesses of the great cheer the Embassadour of Spain had made them they resolved to dine there the next day But the King who would dine that day in publick with the Queen of Bohemia the Princess Royal the Prince of Orange and the Deputies of the Estates General having desired that the Princes his brothers might be of the company the Embassadour who had expected their Royal Highnesses gave himself the liberty to complain to the King in raillery for taking away his guests from him His Majesty had the goodness to tell him that he did it of purpose to hinder their dining with him because he would be also of the Party And indeed that very Saturday the King after he had ridden to Scheveling where he saw the Fleet and at his return visited the Queen of Bohemia went in the evening to the house of the Spanish Embassadour where were also the Queen of Bohemia the Dukes of York and Glocester the Princess Royal the Prince of Orange the Marquess of Ormond the Lords Digby Craft and Taff the Lady Stanhop Widow to the Lord Heenvliet to whom the King gave the title of Countess of Chesterfeild and Madam Howard her daughter-in-law Lady of honour to the Princess Royal. The table was covered in the Hall which is one of the fairest and greatest of the whole Hage but it would be very difficult to make a pertinent discription of this feast because that although they served up there but fish and sallats it was without doubt one of the most splendid and stately that ever was seen at a private house There was two great services of fish or rather of Sea-monsters besides the pottages the courses and the inter-meats and there was served up so great a quantity of sweet meats dry and liquid that all the persons of quality which were come in great number to see the order of that supper returned thence all loaden For the Master of the house had given order that they should have enough and that the servants should present Limonada Hypocras and all sorts of delicious wines to all those that should demand it whil'st the Officers of his Majesty and of their Royal Highnesses were magnificently treated in the other apartments of the house The King appeared there in the best humour that ever he was seen to be and expressed so much content in this company which was composed of none almost but of his family and of persons whom he saw every day that he staied there even until one a clock after midnight notwithstanding without the least disorder or confusion that might trouble their conversation and divertisement Every thing there was high and magnificent but that
and who is no less considerable through the prudence wherewith he governeth then through the honour which he hath to be the of same house with the King of Denmark who shall be partly his heir willing to give an extraordinary proof of the respect which he alwaies hath had for the Kings of Great Britain who of their side have from all time much esteemed him dispatched this Gentleman as soon as he understood that the King was to depart from Breda to come into Holland not so much to acquit himself of that duty by a simple complement as to assure his Majesty that the first day he would send to render his respect unto him in his Kingdom by a person who is very near unto him whom he considereth and loveth extreamly The King who is much more sensible of the good he receiveth then of the injuries his enemies have done him would make known by a most civil reception and accompanied with much tenderness and by a most obliging answer which he made to the complement of that Gentleman that if he could forget the ill usage he had received from some of his people he was incapable to lose the remembrance of the obligation which he had to the Count of Oldenbourg We have said before that the Duke of York as Admiral of England would go Saturday last to the Fleet to take there the Oath of Fidelity of the Officers and Marriners and that he was hindred by the contrary wind and the tempest But this day the last of May he embarked himself and was aboard the Admiral The Fleet declared it self for the King when it was yet at anckor in the Downs immediately after it understood the intention of the Parliament upon the Letter and Declaration of his Majesty whereof we have spoken in the beginning of this Relation and it was not lately that the Lord Montague who commands the Fleet now as Vice-Admiral under the authority of the Duke of York had made his good will so wel to appear that not only the King could not doubt thereof but also that he had given some suspition thereof to those of the contrary party But it was necessary to disingage the Officers Souldiers and Marriners of the Oath which they had done to the last Parliament and to be assured there of by a new Oath of Fidelity for the King their Soveraign Lord. Therefore the Duke being arrived at the Admiral 's Ship where he was received by the Lord Montague with extraordinary honour and submissions he caused the Captain of the other ships to come aboard there and took their Oath which the Captains caused to be administred since to the inferiour Officers and to all the rest of the seamen in the other ships The Lord Montague had caused the flag to be changed before he departed from the coast of England and made the arms of the Common-wealth to be raâ—ed out which appeared for some years on the castle of his proud poop but he had reserved the honour for his Royal Higness to change the name of the ship which Cromwel caused to be called the Naesby in memory of the great Battel where the deceased King was defeated and by which the Rebellion gained principally the strenght which made it to subsist even to this last revolution The Duke thinking that he could not give it a name which should be more pleasingly received then that of the King made it to be called The Charls It is certainly one of the handsomest frames that ever sailed upon the sea For although it be of the greatest size that hath been seen after that which they call in England the Soveraign and carries fourscore peeces of brass Cannon amongst which more then twenty are of 48 pound bullet it is notwithstanding one of the best sailers of the whole Ocean She had aboard her above six hundred men as well Souldiers as Sailors and the Chambers and Galleries of the Castle where the King was to lodge and where the Lord Montague lodgeth ordinarily were all wanscotted and gilded and furnished with fair beds of the finest cloth of England fringed with gold and silver and with foot Turcky tapistry for the Royal persons But that which was most remarkable was that in the Admirals Kitchin there were six Clarks that laboured but for the mouth and that his table was better served on the sea then those of many Princes are in their Dominions The plate which was all of silver was of so prodigious a greatness that they were seen to be loaden with peeces of rost beef whereof the English have reason to make one of their delicates which weighed neer a hundred pounds and the other dishes of plate which accompanied that were without comparison massier then the greatest washing basons that are ordinarily used and so loaden with meat that it seemed the whole Fleet was to be fed with the remains of that table though they were intended but for the attendants of my Lord the Duke He dined there at the ordinary of the Vice-Admiral which might pass for a great feast and in going thence he was saluted with the artillery of the whole Fleet which did him the same honour when he came aboard The same day the King received Letters from a certain kind of people which are called in England Quakers because that in the ordinary hours when they make their devotions or prayers there takes themselves a certain trembling in all parts of the body which they say to be a violent motion caused by the spirit of God wherewith they would make men be-believe that they are possessed It would be very hard to say whether these people are fanatick or hyponchondriack that is mad or melancholy but it must needs be that so great a disorder of spirit as that which is observed in all their actions proceedeth from an ill disposition of the body They have not only lost the respect they ow unto Princes and Magistrates but they fail also in the duties which are inseparable from the civil life And they are so far from humility which is a vertue not known but since the birth of Christianity that hitherto there was never seen an animal so impudent and so proud The Letter was ridiculous and impertiment throughout but particularly in most places it pronounced the threatnings of Gods judgment against the King if he protected not that Sect and entred not into those thoughts The King having made known the day before to Mr. the Veth Deputy from the Province of Zealand to the Estates General and President that week for his Province that his design was to render them a visit the next morning in their assembly as we have said it was resolved that they would receive this honour with all imaginable respect and to that purpose would dispose of all things in such manner that his Majesty should carry away from his visit the satisfaction which he might lawfully promise to himself from thence And indeed Tuesday morning
into the Hage had the leisure to cut some little streets and to come to put themselves behind and so to make a guard from the Highstreet and along the great Place even to the Viverberg where the Regiment of the Guards had taken its Post and made a guard on both sides even to the House of Prince Maurice of Nassau which the Estates of Holland had caused to be furnish'd and accommodated for the King's lodging As soon as the first coaches were entred into the Court and the King alighted the Deputies of the Estates General retired and left the honour of the reception and entertainment for that day to the Estates of Holland The King being gone up found on the top of the stairs the Queen of Bohemia his Aunt led by the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg who had the honour to salute and to entertain the King at Breda and the Princess Dowager of Orange led by Prince William Frederick of Nassau her son-in-law and accompanied with the two Princesses her daughters Madam the Princess of Nassau and the young Lady of Orange The King saluted them all and being entred into the chamber where he was followed by the Deputies of the Estates of Holland he received there another small complement from them by the mouth of the Pensionary Councellour who said no other thing but that the Estates of Holland would give themselves the honour to come in full body to render their duty to his Majesty when they might do it without incommodating him The King answered him that they should alwaies be welcome and that after he had dined they might take their audience But the Pensioner replied that his Majesty being without doubt weary with his journy they would not trouble his repose that day but would send to receive his orders the next The King who was weary indeed expressed a willingness to dine in private so that there staied no body by him but Mr. of Wimmenum who was charged with the order of making his Majesty to be served at dinner and in whatsoever it should please him to command The Princess Royal who had not slept the night before was the first that withdrew and obliged the others by her example to do the like The Queen of Bohemia and the Princess Dowager of Orange followed her and the King who would lead them and who took the Queen by the hand had the goodness after he had put her into the coach to turn about to the end to help the Princess Dowager to go up There staied with the King at dinner none but the two Dukes his brothers who dined with him His Majesty before he sate at Table would do Mr. of Wimmenum the honour to make him to take his napkin to present it him but that Gentleman who knew how to behave himself civilly excused himself through modesty and yeelded that advantage to him of his Officers who used to perform that function about the person of his Majesty The toil of the journy and little rest he had taken the two former nights made him desire to withdraw And indeed they would have made the musketteers to forbear shooting who gave continual volleys if it had been possible to smother the universal joy which the whole world would express on this occasion To these volleys answered those of a battery of eight and thirty peeces of Canon which were planted on the Viverberg reinforced with another of five and twenty peeces of a greater stamp which they were enforced to plant behind the Cloister Church of the Voorhout upon the rampart in turning the mouth towards the field for fear the noise of that thunder might shake the walls of the old Palace and of all the adjoining buildings The Estates General had ordained the precedent day Mr. de Heyde their Agent to go to Prince Maurice his House and to know immediately after the King's arrival at least as soon as civility would permit him when it would please his Majesty to receive the duty which they had resolved to render him in coming to do him reverence in a body and his Majesty having granted it them at four a clock in the afternoon it was resolved that they should all meet in the ordinary chamber of their assembly half an hour after 3 a clock to go from thence in a body to the house of Nassau They met accordingly at the hour appointed to the number of five and twenty viz. Mr. van Swanenburgh Burgemaster of Leiden and Deputy to the Estates General from the Province of Holland who at his turn was President that week the Baron of Gent M rs van Bemmel Braeckel Balveren Vande Steen Ripperda of Buirse the Count of Flodorff Schimmelpennick Vander Oyen Huygens and Ommeren Deputies from the Dutchy of Gelders Meerman of Horn and the Pensionary Councellour from the Province of Holland de Veth Crommon Vrybergen Lampsins and Kien for Zealand Renswoude and Amerongen Deputies from the Province of Utrecht Velsen for the Province of Freesland Ripperda of Hengelo for Overyssel and Schulenbourg and Isbrants for the town of Groning and the adjacent country with which it makes also a Province As soon as they were assembled they went forth two and two in the same order as we have named them going directly to the King's lodging which is separated from the Palace but by a Ditch whose two sides are joined by a stone bridge That Palace is named the Court or the Court of Holland because it served sometime for dwelling to the Counts as it comprehends now in its inclosure the apartments where the Estates General assemble the Councel of Estate of the United Provinces the Estates of Holland the Councel of Estate of the same Province the Reckoning-chambers of the Generality and of the Province of Holland The two Courts of Justice and the apartments assigned for the lodging of the Princess Royal and of the Prince of Orange Before the Estates marched Prince William Frederick of Nassau Governour and Lievtenant General of Freesland of Groning and of Overyssel the Rhine Grave Commissary General of the Horse of the United Provinces and Governour of Mastricht Mons de Hauterive Chasteau neuf Collonel of a Regiment of French Foot in the service of the Estates and Governour of Breda and many other Collonels Lievtenant Collonels and other Officers as well of Foot as of Horse all bareheaded At the entrance into the King's lodging they were met with by the Lord Crafts one of the four Gentlemen of the bed-chamber accompanied with a great number of gentlemen The Marquess of Ormond Lord Deputy of Ireland and in this quality the first and most considerable person of all England after the Dukes came to receive them at the stairs and brought them into the King's chamber All the high Officers that marched before being entred the Lords the Estates could scarce make way through the press which was extraordinary great there but at last being come to the King the Baron of Gent as chief Deputy
but the two Princes expressed that they should see that exercise with much satisfaction And indeed the next day being the 27 th the Regiment of the Guards having been in the field from the beginning of the morning stood in battalia half the way to Scheveling by the house where Mr. Catz sometime Pensionary Counsellour and Keeper of the great Seal of Holland made his retirement after he had passed through the fairest imploiments wherewith his country could have acknowledged his merit in a very pleasant and fair plain where the two Princes the Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburg the Prince of Orange Prince William of Nassau Governour of Freesland the Rhine-Grave and all persons of quality that were at the Hage repaired about ten a clock in the morning and after they had seen all that which skil could make a body perfectly exercised and disciplined to do both in marching and fight under good Officers they made a course even upon the banks of the sea from whence they considered the Fleet and went from thence to dinner the Dukes of York and of Glocester with some English Lords to the Duke of Lunenburgs and the rest to the Court The Estates General deputed there to accompany the King that day M rs de Gent of Gelders of Merode and Navander of Holland Lampsins of Zealand Renswoud of Utrecht Velsen of Freesland Ripperda of Hengelo of Over-Ysel and Isbrants of Groning The King was from the morning shut up with Mr. Hide his Chancellour who for being chief of his Councels and his most confident Minister was lodged in the same house because that being incommodated with the gout his Majesty would that he should be lodged in a place where he might make use of his councels at all hours of the day He was with him more then an hour and a half sitting on his bed-side and sometimes leaning upon the bed it self in a very secret conference After the King was gone out of the Chancellour's chamber the extraordinary Embassadours of Denmark caused his Excellence to be prayed to appoint them an hour for a particular audience which they obtained for the after-noon They received in this audience new assurances of the good intentions of his Majesty to the advantage of the King their Master who would have profited notably thereby if the treaty of peace with Swethen had not been too much advanced as indeed it was concluded a few daies after We said that the precedent day the King had promised the Pensioner of Amsterdam that he would certifie the Duputies of the same town when he could give them audience to the subject of the request which they had to make unto him touching the journy wherein they indeavoured to engage him And indeed the same evening he sent them the Lord Wotton second son to the Lady Stanhop since Countess of Chesterfield who was to advertise them that they might see his Majesty the next day at nine a clock in the morning This Deputation was composed of Mr. Cornelius of Vlooswick Lord of Vlooswick Diemerbrouck and John de Huydecooper Lord of Marseveen Bourgemasters in charge Conrade Burg sometime extraordinary Embassadour in Moscovia Conrade of Beuningen heretofore extraordinary Embassadour in Denmark and in Swethen and now named for the extraordinary Embassadour into France Senatours and Peter de Groot Pensionary of the same town The last after he had made a low reverence to his Majesty spake in these terms SIR The Burgemasters and Magistrate of the town of Amsterdam who yeeld not in devotion and zeal for the glory and interests of your Majesty to any person of the world thinking that they have not satisfied neither their duty nor their affection by the general testimony which they have rendred thereof by the mouth of the Lords the Estates General and likewise by that of the Estates of this Province have commanded us to beseech your Majesty to grant them a particular audience where they may give stronger proofs both of one and t'other Your Majesty shall see them in the extream joy which they have for the glorious re-establishment of your Majesty upon the throne of your Ancestours the circumstances whereof are so much the more considerable as this miraculous revolution is made without effusion of blood and as your Majesty is obliged for it but to the powerful hand of God only who hath wrought therein by means altogether extraordinary But you shall find the proofs thereof particularly in the most humble prayer which we have order to make you to honour their town with your Royal presence for the few daies the time will allow you to remain in this Province to the end that so many strangers wherewith their town is inhabited may be witnesses of the publick and real demonstrations which they intend to make of the veneration which they have for the person of your Majesty and of the passion which they have for your service Nothing can be added to the obliging words with which the King answered the complement of the Deputies of Amsterdam in thanking them with much affection for that of theirs whereof he said he had received most illustrious proofs witnessing to be very sorry that he could not satisfie their request seeing that he had no less inclination for that journy then the Lords of Amsterdam could have passion to see him in their town and assuring them that he would eternally remember the amity they had for him The Deputies replied in the most submiss terms that respect could put into their mouths and after they had prayed for the prosperity of his Majesty and for the perpetual felicity of his reign they retired Mr. Coyet Knight Extraordinary Envoy of the King of Swethen to the Estates General of the United Provinces had demanded audience the day before but those which his Majesty found himself obliged to give to the Estates of Holland and next to the Commissioners of the Parliament and of the City of London made him to refer it to this Thursday at eleven a clock in the morning Mr. Coyet being come into the fore chamber at the hour appointed the King sent immediately unto him Mr. Wentworth one of the four Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber to entertain him till affairs permitted his Majesty to come to speak with him as he did presently after in the Presence-chamber The Envoy made known to his Majesty that he would speak Latine to him and as he was very wel versed in that language he had prepared a very elegant discourse for him but for as much as his Majesty signified to him that that tongue was not familiar enough to him to serve his turn to answer readily he made him his complement in French as the Ministers of all the other strange Princes did extending himself on the present revolution of the affairs of England on the excellent and great qualities of his Majesty and of the amity which the Kings and Crown of Swethen had from all time received from the Kings of Great
him in speaking of the testimonies of affection which the Estates of Holland had rendred him said to his Majesty that the intention of the Lords the Estates of Holland was to do something more if there were any rarities in their Estate that might be presented to so great a Prince Notwithstanding that they would give themselves the liberty to cause him to be accommodated and to send him on the first occasion some Presents which they would beseech his Majesty to consider as proofs of their good will rather then as effects of their power The King would put if off in saying that he needed no other assurances of the affection of the Lords the Estates of Holland then those they had given him on this present occasion that he was satisfied therewith and thanked them not only for the effects pass'd but also for the good will they expressed unto him for the future Those Presents which they had designed for him were not yet ready as wel because the stately bed of the Princess Royal which was to make a part of them was not yet perfected as because they knew not yet what his Majesty would like most Therefore was it that Mr of Wimmenum would insist no more therein but went from thence to the House of the Duke of York to whom he said that the Lords the Estates of Holland willing to give some mark of their affection to his Royal Highness had sought every where for something that might be worthy of him and that having found nothing because of the small residence which his Majesty and the Princes his brothers had made in the country and yet not able to resolve themselves to let his Royal Highness depart without giving him a testimony of their respect and good will they prayed him to accept a bill of Exchequer of seventy five thousand Gilders which make seven thousand pounds which he might cause his Treasurer to receive either at present in this Town of Mr. Berckel Receiver General of the Province or at London or elsewhere for no body will refuse to give it immediately The Duke received the bill with many testimonies of acknowledgment and signified that it was without repugnance that he charged himself with this obligation towards the Lords the Estates The Duke of Glocester to whom Mr. Wimmenum presented also a bill of a like sum received it also very kindly and thanked the Lords in most obliging terms The Lords the Estates of Holland had also designed a Present to the value of four thousand Gilders for my Lord Craft one of the four Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber that brought them into the audience of the King but they deferred to give it him for the same reason that made them defer the King's because a chain of gold of that price could not be made in so few daies At this time the daies were at their full length and yet it may be said that not only the Hague saw Wednesday the 2 of June some thing more early then the Sun but also that there was in a manner no night between Tuesday and Wednesday particularly for those who finding no hole to put their heads because the houses not being able to lodge the crowd of people which ran there from all the neighbour Towns the most part were constrained to walk the streets There was no night for more then fifty thousand persons who from the precedent evening were gone to take up place on the Downs or sand-hils which border on the sea along the coast of Holland from whence they might discover the Fleet and from whence they intended to see the King to embark The Boute-selle awaked the Cavallery before day and at two a clock in the morning instead of the Moon Drum did beat the assemble as well for the Citizens as for the souldiers In the King's house it self every one was imploied the whole night in causing the rest of the baggage to be loaden and sent away and there was seen nothing but Wagons and Coaches full of English who went to embark themselves before the barks appointed for his Majesties service were possessed by his domestick people and servants who were to attend upon his person The Citizens came together at their ordinary rendezvous of the Viverberg and the Regiment of the Guards in the outer-Court commonly called Buitenhof and both one and t'other marched from thence to Scheveling where they stood in Batalia on the sea shore from both sides of the Battery of the Cannon which was brought there from the Hague The King was soon ready and received the submissions and complements of many particular persons that would do him reverence in expecting the Estates of Holland who had caused audience to be asked to take leave in body They came about eight a clock in the morning to the Hall where they had received the King's visit the day before and went from thence to Prince Maurice his house in the same manner and order as they observed when they made him their first complement All the persons of quality that were about his Majesty came to meet them and conducted them to the chamber where the King had given the most part of his publick audiences The Pensionary Councellour who his the organ by which this great body useth to express it self and who had place because of that immediately after the Nobles and before the Deputies of the towns spake neer in these terms If one may judge of the displeasure which we have to see your Majesty depart from our Province by the satisfaction we have had to possess you we shall have no great trouble to make it known unto you Your Majesty might have observed in the countenance of all our people the joy they had in their hearts to see amongst them a Prince cherished of God a Prince wholly miraculous and a Prince that probably is to make a part of their quietness and felicity Your Majesty shall see presently all the streets filled all the waies covered and all the hils loaden with people which will follow you even to the place of your embarkment and would not leave you if they had wherewith to pass them into your Kingdom Our joy is common unto us with that of our Subjects but as we know better then they the inestimable value of the treasure which we possess so are we more sensible of this sad separation It would be insupportable to us SIR if we re-entred not into our selves and considered not that it is the thing of the world we most desired and the greatest advantage also that we could wish to your Majesty We acquiess therein because we know that this removal is no less necessary for us then glorious to your Majesty and that it is in your Kingdom that we must find the accomplishment of the prayers we have made and make still for you and us So we shall not fail to profit thence as well as from the assurances which it hath pleased you to give