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A33253	Gesta Grayorum, or, The history of the high and mighty prince, Henry Prince of Purpoole ... who reigned and died, A.D. 1594 : together with a masque, as it was presented (by His Highness's command) for the entertainment of Q. Elizabeth, who, with the nobels of both courts, was present thereat.	Canning, William, fl. 1686-1690.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Davison, Francis, 1575?-1619?; Gray's Inn.	1688 (1688)	Wing C444; ESTC R5680	47,507	73

but in a sort discontended and displeased After their Departure the Throngs and Tumults did somewhat cease although so much of them continued as was able to disorder and confound any good Inventions whatsoever In regard whereof as also for that the Sports intended were especially for the gracing of the Templarians it was thought good not to offer any thing of Account saving Dancing and Revelling with Gentlewomen and after such Sports a Comedy of Errors like to Plautus his Menechmus was played by the Players So that Night was begun and continued to the end in nothing but Confusion and Errors whereupon it was ever afterwards called The Night of Errors This mischanceful Accident sorting so ill to the great prejudice of the rest of our Proceedings was a great Discouragement and Disparagement to our whole State yet it gave occasion to the Lawyers of the Prince's Council the next Night after Revels to read a Commission of Oyer and Terminer directed to certain Noble-men and Lords of His Highness's Council and others that they should enquire or cause Enquiry to be made of some great Disorders and Abuses lately done and committed within His Highness's Dominions of Purpoole especially by Sorceries and Inchantments and namely of a great Witchcraft used the Night before whereby there were great Disorders and Misdemeanours by Hurly-burlies Crowds Errors Confusions vain Representations and Shews to the utter Discred●t of our State and Policy The next Night upon this Occasion we preferred Judgments thick and threefold which were read publickly by the Clerk of the Crown being all against a Sorcerer or Conjurer that was supposed to be the Cause of that confused Inconvenience Therein was contained How he had caused the Stage to be built and Scaffolds to be reared to the top of the House to increase Expectation Also how he had caused divers Ladies and Gentlewomen and others of good Condition to be invited to our Sports also our dearest Friend the State of Templaria to be disgraced and disappointed of their kind Entertainment deserved and intended Also that he caused Throngs and Tumults Crowds and Outrages to disturb our whole Proceedings And Lastly that he had ●oisted a Company of base and common Fellows to make up our Disorders with a Play of Errors and Confusions and that that Night had gained to us Discredit and it self a Nick-name of Errors All which were against the Crown and Dignity of our Sovereign Lord the Prince of Purpoole Under Colour of these Proceedings were laid open to the View all the Causes of note that were committed by our chiefest States-men in the Government of our Principality and every Officer in any great Place that had not performed his Duty in that Service was taxed hereby from the highest to the lowest not sparing the Guard and Porters that suffered so many disordered Persons to enter in a● the Court-Gates Upon whose aforesaid Indictments the Prisoner was arra●gned at the Bar being brought thither by the Lieutenant of the Tower for at that time the Stocks were graced with that Name and the Sheriff impannelled a Jury of Twenty four Gentlemen that were to give their Verdict upon the Evidence given The Prisoner appealed to the Prince his Excellency for Justice and humbly desired that it would please His Highness to understand the Truth of the Matter by his Supplication which he had ready to be offered to the Master of the Requests The Prince gave leave to the Master of the Requests that he should read the Petition wherein was a Disclosure of all the Knavery and Juggling of the Attorney and Sollicitor which had brought all this Law-stuff on purpose to blind the Eyes of his Excellency and all the honourable Court there going about to make them think that those things which they all saw and preceived sensibly to be in very deed done and actually performed were nothing else but vain Illusions Fancies Dreams and Enchantments and to be wrought and compass●d by the Means of a poor harmless Wretch that never had heard of such great Matters in all his Life Whereas the very Fault was in the Negligence of the Prince's Council Lords and Officers of his State that had the Rule of the Roast and by whose Advice the Commonwealth was so soundly mis-governed To prove these things to be true he ●rought divers Instances of great Absurdities committed by the greatest and made such Allegations as could not be denied These were done by some that were touched by the Attorn●y and Sollicitor in their former Proceedings and they used the Prisoners Names for means of Quittance with them in that behalf But the Prince and States-men being pinched on both sides by both the Parties were not a little offended at the great Liberty that they had taken in censuring so far of His Highness's Government and thereupon the Prisoner was freed and pardoned the Attorney Sollicitor Master of the Requests and those that were a●quainted with the Draught of the Petition were all of them commanded to the Tower so the Lieutenant took charge of them And this was the End of our Law-sports concerning the Night of Errors When we were wearied with mocking thus at our own Follies at length there was a great Consultation had for the Recovery of our lost Honour It was then concluded that first the Prince's Council should be reformed and some graver Conceipts should have their places to advise upon those things that were propounded to be done afterward Therefore upon better Consideration there were divers Plots and Devices intended against the Friday after New-years-day being the 3 d. of Ianuary And to prevent all unruly Tumults and former Inconveniences there was provided a Watch of Armed Men to ward at the four Ports and Whifflers to make good Order under the four Barons and the Lord Warden to over-see them all that none but those that were of good Condition might be suffered to be let into the Court And the like Officers were every where appointed On the 3 d. of Ianuary at Night there was a most honourable Presence of Great and Noble Personages that came as invited to our Prince as namely the Right Honourable the Lord Keeper the Earls of Shrewsbury Cumberland Northumberland Southampton and Essex the Lords Buckhurst Windsor Mountjoy Sheffield Compton Rich Burleygh Mounteagle and the Lord Thomas Howard Sir Thomas Henneage Sir Robert Cecill with a great number of Knights Ladies and very worshipful Personages All which had convenient Places and very good Entertainment to their good Liking and Contentment When they were all thus placed and setled in very good Order the Prince came into the Hall with his wonted State and ascended his Throne at the high End of the Hall under His Highness's Arms and after him came the Ambassador of Templaria with his Train likewise and was placed by the Prince as he was before his Train also had Places reserved for them and were provided for them particularly Then after variety of Musick they were presented with this Device At

England being of our Society deserved honoura●le Remembrance for his liberal and noble Mindfulness of us and our State who undesired sent to the Prince as a Token of his Lordship's Favour 10 l. and a Purse of ●ine rich Needle-work When all these things sorted so well to our Desires and that there was good hope of ●ffecting that that was taken in hand there was dispatched from our State a Messenger to our ancient allied Friend the Inner Temple that they might be acquainted with our Proceedings and also to be invited to participate of our Honour which to them was most acceptable as by the Process of their Letters and ours mutually sent may appear The Copies of the Letters that passed betwixt the two most flourishing Estates of the Grayans and Templarians To the most Honourable and Prudent the Governors Assistants and Society of the Inner Temple Most Grave and Noble WE have upon good Consideration made choice of a Prince to be predominant in our State of Purpoole for some important Causes that require an Head or Leader And as we have ever had great Cause by the Warrant of Experience to assure our selves of your unfeigned Love and Amity so we are upon this Occasion and in the Name of our Prince Elect to pray you that it may be continued and in Demonstration thereof that you will be pleased to assist us with your Counsel in the Person of an Ambassador that may be Resident here amongst us and be a Minister of Correspondence between us and to advise of such Affairs as the Effects whereof we hope shall sort to the Benefit of both our Estates And so being ready to requite you with all good Offices we leave you to the Protection of the Almighty Your most Loving Friend and Ally Grays-Inn Dated at our Court of Graya this 14 th of December 1594. To the most honourable State of the Grayans Right Honourable and most firmly United IF our Deserts were any way answerable to the great Expectation of your good Proceedings we might with more Boldness accomplish the Request of your kind Letters whereby it pleaseth you to interest us in the Honour of your Actions which we cannot but acknowledge for a great Courtesie and Kindness a thing proper to you in all your Courses and Endeavours and repute it a great Honour intended towards our selves In respect whereof we yield with all Good Will to that which your honourable Letters import as your Kindness and the Bond of our ancient Amity and League requireth and deserveth Your assured Friend The State of Templaria From Templaria the 18 th of December 1594. The Order of the Prince of Purpoole's Proceedings with his Officers and Attendants at his honourable Inthronization which was likewise obs●rved in all his solemn Marches on grand Days and like Occasions which Place every Officer did duly attend during the Reign of His Highness's Government A Marshal A Marshal Trumpets Trumpets Pursuevant at Arms Lanye Towns-men in the Prince's Livery with Halberts Yeomen of the Gua●d three Couples Captain of the Guard Grimes Baron of the Grand Port Dudley Baron of the Base Port Grante Gentlemen for Entertainment three Couples Binge c. Baron of the Petty Port Williams Baron of the New Port Lovel Gentlemen for Entertainment three Couples Wentworth Zukenden Forrest Lieutenant of the Pensioners Tonstal Gentlemen-Pensioners twelve Couples viz. Lawson Devereux Stapleton Daniel Rotts Anderson Glascott Elken Davison cum reliquis Chief Ranger and Master of the Game Forrest Master of the Revels Lambert Master of the Revellers Tevery Captain of the Pensioners Cooke Sewer Archer Carver Moseley Another Sewer Drewry Cup-bearer Painter Groom-porter Bennet Sheriff Leach Clerk of the Council Iones Clerk of the Parliament Clerk of the Crown Downes Orator Heke Recorder Starkey Sollicitor Dunne Serjeant Goldsmith Speaker of the Parliament B●llen Commissary Greenwood Attorney Holt. Serjeant Hitchcombe Master of the Requests Faldo Chancellor of the Exchequer Kitts Master of the Wards and Idiots Ellis Reader Cobb Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Briggs Master of the Rolls Hetlen Lord Chief Baron of the Common Pleas Damporte Lord Chief Justice of the Prince's Bench Crew Master of the Ordnance Fitz-Williams Lieutenant of the Tower Lloyd Master of the Jewel-house Darlen Treasurer of the House-hold Smith Knight-Marshal Bell. Master of the Ward-robe Conney Comptroller of the House-hold Bouthe Bishod of St. Giles's in the Fields Dandye Steward of the House-hold Smith Lord Warden of the four Ports Damporte Secretary of State Iones Lord Admiral Cecill Richard. Lord Treasurer Morrey Lord Great Chamberlain Southworth Lord High Constable Lord Marshal Knaplock Lord Privy Seal Lamphew Lord Chamberlain of the House-hold Markham Lord High Steward Kempe Lord Chancellor Iohnson Archbishop of St. Andrews in Holborn Bush. Serjeant at Arms with the Mace Flemming Gentleman-Usher Chevett The Shield of Pegasus for the Inner-Temple Scevington Serjeant at Arms with the Sword Glascott Gentleman-Usher Paylor The Shield of the Griffin for Grays-Inn Wickliffe The King at Arms Perkinson The great Shield of the Prince's Arms Cobley The Prince of Purpoole Helmes A Page of Honour Wandforde Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber six Couples A Page of Honour Butler Roger. Vice-Chamberlain Butler Thomas Master of the Horse Fitz-Hugh Yeomen of the Guard three Couples Towns-men in Liveries The Family and Followers Upon the 20 th Day of December being St. Thomas's Eve the Prince with all his Train in Order as above set down marched from his Lodging to the great Hall and there took his place in his Throne under a rich Cloth of State His Counsellors and great Lords were placed about him and before him below the Half-pace at a Table sate his learned Council and Lawyers the rest of the Officers and Attendants took their proper Places as belonged to their Condition Then the Trumpets were commanded to sound thrice which being done the King at Arms in his rich Surcoat of Arms stood forth before the Prince and proclaimed his Style as followeth By the sacred Laws of Arms and authorized Ceremonies of the same maugre the Conceit of any Malecontent I do pronounce my Sovereign Liege Lord Sir Henry rightfully to be the high and mighty Prince of Purpoole Arch-Duke of Stapulia and Bernardia Duke of the High and Nether Holborn Marquis of St. Giles's and Tottenham Count Palatine of Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell Great Lord of the Cantons of Islington c. Knight of the most honourable Order of the Helmet and Sovereign of the same After that the King at Arms had thus proclaimed his Style the Trumpets sounded again and then entred the Prince's Champion all in compleat Armour on Horse-back and so came riding round about the Fire and in the midst of the Hall stayed and made his Challenge in these Words following If there be any Man of high Degree or low that will say that my Sovereign is not rightly Prince of Purpoole as by his King at Arms right-now hath been proclaimed I am ready here to maintain

the side of the Hall behind a Curtain was erected an Altar to the Goddess of Amity her Arch-Flamen ready to attend the Sacrifice and Incense that should by her Servants be offered unto her Round about the same sate Nymphs and Fairies with Instruments of Musick and made very pleasant Melody with Viols and Voices and sang Hymns and Praises to her Deity Then issued forth of another Room the first pair of Friends which were Theseus and Perithous they came in Arm in Arm and offered Incense upon the Altar to their Goddess which shined and burned very clear without Blemish which being done they departed Then likewise came Achilles and Patroclus after them Pilades and Orestes then Scipio and Lelius And all these did in all things as the former and so departed Lastly were presented Graius and Templarius and they two came lovingly Arm in Arm to the Altar and offered their Incense as the rest but the Goddess did not accept of their Service which appeared by the troubled Smoak and dark Vapour that choaked the Flame and smothered the clear burning thereof Hereat the Arch-Flamen willing to pacifie the angry Goddess preferred certain mystical Ceremonies and Invocations and commanded the Nymphs to sing some Hymns of Pacification to her Deity and caused them to make proffer of their Devotion again which they did and then the Flame burnt more clear than at any time before and continued longer in brightness and shining to them than to any of those Pairs of Friends that had gone before them and so they departed Then the Arch-Flamen did pronounce Grayus and Templarius to be as true and perfect Friends and so familiarly united and linked with the Bond and League of sincere Friendship and Amity as ever were Theseus and Perithous Achilles and Patroclus Pilades and Orestes or Scipio and Lelius and therewithal did further divine that this Love should ●e perpetual And Lastly denounced an heavy Curse on them that ●hall any way go about to break or weaken the same and an Happiness to them that study and labour to eternize it for ever So with sweet and pleasant Melody the Curtain was drawn as it was at the first Thus was this Shew ended which was devised to that End that those that were present might understand that the Unkindness which was growing betwixt the Templarians and us by reason of the former Night of Errors and the uncivil Behaviour wherewith they were entertained● as before I have partly touched was now clean rooted out and forgotten and that we now were more firm Friends and kind Lovers than ever before we had been contrary to the evil Reports that some Enviers of our Happiness had sown abroad The Prince then spake to the Ambassador that the Shew had contented him exceedingly the rather that it appeared thereby that their ancient Amity was so fresh and flourishing that no Friendship in the World hath been compared to the Love and Good Will of the Grayans and Templarians And to the end that he might shew that the Conceipt was pleasing unto him His Highness offered the Lord Ambassador and some of his Retinue with the Knighthood of the Helmet an Order of his own Institution To that end His Excellency called to him his King at Arms and willed him to place the Ambassador and some of his Followers and also some of his own Court that they might receive the Dignity at his hands which being done and the Master of the Jewels attending with the Collar of the Order the Prince came down from his Chair of State and took a Collar and put it about the Lord Ambassador's Neck he kneeling down on his Left Knee and said unto him Sois Chivaler and so was done to the rest to the number of Twenty four So the Prince and the Lord Ambassador took their Places again in their Chairs and the rest according to their Condition Then Helmet His Highness's King at Arms stood forth before the Prince in his Surcoat of Arms and caused the Trumpets to sound and made his Speech as doth follow The most mighty and puissant Prince Sir Henry my gracious Lord and Sovereign Prince of Purpoole Arch-Duke of Stapulia and Bernardia Duke of High and Nether Holborn Marquis of St. Giles's and Tottenham Count Palatine of Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell great Lord of the Cantons of Islington Kentish-Town Paddington and Knights-bridge hath heretofore for the special gracing of the Nobility of his Realm and honouring the Deserts of Strangers his Favourites instituted a most honourable Order of Knighthood of the Helmet whereof His Honour is Sovereign in Memory of the Arms he beareth worthily given to one of his noble Ancestors many Years past for saving the Life of his then Sovereign in regard that as the Helmet defendeth the chiefest part of the Body the Head so did he guard and defend the sacred Person of the Prince the Head of the State. His Highness at this time had made choice of a Number of vertuous and no●le Personages to admit them into his honourable Society whose good Example may be a Spur and Encouragement to the young Nobility of his Dominions to cause them to aspire to the heighth of all honourable Deserts To the honourable Order are annexed strict Rules of Arms and Civil Government religiously to be observed by all those that are admitted to this Dignity ●ou therefore most noble Gentlemen whom His Highness at this time so greatly honoureth with his Royal Order you must every one of you kiss your Helmet and thereby promise and vow to observe and practise or otherwise as the Case shall require shun and avoid all these Constitutions and Ordinances which out of the Records of my Office of Arms I shall read unto you Then the King at Arms took his Book and turned to the Articles of the Orders and read them as followeth Imprimis EVery Knight of this honourable Order whether he be a Natural Subject or Stranger born shall promise never to bear Arms against His Highness's Sacred Person nor his State but to assist him in all his lawful Wars and maintain all his just Pretences and Titles especially His Highness's Title to the Land of the Amazons and the Cape of Good Hope Item● No Knight of this Order shall in point of Honour resort to any Grammar-rules out of the Books De Dullo or such like but shall out of his own brave Mind and natural Courage deliver himself from Scorns as to his own Discretion shall seem convenient Item No Knight of this Order shall be inquisitive towards any Lady or Gentlewoman whether her Beauty be English or Italian or whether with Care taking she have added half a Foot to her Stature but shall ●ake all to the best Neither shall any Knight of the aforesaid Order presume to affirm that Faces were better twenty Years ago than they are at this present time except such Knight have passed three Climacterical Years Item Every Knight of this Order is bound to perform all requisite and

nothing in the World more acceptable to Vs than the Friendship of a Prince so mighty and illustrious We account amongst our greatest Happinesses t●is honourable Embassage His Presents are so large and bountiful as We have right good Occasion to hold him the most free and magnificent Prince in the World. We joy to hear of his hardy Adventures that by Our Knights in those Parts have been atchieved They may be glad that our worthy Brother invited them to so high an Enterprize wherein they may do themselves Honour and His Greatness Service Rest and refresh your Lordship this present for now We bid you welcome Assure your self your Request is already granted and that in far greater Measure than you expec●●d or desired When the Prince had thus spoken the Ambassador was placed in a Chair near the Prince and then was served up a Running Banquet for the Prince and the Lord● present and the rest with variety of Musick Whilst th●se things were thus a doing there came a Post-boy with Letters of Intelligence concerning the State from divers Parts of His Highness●s Provinces and delivered them to the Secretary who made the Prince acquainted therewith and caused them to be read openly and publickly A Letter of Advertisement from Knights-bridge to the Honourable Council I Beseech your Honours to advertise His Highness that in His Excellency's Canton of Knights-bridge there do haunt certain Foreigners that sieze upon all Passengers taking from them by force their Goods under a pretence that being Merchants Strangers and using Traffick into His Highness's Territories of Clerken-well Islington and elsewhere they have robbed of their Goods spoiled of their Wares whereby they were utterly undone And that His Honour of his good Will hath been pleased to grant them Letters of Reprisal to recover their Loss of them that come next to their Hands By colour whereof they lay hold of all that pass by without respect Some of their Names as I understand are Johannes Shagbag Robertus Untruss James Rapax aliàs Capax There do reign likewise thereabouts another sort of dangerous People under the Name of poor Soldiers that say they were mamed and lost their Limbs in His Honour's Service and Wars against the Amazons and they pretend to have Pass-ports from their Captains Some of them say they have served under Sir Robert Kemp and Sir William Cooke others under William Knaplocks Lord Marshal Sir Francis Marham Captain Crymes Captain Conny Yelverton Hugan Sir Francis Davison and some other of good Place Some say that they were mamed with Fire-locks others in the Trenches others in going with their Captains to discover Ambuscadoes of the Enemy and to view the Forts others in standing Sentry whilst the Captains were busied in entring the Breach others in the very Approach at the first But the number of them is great and the same inclined to do much Mischief Another sort there is that pretend that they have Protections to beg in regard of their Losses by Shipwreck upon certain Rocks of Hazard Barred Quarter-trays High-men and Low-men Bom-Cards the Sands of Bowle-Allies the Shelf of New-Cut the Gulf of Myne and Gill and such other like places of Peril Some of them are called by the Names of Harry Ordinary Jack Moneyless Will Cog-all and Roger Spend-all These aforesaid People do gather together in great numbers and His Excellency's Subjects hereabouts stand in great fear of Outrages by them to be committed except His Highness do prevent the same and that speedily by sending some of the Captains aforesaid to disperse them Your Honours at Command Henry Brownbill From Knights-bridge Ian. 5. 1594. Another Letter from Sea directed to the Lord Admiral BY my Letters given at Pont-Holborn the Last of December I gave your Honour to understand that His Excellency's Merchants of Purpoole began to surcease their Traffick to Clerkenwell Newington and Bank-side and such like Roads of Charge and Discharge because they feared lest certain Rovers which lay hovering about the Narrow Seas should intercept them in their Voyages Since which time may it please your Honour I have discovered an huge Armado of French Amazons to the number of seven hundred Caracts Galeasses great Galeasses and tall Ships besides Pinnaces Frigots Carvels Shallops and such small Vessels innumerable which being dispersed into sundry Creeks work daily much damage to all sorts of People and Adventurers hold in durance not suffering one Man to escape till he have turned French. Divers Ensigns Standards Pendants Tilting-staves short Trunchions for the principal Officers and such like Provision for His Excellency's Triumphs they have cast over-board for no other Cause save that his Subjects were bound inward from Gelderland a Nation that they have always hated Besides that they exact so unreasonably of those that trade into Netherland that they leave them neither Lands Goods nor good Wares Also they sink all those that use any Dealings with the People of Cleive without respect whether he be Merchant or Man of War. To conclude they burn all those Vessels that transport any dry Wares into the Low-Countries Moreover I am to advertise your Honour that on the 9 th Day of Ianuary in the Straits of the Gulf of Clerkenwell there was an hot Skirmish between a Merchant of St. Giles's called Amarpso and the Admiral of the Amazons called the Rowse-flower wherein the Merchant having gained the Wind came up with her in such close manner that he brake his Bolt-sprite in her hinder Quarter Yet notwithstanding the Fight continued fiercely on either part two long Hours and more in which time our Gunner being a very expert Soldier shot her ●our or five times under Water Then the Merchant perceiving his Powder to be spent was inforced to grapple and so with great Resolution laid her a-board on the Waste which he found stoutly defended by the French yet at length being driven from their close Fight they were constrained to keep under Hatches where one of the Soldiers entring spied Fire in the Gun-room notwithstanding● he descended very desperately Then the Admiral seeing no hope to escape fired her Powder and burnt her self The Soldiers and the Ship which as I after learned was of an incomparable Burthen insomuch that she had been known to have born nine hundred fighting Men in her Poup Her chief Lading was Cochenella Musk Guaiacum Tabaco and Le grand Vezolle The chief of Account that were blown up were Catharina Dardana Pecta de Lee and Maria de Rotulis The rich Carrick of Newington coming to rescue their Admiral were so close at fight when she was fired that the Flame of the Wild-fire caught hold of t●eir Captain 's inner Cabbin and had not one Barbara de Chirurgia been ready with his Syringe to have cast on Water Milk Lotium and such like cooling Liquors and there quenched the Wild-fire betimes they had been both doubtless consumed to Ashes But by his Care and Coming they are both escaped alive though shrewdly scorched and are taken Prisoners

being thrice done there entred the King at Arms and in the midst of them said as followeth ON the b●half of my Sovereign Lord Sir Henry the Right Excellent and A●l-conquering Prince of Purpoole Arch-Duke of Stapulia and Bernardia Duke o● High and Net●er Holborn Marquis of St. Giles's and Tottenham Count P●l●tine of Bloomsbury and Cl●r●●nwell great Lord of the Can●ons of Islington Kentish-Town Paddington and Knights-bridge K●ight of the m●st Her●ic●l Order of the Helmet and S●vereign of the same I H●s Excellency's King at Arm● dispatched from his Royal N●v● triumphantly returning from his glorious Conquests of the Negarian Tartars do in His Highness●s N●me command all his Officers Knights and Pensioners to give their Attendance on His Highness's Person at his Port of Black-wallia on the 1st● of February And His Highness hath further commanded me to give notice to all his Servants within his Dominions of whatsoever Condition that they be ready to perform all O●●ices of O●edience and Subjection as well becometh their Loyalty to so Gracious a Sovereign● When this News of the Prince's Return out of Russia was thus sent abroad and that it was known that His Highness was to come by Greenwich where the Court then lay it was given the Gentlemen to understand that Her Majesty did expect that in passing by our Prince should land and do his Homage the rather because in Christmas there was great Expectation of his coming thither to present Her Majesty with some Pass-time and none performed Whereupon it was determined that in passing by there should be a Letter directed to Sir Thomas Heneage our honourable good Friend that he should excuse us for that time which Letter hereafter is set down Upon the 1st of February the Prince and his Train were met at Black-wall from whence they came upon the River of Thames in a very gallant Shew Being come so near his own Country he left his Navy of Ships as not fit for so short a Cut and the matter not being very great or dangerous and he and his Retinue took to them fifteen Barges bravely furnished with Standards Pendants Flags and Streamers There was also in every Barge Musick and Trumpets and in some Ordnance and Shot Being thus gallantly appointed we came on our Way by the Stairs at Greenwich where the Ordnance was shot off and the whole Navy made a Sail round about and the second time when the Admiral in which the Prince was came directly before the Court-Stairs His Highness dispatched two Gentlemen with Letters to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Heneage the Copy whereof followeth Henry Prince of Purpoole to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Heneage Most Honourable Knight I Have now accomplished a most tedious and hazardous Iourney though very honourable into Russia and returning within the view of the Court of your renowned Queen my gracious Sovereign to whom I acknowledge Homage and Service I thought good in passing by to kiss her sacred Hands as a Tender of the Zeal and Duty I owe unto Her Majesty but in making the Offer I found my Desire was greater than the Ability of my Body which by length of my Iourney and my Sickness at Sea is so weakned as it were very dangerous for me to adventure it Therefore most honourable Friend let me intreat you to make my humble Excuse to Her Majesty for this present and to certifie Her Highness that I do hope by the Assistance of the Divine Providence to recover my former Strength about Shrovetide at which time I intend to repair to Her Majesty's Court if it may stand with her gracious Pleasure to offer my Service and relate the Success of my Iourney And ●o praying your Honour to return me Her Majesty's Answer I wish you all Honour and Happiness Dated from Ship-board at our Ark of Vanity the 1st of February 1594. The Letter being delive●ed and Her Majesty made acquainted with the Contents her gracious Answer was That if the Letter had not excused his Passing by he should have done Homage before he had gone away although he had been a greater Prince than he was Yet she said she liked well his gallant Shews that were made at his Triumphant Return And Her Highness added further That if he would come at Shrovetide he and his Followers should have Entertainment according to his Dignity And the Messenger returned Answer The Prince and his Company continued their Course until they came to the Tower where by Her Majes●y's Commandment he was welcomed with a Volley of great Ordnance by the Lieutenant of the Tower. At the Tower-hill there waited for the Prince's L●nding Men attending with Horses very gallantly Appointed for all the Company to the number of one hundred the most of them being great Horses and the rest very choice Geldings and all very bravely furnished with all things necessary So the Prince ●eing moanted and his Company in Order as before s●t down eve●y Man according to his Office with the Ensign thereof they rode very gallantly through Tower-street Fen-church-street Grace-c●urc●-street Corn-hill Cheap-side and so through St. Paul's Church-yard where at St Paul's School His Highness was entertained with an Oration made ●y one of the Scholars of that School the Copy wh●r●of followeth Henrico Illustrissimo Potentissimo Purpoolae Principi Archi-duci Stapuliae Bernardiae Superioris Inferioris Holborn Duci Sancti Aegidii Tottenham Marchioni de Clerkenwell Bloomsbury Comiti Palatino Domino magno Cantonum de Islington Kentish-Town Paddington Knights-bridge Heroici Ordinis Galcotae Equiti Aurato ejusdem Domino Serenissimo IMportunum fortasse suerit Purpooliensis Princeps Serenissime apud tantam Majestatem t●am tam intempestivo tempore perorare Vix enim sperare ausus sum velle te qui tantam personam sustines tuumque hunc comitatum verè Aulicum post victorias partas terrâ marique maximas ad vocem puerilem in mediâ instructissimi triumphi solemnitate consistere Verum per affibilitatem in summis principibus semper laudatissimam liceat mihi proetereunti celsitudini tuae musarum nostrarum benevolentiam offerre gratulationem hanc meam qualemcunque post tam illustrem tuum triumphantem ac per totum orbem divulgatum è Russiâ reditum kâc meâ oratione Generosis omnibus testatum relinquere Quamvis enim subitò nobis excidat ad tantam Majestatem quasi obstupescat oratio gratulatio tamen quae magis sit offerri quaeque sit officii amoris erga virtutes Generosas plenior afferri certè quidem non potest Nonne vides civitatem ipsam quasi sedibus suis convulsam ad congratulandum tanto Principi procedere Quid existimas totum hunc concursum cogitare In cujus ora vultusque horum omnium oculos conjectos putas Quem sensum reddis amicorum nostrorum Quid cupimus Quid optamus Quid agimus Nonne ut tam voluntates nostras testemur quam victoriis gratulemur tuis Quid igitur mirum si