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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59352	The triumphs of London performed on Saturday, Octob. 29, 1692, for the entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir John Fleet, Kt., lord mayor the city of London : containing a true description of the several pageants, with the speeches spoken on each pageant, all set forth at the proper costs and charges of the vvorshipful Company of Grocers : together with an exact relation of the most splendid entertainments, prepared for the reception of Their Sacred Majesties / by E.S.	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.	1692 (1692)	Wing S2724; ESTC R37375	7,530	20

THE Triumphs of London Performed on Saturday Octob. 29. 1692. FOR THE Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir John Fleet Kt. LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON CONTAINING A True Description of the Several Pageants with the Speeches Spoken on each PAGEANT All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the VVORSHIPFUL COMPANY of GROCERS Together with An Exact Relation of the most Splendid Entertainments prepared for the Reception of Their Sacred MAJESTIES By E. S. Published by Authority LONDON Printed by James Orme And are to be Sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1692. To the RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir John Fleet Kt. LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON MY LORD AS it lies in my Duty to Congratulate Your Lordships Accession to the Pretorian Chair amongst the many unquestion'd Merits that have promoted You to that Dignity I must joyn with the Acclamations of all that have the Honour to know Your Lordship that You stand so qualified for Magistracy that I may truly say in Your Advance to the Seat of Justice You come Experienced to the Ballance You hold Your Commerce with the World and indeed Your whole Life has been such that the Scales of Justice have been Your constant Standart The Dealings of Your Lordship with all Mankind have always stood that Test That a hard Bargain an Over-reach a Rigour or Extremity those too common and indeed reputed Venials in Trade and Traffick have been so utterly Stranger to You that from Your Equality down to the poorest Person concern'd with You You never made a Murmurer A hard Word of Sir John Fleet is a sound that never came near You● Gates The common Voice that speaks Your true Worth and Goodness is without an Exception Universal And if 't is possibl● Your Lordship can have an Enemy he that is so must renounc● common Humanity and write Barbarian to qualifie for that Name Your known Integrity has been so remarkably signal that Chaffering or Factoring have been thought so unnecessary Preliminaries in dealing with Sir John Fleet that 't is enough You are the Mouth and Oracle both of Buyer and Seller Equity and Justice are left to Your own Decree insomuch that You sit Chancellor when You trade Merchant And that so fair a Character of Your Lordship is no artful nor borrow'd Colours but Your Natural and Substantial Complexion besides the Concurrence of all Tongues to give You this Right we have the particular Smiles of Providence to joyn in the Testimonial Your extraordinary Affluence of Blessings and so early and quick an Advance to such a Mass of Prosperity being undoubtedly the peculiar Showrs of Heaven in Reward of so much deserving Virtue But now my Lord to usher Your Lordship to Your Inauguration and the publick Manifestation of the General Applause that waits Your Lordships Enstallment here as too humble an Intruder I leave You to Your VVorthier Train of Votaries But in all the Honours of the Day the proudest of Your Triumph is Your Reception of Your Royal Guests and the Richest of Their Feast the hearty Zeal that entertains Them it being indeed to summ Your Merits no little Pride to all Good Men to have Two such Princes served by such a Magistrate In which Post of Glory I leave Your Lordship being in all Humility MY LORD Your Lordships most Dutiful Servant E. SETTLE TO THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF GROCERS Gentlemen WHEN I appear before You and enter'd under so Spacious a Roof presume on one Hand to survey the Worthy and Numerous Members of Your Honourable Society or on the other hand the more large Extent of your Commerce and Traffick either of which Contemplations are a Province above me I shall content my self to summ up my Speculation on so inviting a Subject by giving You this Due Gentlemen The whole World is but your Garden and Nature your Confectioner whilst all the Richest Sweets and Spices and all the Treasures of your own Phoenix Nest are so intirely Yours that I may justly say the softest Dew of Heaven falls for Your sakes and the warmest Beams of Day smile and cherish for You whilst the noblest Fruits and Products of the Earth only furnish your Granary And if the Creation since the shut Gates of Eden and the flaming Sword before it has any Remains of Paradice left 't is only in your Hands To tell the World how many Monarchs have vouchsafed to make themselves Members of the Grocers Company for Instance the Second Charles and our present Gracious William not to mention the several Nobility that have been proud of being enroll'd in the same List too plainly intimates your Particular Worth and Deserts when the Inclinations of so many Crown'd-Heads have singled out Your Favourite Society their Particular Election and Choice And when we look into the Records of Your Numerous Patrons and Benefactors methinks they stand a perfect Emulation of Piety and Bounty Nor has your own continued Splendour any ways derogated from the Luster of Your Great Founders Your Magnificence on all Occasions sometimes perhaps even to a Fault if Glory can be one and poor I may dare to call it so has ever been Extraordinary And if the Particular Gallantry design'd for this Day fall any ways short of your Intended Entertainment of his Lordship the Misfortune lies only in the Shortness of the Preparation occasion'd by his Lordships Translation to your Society not early enough to supply the Artists Hands with Time sufficient for a more sumptuous Cavalcade I have a very ample Feild before me but in recounting the many Honorus so justly Your Due alas I make you but a very slender Oblation when the Incense I offer is all your own for the Grandeur of so Honourable a Company challenges both that Eminence and Antiquity that the little Oratory of so poor a Pen is but a very feeble Illustration to Merits and Virtues so Conspicuous I shall therefore conclude with only one hearty Wish As You have been blest with so many Noble Founders may the Honorable Living be inspired by the Example of the Great Dead and may you never want what You shall always deserve the kindest of Benefactors Which shall be the Prayer of GENTLEMEN Your most Devoted humble Servant E. SETTLE The Movements of the Morning Between Seven and Eight in the Morning the whole Company design'd for the Duty of the Day meet at Grocers-Hall 1. THE Master Wardens and Assistants in Gowns saced with Foins and their Hoods 2. The Livery in their Gowns Faced with Budg and their Hoods 3. Forty Foyns Batchelors in Gowns and Scarlet Hoods 4. Forty Budg-Batchelors in Gowns and Scarlet Hoods 5. Forty Gentlemen Ushers in Velvet Coats each of them a Chain of Gold about his Shoulder and a White Staff in his Hand 6. Several Drums and Fifes with Scarfs and the Colours of the Company in their Hats Crimson and White 7. The Serjeant Trumpet and Twenty Four Trumpets more wherof Sixteen are their Majesties the Serjeant-Trumpet wearing Two Scarfs a

Crimson and a White 8. The Drum-Major to the King wearing a Shoulder-Scarf of the Companies Colours with others of Their Majesties Drums and Fifes 9. The Two City Marshals each of them Mounted on Horse-back with Rich Furniture Hoosings and Crupper all Embroider'd Six Servitors likewise Mounted to Attend with Scarfs and Colours of the Companies 10. The Foot-Marshal with a Scarf and Six attendants in Colours 11. The Master of Defence with the same Scarf and Colours Eight Persons of the same Science to attend him 12. Twenty Pensioners with Coats and Caps employ'd in carrying Standards and Banners This order'd and accommodated they are commited to the management of the Foot-Marshal who distributes them in seven Divisions and rank'd all two by two beginning with the inferior part of the Standard-Bearers In the head of them are placed two Drums one Fife and one Gentlemen bearing the Companies Arms. In the Rear of them two Gentlemen bearing Banners containing the Arms of the deceased Benefactors In the Center of them fall two Drums In the Rear of them three Drums one Fife and two Gentlemen in Plush-Coats bearing two Banners one of Their Majesties the other of the Companies After them Six Gentlemen-Ushers follow'd by the Budg-Batchelors The next two Gentlemen bearing two other Banners After them Six Gentlemen Ushers succeeded by the Foyns Batchelors In the Rear fall in two Drums and a Fife Then two Gentlemen one bearing my Lord MAYORS the other the City Banners Then Twelve Gentlemen Ushers and and after them the Court of Assistance which makes the last Division The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR with the Principal Aldermen and Sheriffs Mounts his Horse with the Aldermen two by two the Sheriffs in the Rear In this Equipage of two and two the whole Body move toward Grocers-Hall where the Lord Mayor Elect attended from Clothworkers Hall joyns with the Old Lord Mayor and his Retinue whence all of them in this Order march through Kingstreet down to Three Crane-Wharf there entring into their several Barges which are gloriously adorned with Flags and Pendants His Lordship and this Gallant Company all Landing at Westminster is conducted to the Exchequer-Bar there having performed several Ceremonial and Customary Duties and taken the Oaths to Their Majesties he returns again by Water to Black-Fryers-Stairs with Drums Beating Trumpets Sounding Musick Playing c. There his Lordship and the several Companys Landing from their Respective Barges the rest of the Attendents that went not to Westminster waiting for his Reception the whole Body moves in Order before him to Cheap-side where his Lordship is saluted with the First Pageant The First Pageant ON a Large Stage is mounted a Golden Camel upon a Pedestal most richly Ornamented with Carved Works of Gold and Silver being a proper Basis for so Noble a Creature as the Honourable Crest of the Worshipful Company of GROCERS On the Back of this Magnificent Creature between two Frails of Fruits as Raisins and Almonds Dates Spices and Gumms of all sorts sits a Negro habited according to the Indian Manner in one Hand the King's Banner with the other liberally distributing the Bountiful Product of his Country his Bridle and Trappings being Crimson as the proper Colours of the Ancient Company of GROCERS On a Descent beneath sits placed four Cardinal Virtues Justice Temperance Prudence and Fortitude Habited with their proper Ornaments as Justice in a Robe of white S lk to shew her Innocency in one Hand a large Banner of my Lords Arms in the other a Sword of Justice and a pair of Golden Scales which Young Virgin makes a Speech to the Lord Mayor as his first Entertainment in Cheapside The reason why Justice is exprest by a Young Virgin to shew that Judges and Administrators of the Law ought to be Incorrupt and free from Bribes Partiality or Flattery but constant and sincere On the four Corners of the Stage are Erected four Pyramids of Honour Ornamented with the Coats of Arms of the Worthy Benefactors and Freemen of the Virtuous Company of GROCERS as a true Emblem of their Justice and Piety The Speech Spoken by JVSTICE BEhold Proud Londons Great Praetorian Lord Commands at once my Ballance and my Sword Yes Sir with Triumph I my Wreaths resign So well my Chaplets must Those Brows entwine Justice to You must Tributary be My Ballance weighs the World and You weigh Me. Justice How nobly must you fill that Sphear When Sacred William mounts and Plants You there When Greatness Honour Truth so all Divine 'T is He that lends those Rays with which you shine Whilst from his Hand You hold Your rolling Year Drive on Great Sir a Glorious Charioteer A Fairer Circle You can never run Nor can You borrow from a Warmer Sun The Two following Pageants ARe Two Griffons erected on two large Stages being the Antient Supporters of the Arms of the Company of GROCERS Elaborated Guilded and Painted according to their proper Bearings On the Backs of these two stately Creatures between their Wings sit mounted on two large Frails of Fruit and Spice two Tawny Moors richly adorned and array'd in choice Indian Silks the Habit befitting the Degree and Quality of the Figures in all the gayest Finery suitable to the Occasion In their Right Hands they hold the King's Bannor and the Cities in their Left a Shield with the Arms of the Company On their Heads are Coronets of Feathers beset with Pearls and Jewels On the 8 Corners of the two Stages sit eight Figures intimating eight more Virtues as Love and Honour Industry and Vigilance Truth and Mercy Hope and Piety All Habited according to the Ancients Description with Bannors Flying and Trumpets Sounding in Honour to the Worthy Magistrate the Right Honourable Sir John Fleet. The Fourth Pageant The Triumphal Temple of PALLAS THis Temple is most exquisitly contrived and beautified with all the Ornaments and Embellishments imaginable the Composure of the Fabrick being of the most stately Ancient Architecture In the Contrivance of this Temple are four Arches or Neiches wherein are placed four Figures Representing four Poetical Deities all most richly Habited First Pallus the Goddess of Wisdom Arts and Arms according to her three Titles of Pallas Minerva and Bellona her Habit is a Robe of Purple with a Silver Head-piece and a plume of Red and White Feathers in her Right Hand she holds a Banner of the City-Arms and in her Left a Spear and Shield charged with a Gorgons Head The second Figure is Neptune the God of the Sea in a Sea-green silken Robe his Coronet of Shells and Corals in one Hand the King's-Banner in the other a Trident intimating his Soveraignty of the Seas The third Figure Thetis the Goddess of the Sea in a watchet colour silk Robe and a Coronet of Flowers The fourth Figure is Mercury the God of Wit in a Sky-colour'd Robe on his Head a Silver Cap with two small Silver Wings in one Hand his Caduce in the other the Banner of the