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

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