of New-Sarum in the County of Wilts Esquire created Baronet the second of February in the Thirteenth of Charles the Second Anno predict John Husbands of Ipsley in the County of Warwick Esquire created Baronet the second of February Anno predict Thomas Morgan of Wangatock in the County of Monmouth Esquire created Baronet the seventh of February Anno predict John Lane of Talske in the County of Roscommon in the Kingdom of Ireland created Baronet the ninth of February Anno predict George Wakefren of Beckford in the County of Glocester Esquire created Baronet the thirteenth of February Anno predict Benjamin Wright of Cranham-hall in the County of Essex Esquire created Baronet the fifteenth of February Anno predict John Celleton of the City of London Esquire created Baronet the eighteenth of February Anno predict Sir James Modiford of the City of London Knight created Baronet the eighteenth of February Anno predict Thomas Beaumont of Staughton Grange in the County of Leicester created Baronet the one and twentieth of February Anno predict Edward Smith of Eshe in the County of Durham Esquire created Baronet the three and twentieth of February Anno predict John Napeir alias Naper alias Sands Esquire created Baronet the fourth of March Anno predict Thomas Gifford of Castle-Jordan in the County of Meath in the Province of Lemster in the Kingdom of Ireland Esquire created Baronet the fourth of March Anno predict Thomas Clifton of Clifton in the County of Lancaster Esquire created Baronet the fourth of March Anno predict William Wilson of Eastborne in the County of Sussex Esquire created Baronet the fourth of March Anno predict Compton Reed of Barton in the County of Berks Esquire created Baronet the fourth of March Anno predict Sir Bryan Broughton of Broughton in the County of Stafford Knight created Baronet the tenth of March Anno predict Robert Slingsby of Newsels in the County of Hertford Esquire created Baronet the sixteenth of March Anno predict Sir Ralph Verney of Middle Claydon in the County of Bucks Knight created Baronet the sixteenth of March Anno predict John Crofts of Stowe in the County of Suffolk Esquire created Baronet the sixteenth of March Anno predict Robert Dicer of Vphal in the County of Hereford Esquire created Baronet the eighteenth of March Anno predict Sir John Bromefield of Suffolk-place in the County of Southwark in the County of Surrey Knight created Baronet the twentieth of March Anno predict Thomas Rich of Sunning in the County of Berks Esquire created Baronet the twentieth of March Anno predict Edward Smith of Edmondthorpe in the County of Leicester Esquire created Baronet the five and twentieth of March Anno predict Walter Long of Whaddon in the County of Wilts Esquire created Baronet the six and twentieth of March Anno predict John Fettiplace of Chilbrey in the County of Berks Esquire created Baronet the eighth of April Anno predict Walter Hendley of Coutchfield in the County of Sussex Esquire created Baronet the eighth of April Anno predict William Parsons of Langley in the County of Bucks Esquire created Baronet the ninth of April Anno predict John Cambel of Woodford in the County of Essex Esquire created Baronet the ninth of April Anno pred Sir Charles Gawdy of Cowshel in the County of Suffolk Knight created Baronet the twentieth of April Anno predict William Morrice of Werrington in the County of Devon Esquire created Baronet the twentieth of April Anno predict Sir William Cayly of Brompton in the County of York Knight created Baronet the twentieth of April Anno predict Sir Charles Doyly of the City of London created Baronet the six and twentieth of April Anno predict William Godolphin of Godolphin in the County of Cornwal Esquire created Baronet the nine and twentieth of April Anno predict Thomas Cursen of Walter Perry in the County of Oxford Esquire created Baronet the thirtieth of April Anno pred Edmund Fowel of Fowels-Gembe in the County of Devon Knight created Baronet the first of May Anno pred John Cropley of Clarkenwel in the County of Middlesex Esquire created Baronet the seventh of May Anno pred William Smith of Radcliff in the County of Bucks Esquire created Baronet the tenth of May Anno pred George Cooke of Wheatley in the County of Yorke Esquire created Baronet the tenth of May Anno pred Charles Lloid of Garth in the County of Mountgomery Esquire created Baronet the tenth of May An. predict Nathaniel Powel of Enhurst in the County of Sussex Esquire created Baronet the fourteenth of May anno pred Denny Ashburnham of Broâ—nham in the county of Sussex Esquire created Baronet the fifteenth of May an pred Sir Hugh Smith of Long Asheton in the county of Somerset Knight created Baronet the sixteenth of May An. pred We will next cast a glance upon the rays of the Irish Diadem in the Honors conferred there upon these eminent and excellent Personages following IRELAND DUKES THe Right Noble James Marquess of Ormond was created Duke of Ormond in the Kingdom of Ireland by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster the thirtieth of March in the Thirteenth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second entailing the same to him and the heirs males of his body with all priviledges and prehemineâ—ces thereunto belonging with the Fee of 40 l. per annum payable in the Exchequer of Ireland for the better support of the said Honor. EARLS The Right honorable Roger Lord Broghill was created Earl of Orrery in the County of Corke within the Province of Munster in the Kingdome of Ireland by Letters Pattents bearing date at Westminster the fifth day of September in the Twelfth year of the reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second entayling the same honour to him and the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten with all rights priviledges c. belonging with the Fee of 20 l. per annum out of the Exchequer in Ireland The Right honourable Sir Charles Coote was created Baron Coote of Castle Cuffe Viscount Coote of Castle Coot and Earl of Mountrath in the Kindom of Ireland the said honors c. to him and the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten withall priviledges c. with the Fee of 20 l. per annum payable out of the Exchequer in Ireland by Letters Patents bearing the date at Westminster the sixth day of September in the twelfth year of the reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second The Right honourable Oliver Lord Viscount Fitz-Williams of Merwin in the Kingdom of Ireland was created Earl of Tirconnel in the said Kingdom by Letters Patents bearing date at VVestminster the 20 day of April in the thirteenth year of the reign of our most Gracious Soveraign King Charles the Second granting the same to him and the heirs males of his body for ever with all priviledges and preheminences thereunto belonging and also 20 l. per annum
had declared for him and had witnessed their Joy by the fire of Cannon and Musquets and expected his Majesties Commands for the Government of the place These concurrent Accessions to the Kings fortune together with Letters newly come from the States Ambassadors in London made the States General redouble their Orders to their Deputies touching the Complement and Offices which they were to do to the end to acquit themselves thereof with zeal and Affection so that on the morrow by 11 at Noon the King sent the Lord Gerard to conduct them to their Audience in the Castle where the King lodged The Marquess of Ormond met them on the stayâ—head and brought them into the Kings Chamber who was standing in the midst of it covered but assoon as he saw them he uncovered himself and came 2 or 3 paces forward to meet them After they had made most low Reverences and were approached the King Monsieur Ripperda would begin to speak but the King would needs have them put on their Hats which they not willing being not in the quality of Ambassadors as in their own Countrey to do he also continued uncovered all the while The main of this Speech was this That the States General of the United Provinces The Speech of the Deputies to the King had understood with an extream joy the alteration of Affairs in England That they knew the good God had so well touched the heart of his Subjects that there was not any person almost that cried not on the name of the King and wished passionately to see him returned to his Kingdom That upon certain Advertisments which the States General had thereof they thought fit to send their Deputies to his Majesty to witness unto him the part they take to congratulate him in so important an occasion and to wish him and all his Royal Family all the Blessings of Heaven and all the Prosperity he could hope for from God after so long and such bitter Afflictions That the States General made those Prayers with so much the more ardour as they knew that the repose of their Commonwealth depended in some kind on that of its Neighbours That they would not willingly enjoy the Amity of the English but under the Monarchical Government of his Royal House That they hoped to enjoy it still for the future under his Majesties happy Government and to this purpose they desired that of his goodness he would be pleased to renew with the United Provinces the Alliance which they had alwaies considered as one of the chief Points of State and as the Foundation of the preservation of the common Interests of both Nations That moreover they had Order from their Superiors to remonstrate to his Majesty that the residence of Breda was inconvenient and distant and to beseech him most humbly to chuse one in their Provinces which he should judge more proper for his Affairs for his Residence and for his Embarquement That the States General had commanded them to follow his Majesty in his Voyage and to serve him with whatsoever the United Provinces possessed The King thanked them very much for their Civility and the Testimonies of their Affection saying in very obliging words to them The Kings Reply I love this Commonwealth not only because the Princess Royal my Sister and the Prince of Aurange two persons who are extreamly dear unto me remain here but also through Interest of State for the good of my Kingdom and through a very strong inclination to their good I love truly Sirs these Provinces and so strongly that I should be jealous if they gave a greater part in their Amity to another Prince than to me who think that I ought to have much more therein than any other Prince since I love them more than all the other Soveraigns together After they had had this Audience of the King my Lord Jermyn conducted them to the Two Dukes severally where they gave and received the like Civilities as also to the Princess Royal. And the next day after while they were in consultation about ordering the Charge of the Kings Remove the States of Hollands Deputies had Audience likewise on the 10 h. of May when Mr. Bâ—verweert spoke as followeth Sir It is now the third time that my Lords the States of Holland have congratulated with your Majesty upon the coming to the Crown The first was when you attained thereunto by the Fundamental Law of your Estate immediately after the Decease of the Late King your Father of most Glorious and Eternal Memory and the other when the Commissioners from the Committee of Estates and Parliament of Scotland came to this Place to invite your Majesty to go and take possession of one of the Crowns of your Ancestors It is but with great grief that we remember those two disastrous Encounters but on the contrary it is with a transport of Joy that we are now to congratulate your Majesty upon the present happy state of your Affairs and this with so much the more reason as they know that the reciprocal Amity between England and this Republick hath never suffered the least alteration under the Government of her Kings The rest was like that of the States General and concluded with the like Invitation of his Majesty to make his Court in their Province protesting all thankfulness for the Honour done them if he pleased to accept thereof The King returned an Answer near the same he gave before and used the Deputies with the same civilities as the other entring into a Discourse with them concerning the Northern Affairs betwixt Sweden and Denmark for the latter of whom he openly declared himself It is high time now to cast an eye into England where on the aforesaid 8th of May the King was Proclaimed in great State and more than usual Solemnity The Copy of which Proclamation here follows for that as the Occasion required it was drawn up in an unusual Form The Copy of the Proclamation and the manner of Proclaiming it ALthough it can no way be doubted but that his Majesties Right and Title to his Crowns and Kingdoms is and was every way compleated by the death of his most Royal Father of Glorious Memory without the Ceremony or solemnity of a Proclamation Yet since Proclamations in such cases have been alwaies used to the end that all good Subjects might upon this occasion testifie their Duty and Respect and since the armed violence and other the Calamities of many years last past have hitherto deprived us of any such opportunity wherein we might express our Loyalty and Allegiance to his Majesty We therefore the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament together with the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of London and other Freemen of this Kingdom now present do according to our Duty and Allegiance heartily joyfully and unanimously Acknowledge and Proclaim That immediately upon the Decease of our Late Soveraign Lord King Charles the Imperial Crown of the Realm
personages Noble and prudent Conduct whose generosity did prompt every mans expectation of the ensuing miraculous Revolution He was further created Knight of the most Honourable order of the Garter Vice-Admiral under his Highnesse the Duke of York and Master of his Majesties Wardrope and one the Commissioners of his Treasury and lastly of his most Honorable Privy Council which Honours with his merit and virtues may he transmit to late posterity On the second of June before the Prince Elector Palatine sent a congratulatory Address to the King by the Captain of his life-guard of Horse Christopher Clas of Keyemberg An Embassy from the Prince Elector Palatine who was kindly received by his Majesty and an answer by him dispatcht to the said Prince with which he returned on the second of August In the middle of July my Lord Crosts was sent Ambassador from the King to their Majesties of France being conducted to his Audience at the Castle of Vinâ—ennes by the Sede Berleze Introductor of Ambassadors who came to fetch him in the Kings Coaches at Pallace Cardinal He complemented their said Majesty in the name of the King his Master concerning their happy Marriage which being performed he went back to the Louvre to complement the Queens Majesty a great retinue of English and Jrish Lords attending him in a most stately Equipage For a remark of this happy revolution may we add a relation of unquestionable credit which came to hands soon after In the Town of Dundalchin an English Castle-Town in the County of Louth in Jreland there is a chief and very ancient seat belonging to the Noble family of Bellew Sir Christ pher Bellew being the four and twentieth Knight of that Family lineally descended all faithfull Subjects to the Crown About this House and Town were many Ash-trees where on many thousand Rooks did constantly breed but when the late troubles began about twenty years since all the Rooks quitted the place which had been their constant Habitation Winter and Summer for above three hundred years and were never since discovered there abouts till the end of April 1660. about the time of the Kings restauration at which time many thousand Rooks came again to the same place though the Trees were most of them cut down where for want of Boughs to rest on the greater part sate upon Hedges and banks of Ditches spreading themselves upon the Mole hills whereof all the Countrey took notice and remembring when they fled concluded their return to be an auspicious presage of the blessed Turn that immediately followed The like of this happened else where so that hereafter these Rooks shall be the Bonae Aves and sacred onely to Majesty and Empire Nor may another more rational piece of Honor be omitted here the Royal Exchange of London had been deprived and forsaken of one of its Tutelar Angels The Kings statues erected at the Exchange and had another excluded from his seat therein It was therefore most pious most due and a most just veneration and reverence as it was the greatest glory among the Romans which the City of London did to both Princes together The statue therefore of King Charles the first which the malice of his Rebels had first decollated and having understood how ridiculous they were taken it wholly down was now replaced in the same nick in its full proportion with a Scepter in the K. right hand a Church in his left Arme a Globe at his left foot and on his Shield Magna Charta On the Base stood this Inscription CAROLVS Primus Monarcharum Magnae Britanniae secundus FRANCIAE HIBERNIAE Rex Martyr ad Coelum missus penultimo Ianu. Anno Dom. 1648. And the Statue of King Charles the second supplyed the vacancy of the next Vault or Nick being erected with a Scepter in his right hand a Globe in his left hand and on his Shield Amnestia OBLIVION CAROLVS Secundus Monarcharum Magnae Britanniae Tertius FRANCIAE HIBERNIAE Rex Aetatis suae Anno Tricesimo Regni Duodecimo Restaurationis primo 1660. It was almost elapsed through the overdazeling of this subject to give an account of the Triumphs of the Irish which therefore we must of necessity contract in this Epitome that they were not wanting in the same excesses of gladness which upon the News of his Majesties Return were carried over with a full Sea and reciprocated it back again in the substantial evidences of their joy by a present of twenty thousand pound to his Majesty which was delivered among other congratulations by a select number of Persons of quality from the convention then assembled there in the nature of our Free Parliament here but not so Regular though as Legall And as a more especial Honour to the King He who had first by his prevalent vertues subdued the hearts of the Army now by his own Royal Command The Army disbanded and with a word of his mouth when all the strength of England lately all his Fathers Forces before could not so much as resist them disarms them totally and so secured the perpetual peace of this Nation as in all humane reason it was thought the onely expedient conducing thereunto Carolus Beatus Pacificus On the thirteenth of September came that splendid congratulatory extraordinary Embassy from the King of Spain The Prince of Ligâ—'s gratulatory Embassy delegated to the Prince de Ligne a Burgundian formerly of his Majesties acquaintance in Flanders very Nobly attended by persons of the best rank from his Master and with a very illustrious and large retinue On the seventeenth of that moneth he han Audience from the King at the Banqueting House of White-hall where he was waited upon by seventeen of his own Coaches and thrice as many more of the English It was indeed one of the gallantest pieces of Courtship the Spaniard ever boasted of in England and as well received by his Majesty he departed on the third of October following About that time also a Kings Frigot the Henrietta was attending on the Coast of Spain to bring hither the Baron of Batteville in the quality of Ambassador in ordinary But that which clouded this Triumph was the death of that most excellent Prince Henry Duke of Glocester now lest the meeting and conflict of two various Tides should transport me beyond my bounds I will give way to the present stream and current of my discourse as the stronger for sorrow was so far banish'd from the face of all men that Fate had need of a powerful instance to reclaim and tell us that our gladnesse by this Princes death so ho-nourably was it treated and admonished could not be perpetual On the twentieth of September his Majesty had the glory of being actually the Restorer of the Church The Government by Bishops established For the most Reverend Father in God William Lord Bishop of London who was present on the Scaffold with Charls the Martyr was by Charles the Restorer placed in
and Titles of 2 of the most illustrious Families in England viz. THe Right Noble Thomas Howard Earl of Arundel Surry and Norfolk was restored to the dignity and Title of Duke of Norfolk by an Act of the Parliament begun at VVestminster the 25 of April in the 12 year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second and in the year of our Lord 1660 c. The Right Noble William Seymour Marquess of Hertford was restored to the Dukedome of Somerset by an Act of the Parliament begun at Westminster the 25 of April in the 12th year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second 1660. both which are since confirmed Other Creations The Right honourable Heneage Finch Earl of Winchelsey was created Baron Fitzherbert of Eastwell in the County of Kent by Letters Patents bearing date at VVestminster the 26 of Iuly in the twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second in the year of the Lord 1660. which Honour is entailed on him and the Heirs males of his body lawfully begotten with all Rites Priviledges and preheminences thereunto belonging The Right Honourable Elisabeth Viscountesse of Kynelmeky was created Countesse of Guilford during her life by Letters Patents bearing date at VVestminster the 14 day of Iuly in the twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second with all priviledges thereunto belonging and Fee of 20 l. per annum out of the Exchequer c. The Right Honorable Iames Butler Duke and Marquiss of Ormâ—nd in the Kingdom of Ireland was created Baâ—on Butler of Lanthony in the County of Glocester and Earl of Brecknock in Wales by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster the 20. day of Iuly in the twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second which said Honours are granted to him and the Heirs males of his body lawfully begotten with the Fee of 20 l. per annum together with all priviledges c. he was in the same year also made Lord Steward of his Majesties houshold Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most honourable Privy Council BARONS The Right honorable Thomas VVindsore de VVindsor alias Hickman was restored and confirmed to the Barony Title and Dignity of Baron Windsor by Letters Patents bearing date at VVestminster the 16 day of June in the twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second which said honor is granted to him and his Heirs for ever with the same precedency and place in Parliament and else where in England as Henry and Thomas VVindsor Barons VVindsor whilst they lived successively enjoyed and all other Dignities and preheminences to a Baron of Parliament belonging c. 1661. A Roll of the PEERS of the Kingdom of ENGLAND according to their Birth and Creations DUKES of the Blood Royal IAmes Duke of York and Albany Lord High Admiral of England Rupert Duke of Cumberland These take places in respect of their Offices Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer of England DUKES Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk William Seymour Duke of Somerset George Villiers Duke of Buckingham Charles Stuart Duke of Richmond George Mâ—nck Duke of Albemarl MARQUISSES Iohn Paulett Marquiss of Winchester Edward Somersett Marquiss of Worcester William Cavendish Marquiss of Newcastle Henry Pierpoint Marquiss of Dorchester EARLES These three take p'ace in respect of their Offices Mountague Berte Earl of Lindsey Lord High Chamberlain of England Iames Butler Earl of Brecnock Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold Edward Mountague Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold EARLS Awbery Vere Earl of Oxford Algernoon Piercy Earl of Northumberland Francis Talbott Earl of Shrewsbury Gray Earl of Kent Infra etat Charles Stanley Earl of Derby Iohn Mannours Earl of Rutland Hastings Earl of Huntingdon Infra etat Thomas Wriothsley Earl of Southampton William Russel Earl of Bedford Philip Herbert Earl of Pembrook and Mountgomery Theophilus Clinton Earl of Lincoln Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham Iames Howard Earl of Suffolk Richard Sackvill Earl of Dorsett William Cecil Earl of Salisbury John Cecil Earl of Exeter John Egerton Earl of Bridgewater Robert Sidney Earl of Leicester Iames Compton Earl of Northampton Charles Rich Earl of Warwick William Cavendish Earl of Devon Basâ—l Feilding Earl of Denbigh George Digby Earl of Bristol Liâ—nel Cranfeild Earl of Middlesex Henry Rich Earl of Holland Iohn Hollis Earl of Clare Oliver St. John Earl of Bullingbrook Mildmay Fane Earl of Westmerland Edward Mountague Earl of Manchâ—ster Thomas Howard Earl of Berkshire Thomas Howard Earl of Cleveland Edward Sheffeild Earl of Mulgrave Henry Cary Earl of Monmouth Iames Ley Earl of Marlborough Thomas Savage Earl Rivers Mountague Barrye Earl of Lindsey Lord great Chamberlain of England Nicholas Knollys Earl of Banbury Henry Cary Earl of Dover Henry Mâ—rdant Earl of Peterborough Henry Gray Earl of Stamford Hâ—neage Finch Earl of Winchelsey Charles Dormer Earl of Carnarvan Mâ—untjoy Blunt Earl of Newport Philip Stanhop Earl of Chesterfeild Iohn Tuston Earl of Thanett Ierâ—me Weston Earl of Portland William Wentworth Earl of Strafford Robert Spencer Earl of Sunderland Iames Savill Earl of Sussex George Goring Earl of Norwich Nicholas Leak Earl of Scaâ—sdale Wilmott Earl of Rochester Infra etat Henry Iâ—rmyn Earl of St. Albans Edward Mountagne Earl of Sandwich Iames Butler Earl of Brecknock Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon Arthur Capel Earl of Essex Thomas Brudenell Earl of Cardigan Arthur Anensley Earl of Anglesey Iohn Greenvile Earl of Bâ—th Charles Howard Earl of Carlisle VISCOUNTS Leicester Devereux Viscount Hereford Fracis Brown Viscount Mountague James Fienes Viscount Say and Seal Edward Conway Viscount Conway Baptist Noell Visconnt Cambden William Howard Viscount Stafford Thomas Bellasis Viscount Faulconberg Iohn Mordant Viscount Mordant BARONS Iohn Nevil Lord Abergavenny Iames Tutchett Lord Audley Charles West Lord Dela Warr. George Barkley Lord Barkley Thomas Parker Lord Morley and Mounteagle Francis Leinard Lord Dacres Conyers Darcy Lord Darcy William Stourton Lord Stourton William Lord Sandys De la Vine Edward Vaux Lord Vaux Thomas Windsor Lord Windsor Thomas Wentworth Lord Wentworth Wingfield Cromwell Lord Cromwell George Fure Lord Fure Philip Wharton Lord Wharton Francis Willoughby Lord Willoughby of Parham William Pagett Lord Pagett Dudley Nâ—rth Lord North. VVilliam Bruges Lord â—haundes Iohn Câ—ry Lord Hunsdon VVilliam Petre Lord Petre Dutton Gerrard Lord Gerrard Charles Stanhâ—pp Lord Stanhopp Henry Arundell Lord Aâ—undell of Warder Christopher Roper Lord Tenham Foulk Grevill Lord Brook Edward Mountague Lord Mountague of Boughton Charles Lord Howard of Charleton William Gray Lord Gray of Wark Iohn Roberts Lord Roberts William Craven Lord Craven Iohn Lovelace Lord Lovelace Iohn Paulett Lord Paulett William Maynard Lord Maynard Thomas Coventrey Lord Coventrey Edward Lord Howard of Eserick Warwick
the Hague Folio 50 Danish Ambassador Speech and Audience at the Hague Folio 54 Deputies of the Province of Holland complement His Majesty Folio 70 His Higness the Duke of York swears the Mariners of the Fleet Folio 72 Sir George Downing presents himself to His Majesty Folio 76 Duke of York goes aboard the English Fleet Folio 87 Death of the Duke of Glocester Folio 168 Duke of York attends Her Majesties arrival on the English Coast Folio 249 E. Estâ—tes of Holland dine privately with His Majesty 67. Complement the English Commissioners Folio 68 Edenburghs triumphs for His Majesties Restauration Folio 151 Extraordinary Envoy from the Duke of Curland Folio 169 Earls Created Folio 191 Envoy from the Emperor of Rssiuia comes to complement His Majesty Folio 255 F. French Ambassador had Audience at the Hague Folio 54 Feasts of the Estates of Holland Folio 81 G. Sir Harbotle Grimstons Speech to Sir John Greenvil which brought His Majesties Letters Folio 13 H. Doctor Hardy Preacheth before His Majesty at the Hague Folio 77 Honors conferred by His Majesty Folio 217 I. Joy at Lisbon when the Infanta of Portugal was saluted Queen of England Folio â—245 K. Knights of the Bath Folio 189 Knights of the Garter Folio 215 L. Londons great joy upon the Parliaments receipt of His Majesties Letters 14. It s unexpressible joy at Proclaiming His Majesty 31. It s reception of His Majesty Folio 124 Lords of Zealand Speech to His Majesty Folio 84 Sir Charles Lâ—cas and Sir George Lisle's Funeral at Colchester Folio 180 Lords created Folio 196 Londons noble entertainment of their Sacred Majesties in their passage from Hampton-Court Folio 257 M. His Majesty goes to St. Jean de Luz 3. Returns to Brussels 4. Comes to Breda 7. Sends Letters and Declarations to Parliament Army and City 9. Visited by divers Princes 14. Receives information of the Votes in Parliament 14. Invited into Holland 38. His Majesties Royal entertainment in Holland 38. Arrives at the Hague 47. His Majesties entertainment at the Hague 61 65. His Majesty gives Audience to the English Commissioners 62. His Majesty toucheth for the Evil 79. His Majesties sitting with the States General described 90. His Majesty comes to Scheveling 106. Takes shipping 110. Lands at Dover 121. Comes to His Royal Palace of Whithall 124. His Majesties passage to His Coronation 197. Manner of His Majesties Coronation 198. His Majesties resolutions to marry with the Infanta of Portugal 243. Goes to meet the Queens Majesty at Portsmouth 251. Is married at Portsmouth 252. Comes to Winchester Farnham Windsor and Hampton-Court Folio 253 Her Majesty imbarks for England 247. Lands at Portsmouth 250. Is married 251. Comes to Hampton-Court 253. Receives the Addresses of the Nobility Lord Major of London and others Folio 255 Marriage of the Infanta with the King of France Folio 142 General Moncks first appearance in Order to His Majesties Restauration 5. Receives His Majesty on shore 121. Created Duke of Albemarle Folio 159 Lord Mordant brings glad tidings to His Majesty Folio 8 Sir Samuel Moreland presents himself to His Majesty Folio 20 General Montague arrives with the Fleet to attend His Majesty 57. Made Earl of Sandwich Folio 162 Earl of Montross his Funeral Folio 176 N. Names of His Majesties most Honorable Privy Council Folio 211 Names of the Judges Folio 209 P. Proclamation for His Sacred Majesty Folio 28 Prince Maurice of Nassau complements His Majesty Folio 95 Prince of Lignes arrival in England Folio 167 Princess of Orange arrival in England Folio 169 Death and Funervl Folio 170 Princess Henrietta arrives in England Folio 172 Q. Queen Mother arrives in England Folio 172 R. The Resident for the Emperor complements His Majesty Folio 63 S. A glorious Star at His Majesties Birth Folio 2 Secluded Members contribute to His Majesties Restauration Folio 6 States of Holland send Deputies to His Majesty 15. As also the States General 16. They complement His Majesty Folio 95 Spanish Ambassador Treats His Majesty Folio 74 Statue of Mis Majesty seâ— up in the Royal Exchange Folio 165 T. Triumphs at Lisbon Folio 161 Traitors Araignment and Execution Folio 173 174 W. Wonderful things in Ireland Folio 164 THE MAGNIFICENCIES and GLORIOUS TRIUMPHS OF K. CHARLES the II. THE Grandeurs of this Monarch which we shall here narrate not undertaking the History of his Life too rudely hitherto attempted are so far beyond all what Fiction and Invention can offer in Ronsantick Hyperboles Magu in speciem adornal is verbis quam ut sentire videamur as they come near a Miracle which will require Language as strange as it self or else to be expressed in the plainest and most facile words that can convey and fit it to our Capacities To write it in a Stile like it self or to represent it any way in its full Glories no Traict but that of an Angels Plume can serve turn For Heaven was pleased to use a very like curiosity in the very Beginnings and Dawnings of that Splendor which hath now in its almost Meridian overspread the Universe For that the weak admiration of men at his Birth might be aided and assisted to a due veneration of his present and future Greatness then divined by most people a Bright Star appeared at Noon-day and ushered in the Auspicia of his Wonders May 29 1630. which benigne Luminary never wanted those propitious Influences which in the darkest times serened his Condition And such a Remarque of Heaven was never vouchsafed to any Nativity besides that of our Saviour To omit its Tutelage and Defence of him throughout the War covering his head in Battel and conveying him in safety abroad after the general ruine at home nor insist upon his Escape and avoydance of the English Fleet that lay in wait to intercept him in his Voyage for Scotland To take no notice of his Scotch Coronation though as solemn and magnificent as ever was known in that Kingdom to pass by his well-designed Advance into England and his more memorable Escape out of it from Worcester never enough to be admired because these Providences were as the cloud 〈◊〉 concealed and obscured him We will only observe the Pillar of Fire which after it had purified him in the Night of his Humiliation and Affliction at the end of that Darkness revealed him in Glory This Discourse is deduced no further than his Renascency from August 1659 when Sir George Booth's Design was impregnated with his Interest though all along the Usurpation some Appearances there were of its reviving particularly that Noble Attempt of Col. Penruddock c. which in Nine Moneths time computed thence ripened to a Full Deliverance During this Affair in England his Majesty was removed from his Retirement and private Recess at Colen where he had long sojourned the rather for the great Civility of that people to him and who at his departure most nobly treated him to Brussels where he stayed not long but after some dispatches for England where every
serve for the ensuing Parliament which was to set down on the 25th then instant were honest Patriots and well affected to his Majesty and that they would labour indubitably for the re-establishment of the King assoon as it should be compleat and that their sitting down would certainly commence the day prefixed and appointed From that time forward there passed not a day almost that the King received not some remarkable News upon which he might ground infallible hopes of his Restauration On the 15th of the same Moneth Sr. John Greenvile since Earl of Bath and Sr. John Boys brought him Intelligence of the deseat of Gen. Lambert he had been Prisoner in the Tower of London by vertue of an Ordinance of the Council of State and had made an escape thence with design to put himself in the head of those who were strugling to continue the Anarchy and our Ruine but he was suddenly supprest and taken by Col. Ingoldsby 〈◊〉 Edge-hill where to the greater Honour and content of the King and his Felicity the last dying effort of the Rebellion was quell'd where its first potent Arms opposed it self against his Royal Father Remarkable also was the manner of the dissipation of those Rebels for never did Lambert betray such meanness and abjection of Spirit as in that rendition of himself to his formerly fellow-Colonel a most evident sign that God had consternated and utterly confounded them not only one among and against another but even in themselves perplexing and distracting their thoughts and dashing and turning their greatest Resolutions He was brought back to his former Prison the Tower and there better secured and since removed to the Isle of Jersey The King received the same day Letters from General Montagne then riding in the Downs which assured him of the good estate of the Affaires of the Kingdom and of the sincerity of his Intentions of which he had already given Proofs many moneths before when S. George Boeth took up Arms for the King in Cheshire Now his Majesty thought it time to appear to his People The Kings Letters and Declarations to Parliament and Army and City from out of that obscurity wherein his hard Fortunes had so long while concealed him which he did with such a sudden Brightness that struck Joy and Chearsulness into the Eyes and Faces of all his Subjects For presently he sent away the Lord Viscount Mordant and Sr. John Greenvile to London with his Declaration and Letters dated from this place to the 2 Houses and the Lord Mayor and Common Council of the said City and the General and Officers of the Army who arrived soon after the sitting down of the Parliament and on the 2 of May delivered them to the Speakers That Sacred Name of the King which not long time was the aversion and abhorrence of base mechanick fellows and Phanaticks was heard with veneration and inspired into that Illustrious Assembly such extraordinary and advantageous motions for the King that it is impossible to express them It will be enough for the honour thereof to say that whereas not above 3 or 4 moneths before it had been a Crime of High Treason to speak in Parliament in behalf of the King no sooner now is that great name pronounced than a general Joy appeared in the countenances of all the Commons and most high and dutiful Respects for that Divine Character By Vote of the Houses therefore Sr. John is desired to enter the Speakers receive the Kings Letters from his hand the Clerk read them every one in the mean time with the greatest expressive submission in the world standing bare-headed His majesty had thereunto as before said added a most excellent Declaration for the safety and repose of those who cortur'd in their thoughts for having partaken in the Rebellion might fear the punishment of it and in that fear might oppose the tranquility of the State and the calling in of their Lawful Prince There never was seen a more perfect Assembly of all the most excellent natural Quilities and of all the vertues as well Royal as Christian where with a great Prince may be endowed than was found in those two wonderful Productions as was evident in their acceptance and entertainment They were full of Piety and Zeal for the Glory of God and for Religion of tenderness towards the Afflictions of his People Esteem for the Parliament Firmness for the Conservation of his own Rights an admirable Prudence for the regulating of Affairs and an inexemplar conduct for the re-establishing of the Government in its former state Love for the good indulgence for the seduced and a more than Christian Clemency for Criminals or rather for Crime it self for a Crime I say so black and so abominable that as there was not an Example of it in History since the Creation of the world so his Majesty hath not altogether been so wrought upon by his innate Goodness as to let it pass for an example unpunished to Future Ages Both these Papers wrought the Effect which the King promised himself from them since they absolutely gained the hearts of the people which the miseries of the time past had already very much disposed to the acknowledging their Prince For they were no sooner read but the Parliament declared that the Tenders and Sentiments of the King were Gracious Good and Generous and Conformable to the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom the Government whereof ought to confist of King Lords and Commons and forthwith ordered that most humble Thanks should be returned to his Majesty for the Gracious Letters and Declarations aforesaid and that for a present supply of his Majesties occasions and in order to speed his Return the sum of fifty thousand Pounds was appointed for a Present to which the City of London added ten thousand more They likewise ordered that General Montague should sayl with his Fleet to attend the Kings Pleasure on the Coasts of Holland That the Two Houses and City of London should send Commissioners respectively from them to beseech him to come and take possession of his Kingdoms which God and his Right had given him and that in the mean time Sr. John Greenvile should be disparched with the Parliaments Answer and should carry to Brada the Resolutions and Prayers of the Two Houses or rather the impatience which the Nation had to see again their Natural Soveraign after a sad absence of many calamitous and miserable years But that which was most remarkable in these Resolutions was that they were not taken after a long contestation consult or dispure nor upon a simple acquiescement of the Parliament in a major Vote but by the express Suffrages and Votes upon the universal and unanimous consent of all the Members of both Houses who strove in aeleg mulation of each other which should give the greatest Proof of Affection The Parliament also gave Liberty to the Noble General to send Mr. Clarges now Sr. Thomas being Knighted by the King at Breda his
Brother in Law accompanied with some Gentlemen to assure his Majesty of the Fidelity and Obedience of the Army of which upon the communicating of his Majesties Letters and Declaration aforesaid they had made Publick and Solemn Protestations Nothing can more sully speak the sense of the English Nation on this great Change and Occasion The Speakers Speech to Sr. John Greenvile at the Delivery of the Letters and Declaration than what Sr. Harbottle Grimston the Speaker of the House of Commons said to Sr. John Greenvile after his delivery of the Letters It is impossible for me said he to express the acknowledgment and submission with which the Commons Assembled here in Parliament have received the Letters with which His Majesty was pleased to honour them The thing speaks it self you have seen it with your eyes heard it with your ears our Bels our Bonefires and the Report of our Artillery have already begun to proclaim the King and to publish our Joy We have made known to the People that our King the Glory of England is returning unto his Kingdom and they have resounded in our ears these chearful Protestations that they are ready to receive him and their hearts open to entertain him and both Parliament and People have already cried out in their Prayer to the King of Kings Long live King Charles the Second I am also to signifie to you that the Parliament not willing that you should return without some Mark of acknowledgment to the King your and our Soveraign hath Ordered the Sum of 500 l. Sterling to buy you a Jewel to give you to remember the Honour which His Majesty hath done you in charging you with a Commission of this Nature whereof you have so well acquitted your self that the Parliament hath commanded me to give you Thankes Never was a Scene so altered as the Face of the City which but two moneths before being at the very Brink of Destruction The Joy at London upon the Parliaments acknowledgment of his Majesty was now overflowed with a full Tide of Gladness for during two dayes in which the Letters aforesaid were delivered and Printed to publick View there was a perfect Vacation from all business every man indulging himself his share in the general satisfaction in such a measure that London seemed rather a Theatre of Pleasure than a Seat of Trassique and as they say of Florence was fit only then to be seen on Holidaies The Prince of Aurange a little before was at Breda Several Princes visit the King and every day some Prince or Person of quality came to rejoyce with his Majesty for the happy change of his Fortune whereof there were growing Assurances Prince Frederick of Nassau Brother to Prince Maurice arrived there on the 22th of April with the Princess his Wife from his Government of Bergen ap Zoom and the Duke of Brlinswick Lunenbergh who resides at Hannover came thither four dayes after betwixt whom and his Majesty several Civilities passed On the 4th of May The King informed of the Votes of the Paâ—l the King was fully assured of the happy revolution of the Affairs of his Kingdom through the advertisement of what was done in Parliament which News the next day after being of that great importance were sent to the Hague by Letters from the Princess Royal which were read in the Assembly of the States General The Estates of the Province of Holland who were at that time assembled in a Body and had by their wisdom foreseen in the disposition of the Affairs of England the change which would apparently arrive there had also foreseen by their Prudence the Advertisement which was given of the Declaration of the Parliament For on the 3d of May before it could possibly be known what happened at London that Illustrious Senate reflecting on the present Constitution of Affairs and the certain apparences of the near restitution of the King resolved that Monsieur de Beverweert and others The States of Holland send Deputies to the King should depart immediatly after they knew the Intention of the Parliam to make known to the King the Affection of that Province to the Person of his Majesty and to all the Royal Family to restifie unto him the Joy and Satisfaction they had to see infallible Dispositions almost ready to place him in the Throne of his Ancestors and to assure him of the strong Inclinations they had to make with him and his Kingdoms a firm and indissolvible Allyance for the mutual conservation of the common Interests of his Estate and of that Commonwealth But chiefly to make him Offers of Service and to beseech him to do that Province the Honour to reside there as in a place most commodious for communication with his Subjects and for his Passage into England and to receive there the Effects of the most sincere Protestations of Respect and Amity which they caused to be made unto him by their Deputies They had also Order particularly to insist upon the last Point as on the most important of their Commission and to use to that purpose the most civil and engaging terms that Interest of State and Affection for the good of their Countrey could dictate unto them They enjoyned also the same Deputie to officiate with the Dukes of York and Glocester and with the Princess Royal and that instance should be made in the Assembly of the States General that the same Offices might be made of their part with his Majesty and with all the Royal Persons The States General being thus informed they agreed therein with the Province of Holland naming Monsieurs de Ripperda and Merode with others to the same Deputation In the mean while the States of Holland pretending that it would take no effect until they should have notice of the Declaration of Parliament not that they doubted of its Intention but because they judged that it imported the Service of the King so to use it as not to prevent the Parliament and do any thing rashly in an Affair of that consequence Civility done out of season being incommodious and unprositable but because it was necessary that his Majesty should know the good Affection of the States they so ordered that the King should have assurances thereof under-hand to this purpose the Lord Beverweert the Governour of the Bosch a principal Person was pitcht upon as being also akin to the Duke of Ormond by the Earl of Ossory's Alliance with his House and for his particular respects for the King during his Troubles All considerations which might oblige him to see the King before he appeared in the quality of a publick Minister He arrived at Breda the 5th of May and executed his Commission so happily that the King reserving but the open Declaration of his Good Will for the Deputies when they should be arrived was very well pleased with his Address which proved of great moment both to the States The Spaniard complements his Majesty
to pass through his Provinces and Monsieur Beverweert for Don John de Monroy arrived the same day at Breda and prayed his Majesty from the Marquess Caracena to take his way through Flanders and to embirk in one of the Ports of those Quarters to return to his Kingdoms assuring the King for the better inducement that as he passed the Arrears of those Troops which the King of Spain entertained for his Majesty being ready at Brussels should be paid them but this appeared no more than what passed in the Conference which the Duke of York had some daies before with the Marquess Caracena himself in the Town of Antwerp by Order of the King who would not go there in person though he was pressed thereunto through the consideration of the Important Affairs which he said he had to communicate to his Majesty The King excused himself with the same firmness now from the Civilities which he sent to be made unto him by refusing him upon the facility which he found for his passage where he was present Among other Reasons of his complying with the Dutch Request not to speak of any hazard of detention of his Person if he should have returned by the way of Flanders without certain Articles or Conditions to be signed by him there two appeared to be the chiefest 1. Because of the number of the Commissioners from the Parliament who were said to bring with them a Train of 400 Gentlemen besides Domesticks which must needs spend time in going from the Sea to Breda and the other the Court was already so great and full and the Town so streightened and unfurnished of Provisions that it would be impossible to lodge them all there and the weather being hot permitted not Victuals to be brought from other remote places So real and so permanent an Honour and Glory did the States think the Presence and their entertainment of the King to be that because of avoyding all disputes for precedency which each Province challengeth in its own Countrey so that they suffer not the Generality to have other advantage in the Provinces than that which is due unto them by vertue of their Union and not to give the King any displeasure by their disorder in his reception they resolved of a course whereby that Province which was at the most cost might be taken notice of accordingly The Eslates of Holland therefore who had caused the King to be prayed in particular to honour their Province with his Presence would have him to be received and saluted in their Name upon the Frontier and would defray the Charges on his way from the time he entred into their Province and till the first day he should arrive at the Hague as making part of his Voyage The Estates General who represent not indeed in general but what every Province possesseth in particular left to the Province of Holland all the marks of Soveraignty and consented to this that their deputies after they had congratulated the King conducted his Majesty to the entrance of Holland should remain in the quality of private persons on condition notwithstanding that the Deputies of Holland should give the Honour of the House and give them precedence in the places where they should meet together So nice and strict were they upon the punctilio in this Affair from whence they had designed themselves Reputation and Renown which if so famous to the giver could not but be infinitely honourable to the Illustrious Receiver The Estates General for their part of the Magnificence resolved that same day that the Kings Charges should be defrayed during the whole time he stayed in the United Provinces and ordained likewise Provision to be made accordingly which though they met with many difficulties they at last abundantly performed as we shall see hereafter On the 6th of May another thing of Remark happened Sr. Sam. Moreland comes to Court Mr. Samuel Moreland Secretary Thurlo's chief Clerk during the Usurpation under Oliver Cromwel who lay Resident at the Court of Savoy and had held Intelligence with the King whereby he was from time to time informed of the Cabals and Designs of his Rebels being a man of a pregnant wit and other abilities arrived at Breda where he brought divers Letters and Notes of most great importance whereby the Perfidiousness of some of his Majesties own Party who were famed men in the la e War and who owed the King more Fidelity for particular Favours shewed them were plainly discovered The King received him with good Affection and rendred him this publick testimony that he had received most considerable Services from him for some years past The 7th of May the Deputies of the Estates General aforesaid departed from the Hague in the Afternoon and imbarqued themselves the same day at Rotterdam where the Jachts or Pinnaces which the States had caused to be in readiness attended them Those of Holland departed in the Morning but they made not the sâ—me hast as well because they would not be in the first place where the Estates were to precede as because they had divers Orders concerning the Entertainment and Reception of the King to leave in the places of his Passage On the 8th day of May. memorable for a greater Magnificence in England of which by and by the Deputies arrived at Breda being met out of Town in the Village of Terheyda The Deputies complement the King at Breda with four Cornets of Horse and arriving at the Town to render this Service to the King more solemn and splendid they passed by 12 Companies of Foot Drawn in Baitalia which saluted them with their shot whilst the Artillery thundred round the wals and Bulwarks When they were come to the House prepared for them they intimated their arrival to his Majesty the two Dukes and Princess Royal and towards the Evening the King and their Royal Highnesses sent them a Complement by Gentlemen of their own Until these Deputies came the Major of that famous and noted Garrison received all his Orders from the Princess Royal but now they transferred that Honour on the King who gave the Word Amsterdam It seems the King had some respects for the Magistrates of that Town who had deported themselves very respectfully to him somtime before The same day arrived also Dr. Clarges the Generals Brother in law who was introduced by the Kings Order with some Coaches of 6 horse apiece by my Lord Gerard exceeding welcom he was made by the whole Court who had owed so much veneration and respect to the General particularly the King entertained a private Conference with him two hours and afterwards Knighted him shewing him the Kindnesses sutable to the Message and business he was sent and employed in Neither did this dayes good Fortune ceâ—se here but by an Express from Dunkirk where the King had graciously some while before bestowed an Invitation upon Lockhart the Governor though unmannerly slighted by him his Majesty was certified that the Garrison
of England and of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to the same did by inherent Birth-right and lawful and undoubted succession descend and come to his most Excellent Majesty Charles the Second as being lineally justly and lawfully next Heir of the Bloud Royal of this Realâ—s and that by the Goodness and Providence of Almighty God He is of England Scotland France and Ireland the Most Potent 〈◊〉 Mighty and Undoubted King And thereunto we most humbly and faithfully do submit and oblige our selves our Heirs and Posterities for ever God save the KING Will. Jessop Clerk of the Commons House of Parliament The Proclamation being ended the Lords and Commons took their Coaches and proceeded in this order First the Head-Bâ—yliffe of Westminster and his Servants did ride along with white staves to prepare the way Then followed a gallant Troop of Officers of the Army and other Gentlemen with Trumpets before them then the Life-guard very stately mounted and richly cloathed after them a Class of six Trumpets and three Heralds then a Herald between the Serjeant to the Commons and the Mace of the Council next Mr. Ryley King at Arms in his rich Coat of â—he Kings Arms between Serjeant Norfolk and Serjeant Middlâ— after whom came the Usher of the Black Rod and Mr. Bish together These thus ushering the way came the Right Honourable the Eatl of Manchester in his Coach and six Horses the Speaker of the House of Commons in his then his Excellency the Lord General Monk in his after which followed both Houses of Lords and Commons some in Coaches of six Horses some four some two and then a Troop of Horse In this manner they came to Whitehal where they proclaimed his Majesty a second time and then in like Order proceeded Being come to Arundel House they made a stand where Mr. Ryley King at Arms taking one of the Heralds and six Trumpets with him advanced forward toward Temple-Bar perceiving at a distance the Gates open he paused a while Col. Alderman Bateman and some other Gentlemen came to acquaint him that the Lord Mayor Aldermen Colonels and other Officers of the City were there ready to receive him Whereupon the King at Arms having some Discourse with the Colonel the Colonel went back to Temple-Bar and caused the Gates to be shut upon this the King at Arms with Trumpets before him went to the Gate knocked and demanded Entrance The Lord Mayor appointed some to ask who it was that knocked the King at Arms replied that if they would open the Wicket and desire the Lord Mayor to come to the Gate he would deliver to him his Message The Lord Mayor came on Horseback attended with several Officers to the Gate and Col. Bateman told the King of Arms that he might now deliver his Message to the Lord Mayor who was come to receive it The Trumpets immediatly sounded after which silence being made it was demanded of the King of Arms Who he was and what was his Message to which he answered on Horseback with his Hat on We are the Heralds at Arms appointed and commanded by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled to demand Entrance into the Famous City of London to Proclaim Charles the Second King of England Scotland and Ireland and we expect your speedy Answer to this Demand To this they returned If it please you Sir to have a little Patience we shall speedily give you an Answer to your Message shutting the wicker again After some little conference between the Lord Mayor and Aldermen the Colonel returned and opening the Wicker told the King at Arms That his Message was accepted and the Gates should be immediatly opened which was done accordingly The King at Arms entred trumpets sounding before him and was joyfully received by the Lord Mayor in his Crimson Velvet Gown and Hood the Aldermen and Sherisses in Scarlet and the Officers of the Militia gallantly accoutred on Horseback Both sides of the Streets were guarded by the Militia Forces of London from Temple-Bar to the Old Exchange and stood all with their swords drawn as also the Officers and several spectators in Windows The City Horse fell in next the Life-guard then the Lord Mayor and Aldermen after whom the Heralds and the rest as formerly When they came to Chancery Lane end they proclaimed his Majesty a third time where at the Word CHARLES the Second in the Proclamation the King at Arms lifting himself up with more than ordinary cheerfulness and expressing it with a very audible voyce the people presently took it and on a sudden carried it to the Old Exchange which was pursued with such shouts that near a quarter of an hour was spent before silence could be made to read the rest of the Proclamation After this they went to Cheapside where his Majesty was Proclaimed a fourth time where the shouts of the people were so great that though all the Bells in the City rung Bow Bels could not be heard there Thence to the Old Exchange where his Majesty was again Proclaimed and the Solemnity ended The Shouts and Acclamations of the People to this gallant and well ordered Procession are not easily to be exprest The numberless number of Bonefires the Ringing of Bels and shooting off the Guns and the joyful Expressions of the People did declare them beyond the Art of any Pen. The infected Herd of the Vulgar did hereby purifie and cleanse the Ayr of London dispelling those dark Mists of the Rebellion with the thunder of their Applauses and rejoycing at this Solemnity Nor could a less Atonement acquit the frantick multi ude from their mad Tumults and their former Riot at that very Cross So that the Kings felicity consisted not only in redeeming them from Slavery but restoring them to their senses the happy use thereof by the Magick of his excellent Name The whole Solemnity was concluded with Bonesires at every door almost congratulation of Friends and Acquaintance indeed strangers were such then so great the freeness of mens minds concerning this happy and long desired Revolution The like was afterwards done in the Country in the several Cities and Burroughs and with proportionable Triumphs and Gladness At this time the martyred Kings Statue was re-erected at Guild-hall and the Arms of the Commonwealth every where pull'd down and defaced and his Majesties set in their places as likewise restored to their former Stations in Churches and Courts of Judicature wâ— now acted in the Kings name and cancelled that opprobrious stile of the Keepers of the Liberties of England and all Persons in Office or trust impowered to continue and discharge the same in his Majesties Name and by his Authority The King having accepted the Offer of the Deputies of Holland The King accepts the Invitation into Holland and having exprest himself that he intended to come into Holland by water the Estates General understanding thereof gave order that all the Pinnaces and other Barks capable to transport
the King the Princes and Princess of that Royal House with all their Court Train and Baggage should immediatly repair to the higher Swaluew in Brabant to attend there the Orders which the Deputies of the States of Holland should give to them for that purpose they caused also to be written to all the Colonels and other Superiour Officers as well Horse as Foot who were quartered in the neighbourhood of that Town that they should be the first day at the Hagne to serve the State there and to appear splendidly at the Ceremonies of Reception and Treatment which they resolved to make his Majesty As for the Deputies of Holland they took the same if not more extraordinary care as the Honour of the Business more nearly concerned them For the better dispatch whereof they now committed the care of the whole business to one Person viz. Mr. Wimmeâ—um President in their Colledge The Deputies thereupon undertook all the outward Appurtenances to the Kings satisfaction writing presently to the Magistrate of the Town of Briel to advertise him of the Resolution which the King had taken to pass into Holland â— to the end that if there should arrive any Expresses or Posts from the Parliament Commissioners who were every day expected he should send them to the Hague whither the King intended to arrive in a very short time On the 14th of May his Majesty resolved to depart from Breda and to embarque himself at a place called Moordike hoping to arrive at the Hague the next day by water about four of the Clock in the Evening Accordingly on the 11th Preparations were made and Commissioners named of the Nobility and prime Gentry of Holland to attend that Service wherein it was resolved that his Majesty and his Brothers should be sumptuously treated and defrayed with all the Train during the time that his Majesty should remain in that Province from the 16th of May till his Embarkment for England Their next care was for his reception at the Hague which was to provide and procure as many Coaches of six Horses as could be gotten for the Convoy with which they intended to receive his Majesty and should cause also as many Pinnaces and other Barks to be ready as was necessary to transport the Train and Baggage For the better intelligence whereof the Lord de Rhede one of the Province of Utretcht lately Ambassador extraordinary in Denmark and appointed then for Spain was ordered by the States General to go to Breda and to report from thence an exact state of the Kings whole Court and Train of the Princes as also of the number of the Lords of the Council and of his Majesties House so that necessary and sutable proportions might be taken for the Lodgings pointed out for the Lords Provision made for his Majesty and his Retinne for the tables which were to be furnished and for the mouths to be fed during the Residence which the King should make at the Hague and to that purpose the Estates not to fail of their magnificent Design laid a Foundation of thirty thousand Pound for the Expence should be made for it On the same day they had notice that S. Peter Killigrew a person formerly employed in Messages betwixt his Majesty deceased and the Long Parliament which were full of Discord and dissention was come now at last with an Olive Branch in his mouth the full Harmony of Englands Consent and Rapture at the aforesaid Proclamation This was ecchoed in this Countrey and the first sounds thereof were heard from the adjacent Towns of Dort Rotterdam and Delf whose Magistrates sent to beseech the King after humble recognition of his Potency to do them the unpresidented Honour of so great a Kings passing through their Towns there to refresh himself by the way But his Majesty excused himself as well upon the present State of Affairs wâ— permitted him not to stay any where as because that his Passage could not but incommodâ—te the Inhabitants unto whom he should not cease to shew himself sensibly obliged for the tenderness they expressed to him Sunday the 13th of May Thanks are rendred to God by the Dutch for his Majesties Restitution with Bonefires Solemn Thanks was rendred to God by all the Ministers of the Dutch French and English Churches who expounded Texts fit for the matter And after Sermon the Magistrate and Consistory were incorporated to make their Complement to his Majesty and to their Royal Highnesses and at Evening Bonesires of Joy were made through the whole Town all the Bels râ—ng and many Volleys were discharged from all the Artillery all persons resident there from the States aemulating one another which should express the most Joy satisfaction in this great day In the mean while also not to intermit any thing from that study of doing the King all acceptable Service they began to load and send away the Baggage and furnish Prince Maurice his House at the Hague where his Majesty was to be entertained appointing by their Orders sent therewith Lodgings for the whole Court and to make necessary Provisions for its subsistance when it should be come and whilst it should remain there Some dispute there arose at the Hague again concerning precedency of the States themselves The precedency of the Prince of Aurange taken care for but at last out of particular tenderness to the Kings Repose and the hast of his Affairs it was well accommodated but the main business which related to the Prince of Aurange they took special care in for because there was reason to suspect that there might happen some disorder about the Rank of Coaches that should be sent to meet the King not so much because the Ambassadors were not well agreed among themselves about precedence â—ut chiefly because there were some of them that would pretend to have their Coaches go before that of the Prince of Orange who ought to be considered by them not only in the quality of a Sovereign Prince but also as Nephew to the King and consequently as chief Prince of the Bloud of England after the two Dukes therefore the States judged fit to cause the Ambassadors of the several Crowns there resident to be prayed by their Agent not to send their Coaches but to leave the Conduct and whole honour of this Ceremony to the States to prevent the Consusion which otherwise would be unavoidable The Ambassadors all acquiesced therein without any reluctancy and willingly shewed that respect for the King without mingling it with their condescen lende to the desire of the States because they would not trouble the publick Joy which the whole world endeavoured to manifest on this most happy occasion The whole Court was nâ— departing from Breda May 14. The King departs from Breda May 14. the Deputies going before at four of the Clock in the Morning to give Orders for his Majesties eâ—bâ—quing Tâ—e King took shipping with his two Brothers and â—er betwixt 8 and 9 in the
Morning But before they went out of the Hall of the Castle the Burgo-masters presented themselves and M. Snel in the name of the rest delivered this Oration Sir The Magistrate and Council of â—en of this Town of Breda The Speech of the Burgo-master of Breda present themselves again with a most low reverence before your Majesty to render you most humble Thanks for the honour it hath pleased you to do the Town by the residence you have made here and to bring you a last proof of the perfect Joy which the wonderful success of your Majesty hath caused as it is the powerful hand and infinite Providence of God which hath drawn your Majesty out of a Gulf of dangers and hath conducted you through a Desart of Afflictions even unto the Entrance of the Greatness which your Predecessors have gained to their Royal posterity This is the Subject of our Joy Sir when we know that after the success of 〈◊〉 Battels Victories gained at the price of the blood of Subjects may content the Ambition of a Prince transported yet your Majesty is of that debonnair disposition and so good a Prince your thoughts so generous and magnanimous as to prefer an innocent Triumph before all other advantages of the world We praise with all our hearts that great God who hath begun this great Work in the Person of your Majesty and pray him ardently that it will please him to hear the Devotions which we shall continue to make uncessantly for the prosperity of the voyage and Reign of your Majesty The King answered That he thanked the Magistrate Council for the Affection they expressed to him and should endeavour to acknowledge it on all Occasions that should be presented unto him Whereupon the Burgomaster having taken the liberty to reply That since his Majesty had the Goodness to accept the Affection and Zeal they had for his Service he besought him most humbly to remember the Grace which he had made them to hope for when he concluded in that place by Treaty with the Deputies of Scotland some years since that he would be pleased to honour the Town of Breda and its Inhabitants with all the Favour which the Laws of his Kingdom would permit to grant them The King answered That he rememembred it very well and that he was obliged to do so much for a Town where he had received such acceptable News and which had rendred him so many testimonies of Respect and Affection The King took Coach after this Audience and betwixt eleven and twelve of the Clock came to Marvaert His Majesty embarques He found some Squadrons of Horse there in Battalia and the Deputies of the States of Holland who presented themselves at the Boot of his Coach and made him their Complement in the name of their Superiours at the entrance of their Province After some Addresses and short Salutations he proceeded to the end of the Causey or Dike where they had made a Bridge from the Dike to the Pinnace to facilitate his Embarquement For that splendid Occasion they as formerly they used to do for a Coach to conduct Ambassadors requested the Pinnace or Barge of the Princess Dowager of Aurange which should represent that of the States But the King having viewed it and some others chose one which by his former use of it as delighting much to pass by water he knew commodious and because that of the Princesses was not great enough to lodge the King and the Princess Royal of Orange who would pass the night by the King her Brother with persons necessary for their Service That Barge was formerly made for the Prince of Aurange and was the biggest of the Fleet which consisted of thirty great Barges besides innumerable other Barks called Yachts a kind of little Frigots The Vessel the King was in so pleased him that he said in Discourse to the Deputies of Holland that he would cause one to be made in the same manner as soon as he should arrive into England to serve him upon the Thames above Bridge This gave occasion to one of the Deputies Mr. de Vlooswick of Amsterdam to tell the King that lately they had made one in their Town of the same bigness at least as commodious every way which he took the liberty to offer to his Majesty The King neither accepted nor declined so that Order was privately sent to Amsterdam to make it ready and gild it with curious Paintings inside and outside which at his going away was presented to him and is now the Brigandine his Majesty useth on the River The Distribution of the other Yachts to the Lords and their Retinue The Order of the Fleet. was transferred upon the King no person of the Dutch being able without some disgust to appoint them The Duke of York Admiral The King therefore in this occasion ordained that the Duke of York should perform the Office of Admiral in consigning the Yachts under his Authority and in his Presence so that his Royal Highness gave himself the Yacht of the Princess Dowager of Orange The Duke of Glocester had that of the States of Holland the Princess Royal to attend her one of the Yachts of the Council of State The Deputies of Holland were shipt in Mr. Beverweerts Yacht where Don Estevande Gamarra who went to meet the King at Moordike not in quality of Ambassador of Spain but as a particular servant of his Majesty the Rhinegrave the Lord Crofts and other English Lords The Chancellor of England and S. Edw. Nicholas embarqued themselves in a little Pinnace call'd the Maid of Zeland the Marquess of Ormond in another the Marquess of Worcester in the Postillion of Zeland the Lord St. John and Bellasis in that of the Admiral Lieut. of Holland St. Thomas Clargy's with his Attendants in the Yacht of the Town of Dort the Lord Gerard and other Noblemen in the Governours of Sluce The Prince of Oranges Yacht was reserved for the Chamber and Wardrobe of the Princess Royal. Every of these Vessels had its Steward and all other Officers necessary for the Kitchin and Buttery and they which had not the commodity to have their Kitchin aboard themselves were accompanied with other Barks where Chimnies were made for the Kitchin and Ovens for the Pastery and Provision of so prodigious a quantity of all sorts of Meats of Fowl of Sweet-meats of Wine that all the Tables were plentifully served therewith and in such great abundance that the English Stewards that are known to be rather superfluous than otherwise being accustomed to large provisions were astonied thereat and confessed that they could not comprehend how they could make ready in Boats which were so tossed twenty or five and twenty great Dishes for every Table I insist the longer upon this Naval Story because never any such thing happened before in Holland there is a Character of that Nation that they dwell upon the Waters and certainly it was verified here such a multitude
began to file towards Delf about seven of the Clock in the Morning and immediatly after the Burgers who stood in Battalia in the great place and marched towards the way which goes to Delfe and the Souldiers went to take their Post on the Viverberg where they made a Guard even to the House of Prince Maurice which was prepared to lodge his Majesty The Deputies of the States of Holland being arrived at Delfe 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 Treatment to the end that as their intention was wholly to submit to the Will of his Majesty they might make that to be changed therein which might displease him After the King had given them his approbation and that they had invited the Deputies of the States General to honour this Ceremony with their Presence and to take place immediately after the Kings Coach they gave order that the Coaches should be drawn into a file along the Key of the Suburb After a Complement passed to the King in the name of their Superiours who they informed the King had sent a Member of each Town in their Province to wait upon him which Ceremony was done in the Yacht where the King was His Majesty presently landed and seated himself in the Coach of the Princess Royal which that day carried all the Royal Family The King sate in the midst with his Sister the Duke of York and Glocester sate before and the Prince of Orange in one of the Boots and assoon as they were placed the whole Company began to advance to enter into the Town of Delfe Here the King stayed not according to his first Determination but passed away from his Landing-place through the Ranks of the Citizens in Arms who marched more than the space of a Musket-shot from the Gates on both sides his Coach where they stayed and saluted his Majesty whilst all the Bels rung and the Artillery thundred from the Bulwarks and Rampires of the Town It was near ten of the Clock when his Majesty departed thence The King comes to the Hague and made it eleven when he came at the Hague In the head of the whole Train which met him marched some Trumpets of the Estates clad in their Coats of Crimson Velvet embroydered 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 Kings House of the two Dukes of the Princess Royal and of the Prince of Aurange After them came Monsieur Wimmenum who had attended the King as chief of the Deputation in the quality of Master of the Ceremonies in his Coach with some Lords in it preceding immediatly that of the Princess Royal which carried his Majesty The Deputies of the Estates General filled the two first after the Kings those of the States of Holland the six following and the other Coaches which in all amounted to the number of seventy and odd each having 6 or 4 Horses were filled with English and Dutch Lords It was by the Dutch confessed that this Entrance so much did they fear of falling short of the due Honours to the King 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 that the King had appointed for it and even then when they were constrained to change in a manner their first Orders which would no doubt have rendred it more Illustrious had it not been for this Change And yet the Crowd was so great because the curiosity of all men to see this miraculous Prince had drawn a great part of the Inhabitants of the neighbour Town to this Entrance that they were constrained to go very softly As soon as the first Coaches were entred into the Court and the King alighted the Deputies of the States General retired and left the Honour of the Reception and Entertainment that day to the Estates of Holland The King being come to His Majesty arrives at the Hague the House prepared for him there met him on the stayr-head his Aunt the Queen of Bohemia led by the Duke of Brunswick Lunenbergh of whom before 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 Aurange The King saluted them all being followed by the Deputies of Holland who gave him another small Complement and left him to his Repose at a private Dinner The Princess Royal who had not slept that 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 Holland followed her so that none staied but the two Dukes who dined with him That done the Toyl of the Journey and the little rest he had taken the two former nights made him desire to withdraw And indeed the States would have made the Musqueteers 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 For these Volleys answered those of a Bâ—ttery of eight and thirty pieces of Cannon which were planted on the Viverberg re-inforced with another of five and twenty pieces of a greater stamp which they were enforced to plant behind the Cloyster-Church of the Voorhout upon the Rampart in turning the mouth towards the Field for fear the powerful noyse of that Thunder might shake the Wals of the old Palace and all the adjoyning Building The next day the States General after they had sent a Nobleman to know of the King what time he would please to spate to receive that duty which they had resolved to render him by doing reverence to him in a body Prince William of Nassau being in the head of them with their chief military Officers bareheaded before them they went to the Kings Lodgings At their Entrance they were met with by the Lord Crofts accompanied with a great number of Gentlemen and introduced to the King from the stayr-head by the Duke of Ormond The Press was so great that though there were but 25 of the States present yet they could hardly get into the Presence Chamber Being come there the Baron of Gent a Deputy from the Province of Guelders which is a Dutchy and therefore the chief Province of the Union and hâ—d for that reason this Honour to be Speaker to the King delivered himself in these words Sir The States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries after having expressed to your Majesty by the Deputies they sent unto you at Breda how they participated in the happy
Successes which follow your wise Conduct and the joy which they have to see you going to your Kingdom of England to take there the Scepter of Great Britain come here now in a Body to uphold the Truth and Sincerity thereof by more strong and solemâ— Declarations It is the same Company Sir which had the Honour to present it self to your Majesty in this very place in a sad and mourâ—ful Equâ—page and which with more grief in heart than it could express in words pronounced the most bitter lamentable Accents of a most deep sorrow which came then not only to strike the Soul of your Majesty but also universally of all the Members of this State From the same Principle which divided then their Afflictions proceeds now their common rejoycement to wit from that of a most tender and most respectful Affection for the Sacred Person of your Majesty and from a most submissive zeal for the Service and for the good of your Affairs The Cause thereof is so just and so touching that we hope your Majesty will be easily perswaded of the Truth of the Protestations which are made thereof here in your Royal Presence And we may boldly say that their Joy exerciseth it self in its full extent which is so much the more vast as these admirable Events arrive in a time when all humane appearance seemed to remove them wholly For it must be confessed that they are the Effects of Divine Providence which hath made the hearts of the Children return to their Father that is to say of the Subjects to their Lawful King and levelled the waies by which your Majesty walkes at present so peaceably and without Effusion of Blood upon the magnifick and superb steps of your Glorious and Triumphant Throne The Estates General of the United Provinces wish Sir that these great and important Prosperities which surprize us no less than we have wished them may be followed with the constant Obedience of your People with the respect of your Neighbours and the Love of both and that the Diadem which God hath put upon the Anoynted and Sacred Head of your Majesty being accompanied with all the Favours of Heaven may stand there a long Train of Years with a happy and glorious Raign for your Sacred Person and remain perpetually in your Royal Posterity even to the end of the world We will finish this Discourse Sir by most humble Thanks which we render to your Majesty in that it hath pleased you to chase this Countrey rather than any other to pass from thence into your Kingdom for which we shall alwaies think our selves obliged and honoured with the regret notwithstanding to see that the Reception which we cause to be made unto you with so good a heart is not accompanied with all the Pomp and Magnificence that the Majestical splendor of so great and potent a Monarch deserveth who is so dear and precious to this State and of whose Gracious Favour they shall endeavour to acquit themselves by all the Respects and Services which your Majesty may desire from your true Friends most faithful Allies and Humble Servants 'T was observed in this Visit that the King never offered to be covered as was thought to shew that he would do somthing more for them than he could do for an Ambassadour After this Speech ended the Lords the Estates were conducted in departing from the Audience by the same Lords that received them and being returned in their ordinary Hall they separated themselves Two other Audiences were given to the foresaid Colledges which being over some doubt was made though this Difficulties upon the audience of Ambassadours Solemn Magnificent Occasion well might and did dispence with Customes and Punctilio's whether the Ambassadours and Ministers of the Kings Princes and forraign Estates which were at the Hague should be received to make their Complements to the King without Letters of Credence or if after it were acknowledged that their Character legitimated them for that they might be covered since that having no Character towards this Monarch they could not be considered but as particular Persons to him The difficulties which arose here were taken away by the following Considerations They said that Ambassadours having a general Commission and not being as they said missi ad hoc they might and ought to do that which their Masters would do if they were present in person and so being certain that there is no Prince in Europe that would not do Civility to the King of England if he should meet him in his Passage their Ministers who were in the place could not fail therein also without being wanting to Civility and to their Duty Notwithstanding since his Majesty was not in his Kingdom he might use them as he pleased yet so that although it was in his choyce to admit the Ambassadours or not he could not dispense himself of treating with them according to the dignity of their Character and of making them to be covered after he had admitted them since they might The King complemented by forreign Ambassadours and were obliged to make their Quality appear in all their publick actions in an Estate where every one acknowledgeth them for Ambassadours And on this account that nothing might be omitted which might conduce to the honour of the King and the Glory of his Restitution Monsieur de Thou Count of Meslay The French Ambassadour hath Audience Ordinary Ambassadour of France in Holland obtained the first Audience as well for having demanded it first as for that there was no other Ambassadour at the Hague that would stand in competition with him He was met in the Court by one of the chief Gentlemen of the Chamber and on the top of the Stayrs by the Captain of the Life-guard who was as the Mâ—ster of the Ceremonies Assoon as he had made his Reverences and would have begun to speak the King covered himself presently and shewed thereby to the Ambassadour what he had to do His complement and gratulation of his Majesties and his Kingdoms Happiness was well received but his Audience was short Monsieur Oâ—te Krag The King of Denmarks Ambassadours next and Mr. Godsch of Bugwaldt extraordinary Ambassadors from the King of Denmark had their Audience after the French Ambassadour and after they had been received and treated as the other the first of them bespake the King in these words That since it hath pleased God to call again his Majesty unto his Kingdoms where his great merit should have established him long ago as well as the Right of his Birth they would not fail to come to congratulate him and to acquit themselves by this means of the duty which they have as well to the near Affinity which is between his Majesty and the King their Master as because of the streight Allyance which hath alwaies been between the Kingdoms of England and Denmark That they had cause to rejoyce for this happy Change not only because of the Glory
and Felicity which redounded thence to his Majesty but also because of the advantage which the King and Kingdom of Denmark would draw from thence which had not been afflicted and unjustly oppressed so long if that of England had been in a condition to hinder it That the King their Master would not fail to witness himself by a solemn Ambassage the joy which he received from so surprizing and so extraordinary a revolution assoon as he was advertised thereof and that they hoped in this happy Conjuncture that his Majesty would continue to live with the King their Master in the Amity Allyance and firm Confidence in which their Majesties have alwaies lived and which for some years was not interrupted but to the irreparable Prejudice of both And so that his Majesty would oppose himself generously to the violence which is done their King and succour him against the unjust invasion wherewith his Kingdom was afflicted Besides they thanked his Majesty for the honour he had done them in admitting them into his Royal Presence and for the Particular Grace which they received from thence in their persons The King thanked the Ambassadours for the Affection they had expressed to him and said that he knew very well that not only from long Antiquity there was a most streight Alliance between the Kings of England and Denmark but also that the Deceased King his Father had such great Obligations to the Deceased King of Denmaâ—k his good Cozen and to the present King himself that one of his chief cares after his Entry into his Kingdoms should be to renew that Friendship betwixt the two Crowns protesting his clear Affection to that King and his interest being touched with those Injuries that had been done him The same day also he Complemented by the Spanish Ambassadour was complemented by Don Estevan de Gamarra a Count and Councellor in the King of Spains Councils of Estate and War and Ordinary Ambassadour at the Hague but without Ceremony or demanding of Audience only he was admitted as a private Person uncovered because of the Zeal he particularly alwaies manifested to the Kings Service in many private and publick affairs being a very near Acquaintance of his Majesty's The reason why he was not admitted as an Ambassadour was because of the open Wars betwixt Spain and England at that time though no Acts of Hostility passed and the King considered mâ—tters in statu quo But the Portugal Ambassadour there the Count of Miranda could not be admitted to Audience unless he had had Letters of Credence from his Master to the King and that because the Spanish Ambassadour had it not in the quality of a publick Minister from whose Soveraign he had received all kinds of Civilities but as Sir Edward Nichâ—las who was sent from the King on this Errand told the Ambassadour that the King would be ready when he should be returned into his Kingdom to receive the Ministers of Portugal as oft as with Credential Letters they should be sent to him As was said before the King had received notice that General Montague was arrived with part of the Fleet in sight of Scheveling on the 14. of May having Orders from the Parliament to sayl thither and to await his Majesties Commands which was signified to the King by an Express from the General The Fleet at first coming thither consisted of about 18 great ships which before the King embarked were numbred to 38. being the Frigots that carried over the Commissioners of Parliament and the City of London whither we must a little return The Parliament having Voted that the Government of the Kingdom by the Fundamental Lawes thereof was vested in the King and his Parliament after they had with all Expressions of Duty testified their Joy of this happy Revolution ordered several Commissioners to be chosen by Glasses out of each House to go for the greater solemnity and Lustre of his Majesties Court to attend on him in Holland with the desires of the Parliament for his speedy return to the exercise of his Royal Authority The Lords that were chosen of the House of Peers were six the Names of them as followeth For the House of Lords Earl of Oxford Earl of Warwick was sick of the Gowtâ—and went non Earl of Middlesex Lord Visc Hereford Lord Barkley Lord Brook For the House of Commons Lord Fairfax Lord Bruce Lord Faulkland Lord Castleton Lord Herbert Lord Mandevil Sir Horatio Townsend Sir Aâ—th Ashley Cooper Sir George Booth Denzil Hollis Esq Sir John Halland Sir Henry Châ—lmley These were the prime and the most Honourable Members of that House and therfore pickt out for this extraordinary Honour of waiting on the King Not were the Citizens of London less curious in their choyce and Election of Commissioners having obtained leave of the Parliament to the same purpose and were all men of Estates and Reputation and of conspicuous Loyalty having manifested it in the late Danger of the City they were taken and composed partly out of the Magistracy partly from the principal Citizens and partly out of the Militia they were more numerous than both the other and very splendid and gallant in their Retinue being 20 in number whose Names are as follows Sir James Bunce Baron Alderman Langham Alderman Reynardson Alderman Browne Sir Nicholas Crisp Alderman Tomson Alderman Frederick Alderman Adams Recorder Wilde Alderman Robinson Alderman Bateman Alderman Wate Theophilus Bidulph Richard Ford. Will. Vincent Tho. Bludworth Will. Bateman J. Lewis Esq M. Chamberlain Col. Bromfield The Lords likewise were attended with a great number of Gentlemen and store of Servants 〈◊〉 in very rich and costly Liveries They arrived the said 14th day of May but came not on shore till the 15th but because they were not of the Kings Train and had no Letters of Credence to the State they were not treated at their Charge only out of civil respect to the Lords they had Lodgings provided for them by Billet They came to the Hague in Coaches sent by the States that Evening but they did not reverence to the King till the next day being the 16th The Estates of the Province of Holland had audience the day before in a very magnificent and solemn way and were dismissed from it with great and ample demonstrations of the Kings affection the like did the Deputies of Amsterdam in behalf of that Town and were complemented in like manner by him His Majesty vouchsafing if his Affairs would permit to accept of their Inâ—itation thither but Time and his Affairs required a dispensation from that Civility He admitted also their Request concerning the Barge or Brigandine which they tendred to him and gave them thanks for their great respects to his Person which he promised to keep in inviolable remembrance But that the King might not be troubled with multitudes of Visits every Corporation or Body of subordinate Courts purposing to demand Audience of him they forbid them by Proclamation informing them that the States of
Holland did it comprehensively for all of them and that it would be unseemly to incommodate his Majesty with so many Visits so that by this means the University of Leyden then in a readiness was put by from their address and Gratulations Indeed there would have been no end of those Ceremonies otherwise so passionately did each place and degree of men strive to shew their joy and affection for his Majesty therefore not to clog the Reader we will forbear any particular Narratives concerning them Come we now to the manner of the Entertainment of the King at Dinner The manner of the Entertainment of the King at Dinner for which as before said a Sum of 30000 l. from the day of his coming to the Hague was alotted as a foundation for expences till he should depart in his Voyage seven Lords were appoynted to attend constantly at his meat and see the Royal Family served The Table was doubly furnished at the head of which and in the midst sate the King having on his left hand the Princess Royal and on his right his Aunt the Queen of BohemiA At the end of the Table on the same side were the Dukes of York and Glocester and at the other end by the Princess Royal was the Prince of Aurange her Son This Order was observed in all Repasts only in the absence of the Prince of Aurange the two Princes his Majesties Brothers separated and placed themselves at the two ends of the Table By this means one could well serve all those that were there because they were all at a certain distance which permitted the Officers to do their Functions and places as also the Deputies of the Estates left space enough between the Kings Table and theirs for the convenrence of those which served the meat before the Royal persons putting themselves at the two ends of the skirt before the King who would not that the Deputies Table should be separated from his There was commonly a Set of Violins which played and divertised the King during Dinner and in the Healths that were drunk as the King never failed almost to drink the Prosperity of the States the Cannon of the Viverberg thundred from every Battery On the 16th day of May Audience of the Commissioners before his Majesty after his Majesty had dined the Commissioners of Parliament and the City of London came to do reverence to his Majesty They came from the House where the extraordinary Ambassadours are lodged and the military house of the Citizens in this Order both the Lords and the other went forth afoot walking two and two having before them a very great number of Gentlemen Among them the Lord Fairfax drew upon him the curiosity and eyes of all men as known to them by name to have been Captain General of the Parliaments Army he desired to see the King privately and to ask him pardon for the past Offence with all submission which afterwards he did Being brought into the Kings Chamber they made a very low and most submiss Reverence The Earl of Oxford spake for the higher House in a short but pithy Oration Denzil Hollis for the House of Commons whose Elegant Speech is Printed at large the Occasion of which Publication was some exceptions or sinister Reports made of it and therefore that Lord vindicated himself and it He insisted therein chiefly upon the miseries under which the Nation had so long groaned and upon the Usurpation and Tyranny of Cromwel whereas on the contrary they were assured by his Majesties innate Goodness as well as indubitable Right of enjoying themselves their Lands and Liberties in a full repose and serenity of Peace beseeching him in the Name of the people of England to return forthwith into his Kingdom and to resume again the Scepter of his Ancestors â—ee and unburdened from any Conditions or Limitations as Sr. John Greenvile had before reâ—orted The King received them with much Frankness together with the protestations of obedience Fidelity which they made him in the Name of the Lords and Commons of England and of the City of London in particular whose 〈◊〉 to the King were expressed and delivâ— by Sir William Wyld the Recorder in few but sincere words and therewithal gave them his hand to kiss and welcomed them After they had taken leave of the King they addressed themselves to the Dukes to whom they rendered the Complements from the Parliament and City and thence in the same order on Foot to the Qâ—en of Bohemia and the Princess Royal where they performed after the same manner To compleat this Gratulation both from home and abroad from States Parliaments Princes Kings The Emperors Resident complements the Kiâ— the Emperours Resident at the Hague had also Audience of the King declaring unto him that this change of his Affairs would be the most welcom News to his Master in the world since he hoped his Majesty knew what a sincere Friend and Lover of him and his Interest the Deceased Emperour Ferdinand had on all Occasions expressed himself There was also that day admitted to the Kings Presence the Master of that Barque which conveyed his Majesty from the Coast of Sussex over to Deep in France after his Escape from Worcester The King was well pleased with the sight of him in this turn of his condition which rendred his just greatness now more pleasant to him by that contrariety of Fortune He dismist therefore this faithful Person with assurance of his respect and Favour to him The King also received to the honour of his Hand many Persons of Quality who in the impatience to see his Majesty had passed the Sea voluntarily without any particular Commission they all did him Reverence in the same manner the Commissioners had done The English Officers in the pay and Service of the States came and presented themselves to his Majesty among whom was Major Cromwel whose Elder Brother commanded a Regiment whereof he was Major being the Sons of Sr. Oliver Cromwel Unkle to the Usurper the King shewed him no other Countenance than to any of his good Subjects but received him very well permitting them to change their Name of Cromwel into their ancienter name of Williams On the 17th day the Swedish Ambassadour Mr. Coyet had Audience also of the King who in the Close thereof enquired particularly of the young King of Sweden and the Queen Regent and the place of his Breeding and so with usual Civilities dismist him professing his desire and readiness to continue the Allyance between the two Crowns The rest of that day was spent in private Conferences with the Commissioners of the Parliament It will now not be amiss to our purpose since we shall presently speak of the Kings intention to depart The manner how the King was served to speak a word of the manner wherewith the King was served at his ordinary Repasts and of the estate of the expence which was made every day for his Majesty having
already spoken of his Table and how the Royal persons that did eat there were seated They served up great Dishes in Oval Form at five Courses each containing five Dishes and 12 Trenchers because they changed the Dishes twice at every Service and every Dish was very massive besides the Load in them there being two dozen of Pheasants in one Dish and all the oâ—her Dishes were served accordingly They served besides that five tables for the Lords and for the Marquess of Worcester c. and one for the Ladies all at four Courses and almost as full and furnished with the same meats as those of the Kings Table except one course which was between the Boyl'd and the Roast All the sweet meats as well at the Kings Table as at the Lords and Ladies were scrambled for at every meal and exposed to the discretion of the people who were ordinarily there at those hours by the King in Crowds And not only they served all sorts of delicious Wines at the Table but the Sources streamed therewith day and night and were never dry as well for the English of what condition soever they were as for all those of the Town that came to demand it Every Table was of twelve Coverings and had its Steward it s four Butlers as many Assistants in the Buttery and twelve men that served up the meat and drink But for the Kings Diet it was particular there was a Clark of the Kitchin for the Broths another for the Courses another for the Pastry one for the Roast and one for the meats between the Courses every Clark having four Cooks under him for each Service There was a rumour spread this day of some attempt intended against the Kings person 't was discovered by a mean Frenchman who was in danger of his Life for overhearing of it in a private place in the Rampart from whence coming out three men espied him who as he said spoke to one another in bad French these words That they failed twice because of the great Number of People that were about him and served him for Guards but they would so well take their Advantage from the two sides of the Coach that he should not escape them He received two shots of a Pistol but the Fellows upon his calling out sled away Upon his persistance in this Affirmation a Guard of Horse were presently added to the Foot a Cornet of whom alwaies stood in the avenues of the Palace where the King was lodged and of which there was alwaies a Squadron which followed his Coach wheresoever he went And forasmuch as it was known that there was found in the Fleet a man bold enough when the King should come to see the Vessel where he served as a Mariner to give fire to the Powder an Order was made by the General as he himself did that every Captain should take the Key of the Powder to himself This invited the King to chuse a Guard of fourscore Gentlemen which are now improved into a greater number under the command of the Lord Gerard Captain of the Life-guard which served by squadrons so that there was alwaies twenty which marched on both sides the Coach having one hand on the supporting staffe of the Boot and holding a sword drawn out of the Belt but in the Scabberd in the other But as this Posture was somwhat irregular and offensive in a Country where the Person of his Majesty was no less dear than in his Kingdoms the King considering that to hinder approach to his Person was sufficient to secure it would that they should wear their Swords by their sides and carry a Cane in their hands which assured the Passage and also made their Quality and Charge to be respected On Sunday the 20th of May The States of Holland dine privately with the King the States of Holland by their Deputies dined in private with the King and that nothing might be wanting to the Testimonies of Affection which the Estates would render to his Majesty they ordained the same day that all kind of refreshments should be sent to the Admirals Ship to the Vice-Admirals and the Reer-Admirals to be afterwards distributed to the whole Fleet. They communicated thereupon with their Admiral Lieutenant and caused so much Wine Victuals Citrons and Oranges to be bought and sent that the Lord Montague confessed that he never saw so much Notwithstanding they sent them not aboard before the King had fixed on the day of his Embarquement when they were carried aboard the Admiral to whose disposal they were left The Estates wrote also to the Colledge of the Admiralty to provide such a number of Hoyes other vessels as the officers of the Kings stable of the Duke of York and Glocester should judge necessary for the transporting of the Horses and of a part of his Majesties Baggage and of their Royal Highnesses and Order was given that they should be stabled and kept in the Town of Rotterdam till they could be embarqued and that the ships should be provided of Hay Oats and Straw for the time that probably they might be upon the Sea Friday the 18th of May the Estates General who knew they should highly please the King in doing such a civility to him The English Commissioners complemented deputed three of their Lords to go with a Complement to the Commissioners of the 2 Houses of Parliament and of the City of London upon the present Estate of Affairs in England The Lords Commissioners of the House of Peers assembled in the House of the Earl of Oxf. who was lodged at M. Buysero's Greffier or Secretary of the Council to the Pr. of Aurange the said Noble Earl having at that time a Regiment as his warlike Progenitors before in the States Service and the Commissioners of the Lower House were lodged in the House of the Baron of Asperen and received this Civility from them with much satisfaction Innumerable in the mean while was the Concourse of People and as multiplied the Excesses of those Kindnesses done to any that could but say he pertained to the King of Great Britain no other Business being minded but what concerned the Honour and Pleasure of the King in which they thought themselves never too much sedulous and diligent The same day the Estates of Holland having deliberated upon the recommendation which the King had made them when they saluted his Majesty in a body of some persons and English Officers which were in the Service of that State whose Duty and Affection which they expressed unto him in the midst of his Affliction as well for his Interests as those of his Sister and Nephew the Prince of Aurange now minded him of their Concerns did ordain that the five Regiments of Scots Foot which were reformed and reduced to two in the year 1655. should be brought again to their first estate in behalf of Lieut. Col. Henderson whom the King respected and that the Command of the third should be given
unto him with the Quality of Colonel On the same consideration they gave a Troop of Horse to Mr. Kâ—rkhoven Baron of Wooton Son of the Deceased Lord Heenvhâ—t and the Countess of Stanhop being in the room of his Father great Forrester of Holland and Superintendant of his Highnesses the Prince of Auranges Affairs Another Complement was also Ordered to be given the aforesaid Commissioners of England A Speech made to the Commissioners of Parliament by Deputies from the Province of Hol. the sum whereof meeting them in the same place where the Deputies of the States General saluted them being uttered by M. Wimmenum was this That the Lords the Estates of Hol. who had so much caus to rejoyce for that great Catastrophe which they saw in Eng. could not be silent in that wonderful juncture and in that publick and universal Joy but found themselves obliged to express it to thens that contributed most to it and were 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 Undertaking That the Lords Estates who in the Anarcâ—y and disorder had for their parts retained their due sentiments of the English Nation though necessitated to a War which was meerly personal on the English side against a Faction and prevalent Party did take this happy advantage of assuring their Lordships of the Perseverance of their Affection and prayed God for the continuance of the Prosperity in the Kingdoms of his Majesties Dominions and of their Persons in particular with all the fervency and earnestness that might be expected from an allied State and from Persons perfectly affectioned to their Good and Interests To this the Commissioners answered by the mouth of those Noblemen that spoke to the King That they thanked the States for their great Affection to the King and his Kingdoms the memory whereof they should alwaies keep and particularly for the pains they had taken in coming to give them a Visit with such Assurances of their Respect and Friendship which they would endeavour to require by their personal Services and by a perpetual and inviolable Amity with that Republick and so conducted them to their Coaches On the 19th of May Sixty thousand Pound added to the expence for the Kings Entertainment an Addition of threescore thousand Pound was Ordered for the Expence which they would now magnificently bestow on the Kings Entertainment the States intending to make him a Feast and to give him and his Brothers some Presents upon which account they thought also fit to furnish for his Majesty the Bed and Appurtenances which the last Deceased Prince of Aurange had caused to be made for the lying in of the Princess Royal and which she never used because of the death of the Pâ— her husband who deceased eight dayes 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 Tester the Seats and Skreens the Hangings and the other pieces necessary to make a Furniture compleat the Estates would add thereunto a most perfect fair Hanging of the richest Tapestry embossed with Gold and Silver which they caused to be made of purpose with a great number of excellent Pictures as well of Italy as of other Countries both ancient and modern and whatsoever can adorn a Chamber worthy to lodge so great a Monarch in his greatest Magnificence It is now set up at Hampton-Court The Council of State ordained also that all the Fisher-Barks of the Villages of Scheveling and of Heyde should be stayed for the Service of the State Order given for the Embarquement of the Baggage to the end to serve the imbarquement of the Court and Kings Baggage and that for the same purpose the Village of Catwyck on the Sea and other Dorps adjacent should send 20 Barks and caused 30 open Waggons to be made ready also to bring the said Baggage down to Scheveling the Monday following being the 21th with 40 close Waggons to conduct the Train on Tuesday which was the day that the King had designed for his departure though deferred till Wednesday as we shall see hereafter The same day the Duke of York accompanied with the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg The Duke of York taketh the Oath of Allegiance from the Mariners and with a great number of English Dutch Lords and Gentlemen went to Scheveling to take the Mariners Oaths of Fidelity in quality of Admiral of England but the Wind being contrary and the Sea boysterous the Lord Montague thought it not fit to send Boats from aboard him to fetch his Royal Highness and the Fishermen of the Village refused likewise to put him aboard so that he was forced to return to the Hague to Dinner At this time came also the Ambassadour of the Marquess of Brandenburg The Ambassadour of the Marquess of Brandenburgh his audience Monsieur Weyman to salute the King upon his restitution brought in by Prince Maurice of Nassau the same that was extraordinary Ambassadour here since from the said Elector after the King had answered the Complement they spake of indifferent Affairs which have nothing common with this Relation Monsieur Vicque first Resident with the States Ambassanours likewise from the Landgrave of Hesse for the Landgrave of Hessen made likewise his Complement for the Prince his Master which was so much the better received as in his particular he had an Occasion in the business of the Palatinate to which House he hath constantly bin allied to render most important Service to his Majesty as well as the Deceased King his Father He had the Honour to do reverence to his Majesty at Breda with the Duke of Lunenburg where the King remembred the affection which he had for his Service The King added so sensibly did the touches of other afflicted Princes condition incite him to a generous Sympathy and protested himself as well as his Father obliged to the Duke of Curland who had in the War in England supplied him with Arms and Ammunition and that he never would fail to acknowledge those good Offices done them both during the Disorders of his Kingdoms After these verbal Ceremonies were past other oral as we may say followed several Invitations were made from the Ambassadours to the Lords of the Kings Train to dine with them the Ambassadour of France had treated the Earl of St. Albans and the Lord Crofts and some other Lords at a Dinner and the Spanish Ambassadour was bespoke by the two Dukes of York and Glocester being of long Familiarity with him to entertain them at his House where before the Marquess of Ormond had been
nobly treated and had made such Relation thereof to their Highnesses But the King who would dine that day in publick with the Queen of Bohemia The Spanish Ambassador gives the King a Treatment the Princess Royal the Prince of Aurange and the Deputies of the States General having desired that the Princes his Brothers might be of the Company the Ambassadour who had accordingly expected their Royal Highnesses gave himself the liberty to complain to the King in raillery for taking away his Guests from him His Majesty used the Goodness to tell him that he did it of purpose to hinder their dining with him because he would also be 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 Don Stephen de Gamarra where were also the Qu. of Bohemia the Dukes of York and Glocester the Princess Royal the Prince of Aurange the Marquess of Ormond the the Lords Digby Craft and Taaff the Lady Stanhop to whom the King had lately have given the Title of the Countess of Chesterfield 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 Hague but it would be very difficult to make a pertinent description of this Feast because that although they served up there but Fish and Sallats but such a number of Sweet-meats dry and liquid that all the Persons of quality which were come thither to see the Order of the Supper returned home laden besides all sorts of delicious wines as Limnada Hipocras it was yet without doubt one of the most splendid stately that ever was seen at a private hous The King also for which particular reason we mention this Entertainment appeared here 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 stayed there even until one of the Clock after Midnight yet without the least Disorder or Confusion that â—ight trouble their Conversation and Divertisement Every thing here was indeed high and magnificent but that which was most remarkable was this Sir Gâ—o Downing presents himself to the King that about Midnight arrived there Mr. Downing who managed the Affairs of England with the Lords States having been Secretary to the Protectors Council in Scotland in quality of Resident for Oliver Cromwel and for a while afterward for the Pretended Parliament which continued him in the same Employment in the quality of extraordinary Envoy He was thought to have had a respect and Duty for the King long before when he was in Scotland and when he knew that all England declared for a Free Parliament he forthwith abandoned their Employment and departed from Holland without any Order of Revocation wisely foreseeing that there was nothing could longer oppose the re-establishment of Monarchal Government with an intent to crave Letters of Recommendation from General Monk who at his arrival out of consideration of his Faithfulness and Respect to him and his Undertakings when he could not discover his Intentions gave him such Letters With these he arrived at midnight at the House of the Spanish Ambessadour and presented them forthwith to the King who arose from the Table a while afterwards read the Letters and received the submissions of the said Gentleman and granted him the pardon and Grace which he had sued in His Name to whom he could deny nothing Some dayes after the King Knighted him Sir Geo Downing Knâ—ghted and would it should be believed that the strong aversions which this Minister of the Protectors had made appear against him on all occasions and with all sorts of Persons indifferently even a few dayes before the publick and general Declaration of all England proceeded not from any evil Intention but only from a deep and honest dissimulation wherewith he was constrained to cover his true Sentiments for fear to prejudice the Affairs of his Majesty Somthing must be said of that which was remarkable on Sunday the 20th Dr. Hardy Preacheth before the King at the Hague of May. The King had appointed that Morning to hear a Sermon and to that purpose it was ordained that Mr. Hardy one of the Ministers which came from England with the Commissioners of the City of London should preach before the King in the Chappel of the Court which serves for a Church to the French that live at the Hague at eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon assoon as the French had ended their ordinary Devotions And to the end to prevent disorder amongst the People which were come there in crouds from the neighbour Towns the Company which had the Guard was commanded to seize upon the Avennues of the Chappel and particularly to possess the door which leads into a little Partition where the Princes of Aurange heretofore caused a Bench to be made cloathed with black Velvet and covered with a Canopy of the same Stuffe for themselves and for Persons of Quality that were ordinarily of their train but they dreamed not to remedy another inconvenience which deceived all the other precautions that they used For the French in stead of giving place to the English and of using the civility which they were accustomed to have for strangers would not go out of the Church so greedy and resolute were they of seeing the King and the manner of his Worship and Religion And even the persons of Condition which sate in the little Partition whereof before and who were for the most part Dutch refused to make place for the Lords who were in great number about the Kings Person without considering that this very Incivility hindred them absolutely to satisfie the curiosity which they had to see the King and to be present at the English Liturgy The Reader of the Church exhorted the people to withdraw and likewise the Pastor who made the Sermon went up again into the Pulpit and represented to them the wrong they did themselves as well as their Brethren of the same Religion and strangers as they in this Countrey in obstinately staying thus in their Seats after having heard the Word of God and in fayling in that respect to the King to whom that very Temple was given by their Superiors and where the English were to hear it after them in their own Tongue But these Exhortations made no Impression on spirits prepossessed no more than the other Reasons which he alledged so that the King was enforced to do his Devotions in the place where her Royal Highness is accustomed to have her Preaching particularly since most important considerations hindred her in the time of the Usurpation to go to the English Church Into this place of hers entred as many as it could
but seven Tables with the Kings besides the servants but this day there were sixteen seven of which were served as ordinarily in the other appartments of the Kings House and the rest in the Costellary where expresse order was given to receive and treat all the English that should come The expence of this entertainment was not particularly known by reason the States would not make any brags of their Cost but the King was greatly pleased with the magnificence thereof as he expressed himself to one of the States the next day affirming that he never Supped better then the day he arrived at the Hague and that in all the feasts which were made as well in France Spain and Germany and in the Low-Countreys and among others that which the Arch-Duke Leopoldus made in the Month of May 1656. when he was going out of the Low-Countreys into Germany he saw nothing come near that wherewith the states of Holland had now entertained him As soon as the Estates began to drink the Kings Health they gave the signall with a Torch at one of the Windows which looked towards the Viver where the Artillery was placed which presently was fired to which answerd the Musquet and the Carbines of the Horse and the Cannon from the Rampart and this at four several times which was as the intermedial Musick of that which passed in the Palace during supper whilst it lasted there was made to come forth from a boat which was in the midst of that viver or pond which washeth the Foot of Prince Maurice his House aswel as oâ—e whole Palace an infinite number of squibs and of other artificial Fireworks which gave a most pleasant divertisement to the people the whole night On Monday the 21. the States having notice that the King intended to depart in his voyage the day following desired to know how they should wait upon him to make him their last complement either in body or by Deputies But the King to do them an extraordinary honour in recompence of those great civilities he had received from them acquainted them by a messenger of his own that the next day his voyage being deferred till Wednesday he would make them a visit in person in the place of their Assembly They would have been glad if they could have dispensed themselves from receiving so great an honour but they chose to be loaden with civility at home then to commit an incivility in opposing the will of the King The Estates of Holland likewise to whom the King signified by one of the Secretaries of his Commands that he would do them the same honour received the advertisement thereof with the same respect and both one and t'other after they had agreed with the Ministers of the Court how they intended to receive his Majesty with all the submission they should be able to render to so good a Prince and so great Monarch they both gave necessary orders in their several Assemblies for this glorious and illustrious visit The Speech of the Lorâ—s of Zeland In the mean time the Estates of Zeland and Friesland sent their Deputies a part to congratulate the King who were received with the same Ceremony as the the King had used to the other Provinces At their Audience Mounsier De Veth Pensionary Councellor of Zeland bespoke the King in these words Sir we are here from the Lords the Estates of Zeland to do reverence to your Majesty and to assure you of our most humble and respectfull services we represent Sir and acknowledge in the person and sight of your Majesty the favours and assistances which our Province hath from all time received from the Kings of Great Brittain your most famous Predecessours and so we cannot but felicitate you and expresse the joy we have to see the grace which God would do unto your Majesty in this admirable revolution of Affairs wherewith your Majesty should be so much the more touched as neither you nor the rest of the world presumed so much as to hope it If Great Brittain hath made Bon-fires at the Birth of your Majesty what should we do now in this marvellous Conjuncture where we see all the Artifices and attempts of your enemies disappointed and overthrown your Royall Person miraculously reestablished in the Throne of your Ancestors and your Crown to speak truth sent from Heaven rather then put upon the head of your Majesty by the hand of man so we need not doubt that God who is the particular Protector of Kings who raises at this time your Majesty by wayes so Extraordinary will not fail to uphold you by that powerfull hand which laid it on the Royal head and that whole Christendome derives not advantages from thence which cannot be ordinary since that God by whom your Majesty reigns so visibly will make it so that you shall reign for him efficaciously in rendring the good and repose of his Church inseparable from the interests of your estate And hence shall it be Sir that as from an inexhaustible spring upon the Counsells and actions of your Majesty shall flow all the blessings of Heaven which shall settle the repose of your Estate and assure the Scepter in your hands for the comfort of your People for the protection of your Allies for the Terror of your Enemies and for the establishment of a perpetual peace in all Christendome to the exaltation of the great name of God and to the particular glory of your Majesty Especially we hope that this favourable occasion will serve to tye more strongly the Knot of the Alliance which from time to time hath been so carefully maintained between Great Brittain and this Commonwealth particularly if her Highness the Princesse Royal who is so notably interessed in the prosperity of both will labour herein with the care which we promise us from her Goodnesse These are the most ardent prayers Sir which the Lords the Estates of Zeland your very humble Servants make unto God and which they hope will be heard in due time The Count of Oldenburgh the powerfullest Count of Germany and allyed to the Royal house of Denmarke whose heir he is in case of faylure no other Prince or State having by expresse Letters of Credence to the King by their Ministers congratulated his Majesty upon the happinesse of his affairs sent Monsieur Cotteritz his Councellor of State purposely on the Errand the King received him with all honour and respect and gave him a most obliging answer for the complement This One and Twentieth of May The Duke of York goeth aboard the English Fleet. the Duke of York who was hindred on Saturday the 19. from going aboard the Fleet as we have said by the storm embarqued himself and came on board the General It was thought necessary by the Kings Councill to disengage the Officers and Marriners of the Oath which they had taken to the last Parliament and to be assured thereof by a new Oath of Fidelity to the King their
Soveraign Lord. The Duke being received with extraordinary honour and submission caused the Captains of the other Ships to come aboard him and take the Oath of Allegiance which the Captains caused afterwards to be administred to the inferiour Officers and to all the rest of the Sea-men in the other Ships The Lord Mountague had caused the Flag wherein were the States Arms to be changed before he departed from the Coast of England and made the Arms thereof in the stern to be defaced and pulled down but reserved the Honour for his Royal Highnesse to change the name of the Ship which Cromwell had caused to be called the Naseby in memory of that fatal place where the King deceased received his totall overthrow who thinking no name great enough for so immense a structure being certainly one of the handsomest and biggest Frames for war and yet the best sailer that ever sailed upon the Seas next after the Soveraign carrying fourscore peices of Brasse Canon and six hundred men on board her nor so welcome to the Fleet gave her the name of the Royal Charles It will not be amisse to set down a little breif of the Dukes entertainment here he dined in that Chamber or Gallery where the King was to lodge which was all new wainscotted and guilded and furnished with a fair bed of the finest Cloth of England fringed with Gold and Silver the Floor laid with Turky Tapestry In the Generals Kitchen there were six Clerks that laboured but for the mouth his Table being as well served at Sea as many Princes were in their Dominions The dishes which were all of Silver were of so vast a bignesse most of them that Surloines of Beef and Chines likewise were served up in them The Duke dined at this ordinary of the Generals which might passe for a great feast and in going thence was saluted with the Artillery of the whole Fleet which did him the same Honour when he came on board At this time the King received letters from the Quakers in England full of impertinences and menaces against him if he protected not their Sect and entred not also into those thoughts The King having made known the day before to Monsieur de Veth Deputy from Zeland to the Estates General The King visits the States General in their Assemblie and President that Week that his purpose was to render them a visit the next morning in their Assembly preparation was made to receive him with all imaginable respect and so ordered a Deputy for every Province to wait upon him from his lodgings thither two of them being to march before the King bare-headed to the place where the Estates would receive him and from thence to the seat which was prepared for him They had also provided a great train of Coaches to wait on him thither but his Majesty had no sooner answered the Complement of the Deputies but being upon the stone stairs of the Court he caused the Lords of the train to advance and expressed a willingnesse to walk that little way on foot which is between Prince Maurice his House and the Palace Prince William of Nassau put himself immediately before the King who not disposed to cover himself in the way the Deputies of the Estates that followed him put themselves in the same condition and in this order between two files of Souldiers they arrived at the foot of the stairs of the great hall where the Estates General came in a body to meet him made him a low reverence and opened themselves to make him passe in the midst of them and followed him thus two and two along the Hall and then through the Gallery where they sell pictures but their Shops that day shut up and their with-drawing Chamber unto that of their ordinary Assembly his Majesty and the Estates being still uncovered This Hall is rather long then large The manner of His Majesties sitting in the Assembly of the States General having in the midst of it a Table capable to hold about Thirty persons in the middle whereof is a place for the President which changeth every week according to the number and rank of the united Provinces but the President for that Week quitted it then and sate in that which is over against it where the Ambassadours and Ministers of Forrain Princes are seated when publique Audience is given them and on the usual seat of the President they made an ascent or foot-bank of seven or eight foot broad covered over with a foot-cloth of Tapistry which reached along the passage even to the door of the with-drawing Chamber on the Foot-bank was placed a Chair of Green Velvet aud over head a Cloath of Estate or Canopy of the same Coloured Velvet which was hung between the Pourtraits of the four last Princes of Aurange of the House of Nassau there standing which were so separated that those of Prince William and Maurice were of one hand father and son together and those of Prince Henry Frederick brother to Prince Maurice and his son William the second Husband to the late Princesse Royal on the other side of the Canopy The King being come to this place which was a kind of a Throne Prince William Frederick of Nassau and some English Lords put themselves behind the seat and his Majesty who stood still and uncovered till all the Members that compose that illustrious Senate were entred which were numerous that day because of the Extraordinary Deputies when they were after a while disposed in their places sate down then and covered himself but remained not long in that posture For as soon as he saw the seats full and all the Deputies covered he arose and putting off his Hat in very kind and obliging expressions for all the civilities they had shewed him since he arrived in their Countrey he assured them of the constancy of his Amity and affection for the good of that Common-wealth and here more solemnly recommended unto them the persons and interests of the Princesse Royal his Sister and of the Prince of Aurange his Nephew to which the President made a reply in such terms as sufficiently made known the respect wherewith they resented this Honour they had received This being done his Majesty retired the same way and in the same manner he entred Prince William marching in the head and the Estates two by two following him and conducting the King into the Court to the foot of the Stairs of the great Hall where they had received him Here the Lords States of the Province of Holland to whom the King had promised the like honour of his presence in their Assembly came to meet his Majesty in a body They had likewise before them Prince Maurice of Nassau Lieutenant General of the Horse and Governour of Wesel marching alone and bareheaded performing the same place which Prince William had done with the Estates General Nothing being new or what varied from the manner of his Majesties reception and sitting in
the Assembly of the States General t will be needlesse to repeat them here onely this requires a remark that the King speaking near the same words at least the same sense in both Assemblies and concluding with his recommendation of the Prince and Princesse of Aurange to their affection the states of Holland taking advantage by a pretence that they did not perfectly hear not understand that clause ordered their President to request the King that he would be pleased to signifie his pleasure therein again to the said President which he consented to and to satisfie the Estates of Holland Sent their President this following Note signed in the Princess Royal her Chamber with his own hand SIrs whereas I leave here in your hands the Princesse my Sister and the Prince of Aurange my Nephew two persons which are extremely dear to me I pray you Sirs take their interest to heart and to cause them to resent the effects of the Favour in the occasions which the Princesse my Sister shall request of you either for her self or the Prince her son assuring you that all the effect of your good will towards then shall be acknowledged of me as if I had received them in my own person Signed Charles R. THis was meerly procured from the King to do him greater Honour for that not knowing how to get a Copy of his Speech which they would have recorded they find this way to be sure of a parcell of it under his own hand a Copy whereof being therefore transmitted to the Estates General was inserted in the Registers of the Resolutions of the Generality and of the Province of Holland in perpetuam rei memoriam and to manifest their readinesse of complying with the King in all things Monsieur de Thou Count of Meslay the French Ambassadour had this day his Audience of leave with the same Ceremonies as he was received at first so likewise had the Ambassadours of Denmark and from him they went to visit the Earl of Oxford as Cheif of the Commissioners from the House of Lords The Ambassadours had caused the King to be sounded if he were pleased that they should see the Commissioners of the two houses to which question his Majesty expressed himself that they should do him a pleasure therein They had before often caused Audience to be asked of both Commissioners but their continual imployments on the Kings person joyned to the difficulty there was to assemble persons that diverted themselves in a place where occasions of their entertainment were not wanting to them and in a time when all the world rejoyced opposed alwayes their satisfaction therein Only the Earl of Oxford endeavoured what he could to make the Commissioners of the Higher house to assemble but to no purpose They prayed therefore at last the one and twentieth of May audience of the lower House with my Lord Fairfax who had assembled some of them in the house of the Baron of Asperen where he was lodged and the next day which was Tuesday the day before the Kings imbarking the Lord of Oxford did as much receiving them at the House of Mr. Buysero Secretary of the Council to the Prince of Aurange They were civilly entertained from the Consideration of the respect the King had shewed them but as to their affairs my Lord told them that the King for the future was to have the sole disposition of such matters since that in returning to his Kingdomes the sole conduct of the State appertained and was remitted to him Prince Maurice of Nassau did now likewise complement the King upon his departure from himself and also officiated for the Duke of Brandenburgh to both of whom the K. professed a very great affection to the Prince for his lodging residence and other Civilities shewed him at his house to the Duke for those Testimonies of that kindnesse he had for his affairs when all the world believed them desperate and further said that he would conserve eternally the remembrance of the good offices which his Highnesse had rendred him in the Empire and of the great obligations which he laid upon him in a time when there was no Prince almost that dared to declare for his Interests Monsieur Coyet Ambassadour from the Swede because he would not be troublesome to the King in this dispatch for England contented himself to signifie to his Majesty that his Master would send an Ambassadour extraordinary to complement him together for all his felicities upon his arrival to his Kingdome But the Estates General who had received an Honour by the Kings presence in their Assembly The Estates General do the like whose memory they intend shall be precious to all posterity thought themselves bound to acknowledge it and to give him aparting complement on his voyage which was uttered by the Baron of Gaunt in these Elegant words SIR THe Estates General of the Vnited Provinces having been advertised from your Majesty that you purpose to Embarque to morrow to compleat your voyage for England return here again to receive the Honour of your Commands on the paint of your departure If your Majesty finds not in their faces the same cheerfulnesse which you might observe there when they had the Honour to salute you at your Arrival it is because of the sorrow to see themselves ready to be deprived of the Splendour of so fair a light which your Majesty hath made to shine in their Estate during the little time you would remain there That which comforts them Sir in some kind is that they know that the interests of your Majesty presse your departure and the good of the affairs of your Crown permits you not to defer it longer Neverthelesse the little residence which it hath pleased your Majesty to make amongst us and the goodnesse wherewith ye would receive our endeavours we have made to be able to please you leaves them such signal strong and indubitable marks of your goon will towards us that we shall for it eternally blesse that providence to which we owe these incomparable advantages The Presence of your Majesties sacred person in their Assembly and the obliging expressions which your Royal mouth made in the Senate are such evident Testimonies of the disposition which you have to Honour this Estate with your Royal good will that they deserve that all Posterity should find them written in Letters of Gold in their Registers as we have deeply graved them in our hearts If the entertainment which hath been made to your Majesty and which it hath pleased you to accept in so engaging a manner hath no proportion with the greatnesse of so potent a Monarch we beseech you most humbly to believe that this defect proceedeth rather from the indigence of our County then from the will of the Inhabitants in whose acclamations and joy we are perswaded that your Majesty may observe visibly the zealous devotions and ardent prayers they put forth unto Heaven for the prosperity of your affairs and
for the glory of your Majesties person And since the Estates General are through an indispensible necessity to be deprived of the precious presence of your Majesty they will at least accompany you with their prayers which they will make incessantly that the sea and winds may favour your passage and make you hâ—ppily to arrive at the haven of your Kingdome that Calm and quietnesse may open and show that to you which Storms and Tempests have so miserably held shâ—t for so many years As soon as the estates General shall have understood that your Majesty is landed they will not fail to send to you their extraordinary Embassadours as well to finish with you in your Kingdome the Offices which they have begun here as to receive and make more particular overtures in the important matter of an alliance whereof it hath pleased your Majesty to touch here something in Generall being ready to answer on their side the good and sincere intentions whereof you had the goodnesse to give such great assurances because that with the affection which we have for the good of your affairs we have also a most deep respect for the sacred Character of your Unction and for the inestimable merit of Your Royal Person The estates being retired after the King had thanked them for their manifold civilities they had done him His Majesty employed the rest of the day in taking his leave by visits designed to that purpose The first he made was to the Queen of Bohemia where he stayed not long thence to the House of the Princesse Dowager of Orange where he found also the Princesse of Nassau and the young Lady of Aurange her Daughters The time and discourse past here was not only complemental but of affairs of State of which that Princesse is very capable and of the present condition of Europe and of the interest of it's several Princes of whose Estates she hath a most perfect knowledge After this visit performed she reconducted the King to the place where she received him and retired not till she saw the King gone The next visit was bestowed on the Princesse Royal who presented him many persons either to recommend to him or to take leave He stayed with her till supper time at which time the Waggons were employed from the estates to carry his Baggage to Scheveling which was presently embarqued and then he returned to his Lodgings At evening the Chief of the Deputies of Holland took occasion from the respects the King said he had for that Province for the testimonies of affection which they had shewed to him to say to his Majesty that the intention of the Lords 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 conceive as proofs of their good will rather then of their power The King would have declined it saying that he needed no other assurances of their affection then those they had given him at this present occasion that he was already satisfied therewith and thank'd them not onely for the effects passed but also for the good will they expressed unto him for the Future Those presents which they intended for him were not yet ready because the bed of the Princesse Royal was not perfect which was to make a part of them and because they knew not yet what his Majesty would like most No more therefore then was said to his Majesty but the Estates having resolved what they would present to the Duke of York the same Lord acquainted his Highnesse that the Lords of Holland willing to give some marks of affection to his Royal Highnesse had sought every where for something that might be worthy of him and that having found nothing because of the shortnesse of residence would not permit them to make enquiry yet that his Highnesse might not depart without some token and sentiment of their submisse respects to him they prayed him to accept a bill of Exchequer of Seventy five thousand Guilders which makes sterling Seven thousand five hundred pounds which he might cause his Treasurer to receive either at present in this Town of Mr. Berchel Receiver General of the Province or at London or elsewhere and it should be payed at sight The Duke received the Bill with many Testimonies of acknowledgement and said that it was without any repugnance or reluctancy that he charged himself with this obligation towards the Lords the estates The like present and sum was tendred in a Bill to the Duke of Gloucester who also received it very kindly They had designed also a present of Four hundred pounds for my Lord Crofts who brought the estates of Holland into the Audience of the King but as they deferred the Kings Present so did they alter this determination staying while a Chain of Gold of that value could with all possible speed and curiosity be made The dayes were now almost at their full length and yet it may be said that not onely the Hague saw Wednesday the 23. of May something 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 Nooke or Hole to put their heads in because the Houses were not able to Contain the people who flocked thither from all parts of the Neighbouring Countrey for the most part were constrained to walk the Streets There was no night for more then fifty thousand persons who from that Tuesday evening were gone to take up their places on the Downs or Sand hills which border on the Sea along the coast of Holland from whence they might discover the Fleet and see the King to Embark The Trumpet awakened the Horse that were to attend the Solemnity of his Majesties departure before day and at two a clock in the morning the Drums beat to assemble as well the Citizens as Souldiers In the Kings house it self every one was employed the whole night in causing the rest of the Baggage to be loaden and sent away and there was seen nothing but Waggons and Coaches full of English who went to embark themselves before the baâ—ks 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 both of which marched from thence to Scheveling where they stood in Battalia on the Sea shore from both sides of the Battery of the Cannon which was brought thither from the Hague The king himself was very early and soon ready and received the complements of many particular persons that would do him reverence expecting the estates of Holland who had desired the favour of their last audience
just at his departure They met at their hall as at their first visit and thence to the Kings house where all the Lords and persons of Quality about his Majesty came to meet them and conducted them to the presence Chamber where the chief of them Mounsieur de Witt spoke this most elegant Harange which far surpassed all the rest He began in these Words SIR IF one may judge of the displeasure which we have to see your Majesty depart from our Province by the satisfaction we had to possesse you we shall have no great trouble to make it known to 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 is probably to make a part of their quietnesse and felicity Your Majesty shall see presently all the Streets filled all the wayes covered and all the Hills loaden with people which will follow you even to the place of your Embarkment and would not leave you if they had wherewith to passe them into Your Kingdome 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 possesse so are we more sensible of this sad separation It would be insupportable to us Sir if we reentred 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 acquiesce therein because we know that this Removal is no lesse necessary for us then glorious for your Majesty and that it is in your Kingdome that we must find the accomplishment of the prayers we have made and make still for you and us So shall we not fail to profit thence as well as from the assurances which it hath pleased you to give us of an immutable affection for the good of this Republique We render most humble thanks unto your Majesty for them and particularly for the illustrious proof which it pleased you to give us thereof by the glorious visit wherewith you honoured our Assembly We shall conserve the memory of it most dearly and make the marks of that goodnesse passe to our last Posterity to the end they acknowledge it with the same respect with which we have received it The Constitution wherein we see your Majesty ready to take Horse for the continuation of your Voyage forbids us to enlarge our selves upon a Subject which would never weary us if we had words conformable to our respectfull sentiments But we have no mind to increase the just impatience which your Majesty must have to see your self returned into that Kingdome We pray God Sir that it be quick and happy and that as be hath disposed the hearts and affections of your Subjects to acknowledge their lawfull and Soveraign Prince it will please him also to Command the Seas and Winds to favour your Voyage so that after you have received in your own Coast the same prayer which we shall reiterate you may enjoy in your Royal Person and in your Posterity for ever all the felicity and prosperity which your most humble Servants wish unto your Majesty To this Speech the King returned in his usual civility repeating the great obligations they had said upon him which he said he would convert into a strict alliance and perfect understanding between them as soon as his estate was composed When this complement was over which the King expected he took his way to the Princesse Royal her appartment whom he would visit at home before he took horse whither the Lords States would needs conduct him and by reason they were uncovered he would not put on his hat in the going thither when he was come to the Chamber the said Lords retired to take Coach when the saw the King ready to take horse The conversation which his Majesty had with the Princesse was but a moment for immediately after he went thence and came down into the Court of the Palace where he mounted on horseback with the Princes his Brothers and took his way for Scheveling with the report of the great Artillery which thundered from the Rampire Marching in the midst of those two Princes which order he observed after throughout his passage in England having before him the Prince of Aurange accompanyed with Prince William of Nassau governor of Friesland with Mounsieur of Wassenaer Lieutenant Admirall of the Province and many other persons of Quality and condition The Queen of Bohemia the Princesse Royal the Princesse Dowager and the Princesses her Daughters took Coach as well as the estates of Holland who would accompany him even to the place of his embarquement The Ambassadours and other Ministers of Forraign Princes who sent not their Coaches for the same reason that had dispensed them from it at the entrance and almost all persons of condition took the avauntguard and disposed themselves all along the coast where the Citizens the horse and the Regiments of the guard stood in Battalia A great part of the Inhabitants of the Neighbour Towns were there already and those that came not forth early in the morning or the night before followed the Royal persons in so great a multitude that that place which is very populous and could not lodge the people that were come thither from all places of the province was abandoned and converted into a desert in very few hours As soon as they saw the King to appear on the hill which covereth the Village of Scheveling on the Sea side The King comes to Schevely where the King had formerly taken Shipping and from thence landed at the Spey in Scotland in 1650 the Cannon which was transported two dayes before from the Viverbergh upon the Strand saluted him with its whole battery which ceased not to shoot continually until he being drawn off from those Coasts they could see no longer the honour they endeavoured to render him The Citizens and the guards answered thereunto with their Vollies of Musket shot and the Cavallry with their Carbines and invited thereby the Fleet to make all their Artillery to thunder which after it had lightned the Air filled it with so thick a smoak that those great floating Castles the Fleet disappeared in a moment to the eyes of those that were on land The King being alighted received the last complement of the Lords the estates who had brought him to the brink of the Sea by the same person Mounsieur de Witt. His Majesty next took leave of the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburgh of the Princesse Dowager of Aurange of the Princesse of Nassau and of the Young Lady of Aurange her Daughter and of all the other persons of quality which could not follow him or might trouble him in waiting on him to the Fleet. There were none but his nearest Relations the Queen of Bohemia The King comes on
board the Princesse Royal and the Prince of Aurange that conducted him aboard the Admiral Ship which was to passe him into England The estates of Holland had caused one of the greatest barks of the place to be fitted for the Royal persons The Body of the Vessel was garnished with Tapistry its mast carried the Royal Flag and its yards were loaden with Garlands and Crowns of verdure and Flowers among which there was one fastned and accompanied with a streamer which carried for its devise Quo Fas et Fata to denote that the King embarking himself went to the place where his right and the providence of God called him alluding to the ordinary Motto of the Kings of England Dieu Et Mon Droit The King entred there with all the Royal Family but seeing a Shallop or Brigandine to approach glazed and covered with Tapistry which General Montague had sent from aboard him as soon as he saw the King to appear in the Strand he entred into her and the Queen of Bohemia followed him This Shallop was accompanied with many others and was rowed with Oars by the Seamen who seeing themselves in possession of their Soveraign prince made the Neighbouring shore to resound with their shoutes and expressed their joy by all the signs and marks that could be required from persons of that quality Some in casting their Caps up into the Air and others in casting them into the Sea to which some likewise abandoned their Wastcoats and Doublets The King approaching the General caused the Royal Flag to be put to the Main-mast and to the Castle of the Poop and received his Majesty with the greatest submission that could be rendred to a Prince at the Top of the Stairs by which he ascended to the Ship The King again rendred him all the testimonies of goodnesse and affection that could be imagined or expected from a Soveraign who acknowledged perfectly the important Services he had done him as having been one of the most powerful instruments of his reestablishment whereof he had given him Assurances long before and a most certain proof when he departed from the Sound presently after Richards disappointment whither he was sent to assist the Swede under pretence to mediate between the Dane and that Nation upon his Majesties Orders to favour the design of Sir George Booth who then was in Arms for his Majesty under the fair pretence of a Free Parliament It was past eleven a clock when the King arrived at the Fleet so that as soon as his Majesty was but a little disengaged of a part of those that would follow him on board he sate down at a Table in the great Gallery with the other Royal persons while some other of his Lords and others great ones of Holland were entertained in other appartments In the Kings passage the two dayes at Sea the General expended above two thousand pounds though the Lords the Estates had provided his Ship and the Rest of the Fleet with all kind of necessary refreshments and provisions beyond what needed for so short passage After Dinner was ended the King received again the last complements of some particular persons expressing great civility to the Deputies of the States of Holland for whom the Leiutenant Admirall Wassenaer made the Speech and sent them away with new protestations of affection and Amity The Sea was calm and the heaven so clear that the King had a desire to discover once again a Country where he had received so many testimonies of respect and love To this purpose to take his full and last view thereof he ascended to the top of the poop and seeing the people with which he had left the Downes covered remaining there still he was pleased to acknowledge that it was impossible his own Subjects could have more tendernesse for him then those people on whose Affections he perceived he reigned no lesse then he was going to reign on the Wills of the English After this he embraced the Prince of Aurange with the same tenderness as he could have had for his own Son and gave him his Blessing and took leave of the Queen of Bohemia But when he was to depart from the princess Royal his Sister that Princesse who had with so much courage and without grief almost looked all past misfortunes in the Face and who had vertue enough to fortifie that of her Brothers needed now all his constancy to resolve her self to suffer this separation which she had wished with so much impatience and whose consequences were to be so glorious to them both The King himself who had resolution enough so as to show no weaknesse in his greatest misfortunes could not resist the tears of a Sister whom many other considerations as strong as those of Birth render'd extremely dear unto him She would have been comfortlesse amidst so many joyes but for the hopes she had again shortly to see the King her Brother in his Kingdome The former mutuall endearments between them were alwayes so passionate and sincere that much adoe there would have been to disengage her from the Arms of his Majesty if the General had not caused the Anchors to be weighed and the signal to be given the Fleet. The Royal Charles newly so Christened was now under sail for England when the Q. of Bohemia the Princesse Royal and the Prince of Aurange descended into the Bark which was to bring them back again to Land All the Artillery of the Fleet saluted those Royal persons and the Battery on the Downes of Holland answered them with the small shot of the Citizens and Guards It was about four in the afternoon Wednesday the 23. of May that the Fleet did set sail and about six a Clock it was gotten so far off that the people which all this while stir'd not from the Downes having lost sight of it retired themselves whilest the King continued his way towards his Kingdomes with the same Serenity that was seen lately to accompany all his affairs Thus ended these Dutch Triumphs which while the King remained there possessed the minds of all men who could not chuse but stand at gaze to see the stupendious alteration of his condition His often and familiar residence amongst that people procured their universal love the sudden glories of his unexpected Restitution rendred him their veneration and general reverence They are what ever their enemies say to the contrary because their Reasons of state sometime have made them recede from the direct wayes of Justice the most open hearted people in the world for the generality so that one may reade their thoughts in their countenance And next to England it may be presumed they shared as much felicity and joy and as truely manifested it as any other Nation whatsoever That which in the Kings residence there as was said possessed their minds then now altogether employed their Tongues in relating the miraculous providences and as propitious Grandeurs of this Monarch Extolling his virtue and Fortune with
the same elevation of discourse as a Prince every way sutable to those great Honours and Felicities which heaven had so graciously reserved for him And these speeches were uttered with such passion and rapture and so concerningly as if they had Denizond themselves his natural Subjects The unmatchable and incomparable happinesse and glory of this Prince to be equally beloved by his own and other Nations while we had the Fruition and enjoyment and they nothing but the amiable Idea and Platonick affection for his Person and Government They blamed their Eyes that they were so short sighted they could see him no longer they complained of our Fleet not for the injuries and losses they had caused them in War but for this done them amidst so much joy tranquillity and peace they quarrelled the largenesse of the Ocean that had so far divided and distanced the two shores in hindring them the content of seeing the continuation of their begun wonderments for the King that they might please themselves in the Aemulation of his Subjects How oft did they envy Dover the reception of that Soveraign guest whom they could detain no longer in view Reason as well as their former joy and gladnesse restrained them from sighing lest thereby they should fill and swel those Sails which winged away their delight too fast complayning even of their farewell Vollies They then returned drooping dejected to such a depth of Melancholly as if they had come from a Funeral though the Sea never laboured under such a Triumph when again at their return to those blessed shades of his abode joy get uppermost again floated and swimming in full Bowles and Healths for his Happy voyage as if they would waft him over in Vessels of Wine The remainder of that day and night was consecrated Carolo Reduci the vicine places to the Hague resounding with the like cryes â—en den Roning wedergaende to the King returning Bacchus and Ceres made the Feast and Neptune was invited and desired to bring Aeolus along with him that they might make sure there should be no disturbance by stormy weather the Gods supt upon the smooth Table of the Sea and nothing reeled but the people on shore Leave we the Dutch to dream of their past felicity and return to the Fleet which was as beforesaid under Sail for England which the Duke of York being Admiral now commanded By his order the several persons of quality were allotted and distributed to several Ships And because of the uncertainty it was not thought fit to entrust so rich and valuable a prize as the Royal Fraternity in one though never so firm a bottome therefore the Duke of York disposed of himself aboard the London a Ship newly built of the third Rank of a most excellent Fabrick and Composition and which for it's Name sake his Highnesse was pleased to honour and to continue it 's own happy appellation having received it after all the infamous places for the late Kings defeats had been adopted into the Fleet when there was some apparency of the Kings Restitution to which this City cheifly and primarily contributed and so happened to be the first Christian Ship in the Navy The Duke of Gloucester by his Highnesse order was likewise set on board the Swiftsure which Name he himself changed into James with the usual Solemnities and Customes Nothing was now heard and seen at Sea but the noise and the smoke of the Cannon which incessantly thundred all the remaining part of that day and continued in great measure all the voyage 'T was no little part of the Triumph to see so brave a Fleet in all it's glories sailing together which King Solomon observed of a single Ship to be one of the most satisfactory sights The Lord of the Ocean now kept his Court upon it in all his Regalities and gave Law to it's unruly Flouds such a calm being thereon that it was an easie observation to praesage from thence the evennesse quietnesse and stability of his Majesties future Reign and Empire Here we may not omit which hath past us in its place a particular Narrative of the reception of the Letters from his Majesty and his Highnesse the Duke of York by General Mountague then in the Downs where at the reading of them the Commanders of the several Ships stood up bare and resolved nemine Contradicente That the Commanders and Officers of the Fleet do receive the gracious Declaration of his Majesty as also the expression of his gracious purposes to them and the whole Fleet communicated in a Letter to the General with great joyfulnesse of heart and for them return unto his Majesty their most humble thanks declaring and prosessing their exact Loyalty and Duty to his Majesty and desire the Generalls of the Fleet humbly to present the same to his Majesty It was likewise resolved that the said Letter Declaration and Vote should be publiquely read to the respective Companies of the Fleet now in the Downs to know their sence concerning the same which being accordingly performed they did by loud acclamations and other expressions of joy declare their assent to the said Vote not one person in the whole Fleet manifesting their dissent thereunto The General fired the first Gun himself and cryed God blesse His Majesty Then might you see the Fleet in her pride with Pennants loose Guns roaring and Caps flying and loud Vive le Roy's ecchoed from one Ship to another which were answered with the great Guns from Deal and Sandwich Castles The General entertaining the Officers Gentlemen and Marriners in his Ship with two Pipes of Canary Thus as God turneth the Heart of the King as the Rivers of water so did he turn the heart of those that dwell upon the waters to the King The strong Stream and Tyde of Loyalty influenced by the superiour motions returned with an overflowing excesse of Gladnesse and bless'd these Islands with a deluge of joy Even those very men who so lately had declared against Monarchy and His Majesty in expresse terms and stemm'd the Current of duty now winded about of a sudden to their Allegiance They who had been driven with the several Euroclydons and various Gusts of the Usurpation were now led by the fair Gales of the Trade wind of Loyalty that Loadstone that after the many variations in the Compasse of our late revolutions attracted the Hearts of the most obdure obstinate and rude people fixing them in a due course by the benigne guidance of a more auspicious Cynosure Great CHARLE's Native Star The Depths of those profound pretences of Liberty and the Honour of the Nation unjustly challenged to be debased by Monarchy and swallowed up in the Prerogative were now found to be meer shallowes and quicksands whereon the Vessel of the Commonwealth was ready to be Shipwrackt and nothing but the Soveraign Pilot could save or rescue it whom the mad ignorance of unruly predatory men had desperately thrown overboard Nor was it lesse in the Flexanimity of
the Souldiery the Oracle of the Sword was now to be fulfilled in turning it to Plow Shares and Pruning hooks the Long riddle of the War to be resolved into a lasting and certain Peace The great Alexander of the North qui cunctando restituit rem undid the Sword by the ties of his discreet and temporizing Allegiance The Obligations by his Prudence Worth Discipline Valour and Vigilance which he laid upon the Army civilized their untamed Spirits and brought them to a just sense of their obedience and knowledge of themselves the Diabolical illusions which had possessed most of them now the appearance of Englands Redeemer was at hand totally disappeared and they presently return to their innocence such as mistaken duty can be allowed for in this following Addresse to the King which because of its summing up all the Circumlocutions and mistakes of the Rebellion and most highly magnifies the wonder of the Kings Restitution is here transcribed in its own words it was drawn up while the King was at Sea and therefore it is placed here though delivered to Him on Dartford Heath May 29. the day of His Entrance WIth such a joy as flowes from Reverence and Love we present our selves before Your Sacred Majesty Besides our Reflection on the Common Good which in this happy change relates to our Particular intends this joy and renders it sincere For we can now please our selves in our selves while we are really performing that duty for which we were raised And with all thankfulness we acknowledge that care Your Majesty in Your late Letter and Declaration hath expressed of our necessary concerns We blesse God to see that day when the Serenity of every mans Countenance discovers the Tranquillity of his mind for this shewes Your Majesty to be the Soul of Your People since during Your absence the Nation was cast into such distractions as we have no pleasure to remember but had rather turn our thoughts and grateful acknowledgements to the happy Conduct of our noble General who hath thus far lead us in our duty to your Royal Person Yet as we cannot attribute too much to his merits so neither can we deprive our selves of that Honour and Comfort which we find in the accomplishment of his just designe Therefore in plain and Souldier-like though humble terms we say Your Majesty hath made us and the Nation happy in Your Return to this Your Native Kingdome which doubtlesse will nay we may say hath produced a Settlement upon the Foundation of our Ancient Laws by the due execution of which together with Your Majesties pious Inclinations we trust Libertisme and Profanenesse will be wholly suppressed the Protestant Cause and true Professors of it encouraged to the Comfort of all Your Religious and good People Your Majesty will now have Your great Councel about You who have already given proof of their Loyalty and Wisdome both to Your Majesty and Your People We professe and declare That as we have not been altogether uselesse in the Restauration as well of Your Sacred Majesty to Your Crowns and Kingdoms as the People to their just Rights so shall we for the future chearfully sacrifice our Lives or whatsoever can be more dear to us in the Service of Your Majesty against all Oppositions whatsoever and by a ready obedience to Your Commands expresse our Selves Your Majesties most loyal Subjects and obedient Servants Something hath been said already as to the Emblem of the Peace the Lawyers Cown but the Law was already restored and returned into its ancient Channells and Bounds the writs issuing in His Majesties Name and the Courts of Judicature setting by His Authority the States great Seal having been brought into the House of Commons and there broke and the pieces thereof given the Commissioners for their Fees now ensues some preparations for the Gospel The Sacred Name of the King like that of Jehovah with the Jews had been not out of reverence but danger or despight seldome or never indeed used in the Pulpit it being a piacular Crime to mention the King in our prayers when Curses and speaking ill of him though in despight of Solomons warning againâ—t such malediction of Princes was the safest and most advantageous Course Now God would Honour the place where his Name was to be called upon with due Veneration to that of his Vicegerent His Omniscience declaring that his terrible Name cannot be revered where his annointed Ones is despised Especially such a Prince whom he had so signally brought forth protected and restored The Pulpit therefore is reconsecrated which the impudent intrusion and blasphemy against God and the King had profaned The Purity of Divine Worship was to be recommenced with the acknowledgement of the Title and Style of his Majesty who bears not in vain the name of the Defendor of the Faith Accordingly in most of the Churches upon the first intimation of the order of Parliament to that purpose though some and many other Loyal congregations had antevened it the King was solemnly prayed for to the great heightning of the Peoples devotion and thanksgiving to Almighty God who had given an earnest of his Majesties personal by this nominall presence amongst them to the further exaltation of their praises to him But to refer these and other preparatory glories of the King to their consummation in his Return it will be time to look back to the Royal Fleet now floating on the Main and sailing very slowly the Sea priding her self in the burden of that Triumph she carried as loth to deliver the Treasure she possessed till at last on Friday about three of the Clock in the morning they came in sight of Dover The General attended with a great Train of the Nobility and Gentry having obtained leave of the House to attend his Majesties landing on Wednesday the 23. of May went from White-hall by Water to the Bridge-foot in order to meet his Majesty by the way of Kent having given order to several Gentlemen in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex to be ready with all manner of Civilities to receive the King if he should chance to land in those parts The Generall came to Canterbury on Thursday night whereabout quartered most of the Troops of those Lords which went down likewise to meet the King at his landing The names of which are as follow The Generals lifeguard the Earl of Clevelands the Earl of Shrewsburys the Earl of Northamptons the Duke of Richmonds the Earl of Norwiches the Lord Viscount Mordaunts Sir Richard Browns and Sir John Robinsons distinguished by their habit as well as by their Colours Liveries and Cornets A finer sight of men for bravery and gallantry was never seen in England each Troop consisting of 150. or thereabouts At this place of Canterbury an expresse was sent to the General to hasten him to Dover The King lands at Dover Friday the 25. of May. which he did accordingly and about one of the Clock came thither his Majesty refusing
to Land while he had notice of his approach About three of the Clock in the afternoon the King landed and upon his knees kissed the Shore with the Duke of York Duke of Gloucester and many of his Nobles Every man now with the greatest observation drew as near as he could to see the meeting and gratulation of the best of Kings and most deserving of Subjects All were afraid there could be no apt expedient in matter of Courtesie The Admirers of Majesty were jealous on the Kings behalf of two low a condescention and the Lovers of duty fearfull on the other side of an ostentation of Merit The King and General meet but such an humble prostration was made by his excellency kneeling and so sutable a Reception by his Majesty kissing and embracing him that all parties were satisfied After this and a mutual Complement which was not full of words their Hearts being in their Mouths and precluding their passage his Majesty taking the General by the hand walked up the Hill with him a Canopy being carried over his Head and a Chair of State by him towards his Coach In his Passage to the Town the Mayor and Aldermen of Dover with Mr. Redding the Minister met his Majesty and after a short Speech Mr. Redding presented his Majesty with a Large Bible with Gold Clasps His Majesty thanked him and betook himself to his Coach into which also entred the Duke of York who sate with the King at one end and the Duke of Gloucester and his excellency at the other with the Duke of Buckingham in the Boot after them several Coaches with six Horses and the respective Troops besides particular Gentlemen on their own Accompt About two Miles from Dover his Majesty having had a large conference with the General with a mutuall complacency in one another alighted out of his Coach and took horse the two Dukes on the right hand of the King and the Generall on the left bare after whom followed the Duke of Buckingham and several of the Nobility likewise bare to Canterbury where the Mayor Aldermen and the Recorder Mr. Francis Lovelace of that City met his Majesty who after an Elegant Speech afterwards printed presented the King with a Gold Tankard and so conducted him to the palace made ready and furnished for him where he continued till Monday Here his Majesty was pleased to invest the renowned General with the most Honourable Order of the Garter putting it with his own Royal hands upon his Neck while the Dukes of York and Gloucester put on the Garter all the three Brothers joyning unanimously together to honour him who had joyned three Kingdoms together to do honour and reverence to them The King also Knighted Sir William Morrice and made him a Privy Councellour the Earl of Southampton and Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper sworn at the same time a Gentleman of Devonshire a Privado and trusty Friend of the Generals acquainted with and highly instrumental in his Majesties Restitution But a list of all the Knights made by this King are reserved for a particular place at the end of this Narrative Dr. Reynolds and Mr. Calamy of the Presbyterian perswasion were here admitted his Majesties Chaplains From thence on Saturday a Letter to the House of Commons was brought by the Lord Bartlet from his Majesty signifying that He intended to be at London on Tuesday the 29. of May by Twelve of the Clock at noon whereupon speedy Order was taken in that City for his Majesties reception which they had before put in some readinesse in this ensuing manner The persons appointed for the Service of the day The manner of the Cities Reception of the K. on Tuesday met together in the new Artillery Ground every one Mounted on Horseback except the Persons hereafter mentioned First the two Marshalls Twelve men in Green Coloured Habit John Bibby the City Drum Major with his Kettle Drums fixt to his Saddle Bow 3. Twenty Trumpetters divided in three noise or Pageants each having the Cities Banner fixt to his Trumpet 4. The two Marshalls of the City 5. The City waits 6. The Scoutmaster for the day 7. The four Quarter-masters 8. The Sergeant of the Channel with a Banner in his hand of the Irish Badge with the three Serjeants of the Chamber each of them having a Pennant in his hand with the Cities Arms 9. The three City Carvers each of them with a Banner in his hand one with the Scotch Badge or Coat the other with the Kings Crest or Coat the 3. with the crosse or English Badge 10. The Water Bailiff carrying the Cities great Banner 11. The Common Hunt carrying the great Banner of the King 12. The Conductors or chief Directors of the whole dayes march distinguished from the rest of the City Servants who wore the Kings and Cities Colours on their hats and a Scarf of Crimson silk about their waste tyed with a white Ribbon by a black scarfe mixt or added to their Crimson as they are Citizens of quality besides 13. Thirty four Gentlemen of the Grocers who in regard that Sir Thomas Alleyn is a member of that Compeny are chief 27. of the Mercers 24. of the Drapers 29 of the Fishmongers 28 of the Goldsmiths 27 of the Skynners 30 of the Merchant Taylors 30 of the Haberdashers 23. of the Salters 21 of the Iron-mongers 24 of the Vintners and 34 of the Clothworkers which said persons make the second grand Division the first being that of the Lord Mayor with the Aldermen and their Attendants The Third grand Division is supplyed by 18 Gentlemen of the Company of Dyers by 20 of the Brewers by 24 of the Leathersellers by 12 of the Pewterers by 20 of the Barber Surgeons by 8 of the Cutlers by 8 of the Wax Chandlers by 8 of the Armorers by 14 of the Girdlers The Fourth grand division is supplyed by 14 gentlemen of the Sadlers by 8 of the Carpenters by 5 of the Cordwayners by 15 of the Apothecaries by 11 of the Paynter stayners by 11 of the Woodmongers by 10 of the Stationers and by 8 of the Embroiderers Every of the said Companies having a Pennant with the Companies Arms therein carried by one mounted on Horse-back and every Gentleman in a Plush Coat and Sword with a chain of Gold about his shoulders and a Page on Foot by his Horse side clothed in a loose Garment agreeable to their Companies Colours the said Companies Attendants Officers Trumpets and Drums being in their distinct Habit. About 7. of the clock in the morning the four Quartermasters by direction and oversight of the Conductors began to rank out the said Companies two by two beginning at the Junior Gentlemen of the last Companies and in the intervall between Company and Company placed that Companies Pennant that had lead the Van. The said Companies being thus rank'd out in the head of each grand Division are placed six Trumpets and the Kettle-Drums in the head of the Grocers Company In
and Mr. William Swan both Gentlemen of this County received the Honour of Knighthood from His Majesty The Maior and Corporation of the City presented His Majesty with a Bason and Ewer of Silver guilt of a good value which was well received Betwixt four and five in the morning Hâ—s Majesty took His journey from Rochester the Militia Forces of Kent lining the wayes and the Maidens in White Wascoats which kind of Rural Triumph the City Virgins by a request to my Lord Maior desired to perform and imitate strewing herbs and flowers in the way he passed and the several Towns hanging out White Sheets At the approach of His Majesty to Dartford the Addresse of the Army above mentioned was presented and at Black Heath the whole Army was drawn up where His Majesty received them giving out many Expressions of His Gracious Favour to the Army which were received with loud Shoutings and Rejoycings Several Bonfires were made as His Majesty came along and one more remarkable at Greenwich for its bignesse all waves were invented and used to expresse the Peoples gladnesse though never so uncustomary where the States Arms were burned Thence the Army being drawn his Majesty who had come in his Coach to Suitors Hill and there took horse to shew himself to his longing desirous people pursued his way towards London And because God himself when he would set a mark of observance upon his own Magnalia hath taken notice of the circumstance of time it was very considerable here that it was his Majesties Birth-day He was heir apparent when first born but had Jus in re now when entring the Metropolis of the Kingdome he took possession All Lets and Hindrances which have intervened since his Majesties just Rights are now so many arguments of his Future fixed and peaceable enjoyment This the Ancients intimated when they tell us that Jupiter himself was not quiet in heaven till after a long war with the Gyants And it is a greater and more marvellous conquest Hostem conciliare quam debellare especially in and after civil contests and dissentions When his Majesty came to St. Georges-field the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen were in a Tent ready to receive him among whom for the notoriety of the person was Alderman Ireton once a rude enemy to the King and his Friends whose Company was neverthelesse dissembled to let the giddy world see whose Councells and directions they followed in those late miserable times men that could cry Cruâ—i fige and Hosanna in one breath when the K was come to the Tent the Lord Mayor delivered unto his Majesty the Sword upon his knees which his Majesty gave back to him again After a short repast taken there and drinking a glasse or two of Wine and the respective reverences and gratulations done to the King by each individual Alderman the King Knighted the Lord Mayor and made him a Baronet and set forward to White-hall in this order and manner All the Houses being richly laid with Tapistry out of the Windows and a Lane made by the Militia from Southwark to Temple-Bar on one side of the Streets and the Liveries on the other the Generals Foot making the like Lane from Temple-Bar till they joyned with a party of Foot all Gentlemen and Officers in the Kings Army in White Doublets and Black Breeches under the command of Sir John Stawell expressing their joy for the Kings restitution and their sorrow for his Royal Fathers Martyrdome who having accosted the King at Black-Heath and shewed themselves followed not the King through London but turned off at Newington and passed the Thames and placed themselves in two Files making a Lane from Charing-Crosse to White-hall Gates First of all marched a Troop of Gentlemen led by Major General Brown Brandishing their Swords all in Doublets of Cloth of Silver in all about 300 besides their Servants then another Troop of about 200 all in Velvet Coats their Footmen and Liveries in Purple then another Troop led by Sir John Robinson with Buff Coats Silver Sleevs and green Scarfes and Feathers in a circular fashion After this a Troop of Blew Liveries and Silver lace Colours Red fringed with silver about 130. After that a Troop six Trumpets seven footmen in Sea green and Silver their Colours Pinck fringed with silver then a Troop with their Liveries gray and blew with silk and silver laces 30 Footmen four Trumpets consisting of about 220 their colours Sky fringed with silver Another Troop of gray Liveries six Trumpets colours Sky and Silver of about 110 Gentlemen another Troop of 70. Gentlemen five Trumpets colours Sky and Silver another Troop led by the Lord Cleveland of about 300 Noblemen and Gentlemen Colours Blew fringed with Gold another Troop of about 300. After these came two Trumpets with his Majesties Arms the Sheriffs men in red cloaks and Silver lace with Javelins 79 in number Then followed the several Gentlemen of the Companies of London on Horseback in Velvet Coats and Golden Chains with their Streamers carried before them Every company having their Footmen of their several Liveries Three Trumpets in Liveries richly laced in Cloth of Silver Sleeves rode before the company of Mercers after all these came a Kettle Drum five Trumpets and three Streamers and very rich Red Liveries with silver lace The number of these Citizens were about 600. After these Twelve Ministers another kettle drum four Trumpets Then his Majesties Life-guard led by the the Lord Gerard another party led by Sir Gilbert Gerrard and Major Roscarock and the third Division by Collonel Blague Then three Trumpets in rich coats and Sattin Doublets the City marshall with eight Footmen in French green trimmed with Crimson White the City Waits the City Officers in order Dr. Warmsley the two Sheriffs and all the Aldermen of Lâ—nd in their Scarlet Gowns with Trappings with footmen in Liveries with red coats laced with silver the Hearlâ—s and Maces in their rich coats The Lord Mayor bare carrying the Sword the Duke of Buckingham and his Excellency bare and then the Glory of all his Sacred Majesty rode between the two Dukes his Brothers with a Red circular Feather about his Hat in a Deer coloured Tabby Doublet the Belt of his sword of the same colour Afterwards followed a Troop bare with white colours then the Generals lifeguard after which another Troop of Volunteer Gentry their colours fringed with Gold after which 5 Regiments of the Army Horse led by Collonel afterwards Sir Ralph Knight viz. His excellencies Regiment Collonel Knight Collonel Cloberryes the Lord Falconberges and Lord Howards after whom came two Troops more of Nobility and Gentlemen that marched brandishing their Swords all along Soon after his Majesty was passed the Musqueteers of the Trained-bands who by order of their Officers had presented to his Majesty as he passed the Butt end of their Musquets gave and discharg'd a great many Vollies of shot His Majesty thus conducted came to his Royal Palace at White-hall
de Manans The Ladies and the Maids of the two Queens closed the March being followed by the Queen Mothers Guards abundance of Trumpets blowing all the while The Ceremonies of the Rites of Marriage and the manner of performing them being Romish are not requisite being also strange and difficult to be understood to be inserted here The 2 of June the Pope's Nuntio the Ambassador of Venice the Resident of Genoa the Envoy of their Royall Highnesses of Savoy and the Deputies of the Parliament of Paâ— had Audience of their Majesties whom they Complemented about their Marriage and the next day they departed for Byonne where they were sumptuously received thence to Bourdeaux in the like but more sumptuous manner and so in conclusion to Paris where severall Triumphall Arches and Collossus were reared with in impresses relating to the Peace and their Nuptials being met without the Town near St. Germans by the Militia of that great City But all the Triumph and Honour they could render their Majesties together with the Auxiliary splendor of the Nobility came infinitely short of His Majesty of Great Brittain's Coronation and in truth of his Entrance which had appeared far brighter had it not been for the Dust that covered all the finery and sullied the rich Habits that were worn that day Except only some of the Princes of the Blood of France as the Prince of Conde and some four more which alone made it seem a Magnificence whereas in the Coronation of King Carles where was no distinction to be made by Strangers between the several Noble men of that Caralcade but of that hereafter Let us now look home to the subsequent and remaining Honours of the Kings Restitution On Thursday the last of May the most Illustrious Princes the Dukes of York and Gloucester took their places in the House of Peers threby restoring it to that veneration which the rudenesse of the vulgar and Anarchists had deprived it of for so many foregoing years where the Lords did unanimously concurr with the Commons in a Petition to be sent unto his Sacred Majesty to desire his Royal assent for an Anniversary Thanksgiving to be observed throuhout all the Kingdomes on the 29. of May for the great blessing the Lord had bestowed upon the Kingdome in restoring his Sacred Majesty But that wâ—ch mainly concerned the glory of his Majesty was that Justice should be done upon the Murtherers of his Royal Father the efore it was moved the â—ame day in the House of Commons that it be referred to the Committee to prepare a Proclamation to require all those to come in that late upon the Trial of his late Majesty or else to be left to the Justice of the Law On Friday following his majesty to compleat the Parliament went by Water to Westminster in the Brigandine where he passed the private 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 House of Lords the Yeomen of the Guard making a Lane the Heralds at Arms in their rich Coats the Maces before him and the Lord Generall bare before his Majesty When his Majesty came to the House the Usher of the Black rod went to acquaint them that his Majesty desiâ—ed to meet them at the House of Lords when they weâ—e entred his Majesty made a short Speech and gave his Royal assent to three Acts viz. 1 The Act for Confirmation of this Parliament 2 For the Tax of 70000 l. per mâ—nsem 3 For the continuance of Processe and Judiciall proceedings after which the Lord Chancellor made a Speech more at large Herein the King appeared in his proper and full Orb and spread those rayes which the long darknesse of his misfortunes had clouded and obscured constituting the parliament more by his presence then by this his assent The next thing was the filling up of his Majesties Privy Councill and supplying the Courts of Judicature there were honours ab intus let us see what others and those innumerable though small which do tantamount to great ones from his subjects and Foreign princes It were an endlesse labour almost to repeat those many Addresses presented to his Majesty let it suffice there was never a County in England that saluted not the Kings hands with some feeling gratulating expressions of his Majesties return being signed by all the Nobility and Gentry and Ministers thereof some particular Cities and Corporations presenting his Majesty with some more substantiall complements which yet for the most part consisted of Surrenders then called Gifts of his Majesties Majesties Fee Farm Rents particularly the City resigned their graunt from the State of New-Park by the mouth of the Recorder Sir William Wilde who told his Majesty that the City had been Stewards for him to preserve his Game and woods which they came to tender to his Majesty The King answered that he looked upon their tender not as from Stewards but would receive it as a gift from them for which he returned them many hearty thanks The like Addresses were made also from the respective Regiments of the Army new moulded again under other more Loyal Commanders so that as the Model revived it before his late Majesties Overthrow so the new model extinguished it as his present Majesties restoration On the 14 of June came out the aforesaid Proclamation against the Kings Judges many of them fled before divers of them now came in and rendred themselves as the Proclamation directed to the Speaker of the House of Commons who by order of the said House committed them to the Serjeant at Arms. It is fit we should bestow a glance The Triumphs at Edinbrough off from these satiatory Triumphs here to the imitation of them in his Majesties other Kingdoms to begin with Scotland which take in a Letter from Edenburgh The Magistrates of this City and Presbytery being most sensible of this great mercy received did appoint the 19. of June the day of their Publick Thanksgiving to God for his Signal love and kindnesse shewed to them in investing their most gracious Soveraign in his Thrones of England and Ireland and for restoring him to his Government over this his ancient Nation that for twenty hundred years hath flourished under the Scepter of his Royal Ancâ—stors and gave notice of this their Resolution to all the the Burghs and Presbyteries of Scotland desiring their Concurrence that as the cause was so their joy might be universal The Ministers that day in their Sermons with so much fervency and passionate expressions delivered what great kindnesse the Lord had done for them that it was observed their exhortations were never entertained with such attention and so plentiful Tears by their Auditory The English Officers of State and War observed the Thanksgiving with no lesse joy and devotion After Sermon and after the Magistrates had all dined together they marched from the Councell House to the Crosse in this Order The Town Councel in their Gowns with their Trumpets sounding before them went first then two Bailies before the English Commissioners and Officers and
two behind them went next The Provost all alone before the Scotch Nobility and Gentry that were in Town and two Bailiffs with the Dean of Gild and Treasurer followed after their Guards neer six hundred Citizens in comely apparrel armed with swords and partizans The crosse was covered with artificiall Vines loaden with Grapes both white and good Claret Wines springing out from all it's Pipes or Channels on it's Head a Bacchus bestriding a Hogshead with two or three Satyrs did with their mimick Gestures entertain the beholders A little below the Crosse within a rail was erected a Scaffold six foot high on which was placed a large Table covered with a rich Banquet served up in Glasse and representing divers forms and devices as his Majesties Arms the Arms of the City and divers exotick Trees were raised loaden with their leavs and fruits c. the Table being surrounded by above an 100 persons of Eminency The Musick and breaking of glasses were seconded by three general Vollies of the Horse and Foot who received an handsome answer from the great Guns of the Castle Citadell and Ships in the Road and all were ecchoed by joyfull acclamations of the people After this the Forces drew of affording the Civilities of view to the people amongst whom the Dishes and Banquet were hurled and so arose and marched down to the Piazzo of the Palace of Holy Rood house first the Comissioners next the Major General with his Army and after them the City Magistrates with their Guards whence after the Musquets had saluted them there with divers Volleys and had received a return from the great Guns of the Castle Citadel and Sea as formerly they marched back again quite through the City up to the Castle Hill from whence every one apart returned to spend the rest of the Enemy with their Friends in mirth and mutual joy and Entertainments Major General Morgan after a health to His Majesty began to the Earl of Seaford fired the great Canon called Mounce Meg a Gun never fired but on extraordinary occasions after which followed a round Peal from all the Ordinance thereabouts A plentiful Largesse was bestowed amongst the Souldiery to heighten them in their joyes about 1500 Bonfires were made on Arthurs Seat one of forty Load of Coals and at the Major Gen. Dore one almost as big After this was variety of Fire works some burned in the water others flew into the Air two Castles firing one against another the several Boxes thrown into the Air and falling in several shapes which with divers others gave great content to the Spectators Not to omit here that Thursday the 21. of June was appointed by the Parliament of England for a peculiar Thanksgiving day throughout England and Wales for His Majesties Restitution The two Divisions of Wales into North and South made their Addresses to the King the first desiring as the Completion of their joy the Restoration also of the Liturgy and the Divine Worship as it stood Established in the dayes of His Royal Grandfather and Father and the latter after the enumeration of those Blessings which attends His Majesties Return the aversion of that blood guiltinesse perpetrated on his Royal Father by bringing the Authors and Abettors of it to condigne punishment and exauctorating all whosoever had but the least finger in that horrid Businesse The University of Cambridge likewise in their Formalities made an Addresse to the King Doctor Love their Vice-Chancellour pronouncing a Speech in Latin the King graciously accepted them as afterwards he did the University of Oxford both presenting Copies of Verses made by the respective Students On the 20. of June the Baron of Peluitz Master of the Horse Chamberlain and Collonel of the Regiment of the Guards of His Electoral Highnesse of Brandenburgh and his extraordinary Envoy to His Majesty had Audience at White-hall The Master of the Ceremonies went to fetch him from his House with two rich Coaches each with 6 horses and so conducted him to His Majesty through the Gallery full on both sides of Gentlemen His Majesty was bare during the whole Audience His Speech contained a Congratulation c. with the joy his Master had for His Majesties Restitution The King returned a very obliging answer suitable to those Marks of Affection which his Highnesse made to him formerly and also because he was the first Forreign Minister with Credentialls to His Majesty The Audience being ended the Lord Chamberlain conducted him through the said Gallery to the Stairs head the Vice-chamberlain to the Coach and the Master of the Ceremonies and the two Coaches aforesaid brought him home again an honour we have not heard of conferred before upon any Forreign Envoy by a King of England and now done to shew those Sentiments of affection His Majesty at the Hague professed to have for that Elector for his former kindnesse to him when all the World gave his Affairs over for Desperate On the 27. of June De Colladon Deputy from the Commonwealth of Geneva having presented unto His Majesty the Letters of the Lords Syndicks and of the Ministers and Pastors of that place Congratulating c. His Majesty was pleased to return them thanks and give him a gracious Answer to his Complement On Thursday the 4. of July The King is treated magnificently at Diâ—â—â—r by the City July 5. His Sacred Majesty and both Houses of Parliament were entertained by the City of London at Guild-Hall the raining unseasonable Weather took off much of the Solemnity which was intended to be performed so that His Majesty went into London attended only by his own Houshold Guards which proceeded in this order Adjutant General Miller rode before at some distance to make way after whom went Sir William Throckmorton Knight-marshall his Servants and Footmen waiting on each side of him before 6 Trumpets then a Kettle Drum another classe of 7 Trumpets 6 Maces the Heraulds in rich coats the Pages and Footmen and next His Majesties Coach with six Horses guarded on both sides with His Majesties Royal Bond of Pensioners walking on Foot with Pistolls in their hands under the command of the most Noble and Valiant Earl of Cleveland the Equerries several of His Majesties Servants next them came the Yeomen of the Guard then the Lord Chancellour in his Coach the Duke of Buckingham and so all the Nobility in their order The Speaker of the House of Commons in his Coach with 6 horses attended by a Troop of Horse that were upon the Guard that day And after them the House of Commons in Coaches In London several of the Pent-houses and Windowes were adorned with Tapistry A Lane made by the Liveryes of the several Companies and many Pageants in the Streets at Pauls Gate the Lord Maior Aldermen and several other of the City richly accoutred met His Majesty and conducted him to Guildhall The Gentlemen of the Artillery led by the Valiant and Learned Lord Lucas at Cheapside opened to the right and left
and guarded both sides of the way while His Majesty passed through Being come down to Guild-hall Carpets were spread down from the Hall to the Councel-chamber for his Majesty to tread upon Before Dinner Sir Will. Wylde the Recorder made a Speech to His Majesty declaring the great Honour that His Majesty was pleased to confer on them in vouchsafing formerly to send to them His Gracious Letter and Declaration and now to add to that kindnesse by affording by affording them His Royal presence At the upper end of the Hall in the Hustings towards the West was raised 3. ascents where was placed a Chair of State and a rich Canopy where His Majesty and His two Royal Brothers dined His Majesties Servants and several Aldermen and Common-councel men giving attendance The two Houses of Peers and Commons dined at other Tables in the great Hall attended likewise by Aldermen and Common-Councel-men At the sound of loud Musick the whole Service was set upon the Table and during the whole dinner-time they were entertained with variety of Musick both instrumental and Vocal After Dinner was a very costly Banquet and then an Enterlude where a Rustick was represented to the Content of His Majesty and the rest of the Spectators Aser this His Majesty retired him into a withdrawing room where he was pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood on Alderman Reynoldson Mr. Cleyton the Chamberlain of London and Mr. Thomas Player his Son The 3. of Iuly was a Day of Prayers and Solemn Thanksgiving appointed to be kept by the Prince Elector Palatine the Kings Cousin German through all his Electoral Dominions for his Majesties happy Restauration Before the Town house in Heydelbergh was erected a stately Fountain adorned with all sorts of Fruits and Flowers from whence flowed several sorts of Wine after Sermon the rest of the day was spent in Feasting and Jollity with sounding of Drums and Trumpets the noise of the Cannon and at night many curious Fire-works were performed But that which was most of honour to the King was a ray of honour from him darted and influenced upon the Eminent loyalty and signall Services of that great Warrier and faithfull Subject his Excellency the Lord General Monck whom his Majesty was then graciously pleased to dignifie with these high Titles of Honour George Duke of Albemarle Earl of Torrington Baron Monck of Potheridge Beauchamp and Teys Captain General and Commander in Chief of all his Majesties Forces in his Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland Master of his Majesties Horse Knight of the most honourable Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councill and as an addition to this may well be annexed the honour God himself hath conferred on him in making him the chief Instrument in restoring his Sacred Majesty and in his Majesty peace plenty and happinesse to the three Kingdomes According to these Honours his Grace accompanied by the Duke of Buckingham and other Personages of high quality took his place in the House of Peers where long may he and while this shall be a Kingdome which he hath with such prudence and fidelity asserted may his Posterity set as everlasting Ornaments and Pillars of that thrice noble Estate Observe we also in the lusture of this Title the glorious Prognostick of some future greatness pointed at by his Majesty This Honour hath lain extinct ever since the reign of H. 4 when it expired in one of the Heirs of the House of York some while before that almost entire Conquest of France under H. 5. aâ—d this Dutchy lies in Normandy the Inheritance of the Kings of England now a Province of the French A Slip of that Royal Line hath now resumed the said Honour whose Martial prowesse Conduct and Heroick Atcheivments incited and raised by a just claim to a local investiture and possession the French honours being more then Titular by which our Ancestors were recompenced for their valour may in a due time restore his Majesty to that fourth Kingdome of France as well as to his 3 other Crowns of Great Brittain and Ireland especially when it shall be called to remembrance how rudely and uncivilly the French for Oliver's sake cast his Majesty out for worse then an Intruder The adapted and competent quarrel which solely challengeth the successeful Sword of this most noble Duke Nor were the triumphs of Ioy though not altogether so magnificent less expresive in forrain Countreys especially at Lisbon in Portugal Triumphs at Lysbon where upon news from Don Francisco de Mello that his Majesty of England was arrived safe to his Pallace of White-hall in quiet and peaceable possession of his Haereditary Kingdoms and welcomed from all parts of his Kingdom by the Nobility Gentry and Commons as well assembled in Parliament as out of it that came flocking to congratulate his arrival and kisse his hand the King of Portugal presently gave order that the same night all the great Guns of the Castle of the Town and of all the Forts and Castles of the Harbour should be fired in token of his joy and contentment which was accordingly performed and at the same time all the Navy-Ships and Merchant-men in the Port shot off all their Cannons All that night the whole City was adorned with Luminaries In every window of the Kings Pallace two great Torches of white Wax the Ambassadors house being set out in the same fashion The next morning his Majestie with the Infanta went forth in solemn manuer attended by all the Nobility and Gentry of the Court and City in a Noble and splendid Equipage to the Church of St. Anthony of the Capucins returned to the same Pallace in the same pomp all the Bells ringing the while This was followed after with the sport of Los Toures the Royal Reales Bull baiting never used but in the like August Solemnities which was to continue nine days The Main-mast in the middle Pallace-yard all the while bearing the Flag of England The next day Don Antonio de Souza who lived many years in London Resident and Acted so fervently for the King of England as that the Parliament sent him home having most happily laid the foundation of the glorious match between his Majesty and our Soverain Lady the Queen then an Infant done other offices to the advantage of our late as well as our present Soverain sent for many of the chief English Merchants and gave them a treatment which cost him five hundred Crowns with the greatest expressions of joy imaginable On the 26th of July the King to honour his Restitution with another glorious memorial thereof General Mountague made Earl of Sandwich confirmed the dignity of the Earldom of Sandwich Viscounty of Hinching-Brook and Barony of St. Neots upon the right Honorable Edward Mâ—untaâ—ue who had been so eminently and happily instrumental towards his reduction and had manifested his Allegiance to the King before there were any hopes visible but what were reposed in this
thence by Sir George Downing the Kings Resident there to the Tower of London from whence being brought to the Kings-bench Bar toward the end of April 1662. they were there condemned and received Sentence and suffered the same death with other their fellows at Tyburn with some little more acknowledgement of the Fact then those that suffered for the same crime before On the 30th of January 1660. that the Earth might no longer cover the blood which was impiously and traiterously spilt on that day vengeance persuing those wicked miscreants v en beyond the Sanctuary of the Grave the odious Carkasses of Cromwel Jreton and Bradshaw were digged out of the ground from those sumptuous monuments which as they did the Throne in their life they had now usurped in their death they were drawn in a Cart from Westminster Sejanns ducitur unco spectandus gâ—â—deant omâ—ts where they were first enterred to the Red Lyon in Helbâ—rn and thence on Sledges to Tyburn where they were pulled out of their Coffins and hang'd at the several Angles or Corners of that accursed Tree with the dregs of the peoples curses and execrations from ten a clock till Sun-setting and then cut down their loathsom bodys thrown in a deep hole under the Gallows their Heads cut off and placed aloft upon Westminster Hall quoe labra quis illis vultus erat where they will continue the Brand-marks of their posterity and the expiatory remains of their accursed crime But passe we from those deservedly ignominious shameful objects to the contrary real and solid Funeral Honours done to the memory of those Loyal Heroes the famous and immortal James Graham Marquesse of Montrosse and Sir John Hay of Scotland and Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle murdered in cold blood at Colchester in 1648. The several quarters of the renowned Montrosse had been taken down some time before and with great solemnity and procession deposited in the several Cities where before they stood advanced upon their Gates whence by order of the Parliament the whole body was reassembled and with great State and Magnificence by direction from his Majesty out of his entire love and affection to the memory of so loyal and dear a servant and friend interred after this manner there in as great pomp as ever was seen in that Kingdom the funerall proceeding from the Abby Church to St. Gyleses in Edenburg First went the Lord great Commissioners Lifeguard of Horse then two conductors in mourning with one Gumphione of twenty four sallies in long black Gowns and black Callots on their heads An open Trumpet with the defunct Colours at his Banners A Gentleman in compleat Armour with a plume of Feathers in his Arms of the colour of the deceased's Paternal coat his saddle Horse with a rich saddle led by two Lacquies servants of friends two and two in mourning John Graham of Dorchries carrying the great Pinsel of Honour with his full atchievement Thomas Graham of Polento carrying the great Standart of Honour with his full atchievement A Horse with a great Saddle Pistols and Holsters fit for service led by a Lacquey in Livery his particular servants two and two in mourning His Parliament Horse with a rich foot Mantle led by two Lacqueys in Liveryes with Badges back and breast Four Trumpets in mourning carrying the Arms of the deceased on both sides of their banner William Graham of Duntrume the younger carrying the great Gumphion on the point of a Lance George Graham of Carine the younger carrying the mourning Pinsel George Graham of Inchbecke the younger carrying a mourning Standart Lords friends two and two in mourning Walter Graham of Duntran the elder carrying the Spurs Alexander Graham of Druming carring the Gantlet George Graham of Menzie carrying the Crollet with back and breast Mungo Graham of Gorthie carrying the Head-piece 8 Gentlemen carrying the eight branches of the House and Family of Montross Capa in Bucklerin carrying the deceaseds Arms in black Taffata mourning Launces Four Trumpets with the like Banners six Heralds six Pursivants the two Secretaryes his Chaplain and Physitian James Graham carrying the Parliament Robes Robert Graham the Elder of Cairny carrying the Generals Batoon Patrick Graham the Elder of Inchbecky carrying the order of the Garter Graham Lord of Morfie carrying the Coronet Graham Lord of Phintry carrying the Commission and Purse His Coat of Arms carried by Lyon King at Arms in mourning Twelve Noblemen to carry the Pall viz. Viscounts of Sturmont Arbuthnot Kingstone the Lords Strenaw Kilmarris Montgomery Coldingham Fleming Task Drumlane Kirk Sinclar and Macdonald The Earls of Marr Athol Morton Eglington Cathnes Linlithgow ' Hume Roxburgh Tulibardin Seaforth Calendar Anandale Dundee Aboyne carried the Corps under the Pall Gentlemen of quality walking on both sides the Pall to relieve the Noblemen viz. Sir John Keath Knight Marshall Gordon son to the Earl of Sutherland Mr. Levnigston brother to the Earl of Linlithgow Sir David Ogilvy Son to the Earl of Ayrly the Lairrds of Pitaure Parry Cromlicks Abertarne Loud wanne Mac Intosel Glarat and Cowlbanne The chief mourners with Hoods and long Robes carried by Pages with Gentlemen uncovered on every side nine of the nearest Noblemen in the same habit marching three and three which were the Marquess of Dowglass the Earls of Marshall and Wigton the Earls of Southesk Lords Drummond Maderty and Napier Ralloe and the Laird of Lue. With this Illustrious train a triumph equally composed of Grief and Honour was this Marquess with the due rites to his super excellent merits laid in his Tombe which ambitiously declined his reception till the publique acknowledgements of that kingdom nay the whole world proclaimed its glory to be envied for its enclosed dust by the Pyramids and Mausolaea of ancient Sepulchres and if so how much more precious that monument his dear and gracious Masters affection in whose minde all those famous services he atchieved in his Cause are so indelibly written that they are by much aere prerenniora Neither was he attended onely by the living but as a completion of the Honours intended him Sir William Hay of Delgity the noble Reliques of his fidus Achates that renowned Collonel Sir William Hay of Delgitty who accompanied him in his Masters service and for that Canse suffered with lâ—m and was buried under that infamous Gibbet whereon they executed the Marquiss were taken up again and carried after the Marquiss in this order Captain George Hay son to Sir John Hay late Clerk Register carried the Standard of Honour William Ferguson of Badyfarrow the Gumphion Mr. John Hay the Pinsel of Honour Alexander Hay the Spurs and Sword of Honour Mr. Henry Hay the Croslet Mr. Andrew Hay the Gauntlet Next followed his four branches House of Arrel carried by Alexander Hay Lesley House of Bonwhein by George Lesley of Chappelton Forbes the House of Forbes by Forbes of Lesley Hay of Delgity by Robert Hay of Perk. Then came the Corps garnished with Scutchions and
Esquires and a Page following the Heraulds going before them with their Coats not put on but onely hangîng loose on their Arms to King Hen. 7th Chappel where after the wonted reverence performed they took their seats Prayer being done they returned to the Painted Chamber and the other Rooms adjoyning to repose themselves till the supper of two hundred dishes at his Majestyes charge was brought to the Court of Requests where they placed themselves according to their Seniority on the Tables by the wall side their Esquires and Pages wayting on them on the other Supper ended the Lord Cornwallis and Sir Charles Berckly the Tresurer and Comptroler of his Majesties Houshold gave them His welcome and then conducted them to the painted Chamber and to the Lords House adjoining and some other near rooms where their bathing vessells and beds which were Pallets with Canopies were prepared being covered with red say There after they had bathed more or lesse as each of them found convenient they remained all night early in the morning were bade good morow by his Majesties musick Then arising and apparelling themselves in a Cordeliers habbit being a long russet gowne with wide sleeves and hood tied close about the middle with a cordon of Ash-coloured and russet silke reaching down almost to the knees and a white Napkin or handkercheife hanging thereat they proceeded to H. 7th Chappel in the same order as the night before doing the same reverence and heard Divine Service and took the usual Oath before the said Lords Commissioners which was read to them by Sir Edward Walker Principal King of Arms in these words Right dear Brethren GReat worship be this Order to every of you You shall honour God above all things You shall be stedfast in the faith of Christ and the same maintain and defend to your power You shall love your Soveraigne above all earthly things and for your Soveraigns right live and dye You shall defend Maidens Widdows and Orphans in their right You shall suffer no extortion as far as you may nor sit in any place where wrong judgement shall be given to your knowledge And of as great Honour be this Order to you as ever it was to any of your Progenitors or others This done they returned in the same order they came to the painted Chamber and put on the habit of the order which was a Mantle and Surcoat of red Taffata lined and edged with white Sarcenet and thereto fastned two long strings of white silk with buttons and tossels of red silk and gold and a pair of white gloves tyed to them a white Hat and white Feather in this garb they dined in the painted Chamber thence girded with a sword the Pummel and cross Hilt whereof were guilt the Scabbard of white leather and Belt of the same with gilt spurs carried by their Pages they marched on horseback by seniority to White-hall with the Heraulds before them from the old Pulace round about the New and so through King-street going round about the place where Charing-Cross stood and then to Whitehall where they alighted and after they had gone about the first Court they were conducted up by the Heraulds to the banqueting House where his Majesty sate under a cloath of State to receive them They were brought up by six and six each between his two Esquires with his Page carrying his Sword before him In their approaches towards his Majestie they made three obeysances and each Knight being presented by his two Esquires upon their knees to the King the Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold receiving the Knights sword from the Pages and delivering it to the King who with the sword of State ready drawn conferred upon them their respective Knighthoods by laying the sword upon their shoulders and so put the presented sword upon the Knights neck in such sort that it might hang on his left side and then the said Scabbard with the order hanging in it Which done the Knight made his obeysance of gratitude to his Majesty and falling back the rest were brought up and Knighted in like manner After this they went down into his Majesties Chappel and there heard Divine Service with the Organ and Anthems and then went up six at a time to the Altar and offered up their swords where Gilbert Lord Bishop of London Dean of his Majesties Royal Chappel received them and laid them upon the Altar and afterwards restored them with this admonition By the Oath which you have taken this day I exhort and admonish you to use these swords to the Glory of God and defence of the Gospel to the maintainance of your Soveraigns right and honour and to the upholding of Equity and Justice to your power So help you God This done they returned from the Chappel where the Kings Mr. Cook stood with his chopping knife in his hands challenging their Spurs which were severally redeemed with a Noble in money As they past by he said Gentlemen you know what a great Oath you have taken which if you keep it will be great honour to you but if you break it I must hack off your Spurs from your heels When they came into the great Hall the Officers at Arms acquainted them that on Monday following they were to attend his Majestie from the Tower to Whitehall on Horseback in the same Robes wherein they were Knighted and on Tuesday to meet early in the Painted Chamber in their Purple Sattin habits thence to goe before his Majestie to his Coronation at Westminster This Ceremony being over the King to honour this great Solemnity advanced some eminent persons to higher degrees of honour to be as Iewels to that Crown which should be placed on his head they were twelve in number six Earls and six Barons The names of whom are as followeth Edward Lord Hyde of Hendon Lord High Chancellor of England was created Earl of Clarendon Arthur Lord Capel was created Earl of Essex Thomas Lord Brudenell was created Earl of Cardigan Arthur Viscount Valentia in Jreland was created Earl of Anglesey Sir John Greenvile Gentleman of his Majesties Bed-chamber and Groom of the Stool was created Earl of Bath Charles Howard of his Majesties privy Council was created Earl of Carlisle Denzill Hollis Esq was created Lord Hollis of Ifeld Sir Fredrick Cornwallis was created Lord Cornwallis of Eye in Suffolk an ancient Barony Sir George Booth Baronet was created Lord de-La-Mere Sir Horatio Townsend was created Baron of Lyn Regis Sir Anthony Ashly Cooper was created Baron of Winterbourn St. Gyles John Crew was created Lord Crew of Stene The Earls at their Creation had two Earls their supporters their Cap and Coronet carried by one their Sword by another and their Mantle by a third The Lords were likewise supported by 2 Lords their Cap and Mantle in the same manner but no Sword These Peers being thus led up Garter King of Arms attending them to the King upon their several approaches their Patents were presented
by Sir Edward Walker principal King at Arms which being by the Lord Chamberlain delivered to the King and from him to Secretary Nicholas were by him read and then given by his Majestie to the respective Nobles who after they were vested with their Robes had their several Caps and Coronets placed upon their heads by his Majesties own hands as he sate in a Chair of State These likewise were ordered to attend the King at his Coronation which commenced its glories Monday the 22d of April aforesaid it having rained for a month together before it pleased God that not one drop fell on this Triumph which appeared in its full lusture and grandeur but as soon as the Solemnity was past and the King and his Train at dinner in Westminster-Hall it fell a thundering lightning and raining with the greatest force vehemence and noise that was ever heard or seen at that time of the year The Streets were gravelled all the way and filled with a multitude of Spectators out of the Country and some forreigners who acknowledged themselves never to have seen among all the great magnificences of the world any to come near or aequal this even the vaunting French confessing their pomps of the late Marriage with the Infanta of Spain at their Majesties entrance into Paris to be inferior in its State gallantry and riches unto this most Illustrious Cavalcade The manner of the Kings Passage was thus The Heralds having called over and placed the Nobility and Gentry who attended the Solemnity in the Tower they went from thence immediately about ten in the morning and joining with the others which were placed without proceeded in this manner THE King having lodged monday-night the 22 at White-Hall on Tuesday morning April 23 St. Georges day his Majesty went from Whitehall by water to be Crowned at Westminster As soon as his Majesty was landed and was ready to set forward to the Abby the Dean and Prebends of VVestminster brought all the Regalia to his Majesty who delivered them to severall great personage to bear before him and when he came to the West dore of the Abby the Dean and Prebends met his Majesty and received him with an Anthem all along up the body of the Church and Choir All the Peers with their Coronets in their hands came up along with his Majesty till his Majesty was placed in a chair of State not in his Throne then the Lord-Bishop of London for the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury went to every of the four-sides of the Throne and at every of them spoke to the the people in these words Here I present unto you King Charles the rightfull inheritor of the Crown of this Realm Wherefore all you that are come this day do your Homage service and bownden duty be ye willing to do the same Whereupon all the Peers in their Parliament Robes and people gave a shout testifying their willingness This while the King standing from his chair turned himself to every of the four sides of the Throne and at every of them spake to the people who again with loud acclamations signified their willingness all in one voice After which the choire sung an Anthem in the interim whereof his Majesty Supported by 2 Bishops of Durham and Bath and Wells and attended by the Dean of Westminster went to the steps before the Communion Table where upon Carpetts and Cushions the King offered a Pall and a peice of Gold After his Majesty had offered he went on the right hand and kneeled down during a a short Collect or prayer and then Sermon began which was preached by the Lord-Bishop of VVorcester Sermon being ended the Lord Bishop of London went to the King for the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and asked if he were pleased to take the Oath usually taken by his predecessors to which his Majesty shewed himself most willing Then his Majesty rose out of his chair and by those two that before assisted him was led up to the Communion Table where he made a Solemn Oath to observe those things he had before promised After this Oath the King returned to his chair and kneeled at his foot-stool while the Hymne of the holy Ghost was singing which ended the Letany was sung by two Bishops After which the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury began and said Lift up your Hearts c. Then his Majesty arose from his devotion and disrobing himself of his upper-garment his under garment being so made as the places to be annointed might be opened by undoing certain loops which the Archbishop undid his Majesty setting in a chair the Archbishop first annointed the palms of both his hands the choire singing an Anthem after which and certain prayers the Lord Archbishop proceded and annointed his breast between the shoulders on both the shoulders the bending of his Arms and the Crown of his head whereupon the Dean of VVestminster closed the Loops and the Lord Arch-Bishop said several Prayers which ended the Coyf was put on his Majesties head and the Câ—lobium â—ndouis or Dalmatica then the super-tunica of cloth of Gold with the Tissue buskins and Sandals of the same then the Spurs were put on by the Peer that carried them then the Arch-Bishop took the Kings sword and laid it on the Communion Table and after Prayer restored it to the King which was Girt upon him by the Lord great Chamberlain then the Armil was put on next the Mautle or open Pall after which the Lord Arch-Bishop took the Crown into his hands and laid it on the Communion Table prayed and then set it on the Kings head whereupon all the Peers put on their Coronets and caps the choire singing an Anthem next the Archbishop took the Kings ring prayed again and put it on the fourth finger of the Kings hand after which his Majesty took of his sword and offered it up which one of the chief peers then present redeemed drew it out and carried it naked before the King Then the Arch-Bishop took the Scepter with the Cross and delivered it into his Majesties right hand the Rod with the Dove into the left and the King kneeling blessed him which done the King ascended his Throne Royal the Lords Spiritual and Temporal attending him where after Te Deum the King was again enthroned and then all the Peers did their Homage The Archbishop first who then kissed the Kings left cheek and after him the other Bishops After the Homage the Peers altogether stood round about the King and every one in their order toucht the Crown upon his head promising their readiness to support it with their power The Coronation being ended the Communion followed which his Majesty having received and offered returned to his Throne till the Communion ended and then went into St. Edwards Chappel there took off his Crown and delivered it to the Lord Bishop of London who laid it upon the Communion Table which done the King withdrew into the traverse where the Lord Great Chamberlain of
England disrobed the King of St. Edwards Robes and delivered them to the Dean of Westminster Then his Majesty was newly arrayed with his Robes prepared for that day and came to the Comunion Table in St Edwards Chappel where the Lord Bishop of London for the Arch-Bishop set the Crown imperial provided for the King to wear that day upon his head Then his Majesty took the Scepter and the Rod and the Train set in order before him went up to the Throne and so through the Choyre and body of the Church out at the West-door to the Pallace of Westminster where his Majesty dined in great State and Magnificence A Table being placed at the upper end of the Hall I shall now relate the manner though pre-posterously of the proceeding of this Triumph from the Tower First went the Horse-guard of his Highness the Duke of York the Messengers of his Majestyes Chamber the Esquires of the Knights of the Bath 136 in number the Knight Harbenger the Serjeant Porter the Sewers of the Chamber the Quarter waiters of the six Clerks of the Chancery the Clerks of the Signet The Clerks of the Privy-Seal the Clerks of the Council the Clerks of both Houses of Parliament The Clerks of the Crown the Chaplains in ordinary having dignities ten in number the Kings Advocate and remembrancer the Kings learned Counsell at Law The Master of the Chancery the Kings puisne Serjeants The Kings Attorney and Solicitors The Kings eldest Serjeants the Secttarys of the French and Latine Toungs the Gentlemen Ushers daily waiters The Servers Carvers and Cup-bearers in ordinary the Esquires of the Body The Masters of standing offices being no Councellors viz. of the Tents Revels Ceremonies Armory Wardrope Ordinance Master of the Requests Chamberlyn of the Exchequer Barons of the Exchequer and Judges of the Law according to their dignity the Lord chief Baron the Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas Master of the Rolls the Lord chief Justice of England Trumpets The Gentlemen of the privy chamber the Knights of the Bath 68 in number the Knight Marshall the Treasurer of the Chamber the Master of the Jewell House Knights of the Privy Council Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold Two Trumpets and Serjeants Trumpets Two Pursivants at Arms. Barons eldest Sons Earls youngest Sons Vicounts eldest Sons Barons Marquesses younger Sons Earls eldest Sons Two Pursivants at Arms. Viscounts Dukes younger Sons Marquesses eldest Sons Two Heraulds Earls Earl Marshal and Lord Chamberlyn of the Houshold Dukes eldest Sons Serjeants at Arms on both sides the Nobility Clarencieux and Norroy Lord Treasurer Lord Chancellor Lord High Steward Duke of Ormond two persons representing the Duke of Normandy and Aquittain Gentleman Vsher Garter Lord Mayor Sir Rich. Brown The Duke of York alone The Lord High Constable of England Earl of Northumberland Lord Great Chamberlyn of England Earl of Lindsey The Sword born by the Duke of Richmond The King Equerries and Footmen next about his Majesty Gentlemen and Pensioners without them the Master of the Horse Duke of Albemarl leading a spare Horse the Vice Chamberlyn to the King Captain of the Pensioners Captain of the Guard the Guard the Kings Life-guard commanded by my Lord Gerrard the Generals Life-guard by Sir Phillip Howard a troop of Voluntier Horse and a company of Foot by Sir John Robinson The way from the Tower to Algate was guarded by the Hamblets from thence to Temple-Barr by the Trained-Bands of London on one side and lined with the Liveries on the other side with the Banners of each company The Windows were all along laid with the best Carpets and Tapestry Bands of Musick in several places and the Conduits running with Wine At the Arches the King was entertained with several Speeches and Songs and at Cheapside near the third Arch where the Temple of Concord stood Sir William Wyld Recorder of London with the Aldermen who in the name of the City did most cordially congratulate his Majesties access thither on that day upon that solemn occasion in a pithy Speech and as a signal of their Allegiance and Duty presented to his Majesty a purse of Gold In St. Pauls Church-yard stood the Blew-coat boys of Christ-Church Hospital One in behalfe of the rest declared their joy for his Majesties wonderful preservation in his absence and his arrival thither humbly beseeching his Majesties Gracious favour and indulgence according to the example of his Royal Ancestors and his Father of Blessed memory The King was very well pleased with this Speech and after conferred something on the Boy that spoke it In the Strand and through Westminster also the wayes were gravelled and rayled being guarded on both sides with the Trained Bands of that Liberty and City and his Majesties two Regiments of Foot under the command of his Grace The Duke of Albermarl and Col. John Russel Brother to the Earl of Bedford The Houses were also richly adorned with the Carpets and Tapestry and Musick particularly a stage of Morrice-dancers at the Maypole in the Strand in the several places all along his Majesties passage When his Majestie came through Temple-Barr into his ancient and native City of Westminster the Head Bayliff in a Scarlet Robe and High Constable in Scarlet received his Majesty with loud musick where alighting off their Horses and kneeling down to his Majesty the head Bayliff on behalf of the Dean and Chapter City and Liberty signified their joyful reception of his Royal person into that Liberty declaring how much more happy they were then any part of the Nation in that their Soveraign Lord and King was born within their Liberty and humbly desiring his Majesty to continue his Grace and Favour still to them whereby that City might still be enabled to do His Majesty service When the head-Bailiff had ended his Speech he and the High Constable mounted their Horses and fell in next after his Majesties Serjeants at Mace in which order they attended his Majestie to Whitehall Infinite and innumerable were the acclamations and shouts from all the parts as his Majestie passed along to the no less joy then amazement of the spectators who beheld those glorious personages that rid before and behind his Majesty Indeed it were in vain to attempt to express this Solemnity it was so far from being utterable that it is almost inconceivable and much wonder it caused in Outlandish persons who were acquainted with our late troubles and confusions to the ruine almost of three Kingdoms which way it was possible for the English to appear in so rich and stately a manner It is incredible to think what costly cloaths were worne that day the Cloaks could hardly be seen what silke or sattin they were made of for the gold and silver laces Embroydery that was laid upon them the like also was seen in their foot-cloathes Besides the inestimable value and treasures of Diamonds Pearle and other Jewels worn upon their backs and in their hats to
Mohun Lord Mohun William Botiller Lord Botiller Percy Herbert Lord Powis Edw. Herbert Lord Herbert of Cherbury Francis Seamour Lord Seamour Thomas Bruce Lord Bruce Francis Newport Lord Newport Thomas Leigh Lord Leigh of Stone-Leigh Christopher Hatton Lord Hatton Henry Hastings Lord Loughborough Richard Byron Lord Byron Richard Vaughan Lord Vaughan Charles Smith Lord Carington William Widderington Lord Widderington Humble Ward Lord Ward Thomas Lord Culpepper Isaac Astley Lord Astley Richard Boyle Lord Clifford Iohn Lucas Lord Lucas John Bellasis Lord Bellasis Lewis Watson Lord Rockingham Charles Gerrard Lord Gerrard of Brandon Robert Lord Sutton of Lexington Charles Kirkhoven Lord Wooton Marmaduke Langdale Lord Langdale William Crofts Lord Crofts Iohn Berkley Lord Berkley Denzill Hollis Lord Hollis of Ifeild Frederick Lord Cornwallis George Booth Lord de la Mere. Horatio Townsend Lord Townsend Anthony Ashley Cooper Lord Ashley Iohn Crew Lord Crew By the inadvertency of the Press we must be beholding to a Schâ—lastical Distinction and place these Reverend Fathers and Prelates according to the order of time not of dignity as they they should have preceded the Barons the time most duly to be computed from the Restitution when the Church rose again to its pristine splendor by an Act of Parliament restoring this Sacred Function to all their Honors and in them the Kingdoms making a main part of these magnificences A DOctor Will. Juxon Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate and Metropolitan of all England was consecrated Bishop of London 1633. translated from London to Canterbury 1660. A. Dr. Accepted Frewen Lord Archbishop of York and Metropolitan of England was consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield 1644. translated from thence to York 1660. Y. Dr. Gilbert Shelden Lord Bishop of London was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. John Ceuzens Lord Bishop of Durham was consecrated December 2. 1660. Y. A. Dr. Brian Duppa Lord Bishop of Winchester This See is now possessed by Dr. Morley translated hither from the See of Worcester Prelate of the Garter and Bishop Lord Almoner he was consecrated Bishop of Chichester 1638. from thence translated to Sarum 1640. and from thence to Winchester 1660. and deceased 1662. A. Dr. William Peirs Lord Bishop of Bathe and Wells consecrated 1632. A. Dr. Matthew Wren Lord Bishop of Ely was consecrated Bishop of Hereford 1634. thence translated to Norwich 1635. from thence to Ely 1638. A. Dr. Robert Skinner Lord Bishop of Oxon consecrated Bishop of Bristol 1636. thence translated to Oxon 1640. A. Dr. Wâ—ll Roberts Lord Bishop of Bangor and Sub-Almoner was consecrated 1637. A. Dr. John Warner Lord Bishop of Rochester was consecrated 1637. A. Dr. Henry King Lord Bishop of Chichester was consecrated 1641. Dr. Humphry Henchman Lord Bishop of Salisbury was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. George Morley Lord Bishop of Worcester was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. Robert Sanderson Lord Bishop of Lincoln was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. George Griffith Lord Bishop of St. Asaph was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. William Lucy Lord Bishop of St. Davids was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Benjamin Laney Lord Bishop of Peterborough was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Hugh Lloyd Lord Bishop of Landaff was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Richard Stern Lord Bishop of Carlisle was consecrated December 2. 1660 Y. Dr. Brian Walton Lord Bishop of Chester was consecrated December 2. 1660. Y. This See was possest by Dr. Fernâ— who dying also Dr. George Hall is now Lord Bishop thereof Dr. John Gauden who dying Dr. Sithe Ward is now Lord Bishop thereof Lord Bishop of Exeter was consecrated Decemb. 21 1660. Dr. Gilbert Irenside Lord Bishop of Bristol was consecrated January 13. 1660. Dr. Edward Reynolds Lord Bishop of Norwich was consecrated Jan. 13. 1660. Dr. William Nicholson Lord Bishop of Glocester was consecrated Jan. 13. 1660. Dr. Nicholas Monck Lord Bishop of Hereford was consecrated Jan. 13. 1660. who dying Dr. Herbert Crofts was consecrated in this place Dr. John Hacket Lord Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield A. Notes the Antient Bishops Y. the Diocesses in the Province of York all the rest are in the Province of Canterbury The Names of the Judges EDward Earl of Clarendon Lord High Chancellor of England Sir Robert Foster Knight Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Sir Harbottle Grimston Baronet Mr. of the Rolls Sir Orlando Bridgman Knight and Baronet Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Matt. Hale Chief Baron of the Exchequer Justices of the Kings Bench Sir Tho. Mallet Knight Sir Tho. Twisden Knight Sir Wadham Windham Kt. Justices of the Common-Pleas Sir Robert Hide Knight Sir Thomas Terril Knight Sir Samuel Brown Knight Barons of the Exchequer Sir Edward Atkins Kt. Sir Christopher Turner Kt. Sir Jeffrey Palmer Kt. Attorny General the Kings Serjeants at Law Sir John Glynne Kt. Sir William Wilde Kt. The two Principal Secretaries of State persons eminent for their faithful and industrious loyalty are Sir Edward Nicholas of the same place to His late Majesty and Sir William Morrice the onely Confident the Renowned General the Duke of Albemaâ—le used in those blessed Counsels towards the Restitution of the King and Kingdom THE Names of the BARONETS made by Letters Patents since His Majesties most happy Restauration Anno 1660. Anno Duodecimo Caroli Regis Secundi With the times of their several Creations SIr Orlando Bridgeman Knight was created Baronet the seventh day of June in the Twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second in the year of our Lord 1660. Sir Jeffery Palmer Knight was created Baronet the seventh of June Anno predict Sir Henâ—age Finch of Raveaston alias Rauston in the County of Bucks Knight was created Baronet the seventh of June Anno predict Sir John Langham of Cottesbrook in the County of Northampton Knight created Baronet the seventh day of June Anno predict Sir Robert Abdy of Albins in the County of Essex Knight created Baronet the ninth of June Vâ—supra Thomas Draper of Suminghill-Park in the County of Berks Esquire was created Baronet the ninth of June Anno pred Humphry Winch of Hamnes in the County of Bedford Esquire created Baronet the 9 of June Anno pred Jonathan Rease Esquire created Baronet the ninth of June Anno pred Henry Wright of Dagenham in the County of Essex Esquire created Baronet the 9 of June Anno pred Hugh Spâ—ke of Haselbury in the County of Wilts Esquire created Baronet the 12th of June Anno pred Nicholas Gould of the City of London Esquire created Baronet the 13th of June Anno predict Sir Thomas Adams of the City of London Knight created Baronet the 13th of June Anno predict Richard Atkins of Clapham in the County of Surrey Esquire created Baronet the 13th of June Anno predict Thomas Allen of the City of London Esquire created Baronet the 14th of June Anno predict Henry North of Mildnal in the County of Suffolk Esquire was created Baronet the fifteenth of June Anno
out of his Majesties Exchequer in Ireland for the better support thereof There are likewise three other Earls but for want of Irish Heraldry we must be content to name their Titles viz. The Earl of Mount Alexander the Earl of Drogbeday formerly Lord Moon and the Right Honorable Roger Palmer Earl of Castlemain VISCOUNTS The Right honourable Sir Iohn Clotworthy of Antrim in the County of Antrim in the Kingdom of Ireland Knight was created Baron of Lough Neagh and Viscount Maszereen in the said County by letters patents bearing date at VVestminster the 21 of November in the twelfth year of our Gracious Soveraign Lord c. with the said honours and also to him and the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten and for want of such â—ssue to Iohn Skiffingtou Baronet and the heirs of his body on the body of Mary the Daughter and heir apparent of the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy lawfully begotten together with all the rights priviledges and preheminences to a Baron and Viscount belonging The Right honorable Robert Cholmâ—ndeley Esquire was created Viscount Kellis in the County of Meth in the Kingdom of Ireland by letters patents bearing date at VVestminster the 29 of March in the thirteenth year of the reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the second granting the same to him and the heirs males of his body with the remainder to Hugh Cholmondeley Esquire his Brother and the heirs males of his body with all priviledges and preheminences to a Viscount of Ireland belonging BARONS The Right honorable Sir Iohn King of the Abby of Boyle in the County of Roscommon in the Kingdom of Ireland Knight was created Baron Kingston of Kingston in in the County of Dublin to hold to him and the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten with all priviledges c. by letters patents bearing date at Westminster the fourth day of September in the twelfth year of the reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second The Right honourable Collonel Richard Coot was created Baron Coâ—te of Colrein in the County of Shyoe in the Kingdom of Ireland the same entailed to him and the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten with all priviledges c. by lettars patents bearing date at Westminster the sixth of September in the twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second in the year of our Lord 1661. Additions to the Honors conferred by His Majesty in the Thirteenth year of His Reign SIr Thomas Fanshaw of Ware Park in the County of Hertford the Elder Knight of the Bathe was created Viscount Fanshaw of Donnamore in the Kingdom of Ireland by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster the fifth of September Anno 13 Caroli Secundi BARONETS Robert Jenkinson of Walcot in the County of Oxford Esquire created Baronet by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster the eighteenth of May 13 Caroli Secundi William Glyne of Bissiter alias Bercester in the County of Oxford Esquire the twentieth of May Anno predict Sir John Charnock of Holcot in the County of Bedford Esquire the one and twentieth of May Anno pred Robert Brook of Norton in the county of Suffolk Esquire the one and twentieth of May. Anno pred Thomas Nevil of Holt in the county of Leicester Esquire the five and twentieth of May Anno pred Henry Andrews of Lothbury in the county of Bucks the seven and twentieth of May Anno pred Anthony Craven of Sparsholt alias Sparshale in the county of Berks Esquire the fourth of June Anno pred James Clavering of Axwel in the county of Durham Esquire Iune 5. an pred Thomas Derham of West-Derham in the county of Norfolk Esquire Iune 8. an pred Abraham Cullen of Eastsheen in the county of Surrey Iune 17. an pred Godfrey Copley of Spretborough in the county of York Iune 17 ut supra Griffith Williams of Pewrhyne in the county of Carnarvan Esquire ut supra James Rushort of Milast-green in the county of Essex Esquire ut supra Henry Winchcomb of Bucklebury in the county of Berks Esquire Iune 18. an predict Sir Thomas Viner of the city of London Knight ut supra Clement Clarke of Laune-Abbey in the county of Leicester Esquire ut supra John Segliard of Delaware in the county of Kent Esquire ut supra Christopher Guise of Elmore in the county of the city of Glocester Esquire Iuly 10. an pred Reynald Fester of East-Greenwich in the county of Kent Esquire Iuly 11. an pred Philip Parker of Erwarten in the county of Suffolk Esquire Iuly 16. an pred Sir Edward Duke of Benhal in the county of Suffolk Knight Iuly 17. an pred Edward Barkham of Wanfleet in the county of Lincoln Esquire Iuly 21. an pred Charles Hussey of Caythorp alias Caythrop in the county of Lincoln Esquire ut supra Thomas Norton of the city of Coventry in the county of Warwick Esquire Iuly 23. an pred Sir John Dormer of Grange in the county of Bucks Knight ut supra Thomas Carew of Haccombe in the county of Devon Esquire Aug. 2. an pred Mark Milbanck of Halvaby in the county of York Esquire Aug. 7. an pred Richard Rothwel of Ewerby and Stapleford in the county of Lincoln Esquire Aug. 16. an pred John Bancks of the city of London Esquire Aug. 22. an pred Henry Ingoldsby of Lethenborough in the county of Bucks Esquire Aug. 30. an pred Robert Jason of Broad-Somerford in the county of Wilts Esquire September 5. an pred Sir Iohn Young of Culliton in the county of Devon Esquire Sept. 26. an pred Francis Buckley of Attleborough in the county of Norfolk Esquire Sept. 30. an pred Iohn Frederick Van Freisendorf of Heerdick Lord of Kyrup one of the Privy Council to the King of Sweden and his Ambassador Extraordinary to the King of England His most Excellent Majesty created Baronet by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster the fourth of October in the Thirteenth year of King Charles the Second c. William Roberts of Willesden in the county of Middlesex Esquire Nov. 8. an pred William Luckin of Waltham in the county of Essex Esquire Novemb. 15. an pred Thomas Smith of Hill-Hall in the county of Essex Esquire Nov. 29. an pred Edwin Sadler of Temple Diâ—nesly alias Dinsley in the county of Hertford Esquire Dec. 3. an pred Sir William Windham of Orchard in the county of Somerset Kniâ—ht Dec. 19. an pred George Southcote of Bleborough in the county of Lincoln Esquire Janu 17. an pred George Trevellian of Nettlecome in the county of Somerset Esquire Janu 24. an pred The Reader is desired to excuse our omission of all the Scotch Dignities not onely because of National incuriosity but by reason there are very few of them except the Restitutory Honors of the Family of the Gurâ—ons to the Earldom of â—bâ—yn To omit also the Knights-Batchelors made by the King with the Honors of the several Offices
belonging to Him His Guards and other Commanders which assist these Grandeurs It will suffice to say that we were aâ—l raised from â—lâ—w and abject condition being â—he servants of servants to the honor of English Freemâ—n which is such a Genâ—y that sew people in the world are born to and having once forfeited it were ever restored to it These are the several Orbs and Spheres which make up this Firmament of His Majesties Glory A Firmament indeed not only because of its Lustre and Beauty but for its strength and durablenesse the Nobility and Gentry being the Pillars and Supporters of Monarchy against the violences and overthrowing tempests of the Multitude as was lamentably experienced in the late Democracy which laid aside the House of Peers before it cast off the King and His Government but leaving the other Planets we will addresse our sight to the bright Orb of the Moon that governs equally with our Sun our Soveraign King Charles His Majesty had now attained the utmost extent of humane Felicity having expanded the Rayes of His Greatnesse to all the parts of the World where his Wonders were heard and related with Extasie Yet as Adam placed in Paradice when the whole Dominion of the Universe was bestowed on him was not so perfectly happy but wanted a Companion to compleat him just so was it with our Soveraign who lacked the Communication of these His most prosperous Fortunes the Company and Converse of a meet Consort in whose Bosome and Womb he might recond and treasure up the inestimable value of those Sure Mercies he had received This Lovely Casket of such incomparable Jewels The Kings Intentions to marry with the Infanta of Portugal Nature and the Decrees of Heaven had more especially prepared and predisposed out of the Royal Family of the Kings of Portugal which having suffered an Ecclipse by the powerful interposition of the Spanish Monarchy for the space of neer a hundred years was now revisited in its former Splendor in the assumption of John Duke of Braganza the fourth of that name King of Portugal by almost as miraculous a Turn as that of our Captivity by the Kings Restitution So Providence was pleased to adapt and fit both these Princes Conditions and Estates to this happy juncture of them in the Royal and Happy Estate of Marriage This was designed by King John in the begining of our Troubles and of His Reign and was one of the first Acts of State he did with us managed here by Don Antonio de Souza his Embassador hither who was very instrumental in transacting His late Majesties Affairs of sorraign Concernment receiving and returning his dispatches One Ingredient no doubt in point of Civility and Honour among those other of Affection and Interest that make up this Princely Match Neverthelesse that Fortune might pay our Soveraign all the dues she owed him for those many unkindnesses He had formerly received from her she cared nor feared not to dispence with her favours to that Crown and to reduce it by the puissant Grandeur and entire Force of the Spaniards then employed against it in the year 1661 and so onward hitherto to a condition of so ill an Aspect as without some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be accounted by the Politico's of the Times to be no better then desperate the more to enhaunce and raise the Kings Reputation and Glory and to add to His other Honours and Stiles the Title of The Succourer of the Afflicted and Distressed So that at the same time that he bended His Arms to Her Majesties Embraces he outstretched them to the Aid and Assertion of Her People and Country being alike Love and War powerful Militating at one and the same time in the Camps of Cupid and Mars with the same generous valour and bravery to both which never any Prince had the like Competent Courage and Vertue the former softning and esseminating the latter roughening and uncivilizing the mind To the universal joy therefore of his People The King declares his resolution of Marrying to the Parliament He solemnly acquainted the Parliament which he had called by his own Writ on the 28 of May 1661 with this His Intention of Marrying the Infanta Dona Katharina of Portugal for several weighty reasons which he had offered to the Lords of His most Honourable Privy Council who generally approved of His Majesties choice which approbation was then transubstantiated into the Thanks of the Kingdome delivered by the two Houses to the King upon the same account so impossible it was for the King even in His most natural Actions whose Delight was recompence enough not to be magnified to such a degree of Love in his people that it can be ascribed to nothing better then a powerful Sympathy influenced on them from His own Love-possessed Breast The Treaty and Articles of Marriage were a little before concluded with the Conde Don Francisco de Mello that no subsequent alterations by private opinion should derogate from the Prerogative of His own most absolute cleerest judgement not to be profaned with common consideration and accordingly the said Embassador took leave of His Majesty in Order to his departure for Portugal with the ratification of the said Treaty of Marriage here where not long after he arrived and brought that Court but primarily and chiefly the Princely Bride the News thereof who with Her Majestick Constancy of Countenance gave it a solemn and serious welcome not touched with those change of passions which by the vicissitude of pallid and blushing looks discover the meannesse and inconsistency of other Virgin minds But though she did so prudentially and wisely conceal the joyes of the affection she had long nourished for the King The News thereof at Lisbon yet was Her Royal Brother and Mother most openly glad and joyful at the wisht successe of that Affair which was instantly communicated to the City of Lisbon the Chamber of that King by the Guns from all the Castles and Forts thereof which were Ecchoed from all the Cannon in the River both Portugese and Forraigners by which means without further Proclamation it was noised about the Town who like overjoyed People betook themselves to the presentest yet most solemn demonstrations thereof by Bonfires and Entertainments c. the Streets resounding with Healths al Re del Grand Bretanna which continued that night and the next whole day Not long after by an Expresse from England from the King to Her Donna Katharina is saluted Queen of Great Britain she was Complemented with the Stile of the Queen of Great Brittain which put the Court into a new Gayety both to Her Retinue and Attendance and all Honours and Duties done to Her as if she were actually crowned It will not be much material to insist on all the other particulars viz. those several Messages sent and returned betwixt those two Royal Lovers together with the intercourse betwixt the two Crowns in point of Alliance and Security
to Whitehall In the rear of the King came his Majesties spare Barge covered with Velvet most richly embroidered next several Noblemens Barges filled with divers Lords and Ladies who attended this days Triumph with the King and Queen came their illustrious Brother the Duke of York who being Lord high Admiral had his part of Glory in this Naval rencounter In this order by 7 a Clock their Majesties reached Whitehall and at the instant of their Landing were saluted with two Tire of Artilllery placed on both sides the Water and which concluded with their loud Musick those harmonious Consorts of other lesser Instruments which every Barge of the Companies was furnished with as Trumpets Hoboyes Flutes Waits Viols and Violins to the great delight and satisfaction of the Spectator and to the ample decoration of this Magnificence which passing along the murmuring and trembling Waves was highly advantaged in the resounds and quavering Ecchoes reverberated from those pleasant Depths When those Guns ceased the Tower began the testimonies of its Gladnesse by the same Melody and continued it till night called upon the officious day which was the only dry one of a whole fortnight preceding such his Majesties serene and sure influence to close his cheerful eyes and rest from his illustrious labour while she employed her emulous vicissitude in sutable demonstrations of her joy such as Bonfires Fireworks and the like Brightnesses which her Blacks only could commend and set off to the sight I have omitted all the Speeches but one appointed for this days service because his Majesty heard but that one and but part of that also by reason of the misguided interposition of the Companies between the Pageants very few whereof their Majesties had the full sight by reason of those Confusions caused by the number of Boats and Barges so that the Thames never bore the like burden for weight and value being covered from one bank to the other the said respective Companies doing their civilities to the Queen by waving their hats out of the Bails of their Barges as she passed by them But I refer the Reader to their proper place being Printed at large where the whole Menage of this Affair at the Cities charge is fully described being intituled Aqua Triumphalis Somewhile before this their Majesties coming to Whitehall arrived that most incomparable Lady for Piety Prudence and conjugal affection the Queen Mother the mournful Relict of our late Martyr'd Soveraign intending here to repose that half surviving part of her dear Husband and to integrate and make entire the Royal Remains by her Presence to the completion of his Majesties Felicity whose Imperial Family may indulgent heaven enlarge by as swift and sudden accrument as it did in its displeasure lately retrench it The Place of this most Excellent Princesses Residence her Palace and Mannor of Greenwich importunely directs me to an observation well becoming this discourse and that is a consideration and Survey of its present glory common to it with other its Sisters as Somerset-House Nonsuch-House and some few else from the level of its designed neer ruin and Demolition The anxious Genii and Penates of these places no doubt did highly and industriously operate in the Confusion and Division of the late several Usurpers when to save their seats and rescue their Altars they powerfully intermedled betwixt the Ambition and Covetousnesse of the Rebellion equally avoyding the prostitution and Sale of the Multitude and the rape of a single Tyrant while they stood as the prize of eithers atchievement upon the other like the golden Apple of strife and discord betwixt both Competitors They have now together with his Majesties fortune resumed their Grandeurs and have reared up their exalted heads and as Nero once said of his capacious and glorious Edifice nunc incipiunt habitare they do but now begin to dwell I must pass over many other splendid remarks purposely omitting those several entertainments gratulations given to their Majesties by the Nobility upon the account of this welcome that persue my Pen and do justly vindicate their place in this Register Such is the late expedition into Portugal of that Army under the Command of that famous Captain the Earl of Inchequin whose Glories challenge a Sphere to themselves for who raises not up his Spirit at the reducing of his Irish service though but to his mind memory Such is the reducing the Courts of Judicature to their Ancient Seats in Westminster-Hall from whence by the novelty of Tyranny they had been banished to give place to their bloody High Court of Injustice whose detestable memory shall be its only record while the restored Law shall triumph in its pristine Residence Such those celebrated additions of State and Pleasure to His Majesties Palaces of White-hall and St. James's that have deservedly fam'd a Panegyrick Such is that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or accomplishment of these and their foregoing Grandezza's by the ever blessed and renowned Act of Uniformity formed and cherished to this vigour by his Majesties Zeal to Gods Glory and the Churches Peace and happinesse In the quiet and undubitable fruition whereof and as the most certain and infallible Pillar and firm support of these his temporal Felicities and as the earnest glory of those eternal to come I leave our Gracious Soveraign as knowing nothing BETTER or GREATER can be said of HIM FINIS A Catalogue of some Books Printed for H. Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane THe Alliance of Divine Officers exhibiting all the Liturgies of England since the Reformation by Hamon L'estrange in fol. Justice Revived or the whole Office of a Country Justice by E.W. Esq in 8. Dr. Browns Sepulchral Urns and Garden of Cyrus in 8 Two Essayes of Love and Marriage in 12. The Royal Exchange a Comedy in 4. by R. Brome Five new Playes by R. Brome never before printed in 8. A Treatise of Moderation by Mr. Gaule in 8. St. Boniventure's Soliloques in 4. Iews in America by Mr. Thorowgood in 4. All Mr. R. L'Estrange's Peices against Mr. Bagshaw and the Presbyterians Speed's Husbandry in 8. All the Songs of the Rump in 8. from 1640 to 1660. The Pourtracture of His sacred Majesty King Charles the Second from his birth 1630 till this present year 1661 being the whole story of his escape at Worcester his travels and troubles The Covenant discharged by John Sussell in 4. The compleat art of Water-drawing in 4. Mr. Boys his Translation the 6th book of Virgil in 4. Mr. Walwin's Sermon on the happy Return of King Charles the second A perfect Discovery of Witchcraft very profitable to be read of all sorts of people especially Judges of Assize before they passe sentence on condemned persons for witches in 4. A short view of the Lives of the Illustrious Princes Henry Duke of Gloucester and Mary Princess of Orange deceased by T. M. Esq in 8. Aeneas his Voyage from Troy to Italy an Essay upon the third Book of Virgil by J. Boys Esq in 8. Mr. Grenfields Sermon in behalf of the Loyal party Mr. Stones Sermon at St. Pauls October 20. 1661. The Harmony of the World in 8. Blood for Blood in 35 Tragical stories the five last being the sad product of our late Rebellion in 8. Sonâ—s and other Poems by A. Brome Gent. Trap on the Major Prophets c. in fol. A Discourse of all the Imperfections of Women in 8 Mr. Morton's Rule of Life in 8. A Geographical Dictionary of all the Towns and Cities in the World The Jovial Crew or Merry Beggars by R. Brome Gent.