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The royal progress; or, A diary of the King's journey from His Majesty's setting out from Kensington, till His return. By a person of quality.
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Person of quality.
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Wing R2143A; ESTC R218476
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and Government pray'd for all Blessings to attend his Royal Person and recommended Themselves to his Royal Protection which his Majesty was pleas'd to assure them of as also of his good Grace and Favour The Corporations of Newark and East-Retford attended the King and kissed his Majesty's Hand The Recorder of each Place congratulated his Majesty's glorious Success at Namur and safe Return to England and gave the King a most hearty Welcome in these Parts all which his Majesty took very kindly from them November 3d. The King left Welbeck in the Afternoon and came in the Evening to the Earl of Stamford's House at Brodgate where his Majesty lay that Night November 4th About Nine this Night the King came to Warwick Castle to my Lord Brooks being receiv'd with great Acclamations ringing of Bells Illuminations Fire-works and other Expressions of Joy and Respect The Mayor and Aldermen of Warwick met his Majesty at the Towns-end and attended his Coach to the Castle where the King was met Splendidly and manificently Entertain'd by my Noble Lord Brooks who also provided a Bowl of Punch for the Towns-People of One hundred and twenty Gallons made in a Vessel call'd Guy Earl of Warwick's Pot. Great were the Acclamations of the People here Godsave King William and long live King William c. November 5th The King left Warwick in the morning being attended by my Lord Brook several Gentlemen of the County and the Magistrates out of the Town and some part of the way The King din'd with my Lord Duke of Shrewsbury at Eyfort and in the Evening came to Burford where his Majesty staid till the Eighth when the King left that Place and arriv'd in the Evening at Woodstock having in his way seen Cornbury-House And on the 9th in the Morning his Majesty came to Oxford being met at some distance from thence by his Grace the Duke of Ormond Chancellor of the University and the Vice-Chancellor and the Doctors in their Habits As also by the Magistrates of the City in their Formalities and the Complements of both being made to his Majesty by the Vice-Chancellor for the one and by the Recorder for the other they proceeded on Horse-back before his Majesty's Coach to the Theatre where a splendid Entertainment was provided with great variety of excellent Musick The Conduit of the City running all the while with Wine The Thanks of the University were return'd to his Majesty for this Royal Favour and Honour in a very Elegant Latin Oration And the Duke of Ormond Chancellor of this University presented the King on his Knees a large Bible in English a large Common-Prayer Book and the Cuts of the University all richly bound and Printed in Folio at the Theatre with a Pair of Gold-Fringe Gloves After Dinner the Vice-Chancellor Noble Men and Gentlemen present had the Honour to kiss his Majesty's Hand and attended the King to his Coach who was pleas'd to tell them That this was a Visit of Kindness not Curiosity And therefore He did not go to see the Colleges having seen the whole University before And so after a short stay his Majesty went on and arriv'd at Windsor about Seven in the Evening on the Ninth Instant The King din'd with my Lord Godolphin at Cranborn-House on Sunday the Tenth Instant and held a Council at Windsor in the Evening His Majesty honour'd Sir Stephen Fox with his Royal Company at Dinner on the Eleventh being Munday at Chiswick and return'd in the Evening to his Royal Residence at Kensington Having compleated his Royal Progress in Six and twenty Days to his entire Satisfaction having been bless'd with extraordinary Weather with a Continuation beyond what was to be expected from the Season and was receiv'd every where either as his Majesty pass'd or staid with hearty English Demonstrations of Respect Zeal Affection and Fidelity The Four Elements conspir'd to make the King's Journey Pleasant and Prosperous and never did his Majesty see so much real English Greatness visible in the Magnificent Entertainments every where provided for Him far exceeding what our Neighbour-Nations ever did when ever their Monarchs vouchsafed them the Honour of a Visit and indeed thus much may be said now and without the the least Tincture of Flattery That this Progress will have happy and glorious Effects by engaging the Hearts of all those of His Majesty's Subjects who before had only heard what great Things the King had done for them and all Europe but now had the Honour and Happiness to see that excellent Prince that was destin'd by Heaven to make this Renow'd Kingdom of England flourish beyond what it ever did in ancient Times and to retrieve her Reputation and make her Fame as lasting as Time it self and to crown all to establish Us in an Honourable and Durable Peace FINIS There is lately Publish'd ANgliae Tutamen Or the Safety Engand Being an Account of the Banks Lotteries Mines Diving Draining Lifting and other Engines and many pernicious Projects now on foot tending to the Destruction of Trade and Commerce and the Impoverishing this Realm With Reflections thereon Solon Secundus Or some Defects in the English Laws with their proper Remedies Both sold by J. Whitlocck near Sationers-Hall
THE Royal Progress OR A DIARY OF THE King's Journey From His MAJESTY's setting out from Kensington till His return By a Person of Quality LONDON Printed and sold by J. Whitlock near Stationers-Hall 1695. THE Royal Progress c. THE Royal Progress being resolv'd on and Preparations made accordingly and the Gaurds sent away before to lie on the Road the King left Kensington on Thursday the Seventeenth of October 1695. and arriv'd at Newmarket the same Evening where the Eighteenth at Night happen'd a Fire which began in a Stable but was soon extinguish'd and the Damage it did was very inconsiderable Several Gentlemen of these Parts came to wait on his Majesty and to welcome him Home and to this Place and then took occasion to Congratulate his Majesty on his taking the City and strong Castle of Namur The next Day was spent in Hunting with which his Majesty was extreamly diverted On Sunday being the Twentieth the principal Members of the University of Cambridge attended his Majesty here viz. at Newmarket and the Vice-Chancellor made a short Congratulatory Speech upon his Majesty's happy Success Abroad and his safe Return And his Majesty in answer to it was graciously pleas'd to give them great Assurances of his Royal Favour and Protection after which they all had the honour to kiss his Majesty's Hand The next Moning being the Twenty first the King parted from hence and arrived the same Evening at Althrop in Northamptonshire being attended by divers of the Nobility and the principal Persons of the Country This is a noble Seat belonging to the Earl of Sunderland an ancient Family the Spencers having long possest it here his Majesty staid a whole Week The concourse of Nobility and Gentry and chief Inhabitants of Northampton which is near this Place is very great The King took the Diversion of the Rural Sports two or three of the first Days and on Thursday the 24th his Majesty din'd with the Earl of Northampton at Castle-Ashby a very fine House in the same County and the next being the 25th the King did the Earl of Montague the Honour to dine with him at Boughton a stately and magnificent Pile of Building Here his Majesty was splendidly Entertain'd and was attended with a great Number of the Nobility and Gentry of this County whom his Majesty receiv'd very kindly and told them Their County was in his Opinion the finest in England and perhaps in the whole World that nothing made a Gentleman look like a Gentleman but living like one His Majesty thank'd them for their good Company and indeed he had a great deal for there was hardly any Body of Note that did not come upon this Occasion and as my Lord Montague was shewing his Majesty his House Painting Carving c. the King told my Lord 'T was not good for One to set One's Heart on any of them for neither He nor his Lordship should be there Forty Years hence to see them The 28th his Majesty left Althorp and came in the Evening to Stamford but went tho' out of his way to see Burghly House the Seat and constant Residence of the Earl of Exeter who was come away to London which his Majesty being inform'd of was pleas'd to ask if he had carried his House with him answer was made no Then says the King I 'll go and see it which his Majesty did twice that night and the next morning being extreamly satisfied with it 'T is a noble Pile of Stone Building built indeed about a hundred Years since by William Lord Burghley but mightily adorn'd and beautified by the present Earl of Exeter who lives very Great and Nobly when there like himself and like an English Noble-Man for loftiness of Rooms great variety of Pictures and fine Painting and Carving done by the greatest Masters of Italy brought thence by his Lordship maintain'd and liberally rewarded for Terrasses Conduits Fish-Ponds Fountains c. It may vie with nay is thought the best in England The Painting and Carving are so curious that some very great Travellers and Men of exquisite Judgment have affirm'd they have met with nothing either in Italy or in France that exceeds them The Park is improv'd by planting a multitude of Walks of Ash Elm Chesnut and several other sorts of Trees Through this Park passeth the old Roman Way mention'd by many Authors and so on to Walcote above Berneck At Wothorpe a little distance from this the Earl of Exeter has another handsome Seat with a little Park wall'd about It was built by Thomas Cecil Earl of Exeter and tho' not very small for it was large enough to hold the late Duke of Buckingham and his Family for some Years yet so mean did it seem in comparison with the former that its Pounder pleasantly said He built it only to retire to out of the Dust while his great House of Burghley was a sweeping At Stamford the Mayor and Aldermen attended with their two Burgesses waited on the King and had the honour to kiss his Majesty's Hand and of welcoming him into those Parts with all possible Demonstrations of Joy by ringing of Bells making of Bonfires and setting up of Illuminations throughout the whole Town The 29th the King din'd at Sir John Brownlow's at Bilton near Grantham and came that Night to Lincoln being attended by a mighty concourse of People The 30th in the Morning his Majesty left this Town and went to Welbeck having been met by the Duke of Newcastle Seven Miles off at Dunham-Ferry the Entrance into this County The 31st being the last Day of October the King dined with his Grace the Duke of Newcastle at Welbeck after having receiv'd the Diversion of Hunting in the Forrest of Shirewood where are an infinite Number of Deer and Branchy-headed Stags his Majesty gave order for the filling up the Saw-Pits there which are dangerous to Huntsmen Welbeck-Abbey lies on the North-West side of this County of Nottingham about a Mile and a half from Workensop a Town famous for the abundance of Liquorice planted and cultivated there Welbeck Abbey is a very noble Building seated in the lowest part of a fine Park surrounded with Trees of excellent Timber and was the Seat of William and Henry late and also is of the present Duke of Newcastle November 1st his Majesty din'd at the Earl of Kingston's and was nobly entertain'd November 2d The Lord-Mayor and Aldermen of York in their Formalities waited on the King that Morning at Welbeck Abbey being introduced by the Duke of Newcastle the Recorder made a Speech to his Majesty who was pleas'd to confer the Honour of Knighthood upon the Lord-Mayor Gilbert Metcalf Esquire In the Evening the Lord-Archbishop of York with his Clergy attended his Majesty and congratulated his happy Success and safe Return express'd their Gratitude for his Majesty's Care of the Church who had show'd himself truly the Defender of the Faith gave his Majesty great Assurance of their Zeal and Loyalty to his Interests