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A06701	The true narration of the entertainment of his Royall Maiestie, from the time of his departure from Edenbrough; till his receiuing at London with all or the most speciall occurrences. Together with the names of those gentlemen whom his Maiestie honoured with knighthood.	T. M., fl. 1603, attributed name.	1603 (1603)	STC 17153; ESTC S108301	22,361	50

a town of the enemie or at the least held in all leagues either for one Nation or the other But the King of peace haue glory that so peaceably hath ordained a King descended from the Royall blood of either Nation to make that Towne by his possessing it a harbour for English and Scots without thought of wrong or grudging enuie Not to digresse longer these Gallants met him and were graciously respected of his Highnesse so falling in among the other Trophees they set forward and when his Highnesse came within some halfe mile of the Towne and began to take viewe thereof it suddenly seemed like an inchanted Castle for from the mouthes of dreadfull engins not long before full fed by moderate attes-men that knew how to stop and emptie the brasse and iron panches of those roring noises came such a tempest as dreadfull and sometimes more deathfull then thunder that all the ground thereabout trembled as in an earthquake the houses and towers staggering wrapping the whole Towne in a mantle of smoake wherein the same was a while hid from the sight of his Royall owner But nothing violent can be permanent it was too hote to last yet I haue heard it credibly reported that a better peale of Ordinance was neuer in any fouldiers memorie and there are some olde King Harries Lads in Barwicke I can tell you discharged in that place neither was it very strange for no man can remember Barwick honoured with the approach of so powerfull a Maister Well the King is now very neere the gates and as all darknesse flyes before the face of the Sunne so did these clouds of smoake and gun-powder vanish at his gracious approach In the clearnes of which faire time issued out of the towne M. William Selbie Gentleman Porter of Barwick with diuers Gentlemen of good repute and humbling himself before the kings Maiestie presented vnto him the keyes of all the Ports who receiued thē graciously when his Highnes was entred betwixt the gates he restored to the said M. Selbie the keyes againe graced him with the honor of Knight-hood for this his esspeciall seruice in that he was the first man that possessed his Excellēce of those keyes Barwick indeed being the gate that opened into all his Dominions This done his Highnesse entred the second gate and being within both the walles he was receiued by the Captaine of the ward and so passed through a double gaurde of Souldiers well armed in all points but with lookes humble and words cheerfull they gaue his Maiestie to know their hearts witnessed that their armes were worne only to bee vsed in his Royall seruice Betweene this gaurde his Maiestie passed on to the Market Crosse where the Maior and his Brethren receiued him with no small signes of ioy and such signes of triumph as the breuitie of time for prepatation would admit But the common people seemed so ouer-wrapt with his presence that they omitted nothing their power and capacities could attaine vnto to expresse loyall dutie and heartie affection kneeling shouting crying welcome and God saue King Iames till they were in a maner intreated to be silent As soone as it pleased the people to giue him leaue that he might speake M. Parkinson the Recorder of Barwick beeing a man graue and reuerend made a briefe speech to his Maiesty acknowledging him their sole and Soueraigne Lord. To whom in the Townes name he surrendred their Charter presenting his Highnesse also from them with a Purse of gold which as an offering of their loue he graciously receiued And for their Charter he answered them most bening and royally that it should bee continued and that he would maintaine their Priuiledges and vphold them and their Towne in all equitie by reason it was the principall and first place honoured with his mightie and most gracious person These ceremonies amongst the Townes-men ended as his vsuall manner is after any iourney his Maiesty past to the Church there to humble himselfe before the exalter of the humble and thanke him for the benefites bestowed vpon him and all his people at which time preached before him the Reuerend Father in God Doctor Tobie Mathew Bishop of Durham who made a most learned and worthy Sermon which finished the King departed to his Pallace and then they gaue him a peale of great Ordinance more hotte then before Barwick hauing neuer had King to rest within her walles welnie these hundreth yeares The night was quickly ouerpast especially with the Townes-men that neuer in a night thought themselues securer but the iourney of the houres are alwayes one how euer they are made long or short by the apprehension of ioy or sufferance of griefe The mornings Sun chased away the clouds of sleepe from euery eye which the more willingly opened that they might bee comforted with the sight of their beloued Soueraigne who in his Estate attended vpon by the Gouernour and the Noble men together with the Magistrates and Officers of the Towne passed to the Church where he stayed the diuine prayers and Sermon which when with his wonted himilitie he had heard finished in the like estate he returned to his Pallace This day being Thursday the 7. of April his Maiestie ascended the walles whereupon all the Canoniers and other Officers belonging to the great Ordinance stood euery one in his place the Captaines with their bands of souldiers likewise vnder their seuerall Colours Amongst which war-like traine as his Maiestie was very pleasant and gracious so to shew instance how he loued respected the Art-militarie hee made a shot himselfe out of a Canon so faire and with such signe of experience that the most expert Gunners there beheld it not without admiration and there was none of iudgement present but without flattery gaue it iust commendation Of no little estmation did the Gunners account thēselues in after this kingly shot but his Maiesty aboue al vertues in tēperance most excellent left that part of the wall their extraordinary applause but being attended by his nobilitie both of Scotland and England the Lord Henry Howard brother to the late Duke of Norfolke and the Lord Cobham being then newly come to the Towne and guarded by the Gentlemen Pensioners of Barwick he bestowed this day in surueying of the plots and fortifications commending the manner of the souldiers and the militarie order of the Towne being indeed one of the best places of strength in all the North of England All which when with great liking he had to his kingly pleasure beheld he returned to his Pallace and there reposed till the next day The 8. of Aprill being Fryday the Trumpets warned for the remoue and all that morning his Maiestie with royall liberalitie bestowed amongst the Garrison Souldiers and euery Officer for warre according to his place so rich and bounteous rewards that all souldiers by his bountifull beginning there may be assured they shall not as they haue bin be curtald of their duties by

he confirmed them to their great ioy contentment Thus spent the Lord of Halirud-house the first part of Monday in Barwick and dyned with the Magistrates In the afternoone the Lord Gouernour and his chiefe Officers of place called together all the Souldiers that were vnder pay so did the Mayor and Aldermen conuene all the Communaltie of the Towne to whom when the oath was read and the Magistrates had certified them that they had beene their example the L. of Halyrud-house wondered at and much commended their ioy and readinesse to be sworne seruants to so regall a Maister which he amply discoursed to his Maiestie at his returne to Edenburgh the next day not hyding any of their forward applauses but deliuered their willingnesse to his Highnesse with expresse and liuely words assuring him by his entrance into England at that litle doore how welcome into the wide house his Excellence should be While this was a doing in Barwick there drew to the King hourely most of the Nobilitie in Scotland with sundry Knights and Gentle-men gratulating the great blessings befallen his Highnesse and attending his Royall pleasure Besides many numbers of Gentlemen came out of England to salute his Maiestie all whom he graciously welcommed and honoured one of them with the Order of Knight-hood being M. Iohn Paiton sonne to Sir Iohn Paiton Lieutenant of the Tower of London this being to that noble Gentleman no little glory that he was the first Knight yea named by the Kings Maiestie himselfe his first Knight that was made by our Soueraigne after he was nominated and truly knowne to bee the mightiest king in Europe During the continuance of his Maiestie in Scotland before his Progresse towardes England his whole care was for the peaceable gouernment of of that realme from which he was a while to part And to that end he had sundry conferences with his Nobilitie laying the safest proiects that in his wisedome and their experiences seemed likely for effecting his royall desire which God willing will come to passe to his great liking and benefite of both the Realmes But that it might more to his people appeare he in person came graciously to the Citie of Edenburgh vnto the publike Sermon and after the Sermon was finished in a most learned but more louing Oration he exprest his occasion of leauing thē to the Burgesses a number of the people exhorting thē to contiune in obedience being the bond that binde Princes to affect their subiects which broken on their part he trusted should neuer be and of his they were assured perswading them also to agreement amongst themselues being the bond of charitie that tyed all men especially Christians to loue and beare one with another In which obedience to him and agreement amongst themselues if they continued howsoeuer he was in a manner at that time constrained to leaue them yet hee would in his owne person visite them that shortly in times conuenient and most necessarie for his owne aduancement and their benefite Yet for all his kingly Oratorie milde behauiour and true intention the peoples hearts against his departure were euen dead and griefe seized euery priuate mans raynes sauing onely those that were made happy by attending his Royall person into England For now they began duly to thinke vpon his vnmatched vertues which neuer the most malicious enemie could impeach being in the worlds eie innocent of any capitall and notorious crime but such as may be incident to any iust man who dayly fall but neuer fall away they now considered his affabilitie mercie iustice and magnanimitie they remembred how in late yeares Scotland by his gouernment had increased in more riches then in the time of many his Predecessors Besides his care for establishing true Religiō his Traffique almost with al Nations the royaltie of his marriage the blessings hoped for by his issue And such an vniuersall sorrow was amongst them that some of the meaner sort spake euen distractedly and none but at his departing which yet we are not come vnto expressed such sorrow as in that Nation hath seldome bin seen the like albeit the Kings Maiestie was possessed of that which the cōmon sort of the Nation long wished for I meane the Kingdome The 31. of March being Thursday his Maiestie with great solemnitie and pompe was proclaimed King of England Scotland Fraunce and Ireland at the Market Crosse of Edenbrugh in presence of the whole Officers of Estate of the Realm and many of the Nobilitie of Scotland and sundry Knights and Gentlemen of England And in the euening of that day there were many hundreds of Bonefires made all about the Citie with great feasting and merriment held till the appearing of the next day But as ioyfull as they were of his Maiesties great aduauncement and enlarging of his Empire so were they as I before noted for their priuate want of him no lesse filled with griefe as aboue all other times was most apparantly expressed at his departure from Edenburgh towards England the cries of poore people being so lamentable and confused that it moued his Maiestie to much compassion yet seeing their clamors was only of affection and not grounded on reason with many gracious and louing words he left them and proceeded on his Progresse It was the fift of April being Tuesday that his Maiestie departed from Edenburgh gallantly accompanied with multitudes of his Nobility Lords Barons and Gentlemen of Scotland and some French as the French Ambassadour being Leger in Scotland whose wife was carried betwixt Edenburgh and London by eight pioners or porters one foure to relieue the other foure by turnes carrying her in a chare with slings as also his Maiestie being accompanied with his own attendants as the Duke of Lennox the Earle of Argyle the Earle of Murrey the Earle of Cassils the Earle of Mar the Lorde Home the Lord Oliphant and sundry other too tedious in this place to bee repeated for that their seuerall names shall hereafter bee more particularly expressed Besides there were in his Highnes traine many numbers of gallant and well appointed English Knights and Genlemen who attended his Maiestie that day from Edenburgh vnto Dunglasse a house of the Lord Homes where his Excellence reposed himselfe that night Wednesday the sixt of April his Maiestie progressed from Dunglasse towards Barwicke hauing then attending on him many more Noblemen Knights and Gentlemen besides the Lords Wardens of the borders of England Scotland attended by the Borderers with seuerall companies to receiue him The Lord Gouernour of Barwick also being accompained with al the Counsell of warre the Constables with their Cornets of horse and diuers of the Captaines the band of Gentlemen Pensioners with diuers Gentlemen aduanced forward to entertaine conduct his Maiestie into the Towne of Barwick Happy day when peaceably so many warlike English gentlemē wēt to bring in an English Scottish king both included in one person into that towne that many a 100. years hath bin