Southwales duas in partes Cambria Suntque Signa Leone rapax cum gradiente Leo. Cestria gestit ouans ouans Cornubia quinto Ostentans titulos amplificansque suos Eboraco tandem Lancastria iungitur illis Candida purpureae sic rosa iuncta rosae Singula pulchra satis licet ingens pondus Honoris Sola tenent Ducibus nobilitata suis Vnde paterna fluit maternaque Gentis origo Regibus innumeris quae numeretur auis At splendoris habent immensum corpore in vno Crux Rosa Spica Globi Lilia Plectra Leo. Vis vnita valet virtus coniuncta nitescit Clarior Haec nostri Principis arma docent Significantque suis Quaeque haec dignissima sacris Arcanis Vatum ni minuenda fides Diuinos mores coelestia pectora Mentes Plusquam mortales Regibus esse pijs Hos fidei curaeque tuae mandamus Honores O princeps nostri luxque decusque Fori Dixit THO FISHER QVid Phaebaea canit vel iactat nomina Delos Creta quid omnipotens nomen Iouiale recenset Principis haec nostri superabit nomina nomen Clara per immensum fundens miracula mundum Illum pro cunctis sua Cambria praedicet vnum Vnum prae cunctis vaga fama recenseat illum Spargat Argolicas tua nomina clara per vrbes Vrbes Italiae noscant tua nomina tanta Tanta per Assyrios volitent tua nomina muros Muros Barbariae collustrent nomina sacra Sacra vel extremae captant tua nomina Gentes Gentes condiscant tradant Posteritati Posteritas tanto gaudebit nomine laeta Carole gentis honos nostrae Lux altera Mundi Dixit SIMON COTTON Haec dies nobis niueo lapillo Haec dies festo numeranda ramo Carolus Princeps pius hac nitenti Luce creatur Principi nostro meritos honores Maximos illi meritosque amores Demus quartae memores Nouembris Simus in aeuum Bellicus artes amet Trophaea Candidus doctis faueat Camoenis Victor educto gladio rebellem Terreat hostem Inclytus factis super astra notis Exprimat patrem pietate matrem Et Senex vitae numeret beatae Tempora longa Dixit EDOARDVS SAVNDERS All which were principally inuented and made by the painfull industrie of that iudicious and laborious maister of Artes Humfrey Herbert chiefe Schoole-maister of his Maiesties free-Schoole there vpon one dayes warning As also these that follow were then pronounced being made by that worthy Alderman of Ludlow maister Richard Fisher That which the fullnesse of our Ioy brings forth Although not equall to the causes worth That which our humble duetie moues vs to All that our meane Abilitie can do Vnto our deare Prince Charles we consecrate His faire beginning to congratulate Charles a a Camdens Remaines Valiant aâ—d b b Verstegans etymolog All-Noble signifies And loe these Emblemes well the same implies The c c Cardan inuicta superare significat Ostrich feathers Fortitude expresse The Kingly d d Principem virum magnanimum Lions intimate no lesse The e e SymboluÌ„ christianae prosessionis Crosse Religion and these fragrant f f Lilium rosae pulchritudinem gratiam bonam famam iusta facta pollicentur flowers The g g Harmonia sapientiam diuinam Slash the h h Vnitatem securitatem Globes i i Garbae spicae deorum sunt coronae prosperitatem benignitatem significant denotant Cardan Crowne of heauenly powers Are Hieroglyphicks of Nobilitie High Birth true Wisedome Iustice Pietie These we present vnto his sacred Name Whose worth containes the Character of Fame THOMAS GREGORIE THrice blessed be the heauenly Prouidence That gau's a Prince of such magnificence Who is the most illustrious flowring Bud Of many famous Kingdomes royall Blud And our great Britaines hopefull ornament Hee shall protect this happy * * The Honourable Counsell of the Marches Gouernment And proudest opposition learne to know The Dutie to our Soueraigne King we owe. Now Ludlow maist thou hope if Gods will bee Thy Princes sacred person heere to see And streame out all thy Ioyes to veiw his Face And some officious seruice do his Grace O prosper may he and his glory more Then any Charles the World had e're before His future yeares exceeding ten times ten All those that loue Prince Charles will say Amen WALTER ASTON THe which Speeches being ended by the said Schollers who thereby for their gracious boldnesse in the deliuerie thereof got great applause by the said Iustice and all the Auditorie and after another volley of shot discharged they marched and passed by sundry other great Bonfires whereof one was by the Castle Gate and another was within the vtter Court or Greene of the said Castle and there marching discharging of shot singing playing on instruments and heartily reioycing proceeded into the Court-house of the said Principalitie where the said Iustice very grauely in the presence and audience of all the whole Company there assembled deliuered these words following or the like in effect viz. THis happy and glorious Day the bright Sunne-shining glory of Great Britaine being the first day of the Weeke and the first day of our Terme and the next day to the Lords owne Day his holy Sabaoth and the next day before our wonderfull day of our great deliuerance from the Gunpowder-Treason the Kings day The High and Mighty Prince Charles our first Prince of that Name Prince of Great Britaine and Ireland Duke of Cornewall Yorke and Albany Marques of Ormont Earle of Rosse Baron of Armanoch of the most Noble Order of the Garter Knight Second Sonne by Birth and now the Onely and First Begotten Sonne of the most potent and puissant IAMES by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King is this day at his Maiesties Palace of White-hall created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester being the thirteenth Prince by Creation in succession of this his Noble Principalitie of Wales This most excellent Prince thus stated and stiled takes it for a high honour and great dignitie vnto himselfe to be created Prince of Wales and therfore all we of this Principalitie and Iurisdiction are the rather bound to yeeld all honour dutie and seruice to him who hath so much honoured vs and all Wales And therefore let none scorne nor contemne the power and authoritie thereof his Highnesse being graciously pleased to signifie his pleasure to me and my said Brethren of this Counsell That he would protect and defend the same both by his Highnesse himselfe and by his Princely meanes to the King his father And as he is now our first Prince of that name so I hope he shal be as religious victorious and renowned within these his Maiesties Kingdoms and the Dominions thereof in future times as those of his Name haue bene in other Kingdomes in former Ages before him to the great glory of great Britaine Therefore all our Prayers to God shal be that
THE LOVE OF VVALES to their soueraigne Prince Expressed In a true Relation of the solemnity held at Ludlow in the Countie of Salop vpon the fourth of Nouember last past Anno Domini 1616. Being the day of the Creation of the high and mighty CHARLES Prince of WALES and Earle of CHESTER in his Maiesties Palace of White-Hall LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes 1616. ¶ To the high and mightie Prince CHARLES Prince of Wales Duke of Cornewall and Yorke and Earle of Chester c. Most Illustrious and Peerelesse Prince THat which your Highnesse beholdeth in the Sunne rising how in displaying his bright Beames hee dispells all mistie vapours and comforts by the vigorous influence thereof the feeble sences of inferior bodies the same might easily haue bin discerned in the faces of all his Maiesties subiects who formerly drouping through the Fates destinie are at last cheered and reuiued by the happy Rise of your Highnes into the Princely throne of Wales where you were no sooner enthronized by Gods gracious prouidence by lawfull authoritie and by the loue of all his Maiesties liege people who are the Princes principall Supporters but it was a wonder to see of a sudden what a sweet spring what a happie change what a powerfull renouation was wrought in the vitall spirits of his Maiesties sayd subiects who daunced for ioy filled the Aire with shouts and acclamations in all quarters but specially in your proper Meridian of Ludlow the beautifull seate of his Maiesties chiefe Castle and Counsell of Wales where my selfe being not altogether an idle Actor nor vnwilling Spectator was so rauished with the fullnesse of ioy which I saw in the hearts of the people as I wished my selfe then to bee transformed into the shape of the sweete Nightingale which was counted Vox praetereà nihil that with Fames golden wings I might eccho out to the eares of all men the loyall affection of the Brittish Nation to their royall Prince and the royall fauours of their gracious Prince intended to them whose very Name caused such a surplusage of mirth and admiration as my Penne is not able to decipher the halfe of the reioycing which they expressed nor were they any way able with all their indeuors to testifie the full measure of Gladnes which their hearts conceiued If then in the divulging of this plaine Narration I eclipse much of the glorious substance of the Shew I hope your Highnesse in beholding my loyall intention will be induced to pardon my daring presumption And what is now the period of all our Petitions but that Heauen may adde constancie to the felicitie of your Triumph and then we doubt not that our Ioyes shall euer waxe olde but whiles your Highnesse continues to accept of the royall Title of Prince of Wales his Maiesties people will still haue new matter of reioycing in your gracious Gouernment and powerfull protection Thus in most lowly manner vpon my knee crauing pardon for this my presumption hoping your Excellencie will not discusse Nec quis nec quid sed quo animo neyther the meanenesse of my selfe nor the smallnesse of the matter but onely the minde and heart of your poore Vassall I rest praying for all blessings external internall and eternall to your Highnesse From Ludlow this last of Nouember 1616. Your Highnesse deuoted in all obseruance Daniel Powel To the Reader THat which Virgill writeth of Ascanius his following his Father Aeneas I must apply at this time to my selfe sequiturque patrem haud passibus aequis My naturall Father so loued his natiue Country that amongst other Writings he wrote a Chronicle of Wales Doctor Powels Chronicle and I howbeit not able to follow him in like maturitie and perfection yet striuing to follow him in the like matter and affection haue aduentured to relate the great cheerfulnesse and exceeding forwardnesse which was in my Country-men and all in these parts vpon the day of his Highnesse Creation Prince of Wales And how euer the carping Critickes may calumniate my honest indeuours yet I am sure they can neuer obliterate the memory of that daies mirth which still remaines niueo signanda lapillo so registred in the hearts of the people Vt nulla vnquam aetas nulla aetatis vetustas nulla vetustatis antiquitas illam aboleuerit Which if thou take in good part it is all I desire if thou doe not it is enough that I testifie my humble duetie vnto my Prince for his content and my loue to my Country-men for their commendations and so I leaue thee ¶ Apud Ludlow quarto die Nouembris Anno Domini 1616. Annoque Regni Regis IACOBI nunc c. Angliae Franciae Hyberniae c. Quartodecimo Et Scociae Quinquagesimo The names of such of the Counsell there as then were present Sir THOMAS CHAMBERLAINE Knight Sergeant at Law chiefe Iustice of Chester and of his Maiesties Counsell in the Marches of Wales Sir THOMAS CORNEVVAILE Knight Baron of Burford one of the Gentlemen of his Maiesties priuie Chamber high Sheriffe of the County of Salop one other of his Maiesties said Counsell there THOMAS HARLEY Esquier one other of his Maiesties said Counsell there THE LOVE OF VVALES to their soueraigne Prince HIs Maiesties said Counsell in the Dominion and Principalitie of Wales and the Marches of the same beeing at Ludlow where his Highnesse chiefe Seate and Castle for the said Principalitie now is and of a long time hath beene for a Remembrance to all succeeding Ages haue by the appoyntment and direction of the right honourable Raph Lord Eure Lord President of the said Counsell beeing then absent commaunded that the said day in the yeare aforesaid being Monday the first day of this present Terme holden before the said Counsell being the very day whereon the most renowned high and mightie Prince CHARLES Prince of Great Britaine c. was at his Maiesties Pallace of White-Hall created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester should be solemnized For which purpose the said Iustice tooke speciall care as the shortnes of the time would permit being newly come from London where hee left sir Henry Touneshend and sir Francis Eure Knights with Nicholas Ouerbury Esquier three of the learned Counsell Resident for the saide Principalitie and Marches thereof at that time attending his Maiesties speciall seruice at London and caused to repaire and assemble at the said Castle of Ludlow the forenamed sir Thomas Cornewaile high Sherife of the sayd County with his Staffe of Office and the said Thomas Harley Esquier being two of his Counsell there as aforesayd together with sir Robert Harley Knight of the Bath sir Francis Cornwaile Knight Marmaduke Lloyd Esquier his Maiesties Atturney there Thomas Powell Esquier his Highnesse Sollicitor attending the sayd Counsell Iohn Delabere Doctor of Physicke William Fox William Vaughan Gruffith Lloyd Esquiers and many other worthy Gentlemen and persons of good account of the Counties of Salop Hereford Denbigh Mountgogomery Caeruaruon Merioneth and other countries
adioyning to the number of many thousand persons The true manner of which Solemnization was as followeth FIrst the said Iustice commanded that our said Prince his Armes with his Name and Stile there-vnder in Characters fairely subscribed should be set vp and published as well vnder the Pulpit in the church of Saint Laurence in Ludlow and in his Maiesties Chappel within the said Castle and in the Court-house of the Principalitie there as also vpon the gates of the said Towne and high Crosse there and likewise vppon the principall Posts and Pillars standing in the Market place within the said Towne of Ludlow The tenour of which Stile and Subscription here insueth Quarto Nouembris Anno Dom. 1616. THe right high Mighty and excellent Prince Charles Prince of great Britaine and Ireland Duke of Cornewall Yorke and of Albany Marquesse of Ormont Earle of Rosse Baron of Armanoch of the most noble order of the Garter Knight Second Sonne by Birth and now the only and first begotten sonne of the most puissant and potent Iames by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King is this day at Ludlow by vs of the Counsell solemnized within the said Principalitie of Wales Afterwards about nine of the Clocke in the fore-noone of the said fourth of Nouember William Gregory and Thomas Blashfield Esquiers Bailifes of the said Towne of Ludlow accompanied with the Magistrates their Brethren and all the chiefe Burgesses of the said Towne very richly clad and apparrelled attended by their Officers with their Maces before them and all the Quire of the Church there singing of Hymnes and Psalmes of thankesgiuing and praise for our sayd Prince bringing with them sixe yong Youths being Schollers of the Kings free Schoole of the said Towne well and richly decked and adorned who did beare in their hands seuerall Penons and Bannerolls of the Armes and Atchiuements of our said Prince Charles that is to say The formost Scholler bore in his hand the Armes of England and Scotland The second carried the Armes of the Brittaines and Saxons The third France and Ireland The fourth north-Northwales and Southwales The fift Cornewall and Chester The sixt and the last carried the Armes of Yorke and Lancaster with the Plume of feathers and the Prince his Name Hauing before them the Towne Waites and other lowd Instruments of Musicke and before the musicke marched a long the number of two hundred souldiers being well appointed and furnished with Halberds Pikes Corslets Muskets and Caliuers vnder the conduct and leading of Leonard Lloyd there then Captaine who in good order had his Lieutenants and Sergeants brauely arrayed hauing foure Drums and two Trumpets sounding before them besides Fifes and other winde Instruments who all of them thus appoynted came vp to the Castle to attend and bring the said Iustice and Counsell to the Church And hauing repayred to the Castle Greene there and meeting Maister Iustice in his Scarlet Robes with the rest of the Counsell before named in decent maner vpon the Castle bridge accompanied with all the worshipfull Counsellors of Law Atturneis and Clarks belonging to that Court with sundry Esquiers and Gentlemen hauing before them Richard Iones Esquier Sergeant at Armes carrying his Maiesties Mace William Gooderick Esquier gentleman Porter Richard Collins one of the Vshers of his Maiesties Chamber and the two messengers of the Court viz. Piers Gruffith and Thomas Pingle gentlemen in rich coates Francis Trollop gentleman Marshall of the said Court Thomas Steuens Gentleman Yeoman of the Kings Wardrobe there Gruffith Iones Constable of the Castle together with all the chiefe Officers of the said Castle being all of them very richly apparrelled and hauing another company of Waits and good consorts of Musicke as Cornets Sagbuts and other winde Instruments playing and sounding all along the way before them a great Volley of shot was discharged by the said Muskettiers and Caliuers which so pierced the Ayre with the great noyse of Drummes and sound of Trumpets Fifes Flutes and other Instruments as the like in these parts hath not beene seene to the great admiration and much reioycing of all the Spectators And thereupon marshalling themselues in good array they all went through the Towne streets to the Church singing and reioycing all the way they went where was another Volley of shotte discharged After Prayers said and Psalmes sung one M. Thomas Pierson a graue reuerend diuine and worthy Preacher made a very learned Sermon of an houre and halfe long vpon the first verse of the 72. Psalme viz. Giue the King thy Iudgements O God and thy Righteousnesse to the Kings sonne Which Sermon being ended and Psalmes sung by the Singing-men and Quiristers to and with the great Organs there all the whole Company returned And as they issued out of the Church and Church-yard into the Market place there was a new Scaffolde purposly erected neare vnto the high Crosse with a great Bonefire not farre distant vpon which Scaffolde the said Schollers with their Penons or Banerols of Armes in their hands as aforesaid ascended and as the said Iustice and Counsell passed by alternatim vttered and pronounced these seuerall Speeches following CAmbria tolle caput nuper perpessa dolores Gaudia nunc animo conduplicata tuo Auspicijs laetis Princeps hac luce creatur Carolus ô totus Gratia totus Amor Splendida progenies coelo delapsa supremo Deliciae nostri dimidiumque Iouis Pluribus obsequijs nos hac de gente tenemur ô Princeps laudes amplificare tuas Pluribus officijs nos hac de sede locoque Debemus titulos concelebrare tuos Ecce tua ipsius proprio tibi iure dicata Symbola iudicibus conueneranda Dijs Pluma triplex rutilâ pulchre deuincta coronâ Orbis inexhaustas flammeus ambit eas Illa feras pardosque truces aquilasque fugaces Exuperant titulis nobilitata suis Scilicet in coelum super aetheris ardua Sanctos Virtutum studijs penna volare notat Vox diuina subest coelesti pectore digna Ych Dyn Sub Iouis Imperijs * Seruio non alijs Nemo meis dignus nisi qui sit Summus in orbe Officijs Sors est libera namque mea Sic antiqua docent nos Vatum oracula recte Sors est à primâ Sorte secunda mea Clara coronatae nos hic Insignia plumae Principis armigeri scutiferique damus Vir venerandè tibi quae te custode reposta Principis hinc nostri nomen in astra ferant Dixit IOHANNES COTTON POndera magna licet pueri gestamus HOnoris Plena sed Herculeis viribus aequa satis Atlantisque Humeris de Gentibus vndique nostris Debetur titulis Imperialis honos Anglia prima suos clarissima signa Leones Gestat cognatos Scotia gestat eos Inde perantiquo splendentes lumine Gentes Brito Leone nitet Saxo crucemque gerit Gallia succedit cui iuncta Hybernica tellus Portans dulcisonae Lilia nexa Lyrae Hinc diuisa * * Ordouices Silures Northwales
our said Prince may be a continuall comfort and Honour to the King his father our dread Soueraigne during his raigne which God long continue and afterwards to be the staffe and strength of vs and all Christendome for the protection and defence of the Church of God his holy word and Gospel and that God will blesse Prince Charles our said Prince of Wales with all his blessings from Heauen fit for so high and mighty a Prince as he is as also with long life royall issue and happy dayes for the good and welfare of this our Church and Common-wealth And let this happy day of the Creation of our sayd Prince of Wales be heere recorded by vs for a memoriall to all succeeding times and so againe we say God saue and blesse Prince Charles our said Prince of Wales and his royall Posterity for euer These were the words of that reuerend Iudge there wanteth nothing saue that Grace and Zeale wherewith he pronounced them Whereunto all the people with a loud voyce prayed and cryed Amen Amen And thereupon all the Musick played Drums were strucke Flutes whistled Trumpets sounded people showted and another piercing and thundring Volley of shot was let flie the eccho and report whereof resounded admirably to the great solace and comfort of all present And then being full one of the clocke in the after noone the said Iustice and Counsell with the Knights Esquiers and best sort of Gentlemen returned into the Castle to dinner where was a great Feast prouided with excellent musicke the Bailiffes also with their Brethren and Burgesses went downe to the Towne to spend the rest of the day in all joyfull and iouiall manner hauing all of them before their departure thence in the presence and by the appointment of Raph Mansfield Esquier chiefe Steward to the Kings Houshold there drunke plentifully of wine to the happie health and prosperitie of our said gracious Prince of Wales Dinner being scarse ended in the Castle the aforesaide Bailiffes in like pompe beeing againe accompanied with the whole Quire of the Church and the Penon-bearers with their Banerols of Armes in their hands and their Musicke playing before them came vp in great solemnitie into the Castle where Maister Iustice ioyfully receiuing them brought them straight into the Chappell there to offer their Euening Sacrifice where much reioycing was without doores and excellent Musicke of Voyces in singing many Psalmes and new Anthemes within the saide Chappell VVhich being finished the aforesaid Schollers very humbly prostrating themselues with low obeisance deliuered vp their sayd seuerall Banerolls into the hands of the said Iustice who willed Richard Adams Gentleman being skilfull in Heraldrie there present to see them orderly placed in the said Chappel where they now remaine as remarkeable Trophies of that Solemnitie And after Prayers ended the Bailiffes with their company humbly taking their leaue of the Counsell Maister Iustice required them still to continue their Ringing as well for the full solemnizing of the said day of our Prince his sayd Creation as also to expresse their ioy and thanksgiuing vnto Almightie God for our said dread Soueraignes most admirable Deliuerance with the royall Queene illustrious Prince all the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons of this Realme assembled together in Parliament from the Papists treasonable and horrible conspiracie and vnmatchable intended Practise of the Gunne-powder treason in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand sixe hundred and fiue and to bee in a readinesse with the sayd Iustice and Counsell the next morning to praise God for the same VVhich accordingly was performed the next day and a very learned Sermon preached by Maister Thomas Kaye the Kings Chaplaine attending the Lord President and Counsell there vpon the twelue and thirteene Verses of the 116. Psalme What shall I render vnto the Lord for all his benefites towards me I will take the cup of Saluation and call vpon the name of the Lord. Which Sermon being ended euery man returned to their home the Musicke Ringing and Bonefires continuing to the great comfort of all his Maiesties said louing and faithfull Subiects all the said day This Solemnization the said Iustice was carefull to obserue for the Glorie of God the Honour of the King and Prince of Wales as well to testifie and expresse his Duetie and Seruice as also the loyaltie and heartie ioy of all his Maiesties louing Subiects then assembled FINIS