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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
of them for some daies together plying up and down in their boats in the Kings intended way But to proceed The King intended to dine at Noon assoon as he came on Board and the Meat was ready but the Wind was so strong and the Water so topping that the Princess Royal not able to endure the tossing of the Vessel lost her Appetite and being Sea-sick was forced to lie on her Bed Thereupon the King desired to know of the Captain if there was no shelter under some rising ground to ease her a little which he answering to the contrary but that they might arrive at Dort speedily they proceeded and about 4 in the Afternoon came in sight of that Town The Rampart and Key were bordered with Citizens in Arms The King saluted as he passed by Dort and with a Battery of great Guns which made many Peals as well as the Muskets whilst the Fleet passed there during and after the Repast which was taken in sight of the town yea so long as they could discover the Flag of the Ship which carried the Person of the King and that which carried the Dukes they continued the Thunder The Fleet stopped a mile beyond the Town with design to cast Anchor that Evening and to stay the whole night following at the mouth of the River of Leck But there fell out two things which caused the King to change his Resolution The first was the return of Sr. John Greenvile who arrived from England whilst the King was at Dinner and related what the Parliament had delivered to him in the House of Commons and resolved to beseech his Majesty to come to take possession of the Crown without any condition or reserve and that Admiral Montague was then under sayl with a Fleet to come to receive him in Holland and transport him to his Kingdom The other was an Advertisement which his Majesty received almost at the same time by an Express that that same Fleet appeared that Morning in sight of Scheveling and at Nine of the Clock had cast Anchor in the Road about a mile and an half from the Shore This News the King presently imparted to Monsieur Beverweert being chief in Commission from the States of Holland and caused the Duke of York to tell him who was in person in the Deputies Yacht which joyned side by side with his that he confessed he made not account to arrive at Delfe till Noon next day according as he had appointed the time of his entrance there and so to the Hague for his Reception but that now he had received intelligence which obliged him to change his purpose and to anticipate the hour that he had resolved on because it was of the highest importance to him to speak with the Officers of the Fleet so that he should be constrained to sayl the whole night that he might arrive at Delfe by break of day whereof he prayed him to give Advertisement to the Lords States immediately by an Express to the end that the Coaches intended for his Reception might be there precisely at seven of the Clock next Morning Several Difficulties which would happen were remonstrated by Monsieur Beverweert upon this occasion because the Post would come late and unseasonable when it would be almost impossible to make the States to assemble yet notwithstanding to comply with the Kings Desires and to give him their utmost Devoir for his satisfaction they would not fayl to advertise their Superiours thereof since they were there only to obey his Majesty and to serve him The Duke of York replied that it was through an invincible necessity and with much unwillingness as to their and the States particular that he did thus but that he hoped the Lords Deputies would consider the estate of his Affairs and so oblige the King very much in expediting their Post and in contributing by that means to the advancement of his Voyage and Embarquement in that pressing Conjuncture The Letters went away about five a clock in the Afternoon The King is saluted at Rotterdam as he passed when the King caused Anchor to be weighed and passed at evening before the Town of Rotterdam where the contrary wind enforcing the Fleet to laveer or tack about and by that means to draw near the Haven two or three times gave the Town leisure to salute his Majesty as well by the Musquet shot of the Burgers who were all in Armes with flying Colours on the Rampart and Port as with all the Artillery of the Town as also with all the Cannon of the Ships which were in the Road. He passed next to Delfts Haven where they had made a Battery of sixteen Pieces of Cannon more and staid not till he came to Overschy a Village situate between Delfe and Delfes Haven The States of Holland had resolved to cause his Majesty to be received at the Powder Magazin upon the Channel The King arrives at Delfe which serves for Line of Communication for the two Towns of Delf and Rotterdam For the Town of Delf having been partly ruined by an Accident of Fire which met the Powder some eight years ago they thought it fit to lodge it without the Wals and without Cannon-shot of the Town But the King having caused the Fleet wherein he was to set sayl assoon as the Sun began to appear on the Horizon came to the Suburbs of Delfe before the Deputies could give order to make the Fleet to stay at the designed place for the Reception All the Citizens of the Town were in Armes from three of the Clock in the Morning and a part had their Post upon the Key before the Port where the King was to land and the Magistrate of the Town came thither with his Brethren to do reverence to the King in the Yacht assoon as he understood he was arrived and to beseech him to do them the Honour to repose and refresh in their Town whilst his Majesty should attend the Deputies of the States of Holland but the King excused himself on the state of Affairs which was so far from permitting him to stay by the way that it had oblig'd him to prevent the Hour which he had taken and appointed for his Reception In the mean time the Letters of the Deputies were brought to the Hague at Midnight and immediatly after the states assembled and caused the Orders to be changed which were given for the Kings Reception at 4 of the Clock in the Afternoon into others more pressing and they sent word to the Deputies by the same Post that they might assure his Majesty that they would not fail to receive him at the Hour he had appointed them or at eight a Clock in the Morning at the furthest And indeed about two of the Clock after Midnight they caused the Drums to beat to summon to Arms the six Companies of Burgers and the Regiment of the Guards of the States of Holland who all rendezvouzed at six of the Clock The Coaches
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
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
where after the Lord Mayor had taken his leave of him his Majesty went to the Lords who were assembled in one of the Rooms there where he was welcomed in a Speech made by the Earl of Manchester Speaker then of the House of Lords and from thence he went to the Banquetting house where the House of Commons were assembled and was likewise welcomed by the Speaker thereof in another Speech to the Originals of both which the Reader is referred wherein he may find the glad and joyfull sense of the whole kingdome Vide The Speeches of the E. of Manchester and Sir Harbottle Grymston at his MAJESTIES comming to White-Hall Printed by the Printers of both Houses TO these Speeches His Majesty returned a short but obliging Answer That he was so wearied with his journey and the applause and noise of the People in his passage which yet he said was very acceptable and pleasant to Him that he should say little to them at present but referred and reserved what he had to speak to them while his meeting them in Parliament And so taking his leave retired himself and supped with the two Dukes in the Chart Chamber privately The Solemnity of this Day was concluded with all demonstrations and testimonies of universall joy which most of all appeared in the light and cheerfull Countenances of the People which by reflection kindled such an infinite number of Bonfires that all the Houses seemed to be Chimneys being supposed to equall very near half the Habitations of the streets where with safety they might blaze both in London and Westminster Among the rest a costly one was made in the City of Westminster where the Essigies of Oliver Cromwell was set upon a high post with the Arms of the Common-wealth which having for a while been exposed there to publique view with Torches lighted that every one might take notice of them were both burnt together The Forrein Ambassadors and publick Ministers here resident did likewise highly express their Joy for His Majesties happy Arival here on Tuesday last by their publique Demonstrations especially the Ambassadors of France and Portugal and the Plenipotentiaries of the King of Sweden who in particular besides bonfires and giving of wine and throwing of money among the People made very gallant Emblems upon the businesse of the day That King was Oliver's greatest Confederate and this Fire did in a manner purge and Expiate the pollutions of that Filthy League Thus the King returned to us Thus he bestowed and brought the Blessings of Peace and Honour to these his distracted infamous Kingdomes yet the Glory of this his Restitution was not Nobis to Us alone but to the greatest part of the Christian World besides For at this time the Peace in the North was Cemented by the Pacification and Agreement between the two Kings of Denmarke and Sweden now questionlesse consolidated and firmed for ever by the indubitable affection and assistance of this Crown to that of Denmarke in case of a Rupture If His Majesty could in the dawn and but glimmering of his Restitution by his Commands to Gen. Montague awe the daring design of the Swede by standing a Neuter how much more will he be able to bridle and represse the attempts of that quarrelsome People when in the greatness and height of Power and absolute Dominion he shall undertake to vindicate his near Ally for whose Interests he had such pregnant respects as to declare himself when his own were in dubio and uncertain This was but one Concomitant see a more illustrious and most August which passed under the Famous and celebrated Name of a GENERALL PEACE between the two Crowns of France and Spain whose united Ambition presumed to blesse the Christian World with such a Rarity that was only attributable to the single and singular Grandeur of our Monarch on whom the Divine Providence was pleased to accumulate all those Felicities which through his alone influence have ever since vouchsafed Prosperity to the Nations round about us O Nimium Dilecte Deo And because there may happen some inquiry hereafter concerning those Transactions which were concluded in a Marriage betwixt the French King and the Infanta of Spain of which among us sometime before there were other Hopes and Discourses it will not be impertinent to relate the Solemnity of it here for in the Conclusion of this Discourse it is probable we shall see a more illustrious Paralell not to say to cry quits with it because it is matter of State and an Arcanum Imperiâ— which we dive not into the weaknesse of our eyes being dazeled and scarse able to behold the apparent lustre of the publique The Narrative thereof follows as an aditionall necessary ornament and appendix This Treaty between the two Crowns was Commenced about the middle of Summer 1659. when Sir George Booth first appeared in Cheshire for the King It had been long before in project and designation but cannot be derived so far as that of the Kings Restitution The place of meeting was at a Confine of both Kingdomes an Island called by the name of St. John de Luz on a river which divides the French and Spanish Dominions where only the two great Favourites and Ministers of each Crown met the Cardinal Mazarine and Don Lewis de Haro His Majesty of Great Brittain was here himself present to conceâ— his Affairs in the Treaty as also Lockhart from his Masters at Westminster under the guard and protection of the French in so much danger besides privacy he resided there Much time it took up in composing and stating the severall Pretensions when His Majesty was called away by his unquestionable and undubitable right which was adjudged without any praeliminary terms or limitation to attend his own Affairs and leave them disputing theirs which upon secret intelligence and their own judgement and opinion they perceived would so readily advance as might if a present Conclusion were not made put both Crowns to new Councels such as the strangeness of the English Revolutions would render very difficult and perplext if after such a progresse either Party should recede so that the King did more than hold the Ballance already Therefore Mounsieur de Lyonne of the French side and Don Piementell of the Spanish made many journeys to and fro between both Courts to hasten the Conclusion of all the present Transactions The Bishop of Aurange likewise much stirred about the same The Popes Nuncio laboured therein together with the Venetian Ambassador to whose Arbitration the remaining Differences were at last referred Shortly after on the 18. of May 1660. the Count of Fuensaldagne arrived at St. John de Luz bringing all satisfaction from his Catholique Majesty so that all things being regulated between the two Crowns the Marriage might be celebrated on the 23d of May at Fontarabia Castle on the Spanish side and Consummated in the 29. of the same month Never could any thing fall patter or sute better with the Honour of
thereafter at his Royal Fathers inauguration and was now Boded and bespoke with the like contagion when never were the influences of Heaven more curiously propitious the two Serene days of that Solemnity exsiecating and exhaling these vapors which a long moisture to the danger of a Flood did seem to portend Lastly this was that Crown whose just and ancient descent unwhichder we have flourished ever since we were a Nation till our late Anarchy upon the head of this miraculous Prince now vindicated it selfe from the indignities and assaults of base and insolent Demagogues who from our Kings regardlesness of State and Soveraignty have evermore wrought their contempt in the Subject who now with a like joy of revenue fear and love beheld this awful and most delightfull Triumph which we here relate HIs Majesty on the twenty second of April early in the morning passed from Whitehall to the Tower by water from thence to goe through the City to Westminster Abby there to be Crowned Two dayes were allotted to the consummation of this great and most celebrated Action The relation of His Majesties passage to his Coronation the wonder and admiration and delight of all persons both Forraign and Domestick and pity it was that the solid and lasting happiness it portended should not have taken up a month and given it the name Coronalis but reall glory will not linger nor will time be officious but to the permanent felicities of his Majesties long and aged raign First therefore we begin with the City of London which participating the greatest share of that inexpressible happiness that the three Kingdoms received by the auspicious restoration of the King to his Throne and of us to our Lawes Religion and Liberties after a dismall night of confusion and oppression and therefore proportionably exceeding in their Loyalty took occasion to expresse in this Triumph of his Majesties Coronation their joy and gladness with the greatest magnificence imaginable They spared not there in any cost to manifest their affectionate duty to the King considering that if ever excessive charges might be justified this signalizing their affection to their Prince might well be allowed This being the most miraculous and joyfull of any happiness that ever yet blest the Nation The first triumphall Arch through which the King passed was erected in Leaden Hall street neer the end of Lime-street which represented a Woman figuring Rebellion with her attendant Confusion in monstrous and deformed shapes Opposite to her was a representation of Britains Monarchy with a prospect painting of his Majesties landing at Dover above it ADVENTVS AVG. To The Return of the King The whole Tablet representing his Majesties blessed arrivall with this motto In solido rursus Fortuna locavit part of the foregoing verses in Virgil thus rendred The various works of time and many dayes Often affairs from worse to better raise Fortune reviewing those she tumbled down Sporting restores again unto the Crown On the other side a Trophy of the example of Gods justice upon those rebels that commited that horrid murther of the King Vltor a Tergo Deus Gods vengeance rebels at the feetpersues The Statues of King James and King Charles the first and second with the picture of Usurpation flying before them The whole inscribed to his present Majesty in commemoration of his most happy returne to his Kingdoms with Speeches suitable Near the Exchange in Cornhill was erected the second being a Naval Arch relating to his Majesties Dominion of the Seas inscribed Neptuno Brittanico Carolo 2. To the Brittish Neptune Charles the second The third Triumphall Arch stood near Woodstreet not far from the place where the Cross stood it represented the Temple of Concord Aedem Concordiae In Honorem Optimi Principis c. In Honor of the best of Princes intimateing the Vnity and peace of the Kingdoms In Fleetstreet neer White Fryars stood the fourth Arch representing the garden of Plenty whose Title was Veribah Aug. Extincto Belli Civilis Incendio clusoque Jant Templo Vbefitati Aram Celsissimam construxis SPQL. The Civil War being extinguished and Janus Temple which concluded vvith speech oâ— shut the Londoners consecrated this Arch to Plenty Those 4 letters importing the City of London were subscribed to all the inscriptions Thus much for the City now for the Court which in order challenged the first place but t is valour to deal with the biggest first and those Colossus in London were indeed Gigantick of stupendious greatness Come we now to the Knights of the Bath made at this Coronation who appearing at the Court of Requests in Westminster were called over by the Lords Commissioners appointed for that purpose viz. The Duke of Ormond the Earls of Northumberland Suffolk Lindsey Manchester Their names were as follows Sir Fiennes Lord Clinton heir apparent to the Earl of Lincoln Sir Egerton Lord Brackley son and Heir apparent to the Earl of Bridgewater Sir Philip Herbert second son to the Earle of Pembrook and Montgomery Sir William Egerton second son to the Earl of Bridgewater Sir Vere Fane second son to the Earl of Westmerland Sir Charles Berkley eldest son to the Lord Berckley Sir Henry Bellasis eldest son to the Lord Bellasis Sir Henry Hide now Viscount Cornbury eldest son to Edward Earl of Clarendon Sir Rowland Bellasis brother to the Lord viscount Faulconberg Sir Henry Capeâ— brother to the Earl of Essex Sir John Vaughan second son to Richard Earl of Carbery Sir Charles Stanley Granchild to James late Earl of Derby Sir Francis and Sir Henry Fane Grandchildren to the late Earl of Westmerland Sir William Prettyman Baronet Sir Richard Temple Baronet Sir William Ducy Baronet Sir Thomas Trevor Knight and Baronet Sir John Scudamore Baronet Sir William Gardner Baronet Sir Charles Cornwallis son to Frederick Lord Cornwallis Sir John Nicholas eldest son to his Majesties principal Secretary Sir John Monson Sir Bourchier Wray Sir John Coventry Sir Edward Hungerford Sir Iohn Knevet Sir Philip Boteler Sir Adrian Scroop son of Sir Gervas Scroop who received 19 wounds in one Battle in his Majesties service Sir Richard Knightley Sir Henry Heron Sir Iohn Lewknor Sir George Brown Sir William Tyringham Sir Francis Godolphin Sir Edward Baynton Sir Grevil Verney Sir Edward Harlow Sir Edward Walpool Sir Francis Popbam Sir Edward Wise Sir Christopher Calthorp Sir Richard Edgecomb Sir Williams Bromley Sir Thomas Bridges Sir Thomas Fanshaw Sir Iohn Denham Sir Nicholas Bacon Sir Iames Altham Sir Thomas Wendy Sir Iohn Monson Sir George Freeman Sir Nicholas Slanning Sir Richard Ingoldsby Sir Iohn Rolle Sir Edward Heath son of Sir Robert Heath late Lord chief Justice of England Sir William Morley Sir Iohn Bennet Sir Hugh Smith Sir Simon Leech Sir Henry Chester Sir Robert Atkins Sir Robert Gayâ—r Sir Richard Powle Sir Hugh Duey Sir Stephen Hales Sir Ralph Bash Sir Thomas Whitmore In number sixty eight After their calling over they proceeded in their usual habits each of them between his two
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
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
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
till the Evening the 13 of May from whence Sir Joseph took Post leaving the Duke of Ormond to make preparation for the Reception of Her Majesty That same Night the Royal Fleet with the Princely Bride came to St. Helens point the Eastermost Promontory of the Isle of Wight almost opposite to Portsmouth from whence had it not been too bold a venture to hazzard her Majesty in that narrow Streight of Sea and in a Night Tide they might have reached Portsmouth the next morning but making use of the day Tide which served about 10 of the Clock on Wednesday the 14 of May the Queen landed at Portsmouth about 4 a Clock in the Afternoon where she was received with all possible demonstrations of Honour the Nobility and Gentry and Multitudes of Londoners in most rich Apparel and in great numbers waiting on the Shore for Her Landing and the Maior and Aldermen and principal perlons of that Corporation being in their Gowns and with a Present and Speech ready to entertain Her the Cannons and small shot both from round that Town and the whole Fleet ecchoing to one another the loud Proclamations of their Joy It is observable that at Southampton the next Fort Westward two Sturgeons being of Royalty due to the King came into that River and were presented to the Maior as His Majesties chief Officer in that place who sent one to Portsmouth as a small but auspicious and fortunate Present to Her Majesty who was every day expected there and the other at a Feast was distributed amongst his Brethren of that Corporation The good people of that place taking them as happy Prognosticks being Male and Female of that blessed Union of their Majesties by a Princely Increase of Issue to succeed them The King having received the Expresse of His Queens Landing prepared to be gone forthwith to salute Her upon Her Arrival but His great Affairs of State and Bills to be ratified by Him into Acts of Parliament which were not quite ready for His Royal Assent delayed Him at Whitehall till Monday night the 19 of May having sent before Him the Bishop of London who departed on the 17. in Order to the Solemnizing of the Marriage His Majesty having signed all the Acts which are now so many wholsome and good Laws as no age of our Fore-fathers can boast of to adorn and honour His Queens Arrival posted away at 9 a Clock that Night with His ordinary Guards in the Earl of Northumberlands Coach Prince Rupert with Him only to Kingston where he came soon after 10. and at the end of that Town entred into the Earl of Chesterfields there set ready for Him and the Duke of Yorks Guards to attend Him and came before 12 at Night to Guilford being 25 miles where He lodged that Night and next morning posted with the same speed to Portsmouth where He arrived about Noon to the mutual Joy and Content of His Royal Self and Consort But because of Her indisposednesse which yet held Her in Her Chamber the King satisfied Himself by giving Her a Visit in private that day and then withdrew to His own appartiments much resenting the distemper She was in by Her long passage for His sake which He most affectionately signified to Her and made appear to all Persons attending on Him by His Melancholy and retired Comportment Yet it pleased God to restore Her Majesty to such a degree of Health that She was able to go abroad to Consummate the Marriage Rites which were performed in the Church of that Town Wednesday May 21. by the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of London according to the Ceremonies of the Church of England after which the Nuptials were concluded by His Majesties Bedding His most Excellent Lady that Night in this His Town of Portsmouth If the Reader shall now expect Her Character I may ingenuously and justly enough challenge the ablest Pen with a quis sufficit Flies cannot catch Eagles Her soaring and Excelse Vertues surmounting all Essayes of Flight or Pursuit after them so that no quill can trace or discover their Altitudes Let me invite only your present admiration and future Expectation of those Felicities which attend them to be their competent and illustrious Expositors Their Majesties having thus celebrated their Rites of Hymen for the better perfecting that Health so happily restored to the Queen purposed to stay a little time longer in that Town in which Interim Visits were given to the Grandees of Portugal who came over with the Queen by all the English Lords and Ladies and by them again returned until the Removal of the Gourt next Week to Winchester thence to Farnham to Windsor Castle and so to Hampton Court where their Majesties took up the most part of this Summer 1662 as well for the Salubrity as Majesty of the place being the most absolute compleat and magnificent Structure of all the Royal Palaces But that which is the most eminently great and gives the matchlesse Honour to this Marriage is the great accession that is made to the Crown of England in point of Trade and Commerce besides the Treasure and Territory we possesse as this Ladies Portion We have first an open Navigation into most part of the East-Indies where the Portugal is more potent then the Dutch having several Kingdomes there the principal thereof is that of Goa where for the Security of our Trade and other Considerations of State we have by this time several Forts that Command the Country delivered to some English Forces sent thither lately in a Fleet by His Majesties Command so that the Company trading thither will receive notable advantages to the thrusting out the Hollander from His Covetous Ambition of managing solely the Wealth and Riches of the East In the West Indies they are possest of Brasilia from whence in 1654 they valiantly expelled the said Dutch a place of good Traffique and now free to the English Marchant from whence are brought Commodities of good value But the chiefest place of Importance is the City of Tangier seated by the Mouth of the Straights of Gibralter on the Africk shore which serves not only to bridle and represse the Piracies of those Dens of Thievery Algiers Tripoli Tunis and the rest by being of necessity forced to passe in sight when they venture into the Atlantick Sea through that Straight but also if occasion be will be of same benefit and commodionsnesse as the Sound is to the King of Denmark as through which no Ships of what Nation soever trading into the Levant can passe or repasse without his Majesties leave if he shall please to keep some ships to that purpose in that Harbour I omit the Portion and store of money the Jewels and Pearls c. as great as any Princesse in Europe ever brought because I will not presume to meddle with those sublime particulars The Queen received the Addresses of all the Nobility and Submissions of the several Deputies for the Cities of