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A46257	Londons triumphs express'd in sundry representations, pageants, and shows, performed on Monday, Octob. 30, 1676, at the inauguration and instalment of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Davies, Kt., Lord Mayor of the city of London : containing a true description of the several scenes and habits of the representers, with the speeches spoken on each pageant / designed and composed by Tho. Jordan.	Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?; Society of Drapers.	1676 (1676)	Wing J1042; ESTC R36210	10,535	24

Carnation silk Hose purple Buskins laced and surfled with Sky-colour and Gold Ribon in her right hand a green silk Banner charged with Crowns Scepters Globes Myters and Crosiers Or. and in distinct vicinities about her sit her Triumphant Favourites viz. Prosperity Gladness Peace Plenty Honour and Riches 1. Prosperity In a Scarlet colour'd silk Robe a Mantle of Silver flaxen Hair long and curl'd a Wreath of Lawrel pointed with Silver Pearl Hose Purple Shooes with Aurenge-colour'd strings holding a a Banner of the Virgin the Drapers Patroness 2. Gladness A Lady of smiling Countenance in a green Robe a Mantle of divers Colours embroidered with Flowers a bright brown Hair curl'd with all colour'd Ribon a Garland of Myrtle yellow Silk Hose Sky-colour'd Buskins laced with Carnation Ribon bearing a Banner of the Kings 3. Peace In a white Robe semined with gold Stars a Carnation Mantle fring'd with Gold a dark brown Hair a Crown of Olive Gold-colour'd Hose silver Buskins laced with Carnation Ribon with the Cities Banner 4. Plenty In a Vest of Gold and Silver upon Roman Bases of Carnation richly adorned with silver and gold Lace a green silk and silver Mantle purple Buskins laced up with gold a blackish curl'd Hair a Wreath of Fruits Leaves and Flowers in one hand a Cornucopia in the other the Golden Fleece 5. Honor In a purple Robe powder'd with Stars of gold a scarlet Mantle sringed with gold black Hair on it a Diadem watchet silk Hose white Buskins laced with gold Ribon bearing a Banner of my Lord's 6. Riches In a Robe of Silver embroidered with Gold and Jewels a watchet Mantle fringed with Gold fair Hair a Dukes Crown Carnation silk Hose gold Buskins laced with silver and gold Ribon bearing the Companies Banner In the Front of this Stage before the Bower is planted the Ram being the Golden Fleece which is the Companies Crest on which rideth a beautiful Boy with flaxen Hair crown'd with Roses in a Robe of white Sarsenet and a Carnation Mantle fringed with Gold white Shooes and Stockings bearing the Banner of the Virgin His Lordship coming to a convenient Stand Fortune maketh an Address to him in this Speech The SPEECH of FORTUNE THough I appear now in Great Plenty's Bower I ne're was here presentially before Yet am that Goddess the whole World adore I fill the Seaman's Sail and guide his Keel When in the Raging Ocean he doth reel Before my Shrine the Greatest Princes kneel When Jason with his Argo fetch'd the Fleece Assisted with his Demi-Gods of Greece By my Great Power 't was gain'd and there it is My Name 's Bona Fortuna It is I That wait on every good Society And am the Genius of this COMPANY The Ancient Famous DRAPERS Men of Treasure That are beatified with Peace and Pleasure Who Govern by Right Rule and Live by Measure That temperately Trade upon the Growth Of their own Nation hating Pride and Sloth Cutting their Coat according to their Cloth Their Manufacture doth in England grow And in the Winter when Boreas doth blow And all the City wears a Veil of Snow For Cloth and Books Men will have more to do In Paul's Church-Yard than Pater-Noster-Row Fortune has said it and it shall be so 'T is for Your sake My Lord that I appear When You launch'd forth 't was I was at the Steer To guide You hither and I 'le guard You here When CAESAR'S Seaman a strong Storm sail'd through He calm'd His Pilots Fears letting him know He carried CAESAR and His Fortune too I am the Emblem of a POWER Immense Fortune by Name but in the Sacred Sense I Typifie ETERNAL PROVIDENCE My Honour'd Lord the KING Embarks You now For a Year's Voyage doubt not though Storms blow The Power that brought You on will bring You through And as Your Power doth from CAESAR spring Assume His Courage too in every thing He 's blest that doth obey GOD and the KING His Lordship moving further shewing manifest Symptoms of his Acceptation in the Pageant and Speech meeteth another Scene of Drolls near St. Laurence-lane end The Fourth Pageant WHich is a kind of Chase artfully contrived with Trees Grass Bushes Birds Flowers Shepherds Shepherdesses and Sheep on one part of the Stage and on the other side Persons at Work as an Old Woman Spinning of Yarn for woollen Cloth another as busie Carding of Wool a third is Picking of it and in the middle of them are a crew of mad frolick Shepherds piping dancing tumbling curvetting with many ridiculous gestures which the worse it is done the better it pleases being intended for a description of Disorder and an elaborate expression of Confusion where since no Song can be heard I have omitted it because it would be rendred as ineffectual as the sound of a Lute in a Whirlwind This Droll being past the Foot-Marshal having placed the Assistants Livery and the Companies on both sides of King's-Street and their Pensioners with their Targets hung on the tops of their Javelins in the rear of them the Ensign-bearers Drums and Fifes in the front and hasten the Foins and Budg-Batchelors together with all the Gentlemen-Ushers to Guild-Hall where his Lordship is again saluted by the Artillery-men with three Vollies more which conclude their duty His Land Attendants pass through the Gallery or Lane so made into Guild-Hall after which the Companies repair to the Hall to Dinner and their several Silk-works and Triumphs are likewise conveyed into Blackwell-Hall and the Officers aforesaid and the Children that sit in the Pageant there refresh themselves until his Lordship hath dined at Guild-Hall where to make the Feast more famous his Lordship is illustrate with the splendor and presence of Their most Excellent Majesties The Duke of York Prince Rupert the Duke of M●●mouth the Archbishop of Canterbury and all the other Bishops at this time in London all the Resident Ambassadors and Envoys all the Lords of the Privy Council all the principal Officers of State all the Judges Serjeants at Law and their Ladies His Lordship and the Guests being all seated the Musick of the City are in readiness to express their skill and finger their Violins and Lutes with good skill and excellent humour and aster a new Lesson or two being playd a Person of a good Fancy with a Musical mouth begins a new Song in Commendation of the Founders of New Bethlehem SONG I. THis is a Structure fair Royally raised The pious Founders are Much to be praised That in such times of need When Madness doth exceed To build this House of Bread Noble New Bedlam II. 'T is beautiful and large In Constitution Deserves a Liberal Charge Of Contribution If I may reach so high To sing a Prophecy Their Names shall never dye That built New Bedlam III. Methinks the Lawyers may Consult together And Contribute for they Send most Men thither They put 'em to much pain With Words that cramp the Brain Till Bedlam's fill'd with Plaintiff and Defendant IV. Quacking Physicians shou'd Give Money freely They maculate Mens Blood And make them feely With Hydrargyrum Pills Their Reasons and their Wills They ruine and this fills Most part of Bedlam V. So good a Work as this Cannot want Actors But I 'll no more insist On Benefactors But hint such as I see Hypochondriack be And are in some degree Fit for New Bedlam VI. That Amorous Soul that is In Love a Quaker And doth adore a Miss More than his Maker Decks her in Silk and Furr Then turns Idolater Kneels down and Worships her He 's fit for Bedlam VII The young Man that has got A golden Talent And hath a brain-sick Plot To seem a Gallant That richly is array'd Spends Land and Shop and Trade To be a Hector made Is fit for Bedlam VIII The City-Lad that sings Rhimes drolls and dances And all his business flings Away for Fancies He that lets his Angels fly ' Til he 's not worth one Peny To study Poetry Is fit for Bedlam IX Whil'st some with Brandy burn Their Guts with drinking Philosophers do turn Their Heads with thinking He who is such a one As studies for the Stone Til's Brains and his Money 's gone Prepares for Bedlam X. That Churl who Gold hath won And dares not use it But hath a squandring Son Doth game and lose it His Brains do greatly err He that with Water cleer Would fill a Colander Must do 't in Bedlam XI He that with an Estate Weds a poor Beauty Who to Disdain and Hate Turns Love and Duty It doth his Reason daunt He has a Bargain on 't Worse than the Elephant And 's fit for Bedlam XII I could tell many more I have enroll'd um Should I declare my store As I have told um With Morter Brick and Stone Could they their Building run From thence to Islington 'T would never hold um Dinner being ended and Night approaching his Lordship being attended by a private Retinue of his own Company takes Coach and is conducted to his Mansion House in Lumbard-street where Sir Robert Vyner and Sir Ioseph Sheldon kept their Maioralty without that troublesom Night Ceremony which hath been formerly when St. Paul's Church was standing When his Lordship is housed those that attend on him depart with order and convenience and the Triumphs and Silk-works are by the care of the Masters Artificers lodged for that Night in Blackwel-Hall till the next Day following and then they are to be convey'd to Drapers-Hall To close up all the Artists and Artificers each of them deserving ample Commendation bid you Good Night FINIS

London's Triumphs Express'd in sundry Representations Pageants and Shows performed on Monday Octob. 30. 1676. at the Inauguration and Instalment of the Right Honourable Sir THOMAS DAVIES K t Lord Mayor of the City of LONDON Containing a true Description of the several Scenes and Habits of the Representers with the Speeches spoken on each Pageant All the Charge and Expences of the Industrious Designs being the sole Undertakings of the Ancient and Right Worshipful SOCIETY of DRAPERS Being the Second Year without Intermission Devised and Composed by THO. JORDAN Carpere vel noli nostra vel ede tua Mart. Epigr. London Printed for John Playford at the Temple Church 1676. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir THOMAS DAVIES K t LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON MY LORD SInce Prudence Truth and Loyalty relate To the Just Function of a Magistrate Joyn'd with Succession and Election too The City 's pleas'd finding all these in You 'T is these may 't please Your Lordship in a word That have advanc'd You to the City-Sword And Seat of Magistrates where next to th' KING You have a complete Power of Governing And may You prosper in it this whole Year And to the general Citizens appear Rather the Object of their Love than Fear The best Obedience Terror may controll The Body but 't is Love that rules the Soul And may that Love so efficacious be You may allure Men to Civility Such are the Wishes and the Prayers of Your True Servant and most humble Orator MY LORD The most Faithful and Fervent of Your Honourers Tho. Jordan To the WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF DRAPERS Gentlemen WIth as much Splendour Magnitude Variety and Aptitude as the brevity of my Limitations would allow for Designation Direction Composition Correction and Transcription I have accomplished Your Commands in the punctual Performances of this Days Triumphs wherein although I have squared all my Inventions according to my ability by the Rules of Art I confess I have been more sedulous to indulge and oblige the Worthy Society and Ancient Company of DRAPERS my Worshipful Patrons by whom I am employed and gratified than to humor the querulous dispositions of any private Observator whatsoever This Show being Calculated for the Meridian of Cheapside whose numerous Applause in the Publick will prove more prevalent to me than the nicer Investigations and peevish Censures of the most curiously currish Criticks If any Person shall make Objection that my Lines are home-spun let him qualifie the qualms of his tender Judgment with a Consideration that my subject matter is Wool Cloth the Wealthy and Worthy English Drapers In the Interim I submit my Labours to your Judgments and my Fortunes to Your Friendship contented with the Honour of having permission to subscribe Octob. 29. 1676. Gentlemen Your faithfully Humble Servant Tho. Jordan In proper Habits orderly Array'd The Movements of the Morning are display'd SElect Citizens i' th' Morning all At Sev'n a Clock do meet at Drapers-Hall The Masters Wardens and Assistants Joyns For the first Rank in their Gowns fac'd with Foyns The second Order do in merry moods March in Gowns fac'd with Budge and Livery Hoods In Gowns and Scarlet Hoods Thirdly appears A youthful number of Foyns Batchellors Forty Budge Batchellors the Triumph Crowns Gravely attir'd in Scarlet Hoods and Gowns Gentlemen Ushers which white Staves do hold Sixty in Velvet Coats and Chains of Gold Next Thirty more in Plush and Buss there are That several Colours Wave and Banners bear The Sergeant Trumpet Thirty six more brings Twenty the Duke of York's Sixteen the Kings The Sergeant wears Two Scarfs whose Colours be One the Lord Mayors t' other 's the Company The King 's Drum-Major follow'd by Four more Of the Kings Drums and Fifes make London roar Seven Drums and Two Fifes more in Vests of Buff March with Waste-Scarfs and Breeches of Black Stuff Two City Marshals mounted and attended Are by the Company with Scarfs befriended And next to th' Drums do Troop it in the Reer But the Foot Marshal doth the next appear Who puts them all in Rank and File and wears A Shoulder Scarf as broad and rich as theirs Attended by Six persons that dare do What e're their Marshal may Command them to Next the Fence-Master troops and to defend him Divers with drawn broad bright Swords do attend him Many poor Pensioners that march i th' Rear With Gowns and Caps Standards and Banners bear A numerous Troop of Persons that are poor In Azure Gowns and Caps one hundred more With Javelins and with Targets are all Actors And bear the Arms of their good Benefactors Being thus prepar'd By the Foot Marshals Judgment they are guided And into six Divisions are divided Rank'd out by two and two The first that stirs Are the poor Company of Pensioners But in the front of them orderly be Placed the Ensigns of the Company i th' Rear of them four Drums and one Fife more Then Pensioners in Coats describ'd before Persons of worth who do in Martial manner Bear each of them a Standard or a Banner Four Trumpets more to them and in their Rear Two of the Drapers Ensigns march which bear As by the Herald Painter is exprest The Draught of their Supporters and their Crest Six Gentlemen-Vshers in order trudge And after them the Batchelors in budge Marching in measur'd distance and endu'd With Order This Division doth conclude I' th' Rear of them six Trumpets do appear And after them two Gentlemen that bear Two Coats of Arms which appertaining be To th' City and the Drapers Company Then do march up Eight Gentlemen that wears The Golden Chains then the Foins Batchelors In amicable measure move like Friends Fill'd with one Joy So this Division ends Two Gentlemen in Velvet Coats array'd March after them with two Banners display'd Then succeed them Ten Gentlemen-Ushers more In Coats and Chains of Gold describ'd before And gradually after them you 'l see A very worthy large Society With each of them a Gown and Livery Hood And all Lord Mayors in the Potential Mood I' th' Rear of these with silver sounds to fit ye Do fall in divers Trumpets of the City And after them two Gentlemen accord To bear the Arms o' th' City and my Lord And then the Gentlemen with equal distance That usher in the grave Court of Assistants I' th' Rear of them four Drums six Trumpets be Order'd to bring up the Catastrophe Three Gallants gradually follow them Bearing the Banners of the Diadem Kings Queens and Cities Ensigns which engages Six Gentlemen to wait on them as Pages The Masters and the Wardens bring up all And thus equipp'd they march from Drapers-Hall To my Lords House where th' Aldermen and He Take Horse and rank according to Degree Which being done the whole Body in State Doth move towards Guild-Hall but at the Gate The new Lord with the old Lord Mayor unites Guarded by Gentlemen Esquires and Knights Then thus attir'd with Gown Fur Hood and Scarf