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
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
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
THE GLORIES AND Magnificent TRIUMPHS OF The Blessed RESTITVTION OF His Sacred MAJESTY K. Charles II. From His Arrival in Holland 1659 60 Till this Present Comprizing all the Honours and Grandeurs Done to and Conferred by HIM Culmen utrumque tenes nil CAROLE Magne relictum Quo Virtus â—nimo crescat vel Splendor Honore Claud Paneg. O Praesidium dalce DECUS Horat. By JAMES HEATH formerly Student of Ch. Ch. OXON London Printed and are to be sold by N.G. R.H. and O. T. at the Roâ— Exchange Westminster-hall and St. Paul's Churchyard 1662. TO THE QUEEN-MOTHERS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY May it please Your Majesty WITH the Most Humble and Most Prostrate Submission I lay at Your Feet this my Endevour which though for its own worth it may justly be debarr'd such bold Approaches yet for its Illustrious Subject and most Stupendious matter will well become Your Most August Presence That Elevated thought enforced this Addresse to Your Royal Hands the Lustre of Your Son Our Sacred Soveraign's Glory being so Dazeling to the rest of the Weak-Sighted World that it were a Presumptuous Vanity to Court any other Eye then Your Self the Fountain of this Marvellous Light In Your Blessed Womb Heaven Treasured and Matured those before Vnrevealed Exaltations of Humane Nature beyond all Her former most benigne and Industrious Excesses of Felicity which while other Princes have stooped to by some Politique Observances and Wooed their Difficult Scepters it most officiously hath Bowed and Humbled it Self to Our Dread Soveraign and obsequiously sollicited His Acceptance May Your Majesty be Graciously pleased therein to imitate Him who so much Resembles Your Self by Vouchsafing a Reception to this Reflexe but weak and imperfect Representation of those Magnificences Which as they did Primarily Proceed from Your Majesty so ought they principally to return thither to be the inseparable and fruitful Blessings and Delights of Your Bosome God Almighty never cease such Rewards of Your most Celebrated Vertues here and Crown them hereafter when He shall after a long Train of Prosperity change these Temporal into Eternal Glories So prayes Your MAJESTIES most Obedient and most Dutiful Servant JAMES HEATH To the READER IT is not to be doubted but that decaying and dim-eyed Time must very obscurely and dully render the Glories of His Majesties Restitution to the rich and pregnant Expectation of Posterity for even after the immediate Passage of the most famous of them no Fancy was able to reduce them to Memory neither in the Beauty or Order thereof such the Stunning and amazing Ravishments such the rare Curiosities and splendid unlook'd-for Bravery besides the Novelty and Modishnesse of its excelling Decorations We say Sermons have not that Efficacy in the Eye which they have in the Ear certainly these Triumphs will lose much of their Gallantry and Delight in the Relation and Hearing which they had in Seeing like the Filings of Gold they lose of their weight in every change of the Scale so that it is impossible to expresse them in any dresse of Language suitable to that Garb which Gods Providence or mans Joy attired and manifested them in their several Solemnities 'T was thought a fair and obliging Design howsover to trace them with the speediest indagation and quickest pursuit could be made to the recovery of as much of these Grandeurs as a research was capable of which beginning from Originals no lesse Sacred then miraculous may well be excused if it be at a losse sometimes being also outgone by their swift transiency and permeation into the lasting durable Firmament of His Majesties most assured Empire and Government But who am I who dare to attempt this Flight who have neither the Eagles eye nor his Plumes and have never trusted the Aire of Fame 'T is too sublime an Enterprize I must confesse for so mean an Undertaker but yet assisted by the Medium of publick Desire and Benefit which can no way better be delightfully advantaged then in the how rude soever Perpetuation of those Heaven-prepared Fineries I have adventured aloft with this couragious impulse Magnis tamen excidit Ausis But he who shall more intently and prudentially consider this discourse may perhaps observe some necessity thereof as well as pleasure the utile justly taking place of the dulce and challenging other more grave and laboured Argumentations and Defences of Regal Authority For 't is not in the power of Reason or Force of words to charm people and Subjects into that veneration of their Princes which the silent yet awful Majesty of their magnificent publick Appearances can most redoubtedly conciliate and Command By these glorious distances the regardful Subject is kept within his bounds and by such Pomp the Throne is raised from the Level of Plebeian Encroachment to its due height and most Sacred impervious Ascent Love and Fear the Great Props of Government being never more equally attempered in men to the harmonious Conservation of the Peace then by these State Grandezza's True Policy being like true Religion which once denuded of its Decency and Ceremonies is quickly profaned by the malapert vulgar and invaded by Sedition and impudent ignorance And we have sad Experiments of them Both. To redresse which confident Mischief Almighty God was pleased to proceed in His Majesties Restitution by the most Magnificent Method he ever showed in any of his works since the Creation and having brought about that glorious design did also inspire the hearts of His Subjects with a most extraordinary and cheerful reverence of His Majesties Person and Authority which to evidence and demonstrate to Him and the World they did express in these ensuing Anglorum Magnalia here digested and recorded as the most sumptuous Oblation of our Solemn Respects and Gladnesse upon His Majesties Return that after Ages may know how we valued this Mercy and as the Expiatory Sacrifice of all those Contumelious barbarous Indignities done to the Person of our late Martyr'd Soraign Vale. The Sum of the whole A. AMbassador of Spain Complements His Majesty at Breda 17. at the Hague Folio 56 Ambas of Sweden had Audience Folio 64 Ambas of Brandenburgh his audience Folio 73 Ambas of France his audience Folio 93 Ambas from the Prince Elector Palatine Folio 163 Army disbanded Folio 167 Advantage coming to England by His Majesties marriage Folio 254 B. Burgomasters of Breda Speech Folio 73 Baronets created Folio 210 C. Commissioners from the Lords Commons and City sent to His Majesty at the Hague Folio 58 City of London feast His Majesty at Guild-hall Folio 156 Church Government by Bishops Folio 168 Cromwel Ireton and Bradshaws Exequies descanted or celebrated Folio 174 Catalogue of the Archbishops and Bishops of England Folio 206 Catalogue of the Dukes Marquesses Earls Lords Viscounts Barons of England Folio 217 D. Doctor Clarges sent to His Majesty at Breda Folio 21 Deputies of the States General Speech to His Majesty Folio 23 Deputy of the Province of Gelders Speech to His Majesty at
the Hague Folio 50 Danish Ambassador Speech and Audience at the Hague Folio 54 Deputies of the Province of Holland complement His Majesty Folio 70 His Higness the Duke of York swears the Mariners of the Fleet Folio 72 Sir George Downing presents himself to His Majesty Folio 76 Duke of York goes aboard the English Fleet Folio 87 Death of the Duke of Glocester Folio 168 Duke of York attends Her Majesties arrival on the English Coast Folio 249 E. Estâ—tes of Holland dine privately with His Majesty 67. Complement the English Commissioners Folio 68 Edenburghs triumphs for His Majesties Restauration Folio 151 Extraordinary Envoy from the Duke of Curland Folio 169 Earls Created Folio 191 Envoy from the Emperor of Rssiuia comes to complement His Majesty Folio 255 F. French Ambassador had Audience at the Hague Folio 54 Feasts of the Estates of Holland Folio 81 G. Sir Harbotle Grimstons Speech to Sir John Greenvil which brought His Majesties Letters Folio 13 H. Doctor Hardy Preacheth before His Majesty at the Hague Folio 77 Honors conferred by His Majesty Folio 217 I. Joy at Lisbon when the Infanta of Portugal was saluted Queen of England Folio â—245 K. Knights of the Bath Folio 189 Knights of the Garter Folio 215 L. Londons great joy upon the Parliaments receipt of His Majesties Letters 14. It s unexpressible joy at Proclaiming His Majesty 31. It s reception of His Majesty Folio 124 Lords of Zealand Speech to His Majesty Folio 84 Sir Charles Lâ—cas and Sir George Lisle's Funeral at Colchester Folio 180 Lords created Folio 196 Londons noble entertainment of their Sacred Majesties in their passage from Hampton-Court Folio 257 M. His Majesty goes to St. Jean de Luz 3. Returns to Brussels 4. Comes to Breda 7. Sends Letters and Declarations to Parliament Army and City 9. Visited by divers Princes 14. Receives information of the Votes in Parliament 14. Invited into Holland 38. His Majesties Royal entertainment in Holland 38. Arrives at the Hague 47. His Majesties entertainment at the Hague 61 65. His Majesty gives Audience to the English Commissioners 62. His Majesty toucheth for the Evil 79. His Majesties sitting with the States General described 90. His Majesty comes to Scheveling 106. Takes shipping 110. Lands at Dover 121. Comes to His Royal Palace of Whithall 124. His Majesties passage to His Coronation 197. Manner of His Majesties Coronation 198. His Majesties resolutions to marry with the Infanta of Portugal 243. Goes to meet the Queens Majesty at Portsmouth 251. Is married at Portsmouth 252. Comes to Winchester Farnham Windsor and Hampton-Court Folio 253 Her Majesty imbarks for England 247. Lands at Portsmouth 250. Is married 251. Comes to Hampton-Court 253. Receives the Addresses of the Nobility Lord Major of London and others Folio 255 Marriage of the Infanta with the King of France Folio 142 General Moncks first appearance in Order to His Majesties Restauration 5. Receives His Majesty on shore 121. Created Duke of Albemarle Folio 159 Lord Mordant brings glad tidings to His Majesty Folio 8 Sir Samuel Moreland presents himself to His Majesty Folio 20 General Montague arrives with the Fleet to attend His Majesty 57. Made Earl of Sandwich Folio 162 Earl of Montross his Funeral Folio 176 N. Names of His Majesties most Honorable Privy Council Folio 211 Names of the Judges Folio 209 P. Proclamation for His Sacred Majesty Folio 28 Prince Maurice of Nassau complements His Majesty Folio 95 Prince of Lignes arrival in England Folio 167 Princess of Orange arrival in England Folio 169 Death and Funervl Folio 170 Princess Henrietta arrives in England Folio 172 Q. Queen Mother arrives in England Folio 172 R. The Resident for the Emperor complements His Majesty Folio 63 S. A glorious Star at His Majesties Birth Folio 2 Secluded Members contribute to His Majesties Restauration Folio 6 States of Holland send Deputies to His Majesty 15. As also the States General 16. They complement His Majesty Folio 95 Spanish Ambassador Treats His Majesty Folio 74 Statue of Mis Majesty seâ— up in the Royal Exchange Folio 165 T. Triumphs at Lisbon Folio 161 Traitors Araignment and Execution Folio 173 174 W. Wonderful things in Ireland Folio 164 THE MAGNIFICENCIES and GLORIOUS TRIUMPHS OF K. CHARLES the II. THE Grandeurs of this Monarch which we shall here narrate not undertaking the History of his Life too rudely hitherto attempted are so far beyond all what Fiction and Invention can offer in Ronsantick Hyperboles Magu in speciem adornal is verbis quam ut sentire videamur as they come near a Miracle which will require Language as strange as it self or else to be expressed in the plainest and most facile words that can convey and fit it to our Capacities To write it in a Stile like it self or to represent it any way in its full Glories no Traict but that of an Angels Plume can serve turn For Heaven was pleased to use a very like curiosity in the very Beginnings and Dawnings of that Splendor which hath now in its almost Meridian overspread the Universe For that the weak admiration of men at his Birth might be aided and assisted to a due veneration of his present and future Greatness then divined by most people a Bright Star appeared at Noon-day and ushered in the Auspicia of his Wonders May 29 1630. which benigne Luminary never wanted those propitious Influences which in the darkest times serened his Condition And such a Remarque of Heaven was never vouchsafed to any Nativity besides that of our Saviour To omit its Tutelage and Defence of him throughout the War covering his head in Battel and conveying him in safety abroad after the general ruine at home nor insist upon his Escape and avoydance of the English Fleet that lay in wait to intercept him in his Voyage for Scotland To take no notice of his Scotch Coronation though as solemn and magnificent as ever was known in that Kingdom to pass by his well-designed Advance into England and his more memorable Escape out of it from Worcester never enough to be admired because these Providences were as the cloud 〈◊〉 concealed and obscured him We will only observe the Pillar of Fire which after it had purified him in the Night of his Humiliation and Affliction at the end of that Darkness revealed him in Glory This Discourse is deduced no further than his Renascency from August 1659 when Sir George Booth's Design was impregnated with his Interest though all along the Usurpation some Appearances there were of its reviving particularly that Noble Attempt of Col. Penruddock c. which in Nine Moneths time computed thence ripened to a Full Deliverance During this Affair in England his Majesty was removed from his Retirement and private Recess at Colen where he had long sojourned the rather for the great Civility of that people to him and who at his departure most nobly treated him to Brussels where he stayed not long but after some dispatches for England where every
serve for the ensuing Parliament which was to set down on the 25th then instant were honest Patriots and well affected to his Majesty and that they would labour indubitably for the re-establishment of the King assoon as it should be compleat and that their sitting down would certainly commence the day prefixed and appointed From that time forward there passed not a day almost that the King received not some remarkable News upon which he might ground infallible hopes of his Restauration On the 15th of the same Moneth Sr. John Greenvile since Earl of Bath and Sr. John Boys brought him Intelligence of the deseat of Gen. Lambert he had been Prisoner in the Tower of London by vertue of an Ordinance of the Council of State and had made an escape thence with design to put himself in the head of those who were strugling to continue the Anarchy and our Ruine but he was suddenly supprest and taken by Col. Ingoldsby 〈◊〉 Edge-hill where to the greater Honour and content of the King and his Felicity the last dying effort of the Rebellion was quell'd where its first potent Arms opposed it self against his Royal Father Remarkable also was the manner of the dissipation of those Rebels for never did Lambert betray such meanness and abjection of Spirit as in that rendition of himself to his formerly fellow-Colonel a most evident sign that God had consternated and utterly confounded them not only one among and against another but even in themselves perplexing and distracting their thoughts and dashing and turning their greatest Resolutions He was brought back to his former Prison the Tower and there better secured and since removed to the Isle of Jersey The King received the same day Letters from General Montagne then riding in the Downs which assured him of the good estate of the Affaires of the Kingdom and of the sincerity of his Intentions of which he had already given Proofs many moneths before when S. George Boeth took up Arms for the King in Cheshire Now his Majesty thought it time to appear to his People The Kings Letters and Declarations to Parliament and Army and City from out of that obscurity wherein his hard Fortunes had so long while concealed him which he did with such a sudden Brightness that struck Joy and Chearsulness into the Eyes and Faces of all his Subjects For presently he sent away the Lord Viscount Mordant and Sr. John Greenvile to London with his Declaration and Letters dated from this place to the 2 Houses and the Lord Mayor and Common Council of the said City and the General and Officers of the Army who arrived soon after the sitting down of the Parliament and on the 2 of May delivered them to the Speakers That Sacred Name of the King which not long time was the aversion and abhorrence of base mechanick fellows and Phanaticks was heard with veneration and inspired into that Illustrious Assembly such extraordinary and advantageous motions for the King that it is impossible to express them It will be enough for the honour thereof to say that whereas not above 3 or 4 moneths before it had been a Crime of High Treason to speak in Parliament in behalf of the King no sooner now is that great name pronounced than a general Joy appeared in the countenances of all the Commons and most high and dutiful Respects for that Divine Character By Vote of the Houses therefore Sr. John is desired to enter the Speakers receive the Kings Letters from his hand the Clerk read them every one in the mean time with the greatest expressive submission in the world standing bare-headed His majesty had thereunto as before said added a most excellent Declaration for the safety and repose of those who cortur'd in their thoughts for having partaken in the Rebellion might fear the punishment of it and in that fear might oppose the tranquility of the State and the calling in of their Lawful Prince There never was seen a more perfect Assembly of all the most excellent natural Quilities and of all the vertues as well Royal as Christian where with a great Prince may be endowed than was found in those two wonderful Productions as was evident in their acceptance and entertainment They were full of Piety and Zeal for the Glory of God and for Religion of tenderness towards the Afflictions of his People Esteem for the Parliament Firmness for the Conservation of his own Rights an admirable Prudence for the regulating of Affairs and an inexemplar conduct for the re-establishing of the Government in its former state Love for the good indulgence for the seduced and a more than Christian Clemency for Criminals or rather for Crime it self for a Crime I say so black and so abominable that as there was not an Example of it in History since the Creation of the world so his Majesty hath not altogether been so wrought upon by his innate Goodness as to let it pass for an example unpunished to Future Ages Both these Papers wrought the Effect which the King promised himself from them since they absolutely gained the hearts of the people which the miseries of the time past had already very much disposed to the acknowledging their Prince For they were no sooner read but the Parliament declared that the Tenders and Sentiments of the King were Gracious Good and Generous and Conformable to the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom the Government whereof ought to confist of King Lords and Commons and forthwith ordered that most humble Thanks should be returned to his Majesty for the Gracious Letters and Declarations aforesaid and that for a present supply of his Majesties occasions and in order to speed his Return the sum of fifty thousand Pounds was appointed for a Present to which the City of London added ten thousand more They likewise ordered that General Montague should sayl with his Fleet to attend the Kings Pleasure on the Coasts of Holland That the Two Houses and City of London should send Commissioners respectively from them to beseech him to come and take possession of his Kingdoms which God and his Right had given him and that in the mean time Sr. John Greenvile should be disparched with the Parliaments Answer and should carry to Brada the Resolutions and Prayers of the Two Houses or rather the impatience which the Nation had to see again their Natural Soveraign after a sad absence of many calamitous and miserable years But that which was most remarkable in these Resolutions was that they were not taken after a long contestation consult or dispure nor upon a simple acquiescement of the Parliament in a major Vote but by the express Suffrages and Votes upon the universal and unanimous consent of all the Members of both Houses who strove in aeleg mulation of each other which should give the greatest Proof of Affection The Parliament also gave Liberty to the Noble General to send Mr. Clarges now Sr. Thomas being Knighted by the King at Breda his
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
Successes which follow your wise Conduct and the joy which they have to see you going to your Kingdom of England to take there the Scepter of Great Britain come here now in a Body to uphold the Truth and Sincerity thereof by more strong and solemâ— Declarations It is the same Company Sir which had the Honour to present it self to your Majesty in this very place in a sad and mourâ—ful Equâ—page and which with more grief in heart than it could express in words pronounced the most bitter lamentable Accents of a most deep sorrow which came then not only to strike the Soul of your Majesty but also universally of all the Members of this State From the same Principle which divided then their Afflictions proceeds now their common rejoycement to wit from that of a most tender and most respectful Affection for the Sacred Person of your Majesty and from a most submissive zeal for the Service and for the good of your Affairs The Cause thereof is so just and so touching that we hope your Majesty will be easily perswaded of the Truth of the Protestations which are made thereof here in your Royal Presence And we may boldly say that their Joy exerciseth it self in its full extent which is so much the more vast as these admirable Events arrive in a time when all humane appearance seemed to remove them wholly For it must be confessed that they are the Effects of Divine Providence which hath made the hearts of the Children return to their Father that is to say of the Subjects to their Lawful King and levelled the waies by which your Majesty walkes at present so peaceably and without Effusion of Blood upon the magnifick and superb steps of your Glorious and Triumphant Throne The Estates General of the United Provinces wish Sir that these great and important Prosperities which surprize us no less than we have wished them may be followed with the constant Obedience of your People with the respect of your Neighbours and the Love of both and that the Diadem which God hath put upon the Anoynted and Sacred Head of your Majesty being accompanied with all the Favours of Heaven may stand there a long Train of Years with a happy and glorious Raign for your Sacred Person and remain perpetually in your Royal Posterity even to the end of the world We will finish this Discourse Sir by most humble Thanks which we render to your Majesty in that it hath pleased you to chase this Countrey rather than any other to pass from thence into your Kingdom for which we shall alwaies think our selves obliged and honoured with the regret notwithstanding to see that the Reception which we cause to be made unto you with so good a heart is not accompanied with all the Pomp and Magnificence that the Majestical splendor of so great and potent a Monarch deserveth who is so dear and precious to this State and of whose Gracious Favour they shall endeavour to acquit themselves by all the Respects and Services which your Majesty may desire from your true Friends most faithful Allies and Humble Servants 'T was observed in this Visit that the King never offered to be covered as was thought to shew that he would do somthing more for them than he could do for an Ambassadour After this Speech ended the Lords the Estates were conducted in departing from the Audience by the same Lords that received them and being returned in their ordinary Hall they separated themselves Two other Audiences were given to the foresaid Colledges which being over some doubt was made though this Difficulties upon the audience of Ambassadours Solemn Magnificent Occasion well might and did dispence with Customes and Punctilio's whether the Ambassadours and Ministers of the Kings Princes and forraign Estates which were at the Hague should be received to make their Complements to the King without Letters of Credence or if after it were acknowledged that their Character legitimated them for that they might be covered since that having no Character towards this Monarch they could not be considered but as particular Persons to him The difficulties which arose here were taken away by the following Considerations They said that Ambassadours having a general Commission and not being as they said missi ad hoc they might and ought to do that which their Masters would do if they were present in person and so being certain that there is no Prince in Europe that would not do Civility to the King of England if he should meet him in his Passage their Ministers who were in the place could not fail therein also without being wanting to Civility and to their Duty Notwithstanding since his Majesty was not in his Kingdom he might use them as he pleased yet so that although it was in his choyce to admit the Ambassadours or not he could not dispense himself of treating with them according to the dignity of their Character and of making them to be covered after he had admitted them since they might The King complemented by forreign Ambassadours and were obliged to make their Quality appear in all their publick actions in an Estate where every one acknowledgeth them for Ambassadours And on this account that nothing might be omitted which might conduce to the honour of the King and the Glory of his Restitution Monsieur de Thou Count of Meslay The French Ambassadour hath Audience Ordinary Ambassadour of France in Holland obtained the first Audience as well for having demanded it first as for that there was no other Ambassadour at the Hague that would stand in competition with him He was met in the Court by one of the chief Gentlemen of the Chamber and on the top of the Stayrs by the Captain of the Life-guard who was as the Mâ—ster of the Ceremonies Assoon as he had made his Reverences and would have begun to speak the King covered himself presently and shewed thereby to the Ambassadour what he had to do His complement and gratulation of his Majesties and his Kingdoms Happiness was well received but his Audience was short Monsieur Oâ—te Krag The King of Denmarks Ambassadours next and Mr. Godsch of Bugwaldt extraordinary Ambassadors from the King of Denmark had their Audience after the French Ambassadour and after they had been received and treated as the other the first of them bespake the King in these words That since it hath pleased God to call again his Majesty unto his Kingdoms where his great merit should have established him long ago as well as the Right of his Birth they would not fail to come to congratulate him and to acquit themselves by this means of the duty which they have as well to the near Affinity which is between his Majesty and the King their Master as because of the streight Allyance which hath alwaies been between the Kingdoms of England and Denmark That they had cause to rejoyce for this happy Change not only because of the Glory
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
the Souldiery the Oracle of the Sword was now to be fulfilled in turning it to Plow Shares and Pruning hooks the Long riddle of the War to be resolved into a lasting and certain Peace The great Alexander of the North qui cunctando restituit rem undid the Sword by the ties of his discreet and temporizing Allegiance The Obligations by his Prudence Worth Discipline Valour and Vigilance which he laid upon the Army civilized their untamed Spirits and brought them to a just sense of their obedience and knowledge of themselves the Diabolical illusions which had possessed most of them now the appearance of Englands Redeemer was at hand totally disappeared and they presently return to their innocence such as mistaken duty can be allowed for in this following Addresse to the King which because of its summing up all the Circumlocutions and mistakes of the Rebellion and most highly magnifies the wonder of the Kings Restitution is here transcribed in its own words it was drawn up while the King was at Sea and therefore it is placed here though delivered to Him on Dartford Heath May 29. the day of His Entrance WIth such a joy as flowes from Reverence and Love we present our selves before Your Sacred Majesty Besides our Reflection on the Common Good which in this happy change relates to our Particular intends this joy and renders it sincere For we can now please our selves in our selves while we are really performing that duty for which we were raised And with all thankfulness we acknowledge that care Your Majesty in Your late Letter and Declaration hath expressed of our necessary concerns We blesse God to see that day when the Serenity of every mans Countenance discovers the Tranquillity of his mind for this shewes Your Majesty to be the Soul of Your People since during Your absence the Nation was cast into such distractions as we have no pleasure to remember but had rather turn our thoughts and grateful acknowledgements to the happy Conduct of our noble General who hath thus far lead us in our duty to your Royal Person Yet as we cannot attribute too much to his merits so neither can we deprive our selves of that Honour and Comfort which we find in the accomplishment of his just designe Therefore in plain and Souldier-like though humble terms we say Your Majesty hath made us and the Nation happy in Your Return to this Your Native Kingdome which doubtlesse will nay we may say hath produced a Settlement upon the Foundation of our Ancient Laws by the due execution of which together with Your Majesties pious Inclinations we trust Libertisme and Profanenesse will be wholly suppressed the Protestant Cause and true Professors of it encouraged to the Comfort of all Your Religious and good People Your Majesty will now have Your great Councel about You who have already given proof of their Loyalty and Wisdome both to Your Majesty and Your People We professe and declare That as we have not been altogether uselesse in the Restauration as well of Your Sacred Majesty to Your Crowns and Kingdoms as the People to their just Rights so shall we for the future chearfully sacrifice our Lives or whatsoever can be more dear to us in the Service of Your Majesty against all Oppositions whatsoever and by a ready obedience to Your Commands expresse our Selves Your Majesties most loyal Subjects and obedient Servants Something hath been said already as to the Emblem of the Peace the Lawyers Cown but the Law was already restored and returned into its ancient Channells and Bounds the writs issuing in His Majesties Name and the Courts of Judicature setting by His Authority the States great Seal having been brought into the House of Commons and there broke and the pieces thereof given the Commissioners for their Fees now ensues some preparations for the Gospel The Sacred Name of the King like that of Jehovah with the Jews had been not out of reverence but danger or despight seldome or never indeed used in the Pulpit it being a piacular Crime to mention the King in our prayers when Curses and speaking ill of him though in despight of Solomons warning againâ—t such malediction of Princes was the safest and most advantageous Course Now God would Honour the place where his Name was to be called upon with due Veneration to that of his Vicegerent His Omniscience declaring that his terrible Name cannot be revered where his annointed Ones is despised Especially such a Prince whom he had so signally brought forth protected and restored The Pulpit therefore is reconsecrated which the impudent intrusion and blasphemy against God and the King had profaned The Purity of Divine Worship was to be recommenced with the acknowledgement of the Title and Style of his Majesty who bears not in vain the name of the Defendor of the Faith Accordingly in most of the Churches upon the first intimation of the order of Parliament to that purpose though some and many other Loyal congregations had antevened it the King was solemnly prayed for to the great heightning of the Peoples devotion and thanksgiving to Almighty God who had given an earnest of his Majesties personal by this nominall presence amongst them to the further exaltation of their praises to him But to refer these and other preparatory glories of the King to their consummation in his Return it will be time to look back to the Royal Fleet now floating on the Main and sailing very slowly the Sea priding her self in the burden of that Triumph she carried as loth to deliver the Treasure she possessed till at last on Friday about three of the Clock in the morning they came in sight of Dover The General attended with a great Train of the Nobility and Gentry having obtained leave of the House to attend his Majesties landing on Wednesday the 23. of May went from White-hall by Water to the Bridge-foot in order to meet his Majesty by the way of Kent having given order to several Gentlemen in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex to be ready with all manner of Civilities to receive the King if he should chance to land in those parts The Generall came to Canterbury on Thursday night whereabout quartered most of the Troops of those Lords which went down likewise to meet the King at his landing The names of which are as follow The Generals lifeguard the Earl of Clevelands the Earl of Shrewsburys the Earl of Northamptons the Duke of Richmonds the Earl of Norwiches the Lord Viscount Mordaunts Sir Richard Browns and Sir John Robinsons distinguished by their habit as well as by their Colours Liveries and Cornets A finer sight of men for bravery and gallantry was never seen in England each Troop consisting of 150. or thereabouts At this place of Canterbury an expresse was sent to the General to hasten him to Dover The King lands at Dover Friday the 25. of May. which he did accordingly and about one of the Clock came thither his Majesty refusing
to Land while he had notice of his approach About three of the Clock in the afternoon the King landed and upon his knees kissed the Shore with the Duke of York Duke of Gloucester and many of his Nobles Every man now with the greatest observation drew as near as he could to see the meeting and gratulation of the best of Kings and most deserving of Subjects All were afraid there could be no apt expedient in matter of Courtesie The Admirers of Majesty were jealous on the Kings behalf of two low a condescention and the Lovers of duty fearfull on the other side of an ostentation of Merit The King and General meet but such an humble prostration was made by his excellency kneeling and so sutable a Reception by his Majesty kissing and embracing him that all parties were satisfied After this and a mutual Complement which was not full of words their Hearts being in their Mouths and precluding their passage his Majesty taking the General by the hand walked up the Hill with him a Canopy being carried over his Head and a Chair of State by him towards his Coach In his Passage to the Town the Mayor and Aldermen of Dover with Mr. Redding the Minister met his Majesty and after a short Speech Mr. Redding presented his Majesty with a Large Bible with Gold Clasps His Majesty thanked him and betook himself to his Coach into which also entred the Duke of York who sate with the King at one end and the Duke of Gloucester and his excellency at the other with the Duke of Buckingham in the Boot after them several Coaches with six Horses and the respective Troops besides particular Gentlemen on their own Accompt About two Miles from Dover his Majesty having had a large conference with the General with a mutuall complacency in one another alighted out of his Coach and took horse the two Dukes on the right hand of the King and the Generall on the left bare after whom followed the Duke of Buckingham and several of the Nobility likewise bare to Canterbury where the Mayor Aldermen and the Recorder Mr. Francis Lovelace of that City met his Majesty who after an Elegant Speech afterwards printed presented the King with a Gold Tankard and so conducted him to the palace made ready and furnished for him where he continued till Monday Here his Majesty was pleased to invest the renowned General with the most Honourable Order of the Garter putting it with his own Royal hands upon his Neck while the Dukes of York and Gloucester put on the Garter all the three Brothers joyning unanimously together to honour him who had joyned three Kingdoms together to do honour and reverence to them The King also Knighted Sir William Morrice and made him a Privy Councellour the Earl of Southampton and Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper sworn at the same time a Gentleman of Devonshire a Privado and trusty Friend of the Generals acquainted with and highly instrumental in his Majesties Restitution But a list of all the Knights made by this King are reserved for a particular place at the end of this Narrative Dr. Reynolds and Mr. Calamy of the Presbyterian perswasion were here admitted his Majesties Chaplains From thence on Saturday a Letter to the House of Commons was brought by the Lord Bartlet from his Majesty signifying that He intended to be at London on Tuesday the 29. of May by Twelve of the Clock at noon whereupon speedy Order was taken in that City for his Majesties reception which they had before put in some readinesse in this ensuing manner The persons appointed for the Service of the day The manner of the Cities Reception of the K. on Tuesday met together in the new Artillery Ground every one Mounted on Horseback except the Persons hereafter mentioned First the two Marshalls Twelve men in Green Coloured Habit John Bibby the City Drum Major with his Kettle Drums fixt to his Saddle Bow 3. Twenty Trumpetters divided in three noise or Pageants each having the Cities Banner fixt to his Trumpet 4. The two Marshalls of the City 5. The City waits 6. The Scoutmaster for the day 7. The four Quarter-masters 8. The Sergeant of the Channel with a Banner in his hand of the Irish Badge with the three Serjeants of the Chamber each of them having a Pennant in his hand with the Cities Arms 9. The three City Carvers each of them with a Banner in his hand one with the Scotch Badge or Coat the other with the Kings Crest or Coat the 3. with the crosse or English Badge 10. The Water Bailiff carrying the Cities great Banner 11. The Common Hunt carrying the great Banner of the King 12. The Conductors or chief Directors of the whole dayes march distinguished from the rest of the City Servants who wore the Kings and Cities Colours on their hats and a Scarf of Crimson silk about their waste tyed with a white Ribbon by a black scarfe mixt or added to their Crimson as they are Citizens of quality besides 13. Thirty four Gentlemen of the Grocers who in regard that Sir Thomas Alleyn is a member of that Compeny are chief 27. of the Mercers 24. of the Drapers 29 of the Fishmongers 28 of the Goldsmiths 27 of the Skynners 30 of the Merchant Taylors 30 of the Haberdashers 23. of the Salters 21 of the Iron-mongers 24 of the Vintners and 34 of the Clothworkers which said persons make the second grand Division the first being that of the Lord Mayor with the Aldermen and their Attendants The Third grand Division is supplyed by 18 Gentlemen of the Company of Dyers by 20 of the Brewers by 24 of the Leathersellers by 12 of the Pewterers by 20 of the Barber Surgeons by 8 of the Cutlers by 8 of the Wax Chandlers by 8 of the Armorers by 14 of the Girdlers The Fourth grand division is supplyed by 14 gentlemen of the Sadlers by 8 of the Carpenters by 5 of the Cordwayners by 15 of the Apothecaries by 11 of the Paynter stayners by 11 of the Woodmongers by 10 of the Stationers and by 8 of the Embroiderers Every of the said Companies having a Pennant with the Companies Arms therein carried by one mounted on Horse-back and every Gentleman in a Plush Coat and Sword with a chain of Gold about his shoulders and a Page on Foot by his Horse side clothed in a loose Garment agreeable to their Companies Colours the said Companies Attendants Officers Trumpets and Drums being in their distinct Habit. About 7. of the clock in the morning the four Quartermasters by direction and oversight of the Conductors began to rank out the said Companies two by two beginning at the Junior Gentlemen of the last Companies and in the intervall between Company and Company placed that Companies Pennant that had lead the Van. The said Companies being thus rank'd out in the head of each grand Division are placed six Trumpets and the Kettle-Drums in the head of the Grocers Company In
this Equipage they marched to Guild-hall where the Lord Mayor expected them having two Pages in Plush Coats attending him The Aldermen each of them with two Pages in loose Habits of Scarlet coloured Cloth and the Sheriffs with like number of Pages together with their Officers in Scarlet Cloak and Javelins trim'd neer the Beards with the same Colour The Sword-bearer and Common Cryer mounted and likewise Mr. Chamberlayn the Town Clerk the Common Serjeant the two Judges of the Sheriffs Court the City Counsell the Comptroler the Sollicitor the Remembrancer the two Bridge-masters the four Attorneys and Secondaryes of each Counter with each of them a Page making up as was generally hinted before the first grand Division Then the Common Hunt and the Water Bailiff marched away from their station placing themselves in the head of that first Division the two Conductors aforesaid Quarter-master Cox and Muster-master Burroughs of the Military Bands of the City and the City Wayts in the Head of the said Conductors The fifth and last grand Division was supplyed by the aforesaid Sheriffs Officers alone who ranked themselves two by two the Cities two Marshals before them and six Trumpets in the Head of them the whole Body marched up through St. Laurence Lane through Cheapside up Cornhill down Grace-Church-Street Fish-street Hill over London-Bridge through the Borough of Southwarke into St. George's Feilds at the South end whereof neer the Fishmongers Colledge or Alms-house was placed a Tent for the reception of his Majesty and a Chair of State therein by the Lord Mayor into which his Lordship and the Aldermen entered and stayed untill intelligence came by the Scout-master that his Majesty was near at hand Now the other Trumpeters which lead the Van that is to say the two Marshalls and Sheriffs Officers removed themselves into the rear of the youngest or last Company likewise the Trumpets Banner and Pennant-bearer of each grand Division do likewise remove themselves into the fear of their own Division with the Trumpets and Kettle Drums and Waits the two Conductors the Water Bailiff the Common Hunt the two Secondaries four Attorneys two Bridgemasters the Remembrancer the Sollieitor the Comptroller the four Counsellors the two Judges the Common Serjeant the Town Clerk and Mr. Chamberlain are by the Quarter-masters removed into the rear of the Aldermen The Chamberlain being placed next the Junior Alderman and all facing about the Juniors of each Division and the grand Division are become Leaders and the Elder both Commons and Aldermen Bringers up His Majesty being received and refreshed if he shall so please all Troops of Gentlemen or others lead the Van in the Rear of whom fall the Sheriff Officers after them the fourth grand Division of inferiour Companies after them the third grand Division after them the second grand Division after them the first after them the Lords or Barons of the Kingdom if any present ride on Horseback after them Viscounts after them Earls after them Marquesses after them Dukes after them the Lord Maior Lord Chancellor the two Dukes His Majesties Brethren in the midst of whom as His Majesty thought fit and used in Holland before the King himself rid then the Master of the Horse next the Band of Pensioners though not established then the Life Guard after them several Regiments of his Excellencies Horse In this Equipage the whole Body marched through Southwark the same way His Lordship came only the Trained Bands of Southwark make a Guard through which the whole Body passe to London Bridge where the Green Regiment are ready on both sides of the way to receive and guard them by the way towards Cheapside and Temple Bar all which way a Guard was made on the right hand by the several Companies of London in their Rails adorned with the several Banners and Streamers and on the left by the other five Regiments of the City Trained Bands His Majesty and the whole Body being arrived at Temple Bar are there likewise conducted to Whitehall by a Guard of his Excellencies Foot but the Marshal and Sheriffs officers who conduct the Citizens being come near the Exchange in the Strand do open to the right and left every man placing himself before his Leader and every maniple or Company of Citizens successively file away the one to the right the other to the left placing themselves before their Leaders but the Lord Maiors Attendants and Aldermen do file to the right and left and not face in opposition till the senior Aldermen terminate at Whitehal-Gate The whole Body being faced in opposition become a new Guard through which the whole Body of the Nobility do passe and march through Tuthill Street but the Lord Maior marched unto Whitehall where taking leave not only of His Majesty and His two Brothers the Dukes he from thence repaired to his Brethren the Aldermen and each Party falling in as at first in the morning are by the Care of his Excellencies Troops who brought up the rear conducted back to his Lordships House And in several places as he passed in this dayes Triumph as at the Gate of the Bridge Exchange St. Peters Cheap Ludgate and Temple Bar He was entertained with Wind Musick and Grace Church Conduit the four Spouts Cornhil Conduit Pissing Conduit Standard in Cheapside and Fleetstreet do all run with Claret Wine to expresse the Cities and heighten the joy of the Partakers This was the Cities designation and is writ in a style part as future and part past because all their intendments did not take effect but magnificence they aimed at which in good measure as the shortnesse of the time for preparations permitted they attained And therefore the true and real Triumph of this day in the whole Progresse order and State of it take in this more exact Transcript On Monday the 18 of May His Majesty came into Rochester about 5 of the Clock in the Afternoon and went immediately into Col. Gibbâ—ns his houâ—e a Colonel then of the Army where that Night His Majesty and the Dukes of York and Gloucester lodged After His Majesty had in His Chamber eat something to refresh himself he went to Chatham to see the Royal Soveraign and the rest of his Navy there riding at Anchor after the view he did Commissioner Pett one of the chief for Building so much Honour as to receive the entertainment of a Banquet from him Thence he returned to Rochester and about 8 of the Clock supped shewing himself very courteous and gracious to the Colonel who presented to His Majesty a very Dutiful Addresse signed by himself and all the Officers of his Regiment in behalf of themselves and the Souldiers under his Command which His Majesty received very graciously and by many expressions to the Colonel gave a testimony of his affection to him in particular and to all the Army in General of which His lodging with His Royal Brothers in his House was not the least Demonstration The next morning early Mr. Francis Clerk
and Mr. William Swan both Gentlemen of this County received the Honour of Knighthood from His Majesty The Maior and Corporation of the City presented His Majesty with a Bason and Ewer of Silver guilt of a good value which was well received Betwixt four and five in the morning Hâ—s Majesty took His journey from Rochester the Militia Forces of Kent lining the wayes and the Maidens in White Wascoats which kind of Rural Triumph the City Virgins by a request to my Lord Maior desired to perform and imitate strewing herbs and flowers in the way he passed and the several Towns hanging out White Sheets At the approach of His Majesty to Dartford the Addresse of the Army above mentioned was presented and at Black Heath the whole Army was drawn up where His Majesty received them giving out many Expressions of His Gracious Favour to the Army which were received with loud Shoutings and Rejoycings Several Bonfires were made as His Majesty came along and one more remarkable at Greenwich for its bignesse all waves were invented and used to expresse the Peoples gladnesse though never so uncustomary where the States Arms were burned Thence the Army being drawn his Majesty who had come in his Coach to Suitors Hill and there took horse to shew himself to his longing desirous people pursued his way towards London And because God himself when he would set a mark of observance upon his own Magnalia hath taken notice of the circumstance of time it was very considerable here that it was his Majesties Birth-day He was heir apparent when first born but had Jus in re now when entring the Metropolis of the Kingdome he took possession All Lets and Hindrances which have intervened since his Majesties just Rights are now so many arguments of his Future fixed and peaceable enjoyment This the Ancients intimated when they tell us that Jupiter himself was not quiet in heaven till after a long war with the Gyants And it is a greater and more marvellous conquest Hostem conciliare quam debellare especially in and after civil contests and dissentions When his Majesty came to St. Georges-field the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen were in a Tent ready to receive him among whom for the notoriety of the person was Alderman Ireton once a rude enemy to the King and his Friends whose Company was neverthelesse dissembled to let the giddy world see whose Councells and directions they followed in those late miserable times men that could cry Cruâ—i fige and Hosanna in one breath when the K was come to the Tent the Lord Mayor delivered unto his Majesty the Sword upon his knees which his Majesty gave back to him again After a short repast taken there and drinking a glasse or two of Wine and the respective reverences and gratulations done to the King by each individual Alderman the King Knighted the Lord Mayor and made him a Baronet and set forward to White-hall in this order and manner All the Houses being richly laid with Tapistry out of the Windows and a Lane made by the Militia from Southwark to Temple-Bar on one side of the Streets and the Liveries on the other the Generals Foot making the like Lane from Temple-Bar till they joyned with a party of Foot all Gentlemen and Officers in the Kings Army in White Doublets and Black Breeches under the command of Sir John Stawell expressing their joy for the Kings restitution and their sorrow for his Royal Fathers Martyrdome who having accosted the King at Black-Heath and shewed themselves followed not the King through London but turned off at Newington and passed the Thames and placed themselves in two Files making a Lane from Charing-Crosse to White-hall Gates First of all marched a Troop of Gentlemen led by Major General Brown Brandishing their Swords all in Doublets of Cloth of Silver in all about 300 besides their Servants then another Troop of about 200 all in Velvet Coats their Footmen and Liveries in Purple then another Troop led by Sir John Robinson with Buff Coats Silver Sleevs and green Scarfes and Feathers in a circular fashion After this a Troop of Blew Liveries and Silver lace Colours Red fringed with silver about 130. After that a Troop six Trumpets seven footmen in Sea green and Silver their Colours Pinck fringed with silver then a Troop with their Liveries gray and blew with silk and silver laces 30 Footmen four Trumpets consisting of about 220 their colours Sky fringed with silver Another Troop of gray Liveries six Trumpets colours Sky and Silver of about 110 Gentlemen another Troop of 70. Gentlemen five Trumpets colours Sky and Silver another Troop led by the Lord Cleveland of about 300 Noblemen and Gentlemen Colours Blew fringed with Gold another Troop of about 300. After these came two Trumpets with his Majesties Arms the Sheriffs men in red cloaks and Silver lace with Javelins 79 in number Then followed the several Gentlemen of the Companies of London on Horseback in Velvet Coats and Golden Chains with their Streamers carried before them Every company having their Footmen of their several Liveries Three Trumpets in Liveries richly laced in Cloth of Silver Sleeves rode before the company of Mercers after all these came a Kettle Drum five Trumpets and three Streamers and very rich Red Liveries with silver lace The number of these Citizens were about 600. After these Twelve Ministers another kettle drum four Trumpets Then his Majesties Life-guard led by the the Lord Gerard another party led by Sir Gilbert Gerrard and Major Roscarock and the third Division by Collonel Blague Then three Trumpets in rich coats and Sattin Doublets the City marshall with eight Footmen in French green trimmed with Crimson White the City Waits the City Officers in order Dr. Warmsley the two Sheriffs and all the Aldermen of Lâ—nd in their Scarlet Gowns with Trappings with footmen in Liveries with red coats laced with silver the Hearlâ—s and Maces in their rich coats The Lord Mayor bare carrying the Sword the Duke of Buckingham and his Excellency bare and then the Glory of all his Sacred Majesty rode between the two Dukes his Brothers with a Red circular Feather about his Hat in a Deer coloured Tabby Doublet the Belt of his sword of the same colour Afterwards followed a Troop bare with white colours then the Generals lifeguard after which another Troop of Volunteer Gentry their colours fringed with Gold after which 5 Regiments of the Army Horse led by Collonel afterwards Sir Ralph Knight viz. His excellencies Regiment Collonel Knight Collonel Cloberryes the Lord Falconberges and Lord Howards after whom came two Troops more of Nobility and Gentlemen that marched brandishing their Swords all along Soon after his Majesty was passed the Musqueteers of the Trained-bands who by order of their Officers had presented to his Majesty as he passed the Butt end of their Musquets gave and discharg'd a great many Vollies of shot His Majesty thus conducted came to his Royal Palace at White-hall
de Manans The Ladies and the Maids of the two Queens closed the March being followed by the Queen Mothers Guards abundance of Trumpets blowing all the while The Ceremonies of the Rites of Marriage and the manner of performing them being Romish are not requisite being also strange and difficult to be understood to be inserted here The 2 of June the Pope's Nuntio the Ambassador of Venice the Resident of Genoa the Envoy of their Royall Highnesses of Savoy and the Deputies of the Parliament of Paâ— had Audience of their Majesties whom they Complemented about their Marriage and the next day they departed for Byonne where they were sumptuously received thence to Bourdeaux in the like but more sumptuous manner and so in conclusion to Paris where severall Triumphall Arches and Collossus were reared with in impresses relating to the Peace and their Nuptials being met without the Town near St. Germans by the Militia of that great City But all the Triumph and Honour they could render their Majesties together with the Auxiliary splendor of the Nobility came infinitely short of His Majesty of Great Brittain's Coronation and in truth of his Entrance which had appeared far brighter had it not been for the Dust that covered all the finery and sullied the rich Habits that were worn that day Except only some of the Princes of the Blood of France as the Prince of Conde and some four more which alone made it seem a Magnificence whereas in the Coronation of King Carles where was no distinction to be made by Strangers between the several Noble men of that Caralcade but of that hereafter Let us now look home to the subsequent and remaining Honours of the Kings Restitution On Thursday the last of May the most Illustrious Princes the Dukes of York and Gloucester took their places in the House of Peers threby restoring it to that veneration which the rudenesse of the vulgar and Anarchists had deprived it of for so many foregoing years where the Lords did unanimously concurr with the Commons in a Petition to be sent unto his Sacred Majesty to desire his Royal assent for an Anniversary Thanksgiving to be observed throuhout all the Kingdomes on the 29. of May for the great blessing the Lord had bestowed upon the Kingdome in restoring his Sacred Majesty But that wâ—ch mainly concerned the glory of his Majesty was that Justice should be done upon the Murtherers of his Royal Father the efore it was moved the â—ame day in the House of Commons that it be referred to the Committee to prepare a Proclamation to require all those to come in that late upon the Trial of his late Majesty or else to be left to the Justice of the Law On Friday following his majesty to compleat the Parliament went by Water to Westminster in the Brigandine where he passed the private 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 House of Lords the Yeomen of the Guard making a Lane the Heralds at Arms in their rich Coats the Maces before him and the Lord Generall bare before his Majesty When his Majesty came to the House the Usher of the Black rod went to acquaint them that his Majesty desiâ—ed to meet them at the House of Lords when they weâ—e entred his Majesty made a short Speech and gave his Royal assent to three Acts viz. 1 The Act for Confirmation of this Parliament 2 For the Tax of 70000 l. per mâ—nsem 3 For the continuance of Processe and Judiciall proceedings after which the Lord Chancellor made a Speech more at large Herein the King appeared in his proper and full Orb and spread those rayes which the long darknesse of his misfortunes had clouded and obscured constituting the parliament more by his presence then by this his assent The next thing was the filling up of his Majesties Privy Councill and supplying the Courts of Judicature there were honours ab intus let us see what others and those innumerable though small which do tantamount to great ones from his subjects and Foreign princes It were an endlesse labour almost to repeat those many Addresses presented to his Majesty let it suffice there was never a County in England that saluted not the Kings hands with some feeling gratulating expressions of his Majesties return being signed by all the Nobility and Gentry and Ministers thereof some particular Cities and Corporations presenting his Majesty with some more substantiall complements which yet for the most part consisted of Surrenders then called Gifts of his Majesties Majesties Fee Farm Rents particularly the City resigned their graunt from the State of New-Park by the mouth of the Recorder Sir William Wilde who told his Majesty that the City had been Stewards for him to preserve his Game and woods which they came to tender to his Majesty The King answered that he looked upon their tender not as from Stewards but would receive it as a gift from them for which he returned them many hearty thanks The like Addresses were made also from the respective Regiments of the Army new moulded again under other more Loyal Commanders so that as the Model revived it before his late Majesties Overthrow so the new model extinguished it as his present Majesties restoration On the 14 of June came out the aforesaid Proclamation against the Kings Judges many of them fled before divers of them now came in and rendred themselves as the Proclamation directed to the Speaker of the House of Commons who by order of the said House committed them to the Serjeant at Arms. It is fit we should bestow a glance The Triumphs at Edinbrough off from these satiatory Triumphs here to the imitation of them in his Majesties other Kingdoms to begin with Scotland which take in a Letter from Edenburgh The Magistrates of this City and Presbytery being most sensible of this great mercy received did appoint the 19. of June the day of their Publick Thanksgiving to God for his Signal love and kindnesse shewed to them in investing their most gracious Soveraign in his Thrones of England and Ireland and for restoring him to his Government over this his ancient Nation that for twenty hundred years hath flourished under the Scepter of his Royal Ancâ—stors and gave notice of this their Resolution to all the the Burghs and Presbyteries of Scotland desiring their Concurrence that as the cause was so their joy might be universal The Ministers that day in their Sermons with so much fervency and passionate expressions delivered what great kindnesse the Lord had done for them that it was observed their exhortations were never entertained with such attention and so plentiful Tears by their Auditory The English Officers of State and War observed the Thanksgiving with no lesse joy and devotion After Sermon and after the Magistrates had all dined together they marched from the Councell House to the Crosse in this Order The Town Councel in their Gowns with their Trumpets sounding before them went first then two Bailies before the English Commissioners and Officers and
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
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
England disrobed the King of St. Edwards Robes and delivered them to the Dean of Westminster Then his Majesty was newly arrayed with his Robes prepared for that day and came to the Comunion Table in St Edwards Chappel where the Lord Bishop of London for the Arch-Bishop set the Crown imperial provided for the King to wear that day upon his head Then his Majesty took the Scepter and the Rod and the Train set in order before him went up to the Throne and so through the Choyre and body of the Church out at the West-door to the Pallace of Westminster where his Majesty dined in great State and Magnificence A Table being placed at the upper end of the Hall I shall now relate the manner though pre-posterously of the proceeding of this Triumph from the Tower First went the Horse-guard of his Highness the Duke of York the Messengers of his Majestyes Chamber the Esquires of the Knights of the Bath 136 in number the Knight Harbenger the Serjeant Porter the Sewers of the Chamber the Quarter waiters of the six Clerks of the Chancery the Clerks of the Signet The Clerks of the Privy-Seal the Clerks of the Council the Clerks of both Houses of Parliament The Clerks of the Crown the Chaplains in ordinary having dignities ten in number the Kings Advocate and remembrancer the Kings learned Counsell at Law The Master of the Chancery the Kings puisne Serjeants The Kings Attorney and Solicitors The Kings eldest Serjeants the Secttarys of the French and Latine Toungs the Gentlemen Ushers daily waiters The Servers Carvers and Cup-bearers in ordinary the Esquires of the Body The Masters of standing offices being no Councellors viz. of the Tents Revels Ceremonies Armory Wardrope Ordinance Master of the Requests Chamberlyn of the Exchequer Barons of the Exchequer and Judges of the Law according to their dignity the Lord chief Baron the Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas Master of the Rolls the Lord chief Justice of England Trumpets The Gentlemen of the privy chamber the Knights of the Bath 68 in number the Knight Marshall the Treasurer of the Chamber the Master of the Jewell House Knights of the Privy Council Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold Two Trumpets and Serjeants Trumpets Two Pursivants at Arms. Barons eldest Sons Earls youngest Sons Vicounts eldest Sons Barons Marquesses younger Sons Earls eldest Sons Two Pursivants at Arms. Viscounts Dukes younger Sons Marquesses eldest Sons Two Heraulds Earls Earl Marshal and Lord Chamberlyn of the Houshold Dukes eldest Sons Serjeants at Arms on both sides the Nobility Clarencieux and Norroy Lord Treasurer Lord Chancellor Lord High Steward Duke of Ormond two persons representing the Duke of Normandy and Aquittain Gentleman Vsher Garter Lord Mayor Sir Rich. Brown The Duke of York alone The Lord High Constable of England Earl of Northumberland Lord Great Chamberlyn of England Earl of Lindsey The Sword born by the Duke of Richmond The King Equerries and Footmen next about his Majesty Gentlemen and Pensioners without them the Master of the Horse Duke of Albemarl leading a spare Horse the Vice Chamberlyn to the King Captain of the Pensioners Captain of the Guard the Guard the Kings Life-guard commanded by my Lord Gerrard the Generals Life-guard by Sir Phillip Howard a troop of Voluntier Horse and a company of Foot by Sir John Robinson The way from the Tower to Algate was guarded by the Hamblets from thence to Temple-Barr by the Trained-Bands of London on one side and lined with the Liveries on the other side with the Banners of each company The Windows were all along laid with the best Carpets and Tapestry Bands of Musick in several places and the Conduits running with Wine At the Arches the King was entertained with several Speeches and Songs and at Cheapside near the third Arch where the Temple of Concord stood Sir William Wyld Recorder of London with the Aldermen who in the name of the City did most cordially congratulate his Majesties access thither on that day upon that solemn occasion in a pithy Speech and as a signal of their Allegiance and Duty presented to his Majesty a purse of Gold In St. Pauls Church-yard stood the Blew-coat boys of Christ-Church Hospital One in behalfe of the rest declared their joy for his Majesties wonderful preservation in his absence and his arrival thither humbly beseeching his Majesties Gracious favour and indulgence according to the example of his Royal Ancestors and his Father of Blessed memory The King was very well pleased with this Speech and after conferred something on the Boy that spoke it In the Strand and through Westminster also the wayes were gravelled and rayled being guarded on both sides with the Trained Bands of that Liberty and City and his Majesties two Regiments of Foot under the command of his Grace The Duke of Albermarl and Col. John Russel Brother to the Earl of Bedford The Houses were also richly adorned with the Carpets and Tapestry and Musick particularly a stage of Morrice-dancers at the Maypole in the Strand in the several places all along his Majesties passage When his Majestie came through Temple-Barr into his ancient and native City of Westminster the Head Bayliff in a Scarlet Robe and High Constable in Scarlet received his Majesty with loud musick where alighting off their Horses and kneeling down to his Majesty the head Bayliff on behalf of the Dean and Chapter City and Liberty signified their joyful reception of his Royal person into that Liberty declaring how much more happy they were then any part of the Nation in that their Soveraign Lord and King was born within their Liberty and humbly desiring his Majesty to continue his Grace and Favour still to them whereby that City might still be enabled to do His Majesty service When the head-Bailiff had ended his Speech he and the High Constable mounted their Horses and fell in next after his Majesties Serjeants at Mace in which order they attended his Majestie to Whitehall Infinite and innumerable were the acclamations and shouts from all the parts as his Majestie passed along to the no less joy then amazement of the spectators who beheld those glorious personages that rid before and behind his Majesty Indeed it were in vain to attempt to express this Solemnity it was so far from being utterable that it is almost inconceivable and much wonder it caused in Outlandish persons who were acquainted with our late troubles and confusions to the ruine almost of three Kingdoms which way it was possible for the English to appear in so rich and stately a manner It is incredible to think what costly cloaths were worne that day the Cloaks could hardly be seen what silke or sattin they were made of for the gold and silver laces Embroydery that was laid upon them the like also was seen in their foot-cloathes Besides the inestimable value and treasures of Diamonds Pearle and other Jewels worn upon their backs and in their hats to
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
to pass through his Provinces and Monsieur Beverweert for Don John de Monroy arrived the same day at Breda and prayed his Majesty from the Marquess Caracena to take his way through Flanders and to embirk in one of the Ports of those Quarters to return to his Kingdoms assuring the King for the better inducement that as he passed the Arrears of those Troops which the King of Spain entertained for his Majesty being ready at Brussels should be paid them but this appeared no more than what passed in the Conference which the Duke of York had some daies before with the Marquess Caracena himself in the Town of Antwerp by Order of the King who would not go there in person though he was pressed thereunto through the consideration of the Important Affairs which he said he had to communicate to his Majesty The King excused himself with the same firmness now from the Civilities which he sent to be made unto him by refusing him upon the facility which he found for his passage where he was present Among other Reasons of his complying with the Dutch Request not to speak of any hazard of detention of his Person if he should have returned by the way of Flanders without certain Articles or Conditions to be signed by him there two appeared to be the chiefest 1. Because of the number of the Commissioners from the Parliament who were said to bring with them a Train of 400 Gentlemen besides Domesticks which must needs spend time in going from the Sea to Breda and the other the Court was already so great and full and the Town so streightened and unfurnished of Provisions that it would be impossible to lodge them all there and the weather being hot permitted not Victuals to be brought from other remote places So real and so permanent an Honour and Glory did the States think the Presence and their entertainment of the King to be that because of avoyding all disputes for precedency which each Province challengeth in its own Countrey so that they suffer not the Generality to have other advantage in the Provinces than that which is due unto them by vertue of their Union and not to give the King any displeasure by their disorder in his reception they resolved of a course whereby that Province which was at the most cost might be taken notice of accordingly The Eslates of Holland therefore who had caused the King to be prayed in particular to honour their Province with his Presence would have him to be received and saluted in their Name upon the Frontier and would defray the Charges on his way from the time he entred into their Province and till the first day he should arrive at the Hague as making part of his Voyage The Estates General who represent not indeed in general but what every Province possesseth in particular left to the Province of Holland all the marks of Soveraignty and consented to this that their deputies after they had congratulated the King conducted his Majesty to the entrance of Holland should remain in the quality of private persons on condition notwithstanding that the Deputies of Holland should give the Honour of the House and give them precedence in the places where they should meet together So nice and strict were they upon the punctilio in this Affair from whence they had designed themselves Reputation and Renown which if so famous to the giver could not but be infinitely honourable to the Illustrious Receiver The Estates General for their part of the Magnificence resolved that same day that the Kings Charges should be defrayed during the whole time he stayed in the United Provinces and ordained likewise Provision to be made accordingly which though they met with many difficulties they at last abundantly performed as we shall see hereafter On the 6th of May another thing of Remark happened Sr. Sam. Moreland comes to Court Mr. Samuel Moreland Secretary Thurlo's chief Clerk during the Usurpation under Oliver Cromwel who lay Resident at the Court of Savoy and had held Intelligence with the King whereby he was from time to time informed of the Cabals and Designs of his Rebels being a man of a pregnant wit and other abilities arrived at Breda where he brought divers Letters and Notes of most great importance whereby the Perfidiousness of some of his Majesties own Party who were famed men in the la e War and who owed the King more Fidelity for particular Favours shewed them were plainly discovered The King received him with good Affection and rendred him this publick testimony that he had received most considerable Services from him for some years past The 7th of May the Deputies of the Estates General aforesaid departed from the Hague in the Afternoon and imbarqued themselves the same day at Rotterdam where the Jachts or Pinnaces which the States had caused to be in readiness attended them Those of Holland departed in the Morning but they made not the sâ—me hast as well because they would not be in the first place where the Estates were to precede as because they had divers Orders concerning the Entertainment and Reception of the King to leave in the places of his Passage On the 8th day of May. memorable for a greater Magnificence in England of which by and by the Deputies arrived at Breda being met out of Town in the Village of Terheyda The Deputies complement the King at Breda with four Cornets of Horse and arriving at the Town to render this Service to the King more solemn and splendid they passed by 12 Companies of Foot Drawn in Baitalia which saluted them with their shot whilst the Artillery thundred round the wals and Bulwarks When they were come to the House prepared for them they intimated their arrival to his Majesty the two Dukes and Princess Royal and towards the Evening the King and their Royal Highnesses sent them a Complement by Gentlemen of their own Until these Deputies came the Major of that famous and noted Garrison received all his Orders from the Princess Royal but now they transferred that Honour on the King who gave the Word Amsterdam It seems the King had some respects for the Magistrates of that Town who had deported themselves very respectfully to him somtime before The same day arrived also Dr. Clarges the Generals Brother in law who was introduced by the Kings Order with some Coaches of 6 horse apiece by my Lord Gerard exceeding welcom he was made by the whole Court who had owed so much veneration and respect to the General particularly the King entertained a private Conference with him two hours and afterwards Knighted him shewing him the Kindnesses sutable to the Message and business he was sent and employed in Neither did this dayes good Fortune ceâ—se here but by an Express from Dunkirk where the King had graciously some while before bestowed an Invitation upon Lockhart the Governor though unmannerly slighted by him his Majesty was certified that the Garrison
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