,„■-••'• - - ^WWAV^S*^ ttariGfidta lelf i ^> RELATIO IN FORM of JOURNAL-) O F T H E VOIAGE And RESIDENCE Which The mod Excellent and moft Mighty Prince CHARLS the KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, &c. Hath made in Holland, from the 25 of May , to the 2 of June, 1660, Rendered into English out of the Original French, By Sir WILLIAM LOWER, Knight. 9 s oxryt 7- w?B Hague, Printed by ADRIAN V L A C K s Anno m. Dc. lx.vuf Vtfth Frhiledge of the Ejlates of Holland and iVesi-FreeJland. The Printer to the Reader. IF ever was a Relation , whofe truth might be indubitable, it is queftionlefle this which I give you at prefent. It was com- pofed on the Publick Acts , drawn from the Regifters of the- Eftate, and expofed to the eys of thofe who were ey-witnef- fes of the things whereof it treateth , and made the fpeeches which are inferted there , and which are fo faithfully related, that except one onely , there is none which was not pronoun- ced in the fame manner as you fee them here written. After this ; one cannot doubt , that it may not one day ferve advan- tagioufly the Hiftory of the time, whofe mervellous revolution of the affair's of England , shall make one of the principal parts* It is requifite the world should know the particularities, which you shall not find but in this difcourfe , and I think to oblige my Country , in publishing the marks of affection and good will, which one of the firft Kings of Chriftendom hath left it. The Relation is French , becaufe the King would ufe that tongue, during the refidence, whereof you have here the recital, though he thai compofed it, hinders it not to be extant in other langua- ges, but would that all people of the Univerfe should know it. I confefs, it would have been more proper to have put it forth as foon as it was made, immediately after the Kings departure, and I would have given you this fatisfa&ion if the diligence of thofe men that graved the Plates , had anfwered my defire ; But I ceafe not to hope , that it will not be ill received, and that this production, though tardive * will have its agreements, as well as the fruits , which though given by nature but in a late feafon, pleafe notwithstanding , and are carefully preferved. I confefs alfo, thatfbme faults are efcaped in the ImprelTion , which all the diligent care of the Corrector could notavoid. There is not any though, that I know, which alters the fenfe,and which your difcretion may not either correct , or excufe. Extract out of the Piiviledge of the Eftates of Holland and Weft-Preefiandi T He Eft ates of Holland and iVeft-FreeJland make knoTvn , that Adrian Flack duelling at the Hague ', having remonflrated to us , that he had caufedto be printed, at his great expenfe, a Book entitled \ A Relation of the Voyage and Rcfidence which the moft Excellent andmoft Mighty Prince, CHARLS THE SECOND, King of Great Britain, &c. Hath made into Holland from the 25 of May to the 2 of June 1660. Enriched Tvith divers fair Plates , not only in the French tongue , but alfom the Dutch , and English , &c. \^ind fearing th "at fome one might counterfeit it to his great Damage : jve have confented and granted by thefe Prefents 3 that the faid Adrian Vlack may cauje the j aid Book to be imprinted , faith prohibition to all other per Jons to imprint t or diftribute in our Province the J r aid Book , or part of it , in any language , or form Tvhatfoever , nor counterfeit the faid Plates in any kind, during the '/pace often Tears 5 on pain of Confijcation of allthc Copies t artdof thr$e hundred pounds befides. *«L ^§3 F ^ iiiiiiiiiinuiiiiiiifWB A REL A TIO N Of the VOYAGE AND RESIDENCE Which His Moft-Excellent Maiestie CHARLS THE I KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, &c. Hath made in Holland , from the 25 of May , to the 2 of June 1660. I ■ fl : Hen the Parliament begun at London, the •*? ■t l/enn- nitigoj a fourth day of May, in this prefent Year 1 660. jM^- it was no new thing in the noble bread of his Excellence the Lord General Monck, Com- mander in Chief of the English Army in Scot- land, asfenfibly touch'd with the calamities, wherewith he faw his poor country fo long afflicted ; to think of the means to eftablish there the Monarchial government, groun- ded upon the old and primitive Laws of the Eftate.This could not be a free Parliament , and fiich a one as the whole Kingdom de- manded , if it were not cornpofed of two Houfes, viz. the Higher Houfe of Lords,or Peers,and the Lower Houfe of Commons , dr Deputies of the Provinces. For the fame violence which had de- flroyed the eflential form of the eftate,had fo disfigured that lliu- ftrious Body , in cutting of one of its principal members , that being incapable to a& for the important affairs , which made the A con- tbeParlia- ment 2 A Relation of the Voyage convocation of that great affembly to be judged abfolutely ne- ceffary if it opened not the Higher Houfe which tyranny had shut up,it mult of neceflity find it fit to repeal the Lords, who had voice and place there for fo inanyAges-I fay many Ages,becaufe it may be truly affirmed , that this cuftom is no leffe ancient then Monarchy it felf , fince that from the time that it came out of the hands of the Britans and Saxons , to paffe into the family of thofe that poffeffe it at prefent , the Eftates of England never aflem- bled but the Peers were called , as well as the Deputies from the towns of the Kingdom. The refolution which was taken on this occafion was not fo foon executed , and fcarce had the two Houfes begun their affemblies to labour in regulating the go- vernment , which the pafs'd diforders had perverted into a mi- ferable Anarchy , but there appeared on the twelfth of the fame month of May at the doore one of the Gentlemen of the Kings u ' t „Z v Bed-chamber , named S r John Greenvil , who demanded per- miffion to prefent Letters to the Houie from his Majefty. That Sacred name which not long fince was the averfionof varlets and fanaticks, was heard with veneration , and infpired into that illu- ftrious affembly fuch extraordinary and advantagious motions for the King , that it was impoffible for ft to expreffe them , as we alfo will not undertake to reprefent them here upon paper. It fufficeth to fay that not above three or four months before , it had been a crime of high treafon to fpeak in Parliament in be- half of the King ; but now not fooner is that great name pro- nounc'd,then one fees a general joy in the countenance of al the commons , and obferves a moft high refpecl for that divine cha- racter. They caufed the Gentleman to enter : The Speakers of the two Houfes receive the Kings letters from his hand, and ma- ke the Secretary to read them, every one in the meane time with the greateft expreffive fubmiffion of the world , (landing bare headed. The two Houfes compofe but one fole Parliament , and they are two members of one and the fame body , fo that the King in writing to each of them upon one and the fame fubject , might well make ufe of one letter , and addreffe it not only under di- verge VI 07}' Of the King of Great Brittain. 3 verfe infcriptions , to the two Houfes , but alfo to General Monck for the Army , to Admiral Montague for the Fleet , and to the Major of London for the Capital town of his Kingdom, which w r ere all united with one and the fame affection , and la- boured unanimoufly to make one and the fame defign to fuc- ceed. His Majefty added thereunto an excellent Declaration , n* Kw g for the fafety and repofe of thofe , who tortured in their con- Zlufi" faiences , for having partaken in the rebellion , might fear the ' punishment of it , and in that fear might oppofe the tranquillity of the Eftate \ and the calling in of their lawful Prince. It is prin- ted and published as wxll as the letter : but that shall not hinder me to fay , that there was never feen a more perfect affemblage of all the mod exellent natural qualities, and of all the vermes, as well Royall, as Chriftian , wherewith a great Prince may be en- dowed , then was found in thofe two w T onderfull productions. They breathe but piety and Zeal for the glory of God and for Religion, but tenderneffe for the afflictions of his people 9 but efteem for the Parliament,but firmnefle for the confervation of the Kings rights , an admirable prudence for the regulating of affairs, an inexemplar conduct for the reeftablishment of the gouvern- ment in its former eftate^love for the good,indulgence for the fe- duced,and a more then Chriftian clemency for criminals,or rather for crime it felf : for a crime, I fay, fo black , and fo abhominable, that as there hath not been an example in hiftory fince the crea- tion of the world , fo it is to be hoped that the goodneffe of his Majefty will not make it ferve for example to the following a- ges. Both one and t'other wrought the effect , which the King promifed to him felf from them , fince they fully gained the hearts , which the miferies of the time pafs'd had already very much difpofed to acknowledge their Prince. For the Letter and Declaration were no fooner read , but the Parliament declared that the fentiments of the King were good, lawful, generous, and conformable to the fundamental laws of the Eftate . the govern- ment where of ought to be compofed of a King , of Lords , or Peers, and of Commons ; and judging that the people would be well fatisfied in the Declaration which the King had granted A z them, 4 A Diurnal of the Voyage them , the Parliament ordained at the fame time that moft hum- ble thanks should be returned to his Majefty for die favourable Letter which he gracioufly had written to them : That to disin- oao-e his Majefty from the place where he was , and to facilitate his pafTage , they ordered him prefently a fum of fifty thoufand pounds fterling , which was increafed with another often thou* (and by the inhabitants of the City of London: That the Admiral Montagu should go with his Fleet to attend the King's orders on the coafts of Holland : That the two Houfes , and City of Lon- don,should fend to befeech him by their Deputies,to come forth- with to take poffeffion of the Kingdoms,whichGod,and his Right have given him , and that in the mean time S r John Greenvil should be difpatched with the Parliaments anfwer,and should car- ry to Breda the refolutions and prayers of the two Houfes , or rather the juft impatience which all England had to fee again their Soveraign after a fad abfence of fo many years. But that which is moft remarkable inthefe refblutions,is,that they were not taken after a long conteftation , nor upon a fimple ac- quiefment of the affembly,but by the expreffe fuffragesand upon the univerfall and unanimous confent of all the Deputies of the two Houfes , who laboured in emulation of each other , which should give the moft proofs of affe&ion. The Parliament alfb permitted General Monck to fend M r Clarges his brother-in-law, rhc Army accompanied with fbme Officers of the Army , to afTure his Ma- pure* it ^^ Q £^ fidelity and obedience of the Army ; which had made publickand folemn proteftations thereof, after the Letter and Declaration was communicated unto them by the General. rh e spea- But to the end one may fee plainly what the fentiments were £*£*' of all the English on this occafioh , I will not fear to report here jfiLfi* the very words which the Speaker of the houfe of Commons faid cmS to the Gentleman , which had delivered him letters from his Majefty. It is impoflfible for me > faid he , to expreffe the acknowledgment and fubmiflion with which the Commons at fembled here in Parliament , have received the letter , where- with his Majefty was pleafed to honour them: The thing fpeaks it felf , you have fecn it with your eys , and heard it with your ears 5> 5> Of the King of Great Britain. 5 ears. Our Bels , our Bonfires , arid the report of our Artille- ry, have already begun to proclaim the King , and to publish bur joy. We have made known to the People, that our Kino- 5 the glory of England , is returning unto his Kingdom, and have heardrefound in our ears thefe agreeable proteftations,that they are ready to receive him , and their hearts open to lodge him » „ and as well the Parliament , as People have already cried aloud „ together with one voice in their prayers to the King of Kings , „ Long live King Cbarls theftwid, I have alio to tell you i continued » he, that the Parliament, not willing that you should return with- » out fome mark of acknowledgment to the King, your Sove- » raign and ours , hath ordained you the fiim of five hundred » pounds (lerlmg , to buy you a Jewel, to make you to remember the honour which his Majefty hath done you , in charging you with a Commiffion of this nature, whereof you have fb w 7 ell » acquitted your feif , that the Parliament hath commanded me to give you thanks. We muft confeffe , that there is fomething very extraordi- nary in this marvellous revolution 5 but it is alfo certain , that there is nothing miraculous in it. The King was not furprifcd thereat. God ufed him in the conduct of this great w r ork. He" had laboured therein ; he had obferved the difpofkions and knew the progreflcs thereof; and in this forefight he departed from Bruxeis the lad of March , to go to Breda. And though fince in the fame month , he went fbmetimes to Bruxeis and to Antwerpjie w T as refol ved notwithftanding not to remain there, but to betake him to the Princefs Royal his filler. Many considerations obliged him to depart the Territorrcs under the obedience of the King of Spain in this conjuncture of affairs; but the fole convenience which he had at Breda , to re- ceive at all times Pods from England , which palled and re- paffed every day and hour,and to go from thence unto Holland, to expedite the return into his Kingdom ' might invite him to transfer his Court there for a while. He arrived there the 14. : of April , and was the fame day complemented by M Snel, old ^J; ( ■Burgemafter, in the name of the Magiftrate, who would like wife B oblige ?.f at 6 A Journal of the Voyage oblige the Town to make a fblemn entrance to his Majefty , but the Pnncefs Royall hindred it for mod confiderable reafons. The 1 7 the Lord Mordant arrived there , with full afiuranccs of the good will of the Parliament , and that it would labour indu- bitably for the re-eftablishmentof the King as foonas it should be compleat, and that the entrance into it should be made the day that had been named for it. From that time forward , there paffed not a day almoft that the King received not fome remarkable news , upon which he might ground infallible hopes of his re-eftablishment. Lamb*'* The 25. of April Sir John Greenvil , fince Earl of Bath, and Sir John Boys , brought him intelligence of the defeat of General Lambert,- he had been prifoner in the Tower of Lon- don , by vertue of an Ordinance of the Councel of Eftate, and made an efcape thence with defign to put himfelf in the head of thofe that would oppofe Monarchal government; but he was beaten , and taken by Colonel Ingoldsby , and brought back unto his former Prifon, before he could aflemble troops enough , to form the body of an Army. He received the fame day Letters from Admiral Montague, which continued to aflure him of the good eftate of the affairs of the Kingdom , and of the fincerity of his intentions , of which he had already given proofs many months before when Sir George Booth took up Arms for the King , under the name of good Englishmen , TbePrince which demanded the convocation of a Free-Parliament. The "LmZT Prince of Orenge,his Nephew,was at Breda the \6. of the fame Breda ' moneth, and e veiy day fome Prince, or perfon of quality , came to rejoice with his Majefty for the happy change of his fortune, As aifo vvhereof the v began to have almoft infallible aflurances. Prince Prince / D # FreJau of Yrcdmc of Nafiau , brother to Prince Maurice , or whom we shall have occafion to (peak hereafter, arrived there the 2. of May , with the Prncefs his wife , from his government or Ber- Duk! If gen op Zoom ; and the Duke of Brunfw T ic Lunenburg , who L^m" refides at Hannover,came there four daies after. The vifit of this hurg ' Prince,w T hich is no lefle confiderable through the excellent qua- lities which he poffefleth, then through the Extent of his Domi- nions, can ted to tbeHagut. Of the King Of Great Britain. f hions,was fo agreeable to his Majefty, that he could hot forbear to teftifie it to him on all oceafions, and in a mod obliging man- ner: inforriuch that he would voluntarily (up with his Highnefs > accompanied with the Dukes his brothers , and live with him in a confidence , which might make him to hope for a very parti- cular good will for the future. The 14 of May, a day fatal to the mod potent Kingdom dEn%*&> Chriftendom,for the death of the two laft Kings, was that which "IfSiu. fully aflured the King of the revolution of the affairs of hisKincr- \ i ^pf r dom , through the advertifemenr. which came to Breda of what ment * was done in Parliament the eleventh of the fame month , as we have fpoken of it before^ and the next day, after the news was brought, being the 1 5, they being of great importance, were fent ***«* to the Hague, by Letters from the Princefle Royal, which were feea in the Affembly of the Eftates General. The Eftates of the Province of Holland, who were at that time aflembled in a body, and had by their wifedom forefeen , in the difpofition of the af- fairs of England , the change which would apparently arrive there , had alfo forefeen by their prudence , the advertifement which was given of the Declaration of the Parliament. For on 2 5?S*J C ojHoLlana thurfday the 1 3 of May , before it could be known what pa/Ted fa 4 **'?*- at London , that illuftrious Senate , making reflection upon the Ki »£- prefent conftitution of afFairs,and on the apparences of the neer and indubitable re-eftablishment of the King, refolved that M r . Beverweert, Strevelshouck, Vlooswijck , and Teylingen , De- puties at the Aflembly from the Nobility, and from the Towns of Dort, Amfterdam,and Alckmaer, should depart immediately after they knew the intention of the Parliament, to make known to the King of great Britain the affection of this Province for the perfon of his Majefty, and for all the Roy all Family , to teftifie unto him the joy and fatisfaction they had to fee infallible difpo- fitions , almoft ready to place him in the Throne of his Aii- ceftors ; and to affure him of the ftrong inclination which they had to make with him , and with the Kingdoms under his au* thority, a firm, and lndiflblvable alliance , for the mutual con- fervation of the common interefts of his Eftate, and of this Re- B 2 publick; 8 A Journal of the Voyage publick ; But chieHy to make him offers of fervice,and to befeech him to do this Province the honour to refide there , as in a place moil: commodious for communication with his Subjects for his paffa^c into Enc;land-and to receive there the effects of the mod (incere proteftations of refpect and amity , which they caufed to be made unto him by their Deputies. They had alfo order to infift particularly upon this Iaftpoint,as on the moil important of their commiffion,and to ufe to this purpofethe moil civil and moften^ gaging terms,that intereft of Eftate,and affection for the good of their country could dictate to them. They enjoined alfo the fame Deputies to officiate with the Dukes of York and Glocefter, the King's brothers , and with the Princeis Royall , his Sifter , and that inftance should be made in the Affembly of the States Gene- ral! , that the fame offices might be made of their part with his Majefty , and with all the Royal peribns. i&eEfiates The laft point of this Refolution was executed the next day , filT^pu- when M r de Wit , Pentionary Councellor, Keeper of the great ting! 135 feal , and Lieutenant of the Fiefs of Holland, was in the Affem- bly of the States General , where it was refolved , that M r de Ripperda Lord of Buirfe , Deputy to the States Generall of the Province of Gelderland ; M r de Merode , Lord ofRumme, Deputy from theNobility of Holland to the Affembly of the fame States General, named to the extraordinary Embaffage of Spain ; and Guldewagen of Holland , Vrybergen of Zealand , Renf- woude of Utrecht , Velfen of Frie (eland , and Isbrants of Gro- nine should go to Breda to congratulate the Kins; for his o-lon- ousre-eftablishment,and do with his Majefty , with the Dukes of York and Glocefter, and with the Princeffe Royall , the fame office which the Deputies of the Province of Holland had order to do with him,in the name of their Superiours. The States of Holland pretended,that their Deputation would have no effect , until they should have advertifement of the De- claration of the Parliament; not, that they doubted of its inten- tion , but becauie they judged , that it imported the fervice of the King,fo to ufe it whereby not to prevent the Parliament,and to do nothing rashly in an affair of this confequence , where ci- vile Of the King of Great Britain. 9 vility done out of feafon , was both incommodious and unpro- fitable; Notwithstanding forafmuch as it was neceffary that his Majefty should know the fentiments of the Eftates , they bi> dained that he should have aflurance thereof under hand , by offices efficacious and capable to exprefs them well » and to this Mr purpofe , they judged it fit that the perfon of M r Lewes of Naf- ve ™? ri , fau, Lord of Lecque and Beverweert,ckc. Serjeant Major Gene- 'fe- ral of the Annies of the United Provinces , and Governourof the Bofch , should be fo much the more proper for that , as the devoirs which he was obliged to render to the King, in his par- ticular , might ferve for pretext to his voiage. And, indeed, the perfon of this Lord should be extreamly agreeable , not only becaufe of the affedion which he had witneffed for the affairs of his Majefty during his perfecution , and becaufe of the alliance which the Lord of Offery, eldeft fon of the Marque fs of Or- mond , Lord Deputy of Ireland, of the illuftrious Houfe of Buf> ler , and now Lord Steward of England,hath taken in his Houfe; but alfo , and principally , becaufe of the great imploiments which he hath in his country ,and of the excellent qualities which are found in his perfon. All confederations, which obliged him to fee the King before he did the functions of publick Minifter. He arrived at Breda on Saturday morning, the 1 5 of May , and executed his Commiffion fo happily , that the King, refefving but the open declaration of his good will for the Deputies when they should be arrived , difpofed himfelf to receive the offers and civilities which they had order to make him , with fo much the more advantage and glory for this Eftate, and for M r> Be ver- weert in particular , as Don John de Monroy who arrived the T ^ r ff/ r ' fame day at Breda, had prayed his Majefty, from the Marquefe £X*f^ e of Caraccne , General of the Kins of Spains Armies in Flanders ki "s to I I • 111 ' p^ls into to taive his way through the Provinces under the obedience of Flaniiers ' his CatholickMajefty,and to embark in one of the ports of thofe quarters , to return to his Kingdoms. Some report at that time, and even thofe , who took pains to obferve what paffed at Bre- da , during the abode which the King made there, as fure,that Don John de Monroy had alfo made known to the King , that C the lo A Journal of the Voyage the arrears due to the troops, which the King of Spain entertai- ned for the fervice of his Majefty , were at Bruxels , and that he might caufe them to be paied as he palled. But this appeared not, no more then what paffed in the conference , which the Duke of York had fome daies before,with the Marquefs ofCaracene him* felf , in the town of Antwerp, by order of the King, who would not go there in perfon,though he was preffed thereunto through the confideration of the important affairs , which he laid he had order to communicate to his Majefty. The King defended him- felf with the fame firmnefs from the civilities which hefentto be made unto him , in excufing himfclf upon the facility which he found for his paflage in the place where he was at prefent. I know that two reafons, principally, obliged the King to ren- der himfclf, at firft, to the requeft which M r< Beverweert made him in the name of the Lords the Eftates of Holland : The firft, that having had advertifement, that the Parliament, and City of London fent a great number of Commiff oners, he would not they should lofe time in going from the Sea to Breda 5 and the other , that the Court was already fb great, and the town fo in- commodated of pro vifions, that it would be impoffible to lodge there - and diet the Deputies and their train,which were faid to be three or four hundred Gentlemen, befides other Domefticks. We have faid that the news of the Parliaments Declaration, of the Army , and of the City of London,was carried to Breda, the precedent day ,by Pofts exprefs,and that from thence it arrived the next day at the Hage , where the eftate of affairs being changed fince the refolutions of the former daies , as well the Eftates Generalof the United Pro vinces,as thofe of the Province of Holland , preffed their Deputies to depart : And thofe laft in particular ,wrk to NT Beverweert, and gave him order to fig- nific to the King , that they had nominated already fome of their body , which should be gone forthwith to congratulate his Majefty 5 and in the mean time to difpofe him to honour that Province with his prefence and abode , during the time that his affairs should oblige him to ftay in the Country. They writ alfo,at the fame time, to theMagiftrates of the towns where the Of the King Of Great Britain. \\ the King might pafl'e in his way* that they should make neceOa^ ry preparations to receive his Majefty with all the honour and magnificence that was due to 10 great a Monarch. The devotion of the day of Pentecoft , which hapned the a!£*? 6 of May , was caufe that the Deputies departed not that day * dence be- f tween the but it hindered them not from labouring in the regulation of a w'w moft important affair , and which was judged , by the Province *%$££ of Holland, to be of the greateft confequcnce. This Eftate is ?r,7 °l <-> J- Holland, compofed in fuch manner , that notwithstanding the Soveraig- nity of ai the United Provinces in one body , every Province ceafeth not to be Soveraign in particular * and they are all fo jealous of their Soveraignity, that they fuffer not the Generality to have other advantage in the Provinces , then that which is due unto them by vertue of their union, and of the perpetual alliance, which is, in fome kind, more ftreight even then that of the Cantons Suizzers. So that the Deputies of the Eftates Ge- neral , being to meet with thofe of the Eftates of Holland,in the place where thefe pretended to reprefent the Soveraignity of their Province , which acknowledgeth no (uperiour at home$ the difficulty was to order the rank between them , and to con* ferve to each that which belonged! to it. The Eftates of Hoi- land , who had caufed the King to be prayed , in particular , to honour their Province with his prefence, would have him to be received and faluted,in their name,upon the Fronteer, would de- fray the charges on his way from the time he entred into the Pro- vince,and till the firft day he should arrive at the Hage,as making part of his Voiage. The Eftates General , who reprefent not, in- deed,in general,but what every Province poftefleth in particular, acquiefced therein,left to the Province of Holland, all the marks of Soveraignity , and confented to this , that their Deputies, after they had congratuled the King , and conducted his Ma- jefty to the entrance into Holland , should remain without fun- ctions ; conditionally notwithstanding , that the Deputies of Holland should do the honour of the Houfe, and treating them of the Generallity with civility , should give them precedence in the places > where they might meet together. The Eftates C 2 General Thurlos Secretary comes to Breda. t2 A Journal of the Voyage General rcfolved,thc fame day,that the King's charges should be defrayed during the whole time he ftayed in the United Pro- vinces ;■ and ordained likewife that provision should be made for it 5 but at firft they met with fb many difficulties , that it was abfolutely impoffible to execute this refolution. For the Town of Breda being already ftarved almoft , becaufe of the great number of perfons of quality which came there every day, and the hot feafon permitting not provifions to be brought there from other places , there was no body would undertake to treat the King ; and thofe that would have undertaken it , could not have accomplished it • fo that the Eftate would have had the dif- pleafure to fee their fubftance diffipated , at the expenfe of its re- putation. We think to relate here , as a thing moil remarkable , that the fame day M r Moorland , chief Commiffioner under M r Thurlo , who was Secretary of Eftate unto Oliver Cromwel , his chief and moft confident Minifter of his Tyranny, arrived at Breda,where he brought divers Letters and Notes of moft great importance ; forafmuch as the King difcovered there a part of the intricate plots of the interreign , and likewife the perfidiouf- nefs of fomc of thofe , who owed him, without doubt, the grea* teft fidelity of the world.The King received him perfectly w T elI, made him Knight, and rendred him this publick teftimony, that he had received moft considerable fervices from him for fome years paft. The Depu. The 1 7 . the Deputies of the Eftates General whom we have %its e named , departed from the Hage , about two a clock after din- ner and embarked themfelves,the fame day,at Rotterdam,where the Jachts or Pinnaces , which the Eftate had caufed to be in readinefs , attended them. Thofe of Holland departed in the moming,but they made not the fame hafte,as well becaufe they, would not be the firft in the place where the Eftates were to pre^ cede , as becaufe they had divers orders to give in the places of their paflage. The Deputies of the States General arrived at Breda the i 8. of May after dinner ; and were met with neer the village ot General, and of Holland, depart. "The Deptt ties of the Eftates General arri-ve at Breda. Ter- Of the King of Great Britain. i t Terheida by four Cornets of Horfe of the Garrifon , and arri- ving at the Town, they found there 12 Companies of Foot drawn up in battalia ; which faluted them with their shot,whil 'ft the Artiilery thundred from the walls and bulwarks. As foon as they were come to the houfe which was prepared for them , they gave notice thereof to his Majefty , and next to the Dukes of York , and Gfocefler , ?nd to the Princefs Royal • and towards the evening the King,and their Royal HignefFes,fent them moft civil falutes by Gentlemen of their Houfe. They underftood that M 1 ' Clarges , brother-in-law to General Monck , was arri- ved there the fame day A and that he had brought the protefta- tions of fidelity and obedience from the Army ; and the confir- mation of what they had already heard of the Declaration of the Parliament : Until then the Major of the Garnfbn had taken or- ders from the Princefs Royal 5 butthe Deputies of the States Ge- neral, being arrived at Breda , would transfer that honour to the Kino; who crave the word , Amtterdam ; not ib much for that he confidered this Town as the moft powerfull of all thefe Pro- vinces, but for as much as he could not filence the refentiments which he had for the Magiftrate ; which had given him moft il- Iuftrious,and moil agreeable marks of its affection. The next day there came a Pod to Breda , bringing- intelli- ?*!*r* gence that the Garrifon of Dunkerck , declared for the Kino- f°J tht and had witnefied its joy by the fire of its Cannon and Muskets. The King had the goodnefs to invite the Lord Lockart,Gover- nour of the place , to exprefs fome inclination for his fervice , and to give him an occafion for it by the advance he had made, and the affurances he had given him , but it could g-ain nothino- upon that fpirit prepoffefled , and tied fo by particular interefts to the houfe of Cromwel , unnll he was condrained to leave himfelf to be carried awav by the general motion of the whole Army, and of the Garnibn it felf. The next day being- the 1 9. the Eftatcs General having- had advertifement by publick Letters , from their Ambafladour at London , of what paffed in Parliament in behalf of the King > " redoubled the orders which they had given to their Deputies , D touching, iq, A Journal of the Voyage touching the complement and offices which they were to do ; to the end to acquit themfelves thereof with zeal and affe£tion ; and certified them,by an exprefs,that they had fent commiffions to Arnham , Heufden , Bergen op Zoom , and Gercum , for the Troops of Horfe of Prince William of NafTau , of the Count ChriftianofDona, andofM rs deBuat, de Waflenaer , and de la Lecque , fon to M r ' Beverweert , with order to march with all fpeed,nightand day, towards high Swaluwe , to attend there the King of great Britain, and to execute the commands which should be given them by the Deputies of the Eftates of Holland. iu Depu- Xhe lad arrived this day at Breda,and the Deputies of the Eftates Efiltel ' General had their audience. The King fent unto them about h7"e*a* eleven a clock in the forenoon , the Lord Gerard , one of the ibclig. Gentlemen of his bed-chamber, whole quality and functions are anfwerable to thofe of the chief Gentlemen of the Chamber of the King of France , who was to take them at their lodgings with four Coaches , each drawn by fix white horfes, and con - dueled them to the Caftle where the King was lodg'd. The Marquefs of Ormond came to receive them , at the top of the flairs, and caufed them to enter into the King's chamber, where they found his Majefty ftanding in the mid'ft of the chamber, and covered ; but as foon as he faw them , he uncovered him- f elf, and came two or there paces to meet them. After theyhad made mod low reverences,and were come unto the King,Mon- fieur de Ripperda,Lordof Buirfe , one of the Deputies , would begin to fpeak ; but his Majefty would oblige them to put on their hats,in making femblance that he would be covered. They had not the character of Ambaffadour , and could not have it at home with them ; therefore would they not be in that con- dition, but remained in their duty , and obliged thereby his Majefty , who could not overcome their modefty , though innocently , and againft their intention , to remain alfo un- covered , whiPft the firft Deputy fpake. The fubftance of his difcourfe was , that the States General of the United Pro- vinces had underftood, with an extream joy , the chang of the affairs of England 5 That they knew the good God had fo well touched Of the King of Great Britain. 15 touched the heart of the inhabitants , that there was not any Perfon,almoft,that cried not on the name of the King, and wish- ed paffionately to fee him returned into his Kingdom . that upon certain advertiements, which the Eftates General had had thereof , they thought it fit to fend their Deputies to this Ma- jefty , to witnefs unto him the part they take , to congratulate him in fb important an occafion,and to wish him,and all his Royal Family all the bleffings of Heaven, and all the profperity that he might hope from God , after fo long and fuch bitter afflictions . that the Eftates General made thofe prayers with fo much the more ardour , as they knew that the repofe of this Common- wealth , depended in fbme kind on that of its neighbours . and that they would not willingly enjoy the amity of the English, but under the Monarchal Government of his Royal Houfe ; that they pretended to enjoy it ftill for the future under the hap- py government of his Majefty , and for this purpofe,they hoped he would have the goodnefs to renue with the United Pro- vinces the alliance which they alwaies confidered here as one of the chief points of Eftate,and as the foundation of the conferva- tion of the common interefts of the two Nations- That they had order alfo from their Superiours , to remonftrate to his Majefty that the refidence of Breda, was inconvenient and diftant,and to befeech him moft humbly to chufe one in their Provinces, that he should judge more proper for his affairs , for his refidence , and for his embarkment. That the Eftates General had com- manded them to follow his Majefty in his voiage , and to ferve him with whatfoever the United Provinces poftefled. The King thanked the Lords the Eftates for their civility , and for the teftimonies of afte&ion which they caufed to be made him by the mouth of their Deputies • and aftured the m of his amity, in fuch ftrong and obliging terms , that knowing one shall be very glad to remember often the goodnefs of the King, we fear not to relate here the fame words which he ufed , to conclude his difcourfe. I love this Common-wealth , faidhe, not only 3j becaufe the Princefs Royal, my Sifter, and the Prince of Oreng, „ two perfons who are extreamly dear unto me , remain here ; but „ D 2 alfo 16 A Journal of the Voyage 5 ; alfo through inte'reft of Eftate , for the good of my Kingdoms, 95 and through a very ftrong inclination towards their good. I , , Jove truly > S i r s , thefe Provinces, and fo ftrongly , that I should , be jealous if they gave greater part in their amity to another , , Prince then to me , who think that I ought to have much more 9 , therein then any other Prince , fince I love them more then all , s the other So veraigns together. . „ After dinner the Deputies did reverence to the Dukes ofYork Wave ait- 1 dunce of an( j Glocefter , the King's brothers , and to the Princefs Royal. theirRoyal O / * Highnejjes. n j s flfter - w here M de Ripperda made again the complement. M 1 German,Gcntleman of the Horfe to the Duke of York,came to take them at their lodging . and conducted them to the *au- dience of his Royal Highnefs. At coming from whence , he conducted them to the audience of the Duke of Glocefter , and coming forth of his appartment, they met with Sir Alexander Humes , Steward to the Princefs , who conducled them to his Miftrcfs chamber, which was not above fifteen or twenty paces from thence. The two Princes made them a full civility , in conducting them even to the dore almoft of their apartments. Thurfday , the 20. of May aleven a clock in the fore-noon , the Deputies of the Ff tares of Holland had their audience of the dienceof King, unto which they were brought in by the fame peribns , the Kir.?. . ^ O / 1 a and with the fame ceremonies,wherewith that of the Eftates Ge- neral was accompanied. The M arquefs of Ormond , who had the conduct of it , giving them the hand , M r de Beverweert, Chief of the Deputation , carried the Word , and fpake in thefe terms. ,, SIR, It is now the third time , that, My Lords, the Eftates 9 , of Holland have congratulated with your Majefty upon your ,, comming to the Crown. The ftrft was, when you attained there- , , unto by vertue of the fundamental law of your Eftate , immc- ,, diately after the deceafe of the late Kingyour father,of mod glo- , , nous and eternal memory; and the other, when the Scots came ; „ to this place , to invite your Majefty to go to take pofleflion of , , one of the Crowns of your Anceftours. It is but with great grief, „ Sir, that we remember thofe two difaftrous encounters j but on TheDc- ■putits of Holland have an- Of the King of Great Britain. 17 that befides the Deputies which they had fent to Breda , M r ' Buckhurft, Lord of Wimmenum , Deputy Ordinary from the Noblity to the Colledge of the Deputy Counceilours or Councel ofE- ftate of Holland , should join himfelf to the other Deputies at Delf- and forafmuch as he was charged with the conduct of the whole treatment which the Province intended to make to his Majefty , afwell on the way , as in this town , as Deputy from the Eftates, that in this quality he should (lay by the King,whil'ft he dined , to receive the honour of his commandments , after the other Deputies should be retired. Mr. a: a* The Eftates General , of their fide , required M r d'Ameron- goZT" gen , of the Houfe of Rhede, one of the chief Nobles of the Pro- vince of Utrecht,Deputy,in their affembly , from the Nobility of the fame Province , lately extraordinary Embaffadour in Denmark , and now nominated for Spain , to go to Breda ; and to report from thence an exact eftate of the Kings whole Court, and train of the Princes h as alfo of the number of the Lords , of the Councel , and of his Majefties Houfe 5 to the end, that ne- ceflary proportions might betaken for the lodgings pointed out for the Lords ; for the Tables which were to be furnished ; and for the mouths to be fed , during the refidencc which the King should Of the King of Great Britain. 21 should make at the Hage. And to the end , not to come short, they made,the fame day,a foundation of three hundred thoufand gilders for the expence that should be made for it. They had the fame day Letters from Breda , which fignified, that the day before S r Peter Killegrew , brother to him who co- mands an English Regiment of Foot, in the fervice of the Lords the Eftates,and who fo glorioufly fought in the Battel of Funen, that it is his merit , rather then the alliance which he hath with General Monck , that makes him to be confidered, was arrived there from London ; from whence he had been difpatched ex- prefs,to carry to the King the news of his proclamation ; w T hich was done the 1 9 of the fame moneth , with great ceremonies , and extraordinary teftimonies of joy and affecTion , not only in the City of London, but alfo in divers other neighbour Towns. But forafmuch as thefe particularities are of the Hiftory of En- gland, which will not fail to publish all the wonders of this great revolution, we will not make our relation of it , which in (pea- king of all that paffed in the Country, is obliged to make known, here the affection of the Magiftrates of Dort, ofDelf, and of Rotterdam , who (ent to befeech the King , by Deputies ex- prefs, to do them the honour to pais through their Towns, and to refresh himfelf there by the way. But his Majefty excufed himfelf , as well upon the prefent eftate of his affairs , which permitted him not to ftay any where ; as becauie that his paflage could not but incommodate the inhabitants , unto whom he should not ceafe to find himfelf fcnfibly obliged, for the tender- nefs they expreffed to him . Sunday the 23 , there was nothing remarkable , if not, that at Breda folenm thanks were rendred to God, in all the Churches, on the revolution of the affairs of England,in behalf of the King: all the Minifters of the Churches , English , Dutch and French, expounding Texts proper for the matter. After the Sermons, the Magiftrate and Confiftory were incorporated to make their complement to his Majefty, and to their Royal Highnefles ; and at evening,bonfires of joy were made through the whole Town^ all the Bels rung , and many volleys were diicharg'd from all F the 22 A Journal of the Voyage the Artillery; the Deputies ofthe Eftates General, thofeofthe Eftates of Holland , the Magiftrate, and the particular perfons, emulating one another which should exprefs mod joy and fatis- fa&ion in this great day. They began, in the mean time,to load, and to fend away the baggage,whil'ft they finished,at the Hague, to furnish Prince Maurice his Houfe , defigned for the King's lodging ; to appoint lodging for the whole Court , and to make neceffary provifions,for its fubfiftance when it should become, andwhil'ft it should remain there. Munday the 2 4. , there hapned, at the Hague, a thing very re- markable ■ and which might be of great importance, in its con- fequences, if they had taken councel of ambition,rather then of prudence. By the fix'd refolution of the Eftates General,of the 1 6 of this moneth,it was faid, that the Eftates of Holland might caufe the King to be received , and complemented, at the entrance of the Province; and that they might make the honour of the orderbe- Houfe , as being the Mafters of it. But the former had made BfilUce- known fince , that their intention was to caufe the King to be "ZfioT" 1 received, either by a greater number of Deputies,then there had Holland k £ t ] iem ac £ rec j a or [( fa Eftates of Holland went , in a tb'prt body,to receive his Majefty by Delf towards Rotterdam; in this vmm. C afe,the States General would go, alfo in a body, to complement his Majefty between Delf and the Hage,at the place where they are accuftomed to receive Embaffadours ; and that in conducT:- incrhim their Coaches should follow immediately the King's. The Eftates of Holland being advertifed hereof , likewife that the Eftates General would fend Deputies to their AfTembly; and pretending that formerly there pafied too many things to the prejudice of the right of their Soveraignity,they named the De- puties of the Towns of Dort, Harlem, Amfterdam , Alckmar, and Horn , to enter into conference with the Deputies of the Eftates General ; to the end, to difpofe fitly this affair. And,in- deed, they negotiated fo happily , that they were agreed , at laft, among themlelves , that if the Eftates of Holland caufed the^ King to be received at Delf, by Deputies , they should remain both in the terms of the refolution of the 1 6 of this moneth; by vertue Of tHE King of Great Britain. 23 vertue of which, the Lords, the Eftates of Holland, might alone do the honours in their Pro vince,and caufe the King to be com- plemented wherefoever he pleafed ; and that the Deputies of the Eftates General, which were by his Majefties perfon- should continue to be treated with refped, as reprefenting ftrange So- vereigns ; and that in this quality, their Coach, or Coaches, if they judged fit to encreafe the number of their Deputies, (which notwithstanding they promifed, by mouth, that they would not do ) should follow immediately the King's , and precede thofe of the Deputies of the Province. After this the Eftates of Hol- land ordained , that M r de Waftenaer , Lie vtenant Admiral of Holland , should be joined to the Deputies named in the refo- lution of the 13 of May , and to M r de Wimmenum , who had been named the 22 . and that every Town should depute one , of its body , to go to make the comple inent , together w T ith the Pentionary Councellour , at the disbarkment of his Majefty by Delf. And forafmuch as there was reafon to fear , that there might TheE/tat* happen fome difbrder about the rank of the Coaches that should %y°the be fent to meet the King • not fo much becaufe the Embaffa- jZr/St dours were not well agreed among themfelves about precedence; £caa- but chiefly , becaufe there were fome of them,that would make Z"J°th e their Coach,to go before that of the Prince ofOreng ; who ought Kl " s% to be confidered here , not only becaufe of his quality of Sove- raign Prince,but alfo as Nephew to the King ; and confequently, as chief Prince of the blood of England, after the two Dukes - as well the Eftates General, as thofe of Holland, judged fit to caufe the EmbafTadourSjOf the Crowned-heads,to be prayed , by their A gent, not to fend their Coaches, but to leave the conduct and whole honour of this ceremony to the Eftate . to the end,to pre- vent the confufion, which otherwife would be unavoidable. They all acquiefced therein , without repugnance , and would fain have that refpecl: for the King,and condefeendence enough for the defire of the Lords the Eftates, not to trouble the publick joy , which the whole world indeavoured to make refplendent on this occafion. F 2 The 24 A Journal of the Voyage* The whole Court , in the mean time , departed from Breda, the fame day, being the 24 of May. The Deputies of the Eftates of Holland departed thence , at four a clock in the morning, to the end to have the leafure to chufe a fit place to put the five troops of Horfc , which were commanded into Battel , and to give neceflary orders for his Majefties embarkment. The Deputies of the Eftates General departed about two hours after, and the Kins took coach with the Dukes of York andGlocefter, and the Princefs Royal,about 8 or 9 a clock in the morning. But before they went out of the Hall of the Caftle,the Burgemafters, and Councel of Ten , prefented themfelves again to the King , and caufed to be made unto him, by the fame M r Snel , who made him a fpeech when he arrived at Breda , this following difcourfe ; for which the publick is oblig'd to a Gentleman of the King's Houfe , who had a care to write word by word , and to communicate to the authour of the relation , all the orations, w^here he was prefent , when they were fpoken. $&- SIR, The Magiftrate and Councel of Ten of this town of ff m £ia. Breda,prcfent themfelves, again, with a moft low reverence be- fore your Majefly , to render you moft humble thanks for the honour it hath pleafed you to do the town,by the refidence you have made here 5 and to bring you a laft proof of the perfecl: joy, ,. which the wondcrfull fiiccefs of your Majefty,as it is the power- „ full hand , and infinite providence of God , which hath drawn „ your Majefty out of a Gulf of dangers , and conducted you „ through a deiert of afflictions , even unto the entrance of the „ ereatnefs, which the right of your Predeceftburs hath gained to „ all their pofterity. This is the fubjecT: of our joy , Sir, but that „ after the fuccefs of many battels , Victories gained at the price „ of the blood of Subjects , may content the ambition of a Prince „ tranfported ; but a good Prince , whofe thoughts are generous „ and magnanimous , prefers an innocent triumph,before all other 5 , advantages of the w r orld. We praife with all our hearts , that „ great God, who hath began this work in the perfon of your Ma- „ jefty 5 and pray him ardently, that it will pleafe him to hear the „ devotions w T hich w T e shall continue to make inceffantly, for the S) profperity of the voiage and reign of your Majefty. The 3> 3> Of the King of Great Britain. 25 The Killer anfwered , that he thanked the Mag-iftrate and Councel for the affection they exprefled to him , and should m- deavour to acknowledge it , on all occafibns that should be pre- fented unto him. Whereupon the Burgemafler having taken the liberty to reply , that fince his Majefty had the goodnefs to accept the affection and zeal which they had for his fervice , he befought him mod humbly to remember the grace which he had made them to hope for, when he concluded in that place his trea- ty with the Deputies of Scotland,fome years fince ; that he would honour the tow T n of Freda , and its inhabitants, with all the fa- vour, w T hichthe Laws of his Kingdom would permit him to grant them. The King anfwered , that he remembred it very- well 5 and that he was obliged to do it for a town , where he had received fuch agreeable new T s , and which had rendred him fo many teftimonies of refpecr and affection. The King took coach , after this audience , and came be- tween eleven and twelve a clock at Moervaert. He found there fome fquadrons of Horie in batalia , and the Deputies of the Eftates of Holland , who prefented themfelves at the boot of his Coach , and made him their complement,in the name of their Superiours,at the entrance of their Province. His Majefty ( ; a cd but to hear the quaint and obliging words of M de Bevcrweerr, who fpake for all the other Deputres , and to anfwer to that ci- vility : After this, he perfued his way to the end of the Caufev, *i / - or Dike , where they had made a bridge , from the Dike to the 5$? Pinnace,to facilitate his embarkment. The Eftates General , to give no jealoufie to (bme perfons of quality , who have coaches with fix horfes , make ufe ordi- narily, for the entrance of Embafiadours , and for other piiblick Ceremonies , but of the Coach of the Princefs Dowager of O- range, which reprefents that of the Eftates in thofe occafions. Hence was it they defired that the pinnace or barge of the fame Princefs, which she had lent for the fame purnofe , should have the fame honour on this occafion , and had enjoined their De- puties to indeavour to make it acceptable to his Majefty; But the King, after he had confidered them all , chofe another, as G well 2^ A Journal of the Voyage well becaufe he knew it was very commodious , as having ufed it formerly; as becaufe, indeed, that of the Princefs Dowager was not great enough , to lodge the King , and the Princefs Royal, who would pafs the night * by the King her brother, with peribns neceiTary for their fervice. That whereihto the Kin India Company , and put it in condition to ferve for the diver- tifement of this great Prince: And to give it the more luftre,the Magiftrate caufed the outfide to be richly gilt , whil'ft fome of the beft Painters of the country, wrought upon the fair Pictures, wherewith they have fince adorned the infide. No perfon would undertake the commiflion to diftribute the Yachts among the Lords of the Court , becaufe it would be im- poftible to oblige them all equally,and to disoblige none.-There- fore Of the King of Great Britain. 27 fore M r de Beverweert befought the King to be fb gracious , as to caufe the diftribution to be made , fince the Deputies had no other order but fully to obey the commandments of his Majefty, which were abfblutely heceflary for them on thisoccafion.The King would fain take the pains thereof him felf, and ordained that the Duke of York, should ont his occafion perform the fun- ctions of Admiral, in diftributing the Yachts,under his authority, and in hisprefence ; fo that his Royal Highnefs gave himfelf the Yacht of the Princefs Dowager of Creng : The Duke of Glocefter had that of the Eftates of Holland: The Princefs Royal, one of the Yachts of the Councel of Fftate. The Deputies of the Eftates General had the other : The Deputies of the Eftates of Holland went into the Yacht of M r Beverweert, which re- ceived alfo Don EfteVan de Gamarra ; ( who went to meet the King at Moordijck , not in quality of Embafladour of Spain , but as particular fervant of his Majefty) the Rhinegrave , the Lord Craft , and many other English Lords. The Chancellour of England , with his family , and S r Edward Nicholas , principal Secretary ofEftate,andofthe King's commands, and one of his moft affectionate Minifters , embarked themfelves in a Pinnace, called the Maid of Zealand : The Marquefs of Ormond , Lord Deputy of Ireland, of the Houfe of Butler , one of the chief, and moft ancient of that Kingdom,had the Pinnace of Captain Brou- wenThe Marquels of Worcefter,Edward Sommerfet^embarked himfelf, with his Family, in the Pinnace, named the Poftillion of Zealand : The Lord S r John , and Bellafis had that of M r Waf- fenaer. M r Clarges, brother-in-law to General Monck , and his company, compofed of the Deputies of the Army, had the Yacht of the town of Dort. The Lord Gerard, and many other English Lords , entred into that of M r Noortwick ; Go vernour of Sluce, and the 1 3 th Yacht, which was that of the Prince of Oreng, was referved for the Chamber and Wardrobe of the Princefs Royal Every Yacht had its Steward , and all other Oiticers neceflary for the Kitchin,and buttery, and they which had not the commo- dity to have their Kitchin aboard themfelves,were accompanied with other Barks , where chimneys were made for the Kitchin, G 2 and 28 A JOURNAL OF THE VOYAGE and ovens for the paftery,and provifion of fo prodigious a qliari- tity of all forts of meats, of foul, of fwect meats, of wine , that all the tables were perfectly ferved therewith . and in fo great aboundance,that the English Stewards, though very much accu- domed to abonndance, were aftonished thereat 5 and confeffed that they could not comprehend , how they could make ready in Boats and agitation, twenty or five and tw T cnty great dishes for every Table. The intention of the Kins; was to dine at Noon , in entring into the Yacht « and indeed , the Steward , who was appointed there by the Eftates of Holland, had caufed the meat to be made ready ; but the wind was fo ftrong,and the water fo tofled that the Princefs R oyal , not able to endure the violent motion of the vefTel,loft her appetite, and finding her felf incommodated with the fea-ficknefs , was enforced to lie upon the bed. Hence was it that the King caufed the Captain to be asked , if there was means to shelter them , fomewhat , under fome rifing land, or trees , to eafe the Princefs a little * but the Captain having an- fwered, that there was no reft to be hoped for,but at Dort,where they might arrive in an hour and a half, or there about , they went on upon this hope. Notwithstanding , they came not in ficrht of Dort , till between three and four of the clock in the af- ternoon. The Rampart, and Key, w 7 ere bordered with* Ci- tizens , which were put into arms, and with a battery of great Canncn,which made many volleys,as well as thcMuskets,( whil'ft the Fleet paffed there , during, and after the repaft , which was taken in fight of the town ) and as long as they could difcover the flag of the ship , which carried the peribn of the King, with all the Royal family , they thundered. The Fleet flopped , a quarter of a league , below the town, with defign to caft anckor that evening , and to flay , the whole night following, at the mouth of the river of Leek, which gives its name to one of the faireft territories of M r de Beverweert,and which is very well known through the great number of Sal- mons , which are taken there every year. But there happened two things , w T hich obliged the King to change refolution. The Of the King of Great Britain. 27 The firft was, the return of Sir John Greenvil, who arrived from England , whil'ft the King dined . and reported , that the Par- liament was refolved to befeech his Majefly , to come to take pofleffion of the Crown , without any condition or referve ; and that Admiral Montague was at fea , with a good number of ships , to come to receive him in Holland , to tranfport hitn unto his Kingdom. The other was , the advertifement which his Majefly received , almoft at the fame time , by an exprefs , that that Fleet appe ared , in the morning, in fight of Scheveling, and at nine a clock , had call: anckor in the Rode , about half a league from the shore. The King prefently imparted it to M'* Bevcrweert , as to the chief of the Deputation of Holland , and caufed the Duke of York to tell him , who was in perfon in the Deputies Yacht , which joined (ide by fide with his ; that it was true , he had made accompt not to arrive at Delf till the next day , about noon ; to the end , to be able to make his entrance into the Hague , at the hour which he had appointed for his re- ception ; but that he had received intelligence , which obliged him to change his defign , and to anticipate the hour that was refolved on 5 becaufe it was of the higheft importance for him, to ipeak , as fbon as might be , with the Officers of the Fleet 5 and 10 , that he should be conftrained to go the whole night, to the end,to arrive at Delf at the break of day- whereof he prayed him to give advertifement to the Lords the Eftates , immediate- ly , and by an exprefs 5 to the end that the Coaches , defigned for his reception,might be there at feven a clock precifely. M r ' Beverweert remonftrated , to his Royal Highnefs , the difficul- ties that would accur in the change of the orders which were al- ready given ; in tellino him , that the Pofte , which he was to difpatch , could arrive at the Hague but very late ; and, perhaps, at an unfeafonable hour, when it would be almoft impoHible to make the Eftates to afTemble , and without that , they could not change the time , which it pleafcd his Majefty himfelf to appoint. Notwithftanding if the King defircd it abfolutely,the Deputies would not fail to write immediately . and to advertifc their Superiours therewith , fince they were there , but to obey H his 30 A Journal dp the Voyage his Majefty , and to ferve him. The Duke of York replied , that it was through an invincible neceffity , and with an extream re- gret , that the King did thus • but that he hoped the Lords the Deputies would confider the eftate of his affairs, and oblige very much his Majefty , in lofing no time to difpath their Portland in contributing, by that means, to the advancement of his voyage* and embarkment, in this preffing conjuncture. The Letters went away about five a clock in the after-noon * fajfethm the King caufed anckor to be weighed , and patted , at evening, { Ltt erda. before the town of Rotterdam^ where the contrary wind enfor- cing the Fleet to board, or tack about, and by this means to draw neer the haven , two or three times gave the town leaiiire to fa- lute his Majefty , by the musket shot of the Burgers , who were all in arms, with flying colours , on the rampart and port , and with all the artillery of the town , as well as with all the Cannon of the Ships which were there in the rode. He paffed next to Delfs-haven , where they had made a battery of fixteen peeces of Cannon , and ftaied not till he came to Owerfchie , a village fcituate between Delfs-haven and Delf , where he would attend the day. The Eftates of Holland hadrefolved to caufe his Majefty to be received , at the powder Magazin, upon the channel , which ferves for line of communication for the two towns , Delf and Rotterdam; for the town of Delf, having been partly ruined by an accident of fire , which met with the powder fome years fince , they thought it fit to lodge it without the walls, and with- out cannon shot of the town. But the King having caufed the Fleet to fet fail , as foon as the Sun began to appear on the Ho- rizon , they were at the fuburbs of Delf , by five a clock in the morning,before the Deputies could give order to make the Fleet to ftay at the place defigned for the reception. Ail the Citizens The Kim of the town were in arms,from three a clock in the morning, and Dei}" a part had their pofte upon the Key before the port , where the King was to dis-imbarck,and the Magiftrate came therein body, to do reverence to the Kino- in the Yacht; as ibon as he under- flood he was arrived, and to befeech him to do them the honour to c Of the King of Great Britain. $\ to rcpofe and refresh in their town, whil'ft his Majefty should de- fend the Deputies of the Eftates of Holland • but the King excu- fed himfelf on the Eftate of his affairs,which was fo far from per- mitting him to ftay by the way , that it had obliged him to pre- vent the hour , which he had taken and appointed for his re- ception. In the mean time , the Letters of the Deputies were brought to the Hage 5 at midnight ; and immediately after the Eftates affern- bled , and caufed the orders to be changed , which were given for the King's reception , at four a clock in the afternoon , into others more preffng ; and they fent word to the Deputies,by the fame Pofte, that they might affure his Majefty, that they would not foil to receive him , at the hour he had appointed them , or at eight a clock in the morning at furtheft. And, indeed , about two a clock after midnight, they caufed the drums to beat , to fummon to arms the fix Companies of Burgers, and the Regi- ment of the Guards of the States of Holland,of which there is but four garrifoned in the Hage , and the other fix in the neighbour towns, from whence they were made to come, and at fix a clock they were all at their Rendezvous : The firft on the Viver- berg , and the others in the outward Court of the Palace , where the Coaches afiembled almoft at the fame time. Thofe who took the moft pain in caufing thefe orders to be executed , 2nd who have , without doubt , the moft part in the honour , whic h is due unto thofe who had the conduct of this affair « ( as they have that of the moft important of the Province ) are M rs o\ Wimmenum and the Peniionary Counfellour , who were feen to acl: every where , each in his functions , with fo much affi- duity , care and judgment, that if the King drew any fatisfa- clion from the honour they rendredhim here, this Eftate is part- ly obliged to the pains of thefe two great Perfonages. The Coaches began to file towards Delf about feven a clock in the morning . and immediately after the Burgers , who ftood in Battalia in the great Place , marched towards the way which goes to Delf-and the fouldiers went to take their Pofte on the Vi- verberg , where they made a guard even to the houfe of Prince H 2 Mau- 26 A Journal of the Voyage Maurice of NaiTau, which was prepared to lodge his Ma jetty; The Eftates Deputies being arrived at Delf , and having fpokcn with thofe who had complemented the King at Breda , and had had the conduct of his perfon in the voyage, informed his Ma- jetty of the order they had given for his entrance, for his lodging, and for his treatment . to the end , that astheir intention was to fubmit wholly to the abfolute will of his Ma jetty, they made that to be changed therein, which might difpleale him. And after that the King had given them his approbation , and that they had invited the Deputies of the Eftates General to honour this ceremony with their prefence,and to take place immediately af- ter the King's Coach-the v save order that the Coaches should be drawn into a file along the Key of the Suburb. He Kmg This done , the Deputies of Holland entred all into the King's IZlfat Yacht , and laid unto him , in very few words , by the mouth ?b% e %- of the Penfionary Councellour , that they were there from the tymcmZ. Eftates of Holland , who had fent there a Deputy of each mem- ber of their Province, to otter their moft humble ferv ices to his Majefty 5 to exprefle unto him their refpcctfull pafLon for his perfon 5 and to conduct him to the place defigned for his lodging at the Hage. The King thanked the Depu- ties , with words full of goodnefs and civility , for the pain which they had taken , and for the proofs of affection and zeal which the Lords the Eftates of Holland, caufed to be given him. They ftaied in the Barge or Yacht , but to difcourfe a moment with the company , which was compofed , befides the King's perfon,of the Dukes of York and Glocefter,of the Princefs Roy- al , of the Prince of Orange, w T ho was come there from the Hage early in the morning, of the Deputies of the Eftates General * and of fome English Lords ; and immediately after the King went forth thence,to go into the coach of the Princefs his fifter, which had that day the honour to carry all the Royal Family. The King put himfelf in the mid'ft with the Princefs , the Duke of York and the Duke of Glocefter fate before , and the Prince of Orange in one of the boots • and as foon as they were placed, the whole company began to advance to enter into the town of Delf y-f-n ( c Hage. Of the King of Great Britain. 43 Delf. The King but pafied there ; the Citizens, who were iii arms with difplaicd colours , from break of day , marched on both fides of the Coach , more then a musket shot from the gate which leads to the Hage , where they ftaied and fainted his Ma- jetty with their volleys , whil'ft all the bels rung , and the Ar- tillery thundred from the bulwarks and rampiresof the town. It was neer ten a clock when he departed thence , and pad n e Kw g eleven when he came at the Hage . where the fix Companies of 7S" Citizens , which could hardly be diftinguished from the Soul- diers , becaule that being born in war [ and bred in exereifes of arms, they could not be known from the Military men , but by their cloaths, their plumes, and their fcarfs, wherewith they were covered, had in the mean time taken their poll ; and made a guard on the way towards Delf, even to the bridge , which fer ves for a gate to this llluflrious Village, which hath , without doubt , an advantage over all the faired towns of Europe , and maybe put in parrallel likewife with fome of the greater!:. In the head of the whole train.marehed fome trumpets of theEftate, clad in their coats of enmfon velvet, embroidered with sold and filver. h ftcr them came a long file of Officerslielonging to the war,of Young Lords and Gentlemen, very gallant , and brave- ly mounted. Next to that , marched a great number of English Gentlemen and Officers of the Kind's houfe , of the two Dukes of the Pnncefs B.oyal,and of the Prince of Orange. After them came M v of Wimmenum, who performed here the function of Mailer of the Ceremonies , in his coach, where were alfo fome Lords, preceding immediately that of the Princefs Royal, which carried his Majefty , and all the Royal Houfe , as we have Odds The Deputies of the Eftates General rilled the two firft after the King's : Thofe of the States of Holland , the fix following . and the other Coaches , which amounted in all to the number of fe- venty and odd , each having fix and four horles ; were filled with English and Dutch Lords. It mull be confefled, that this entrance was not made with an extraordinary pomp and glory , worthy fo great a Monarch, but it was impoifiblc to make greater preparations,^ the time the I King 34 A Journal of the Voyage Kino- had appointed for it < and even when they were conftrai- ncd to change,in a mannei\the firft orders; which,without doubt, would have rendred it much more refplcndent , had it not been for this change. And yet the crowd was fo great, becaufe the curiofity to lee this miraculous Prince , had drawn a great part of the inhabitants of the neigbour towns to this entrance , that they were conftrained to go very lbftly J fo that the Com- panies of Citizens, who had the van-guard at the entrance into the Hage , had the leifure to cut fome little ftreets , and to come toputthemlelves behind, and fo to make a guard , from the Highftreet, and along the great Place , even to the Viverberg , where the Regiment of the Guards had taken its Port , and made a guard on both fides,e ven to theHoufe of Prince Maurice of Naflau , which the Eftates of Holland had caufed to be fur- nish'd » and accommodated for the King's lodging. As foon as the firft coaches were entred into the Court, and the King aligh- ted , the Deputies of the Eftates General retired , and left the ho- nour of the reception and entertainment 5 for that day , to the Eftates of Holland. ne & . , i /»•''' i 1 him. Prince William Frederick of Naflau , her fon-in-law , and ac- companied with the two Princefles her daughters , Madam the Princefs of Naflau , and the young Lady of Orange. The King diluted them all , and being entred into the chamber , where he was followed by the Deputies of the Eftates of Holland , he received there another fmall complement from them , by the mouth of the Penfionary Counccllour,who faid no other thing, but that the Eftates of Holland would give themfelves the ho- nour to come in full body to render their duty to his Majefty , when they might do it without incommodating him. The King anfwered him , that they should alwaies be welcome ; and that after he had dined , they might take their audience. But the Penfioner replied, that his Majefty being , without doubt, weary Of the King of Great Britain. 35 weary with his journy , they would not trouble his repofe that day , but would fend to receive his orders the next. The King, who was weary indeed , expreiled a willingnefs to dine in pri- vate , fb that there ftaied no body by him , but M r of Wimme- num , who was charged with the order of making his Majefty to be ferved at dinner , and in whatfbever it should pleafe him to command. The Princefs R oyal , who had not flept the niofat before , was the firft that withdrew • and obliged die others,by her example , to do the like . The Queen of Bohemia , and the Princefs Dowager of Orange, followed her , and the King , who would lead them , and who took the Queen by the hand , had the goodnefs , after he had put her into the coach , to turn about to the end to help the Princefs Dowager to go up. There ftaied with the King, at dinner, none but the two Dukes,his brothers, who dined with him. His Majefty before he fate at Table,would do M r of Wimmenum the honour to make him to take his nap- kin, to prefent it him-, but that Gentleman,who knew how to be- have himfelf civilly * excufed himfelf through modefty , and yeelded that advantage to him of his Olficers , who ufed to per- form that function about the perfon of his Majefty. The toil of the journy, and little reft he had taken, the two former nights, made him defire to withdraw. And , indeed , they would have made the musketteers to forbear shooting , ( who gav£ con- tinual volleys ) if it had been poffible to {mother the univerfal joy , which the whole world would exprels on this occafion. To thefe volleys , anfwered thofe of a battery of eight and thir- ty peeces of Canon , which were planted on the Viverberg,re- inforced with another of five and twenty peeces of a greater ftamp , which they w T ere enforced to plant behind the Cloifter Church of the Voorhout upon the rampart,in turning the mouth towards the field , for fear the noife of that thunder might shake the walls of the old Palace , and of all the adjoining buil- dings. The Eftates General had ordained,the precedent day ,M r de neEp te Heyde , their Agent , to go to Prince Maurice his Houfe , and got ofa- to know immediately after the King's arrival, atleaftasfoon KiJgLa I 2 as w * - 2& A Journal of the Voyage as civility would permit him , when it would pleafe his Majefty to receive the duty j which they had refol ved to render him, in comincr to do him reverence in a body 5 and his Majefty having granted it them, at four a clock in the afternoon ; it was refolved that they should all meet , in the ordinary chamber of their af- fembly , half an hour after 3 a clock , to go from thence , in a bo- dy , to the houfe of Naflau, They met accordingly , at the hour appointed , to the number of five and twenty , acfe M r van Swa- nenburgh, Burgemafter of Leiden , and Deputy to the Eftates General from the Province of Holland , who , at his turn , was Prefident that week ; the Baron of Gent , M rs van Bemmel 5 Braeckel , Balveren , Vande Steen , Ripperda of Buirfe , the Count of FlodorfF, Schimmelpennick , Vander Oyen , Huy- gens, and Ommeren , Deputies from the Dutchy of Gelders ; Meerman , of Horn , and the Penfionary Councellour from the Province of Holland ; de Veth , Crommon , Vrybergen , Lam- pfins and Kien for Zealand ; Renfwoude and Amerongen , De- puties from the Province of Utrecht . Velfen , for the Province ofFreefland ; Ripperda ofHengelo for O very (Tel ; and Schu- lenbourg and Isbrants for the town of Groning , and the adja- cent country , w 7 ith which it makes alfo a Province. As fbon as they were aflembled , they went forth , two and two, in the iame order as w r e have named them, going direclly to the Kings lodging , which is feparated from the Palace but by a Ditch , whofe two fides are joined by a (tone bridge. That Palace is named the Court , or the Court of Holland, becaufe it ferved fometime for dwelling to the Counts ; as it comprehends now in its inclofure the apartments , where the Eftates General af- femble ; the Councel of Eftate of the United Provinces • the Eftates of Holland ; the Councel of Eftate of the fame Province * the Reckoning-chambers of the Generality, and of the Pro- vince of Holland : The two Courts of Juftice , and the apart- ments afligned for the lodging of the Princefs Royal, and of the Prince of Orange. Before the Eftates marched Prince William Frederick of NaiTau , Governour and Lievtenant General of Ereefland , of Groning, and of Overyffel \ the Rhine Grave , Com- Of the King of Great Britain. 37 Commifiary General of the Horfe of the United Provinces, and Governour of Maftricht 5 Monf de Hauterive Chafteau neuf, Colionel of a Regiment of French Foot ^ in the fervice of the Eftates , and Governour of Breda , and many other Collonels, Lievtenant Collonels , and other Officers , as well of Foot as of Horfe , all bareheaded. At the entrance into the King's lodsino- they were met with by the Lord Crafts , one of the four Gen- tlemen of the bed-chamber , accompanied with a great number of gentlemen. The Marquefs of Ormond , Lord Deputy of Ire- land • and in this quality , the hrft and molt confiderable perfon of all England , after the Dukes, came to receive them at the flairs , and brought them into the King's chamber, All the high Officers that marched before , being entred , the Lords the Eftates could fcarce make way through the prefs, which was ex- traordinary grcai riiere \ but at laft , being come to the King, the Baron of Gent , as chief Deputy from the Province of Gelders, which is the chief Province of the Union , becaufe of its quali- ty of Dutchy , and as a perfon mod fit for an action of this na- ture , as well becaufe of his handfom prefence , as of his natural eloquence , made the fpeeeh , and fp'ake , word by word , in thefe terms. SIR, The Eftates General of the United Provinces of the n,^ Low-countries,after having exprefled to your Majefty , by the "Iftlu' Deputies they lent unto you at Breda , how they participated a in the happy fucceffes , which follow your wife conduct , and 5, the joy which they have to fee you going to your Kingdom of ,* England , to take there the Scepter of great Britain , come here 5 , now , in a body , to uphold the truth and fincerity thereof, ** by ftroriger, and more folemn declarations. It is the fame Com- , , pany , S 1 r , which had the honour to prefent it felf to your *» Majefty , in this very place , in a fad and mournfull equipage • A and which , with more grief in heart , then it could exprefs by , , words , pronounced the lamentable accents of a mod bitter for ,, row , which came then to ftrike the foul, not only of your Ma- ,-> jefty , but alfo univerfally of all the Members of this Eftate.,, From the fame principle , which divided then their affliction , „ K Sir, \ 34 A Journal of the Voyage "Sir, proceeds now their rejoicement; to wit, from that of a » mod tender , and mod refpe&full affeclion for the facred per- » fon of your Majefty j and from a mod fiibmiffive zeal for your " fervice , and for the good of your affairs. The caufe thereof is " fb juft , and fo touching , S i r , that we hope your Majefty will » be eafily perfwaded of the truth of the proteftations, which the 5> Eftates General, of this Republick, make thereof, here in your » R oyal prefence. And we may boldly fay , that their joy exer- » cifethit (elfin its full extent, which is fo much the more vaft , as » thefe admirable events arrive ,in a time, when all human appa- » rence feemed to remove them wholly. So muft it be confefled, " that they are the marvellous effecls of divine providence,which 99 hath made the hearts of the children to return to their father; » that is to fay , of the fubjeds to their lawfull King ; and levelled » the waies , by which your Majefty walks , at prefent , fo pea- »> ceably \ and without effufion of bloud upon the magnifick,and " fuperb fteps of your glorious and triumphant throne. *> The Eftates General of thefe United Provinces , w 7 ish , S i r, >» that thefe great and important profperities, which furprife us no j> lefs them we have wished them, may be followed with the con- j' ftant obedience of your people , with the refpecl: of your neigh- >> bours , and with the love of both ; and that the Diadem, which 9» the great God hath put upon the anointed and facred head of 9> your Majefty, being accompanied with all the favours of heaven, » may ftand there a long train of years, with a happy andglori- 9> ous reign , for your facred perfon , and remain perpetually in 9> your Royal pofterity , even to the end of the world. 9> We will finish this difcourfe , Sir, by moil humble thanks, 9> w T hich we render to your Majefty , in that it hath pleafed you to 99 chufe this country , rather then any other, to pafs from thence 9> into your Kingdom . for which the Eftates General will alwaies 9> efteem themfelves honoured and obliged \ with the regret not- 99 withftanding , to fee , that the reception w T hich they caufe to 99 be made unto you , with fo good a heart , is not accompanied 9» with all the pomp and magnificence , that the Majeftical fplen- 9> dour of fo great and potent a Monarch deferveth , who is fo dear Of the King of Great Britain. 35 dear aiid precious to this Eftate • and of whofe gracious favour 9 they shall indeavour to acquit themfelves , by all the refpe&s , and fervices , which your Majefty may defire from your true 4 friends,moft faithfull allies , and mod humble fervants. 'T is obfervable in this vifit,that the King made not fo much as a shew to be willing to be covered « not that his defign was to hinder the Eftates General , who were there in a body , to be covered , fince he did do that honour to their Deputics,when they did him reverence at Breda . and feeing that he did it fince at home in their aflembly 5 but without doubt , to the end to do fomethingrnore for them , then he could do for an Embafla- dour. Which appeared evidently in the vifit he made,in perfon, to the Eftates General , and to the Eftates of Holland , when he took leave of them . of which, the lequel of this relation will ob- lige us to fpeak hereafter , where he would fain be covered, to give them the liberty to be covered alfo ; and to uncover him- felf afterward , when he began to fpeak , and to remain in this condition, whil'ft he was in their afTembly , as we shall fay elfe- where* The Lords the Eftates were conductedjn departing from the audience , by the fame Lords that received them ; and being re- turned in the fame order , to their ordinary Hall, they feparated themfelves. The two other Soveraign colledges , compofed of Deputies of all the Provinces, to wit, the Councel of Eftate , and the Rec- *fc c«w koning- chamber , were at the audience after the Eftates Ge- fa* w neral. Prince William Frederick of NafTau , made the comple- «i jJ~ ment for the Councel of Eftate,as Prefident; and M r de Cauwer- aLtZ. ven-Reigersberg , Deputy to the Reckoning -chamber of the United Provinces, from the Province of Zealand , ( thofe who are here from Holland being excufed ) fpake for the Chamber; the one, and t'other, with fo much applaufe of thofe who were prefent there , and with as much fatisfaction of the King's fide, being returned to the aflembly , they were thanked for it by their Colleagues. K 2 Some 4-0 A Journal of the Voyage Difficuh Some doubted if the Embafladours , and Minifters of the ties upon i • i i tbeandi Kin^s , Princes, and (trance Eftates, which were at the Hague , tnceof the ch'.i) Embafc should be received to make their complements to the King without Letters of Credence • or if after it were acknowled- ged that their character legitimated them for that , they might be covered ; fincc that having no character towards this Mo- narch , they could not be considered , but as particular perfons to him. The difficulties which arofe here , were taken away by the following confiderations. They (aid , that Embafladours having a general Commiffion , and not being , as they laid , mijfiadboc , they might , and ought to do that which their Ma- ilers would do , if they were there prefent in perlbn ; arid lb 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 paflage , their Minifters , who were in the place , could not fail therein alfo s without being wanting to civility , and to their duty. Notwkhftanding , fince his Majefty was not in his Kingdom, he might ufe them as hepleafed; yet lb , that although it was in his choice to admit the Embafladours , or not, he could not difpenfe himlelf of treating them , according to the dignity of their character , and of making them to be covered * after having admitted them , fince they might , and were obli- ged to make their character appear in all their publick actions , in an Eftate where every one acknowledged them for Embaf- fadours. A nd indeed , M r de Thou , Count of Meflay , Privy Coun- laffhdot cellour to the moll Chriftian King , and President in his Parlia- c jFrrfw<:ft mentofParis, ordinary Embafladour of France , having about three a clock , or a little after , obtained the firft audience • as well for that having demanded it firft , as for that there was no other Embafladour , at the Hagc , that w T ould come into com- petency with him , he was met in the Court by one of the chief Gentlemen of the Chamber ; and on the top of the ftairs , by the Captain of the Life-guards 5 which did , on this occafiori , the functions of introductours. As foon as the Embafladour had made his reverences , and would begin to fpeak , the King covered Audience J> 99 Of the King of Great Britain. 41 covered himfelf forthwith , and shewed thereby to the Embafc fadour what he had to do. His complement was very well recei- ved , but his audience was short. M rs Otte Krag, Lord of Welberg ; Bayly of Nieburg, and Se- ^«iw natourofthe Crown of Denmark , and Godfche of Bugwaldt, ti&jmZ Lord of Gieresbeeck , Pre voft of the Covent of Utterfen , and 'jSZsof Councellour ofEftate to his Majefty \ Extraordinary Embafla- D ™ K * dours from the King of Denmark, had their audience after the French Embafladour , and after they were received and treated in the fame manner as the other was > the firft, who is of a moft illuftrious birth in the Kingdom , as his Colleague is alfo in the Country of Holftein , and a perfonage of a full experience, be- took himfelf to [peak in thefe terms : That fince it had pleafed the Almighty God to call again his Majefty into his Kingdoms , w T here his great merit should have eftablished him Ions ago as well as the right of his birth, they would not fail to come to congratulate him , and to acquit themfelves by this means of the duty which they have as well to the neer affinity which is between his Majefty, and the King their Mafter , as be- } caufe of the ftreight alliance , which is , and hath been al- waies between the two Kingdoms of England and Denmark That they had caufe to rejoice for this happy change . not only becaufe of the glory and felicity which redounded thence s to his Majefty , but alfo becaufe of the advantage which the s King and Kingdom of Denmark, would draw from thence, ,. which had not been afflided and unjuftly oppreffed fo long , ., if that of England had been in condition to hinder it. That the King their Mafter would not fail to witnefs himfelf, by a fo - lemn Embaflage , the joy which he received from fo farprifing and fo extraordinary a revolution, as foon as he was advertifed thereof, and that they hoped in this happy conjuncture , that „ his Majefty would continue to live with the King their Mailer in the amity , alliance , and firm confidence , in which their Majefties have alwaies lived , and which for fome years was not interrupted , but to their irrepairable prejudice of both one and „ t'other. And fo that his Majefty would oppole himfelf gene-,, L roully » 55 53 ») >S JS }> >> 42 A Journal of the Voyage 1 ' roufly to the violence which is done to their King, and fuccoiu'. him againft the unjuft invafion wherewith his Kingdom was af- flicted. Befides that they thanked his Majefty for the honour he 5 ' had done them to admit them into his Royal prefence , and >> for the particular grace which they received from thence in " their perfons. The Kin^ thanked the Embaffadoursfor the affection they had exprefled to him , and {aid , that he knew very well , that not only from long antiquity , there w 7 as a moft (freight tie be- tween the Kingdoms of England and Denmark ; but alfo that the deceafed King his Father , had fuch great obligations to the de- ceafed King of Denmark, father of him that reigns now , his crood Cofen , and to the prefent King himfelf , that one of the chief cares , whereunto he would apply himfelf, in entring into his Kingdom , should be to renue the ancient amity w T ith him ; to make known that the interefts of the King of Denmark were as dear unto him as thofe of his own Eftates • Of which he praied the Lords Embafladours toaffure the King their Matter ; and that though he should not naturally have horrour for op- predion and injuftice , he could not but be touched with thofe which were done him , and could not deny them the proofs of affection which they demanded. Don Eftevan de Gamarra , Councellour to the Catholick King in his Councell of Eftate , and War , General Field Martial of his Armies in the Low-countries , and his ordinary Embaf- fadour with the Lords the Eftates General of the United Provin- ces , faw alfo the King the fame day , but it was without de- manding audience , and without ceremonies ; his Majefty ha- ving given him to underftand , that the affection which he had had for his interefts , w T hen he was at Bruxels , permitted him to fee him every day , and at all hours. So covered he not him- felf, becaufe the open war w T hich for fome years was,and is be- tween Spain and England , hundred him to make his character appear there ; whereas the particular devotion , which this Lord hath alwaies had for the fervice of his Majefty , obliged him to be continually at the Court , and by his perfbn. As gal cannot have att- dtence. Of the King Of Grhat Britain. 43 As on the contrary , Don Enriques de Souza de Tavaresi pity* Count or Miranda , Governour or the arms , of the Senate , of d f** tu the town and caftle of Porto , and extraordinary Embaftadour from the King of Portugal to this Republick , could not obtain audience , what inftance foever he made for it. But withall , to the end not to reject, him altogether , the King , who is with- out doubt the beft , and ci villeft Prince of the world \ fent unto him the next day Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of Eftate, and of his commands , to tell him , that if the Lord Embaftadour of Portugal had Letters of Credence for his Majefty , he would tnake no difficulty to give him audience • but being not in his Kingdom,nor in a place where he might treat of affairs of Eftate, he praied his Excellence to confider , how Unhandfom it would look , if in going out of the country under the obedience of the King of Spain , where he had received all kinds of civilities , he should give , without any neceffity , audience to his declared Enemy. But that he might afliire himfelf , that when he should be returned into his Kingdom , he should alwaies be ready to give audience to the Minifters of Portugal, which should be ad-* drefted to him with Letters of Credence. > After the publick audiences , the King received the comple- ments of many pcrfons of quality , and at evening went to make a vifit to the Queen of Bohemia, his Aunt, and next to the Prin- cefs Royal, hisfifter. The Lords the Eftates of Holland had a purpofe to depute fome of their body to accompany his Majefty at fupper , but for as much as it was made known unto them , that the Kins would be very glad to flip in private,and to retire himfelf in good time, after the toil of the two former daies . and particularly after the vifits , and complements , which he had been obliged to re- ceive , and wherewith he had been almoft:opprefted that day , they would not hinder him to take his repofe s but refolved to referve co themfelves , that honour, for another time ; when they might receive it without incommodating his Majefty, We faid before that the King had advertifement the prece- dent day , that Admiral Montagu was arrived , with a part of L 2 the 44 A Journal of the Voyage the' ..'Elect in fight of Scheveling , which is but a village inhabi- ted by a hundred or fix (core families of fishermen , a good mile from die Hague,which was found true. For as fbon as they under- ftood in the Fleet then at anckor in the Downs, which is a rode at the entrance of the channel that feparates England from the main Lan d , what pafled in Parliament \ in behalf of the King . and the publick Declaration, which almoft through the whole King- dom was made , it alio declared for its lawful Prince , and fet fail upon the firft orders of the Parliament , with fo favourable a wind , that it appeared on the coafls of Holland on Munday morning the 24 of Mav ; and it had the fame A dmiral that dif- patched an exprefs to the King , to let him know that he was come there with a part of the Fleet to receive hisMajeflies com- mands , and to pais him into England. It was compofed at firft but of eighteen or nineteen veffels 5 but thofe that carried the Commiffioners of the two Houfes of Parliament , and of the City of London , having not yet joined with it , there arrived others every day and hour,fo that before the King was in condn tion to embark , there were reckoned eight and thirty great ships, the moil part of them bearing fifty, fixty, and feventy peeces of brafs Cannon. That of the Admiral , called yet the Nafeby,carricd fourfcore, where of the firftrank was of eight and forty pound bore • the fecond , of two and thirty , and of four and twenty , and the third of twelve pount bullet , all of brafs. t The Commiffioners of the two Houfes of Parliament, and of the City of London arrived the fame day 5 but for as much as they were not of the King's train , and had no Letters of Cre- dence for the Eflate , it was refblved that they should not be treated, nor lodged by Harbcngers. Notwithstanding, the con- fideration which was had for the quality of the Commilfoners of the Houfe of Lords , which were all followed with a great number of Gentlemen , and ftore of fervants, clad in very fair and rich Liveries , as alio for fome of the Lower Houfe, be- caufe of their birth , or merit , it was found good to lodge them by billets. They went not a shore till the next day , and the Eilate Of the King of Great Britain. 45 Eflate was carefull to caufe coaches to be (ent for them , by par- ticulars , which brought them at the Hage in the evening ; but they did not reverence to the King till Wednefday the 26. as we will fay hereafter. We have faid atfo , that the Eftates of Holland would not take their audience the day that the King arrived ; to the end not to opprefs him with complements , when he had need of reft ; but they ordained M r Beaumont , their Secretary , to ad- drefs himfelf to one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber, and to pray him to know of his Majefty the hour of their audience ; the next day ; officiating , in the mean time , under hand by M r ' Beverweert , that it would pleafe his Majefty to do them the favour to hear them in private , and to make all to depart the Chamber , when they entred there ; except the Lords , that were neceflary for the fer vice of his perfon. Not that they had to entertain him with fecret affairs in a publick audience , where they were but to felicitate his Majefty upon the prefent eftate of his Kingdom ; but becaufe that being affembled in a very great number , and having to make their complement in a body , all the Deputies could not enter into the Hall , nor approach the King , if entrance should be allowed to all the world indifFe- . rently. The reafon which obliged them to give order to the Captain of the Regiment of the Guards, to forbid, that mor- ning , entrance into the Houfe of Naflau , to all the inhabitants of the country , of what condition or quality foever they were. They caufed a Guard alfo to be made,for them,of fome Compa* nies, from the dore of their apartment , in the Palace , even to that of the Prince his houfe , and prevented by this means the confufion , which they would hardly have avoided without it. After then they had given thefc orders , and underftood that die King expecled them , at nine a clock , they came about that time to the place of their ordinary aftembly , and went forth thence in the following order. M r Starenberg, Collonel of the Regiment of theirGuards marched firft , and alone , bare-hea- ded : After him came the Eftates of Holland in body , two and two, the Deputies of the Nobility, which are M ,s ofWaffe- M naer, 46 A Journal of the Voyage naer, ofBeverwcert, of Schagen , of Wimmcnum , ofNort- wijck, of Somelsdijck, of Duyvenvoorde , vandcr Mylen : to wit, Scagcn, Wimmenum and Merode , are politick 5 and as we fay j of the robe s and the others have military charges ac- cording to the order of their reception , and the other Deputies according to the rank which their towns hold in the aflembly: with this difference , notwithstanding , that the Penfionary Councellour , who , although in the aflembly he hath his place at the table of the Nobility , cannot , as Minifter of the Eftates, pretend rank but after all the other Deputies , w T hcn the Eftates are together in a body ; and yet takes place immediately after the Nobles ; becaufe that being to make the fpeech , he could not without difbrder , make through the prefs , to approach the perfon of the King, Being thus arrived , a foot , at the gate of the King's lodging , they were received there in the fame manner as the Eftates General had been the day before. The Penfionary Councellour made a very quaint difcourfe, which would give, without doubt, much ornament to our rela- tion, if that Minifter would have communicated it ; but it could not be obtained from his modefty , which is fo much the more incommodious on this occafioh; as it is wxl known that all the productions of that accomplished wit have their perfection , and that this little treatife cannot have it without that. We muft beleeve , notwithftanding , that he would not have rendred himfclffo difficult j if he would have confidered , that it is not in his pow r er to take away the knowledge thereof from pofteri- ty , who will find , one day , his Speech in the Regifters , where the Eftates would it should be inferted, in the fame manner as he pronounced it. The fubjecr. was common to him with all thofe , that had fpoken to the King \ 5 daies before. Therefore the anfwer of his Majcfty,muft alfb relate to that w T hich he made to the oher complements. But that which was particular in this audience , was this , that his Majefty having given occadon to the Eftates to enter into other matters,and the Penfionary Coun- cilor , making ufe thereof, to f peak of the Eftate of the affairs of the North , the King declared himfelf fa^penly , and f b fa- vou- Of the King of Great Britain. 47 vourably for the interefts of the King of Denmark ; that though the Lords theEftates should draw no other advantage from the generofity and vigour with which they carried their arms unto thofe quarters, then the fble approbation of this great Monarch, the glory which returns unto them from thence, would pay, iri a manner, the great expence they were at there. It is not fit to {peak here of the particularities of that difcourfe , no more then of thofe of the fecret audiences , which the fame Penfionary Counceilour had after this general and publick one 5 but it shall fuiiice us to fay , that the Eftates of Holland remained very well fatisfied with the civilities they had received in this, and with the declaration which his Majefty had made there. ne f n & The Eftates of Holland be ins retired , the Deputies of the d i mce t0 & * .the Dspit- town of Amfterdam , which made a part of them , gave order tusoftbe to M r de Groot, their Penfionary Councellour,to demand a par- Amf& ticular audience for them, and to addrefs himfelf for this purpofe - to M r Oneal, one of the Grooms of the Bed-chamber, to know the hour , that it would pleafe his Majefty to appoint them for that. M r Oneal, who is of mod illuftrious birth in Ireland , and by the King's favour to be made a Count , after he had fpoken to the King thereof, his Majefty faid to him that he defired him- felf to fpeak with M r de Groot, who preiently was brought into the chamber, where he found the King neer the chimny, a little difrant from fome English Lords , who were in affairs, with his Majefty. M r de Groot , being come to the King , faid that the Burgem afters, and Magiftrate of the town of Amfterdam,having underftood, that this Majefty was come to this Province of Hol- land , had ordained their Deputies to go prefently to the Hage, mod humbly to befeech his Majefty to honour their town with his Royal prefence , for fb little time as the eftate of his aflairs should permit him to ftay in the country ; and that the Deputies had ordained him to know of his Majefty, when they might, without incommodating him , have the honour to do him re- verence in private, and to make him the fame requeft in perfon. The King anfwered, that he had a very ftrong affection for the i town of Amfterdam, and that he was obliged thereunto by par- M 2 ticular 4$ A Journal of the Voyage ticular confiderations • fo that he would be very glad to fee otlce again that fair and great town , and to thank the Magiftrate be- fore his departure , for the proofs of tendernefs, which he had received thence • but that he believed he should not be able to obtain it from the impreflement with which the CommiflTioners of Parliament, and City of London , fpake of the neceflfity of his fpeedy return into England. Notwithftanding , that he would fee the Commiffioners after dinner , fince they were already disimbarked,and if they gave him never fo little time, he would imploy it in making a voiage to Amfterdam , and that in the in- terim he would attend the Deputies,as foon as he had dined. The Penfioner replied , that fince his Majefty expreffed an inclination to make a journy to Amfterdam , he befought him mod humbly to defer the audience of the Deputies , untill that after the hearing of the Commiffioners of Parliament , he could refolve himfelf upon the moft humble fupplication which the Deputies made him. Adding thereunto , that his Majefty might be fully perfwaded , that there was no town , even in his own Kingdom , where he could meet with more tendernefs and re- flect for his perfon , and more zeal for his interefts , then in that of Amfterdam ; and that the Burgmafters and Magiftrate had no ft ronger ambition , then to be able to give him effectual and indubitable proofs thereof. That they had underftood that his Majefty had fome defign to caufe a Yacht to be made in Hol- land, on the model of that which had pafled him from Breda into Holland 5 and like wife that he had the goodnefs not to de- fpife wholly the offer which M r Vloofwijck,one of their Burge- mafters , had made him of one, which is newly built at Amfter- dam , and which upon the advertifement given them thereof, they had caufed to be bought of the Colledge of the Admiralty, to which it belonged ; but they judged it not a prefent worthy of his Majefty , and that they should not without fome confu- fion make him a prefent of this nature. Notwithftanding if his Majefty would be pleafed to accept it, it would be neceflary that he should fend fome one , at the place , to order the contri- vances , and accommodations h as for their part they would in- Op the King of Great Britai N. 49 indeavour to give it all the embcllishmens which might render it pleafing to his Majefty. The King anfwered, that it was true, that the commodity which he had found in that kind of building, on diverfe occaf ions . and especially in his lalt voiage , comino- from Breda , had si ven him feme thought to make one to ferve his ufe on the Thames ; but that his intention was not to oblige the Lords of Amfterdam to prefent him that which they had , though he would not refufe to receive again this mark of their affection , and to charge himfelf with a new obligation towards that fair 'and great town. That to this eftecT:,he would fend there the Captain of M r Bevefweerts Yacht, with order to caufe that to be finished , which he received from their hands, in the beft and irioft commodious manner that he should judge fit for his fer^ " vice. Moreover that he would give notice to the Deputies , of the hour he could appoint for their audience , after he had heard the Commiflioners of Parliament. The Eftates of Holland had understood , that the Courts thiEjiaut of Juftice , which they call the great Councel , and the °fo"?j7b e Court of Holland, (where of the laft is compofed but of fiib* £/SL altern Judges for the Province , and for that of Zealand , and l the firft ferves for Parliament to the fame Provinces, for the ap- ti Bodies to compkmZt peals which are brought there , from all the others Courts of Ju dice) had a purpoie to demand audience of the King , and that after their example ,' divers other Colledges might demand it, asjfome of thofe , which make no body , took a priviledge to do it> before the Kin£ was arrived at the Hage refblvcd that notice should be si ven to the two Courts of Juftice, to the Rec- koning Chamber of the Provincc,to the Confiftory of the place, to the Univerfity of Leidc:n , whofe Rector was come to the Hage for that purpofe , and to all the other bodies and Colled- ges , that the Fftate in making its complement , did it for all its * r * ?- t, | - t \ (rates Ge- fubjeclis , and that it would not that the Kins should be troubled >^w* r ' - ^ the Q>he/i with other vifits, after that which the Eftates of Holland had /^/^ . , : . * « rnir. , their made him in a body. r#*i * The Eftates General named this day M rs de Gent , Deputy of Gelderland , Guldewagen of Holland , and Lampfins of Zea-oL N land,'"'"'*' and the Prince of Orange be compl rntntsi. 50 A. Journal of the Voyage land to go to felicitate the Qtieen in her Palace , and the Dukes of York and Glocefter, who were lodged at the Houfe of the ex- traordinary Embafladours, on the re-eftablishment of the King , and on the revolution of the affairs of England: and M rs of Ren- fwoude of Utrecht , Ripperda of Hengelo of Overyfel , and Jsbrants of Groning were deputed to do the fame office with the Princefs Dowager , and with the Prince of Orange. The fame day, M r Ripperda, of Buirfe, having made report , in the fame aflembly,of what paffed in the voiage he made, with fome other Deputies , to the King at Breda , in order to their refolution o f the 1 4. of this moneth , Ehe Deputies were than- ked for it. ceSaT ^nd for as much as the Eftates General , ( as it was agreed make a U p on w j t h the Eftates of Holland ) should be at all the expence foundation l ' *■ of three that should be made for the King , during the refidence which hundred I 1 ri thousand his Majefty should make in the Country , except that of his fie Khgs voiage, and that from the day that he arrived at the Hage, they laid down this day a foundation of three hundred thoufand Gil- ders; and they required the Lord Ripperda of Buirfe , Guide- wagen , Swanenburg ,Stavenifle , Renfwoude , Velfen , Rip* perda and Schulenbourg , to attend his Majefty at dinner. The Table was doubly furnished , at the head of which , and in the mid'ft (ate the King , having on his left hand the Princefs Royal, and on his right, the Queen of Bohemia , when she dined there. At the end of the Table , on the fame fide , were the Dukes of York and Glocefter 5 and at the other end by the Prin- cefs Royal , was the Prince of Orange her Son. A fid this order was obferved in all the repafts, only in the abfence of the Prince of Orange , the two Princes , his Majefties brothers , feparated and placed thcmfelves at the two ends of the Table. By this means one could well ferve all thofe that were there , becaufe they were all at a certain diftance , which permitted the Officers to do their functions : as alfo the Deputies of the Eftates^ left fpace enough between the King's Table and theirs, for the con- venience of thofe which ferved the meat before the Royal per- fons , putting thcmfelves at the two ends of the skirt , before the Of THfe King of Great Britain. 5t the King, who would not that the Deputies Table should be fc- parated from his. Mod commonly there was a Set of Violins; which divertifed pleafantly the King, during the repaft ; and in the healths that were drunk , as the King never failed altridfi to drink the prosperity of this Eftate , and very often of each Province in particular , the Cannon of the Viverberg thundred from every Battery. As foon as they arofe from dinner , the Commiffioners of ^f de the Parliament , and City of London , came to do reverence Commi f- 'J ' Jtonersoj to his Majefty. The Higher Houfe had nominated C\x,vi?. The T , hePar - .'J O v. (lament* Lord Aubery Veer , Earl of Oxford « the Lord Leonel Cran- field , Earl of Middelfex , Foulk, Gre vil , Lord Brook $ the Lord Charls Rich , Earl Of Warwick , the Lord Leicefter Devereufc, Vicount of Herford , and the Lord John Barcley ; but the Earl of Warwick , being fick of the gout , when the others embar- ked , was conftrained to flay at London. The Lower Houfe deputed the Lord Eairfax, fometime General of the Parliaments Army , who on that confideration drew upOn him the curio- fity and eys of every one , and who would fee the King pri- vately , to ask him pardon for the pafs'd offence with extraor- dinary fubmifTions • The Lord Bruce , the Lord Falkland 9 the Lord Caftleton 5 the Lord Herbert . the Lord Man- devil, Sir Horatio Townfend, Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper i Sir George Booth , he that levied an Army a year fince for the calling of a Free-Parliamerit,in behalf of the King^Deflzil Hollis, Efquire , Sir John Holland , and Sir Henfy Cholmly. The Deputation of the City of London was much more numerous * as being compofed of twenty perfons s taken partly out of the Magistracy , and partly from amongff: the principal inhabitants* and from theMilitia of the City.The chief affefnbled ifl tlieHoufe of the extraordinary EmbafTadours- and the others, in the hotsfe where the Citizens exercife to shoot at the mark , arid learn to exercife arms. Both one arid t'other went forth a foot, walking two and two , and having before thefn a very great number of young Gentlemen , that marched in the fame order. Being brought into the King's chamber , they made a very low , and N l nioft 52 A JOURNAL OF THE VOYAGE mod fubmifs reverence. The Earl of Oxford fpake for the Higher Houfe : but thofe that were there at that aclion , agreed in opinion, that never perfon fpake with more affection, nor ex- preifed himfelf in better terms , then M 1 Denzil Hollis, who was the Orator for the Deputies of the Lower Houfe,to whom thofe of London were joined. He infifted chiefly upon the miferies under which that Kingdom had groned for fo many years , and upon the government of Cromwel , who tyrannized the Eng- lish in their lives , in their goods , and in their confciences ; whereas on the contrary , they could hope from the goodnefs of his Majefty , but repofe* but fweetnefs , and a lawful liberty, befeeching him to return forthwith into his Kingdom , and to take again the Scepter of his Anceftours,without any condition: which redoubled the joy of this Court , though it were already aflured thereof,by the mouth of Sir John Greenvil. The King received them with much goodnefs , as well as the proteftations of obedience and fidelity, which they made him in the name of the Lords and Commons of England,and of the City of Lon- don in particular ; and after the fpeech , they did all reverence to the King , in putting one knee to the ground , and in kiffing his hand. After they came forth of the King's appaitment, they went to the Dukes , to whom they alfo made complements from the Parliament , and City ; they went there alfo a foot , and from thence , in the fame order , to the Queen of Bohemia , and to the Princefs Royal , where they acquitted themfelves alfo of the duty which they had order , from the Parliament and City , to render unto them. After the audiences of the Deputies, the King received many perfons of quality, who in the impatience to fee his Majefty had paffedthefea voluntarily, without any particular commiffion , they all did him reverence , in the fame manner the Commif- doners had done. Monfieur Fnquet , CouncellourofEftate to the Emperour , and extraordinary Envoy from his Imperial Majefty to the Eftates General , had alfo audience of the King ; and made him his complement in the name of the Emperour,his Matter, whofe Pre- Of the King of Great Britain. 53 Predeceffour had expreffed a mod particular affection for the King , even in the height of his perfections. In the number of thofe that came to render their duties to the King that day , was the Captain , or Matter of the Ship , which received the King aboard on the coaft of England , and parted him into France, when that Illuftrious Maid , Miftris Lane * feved the fortune of the Kingdom , after the unfortunate battel of Worcefter . at leaft if one may give that Fpithete to an acci- dent , which God hath fo favourably bleffed , and who hath fo favourably difpofed the affairs in the glorious return of the King , without any eftufion of the blood of his fubjects; It is not our defign to make here an unneceflary digreffion , in ?**>«* making a perfect narrative of all that paffed in the miraculous k*Js efcape of the King after the lofs of the battel, nor in what man- '<«#>* His Majefty had confidered him , as a perfon mod affectionate to his fervice , and was not deceived therein , becaufe that thole who know how he behaved himfelf, cannot doubt that he was moft ufefull,and that he a&ed if not dire&ly for the re-eftablish« ment of the affairs of England^at leaft it cannot be denied,that he hath not been unprofitable therein.lt was not long before, that the King had given him fome proofs of his acknowledgement , in making him Knight Baronet ; but this day he confirmed that quality to him, by letters patterns, in adding thereunto a penfioh without comparifon more considerable then that title. The King gives it with very litle ceremony ; in making the Novice kneel before him , he laies his fword on his shoulder, and fayth unto him , Rip Knight Baronet. Thole that are in veiled with this quality, follow the Barons , and precede the ordinary Knights. A fter this , the King went to vifit the Queen of Bohemia, his Aunt, but it was without ceremony , as he ufed to do the whole time of his residence at the Hague , during w T hich there palled not a day almoft , that he faw her not. From thence he went to the Houfe of the Princefs Dowager of Orange , who received him on the ftone flairs that go up into the Court. The King pre- fented her prefently his hand , and led her through that fair hall^ and through the Guard Chamber , to that which they call the Chamber of prefence, where the King treated her with much civility , refufirig to fitt , till the Princefs took her place at the fame time. After a converfation of half an hour, the King took leave , and retired himfelf, but perciving in the fore-chamber that the Princefs followed him,he turned about,and would hinder i O 2 her' 56 A Journal of the Voyage her to go further • untill that feeing , after a conteftation very agreeable, and very obliging, that he could not overeom her, he rook her again by the hand , and led her to the foot of the flairs, where he made her again fbme civility; but feeing her obftinate to render him her devoirs even in the Court , he y eelded at laft, went up into his coach , and betook him to the Princefs Royal, his Sifter , where he met the Embaffadour of France , who had the honour to difcourfe there with his Majefty a good while. The King having f poken, in the evening,at fupper, to the ad- vantage of the Regiment of the Guards , which he had feen at his coming, and of which he had alwaies a Company in arms in the Court of his lodging , the Deputies of the Eftates General, who were by his perfon at the hours of his repaft , offered to shew it him the next day in battel , to the end his Majefty might judge as favourably of their skil , as he had judged of their shew: The King promifed to be prefent , if his affairs permitted him to give himielf that divertifement ; but the two Princes exprefTed, that they should fee that exercife with much fatisfadtion. And, ik K^-indeed^he next day being the 27 th the Regiment of the Guards, 7h7 GuLh having been in the field, from the beginning of the morning, <**rcife. ft 00 d in battalia half the way to Sche veling,by the houfe, where M r * Catz, fometime Penfionary Counfellour,and Keeper of the great Seal of Holland , made his retirement , after he had paffed through the faireft imploiments , wherewith his country could have acknowledged his merit, in a very pleafant and fair plain; where the two Princes, the Duke of Brunfwick-Lunenbure, the Prince of Orange , Prince William of Naffau , Governour of Freefland, the Rhine-Grave, and all perfons of quality that were at the Hage, repaired about ten a clock in the morning ; and after they had feen all that which skil could make a body perfectly exercifed and difciplined todo,both in marching and fight,under good Officers , they made a courfe even upon the banks of the feajrom whence they confidered the Fleet,and wen t from thence to dinner , the Dukes of York and of Glocefter , with fome Eng- lish Lords ■ to the Duke of Lunenburgs ; and the reft to the Court. The Eftates General deputed there to accompany the King, Of the King of. Great Britain. 57 King, that day M' s de Gent of Gelders.of Merode,and Navander of Holland, Lampfins of Zealand, Renlwoud of Utrecht, Velfen of Freefland, Ripperda of Hengelo of Ovcr-Yfel , and Isbrants ofGronin£. The King was from the morning shut tip with M r Hide , his Chancellour, who for being chief of his Councels , and his mod confident Minifter, was lodged in the fame houfe ; becaufe that being incommodated with the gout , his Majefty would that he should be lodged in a place , where he might make ufe of his councels at all hours of the day. He was with him more then an - hour and a half, fitting on his bed-fide , and (bmetimes leaning upon the bed it felf in a very fecret conference. After the King was gone out of the Chancellour's chamber, the extraordinary Embaffadours of Denmark caufed his Excel- lence to be prayed,to appoint them an hour , for a particular au- dience, which they obtained for the after-noon^They received* in this audience, new affurances of the good intentions of his Majefty, to the advantage of the King their Matter, w 7 ho would have profited notably thereby , if the treaty of peace with Swe- then, had not been too much advanced* as , indeed , it w 7 as con- cluded a few daies after. We (aid , that the precedent day , the King had promifed the Penfioner of Amfterdam , that he would certifie the Duputies of the fame town , when he could give them audience , to the fubjecl of the requeft which they had to make unto him,touchmg the journy , wherein they indeavoured to engage him. And Aufanu indeed, the fameevening s he fent them the Lord Wotton,fecond fuLLf fon to the Lady Stanhop,finceCountefs of Chefterfield,who was }.5? to advcrtile them , that they might fee his Majefty,the next day, at nine a clock in the morning. This Deputation was compofed of M r Cornelius of Vloofwick , Lord of Vloofwick , Diemer- brouck,and John de Huydecooper,Lord of MarfeveenJBourge- mafters in charge, Conrade Burg, fometime extraordinary Em- bafiadour in Mofcovia, Conrade of Beuningen , heretofore ex- traordinary Embafiadour in Denmark,and in Swethen, and now named for the extraordinary Embafiadour into France,Senatours, P and 5» 55 58 A Journal of the Voyage and Peter de Groot , Penfionary of die fame town. The lad , after he had made a low reverence to his Majefty, fpake in theie terms. speech of SIR, The Burgemafters and Magiftrate of the town of Am- aw. e fterdam,who yeeld not in devotion and zeal for the glory and » intcreftsof your Majefty, to any perfon of the world, thin- >, king that they have not fatisfied , neither their duty , nor their affection , by the general teftimony which they have rendred thereof, by the mouth of the Lords the Eftates General , and likewife by that of the Eftates of this Province , have comman- ded us to befeech your Majefty, to grant them a particular au- s^ dience , where they may give ftronger proofs both of one and ;> t'other. Your Majefty shall fee them in the extream joy, which 3 > they have $ for the glorious re-eftablishment of your Majefty 5, upon the throne of your Anceftours, the circumftances where- of are fo much the more confiderable , as this miraculous revo- lution is made without efFufion of blood , and as your Majefty „ is obliged for it , but to the powerful hand of God only , who „ hath wrought therein by means altogether extraordinary. But „ you shall find the proofs thereof particularly , in the moft hum- „ ble prayer which we have order to make you , to honour their „ town with your Royal prefence , for the few daies the time „ will allow you to remain in this Province ; to the end , that fo „ many ftrangers , wherewith their town is inhabited , may ,, be witneffes of the publick and real demonftrations which they „ intend to make , of the veneration which they have for the per- is fon of your Majefty, and of the paffion which they have for your „ fervice. Nothing can be added to the obliging words with which the King anfwered the complement of the Deputies of A mfterdam, in thanking them with much affedtion , for that of theirs,where- of he faid he had received moft illuftrious proofs , witneflmg to be very forry that he could not fatisfie their requeft, feeing that he had no lefs inclination for that journy , then the Lords of Amfterdam could have paffion to fee him in their town ; and af- furing them that he would eternally remember the amity they had 3> Of the King of Great Britain. 59 had for him. The Deputies replied in the mod fubmifs terms that refpect could put into their mouths , and after they had prayed for the profperity of his Majefty , and for the perpetual felicity of his reign, they retired. M r Coyet Knight, Extraordinary Envoy of the King of ff^l Swethen, to the Eftates General of the United Provinces , had tr r a %j£*' demanded audience the dav before ; but thofe , which his Ma- °f Sw - jefty found himfelf obliged to give to the Eftates of Holland,and next to the Commiff ioners of the Parliament and of the City of London , made him to refer it to this Thurfday at eleven a clock in the morning. M r Coyet being come into the fore - cham- ber, at the hour appointed, the King fent immediately unto him M r Wentworth , one of the four Gentlemen of the Bed-cham- ber, to entertain him, till affairs permitted his Majefty to come to fpeak with him , as he did prefently after in the Prefence- chamber. The Envoy made known to his Majefty , that he would {peak Latine to him,and as he was very wel verfed in that language , he had prepared a very elegant dilcourfe for him : but for as much as his Majefty fignified to him,that that tongue was not familiar enough to him to ferve his turn to anfwer readilv , he made him his complement in French , as the Mi- nifters of all the other ftrange Princes did , extending himfelf on the prefent revolution of the affairs of England , on the excel- lent and great qualities of his Majefty , and of the amity which the Kings , and Crown of Swethen had from all time received from the Kings of Great Britain. The King anfwered him , that the teftimonies of affection which he rendred him, on this occafion, from the King of Swe- then , were very acceptable to him , and that he should find him alwaies difpofed , not only to execute with fincenty the ancient treaties,which common intereft hath caufed to be made between England and Swethen , but alfo to confirm them by new , and ftreighter alliances. After this , his Majefty infor- med himfelf of the age of the King of Swethen , that reigns now , of the place where the Queen lives , and caufeth the King her fon to be brought up at prefent , and of many other p z things, 6o A Journal of the Voyage things 9 which denoted the great goodnefs, with which his Ma- jefty would receive the Minifters of Princes, with whom his Predeceifours had alwaies lived in good correfpondence. A fter this familiar diicourfc , wherewith the EmbafTadour came of very well , he went to the Dukes of York , and of Glocefter , and afterward faw alfo the Chancellour of England , to whom he fpake of the prefent eftate of the affairs of the North ; and gave him to underftand , that they were in terms of accon> modation , between the two Crowns of Denmark and of Swethen. After this audience the King gave the reft of the day to the affairs of his Kingdom, being in continual conferences with the Commiffioners of the Parliament , and of the City of London. Hm the Itshall not be from our purpofe , to fay here a word of the S/*' manner wherewith the King was ferved, at his ordinary repafts, and of the Eftate of the expence which was made every day for his Majefty. We have fpoken of his .Table ,and how the Royal perfons that did eat there , were feated. They ferved up great Dishes in Oval form, at five courfes , each containing five dishes and twelve trenchers , becaufe they changed the dishes twice at every fervice , and every dish was fo maflive , that one shall not be troubled much to reprefent the expence there- of, when he shall know that there was two dozen of Pheafants in one dish , and that all the other dishes were furnished accor- dingly. They ferved , befides that, five tables for the Lords , and one for the Ladies , as for the Marquefs of Worcefter , 6cc. all at four courfes , and almoft as full , and furnished with the fame meats , as thofe of the King's table , except one courfe , which was between the pottages and the roft. All the fweet meats, as well at the King's table , as at the Lords and Ladies , were pillaged at evervmeal 9 andexpofed to the difcretion of the people , who were ordinarily there at thofe hours by the King in crowds. And not only they ferved all forts of delicious wines at the tables , but the fburces fteamed therewith con- tinually day and night, and were never dry, as well for the Eng- Of the King of Great Britain. 61 English of what condition foever they were , as for ai! thbfe of the town that came to demand it. Every Table was of twelve coverings , and had its Steward , its four Butlers , as many aflTif- tants in the buttery, and twelve men that ferv'd up the meat and drink. But for the Kings mouth , it was particular • there was a Clark of the Kitchin for the pottages,anothcr for the courfes,ano- ther for the paltry , one more for the roil:, and one for the meats between the courfes , evecy Clark having four Cooks under him ; for each fervice. 7 a/fe ail- There hapned this day a thing- , which for having made a F . ~ . . . . - _ " -. _. ° ,, . verti/emet of a cl upon t. King of what was fpoken of then. great noife in the beginning, defer ves well to be fpoken of here, °f a <¥& i-> *-/*_/ *■ upon th with circumflances which might make one beleeve the truth «««v _ ... _ « *-^ tiirfna. A man of a moil mean condition, French by birth , being about 9 a clock in the evening , in a remote place towards the Rampart , prefented himfelf at the dore of a Millars houfe wholly affrighted , and almofl fenfelefs , ( as he appeared ) out of breath , and faid unto him , that having been enforced to draw off for fome necefTity of nature , he flooped down to- wards that little riling , which ferves for entrenchment to the Hage , and which we called Rampart ; where being almofl hidden, as well becaufe that the place, where he put himfelf, was low , as becaufe it was neer night , he prefently faw three men to come, whereof two were cloathed in grey , and the third in black , who faid one to another with difpleafure , as he could judge thereof, in bad French , as he reported , that they failed twice, becaufe of the great number of people that were about him , and ferv'd him for guards ; but they would fo well take their advantage from the two fides of the Coach , that he should not efcape them. That rifing upon this , the others, wholly furprifed to fee a man in a place where they were come, becaufe they thought to find no body there , faid that they were difcovered , and mult difpatch him that might re- veal them. That thereupon one of the three shot of aPiflol , whofe bullet pierced his hat , which he shewed , wherewith he fh^gered • but that the other thinking the ftroak was not mor- CL #. 62 A Journal of the Voyage tal , shot a fecond fo neef , that he burned his hair : This had fo aftonishcd him , the he fell to the ground , where having lain a while , untill the three men were retired , he arofe , and went flreight to the houfe of that Millar. And indeed, he gave fuch an alarm , there, that the Millar went prefently forth with him , and taking two of his neighbours with him , that armed themfelves with ft ones , like him • they purfued thofe three men , but to no purpofe , becaule they met them not . therefore they went to the place , where he faid he faw them at firft $ and where they found , indeed , the cloak w 7 hich he faid fear had made him to quit. The affair was judged of fuch importance , that the Court of Juftice was ordered, the next day, to make a mod ftricl: and mofl: exacl: inquiry thereof. The Informer being questioned herein , by Commiflfioners , perfifted in his firft depofitions , which w'ere believed at firft to be fo much the more true ; as the accufer , though incommodated enough in his domeftick affairs , witneffed to be much uninterefted , and demanded no recompence, Thofe , notw'ithftanding , that ftaied not much at fair apparences , and would that they should proceed to a more exacl examination of an affair of this nature, (pake of it , as of a deceit , which the laws should either juftifie , or punish w r ith the fevereft punishment. Howfoever it was , it produ- ced this effecT: , that the Fftates judging that they could not bring too much care to the confervation of the precious pledge which they had with them , caufed feme troops of horfe to ad- vance with all fpeed , which were already commanded , and U 7 hich , being arrived, kept guard with the ftandard on the ave- nues of the Palace , where the Kins was lodged , and of which there was alw r aies a brigade, which followed the Coach where- foever his Majefty went. And for as much as it was known, that there was found in the Fleet a man bould enough to have refolvedtoputfireto the pow- der, when the King should go to fee the Veflel, where he ferved in quality of Marriner,whichobliacdAdmiralMontaguetofeife himfelf on the key of the powder Magazine , and to ordain all the Captains of the other ships of theFleet,to do the like aboard them, Of the King of Great Britain. 63 them , and to carry alwaies the key with them \ the King was advifed to chufe a guard of fourfcore Gentlemen , under the charge of the Lord Gerard , Captain of his Life-guards , and one of the four Gentlemen of his Bed-chamber , which ferved by Brigades ; fo that there was alwaies twenty which marched on both fides the coach, having one hand on the fup- jporting ftafF of the boot, and holding a fword, drawn out of the belt, but in the fcabberd , in the other. But as this pofture was fome what irregular \ and offenfive , in a country , where the perfon of his Majefty was no lefs dear then in his Kingdom j the King confidering,that to hinder approach to his perfon, wis fuf- flcient to fecure it , would that they should wear their fwords by their fides, and carry a cane in their hand, which allured their countenance , and made their quality and charge to be ref- peded. The fame day , the Eftates of Holland gave Commiflfion to M rI of Wimmenum, Deputy from the Nobility, to the Coun- eel of Eftate of Holland , Hailing of Dort , Marfeveen of Am- fterdam , and Hoogland of A Icmaer , to go to felicitate the Queen of Bohemia , the Dukes of York and Gloccfter the Princefs Royal,the Princefs Dowager of Orange,and the Prince of Orange , upon the re-eftablishment of the King of Great Britain. They executed this comrniffion immediately after dinner. M r ' of Wimmenum made the complement every where-, and which wasmoft admirable, never ufing twice the fame cogitation , nor the fame words in all his fpeeches. The Eftates of Holland gave charge alfo to M r ' of Wimme- num , to know of his Majefty , ifit pleafed him that they should make him a fupper , where the Eftates of Holland might have the honour to treat him in private 5 and if he defired that in this cafe the Eftates should be there in a body , to render him the more honour , or if he would rather they should fend there De- puties. Whereupon his Majefty, having expfeffed an accep- tance of what they defired , and made known that by the de- putation of a fingle perfon of each member , he should be as well fatisfied as if the Eftates were there in body, they fixed Q^2 on GE 64. A Journal of the Voya on Sunday following for the day , being the 3 oof the fame moneth. They prayed M r of WiiTinienum to take upon him the whole ordering of the Feaft , and to give neceffary orders for it$ and the Eflates named CommiiTioncrs, which should be there from them , vi\. M r of VVaffenaer , Lieutenant Admiral of Hol- land ; and M r of Wimmcnum for the Nobility: De Wit of Dort , Fabricius of Haerlem , Grafwinckel of Delf , Buyteveft of Leiden , Marfeveen of Amfterdam, Cant ofTergow , Van- der Meyde of Rotterdam , Vander Colck of Gorcum , Vander Eyck of Schiedam , Vander Croeft of Schoonhoven , Vander Berg of the Briel , Teylingen of Alckmaer , Jager of Horn, Ro- mer Cant of Enchuyfen , Houtuyn of Edam , Homing of Mu- nickendam, Stellin^werf of Medenblick , and Roothooft of Punnerent, to whom were added M 1 de Wit, Penfionary Coun- celloui^and M r of Beaumont,Secretary to the Eftates of the fame Province. tbeEftates But to the end that nothing might be wanting to the tcfti- °fenlvl monies of affection which the Eftates would render to his Ma- fZljZ jefty , thole of Holland ordained , the fame day , that all kinds of beflta. re f res j lments should be fent to the Admirals ship , to the Vice- Admirals,and to the'R ear- A dmirals,to be afterward diftnbuted to the whole Fleet. They communicated hereupon with M of Waf- fenaer,Lieutenant Ad miral of Holland,and caufed fo much Wine, Victuals , Citrons , Oranges , and other provifions to be bought, that the Lord Montagu was confirained to confefs , that he ne- ver faw T fo much. Notwithftanding , they fent them not aboard before the King had fixed on the day of his embarkment , and the Deputy CouncelJours , who were to execute the orders of the Eftates of Holland , gave the commiffion thereof to M r of Valquenbourg , oftheBofle, Captain in the Regiment of the Guards , who caufed the provifions to be carried aboard the Ad- miral , to whom it was judged fit they should leave the difpo- fing, to caufe them to be diftributedto the other Ships according to his orders. MeEptes The Eftates General of their fide , writ to the Colledge of the fiSl Admiralty of Rotterdam, that they should provide , and furnish fuch Of the King of Great Britain. 65 fuch a number of Hoys , and other VefTels , as the Officers of ve ^ elsta J tranjbort the King's ftable, of the Duke of York , and of Glocefter, should 'J* ?*>£* judge necenary for the tranfportation of the horfes,and of a part of his Majefties baggage , and of their Royal Highneffes . and order was given that they should be kept and (tabled in the town of Rotterdam, till they could be embarked , and that the ships should be provided of hay , of oats , and of draw , for the time that probably they might be upon the fea. Friday the 2 8 of May , the Eftates General , who knew they f h nd c cau # should pleafe the King , in doing civility to the Parliament,de- »#>»«•' puted the Lords Ripperda of Buirfe , of the Province of Gel- ««* *» '« derland , and Schulenbourg of Groning , to go with a comple- **■*/, ment to the Commiffioners of the two Houies of Parliament, and of the City of London , upon the prefent Eftate of the af- fairs of England. The Lords Deputies of the Higher Houfe , aftembled in the T j?f#'" 1 fc? ' of Holland Houfe of the Earl of Oxford , who was lodged at M r Buifero's, g™*&**-. C3 gu »po» Griffier or Secretary of the Councel to the Prince of Orange ; the Kin £ s and the Commiffioners of the Lower Houfe,at the Lord Fairfax's, ««**•- who was lodged in the Houfe of the Baron of Afpcren , Deputy from the Province of Holland , to the Colledge of the Admiral- ty of Amftcrdam , and received this civility with much fatis- fa&ion. The ftme day the Eftates of Holland , having deliberated upon the recommendation which the King had made them , when they ialuted his Majefty in a body , of fome perfbns and English Officers , which are in the fervice of this Eftate ; whofe affe&ion , which they expreffed to him in his affliction, as well for his interefts,as for the perfon of the Princefs Royal,his fifter, ordained , that the three Regiments of Scots foot , which were reformeAand reduced to twoan the year 1 65 5, should be brought again to their firft eftate, in behalf of Lieutenant Collonel Hen- derfon, and that the command of the third should be given un- to him , with the quality of Collonel. I fay the quality , becaufe that ibme years fince , and in confideration of the peace , where the Major Officers are without function , the Colonels have R but tier.. 66 A Journal of the Voyage but the title only, with the pay of the Major Eftate of Lieutenant Colonel. They gave , on this very confederation , a troop of Horfe to M r Kerkhoven , fon to the deceafed Lord Heenvliet, in his life time, great Hunter , or as they fay , Forrefter of Hol- land , under the deceafed Prince of Orange , and Intendant of the Princefs Royal her houfe , who would acknowledge the fer vices of the Father , and the affection of the Lady Stan- hop , his Widow , whom the King made Countefs of Che- fterfield , in procuring him that charge through the inter- miffion of the Kino- after having given him the conduct which his Father had of her affairs. The Eftates of Holland gave alfo a company of Walloon Foot , with the hope of a troop of horfe, to M 1 Languerack , a Gentleman of the Countrv , of the Houfe of Boetfelaer , who till then had found great obftacles to his ad- vancement. the fed They ordained alfo that M rs of Wimmenum,from the Nobi- to compu- lity , Hallingof the town of Dort, of Marfeveen of Amfterdam, went the •/",.-& 7 * commit and Hooglant of Alcmaer , should go to falute, from them , the /loners of ~ r r- i Commiffioners of the two Houles of Parliament,and the Depu- ties of the City of London ,and to endear upon the affection with which they procured the King's return , and on the zeal where- with they laboured to re-eftablish the affairs of the Kingdom , in the fame eftate they were under their laft Monarchs, being then in the moft flourishing eftate of the world. They found the Commiffioners affembled in the fame places where the De- puties of the Eftates General had met them,w^. fome at the Earl of Oxford's , and the others with the Lord Fairfax , and M r of 3 , Wimmenum faid unto them : That the Lords the Eftates of ,j Holland , who had fo much caufe to rejoice for that great Ca- ,, taftrophe , which they faw in England , could not be filent in 9 , that wonderfull conjuncture , and in that publick , and univer- , , fal joy ; but found themfelves obliged to exprefs it , with them , , that contributed the moft to it , and are the principal Authors ,, thereof. That the Parliament of England had this advantage, ,,to be as the foundation of the Eftate , but that thofe which ,,compofeitnow, had gained this glory to all pofterity, that they mtnt Of the King of Great Britain. 67 11- 5 9 they had not only drawn the Kingdom from its greater!: calami ty , to carry it to the higheft felicity- but alfo that they had been 3> the firft of the three Kingdoms to declare themfelves for fo do- rious an enterprife. That the Lords the Eftates , who in li- 9 . ving with England, as they lived during the Anarchy, and dif- , , order , had manifefted how dear the amity of the English was to 3 them, participated therein as they ought; affured the Lords }} Commiffioners of the pcrfeverance of their affection, and praied s s God for the continuation of the profperity of the affairs of the t . Kingdom , and of their perfons in particular , with all the fer- 1 s vency that could be expected from an allied Eftate , and from . . perfons perfectly aftecrionated to their good , and interefts. 9 i The Commiffioners anfwered,by the mouth of the Lords whom we have named ; and after they had thanked the Lords the Eftates for the affeclion which they had for the King, and for the King- dom, whereof they have every day fuch glittering proofs, they thanked the Deputies for the pains they would take in co- ming to give them the greater!: affurances thereof in their parti- cular, offering to acknowledge both one and t'other , by their perfonal fervices , and by a perpetual and inviolable amity of their Eftate with this Republick , and conduclcd the Deputies even to the coach. Saturday the 29 of May , the Deputy Councellours , which ^ hifiof make the Councelof F(!ateofHolland,confideringtheexpence fj^" which the Province had made for the reception of the King, ^{^ in his voiage from Breda , and that which they muft make yet, ^["""f as well for the Feafl which they prepared againft the next day , J^»»- as for the prefents which they purpofed to offer to his Majefty, faJGiu and to the Princes , his brothers ; reprefented to the Eftates of Holland , that it would be requifite to make forthwith a fum of fix hundred thoufand Gilders. The Eftates confented there- unto immediately , and found it fit to furnish , for the King, the Bed, and the apprutenances , which the laft deceafed Prince of Orange, had caufed to be made for the lying-in of the Princefs Royal , and which she never ufed , becaufe of the death of the Prince her husband , who deceafed eight daies before the birth R 2 of V £8 A Journal of the Voyage ofthe Prince his fon. This bed is, without doubt, the faired and richeft that ever was made at Paris • and befides the teafter , the feats , the skreens , the hangings and the other peeces ne- ceffary to make a furniture compleat , the Eftates would add thereunto a moft perfed fair hanging ofthe richeft tapiftery > imboffed with gold and filver , ( which they caufe to be made of purpofe) with a great number of excellent pi&ures,as well of Ita- ly, as ofthe countries ancient, and modern, and whatfoever can compofe a chamber , worthy to lodge fo great a Monarch in his greatpft magnificence. The conn- The fame Councel of Eftate ordained alfo • that all the fisher- fiatevles barks ofthe Villages of Scheveling , and of Heyde , should be order for f £aye( j f or tne f crv ice of the Eftate ; to the end, tofervethe the im- J ' barbtent jmbarkment ofthe Court and King's baggage , and that for the £ a & e - fame purpofe the Village of Cat wick on the fea, should fend the next Munday to Scheveling ten, and thofe of Nortwijck , Sant- voort , and Wijckupon the fea , each eight barks. They alfo gave order to Captain du Charoy to caufe thirty open wagons to be in readinefs , to bring a part ofthe baggage to Scheveling, Munday following-, and a like number, with forty clofe wag- gons , to conducl the train Tueiday , which was the day that the King had nominated for his departure , though it was defer- red fince till Wednefday , the fecond of June , as we shall fee hereafter. The Lime day the Duke of York , brother to the King , ac- companied with the Duke of Brunfwick Lunenburg , and with a ereat number of English and Dutch Lords and Gentlemen , w T ent to Scheveling , to take the Marnners oath of fidelity , in quality of Admiral of England ; but the wind being contrary , and the fea fo moved , that the Lord Montagu, Vice-Admiral, thoueht it not fit to fend boats from aboard him , to fetch his Royal Highnefs 5 and the fishermen ofthe Village, refufing to put him aboard , he w r as enforced to return to the Hage to dinner. Audience Monfieur Weiman , Councellour in the Councel of Eftate Utersof f the Ele&or of Brandenbourg , and his Chancellour in the Brandon D --^ i bourg. ' Dutcny Of the King of Great Britain. ^ Dutchy of Cleveland , had the opportunity to do reverence to the King at Breda , where he went about the affairs of the ward- ship of the Prince of Orange , wherewith his Electoral Hi^hnefs would charge himfelf in part. Therefore he would not prefs his audience , during the firft daies after his arrival , when his Ma- jefty was burthened with complements. But as foon as Prince Maurice of Naflau , who with the government of the town of Wefel, and charge of Lieutenant General of the Horfe , in the fervice of the Eftates General of the United Provinces , ceafeth not to be Governour of the Dutchy of Cleveland , and of the Provinces annexed to it, in the name of the Elector of Bran- denbourg , was arrived , they judged fit to make a fblemn com- plement to his Majefty , in the name of his Electoral Highnefs. The Prince was there the fame Saturday , accompanied with M' Weiman , who notwithstanding the imploiments which he hath elfe where, forbears not to refide,fome years, at the Hage about the affairs of the wardship of the Prince of Orange • and with M r Copes , ordinary Refident from the Elector , to the Lords the Eftates. The difcourfe of the Prince was like a Ca- valeer . fo that after the King had anfwered his complement , they fpake of indifferent affairs , which have nothing of com- mon with this relation. The fame day Monfieur Vicquefort , Knight , Refident with If the Lords the Eftates, for the Land-Grave of He (Ten , made his H$„°f complement for the Prince his Mafter, which was fo much the better received, as in his particular he had had an occafion to render moft important fervices to his Majefty , as well as to the deceafed King, his Father , of glorious memory. He had the honour to do reverence to his Majefty at Breda 5 when in thevoiage, which he made there fome daies before , with the Duke of Brunf wick Lunenburg, the King exprefled unto him , that he remembred the affection which he had for his fervice. He (pake alfo for the Duke of Courland in fuch fort , that the King , who witneffed to be touched with the affliction of that Prince , protefted that he would not fail to acknowledge the good offices , which that Prince rendred to the deceafed S King, Audience. the Re is made Kmuht 70 A Journal of the Voyage Kins; , and to his own perfon , during the diforders of his Kingdom. Monfieur Walter de Raet , Cbuncellour in the Court of Hol- land, Zealand, and Weft-Ereefl and , being gone to Bruxels , in Ban-cm. t j le beginning of the moneth of March , this prefent year , with M 1 Goes , his Colleague , by vertue of a Commiffion from the Court , to fpeak to the Princefs Royal of the affairs of the Prin- cipality of Orange, underftood that there was notice given, that General Monckdiflembled, in a manner, no more the inclina- tion which he had for the King's interefts , and for the re-efta- blishment of the affairs of England , and from thence took the liberty to felicitate the King. His Majefty received him fo well, as alfb the words which he faid unto him , when being gone fince about the fame affairs at Breda , where his Majefty betook himfelf , he gave him to underftand the occafion which hindred the Lords , the Eftates, at prefent, to complement him on the eftate of the affairs of the Kingdom of England ,• that he faid unto him , that he should never fee him but he would remem- ber the good will he expreffed to him in this conjuncture. And, indeed this very day, the 29 of May , the King, remem- bring thofe marks of affection , fent him his, in prefenting him byM r Oudart, Councellour to the Princefs Royal, and to the Prince of Orange , her fon , with Letters Pattents under the great Seal of England , by which he gives to M r Raet , and to hisiffue male , the quality and rank of Knight Barronet for ever. And for as much as thofe whom the King honours with this title , are obliged to maintain thirty foot fbuldiers for the fervice of Ireland; or to pay into the hands of the Treafiirer the fum of a thoufand fourfcore and fifteen pounds , his Majefty caufed the firft Letters to be accompanied with a fecond , di£ penfing him of paying that fiim , and acquitting him in general terms , and his pofterity after him to perpetuity , of the (aid fum. rteEm- \y e have faid elfewhere , that Don Stephen of Gamarra , or- of sp*i» dinary EmbafTadour of Spain to the Lords the Eftates , went to cntertames J *- tk K,«g. meet the King at Moordike, to exptefs there, to his Majefty.the joy Of the King of Great Britain. 71 joy that he had for his re-eftablishment. The residence which the King had made,for fome years, at Bruxels, where Don Ste- phen of Gamarra had the honour to lodge, fome daies, in the houfe of the two Princes , the King's brothers , made him to be considered quite otherwife , then he could hope from his character , in a time , when there was open war between Spain and England , though againft the intention of the two Kings. The carefles which the Princes made him on this occafion , and the extraordinary civilities which he had received from the King, proceeded from a particular affection,as well as the good- nefs wherewith the fame Dukes of York , and ofGlocefter prayed to dine with him, on thurfday the 27 of this moneth. The Marquefs of Ormond , and many other Lords had dined there , the day before , with the fame familiarity wherewith the Lords German , Earl of St. Albans, and Craft went to dine with the Embafladour of France * the day the King arrived at the Hage ; and upon the recital which thefe Lords had made to their Roy alHighneifes of the great cheer the Embafladour of Spain had made them, they refolved to dine there the next day. But the King , who would dine that day in publick , with the Queen of Bohemia , the Princefs Royal, the Prince of Orange, and the Deputies of the Filates General , having defired that the Princes , his brothers , might be of the companv,the EmbafTa- dour , who had expected their Royal Highnefles , gave himfelf the liberty to complain to the King in raillery , for taking away his guefts from him. His Majefty had the goodnefs to tell him, that he did it of purpofe to hinder their dining with him , be- caufe he would be alfo of the Party. And indeed , that very Saturday , the King after he had ridden to Scheveling , where he faw the Fleet, and at his return , vifited the Queen of Bohe- mia , went in the evening to the houfe of the Spanish Embaf- fadour , where were alfo the Queen of Bohemia, the Dukes of York and Glocefter , the Princefs Royal , the Prince of Orange, the Marquefs of Ormond , the Lords Digby, Craft, and Taff , the Lady Stanhop , Widow to the Lord Heen vlict, to whom the King gave the title of Countefs of Chefterfeild , S 2 and ?2 A Journal of the Vovage and Madam Howard her daughter-in-law , Lady of honour to the Princefs Royal. The table was covered in the Hall, which is one of the faired and created of the whole Hage . but it would be very difficult to make a pertinent difcription of this feaft , becaufe that although they ferved up there but fish , and fallats , it was, without doubt, one of the mod fplendid and date- ly that ever was ieen at a private houfe. There was two great (er vices offish , or rather of Sea-mon- ders , befides the pottages , the courfes , and the inter-mcats ; and there was ferved up fo great a quantity of fweet meats , dry and liquid , that all the perfons of quality, which were come, in great number , to fee the order of that fupper , returned thence all loaden. For the Mader of the houfe had given order that they should have enough; and that the fervants should prefent Limo- nada, Hypocras, and all forts of delicious wines , to all thofe that should demand it, whii'd the Officers of his Majefty , and of their Royal HighneiTes,were magnificently treated in the other apartments of the houfe . The King appeared there in the bed humour that ever he was feen to be, and exprefled fo much content in this company 5 which was compofed of none almod but of his family , and of perfons whom he faw T every day , that he daied there even until one a clock after midnight ; notwith- dandincr, without the lead diforder, or confufion that might trouble their con verfation and divertifement. vwning Every thincr there was high and magnificent . but that which frefents J O G> V -if bimfeif 10 was mo [\ remarkable , was "this , that about midnight arrived there M r Downing,who did the affairs of Eng!and,to the Lords the Edates , in quality of Refident, under Oliver Cromwel , and afterward under the pretended Parliament, which having chan- ged the form of the government , after having cad forth the lad Protector , had continued him in his imploimcnt , under the quality of Extraordinary Envoy. He began to have refpeel: for the King's perfon , when he knew that all England declared for a free Parliament , and departed from Holland , widiout order, as foon as he underdood, that there was nothing that could lon- ger oppofe , the re-edablishment of Monarchal government , with Of the King of Great Britain. 73 with a defign to crave Letters of recommendation to General Monk. This Lord confidered him , as well becaufe of the birth of his wife , which is illuftrious , as becaufe Downing had exprefled fome refpe£t for him , in a time when that eminent perfon could not yet difcover his intentions. He had his Let- ters, when he arrived at midnight at the houfe of the Spanish Ernbaffadour , as we have laid. He prefented them forthwith to the Kin^ . who arofe from table a while after , read the Letters receiv'd the fubmiffions of Downing , and granted him the par- don and grace , which he asked for him , to whom he could deny nothing, Some daies after , the King Knighted him , and would it should be believed , that the ftrong averfions which this Minifter of the Protector had made appear againft him on all occafions , and with all forts of perfons indifferently, even a few daies before the publick and general declaration of all England , proceeded not from any evil intention ; but on- ly from a deep diffimulation , wherewith he was conftrained to cover his true fentiments , for fear to prejudice the affairs of his Majefly. Sunday the 3 o of May, the King would in the morning hear a Sermon , and to that purpofe it was ordained that M r Hardy, one of the Minifters which came from England, with the Com- mifTioners of the City of London , should preach before the King in the Chappel of the Court, which ferves for Church to the French that live at the Hage , at eleven a clock in the fore- noon , as foon as the French had ended their ordinary devo- tions . And to the end, to prevent the diforder among the peo- ple , which were come there in crowds from the neighbour towns , the company which had the guard , was commanded to feife themfelves of the avenues of the Chappel, and particu- larly to poflefs the dore,which leads into a little Partition, where the Princes of Orange heretofore caufed a bench to be made cloathed with black velvet , and covered with a canopy of the lame fluff for themfelves , and for perfons of quality , that were ordinarily of their train , but they dreamed not to remedy ano- ther inconvenience , which deceived all the other precautions T that 74 A Journal of the Voyage that they ufed. For the French , inftead of giving place to the English , and of ufing the civility which they were ac- cuftomed to have for ftrangers , would not go out of the Church 5 and even the perfons of condition , which fate in the little partition , whereof we have fpoken , and who were for the moil part Dutch , refufed to make place for the Lords , which were , in great number , about the King's perfon ; with- out confidcring that this very incivility hundred them abfo- lutely to fatisfie the curiofity they had to fee the King , and to be prefent at the English Liturgy. The Reader of the Church exhorted the people to withdraw ; and likewife the Paftor , who made the Sermon , went up again into the Pulpit , and repre- fented to them the wrong they did themfelves , as well as their brethren of the fame religion , and ftrangers , as they in this country , in obftinately flaying thus in their feats , after having heard the word of God, in a place where they had been fed, and in failing ofrefpecl: to the King, to whom that very Temple was given by their Superiours; and where the English were to hear it , after them,in their tongue. But thefe exhortations made no impreffion on fpirits prepofTeffed, no more then the other rea- fons which he allcd^cd • fo that the King- was enforced to do his devotions,in the place where her Royal Highnefs is accufto- med to have her preaching , particularly ; fince moft important confederations hindred her to go to the English Church, where there entred as many as it could hold of the Lords of that na- tion. The Minifter took his text in the 26 Chapter of the Pro- phet Ifaiah, verfe 19, which he applied to the prefent eftate of the affairs of England, and made fo learned and fb pathetick a difcourfe , that there was not any one there, which was not tou- ched , and edified therewith. the Khg After the Liturgy and Sermon were ended , there prefented themfelves many perfons fick of the Evil , which the King was to touch,after many others he had touched Friday andSaturday, the 28. and 29. of this moneth, in private. And for as much as this ceremony is done with circumflances very remarkable,and different from thofe which accompany it in France , when the King toucheth thefukt Of the King of Great Britain. 75 King there toucheth the fick ; it shall not be from our purpofe to fpeak here, of all the particulars thereof, fince they make as well one of the eflential parts of our relation , which is to omit nothing of what his Majefty did at the Hage. But before we engage us in this recital , it will be neceffary to undeceive the i'pirit of thofe that believe , that that which the Kings of Eng- land do on this ocafion , is but a copy of that which is done in France,and that it is not but becaufe of the pretention which they have to that Crown, and by vertue of the title which they take, and from the arms of France , wherewith they charge their Ef- cuchion, that they attribute to themfelves a grace which is given to the eldeft Son of the Church. For it is moft certain , that the King of Great Britain,hath this right and advantaoe,not as King of France, though he takes the quality thereof in his titles , but as King of England ; and becaufe the Kings, his Fredece flours* have ufed it efficiacioufly , fince the reign of Edward , furna- named the Confefibur ; that is to fay , fince the beginning of the 1 1 . age , and long before the Kings of England had decla- red their pretentions , as they did , when Philip of Valois came to the Crown. Now this ceremony is performed,in the man-> ner as w T e shall at prefent relate. Thofe that feel themfelves afrli&ed with the difeafc , com- monly called the Kings-evill , becaufe the King cureth it, are obliged to addrefs themfelves to his Majefties chief Chyrurgioh who viiits them , and if he judgeth that it is the difeafe , which the King cureth , he appoints them a day and hour to be at the Chappel , where the King is to touch them. As in France,the ceremony of touching the fick is done in the morning, after the King hath communicated ; fo was it this day done in the Chappel of the Princefs Royal, after the King had been at the {ermon, andpublick prayers. For the preaching being fini- shed , they placed a great chair for the King , in a place fome- what diftant from the people. And as foon as the King was fate , one of the Clarks of the Clofet (lands at the right fide of the chair, holding on his arm, or rather in his right hand , as ma- ny gold Angels,every one tied to a ribband of white filk,as there T 2 were 76 A Journal of the Voyage were fick to be couched , which were then to the number of eight and forty. But for as much as the Angels , which is a kind of gold fo narned,becau(e it hath the figure of an Angel upon k, are fo rare,that they can fcarce be gottcn,efpccially in thcfe Pro- vinces-the King ufeth ordinarily , as he did on this preient occa- sion, the ten shillings peeces , which are near of the fame value. The Chaplain , that makes the fermon before the King , and who for this purpofe takes ordinarily a text proper for the cere- mony, performs the office afterward , and (lands on the left fide of the chair , whilft the Chyrurgion takes place , with the fick , right over againft the King, but at a certain diftance : Notwith- standing , in the occafion whereof we fpeak now , the Mini- fters text had nothing common with the ceremony , and it was not the Paftor who made the fermon , that affifted there . but Dodor Brown , Chaplain to the Princefs Royal , who did all the functions thereof, reprefentingthe King's Chaplain, as he did on all the like occafions at Breda, whil'ft his Majefty refided there. A fter his Majefty had taken his place , having by his fide the Secretary ,or Clark of the Clofet, and the Chyrurgion before him, the Chaplain , who held a New-Teftament in his hand , chu- fed there the text in the Gofpel of Saint Mark the 16 Chapter from the 1 4 Verfe , even to the end of the Chapter ; and at the fame time , the Chyrurgion , taking one of the difc^cd by the hand , after having both made three low reverences , came with him to put themfelves on their knees before the Kincr } clofe to the chair , and whil'ft the Chaplain pronounced thefe words of the fame Gofpel , They shall lay their hands on the Sick , and they shall be healed ; die King laied his hand on the two cheeks of the fick. This being done, he that was touched, retired himfelf, and they brought another to the King, who touched him in the fame manner; the Chaplain repeating the fame words, as many times,as there were fick for the King to touch,and as they brought them one after another at his Majefties feet. The Chyrurgion, who was alwaies on his knees, whil'ft the King touched , arofe not till the King had made an end of touching, and Of the King of Great Britain. 77 and then he made again three low reverences , and retired with the lick to the place where they w T ere before , and flood there till the Chaplain had made an end of reading the reft of his text- which he continued not to read, till after the King had touched the laft of the fick : This being done, the Chaplain began again another Gofpel,taken out of .the firft Chapter of Saint John, from the firft verfe to the 1 5; and whiPft he read it , the Chyrurgion brought again the perfons touched , to the King , in the fame manner as he did before . and his Majefty taking from the Se- cretary of the clofet , whirft the Chaplain pronounced thefe words of the Gofpel , That was the true light , which lighteth every man that cometh into the world, one of thefe sold Angels hanging on a (Ilk riband,and put it on the neck of one of the difeafed which approa- ched one after anotherjn the lame manner,asthey did when the Chyrurgion brought them to be touched; the Chaplain repeating alfo thofe words, as many times as there were perfons touched. After this , they all retired again to their firft place , and then the Chaplain made an end of reading the Gofpel , to the verfe which we have denoted. He read after that , fome other pat fages of the Holy Scripture , and concluded the whole fervice with the Lord's Prayer , and a prayer which they make unto God, that it would pleafe him to blefs the ceremony , which the King had performed. The Liturgy being finished , the Gentleman Usher (it was then M r Sands , who performed that function ) brought a ba- fort , an ewer , and a towel , and being accompanied with two Lords , or Earls , vi\. the Lord Leonel Cranfield , Earl of Mid- dlefex , and the Lord Henry German , to whom the King gave fince the quality of Earl of Saint Albans ; he prefented the bafon and ewer to the youngeft of the two,who ftood on the left hand of the Gentleman that carried the towel , taking the right hand of the elder of the two Lords. The laft finding himfelf in the midft of them , they marched , in this order , towards the King; and after making three low reverences, they put themfelves all three on their knees before his Majefty ; and whil'ft the Earl of Saint Albans poured forth the water on the King's hands, the V Earl 78 A Journal of the Voyage Earl of Middlefex took the towel from the Gentleman Usher , and prefented it to his Majefty , who wiped his hands therewith. After this , the two Lords , and the Gentleman Usher , role up , made aeain three great reverences to the Kino- and retired. And after that the Kingaroie alio , and went thence to the Princefs Royal her chamber. J h£ E dwb ^ * s certam > tnat tnc King hath very often touched the fick, nouhe as well at Breda , where he touched two hundred and fixtv, effect of . J tbisrme- from Saturday the 1 7. of April , to Sunday the 23 . or May , as at Bruges and Bruxels , during the refidence he made there . and the English affure , that not only it was not without fuc- cefs , fince it was the experience that drew thither every day, a great number of thofe difeafed, even from the mod remote Provinces of Germany • but alfo that there was no perfbn hea- led f o perfectly , who was not infected again with the fame dif- eafe , if he were fo unfortunate to lofe , through negligence , or other wife , the medal , which the King hangs on his neck,' after he hath touched him ; without any hope to be cured of it, if he be not touched again , and have another Angel about his neck. We have been loath to have touched on this particular, if many grave perfons , whom one cannot fufped of fuperfti- tion or deceit , fpake not thereof, as of a molt conftant thing , and of which there is no doubt. Coming from thence , the King and Princes, went to dine with the Princefs Royal , where they paffed a part of the day, to divert themfelves in private. Towards the evening , he made a vifit to the Queen of Bohemia • and at the beginning of the night , all the Royal Family were at Prince Maurice his houfe , where the Eftates of Holland had prepared a mod: magnirick and (lately feaft for his Majefty. Pea p of There is more then one dore that gives entrance into the di- thgfltt" n i n g chamber, which makes one of the faireft peeces of the whole building ; and in entring through the middle dore , which is over againft the great flairs , one of the faireft and cod- lieft of all Europe , becaufe it is double, moft large , and all built of a moft rare Indian wood , one difcovers it fully ; fo that ( Of the King of Great Britain. 79 that wee fee , at one and the fame time , the crofs barr'd win- dows which front upon the Viver and Viverberg , the two chimnies of both fides , and in the mid' ft above , an overture, which makes a roundel, fashioned like the foot of a lamp , shut with glafs , and environed with a gallery , or with a ballifter, which makes the tower of the lover , or open roof. From the center of this lover , defcended low a Royal Crown , very gallantly made , in the midft of four lufters, or chriftal candle- Hicks ; which with many other candlefticks , arms of fil- ver , and a great number of torches , enlightned all corners much better , then the Sun could have done at midday. They gave , particularly, a marvellous luftre to the two bottoms of the chimny , which is on the left fide ; where two partitions of painted wood shut up as many cupboards of chriftal glafles, and a great (lore of ve dels, and of filver plate , and vermilion gilt. The Flail was furnished with ordinary Tapiftry , which is of crimfon damask , and had no other adornments , but that here and there , there were fbme fair Pictures , and that the ends of the chimnies , and the void place above the crofs bar windows, were adorned with garlands , wreaths and figures of trees , loa- den with oranges , and mingled with all forts of flowers, which formed not only a very regular compartment-, but wonderfully- refreshed alfo the chamber , and charmed no lefs the fmel , by their perfume , then they pleafed the fight through the diverfity of their rich enamel.. . The Table was made in double potence , and laied fb , that that part , where the Royal family fate , was a thwart before the chimny of the right hand , thrufting from its middle a trunck, or skirt, which poffeiled more then two thirds of the length of theHall ; and itwas shut up with a baluftrade of three foot high, which reigned round about- yet fb,that there w T as fpace enough, between the ballifter, and feats of thofe which were of the feaft, to hold the perfons, defigned for their fervice. This baluftrade had divers wickets , whofe entrance was recommended to the care of fome Officers of the guards , which hindred ftrangers to prefent themfelves there, V 2 The 8o A JourmaL of the Voyage The King took his place under a cloath of Eftatc of the fame fluff, whereof the reft of the furniture was made, between the Queen of Bohemia , his Aunt , who was on his right hand , and the Princefs Royal his fifter , who was on his left. The King's two brothers , were at one of the two ends , on the Queen of Bohemias fide > and the Prince of Orange at the other end , on the fide of the Princefs, his Mother. The King fate fo, that from his place he faw eafily all the Deputies of the Eftates of Holland , who poffeffed that part of the Table , which came from the mid'fi of the King's \ and were feated according to the rank , which the Nobles and Towns hold in their Affemblies. They would fain that the Rhine-Grave , Commiffary General of the Horfe , and Go vernour of Maftricht , should have the honour to give the napkin to the King ; but his Majefty would be ferved the whole meal by Officers of his own , as well as the other Royal perfons by theirs. M r de Buat, Captain of the troop of light horferncn, which was formerly that of the Guard of the deceafed Prince of Orange , and now of the Eftates of Hol- land , and M r Iterfum , Lieutenant Collonel of a Regiment of foot, and Droffartof Rolduck, in the Country of Over-Meas>did the office of carvers ; and ferved the meat before the King, and before all the Royal family- ftanding,for this purpofean the em- pty fpace , which the Eftates of Holland had left between their places , and the table of his Majefty. M 1 of Boetzelaer, youn- ger fbn of the deceafed Baron of Afperen , M r ofTaillefer, el- deft fbn of M r of Mauriack , Collonel of a Regiment of French foot, M r of Steeland , fon to M r of Steeland, Lieutenant Col- lonel to the foot Regiment of M r of Beverweert , and Droffart of Buren ; and M r ' Defloges , fon to the deceafed Collonel of that name,did the fame functions at the table of the Eftates,ftan^ ding between the ballifter , and the table, and taking the dishes from the hands of the publick Meffengers , whofe cuftom is, to follow the Deputies of the towns to the Affemblies of the Eftates, to ferve up the meat to the Lords. The King's table was ferved with fix o;reat dishes, in oval form , and with two more laid a crofs theother, all loaden like pyramides $ and they changed the Of the King Of Great Britain. gt the fcrvices five times. There was on the Eftates table eight and twenty great dishes , and many plate trenchers , but they changed them no more then four times ; to the end , to make fome difference between their table and his Majefties. In the ordinary daies they ferved but {even tables , with the King's , befides the fervants ; but this day there were fixteen , fevenof which ferved as ordinarily,in the other apartments of the Kings houfe , and the reft in the Caftellany , which is as it were the Prifon of the Caftle , where they had given exprefs order to re- ceive and treat all the English which prefented themfel ves. It is forbidden me to fpeak of the expence 5 but I think I may al- ledge here the perfon of the King, and affirm, that he faid the next day , to M r of Wimmenum, that he never better fup- ped,then the day he arrived at the Hage ; and that in all the feafts which were made , as well in France as Spain , in Germany , and in the Low-countries, where he had met ftately ones ; and among others , that which the Arch-Duke Leopoldus made iri the moneth of May, 1656, when he went out of the Low-coun- tries , to go into Germany , he faw nothing come neer that, wherewith the Eftates of Holland had entertained him the day before. It was two daies fince the Lords the Eftates caufed the Troops of Horfe to come to the Hague , whereof we have fpo- ken elfewhere •, and this evening they caufed a part of them to be lodged in little fquadrons , upon the avenues of the King's houfe , and the reft to be put into battalia , in the Plain , which is a place by the houfe , worthy to be called , for the beauty of the buildings which environ it , the Royal Place of the Hague. The Regiment of the Guards had their Poft,from one of the cor- ners of the houfe, to the Vi verberg , and all a long that fair walk even to the other end towards the Place , behind the battery of the Cannon. As foon as they begun to drink the King's health, they gave the fignal , with a torch , at one of the windows of the houfe , which looks upon the Viver , to make them fire die Cannon , to which anfwered the Musketeers of the Guards,and next , the Carbines of the Cavallery , and the artillery from the Rampart. Four times this mufick ferved for intermedium X to 82 A Journal of the Voyage to that , which paffed in the Palace during flipper : whii'ft: it laded , there was made to come forth from a boat , which was in the mid'ft of the Viver , or of that Pond, which washeth the foot of the wall of the King's houfe , as well as of the whole 2;reat Palace , an infinite number of fquibs , and of other arti- ficial fire-works , which gave a moil: agreeable divertifement to the people , the whole night. order of Munday , the laft of May , the Lords the Eftates of Hol- General, land , confiderino that the fame reafbn , which had obliged cfHoiutdi them to honour the King's arrival - 9 obliged them to do the like mmuht at his departure and embarkment ; and thinking that the King tlkfng would depart the next day , they refolved to difpofe the Lords, the Eftates General , to take their leave of his Majefly at his houfe , that day , or the day of his departure , as they should think fit ; and to fignifie to them , that the Eftates of Holland could not fuffer that any , but them , should accompany his Ma- jefly , either in body , or by Deputies, when he departed. The Eftates General , who know that the place of their ordinary Af- fembly , is in the So veraignity of the Province of Holland , ac- quiefced therein , without repugnance , and were ready to de- fire audience , to take leave of the King , that day , in body ; when they underftood that his Majefties voiage was deferred a day longer , and that he had fignified to him of the Lords the Eftates,who was Prefident that wcek,that the next day he would make them a vifit, in perfon , in the place of their Aflembly* They would have been glad if they could have difpcnfed them- felves of receiving fo extraordinary an honour ; but they chofe rather , to leave themfelves to be loaden with civility at home* then to commit an incivility , in oppofing the will of die King. • The Eftates of Holland , to whom the King fignified , by one of the Secretaries of his commands , that he would do them the fame honour, received the advertisement thereof with the fame refpecl: 5 and both one and t'other , after they had agreed with the Minifters of the Court, how they intended to receive his Majefty , with all the fubmiffion they should be able to render to fo good a Prince , and fo great a Monarch , they both gave necet Of the King of Great Britain. g^ neceflary orders, in their fe vera! affemblics,for this glorious and illuftrious vifit. The Eftates of the Province of Zealand , who were convo- cated extraordinarily , in the town of Middelborough , on the occafion of the King's voiage, had named alfb extraordinary Deputies , whom they ordained to complement the King upon his re-eftablishment in his Kingdoms , conjunctively with the ordinary Deputies , which are here from their Province in the Eftates General. The Extraordinaries arrived at the Hage , Sunday the 3 o of May , and the next day, in the morning, both one and t'other had audience of his Majefty , w T ho caufed them to be received and conducled in the fame manner , and by the fame perfons he imploied at the reception of the Deputies of the other Eftates , and the King made them the fame civility. M r Veth , Penfionary Councellour of Zealand, and one of the eloquenteft men of his time, brother to him , who fo long time and with fo much reputation , appeared to the Eftates Gene- ral j and who is there alfo , at prefent , for the interefts of his Province , took on him the fpeech , and made a moft excellent difcourfe , (peaking in thefe terms, Si r, We are here from the Lords the Eftates of Zealand , to do re- ) verence to your Majefty , and to affure you of our moft humble and moft refpe&ful fervices. We represent us , Sir, and acknowledge , in the perfon and fight of your Majefty , the favours and aQIftances which our . Province hath, from all time , received from the Kings of Grc^ Britain , your moft famous Predecefiburs . and fo we cannot felicitate you , and exprefs the joy which we have to fee the grace which God would do unto your Majefty , in this admira- ble revolution of affairs^ w T here with your Majefty should be fo much the more touched,as neither you,nor the reft of the world prefumed 10 much as to hope it. If Great Britain hath made bon-fires at the birth of your Ma- jefty, w4iat should it do now in this marvellous conjun£ture? where we (ee all the artifices and attempts of your enemies dif- X 2 ap- 9> 84 A Journal of the Vovage appointed , and overthrown ; your Royal perfon miraculoufly " re«eftablish'd in the Throne of your Anceftours, and Crown (to " fpeak truth ) fent from Heaven , rather then put upon the head w of your Majefty , by the hand of man. So we need^not doubt "that God, who is the particular Protector of Kings ; and who * raifes, at this time, your Majefty by waies fo extraordinary , " will not fail to uphold you by that powerfull hand , which laid 9 it on your Royal head, and that whole Chriftendom derives ' not advantages from thence , which cannot be ordinary ; fince 9 that God , by whom your Majefty reigns fo vifibly , will make " it fo , that you shall reign for him efficacioufly , in rendring the * good and repofe of his Church , infeparable from the interefts of * your Eftate. And hence shall it be, Sir, that, as from an mexhauftible " fpring , upon the Councels and a&ions of your Majefty , shall * flow all the bleffings of heaven , which shall fettle the repofe or " your Eftate , and affure the Scepter in your hands , for the com* ' fort of your people , for the protection of your Allies , for the * terrour of your enemies , and for the eftablishment of a perpe- * tual peace in all Chriftendom - to the exaltation of the great * name of God , and to the particular glory of your Majefty. Ef- * pecially we hope that this favourable occafion , will ferve to tic * more ftrongly the knot of that Alliance , which , from all time, * hath been fo carefully maintained between Great Britain , and * this Common-Wealth ; particularly if her Highnefs , the Prin^ * cefs Royal , who is fo notably interefted in the good and prof- ' perity of both one , and t'other Eftate , will labour herein, with " the care which we promife us from her goodnefs. Thofc are the mod ardent prayers , Si r , which the Lords ' the Eftates of Zealand , your very humble fervants , make unto " God , and which they hope will be heard in due time. The Eftates of the Province of Freefland , made the fame di- u'/offrTef. lig ence in fending to falute the King , by Extraordinary Depu- hndfend t [ es wno na( i audience the fame day , together with their or- 2** dinary Deputies , which are in the Eftates General , and were prefented to his Majefty by Prince William Frederick of Naffau, Gover- 't Count of 01 Jen- bo ur the fame fun&ion , which Prince William had done with the Eftates General. The order which was given for the con ve- hiency of the paflage , was fo well obferved , that there was no encumbrance in the Court ; fo that the Lords of the Kind's re- tinue, and the Gentlemen and Officers of the Country, wal- ked,at eafe, between two files of Souldiers,drawn fo into a guard. Thofe of the King's Court , and the Officers, went before the King's perfon , and the Eftates of Holland followed him, going two and two : firft the body of the Nobility , and next the De- puties of the Towns , directly from die great ftairs, to the dore of the Eftates of Holland their apartment. In entring , they turned prefently on the left hand,through a little Gallery , which leads into the chamber, where the Deputy Councellours adem- ble , which compofe the Councel of Eftate of Holland, the beauty of whole fimetry , the King admired ; confidered par- ticularly in paffing by the feat of thofe Lords , who in the; ab- fence of the Eftates , are as Soveraigns in this part of the Pro- vince, which is called South-Holland, which is in a bar shut up with a long baluftrade, and covered with a heaven , fuftained by four columns, the ground all white,embellished w'ith flowers and leaves of gold in embroidred work. Coming forth thence, they parted through the withdrawing chambers, whoie pun- ching is painted, but in another manner then the rirft-and which are alfo very richly hung with Arras. A fter that the King went up the great ftairs to the Hall, where the Eftates of Holland ufe to aflemble , when they are con vocated in body. It is a -building made fo few years fince , that the proud work could not yet be finished , whofe roof is feeled , nor die rich Tapiftries , where- with it is to be furnished; but notwithftanding,it is very fair and moft magnifkk , as it is , being highly raifed ; its planched roof makes an arch , and the Hall opened with many ^reat windows, which butt upon the Viver , between two fair chimnies. The place is fo vaft , that to the end , the voice of thofe that (peak there , may not be loft in the air, they were conftrained to make Z 2 a yz • A Journal of the Voyage a kind of cutting off with great curtains , which reach from the roof to the floor ; at the place, where a baluftrade is to be made, which shall shut up that part of the Hall, to which one may law- fully give the name of Areopage , or rather of Sanctuary , be- caufe it contains the feats of thole w T ho deliberate upon the mod important affairs of the Province , and confequently , of all the Eftate , whereof it makes one of the principal parts, The feats are difpofed fo , that in entring one fees , from the dore , the back of a bench of three (lories , made like a Coun- eel board with leaning pillows, which are revelled with green cloath , as w T ell as the feats. This bench is accompanied with two others, which are as two wings. That which is on the right hand, is compofed of alow 7 feat 5 and that on the leftjs of two (lo- ries • and thefe two benches are a little feparate from the firft , which, by this means, is in the mid'ft , through a little intervale, which may (erve for paflage. The great bench is over againft one of the two chimnies ; before .which , it forms it felf , by that means , a great empty fpace , which is filled between the two wings w T ith a long table , encompailed with back chairs , for the Deputies of the Nobility of the Province , (which are now but nine) and for the Penfionary Councellour , who , though Mi- nifter of the Eftate , ceafeth not to have place there ; becaitfe, that having the charge to propofe affairs to go to the fuftrages, and to conclude , he can , from the place w 7 here he is , fpeak conveniently to all the Deputies of the Nobility , who deliver their opinion firft , and are to be agreed among themfelves, be- fore they can form the voice only , which they have in the E- ftates of the Province. The Deputies of Dort , of Haerlam , of Delf,and of Leyden,poffefs the bench on the right hand. The firft ftory of the great bench , which is over againft the chimny, is wholly for the Deputies of Amfterdam , which are in great number , becaufe they will have them at ail the extraordinary deputations , which are made for the affairs , whofe difcuflion would confume too much time, if it were made in full affembly. The fecond ftory , is for the Deputies of Tergo w and Rotterdam; and the third, for thofe of Gercum Schedam , Schoonhoven, and Of the King of Great Britain. 93 and the Biil . and the bench of the left wing is for the Deputies of the towns of North Holland , which are called in the ptiblick ads , Vfofl-Freefland, and are Alcmaer, Horn, Enchuifen , Edam, Munickendam, Medemblick, and Purmcrent. It was neceftary to,make this little defcription of the HalI,to the end , to reprefent better all the circumftances of that remar- kable vifit , in the fubjecl whereof, I muft fay again , that they had taken away the ordinary table of the Nobility , iriftead of which they had placed that of the Deputy Councellours , which is not fo long as the other . notjuftin the place of the firft, but a crofs before the chimny ; which is at the end of the Hall be- tween the chimny and table , was made a foot-bank raifed with three fteps , taking up the whole length of the table towards the chimny, from whence it was a reafonable diftance of; and they had drawn the Secretaries table towards the windows ; to the end , to free the paffage. The foot-bank was covered with a fair Tapiftry , and charged with a velvet chair under a cloth of Eftate of the fame ftuff, which reached to the chimny. In entring into the Hall ■ they conducted the King along the back of the bench on the right wing , to his place , where his Majefty ftood,untill all the Deputies of the Nobility and Towns were placed in their ordinary feats. Prince William , Gover- nour of Freefland, held his left hand upon the back of the King's chair j and Prince Maurice , who joined himfelf to the Eftates of Holland , after he had performed his functions with the E- ftates General, and put himfelf on the left hand of the King, had his right hand there , and between them and the chimny were four Lords of the King's attendance. A s foon as the Deputies of the Nobility had taken theirs , at the two other ends of the table , and before 5 yet fo , that forming a kind of half moon, which opened in the mid'ft , they took not away the fight of the benches from the King , his Majefty who had flood {till, and uncovered , fate down , and covered himfelf ; but the King remained no longer fo , then till the reft of the affembly were fete and covered • and then arifing and uncovering himfelf, he fpake , if not in the fame terms , at leaft upon the {ame fubject, A a where 04. A Journal of the Voyage wherewith he had entertained the Eftates General , in the vifit he had made them. It was but an obliging acknowledgment of the civilities , which his Majefty faid he had received from the Eftates of Holland , but mod fincere proteftations of a perpetual and inviolable friendship with this Province, and recommenda- tions of the perfon and interefts of the Princefs Royal, and of the Prince of Orange her fon. The Penfionary Councellour , who was placed fo , that he was almoft over againft the King , anfwered thereto in the name of the Eftates of Holland , with his ufual eloquence , in than- king his Majefty for the honour he did the aflembly , and in witneffing unto him the acknowledgment which the Province should eternally have of the fair mark of his affection, and Roy- al good will ; which appeared fo evidently in that llluftrious , and fplendid vifit. He faid , that the Lords the Eftates of Hol- land considered , as an effect of his Majefties goodnefs , the fatisfaction which he faid to have from the little fervice which the time and eftate of the country permitted them to do , for to exprefs the univerfal joy , which his Majefty might obferve in the countenances of all the inhabitants , rather then in the reception , or entertainment which the Eftate had made him. That they received , with refpect , the affurances which his Majefty gave them of his amity , and that he might fully affure himfelf , that his fole confideration would oblige them to em- brace fervently the interefts of the Princefs Royal , and of the Prrhce of Orange her fbn , though they should not be obliged thereunto by other reafbns , as thev are to aknowledge the affe- ction and inclination which her Royal Highnefs hath alwaies had for the good of the Eftate , and for that of the Province of Holland in particular. And as for the Prince of Orange , that the merit of his Anceftours, was ftill fo prefent to their memory, that there was no doubt, but the defires of his Majefty should be fulfilled of that fide. After that , the King retired , in the fame manner and order, as he came , the Eftates of Holland following him in body with defign to conduct him even to his houfe. But the King beincr def- Of the King of Great Britain. 95 defcended into the Court , by the fame way he went , took that towards the Princefs Royal her apartment, which is in the fame Palace 5 and the Eftates , having conducted him even to the firft ftory J took leave of him , and returned through the gallery, to the Hall of their Affembly. Every one was extreamly furprifed with fo obliging , and fo gallant a manner of proceeding ; but this joy was in fome kind moderated J becaufe the place being fo vaft , that notwithftan- ding the cutting off, the moft part of the Deputies loft either the fenfe , or words of the Kings difcourfe. The Penfionary Councellour , who anfwered thereto , faid unto thofe tharask'd it him in writing ; that he had perfectly w 7 ell comprehended the intention of the King-, but that he would not undertake td relate, word by word , what his Majefty faid concerning the Princefs Royal , and the Prince of Orange , which was that they moft defired to know. The King being advertifed of the difpleafure of the Eftates of Holland, had the goodnefs to call for pen, ink , and paper , in the Princefs Royal her Chamber , and to fend to the Penfionary Councellour this following note , written and fignedwith his hand. Sirs , when as I leave here in your bands , the Yrincefsjny Sifter , and the Vrince of Orange , my Nephew , two perfons which are extreamly dear unto me , I pray you, Sirs , to take their inter fts to heart , and to make them to refent the • effects of you* favour , in the occafious which the Vrince fs , my Sifter , shall re- queftyou, either for her fe If 9 or for the Prince , her foil; affuring yon that all the effetl of j oar good will towards them , shall be acknowledged ofme> us if I had received them in my ownperfon-, and was figned. Charls R. The Penfionary Councellour anfwered thereunto , by a for- mal difcourfe , and moft elegant, the lubftance whereof we shall only declare , and fo it imported no other thing , but that this note , whereof a copy was fent to the Eftates General , was infer- ted in the Regifters of the refolutions of the Generality , and of the Province of Holland. M r de Thou , Count of Meflay , Embafladour of France , rook this day his audience of leave , with the fame ceremonies A a 2 he o£ A Journal of the Voyage he took the firft. M r Otte Krag , and M' Gotfche of Bugwald Extraordinary Emhattadours from the King of Denmark took theirs alfo, and added to the complement they made his Ma- jefty , upon his happy voiage , a mod humble prayer, that being upon his return into England , it would pleafe him to remem- ber his rood Cofen and Ally * the King of Denmark , their Ma- tter , and the eftate of his affairs . as the King their Matter , of his fide, would acknowledge , as lnog as he lived , the good Offices which his Majefty should render him on fb prefllng an occafion. The King , after he had thanked the Embafta- dours for their coinplement 3 upon the fubjecl: of his voiage, faid, that he could not be ignorant that it was partly for his fake, that the Kin? of Denmark fuffered, and that he should be no fooner returned into his Kingdom , then he would imploy all poftible means to declare the part he took in the interefts of that Prince, his neer Cofen ; chiefly in a caufe , the juftnefs whereof was fo evident, and wherein he was interefted in his particular. And that he hoped, that the peace not being fo far advanced, as they were made to believe, he should have leifure to give him proofs of his good will. After that , the Embafladours retired , to go vifit the Earl of Oxford , chief of the Deputies of the Higher Houfe of Parliament. The Embafladours had caufed the King to be founded , if he were pleafed that they should fee the Com- miflioners of the two Houfes . whereas his Majefty expreffed to • them , that they should do him a pleafure therein , they had often caufed audience to be asked both of one, and t'other; but their continual imploiments upon the King's perfon , joined to the difficulty that was to aflemble perfons thatdiverted them- felves in a place , where occafions were not wanting to them, and in a time when all the world rejoiced , oppofcd alwaies their fatisfac~tion ; untill that the Earl of Oxford, who indeavoured what he could to make the Commiffioners of the Higher Houfe to aflemble , but to no purpofe. They prayed at laft i the 3 i day of May , audience of the Lower Houfe , with the Lord Fairfax s who had aflembled fome of theni in the houfe of the Baron of Afperen, where he was lodged, and the next day, which was Of the King of Great Britain, ^7 was Tuefday , the Earl of Oxford did as much , in receiving' them at home with him , in the houfe of M Buyiero , Griffeer, or Secretary of the Councel of the Prince of Orange. Coming from the audience of the King , both one and t'other treated the Embaffadours with much honour and refpecl ♦ but they talked of the affairs of tbeNorth,as of a thing,whereof the King should have , for the future , the difpoiition , (ince that in cntnng into the Kingdom , he should have fblely the whole conduct of the affairs of the Eftatc. We have (aid ellewhcrc , that the EmbafTadour of Spain faw not the King , but as his particular fervant 5 and that he of Por- tugal , faw him not when his Majeily arrived : Hence was it that there were no other fbrraign Miniftcrs , that would trouble him with their complements upon his voiage , after having of- ficiated with him upon his coming to the Crown. There was but Prince Maurice of NalTau , who having had the honour to lodge the King in his houfe , which is , without doubt , the only one in the Hagc , capable to receive fo great a Monarch , as well becaule of its feat , being fcituatedin the fairefl: place of the Town, and chief a venue of the Palace, to which the Viver ferves for Mote ; as becaufe of the decoration of its apartments- in one of which , he caufed to be reprefented the Princes of his Houfe , one of the moft ancient and mod illuftrious of all Ger- many , which would chufe there an Emperour, in a time, when there was none to be found in the other families 5 There was but that Prince , Ifay , who willing to acknowledge the honour he had received at home 5 and , at the fame time , to officiate with his Majefty for his Electoral Highnefs of Brandenburg, made him alfo a complement upon his voiage. His Majefty received him perfectly well , did him civility in his particular , fpeaking very advantagioufly .of the merit of hisperibn, and thanking him for the affection which he would exprefs unto him:but it was with an extraordinary refentment , that the King fpake of that which the Duke of Brandenbourg had had for the eftate of his affairs , when all the world believed them defperate ; and fiiid , that lie would conferve eternally the remembrance of the good B b offi- 9$ A Journal of the Voyage Officers which his fblendid Efehnefs had rendred him in the Empire , and of the great obligations which he would gain upon him in a time , when there was no Prince , almoft , that dared to declare for his interefts. M Coyet, who had fainted their Royall Hignefles fomc daies before ,nnd had had a particular conference with the Chan- cellour, contented himfelf to (ignifie to his Majefty , by Sir Edward Nicholas , that he would not trouble him , among fo many other complements, which he should have to receive, becaufe the King., his Matter , would not fail to (end an Extra- ordinary Embafladour to felicitate his Majefty , folemnly , in his Kingdom , as fbon as the diftance of the places would per- mit the advertifement of hisre-eftablishment tote carried into Sweden. rbeEiiam ^ Ut tne Eftates General , who had received an honour, whofe fjkiLn memor y shall be eternally pretious to potterity , thought them- t'alol"* ^ ves bound to acknowledge it , in going , in body , to thank his Majefty for the grace he had done them.-and to complement him upon his voiage. They were there , as we now fay , in body , and in the fame order as at their firft audience ; and the Baron of Gent, who uttered the fpeech eight daies before , was the Orator alfo this time,and fpake thus. SIR, fhe spe^b The Eftates General of the United Provinces , having been °Gmu advertifed from your Majefty , that you purpofe to embark to i 5 morrow , to compleat your voiage for England , return here J? again , to receive the honour of your commands on the point » , of your departure. If your Majefty finds not on their faces the > i fame cheerfulnefs , which you might obferve there , when they » » had the honour to come to falute you at your arrival , it is be- caufe of the forrow they have to fee themfelves ready to be de- prived of the fplendour of fo fair a light , which your Majefty ,, hath made to shine in their Eftate, during the little time you „ would remain there. That which comforts them , Sir, in > > fome kind , is , that they know , that the interefts of your Ma- , ., jefty prefs your departure • and the good of the affairs of your Crown 5> J 5> Of the King of Great Britain. C9 Crown , permits you not to defer it longer. Not with (landing, M the little refidene'e which it hath pleafed vour Majeftv to make amousft ns . and the goodnels , wherewith you would receive the indcavours we have made to be able to pleafe you , leaves 9y there (uch fignal, ftrongand indubitable marks of your good JS will towards us , that we shall blefs , eternally , for it the pro- 5 , vidence, to which we ow thofe incomparable advantages. The prefence of your Majefties (acred perfon , in their affembly, }> Sir , and the obliging expreffions, which your royal mouth , would make in their Senate , are fuch evident teftimonies of the s , difpofition which you have to honour this Eftate with your Roy- it al good will,that they deferve that all pofterity should find them „ written in Letters of Gold , in their regiftcrs , as we have deeply ,. graven them in our hearts. I f the entertainment which hath been 99 made to your Majcdy ; and which it hath pleafed you to accept in }y ib ingaging a manner , hath no proportion with the greatnefs of fo potent a Monarch, we befeech you mod humbly , to believe that this defect proceeded! rather from the indigence of our „ country , then from the will of the inhabitants ■ in whofe ac- „ clamations and joy,we are perfwaded that your Majeily may ob- 5? ierve viubly the zealous devotions , and ardent prayers , they „ put forth unto Heaven for the profperity of your affairs , and for „ the glory of your Majefties perfon. -And fince the Eftates Ge- „ neralare,throughan indifpenfable neceftlty ,to be deprived cf the ., precious prefence of your Ma] efty, they will accompany,at lead, „ your perfon with their prayers , which they will make mcef- „ fantly , that the fea and winds may favour your paflage , and ,, make you happily to arrive at the haven of your Kingdom, that „ calm and quietnefs may be open unto you , after that dorm and „ temped, had fomiferably held it shut to you fo many years. ., As (bon as the Eftates General shall have understood , that your „ Ma jefty is landed , they will not fail to fend to you their Extra- ,, ordinary Embafladours , as well to finish , with you , in your 5 , Kingdom , the offices which they have begun here , as to re- „ ceive and make more particular overtures in the important fub- „ jed of an alliance, whereof it had pleafed your Majefty to touch „ Bb 2 here ICO A JOURNAL Or THE VOY AGE here fomethms in general ; being ready to ailfwer , of their fide i the ^ood arid fincerc intentions, whereof you had the goodnefs to give fiich great afiurances 5 becaufc that with the afrectiori which we have for the good of your affairs, we have alfo a moll deep refpect for the facred character of your unction , and for the incftimable merit of your Roya! perfon. The Kihpf did but confirm , bv his anfwer , the affurances he had already given of the amitv he had promifed to conferve for this Common- wealth; and theunparailel'd advantages which the Eilate should find in the alliance which they may rehue with England ; thanking them alfo for all the civilities they had done him , fince the time he entred into the country. The Eftates General being retired , the King imploied the reft of the day in viiits of taking leave : The' firft he made , was to the Queen of Bohemia , his Aunt , where he ftaied not long. Coming forth thence ,he went to the houfe of the Princefs Dow- ager of Orange ; where he found aifo the Princefs of Nafiau, and the Yoiing Lady of Orange , her daughters. The converfa- tion which he had with her Highnefs , was more then a good half hour , which was imploied , not only in civilities ordina- rily practifed among perfons of that condition; but alfo , (as the wit of this Princefs is capable of the greateft affairs) in a very ferious difcoiirfe on the prefent Eilate of Europe , and on the moft important interefts of its Princes , whereof she hath a moft perfect knowledge. She had received the King on the (lone flairs of the Court , and intended to wait on him even to his Coach ; the King oppofed it, and protefted , that he would ne- ver receive that honour from a Princefs , whom he efteemed no lefs for her merit , then for her birth , and quality; but the Princefs infilled therein fo ftrongly , that it was impoffible , for the King , to overcome her civility , though at every flep , and at every apartrnent, he indeavoured to hinder her. Btit,indeed, she reconducted him , with the Prince ffes her daughters, to the fame place where she received him ■ and retired not, till she law the coach go away , as she did at the firft vifit. After this the King went to fee the Princefs Royal , who prefented him many Of The Ki&g of Great BkitainL \a\ many perfons of condition , cither to recommend them , or to take leave. He fbied there untill flipper time , whil'ft the wa- gons , which the Eftates had hired had brought the baggage to Scheveling,where they embarked it , as loon as it came. At evening , M r of Wimmenum laying hold of the occafion which the King gave him , in fpeaking of the tef limonies of af- fection which the Eftates of Holland had rendred him , laid to his Majefty , that the intention of the Lords the Eftates of Hol- land , was to do fomething more, if there were atiy rarities in ■ their Eftate that might be prelented to fo great a Prince. Not- ^*£ withftanding , that they would give themfelyes the liberty to f^f,, caule him to be accommodated , and to lend him , on the firft tb A D t es , occafion , fome Prefents , which they would befeech his Ma- f e ^°- jefty to confider , as proofs of their good will, rather then as effeds of their power. The King would put if off, in faying , that he needed no other afturancesoftheafteclion of the Lords the Eftates of Holland , then thofe they had given him on this prefetit occafion 5 that he was fatisfied therewith , and thanked them , not only for the effects pafs'd . but alio for the good will they exprefted unto him for the future. Thofe Prefents which they had defigned for him , were not yet ready , as wel becaufc the ftately bed of the Princefs Royal,which was to make a part of them, was not yet perfected; as becaufe they knew not vet what his Majefty would like mod: Therefore was it that M 1 of Wim- menum would infift no more therein ; but went from thence to the Houfe of the Duke of York j to whom he faid, that the Lords the Eftates of Holland, willing to give fome mark of their affe- ction to his Royal Highnefs , had fought every where for fome- thing that might be worthy of him , and that having found no- thing becaufe of the Imall relidence which his Majefty, and the Princes his brothers , had made in the country , and yet not able to relblve themfelves to let his Royal Hi^hnels depart [ without giving him ateftimony of their relped and good will,they pray- ed him to accept a bill of Exchequer of leventy five thouland Gilders, which make feven thouland pounds , which he might caule his Trealurer to receive, either at prefcnt in this Town , of M Berckel, Receiver General of the Province,or at London, or C e elfe- T/jc King departs 102 A Journal of the Voyage elfe where , for no body will refufe to give it immediately. The Duke received the bill with many teftimohies of acknowledg- ment ; and fignified that it was without repugnance that he char- ged himfelf with this obligation towards the Lords the FftateS; The Duke of Giocefter , to whom M r Wimmcnum prefented alfo a bill of a like fum , received it alfo very kindly, and thanked the Lords in mod obliging terms. The Lords the Eflates of Hol- land had alfo dengue d a Prefent, to the value of four thoufand Gilders, for my Lord Craft,one of the four Gentlemen of the Bed- chamber , that brought them into the audience of the King ; but they deferred to give it him, for the fame reafon,that made them defer the King's, becaufe a chain of gold of that price could not be made in f b few daies. A t this time the daies were at their full length , and yet it may from tk be faid, that not only the Hague faw Wednefday, the 1 of June, fome thing more early then the Sun • but alfo , that there was, in a manner , no night between Tuefday and Wednefday. parti- cularly for thofe, who finding no hole to put their heads, becaufe the houfes not being able to lodge the crowd of people, which ran there from all the neighbour Towns , the moft part were conftrained to walk the ftreets. There was no night for more then fifty thoufand perfons , who from the precedent evening were gone to take up place on the Downs , or fand-hils , which border on the fea along the coaft of Holland,from whence they might difcover the Fleet , and from whence they intended to fee the Kin? to embark. The Boute^felle awaked the Cavalle- ry before day . and at two a clock in the morning , infteadof the Moon , Drum did beat the a(Temble,as well for the Citizens as for the fbuldiers. In the King's houfe it felf , every one was impioied, the whole night, in cauflng the reft of the baggage to be loaden, and fent away • and there was feen nothing but Wa- gons, and Coaches full of English , who went to embark them- {elves before the barks appointed for his Majefties fervice, were pofleffedbv his domeftick people and fervants, who were to attend upon his perfon. The Citizens came together at their ordinary rendezvous of the Viverberg,and the Regiment of the Guards in the outer-Court, commonly called Buitenbof^ and both one Of the King of Great Britain. 103 one and t'other marched from thence to Scheveling,where they flood in Batalia , on the fea shore, from both fides of the Battery of the Cannon,which was brought there from the Ha^ue. The King was foon ready , and received the fubmiilions and complements of many particular perfons , that would do him reverence , in expecting the Eftates of Holland \ who had cau- fed audience to be asked , to take leave in body. They came about eight a clock in the morning to the Hall , where they had received the King's vifit , the day before \ and went from thence to Prince Maurice his houfe, in the fame manner and order , as they obferved , when they made him their firft com- plement. A 11 the perfons of quality that were about his Maje- fty , came to meet them , and condu&ed them to the chamber where the King had given the mod part of his publick audien- ces. The Penfionary Councellour , who his the organ , by which this great body ufeth to exprefs it felf,and who had place, becaufe of that , immediately after the Nobles , and before the Deputies of the towns , (pake neer in thefe terms. If one may judge of the difpleafure which we have to fee pet your Majefty depart from our Province , by the fatisfa&ion we have had to polfefs you , we shall have no great trouble to make it known unto you. Your Majefty might have obferved, in the countenance of all our people , trie joy they had in their hearts to fee amongft them a Prince cherished of God , a Prince wholly miraculous , and a Prince that probably is to make a part of their quietnefs and felicity. Your Majefty shall fee prefent- ly all the ftreets filled , all the waies covered, and all the hils loa- den with people, which will follow you even to the place of your embarkment- and would not leave you,if they had wherewith to pafs them into your Kingdom. Our joy is common unto us with that of our Subjeds 5 but as we know, better then they, the inefti- mable value of the treafure which we poMefs,foare we more fen- fible of this fad feparation. It would be infupportable to us, Sir, if we re-entred not into our felves, and confidcrcd not,that it is the thingof the world we moft defired,and the ereateft advantage alfo that we could wish to your Majefty. We acquiefs thcrein,becaufe we know that this removal is no lefs neceffary for us, then glori- Cc 2 ous of If Mr. di r. 3> 5> 104. A Journal of the Vovage n ous to your Majedy, and that it is in your Kingdom that we rriufl , find the accomplishment of the prayers we have made,and make , ftill for you and us. So we shall not fail to profit thcnce,as well as ? from the aifurances which it hath pleafed you to give us , of an 5 immutable affection for the good of this Republick. We render 9 mod humble thanks unto your Majedy for them , and partial- 5 larly for the llluftrious proof,which it pleafed you to give lis there - , of, by the glorious vifit, wherewith you honoured our aflembly. o We shall conferve the memory of it mod dearly , and make the } marks of that goodnefs to pafs to oiir lad pofterity-to the end,you acknowledge it with the lame refpecr. , with which we have re- ceived it. The conftitution w T hcrein w r e fee your Majedy ,ready to take horfe for the continuation of your voiage , forbids us to enlarge our felvesupon afubjecl which would never weary us,if we had words conformable to our refpecrful fentiments. But we have no mind to increafe the jud impatience w T hich your Maje- dy should have to fee your felf returned into your Kingdom. We ? pray God,S 1 R,that it be quick,and happy , and that,as he hath di£« poied the hearts and affections of your fubje&s to acknowledge ? their lawfull and foveraign Prince, it will pleafe him alfo to com- 9 mand the fed and winds to favour your voiage ; to the end,that af- ter you have received on your own coad the fame prayer which we shall reiterate , you may enjoy in your royal perfon , and in your poderity forever,all the felicity and profperity, which your mod humble fervantsUwish unto your Majedy. The King thanked the Lords the Eftates of Holland for the civilities they had done him , during the refidence he had made in their Province, as alfo for the affe6\ion they had exprefled un- to him by the prayers they made for the fuccefs of his voiage , and profperity of his reign. He promiied them alfo, that he would not only continue to live with that Republick , m a per- feci: good correfpondence ; but would alfo take a great pleafure to make a good and mod "{freight alliance with it. After this , the King , who daied but till this complement was ended, went forth of his chamher-at the lame time the Edates of Holland retired. He took his way to the Princefs Royal her apart- ment, whom he would vifit at home j before he took horfe • and feeing The Kino- »f TiiE King of Great Britain 105 feeing that the Lords the Eftates conduced him , he would not be covered from his houfe to the chamber of thePrincefs Royal, where being come,the Eftates retired.to take coach , when they faw the King to go a horfe back. The con verfation which h is Ma jefty had with the Princefs, was but a moment ; for immedi- ately after,he went thence,and came down into the Court of the Palace, where he mounted a horfe back , with the Princes , his $££& brothers, and took his way for Scheveling with the report of the great artillery, which thundred from the Rampire, marching' in the mid'ft of thofe two Princes , and having before him the Prince of Orange, accompanied with Prince William ofNaffau* Governour of Freefland, with M r of Waflenaer.Lieutenant Ad- miral of the Province, and with many other perfons of condi- tion . The Queen of Bohemia, the Princefs Royal, the Princefs Dowager, and the Princeffes, her daughters, took coach, as well as the Eftates of Holland, who would accompany him , in body, even to the place of his embarkment. The Embaffadours , and other Minifters of forraign Princes,who fent not there their coa- ches for the fame reafon that had difpenfed them thereof at the entrance,and almoft all perfons of condition,took the a van tguard, and difpofed themfelves along the coaft, where the Citizens* the Horfe,and the Regiment of the Guards,ftood in Battalia. A great part of the inhabitants, of the neighbour Towns , were there al- ready ,and thofe that came not forth of the Hage,early in the mor- ning, or the night before, followed the Royal Perfons,info great a multitude,that that place, which is very populous,and could not lodge the people that were come there from all places of the Pro- vince , was abandoned , and converted into a defart, in very few hours. As foon as they faw the King to appear on the hill,which covereth the village of Scheveling, on the fea fide, the Cannon, which was tranfported,twodaies before,from theViverberg,upon the ftrand,faluted him with its whole battry, which ceafed not to shoot continually,untill being drawn off from thofe coafts,could fee no longer the honour they indeavoured to render him. The Citizens and the Guards anfwered thereunto with their vollies of Musket shot, and the Cavallery-with their Carbines, and invited thereby the Fleet to make all their artillery to thunder,which af- Dd ter \o6 A Journal of the Voyage ving lightened the air, filled it with fo thick a fmoak, that thofe great floating Caftles , difappeared in a moment to the eys of thofe that were on the land. The King being alighted,received the laft complement of the Lords the Eftates of Holland, (who had conducted him,in body, to the very brink of the fea,and left him Deputies to conduct him to his ship ) by the mouth of the Penfionary Councellour. His Majefty next took leave oftheDukeofBrunfwick-Lunenbourg, of the Princefs Dowager ofOrange,of the Princefs of NaiTau,and of the young Lady of Orange , her daughter, and of all the other perfons of quality ,which could not follow him,or might trouble him in waiting on him to theFleet.-There were none but his nea- reft relations, the Queen of Bohemia,the Princefs Royal,and the Prince of Orange,that conducted him aboard the Admiral ship, m im- w hich was to pafs him into England. The Eftates of Holland had caufed one of the greateft barks of the place to be fitted for the Royal perfons. The body of the veflel was garnished with Tapi- dry, its Maft carried the Royal Flag,and its yards were loaden with garlands,and crowns of verdure and flowers,amongft which there was one faftned, accompanied with a ftreamer, which carried for Devife y £ho fas & fata,to denote,that the King,in embarking him* felf,went to the place where the jufticc of his caufe,and the provi- dence of God called him,and to allude to the ordinary Motto of the Kings of England , Dieu & men droicl. The King entred there CO o with all the Roy alFamily-but feeing a shallop to approach cove- red, glafed and tapiftred which the Admiral Montague had fent from aboard him , as foon as he faw the King to appear on the Strand, he entred into her , and the Queen of Bohemia followed him. This Shallop was accompanied with many others,and was rowed with oars, by the fea men, who feeing themfelves in pof- feflion of their SoveraignPrince,made the whole neigbour shore to refound with their shouts ; and expreiTed their joy by all the marks that could be required from perfons of that quality : fome in calling their caps up into the air , and others , in cafting them into the fea , to which fome like wife abandoned their doublets and waftcoafts. The Lord Montague,who had changed the Flag of the pretended Republick , before he departed from the coaft of Ji— £J Of the King of Great Britain. 107 of Eiigland,and born that of the three Kingdoms, whil'ft he was in the rode 5 feeing the King to approach,caufed the Royal Flag to be put to the main maft,and to the Caftle of the poop, and recei- ved his Majefty, with the greateft fubmiflion , that could be ren- dred to a Prince , at the top of the ladder, by which one goes up unto the ship. The King rendred him all the teftimonies of good- nefe and affection, which he could expect from a Soveraign,who acknowledged perfectly the important fervices he had done him, as having been one of the moil powerful inftruments of his re-eftablishment , whereof he had given him aflurances long be- fore ; and a mod certain proof,when he departed from the Sound, upon the King's orders,to favour the defign of Sir George Booth, who had taken arms for the fervice of his Majefty,under pretence of demanding the convocation of a free Parliament. It was paft eleven a clock when the King arrived at the Fleet, fo that as foon as his Majefty was never fo little difinga- ged of a part of thofe that would follow him to the ship , he put himfelf at table in the gallery of the poop, with the other Royal Perfons , and caufed fbme perfons of condition , and the mod confident of his Majefty, to be entertained in the other apart- ments . the Lord Montague making as fair an expence at this repaft , and at all the others following , as at this* paffage of the King, which was but of two daies , he imploied more then two thouland Jacobufles, though the Lords the Eftates had provided his ship,and the reft of the Fleet, with all kinds of provifions,and refreshments neceflary, beyond what needed for fo little a paflage. After dinner , the King received again the laft complements of fome particular perfons , exprefs'd great civility to the Deputies of the Eftates of Holland, ( for whom M r of WafTenaer, Lieute- nant Admiral of the Province,uttered the fpeech) and fent them away with new proteftations of affection and amity. The Sea was calm, and the Heaven fo cleer , that the King had a defire to difcover once again a Country, where he had received fo many teftimonies of refpeCt and love : to this purpofe he went up on the top of the poop , and feeing that the people, with which he had left the Downs covered , remained there ftill , he could not chufe but fay ,that he muft confefs, it was impoffible that his own Dd 2 fob- to8 A JOURNAL OF THE VOYAGE* if iubjecls could have more tendernefs for him,then thofe people^ on whoie arlecxions he (aw that he reigned no lefs , then he was some to rci^n on the wils of the English. After this, he embraced the Prince or Orange , with the fame- tendernels, as he could have had for his own Son , and gave him his bleffing; and took leave of the Queen of Bohemia. But when he was to depart from the Princefs Royal,his Sifter,thatPrincefs, w T ho had with fa much courage, and without grief almoft, look'd all pafs'd misfortunes in the face, and who had vertue enough, to fortifie that of her brothers , had need of all his conftancy, to re- folve her felf,to fuffer this feparation,whichshe had wished with fo much impatience ,and whofe confequences wxreto be fo glo- rious both to one and t'other. The King himfelf , who had had refolution enough,to witnefs no weaknefsin hisgreateft misfor- tunes , cannot refift the tears of a Siller , whom many other con- fiderations,as ftrong as thofe of birth render extreamly dear unto him.She would have been inconfolable,but for the hope she had to fee again shortly the King,her brother,in his Kingdom- and they would have been troubled to difingage her from the arms of his Majefty , if Admiral Montague had not caufed the ankors to be weighed, and given (ignal to the other ships to fet fail. The Ad- miral ship was already under fail for England, when the Queen of Bohemia, the Princefs Royal, and the Prince of Orange , def- cended into the Bark , which was to bring them back again to the land All the artillery of the Fleet , faluted thofe Royal Per- fbns , and the Battry of the Downs anfwered it , with the fmall shot of the Citizens and Guards. It was about four a clock in the after-noon,that the Fleet did fet fail, and about fix a clock, it was gotten fo far of,that the people/which ftir'dnot from the Downs, having loft fight of it , retired themfelves , whil'ft the King con- tinued his way towards his Kingdoms,with the fame profperity, which was feen lately to accompany all his affairs. F I N I S. ?C9 THE DEPUTIES OF THE ESTATES of Holland complement the King at Delf. Pa<* 3 d Hat's this we fee prefented to the ey In fucli a neat , and handfoni Symetry ? Let us furvey the Peece in every part , And then pafs fentence on the Gravers art: Behold a Town here which is known to be Famous of old for many things , which we Would inftance largely here i if we had room * But being tied to an Epitom , We can but touch ; furely the fite is fweet s The buildings well compos'd in every ftreet , And regular , its priviledges great , And which is more, it is the ancient Seat Of the Auranian Princes , t'is their Tomb , Their Monument , where they mult ileep till doom $ 5 Tis called Delf, and if you think it fit, We'll add the Fair, as its jufl: Epithet; Here did th* Eftates firfl: iri moll: Princely wife Receive the King by their chief Deputies ; Here you may fee their humble poflures , and Their lowly reverence , when they kifs his hand « And from their Body thank him for the grace They did receive to fee him in that place , And next at home , where to conduct him , they Were come expreft on this their Holy-Day : All this , and more is with the Gravefs knife Carv'd , as in colours done , unto the life ; The Steel , and Pencil have not differ'd here , If one draws fmooth , the other cuts as c'leer ; Now give your cen{ures> and your judgments right. Can any thing exceed this black and white ? Will. Lower.-. Ee A no A POETICAL DESCRIPTION Of the Batavian Court. Pag; 3 4. Ehotd a Royal ProfpecT: , here 's a Wood i 'Fair Palaces , and in the mid'fl a Flood , Now calld the Owned Vwer , fincc the beams Of Majcdy fo richly gilt its dreams: The Graver hath done wonders ; let us ftand Fird on the Place t and yicw that peece of land Adjoining to't , that fweet and Princely Grove The Viverkrg, or rather Walk of Love , Where our fcorch'd Gallants, to avoid the Sun When the Dog reigns, under its shadows come To cool their heats , and pittifully meet With fiercer dames, which from the windows creep Into their fouls on either fide the Stream , Fird the Court ey , and then the Country beam Make maflacres of mifcrable hearts > Which from all quarters feel thofe flaming darts, And fall as bleeding Victims do: But we Stay too long here , what is that houfe we fee So fair, is't not the Doel, that (lately Inn , Where Gameders come , with an intent to win , And to be rich , but oft go beggar'd thence , A place , indeed , of a brave vail expence , Where the Town meets , and fometimes quaff a health Unto the Prince \ th' Edate , and Common-wealth : Let's proceed further, and obferve that row Of bcautious buildings , much , indeed , I ow To their rich merit , but I cannot day , Prince Maurice Palace calls my thoughts away, To contemplate its beauties, and the rare Magnifick druclure , which may well compare With any modern Work, in all refpects Of the bed , and the skilfull'ft Architects ; But its chief glory is that it can fay , It lodged him, whom Nations mull obey, Great Ill Great Bri tains King : Let's make but one ftep more , And only look upon the Court before We take our leave, here do the Prince and States Meet, and rcfolve on all their wile debates, Here is their Councel , here their Residence , Here is their gain , and here is their expence ; Our furvey's ended , we have gone the round •, It refleth only that the Peece be crOwn'd. WILL; LOWER. THE GREAT FEAST 7 be Eft/ites of Holland made to the King , and to the Royal family. Pag. fro. HP He Roman Story tells us that the feafts J Lucullus made to entertain his guefts Were fuch , and fo prodigious , that the Sea, The Land , and Air, were emptied every day, To ferve his table with all delicates Of Fish, of Flesh, of Foul, and dainty cates; Great Matter of the mouth , voluptuous Lord , Had'ft thou liv d now to fee this Princely bord , This ftately and magniflck fervice here , Thou would'ft cry out , mine was but homely cheere, This a repaft for pallets all divine As thole that fit here in thefe orbs , and shrine 5 Rap'd too with admiration , thou would'ft fay That all the Elements do drive to pay A voluntary tribute to th' Ettates, Of their mod rich , and choiceft delicates ; And that their fin'd , and winged fubjecls all Offer themfelves in facnfice 5 and fall Into the dishes of their own accord , To furnish and adorn this Royal bord. What is there wanting here that may invite The quainteft and mod curious appetite ? Ladies feed freely , 'tis no mortal meat, Tis rather an Ambrofia that ye eat. Ee 2 VVil 1 11 Will you drink Nectar, Princes? here's a Wine That's richer , more delicious , more divine: Th' Italian Malvoify cannot compare With this rare ]uice lent down here from the air, To pleafe your tads , and to be fwallowed In every health drunk to the Crowned Head s The joyful thunder of th' Artillery Proclaims it louder then that of the Sky : The Violins , and other Inftruments ; Strike pleafant airs here to delight the fenfe In an harmonious confort , and the Spheres Defcend with Mufick to enchant thofe ears. WILL. LOWER, His Majcfty tahnghls leave in the Affemify of the Eflates General;. Pag. 90. SO look'd great Ca^far , when from his high Throne He would defcend fometime to honour Rome By fitting in the Senate ; but w T e fee Not the ieaft fign of any Sympathy Between thefe modern Hefo's here , and thofe Old Senators , w T hofe furly brows fpake foes Under a falfe refpect unto their King, Though his bright glory through the world did ring I 'Tis different here, thefe brave Eftates, though free* And Soveraign , pay yet humility , And lowly reverence i through a caridid love , Unto this Prince , as if he were their Jove , And they his fubjecls ; fee with what' refpects They entertain him by their iweet afpects , And fober poilures \ how they feem to fay , You shall rule here , Sir, and we will obey* Mount our Tribunal , all your words shall be Our Oracles. , and all your actions free , As faving to us , fince fo wife a King Draws them from perfect juftice , as their Spring, WILL. LOWER. s HIS MAJESTY TAKING HIS leave hi the Aflembly of the Efiates of Hoi land. Pag. 93. Trange revolution , Fare \ here's Monarchy In Councel met with Ariftocracyj Though different in themfelves , here they agree $ And by their pleafant geftures feem to be Unanimous in all things ; what the one Demands , the other grants , diviflon Is banish'd hence 5 here is all harmony \ Love , and alliance , perfect amity , A lading League reciprocally (ign'd By promifes , and both have but one mind , Though different bodies , and a different frame Of confutation , as a different name : In cordial terms here they congratulate Each others happy government and (late , Like twin-born brothers , they falute \ embrace \ The one vows fealty s and the other , grace: Long may they live united thus , and never By any chance in their affeelions fever 5 So shall they flourish both , grow great , and be Feared throughout the Worlds vaft Monarchy. - Wi l t. Lowe r- Ff ON T] H4- ON HIS MAJESTIES DEPARTURE from the Wage to bis Ffeet before Scb'eveling. Pag. 105. Hus from the Belgick States delicious Seat Triumphantly departed Chads the Great : The World affembled from all parts to fee This Monarch pafs unto his Dignity, The Continent could not contain the prefs Which crowded in all places to exprefs Their common joy j the Military Bands Of Horfe and Foot were ranged oh the fends To make a Royal Guard • young Mars flood by* * Tork ThTUuftrious * Dtike , who by* his hand and ey Gave full directions , all the Cannon were Difpos'd in order by his Martial care 3 The Sky was cleer , the Winds were ftill , the Sea Look'd like a fair Bride on her Marriage day , When from the Crowned Bark the King betook * lie Himfelf to Sea with * Her whofe only look Rojaf Can calm the Tempefts ; in the Skiff they went Sent from the Fleet ; the Seamens high content To fee their Soveraign cannot be exprefs'd But by their shouts ; the Seas moft loyal breaft Sweetly receiv'd its Mafter , the old * God Freely refign'd his trident Mace and Rod, To him who better could command and fway That Element ■: The gentle Dolphins play About the Boat , they dance in rounds , they skip s > And make a Sea-guard for him to his Ship. Thus was the King embark'd * when fuddenly The thunder of the Cannon shook the sky from Sea to Shore , the fmoak obfcur'd the Sun, And made a night ere half the day was done: Th' Artillery , and fmall shot on the Strand Mov'd the Sand-hills * and terrifi'd the Land , As if it felt an Earth-quake . but at laft AH this diffolv'd , and that' great Triumph paft When our bright Star, which grac'd the Belgick Sphere , Drew off from thence his clouded own to cleer. WILL: LOWER. *Ntpt ti5 AN ACROSTICK POEM. In honour of his Maje/iy. C all all thofe Sages, whofe extended hearts H eaven fils with li^ht in th' Aftrolocnck Arts ; A sk their opnions of this Monarch, they R eply , he's born the Llniverfe to (way, L ook on this calculation, read his Star, S even Planets here all in conjunction are : T hey fmile upon his birth , no rude jars here H inder his motions under any Sphere ; E xcelleht Afpe&s \ long live this great King S upreauPbf all , let his bright glory ring E ven round about that Globe held in his hand : C an earthly powers his conquering Arm withftand , r check his fortune , which the Stars proclaim ? N ot poffible, fince Heaven infpires his claim. D raw prefcntly with an immortal pen K mgs in their colours, fome quick Cherubin ; 1 n Characters drop'd drown fuitirig their fouls, N ote revolutions in thefe facred Rolls G ready to the advantage of bur State , f much import , to make us fortunate F or many years under this glorious Reign , G iving us hopes of th' golden A ge again. R eturn, return, divine A Area, now E nter our Land ; You shall not fee one brow ■ A mong fo many , furrowed with a frown ; T reafon is dead, and foul Injuftice down. B ehold our true Protedtour to his Ria;ht R eftor'd, th' Impoftour (links in blackeft Night: 1 uftice again is ieated in the Throne ? T id, and alli'd unto Religion, A nd wina'd with Wifedom, Policv and Art I n the Referve with Vertue have a part. N o powers of Hell shall ever shake this frame So well compos'd , but mutt retreat with shame. WILL. LOWER. u6 AN ACROSTICK POEM. On the mo(l Jllu(lrms and mojl Heroick Frince Tames Duke of York. j udicious Nature in this Prince's birth A dvanc'd her Work above a frame of earth , M akmg in him perfections all divine , E qually luftrous, as well thofe that shine S o fplendidly without , as thofe that be D early preferv d in his minds Treafury : U alour, and Conduct here hold equal ranks, K ings have receiv'd their fruits withhigheft thanks; E ach of his warlike aclions is adiwd O f all Heroick Princes , and defir'd , F or imitation fake, to b£ enrol'd Y early in leaves , and Letters writ with gold : O pen your curtains, all ye azure Spheres, R ap'd with his glory, ftrike our ravish'd ears K indly with mufick , whofe finest accents may Loudly proclaim fork's triumphs every day. AN ACROSTICK POEM In honour of bis Excellence the Lord General Monck, Duke of Alkmari \ £&. G reat Patron of this Ifle , George (tiled Saint , E nvy thou mayft in thy old Monument • O ur fecond Champion of that glorious Name, R ais'd by his acls to an immortal Fame , G lory thou hadft for quelling Monfters fell , * n* E ven fo hath this for fcattering * thofe of Hell. M arch bravely on , mount as thou haft begun O n vermes wings , and shine ftill ii\ the Sun 5 N ever eclipfe , nor fet , untill bright Fame C alls for a fecond Order of thy Name K ings may be proud to wear , when thou art dead , Since by the beft thou art fo honoured. Will. Lower; Rump \ A N G L I A TRIUMPHANS, sive m INAUGURATIONEM Serenissimi, potentissimi ac i n v i c t i s s i m i principis, C A R O L I II. DEi GRATIA MAGNA BRITANNIA* FRANClA ET HIBERNIA R E G I S, &c. F I D E I D E F E N S O R I S> &c. POEMATION' A U C T O R E ROBERTO KEVC HENIO, ]C° B E L G A. HAG^-COMITIS P £x Typographia ADRIANI VLACQ^ Anno Mc DC LX. C A R O L O. I I. DEL gratia; magna: britankii: f r a n c i a. et. hiberni R E G I. F I D E I. DEFENSOR!. TRIUMPH ATOR I. P I O. F E L I C I. A U G U S T O. & Egia jam tandem votis Famulantibus Orbi Numina, 5c indigetes radiant ad Sceptra Tiara: ^ Exorantque Deos : Superum Clementia Terris Annuit, & domito funis fataliblis Angfo . Infbntefque Rous , deploratumque reformat Imperium , &: fra£ta difcors Teftudine Regni Circumvallat Ebur : vetereique ulcifcitur iras. Nee jam Fat! Fidem , nee tollere celfius Orbis Vota queant : nee adorandi Sublimior Oftri Purpura Regalem fceptris oftendere Tantis Progeniem ; quam Se nunc Defenfore Stuarto Evehat , Alcidafque infra fe fpeclet inermes. Extulit Hxredem Solio Fortuna : Stiifque Tranfcripfit Carolum Regnis. Secura trumphoS Afpicit, unanimique favens Natura Bntanno Inchoat Auguftum radiis regalibus Ortum, Albionumque Diem » Thamefique afFundit Olymptim Luminibus., mtindique Deos & Numina, quam vis Aqua minus, pavida?quc tremant ad cuIminaMufe* Palladiofque procul fuperent Diademata falces. Maxime Rex , Non condignis , dum tolleris Qftro , Numen adorabo Veftrum fub hononbus : aut His Advolvar coram Iinperiis : Non thure Britannum Pancheo venerabor Ebur , flammifque fonantes Tot Sceptris adolebo rogos : Non a^mula Perils Dona litaturus veniam , aut cumulantibus Aulam Fulgidus ingrediar Trabeis , tantoque Triumpho Paffa , falutandis tangam Palatia Divis , Regalefque Thronos : Quin dedigiiata Tiaris Subfidit Sors noftra Tuis ; Solioque Stuartum (a) 2 Ter- 4 Robert i Keucheni i Terrkat horrentem inftaurans Reverentia Cyrrham, Dum Superum Te tollit amor , Cellumque Coronis Majcftas Tamefma Caput : dum coelitus aftris Prona Triumphantem rcfonant Te Nuniina Regem ; Anglicaque exertis radiant Diademata Sceptris : Dum C a r o l o fe pandit Ebur , rutilanlque Verendam Purpura Regali circumdat Corpore Pallam ; Tutatamque Fidem Proavis , venerandaque Regni Symbola , & auguftos longo capit ordine Fafces • Eloquar indignis tamen hxc precoma Mufis Advena ; Tergeminoque Decus fub murice fulgens Exemplo regnante canam 5 & fubve&us ovando Semideos inter, quamvis trans atquora, Patres, Eminus auguriis confors Regalibus omen Suffundam : Tantoque minus femotus ab Oftro Faufta Caledonio advolvam praelagia Regno. Viderat exa&o Fidei, titubantibus aftris, Defenforc , novis Solium confundere Turbis Rem Britonum : Summolque apices & culmina rerum Degeneres calcare Joves , fubvertere Cinnas , Defevire Seines, jam faftidire Superbos Motibus , & Divo Mariis turbantibus Aulam Sanguine fpumantem circum rubuifle fecurim : Inverfafti trepidare Tyrum , Populique Tribunal Tot Brutis jurafle nefas: cum Regia tandem Et Jurata Fides , veteri venerabile Regno Prcfidium, Redoris egens, Te Sofpite Sceptris Annuit, & laceri Corpus juvenefcere Regni Augufto nioderante jubet : Mox Celfius iftis Ominibus Diadema patet , Tantoque Triumphans Redditur lmperio Deus, & fub fafcibus Hacres Induit exutum fatis melionbus orbem : Tunc enfes ftupuere fen , ftupuere furores, Et dementatx jun&is Roftoribus uni Succubuere minx : Tunc imperterritus iris Pal- POEMATION. Palluit , &: Magno docuit parere Monarchy Mars Pater , atque alia illuxit Reverentia Luce ? Adventii gavifa Tuo , Regique li tames Convenere Dea:: quarum devota verendum Excipit Hxredem Pietas , Sacriftjud Deorum Imbuit, & magno exemplum fub Numine format; Huic comes auo-ufto incedens Clementia vultu* Parcere Subjeclis , & debellare Superbos Imperat, & geminis oftentans legibus enfem, Te veniam , Nemefinque pari diftringere Votb j Regis ad exemplum , Majeftatemqtie verendam Prona jubet: Varies mox involvuntur in ufus Agmina Virtutum. Infradta Metus exulat A ula: Ilium Relligio , Juftiqtie innixa columnis Calcat, Sdmpavidis urget Conftantia plantis, Dum Regno fua forma redit , clauftrilque foliita* Triftibus exfangues redeunt fub Vindice Leges. Haud aliter, quam cum fuperato Gorgone Perfeiis Tefribilis * domito Furiis lu&antibus ' Oreo ; Et fractis Erebi monftris , ja&antior alis tret , & a^therias Viclor confeehderet arces : Sic Superis, Augufte, Tuis fubvedus, iniquum Vis Regno trepidare nefas, faflitmque fubadis Exemplis horrere fcelus : formidine Poenas Exuis , & fblo quamvis liventia damnas Toxica contemptu, caftigandofque ferorum Confiliis {pernis major Regalibus aufiis : Et regno laudanda facis : jam clara Priorurri Excutitur Regum facies , & avita regendo Suppeditant exempla fidem : generofa S t ti A r t i s Sceptra prdbas , tantifque vigens Rectoribus oftrum j Et fortunatam Piroavis veneraris Iernem. Quaque tritimphatis Vidrix trans aequora terns Albion , & domitas pelago gens Martia claffes Stravit * & hoftilem toties turbavit Iberum , Celtarumque truces populos, tumidumque Garomnam, (b) Ef 6 Rob e rti Keuchen i i Etfurias, Normanne, Tuas- ereptaque Galhs Littora 5 pugnantes pro Libertate Siluras , Exutofque Tagi Dominos , flentemque Medinam , Maflagetumque feros amnios : qua Concafius armis Defmonio quondam fub bellatore rebellem Addidit imperio tradum : Regalibus hauris Expendens arcana Sacris , tantifque decorum Anticipas faftis precium , & meliore vagantem Fortunam ratione domas , mentemque per altos Dirigis annales Veterum. Jamque omina Regni Prolpicis , & ftudiis animum civilibus imples , Venturumque levas furiis fatalibus Anglum. Ac velut a^thereo rutilans prafulget ab axe Phofphorus , obdu&ifque polo micat altior aftris , Stellariimque choros ducit : Sic Pravius orbi Affundis regale jubar, fulgefque Serena Majeftate Pharos, Iftis Tua Lumina Terris Dividis , exemplis fervans communibus omnes. Quin ne prifca fuis defint rundamina normis , Voivis ad Aufonios Regum primordia faftos, Romulidumque facris incumbens legibus , aulis Ac regno fervanda notas • Jam fufpicis unum Relligione Numam, jamFundatoribus Ancum Annumeras , damnafque brevis compendia Tulli , Arcentemque diu paucis pugnantibus Albam Eximis , Argolicum Latia qui fubdolus arte Mifcuit ingenium , & vafros uxonus aftus Induit , indignum culpas moderamine Prifcum ; Nee quae Tarquinio nocuit fub conjuge , regni Pars Tanaquil placet : Infidum flat Foemina fceptris Nomen , cVoccultas interferit a:mula fraudes. Cum legis illuftrem circum juvenilia fiammam Tempora , nafcentis quondam prafegia Servi , Coeleftemque fidem : obfeuris qua Martia cunis Roma corufcantem regno inclarefcere Vernam Vidit, &: arternam moderari fafcibus Urbem: Com- P O E M A T I O hi-. ; Commences miraiida Deum , fed rcgna dolofis Infidiis quanta negas : quia cruda Superbi Coepta , triumphantem cedente papavere Virgam * Summorumque neces pcenis infontibus orbas Abnuis. Invifum format Vis publica Rcgem 5 Plus Proceres vindi&a, fuis fi fidere Reei Principibus, fulcrifque nefas ; Conf pe£tius illud In fe crimen habet vitium , quantoque relucet A kius , horrentes tan to plus explicat umbras. Nil Gracchis vacat alma Fides ; faftidis oyantes Eiffidiis , la?tos in feditione Tribunes i Pefpicis atroces gladiis in Cxfora. Brutos, Mox aufum Rubicone fcelus : fed facia Valentis Attilii , impavidofqlie probas duo fulmina belli , Scipiadas; Deciifque cupis pugnantibus orbem Credere , & infractum bellis civilibus Anglum. Sic antiqua Tuis regnorum exempla volutans ExordirisEbur, grandifque aborigine Sceptri Nomen honorandum Populis , 5c {anguine Regum Conficis : St Fama major fuccedis avitis Culminibus , nee ab his fancto moderamine differs , Par re£to , Par imperio , nee honoribus Impar : Sceptriferis : Jamque arma Fidem tutantia tractas , Ut juraffe Deo lex fit ; Populoque Triumphos Addixiffe Suo ; Martemque infignibus aufis Res Patria: ferat , & Magnum Virtnte Stuartum, Hoc difcis Re£l:orque doces : quanta coaclis Bella geri damnanda : Decus pofcentibus armis Explorare Ducem : Paci concedere Ferrum : Sat late regnare , Suos qui Juftus adunat Externis : Vaftum Imperiis fe pluribus Orbem Devincire , nee hunc uni fuccumbere Sceptro. Inde Tuo falvas cives , Te civibus , oftro ; Injuftamque domas Vim : Pro communibus arts Attollis vexilla : Focos defendere , caufam Bellandi non ira, Salus jubet •* Ictibus orbis (b) 2 Con- § Robert! KeUchenii Contundi fuprema caves , cV viribus Athlas Sxpc labafcentem vana formidine mundum Eximis , & cun&os humeris regalibus abdis. Dumque metus avertis ovans , iub Numine Regem Induis , & Soli fubdis Tua Sceptra Tonanti. Defpicis lnfaltus : Illi , quern perfida Regum Regna reformidant , dum fcis regnaffe Regentum * Exemplnm Te Regis habes : debebitur uni , Te Reclore , Deo j fi , qua Regnantibus itur > Extimeas conferre gradus , interque Supremum Numen agas , Tantumque Pius venerere Regentetru Quam Superis, Augufte, places \ quam fidere laeto. Reddefis Imperio , & Sceptris Venerable fulgens Exemplar Solio Proavum , Regumque Tians Affereris \ Tibi Pacatus defa^viit aether , Armata? ceflere hyemes : Tibi fevus Orion Condidit exutuiti furiis ultricibus enfem , Et formidatum monftris dominantibus aftrum, Fatalefque minas : Rcgique invifa * Deoque Robora fulmineo feriens Tirynthius i£tu Obruit : armato circum trux xgide Perfeus , Hie Tyrannorum domitor , dum grafidis Athlanturrl Vis pa vet , axjuatifque minus conftantior aufis Excidit j cethereo tumidos difcuflTit ab axe , Et conjuratos dextra deterruit ultor Debellante Gygas : Fugiunt trans a?quora gentis Relliquia: , quocunque Vices , dum Fata recufant , Seu gravis ira Deum , oftendent turbantibus undis Exitium. Vaftis pridem circumfluus iris Vota fremit Pelagi Deus, &: jam mancipat a:quor Obfequio , motofque jubet componere fludus. Quique cruentato , Regem indignatus 6c Aulam Gurgite defluxit Tamefis , Tibi lenior amnem Sternit , & arquato tranquillans murmur a juflu * Sceptra vocat , facilefque Deos : quin forfitan undis Extlit , & pronos intendit ad ofcula rructus, Et P b £ M A T I O R. 7 Et Regni pars grandis ovat. Quo nutnina vifa eti Erexifle caput bellatrix Anglia , concors SucceiTore tumet, plaufufque animofa Triumphis Confundit, Rex Magne, Tuis . l-xtiffinaa Sceptro Sufficit , unariimique fav'ens adfuefcit lerna Imperio, St Triplici diftin£tum murice Regeni Deflinat harredi felix falvantibus oftro A u guru's : circiim pelago qua fpeclat Olympurri Albion , c\i 'mcdiis ihcumbunt Orcades undis ; Qua procul arcanis abdit fe Scotia Sylvis \ itbudumque natat populus . quo Cambria tra&u Dives agri . gemirio fargunt fub climate gentes Grampiadum \\ paribus radiant Diactemata votis* Regnaque communi coram gratahHa Sceptro Exiliunt , tantifque parant prafagik cceptis. At nunc prona Tui Populi , applaudentibus aftris , Collige Vota, Pater* fauftiimque ordire Triumphans Augurio gratante diem : Te, Maxime Victor , Tolle Throno ; cape Sceptra Deurn \ Tantifque verenduni Fafcibus inftaura Numen : dum coelitus i£xher Annuit , 6t grandi fua Sidera deftinat oftro : Ilia Triumphales rutilant fulgentia Currus \ Ac velut augufto quondam micrantibus Ortu Pra?lufere polo radiis ., Celfomque Stuar Sii Progeniem, Magno natum de Numine Regem^ Excepere Deum Ixtis fulgoribus aftro^ Londino fpe&ante Faces : Sic gaudia Sceptris Adgeminant nunc fefta Tuis , & fidere juncto Regia coeleftes radiant ad Luiilina gemma?. Ipfa Serehatum nebtilis abfolvit Olympum Publica Lux , dum Majeftas Se Publica mundo Commodat , & Sociunl Phoebo confundit honoreni $ Aftrorum Rex Clarus ovat, dum clarior Orbi Rex vacat • &: Sdlio fulget Sublimis avito : Undique moerentes Cceli indulgentia nubes Exuit, & nitidis inter diademata ftellis fc) Ex- lO ROBERTI KEUCHENII Expandit Natura polos . Rutupinaque circum Littora in oppofitum diffundit lumina Belgam, Vicinofque ciet Populos , &: arnica Tiaris Nomina : dumque novos animat fub Rcge Brigantas , Nos tacitos moerere vetat $ magnumque putamus Cum Regno gauderc decus. Tu frafta Tyrannis Anglia , regali fupplex advolvere Pompa? , Ft vcterem circumda humero Latiffima pallam , Signatamque Rofis Geminis fuperindue Regi Gratatura Stolam : Tecum devota Caledon Accedat fluidis , Hbans fua dona , lacernis , Fcecundas Telluris opes : Hax Sceptra S t u a r t i s Progenuit , Tantofque Deum de Sanguine Reges. Tertia Regalis pars Majeftatis Ierne > Tot Populis animofa , procul famulantibus undis Supplicet , & fociis inclinet flumina regnis : Adftent condecores votis fpumantibus amnes, Aufoba , pacatoque rueris fub murmure Duris Unanimes confundat aquas ; plaudenfque boando Argita, belligerum ripis fervilibus hoftem Conciliet , rapidoque undantem vortice Senum , Liberiumque fuis felix involvat alumnis t Tuque refultantem confer Sabrina Tua^dam, Vindiciafque adverte Tuas. Decorique Supremum Obfequium dona Regali , oftroque Verendum Numinis Haredem concors venerare Stuartum, Ite triumphantes pariter : Sit debita Tellus Quxlibet , & quantum Proavis concept Honoris , Reddite Regnantis Solio. Vos a?qua Leonis Foedera , Belgarum Patres ; dum regia Pompam Londinum , grandifque parat vadimonia Sortis : Salvantes conferte fonos : interque Potentum Agmina , Semideumque choros confundite plaufiis • Feftaque Ter gem ino coram (uffragia Sceptro. Tuque adeo Regale , Brito, dum Numen adoras ; Hunc Ilium reverenter habe, quern cernis,Athlantem, Regno- PoeMation. n kegnomm fublime Caput t Dis Regibus ortum Ter Fidei venerare Partem : famulantibus aftris Pro Carolo inflaurans Carolum , nunc altior Ifto Coelitus exaclos pod Defenfore Tyrannos , Sceptriferum dum condis Ebur, Solioque reducis Aucniftos Proavum numerofo Rege Stuartos- Excute Tarquinios faftis regdibus hofteis , Fa&aque , fortunafque Virum : & fub Numine Tanto Rcgia proftratis iterum Diademata taonftris Irradient : Trino rutilec Reverentia Sceptro, Majeftatis amor : Longum furialibus armis Indefcnfa Fides , tandem tutantibus orbi Defunet Invictum faufto hioderamine Martem * Tot Regum PraJuftre Jubar : divulfaque regno Sceptra, Coronato parens fubmittere Regi Geftiat, atque Uni fafces advolvere Dextrc. Afpice fatales foliis vernantibus illo Ut coeant fub Rege Rofe : civilia rurfum Symbola foecundis portendant otia fcclis.j Ipfa Caledonias focians Teftudine Gentes Arclius unanifties Proceruiii Conftantia jungat Obfequiofa manus , exultabtindaque paffim , Qua graditur , feftis circumferat omnia votis Re&ori gratanda fuo : Qua; numine Divum Erigitur , tantoque tumet fiilgentior ortu , Trans Tamefin digno fub Regnatore Poteftas j Difcat honorandis Solio debere Deorum Cultibus : Augufta: Supplex adfucfcere Stirpi , Evitare minas : Tanto nos credimur Orbi , Atque eadem Belga? Sors eft , qua: falva Britannis, Noftra Triumphanti concors affibilat Anglo Libertas , pelagoque Potens fub Vindice pugnat Rege Leo ; ternifque juvat (eptemplice Telo Confentire Rofis. Fidei Par Numen adorac Res Concors , Secura Domi , Si Libera Septo Sufficit, atque uno imperium moderamine firmat, (c) 2 Qui ti RobertiKeuche^ii Qui, Genitor Britonum fatis falvantibus Ha^res Celiius evehitur , Trino Auguftiffimus Qitro « Grande Patrocinium Belga: eft : Quo fofpite nobis Continuat Fortuna foris , pcbgoque potentes Imus in oppofitos Regum ludibfia faftus , Et dcbellandos Ixtis arceflimus hofteis J Aulpiciis : Salva fub Majeftate triumphant Foedera Belgarum : & Tanti Spes Celfa Leonis Junior Aunacx erigitur Dux Stirpis Jiilus Exemplo formante Virum : Prastextaque fervet Martia Naffavios eonfummatura Parentes Aufibus , 6c dignis Proavum contendere gefiis. At Tu , Grande Decus j Fama? Pars altera , Monckij Inclyte Cundator Britonum > quo Vindice Regno tarta Salus ; Te tot Fabiis pta?luftribus a?tas Pofthuma i magnanimis feret exa:quanda Camillis Gloria : Tu Populo non indignantibus armis Eripis imperium ; Tu Regno Sceptra Jovenique Concilias ; magno Solium damnante tumultu Luclantes animos , tempeftatefque fonoras Difcutis , elapfamque fuo moderamine Gentem Fafcibus inftauras : Per Te languere Potentum Con (ilia , & pavido mutans Vis Perfida Sceptro Succubuit dominis Scelerum : Tu fubvenis Orbi, Quailatumque dm dubiis Recloribus Anglum, Totque truces Regni ruituro culmine motus Solus ad obiequium , majeftatemque reducis PervigiL Inverfis parent Tentoria fignis , Caftraque regali tollunt faftigia juftu , Mutatifque Ducum juxta ftant agmina turmis. Te Duclore fuis Mars impavidiiTimus armis Creditur excuflam monftns trepidantibus Uni Conjurafle Fidem Carolo : generique rigentes Exploraffe manus : quin Defenforibus Iftis Obftrinxiffe ferum tutandis Vinbus enfem , Et Dominis cellifle lubens. Tunc undique bella Sub- Rob. Keuch. Poemation. 13 Subfedere ; vago pafllm Difcordia mundo Exuit armatas fra&o molimine partes : Regalefque procul Borea melioribus aftris Diffugere mina? , &; circum furialibus armis Profcripfit Bellona moras : Qua: nnper Ibero Militat adverfis concors fecedit ab armis Gallia , certatimque alio fub foedere differt Martis opus : cunfto fpecies practenditur Hofti , Diffimulatque fuos anceps Europa furores. Per Te tuta novo rediit Fiducia Regno , Dum novitas obverfa labat ; civilia Gentis Aquora divulfis fidunt contraria Turbis , Infultufque ruunt rabidi : Spes redditur Orbis Imperio , quid in arma fuis liib Regibus aufit, Quo bellarrici difrufa Britannia dextra Suppoftas pelagi puppes , & pralia formet Mox nutu formanda Tuo , cum claffica pofcet Pegalis Vindicta ; Duces in bella Ciebunt Ultorefque viros animi. Te vindict Celta? Et vicinorum fterhens hoftilia Regum Agmina, Confiliis ibit validiffima feptis Publica Vis : Triplicique Fidem jurata Corona Acer in oppofitum Virtus defa^viet hoftem, Prafractifque feras fubdet Cervicibus iras. Nee cedet fub Rege Salus Te Ne&ore , Tanto Te Cynea Decus Imperii : cum Pofthuma tandem Fama parentabit Cineri, Virtutibus Atas Annuet, &: celfis Laus indelebilis aftris Sceptra redonantem Carolo tranferibet Achillem. Keuchenius, (d) Ro ROBERTI KeUCHENII JC EPIGRAMMATA A U G U S T A In Reftitutionem & Adventum Serenissimi MAGNA BRITANNIA, FRANCIA, SCO- TIA, ET HIBERNIA REGIS. C A R O L I II FIDEI DEFENSORIS, &c. OMNES COELICOLAS , OMNES SVPERA ALTA IENENTES. 15 CAROLU SU MAGNA BRITANNIA, FRANCIA, SCOTIA, ET HIBERNIA REX; FIDEI DEFENSOR, 1MTE\1UM OCEANO, FAMAM QUI TE^MIKAT AST^lS. QUantum Inftar Supcris , quantum Regalibus Inftar Vultibus : Hoc tan turn Fulget adinftar ebur, Anglia fie Regem videt inftaufata Stuartum, Et Solio Dominum Ter veneranda fuum. Coelitus Hoc victrix radiat fub Sole Caledon * Talis adorandum cernit Ierna jubar , Et populos , terrafque Deum diffundit in omncs , Quaque patet, tantum Luminis Orbis habet. Qualia fervando Britoni Di fidera volvunt^ Qui Britoni Tantum reftituere Jovem. HENRICA MARIA, AUGUSTISSIMI DIVI CAROLI I. VIDUA. L Et Proavos vultu belligerante refer ; Indue Pella!um generofo Junior aufu, Vel pratextatis Hectora pandc comis. Martius Auriacos mox confummabis Achilleis, Et Magno haud potefis degener effe Patri. Hoc ipondent jam Fata Deum : dum Julius alter Erigis. armifonam Rege vigente fidem, GEORGIUS MONCK. IV AtAXIMVS ille es, VT^VS gVl TiOBlS CVI^JOTANDO RESTlTviS REUU. PUgnafti Dux Magne domi « Te vindice , Momckij Contudit infraclum fors inopina fcelus. Cedunt attoniti furiis fatalibus Angli , Confiliifque Pares fuccubuere fuis. Reddis adorandum Solio Populifque Stuartum, Sceptraque Tergeminis conciliata Rofis. Cum fuperis partire decus Cunftator : ovantem Inftaurafle, Deum eft 5 prcvaluiffe , Tuum, (e) IN i'8 Rob. Keuc^. Eim g r a m m at a» IN REGIAM CORONA M, Venerando Lemmate RESTITUTO REGI O B L A T A M P A T I E N T / AR D A B I T V R. MAxime Rex , Soliis pridem exturbatus avitis, Cum lueret fatis Sors truculenta fuis : Maxime Rex , foliis Idem Sublatus avitis , Annueret fatis cum luculenta Tuis : Vim, noclem* fcelus, arma, doles transgreflus Stiras* Partus ina^quandis tot graviora malis : Accipe Regalem , Meriti diadema , Coronam ; Imperiique decus,. Ter Venerande , Tui. Illam de votis oflfert Patientia dextris , Donat inoftenfa religione Fides. QmPatiens, qui PafTus ovat, non dignius Ilium Cingere > quam titulis Di valuere Suis. Imperitare , Deiim eft : Sed &: hoc : tolerante Stuarto* Tandem etiam regnis imperitante , P a t i. Scrikbam Arnhemi Gelrorm, AnnoChrifti do Ioc lx. Reftituti Regis mirabilis Rob ertus Keuchenus. JC. •9 ROCHUS HoFFERUS Z I R I Z Ae li S AUGUSTOBRITAtfNIARUM&c.REGI G A R O L O II, DUm difcors, qua terra patct, regnabat Erinnys, Et Bellona vagos Martis agebat equos ; Dum furor armorum bellum undique & undique bellum^ Jaclabatque feras , fanguineafque manus $ Atque , Buropad difrupto fa:dere mundi , Flagitii , & facies plurima ca?dis erat : Tuta Caledonia? peragebant otia geiites t Et tranquilla fuis Infula ftabat aquis. Pax populos concors divifos orbe ligabat ; Non timor armorum , non peregrinus amor. Res fallax Fortuna rotat , qua: regna , vel urbes FaJices flabili non finit effe gradu. Hinc data libertas odiis , diduclataque partes In varias Manes Anglia paffa fuos. Non longam potuit pacem , non ferre quietem 5 Armorum rabiem movit &: ipfa quies. Et Mars civilis , turpifque licentia ferri, Et placuit proprio fanguine fceda manus. Et juvit mediis etiam pugnare medullis, Vifceraque imperii dilacerare (ui. Perfuafit fibi quifqiie nefas , difcordia juffit Omne malum , &c cives conieruiffe manus. Inque fuum fevire Patrem , facrumque cruento Enfe , pudor faxli ! defecuiffe caput. O furor infani fceleris 1 Mens tali£ fando Horret , 6c a lacrymis vix tenet ora meis. Hinc fuga tot Procerum patria dc fede , Ducumqiie * Dum vix fpes vita: , aut mortis honefta fuit. Dum rupit vis jura ferox , Aftrxa madentem Triitior infanda ca:de reliquit humum. (e) 2 Exi- ±0 ROCHUS HOFFERUS ZlRIZAEU^S Exililium miferis fati folamen acerbi , EiTorefque mali mite levamen eranti Si petcret fobs , vel ficto crimine , fifcus Infidiofus opes , poena benigna fuit. Ipfe Britannorum Princeps regnifque , domoque Expulfus , fociis fratribus , exul erat : Carolus exul erat triplicis diadematis hxres , Securx vario nefcius orbe fugx. Sed tamen ante , licet disjedis undique turmis* Venturi fxlix temporis omen erat ; Emicuitque favor nova per miracula cceli , Quum fugit laqueos , Cromveliane , tuos. Servavitque uncium rebus melioribus olim, Mira caput magni cura , manufque Dei : Perque infxlices duxit fxliciter oras , Ambiguafque vias , implicitamque fugam. Hoc nemus Hamptonix novit, faltufque profundi, Queis licuit paucos delituiffe dies ; Atque annofa cavo profagum qux robore quercus Texit , & hofpitio fovic arnica fuo. Arbor erat longos fefli miferata labores, Mitior & populis fylva ferebat opem. Hie jacuit cultu regali exutus , 5c armis Carolus -, at jacuit non fine Rege tamen : Hie domus , hie fedes , magnique palatia regni * Et , quod Londinum non erat , arbor erat. Ferratam vireat nunquam pafliira fecurim , Hofpitis xterniim ftet memor ilia fui. Janaque Lana fuit tantarum confeia rerum , Et vidit Domini triftia fata fui 5 Vidit , & ingemuit 5 tandem eft gavifa periclis , Per varies cafus , tot fiiperefle tamen . Prxfumpfitque boni prxfagia lxta futuri , Et cepit faufti Numinis inde fidem. Mafcula fe Regis commifit fceminl fatis 5 Et voluit metui prxpofuifle necemu Ex- toEMATA Variorum, 21 Expediitque dolls Dbminiim fub imagine Servi^ Elufitque truces , hofte fequente, minas. O pietas a:vis nunquam moritura nepotuni! O pulchrum. fama? nobilioris opus 1 Sic qua?fita fuic , fie Regi inventa per artes j Pofleaque in totum reftituenda falus. Interea fubigit cunclas Olivarius urbes , Et capit indigna regia fceptra manu. Libera gens fervire cupit, parere TyrannOi Et juga truncate Principe dura pad. Libertas ut vera pent, fie ficla miniftros In miferum populos compede neclit opus. Tandem & ficta perit, vario confufa tumultu , Impatienfque riovi eft Terra Britanna Ducis. Emilia vis animos hominum moderamine nullo Concitat , & praceps ambitione furor. Hie tenet , ilJe petit regnum , variata poteftas Fluduat , eftque fides lubrica , nulla quies : Vix color imperii , minimas difcordia rerum ' Concutit, & turpes datque , iteratque vices. Anglia rnaclati damnat fiia crimina Regis , Anglia , qua: dederat funera , funus habet. Servitiumque fuum , atque extorris trifte perofa Principis exilium , quxrit , & optat opem. Sed nefcit medicina viani , dum Monquius arquum Gentibus e Scoto limite fidus adeft. Solus hie aftringit lacerati vulnera regni , Congeriemque rudem fblvit , &: omnc ehaos ; Et removet civile nefas , gehtifque pudorem , Et reddit patriae jufque piumque fua*. Et Regem regnare facit , reducemque paternis Reftituit fceptris , reftituitque fuis. Vendicat Albiones veteri fine (anguine, fato * Et cum Rege fuam vendicat ipfe domum. At tu magna Patris , prolefque augufta Stuarti, Dum fortuna redit , dum tibi prifca falus 5 (f) bum- 22 Poem ata Variorum. Dumque tibi meritis , non armis , fama refurgit , Dumque animos hominum, non modo regna , capis$ Dum (perata dm cernunt fpe&acula civcs , Dumque fuum DominUm te reverenter habent 5 Farce precor Patna: , culpamque ignofce fatenti , PolTe eft magnanimi ple&ere , nolle tamen. Horret ad invili nomen ferale Tyranni , Fataque , qua: fenfit , Cromveliana timet. At fe legitime ktatur Rege potitam j Et vovet tit regnis fit tibi firma domus. Parce precor , fceleris labem terfiffe laborat , Et , quo fe miferam polluit , odit opus. Sed quid ago ? Tu fponte tua placabilis ira: es, Tuque T.uos populos , ficut amaris , amas. ROCHUS HOFHRUS, ZIR.IZ&VS. IN EFFIGIEM REGIS C A R O L I IL AD FORTONAM. Unc fefe artifici Populis dat in a:re videndum C a r o l u s x Augufta: fpes recidiva domus 5 Quern fata immcritum regnis fraudare Paternis. Poft return infeftas erubuere vices. Die diu ( quod vi£ta viri virtute fateris ) Perfidia: crimen , fors inimica tua: . Sacra Britannorum turbatis anchora rebus, Et Patria: fero jam fapientis amor, Sufpicit excuflum Capiti diadema rogatus , Sceptraque plebejas non bene paffa manus. Profedum , Fortuna , nihil , vel ca:de Paterna * Vel quati exilio , bis fcelerata , tibi eft. Accepta aufpiciis proavitis Regna referri Dum prohibes meritis vindicat empta fuis. Dilue Sacrilege maculam 4 rea , dilue noxa? * Ne tibi Poftentas hoc licuiffe gemat. Fata PoEMAfA Variorum. 23 Fata nifi expugnas fatis adverfa fecundis, Sternum invidix Colla gravabit onus. Expiet innumeris Patrium caput ille triumphis. Ablblvi haud alia lege , nefanda , potes. NICOLAUS HEIlSISIUS, D an . F- x^id AuguTium Britanniarum Re-rem, CAROLUM SECUNDUM, DE MONKIANIS L A U D I B U S. INfpice [cripta Duci facilh praconia magno , Maxime Rex : neque enim [tint aliena tibu E domito victor quam Monkius bofle paravit> Aujpiciis caa[a dellta palma Urn eft. Fortiflfimo Heroi GEORGIO MONKIO,' Oj>preJfe rei BritmnicA Liber atori inclyto. HIc Vir , hie eft , fera cumulent quern laude nepotes , Quemque fenes Fafti , Mufaque jacket anus . Quo conculcata? refpirant vindice leges : Tempore fuftinuit qui bonus effe malo. Inviclam pra:ftare fidem qui Regibus aufus, His patriam afferuit , cum fibi poffet , humum. Cefferat in fpolium latronibus , inque rapinam Squallidus affidua cxde Britannus ager: Captivo Procerum ftipatus ab agmine career, Vixque pares poenis tortor & uncus ttinii Exilium vita? numeratum in parte beata? : Undique nil meritas fifcus agebat opes : Regia carnifici cervix objecla nefando, Sceptraque plebei praxla furoris erant; Credita mancipiis regni tutela falufque , Et populus viles liber adorat heros. Tentarant alii nurnerofam tollere peftem , Hand datur indomito par medicina maid. (f) 2 Con- 24 P O E Al A T A V A R 1 O R U m; Contudit obfccenx fregitque tyrannidis hydram Monkius , Herculea verfus in anna manu. Monkius amovit funefti dedecus xvi , Sarculaque abfblvit crimine noftra iiio. Harmodios Atthis , Brutos ne Roma loquatur; Pulchrius hxc longe dextra peregit opus. Sanguine ( quod ftupeas ) nee adorea conftitit ullo , Palmaque fe facilem paffa fine enfe capi eft. Hinc trepidas ultrix mentes agitabat Erinnys : Hinc Ma ftantes pro pietate Dei Dant anitnos j cceptifque fa vent vix Marte parato, Laurea prxvenit fpem properata fuam. Dira reos feeleruiii fades & confeius horror tmpulit attonitos , admonuitque fui. Ceflcrunt caufa: damnantis imagine vi&i, E debellato laus minor hofte foret Poenaque cum culpx nee crux fat digna daretut 5 Vindiclam pofiiit nobilis ira fuam. Opprimit armatum dementia nuda furorem. Hoc patriae Patrem mice decebat opus. Incutere hand ullum fceleri tormenta ruborerri , Optime Dux , poterant : fed tua dextra poteft. N i c. Heinsius. Dan, R Fortiflimo Trier oi, GEORGIO MONKIO, Britannia Imperii %egifqite !{ef1auratori. CReditur & memorant , monftrum letale fuba&um 5 Quo Regis tandem fllia falva fuit. Quod clarum facinus celebratur cv efle Georgi, Hinc Tutelans Anglicus ilie Deus : Nomine fervato nunc hxc non fabula de te Narratur , fed res perbene gefta patet: Nam s Poemata Variorum, 25 Nam Bntohuiti fubigis monftrum , cui lumen zdemptum, Quo regha infandis libera facia malis . Ca r o l lis imperio jam dudum cxutus avito ? IUi nunnc etiam reftituendus adeft. Sic in te verus datur efle Georgius Heros * Te Prote&orem terra Britanna colat. JACOBUS fiASELIUS. Ecclefiaftes KerckvverVienfis. CAROLO SECUNDO Magna Britannia, &c. Kcgi. Ic variat Fortuna vices j Sic nubila tandem Secula , & infandi difperieire dies t Anglia Tartareis dudum concuffa fagitis, Et Dorilino 5t fceptris heu ! viduata piis , Nunc tandem rediviva , caput fuper a:thera tollit, Et Regem & Dominum nofcit , ut ante , fuum. Aha dies , fperata dies , quo Regia fceptra, Et viget affli&a: Relligionis honos : Quo Batavum communis amor , communia fur^urit Omnia , & Vnanimes in Tua vota Pares. Alma dies , fperata dies , qud Belgica Regem Sufpicit , & toto gaudia corde trahit. Alma dies > fperata dies , quo viribus altis Anglia cum Batavis pangere foedus amat. Alma dies , fperata dies 4 quo vita refurgit, Et Regi , &: Regi fubdita tota cohors. Anglia crede mihi , fi fas ita credere Vati, Nunc Tua , qua: jacuit gloria , nata domi efu Belgica crede mihi , fi fas ita credere Vati , Nunc tua fi dubia eft gloria > certa domi eu\ Addite vim veftris debellatricibiis armis , Et tremat heroa , pars inimica , maniu Sic Sueones > fie arma ruant adverfa Tyrannum j Et cadat horrendis , qui negat orfa , modis, (g) &* 2.6 Poemata Variorum. Fax 01 bis > Tua fceptra cluant. Sit mundus Eous Teflis , & Occidux., proh diadema i plaga:. ELrreo in obtutu qua fe explicat aureus aether, Et qua fe Lrtis ingerit ominibus. Quid verbis ? durn verba neganc fe offerre paratis , Et Vatem & mentem Fata ftupenda tegunt. Redde Deo , Rex magnc , Tuo qua: debita Regi , Et regat hare qua: font fceptra gerenda Deus. Franciscus Pl ante, v.d 4 m. Bredanus. Sereniflfimo Potentiffimoque Principi CAROLO SECUNDOj D. G. Magna; Britannia: , Francis, &: Hibernian Regi , Fidei Defenforis &cc> E Bnmis in Anglkm ad Kegnum vocato & proficifcentK A Nglia , Prote&ore diu fuppreiTa" feroci , Frige te > Regi reftituenda tuo , Et deteftando ftatuam pro pegmate divis Manibus ante facras pone , fevera, fores, Qua: gravis infculptas truncati Principis umbras Imperet a tota pofteritate coli. Regnorumque triuni folio Succeflbr avito Perdu raturufn in fa:cula fumat ebur , Invidiamque odiumque fui profcribat amore , Et Superis gratum tollat ad aftra caput , Tota quod obverfo Tellus veneretur ocello # Propitiumque fibi cernere Belga queat. Sic tua fe traclus diffundet Farna per ornnes , Oppofitifque tibi Gentibus horror eris. Albionum Populi Regnatorifque Stuarti Batavia: creicet vincla falute folus. Poemata Variorum. 27 Hoc reduces Domina cum Majeftate curules Atque uno cultus poftulet ore Deus. Sic placidx Carolo faveant afflatibus aura: , Pacatafque fecet , qua: tua puppis , aquas. Excipiatque fuum generofa Britannia Recrem , Ec Patriam damnet rellimofa necem , Authorefque folo Nemefis deturbet inulco. ALternumque procul mittat in exilium. Vive diu felix , Monki, pretiuitique laboris Accipe quod fccptri dat tibi largus amor. Dirige tantarum tanto Tub Principe rerum Pondera , &: auguitam perge fbvere domuiri. Vofque Viri geminas , fcliqui qui conditis ALdes ; Et famulam Solio contribuiftis opem , Vivite Concordes, Caroloque carentia nuper Regna coronato condite cum Carolo. C, Boy us. In Discessum CAROLI SECUNDI MAGNA BRITANNIA &d REGIS e littoribus Hollandia?. Carole Rex , modo qui , foliis exUtus avitis • Ltifus Fortune luxuriantis eras : Te , nova perta:il , revocant ad pnfca Britanni , Raptaque de manibus fceptra paterna tuis. Claffis adeft 5 cV jam ripis allapfa Batavis Stat Sceveriria:o multa carnna fald. Nil reftat prater celfas contendere puppes ■ Nunc aderit , pandat qui tua vela ; Nbtus. Te cava fervavit quondam e certamine quercus; Nunc cava te quercus in tua regna vehet. Hunc dant fata tibi finem , Rex masne , labor um : Sceptrum fit longi terminus exilii. j. West e r f ae n, 28 Poem ata Variorum. Ad Sercniftmum nc Votentifymum P R I N C I P E M C A R O L U M SECUNDUM M A « N AE B R I T A N N I AE &C. REG EM, Kevno rccenter rctlitatum-. o J Uara liibito cecidit cujus fcelerata tyrannis __ Altius efle aliquid Rcgibus aufa fuit i Quam fubito rediit , populi Pater , exilio Rex i Tempora , fata , vices tarn mora nulla rotat. Ecce alius toto vultus jam cernitur orbe , Nee mode qua: placuit , nunc quoque larva placet, Vix hoftis dempta eft facies , fuccedit amici : Ecce triumphator, qui fuit exul, adeft. Sed Tibi qui tales vuku,REx maxiine, fcenas Immoto , immota cernere mente potes , Quam tibi in adverfa , tarn ^onftans forte fecunda , Hoc ego (nee melius quid datur orbe) precor: lit poffis Veros prudens difcernere Amicos Tot Perfonatas inter Amicitias. HOMANE In Effigiem Ejufdem MAIESTATIS. MAjeftas 6c amor populi , gravitafque benigna Quam bene Regali cernitur in facie \ Ignofcis Populo, Rex Clementiffime; fed qui Jam grave fupplicium > Te caruifle , tulit. Ne furor is redeat modo do&a Britannia tantum Sis memor,6c dicas; Te fine qualis eram? Per DeVM regnet CaroLVs : Per CaroLVM regnet DeVs. Idem. Poemata Variorum. 1$ v i r g i n i s dordrace/£ Ut primogenitx & primaris Hollandicatum urbis COKG\ATULATlO Dida CAROLO SECUNDO, iJMagni BritannU &c. Regi, in tranfitu Hagam Comrtis verfus prt~ faijcenti die 14 CMty 1660. Ccede aufpiciis Lxtis ad Virginis Urbem Regali Princeps fahguine Nate facro. Mcenia tuta petes, nee qua: potuere ruina: Vincere , ad exemplar , cujus es ipfe typus Rex invicle malis : prima hie veftigia fifte , Et gravidum multb pohe labore caput. Flumiha ladato tribuant tibi noftra quieteiti : Nulla quies mediis , qua. fruiturus aquis Gratior e/Te poteft ; queis cum tribuiffe falutem Juverit, ornabit te quoque diva Salus : Et ftabit fortuna Idcb, non mobilis omni Utraque-, fl vires fi capimufve vices * Regibus ulla fuit Static* non fi4a Britannis Plus , quam qua: cernis tecla paterna , domos i Hinc fedes petiere fuas , 6l feeptra Parentum, Qualis Honos, ex his Finibus Hofpes abis ? Patria prima mihi merito dedit otia fandi. Nunc tecum fari munera prima pu to. Ne peregrina tibi videar Rex optime Regum * Afpice qua: Regni membra virofque gero : Sufpiciefque f Imul populofi regna Britanni , Qualiter ex ipils unguibus efle Leo Nofcitur; hie populi proftant commercia veftri; Qua: Regni focios more modoque ligant. Militiam luftrato titam , qua Patria pollet : Prafidium quin Spes Urbibus una fuit 5 Ciim Ferus adverfus fa:viret membra Tyrahhus Albanus; furias, Caflxa ducemque premens* Illinc cognofces numerofi Militus iifum , Ahglia quern Regi fervat Arnica fuo. (h) Arma 30 Poemata Variorum. Anna virofquc , rates videas in portibus ipfis ; lila Britannorum propria nempe manent, Mauricius qtieis Du&or Ovans , Fredericus in arm is Nanus Araufiadcs , & Guliclmus avus, Sa:pc hoftcs vicere truces : qua: Moenia Bredx Incolis , exiguo tempore prxda fuit. Naflavium germen , Patris morientis ideam, Et Matris Maria: pigiius utf unique vide; Illic invenics permiftuin (anguine fidus, Quid poffet Batavo elarius efle Polo \ Hcnrica:a Parens gaude , quocumque locorum Te tulerit Iuclus , Rex tibi natus adefl: : lile tibi lachrimas vultu deteraet obortas Reftauraturus pignora chara tibi. Rex Lodovice fave fratri fua regna petenti , Adde preces , jubet hoc Regia caufa , pares. Vofque Patres Patria: Redivivi Patris amcena Nomina adorate , & fit pia cura fimul , UT BENE CONVENiANT ET IN UNA SEDE MORENTUR Maiestas et AmOr, gentis utrimque data: s Sis falvus, Rex Magne , mihi ; Tibi terna refurgunt Regna , Deus votis debuit ifta piis. Ajax armatus , fis catitus inermis Achillis Confilio i virtus riionftret ad aftra viam. Sit difpar Patris Fatum tibi ; Maxime Regum , Neftoreos aftnos , fataque la:ca precor. Sis bonus ufque tuis , cum nunc antiqua Secundus Regna recepturus , fis memor ufque tui , Et focios defende tuos 5 Collidimur Una, Frangimur : hxc eadem fors utriufque manet. Jamque Vale> Rex Magne, mihi . fed vela priufquain Vota ferant , paucis , non rediture , Vale : CAROLE R.EDDE VICEM: QUID GAUDIA NOSTRA MORARIS* TEMODOREGEDATO, CAROLE RE DDE VlCEM. R. de Carpentier. POEMATA VARIORUM, •} I CAROL UM SECUNDUM, Sereniffimum Magna: Britannia &c. Regem , Urbem l* PEttxCus Martis ^ magno, Rex, flumine Mofe Dum veneris , cecidit Martis inane caput i Et non a:qua Deo qui geftat nomina Petrus, Adlapfus pedibus, Carole Magne, tuis. Omen ineft rebus, nee nomen difplicet ipfiim. Petrus &: ipfe cafds figna benigna duo. Anglia fie pariter fevi difcrimina Martis Propulfetfelix, bellaque dira cadant. Lapideum cecidit caput St Petrina figura Belligeri Petri , fed tibi Papa cadat. Eft cafus in lapfu Petri non unus , ad ima Quod ruit is cafus eft ; quod prope Te cafus' eft. At cafus a Ccelo eft. fine Numine nil cadit ufquam. Petrus Papa tuos fie cadat ante pedes. J Ac. Lydius. Ad Sereniffimum Potentijfimumque Principem, CAROLUM SECUNDUM, Magna Britannia, fita Kegh MAxime Rex , qui poft digna atque indigna relatii Fata , jubar remeas in tua regna novum , Sed prius iritroitu Batavos digiiaris amico , Nee quoque prateriti vis meminifle mali, Et cupis , ut rurfum coeant in fa?dera dextrae, Auipice qua? coelo concilia vit amor, (h) 2 Du^ *t Poemata Variorum, :> Duccris Hag-anis humeris inve£tus cv ulnis. O fortunatos Tc veniente laics \ Excipit holpitio Te Belgica , quale mereris * Et quo non Batavum grandius orbis habet : Mauritius , nomen nunquaru fine laude loquendum j Sidus inocciduunl Solis utraqtie domo, Tc vcnerabundus i Te publicus hofpes adorat , Withaliumque tuum nunc cupit effe tuum 5 Illud in augunum prxfcns , Augufte , vacabat , Humanoquc patens debuit efle ]ovi. Hie Britonum votis * hie applaudente Batavo , Antiquaqiie fide > Carole , ktus ades. OfFertur , quod jure fuum eft ; Diadema corona: * Confluit hue Britonum purpura & omnis honos. Te dominum fibi fpefatum Thetis omnibus undis Te , Te expe&atum vela fecunda vehant. Crede quod interea vox hxc comitetur eUnterri ; SCE GULIELMI HENRICI AURAUSIONENSIUM PRINCIPIS,&c. QUalis purpureo Titan porreclus ab ortu Diflundit rutilas , dum fugat aftra comas , Talis , Io , Carolus luftrat feliciter urbes . Talis ab occafti rite Parentis adeft; Ille quideni triplicis tot poft fpineta coronx , toft male truncatum per fcelus omne caput * Nunc Nunc videt xterni rhiracula lector horti , Elyfii campi lilia, mifta rods, Nunc movct Angclicis comitatus ca?tibus hscros , Davidica Chrifto ca:lica plectra lyra. CaJcat & inlani , calcat ludibria Mundi , San&us ,1 2>-r Nos aliter longc , quia nunc , ter Maxime Regum > Ilia fit excmplo regula falfa tuo. Nc quifquam vita? metuat caviftis uterque , Anglia te revocans, Tu bene profpiciens. Ilia quidem non vi£ta, aft tot pertcefii malorum* Tnna dedit dextrcr (ceptra gerenda Tua?. Tu, bonus ignofcens rapuit quos devius error, Sufcipis imperium , fed fine ca?de , novum. Dicet pofteritas , regnabit [anguine mllo Ad regnum bene qui venit ab exilw. Guil: Grotius, J & T»« GETTY CENTER LIBRARY wzzszr^ EttXa S ir V F 7f i?- ' V^tt *i ' ' ■ '