OF all Solemnities, by which the Happy inauguration of a Subiect is celebrated, I find none that transcends the State and Magni­ficence of that Pompe prepared to receiue his Maiesties Great Substitute into his Honorable charge, (the City of London,) Dig­nified by the Title of the Kings Chamber Roy­all, which that it may now appeare no lesse hightned with Brotherly Affection, Colt, Art, or Inuention, then some other praeceeding Tri­umphs (by which of late times, the Cities Honor hath beene more faithfully illustrated) this takes it's fit occasion to present it selfe.

And first to specifie the loue of his Noble Fraternity after his Lordshippes returne from Westminster, hauing receiued some seruice vp­on [Page] the water, by a proper and significant Mai­ster-peece of Triumph, called the Imperiall Canopy, being the Antient Armes of the Com­pany, an Invention neither old, nor enforst, the same Glorious and Apt Property, accompanied with foure other Triumphall Pegmes, are in their conuenient Stages planted to honor his Lordships progresse through the City; the first for the land, attending his most wished ariuall in Pauls-Church-yard, which beares the inscrip­tion of a Mount Royall, on which Mount are plac't certaine Kings and great Commanders, which Antient History produces, that were ori­ginally sprung from Shepheards, and humble beginnings; onely the number of Six presented, some with Crownes, some with gilt Laurels, holding in their hands siluer Sheephookes, viz. Viriat, a prime Commander of the Portugals, re­nowned amongst the Historians, especially the Romans, who in battailes of 14 yeares continu­ance, purchased many great and honorable victories; Arsaces King of the Parthians, who ordained the first Kingdome that euer was a­mongst them, and in the reuerence of this Kings Name and memory, all others His Successors were called Arsacides after his Name, as the Roman Emperours tooke the Name of Caesar, [Page] for the loue of Great Caesar Augustus; Also Mar­cus Iulius Lucinus, Bohemiaes Primislaus, the Emperour Pertinax, the Great Victor Tambur­layne, Conqueror of Syria, Armenia, Babilon, Mesapotamia, Scythia, Albania, &c. Many Ho­norable Worthies more I could produce; By their deserts enobling their meane Originals. But for the better expression of the purpose in Hand, a Speaker lends a voyce to these follow­ings words!

From this Mount Royall beautified with the Glory of deseruing Aspirers, descend we to the [Page] Moderne vse of this Antient and Honorable Mistery, and there we shall finde the whole Li­uery of this most renowned and famous City, as vpon this Day, and at all Solemne meetings, furnished by it; it clothes the Honorable Sena­tors in their highest and richest Wearings, all Courts of Iustice, Magistrates, and Iudges of the Land.

By this time his Lordship, and the Worthy Company being gracefully conducted toward the little Conduit in Cheape, there another part of the Triumph waytes his Honors happy ap­proach, being a Chariot Artfully framde, and pro­perly garnished; And on the Conspicuous part thereof is plac'st the Register of all Heroicke Acts and worthy Men, bearing the Title of Sa­cred Memory, who for the greater Fame of this Honorable Fraternity presents the Neuer-dying Names of many memorable and remarkable Worthies of this Antient Society, such as were the Famous for State and Gouernment, Sir Hen­ry Fitz-alwin Knight, who held the Seate of Magistracy in this City twenty foure yeares to­gether, He sits figured vnder the Person of Go­uernment: Sir Iohn Norman, tho first Lord Maior rowed in Barge to Westminster with sil­uer Oares at his owne cost and charges; vnder [Page] [...]he person of Honor, the Valiant Sir Francis Drake, that rich Ornament to Memory, (who in two yeares and ten moneths space did cast a gir­dle about the world) vnder the person of Victory, Sir Simon Eyre, (who at his owne cost built Lea­den Hall, a Granary for the Poore,) vnder the fi­gure of Charity, Sir Richard Champion, and Sir Iohn Milborne, vnder the person of Munificenee or Bounty, Sir Richard Hardell, and Sir Iohn Poultney, the one in the seate of Magistracy sixe yeares, the other foure yeares together, vnder the figures of Iustice, and Piety, That Sir Iohn be­ing a Colledge-Founder, in the Parish of St. Law­rence Poultney, by Candle-wick streete; & fic de caeteris. This Chariot drawne by two pellited Lyons, being the proper Supporters of the Com­panies Armes, those two vpon the Lyons pre­senting Power and Honor, the one in a little Streamer or Banneret bearing the Lord Maiors Armes, the other the Companies.

After this, for the full close of the Fore-noones Triumph, neere St. Lawrence-lane, his Lordship Receiues an Entertainment from an vnparaleld Maister-peece of Art, called the Cristall Sanctu­ary, stilde by the name of the Temple of Integri­ty, where her Immaculate selfe with all her glo­rious and Sanctimonious Concomitants sit transparently seene through the Crystall; and more to expresse the Inuention, & the Art of the Engineer, as also for Motion, Variet [...], and the content of the Spectators, this Crystall Tem­ple [Page] is made to open in many parts, at fit and con­uenient Times, and vppon occasion of the Speech; the Columnes or Pillars of this Cristall Sanctuary, are Gold, the Battlements Siluer, the whole Fabrick for the Night Triumph adorned and beautified with many Lights, dispersing their glorious Radiances on all sides thorough the Cristall.

At the close of this Speech, this Cristall Temple of Integritie with all her caelestiall Con­comitants, and the other parts of Triumph take leaue of his Lordship for that time, and rest from [Page] seruice til the great Feast be ended, after which the whole Body of the Triumph attends vpon his Honor, both toward St. Paules, and homeward, his Lordship accompanied with the Graue and Honorable Senators of the City; amongst whom the two worthy Consulls, his Lordships Graue-Assistants for the yeare, the worshipfull and Generous, Mr. Raph Freeman, and Mr. Thomas Moulson, Sheriffes and Aldermen, ought not to passe of my respect vnremembred; whose Bounty and Noblenesse will prooue best their owne Expressers.

Neere the entrance of woodstreete, that part of Triumph being planted to which the con­cluding Speech hath chiefly reference, and the rest, about the Crosse, I thought fit in this place to giue this it's full Illustration; It being an In­uention both glorious and proper to the Com­pany, bearing the name of the thrice Royall Ca­nopie of State, being the honored Armes of this Fraternity, the three Imperiall Crownes cast in­to the Forme and Bignesse of a Triumphall Pageant, with Cloude and Sun-beames, those Beames by Enginous Art made often to mount and spred like a Golden and Glorious Canopy ouer the Deified persons that are plac'st vnder it, [Page] which are eight in number, figuring the eight Beatitudes, To improoue with conceite, Beati Pacifici, being the Kings word or Motto, is set in faire great Letters, neare the vppermost of the three Crownes; and as in all great Edifices or Buildings, the Kings Armes is especially remem­bred, as a Honor to the Building and Builder in the Frontispice: so is it comely and requisite in these matters of Triumph framed for the Inau­guration of his great Substitute, the Lord Maior of London, that some remembrance of Honour should reflect vpon his Maiesty, by whose peace­full Gouernment vnder Heauen we enjoy the Solemnity!