HIs Maiesties said Counsell in the Dominion and Princi­palitie of Wales, and the Mar­ches of the same (beeing at Ludlow, where his Highnesse chiefe Seate and Castle for the said Principalitie, now is, and of a long time hath beene) for a Remembrance to all succeeding A­ges, haue (by the appoyntment and direction of the right honourable Raph Lord Eure, Lord Pre­sident of the said Counsell beeing then absent) commaunded, that the said day, in the yeare a­foresaid, being Monday the first day of this pre­sent Terme, holden before the said Counsell (be­ing [Page]the very day, whereon the most renowned, high, and mightie Prince CHARLES Prince of Great Britaine, &c. was at his Maiesties Pallace of White-Hall created Prince of Wales, and Earle of Chester) should be solemnized.

For which purpose, the said Iustice tooke spe­ciall care, as the shortnes of the time would per­mit, being newly come from London, where hee left sir Henry Touneshend, and sir Francis Eure Knights, with Nicholas Ouerbury Esquier, three of the learned Counsell Resident for the saide Principalitie and Marches thereof, at that time attending his Maiesties speciall seruice at Lon­don:) and caused to repaire, and assemble at the said Castle of Ludlow, the forenamed sir Thomas Cornewaile high Sherife of the sayd County, with his Staffe of Office, and the said Thomas Harley Esquier (being two of his Counsell there as afore­sayd) together with sir Robert Harley Knight of the Bath, sir Francis Cornwaile Knight, Marma­duke Lloyd Esquier, his Maiesties Atturney there, Thomas Powell Esquier his Highnesse Sollicitor, attending the sayd Counsell, Iohn Delabere Do­ctor of Physicke, William Fox, William Vaughan, Gruffith Lloyd Esquiers, and many other worthy Gentlemen and persons of good account of the Counties of Salop, Hereford, Denbigh, Mountgo­gomery, Caeruaruon, Merioneth, and other coun­tries adioyning, to the number of many thou­sand persons.

The true manner of which Solemnization was as followeth:

FIrst, the said Iustice commanded that our said Prince his Armes, with his Name, and Stile there-vnder in Characters fairely subscribed, should be set vp and published, as well vnder the Pulpit in the church of Saint Laurence in Ludlow, and in his Maiesties Chappel within the said Ca­stle, and in the Court-house of the Principalitie there, as also vpon the gates of the said Towne, and high Crosse there, and likewise vppon the principall Posts and Pillars standing in the Mar­ket place within the said Towne of Ludlow.

The tenour of which Stile and Subscription here insueth.

Afterwards, about nine of the Clocke in the fore-noone of the said fourth of Nouember, Wil­liam Gregory, and Thomas Blashfield Esquiers, Bai­lifes of the said Towne of Ludlow, accompanied with the Magistrates their Brethren, and all the chiefe Burgesses of the said Towne, very richly clad and apparrelled, attended by their Officers with their Maces before them, and all the Quire of the Church there, singing of Hymnes and Psalmes of thankesgiuing and praise for our sayd Prince, bringing with them sixe yong Youths, being Schollers of the Kings free Schoole of the said Towne, well and richly decked and adorned, [Page]who did beare in their hands seuerall Penons and Bannerolls of the Armes and Atchiuements of our said Prince Charles, that is to say:

The formost Scholler bore in his hand the Armes of England and Scotland.

The second carried the Armes of the Brittaines and Saxons.

The third, France and Ireland.

The fourth, Northwales and Southwales.

The fift, Cornewall and Chester.

The sixt and the last, carried the Armes of Yorke and Lancaster, with the Plume of feathers and the Prince his Name;

Hauing before them the Towne Waites and other lowd Instruments of Musicke, and before the musicke marched a long the number of two hundred souldiers being well appointed and fur­nished with Halberds, Pikes, Corslets, Muskets, and Caliuers, vnder the conduct and leading of Leonard Lloyd there then Captaine (who in good order had his Lieutenants, and Sergeants braue­ly arrayed, hauing foure Drums, and two Trum­pets sounding before them, besides Fifes, and o­ther winde Instruments, who all of them thus ap­poynted, came vp to the Castle to attend and bring the said Iustice and Counsell to the Church:

And hauing repayred to the Castle Greene there, and meeting Maister Iustice in his Scarlet Robes, with the rest of the Counsell before na­med in decent maner, vpon the Castle bridge, ac­companied [Page]with all the worshipfull Counsellors of Law, Atturneis and Clarks belonging to that Court, with sundry Esquiers and Gentlemen, hauing before them Richard Iones Esquier, Ser­geant at Armes, carrying his Maiesties Mace, William Gooderick Esquier, gentleman Porter, Ri­chard Collins, one of the Vshers of his Maiesties Chamber, and the two messengers of the Court, viz. Piers Gruffith, and Thomas Pingle gentlemen, in rich coates; Francis Trollop gentleman, Mar­shall of the said Court, Thomas Steuens Gentle­man, Yeoman of the Kings Wardrobe there, Gruffith Iones Constable of the Castle, together with all the chiefe Officers of the said Castle (be­ing all of them very richly apparrelled, and ha­uing another company of Waits and good con­sorts of Musicke, as Cornets, Sagbuts, and other winde Instruments, playing and sounding all a­long the way before them) a great Volley of shot was discharged by the said Muskettiers and Cali­uers, which so pierced the Ayre with the great noyse of Drummes, and sound of Trumpets, Fifes, Flutes, and other Instruments, as the like in these parts hath not beene seene, to the great admiration, and much reioycing of all the Spe­ctators.

And thereupon marshalling themselues in good array, they all went through the Towne streets, to the Church, singing and reioycing all the way they went, where was another Volley of shotte discharged.

After Prayers said, and Psalmes sung, one M. Thomas Pierson, a graue reuerend diuine and wor­thy Preacher, made a very learned Sermon of an houre and halfe long, vpon the first verse of the 72. Psalme, viz.

Which Sermon being ended, and Psalmes sung by the Singing-men and Quiristers, to and with the great Organs there, all the whole Com­pany returned.

And as they issued out of the Church and Church-yard into the Market place, there was a new Scaffolde purposly erected neare vnto the high Crosse (with a great Bonefire not farre di­stant) vpon which Scaffolde the said Schollers with their Penons or Banerols of Armes in their hands, as aforesaid, ascended; and as the said Iu­stice and Counsell passed by, alternatim vttered, and pronounced these seuerall Speeches follow­ing:

All which were principally inuented and made by the painfull industrie of that iudicious and la­borious maister of Artes Humfrey Herbert chiefe Schoole-maister of his Maiesties free-Schoole there, vpon one dayes warning.

As also these that follow, were then pronoun­ced, being made by that worthy Alderman of Ludlow maister Richard Fisher.

THe which Speeches being ended by the said Schollers (who thereby for their gracious boldnesse in the deliuerie thereof, got great ap­plause by the said Iustice and all the Auditorie) and after another volley of shot discharged, they marched and passed by sundry other great Bon­fires, whereof one was by the Castle Gate, and another was within the vtter Court, or Greene of [Page]the said Castle, and there marching, dischar­ging of shot, singing, playing on instruments and heartily reioycing, proceeded into the Court-house of the said Principalitie, where the said Iustice very grauely, in the presence and au­dience of all the whole Company there assem­bled, deliuered these words following, or the like in effect, viz.

These were the words of that reuerend Iudge, there wanteth nothing saue that Grace and Zeale wherewith he pronounced them.

Whereunto all the people with a loud voyce prayed and cryed, Amen, Amen.

And thereupon all the Musick played, Drums were strucke, Flutes whistled, Trumpets sounded, people showted, and another piercing and thun­dring Volley of shot was let flie, the eccho and report whereof resounded admirably, to the great solace and comfort of all present.

And then being full one of the clocke in the af­ter noone, the said Iustice, and Counsell, with the Knights, Esquiers, and best sort of Gentlemen returned into the Castle to dinner (where was a great Feast prouided, with excellent musicke) the Bailiffes also with their Brethren and Burges­ses went downe to the Towne, to spend the rest of the day in all joyfull and iouiall manner, hauing [Page]all of them, before their departure thence, in the presence, and by the appointment of Raph Mans­field Esquier, chiefe Steward to the Kings Hous­hold there, drunke plentifully of wine, to the hap­pie health and prosperitie, of our said gracious Prince of Wales.

Dinner being scarse ended in the Castle, the aforesaide Bailiffes in like pompe, beeing a­gaine accompanied with the whole Quire of the Church, and the Penon-bearers with their Bane­rols of Armes in their hands, and their Musicke playing before them, came vp in great solemni­tie into the Castle, where Maister Iustice ioyfully receiuing them, brought them straight into the Chappell, there to offer their Euening Sacrifice, where much reioycing was without doores, and excellent Musicke of Voyces, in singing many Psalmes and new Anthemes within the saide Chappell.

VVhich being finished, the aforesaid Schol­lers very humbly prostrating themselues with low obeisance, deliuered vp their sayd seuerall Banerolls into the hands of the said Iustice, who willed Richard Adams Gentleman, being skil­full in Heraldrie there present, to see them or­derly placed in the said Chappel, where they now remaine as remarkeable Trophies of that Solem­nitie.

And after Prayers ended, the Bailiffes with their company humbly taking their leaue of the [Page]Counsell, Maister Iustice required them still to continue their Ringing, as well for the full so­lemnizing of the said day of our Prince his sayd Creation, as also to expresse their ioy and thanks­giuing vnto Almightie God for our said dread Soueraignes most admirable Deliuerance, with the royall Queene, illustrious Prince, all the Lords Spirituall and Temporall, and Commons of this Realme assembled together in Parliament from the Papists treasonable and horrible conspi­racie, and vnmatchable intended Practise of the Gunne-powder treason, in the yeare of our Lord God, one thousand sixe hundred and fiue, and to bee in a readinesse with the sayd Iustice, and Counsell the next morning, to praise God for the same.

VVhich accordingly was performed the next day, and a very learned Sermon preached by Maister Thomas Kaye, the Kings Chaplaine, at­tending the Lord President and Counsell there, vpon the twelue and thirteene Verses of the 116. Psalme.

Which Sermon being ended, euery man re­turned to their home, the Musicke, Ringing, and Bonefires continuing to the great comfort of all [Page]his Maiesties said louing and faithfull Subiects all the said day.

This Solemnization the said Iustice was care­full to obserue, for the Glorie of God, the Honour of the King, and Prince of Wales; as well to testi­fie and expresse his Duetie and Seruice, as also the loyaltie and heartie ioy of all his Maiesties louing Sub­iects then assem­bled.