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 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 , 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 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 the 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 , Variety , and the content of the Spectators , this Crystall Temple 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 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 , 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 !