velvet or plush coats, with gold chains, every horseman attended by a footman, with truncheons and torches. Each company was preceded by a pendant of its arms; and fourteen trumpeters, with bannered trumpets and scarfs, were placed, four at the head of the troop, and two between every hundred horsemen.

This cavalcade having arrived at Kingsland, there waited as before mentioned; but the Sheriffs, in the mean time, attended by seventy-two men in scarlet cloaks, trimmed with silver lace ("the colours of the city,") with javelins and feathers, and four trumpeters, rode on to meet their Majesties at Stamford Hill.

The coach containing the Royal Family came into the field about ten o'clock. The King sat on the right side, and her Majesty on his right hand; the Prince, Duke of York, and the Princess Mary were within; and the Prince Elector Palatine and the Duchess of Richmond sat on the other side. When the coach came near the Lord Mayor's tent, his Majesty caused it to stop; and, after several of the nobility had made their congratulations, the civil authorities likewise presented themselves, and had the honour to kiss his Majesty's hands. The Recorder's speech and his Majesty's answer, both of considerable length, will be found in Nelson, Rushworth, and Maitland. After their delivery the Lord Mayor and Recorder were knighted, and the cavalcade moved forward to the city, proceeding by London Wall, Bishopsgate Street, Cornhill, and Cheapside. The streets were ornamented, the citizens stationed, and the conduits replenished with wine, as in the days of old; but there were no Pageants or Triumphal Arches.

At Guildhall, their Majesties' dinner was served up on the hustings, which were almost two yards from the ground, and the floor covered with Turkey carpets. In the middle were two chairs under a cloth of state, and before them was placed a six yards long; two yards from which, on the south, was "a table of garnish," or sideboard, of three yards square; and, on the north, a room for music of all sorts.

Upon a lower platform, raised about a yard from the ground, and extending from the hustings nearly to the door, were two tables for Lords and Ladies; in the west end of the

hall was a long table for his Majesty's Pensioners; and in other rooms were tables prepared for the several sorts of their Majesties' attendants.

The dinner was served up without confusion by means of two ranks of liverymen, formed of eighty grave citizens attired in foins and liveries, who, standing at about two yards di s tance from each other, passed the dishes from the dresser at the west end of the hall until the sewers received them and placed them on the table. Their Majesties' meat was apportioned in four services. The first consisted of fifty dishes of cold meats, as brawn, fish, and cold baked meats upon the garnish or side table; the other three were of all sorts of hot flesh and fish, boiled, roasted, and baked, to the number of one hundred and twenty dishes; after which was served up a curious and well-ordered dessert. To the two tables of the Lords and Ladies were appointed ten messes, consisting of five hundred dishes.

After dinner, in order further to gratify the Lord Mayor, the King knighted his son-in-law Sir John Pettus, a gentleman of an ancient Suffolk family; and about four o'clock took his departure. The Little Conduit in Cheapside, and the Conduit in Fleet Street, ran with wine, as the other two Conduits had done in the morning; and, as their Majesties passed the south door of St. Paul's, the Choir, accompanied by sackbuts and cornets, sang an anthem of praise to God, and prayers for their Majesties' long lives.

No terms can exceed those which describe the general rejoicings on this occasion; and, although the dispersion of "some seditious libels" had occasioned particular precautions in the disposal of the trained bands, nothing appears to have occurred to disturb the harmony of the loyal and well-disposed. The King, on his part, used every exertion to testify his approbation and gratitude to the citizens; he created the Lord Mayor a Baronet, knighted five other Aldermen, and the two Sheriffs, and gave them a dinner at Hampton Court. The spirit of disaffection was, however, widely spreading; and it may be said with truth, that this was the last day on which the sun of British royalty shone in a cloudless firmament, before it was overwhelmed by a long tempest of civil contest, and a night of gloomy fanaticism.

XXXIV. THE SAME, 1641-2.

Only a few months after, on the 5th of January 1641-2, the King came into London under very different circumstances, to demand the Members of the House of Commons whom he had accused of high treason, and believed to be shrouded in the city. The populace greeted him with exclamations for the "Privileges of Parliament!" and one Henry Walker, a pamphleteering ironmonger, threw into his Majesty's coach a paper whereon was written "To your tents, O Israel!”

The King addressed the Common Council in person; and afterwards, on his own invitation, dined with one of the Sheriffs.

XXXV. THE PARLIAMENT, 1641-2.

["London's Love, or the Entertainment of the Parliament; being a true description of the great and generous Welcome given to the Houses of Lords and Commons on the 19th day of Jan. at Grocers' Hall, 1641, by divers Citizens of good quality. Wherein is declared the great and manifold expressions of Love betwixt the Lords and Commons. Likewise the Cities Protestation both to the King and Parliament, concerning their loyal affections, and unexpressable loves. London, printed for John Thomas. 1641." 4to. pp. 8. A copy is in the British Museum.]

The dominant faction in the City early connected it, heart and hand, with the measures of the House of Commons; and, as that House had now taken the reins of government, we may, by a consistent paradox, include the entertainment of the Republicans of 1641-2 among the visits of Sovereign Potentates. The dinner was at Merchant-taylors' hall; but the first business of the day was to hear a sermon at Christ-church, Newgate-street. From thence the procession walked to the Hall, through the streets lined by the trained bands, marshalled in the following order: First, the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen in their scarlet robes, followed by the Common

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Council; then the Earl of Essex, the General; the Earl of Warwick, Lord Admiral; the Earl of Manchester; with many of the nobility, attended by several colonels and other officers of the army; then the Members of the House of Comthe Scottish Commissioners, and the Assembly of Divines, who closed the procession. It will not be expected that Cheapside exhibited any Pageantry on this occasion; but, in its place, we are told that the visitors "were diverted by a great bonefire of Popish trumpery, and other superstitious stuff!"

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The City subsequently entertained Fairfax and Cromwell in 1649; and the latter in 1652.

XXXVI. KING CHARLES THE SECOND, 1660.

["The Glories and Magnificent Triumphs of the Blessed Restoration of His Sacred Majesty King Charles the Second, by James Heath. 1662." 8vo; and other authorities.]

It is well known that the City acted as great a part in the Restoration of Charles the Second, as they had done in the expulsion of his Father, having sent twelve Deputies to greet his Majesty at the Hague and present him with 10,000%, who were all knighted. On the 29th of May, 1660, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen met the King at St. George's Fields in Southwark; and the former, having delivered the City sword to his Majesty, had the same returned with the honour of knighthood. A very magnificent tent was erected in the Fields, provided with a sumptuous collation, of which the King participated. He then proceeded towards London, which was pompously adorned with the richest silks and tapestry, and the streets lined with the City Corporations and trained bands; while the conduits flowed with a variety of delicious wines, and the windows, balconies, and scaffolds, were crowded with such an infinite number of spectators, as if the whole collective body of the people had been assembled to grace the Royal Entry.

The procession was chiefly composed of the military. First

marched a gallant troop of gentlemen in cloth of silver, brandishing their swords, and led by Major-General Brown; then another troop of two hundred in velvet coats, with footmen and liveries attending them in purple; a third led by Alderman Robinson, in buff coats, with cloth of silver sleeves, and very rich green scarfs; a troop of about two hundred, with blue liveries laid with silver, with six trumpeters, and several footmen, in sea-green and silver; another of two hundred and twenty, with thirty footmen in grey and silver liveries, and four trumpeters richly habited; another of an hundred and five, with grey liveries, and six trumpets; and another of seventy, with five trumpets; and then three troops more, two of three hundred and one of one hundred, all gloriously habited, and gallantly mounted. After these came two trumpets with his Majesty's arms; the Sheriffs' men, in number fourscore, in red cloaks, richly laced with silver, with half-pikes in their hands. Then followed six hundred of the several Companies of London on horseback, in black velvet coats, with gold chains, each Company having footmen in different liveries, with streamers, &c. after whom came kettledrums and trumpets, with streamers, and after them twelve ministers (clergymen), at the head of his Majesty's life-guard of horse, commanded by Lord Gerrard. Next the City Marshal, with eight footmen in various colours, with the City Waits and Officers in order; then the two Sheriffs and all the Aldermen in their scarlet gowns and rich trappings, with footmen in liveries, red coats laid with silver, and cloth of gold; the heralds and maces in rich coats; the Lord Mayor bareheaded, carrying the sword, with his Excellency the General (Monk) and the Duke of Buckingham, also uncovered; and then, as the lustre to all this splendid triumph, rode the King himself between his Royal brothers the Dukes of York and Gloucester. Then followed a troop of horse with white colours; the General's life-guard, led by Sir Philip Howard, and another troop of gentry; and, last of all, five regiments of horse belonging to the army, with back, breast, and head-pieces; which, it is remarked, "diversified the show with delight and terror."

The anniversary of this day was appointed by the Parlia