ment as the day of thanksgiving for the Restoration of the Royal Family, as which it has continued to be observed by the Church of England.

On the twelfth of July the King came to dine at Guildhall, the solemnities on which occasion were described in

London's Glory; represented by Time, Truth, and Fame; at the magnificent Triumphs and Entertainment of his most sacred Majesty Charles the II. the Dukes of York and Glocester, the two Houses of Parliament, Privy Councill, Judges, &c. at Guildhall, on Thursday, being the 5th day of July 1660, and in the twelfth year of his Majesties most happy reign. Together with the order and management of the whole day's business. Published according to order. London, printed by William Godbid in Little Britain. 1660.” 4to, pp. 14. Copies are in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries. Sold in Mr. Rhodes's Library, April 1825, for 17. 18.

The rainy unseasonable weather took off much from this solemnity, so that his Majesty went into London attended by his household guards. Adjutant-general Miller rode some distance before to make way; then Sir William Throckmorton Knight Marshall, and his servants; the trumpets and mace bearers; the heralds; the pages and footmen; and next his Majesty's coach with six horses, guarded on both sides by the Band of Pensioners with pistols in their hands, and commanded by the Earl of Cleveland; the Equerries; several of his Majesty's servants; the Lord Chancellor in his coach, the Duke of Buckingham, and other nobility; and then the Speaker of the House of Commons, in his coach with six horses, attended by a troop of cavalry, and followed by the House of Commons in their coaches. The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and citizens met the King at Paul's Gate and conducted him to Guildhall. Cheapside was lined by the artillery Campany, commanded by Lord Lucas. The King's two brothers dined with him; and after dinner was represented an interlude; in which a countryman (a favourite character in the civic entertainments of this reign) sustained the principal part. In the withdrawing room the King knighted Alderman Reynoldson, Mr. Clayton, Mr. Player the Chamberlain, and Mr. Thomas Player his son.

XXXVIII. THE SAME, 1661.

["The Relation of his Majesty's Entertainment passing through the City of London to his Coronation, with a description of the Triumphal Arches and solemnity. By JOHN OGILBY. London, printed by Thomas Roycroft, for Richard Marriott in St. Dunstan's Church-yard, Fleet Street. 1661." fol. pp. 40. Republished by the author with engravings in 1662, and re-edited by William Morgan in 1685. "The City's Loyalty displayed, or the four fabricks erected in the City of London excellently described. 1661." 4to. This is in the British Museum. “Gloria Britannica; or a Panegyricke on his Majesties Passage through London to his Coronation. London, printed in 1661.” 4to.]

On the 22d of April, the day before his Coronation, Charles the Second rode through the city "according to ancient custom." Although the expressions used on these occasions are uniformly hyperbolical, it is probable that the expense was never occurred more heartily or more liberally than on this happy return of peace and good order. We are told that "even the French quality were forced to acknowledge that the late Nuptial Solemnities at their King and Queen's publick entry into Paris (on their marriage, in 1660) were far inferior to the pomp of this."

On the King's passage through Crouched Friars he was entertained by a band of eight waits, placed on a stage; and again near Aldgate by six, stationed in a balcony.

The first of the four Arches was erected in Leadenhall Street, made after the Doric order, commemorative of his Majesty's happy arrival in England. It had several allegorical statues, as well as two of James 1. and Charles I.; and a picture of the King's landing at Dover.

At the East India House, the East India Company expressed their affection to his Majesty by an entertainment which was designed, and the speeches written, by a person of quality. Two youths, John and Samuel, sons of Sir Richard Ford, one of the Directors, addressed the King. They were attired in Indian habits, each attended by two black-moors.

One of them was mounted on a camel, having two panniers filled with jewels, spices and silks, to be scattered among the spectators.

There was another band at Leadenhall; and trumpets, with eight nymphs, at Cornhill Conduit.

The second Arch was a naval representation, and was erected in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange. It had a great variety of figures of the quarters of the world, rivers, sciences, &c. (several of them represented by living persons) and a painting of the Duke of York as Neptune. The Thames made a speech, and three seamen sang some songs.

At the Stocks was a military band; and a fountain of the Tuscan order, venting wine. At the great Conduit in Cheapside were wind musicians, and eight nymphs in white, with an escutcheon in one hand and a pendant in the other; and at the Standard a band of six waits.

The third Arch in Cheapside, near the end of Wood Street, (where after the Fire was formed King Street, the present street leading to Guildhall,) was a Temple of Concord, of the Corinthian and Composite orders, where Concord herself was the speaker, and sang with Love and Truth.

The Little Conduit was ornamented with four nymphs; and near it, in a balcony at the end of Paternoster Row, were placed his Majesty's drums and fife, in number eight; between that and Ludgate were erected two other balconies, which had in one six waits, and in the other six drums; on the top of Ludgate were six drums; at Fleet Bridge six waits; and on Fleet Conduit were six nymphs, and a band of six waits, and on the lanthorn a figure of Temperance mixing water and wine.

The fourth Arch in Fleet Street, of the Doric and Ionic orders, was dedicated to Plenty, with figures of Bacchus, Ceres, Flora, Pomona, and the Winds; and Plenty made a speech.

All the four Arches are engraved, in a large folio size, in Ogilby's second book.

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Pepys gives some account of the show in his amusing Diary." He says, "It is impossible to relate the glory of

this day, expressed in the clothes of them that rid, and their horses and horse-clothes. The Knights of the Bath was a brave sight of itself. My Lord Monk rode bare before the King, and led in his hand a spare horse, as Master of the Horse. The King, in a most rich embroidered suit and cloak, looked most noble. Lord Hardwick's* suit, which was made in France, and is very rich with embroidery, cost him £200. Wadlow, the vintner at the Devil in Fleet Street, did lead a fine company of soldiers, all young comely men, in white doublets. There followed the Vice-Chamberlain, Sir G. Carteret, a company of men all like Turks, but I know not yet what they are for." From the order of the cavalcade in Ogilby's book, these Turks can have been no other but the Yeomen of the Guard! The dress of Henry the Eighth's reign was revived, and has been preserved ever since. Mr. Pepys could have known very little of Turkish costume.

*Father of the first Duke of Devonshire.

XXXIX. THE SAME, 1662.

On Lord Mayor's day, the King forebore to go to the place prepared for him in Cheapside, "being advertised of some disturbance;" but he was shortly afterwards entertained by the Lord Mayor at the Hall of his Company, the Clothworkers.

XL-XLVI. THE SAME, 1671, 1672, 1673, 1674, 1675, 1676, 1677.

[London Gazette.]

On Lord Mayor's day, 1671, the King and Queen saw the water procession from Whitehall, and the land show in Cheapside, near the Standard, sitting in a balcony, under a canopy of state. They afterwards, together with the Duke of York, the Lady Mary and the Lady Anne his Royal Highness's daughters, Prince Rupert, and many of the great ladies, dined at a table raised upon the hustings. Before dinner the King knighted the Sheriffs, Jonathan Dawes and Robert Clayton, Esquires.

The King, with some of the Royal family, were also constant visitors at the great civic entertainment for the six following years; and at that of 1674, he was pleased to accept of the freedom of the City, in the Chamberlain's office, from the hands of Sir Thomas Player, then Chamberlain. The copy of his freedom was afterwards presented to his Majesty in the Banquetting-house at Whitehall, on the eighteenth of December, inclosed in a large square box of massy gold, and the seal in another box of the same metal, beautifully enriched with large diamonds of great value.

At length, in 1678, the custom of the King's attendance was broken through by the "horrible design against his sacred life," commonly known by the name of the Popish plot; on account of which a fast for the 13th of November, was proclaimed on the very day of the Lord Mayor's feast; and similar alarms prevented his again dining with the City until 1681.

The titles of the Lord Mayors' Pageants for these years will be found in the second division of the present publication.