to all and every the constables of st. clements danes of the dutchy liberty, of covent-garden, and st. martins in the fields approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing t thomason .f. [ ] estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) to all and every the constables of st. clements danes of the dutchy liberty, of covent-garden, and st. martins in the fields throckmorton, william. sheet ([ ] p.) printed by john bill, printer to the king's most excellent majesty, london : . an order of the knight marshall respecting regulations to be observed at the king's coronation. dated and signed at end: whitehall, by the authority above named, the eight day of april, one thousand six hundred sixty one. william throckmorton. annotation on thomason copy: "april ". reproduction of the original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng charles -- ii, -- king of england, - -- coronation -- early works to . coronations -- great britain -- early works to . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - jonathan blaney sampled and proofread - jonathan blaney text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion to all and every the constables of st. clements danes of the dutchy liberty , of covent-garden , and st. martins in the fields . whereas i have received a warrant from the right honourable the earl of linsey lord great chamberlain of england , to make proclamation in his majesties name , as followeth , namely , that no persons but the nobility , and officers appointed , come within the rayles wherein his majesty shall proceed unto his royal coronation , nor after on that day , until his majesty be returned into westminster-hall from the church . nor that any persons but such as are to go in the said proceeding , presume on that day to come into any rooms of the lords house of parliament , the painted chamber , courts of requests and wards , in westminster-hall , until such time as his majesty be gone thence to the church , and then onely such as are to do duty in the said hall at his majesties return to dinner . as also that the said constables be careful that no persons whatever presume to stand within the rayles that shall be set up from whitehall to temple-bar , to hinder his majesties proceeding on that day when his majesty shall ride from the tower unto his palace at whitehall , until he shall be arrived there ; but that the said rayles shall be kept clear and void all that day for the free passage of his majesty and of his officers that are to attend the ceremony : these are therefore in his majesties name to require you and every one of you , to cause this proclamation to be read in your respective churches , the sunday before the solemnization of the coronation , and to affix the same in places convenient to be seen ; and to be careful in your several stations that the contents hereof be duly observed . given at whitehall , by the authority above named , the eight day of april , one thousand six hundred sixty one , and signed by me his majesties knight marshall , william throckmorton . god save the king . london , printed by john bill , printer to the king' 's most excellent majesty , . a letter from a gentleman in the country to his correspondent in the city, concerning the coronation medal, distributed april , gentleman in the country. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) a letter from a gentleman in the country to his correspondent in the city, concerning the coronation medal, distributed april , gentleman in the country. sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [s.l : ] letter dated: april the th, . reproduction of original in bodleian library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng william -- iii, -- king of england, - -- coronation. mary -- ii, -- queen of england, - -- coronation. coronations -- england -- collectibles. broadsides -- england -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - jonathan blaney sampled and proofread - jonathan blaney text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter from a gentleman in the country to his correspondent in the city , concerning the coronation medal , distributed april . . sir , you have obliged me very much by the account you gave me of the coronation : but i have had some remarques from another hand , concerning the truth of which i suspend my judgment till you inform me better . i shall give you the relation in the very words , as i received it . — there was one thing which much afflicted all true english-men , because it is believed it never hapened since william the conqueror's time ; which was , that a king and queen of england should make their procession at the coronation through a treble rank of armed horse and foot all foreigners . it grieved us all to see , that for want of some interpreters betwixt them and the multitude , which usually press upon such occasions , an infinite of the poor english , even well wishers to the new king and queen , were not only rudely treated with sterne countenances and dutch curses , but continually pushed back with the eut-ends of the soldiers musquets , or the serjeans halbards , and sometimes received broken heads , or as dangerous bruises if they did but endeavour to get nearer . i saw my self many persons knocked and pushed upon the breast with the troopers pistols , and pricked with their swords for endeavouring to couch under the horses heads ; and when any one offered to get nearer through the ranks of horsemen , where they found protection at former coronations by their own country-men ; these rude strangers were sure to check their horses and make them curvete or turn round , which could not be without the hazard of breaking their legs , or bruising those that were in the way . i need not mention the tossing and pushing men and women from place to place , and draging them through the kennels , more like slaves , nay doggs , then christians , which made many spectators sigh and pitty the condition of several hundreds whom they saw so used : whilst others were not afraid to say , what most i believe thought , that this was but the beginning , and a light matter in comparison of what the whole body of the english nation ( who are not now it seems to be confided in ) must suffer under these new lord-danes before the king can be so settled in his throne that he may safely dismiss his foreign force ; nay some they say had their skulls broken and dy'd in the crowd , though this is endeavoured to be stifled . — neither do you mention the unlucky qualm my correspondent tells me the king had ; nor the duke of norfolk's fall from his horse , when he ushered in the champion , which were something ominous . the gold medal you sent me , the true meaning of which you desire me to explain , gave me and some friends of mine no small diversion . and to deal plainly with you , i think the contriver of it hath done their majesties little service . i need not tell you that the custom of stamping medals ( upon whose reverses the inaugurations , victories , or great acheivements of princes or generals , were represented either expresly or by some emblem ) is as old as the first coynage of money by the grecians and romans . nor that in the last century and this they have been improved , and many ingenious devices invented suitable to the noble enterprises which were by those means to be perpetuated ; and are to be found in the repositories of princes , or published by luchins and others on that subject . insomuch , that we find even john of leyden after he had gotten entire possession of munster , and filled it with his crew of anabaptists , notwithstanding his pretended sanctity and mortification , coyned several medals , which were indeed very ominous to him ; for this mushrum king , sprung from holland , continued not above six months , before he was hung up in an iron-cage , with some of his complices , upon the top of a tower in munster . i might give you various instances of auspicious and inaugural medals , but that i intend this only as a letter . therefore i shall proceed to the present medal , which , of what nature it will be , time alone must shew ; yet i foresee it will give great occasion to the maligners of our new crowned king and queen to pass their malicious censures on it . one of my friends viewing the two faces of the king and queen , said , that such conjunctions in medals , had oftentimes proved unfortunate ; for he had , not long since , by him the medal made for the two dewitts , which much resembled this , if the head attire had not been different , whose inhuman buchery by the mobilee of amsterdam , gave the very first rise to the then blooming prince of orange's greatness : and all the world ( says he ) knows that king phillip and queen mary of england , and king henry and queen mary of scotland , whose faces and names were joyned in their coyns and medals , were not very fortunate . but i told him , since the parliament had joyned them in the sovereignty , they could not be dis-joyned in their coyn , and i doubted not but their fortunes would be alike , good or bad . when i received the reverse , i was heated into an indignation that any person should be so indiscreet , as to choose an emblem upon such an occasion , so subject to mis-interpretation as this would be . for as julius caesar said to his wife calphurnia , that it was not enough that she should be innocent , but that she ought to be so cautious in all her actions , that she should be free even from suspicion ; so ought it to be with emblems and medals ; they ought to signifie and express so clearly , the worth and greatness of those princes actions which they represent , that no sinister interpretations might be made of them . and this indignation was increased by the reflection which a gentleman made , who first look'd upon the reverse with me . this gentleman seeing a chariot , but not understanding the latine inscription , and having heard the town talk of tullia , who instigated her husband tarquinius to kill her father servius tullius , king of the romans , that he might succeed him in the throne , and , as livy says , caused her chariot to be driven over his mangled body ; cried out , is this tullia 's chariot ? this i say shock'd me , and rais'd my anger against the contriver , who had chosen so ill an emblem , which upon so superficial a view , brought such an odious history into mens minds . another by-stander seeing the figure represented phaeton , whom the poets feign to have obtained leave of his father phoebus to guide his chariot for one day , and who by his want of skill to govern the fiery horses , had like to have set the world on fire , had not jupiter struck him dead with a thunder-bolt ; exclaimed against the emblem as full of ill omens , and said , that the people knowing that this king and queen had , not by permission , but by violence , ascended their fathers throne , would look upon this as his chariot which they drive , and interpreted jupiter's thunder-bolt as a sign of some judgment of god impending over our gracious prince , for this , which he called , an unnatural vsurpation . this made my cheeks and ears to burn , and i told them , they were both extreamly wide of the inventors meaning . for by phaeton he meant king james , who by mis-government had endangered the destruction of this kingdom , and that god having compassion on his church and people , had struck him from his regal seat. but another gentleman then present said , that although he verily believed that was the contrivers meaning , yet there were so many exceptions to the congruity of that fable with the cicumstances of king james's reign , that he might as well have offered the war of the gyants against jupiter , as this , to represent the inaugural glory of our king and queen , which ought to have been the only subject to be considered . he said , that phaeton could never represent king james ; since the throne or chariot belonged solely to him , as hereditary lawful king ; neither could it be said that he had asked any ones leave to guide it . but that all men knew an vsurper was the moral of phaeton in the fable , and an vsurper in his fathers reign . moreover ( said he ) if king james must be phaeton , then king william must be jupiter that struck him out of his chariot , or phoebus that re-assumed it after he had been thunder-struck ; and how disagreeable this was to the whole scope of the fable , was obvious to every school-boy that read ovid's metamorphosis . nay , he further affirmed ; that this emblem seems to presage king james's returning to his throne again , and if so , it would be congruous in almost all its curcumstances . i must confess sir , i could not heartily contradict this gentleman ; but wish'd the author had either consulted books or men , for a more significant and unexceptionable emblem . but since he has been so unfortunate , if not malicious , if you know the person , advise him to get himself included in the act of indempnity ; it being a crime , equal to the counterfeiting the king's coyn , to contrive a coronation emblem that gives such occasion of censure and reflection to the male-contents , and maligners of king william , our present phoebus , from whom we expect a wonderful deliverance . sir , i am , yours . april the th . . by the king. a proclamation for the better regulating his majesties royal proceeding from the tower of london to his palace at whitehall the th day of april next, being the day before his majesties coronation. proclamations. - - england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles ii) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing c estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) by the king. a proclamation for the better regulating his majesties royal proceeding from the tower of london to his palace at whitehall the th day of april next, being the day before his majesties coronation. proclamations. - - england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles ii) charles ii, king of england, - . sheet ([ ] p.) printed by iohn bill, printer to the king's most excellent majesty, . at the king's printing-house in black-friers, london : [ ] steele notation: necessa- but of; arms . dated at end: given at the court at vvhitehall the nineteenth day of april, . in the thirteenth year of his majesties reign. reproduction of original in the henry e. huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng coronations -- england -- early works to . great britain -- history -- charles ii, - -- early works to . broadsides -- england - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion c r diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the king. a proclamation for the better regulating his majesties royal proceeding from the tower of london to his palace at whitehall , the th day of april next , being the day before his majesties coronation . charles r. in regard the tower of london is not of capacity to receive the necessary attendants and horses of all persons designed to ride in that proceéding ; his majesty out of his care for preventing of all disorder , and for the better conveniency of all such of his nobility and others who are to attend him that day in that royal proceeding from the tower of london ; doth hereby declare his express will and pleasure to be , that no person whatever but the nobility , privy counsellors , the gentlemen of their horse and their servants in livery , presume to come into the tower that day , nor to bring in any horses but those belonging to his majesty , and to his highness the duke of yorke , and to the nobility and counsellors ; but that all other persons do ( with their servants and horses ) stay upon tower-hill , where they are to be by eight of the clock that morning ; where they shall be placed and disposed by his majesties officers of armes in such manner as that they may be most conveniently ranked , and proceed according to their degrees : nor that any person of any condition whatsoever , but such as are in the list of proceeding , and have order for it , presume to march or ride therein . and for prevention of disorder , that no person whatsoever do that day ride upon any unruly or striking horse . and because the multitude of persons that are to ride in that royal proceeding may not hinder each other , it is his majesties further pleasure and command , that the duke of york's horse guards , who are to have the van in that proceeding , be drawn up early in the morning in the crutchet fryers ready to march when they shall be directed ; and that his majesties horse guards be also drawn up in tower-street , or the minories ; and that the duke of albemarles horse guards be drawn up in the street without algate ; both which are in order to bring up the reer . to all which commands his majesty expects due obedience to be given , and that all persons ( without dispute ) shall ride in that proceeding according as they shall be called and ranked by his majesties officers of armes . given at the court at vvhitehall the nineteenth day of april , . in the thirteenth year of his majesties reign . god save the king . london , printed by iohn bill , printer to the king 's most excellent majesty , . at the king's printing-house in black-friers . a panegyric to charles the second presented to his majestie the xxxiii. [sic] of april, being the day of his coronation, mdclxi. evelyn, john, - . approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing e estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) a panegyric to charles the second presented to his majestie the xxxiii. [sic] of april, being the day of his coronation, mdclxi. evelyn, john, - . p. printed for john crooke ..., london : [ ] date of publication suggested by wing. reproduction of original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng charles -- ii, -- king of england, - -- coronation. coronations -- england. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - john latta sampled and proofread - john latta text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a panegyric to charles the second , presented to his majestie the xxxiii . of april , being the day of his coronation . mdclxi . by iohn evelyn , esquire . london , printed for iohn crooke , and are to be sold at the ship in st. paul's church-yard . a panegyric to charles the ii. presented to his majesty on the day of his inauguration , april . mdclxi . i have decreed with my self ( o best and greatest of kings ! ) to publish the just resentiments of a heart , perfectly touch'd with the joy and universal acclamations of your people , for your this dayes exaltation and glorious investiture . and truly , it was of custome us'd to good and gracious princes , upon lesser occasions , to pronounce and celebrate their merits with elogies and panegyrics ; but if ever they were due , it is to your majesty this day ; because as your virtues are superiour to all that pass●d before you ; so is the conjuncture , and the steps by which you are happily ascended to it , miraculous , and alltogether stupendious : so that what the former ages might produce to deprecate their fears , or flatter the inclinations of a tyrant , we offer spontaneously , and by instinct , without artifice to your serene majesty , our just and rightfull soveraign . and if in these expressions of it , and the formes we use , it were possible to exceed , and so offend your modesty ; herein only ( great sir ) do we not fear to disobey you ; since it is not in your power to deny us our rejoycing , nor indeed in ours , to moderate . permit us therefore ( o best of kings ) to follow our genius , and to consecrate your name , and this dayes exaltation to that posterity which you alone have preserved , and which had certainly seen its period , but for your happy restauration ; so that your majesty does not so much accept a benefit from , as give it to your subjects . for though the fulness of this dayes joy , be like the seven years of plenty ; yet , is that bread far more sweet , which is eaten with remembrance of the past famine ( too bitter , alas ! to be forgotten on the suddain ) especially , when it may serve to illustrate our present felicity , and conduce to your majesties glory : for so the skillful artist , studious of making a surprising peice , or representing some irradiated deity , deepens the shadowes sometimes with the darkest touches , and approaching to horrour it self , thereby to render his lights the more refulgent , and striking in the eyes of the spectator . let us then call to mind ( and yet for ever cursed be the memory of it ) those dismal clouds , which lately orespread us , when we served the lusts of those immane usurpets , greedy of power , that themselves might be under none ; cruel , that they might murther the innocent without cause ; rich , with the publick poverty ; strong , by putting the sword into the hands of furies , and prosperous by unheard of perfidie . armies , battails , impeaching , imprisonment , arraining , condemning , proscribing , plundring . gibbets and executions were the eloquent expressions of our miseries : there was no language then heard but of perjury , delusion , hypocrsie , heresie , taxes , excises , sequestration , decimation , and a thousand like barbarities : in summe , the solitudes were filled with noble exiles , the cities with rapacious theives , the temples with sacrilegious villains ; they had the spoiles of provinces , the robbing of churches , the goods of the slain , the stock of pupils , the plunder of loyal subjects ; no testament , no state secure , and nothing escaped their cruelty and insatiable avarice . for if it be sweet in prosperity , to consider of the past adventures , if tempests commend the haven ; war , peace ; and our last sharp sickness , our present health and vigour ; why should it not delight your majesty to hear of the miseries we have suffered ; since they re-inforce your own felicity , and the benefits which we receive by it ? where then should i begin but with thy calamities , o unfortunate england ! who hadst only the priviledge of being miserable , when all the world were happy : but i will not go too far in repeating the sorrowes which are vanish't , or uncover the buried memory of the evils past ; least whilst we strive to represent the vices of others , we seem to contaminate your sacred purple , or alloy our present rejoycing ; since that only is sign of a perfect and consummate felicity , when even the very remembrance of evils past , is quite forgotten . miraculous reverse ! o marvel greater then mans counsel ! who will believe that which his eyes do see ? what before a twenty years confusion had destroy'd ; behold a few moneths have restor'd : but the wonder does yet so much more astonish , that the grief was not so universal for having suffer'd under such a tyranny , as for having been so long depriv'd of so excellent a prince : no more then do we henceforth accuse our past miseries ; all things are by your presence repair'd , and so reflourish ; as if they even rejoyc'd they had once been destroy'd , auctior tuis facta beneficiis . so as not only a diadem binds your sacred temples this day ; but you have even crown'd all your subjects too ; so has your auspicious presence gilded all things ; our churches , tribunals , theaters , palaces , lift up their heads again ; the very fields do laugh and exalt . o happy , and blessed spring ! not so glorious yet with the pride and enamel of his flowers , the golden corn , and the gemms of the pregnant vine , as with those lillies and roses which bloom and flourish in your chaplet this day , to which not only these , but even all the productions of nature seem to bend , and pay their homage . and let it be a new year , a new aera , to all the future generations , as it is the beginning of this , and of that immense , platonic revolution ; for what could arrive more justly , more stupendious , were even the eight sphear it self now hurled about ? for no sooner came our charles on shore , but every man was in the haven where he would be ; the storm universally ceas'd , and every one ran forth to see our palladium , tanquam coelo delapsum : virgins , children , women , trembling old men , venerating the very ship that wafted our iason and his heroes , ravish'd with the sight , yet hardly believing for astonishment ; the greatness of the miracle , oppressing our senses , and endangering our very faith . credetne hoc olim ventura posteritas ? i would prayse you great prince , but having begun ; where shall i make an end ? since there remains not a topic through all that kind , but one might write decads of it , without offending the truth , were it as secure of your modesty ; since i am as well to consider what your ears can suffer , as what is owing to your virtues : on what heads shall i extend then my discourse ? your birth , country , form , education , manners ▪ studies , friends , honours and fortune run through all the partitions of the demonstrative : an orator could have nothing more to wish for , nor your majesty to render you more accomplish'd . shall i consider then your majesty as you were a son to that glorious father before his apotheosis ? as you were your self a confessor after it ; as you are now this day in your zenith and exaltation ; and as we augure you will by gods blessing prove to your subjects hereafter : for even through all these does our prospect lead us ; nor may it be objected that what shall be spoken of your majesty , can be applied to any other ; since the fortune and events of the rest of princes , have been so differing from yours ; as seeming to have been conducted by men alone , and second causes ; yours only by god , and as it were by miracle . i begin then with your early piety to that kingly martyr whose sacred dictates did institute your tender years , and whose sufferings were so much alleviated by your majesties early proficiency in all that might presage a hopefull and glorious successor : for so did you run through all his vicissitudes , during that implacable war , which sought nothing more then to defeat you of all opportunities of a princely education , as fearing your future virtues ; because they knew the stock from whence you sprung , was not to be destroy'd by wounding the body , so long as such a branch remained . duris at ilex tonsa bipennibus nigrae feraci frondis in algido , per damna , per caedes , ab ipso ducit opes , animumque ferro . whilst he reign'd and govern'd , you learn'd only to obey ; living your own princely impress ; as knowing it would best instruct you one day how to command , and which we now see accomplish'd : these then are the effects , when princes are the sons of nobles ; since only such know best to support the weight , who use to bear betimes , and by degrees ; not those who rashly pull it on their shoulders ; because they take it with less violence , less ambition , less jealousie : none so secure a prince , as he that is so born . but no sooner did that blessed martyr expire , then our redivive phoenix appear'd ; rising from those sacred ashes testator and heir ; father and yet son ; another , and yet the same ; introsuming as it were his spirit , as he breath'd it out , when singing his own epicedium and genethliack together , he seem'd prodigal of his own life to have it redouble'd in your felicity : thus , rex nunquam moritur . o admirable conduct of the divine providence , to immortalize the image of a just monatch : ipsa quidem , sed non eadem , quia & ipsa , nec ipsa est . since that may as truly be apply'd to your majesty , which was once to the wisest of kings : mortuus est pater ejus , & quasi non mortuus , similem enim reliquit sibi post se. but with how much prudence , is serenity attributed amongst the titles of princes , and the beams of the sun to irradiate their crowns ; that the scepter bears a flower ; since as that glorious planet produces , so does it also wither them ; and there is nothing lasting , save their vertues , which are indeed their essential parts , and only immortal ; for even yet did the clouds intercept our day with the continuance of so dismall a storm , as it obnubilated all those hopes of ours . it is an infinite adventure , if in a princes family ( once overcast ) it ever grow fair weather again , but by a singular and extraordinary providence . i mention this to increase the wonder , and reinforce your felicity . empires passe , kingdomes are translated , and dominions cease : the cecropides of old , the arsacides , the theban , corinthian , syracusian , and sundry more lasted not to the fourth age without strange and prodigious tragedies ; but why go we so far back , when a few centuries present us with so many fresh revolutions ? how many nests has the roman eagle changed ? bulgarian , saracen , latine ; in the comneni , isaaci , paleologi , &c. even till it dash'd it self in pieces against the oetoman rock . what mutations have been in the house of arragon ? how many riders has the parthenopean horse unsaddl'd and flung ? how many sicily ? what changes have been in italy , what in france , and indeed through all europe by vandals , saxons , danes , normans , by external invasion , internal faction , envy , ambition , treachery and violence ? the consulate degenerated into oligarchy , which occasion'd the aventine sedition ; democraty into ochlocraty under the tribunes and wicked gracchi ; and monarchy it self , ( the very best of governments ) into tyranny . indeed your sacred majesty was cast out of your kingdoms , but could never be thrown out of our hearts ; there , you had a secure seat ; and the prince that is inthron'd there , is safe ▪ in all mutations : keep there sir , and you are inexpugnable , immoveable . and how should it otherwayes be ? a prince of your virtue could not miscarry , that being truly verified of your majesty , as well in your perfections , as your person , certe , videtis quem elegit dominus in regem , quoniam non sit similis illi in omni populo . nature design'd your majesty a king , fortune makes others ; nor are you more your peoples by birth , and a glorious series of progenitors , then by your merits : this appeared in all those digits of your darkest eclipse ; the defect was ours , not your majesties . for the sun is alwaies shining , though men alwaies see him not ; and since the too great splendor , and prosperity did confound us , it pleased god to interpose those clouds , till we should be better able to behold you with more reverence and security ; for then it was that you prepar'd your self for this weighty government , and gave us those presages of your virtue , by what you did , for your people , and what you suffered for them ; signalizing your courage , your fortitude , constancy , piety , prudence and temperance upon all occasions . your travels and adventures are as far beyond those of ulysses , as you exceed him in dominions ; si quis enim velit percensere caesaris res , totum profecto terrarum orbem enumeret : for he must go very far that would sum up your perfections : your skill in the customes of nations , the situations of kingdomes , the advantages of places , the temper of the climates ; so as the ages to come shall tell with delight , where you fought valiantly , where you suffered gallantly , quis sudores tuos hauserit campus , quae refectiones tuas arbores , quae somnum saxa praetexerint , quod denique tectum magnus hospes impleveris , and all those sacred vestigia of yours : thus what was once applyed to trajan , becomes due to your majesty , and i my self am witness both abroad , and at home , of what i pronounce , having now beheld you in both fortunes with love and admiration ; but this is not halfe , and to stop at single perfections , were to give jealousie to the rest yetuntouched , and should i but succinctly number them all , were not to weave a panegyrick , but an inventory . but amongst all your vertues none was more eminent then your constancy to your religion , which no shocks of fortune , no assaults of sophisters , events and successe of adversaries , or offers of specious friends could shake ; so great a thing it was that you did persevere , so much greater quod non timuisti ne perseverare non posses . but whilst armies on earth fought for the usurper , the hosts of heaven fought in their courses for your majesty ; dashing your greatest enemy upon that rock , which afforded your shelter , till that tyranny was over past : and how welcome to us was that blessed day qui tyrannum abstu lit pessimum , principem dedit optimum ! he liv'd by storming others , dyed in one himself , & post nubila , phoebus . yet did not that quite dissolve our fears , till that other head of hydra was cut off , that despicable rump which succeeded , not by the sword , or any humane addresse , least we should sacrifice to our own nets ; but by the immediate hand of heaven , without noise , without armes , or stratageme , the same of your vertues , more then the sense of our own misery , universally turning the hearts even of your very enemies ; and then that northern star began the dawning of this day , till your nearer approach did guild our horizon , brighter then the rayes of the eastern sun , from whose spicy coast , like a true phoenix you were to come ; for so at the sight of that royal bird was the memory of sesostris , of amasis and ptolomy ever fortunate , and so was yours to us ; — tum rusticus ergo suspicit observans volucrem ; nam creditur annus ille salutaris — the happy presages of our glorious returne , stupendious indeed and almost indicible : for no sooner did your argo hoise fail , that the eagles themselves fled not swifter , then the report of your approach from ten thousand mouthes of brasse , echoing from ship to ship , and shore to shore , with their thundring voices , out done yet with the shouts and acclamations of your glad people , when our shaken republique rushed at once into your princely armes for safety and asylum , not by the occult power of destiny , or blind revolution , but the extraordinary hand of providence , whose pathes are in the great waters , and whose footsteps are no● known : o novum atque inauditum ad principatum iter , who that shall write annals , or verses can ever forget that day ? not dectepit age , not the sick , not the tender sex were kept back from resolving to behold that miraculous entry of yours ; the very little children pointed to you , the striplings and young men exsulted , the antient men stood amazed , and those who were under the empire of a cruel disease , leaped out of their beds , to have the sight of you , that were the safety of the people , returning with cure and refreshment : others protested , they had even now lived long enough , and were ready to expire with joy , and the transports of their spirits ; as satisfied that this ball could not present them with an other object worthy their admiration ; others wished now to live more then ever , that they might still enjoy their desired object ; and women forgetting the pains of childbirth , brought forth with joy , because they gave citizens to their prince , and souldiers now to their lavvful emperour . your majesty must needs remember , nor is the found yet out of your sacred ears , when the houses of this your august metropolis were covered with the loud and cheerful spectators , because the earth was too narrow to contain them ; the wayes and the trees were filled with the shouting of your people , long live king charles the ii. tamque aequaliter ab omnibus ex adventu tuo laetitia percepta est , quam omnibus venisti . for when the wise arbiter of things began to look down upon us , all things conspir'd to make us happy ; our deliverance by your majesty as by another moses , leading us out of that aegyptian bondage ; or by a nearer resemblance that of the babylonish captivity , if not yet farr greater ; since god did there only turne the heart of a prince to let a nation go : here , the hearts of a whole nation , to invite a banish'd prince to come , when no other visible power interpos'd . let others boast then of their miracles ; we can produce such , as no age , no people under heaven can shew ; god moving the hearts of his most implacable enemies in a moment as it were , and those who had been before inhumanely thirsty after your blood , now ready to sacrifice their own for your safety ; digna res memoratu ! ibat sub ducibus vexillisque regiis , hostis aliquando regius , & signa contra quae steterat sequebatur . but i suffer with too much plenty , and what eloquence is able to expresse the triumph of that your never to be forgotten entry , unlesse it be the renewing of it this day ? for then were we as those who dream , and can yet hardly be perswaded , that we are truly awake : dies ille aeternis seculis monumentisque mandandus , a day never to be forgotten in all our generations , but to be consecrated to posterity , transmitted to future ages , and inserted into monuments more lasting then brasse . away then with these woodden and temporary arches , to be taken down by the people at pleasure ; erect marble ones , lasting as the pyramids , and immovable as the mountains themselves , and when they fail , let the memory of it still remain engraven in our hearts , books , records , novissimo ●aud peritura die . and yet not this altogether , because we have received a prince , but such a prince , whose state and fortune in all this blessed change , we so much admire not , as his mind ; for that is truly felicity , not to possesse great things , but to be thought worthy of them : and indeed great sir , necessity constrains me , and the laws of panegyric , to verifie it in your praises , by running over at least those other appellations , which both your vertue has given to your majesty , and your fortune acquir'd . for he is really no king who possesses not ( like you ) a kingly mind , be his other advantages what they may : if the republick belong then to caesar , caesar belongs much more to the republick ; and of this you have given proof . for no sooner were we possess'd of your sacred majestie , but you suddainly gave form to our confused chaos : we presently saw when you had taken the reigns into your sacred hands , and began to fit at sterne , our deviating and giddy course grow steady , and the fluctuating republick at drist ready to put into a secure port. you began your entry with an act of general clemency , and to make good the advice of your martyr'd father , and the best religion , forgave you bitterest enemies ; and not only barely forgiving , but by an excesse of charity , doing honour to some , ut nemo sibi victus te ▪ victore videatur . this was plainly godlike : for so rare a thing we find it , that princes think themselves oblig'd ; or if they think it , that they love it ; that your example will reproach all who went before you : as you promis'd , so you perform'd it , punctually , and with advantage . nor indeed do you desire any thing should be permitted your majesty , but what is indulg'd your vassals , subjecting even your self to those lawes by which you oblige your subjects ; for as it is a great felicity to be able to do what one will ; so is it much more glorious , to will only what is just and honourable . all other princes before your majesty spake as much ; you only have performed it ; nor is there a tittle of your engagements , which even your very enemies diffide of , much lesse your friends suspect : they enjoy , and these hope ; because those were to be conciliated by present effects , these are secure by past promises ; and none that receives them of your majesty reckons from the time they injoy it , but the period of your promise ; because it proceeds ( they know ) from a princely and candid mind ; and if it seem long in acquiring , it is not ( i perswade my self ) be cause you are difficult , much less unmindful ; but that the benefit may be more acceptable , and the sense of it more permanent ; since too suddain felicity astonishes , and sometimes renders the recipient ingrateful , whilst your favours are not fugitive but certain . it was only for your majestie to be compleatly happie , when you began to be so ; and yet your subjects had as much as they could well support ; since you have made it your only businesse to sublevate the needie , and give them as it were a new fate , your piety not more appearing in pardoning your enemies , and receiving the penitent , then your justice in restoring the oppressed : for how many are since your returne , return'd to their own homes , to their wives , children , offices , and pattimonies ? addiditque dominus omnia quae fuerant iobi duplicia ; some of them with immense advantages ; and of this the languishing church of england is a most eminent instance ; that she , which was first and most afflicted , should be first and chiefly refreshed . you have taken away the affluence to the committees , sequestrators , conventicles , and unjust slaughter-houses , and converted their z●al to the temples , the courts , and the just tribunals : magnanimity is return'd again to the nobility , modesty to the people , obedience to subjects , charity to neighbours , pietie to children , fidelity to servants , and reverence to religion ; in summe , you are the restorer of your countrie . the lawes that were lately quiescent , and even trampled under foot , your majesty has revived ; and been yet so prudent in reforming , that even those which your enemies made upon good deliberation , you permit to stand , shewing your self rather to have been displeased with the authours , then the things . as to discipline ( after the sacrifice due for that innocent blood of your glorious father ) you are not only careful to rejectvice your self ; but are severe to discountenance it in others ; and that yet so sweetly , as you seem rather to perswade then compell ; and to cure without a corrosive . the army is disbanded , and the navy paid off without tumult ; because you are trusted without suspicion , and are more secure in the publick love and affection of your people then in men of iron , the locks and bars of tyrants palaces : and truely sir , there is no protection to innocency , which is a fort inexpugnable : in vain therefore do princes confide in any other ; for armes invite armes , terrour , suspition . to this only do you trust , and the few which you maintain about your person , is rather for state , then fear . quid enim istis opus est , quum fir missimo fis muro civici amoris obtectus ? here is then the firm keeper of our liberties indeed , whom the armies love for his own sake , and whom no servile flattery adores ; but a simple , and sincere devotion ; and verily such a prince as your majesty , deserves to have friends , prompt , steady and faithful ; such as you have , and which virtue rather then fortune procures . of this i obtest the fidelity of your own inviolable party , distinguished formerly by the invidious name of cavalier , though significant and glorious ; but i provoke the world to produce me an example of parallel loyaltie : what prince under heaven , after so many losses , and all imaginable calamities , can boast of such a party ? the grecians forsook their leaders upon every sleight disaster ; the very romans were not steady of old , but followed the fortune of the common victor . the german and the french will happily stick to their prince in distresse , as far as the plate , the tapistry , or some such superfluous moveable may abide the pawn ; but where shall we find a subject that hath persisted like your majesties , to the losse of libertie , estate , and life it self , when yet all seem'd to be determin'd against them ; so as even their enemies were at last vanquish'd with their constancy , and their very tormentors wearied with their insuperable patience ; nor can they in all that tract of time , hardly brag of having made one signal proselyte in twenty years that this difference continu'd ; and that because the obedience of your majesties subjects , is engraffed into their religion and institution , as well as into the adoration of your virtues . i would not therefore that your name should be painted upon banners , or carved in stone , sed monumentis aeternae laudis ; and your majesty did well foresee , and consult it , when you furnish●d a subject for our panegyrics , and our histories , which should outlast those frail materials . the statues of caesar , brutus and camillus were set up indeed because they chased their enemies from the walls of a proud citie ; you have done it from a whole kingdom ; not ( as they ) by blood and slaughter , but by your prudence and counsels : nor is it lightly to be passed over , that your majesty was preserved in that royal oak , to whom a civical crown should so justly become due . but i now arrive to the lawes you have made , and the excellent things which your majestie hath done since you came amongst your people . truely , there is hardly an hour to be reckoned wherein your majesty has not done some signal benefit . i have already touch'd a few of them , as what concern'd the most , i would i could say the rest ; for you have oblig'd your very enemies , you have bought them ; since never was there , till now , so prodigious a summe paid , a summe hardly in nature , to verifie a vvord only ; and which the zeal of your good subjects ( had you taken the advantage of the fervour which i but now mentioned , at your wonderful reception ) might easily have absolv'd you of ; had you paid them in kind , and as they were wont to keep faith with your majestie . i provoke the vvorld again to furnish an instance of a like generositie , unlesse he climb up to heaven for it . how black then must that ingratitude needs appear , which should after all this , dare to rebell ; or , for the future once murmur at your government ? since it was no necessity that compell'd you , but an excesle of your good nature , and your charitie . your majestie has abolished the court of wards ; i cannot say we have freed our selves in desiring it , if it were possible to hope for so indulgent a father as your majestie is to your countrie , in those that shall succeed you. the compositions you have likewise eased us of , if that could be esteem'd a burthen , to serve so excellent a prince , who receives nothing of his subjects but what he returnes again in the noblest and worthiest hospitality , that any potentate in earth can produce ; thus what the rivers pay to the ocean , it returns again in showers to replenish them . but you majestie would dissipate even the very shadows , which give us umbrage ; and rather part with your own just right , then those few of your subjects which it concern'd , should think themselves aggreiv'd , though by a mistake even of their duty . but i should first have mention'd your settlement of the church , and your bringing back the ark of god : your majesties wife composure of our frailties , and tendernesse as well in the religious as the secular ; whilst yet you continue fervent to maintain what is decent , and what is setled by law. but what language is capable to expresse this article ? let those who wait at the altar , and to which you have restor'd the daily sacrifice , supply the defect of this period , and celebrate your piety . nor has yet your zeal to the church , lessen'd that which is due to the common-wealth ; witnesse your industry in erecting a councel of trade , by which alone you have sufficiently verified that expression of your majesties in your declaration from breda , that you would propose some useful things for the publick emolument of the nation , which should render it opulent , splendid and flourishing ; making good your pretence to the universall soveraignty by your princely care , as well as by your birth and undoubted title . you have restor'd , adorn'd , and repair'd our courts of judicature , turning the shambles where your subjects were lately butcher'd , into a tribunal , where they may now expect due justice ; and have furnish●d the supreame seat there with a chancelour of antient candor , rare experience ; just , prudent , learned and faithfull ; in summe , one , whose merits beget universal esteem , and is amongst the greatest indications of your majesties skill in persons , as well as in their talents and perfections to serve you . thus you have gratified the long robe , so as now again , te propter colimus leges , animosque ferarum exuimus — and there is hope we may again be civiliz'd . for you are ( we hear ) publishing sumptuary lawes to represse the wantonness and excess of apparel , as you have already testifi'd your abhorrency of duelling , that infamous and dishonourable gallantry : in fine , you have establish'd so many excellent constitutions , that you seem to leave nothing for us to desire , or your successor to add either in the ethicall or politicall . — similem quae pertulit aetas consilio , vel marte virum ? — o happy greece for eloquence , that hast celebrated the fortune of thy heroes trifling adventures ! who shall set forth and immortalize theglory of our illustrious prince , and advance great charles to the skies ? you had poets indeed that sung the fate of an unfortunate lady , the theft of a simple fleece ; what wouldst thou have done , had the glorious actions of such a king been spread before thee , who has not robbed with armies , depopulated cities , or violated the rights of hospitality ; but restor'd a broken nation , repair'd a ruin'd church , reform'd , and re-establish'd our ancient laws ; in summe , who has at once render'd us perfectly happy ? what then have we to do with augustus , or titus , with trajan , hadrian , antoninus , theodosius or even constantine himself ? there is not in any , there is not in all these subjects more worthy of praise , and to which your majesty ; o best of princes , ought at all to render . we are told periculosae rem aleae esse , de iis scribere quibus sis obstrictus ; because it is so difficult to observe a mediocrity , where our affections are engaged : but your majesty is as secure from flattery , as your virtues are above its reach ; and to write thus of ill princes , were both a shame and a punishment : for this the senate condemn'd the history of cremutius to the flames ; and spartianus told dioclesian boldly , how hard it would be to write their commentaries , except it were to record their impudence , murthers , injustice , and the ( for most part ) fatal periods of tyrants ; which if any esteem a glory , you envy not , whilst your majesty is resolv'd to secure your own by your virtue and your justice ; so as no age to come shall possibly find an aemulator , or produce an equall . — fuerint aliis haec forte decora , nulla potest laus esse tibi quae crimina purget . but i shall never have done with your obligations of the publick ; and the measure which is assign'd me , would be too narrow but to mention briefly those your private and interiour perfections which crown your majesties person , and dazle our eyes more then the bright purple which this day invests you . to give instance in some ; you are an excellent master to your domesticks . their lives , conversations and merits as well as names , and faces , are known to your majesty as the companions of caesar were : honour is safe under your banner , and the court so well regulated , that there is no need of censors to inspect mens manners ; vita principis pro censura est . he who knowes that every body eyes , speaks and writes of him , cannot in prudence , or think , or act things unworthy and abject : you sir direct all your objects and motions so , as may recommend you to posterity ; and even burn with desires of immortality , so as histories may relate the truth without fear or adulation . how happy then those servants of yours , whose fidelity and industry is known to your majesty , not from the interpretation and reports of others , but your own experience ! so as you reward as well with judgment , as bounry ; and verily that is true beneficence to place your recompence as well equally , as freely : most other virtues are competent to the rest of men ; beneficence only to a prince , as his most essential property , and the noblest ingredient of his elogy . hence that great saint , as well as courtier and prelate has directed , si quis principem laudare vellet , nihil illi adeo decorum adscriberet quam magnificentiam ; and criticks observe , that where the wise king solomon sayes , multi colunt personam principis , the hebrew version reads it , personam benefici , as importing both ; and in that of his who was greater then solomon , qui dominantur eorum benefici vecantur , the chaldy turnes , principes vocantur , as if by a convertible figure , he could not be a prince who were not beneficent ; nor he that is truly beneficent , unworthy of that title . i remember 't is somewhere said of saul that he reign'd but two years ; because he was so long it seems good to his people , and reigned in their hearts ; for as the sun himself should not be the sun , if he did not shine ; no more should a prince be worthy of his dignity , if he unjustly ecclips'd his influence , or abused his magnificency . but as we said , this virtue is added to your maje●●ies also ; who know so well to adjust its definition by your constant practice , rendering it ( as indeed it ought ) productive of your will for glorious and honest ends only ; but i now proceed with the rest . there is such a majesty in your countenance , such lenity in your eyes , gravity in your speech , as that for your gracefull presence that may be truly affirm'd of you what was once appli'd to a great prince resembling you , iam firmitas , iam proceritas corporis , jam honor capitis & dignitas oris , ad hoc aetatis indeflexa maturitas , nonne l●nge lateque principem ostentant ? since even all these assemble in your majesties personage ; nor has fortune chang'd you after all your travels and adventures abroad ; but brought you back to us not so much as tinged in the percolations through which you have been forc'd to run , like the fountain arethusa through the river alpheus without commixture of their waters . none having more constantly retained his vertue then your majesty , nor guarded it with more caution . and now in all this height of glory , you receive all men with so much humility , that the difference of your change seems to be only this ; that you are now beloved of more , and love more , treating every man , as if every man were your proper care , and as becomes the father of so great a family ; sometimes you are pleased to lay more aside the beams of majesty , that you may descend to do mutual offices of friendship ; as considering that these virtues were not concredited to you by god , for your self only , but for others also : in short , you are so perfect a prince , that those who come after you , will fear to be compared to you , experti quam sit oner●sum succedere bono principi ; since to possess your virtues , they must support your sufferings ; nor can every head know how to sustain the weight of such a crown as yours , where the thornes have so long perplext the lillies and the roses of it . i might here mention your heroic and masculine spirit in dangers , and yet your foresight of them ; your tenderness to compassionate , your constancie in suffering , your modestie in prosperitie , equalitie in adversitie , and that sweetness of access which attracts both love and veneration from all that converse with you ; but these have already adorn'd your character by that excellent hand who did lately describe it . you are frequent at councels , patient in hearing , pertinent in answering , judicious in determining , and so skilfull in the several languages , that you many times transact by your self , what others do by interpreters ; affecting rather expedition in your affairs , then insignificant state , which these acquired parts of your majesties do yet augment so much the more . you are curious of brave and laudable things ; you love shipping , buildings , gardens ( having exceeded cyrus already in your plantations ) piscinas , statues , pictures , intaglias , music : you have already amass●d very many rare collections of all kinds , and there is nothing worthy and great which can escape your research . nor must i here forget the honour you have done our society at greshham colledge by your curious enquiris about the load-stone , and other particulars which concern philosophy ; sin●● it is not to be doubted butt hat so magnanimous a prince , will still proceed to encourage that illustrious assembly ; and which will celebrate and eternize your memory to the future ages , beyond your majesties predecessors , and indeed all the monarchs on the earth , when for you is reserv'd the being founder of some thing that may improve practical and experimental knowledg , beyond all that has been hitherto attempted , for the augmentation of science , and universal good of man-kind , and which alone will consummate your fame and render it immortal . what shall i superadd to all these ? that you rise early , that you are alwaies employ'd , that you love hunting , riding , swimming , manly robust and princely exercises , not so much for delight , as health and relaxation . et vitae pars nulla perit . o best idea of princes , sit to me yet one moment , that i may add this last touch to your fair table ; nor wonder that i should attempt so bold an enterprise ; since he that would take the height of olympus , must stand below in the plain : subjects can best describe their princes virtues ; princes best know their subjects , and therefore most fit to rule them . and long may you live to rule us great sir. we wish that all you do , or may do , be p●opitious to you , to us , to the public ; or in a wo●d , to your majesty alone , in which both we and the public are mutually conce●n●d . time was ( and too long alas it was ! ) that what was fortunate to the tyrant , was unhappy to your subjects : now they a●e common to both and reciprocal ; nor can we more be happy without you , then you without us ; and truly all princes have known , that they are seldom beloved of god , who are hated of their people ; nor can they be long secure . vox populi , vox dei est . but you have seen the effects of our prayers against an usurper ; here now , o heaven our vowes for a just p●ince . not for peace , not for riches , not honours , or new conquests do we supplicate ; but for all these in one , the safety of charles . you alone snatch'd him out of those cruel hands , now preserve him from them : render him fortunate to us , to our children , sueceeding generations : give him a late successor , and when you do it , let it be such a one as himself . let your majestie now proceed in his triumph , and hear the acclamations of his people ; what can they more expresse who are ready to pave the very streets with their bodies , in testimonie of their zeal ? behold all about you , the gratulating old fathers , the exulting youths , the glad mothers ; and why should it not be so ? here 's no goods publicated , none restrain'd or mulcted of their libertie , none diminish'd of dignitie , none molested , or exil'd ; all are again return'd ito their houses , relations and properties , and which is yet more then all , to their antient innocenie and mutual charitie . if the philosopher in the ethicks enquiring whether the felicity of the sun , do any whit concern the happinesse of the defunct progenitor , after much reasoning have determin'd that the honour only which his son acquires by worthie and great actions , does certainly refresh his ghost : vvhat a day of jubilee , is this then to your blessed father ! not the odor of those flowers did so recreate the dead archemorus , which the nymphs were yearly wont to strow upon his watry sepulcher , as this daies inauguration of yours , does even seem to revive the ashes of that sacred martyr . should some one from the clouds that had looked down on the sad face of things , when our temples lay in dust , our palaces in desolation , and the altars demolished ; when these citie gates were dashed to pieces , gibbets and executions erected in every street , and all things turned into universal silence and solitude , behold now the change of this daies glorious scean ; that we see the churches in repair , the sacred assemblies open'd , our cities re-edified , the markets full of people , our palaces richly furnished , and the streets proud with the burden of their triumphal arches , and the shouts of a rejoycing multitude : how would he wonder and stand amaz'd , at the prodigie , and leap down from his lofty station , though already so near to heaven , to joyne with us in earth , participate of our felicitie , and ravish'd with the ecstasie , cry out aloud now vvith us set open the temple-gates , let the prisoners go free , the altars smoak perfumes , bring forth the pretious things , strovv the waies vvith flovvers , let the fountains run wine , crovvn the gobblets , bring chapplets of palmes and lavvrells , the bells ring , the trumpets sound , the cannon roar , o happy descent , and strange reverse ! i have seens englands restorer , great charles the ii. return'd , reveng●d , belov'd , crown●d , re-establishd . terrasque astraea r●visit . and o that it vvere novv in my power to speak some great thing , worthy this great day ; i should put all the flowers of orators and raptures of poets into one lofty & high expression , and yet not reach what i would say to your majestie : for never since there was a citie , or kingdom , did a day appear more glorious to england , never since it was a nation , and in which there either was , or ought to be so universal a jubilation : not that your triumphal charriots do drag the miserable captives , but are accompanied by freed citizens ; perfidre is now vanquished , popular fury chayn'd , crueltie tam●d , luxury restrained , these lie under the spondells of your vvheeles , where empire , faith , love , and justice ride triumphant , and nothing can be added to your majesties glory but its perpetuitie . but whence , alas ! should i have this confidence , after so many elogies and panegyricks of great and eloquent men , who consecrate the memorie of this daies happinesse ; and ( were the subject , like that of all other things ) would have left me nothing more to add , unless he who was sometimes wont to employ his pen for your majestie being absent , should now be silent that you are present , and inflame me with a kind of new enthusiasme : i find my self then compell'd out of a greatful sense of my dutie for the publick benefit , and if your majestie forbid not , or withdraw your influence , who shall hinder , that even my slender voice should not strive to be heard , in such an univresall consort , wherein every body has a part , every one a share ? permit me therefore ( o best of kings ) to present , and lay these my vowes at your sacred feet , to exsult , and to rejoyce with the rest of your loyal subjects ; not as i desire , but as i am able , and as i would do it to god , and as he best loves it , sentiendo copiosius , quam loquendo . dixi . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a -e ichdien . spaine . his majesties declaration . s. chrysost. col. tuke . a panegyrick on the coronation of king james the ii and his royal consort queen mary on april , / by the author of the plea for succession, in opposition to popular exclusion. basset, william, - . approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing b a estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. 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tears can't recall , yet we can't but send 'em after thee . these are little tributes , we may pay without fear of commons , whose votes can't seal our eyes , though once they shut our purses ! we leave thee to eternal triumphs , where that heavenly quire turns prophesy to exultation , at last grown weary of an earthly crown , crown'd with an heavenly one ! o bless'd remove from a throne below , to a throne above ! now melpomene be gone : with thy mourning weeds be gone : blubber not the triumphs of the day : it is thy sovereign's command , be gone . come , polyhimnia , clad in thy gayest robes , unlaced from poetick measures ; with garments flying loose , and careless , as the times ; come , solemnize the day . tell , how the nations flow , as to an universal head ; how all lands , with their proudest barks , plow up the british seas ; and every tyde throws in foreign climes upon us : till all babel's scatter'd tongues make here their rendezvous , and at one view represent the world ! wise men , blown in from every wind , with submissive sails salute the warlike isle , and offer presents to the rising monarch of the world ! tell , how the godlike charles in celestial vehicle , inclos'd with the winged quires of heaven , descends awhile from his throne above , and with equal motion hovers o'r our king , to see , and adorn the day . while the heavens , but now tuck'd up , as flying from us ; now descend in pearly drops , and , like the holy oyl from his sacred head , stream blessings to all the corners of the land. which done , the joyful sun brisks from behind the cloud ; weaves garlands of his rays , and crowns his head with glories : while the planets , through streams of light , smile down their sweetest influences . see ( if thou canst ) how he sits on his royal throne ! how peers , like stars , lie buried in his light ! see how the queen imparts her gracious beams ; while the beauties , that attend , shrowded by her light , grow pale , and sink into the milky way ! see how the silent rounds attentive stand ; as if turn'd all to eye , and ear ; looking like the intellectual world , gazing on the throne above ; while traytors heads , set o'r the hall , envy struck , do again look pale , and dye ! tell the miracles of the day , viz. how that devil , whose name is legion , is dispossess'd ; and the nation , that once did cut , and wound itself ; now cloath'd , and in their wits , sit down at their royal master's feet ! how that lying spirit , once smug'd up in republick , and excluding forms ; like heathen oracles , at the approach of this diviner light , stab'd with grief , runs howling back to hell ! tell the fiends sad tales to the black club below ; how they make bold sd — y stamp ; armstrong's hands to shake ; old tony's blinking eyes to outrun their tap ; and turn the joyner's raree-shew to lamentations ; filling the infernal court with shreeks , and yells ; which sound to the belgick shore ; and make the * protestant razor , there forg'd , and set to the murther of a monarchy ; turn edge , and cut the traytors throats . tell how the hollow cryes reach the british isle ; spoil wappin treats , and quick dispatches ; confound the bench , and make the stubborn house now at last apt to change ! but draw a cloud between thy self , and james , our sun , rising from his western seat to his zenith at whitehall ; attended with peers , and nations , like the host of heaven ( where may he shine in meridian glory , till taken up to ariadna's crown , and cassiopeia's chair ; ) a story fit for none , but great norfolk's hand . when the god of sleep hath given rest to thy wearied mind , wearied with the tedious glories of the day : then rise to a second show . see how the winged people of the air stand all at gaze , called up by an artificial day ! survey the thames , now better peopled , than the town ; tell how , many houses become joint tenants to a little skull , and streets lie trust up in liters ! how ecchoes from the shores , and giants meet , and battle in the air ! while the wondring fish come shoaling in ; and now officious grown , with scaly backs support the over-loaded boats ! let us now behold our king , dear to god , and man ; shielded by the hand of heaven from harms of foreign wars , and flemish fights ; where covered with smoke , and fire ; with blood , and brains of shatter'd men , he out-dared even guns , and death ! snatch'd by the hand of heaven from the northern wreck ; secured from raging seas , and madness of the people ! from exclusions , associations , and the rye ! a royal soul , whom miracles have preserved , and angels crown ! instead of pyke , and musquet , we have liberty and law ; instead of rumps , and associations , a rightful sovereign ; and peace , instead of fields of blood. an argument of a divine care over him , and us ; which hath given to each his right ; to him his people , to us our king. let us honour all the instruments of our peace : whom bold addresses would have ravished , like jewels from the crown : those atlases of state , whose heads , and shoulders , help'd to save three nations ; and fix'd a tottering throne . that head , and glory of our bench ; whose merits may atone the faults of others of the robe . that unwearied head , which laden with age , and honours ; often sought , and now at last hath gain'd the unwilling shade ! worthies , whose bright names , like fixed stars , shall shine to future ages . let newmarket-fire , which burnt two kings from death ; made 'em outstrip , and surprize the plot , and saved us all from the flames of war ; and was sent from heaven , like a countermine , to blow up that plot , which was made , and brought from hell ; yearly blaze in all our streets . hail , sacred town ! honoured to be the nations sacrifice ! in whose ashes heaven wrote the deepest characters of love , for in thy death we all do live ! a second jericho , first cast down by heaven for his peoples safety ; and then by fanatick rage condemn'd to perpetual ruines : who would give to destroy the whole , but not to restore this little part ! hither , as to an holy land , let every loyal pilgrim come ; and here erect his better monument of praise . for the just heavens took the injured princes part ; michael , and his angels , with the stars in their courses fought ; and every creature did conspire their sovereign's right . then plot no more ; for he , that upheld the subject , will never fail the king . heaven is never idlely busie ; for wonders are not done for nought . when israel is brought from egypt , through red seas , and howling desarts , and delivered from a plotting amalek ; balak shall never overcome , though balaam turn inchanter for him . then plot no more : the lernaean monster needs must fall , when our alcides conquers serpents from his cradle ! see him laden with bloodless victories over them , before whom religion , law , and valour fell ! a wise , and noble soul , just to all men , fast to his friends , venturous of his life , whose martial influence turns all to champions , and re-peoples the land with giants . a soul , in all points , shaped for glories . to thee king arthur and his knights must bow ; and st. george yield up his spear , and day ! england's king ! england's champion ! england's guardian angel ! in whom dwells all that is great , and just , and good ! methinks i see that undaunted foot set on the necks of them , that cut it off ; and that rising head , like the clambering sun , looking over all the thrones about it ! to thee shall the wild morocco , and distant bantam seek ! to thee shall the nations look for laws of peace , and war ! while each pole shall bend , and meet to bear thy canopy ! then plot no more : the proudest waves may break themselves , but never move the rock . let those white doves , the sweet emblems of peace , and love ; that at the royal change sate upon his arms , listening to the proclaiming their great master , be happy omens of a blessed reign . nay , we will fear no more : who have a god , that works such wonders for us . we will fear no more : who have a king sprung from a royal stock , whose greatest fault was mercy ! a king , who hath said , he will govern by the laws : a king , that never broke his word : james the just : whose innate goodness doth more oblige him to make an happy people , than oaths , and covenants , could do others , to make a glorious king . great james , we intirely acquiesce in thee ! better tutored be the tongues that shall presume to tutor a king , a politician , a divine ! we will not dare to reproach thy word ; or disturb the couching herds . go whining whig ; seduce no more ; foul fiend avaunt , pollute not this sacred ground ; go to ditches stinking as thy breath , there be laid for ever ; there croak thy ugly tones ; there swell , burst , and dye : while we our loyal triumphs sing . finis . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a -e this was sung to the king on last new-years day . * a late pamphlet so called .