THE TRIUMPHS OF Integrity. A Noble Solemnity, performed through the City, at the sole Cost and Charges of the Honourable Fraternity of Drapers, at the Confirmation and Establishment of their most worthy Brother, The Right Honourable, MARTIN LUMLEY, in the high Office of his Majesty's Lieutenant, Lord Maior and Chancellor of the famous City of London. Taking beginning at his Lordship's going, and perfecting itself after His Return from receiving the Oath of Mayoralty at Westminster, on the Morrow after Simon and jude's Day, being the 29. of October. 1623. By THO. MIDDLETON Gent. IN DOMINO CONFIDO printer's or publisher's device LONDON, Printed by Nicholas Okes, dwelling in Foster-Lane. 1623. TO The Honour of him, to whom the Noble Fraternity of Drapers, his Worthy Brothers have Consecrated their Loves, in costly Triumphs; the Right Honourable, MARTIN LUMLEY, Lord Maior of this Renowned City. THy Descent Worthy, (Fortunes Early Grace) Sprung of an Ancient, and most Generous Race Mac'ht with a Virtuous Lady; justly may Challenge the Honour of so Great a Day. Faithfully devoted to the Worthiness of you Both, The. Middleton. THE TRIUMPHS OF Integrity, or a Noble Solemnity through the City. OF all Solemnities, by which the Happy inauguration of a Subject is celebrated, I find none that transcends the State and Magnificence of that Pomp prepared to receive his Majesty's Great Substitute into his Honourable charge, (the City of London,) Dignified by the Title of the King's Chamber Royal, which that it may now appear no less heightened with Brotherly Affection, Colt, Art, or Invention, than some other praeceeding Triumphs (by which of late times, the City's Honour hath been more faithfully illustrated) this takes its fit occasion to present itself. And first to specify the love of his Noble Fraternity after his Lordships return from Westminster, having received some service upon the water, by a proper and significant Masterpiece of Triumph, called the Imperial Canopy, being the Ancient Arms of the Company, an Invention neither old, nor enforced, the same Glorious and Apt Property, accompanied with four other Triumphal Pegmes, are in their convenient Stages planted to honour his Lordship's progress through the City; the first for the land, attending his most wished arrival in Pauls-Church-yard, which bears the inscription of a Mount Royal, on which Mount are placed certain Kings and great Commanders, which Ancient History produces, that were originally sprung from Shepherds, and humble beginnings; only the number of Six presented, some with Crowns, some with gilt Laurels, holding in their hands silver Sheephookes, viz. Viriat, a prime Commander of the Portugals, renowned amongst the Historians, especially the Romans, who in battles of 14 years' continuance, purchased many great and honourable victories; Arsaces' King of the Parthians, who ordained the first Kingdom that ever was amongst them, and in the reverence of this King's Name and memory, all others His Successors were called Arsacides after his Name, as the Roman Emperors took the Name of Caesar, for the love of Great Caesar Augustus; Also Marcus julius Lucinus, bohemia's Primislaus, the Emperor Pertinax, the Great Victor Tamburlayne, Conqueror of Syria, Armenia, Babylon, Mesapotamia, Scythia, Albania, &c. Many Honourable Worthies more I could produce; By their deserts ennobling their mean Originals. But for the better expression of the purpose in Hand, a Speaker lends a voice to these followings words! The Speech in the Mount Royal. THey that with Glory-enflamde hearts; desire To see Great Worth deservingly aspire, Let 'em draw near and fix a serious Eye, On this Triumphant Mount of royalty; Here they shall find fair Virtue and her Name, From low-obscure Beginnings raised to Fame, Like Light struck out of Darkness; the mean wombs No more Eclipse brave Merit, then rich Tombs Make the Soul happy; 'tis the Life, and Dying Crowns both with Honour's Sacred Satisfying; And 'tis the Noblest Splendour upon Earth, For man to add a Glory to his Birth (All his Life's Race with honoured Acts commixed) Then to be nobly-born and there stand fixed; As if 'twere Competent Virtue for whole Life To be Begot a Lord; 'tis virtuous Strife That makes the complete Christian; not high Place, As true Submission is the State of Grace, " The Path to Bliss, lies in the humblest Field, " Who ever rise to Heaven that never kneeled, Although the Roof hath Supernatural Height, Yet there's no Flesh can thither go upright: All this is instanc'st only to commend, The low condition whence these Kings descend; I spare the David. Prince of Prophets in this File, And preserve him for a far Holier Style, Who being King Anointed, did not scorn To be a Shepherd after; these were borne Shepherds, and rise to Kings, took their ascending From the strong hand of Virtue, never ending Where She begins to raise, until she place Her Love sick Servants equal with her Grace; And by this Day's great Honour it appears Sh' as much prevaylde amongst the Reverend years Of these Grave Senators, chief of the rest Her Favour hath reflected most and best, Upon that Son whom we of Honour call, And may 't Successively reflect on all. From this Mount Royal beautified with the Glory of deserving Aspirers, descend we to the Modern use of this Ancient and Honourable Mystery, and there we shall find the whole Livery of this most renowned and famous City, as upon this Day, and at all Solemn meetings, furnished by it; it clothes the Honourable Senators in their highest and richest Wear, all Courts of justice, Magistrates, and judges of the Land. By this time his Lordship, and the Worthy Company being gracefully conducted toward the little Conduit in Cheap, there another part of the Triumph waits his Honour's happy approach, being a Chariot Artfully framed, and properly garnished; And on the Conspicuous part thereof is placest the Register of all Heroic Acts and worthy Men, bearing the Title of Sacred Memory, who for the greater Fame of this Honourable Fraternity presents the Neverdying Names of many memorable and remarkable Worthies of this Ancient Society, such as were the Famous for State and Government, Sir Henry Fitzalwin Knight, who held the Seat of Magistracy in this City twenty four years together, He sits figured under the Person of Government: Sir john Norman, though first Lord Maior rowed in Barge to Westminster with silver Oars at his own cost and charges; under the person of Honour, the Valiant Sir Francis Drake, that rich Ornament to Memory, (who in two years and ten months' space did cast a girdle about the world) under the person of Victory, Sir Simon Eyre, (who at his own cost built Leaden Hall, a Granary for the Poor,) under the figure of Charity, Sir Richard Champion, and Sir john Milborne, under the person of Munificenee or Bounty, Sir Richard Hardell, and Sir john Poultney, the one in the seat of Magistracy six years, the other four years together, under the figures of justice, and Piety, That Sir john being a Colledge-Founder, in the Parish of St. Laurence Poultney, by Candle-wick street; & fie de caeteris. This Chariot drawn by two pellited Lions, being the proper Supporters of the Companies Arms, those two upon the Lion's presenting Power and Honour, the one in a little Streamer or Banneret bearing the Lord Mayor's Arms, the other the Companies. The Speech, in the Chariot. I Am all Memory, and me thinks I see Into the farthest Time, Act, Quality; As clear as if 'twere now begun again, The Natures, Dispositions, and the Men; I find to Goddess they bent all their powers, Which very Name makes blushing Times of ours; They heaped up Virtues, long before they were old, This Age fits laughing upon Heaps of Gold, We by great Buildings strive to raise our Names, But they more truly wise built up their Fames, Erected fair Examples, large and high, Patterns for us to build our Honours by; For instance only Memory relates, The Noblest of all City-Magistrates, Famous Fitzalwin, naming him alone, I sum up twenty four Lord Majors in one, For He by free election and consent Filled all those years with virtuous Government; Custom and Time requiring now but one, How ought that year to be well dwelled upon, It should appear an Abstract of that worth, Which former Times in many years brought forth, Through all the life of Man, this is the year, Which many wish, and never can come near, Think and give thanks; to whom this year does come, The Greatest Subjects made in Christendom; This is the year for whom some long prepared, And others have their glorious Fortune shared, But serious in thanksgiving, 'tis a year, To which all Virtues like the people here Should throng and cleave together, for the Place Is a fit Match for the whole Stock of Grace; And as men gather wealth, 'gainst the Year comes, So should they gather Goodness with their Sums, For 'tis not shows, Pomp, nor a House of State Curiously decked, that makes a Magistrate, 'Tis his fair Noble soul, his Wisdom, Care, His upright justness to the Oath he swore Gives him complete; when such a Man to me, Spreads his Arms open, there my Palace be, He's both an Honour to the Day so graced, And to his Brotherhoods love that sees him placest, And in his fair Deportment there revives, The Ancient Fame of all his Brother's Lives. After this, for the full close of the Forenoons Triumph, near St. Lawrence-lane, his Lordship Receives an Entertainment from an unparaleld Masterpiece of Art, called the Crystal Sanctuary, styled by the name of the Temple of Integrity, where her Immaculate self with all her glorious and Sanctimonious Concomitants sit transparently seen through the Crystal; and more to express the Invention, & the Art of the Engineer, as also for Motion, Variety, and the content of the Spectators, this Crystal Temple is made to open in many parts, at fit and convenient Times, and upon occasion of the Speech; the Columns or Pillars of this Crystal Sanctuary, are Gold, the Battlements Silver, the whole Fabric for the Night Triumph adorned and beautified with many Lights, dispersing their glorious Radiances on all sides through the Crystal. The Speech from the Sanctuary. Have you a mind thick Multitude to see A Virtue, near concerns Magistracy, Here on my Temple throw your greedy eyes, See me, and learn to know me, than y' are wise; Look, and look through me, I no favour crave, Nor keep I hid the Goodness you should have, 'tis all transparent what I think or do, And with one look your Eye may pierce me through, There's no disguise, or hypocriticke veil, (Used by adulterous Beauty set to sale) Spread o'er my actions, for respect or fear, Only a Crystal which approves me clear; Would you desire my Name? Integrity, One that is over what she seems to be, So manifest, perspicuous, plain, and clear You may e'en see my thoughts as they sit here, I think upon fair Equity and Truth, And there they sit crowned with eternal Youth, I fix my Cogitations upon Love, Peace, Meekness, and those thoughts come from above, The Temple of an upright Magistrate, Is my fair Sanctuary, Throne, and State; And as I dare Detractions evillest Eye, Sore at the sight of Goodness, to espy Into my ways and actions, which lie open To every censure, armed with a strong Hope: So of Your part ought nothing to be done, But what the envious Eye might look upon: As Thou art Eminent, so must thy Acts Be all Tralucent, and leave worthy Tracts For future times to find, thy very Breast Transparent, like this Place wherein I rest: Vain doubtings; all thy Days have been so clear Never came Nobler Hope to fill a year. At the close of this Speech, this Crystal Temple of Integrity with all her celestial Concomitants, and the other parts of Triumph take leave of his Lordship for that time, and rest from service till the great Feast be ended, after which the whole Body of the Triumph attends upon his Honour, both toward St. Paul's, and homeward, his Lordship accompanied with the Grave and Honourable Senators of the City; amongst whom the two worthy Consuls, his Lordship's Grave-assistants for the year, the worshipful and Generous, Mr. Ralph Freeman, and Mr. Thomas Moulson, Sheriffs and Aldermen, ought not to pass of my respect unremembered; whose Bounty and Nobleness will prove best their own Expressers. near the entrance of woodstreet, that part of Triumph being planted to which the concluding Speech hath chiefly reference, and the rest, about the Cross, I thought fit in this place to give this its full Illustration; It being an Invention both glorious and proper to the Company, bearing the name of the thrice Royal Canopy of State, being the honoured Arms of this Fraternity, the three Imperial Crowns cast into the Form and Bigness of a Triumphal Pageant, with Cloud and Sunbeams, those Beams by Enginous Art made often to mount and spread like a Golden and Glorious Canopy over the Deified persons that are placest under it, which are eight in number, figuring the eight Beatitudes, To improve with conceit, Beati Pacifici, being the King's word or Motto, is set in fair great Letters, near the uppermost of the three Crowns; and as in all great Edifices or Buildings, the King's Arms is especially remembered, as a Honour to the Building and Builder in the Frontispiece: so is it comely and requisite in these matters of Triumph framed for the Inauguration of his great Substitute, the Lord Maior of London, that some remembrance of Honour should reflect upon his Majesty, by whose peaceful Government under Heaven we enjoy the Solemnity! The speech, having Reference to this Imperial Canopy, being the Draper's Arms. THe Blessedness, Peace, Honour, and Renown, This Kingdom does enjoy under the Crown, Worn by that Royal Peacemaker, our King, (So oft preserved from Dangers menacing) Makes this Arms, (glorious in itself) outgo All that Antiquity could ever show, And thy Fraternity hath striude t' appear In all their course, worthy the Arms they bear, Thrice have They Crowned their Goodness this one Day With Love, with Care, with Cost; by which they may By their Deserts most justly these Arms claim, Got once by Worth, now Trebly held by Fame: Shall I bring Honour to a larger Field, And show what Royal Business these Arms yield? First the three Crowns affords a Divine scope, Set for the Graces, Charity, Faith, and Hope; Which Three the only safe Combiners be, Of Kingdoms, Crowns, and every Company; Likewise with just propriety they may stand For those three Kingdoms swayed by the meek Hand Of Blessed james; England, Scotland, Ireland, The Cloud that swells beneath 'em, may imply Some Envious Mist cast forth by Heresy, Which through his happy Reign, and Heaven's blessed will; The sunbeams of the Gospel strikes through still; More to assure it to Succeeding Men, We have the Crown of Britain's Hope again, (Illustrious Charles our Prince,) which all will say, Adds the chief joy and Honour to this Day: And as three Crowns, three Fruits of Brotherhood By which all Love's Worth may be understood, So threefold Honour makes the Royal Suit In the King, Prince, and the King's Substitute: By th' eight Beatitudes, Ye understand The Fullness of all Blessings to this Land, More chiefly to this City, whose safe Peace Good Angel's guard, and Goodman's prayers increase: May all succeeding-honored Brothers be, With as much Love brought Home, as Thine brings Thee. FOr all the Proper Adornments of Art and Workmanship in so short a Time, so gracefully setting forth the Body of so Magnificent a Triumph, the praise comes as a just due to the Exquisite deservings of Mr. Garret Crismas, whose faithful performances still take the upper hand of his promises. FINIS.