The MANNER of the PROCLAIMING King William & Queen Mary. AT THE CITY of OXFORD, On Saturday, being the 16 th'. of February, 1688/9.  
UPON Saturday last, being February the 16 th'. and Market-day, about Twelve of the Clock, the Mayor, aldermans, Assistants and Bailiffs, (which are as Sheriffs) and the rest of the Common-Council, met at the Guild-Hall of the said City, where they all took Horse, and before them went on Foot Four Companies of the City with their Streamers, Viz. 1. The Cordweynors. 2. The Merchant Tailors. 3. The Glover's. 4. The Mercers. Then all the rest on Horseback. 1. The Lord of Slovins-Hall, (as he is called) in his Scarlet Robes, his Horse being Led by one with a White Rod. 2. The City Music in their Liveries. 3. The Petty-Constables with their Staves. 4. The Head-Constables with their Silver Staves. 5. The Under-Sheriff and his Servants. 6. All the Sergeants at Mace. 7. The two Bailiffs with their White Wans or Staves, in their Scarlet Gowns, (which are as Sheriffs.) 8. The Town Clerk and the Mace-bearer with the City Mace. 9 The Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Assistants, and all that have Bailiffs Places, in Scarlet Gowns and their Formalities, with Footcloths to their Horses; and all the rest of the Council-Chamber in their Black Gowns Rid by two and two, to the number of about one Hundred. First, they Proclaimed the King and Queen at Carfax, the Public Conduit of the City, that Running all the time with Claret. The Mace-bearer read the Proclamation. Then they marched in order before St. Mary's, and Proclaimed them there: Then it was done at the East-Gate; next at the South-Gate; then at the West-Gate; and last of all at the North-Gate, and so returned on Horseback to the Guild-Hall of the said City, where they had Wine very plentiful, to drink the new King and Queen's Healths; Ringing of Bells in all Parishes, and many Bonfires in the City, and in some Colleges.   

LONDON, Printed in the Year 1689.