A RELATION IN FORM of JOURNAL, OF THE VOYAGE And RESIDENCE Which The most EXCELLENT and most MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES THE TWO KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, etc.  
Hath made in Holland, from the 25 of May, to the 2 of June, 1660.  
Rendered into English out of the Original French, By Sir WILLIAM LOWER, Knight.  
HAGUE, Printed by ADRIAN VLACK, Anno M. DC. LX. with Privilege of the Estates of Holland and West-Freesland.   

THE PRINTER TO THE READER.  
IF ever was a Relation, whose truth might be indubitable, it is questionless this which I give you at present. It was composed on the Public Acts, drawn from the Registers of the Estate, and exposed to the eyes of those who were eye-witnesses of the things whereof it treateth, and made the speeches which are inserted there, and which are so faithfully related, that except one only, there is none which was not pronounced in the same manner as you see them here written. After this; one cannot doubt, that it may not one day serve advantageously the History of the time, whose mervellous revolution of the affairs of England, shall make one of the principal parts. It is requisite the world should know the particularities, which you shall not find but in this discourse, and I think to oblige my Country, in publishing the marks of affection and good will, which one of the first Kings of Christendom hath left it. The Relation is French, because the King would use that tongue, during the residence, whereof you have here the recital, though he that composed it, hinders it not to be extant in other languages, but would that all people of the Universe should know it. I confess, it would have been more proper to have put it forth as soon as it was made, immediately after the King's departure, and I would have given you this satisfaction if the diligence of those men that graved the Plates, had answered my desire; But I cease not to hope, that it will not be ill received, and that this production, though tardive, will have its agreements, as well as the fruits, which though given by nature but in a late season, please notwithstanding, and are carefully preserved. I confess also, that some faults are escaped in the Impression, which all the diligent care of the Corrector could not avoid. There is not any though, that I know, which altars the sense, and which your discretion may not either correct, or excuse.   

Extract out of the Privilege of the Estates of Holland and West-Freesland.  
THe Estates of Holland and West-Freesland make known, that Adrian Vlack dwelling at the Hague, having remonstrated to us, that he had caused to be printed, at his great expense, a Book entitled, A Relation of the Voyage and Residence which the most Excellent and most Mighty Prince, CHARLES THE SECOND, King of Great Britain, etc. Hath made into Holland from the 25 of May to the 2 of June 1660. Enriched with divers fair Plates, not only in the French tongue, but also in the Dutch, and English, etc. And fearing that some one might counterfeit it to his great Damage: We have consented and granted by these Presents, that the said Adrian Vlack may cause the said Book to be imprinted, with prohibition to all other persons to imprint, or distribute in our Province the said Book, or part of it, in any language, or form whatsoever, nor counterfeit the said Plates in any kind, during the space of ten Years; on pain of Confiscation of all the Copies, and of three hundred pounds besides.   

A RELATION Of the VOYAGE AND RESIDENCE Which His Most Excellent MAJESTY CHARLES THE TWO KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, etc. Hath made in Holland, from the 25 of May, to the 2 of June 1660.  
WHen the Parliament began at London, the fourth day of May, in this present Year 1660. 
The beginning of free Parliament.  it was no new thing in the noble breast of his Excellence the Lord General Monck, Commander in Chief of the English Army in Scotland, as sensibly touched with the calamities, wherewith he saw his poor country so long afflicted, to think of the means to establish there the Monarchal government, grounded upon the old and primitive Laws of the Estate. This could not be a free Parliament, and such a one as the whole Kingdom demanded, if it were not composed of two Houses, viz. the Higher House of Lords or Peers, and the Lower House of Commons, or Deputies of the Provinces. For the same violence which had destroyed the essential form of the estate, had so disfigured that illustrious Body, in cutting off one of its principal members; that being incapable to act for the important affairs, which made the convocation of that great assembly to be judged absolutely necessary if it opened not the Higher house which tyranny had shut up, it must of necessity find it fit to repeal the Lords, who had voice and place there for so many Ages; I say many Ages, because it may be truly affirmed, that this custom is no less ancient than Monarchy itself, since that from the time that it came out of the hands of the Britan's and Saxons, to pass into the family of those that possess it at present, the Estates of England never assembled but the Peers were called, as well as the Deputies from the towns of the Kingdom. The resolution which was taken on this occasion was not so soon executed; and scarce had the two Houses began their assemblies to labour in regulating the government, which the passed disorders had perverted into a miserable Anarchy; but there appeared, on the twelfth of the same month of May, at the door, one of the Gentlemen of the King's Bedchamber, named Sir John Greenvil, who demanded 
The King's Letter to the Parliament.  permission to present Letters to the House from his Majesty. That Sacred name, which not long since was the aversion of varlets and fanatics, was heard with veneration, and inspired into that illustrious assembly such extraordinary and advantageous motions for the King, that it was impossible for it to express them, as we also will not undertake to represent them here upon paper. It sufficeth to say, that not above three or four months before, it had been a crime of high treason to speak in Parliament in behalf of the King; but now no sooner is that great name pronounced, than one sees a general joy in the countenance of all the commons, and observes a most high respect for that divine character. They caused the Gentleman to enter: The Speakers of the two Houses receive the King's Letters from his hand, and make the Secretary to read them, every one, in the mean time, with the greatest expressive submission of the world, standing bare headed.  
The two Houses compose but one sole Parliament, and they are two members of one and the same body; so that the King in writing to each of them, upon one and the same subject, might well make use of one Letter, and address it not only under divers inscriptions, to the two Houses; but also to General Monck for the Army; to Admiral Montague for the Fleet; and to the Major of London for the Capital town of his Kingdom, which were all united with one and the same affection, and laboured unanimously to make one and the same design to succeed. His Majesty added thereunto an excellent Declaration, 
The King sends a general Act of Oblivion.  for the safety and repose of those, who tortured in their consciences, for having partaken in the rebellion, might fear the punishment of it, and in that fear might oppose the tranquillity of the Estate, and the calling in of their lawful Prince. It is printed and published, as well as the Letter: but that shall not hinder me to say, that there was never seen a more perfect assemblage of all the most excellent natural qualities, and of all the virtues, as well Royal, as Christian, wherewith a great Prince may be endowed, then was found in those two wonderful productions. They breath but piety and zeal for the glory of God and for Religion, but tenderness for the afflictions of his people, but esteem for the Parliament, but firmness for the conversation of the King's rights, an admirable prudence for the regulating of affairs, an inexemplar conduct for the re-establishment of the government in its former estate; love for the good, indulgence for the seduced, and a more than Christian clemency for criminals, or rather for crime itself: for a crime, I say, so black, and so abominable, that as there hath not been an example in history, since the creation of the world, so it is to be hoped that the goodness of his Majesty, will not make it serve for example to the following ages. Both one and tother wrought the effect, which the King promised to himself from them, since they fully gained the hearts, which the miseries of the time passed, had already very much disposed to acknowledge their Prince. For the Letter and Declaration were no sooner read, but the Parliament declared that the sentiments of the King were good, lawful, generous, and conformable to the fundamental laws of the Estate, the government whereof ought to be composed of a King, of Lords or Peers, and of Commons; and judging that the people would be well satisfied in the Declaration which the King had granted them; the Parliament ordained, at the same time, that most humble thanks should be returned to his Majesty for the favourable Letter which he graciously had written to them: That to disengage his Majesty from the place where he was, and to facilitate his passage, they ordered him presently a sum of fifty thousand pounds sterling, which was increased with another of ten thousand, by the inhabitants of the City of London▪ That the Admiral Montague should go, with his Fleet, to attend the King's orders on the coast of Holland: That the two Houses, and City of London, should send to beseech him, by their Deputies, to come forthwith to take possession of the Kingdoms, which God and his Right had given him; and that, in the mean time, Sir John Greenvil should be dispatched with the Parliaments answer, and should carry to Breda the resolutions and prayers of the two Houses, or rather the just impatience which all England had to see again their Sovereign, after a sad absence of so many years.  
But that which is most remarkable in these resolutions, is, that they were not taken after a long contestation, nor upon a simple acquiesment of the assembly, but by the express suffrages and upon the universal and unanimous consent of all the Deputies of the two Houses, who laboured in emulation of each other, which should give the most proofs of affection. The Parliament also permitted General Monck to send Mr. Clarges, his brother-in-law, accompanied with some Officers of the Army, to assure his Majesty 
The Army declares itself.  of the fidelity and obedience of the Army; which had made public and solemn protestations thereof, after the Letter and Declaration was communicated unto them by the General.  
But to the end one may see plainly, what the sentiments 
The Speaker of the Lower House his discourse to Sr. john Greenvil.  were of all the English on this occasion, I will not fear to report here the very words which the Speaker of the house of Commons said to the Gentleman, which had delivered him Letters from his Majesty. It is impossible for me, said he, to express the acknowledgement and submission with which the Commons assembled here in Parliament, have received the Letter, wherewith his Majesty was pleased to honour them: The thing speaks itself, you have seen it with your eyes, and heard it with your ears. Our Bells, our Bonfires, and the report of our Artillery, have already begun to proclaim the King, and to publish our joy. We have made known to the People, that our King, the glory of England, is returning unto his Kingdom, and have heard resound in our ears these agreeable protestations, that they are ready to receive him, and their hearts open to lodge him; and as well the Parliament, as People have already cried aloud together with one voice in their prayers to the King of Kings, Long live King Charles the second. I have also to tell you, continued he, that the Parliament, not willing that you should return without some mark of acknowledgement to the King, your Sovereign and ours, hath ordained you the sum of five hundred pounds sterling, to buy you a Jewel, to make you to remember the honour which his Majesty hath done you, in charging you with a Commission of this nature, whereof you have so well acquitted yourself, that the Parliament hath commanded me to give you thanks.  
We must confess, that there is something very extraordinary in this marvellous revolution; but it is also certain, that there is nothing miraculous in it. The King was not surprised thereat. God used him in the conduct of this great work. He had laboured therein; he had observed the dispositions and knew the progresses thereof; and in this foresight he departed from Brussels the last of Mareh, to go to Breda. And though since in the same month, he went sometimes to Brussels and to Antwerp, he was resolved notwithstanding not to remain there, but to betake him to the Princess Royal his sister.  
Many considerations obliged him to depart the Territorres under the obedience of the King of Spain in this conjuncture of affairs; but the sole convenience which he had at Breda, to receive at all times Posts from England, which passed and repassed every day and hour, and to go from thence unto Holland, to expedite the return into his Kingdom, might invite him to transfer his Court there for a while. He arrived there the 14. of April, and was the same day complemented by Mr. Snel, old 
The King arrives at Breda.  Burgemaster, in the name of the Magistrate, who would likewise oblige the Town to make a solemn entrance to his Majesty, but the Princess Royal hindered it for most considerable reasons. The 17 the Lord Mordant arrived there, with full assurances of the good will of the Parliament, and that it would labour indubitably for the re-establishment of the King as soon as it should be complete, and that the entrance into it should be made the day that had been named for it.  
From that time forward, there passed not a day almost that the King received not some remarkable news, upon which he might ground infallible hopes of his re-establishment. The 25. of April Sir John Greenvil, since Earl of Bath, and 
Lambert's defeat.  Sir John Boys, brought him intelligence of the defeat of General Lambert; he had been prisoner in the Tower of London, by virtue of an Ordinance of the Council of Estate, and made an escape thence with design to put himself in the head of those that would oppose Monarchal government; but he was beaten, and taken by Colonel Ingoldsby, and brought back unto his former Prison, before he could assemble troops enough, to form the body of an Army. He received the same day Letters from Admiral Montague, which continued to assure him of the good estate of the affairs of the Kingdom, and of the sincerity of his intentions, of which he had already given proofs many months before when Sir George Booth took up Arms for the King, under the name of good Englishmen, which demanded the convocation of a Free-Parliament. The 
The Prince of Orange comes to Breda.  Prince of Orange, his Nephew, was at Breda the 16. of the same month, and every day some Prince, or person of quality, came to rejoice with his Majesty for the happy change of his fortune, whereof they began to have almost infallible assurances. Prince 
As also Prince Frederic of Nassau.  Frederic of Nassau, brother to Prince Maurice, of whom we shall have occasion to speak hereafter, arrived there the 2. of May, with the Prncess his wife, from his government of Bergen op Zoom; and the Duke of Brunswic Lunenburg, who 
And the Duke of Brunswic Lunenburg.  resides at Hannover, came there four days after. The visit of this Prince, which is no less considerable through the excellent qualities which he possesseth, then through the Extent of his Dominions, was so agreeable to his Majesty, that he could not forbear to testify it to him on all occasions, and in a most obliging manner: insomuch that he would voluntarily sup with his Highness, accompanied with the Dukes his brothers, and live with him in a confidence, which might make him to hope for a very particular good will for the future.  
The 14 of May, a day fatal to the most potent Kingdom of 
They know at Breda the Declation of the Parliament.  Christendom, for the death of the two last Kings, was that which fully assured the King of the revolution of the affairs of his Kingdom, through the advertisement which came to Breda of what was done in Parliament the eleventh of the same month, as we have spoken of it before; and the next day, after the news was brought, being the 15, they being of great importance, were sent 
The news whereof is carried to the Hague.  to the Hague, by Letters from the Princess Royal, which were seen in the Assembly of the Estates General. The Estates of the Province of Holland, who were at that time assembled in a body, and had by their wisdom foreseen, in the disposition of the affairs of England, the change which would apparently arrive there, had also foreseen by their prudence, the advertisement which was given of the Declaration of the Parliament. For on 
The Estates of Holland send Deputies to the King.  thursday the 13 of May, before it could be known what passed at London, that illustrious Senate, making reflection upon the present constitution of affairs, and on the apparences of the near and indubitable re-establishment of the King, resolved that Mr. Beverweert, Strevelshouck, Vlooswijck, and Teylingen, Deputies at the Assembly from the Nobility, and from the Towns of Dort, Amsterdam, and Alckmaer, should depart immediately after they knew the intention of the Parliament, to make known to the King of great Britain the affection of this Province for the person of his Majesty, and for all the Royal Family, to testify unto him the joy and satisfaction they had to see infallible dispositions, almost ready to place him in the Throne of his Ancestors; and to assure him of the strong inclination which they had to make with him, and with the Kingdoms under his authority, a firm, and indissolvable alliance, for the mutual conservation of the common interests of his Estate, and of this Republic; But chiefly to make him offers of service, and to beseech him to do this Province the honour to reside there, as in a place most commodious for communication with his Subjects for his passage into England; and to receive there the effects of the most sincere protestations of respect and amity, which they caused to be made unto him by their Deputies. They had also order to insist particularly upon this last point, as on the most important of their commission, and to use to this purpose the most civil and most engaging terms, that interest of Estate, and affection for the good of their country could dictate to them. They enjoined also the same Deputies to officiate with the Dukes of York and Gloucester, the King's brothers, and with the Princess Royal, his Sister, and that instance should be made in the Assembly of the State's General, that the same offices might be made of their part with his Majesty, and with all the Royal persons.  
The last point of this Resolution was executed the next day, 
The Estates General send Deputies to the King.  when Mr. de Wit, Pentionary Councillor, Keeper of the great seal, and Lieutenant of the Fiefs of Holland, was in the Assembly of the State's General, where it was resolved, that Mr. de Ripperda Lord of Buirse, Deputy to the State's General of the Province of Gelderland; Mr. de Merode, Lord of Rumme, Deputy from the Nobility of Holland to the Assembly of the same State's General, named to the extraordinary Embassage of Spain; and Guldewagen of Holland, Vrybergen of Zealand, Renswoude of Utrecht, Velsen of Frieseland, and Isbrants of Groaning should go to Breda to congratulate the King for his glorious re-establishment, and do with his Majesty, with the Dukes of York and Gloucester, and with the Princess Royal, the same office which the Deputies of the Province of Holland had order to do with him, in the name of their Superiors.  
The States of Holland pretended, that their Deputation would have no effect, until they should have advertisement of the Declaration of the Parliament; not, that they doubted of its intention, but because they judged, that it imported the service of the King, so to use it whereby not to prevent the Parliament, and to do nothing rashly in an affair of this consequence, where civility done out of season, was both incommodious and unprofitable. Notwithstanding forasmuch as it was necessary that his Majesty should know the sentiments of the Estates, they ordained that he should have assurance thereof under hand, by offices efficacious and capable to express them well; and to this purpose, they judged it fit that the person of Mr. jews of Nassau, 
Mr. Beverweert goes to Breda.  Lord of Lecque and Beverweert, etc. Sergeant Major General of the Armies of the United Provinces, and Governor of the Bosch, should be so much the more proper for that, as the devoirs which he was obliged to render to the King, in his particular, might serve for pretext to his voyage. And, indeed, the person of this Lord should be extremely agreeable, not only because of the affection which he had witnessed for the affairs of his Majesty during his persecution, and because of the alliance which the Lord of Ossery, eldest son of the Marquis of Ormond, Lord Deputy of Ireland, of the illustrious House of Butler, and now Lord Steward of England, hath taken in his House; but also, and principally, because of the great employments which he hath in his country, and of the excellent qualities which are found in his person. All considerations, which obliged him to see the King before he did the functions of public Minister. He arrived at Breda on Saturday morning, the 15 of May, and executed his Commission so happily, that the King, reserving but the open declaration of his good will for the Deputies when they should be arrived, disposed himself to receive the offers and civilities which they had order to make him, with so much the more advantage and glory for this Estate, and for Mr. Beverweert in particular, as Don John de Monroy who arrived the 
The Marquis of Caracene desires the King to pass into Flanders.  same day at Breda, had prayed his Majesty, from the Marquis of Caracene, General of the King of Spain's Armies in Flanders, to take his way through the Provinces under the obedience of his Catholic Majesty, and to embark in one of the ports of those quarters, to return to his Kingdoms. Some report at that time, and even those, who took pains to observe what passed at Breda, during the abode which the King made there, as sure, that Don John de Monroy had also made known to the King, that the arrears due to the troops, which the King of Spain entertained for the service of his Majesty, were at Brussels, and that he might cause them to be paid as he passed. But this appeared not, no more than what passed in the conference, which the Duke of York had some days before, with the Marquis of Caracene himself, in the town of Antwerp, by order of the King, who would not go there in person, though he was pressed thereunto through the consideration of the important affairs, which he said he had order to communicate to his Majesty. The King defended himself with the same firmness from the civilities which he sent to be made unto him, in excusing himself upon the facility which he found for his passage in the place where he was at present. I know that two reasons, principally, obliged the King to render himself, at first, to the request which Mr. Beverweert made him in the name of the Lords the Estates of Holland: The first, that having had advertisement, that the Parliament, and City of London sent a great number of Commissioners, he would not they should lose time in going from the Sea to Breda; and the other, that the Court was already so great, and the town so incommodated of provisions, that it would be impossible to lodge there; and diet the Deputies and their train, which were said to be three or four hundred Gentlemen, besides other Domestics.  
We have said that the news of the Parliaments Declaration, of the Army, and of the City of London, was carried to Breda, the precedentday, by Posts express, and that from thence it arrived the next day at the Hage, where the estate of affairs being changed since the resolutions of the former days, as well the Estates General of the United Provinces, as those of the Province of Holland, pressed their Deputies to depart: And those last in particular, writ to Mr. Beverweert, and gave him order to signify to the King, that they had nominated already some of their body, which should be gone forthwith to congratulate his Majesty; and in the mean time to dispose him to honour that Province with his presence and abode, during the time that his affairs should oblige him to stay in the Country. They writ also, at the same time, to the Magistrates of the towns where the King might pass in his way, that they should make necessary preparations to receive his Majesty with all the honour and magnificence that was due to so great a Monarch.  
The devotion of the day of Pentecost, which happened the 
Order of the precedence between the State's General, and the Estates of the Province of Holland.  16 of May, was cause that the Deputies departed not that day; but it hindered them not from labouring in the regulation of a most important affair, and which was judged, by the Province of Holland, to be of the greatest consequence. This Estate is composed in such manner, that notwithstanding the Sovereignty of all the United Provinces in one body, every Province ceaseth not to be Sovereign in particular; and they are all so jealous of their Sovereignty, that they suffer not the Generality to have other advantage in the Provinces, then that which is due unto them by virtue of their union, and of the perpetual alliance, which is, in some kind, more straight even then that of the Cantons swizzers. So that the Deputies of the Estates General, being to meet with those of the Estates of Holland, in the place where these pretended to represent the Sovereignty of their Province, which acknowledgeth no superior at home; the difficulty was to order the rank between them, and to conserve to each that which belongeth to it. The Estates of Holland, who had caused the King to be prayed, in particular, to honour their Province with his presence, would have him to be received and saluted, in their name, upon the Fronteer, would defray the charges on his way from the time he entered into the Province, and till the first day he should arrive at the Hage, as making part of his Voyage. The Estates General, who represent not, indeed, in general, but what every Province possesseth in particular, acquiesced therein, left to the Province of Holland, all the marks of Sovereignty, and consented to this, that their Deputies, after they had congratuled the King, and conducted his Majesty to the entrance into Holland, should remain without functions; conditionally notwithstanding, that the Deputies of Holland should do the honour of the House, and treating them of the Generality with civility, should give them precedence in the places, where they might meet together. The Estates General resolved, the same day, that the King's charges should be defrayed during the whole time he stayed in the United Provinces; and ordained likewise that provision should be made for it; but at first they met with so many difficulties, that it was absolutely impossible to execute this resolution. For the Town of Breda being already starved almost, because of the great number of persons of quality which came there every day, and the hot season permitting not provisions to be brought there from other places, there was no body would undertake to treat the King; and those that would have undertaken it, could not have accomplished it; so that the Estate would have had the displeasure to see their substance dissipated, at the expense of its reputation.  
We think to relate here, as a thing most remarkable, that the same day Mr. Moorland, chief Commissioner under Mr. Thurlo, 
Thurlo's Secretary comes to Breda.  who was Secretary of Estate unto Oliver Cromwell, his chief and most confident Minister of his Tyranny, arrived at Breda, where he brought divers Letters and Notes of most great importance; forasmuch as the King discovered there a part of the intricate plots of the interreign, and likewise the perfidiousness of some of those, who owed him, without doubt, the greatest fidelity of the world. The King received him perfectly well, made him Knight, and rendered him this public testimony, that he had received most considerable services from him for some years past.  
The 17. the Deputies of the Estates General, whom we have 
The Deputies of the Estates General, and of Holland, depart.  named, departed from the Hage, about two a clock after dinner and embarked themselves, the same day, at Rotterdam, where the Jachts or Pinnaces, which the Estate had caused to be in readiness, attended them. Those of Holland departed in the morning, but they made not the same haste, as well because they, would not be the first in the place where the Estates were to precede, as because they had divers orders to give in the places of their passage.  
The Deputies of the State's General arrived at Breda the 18. 
The Deputies of the Estates General arrive at Breda.  of May after dinner; and were met with near the village of Terheida by four Cornets of Horse of the Garrison, and arriving at the Town, they found there 12 Companies of Foot drawn up in battalia; which saluted them with their shot, whilst the Artillery thundered from the walls and bulwarks. As soon as they were come to the house which was prepared for them, they gave notice thereof to his Majesty, and next to the Dukes of York, and Gloucester, and to the Princess Royal; and towards the evening the King, and their Royal Highness', sent them most civil salutes by Gentlemen of their House. They understood that Mr. Clarges, brother-in-law to General Monck, was arrived there the same day, and that he had brought the protestations of fidelity and obedience from the Army; and the confirmation of what they had already heard of the Declaration of the Parliament: Until than the Major of the Garrison had taken orders from the Princess Royal; but the Deputies of the State's General, being arrived at Breda, would transfer that honour to the King, who gave the word, Amsterdam; not so much for that he considered this Town as the most powerful of all these Provinces, but for as much as he could not silence the resentiments which he had for the Magistrate; which had given him most illustrious, and most agreeable marks of its affection.  
The next day there came a Post to Breda, bringing intelligence 
 that the Garrison of Dunkerck, declared for the King, and had witnessed its joy by the fire of its Cannon and Muskets. The King had the goodness to invite the Lord Lockart, Governor of the place, to express some inclination for his service, and to give him an occasion for it by the advance he had made, and the assurances he had given him, but it could gain nothing upon that spirit prepossessed, and tied so by particular interests to the house of Cromwell, until he was constrained to leave himself to be carried away by the general motion of the whole Army, and of the Garrison itself.  
The next day being the 19 the Estates General having had advertisement by public Letters, from their Ambassador at London, of what passed in Parliament in behalf of the King, redoubled the orders which they had given to their Deputies, touching the compliment and offices which they were to do; to the end to acquit themselves thereof with zeal and affection; and certified them, by an express, that they had sent commissions to Arnham, Heusden, Bergen op Zoom, and Gercum, for the Troops of Horse of Prince William of Nassau, of the Count Christian of Dona, and of Mrs. de Buat, de Wassenaer, and de la Lecque, son to Mr. Beverweert, with order to march with all speed, night and day, towards high Swaluwe, to attend there the King of great Britain, and to execute the commands which should be given them by the Deputies of the Estates of Holland. The last arrived this day at Breda, and the Deputies of the Estates 
The Deputies of the Estates General have▪ audience of the King.  General had their audience. The King sent unto them about eleven a clock in the forenoon, the Lord Gerard, one of the Gentlemen of his bedchamber, whose quality and functions are answerable to those of the chief Gentlemen of the Chamber of the King of France, who was to take them at their lodgings with four Coaches, each drawn by six white horses, and conducted them to the Castle where the King was lodged. The Marquis of Ormond came to receive them, at the top of the stairs, and caused them to enter into the King's chamber, where they found his Majesty standing in the midst of the chamber, and covered; but as soon as he saw them, he uncovered himself, and came two or there paces to meet them. After they had made most low reverences, and were come unto the King, Monsieur de Ripperda, Lord of Buirse, one of the Deputies, would begin to speak; but his Majesty would oblige them to put on their hats, in making semblance that he would be covered. They had not the character of Ambassador, and could not have it at home with them; therefore would they not be in that condition, but remained in their duty, and obliged thereby his Majesty, who could not overcome their modesty, though innocently, and against their intention, to remain also uncovered, whilst the first Deputy spoke. The substance of his discourse was, that the State's General of the United Provinces had understood, with an extreme joy, the change of the affairs of England; That they knew the good God had so well touched the heart of the inhabitants, that there was not any Person, almost, that cried not on the name of the King, and wished passionately to see him returned into his Kingdom; that upon certain advertiements, which the Estates General had had thereof, they thought it fit to send their Deputies to this Majesty, to witness unto him the part they take, to congratulate him in so important an occasion, and to wish him, and all his Royal Family all the blessings of Heaven, and all the prosperity that he might hope from God, after so long and such bitter afflictions; that the Estates General made those prayers with so much the more ardour, as they knew that the repose of this Commonwealth, depended in some kind on that of its neighbours; and that they would not willingly enjoy the amity of the English, but under the Monarchal Government of his Royal House; that they pretended to enjoy it still for the future under the happy government of his Majesty, and for this purpose, they hoped he would have the goodness to renew with the United Provinces the alliance which they always considered here as one of the chief points of Estate, and as the foundation of the conservation of the common interests of the two Nations; That they had order also from their Superiors, to remonstrate to his Majesty that the residence of Breda, was inconvenient and distant, and to beseech him most humbly to choose one in their Provinces, that he should judge more proper for his affairs, for his residence, and for his embarkment. That the Estates General had commanded them to follow his Majesty in his voyage, and to serve him with whatsoever the United Provinces possessed. The King thanked the Lords the Estates for their civility, and for the testimonies of affection which they caused to be made him by the mouth of their Deputies; and assured them of his amity, in such strong and obliging terms, that knowing one shall be very glad to remember often the goodness of the King, we fear not to relate here the same words which he used, to conclude his discourse. I love this Commonwealth, said he, not only because the Princess Royal, my Sister, and the Prince of Orange, two persons who are extremely dear unto me, remain here; but also through interest of Estate, for the good of my Kingdoms, and through a very strong inclination towards their good. I love truly, SIRS, these Provinces, and so strongly, that I should be jealous if they gave greater part in their amity to another Prince then to me, who think that I ought to have much more therein then any other Prince, since I love them more than all the other Sovereigns together.  
After dinner the Deputies did reverence to the Dukes of York and Gloucester, the King's brothers, and to the Princess Royal, 
Have audience of their Royal Highnesses.  his sister, where Mr. de Ripperda made again the compliment. Mr. German, Gentleman of the Horse to the Duke of York, came to take them at their lodging, and conducted them to the audience of his Royal Highness. At coming from whence, he conducted them to the audience of the Duke of Gloucester, and coming forth of his apartment, they met with Sir Alexander Humes, Steward to the Princess, who conducted them to his Mistress chamber, which was not above fifteen or twenty paces from thence. The two Princes made them a full civility, in conducting them even to the door almost of their apartments. Thursday, the 20. of May about eleven a clock in the forenoon, 
The Deputies of Holland have audience of the King.  the Deputies of the Estates of Holland had their audience of the King, unto which they were brought in by the same persons, and with the same ceremonies, wherewith that of the Estates General was accompanied. The Marquis of Ormond, who had the conduct of it, giving them the hand, Mr. de Beverweert, Chief of the Deputation, carried the Word, and spoke in these terms.  
SIR, It is now the third time, that, My Lords, the Estates of Holland have congratulated with your Majesty upon your coming to the Crown. The first was, when you attained thereunto by virtue of the fundamental law of your Estate, immediately after the decease of the late King your father, of most glorious and eternal memory; and the other, when the Scots came; to this place, to invite your Majesty to go to take possession of one of the Crowns of your Ancestors. It is but with great grief, SIR, that we remember those two disastrous encounters; but on the contrary, it is with a transport of joy, that we come now from the Estates of Holland, our Superiors, to congratulate your Majesty upon the present happy estate of your affairs. We may say, that they see already your Majesty seated in the Throne, and so that they take the part which they owe to the satisfaction which you are to have thence, and this with so much the more reason, as they know that the reciprocal amity between England and this Republic, hath never suffered the least alteration under the government of her Kings. So promise they themselves, that it shall be better conserved then ever it was, under that of your Majesty, with whose alliance they shall feel themselves always extremely honoured, as well as with the Royal goodwill which your Majesty expresseth unto them. They also most humbly beseech your Majesty to give them a proof thereof, at present, in transferring your Court into their Province, for the little time which your Majesty will have to stay in these quarters and to suffer, that they cause to be rendered, and render themselves in person unto you, during that time, all the services which they owe to so great and potent a Monarch, whose amity is so precious and necessary to them.  
The King made them very near the same answer, which he did the day before to the Deputies of the Estates General; in saying, that he was very much obliged to the Lords the Estates of Holland for the affection they expressed to him; that he refused not the offer they made him of the commodity of another residence, in a Province for which he had always had a most particular inclination; as well because of the dear pledge of the Princess Royal, his sister, and of the Prince of Orange, his nephew, which they kept; as trhough a secret motion, and an interest of Estate indispensable. This the King said, with so much goodness and tenderness, that the Deputies, finding themselves insensily engaged in a discourse more particular, and his Majesty, making known that he heard speech of the affairs of the North with pleasure, opened himself fully therein; and feared not to say, that he was obliged to assist the King of Denmark, not only because of the near affinity, and affection which the present King, as well as the deceased King his father, had expressed for his interests; but also, because he judged that it extremely imported England, and all Europe, to stop the progress of the Swed's Arms in those quarters. The Deputies were, after dinner, with their Royal Highnesses, where they were brought in by the same persons, and received in the same manner that the Deputies of the Estates General had been treated and received the day before. About five a clock in the evening, the Estates General had a particular audience of the King, in execution 
Particular audience of the Deputies of the State's General.  of the express order which they had to make known to his Majesty the inclination of the Estate for a most straight and perpetual alliance with his Majesty; to which the King answered with much freeness and affection, saying in most strong, and most obliging terms, That not one of the Kings, his predecessors, had ever had for this Commonwealth, the affection which it should find always in him; not only because of the interests of the two persons so near as the Princess Royal and the Prince of Orange; who live in the Estate, and make, as one may say, a part thereof, as he said unto them the day before; but also through inclination, and many reasons of Estate, which obliged him to make with these Provinces a most straight alliance.  
The same day the Estates General having understood, by Letters from their Deputies, that the King's design was to come into Holland by water, gave order that all the Pinnaces, and other Barks, capable to transport the King, the Princes and Princess of the Royal House, with all their Court, Train, and Baggage, should immediately repair to the higher Swaluwe in Brabant, to attend there the orders which the Deputies of the Estates of Holland should give them for that purpose. They caused also to be written to all the Colonels, and other Major Officers, as well of Foot, as of Horse, who were quartered in the neighbourhood of that Town, that they should be the first day at the Hague, to serve the Estate there, and to appear splendidly at the Ceremonies of the reception, and treatment which they had resolved to make to his Majesty. As for the Deputies of Holland, not only Mr. Beverweert, who knew the intention of the King, by the Marquis of Ormond, had one the 18 sent an express to the Hage, to advertise the Deputy Counsellors therewith, in the absence of the Estates of Holland, who broke up from the evening of Pentecost, but they dispatched also themselves a Post, immediately after they arrived at Breda, praying urgently, that without delay necessary orders might be given, for the reception and entertainment of his Majesty at the entrance into this Province, and during his voyage to the Hage; and to that purpose the Deputy Counsellors, who do in the Province of Holland, what the Council of Estate doth in regard of the United Provinces, employed the three days following, after having required Mr. de Wimmenum, Precedent in their College, to take upon him the whole conduct of this affair, as also the order of all the expense which they had resolved to make for the King's table, and for the Lords which belonged to him as his attendance, whereof they left unto him the full disposing, during the voyage and first day that his Majesty arrived at this Town. The Deputies had also written to the Magistrate of the Town of the Briel, to advertise him of the resolution which the King had taken to pass into Holland; to the end that if there arrived there Posts from the Commissioners of Parliament, he should send them to the Hage, where the King made account to arrive in a very short time.  
And indeed the same day, the Deputies, as well of the Estates General, as those of the Estates of Holland, knew that the King had resolved to depart from Breda on Monday, the 24 of May; and to this purpose, to embark himself the same day at Moordike; to the end to be at the Hage the next day, by water, about four a clock in the evening. Upon the advertisement which they gave thereof, the same day, to their Superiors, the Estates General resolved, Friday the 21, that Mr. the Count de Flodorp, de Wimmenum, d'Amerongen, and de Ripperda de Hengelo, should give order, conjunctively with two Counsellors of Estate of the United Provinces, that his Majesty, and the Princes his brothers, should be sumptuously treated and defrayed, with all their Train, during the whole time that his Majesty should remain in the Country of their obedience, from Wednesday the 26 of May, to the day of his embark'ment.  
The same advertisement, which had been carried, at one time, into divers Towns of the Province, made to return, to the Hage, the most part of the Deputies, which compose the Estates of Holland; and which (as we have said) broke up the eve of Pentecost; so that the most part being returned on Friday in the evening, they began their Assembly the next morning, being the 22 of May; and fixed on this, that Tuesday following, the 25 of the said month, they should send towards Delf, at a place convenient to make the compliment, all Coaches of four and six horses that could be gotten, for the Convoy with which they intended to receive his Majesty; and should cause also as many pinnaces and other Barks to beready as was necessary to transport the train and baggage. They ordained also, that besides the Deputies which they had sent to Breda, Mr. Buckhurst, Lord of Wimmenum, Deputy Ordinary from the Noblity to the College of the Deputy Counsellors or Council of Estate of Holland, should join himself to the other Deputies at Delf; and forasmuch as he was charged with the conduct of the whole treatment which the Province intended to make to his Majesty, aswell on the way, as in this town, as Deputy from the Estates, that in this quality he should stay by the King, whilst he dined, to receive the honour of his commandments, after the other Deputies should be retired.  
The Estates General, of their side, required Mr. d'Amerongen, 
Mr. d'Amerongen goes to Breda.  of the House of Rhede, one of the chief Nobles of the Province of Utrecht, Deputy, in their assembly, from the Nobility of the same Province, lately extraordinary Ambassador in Denmark, and now nominated for Spain, to go to Breda; and to report from thence an exact estate of the King's whole Court, and train of the Princes; as also of the number of the Lords, of the Council, and of his Majesty's House; to the end, that necessary proportions might be taken for the lodgings pointed out for the Lords; for the Tables which were to be furnished; and for the mouths to be fed, during the residence which the King should make at the Hage. And to the end, not to come short, they made, the same day, a foundation of three hundred thousand gilders for the expense that should be made for it.  
They had the same day Letters from Breda, which signified, that the day before Sr. Peter Killigrew, brother to him who commands an English Regiment of Foot, in the service of the Lords the Estates, and who so gloriously fought in the Battle of Funen, that it is his merit, rather than the alliance which he hath with General Monck, that makes him to be considered, was arrived there from London; from whence he had been dispatched express, to carry to the King the news of his proclamation; which was done the 19 of the same month, with great ceremonies, and extraordinary testimonies of joy and affection, not only in the City of London, but also in divers other neighbour Towns. But forasmuch as these particularities are of the History of England, which will not fail to publish all the wonders of this great revolution, we will not make our relation of it, which in speaking of all that passed in the Country, is obliged to make known here the affection of the Magistrates of Dort, of Delf, and of Rotterdam, who sent to beseech the King, by Deputies express, to do them the honour to pass through their Towns, and to refresh himself there by the way. But his Majesty excused himself, as well upon the present estate of his affairs, which permitted him not to stay any where; as because that his passage could not but incommodate the inhabitants, unto whom he should not cease to find himself sensibly obliged, for the tenderness they expressed to him.  
Sunday the 23, there was nothing remarkable, if not, that at Breda solemn thanks were rendered to God, in all the Churches, on the revolution of the affairs of England, in behalf of the King: all the Ministers of the Churches, English, Dutch and French, expounding Texts proper for the matter. After the Sermons, the Magistrate and Consistory were incorporated to make their compliment to his Majesty, and to their Royal Highnesses; and at evening, bonfires of joy were made through the whole Town; all the Bells rung, and many volleys were discharged from all the Artillery; the Deputies of the Estates General, those of the Estates of Holland, the Magistrate, and the particular persons, emulating one another which should express most joy and satisfaction in this great day. They began, in the mean time, to load, and to send away the baggage, whilst they finished, at the Hague, to furnish Prince Maurice his House, designed for the King's lodging; to appoint lodging for the whole Court, and to make necessary provisions, for its subsistence when it should be come, and whilst it should remain there.  
Monday the 24, there happened, at the Hague, a thing very remarkable, and which might be of great importance, in its consequences, if they had taken council of ambition, rather than of prudence. By the fixed resolution of the Estates General, of the 16 of this month, it was said, that the Estates of Holland might cause the King to be received, and complemented, at the entrance of the Province; and that they might make the honour of the House, as being the Masters of it. But the former had made 
Order between the Estates General and those of Holland for precedence in the Province.  known since, that their intention was to cause the King to be received, either by a greater number of Deputies, than there had been from them at Breda, or if the Estates of Holland went, in a body, to receive his Majesty by Delf towards Rotterdam; in this case, the State's General would go, also in a body, to compliment his Majesty between Delf and the Hage, at the place where they are accustomed to receive Ambassadors; and that in conducting him their Coaches should follow immediately the King's. The Estates of Holland being advertised hereof, likewise that the Estates General would send Deputies to their Assembly; and pretending that formerly there passed too many things to the prejudice of the right of their Sovereignty, they named the Deputies of the Towns of Dort, Harlem, Amsterdam, Alckmar, and Horn, to enter into conference with the Deputies of the Estates General; to the end, to dispose fitly this affair. And, indeed, they negotiated so happily, that they were agreed, at last, among themselves, that if the Estates of Holland caused the King to be received at Delf, by Deputies, they should remain both in the terms of the resolution of the 16 of this month; by virtue of which, the Lords, the Estates of Holland, might alone do the honours in their Province, and cause the King to be complemented wheresoever he pleased; and that the Deputies of the Estates General, which were by his Majesty's person; should continue to be treated with respect, as representing strange Sovereigns; and that in this quality, their Coach, or Coaches, if they judged fit to increase the number of their Deputies, (which notwithstanding they promised, by mouth, that they would not do) should follow immediately the King's, and precede those of the Deputies of the Province. After this the Estates of Holland ordained, that Mr. de Wassenaer, Lieutenant Admiral of Holland, should be joined to the Deputies named in the resolution of the 13 of May, and to Mr. de Wimmenum, who had been named the 22; and that every Town should depute one, of its body, to go to make the compliment, together with the Pentionary Counsellor, at the disbarkment of his Majesty by Delf.  
And forasmuch as there was reason to fear, that there might 
The Estates send to pray the Ambassadors not to send their Coaches to meet the King.  happen some disorder about the rank of the Coaches that should be sent to meet the King; not so much because the Ambassadors were not well agreed among themselves about precedence; but chiefly, because there were some of them, that would make their Coach, to go before that of the Prince of Orange; who ought to be considered here, not only because of his quality of Sovereign Prince, but also as Nephew to the King; and consequently, as chief Prince of the blood of England, after the two Dukes; as well the Estates General, as those of Holland, judged fit to cause the Ambassadors, of the Crowned-heads, to be prayed, by their Agent, not to send their Coaches, but to leave the conduct and whole honour of this ceremony to the Estate; to the end, to prevent the confusion, which otherwise would be unavoidable. They all acquiesced therein, without repugnance, and would fain have that respect for the King, and condescendence enough for the desire of the Lords the Estates, not to trouble the public joy, which the whole world endeavoured to make resplendent on this occasion.  
The whole Court, in the mean time, departed from Breda the same day, being the 24 of May. The Deputies of the Estates of Holland departed thence, at four a clock in the morning, to the end to have the leisure to choose a fit place to put the five troops of Horse, which were commanded into Battle, and to give necessary orders for his Majesty's embarkment. The Deputies of the Estates General departed about two hours after, and the King took coach with the Dukes of York and Gloucester, and the Princess Royal, about 8 or 9 a clock in the morning. But before they went out of the Hall of the Castle, the Burgemasters, and Council of Ten, presented themselves again to the King, and caused to be made unto him, by the same Mr. Snel, who made him a speech when he arrived at Breda, this following discourse; for which the public is obliged to a Gentleman of the King's House, who had a care to write word by word, and to communicate to the author of the relation, all the orations, where he was present, when they were spoken.  SIR, The Magistrate and Council of Ten of this town of 
The speech of the Burgemaster of Breda.  Breda, present themselves, again, with a most low reverence before your Majesty, to render you most humble thanks for the honour it hath pleased you to do the town, by the residence you have made here; and to bring you a last proof of the perfect joy, which the wonderful success of your Majesty, as it is the powerful hand, and infinite providence of God, which hath drawn your Majesty out of a Gulf of dangers, and conducted you through a desert of afflictions, even unto the entrance of the greatness, which the right of your Predecessors hath gained to all their posterity. This is the subject of our joy, Sir, but that after the success of many battles, Victories gained at the price of the blood of Subjects, may content the ambition of a Prince transported; but a good Prince, whose thoughts are generous and magnanimous, prefers an innocent triumph, before all other advantages of the world. We praise with all our hearts, that great God, who hath begun this work in the person of your Majesty; and pray him ardently, that it will please him to hear the devotions which we shall continue to make incessantly, for the prosperity of the voyage and reign of your Majesty. 
The King answered, that he thanked the Magistrate and Council for the affection they expressed to him, and should endeavour to acknowledge it, on all occasions that should be presented unto him. Whereupon the Burgemaster having taken the liberty to reply, that since his Majesty had the goodness to accept the affection and zeal which they had for his service, he besought him most humbly to remember the grace which he had made them to hope for, when he concluded in that place his treaty with the Deputies of Scotland, some years since; that he would honour the town of Breda, and its inhabitants, with all the favour, which the Laws of his Kingdom would permit him to grant them. The King answered, that he remembered it very well; and that he was obliged to do it for a town, where he had received such agreeable news, and which had rendered him so many testimonies of respect and affection.  
The King took coach, after this audience, and came between eleven and twelve a clock at Moervaert. He found there some squadrons of Horse in battalions, and the Deputies of the Estates of Holland, who presented themselves at the boot of his Coach, and made him their compliment, in the name of their Superiors, at the entrance of their Province. His Majesty stayed but to hear the acquaint and obliging words of Mr. de Beverweert, who spoke for all the other Deputies, and to answer to that civility: After this, he pursued his way to the end of the Causey, 
The King embarks himself.  or Dike, where they had made a bridge, from the Dike to the Pinnace, to facilitate his embarkment.  
The Estates General, to give no jealousy to some persons of quality, who have coaches with six horses, make use ordinarily, for the entrance of Ambassadors, and for other public Ceremonies, but of the Coach of the Princess Dowager of Orange, which represents that of the Estates in those occasions. Hence was it they desired that the pinnace or barge of the same Princess, which she had lent for the same purpose, should have the same honour on this occasion, and had enjoined their Deputies to endeavour to make it acceptable to his Majesty: But the King, after he had considered them all, chose another, as well because he knew it was very commodious, as having used it formerly; as because, indeed, that of the Princess Dowager was not great enough, to lodge the King, and the Princess Royal, who would pass the night, by the King her brother, with persons necessary for their service. That whereinto the King entered, was made formerly for the Prince of Orange, but it is now in the College of the Admiralty of Rotterdam; and was, without doubt, the greatest of all that little Fleet, which was composed, besides other Barks, almost innumerable, of thirty great Barges, commonly called Yachts, and are a kind of little Frigates, whereof persons of condition make use upon the Rivers, in passing from one Province unto another, for necessity, or for divertisement. And indeed, the King found his Yacht so fit, and so well fashioned, that he said, in discourse with the Deputies, that he would cause one to be made of the same manner, as soon as he should be arrived in England, to serve him upon the Thames above the bridge. Mr. de Vlooswick, Burgemaster of Amsterdam, and one of the Deputies of the Province of Holland, taking occasion from thence to render a very considerable service to this country, said to the King, that lately they had made one in their town of the same bigness, at least as commodious every way, which he took the liberty to offer 
The town of Amsterdan makes a present of a fair Yacht to the King of England.  to his Majesty, beseeching him to grace the Magistrate of the town of Amsterdam to accept it. The King accepted it not absolutely, but declined not so strongly, that upon the advertisement which Mr. de Vlooswick gave to the Magistrate of what passed on this occasion, he caused not that Yacht to be bought, which the College of the Admiralty had gotten of the East-India Company, and put it in condition to serve for the divertisement of this great Prince: And to give it the more lustre, the Magistrate caused the outside to be richly gilded, whilst some of the best Painters of the country, wrought upon the fair Pictures, wherewith they have since adorned the inside.  
No person would undertake the commission to distribute the Yachts among the Lords of the Court, because it would be impossible to oblige them all equally, and to disoblige none: Therefore Mr. de Beverweert besought the King to be so gracious, as to cause the distribution to be made, since the Deputies had no other order but fully to obey the commandments of his Majesty, which were absolutely necessary for them on this occasion. The King would fain take the pains thereof himself, and ordained that the Duke of York, should ont his occasion perform the functions of Admiral, in distributing the Yachts, under his authority, and in his presence; so that his Royal Highness gave himself the Yacht of the Princess Dowager of Orange: The Duke of Gloucester had that of the Estates of Holland: The Princess Royal, one of the Yachts of the Council of Estate. The Deputies of the Estates General had the other: The Deputies of the Estates of Holland went into the Yacht of Mr. Beverweert, which received also Don Estévan de Gamarra; (who went to meet the King at Moordijck, not in quality of Ambassador of Spain, but as particular servant of his Majesty) the Rhinegrave, the Lord Craft, and many other English Lords. The Chancellor of England, with his family, and Sr. Edward Nicholas, principal Secretary of Estate, and of the King's commands, and one of his most affectionate Ministers, embarked themselves in a Pinnace, called the Maid of Zealand: The Marquis of Ormond, Lord Deputy of Ireland, of the House of Butler, one of the chief, and most ancient of that Kingdom, had the Pinnace of Captain Brouwer: The Marquis of Worcester, Edward Somerset, embarked himself, with his Family, in the Pinnace, named the Postilion of Zealand: The Lord St. John, and Bellasis had that of Mr. Wassenaer. Mr. Clarges, brother-in-law to General Monck, and his company, composed of the Deputies of the Army, had the Yacht of the town of Dort. The Lord Gerard, and many other English Lords, entered into that of Mr. Noortwick, Governor of Sluice, and the 13th Yacht, which was that of the Prince of Orange, was reserved for the Chamber and Wardrobe of the Princess Royal. Every Yacht had its Steward, and all other Officers necessary for the Kitchen, and buttery; and they which had not the commodity to have their Kitchen aboard themselves, were accompanied with other Barks, where chimneys were made for the Kitchen, and ovens for the pastery, and provision of so prodigious a quantity of all sorts of meats, of foul, of sweet meats, of wine, that all the tables were perfectly served therewith; and in so great abundance, that the English Stewards, though very much accustomed to abundance, were astonished thereat; and confessed that they could not comprehend, how they could make ready in Boats and agitation, twenty or five and twenty great dishes for every Table.  
The intention of the King was to dine at Noon, in entering into the Yacht; and indeed, the Steward, who was appointed there by the Estates of Holland, had caused the meat to be made ready; but the wind was so strong, and the water so tossed, that the Princess Royal, not able to endure the violent motion of the vessel, lost her appetite, and finding herself incommodated with the sea-sickness, was enforced to lie upon the bed. Hence was it that the King caused the Captain to be asked, if there was means to shelter them, somewhat, under some rising land, or trees, to ease the Princess a little; but the Captain having answered, that there was no rest to be hoped for, but at Dort, where they might arrive in an hour and a half, or there about, they went on upon this hope. Notwithstanding, they came not in sight of Dort, till between three and four of the clock in the afternoon. The Rampart, and Key, were bordered with Citizens, which were put into arms, and with a battery of great Cannon, which made many volleys, as well as the Muskets, (whilst the Fleet passed there, during, and after the repast, which was taken in sight of the town) and as long as they could discover the flag of the ship, which carried the person of the King, with all the Royal family, they thundered.  
The Fleet stopped, a quarter of a league, below the town, with design to cast anchor that evening, and to stay, the whole night following, at the mouth of the river of Leck, which gives its name to one of the fairest territories of Mr. de Beverweert, and which is very well known through the great number of Salmon, which are taken there every year. But there happened two things, which obliged the King to change resolution. The first was, the return of Sir John Greenvil, who arrived from England, whilst the King dined; and reported, that the Parliament was resolved to beseech his Majesty, to come to take possession of the Crown, without any condition or reserve; and that Admiral Montague was at sea, with a good number of ships, to come to receive him in Holland, to transport him unto his Kingdom. The other was, the advertisement which his Majesty received, almost at the same time, by an express, that that Fleet appeared, in the morning, in sight of Scheveling, and at nine a clock, had cast anchor in the Road, about half a league from the shore. The King presently imparted it to Mr. Beverweert, as to the chief of the Deputation of Holland, and caused the Duke of York to tell him, who was in person in the Deputies Yacht, which joined side by side with his; that it was true, he had made account not to arrive at Delf till the next day, about noon; to the end, to be able to make his entrance into the Hague, at the hour which he had appointed for his reception; but that he had received intelligence, which obliged him to change his design, and to anticipate the hour that was resolved on; because it was of the highest importance for him, to speak, as soon as might be, with the Officers of the Fleet; and so, that he should be constrained to go the whole night; to the end, to arrive at Delf at the break of day; whereof he prayed him to give advertisement to the Lords the Estates, immediately, and by an express; to the end that the Coaches, designed for his reception, might be there at seven a clock precisely. Mr. Beverweert remonstrated, to his Royal Highness, the difficulties that would accur in the change of the orders which were already given; in telling him, that the Post, which he was to dispatch, could arrive at the Hague but very late; and, perhaps, at an unseasonable hour, when it would be almost impossible to make the Estates to assemble, and without that, they could not change the time, which it pleased his Majesty himself to appoint. Notwithstanding if the King desired it absolutely, the Deputies would not fail to write immediately; and to advertise their Superiors therewith, since they were there, but to obey his Majesty, and to serve him. The Duke of York replied, that it was through an invincible necessity, and with an extreme regret, that the King did thus; but that he hoped the Lords the Deputies would consider the estate of his affairs, and oblige very much his Majesty, in losing no time to dispath their Post; and in contributing, by that means, to the advancement of his voyage, and embarkment, in this pressing conjuncture.  
The Letters went away about five a clock in the afternoon, the King caused anchor to be weighed, and passed, at evening, 
The King passeth in sight of Rotterdan.  before the town of Rotterdam; where the contrary wind enforcing the Fleet to board, or tack about, and by this means to draw near the haven, two or three times gave the town leisure to salute his Majesty, by the musket shot of the Burghers, who were all in arms, with flying colours, on the rampart and port, and with all the artillery of the town, as well as with all the Cannon of the Ships which were there in the road. He passed next to Delfshaven, where they had made a battery of sixteen pieces of Cannon, and stayed not till he came to Owerschie, a village situate between Delfshaven and Delf, where he would attend the day.  
The Estates of Holland had resolved to cause his Majesty to be received, at the powder Magazine, upon the channel, which serves for line of communication for the two towns, Delf and Rotterdam; for the town of Delf, having been partly ruined by an accident of fire, which met with the powder some years since, they thought it fit to lodge it without the walls, and without cannon shot of the town. But the King having caused the Fleet to set sail, as soon as the Sun began to appear on the Horizon, they were at the suburbs of Delf, by five a clock in the morning, before the Deputies could give order to make the Fleet to stay at the place designed for the reception. All the Citizens of the town were in arms, from three a clock in the morning, and 
The King arrives at Delf.  a part had their post upon the Key before the port, where the King was to dis-imbarck, and the Magistrate came there, in body, to do reverence to the King in the Yacht; as soon as he understood he was arrived, and to beseech him to do them the honour to repose and refresh in their town, whilst his Majesty should attend the Deputies of the Estates of Holland; but the King excused himself on the Estate of his affairs, which was so far from permitting him to stay by the way, that it had obliged him to prevent the hour, which he had taken and appointed for his reception.  
In the mean time, the Letters of the Deputies were brought to the Hage, at midnight; and immediately after the Estates assembled, and caused the orders to be changed, which were given for the King's reception, at four a clock in the afternoon, into others more pressing; and they sent word to the Deputies, by the same Post, that they might assure his Majesty, that they would not fail to receive him, at the hour he had appointed them, or at eight a clock in the morning at furthest. And, indeed, about two a clock after midnight, they caused the drums to beat, to summon to arms the six Companies of Burghers, and the Regiment of the Guards of the States of Holland, of which there is but four garrisoned in the Hage, and the other six in the neighbour towns, from whence they were made to come, and at six a clock they were all at their Rendezvous: The first on the Viverberg, and the others in the outward Court of the Palace, where the Coaches assembled almost at the same time. Those who took the most pain in causing these orders to be executed, and who have, without doubt, the most part in the honour, which is due unto those who had the conduct of this affair; (as they have that of the most important of the Province) are Mrs. of Wimmenum and the Pensionary Counsellor, who were seen to act every where, each in his functions, with so much assiduity, care and judgement, that if the King drew any satisfaction from the honour they rendered him here, this Estate is partly obliged to the pains of these two great Personages.  
The Coaches began to file towards Delf about seven a clock in the morning; and immediately after the Burghers, who stood in Battalia in the great Place, marched towards the way which goes to Delf; and the soldiers went to take their Post on the Viverberg, where they made a guard even to the house of Prince Maurice of Nassau, which was prepared to lodge his Majesty. The Estates Deputies being arrived at Delf, and having spoken with those who had complemented the King at Breda, and had had the conduct of his person in the voyage, informed his Majesty of the order they had given for his entrance, for his lodging, and for his treatment; to the end, that as their intention was to submit wholly to the absolute will of his Majesty, they made that to be changed therein, which might displease him. And after that the King had given them his approbation, and that they had invited the Deputies of the Estates General to honour this ceremony with their presence, and to take place immediately after the King's Coach; they gave order that the Coaches should be drawn into a file along the Key of the Suburb.  
This done, the Deputies of Holland entered all into the King's 
The King is complemented at Delf by the Deputies of every member.  Yacht, and said unto him, in very few words, by the mouth of the Pensionary Counsellor, that they were there from the Estates of Holland, who had sent there a Deputy of each member of their Province, to offer their most humble services to his Majesty; to express unto him their respectful passion for his person; and to conduct him to the place designed for his lodging at the Hage. The King thanked the Deputies, with words full of goodness and civility, for the pain which they had taken, and for the proofs of affection and zeal which the Lords the Estates of Holland, caused to be given him. They stayed in the Barge or Yacht, but to discourse a moment with the company, which was composed, besides the King's person, of the Dukes of York and Gloucester, of the Princess Royal, of the Prince of Orange, who was come there from the Hage early in the morning, of the Deputies of the Estates General, and of some English Lords; and immediately after the King went forth thence, to go into the coach of the Princess his sister, which had that day the honour to carry all the Royal Family. The King put himself in the midst with the Princess, the Duke of York and the Duke of Gloucester sat before, and the Prince of Orange in one of the boots; and as soon as they were placed, the whole company began to advance to enter into the town of Delf. The King but passed there; the Citizens, who were in arms with displayed colours, from break of day, marched on both sides of the Coach, more than a musket shot from the gate which leads to the Hage, where they stayed and saluted his Majesty with their volleys, whilst all the bells rung, and the Artillery thundered from the bulwarks and rampires of the town.  
It was near ten a clock when he departed thence, and past 
The King arrives at the Hage.  eleven when he came at the Hage; where the six Companies of Citizens, which could hardly be distinguished from the Soldiers, because that being born in war, and bred in exercises of arms, they could not be known from the Military men, but by their clothes, their plumes, and their scarves, wherewith they were covered, had in the mean time taken their post, and made a guard on the way towards Delf, even to the bridge, which serves for a gate to this illustrious Village, which hath, without doubt, an advantage over all the fairest towns of Europe, and may be put in parallel likewise with some of the greatest. In the head of the whole train, marched some trumpets of the Estate, clad in their coats of crimson velvet, embroidered with gold and silver. After them came a long file of Officers, belonging to the war, of Young Lords and Gentlemen, very gallant, and bravely mounted. Next to that, marched a great number of English Gentlemen and Officers of the King's house, of the two Dukes, of the Princess Royal, and of the Prince of Orange. After them came Mr. of Wimmenum, who performed here the function of Master of the Ceremonies, in his coach, where were also some Lords, preceding immediately that of the Princess Royal, which carried his Majesty, and all the Royal House, as we have said. The Deputies of the Estates General filled the two first after the King's: Those of the States of Holland, the six following; and the other Coaches, which amounted in all to the number of seventy and odd, each having six and four horses, were filled with English and Dutch Lords.  
It must be confessed, that this entrance was not made with an extraordinary pomp and glory, worthy so great a Monarch, but it was impossible to make greater preparations, in the time the King had appointed for it; and even when they were constrained to change, in a manner, the first orders; which, without doubt, would have rendered it much more resplendent, had it not been for this change. And yet the crowd was so great, because the curiosity to see this miraculous Prince, had drawn a great part of the inhabitants of the neighbour towns to this entrance, that they were constrained to go very softly; so that the Companies of Citizens, who had the vanguard at the entrance into the Hage, had the leisure to cut some little streets, and to come to put themselves behind, and so to make a guard, from the Highstreet, and along the great Place, even to the Viverberg, where the Regiment of the Guards had taken its Post, and made a guard on both sides, even to the House of Prince Maurice of Nassau, which the Estates of Holland had caused to be furnished, and accommodated for the King's lodging. As soon as the first coaches were entered into the Court, and the King alighted, the Deputies of the Estates General retired, and left the honour of the reception and entertainment, for that day, to the Estates of Holland.  
The King being gone up, found on the top of the stairs the Queen of Bohemia his Aunt, led by the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg, 
The Queen of Bohemia and the Princess of Orange attended him.  who had the honour to salute, and to entertain the King at Breda, and the Princess Dowager of Orange, led by Prince William Frederick of Nassau, her son-in-law, and accompanied with the two Princesses her daughters, Madam the Princess of Nassau, and the young Lady of Orange. The King saluted them all, and being entered into the chamber, where he was followed by the Deputies of the Estates of Holland, he received there another small compliment from them, by the mouth of the Pensionary Counsellor, who said no other thing, but that the Estates of Holland would give themselves the honour to come in full body to render their duty to his Majesty, when they might do it without incommodating him. The King answered him, that they should always be welcome; and that after he had dined, they might take their audience. But the Pensioner replied, that his Majesty being, without doubt, weary with his journey, they would not trouble his repose that day, but would send to receive his orders the next. The King, who was weary indeed, expressed a willingness to dine in private, so that there stayed no body by him, but Mr. of Wimmenum, who was charged with the order of making his Majesty to be served at dinner, and in whatsoever it should please him to command. The Princess Royal, who had not slept the night before, was the first that withdrew; and obliged the others, by her example, to do the like. The Queen of Bohemia, and the Princess Dowager of Orange, followed her, and the King, who would lead them, and who took the Queen by the hand, had the goodness, after he had put her into the coach, to turn about to the end to help the Princess Dowager to go up. There stayed with the King, at dinner, none but the two Dukes, his brothers, who dined with him. His Majesty before he sat at Table, would do Mr. of Wimmenum the honour to make him to take his napkin, to present it him; but that Gentleman, who knew how to behave himself civilly, excused himself through modesty, and yielded that advantage to him of his Officers, who used to perform that function about the person of his Majesty. The toil of the journey, and little rest he had taken, the two former nights, made him desire to withdraw. And, indeed, they would have made the musketeers to forbear shooting, (who gave continual volleys) if it had been possible to smother the universal joy, which the whole world would express on this occasion. To these volleys, answered those of a battery of eight and thirty pieces of Canon, which were planted on the Viverberg, reinforced with another of five and twenty pieces of a greater stamp, which they were enforced to plant behind the Cloister Church of the Voorhout upon the rampart, in turning the mouth towards the field, for fear the noise of that thunder might shake the walls of the old Palace, and of all the adjoining buildings.  
The Estates General had ordained, the precedent day, Mr. de Heyde, 
The Estates General go to salute the King in a body.  their Agent, to go to Prince Maurice his House, and to know immediately after the King's arrival, at least as soon as civility would permit him, when it would please his Majesty to receive the duty, which they had resolved to render him, in coming to do him reverence in a body; and his Majesty having granted it them, at four a clock in the afternoon, it was resolved that they should all meet, in the ordinary chamber of their assembly, half an hour after 3 a clock, to go from thence, in a body, to the house of Nassau, They met accordingly, at the hour appointed, to the number of five and twenty, viz. Mr. van Swanenburgh, Burgemaster of Leiden, and Deputy to the Estates General from the Province of Holland, who, at his turn, was Precedent that week; the Baron of Gent, Mrs. van Bemmel, Braeckel, Balveren, Vande Steen, Ripperda of Buirse, the Count of Flodorff, Schimmelpennick, Ʋander Oyen, Huygens, and Ommerens, Deputies from the Duchy of Gelder's; Meerman, of Horn, and the Pensionary Counsellor from the Province of Holland; de Veth, Crommon, Vrybergen, Lampsins and Kien for Zealand; Renswoude and Amerongen, Deputies from the Province of Utrecht; Velsen, for the Province of Freesland; Ripperda of Hengelo for Overyssel; and Schulenbourg and Isbrants for the town of Groaning, and the adjacent country; with which it makes also a Province. As soon as they were assembled, they went forth, two and two, in the same order as we have named them, going directly to the King's lodging, which is separated from the Palace but by a Ditch, whose two sides are joined by a stone bridge. That Palace is named the Court, or the Court of Holland, because it served sometime for dwelling to the Counts; as it comprehends now in its enclosure the apartments, where the Estates General assemble; the Council of Estate of the United Provinces; the Estates of Holland; the Council of Estate of the same Province; the Reckoning-chambers of the Generality, and of the Province of Holland: The two Courts of Justice, and the apartments assigned for the lodging of the Princess Royal, and of the Prince of Orange. Before the Estates marched Prince William Frederick of Nassau, Governor and Lieutenant General of Freesland, of Groaning, and of Overyssel; the Rhine Grave, Commissary General of the Horse of the United Provinces, and Governor of Mastricht; Mons de Hauterive Chasteau neuf, Colonel of a Regiment of French Foot, in the service of the Estates, and Governor of Breda, and many other Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels, and other Officers, as well of Foot as of Horse, all bareheaded. At the entrance into the King's lodging, they were met with by the Lord Crafts, one of the four Gentlemen of the bedchamber, accompanied with a great number of gentlemen. The Marquis of Ormond, Lord Deputy of Ireland; and in this quality, the first and most considerable person of all England, after the Dukes, came to receive them at the stairs, and brought them into the King's chamber, All the high Officers that marched before, being entered, the Lords the Estates could scarce make way through the press, which was extraordinary great there; but at last, being come to the King, the Baron of Gent, as chief Deputy from the Province of Gelder's, which is the chief Province of the Union, because of its quality of Duchy, and as a person most fit for an action of this nature, as well because of his handsome presence, as of his natural eloquence, made the speech, and spoke, word by word, in these terms.  
SIR, The Estates General of the United Provinces of the 
The Speech of the Lord of Gent.  Low-countries, after having expressed to your Majesty, by the Deputies they sent unto you at Breda, how they participated in the happy successes, which follow your wise conduct, and the joy which they have to see you going to your Kingdom of England, to take there the Sceptre of great Britain, come here now, in a body, to uphold the truth and sincerity thereof, by stronger, and more solemn declarations. It is the same Company, SIR, which had the honour to present itself to your Majesty, in this very place, in a sad and mournful equipage; and which, with more grief in heart, than it could express by words, pronounced the lamentable accents of a most bitter sorrow, which came then to strike the soul, not only of your Majesty, but also universally of all the Members of this Estate. From the same principle, which divided then their affliction, SIR, proceeds now their rejoicement; to wit, from that of a most tender, and most respectful affection for the sacred person of your Majesty; and from a most submissive zeal for your service, and for the good of your affairs. The cause thereof is so just, and so touching, SIR, that we hope your Majesty will be easily persuaded of the truth of the protestations, which the Estates General, of this Republic, make thereof, here in your Royal presence. And we may boldly say, that their joy exerciseth itself in its full extent, which is so much the more vast, as these admirable events arrive, in a time, when all human appearance seemed to remove them wholly. So must it be confessed, that they are the marvellous effects of divine providence, which hath made the hearts of the children to return to their father; that is to say, of the subjects to their lawful King; and leveled the ways, by which your Majesty walks, at present, so peaceably, and without effusion of blood upon the magnific, and superb steps of your glorious and triumphant throne.  
The Estates General of these United Provinces, wish, SIR, that these great and important prosperities, which surprise us no less them we have wished them, may be followed with the constant obedience of your people, with the respect of your neighbours, and with the love of both; and that the Diadem, which the great God hath put upon the anointed and sacred head of your Majesty, being accompanied with all the favours of heaven, may stand there a long train of years, with a happy and glorious reign, for your sacred person, and remain perpetually in your Royal posterity, even to the end of the world.  
We will finish this discourse, SIR, by most humble thanks, which we render to your Majesty, in that it hath pleased you to choose this country, rather than any other, to pass from thence into your Kingdom; for which the Estates General will always esteem themselves honoured and obliged; with the regret notwithstanding, to see, that the reception which they cause to be made unto you, with so good a heart, is not accompanied with all the pomp and magnificence, that the Majestical splendour of so great and potent a Monarch deserveth, who is so dear and precious to this Estate; and of whose gracious favour they shall endeavour to acquit themselves, by all the respects and services, which your Majesty may desire from your true friends, most faithful allies, and most humble servants.  
'T is observable in this visit, that the King made not so much as a show to be willing to be covered; not that his design was to hinder the Estates General, who were there in a body, to be covered, since he did do that honour to their Deputies, when they did him reverence at Breda; and seeing that he did it since at home in their assembly; but without doubt, to the end to do something more for them, than he could do for an Ambassador. Which appeared evidently in the visit he made, in person, to the Estates General, and to the Estates of Holland, when he took leave of them; of which, the sequel of this relation will oblige us to speak hereafter, where he would fain be covered, to give them the liberty to be covered also; and to uncover himself afterward, when he began to speak, and to remain in this condition, whilst he was in their assembly, as we shall say elsewhere.  
The Lords the Estates were conducted, in departing from the audience, by the same Lords that received them; and being returned in the same order, to their ordinary Hall, they separated themselves.  
The two other Sovereign colleges, composed of Deputies of all the Provinces, to wit, the Council of Estate, and the Reckoning-chamber, 
The Counsel of Estate and the Reckoning chamber have audience.  were at the audience after the Estates General. Prince William Frederick of Nassau, made the compliment for the Council of Estate, as Precedent; and Mr. de Cauwer ven-Reigersberg, Deputy to the Reckoning-chamber of the United Provinces, from the Province of Zealand, (those who are here from Holland being excused) spoke for the Chamber; the one, and tother, with so much applause of those who were present there, and with as much satisfaction of the King's side, being returned to the assembly, they were thanked for it by their Colleagues.  
Some doubted if the Ambassadors, and Ministers of the 
Difficulties upon the audience of the Ambassadors.  Kings, Princes, and strange Estates, which were at the Hague, should be received to make their compliments to the King without Letters of Credence; or if after it were acknowledged that their character legitimated them for that, they might be covered; since that having no character towards this Monarch, they could not be considered, but as particular persons to him. The difficulties which arose here, were taken away by the following considerations. They said, that Ambassadors having a general Commission, and not being, as they said, missi ad hoc, they might, and aught to do that which their Masters would do, if they were there present in person; and so being certain, that there is no Prince in Europe that would not do civility to the King of England, if he should meet him in his passage, their Ministers, who were in the place, could not fail therein also, without being wanting to civility, and to their duty. Notwithstanding, since his Majesty was not in his Kingdom, he might use them as he pleased; yet so, that although it was in his choice to admit the Ambassadors, or not, he could not dispense himself of treating them, according to the dignity of their character, and of making them to be covered, after having admitted them, since they might, and were obliged to make their character appear in all their public actions, in an Estate where every one acknowledgeth them for Ambassadors.  
And indeed, Mr. de Thou, Count of Meslay, Privy Counsellor 
Audience of the Ambassador of France.  to the most Christian King, and Precedent in his Parliament of Paris, ordinary Ambassador of France, having about three a clock, or a little after, obtained the first audience; as well for that having demanded it first, as for that there was no other Ambassador, at the Hage, that would come into competency with him, he was met in the Court by one of the chief Gentlemen of the Chamber; and on the top of the stairs, by the Captain of the Life-guards; which did, on this occasion, the functions of introductours. As soon as the Ambassador had made his reverences, and would begin to speak, the King covered himself forthwith, and showed thereby to the Ambassador what he had to do. His compliment was very well received, but his audience was short.  
M rs. Otte Krag, Lord of Welberg; Bayly of Nieburg, and Senator 
Audience of the Extraordinary▪ Ambassadors of Denmark.  of the Crown of Denmark, and Godsche of Bugwaldt, Lord of Gieresbeeck, Prevost of the Covent of Uttersen, and Counsellor of Estate to his Majesty, Extraordinary Ambassadors from the King of Denmark, had their audience after the French Ambassador, and after they were received and treated in the same manner as the other was, the first, who is of a most illustrious birth in the Kingdom, as his Colleague is also in the Country of Holstein, and a personage of a full experience, betook himself to speak in these terms: That since it had pleased the Almighty God to call again his Majesty into his Kingdoms, where his great merit should have established him long ago as well as the right of his birth, they would not fail to come to congratulate him, and to acquit themselves by this means of the duty which they have as well to the near affinity which is between his Majesty, and the King their Master, as because of the straight alliance, which is, and hath been always between the two Kingdoms of England and Denmark▪ That they had cause to rejoice for this happy change; not only because of the glory and felicity which redounded thence to his Majesty, but also because of the advantage which the King and Kingdom of Denmark, would draw from thence, which had not been afflicted and unjustly oppressed so long, if that of England had been in condition to hinder it. That the King their Master would not fail to witness himself, by a solemn Embassage, the joy which he received from so surprising and so extraordinary a revolution, as soon as he was advertised thereof, and that they hoped in this happy conjuncture, that his Majesty would continue to live with the King their Master in the amity, alliance, and firm confidence, in which their Majesties have always lived, and which for some years was not interrupted, but to their irreparable prejudice of both one and tother. And so that his Majesty would oppose himself generously to the violence which is done to their King, and succour him against the unjust invasion wherewith his Kingdom was afflicted. Besides that they thanked his Majesty for the honour he had done them to admit them into his Royal presence, and for the particular grace which they received from thence in their persons.  
The King thanked the Ambassadors for the affection they had expressed to him, and said, that he knew very well, that not only from long antiquity, there was a most straight tie between the Kingdoms of England and Denmark; but also that the deceased King his Father, had such great obligations to the deceased King of Denmark, father of him that reigns now, his good Cousin, and to the present King himself, that one of the chief cares, whereunto he would apply himself, in entering into his Kingdom, should be to renew the ancient amity with him; to make known that the interests of the King of Denmark were as dear unto him as those of his own Estates: Of which he prayed the Lords Ambassadors to assure the King their Master; and that though he should not naturally have horror for oppression and injustice, he could not but be touched with those which were done him, and could not deny them the proofs of affection which they demanded.  
Don Estevan de Gamarra, Counsellor to the Catholic King in his Council of Estate, and War, General Field Martial of his Armies in the Low-countries, and his ordinary Ambassador with the Lords the Estates General of the United Provinces, saw also the King the same day, but it was without demanding audience, and without ceremonies; his Majesty having given him to understand, that the affection which he had had for his interests, when he was at Brussels, permitted him to see him every day, and at all hours. So covered he not himself, because the open war which for some years was, and is between Spain and England, hindered him to make his character appear there; whereas the particular devotion, which this Lord hath always had for the service of his Majesty, obliged him to be continually at the Court, and by his person.  
As on the contrary, Don Enriques de Souza de Tavares, 
The Ambassador of Portu gall cannot have audience.  Count of Miranda, Governor of the arms, of the Senate, of the town and castle of Porto, and extraordinary Ambassador from the King of Portugal to this Republic, could not obtain audience, what instance soever he made for it. But withal, to the end not to reject him altogether, the King, who is without doubt the best, and civilest Prince of the world, sent unto him the next day Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of Estate, and of his commands, to tell him, that if the Lord Ambassador of Portugal had Letters of Credence for his Majesty, he would make no difficulty to give him audience; but being not in his Kingdom, nor in a place where he might treat of affairs of Estate, he prayed his Excellence to consider, how unhandsome it would look, if in going out of the country under the obedience of the King of Spain, where he had received all kinds of civilities, he should give, without any necessity, audience to his declared Enemy. But that he might assure himself, that when he should be returned into his Kingdom, he should always be ready to give audience to the Ministers of Portugal, which should be addressed to him with Letters of Credence.  
After the public audiences, the King received the compliments of many persons of quality, and at evening went to make a visit to the Queen of Bohemia, his Aunt, and next to the Princess Royal, his sister.  
The Lords the Estates of Holland had a purpose to depute some of their body to accompany his Majesty at supper, but for as much as it was made known unto them, that the King would be very glad to sup in private, and to retire himself in good time, after the toil of the two former days; and particularly after the visits, and compliments, which he had been obliged to receive, and wherewith he had been almost oppressed that day, they would not hinder him to take his repose; but resolved to reserve to themselves, that honour, for another time, when they might receive it without incommodating his Majesty,  
We said before that the King had advertisement the precedent day, that Admiral Montagu was arrived, with a part of the Fleet in sight of Scheveling, which is but a village inhabited by a hundred or six score families of fishermen, a good mile from the Hague, which was found true. For as soon as they understood in the Fleet then at anchor in the Downs, which is a road at the entrance of the channel that separates England from the main Land, what passed in Parliament, in behalf of the King; and the public Declaration, which almost through the whole Kingdom was made, it also declared for its lawful Prince, and set sail upon the first orders of the Parliament, with so favourable a wind, that it appeared on the coasts of Holland on Monday morning the 24 of May; and it had the same Admiral that dispatched an express to the King, to let him know that he was come there with a part of the Fleet to receive his Majesty's commands, and to pass him into England. It was composed at first but of eighteen or nineteen vessels; but those that carried the Commissioners of the two Houses of Parliament, and of the City of London, having not yet joined with it, there arrived others every day and hour, so that before the King was in condition to embark, there were reckoned eight and thirty great ships, the most part of them bearing fifty, sixty, and seventy pieces of brass Cannon. That of the Admiral, called yet the Naseby, carried fourscore, where of the fir strank was of eight and forty pound bore; the second, of two and thirty, and of four and twenty, and the third of twelve pount bullet, all of brass.  
The Commissioners of the two Houses of Parliament, and of the City of London arrived the same day; but for as much as they were not of the King's train, and had no Letters of Credence for the Estate, it was resolved that they should not be treated, nor lodged by Harbingers. Notwithstanding, the consideration which was had for the quality of the Commissioners of the House of Lords, which were all followed with a great number of Gentlemen, and store of servants, clad in very fair and rich Liveries, as also for some of the Lower House, because of their birth, or merit, it was found good to lodge them by billets. They went not a shore till the next day, and the Estate was careful to cause coaches to be sent for them, by particulars, which brought them at the Hage in the evening; but they did not reverence to the King till Wednesday the 26. as we will say hereafter.  
We have said also, that the Estates of Holland would not take their audience the day that the King arrived; to the end not to oppress him with compliments, when he had need of rest; but they ordained Mr. Beaumond, their Secretary, to address himself to one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, and to pray him to know of his Majesty the hour of their audience, the next day; officiating, in the mean time, under hand by Mr. Beverweert, that it would please his Majesty to do them the favour to hear them in private, and to make all to depart the Chamber, when they entered there; except the Lords, that were necessary for the service of his person. Not that they had to entertain him with secret affairs in a public audience, where they were but to felicitate his Majesty upon the present estate of his Kingdom; but because that being assembled in a very great number, and having to make their compliment in a body, all the Deputies could not enter into the Hall, nor approach the King, if entrance should be allowed to all the world indifferently. The reason which obliged them to give order to the Captain of the Regiment of the Guards, to forbid, that morning, entrance into the House of Nassau, to all the inhabitants of the country, of what condition or quality soever they were. They caused a Guard also to be made, for them, of some Companies, from the door of their apartment, in the Palace, even to that of the Prince his house, and prevented by this means the confusion, which they would hardly have avoided without it. After than they had given these orders, and understood that the King expected them, at nine a clock, they came about that time to the place of their ordinary assembly, and went forth thence in the following order. Mr Starenberg, Colonel of the Regiment of their Guards marched first, and alone, bareheaded: After him came the Estates of Holland in body, two and two, the Deputies of the Nobility, which are Mrs. of Wassenaer, of Beverweert, of Schagen, of Wimmenum, of Nortwijck, of Somelsdijck, of Duyvenvoorde, vander Mylen: to wit, Scagen, Wimmenum and Merode, are politic; and as we say, of the robe, and the others have military charges according to the order of their reception, and the other Deputies according to the rank which their towns hold in the assembly: with this difference, notwithstanding, that the Pensionary Counsellor, who, although in the assembly he hath his place at the table of the Nobility, cannot, as Minister of the Estates, pretend rank but after all the other Deputies, when the Estates are together in a body; and yet takes place immediately after the Nobles; because that being to make the speech, he could not without disorder, make through the press, to approach the person of the King. Being thus arrived, a foot, at the gate of the King's lodging, they were received there in the same manner as the Estates General had been the day before.  
The Pensionary Counsellor made a very acquaint discourse, which would give, without doubt, much ornament to our relation, if that Minister would have communicated it; but it could not be obtained from his modesty, which is so much the more incommodious on this occasion; as it is well known that all the productions of that accomplished wit have their perfection, and that this little treatise cannot have it without that. We must believe, notwithstanding, that he would not have rendered himself so difficult, if he would have considered, that it is not in his power to take away the knowledge thereof from posterity, who will find, one day, his Speech in the Registers, where the Estates would it should be inserted, in the same manner as he pronounced it. The subject was common to him with all those, that had spoken to the King 15 days before. Therefore the answer of his Majesty, must also relate to that which he made to the other compliments. But that which was particular in this audience, was this, that his Majesty having given occasion to the Estates to enter into other matters, and the Pensionary Counsellor, making use thereof, to speak of the Estate of the affairs of the North, the King declared himself so openly, and so favourably for the interests of the King of Denmark; that though the Lords the Estates should draw no other advantage from the generosity and vigour with which they carried their arms unto those quarters, than the sole approbation of this great Monarch, the glory which returns unto them from thence, would pay, in a manner, the great expense they were at there. It is not fit to speak here of the particularities of that discourse, no more then of those of the secret audiences, which the same Pensionary Counsellor had after this general and public one; but it shall suffice us to say, that the Estates of Holland remained very well satisfied with the civilities they had received in this, and with the declaration which his Majesty had made there. 
The King giveth audience to the Deputies of the town of Amsterdam.   
The Estates of Holland being retired, the Deputies of the town of Amsterdam, which made a part of them, gave order to Mr. de Groot, their Pensionary Counsellor, to demand a particular audience for them, and to address himself for this purpose to Mr. Oneal, one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber, to know the hour, that it would please his Majesty to appoint them for that. Mr. Oneal, who is of most illustrious birth in Ireland, and by the King's favour to be made a Count, after he had spoken to the King thereof, his Majesty said to him that he desired himself to speak with Mr. de Groot, who presently was brought into the chamber, where he found the King near the chimney, a little distant from some English Lords, who were in affairs, with his Majesty. Mr. de Groot, being come to the King, said that the Burgemasters, and Magistrate of the town of Amsterdam, having understood, that this Majesty was come to this Province of Holland, had ordained their Deputies to go presently to the Hage, most humbly to beseech his Majesty to honour their town with his Royal presence, for so little time as the estate of his affairs should permit him to stay in the country; and that the Deputies had ordained him to know of his Majesty, when they might, without incommodating him, have the honour to do him reverence in private, and to make him the same request in person. The King answered, that he had a very strong affection for the town of Amsterdam, and that he was obliged thereunto by particular considerations; so that he would be very glad to see once again that fair and great town, and to thank the Magistrate before his departure, for the proofs of tenderness, which he had received thence; but that he believed he should not be able to obtain it from the impressement with which the Commissioners of Parliament, and City of London, spoke of the necessity of his speedy return into England. Notwithstanding, that he would see the Commissioners after dinner, since they were already disimbarked, and if they gave him never so little time, he would employ it in making a voyage to Amsterdam, and that in the interim he would attend the Deputies, as soon as he had dined.  
The Pensioner replied, that since his Majesty expressed an inclination to make a journey to Amsterdam, he besought him most humbly to defer the audience of the Deputies, until that after the hearing of the Commissioners of Parliament, he could resolve himself upon the most humble supplication which the Deputies made him. Adding thereunto, that his Majesty might be fully persuaded, that there was no town, even in his own Kingdom, where he could meet with more tenderness and respect for his person, and more zeal for his interests, then in that of Amsterdam; and that the Burgmasters and Magistrate had no stronger ambition, then to be able to give him effectual and indubitable proofs thereof. That they had understood that his Majesty had some design to cause a Yacht to be made in Holland, on the model of that which had passed him from Breda into Holland; and likewise that he had the goodness not to despise wholly the offer which Mr. Vlooswijck, one of their Burgemasters, had made him of one, which is newly built at Amsterdam, and which upon the advertisement given them thereof, they had caused to be bought of the College of the Admiralty, to which it belonged; but they judged it not a present worthy of his Majesty, and that they should not without some confusion make him a present of this nature. Notwithstanding if his Majesty would be pleased to accept it, it would be necessary that he should send some one, at the place, to order the contrivances, and accommodations; as for their part they would endeavour to give it all the embellishmen which might render it pleasing to his Majesty. The King answered, that it was true; that the commodity which he had found in that kind of building, on divers occasions; and especially in his last voyage, coming from Breda, had given him some thought to make one to serve his use on the Thames; but that his intention was not to oblige the Lords of Amsterdam to present him that which they had, though he would not refuse to receive again this mark of their affection, and to charge himself with a new obligation towards that fair and great town. That to this effect, he would send there the Captain of Mr. Beverweerts Yacht, with order to cause that to be finished, which he received from their hands, in the best and most commodious manner that he should judge fit for his service. Moreover that he would give notice to the Deputies, of the hour he could appoint for their audience, after he had heard the Commissioners of Parliament.  
The Estates of Holland had understood, that the Courts 
The Estates of Holland forbid the Courts of justice and the other Bodies to compliment the King.  of Justice, which they call the great Council, and the Court of Holland, (where of the last is composed but of subaltern Judges for the Province, and for that of Zealand, and the first serves for Parliament to the same Provinces, for the appeals which are brought there, from all the others Courts of Justice) had a purpose to demand audience of the King, and that after their example, divers other Colleges might demand it, as some of those, which make no body, took a privilege to do it; before the King was arrived at the Hage, resolved that notice should be given to the two Courts of Justice, to the Reckoning Chamber of the Province, to the Consistory of the place, to the University of Leiden, whose Rector was come to the Hage for that purpose, and to all the other bodies and Colleges, that the Estate in making its compliment, did it for all its subjects, and that it would not that the King should be troubled with other visits, after that which the Estates of Holland had made him in a body.  

* The Estates General cause the Queen of Bohemia, their Royal Highnesses and the Prince of Orange to be complemented.  The Estates General named this day Mrs. de Gent, Deputy of Gelderland, Guldewagen of Holland, and Lampsins of Zealand to go to felicitate the Queen in her Palace, and the Dukes of York and Gloucester, who were lodged at the House of the extraordinary Ambassadors, on the re-establishment of the King, and on the revolution of the affairs of England: and Mrs. of Renswoude of Utrecht, Ripperda of Hengelo of Overysel, and Isbrants of Groaning were deputed to do the same office with the Princess Dowager, and with the Prince of Orange.  
The same day, Mr. Ripperda, of Buirse, having made report, in the same assembly, of what passed in the voyage he made, with some other Deputies, to the King at Breda, in order to their resolution of the 14. of this month, the Deputies were thanked for it.  
And for as much as the Estates General, (as it was agreed 
The Estates General make a foundation of three hundred thousand gilders for the King's expense.  upon with the Estates of Holland) should be at all the expense that should be made for the King, during the residence which his Majesty should make in the Country, except that of his voyage, and that from the day that he arrived at the Hage, they laid down this day a foundation of three hundred thousand Gilders; and they required the Lord Ripperda of Buirse, Guldewagen, Swanenburg, Stavenisse, Renswoude, Velsen, Ripperda and Schulenbourg, to attend his Majesty at dinner.  
The Table was doubly furnished, at the head of which, and in the midst sat the King, having on his left hand the Princess Royal, and on his right, the Queen of Bohemia, when she dined there. At the end of the Table, on the same side, were the Dukes of York and Gloucester; and at the other end by the Princess Royal, was the Prince of Orange her Son. And this order was observed in all the repasts, only in the absence of the Prince of Orange, the two Princes, his Majesty's brothers, separated and placed themselves at the two ends of the Table. By this means one could well serve all those that were there, because they were all at a certain distance, which permitted the Officers to do their functions: as also the Deputies of the Estates, left space enough between the King's Table and theirs, for the convenience of those which served the meat before the Royal persons, putting themselves at the two ends of the skirt, before the King, who would not that the Deputies Table should be separated from his. Most commonly there was a Set of Violins; which divertised pleasantly the King, during the repast; and in the healths that were drunk, as the King never failed almost to drink the prosperity of this Estate, and very often of each Province in particular, the Cannon of the Viverberg thundered from every Battery.  
As soon as they arose from dinner, the Commissioners of 
Audience of the Commissioners of the Parliament.  the Parliament, and City of London, came to do reverence to his Majesty. The Higher House had nominated six, viz. The Lord Aubery Veer, Earl of Oxford; the Lord Leonel Cranfield, Earl of Middelsex, Foulk, Grevil, Lord Brook; the Lord Charles Rich, Earl of Warwick, the Lord Leicester Devereux, Viscount of Herford, and the Lord John Barcley; but the Earl of Warwick, being sick of the gout, when the others embarked, was constrained to stay at London. The Lower House deputed the Lord Eairfax, sometime General of the Parliaments Army, who on that consideration drew upon him the curiosity and eyes of every one, and who would see the King privately, to ask him pardon for the passed offence with extraordinary submissions; The Lord Bruce, the Lord Falkland; the Lord Castleton; the Lord Herbert; the Lord Mandevil, Sir Horatio Townsend, Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, Sir George Booth, he that levied an Army a year since for the calling of a Free-Parliament, in behalf of the King, Denzil Hollis, Esquire, Sir John Holland, and Sir Henry Cholmly. The Deputation of the City of London was much more numerous, as being composed of twenty persons, taken partly out of the Magistracy, and partly from amongst the principal inhabitants, and from the Militia of the City. The chief assembled in the House of the extraordinary Ambassadors; and the others, in the house where the Citizens exercise to shoot at the mark, and learn to exercise arms. Both one and tother went forth a foot, walking two and two, and having before them a very great number of young Gentlemen, that marched in the same order. Being brought into the King's chamber, they made a very low, and most submiss reverence. The Earl of Oxford spoke for the Higher House: but those that were there at that action, agreed in opinion, that never person spoke with more affection, nor expressed himself in better terms, than Mr. Denzil Hollis, who was the Orator for the Deputies of the Lower House, to whom those of London were joined. He insisted chiefly upon the miseries under which that Kingdom had groaned for so many years, and upon the government of Cromwell, who tyrannised the English in their lives, in their goods, and in their consciences; whereas on the contrary, they could hope from the goodness of his Majesty, but repose, but sweetness, and a lawful liberty; beseeching him to return forthwith into his Kingdom, and to take again the Sceptre of his Ancestors, without any condition: which redoubled the joy of this Court, though it were already assured thereof, by the mouth of Sir John Greenvil. The King received them with much goodness, as well as the protestations of obedience and fidelity, which they made him in the name of the Lords and Commons of England, and of the City of London in particular; and after the speech, they did all reverence to the King, in putting one knee to the ground, and in kissing his hand. After they came forth of the King's apartment, they went to the Dukes, to whom they also made compliments from the Parliament, and City; they went there also a foot, and from thence, in the same order, to the Queen of Bohemia, and to the Princess Royal, where they acquitted themselves also of the duty which they had order, from the Parliament and City, to render unto them.  
After the audiences of the Deputies, the King received many persons of quality, who in the impatience to see his Majesty had passed the sea voluntarily, without any particular commission, they all did him reverence, in the same manner the Commissioners had done.  
Monsieur Friquet, Counsellor of Estate to the Emperor, and extraordinary Envoy from his Imperial Majesty to the Estates General, had also audience of the King; and made him his compliment in the name of the Emperor, his Master, whose Predecessor had expressed a most particular affection for the King, even in the height of his persecutions.  
In the number of those that came to render their duties to the King that day, was the Captain, or Master of the Ship, which received the King aboard on the coast of England, and passed him into France, when that Illustrious Maid, Mistress Lane, saved the fortune of the Kingdom, after the unfortunate battle of Worcester; at least if one may give that Epithet to an accident, which God hath so favourably blessed, and who hath so favourably disposed the affairs in the glorious return of the King, without any effusion of the blood of his subjects.  
It is not our design to make here an unnecessary digression, in 
Particulars of the King's escape after the battle of Worcester.  making a perfect narrative of all that passed in the miraculous escape of the King after the loss of the battle, nor in what manner the King, being separated from the Officers that were by his person after the defeat, was brought to the house of a countryman, who changed clothes with him, and showed him a tree, where he passed the night. How afterward being come to the house of Mistress Lanes father, her brother received him, as servant, to wait on him in his chamber, and how in this quality he rid a journey before that Gentlewoman. How he had a care of the horses in the journey, and what encounters he met there, because all these things are not of the subject of our relation, and deserve well a particular one. But we think it not amiss to say; that the Lord Wilmot deceased Earl of Rochester, who had been extraordinary Ambassador at the Diet of Ratisbon in the year 1653. and who was he, that gave orders for the King's passage, being come at the place where his Majesty was to embark, and seeing the Master of the ship to enter into the chamber, where they supped, to tell them that the tide would be good about midnight, and that they should do well to embark before night, prayed him to sit at table, and to sup with them. But the Master had no sooner taken his place, and observed the features of the King's face, but he whispered Mr. Wilmot in the ear, saying, that he knew that illustrious person, and that it was indubitably the King; the other denied it, and would have him to relinquish that thought; but the Master, though he made semblance to acquiess therein, during supper; said notwithstanding, in rising from the table, that whatsoever they would make him to believe, he knew the King so well, that he could not be deceived; because that having been brought before him a few years since, when his Majesty, being with a Fleet in the Downs, where he caused some fishermen to be stopped, to whom he gave liberty, presently after he had caused them to be brought to his presence, and he with the rest, he had so well considered him, that since that time, he could not lose the Idea of him. But that they needed to fear nothing, that the person of the King should be always sacred to him, and in safety in his hands. Wilmot persisted in his negative, caused the King to embark, and said no more to the Captain, until that his Majesty being landed, on the coast of Normandy, he feared not to tell him, that it was indeed the King that he assisted to save, and that his Majesty would remember his fidelity and affection, when there should be an occasion to acknowledge one another. And indeed, after the King had perfectly well received him at his closet door, the Lord Craft, who had presented him to his Majesty, assured him that he might hope for any favours from him.  
The English Officers that are in the service of the Lords the 
Major Cromwell doth reverence to the King.  States, and were come to this town, did him reverence also, and among the rest Mr. Cromwell, Maior of a Regiment of foot of the same nation. He is Cousin German, but issued from an elder brother of him, who is known to have sacrificed the King his Sovereign to his irregular ambition, and detested that brutal and horrible action; but seeing some apparent establishment in the fortune of the Protector, he passed into England, where he rendered considerable services to those of the good party, and even gave himself the liberty, to remonstrate sometimes to his Cousin, what belonged to his duty: so that instead of making his fortune there, he could draw from the Protector for himself, and for his brother, who commands a Regiment of foot in the service of the Lords the Estates, but a gratification of two thousand pounds sterling, whereof they have received but the half; though the Major made an expense at London where with he shall be long time incommodated. The King, who know the intentions of this honest man, and permitted his brother to take the surname of Williams, instead of that which shall be eternally in execration to all Englishmen, and who had many good proofs of them, received him perfectly well.  
This day came also to salute the King Sir William Davison a 
As also Sir William Davisson.  Scott by birth, but since some years established at Amsterdam. His Majesty had considered him, as a person most affectionate to his service, and was not deceived therein, because that those who know how he behaved himself, cannot doubt that he was most useful, and that he acted if not directly for the re-establishment of the affairs of England; at least it cannot be denied, that he hath not been unprofitable therein. It was not long before, that the King had given him some proofs of his acknowledgement, in making him Knight Baronet; but this day he confirmed that quality to him, by letters patents, in adding thereunto a pension without comparison more considerable than that title. The King gives it with very little ceremony; in making the Novice kneel before him; he lays his sword on his shoulder, and saith unto him, Rise Knight Baronet. Those that are invested with this quality, follow the Barons, and precede the ordinary Knights.  
After this, the King went to visit the Queen of Bohemia, his Aunt, but it was without ceremony, as he used to do the whole time of his residence at the Hague, during which there passed not a day almost, that he saw her not. From thence he went to the House of the Princess Dowager of Orange, who received him on the stone stairs that go up into the Court. The King presented her presently his hand, and led her through that fair hall, and through the Guard Chamber, to that which they call the Chamber of presence, where the King treated her with much civility, refusing to sit, till the Princess took her place at the same time. After a conversation of half an hour, the King took leave, and retired himself, but perciving in the fore-chamber that the Princess followed him, he turned about, and would hinder her to go further; until that seeing, after a contestation very agreeable, and very obliging, that he could not overcome her, he took her again by the hand, and led her to the foot of the stairs, where he made her again some civility; but seeing her obstinate to render him her devoirs even in the Court, he yielded at last, went up into his coach, and betook him to the Princess Royal, his Sister, where he met the Ambassador of France, who had the honour to discourse there with his Majesty a good while.  
The King having spoken, in the evening, at supper, to the advantage of the Regiment of the Guards, which he had seen at his coming, and of which he had always a Company in arms in the Court of his lodging, the Deputies of the Estates General, who were by his person at the hours of his repast, offered to show it him the next day in battle, to the end his Majesty might judge as favourably of their skill, as he had judged of their show: The King promised to be present, if his affairs permitted him to give himself that divertisement; but the two Princes expressed, that they should see that exercise with much satisfaction. And, indeed, the next day being the 27 th'. the Regiment of the Guards, 
The Regiment of the Guards exercise.  having been in the field, from the beginning of the morning, stood in battalia half the way to Scheveling, by the house, where Mr. Catz, sometime Pensionary Counsellor, and Keeper of the great Seal of Holland, made his retirement, after he had passed through the fairest employments, wherewith his country could have acknowledged his merit, in a very pleasant and fair plain; where the two Princes, the Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburg, the Prince of Orange, Prince William of Nassau, Governor of Freesland, the Rhine-Grave, and all persons of quality that were at the Hage, repaired about ten a clock in the morning; and after they had seen all that which skill could make a body perfectly exercised and disciplined to do, both in marching and fight, under good Officers, they made a course even upon the banks of the sea, from whence they considered the Fleet, and went from thence to dinner, the Dukes of York and of Gloucester, with some English Lords, to the Duke of Lunenburgs; and the rest to the Court. The Estates General deputed there to accompany the King, that day Mrs. de Gent of Gelder's, of Merode, and Navander of Holland, Lampsins of Zealand, Renswoud of Utrecht, Velsen of Freesland, Ripperda of Hengelo of Overysel, and Isbrants of Groaning.  
The King was from the morning shut up with Mr. Hide, his Chancellor, who for being chief of his Counsels, and his most confident Minister, was lodged in the same house; because that being incommodated with the gout, his Majesty would that he should be lodged in a place, where he might make use of his counsels at all hours of the day. He was with him more than an hour and a half, sitting on his bedside, and sometimes leaning upon the bed itself in a very secret conference.  
After the King was gone out of the Chancellour's chamber, the extraordinary Ambassadors of Denmark caused his Excellence to be prayed, to appoint them an hour, for a particular audience, which they obtained for the afternoon. They received, in this audience, new assurances of the good intentions of his Majesty, to the advantage of the King their Master, who would have profited notably thereby, if the treaty of peace with Swethen, had not been too much advanced, as, indeed, it was concluded a few days after.  
We said, that the precedent day, the King had promised the Pensioner of Amsterdam, that he would certify the Duputies of the same town, when he could give them audience, to the subject of the request which they had to make unto him, touching the journey, wherein they endeavoured to engage him. And 
Audiencé of the Deputies of Amsterdam.  indeed, the same evening, he sent them the Lord Wotton, second son to the Lady Stanhop, since Countess of Chesterfield, who was to advertise them, that they might see his Majesty, the next day, at nine a clock in the morning. This Deputation was composed of Mr. Cornelius of Vlooswick, Lord of Vlooswick, Diemerbrouck, and John de Huydecooper, Lord of Marseveen, Bourgemasters in charge, Conrade Burg, sometime extraordinary Ambassador in Moscovia, Conrade of Beuningen, heretofore extraordinary Ambassador in Denmark, and in Swethen, and now named for the extraordinary Ambassador into France, Senators, and Peter de Groot, Pensionary of the same town. The last, after he had made a low reverence to his Majesty, spoke in these terms.  
SIR, The Burgemasters and Magistrate of the town of Amsterdam, 
Speech of Mr. de Groot.  who yield not in devotion and zeal for the glory and interests of your Majesty, to any person of the world, thinking that they have not satisfied, neither their duty, nor their affection, by the general testimony which they have rendered thereof, by the mouth of the Lords the Estates General, and likewise by that of the Estates of this Province, have commanded us to beseech your Majesty, to grant them a particular audience, where they may give stronger proofs both of one and tother. Your Majesty shall see them in the extreme joy, which they have, for the glorious re-establishment of your Majesty upon the throne of your Ancestors, the circumstances whereof are so much the more considerable, as this miraculous revolution is made without effusion of blood, and as your Majesty is obliged for it, but to the powerful hand of God only, who hath wrought therein by means altogether extraordinary. But you shall find the proofs thereof particularly, in the most humble prayer which we have order to make you, to honour their town with your Royal presence, for the few days the time will allow you to remain in this Province; to the end, that so many strangers, wherewith their town is inhabited, may be witnesses of the public and real demonstrations which they intent to make, of the veneration which they have for the person of your Majesty, and of the passion which they have for your service.  
Nothing can be added to the obliging words with which the King answered the compliment of the Deputies of Amsterdam, in thanking them with much affection, for that of theirs, whereof he said he had received most illustrious proofs, witnessing to be very sorry that he could not satisfy their request, seeing that he had no less inclination for that journey, than the Lords of Amsterdam could have passion to see him in their town; and assuring them that he would eternally remember the amity they had for him. The Deputies replied in the most submiss terms that respect could put into their mouths, and after they had prayed for the prosperity of his Majesty, and for the perpetual felicity of his reign, they retired.  
Mr. Coyet Knight, Extraordinary Envoy of the King of 
Audience of the Extraordinary Envoy of Swethen.  Swethen, to the Estates General of the United Provinces, had demanded audience the day before; but those, which his Majesty found himself obliged to give to the Estates of Holland, and next to the Commissioners of the Parliament and of the City of London, made him to refer it to this Thursday at eleven a clock in the morning. Mr. Coyet being come into the fore- chamber, at the hour appointed, the King sent immediately unto him Mr. Wentworth, one of the four Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, to entertain him, till affairs permitted his Majesty to come to speak with him, as he did presently after in the Presence-chamber. The Envoy made known to his Majesty, that he would speak Latin to him, and as he was very well versed in that language, he had prepared a very elegant discourse for him: but for as much as his Majesty signified to him, that that tongue was not familiar enough to him to serve his turn to answer readily, he made him his compliment in French, as the Ministers of all the other strange Princes did, extending himself on the present revolution of the affairs of England, on the excellent and great qualities of his Majesty, and of the amity which the Kings, and Crown of Swethen had from all time received from the Kings of Great Britain.  
The King answered him, that the testimonies of affection which he rendered him, on this occasion, from the King of Swethen, were very acceptable to him, and that he should find him always disposed, not only to execute with sincerity the ancient treaties, which common interest hath caused to be made between England and Swethen, but also to confirm them by new, and straighter alliances. After this, his Majesty informed himself of the age of the King of Swethen, that reigns now, of the place where the Queen lives, and causeth the King her son to be brought up at present, and of many other things, which denoted the great goodness, with which his Majesty would receive the Ministers of Princes, with whom his Predecessors had always lived in good correspondence. After this familiar discourse, wherewith the Ambassador came of very well, he went to the Dukes of York, and of Gloucester, and afterward saw also the Chancellor of England, to whom he spoke of the present estate of the affairs of the North; and gave him to understand, that they were in terms of accommodation, between the two Crowns of Denmark and of Swethen.  
After this audience the King gave the rest of the day to the affairs of his Kingdom, being in continual conferences with the Commissioners of the Parliament, and of the City of London.  
It shall not be from our purpose, to say here a word of the manner wherewith the King was served, at his ordinary repasts, 
How the King was served.  and of the Estate of the expense which was made every day for his Majesty. We have spoken of his Table, and how the Royal persons that did eat there, were seated. They served up great Dishes in Oval form, at five courses, each containing five dishes and twelve trenchers, because they changed the dishes twice at every service, and every dish was so massive, that one shall not be troubled much to represent the expense thereof, when he shall know that there was two dozen of Pheasants in one dish, and that all the other dishes were furnished accordingly. They served, besides that, five tables for the Lords, and one for the Ladies, as for the Marquis of Worcester, etc. all at four courses, and almost as full, and furnished with the same meats, as those of the King's table, except one course, which was between the pottages and the roast. All the sweet meats, as well at the King's table, as at the Lords and Ladies, were pillaged at every meal, and exposed to the discretion of the people, who were ordinarily there at those hours by the King in crowds. And not only they served all sorts of delicious wines at the tables, but the sources steamed therewith continually day and night, and were never dry, as well for the English of what condition soever they were, as for all those of the town that came to demand it. Every Table was of twelve cover, and had its Steward, it's four Butlers, as many assistants in the buttery, and twelve men that served up the meat and drink. But for the King's mouth, it was particular; there was a Clerk of the Kitchen for the pottages, another for the courses, another for the pastry, one more for the roast, and one for the meats between the courses, every Clerk having four Cooks under him, for each service.  
There happened this day a thing, which for having made a 
False advertisement of a design upon the King's person.  great noise in the beginning, deserves well to be spoken of here, with circumstances which might make one believe the truth of what was spoken of then.  
A man of a most mean condition, French by birth, being about 9 a clock in the evening, in a remote place towards the Rampart, presented himself at the door of a Miller's house wholly affrighted, and almost senseless, (as he appeared) out of breath, and said unto him, that having been enforced to draw off for some necessity of nature, he stooped down towards that little rising, which serves for entrenchment to the Hage, and which we called Rampart; where being almost hidden, as well because that the place, where he put himself, was low, as because it was near night, he presently saw three men to come, whereof two were clothed in grey, and the third in black, who said one to another with displeasure, as he could judge thereof, in bad French, as he reported, that they failed twice, because of the great number of people that were about him, and served him for guards; but they would so well take their advantage from the two sides of the Coach, that he should not escape them. That rising upon this, the others, wholly surprised to see a man in a place where they were come, because they thought to find no body there, said that they were discovered, and must dispatch him that might reveal them. That thereupon one of the three shot of a Pistol, whose bullet pierced his hat, which he showed, wherewith he staggered; but that the other thinking the stroke was not mortal, shot a second so near, that he burned his hair: This had so astonished him, the he fell to the ground, where having lain a while, until the three men were retired, he arose, and went straight to the house of that Miller. And indeed, he gave such an alarm, there, that the Miller went presently forth with him, and taking two of his neighbours with him, that armed themselves with stones, like him; they pursued those three men, but to no purpose, because they met them not; therefore they went to the place, where he said he saw them at first; and where they found, indeed, the cloak which he said fear had made him to quit. The affair was judged of such importance, that the Court of Justice was ordered, the next day, to make a most strict and most exact inquiry thereof. The Informer being questioned herein, by Commissioners, persisted in his first depositions, which were believed at first to be so much the more true; as the accuser, though incommodated enough in his domestic affairs, witnessed to be much uninterested, and demanded no recompense. Those, notwithstanding, that stayed not much at fair apparences, and would that they should proceed to a more exact examination of an affair of this nature, spoke of it, as of a deceit, which the laws should either justify, or punish with the severest punishment. Howsoever it was, it produced this effect, that the Estates judging that they could not bring too much care to the conservation of the precious pledge which they had with them, caused some troops of horse to advance with all speed, which were already commanded, and which, being arrived, kept guard with the standard on the avenues of the Palace, where the King was lodged, and of which there was always a brigade, which followed the Coach wheresoever his Majesty went.  
And for as much as it was known, that there was found in the Fleet a man bold enough to have resolved to put fire to the powder, when the King should go to see the Vessel, where he served in quality of Mariner, which obliged Admiral Montague to seize himself on the key of the powder Magazine, and to ordain all the Captains of the other ships of the Fleet, to do the like aboard them, and to carry always the key with them; the King was advised to choose a guard of fourscore Gentlemen, under the charge of the Lord Gerard, Captain of his Life-guards, and one of the four Gentlemen of his Bedchamber, which served by Brigades; so that there was always twenty which marched on both sides the coach, having one hand on the supporting staff of the boot, and holding a sword, drawn out of the belt, but in the scabbard, in the other. But as this posture was some what irregular, and offensive, in a country, where the person of his Majesty was no less dear than in his Kingdom; the King considering, that to hinder approach to his person, was sufficient to secure it, would that they should wear their swords by their sides, and carry a cane in their hand, which assured their countenance, and made their quality and charge to be respected.  
The same day, the Estates of Holland gave Commission to Mrs. of Wimmenum, Deputy from the Nobility, to the Council of Estate of Holland, Halling of Dort, Marseveen of Amsterdam, and Hoogland of Alcmaer, to go to felicitate the Queen of Bohemia, the Dukes of York and Gloucester the Princess Royal, the Princess Dowager of Orange, and the Prince of Orange, upon the re-establishment of the King of Great Britain. They executed this commission immediately after dinner. Mr. of Wimmenum made the compliment every where; and which was most admirable, never using twice the same cogitation, nor the same words in all his speeches.  
The Estates of Holland gave charge also to Mr. of Wimmenum, to know of his Majesty, if it pleased him that they should make him a supper, where the Estates of Holland might have the honour to treat him in private; and if he desired that in this case the Estates should be there in a body, to render him the more honour, or if he would rather they should send there Deputies. Whereupon his Majesty, having expressed an acceptance of what they desired, and made known that by the deputation of a single person of each member, he should be as well satisfied as if the Estates were there in body, they fixed on Sunday following for the day, being the 30 of the same month. They prayed Mr. of Wimmenum to take upon him the whole ordering of the Feast, and to give necessary orders for it; and the Estates named Commissioners, which should be there from them, viz. Mr. of Wassenaer, Lieutenant Admiral of Holland, and Mr. of Wimmenum for the Nobility: De Wit of Dort, Fabricius of Haerlem, Graswinckel of Delf, Buytevest of Leiden, Marseveen of Amsterdam, Cant of Tergow, Ʋander Meyde of Rotterdam, Ʋander Colck of Gorcum, Ʋander Eyck of Schiedam, Ʋander Croest of Schoonhoven, Ʋander Berg of the Briel, Teylingen of Alckmaer, Jager of Horn, Romer Cant of Enchuysen, Houtuyn of Edam, Houting of Munickendam, Stellingwerf of Medenblick, and Roothooft of Purmerent, to whom were added Mr. de Wit, Pensionary Counsellor, and Mr. of Beaumond, Secretary to the Estates of the same Province.  
But to the end that nothing might be wanting to the testimonies 
The Estates of Holland send victuals, and provisions to the fleet.  of affection which the Estates would render to his Majesty, those of Holland ordained, the same day, that all kinds of refreshments should be sent to the Admiral's ship, to the Vice-admirals', and to the Rearadmirals', to be afterward distributed to the whole Fleet. They communicated hereupon with Mr. of Wassenaer, Lieutenant Admiral of Holland, and caused so much Wine, Victuals, Citrons, Oranges, and other provisions to be bought, that the Lord Montagu was constrained to confess, that he never saw so much. Notwithstanding, they sent them not aboard before the King had fixed on the day of his embarkment, and the Deputy Counsellors, who were to execute the orders of the Estates of Holland, gave the commission thereof to Mr. of Valquenbourg, of the Boss, Captain in the Regiment of the Guards, who caused the provisions to be carried aboard the Admiral, to whom it was judged fit they should leave the disposing, to cause them to be distributed to the other Ships according to his orders.  
The Estates General of their side, writ to the College of the 
The Estates General furnish  Admiralty of Rotterdam, that they should provide, and furnish such a number of Hoys, and other Vessels, as the Officers of 
Uessels to transport the King's stable.  the King's stable, of the Duke of York, and of Gloucester, should judge necessary for the transportation of the horses, and of a part of his Majesty's baggage, and of their Royal Highnesses; and order was given that they should be kept and stabled in the town of Rotterdam, till they could be embarked, and that the ships should be provided of hay, of oats, and of straw, for the time that probably they might be upon the sea.  
Friday the 28 of May, the Estates General, who knew they 
And cause the Commissioners of Parliament to be complemented.  should please the King, in doing civility to the Parliament, deputed the Lords Ripperda of Buirse, of the Province of Gelderland, and Schulenbourg of Groaning, to go with a compliment to the Commissioners of the two Houses of Parliament, and of the City of London, upon the present Estate of the affairs of England.  
The Lords Deputies of the Higher House, assembled in the 
The Estates of Holland give charges upon the King's recommendation.  House of the Earl of Oxford, who was lodged at Mr. Buisero's, Griffier or Secretary of the Council to the Prince of Orange; and the Commissioners of the Lower House, at the Lord Fairfax's, who was lodged in the House of the Baron of Asperen, Deputy from the Province of Holland, to the College of the Admiralty of Amsterdam, and received this civility with much satisfaction.  
The same day the Estates of Holland, having deliberated upon the recommendation which the King had made them, when they saluted his Majesty in a body, of some persons and English Officers, which are in the service of this Estate; whose affection, which they expressed to him in his affliction, as well for his interests, as for the person of the Princess Royal, his sister, ordained, that the three Regiments of Scots foot, which were reform, and reduced to two, in the year 1655, should be brought again to their first estate, in behalf of Lieutenant Colonel Henderson, and that the command of the third should be given unto him, with the quality of Colonel. I say the quality, because that some years since, and in consideration of the peace, where the Major Officers are without function, the Colonels have but the title only, with the pay of the Major Estate of Lieutenant Colonel. They gave, on this very consideration, a troop of Horse to Mr. Kerkhoven, son to the deceased Lord Heenuliet, in his life time, great Hunter, or as they say, Forester of Holland, under the deceased Prince of Orange, and Intendant of the Princess Royal her house, who would acknowledge the services of the Father, and the affection of the Lady Stanhop, his Widow, whom the King made Countess of Chesterfield, in procuring him that charge through the intermission of the King, after having given him the conduct which his Father had of her affairs. The Estates of Holland gave also a company of Walloon Foot, with the hope of a troop of horse, to Mr Languerack, a Gentleman of the Country, of the House of Boetselaer, who till then had found great obstacles to his advancement.  
They ordained also that Mrs. of Wimmenum, from the Nobility, Halling of the town of Dort, of Marseveen of Amsterdam, 
They send to compliment the Commissioners of Parliament.  and Hooglant of Alcmaer, should go to salute, from them, the Commissioners of the two Houses of Parliament, and the Deputies of the City of London, and to endear upon the affection with which they procured the King's return, and on the zeal wherewith they laboured to re-establish the affairs of the Kingdom, in the same estate they were under their last Monarches, being then in the most flourishing estate of the world. They found the Commissioners assembled in the same places where the Deputies of the Estates General had met them, viz. some at the Earl of Oxford's, and the others with the Lord Fairfax, and Mr. of Wimmenum said unto them: That the Lords the Estates of Holland, who had so much cause to rejoice for that great Catastrophe, which they saw in England, could not be silent in that wonderful conjuncture, and in that public, and universal joy; but found themselves obliged to express it, with them that contributed the most to it, and are the principal Authors thereof. That the Parliament of England had this advantage, to be as the foundation of the Estate, but that those which compose it now, had gained this glory to all posterity, that they had not only drawn the Kingdom from its greatest calamity, to carry it to the highest felicity; but also that they had been the first of the three Kingdoms to declare themselves for so glorious an enterprise. That the Lords the Estates, who in living with England, as they lived during the Anarchy, and disorder, had manifested how dear the amity of the English was to them, participated therein as they ought; assured the Lords Commissioners of the perseverance of their affection, and prayed God for the continuation of the prosperity of the affairs of the Kingdom, and of their persons in particular, with all the fervency that could be expected from an allied Estate, and from persons perfectly affectionated to their good, and interests. The Commissioners answered, by the mouth of the Lords whom we have named; and after they had thanked the Lords the Estates for the affection which they had for the King, and for the Kingdom, whereof they have every day such glittering proofs, they thanked the Deputies for the pains they would take in coming to give them the greatest assurances thereof in their particular, offering to acknowledge both one and tother, by their personal services, and by a perpetual and inviolable amity of their Estate with this Republic, and conducted the Deputies even to the coach.  
Saturday the 29 of May, the Deputy Counsellors, which make the Council of Estate of Holland, considering the expense 
Advise of the Councel of Estate of Holland for a foundation of six hundred thousand Gilders.  which the Province had made for the reception of the King, in his voyage from Breda, and that which they must make yet, as well for the Feast which they prepared against the next day, as for the presents which they purposed to offer to his Majesty, and to the Princes, his brothers; represented to the Estates of Holland, that it would be requisite to make forthwith a sum of six hundred thousand Gilders. The Estates consented thereunto immediately, and found it fit to furnish, for the King, the Bed, and the apprutenances, which the last deceased Prince of Orange, had caused to be made for the lying-in of the Princess Royal, and which she never used, because of the death of the Prince her husband, who deceased eight days before the birth of the Prince his son. This bed is, without doubt, the fairest and richest that ever was made at Paris; and besides the taster, the seats, the skreens, the hangings and the other pieces necessary to make a furniture complete, the Estates would add thereunto a most perfect fair hanging of the richest tapistery, embossed with gold and silver, (which they cause to be made of purpose) with a great number of excellent pictures, as well of Italy, as of the country's ancient, and modern, and whatsoever can compose a chamber, worthy to lodge so great a Monarch in his greatest magnificence.  
The same Council of Estate ordained also, that all the fisherbarks of the Villages of Scheveling, and of Heyde, should be 
The Council of Estate gives order for the imbarkment of the baggage.  stayed for the service of the Estate; to the end, to serve the imbarkment of the Court and King's baggage, and that for the same purpose the Village of Catwick on the sea, should send the next Monday to Scheveling ten, and those of Nortwijck, Santvoort, and Wijck upon the sea, each eight barks. They also gave order to Captain du Charoy to cause thirty open wagons to be in readiness, to bring a part of the baggage to Scheveling, Monday following; and a like number, with forty close wagons, to conduct the train Tuesday, which was the day that the King had nominated for his departure, though it was deferred since till Wednesday, the second of June, as we shall see hereafter.  
The same day the Duke of York, brother to the King, accompanied with the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg, and with a great number of English and Dutch Lords and Gentlemen, went to Scheveling, to take the Mariners oath of fidelity, in quality of Admiral of England; but the wind being contrary, and the sea so moved, that the Lord Montagu, Vice-Admiral, thought it not fit to send boats from aboard him, to fetch his Royal Highness; and the fishermen of the Village, refusing to put him aboard, he was enforced to return to the Hage to dinner.  
Monsieur Weiman, Counsellor in the Council of Estate 
Audience of the Ministers of Brandenbourg.  of the Elector of Brandenbourg, and his Chancellor in the Duchy of Cleveland, had the opportunity to do reverence to the King at Breda, where he went about the affairs of the wardship of the Prince of Orange, wherewith his Electoral Highness would charge himself in part. Therefore he would not press his audience, during the first days after his arrival, when his Majesty was burdened with compliments. But as soon as Prince Maurice of Nassau, who with the government of the town of Wesel, and charge of Lieutenant General of the Horse, in the service of the Estates General of the United Provinces, ceaseth not to be Governor of the Duchy of Cleveland, and of the Provinces annexed to it, in the name of the Elector of Brandenbourg, was arrived, they judged fit to make a solemn compliment to his Majesty, in the name of his Electoral Highness. The Prince was there the same Saturday, accompanied with Mr. Weiman, who notwithstanding the employments which he hath elsewhere, forbears not to reside, some years, at the Hage about the affairs of the wardship of the Prince of Orange; and with Mr. Copes, ordinary Resident from the Elector, to the Lords the Estates. The discourse of the Prince was like a Cavalier; so that after the King had answered his compliment, they spoke of indifferent affairs, which have nothing of common with this relation.  
The same day Monsieur Vicquefort, Knight, Resident with 
Audience of the Resident of Hessen.  the Lords the Estates, for the Land-Grave of Hessen, made his compliment for the Prince his Master, which was so much the better received, as in his particular he had had an occasion to render most important services to his Majesty, as well as to the deceased King, his Father, of glorious memory. He had the honour to do reverence to his Majesty at Breda; when in the voyage, which he made there some days before, with the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg, the King expressed unto him, that he remembered the affection which he had for his service. He spoke also for the Duke of Courland in such sort, that the King, who witnessed to be touched with the affliction of that Prince, protested that he would not fail to acknowledge the good offices, which that Prince rendered to the deceased King, and to his own person, during the disorders of his Kingdom.  
Monsieur Walter de Raet, Counsellor in the Court of Holland, Zealand, and West-Freesland, being gone to Brussels, in 
Mr. Raet is made Knight Baronet.  the beginning of the month of March, this present year, with Mr. Goes, his Colleague, by virtue of a Commission from the Court, to speak to the Princess Royal of the affairs of the Principality of Orange, understood that there was notice given, that General Monck dissembled, in a manner, no more the inclination which he had for the King's interests, and for the re-establishment of the affairs of England, and from thence took the liberty to felicitate the King. His Majesty received him so well, as also the words which he said unto him, when being gone since about the same affairs at Breda, where his Majesty betook himself, he gave him to understand the occasion which hindered the Lords, the Estates, at present, to compliment him on the estate of the affairs of the Kingdom of England; that he said unto him, that he should never see him but he would remember the good will he expressed to him in this conjuncture. And, indeed this very day, the 29 of May, the King, remembering those marks of affection, sent him his, in presenting him by Mr. Oudart, Counsellor to the Princess Royal, and to the Prince of Orange, her son, with Letters Patents under the great Seal of England, by which he gives to Mr. Raet, and to his issue male, the quality and rank of Knight Baronet for ever. And for as much as those whom the King honours with this title, are obliged to maintain thirty foot soldiers for the service of Ireland; or to pay into the hands of the Treasurer the sum of a thousand fourscore and fifteen pounds, his Majesty caused the first Letters to be accompanied with a second, dispensing him of paying that sum, and acquitting him in general terms, and his posterity after him to perpetuity, of the said sum.  
We have said elsewhere, that Don Stephen of Gamarra, ordinary 
The Ambassador of Spain entertains the King.  Ambassador of Spain to the Lords the Estates, went to meet the King at Moordike, to express there, to his Majesty, the joy that he had for his re-establishment. The residence which the King had made, for some years, at Brussels, where Don Stephen of Gamarra had the honour to lodge, some days, in the house of the two Princes, the King's brothers, made him to be considered quite otherwise, than he could hope from his character, in a time, when there was open war between Spain and England, though against the intention of the two Kings. The caresses which the Princes made him on this occasion, and the extraordinary civilities which he had received from the King, proceeded from a particular affection, as well as the goodness wherewith the same Dukes of York, and of Gloucester prayed to dine with him, on thursday the 27 of this month. The Marquis of Ormond, and many other Lords had dined there, the day before, with the same familiarity wherewith the Lords German, Earl of St. Alban, and Craft went to dine with the Ambassador of France, the day the King arrived at the Hage; and upon the recital which these Lords had made to their Royal Highnesses of the great cheer the Ambassador of Spain had made them, they resolved to dine there the next day. But the King, who would dine that day in public, with the Queen of Bohemia, the Princess Royal, the Prince of Orange, and the Deputies of the Estates General, having desired that the Princes, his brothers, might be of the company, the Ambassador, who had expected their Royal Highnesses, gave himself the liberty to complain to the King in raillery, for taking away his guests from him. His Majesty had the goodness to tell him, that he did it of purpose to hinder their dining with him, because he would be also of the Party. And indeed, that very Saturday, the King after he had ridden to Scheveling, where he saw the Fleet, and at his return, visited the Queen of Bohemia, went in the evening to the house of the Spanish Ambassador, where were also the Queen of Bohemia, the Dukes of York and Gloucester, the Princess Royal, the Prince of Orange, the Marquis of Ormond, the Lords Digby, Craft, and Taff, the Lady Stanhop, Widow to the Lord Heenuliet, to whom the King gave the title of Countess of Chesterfeild, and Madam Howard her daughter-in-law, Lady of honour to the Princess Royal. The table was covered in the Hall, which is one of the fairest and greatest of the whole Hage; but it would be very difficult to make a pertinent description of this feast, because that although they served up there but fish, and salads, it was, without doubt, one of the most splendid and stately that ever was seen at a private house.  
There was two great services of fish, or rather of Sea-monsters, besides the pottages, the courses, and the inter-meats; and there was served up so great a quantity of sweet meats, dry and liquid, that all the persons of quality, which were come, in great number, to see the order of that supper, returned thence all loaden. For the Master of the house had given order that they should have enough; and that the servants should present Limonada, Hippocras, and all sorts of delicious wines, to all those that should demand it, whilst the Officers of his Majesty, and of their Royal Highnesses, were magnificently treated in the other apartments of the house. The King appeared there in the best humour that ever he was seen to be, and expressed so much content in this company, which was composed of none almost but of his family, and of persons whom he saw every day, that he stayed there even until one a clock after midnight; notwithstanding, without the least disorder, or confusion that might trouble their conversation and divertisement.  
Every thing there was high and magnificent; but that which 
Downing presents himself to the King.  was most remarkable, was this, that about midnight arrived there Mr. Downing, who did the affairs of England, to the Lords the Estates, in quality of Resident, under Oliver Cromwell, and afterward under the pretended Parliament, which having changed the form of the government, after having cast forth the last Protector, had continued him in his employment, under the quality of Extraordinary Envoy. He began to have respect for the King's person, when he knew that all England declared for a free Parliament, and departed from Holland, without order, as soon as he understood, that there was nothing that could longer oppose, the re-establishment of Monarchal government, with a design to crave Letters of recommendation to General Monk. This Lord considered him, as well because of the birth of his wife, which is illustrious, as because Downing had expressed some respect for him, in a time when that eminent person could not yet discover his intentions. He had his Letters, when he arrived at midnight at the house of the Spanish Ambassador, as we have said. He presented them forthwith to the King, who arose from table a while after, read the Letters, received the submissions of Downing, and granted him the pardon and grace, which he asked for him, to whom he could deny nothing, Some days after, the King Knighted him, and would it should be believed, that the strong aversions which this Minister of the Protector had made appear against him on all occasions, and with all sorts of persons indifferently, even a few days before the public and general declaration of all England, proceeded not from any evil intention; but only from a deep dissimulation, wherewith he was constrained to cover his true sentiments, for fear to prejudice the affairs of his Majesty.  
Sunday the 30 of May, the King would in the morning hear a Sermon, and to that purpose it was ordained that Mr. Hardy, one of the Ministers which came from England, with the Commissioners of the City of London, should preach before the King in the Chapel of the Court, which serves for Church to the French that live at the Hage, at eleven a clock in the forenoon, as soon as the French had ended their ordinary devotions. And to the end, to prevent the disorder among the people, which were come there in crowds from the neighbour towns, the company which had the guard, was commanded to seize themselves of the avenues of the Chapel, and particularly to possess the door, which leads into a little Partition, where the Princes of Orange heretofore caused a bench to be made clothed with black velvet, and covered with a canopy of the same stuff for themselves, and for persons of quality, that were ordinarily of their train, but they dreamt not to remedy another inconvenience, which deceived all the other precautions that they used. For the French, instead of giving place to the English, and of using the civility which they were accustomed to have for strangers, would not go out of the Church; and even the persons of condition, which sat in the little partition, whereof we have spoken, and who were for the most part Dutch, refused to make place for the Lords, which were, in great number, about the King's person; without considering that this very incivility hindered them absolutely to satisfy the curiosity they had to see the King, and to be present at the English Liturgy. The Reader of the Church exhorted the people to withdraw; and likewise the Pastor, who made the Sermon, went up again into the Pulpit, and represented to them the wrong they did themselves, as well as their brethren of the same religion, and strangers, as they in this country, in obstinately staying thus in their seats, after having heard the word of God, in a place where they had been fed, and in failing of respect to the King, to whom that very Temple was given by their Superiors; and where the English were to hear it, after them, in their tongue. But these exhortations made no impression on spirits prepossessed, no more than the other reasons which he alleged; so that the King was enforced to do his devotions, in the place where her Royal Highness is accustomed to have her preaching, particularly; since most important considerations hindered her to go to the English Church, where there entered as many as it could hold of the Lords of that nation. The Minister took his text in the 26 Chapter of the Prophet Isaiah, verse 19, which he applied to the present estate of the affairs of England, and made so learned and so pathetic a discourse, that there was not any one there, which was not touched, and edified therewith.  
After the Liturgy and Sermon were ended, there presented themselves many persons sick of the Evil, which the King was 
The King toucheth the sick.  to touch, after many others he had touched Friday and Saturday, the 28. and 29. of this month, in private. And for as much as this ceremony is done with circumstances very remarkable, and different from those which accompany it in France, when the King there toucheth the sick; it shall not be from our purpose to speak here, of all the particulars thereof, since they make as well one of the essential parts of our relation, which is to omit nothing of what his Majesty did at the Hage. But before we engage us in this recital, it will be necessary to undeceive the spirit of those that believe, that that which the Kings of England do on this occasion, is but a copy of that which is done in France, and that it is not but because of the pretention which they have to that Crown, and by virtue of the title which they take, and from the arms of France, wherewith they charge their Escutcheon, that they attribute to themselves a grace which is given to the eldest Son of the Church. For it is most certain, that the King of Great Britain, hath this right and advantage, not as King of France, though he takes the quality thereof in his titles, but as King of England; and because the Kings, his Predecessors, have used it efficiaciously, since the reign of Edward, surnanamed the Confessor; that is to say, since the beginning of the 11. age, and long before the Kings of England had declared their pretensions, as they did, when Philip of Valois came to the Crown. Now this ceremony is performed, in the manner as we shall at present relate.  
Those that feel themselves afflicted with the disease, commonly called the King's-evil, because the King cureth it, are obliged to address themselves to his Majesty's chief Chirurgeon who visits them, and if he judgeth that it is the disease, which the King cureth, he appoints them a day and hour to be at the Chapel, where the King is to touch them. As in France, the ceremony of touching the sick is done in the morning, after the King hath communicated; so was it this day done in the Chapel of the Princess Royal, after the King had been at the sermon, and public prayers. For the preaching being finished, they placed a great chair for the King, in a place somewhat distant from the people. And as soon as the King was sat, one of the Clarks of the Closet stands at the right side of the chair, holding on his arm, or rather in his right hand, as many gold Angels, every one tied to a ribbon of white silk, as there were sick to be touched, which were then to the number of eight and forty. But for as much as the Angels, which is a kind of gold so named, because it hath the figure of an Angel upon it, are so rare, that they can scarce be gotten, especially in these Provinces; the King useth ordinarily, as he did on this present occasion, the ten shillings pieces, which are near of the same value. The Chaplain, that makes the sermon before the King, and who for this purpose takes ordinarily a text proper for the ceremony, performs the office afterward, and stands on the left side of the chair, whilst the Chirurgeon takes place, with the sick, right over against the King, but at a certain distance: Notwithstanding, in the occasion whereof we speak now, the Minister's text had nothing common with the ceremony, and it was not the Pastor who made the sermon, that assisted there; but Doctor Brown, Chaplain to the Princess Royal, who did all the functions thereof, representing the King's Chaplain, as he did on all the like occasions at Breda, whilst his Majesty resided there.  
After his Majesty had taken his place, having by his side the Secretary, or Clerk of the Closet, and the Chirurgeon before him, the Chaplain, who held a New-Testament in his hand, choosed there the text in the Gospel of Saint Mark the 16 Chapter from the 14 Verse, even to the end of the Chapter; and at the same time, the Chirurgeon, taking one of the diseased by the hand, after having both made three low reverences, came with him to put themselves on their knees before the King, close to the chair, and whilst the Chaplain pronounced these words of the same Gospel, They shall lay their hands on the Sick, and they shall be healed; the King laid his hand on the two cheeks of the sick. This being done, he that was touched, retired himself, and they brought another to the King, who touched him in the same manner; the Chaplain repeating the same words, as many times, as there were sick for the King to touch, and as they brought them one after another at his Majesty's feet. The Chirurgeon, who was always on his knees, whilst the King touched, arose not till the King had made an end of touching, and then he made again three low reverences, and retired with the sick to the place where they were before, and stood there till the Chaplain had made an end of reading the rest of his text; which he continued not to read, till after the King had touched the last of the sick: This being done, the Chaplain began again another Gospel, taken out of the first Chapter of Saint John, from the first verse to the 15; and whilst he read it, the Chirurgeon brought again the persons touched, to the King, in the same manner as he did before; and his Majesty taking from the Secretary of the closet, whilst the Chaplain pronounced these words of the Gospel, That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world one of these gold Angels hanging on a silk ribbon, and put it on the neck of one of the diseased which approached one after another, in the same manner, as they did when the Chirurgeon brought them to be touched; the Chaplain repeating also those words, as many times as there were persons touched. After this, they all retired again to their first place, and then the Chaplain made an end of reading the Gospel, to the verse which we have denoted. He read after that, some other passages of the Holy Scripture and concluded the whole service with the Lord's Prayer, and a prayer which they make unto God, that it would please him to bless the ceremony, which the King had performed.  
The Liturgy being finished, the Gentleman Usher (it was then Mr Sands, who performed that function) brought a basin, an ewer, and a towel, and being accompanied with two Lords, or Earls, viz. the Lord Leonel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex, and the Lord Henry German, to whom the King gave since the quality of Earl of Saint Alban; he presented the basin and ewer to the youngest of the two, who stood on the left hand of the Gentleman that carried the towel, taking the right hand of the elder of the two Lords. The last finding himself in the midst of them, they marched, in this order, towards the King; and after making three low reverences, they put themselves all three on their knees before his Majesty; and whilst the Earl of Saint Alban poured forth the water on the King's hands, the Earl of Middlesex took the towel from the Gentleman Usher, and presented it to his Majesty, who wiped his hands therewith. After this, the two Lords, and the Gentleman Usher, rose up, made again three great reverences to the King, and retired. And after that the King arose also, and went thence to the Princess Royal her chamber.  
It is certain, that the King hath very often touched the sick, 
The English doubt not the effect of this remedy.  as well at Breda, where he touched two hundred and sixty, from Saturday the 17. of April, to Sunday the 23. of May, as at Bruges and Brussels, during the residence he made there; and the English assure, that not only it was not without success, since it was the experience that drew thither every day, a great number of those diseased, even from the most remote Provinces of Germany; but also that there was no person healed so perfectly, who was not infected again with the same disease, if he were so unfortunate to lose, through negligence, or otherwise, the medal, which the King hangs on his neck, after he hath touched him; without any hope to be cured of it, if he be not touched again, and have another Angel about his neck. We have been loath to have touched on this particular, if many grave persons, whom one cannot suspect of superstition or deceit, spoke not thereof, as of a most constant thing, and of which there is no doubt.  
Coming from thence, the King and Princes, went to dine with the Princess Royal, where they passed a part of the day, to divert themselves in private. Towards the evening, he made a visit to the Queen of Bohemia; and at the beginning of the night, all the Royal Family were at Prince Maurice his house, where the Estates of Holland had prepared a most magnific and stately feast for his Majesty.  
There is more than one door that gives entrance into the dining chamber, which makes one of the fairest pieces of the 
Feast of the Estates of Holland.  whole building; and in entering through the middle door, which is over against the great stairs, one of the fairest and costliest of all Europe, because it is double, most large, and all built of a most rare Indian wood, one discovers it fully; so that we see, at one and the same time, the cross barred windows which front upon the Viver and Viverberg, the two chimneys of both sides, and in the midst above, an overture, which makes a roundel, fashioned like the foot of a lamp, shut with glass, and environed with a gallery, or with a ballister, which makes the tower of the lover, or open roof. From the centre of this lover, descended low a Royal Crown, very gallantly made, in the midst of four lustres, or crystal candlesticks; which with many other candlesticks, arms of silver, and a great number of torches, enlightened all corners much better, than the Sun could have done at midday. They gave, particularly, a marvellous lustre to the two bottoms of the chimney, which is on the left side; where two partitions of painted wood shut up as many cupboards of crystal glasses, and a great store of vessels, and of silver plate, and vermilion gilt. The Hall was furnished with ordinary Tapestry, which is of crimson damask, and had no other adornments, but that here and there, there were some fair Pictures, and that the ends of the chimneys, and the void place above the cross bar windows, were adorned with garlands, wreaths and figures of trees, loaden with oranges, and mingled with all sorts of flowers, which form not only a very regular compartment; but wonderfully refreshed also the chamber, and charmed no less the smell, by their perfume, than they pleased the sight through the diversity of their rich enamel.  
The Table was made in double potence, and laid so, that that part, where the Royal family sat, was a thwart before the chimney of the right hand, thrusting from its middle a trunk, or skirt, which possessed more than two thirds of the length of the Hall; and it was shut up with a balustrade of three foot high, which reigned round about; yet so, that there was space enough, between the ballister, and seats of those which were of the feast, to hold the persons, designed for their service. This balustrade had divers wickets, whose entrance was recommended to the care of some Officers of the guards, which hindered strangers to present themselves there.  
The King took his place under a cloth of Estate of the same stuff, whereof the rest of the furniture was made, between the Queen of Bohemia, his Aunt, who was on his right hand, and the Princess Royal his sister, who was on his left. The King's two brothers, were at one of the two ends, on the Queen of Bohemia's side, and the Prince of Orange at the other end, on the side of the Princess, his Mother. The King sat so, that from his place he saw easily all the Deputies of the Estates of Holland, who possessed that part of the Table, which came from the midst of the King's; and were seated according to the rank, which the Nobles and Towns hold in their Assemblies. They would fain that the Rhine-Grave, Commissary General of the Horse, and Governor of Mastricht, should have the honour to give the napkin to the King; but his Majesty would be served the whole meal by Officers of his own, as well as the other Royal persons by theirs. Mr. de Buat, Captain of the troop of light horsemen, which was formerly that of the Guard of the deceased Prince of Orange, and now of the Estates of Holland, and Mr. Itersum, Lieutenant Colonel of a Regiment of foot, and Drossart of Rolduck, in the Country of Over-Meas, did the office of carvers; and served the meat before the King, and before all the Royal family; standing, for this purpose, in the empty space, which the Estates of Holland had left between their places, and the table of his Majesty. Mr. of Boetzelaer, younger son of the deceased Baron of Asperen, Mr. of Taillefer, eldest son of Mr. of Mauriack, Colonel of a Regiment of French foot, Mr. of Steeland, son to Mr. of Steeland, Lieutenant Colonel to the foot Regiment of Mr. of Beverweert, and Drossart of Buren; and Mr. Desloges, son to the deceased Colonel of that name, did the same functions at the table of the Estates, standing between the ballister, and the table, and taking the dishes from the hands of the public Messengers, whose custom is, to follow the Deputies of the towns to the Assemblies of the Estates, to serve up the meat to the Lords. The King's table was served with six great dishes, in oval form, and with two more laid a cross the other, all loaden like pyramids; and they changed the services five times. There was on the Estates table eight and twenty great dishes, and many plate trenchers, but they changed them no more than four times; to the end, to make some difference between their table and his Majesties. In the ordinary days they served but seven tables, with the King's, besides the servants; but this day there were sixteen, seven of which served as ordinarily, in the other apartments of the King's house, and the rest in the Castellany, which is as it were the Prison of the Castle, where they had given express order to receive and treat all the English which presented themselves. It is forbidden me to speak of the expense; but I think I may allege here the person of the King, and affirm, that he said the next day, to Mr. of Wimmenum, that he never better supped, than the day he arrived at the Hage; and that in all the feasts which were made, as well in France as Spain, in Germany, and in the Low-countries, where he had met stately ones; and among others, that which the Archduke Leopoldus made in the month of May, 1656, when he went out of the Low-countries, to go into Germany, he saw nothing come near that, wherewith the Estates of Holland had entertained him the day before. It was two days since the Lords the Estates caused the Troops of Horse to come to the Hague, whereof we have spoken elsewhere; and this evening they caused a part of them to be lodged in little squadrons, upon the avenues of the King's house, and the rest to be put into battalia, in the Plain, which is a place by the house, worthy to be called, for the beauty of the buildings which environ it, the Royal Place of the Hague. The Regiment of the Guards had their Post, from one of the corners of the house, to the Viverberg, and all a long that fair walk even to the other end towards the Place, behind the battery of the Cannon. As soon as they begun to drink the King's health, they gave the signal, with a torch, at one of the windows of the house, which looks upon the Viver, to make them fire the Cannon, to which answered the Musketeers of the Guards, and next, the Carbines of the Cavalry, and the artillery from the Rampart. Four times this music served for intermedium to that, which passed in the Palace during supper: whilst it lasted, there was made to come forth from a boat, which was in the midst of the Viver, or of that Pond, which washeth the foot of the wall of the King's house, as well as of the whole great Palace, an infinite number of squibs, and of other artificial fireworks, which gave a most agreeable divertisement to the people, the whole night.  
Monday, the last of May, the Lords the Estates of Holland, 
Order of the Estates General, and those of Holland, to compliment the King in taking leave.  considering that the same reason, which had obliged them to honour the King's arrival, obliged them to do the like at his departure and embarkment; and thinking that the King would depart the next day, they resolved to dispose the Lords, the Estates General, to take their leave of his Majesty at his house, that day, or the day of his departure, as they should think fit; and to signify to them, that the Estates of Holland could not suffer that any, but them, should accompany his Majesty, either in body, or by Deputies, when he departed. The Estates General, who know that the place of their ordinary Assembly, is in the Sovereignty of the Province of Holland, acquiesced therein, without repugnance, and were ready to desire audience, to take leave of the King, that day, in body; when they understood that his Majesty's voyage was deferred a day longer, and that he had signified to him of the Lords the Estates, who was Precedent that week, that the next day he would make them a visit, in person, in the place of their Assembly. They would have been glad if they could have dispensed themselves of receiving so extraordinary an honour; but they chose rather, to leave themselves to be loaden with civility at home, then to commit an incivility, in opposing the will of the King. The Estates of Holland, to whom the King signified, by one of the Secretaries of his commands, that he would do them the same honour, received the advertisement thereof with the same respect; and both one and tother, after they had agreed with the Ministers of the Court, how they intended to receive his Majesty, with all the submission they should be able to render to so good a Prince, and so great a Monarch, they both gave necessary orders, in their several assemblies, for this glorious and illustrious visit.  
The Estates of the Province of Zealand, who were convocated extraordinarily, in the town of Middelborough, on the occasion of the King's voyage, had named also extraordinary Deputies, whom they ordained to compliment the King upon his re-establishment in his Kingdoms, conjunctively with the ordinary Deputies, which are here from their Province in the Estates General. The Extraordinaries arrived at the Hage, Sunday the 30 of May, and the next day, in the morning, both one and tother had audience of his Majesty, who caused them to be received and conducted in the same manner, and by the same persons he employed at the reception of the Deputies of the other Estates, and the King made them the same civility. Mr. Veth, Pensionary Counsellor of Zealand, and one of the eloquentest men of his time, brother to him, who so long time, and with so much reputation, appeared to the Estates General; and who is there also, at present, for the interests of his Province, took on him the speech, and made a most excellent discourse, speaking in these terms.  
SIR,  
We are here from the Lords the Estates of Zealand, to do reverence to your Majesty, and to assure you of our most humble and most respectful services.  
We represent us, SIR, and acknowledge, in the person and sight of your Majesty, the favours and assistances which our Province hath, from all time, received from the Kings of Great Britain, your most famous Predecessors; and so we cannot felicitate you, and express the joy which we have to see the grace which God would do unto your Majesty, in this admirable revolution of affairs; wherewith your Majesty should be so much the more touched, as neither you, nor the rest of the world presumed so much as to hope it.  
If Great Britain hath made bonfires at the birth of your Majesty, whatshould it do now in this marvellous conjuncture? where we see all the artifices and attempts of your enemies disappointed, and overthrown; your Royal person miraculously re-established in the Throne of your Ancestors, and Crown (to speak truth) sent from Heaven, rather than put upon the head of your Majesty, by the hand of man. So we need not doubt that God, who is the particular Protector of Kings; and who raises, at this time, your Majesty by ways so extraordinary, will not fail to uphold you by that powerful hand, which laid it on your Royal head, and that whole Christendom derives not advantages from thence, which cannot be ordinary; since that God, by whom your Majesty reigns so visibly, will make it so, that you shall reign for him efficaciously, in rendering the good and repose of his Church, inseparable from the interests of your Estate.  
And hence shall it be, SIR, that, as from an inexhaustible spring, upon the Counsels and actions of your Majesty, shall flow all the blessings of heaven, which shall settle the repose of your Estate, and assure the Sceptre in your hands, for the comfort of your people, for the protection of your Allies, for the terror of your enemies, and for the establishment of a perpetual peace in all Christendom; to the exaltation of the great name of God, and to the particular glory of your Majesty. Especially we hope that this favourable occasion, will serve to tie more strongly the knot of that Alliance, which, from all time, hath been so carefully maintained between Great Britain, and this Commonwealth; particularly if her Highness, the Princess Royal, who is so notably interested in the good and prosperity of both one, and t'other Estate, will labour herein, with the care which we promise us from her goodness.  
Those are the most ardent prayers, SIR, which the Lords the Estates of Zealand, your very humble servants, make unto God, and which they hope will be heard in due time.  
The Estates of the Province of Freesland, made the same diligence in sending to salute the King, by Extraordinary Deputies, 
The Estates of Frees land send to compliment the King.  who had audience the same day, together with their ordinary Deputies, which are in the Estates General, and were presented to his Majesty by Prince William Frederick of Nassau, Governor and Lieutenant General of their Province. Mr. Harinxma, Counsellor in the Court of Justice of Leeuwaerden, addressed the speech, and made his compliment in French, like others.  
Hitherto there was no Minister sent, express, by any foreign 
The Count of Oldenbourg is the first of the strangers, which complemented the King.  Prince, or Lord, with Letters of Credence, to felicitate the King upon his re-establishment, and estate of his affairs: But this day there arrived at the Hage Mr. of Cotteritz, Counsellor in the Council of Estate of the Count of Oldenbourg and Delmenhorst, and his Drossart in the Bailywick or Jurisdiction of Farel, who had his audience after the Deputies of Freesland. This Lord, who despised the quality of Prince, which was offered him, to conserve that of most powerful Count of the Empire; and who is no less considerable, through the prudence wherewith he governeth, then through the honour which he hath to be the of same house, with the King of Denmark, who shall be partly his heir, willing to give an extraordinary proof of the respect which he always hath had for the Kings of Great Britain, who of their side have, from all time, much esteemed him, dispatched this Gentleman, as soon as he understood that the King was to depart from Breda, to come into Holland, not so much to acquit himself of that duty, by a simple compliment, as to assure his Majesty, that the first day he would send to render his respect unto him in his Kingdom, by a person, who is very near unto him, whom he considereth, and loveth extremely. The King, who is much more sensible of the good he receiveth, then of the injuries his enemies have done him, would make known by a most civil reception, and accompanied with much tenderness, and by a most obliging answer, which he made to the compliment of that Gentleman; that if he could forget the ill usage he had received from some of his people, he was incapable to lose the remembrance of the obligation, which he had to the Count of Oldenbourg.  
We have said before, that the Duke of York, as Admiral of 
The Duke of York caused the Fleet to take an oath.  England, would go, Saturday last, to the Fleet, to take there the Oath of Fidelity of the Officers and Mariners; and that he was hindered by the contrary wind and the tempest. But this day, the last of May, he embarked himself, and was aboard the Admiral. The Fleet declared itself for the King, when it was yet at anchor in the Downs, immediately after it understood the intention of the Parliament, upon the Letter and Declaration of his Majesty, whereof we have spoken in the beginning of this Relation; and it was not lately that the Lord Montague, who commands the Fleet now as Vice-Admiral, under the authority of the Duke of York, had made his good will so well to appear, that not only the King could not doubt thereof, but also that he had given some suspicion thereof to those of the contrary party. But it was necessary to disengage the Officers Soldiers, and Mariners of the Oath, which they had done to the last Parliament, and to be assured there of by a new Oath of Fidelity for the King, their Sovereign Lord. Therefore the Duke being arrived at the Admiral's Ship, where he was received by the Lord Montague, with extraordinary honour and submissions; he caused the Captain of the other ships to come aboard there, and took their Oath, which the Captains caused to be administered since to the inferior Officers, and to all the rest of the seamen in the other ships. The Lord Montague had caused the flag to be changed before he departed from the coast of England, and made the arms of the Commonwealth to be ra●ed out, which appeared for some years on the castle of his proud poop; but he had reserved the honour for his Royal Highness, to change the name of the ship, which Cromwell caused to be called the Naesby, in memory of the great Battle, where the deceased King was defeated; and by which the Rebellion gained principally the strength, which made it to subsist even to this last revolution. The Duke thinking that he could not give it a name which should be more pleasingly received, then 
Changeth the name of the Admiral ship.  that of the King, made it to be called The Charles.  
It is certainly one of the handsomest frames that ever sailed 
Description of the Admiral.  upon the sea. For although it be of the greatest size that hath been seen after that which they call in England, the Sovereign, and carries fourscore pieces of brass Cannon, amongst which more than twenty are of 48 pound bullet; it is, notwithstanding, one of the best sailors of the whole Ocean. She had aboard her above six hundred men, as well Soldiers, as Sailors, and the Chambers and Galleries of the Castle, where the King was to lodge, and where the Lord Montague lodgeth ordinarily, were all wanscotted, and gilded, and furnished with fair beds of the finest cloth of England, fringed with gold and silver, and with foot Turcky tapestry, for the Royal persons. But that which was most remarkable, was that in the Admiral's Kitchen there were six Clarks, that laboured but for the mouth; and that his table was better served on the sea, than those of many Princes are in their Dominions. The plate, which was all of silver, was of so prodigious a greatness, that they were seen to be loaden with pieces of roast beef (whereof the English have reason to make one of their delicates) which weighed near a hundred pounds, and the other dishes of plate, which accompanied that, were without comparison, massier then the greatest washing basons that are ordinarily used, and so loaden with meat, that it seemed the whole Fleet was to be fed with the remains of that table, though they were intended but for the attendants of my Lord the Duke. He dined there, at the ordinary of the Vice-Admiral, which might pass for a great feast; and in going thence, he was saluted with the artillery of the whole Fleet, which did him the same honour, when he came aboard.  
The same day the King received Letters from a certain kind of people, which are called in England Quakers; because that in the ordinary hours when they make their devotions, or prayers, there takes themselves, a certain trembling in all parts of the body, which they say to be a violent motion, caused by the spirit of God, wherewith they would make men be-believe that they are possessed. It would be very hard to say, whether these people are fanatic, or hyponchondriack, that is, mad or melancholy; but it must needs be, that so great a disorder of spirit, as that which is observed in all their actions, proceedeth from an ill disposition of the body. They have not only lost the respect they owe unto Princes and Magistrates; but they fail also in the duties which are inseparable from the civil life: And they are so far from humility, which is a virtue not known, but since the birth of Christianity, that hitherto there was never seen an animal so impudent, and so proud. The Letter was ridiculous, and impertiment throughout; but particularly, in most places, it pronounced the threatenings of God's judgement against the King, if he protected not that Sect, and entered not into those thoughts.  
The King having made known, the day before, to Mr. the 
The King renders a visit to the Estates General.  Veth, Deputy from the Province of Zealand, to the Estates General, and Precedent that week for his Province, that his design was to render them a visit, the next morning, in their assembly, as we have said, it was resolved that they would receive this honour, with all imaginable respect; and to that purpose would dispose of all things, in such manner, that his Majesty should carry away from his visit, the satisfaction which he might lawfully promise to himself from thence. And, indeed, Tuesday morning, the first day of June, the Lords the Estates General, being come to their chamber, about ten a clock in the forenoon, they named Mrs. of Gent, from the Province of Gelderland, of Merode and Guldewagen of Holland, Stavenisse of Zealand, Renswoude of Utrecht, Velsen of Freesland, Ripperda of Hengelo of Overysel, and Sculenbourg for Groaning; who repaired to the King's Court, and told him, from the Estates, that they knew well, their duty obliged them to come to receive his Majesty's orders at his house; but since it pleased him to do the Estates General the honour, to transport himself, in person, into their assembly; they should receive that grace in a most submissive manner; and that to this purpose, they were there, by the command of their Chiefs, to serve his Majesty, and to conduct him unto the Hall of the Council. They prayed the Estates of Holland, to cause their Regiment to make a double guard, upon the avenues, from Prince Maurice his house, to the Palace; and Prince William Frederick of Nassau, Governor of Freesland, was required, from them, by Mr. of Velsen, and of Schulenbourg, Deputies of the two last Provinces of the Generality, to go to Prince Maurice his house, and to march before the King bareheaded, to conduct him, from his lodging, to the place where the Estates would receive him, in a body; and from thence, even to the seat which was prepared for him.  
They caused a great train of coaches to come for the King's convenience; but his Majesty had no sooner answered the compliment of the Deputies, but being upon the stone stairs of the Court, he caused the Lords of his train to advance, and expressed a willingness to walk a foot that little way, which is between Prince Maurice his house, and the Palace. Prince William of Nassau, put himself immediately before the King, who not disposed to cover himself on the way; the Deputies of the Estates that followed him, put themselves in the same condition; and in this order between two files of Soldiers, they arrived at the foot of the stairs of the great Hall, where the Estates General came, in a body, to meet him, made him a low reverence, opened themselves to make him to pass in the midst of them, and followed him thus, two and two, a long the Hall, and then through the Gallery, where they sell Pictures; but whose shops were shut up, that day, and through the withdrawing chamber, unto that of their ordinary assembly; his Majesty, and the Estates, being still uncovered.  
This Hall is more long then large, and there is seen in the midst a Table, which reacheth even from one end to the other of the length of the Hall, capable to hold about thirty persons. The Precedent of the Assembly, which changeth every week, according to the number and rank of the United Provinces, hath his place in the midst of the Table; but he quitted it then, to that which is over against, where the Ambassadors and Ministers of foreign Princes are seated, when public audience is given them; and in the ordinary place of the Precedent, they had made a foot-bank of seven or eight foot broad, covered with a foot cloth of Tapestry; which reached along the passage, even to the door of the withdrawing chamber. On the foot-bank was placed a chair of green velvet; and over head, a cloth of Estate, or Canopy, of the same coloured velvet, which was hung between the Portraits of the four last Princes of Orange, of the house of Nassau; which were separated so, that those of the Princes, William and Maurice, were on the right side; and those of Frederick Henry, and of William the second, his son, on the left side of the Canopy.  
The King being come to his place, which represented a kind of Throne, Prince William Frederick of Nassau, and some English Lords put themselves behind the seat; and his Majesty, who stood, till all those which compose that illustrious Senate, which is called the Estates General, and whose number was very great, that day, because of the extraordinary Deputies, which were come upon this occasion, were entered, would not sit, nor be covered, till all the Deputies were disposed in their places; and then he sat and covered himself, but he remained not in that posture: for as soon as he saw all the seats full, and all the Deputies covered, he arose, and uncovering himself again, he thanked the Estates General, in very obliging terms, for all the civilities he had received from them, since he arrived in the country; assured them of the constancy of his amity and affection, for the good of that Commonwealth; and recommended unto them the persons, and interests of the Princess Royal, his Sister, and of the Prince of Orange, his Nephew, in the manner as we shall have occasion to say hereafter. Mr. Veth, who Presided then for the Province of Zealand, as we have said, and was over against the King, answered in the name of the assembly, in terms, which made known the respect wherewith they resented the honour they had received.  
This being done, his Majesty retired the same way, and in the same manner as he entered, Prince William marching in the head, and the Estates, who went two and two after him, conducting him, in body, even into the Court, to the foot of the stairs of the great Hall, where they had received him.  
It was there that the Estates of Holland came to meet his Majesty 
The King makes a visit to the Estates of Holland.  in body. They had before them Prince Maurice of Nassau, Lieutenant General of the Horse, and Governor of Wesel, marching alone, and bareheaded; and performing, by them, the same function, which Prince William had done with the Estates General. The order which was given for the conveniency of the passage, was so well observed, that there was no encumbrance in the Court; so that the Lords of the King's retinue, and the Gentlemen and Officers of the Country, walked, at ease, between two files of Soldiers, drawn so into a guard. Those of the King's Court, and the Officers, went before the King's person, and the Estates of Holland followed him, going two and two: first the body of the Nobility, and next the Deputies of the Towns, directly from the great stairs, to the door of the Estates of Holland their apartment. In entering, they turned presently on the left hand, through a little Gallery, which leads into the chamber, where the Deputy Counsellors assemble, which compose the Council of Estate of Holland, the beauty of whose symmetry, the King admired; considered particularly in passing by the seat of those Lords, who in the absence of the Estates, are as Sovereigns in this part of the Province, which is called South-Holland, which is in a bar shut up with a long balustrade, and covered with a heaven, sustained by four columns, the ground all white, embellished with flowers and leaves of gold in embroidered work. Coming forth thence, they passed through the withdrawing chambers, whose planching is painted, but in another manner than the first; and which are also very richly hung with Arras. After that the King went up the great stairs to the Hall, where the Estates of Holland use to assemble, when they are convocated in body. It is a building made so few years since, that the proud work could not yet be finished, whose roof is seeled, nor the rich Tapestries, wherewith it is to be furnished; but notwithstanding, it is very fair and most magnific, as it is, being highly raised; its planched roof makes an arch, and the Hall opened with many great windows, which butt upon the Viver, between two fair chimneys. The place is so vast, that to the end, the voice of those that speak there, may not be lost in the air, they were constrained to make a kind of cutting off with great curtains, which reach from the roof to the floor; at the place, where a balustrade is to be made, which shall shut up that part of the Hall, to which one may lawfully give the name of Areopage, or rather of Sanctuary, because it contains the seats of those who deliberate upon the most important affairs of the Province, and consequently, of all the Estate, whereof it makes one of the principal parts,  
The seats are disposed so, that in entering one sees, from the door, the back of a bench of three stories, made like a Council board with leaning pillows, which are revested with green cloth, as well as the seats. This bench is accompanied with two others, which are as two wings. That which is on the right hand, is composed of a low seat; and that on the left, is of two stories; and these two benches are a little separate from the first, which, by this means, is in the midst, through a little intervale, which may serve for passage. The great bench is over against one of the two chimneys; before which, it forms itself, by that means, a great empty space, which is filled between the two wings with a long table, encompassed with back chairs, for the Deputies of the Nobility of the Province, (which are now but nine) and for the Pensionary Counsellor, who, though Minister of the Estate, ceaseth not to have place there; because, that having the charge to propose affairs to go to the suffrages, and to conclude, he can, from the place where he is, speak conveniently to all the Deputies of the Nobility, who deliver their opinion first, and are to be agreed among themselves, before they can form the voice only, which they have in the Estates of the Province. The Deputies of Dort, of Haerlam, of Delf, and of Leyden, possess the bench on the right hand. The first story of the great bench, which is over against the chimney, is wholly for the Deputies of Amsterdam, which are in great number, because they will have them at all the extraordinary deputations, which are made for the affairs, whose discussion would consume too much time, if it were made in full assembly. The second story, is for the Deputies of Tergow and Rotterdam; and the third, for those of Gercum Schedam, Schoonhoven, and the Bril; and the bench of the left wing is for the Deputies of the towns of North Holland, which are called in the public acts, West-freesland, and are Alcmaer, Horn, Enchuisen, Edam, Munickendam, Medemblick, and Purmerent.  
It was necessary to make this little description of the Hall, to the end, to represent better all the circumstances of that remarkable visit, in the subject whereof, I must say again, that they had taken away the ordinary table of the Nobility, instead of which they had placed that of the Deputy Counsellors, which is not so long as the other; not just in the place of the first, but a cross before the chimney; which is at the end of the Hall between the chimney and table, was made a foot-bank raised with three steps, taking up the whole length of the table towards the chimney, from whence it was a reasonable distance of; and they had drawn the Secretary's table towards the windows; to the end, to free the passage. The foot-bank was covered with a fair Tapestry, and charged with a velvet chair under a cloth of Estate of the same stuff, which reached to the chimney.  
In entering into the Hall, they conducted the King along the back of the bench on the right wing, to his place, where his Majesty stood, until all the Deputies of the Nobility and Towns were placed in their ordinary seats. Prince William, Governor of Freesland, held his left hand upon the back of the King's chair; and Prince Maurice, who joined himself to the Estates of Holland, after he had performed his functions with the Estates General, and put himself on the left hand of the King, had his right hand there, and between them and the chimney were four Lords of the King's attendance. As soon as the Deputies of the Nobility had taken theirs, at the two other ends of the table, and before; yet so, that forming a kind of half moon, which opened in the midst, they took not away the sight of the benches from the King, his Majesty who had stood still, and uncovered, sat down, and covered himself; but the King remained no longer so, then till the rest of the assembly were sat and covered; and then arising and uncovering himself, he spoke, if not in the same terms, at least upon the same subject, wherewith he had entertained the Estates General, in the visit he had made them. It was but an obliging acknowledgement of the civilities, which his Majesty said he had received from the Estates of Holland, but most sincere protestations of a perpetual and inviolable friendship with this Province, and recommendations of the person and interests of the Princess Royal, and of the Prince of Orange her son.  
The Pensionary Counsellor, who was placed so, that he was almost over against the King, answered thereto in the name of the Estates of Holland, with his usual eloquence, in thanking his Majesty for the honour he did the assembly, and in witnessing unto him the acknowledgement which the Province should eternally have of the fair mark of his affection, and Royal good will; which appeared so evidently in that illustrious, and splendid visit. He said, that the Lords the Estates of Holland considered, as an effect of his Majesty's goodness, the satisfaction which he said to have from the little service which the time and estate of the country permitted them to do, for to express the universal joy, which his Majesty might observe in the countenances of all the inhabitants, rather than in the reception, or entertainment which the Estate had made him. That they received, with respect, the assurances which his Majesty gave them of his amity, and that he might fully assure himself, that his sole consideration would oblige them to embrace fervently the interests of the Princess Royal, and of the Prince of Orange her son, though they should not be obliged thereunto by other reasons, as they are to acknowledge the affection and inclination which her Royal Highness hath always had for the good of the Estate, and for that of the Province of Holland in particular. And as for the Prince of Orange, that the merit of his Ancestors, was still so present to their memory, that there was no doubt, but the desires of his Majesty should be fulfilled of that side.  
After that, the King retired, in the same manner and order, as he came, the Estates of Holland following him in body with design to conduct him even to his house. But the King being descended into the Court, by the same way he went, took that towards the Princess Royal her apartment, which is in the same Palace; and the Estates, having conducted him even to the first story, took leave of him, and returned through the gallery, to the Hall of their Assembly.  
Every one was extremely surprised with so obliging, and so gallant a manner of proceeding; but this joy was in some kind moderated, because the place being so vast, that notwithstanding the cutting off, the most part of the Deputies lost either the sense, or words of the King's discourse. The Pensionary Counsellor, who answered thereto, said unto those that asked it him in writing; that he had perfectly well comprehended the intention of the King; but that he would not undertake to relate, word by word, what his Majesty said concerning the Princess Royal, and the Prince of Orange, which was that they most desired to know. The King being advertised of the displeasure of the Estates of Holland, had the goodness to call for pen, ink, and paper, in the Princess Royal her Chamber, and to send to the Pensionary Counsellor this following note, written and signed with his hand.  
Sirs, whereas I leave here in your hands, the Princess, my Sister, and the Prince of Orange, my Nephew, two persons which are extremely dear unto me, I pray you, Sirs, to take their intersts to heart, and to make them to resent the effects of your favour, in the occasions which the Princess, my Sister, shall request you, either for herself, or for the Prince, her son; assuring you that all the effect of your good will towards them, shall be acknowledged of me, as if I had received them in my own person; and was signed.  
CHARLES R.  
The Pensionary Counsellor answered thereunto, by a formal discourse, and most elegant, the substance whereof we shall only declare, and so it imported no other thing, but that this note, whereof a copy was sent to the Estates General, was inserted in the Registers of the resolutions of the Generality, and of the Province of Holland.  
Mr de Thou, Count of Meslay, Ambassador of France, took this day his audience of leave, with the same ceremonies he took the first. Mr. Otte Krag, and Mr. Gotsche of Bugwald Extraordinary Ambassadors from the King of Denmark took theirs also, and added to the compliment they made his Majesty, upon his happy voyage, a most humble prayer, that being upon his return into England, it would please him to remember his good Cousin and Ally, the King of Denmark, their Master, and the estate of his affairs; as the King their Master, of his side, would acknowledge, as lnog as he lived, the good Offices which his Majesty should render him on so pressing an occasion. The King, after he had thanked the Ambassadors for their compliment, upon the subject of his voyage, said, that he could not be ignorant that it was partly for his sake, that the King of Denmark suffered, and that he should be no sooner returned into his Kingdom, than he would employ all possible means to declare the part he took in the interests of that Prince, his near Cousin; chiefly in a cause, the justness whereof was so evident, and wherein he was interested in his particular. And that he hoped, that the peace not being so far advanced, as they were made to believe, he should have leisure to give him proofs of his good will. After that, the Ambassadors retired, to go visit the Earl of Oxford, chief of the Deputies of the Higher House of Parliament. The Ambassadors had caused the King to be sounded, if he were pleased that they should see the Commissioners of the two Houses; whereas his Majesty expressed to them, that they should do him a pleasure therein, they had often caused audience to be asked both of one, and tother; but their continual employments upon the King's person, joined to the difficulty that was to assemble persons that diverted themselves in a place, where occasions were not wanting to them, and in a time when all the world rejoiced, opposed always their satisfaction; until that the Earl of Oxford, who endeavoured what he could to make the Commissioners of the Higher House to assemble, but to no purpose. They prayed at last, the 31 day of May, audience of the Lower House, with the Lord Fairfax, who had assembled some of them in the house of the Baron of Asperen, where he was lodged, and the next day, which was Tuesday, the Earl of Oxford did as much, in receiving them at home with him, in the house of Mr. Buysero, Griffeer, or Secretary of the Council of the Prince of Orange. Coming from the audience of the King, both one and tother treated the Ambassadors with much honour and respect; but they talked of the affairs of the North, as of a thing, whereof the King should have, for the future, the disposition, since that in entering into the Kingdom, he should have solely the whole conduct of the affairs of the Estate.  
We have said elsewhere, that the Ambassador of Spain saw not the King, but as his particular servant; and that he of Portugal, saw him not when his Majesty arrived: Hence was it that there were no other foreign Ministers, that would trouble him with their compliments upon his voyage, after having officiated with him upon his coming to the Crown. There was but Prince Maurice of Nassau, who having had the honour to lodge the King in his house, which is, without doubt, the only one in the Hage, capable to receive so great a Monarch, as well because of its seat, being situated in the fairest place of the Town, and chief avenue of the Palace, to which the Viver serves for Mote; as because of the decoration of its apartments; in one of which, he caused to be represented the Princes of his House, one of the most ancient and most illustrious of all Germany, which would choose there an Emperor, in a time, when there was none to be found in the other families; There was but that Prince, Isay, who willing to acknowledge the honour he had received at home; and, at the same time, to officiate with his Majesty for his Electoral Highness of Brandenburg, made him also a compliment upon his voyage. His Majesty received him perfectly well, did him civility in his particular, speaking very advantageously of the merit of his person, and thanking him for the affection which he would express unto him: but it was with an extraordinary resentment, that the King spoke of that which the Duke of Brandenbourg had had for the estate of his affairs, when all the world believed them desperate; and said, that he would conserve eternally the remembrance of the good Officers which his splendid Highness had rendered him in the Empire, and of the great obligations which he would gain upon him in a time, when there was no Prince, almost, that dared to declare for his interests.  
Mr. Coyet, who had saluted their Royal Highness' some days before, and had had a particular conference with the Chancellor, contented himself to signify to his Majesty, by Sir Edward Nicholas, that he would not trouble him, among so many other compliments, which he should have to receive, because the King, his Master, would not fail to send an Extraordinary Ambassador to felicitate his Majesty, solemnly, in his Kingdom, as soon as the distance of the places would permit the advertisement of his re-establishment to be carried into Sweden.  
But the Estates General, who had received an honour, whose memory shall be eternally precious to posterity, thought themselves 
The Estates General take leave of the King in a body.  bound to acknowledge it, in going, in body, to thank his Majesty for the grace he had done them: and to compliment him upon his voyage. They were there, as we now say, in body, and in the same order as at their first audience; and the Baron of Gent, who uttered the speech eight days before, was the Orator also this time, and spoke thus.  
SIR,  
The Estates General of the United Provinces, having been 
The Speech of Mr. of Gent.  advertised from your Majesty, that you purpose to embark to morrow, to complete your voyage for England, return here again, to receive the honour of your commands on the point of your departure. If your Majesty finds not on their faces the same cheerfulness, which you might observe there, when they had the honour to come to salute you at your arrival, it is because of the sorrow they have to see themselves ready to be deprived of the splendour of so fair a light, which your Majesty hath made to shine in their Estate, during the little time you would remain there. That which comforts them, SIR, in some kind, is, that they know, that the interests of your Majesty press your departure; and the good of the affairs of your Crown, permits you not to defer it longer. Notwithstanding, the little residence which it hath pleased your Majesty to make amongst us; and the goodness, wherewith you would receive the endeavours we have made to be able to please you, leaves there such signal, strong and indubitable marks of your good will towards us, that we shall bless, eternally, for it the providence, to which we owe those incomparable advantages. The presence of your Majesty's sacred person, in their assembly, SIR, and the obliging expressions, which your royal mouth would make in their Senate, are such evident testimonies of the disposition which you have to honour this Estate with your Royal good will, that they deserve that all posterity should find them written in Letters of Gold, in their registers, as we have deeply graven them in our hearts. If the entertainment which hath been made to your Majesty; and which it hath pleased you to accept in so engaging a manner, hath no proportion with the greatness of so potent a Monarch, we beseech you most humbly, to believe, that this defect proceedeth rather from the indigence of our country, then from the will of the inhabitants; in whose acclamations and joy, we are persuaded that your Majesty may observe visibly the zealous devotions, and ardent prayers, they put forth unto Heaven for the prosperity of your affairs, and for the glory of your Majesty's person. And since the Estates General are, through an indispensable necessity, to be deprived of the precious presence of your Majesty, they will accompany, at least, your person with their prayers, which they will make incessantly, that the sea and winds may favour your passage, and make you happily to arrive at the haven of your Kingdom, that calm and quietness may be open unto you, after that storm and tempest, had so miserably held it shut to you so many years. As soon as the Estates General shall have understood, that your Majesty is landed, they will not fail to send to you their Extraordinary Ambassadors, as well to finish, with you, in your Kingdom, the offices which they have begun here, as to receive and make more particular overtures in the important subject of an alliance, whereof it had pleased your Majesty to touch here something in general; being ready to answer, of their side, the good and sincere intentions, whereof you had the goodness to give such great assurances; because that with the affection which we have for the good of your affairs, we have also a most deep respect for the sacred character of your unction, and for the inestimable merit of your Royal person.  
The King did but confirm, by his answer, the assurances he had already given of the amity he had promised to conserve for this Commonwealth; and the unparallelled advantages which the Estate should find in the alliance which they may renew with England; thanking them also for all the civilities they had done him, since the time he entered into the country.  
The Estates General being retired, the King employed the rest of the day in visits of taking leave: The first he made, was to the Queen of Bohemia, his Aunt, where he stayed not long. Coming forth thence, he went to the house of the Princess Dowager of Orange; where he found also the Princess of Nassau, and the Young Lady of Orange, her daughters. The conversation which he had with her Highness, was more than a good halfhour, which was employed, not only in civilities ordinarily practised among persons of that condition; but also, (as the wit of this Princess is capable of the greatest affairs) in a very serious discourse on the present Estate of Europe, and on the most important interests of its Princes, whereof she hath a most perfect knowledge. She had received the King on the stone stairs of the Court, and intended to wait on him even to his Coach; the King opposed it, and protested, that he would never receive that honour from a Princess, whom he esteemed no less for her merit, then for her birth, and quality; but the Princess insisted therein so strongly, that it was impossible, for the King, to overcome her civility, though at every step, and at every apartment, he endeavoured to hinder her. But, indeed, she reconducted him, with the Princesses her daughters, to the same place where she received him; and retired not, till she saw the coach go away, as she did at the first visit. After this the King went to see the Princess Royal, who presented him many persons of condition, either to recommend them, or to take leave. He stayed there until supper time, whilst the wagons, which the Estates had hired had brought the baggage to Scheveling, where they embarked it, as soon as it came.  
At evening, Mr. of Wimmenum laying hold of the occasion which the King gave him, in speaking of the testimonies of affection which the Estates of Holland had rendered him, said to his Majesty, that the intention of the Lords the Estates of Holland, was to do something more, if there were any rarities in their Estate that might be presented to so great a Prince. Notwithstanding, 
Presents of the Estates of Holland to the Dukes of York and of Gloucester.  that they would give themselves the liberty to cause him to be accommodated, and to send him, on the first occasion, some Presents, which they would beseech his Majesty to consider, as proofs of their good will, rather than as effects of their power. The King would put if off, in saying, that he needed no other assurances of the affection of the Lords the Estates of Holland, than those they had given him on this present occasion; that he was satisfied therewith, and thanked them, not only for the effects passed; but also for the good will they expressed unto him for the future. Those Presents which they had designed for him, were not yet ready, as well because the stately bed of the Princess Royal, which was to make a part of them, was not yet perfected; as because they knew not yet what his Majesty would like most: Therefore was it that Mr of Wimmenum would insist no more therein; but went from thence to the House of the Duke of York, to whom he said, that the Lords the Estates of Holland, willing to give some mark of their affection to his Royal Highness, had sought every where for something that might be worthy of him, and that having found nothing because of the small residence which his Majesty, and the Princes his brothers, had made in the country, and yet not able to resolve themselves to let his Royal Highness depart, without giving him a testimony of their respect and good will, they prayed him to accept a bill of Exchequer of seventy five thousand Gilders, which make seven thousand pounds, which he might cause his Treasurer to receive, either at present in this Town, of Mr. Berckel, Receiver General of the Province, or at London, or elsewhere, for no body will refuse to give it immediately. The Duke received the bill with many testimonies of acknowledgement; and signified that it was without repugnance that he charged himself with this obligation towards the Lords the Estates. The Duke of Gloucester, to whom Mr. Wimmenum presented also a bill of a like sum, received it also very kindly, and thanked the Lords in most obliging terms. The Lords the Estates of Holland had also designed a Present, to the value of four thousand Gilders, for my Lord Craft, one of the four Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, that brought them into the audience of the King; but they deferred to give it him, for the same reason, that made them defer the King's, because a chain of gold of that price could not be made in so few days.  
At this time the days were at their full length, and yet it may 
The King departs from the Hague.  be said, that not only the Hague saw Wednesday, the 2 of June, some thing more early than the Sun; but also, that there was, in a manner, no night between Tuesday and Wednesday; particularly for those, who finding no hole to put their heads, because the houses not being able to lodge the crowd of people, which ran there from all the neighbour Towns, the most part were constrained to walk the streets. There was no night for more than fifty thousand persons, who from the precedent evening were gone to take up place on the Downs, or sand-hils, which border on the sea along the coast of Holland, from whence they might discover the Fleet, and from whence they intended to see the King to embark. The Bouteselle awaked the Cavalry before day; and at two a clock in the morning, instead of the Moon, Drum did beat the assemble, as well for the Citizens as for the soldiers. In the King's house itself, every one was employed, the whole night, in causing the rest of the baggage to be loaden, and sent away; and there was seen nothing but Wagons, and Coaches full of English, who went to embark themselves before the barks appointed for his Majesty's service, were possessed by his domestic people and servants, who were to attend upon his person. The Citizens came together at their ordinary rendezvous of the Viverberg, and the Regiment of the Guards in the outer-Court, commonly called Buitenhof; and both one and tother marched from thence to Scheveling, where they stood in Battalions, on the sea shore, from both sides of the Battery of the Cannon, which was brought there from the Hague.  
The King was soon ready, and received the submissions and compliments of many particular persons, that would do him reverence, in expecting the Estates of Holland, who had caused audience to be asked, to take leave in body. They came about eight a clock in the morning to the Hall, where they had received the King's visit, the day before; and went from thence to Prince Maurice his house, in the same manner and order, as they observed, when they made him their first compliment. All the persons of quality that were about his Majesty, came to meet them, and conducted them to the chamber where the King had given the most part of his public audiences. The Pensionary Counsellor, who his the organ, by which this great body useth to express itself, and who had place, because of that, immediately after the Nobles, and before the Deputies of the towns, spoke near in these terms.  
If one may judge of the displeasure which we have to see 
The Speech of Mr. de Wit..  your Majesty depart from our Province, by the satisfaction we have had to possess you, we shall have no great trouble to make it known unto you. Your Majesty might have observed, in the countenance of all our people, the joy they had in their hearts to see amongst them a Prince cherished of God, a Prince wholly miraculous, and a Prince that probably is to make a part of their quietness and felicity. Your Majesty shall see presently all the streets filled, all the ways covered, and all the hills loaden with people, which will follow you even to the place of your embarkment; and would not leave you, if they had wherewith to pass them into your Kingdom. Our joy is common unto us with that of our Subjects; but as we know, better than they, the inestimable value of the treasure which we possess, so are we more sensible of this sad separation. It would be insupportable to us, SIR, if we reentered not into ourselves, and considered not, that it is the thing of the world we most desired, and the greatest advantage also that we could wish to your Majesty. We acquiess therein, because we know that this removal is no less necessary for us, then glorious to your Majesty, and that it is in your Kingdom that we must find the accomplishment of the prayers we have made, and make still for you and us. So we shall not fail to profit thence, as well as from the assurances which it hath pleased you to give us, of an immutable affection for the good of this Republic. We render most humble thanks unto your Majesty for them, and particularly for the illustrious proof, which it pleased you to give us thereof, by the glorious visit, wherewith you honoured our assembly. We shall conserve the memory of it most dearly, and make the marks of that goodness to pass to our last posterity; to the end, you acknowledge it with the same respect, with which we have received it. The constitution wherein we see your Majesty, ready to take horse for the continuation of your voyage, forbids us to enlarge ourselves upon a subject which would never weary us, if we had words conformable to our respectful sentiments. But we have no mind to increase the just impatience which your Majesty should have to see yourself returned into your Kingdom. We pray God, SIR, that it be quick, and happy, and that, as he hath disposed the hearts and affections of your subjects to acknowledge their lawful and sovereign Prince, it will please him also to command the sea and winds to favour your voyage; to the end, that after you have received on your own coast the same prayer which we shall reiterate, you may enjoy in your royal person, and in your posterity forever, all the felicity and prosperity, which your most humble servants wish unto your Majesty.  
The King thanked the Lords the Estates of Holland for the civilities they had done him, during the residence he had made in their Province, as also for the affection they had expressed unto him by the prayers they made for the success of his voyage, and prosperity of his reign. He promised them also, that he would not only continue to live with that Republic, in a perfect good correspondence; but would also take a great pleasure to make a good and most straight alliance with it.  
After this, the King, who stayed but till this compliment was ended, went forth of his chamber; at the same time the Estates of Holland retired. He took his way to the Princess Royal her apartment, whom he would visit at home, before he took horse; and seeing that the Lords the Estates conducted him, he would not be covered from his house to the chamber of the Princess Royal, where being come, the Estates retired, to take coach, when they saw the King to go a horse back. The conversation which his Majesty had with the Princess, was but a moment; for immediately after, he went thence, and came down into the Court of the 
The King goes out of the Hage.  Palace, where he mounted a horse back, with the Princes, his brothers, and took his way for Scheveling with the report of the great artillery, which thundered from the Rampire, marching in the midst of those two Princes, and having before him the Prince of Orange, accompanied with Prince William of Nassau, Governor of Freesland, with Mr of Wassenaer, Lieutenant Admiral of the Province, and with many other persons of condition. The Queen of Bohemia, the Princess Royal, the Princess Dowager, and the Princesses, her daughters, took coach, as well as the Estates of Holland, who would accompany him, in body, even to the place of his embarkment. The Ambassadors, and other Ministers of foreign Princes, who sent not there their coaches for the same reason that had dispensed them thereof at the entrance, and almost all persons of condition, took the avantguard, and disposed themselves along the coast, where the Citizens, the Horse, and the Regiment of the Guards, stood in Battalia. A great part of the inhabitants, of the neighbour Towns, were there already, and those that came not forth of the Hage, early in the morning, or the nightbefore, followed the Royal Persons, in so great a multitude, that that place, which is very populous, and could not lodge the people that were come there from all places of the Province, was abandoned, and converted into a desert, in very few hours. As soon as they saw the King to appear on the hill, which covereth the village of Scheveling, on the sea side, the Cannon, which was transported, two days before, from the Viverberg, upon the strand, saluted him with its whole battery, which ceased not to shoot continually, until being drawn off from those coasts, could see no longer the honour they endeavoured to render him. The Citizens and the Guards answered thereunto with their volleys of Musket shot, and the Cavalry with their Carbines, and invited thereby the Fleet to make all their artillery to thunder, which afving lightened the air, filled it with so thick a smoke, that those great floating Castles, disappeared in a moment to the eyes of those that were on the land.  
The King being alighted, received the last compliment of the Lords the Estates of Holland, (who had conducted him, in body, to the very brink of the sea, and left him Deputies to conduct him to his ship) by the mouth of the Pensionary Counsellor. His Majesty next took leave of the Duke of Brunswick-Lunenbourg, of the Princess Dowager of Orange, of the Princess of Nassau, and of the young Lady of Orange, her daughter; and of all the other persons of quality, which could not follow him, or might trouble him in waiting on him to the Fleet: There were none but his nearest relations, the Queen of Bohemia, the Princess Royal, and the Prince of Orange, that conducted him aboard the Admiral ship, which was to pass him into England. The Estates of Holland had 
He imbarks.  caused one of the greatest barks of the place to be fitted for the Royal persons. The body of the vessel was garnished with Tapestry, its Mast carried the Royal Flag, and its yards were loaden with garlands, and crowns of verdure and flowers, amongst which there was one fastened, accompanied with a streamer, which carried for Devise, Quo fas & fata, to denote, that the King, in embarking himself, went to the place where the justice of his cause, and the providence of God called him, and to allude to the ordinary Motto of the Kings of England, Dieu & mon droict. The King entered there with all the Royal Family; but seeing a shallop to approach covered, glazed and tapistred which the Admiral Montague had sent from aboard him, as soon as he saw the King to appear on the Strand, he entered into her, and the Queen of Bohemia followed him. This Shallop was accompanied with many others, and was rowed with oars, by the sea men, who seeing themselves in possession of their Sovereign Prince, made the whole neighbour shore to resound with their shouts; and expressed their joy by all the marks that could be required from persons of that quality: some in casting their caps up into the air, and others, in casting them into the sea, to which some likewise abandoned their doublets and wastcoasts. The Lord Montague, who had changed the Flag of the pretended Republic, before he departed from the coast of England, and born that of the three Kingdoms, whilst he was in the road; seeing the King to approach, caused the Royal Flag to be put to the main mast, and to the Castle of the poop, and received his Majesty, with the greatest submission, that could be rendered to a Prince, at the top of the ladder, by which one goes up unto the ship. The King rendered him all the testimonies of goodness and affection, which he could expect from a Sovereign, who acknowledged perfectly the important services he had done him, as having been one of the most powerful instruments of his re-establishment, whereof he had given him assurances long before; and a most certain proof, when he departed from the Sound, upon the King's orders, to favour the design of Sir George Booth, who had taken arms for the service of his Majesty, under pretence of demanding the convocation of a free Parliament.  
It was passed eleven a clock when the King arrived at the Fleet, so that as soon as his Majesty was never so little disengaged of a part of those that would follow him to the ship, he put himself at table in the gallery of the poop, with the other Royal Persons, and caused some persons of condition, and the most confident of his Majesty, to be entertained in the other apartments; the Lord Montague making as fair an expense at this repast, and at all the others following, as at this passage of the King, which was but of two days, he employed more than two thousand Jacobusses, though the Lords the Estates had provided his ship, and the rest of the Fleet, with all kinds of provisions, and refreshments necessary, beyond what needed for so little a passage. After dinner, the King received again the last compliments of some particular persons, expressed great civility to the Deputies of the Estates of Holland, (for whom Mr of Wassenaer, Lieutenant Admiral of the Province, uttered the speech) and sent them away with new protestations of affection and amity. The Sea was calm, and the Heaven so clear, that the King had a desire to discover once again a Country, where he had received so many testimonies of respect and love: to this purpose he went up on the top of the poop, and seeing that the people, with which he had left the Downs covered, remained there still, he could not choose but say, that he must confess, it was impossible that his own subjects could have more tenderness for him, than those people, on whose affections he saw that he reigned no less, than he was going to reign on the wills of the English.  
After this, he embraced the Prince of Orange, with the same tenderness, as he could have had for his own Son, and gave him his blessing; and took leave of the Queen of Bohemia. But when he was to depart from the Princess Royal, his Sister, that Princess, who had with so much courage, and without grief almost, looked all passed misfortunes in the face, and who had virtue enough, to fortify that of her brothers, had need of all his constancy, to resolve herself, to suffer this separation, which she had wished with so much impatience, and whose consequences were to be so glorious both to one and tother. The King himself, who had had resolution enough, to witness no weakness in his greatest misfortunes, cannot resist the tears of a Sister, whom many other considerations, as strong as those of birth render extremely dear unto him. She would have been inconsolable, but for the hope she had to see again shortly the King, her brother, in his Kingdom; and they would have been troubled to disengage her from the arms of his Majesty, if Admiral Montague had not caused the anchors to be weighed, and given signal to the other ships to set sail. The Admiral ship was already under sail for England, when the Queen of Bohemia, the Princess Royal, and the Prince of Orange, descended into the Bark, which was to bring them back again to the land. All the artillery of the Fleet, saluted those Royal Persons, and the Battery of the Downs answered it, with the small shot of the Citizens and Guards. It was about four a clock in the afternoon, that the Fleet did set sail, and about six a clock, it was gotten so far of, that the people, which stirred not from the Downs, having lost sight of it, retired themselves, whilst the King continued his way towards his Kingdoms, with the same prosperity, which was seen lately to accompany all his affairs.  
FINIS.   

 

THE DEPUTIES OF THE ESTATES of Holland compliment the King at Delf. Pag. 30.  

WHat's this we see presented to the eye  
In such a neat, and handsome Symmetry?  
Let us survey the Piece in every part,  
And then pass sentence on the Graver's art:  
Behold a Town here which is known to be  
Famous of old for many things, which we  
Would instance largely here, if we had room;  
But being tied to an Epitome,  
We can but touch; surely the site is sweet,  
The buildings well composed in every street,  
And regular, its privileges great,  
And which is more, it is the ancient Seat  
Of the Auranian Princes, 'tis their Tomb,  
Their Monument, where they must sleep till doom;  
'Tis called Delf, and if you think it fit,  
we'll add the Fair, as its just Epithet:  
Here did th' Estates first in most Princely wise  
Receive the King by their chief Deputies;  
Here you may see their humble postures, and  
Their lowly reverence, when they kiss his hand,  
And from their Body thank him for the grace  
They did receive to see him in that place,  
And next at home, where to conduct him, they  
Were come express on this their Holiday:  
All this, and more is with the Graver's knife  
Carved, as in colours done, unto the life;  
The Steel, and Pencil have not differed here,  
If one draws smooth, the other cuts as clear;  
Now give your censures, and your judgements right,  
Can any thing exceed this black and white?   
WILL. LOWER.   

A POETICAL DESCRIPTION Of the Batavian Court. Pag. 34.  

BEhold a Royal Prospect, here 's a Wood;  
Fair Palaces, and in the midst a Flood,  
Now called the Crowned Viver, since the beams  
Of Majesty so richly gilded its streams:  
The Graver hath done wonders; let us stand  
First on the Place, and view that piece of land  
Adjoining to't, that sweet and Princely Grove  
The Viverberg, or rather Walk of Love,  
Where our scorched Gallants, to avoid the Sun  
When the Dog reigns, under its shadows come  
To cool their heats, and pitifully meet  
With fiercer flames, which from the windows creep  
Into their souls on either side the Stream,  
First the Court ey, and then the Country beam  
Make massacres of miserable hearts,  
Which from all quarters feel those flaming darts,  
And fall as bleeding Victims do: But we  
Stay too long here, what is that house we see  
So fair, is't not the Doel, that stately Inn,  
Where Gamesters come, with an intent to win,  
And to be rich, but oft go beggared thence,  
A place, indeed, of a brave vast expense,  
Where the Town meets, and sometimes quaff a health  
Unto the Prince, th' Estate, and Commonwealth:  
Let's proceed further, and observe that row  
Of beauteous buildings, much, indeed, I owe  
To their rich merit, but I cannot stay,  
Prince Maurice Palace calls my thoughts away,  
To contemplate its beauties, and the rare  
Magnific structure, which may well compare  
With any modern Work, in all respects  
Of the best, and the skilfullest Architects;  
But its chief glory is that it can say,  
It lodged him, whom Nations must obey,    

  


Great Britain's King: Let's make but one step more,  
And only look upon the Court before  
We take our leave, here do the Prince and States  
Meet, and resolve on all their wise debates,  
Here is their Council, here their Residence,  
Here is their gain, and here is their expense;  
Our survey's ended, we have gone the round;  
It resteth only that the Piece be crowned.   
WILL: LOWER.   

THE GREAT FEAST  
The Estates of Holland made to the King, and to the Royal family. Pag. 80.  

THe Roman Story tells us that the feasts  
Lucullus made to entertain his guests  
Were such, and so prodigious, that the Sea,  
The Land, and Air, were emptied every day,  
To serve his table with all delicates  
Of Fish, of Flesh, of Foul, and dainty cates:  
Great Master of the mouth, voluptuous Lord,  
Hadst thou lived now to see this Princely board,  
This stately and magnific service here,  
Thou wouldst cry out, mine was but homely cheer,  
This a repast for pallets all divine  
As those that sit here in these orbs, and shrine;  
Raped too with admiration, thou wouldst say  
That all the Elements do strive to pay  
A voluntary tribute to th' Estates,  
Of their most rich, and choicest delicates;  
And that their fined, and winged subjects all  
Offer themselves in sacrifice; and fall  
Into the dishes of their own accord,  
To furnish and adorn this Royal board.  
What is there wanting here that may invite  
The quaintest and most curious appetite?  
Ladies feed freely, 'tis no mortal meat,  
'Tis rather an Ambrosia that ye eat.  
Will you drink Nectar, Princes? here's a Wine  
That's richer, more delicious, more divine:  
Th' Italian Malvoisy cannot compare  
With this rare Juice sent down here from the air,  
To please your tastes, and to be swallowed  
In every health drunk to the Crowned Head;  
The joyful thunder of th'Artillery  
Proclaims it louder than that of the Sky:  
The Violins, and other Instruments;  
Strike pleasant airs here to delight the sense  
In an harmonious consort, and the Spheres  
Descend with Music to enchant those ears.   
WILL. LOWER.   

His Majesty taking his leave in the Assembly of the Estates General. Pag. 90.  

SO looked great Caesar, when from his high Throne  
He would descend sometime to honour Rome  
By sitting in the Senate; but we see  
Not the least sign of any Sympathy  
Between these modern Hero's here, and those  
Old Senators, whose surly brows spoke foes  
Under a false respect unto their King,  
Though his bright glory through the world did ring:  
'Tis different here, these brave Estates, though free,  
And Sovereign, pay yet humility,  
And lowly reverence, through a candid love,  
Unto this Prince, as if he were their Jove,  
And they his subjects; see with what respects  
They entertain him by their sweet aspects,  
And sober postures; how they seem to say,  
You shall rule here, Sir, and we will obey;  
Mount our Tribunal, all your words shall be  
Our Oracles, and all your actions free,  
As saving to us, since so wise a King  
Draws them from perfect justice, as their Spring,   
WILL. LOWER.   

 
  

HIS MAJESTY TAKING HIS leave in the Assembly of the Estates of Holland. Pag. 93.  

STrange revolution, Fate! here's Monarchy  
In Council met with Aristocracy;  
Though different in themselves, here they agree;  
And by their pleasant gestures seem to be  
Unanimous in all things; what the one  
Demands, the other grants, division  
Is banished hence; here is all harmony;  
Love, and alliance, perfect amity,  
A lasting League reciprocally signed  
By promises, and both have but one mind,  
Though different bodies, and a different frame  
Of constitution, as a different name:  
In cordial terms here they congratulate  
Each others happy government and state,  
Like twin-born brothers, they salute, embrace,  
The one vows fealty, and the other, grace:  
Long may they live united thus, and never  
By any chance in their affections sever;  
So shall they flourish both, grow great, and be  
Feared throughout the World's vast Monarchy.   
WILL. LOWER.   

ON HIS MAJESTY'S DEPARTURE from the Hage to his Fleet before Scheveling. Pag. 105.  

THus from the Belgic States delicious Seat  
Triumphantly departed Charles the Great:  
The World assembled from all parts to see  
This Monarch pass unto his Dignity,  
The Continent could not contain the press  
Which crowded in all places to express  
Their common joy; the Military Bands  
Of Horse and Foot were ranged on the sands  
To make a Royal Guard; young Mars stood by  
Th' Illustrious 
* York.  Duke, who by his hand and eye  
Gave full directions, all the Cannon were  
Disposed in order by his Martial care:  
The Sky was clear, the Winds were still, the Sea  
Looked like a fair Bride on her Marriage day,  
When from the Crowned Bark the King betook  
Himself to Sea with 
* The Princess Royal.  Her whose only look  
Can calm the Tempests; in the Skiff they went  
Sent from the Fleet; the Seamens high content  
To see their Sovereign cannot be expressed  
But by their shouts; the Seas most loyal breast  
Sweetly received its Master, the old 
* Neptune.  God  
Freely resigned his trident Mace and Rod,  
To him who better could command and sway  
That Element: The gentle Dolphins play  
About the Boat, they dance in rounds, they skip,  
And make a Sea-guard for him to his Ship.  
Thus was the King embarked, when suddenly  
The thunder of the Cannon shook the sky  
From Sea to Shore, the smoke obscured the Sun,  
And made a night ere half the day was done:  
Th' Artillery, and small shot on the Strand  
Moved the Sand-hills, and terrified the Land,  
As if it felt an Earthquake; but at last  
All this dissolved, and that great Triumph past  
When our bright Star, which graced the Belgic Sphere,  
Drew off from thence his clouded own to clear.   
WILL: LOWER.   

  

AN ACROSTIC POEM. In honour of his Majesty.  

Call all those Sages, whose extended hearts  
Heaven fills with light in th' Astrologick Arts,  
Ask their opnions of this Monarch, they  
Reply, he's born the Universe to sway,  
Look on this calculation, read his Star,  
Seven Planets here all in conjunction are:   

They smile upon his birth, no rude jars here  
Hinder his motions under any Sphere;  
Excellent Aspects! long live this great King   

Supreme of all, let his bright glory ring  
Even round about that Globe held in his hand:  
Can earthly powers his conquering Arm withstand,  
Or check his fortune, which the Stars proclaim?  
Not possible, since Heaven inspires his claim.  
Draw presently with an immortal pen   

Kings in their colours, some quick Cherubin▪  
In Characters dropped drown suiting their souls,  
Note revolutions in these sacred Rolls  
Greatly to the advantage of our State,   

Of much import, to make us fortunate  
For many years under this glorious Reign,   

Giving us hopes of th' golden Age again.  
Return, return, divine Astrea, now  
Enter our Land; You shall not see one brow,  
Among so many, furrowed with a frown;  
Treason is dead, and foul Injustice down.   

Behold our true Protector to his Right  
Restored, th' Impostor stinks in blackest Night:  
justice again is seated in the Throne,  
Tied, and allied unto Religion,  
And winged with Wisdom, Policy and Art  
In the Reserve with Virtue have a part.  
No powers of Hell shall ever shake this frame  
So well composed, but must retreat with shame.   
WILL. LOWER.   

AN ACROSTIC POEM. On the most Illustrious and most Heroic Prince JAMES DUKE OF YORK.  

Judicious Nature in this Prince's birth  
Advanced her Work above a frame of earth,  
Making in him perfections all divine,  
Equally lustrous, as well those that shine  
So splendidly without, as those that be   

Dear preserved in his mind's Treasury:  
Valour, and Conduct here hold equal ranks,  
Kings have received their fruits with highest thanks;  
Each of his warlike actions is admired   

Of all Heroic Princes, and desired,  
For imitation sake, to be enrolled   

Yearly in leaves, and Letters writ with gold:  
Open your curtains, all ye azure Spheres,  
Raped with his glory, strike our ravished ears  
Kindly with music, whose sweet accents may  
Loudly proclaim York's triumphs every day.    

AN ACROSTIC POEM In honour of his Excellence the Lord General Monck, Duke of Albemarl, etc.  

Great Patron of this Isle, George styled Saint,  
Envy thou mayst in thy old Monument  
Our second Champion of that glorious Name,  
Raised by his acts to an immortal Fame,  
Glory thou hadst for quelling Monsters fell,  
Even so hath this for scattering 
* The Rump.  those of Hell.   

March bravely on, mount as thou hast begun  
On virtue's wings, and shine still in the Sun;  
Never eclipse, nor set, until bright Fame  
Calls for a second Order of thy Name  
Kings may be proud to wear, when thou art dead,  
Since by the best thou art so honoured.   
WILL. LOWER.    

ANGLIA TRIUMPHANS.  
SIVE IN INAUGURATIONEM SERENISSIMI, POTENTISSIMI AC INVICTISSIMI PRINCIPIS, CAROLI TWO, DEI GRATIA MAGNAE BRITANNIAE, FRANCIAE ET HIBERNIAE REGIS, etc. FIDEI DEFENSORIS, etc.  
POËMATION: AUCTORE ROBERTO KEUCHENIO, JC to. BELGA.  
HAGAE-COMITIS, Ex Typographia ADRIANI VLACQ. Anno M. DC. LX.   

CAROLO. II. DEI. GRATIA. MAGNAE. BRITANNIAE. FRANCIAE. ET. HIBERNIAE. REGI. FIDEI. DEFENSORI. TRIUMPHATORI. PIO. FELICI. AUGUSTO.  

REgia jam tandem votis famulantibus Orbi  
Numina, & indigetes radiant ad Sceptra Tiarae,  
Exorantque Deos: Superûm Clementia Terris  
Annuit, & domito furiis fatalibus Anglo;  
Insontesque Rosas, deploratumque reformat  
Imperium, & fractâ discors Testudine Regni  
Circumvallat Ebur: veteresque ulciscitur iras.  
Nec jam Fata Fidem, nec tollere celsius Orbis  
Vota queant: nec adorandi Sublimior Ostri  
Purpura Regalem sceptris ostendere Tantis  
Progeniem; quam Se nunc Defensore STUARTO  
Evehat, Alcidasque infrà se spectet inermes.  
Extulit Haeredem Solio Fortuna: Suisque  
Transcripsit CAROLUM Regnis. Secura trumphos  
Aspicit, unanimique favens Natura Britanno  
Inchoat Augustum radiis regalibus Ortum,  
Albionumque Diem; Thamesique affundit Olympum  
Luminibus; mundique Deos & Numina, quamvis  
Aequa minus, pavidaeque tremant ad culmina Musae,  
Palladiosque procul superent Diademata fasces.   

Maxime Rex, Non condignis, dum tolleris Ostro,  
Numen adorabo Vestrum sub honoribus: aut His  
Advolvar coram Imperiis: Non thure Britannum  
Pancheo venerabor Ebur, flammisque sonantes  
Tota Sceptris adolebo rogos: Non aemula Persis  
Dona litaturus veniam, aut cumulantibus Aulam  
Fulgidus ingrediar Trabeis, tantoque Triumpho  
Passa, salutandis tangam Palatia Divis,  
Regalesque Thronos: Quin dedignata Tiaris  
Subsidit Sors nostra Tuis; Solioque STUARTUM  
Territat horrentem instaurans Reverentia Cyrrham,  
Dum Superûm Te tollit amor, Celsumque Coronis  
Majestas Tamesina Caput: dum coelitus astris  
Prona Triumphantem resonant Te Numina Regem;  
Anglicaque exertis radiant Diademata Sceptris:  
Dum CAROLO se pandit Ebur, rutilansque Verendam  
Purpura Regali circumdat Corpore Pallam;  
Tutatamque Fidem Proavis, venerandaque Regni  
Symbola, & augustos longo capit ordine Fasces:  
Eloquar indignis tamen haec praeconia Musis  
Advena; Tergeminoque Decus sub murice fulgens  
Exemplo regnante canam, & subvectus ovando  
Semideos inter, quamvis trans aequora, Patres,  
Eminus auguriis consors Regalibus omen  
Suffundam: Tantoque minus semotus ab Ostro  
Fausta Caledonio advolvam praesagia Regno.   

Viderat exacto Fidei, titubantibus astris,  
Defensore, novis Solium confundere Turbis  
Rem Britonum: Summosque apices & culmina rerum  
Degeneres calcare Joves, subvertere Cinnas,  
Desaevire Scines, jam fastidire Superbos  
Motibus, & Divo Mariis turbantibus Aulam  
Sanguine spumantem circum rubuisse securim:  
Inversam trepidare Tyrum, Populique Tribunal  
Tota Brutis jurasse nefas: cum Regia tandem  
Et Jurata Fides, veteri venerabile Regno  
Praesidium, Rectoris egens, Te Sospite Sceptris  
Annuit, & laceri Corpus juvenescere Regni  
Augusto moderante jubet: Mox Celsius istis  
Ominibus Diadema patet, Tantoque Triumphans  
Redditur Imperio Deus, & sub fascibus Haeres  
Induit exutum fatis melioribus orbem:  
Tunc enses stupuêre feri, stupuêre furores,  
Et dementatae junctis Rectoribus uni  
Succubuêre minae: Tunc imperterritus iris  
Palluit, & Magno docuit parere Monarchae  
Mars Pater, atque aliâ illuxit Reverentia Luce,  
Adventu gavisa Tuo, Regique litantes  
Convenêre Deae: quarum devota verendum  
Excipit Haeredem Pietas, Sacrisque Deorum  
Imbuit, & magno exemplum sub Numine format.  
Huic comes augusto incedens Clementia vultu,  
Parcere Subjectis, & debellare Superbos  
Imperat, & geminis ostentans legibus ensem,  
Te veniam, Nemesinque pari distringere Voto,  
Regis ad exemplum, Majestatemque verendam  
Prona jubet: Varios mox involvuntur in usus  
Agmina Virtutum. Infractâ Metus exulat Aulâ:  
Illum Relligio, Justique innixa columnis  
Calcat, & impavidis urget Constantia plantis,  
Dum Regno sua forma redit, claustrisque solutae  
Tristibus exsangues redeunt sub Vindice Leges.  
Haud aliter, quam cum superato Gorgone Perseus  
Terribilis, domito Furiis luctantibus Orco,  
Et fractis Erebi monstris, jactantior alis  
Iret, & aetherias Victor conscenderet arces:  
Sic Superis, Auguste, Tuis subvectus, iniquum  
Vis Regno trepidare nefas, fassumque subactis  
Exemplis horrere scelus: formidine Poenas  
Exuis, & solo quamvis liventia damnas  
Toxica contemptu, castigandosque ferorum  
Consiliis spernis major Regalibus ausus:  
Et regno laudanda facis: jam clara Priorum  
Excutitur Regum facies, & avita regendo  
Suppeditant exempla fidem: generosa STUARTIS  
Sceptra probas, tantisque vigens Rectoribus ostrum,  
Et fortunatam Proavis veneraris Iërnem.  
Quàque triumphatis Victrix trans aequora terris  
Albion, & domitas pelago gens Martia classes  
Stravit, & hostilem toties turbavit Iberum,  
Celtarumque truces populos, tumidumque Garomnam,  
Et furias, Normanne, Tuas; ereptaque Gallis  
Littora; pugnantes pro Libertate Siluras,  
Exutosque Tagi Dominos, flentemque Medinam,  
Massagetûmque feros animos: quà Concanus armis  
Desmonio quondam sub bellatore rebellem  
Addidit imperio tractum: Regalibus hauris  
Expendens arcana Sacris, tantisque decorum  
Anticipas fastis precium, & meliore vagantem  
Fortunam ratione domas, mentemque per altos  
Dirigis annales Veterum. Jamque omina Regni  
Prospicis, & studiis animum civilibus imples,  
Venturumque levas furiis fatalibus Anglum.  
Ac velut aethereo rutilans praefulget ab axe  
Phosphorus, obductisque polo micat altior astris,  
Stellarúmque choros ducit: Sic Praevius orbi  
Affundis regale jubar, fulgesque Serenâ  
Majestate Pharos, Istis Tua Lumina Terris  
Dividis, exemplis servans communibus omnes.  
Quin ne prisca suis desint fundamina normis,  
Volvis ad Ausonios Regum primordia fastos,  
Romulidumque sacris incumbens legibus, aulis  
Ac regno servanda notas: Jam suspicis unum  
Relligione Numam, jam Fundatoribus Ancum  
Annumeras, damnasque brevis compendia Tulli,  
Arcentemque diu paucis pugnantibus Albam  
Eximis, Argolicum Latiâ qui subdolus arte  
Miscuit ingenium, & vafros uxorius astus  
Induit, indignum culpas moderamine Priscum;  
Nec quae Tarquinio nocuit sub conjuge, regni  
Pars Tanaquil placet: Infidum stat Foemina sceptris  
Nomen, & occultas interserit aemula fraudes.  
Cum legis illustrem circum juvenilia flammam  
Tempora, nascentis quondam praesagia Seruî,  
Coelestemque fidem: obscuris quâ Martia cunis  
Roma coruscantem regno inclarescere Vernam  
Vidit, & aeternam moderari fascibus Urbem:  
Commendas miranda Deûm, sed regna dolosis  
Insidiis quaesita negas: quin cruda Superbi  
Coepta, triumphantem cedente papavere Virgam,  
Summorumque neces poenis insontibus orbas  
Abnuis. Invisum format Vis publica Regem;  
Plus Proceres vindicta, suis si fidere Regi  
Principibus, fulcrisque nefas: Conspectius illud  
In se crimen habet vitium, quantoque relucet  
Altius, horrentes tanto plus explicat umbras.  
Nil Gracchis vacat alma Fides; fastidis ovantes  
Dissidiis, laetos in seditione Tribunos:  
Despicis atroces gladiis in Caesara Brutos,  
Mox ausum Rubicone scelus: sed facta Valentis  
Attilii, impavidosque probas duo fulmina belli,  
Scipiadas; Deciisque cupis pugnantibus orbem  
Credere, & infractum bellis civilibus Anglum.   

Sic antiqua Tuis regnorum exempla volutans  
Exordiris Ebur, grandisque ab origine Sceptri  
Nomen honorandum Populis, & sanguine Regum  
Conficis: & Famâ major succedis avitis  
Culminibus, nec ab his sancto moderamine differs,  
Par recto, Par imperio, nec honoribus Impar:  
Sceptriferis: Jamque arma Fidem tutantia tractas,  
Ut jurasse Deo lex sit; Populoque Triumphos  
Addixisse Suo; Martemque insignibus ausis  
Res Patriae ferat, & Magnum Virtute STUARTUM,  
Hoc discis Rectorque doces: quaesita coactis  
Bella geri damnanda: Decus poscentibus armis  
Explorare Ducem: Paci concedere Ferrum:  
Sat latè regnare, Suos qui Justus adunat  
Externis: Vastum Imperiis se pluribus Orbem  
Devincire, nec hunc uni succumbere Sceptro.  
Ind Tuo salvas cives, Te civibus, ostro;  
Injustamque domas Vim: Pro communibus aris  
Attollis vexilla: Focos defendere, causam  
Bellandi non ira, Salus jubet: Ictibus orbis  
Contundi suprema caves, & viribus Athlas  
Saepe labascentem vanâ formidine mundum  
Eximis, & cunctos humeris regalibus abdis.  
Dumque metus avertis ovans, sub Numine Regem  
Induis, & Soli subdis Tua Sceptra Tonanti.  
Despicis insultus: Illi, quem perfida Regum  
Regna reformidant, dum scis regnasse Regentum,  
Exemplum Te Regis habes: debebitur uni,  
Te Rectore, Deo; si, quà Regnantibus itur,  
Extimeas conferre gradus, interque Supremum  
Numen agas, Tantumque Pius venerere Regentem.   

quam Superis, Auguste, places! quam sidere laeto.  
Redderis Imperio, & Sceptris Venerable fulgens  
Exemplar Solio Proauûm, Regumque Tiaris  
Assereris! Tibi Pacatus desaeviit aether,  
Armatae cessêre hyemes: Tibi saevus Orion  
Condidit exutum furiis ultricibus ensem,  
Et formidatum monstris dominantibus astrum,  
Fatalesque minas: Regique invisa, Deoque  
Robora fulmineo feriens Tirynthius ictu  
Obruit: armato circum trux aegide Perseus,  
Ille Tyrannorum domitor, dum grandis Athlantum  
Vis pavet, aequatisque minus constantior ausis  
Excidit; aethereo tumidos discussit ab axe,  
Et conjuratos dextrâ deterruit ultor  
Debellante Gygas: Fugiunt trans aequora gentis  
Relliquiae, quocunque Vices, dum Fata recusant,  
Seu gravis ira Deûm, ostendent turbantibus undis  
Exitium. Vastis pridem circumfluus iris  
Vota fremit Pelagi Deus, & jam mancipat aequor  
Obsequio, motosque jubet componere fluctus.  
Quique cruentato, Regem indignatus & Aulam  
Gurgite defluxit Tamesis, Tibi lenior amnem  
Sternit, & aequato tranquillans murmura jussu,  
Sceptra vocat, facilesque Deos: quin forsitan undis  
Exilit, & pronos intendit ad oscula fluctus,  
Et Regni pars grandis ovat. Quo numina visa est  
Erexisse caput bellatrix Anglia, concors  
Successore tumet, plaususque animosa Triumphis  
Confundit, Rex Magne, Tuis; laetissima Sceptro  
Sufficit, unanimique favens adsuescit Iërna  
Imperio, & Triplici distinctum murice Regem.  
Destinat haeredi felix salvantibus ostro  
Auguriis: circùm pelago quà spectat Olympum  
Albion, & mediis incumbunt Orcades undis;  
Qua procul arcanis abdit se Scotia Sylvis;  
Aebudumque natat populus; quo Cambria tractu  
Dives agri; gemino surgunt sub climate gentes  
Grampiadum; paribus radiant Diademata votis,  
Regnaque communi coram gratantia Sceptro  
Exiliunt, tantisque parant praesagia coeptis.   

At nunc prona Tui Populi, applaudentibus astris,  
Collige Vota, Pater, faustumque ordire Triumphans  
Augurio gratante diem: Te, Maxime Victor,  
Tolle Throno; cape Sceptra Deûm; Tantisque verendum  
Fascibus instaura Numen: dum coelitus Aether  
Annuit, & grandi sua Sidera destinat ostro:  
Illa Triumphales rutilant fulgentia Currus;  
Ac velut augusto quondam micrantibus Ortu  
Praelusêre polo radiis; Celsamque STUARTI  
Progeniem, Magno natum de Numine Regem,  
Excepêre Deûm laetis fulgoribus astro,  
Londino spectante Faces: Sic gaudia Sceptris  
Adgeminant nunc festa Tuis, & sidere juncto  
Regia coelestes radiant ad Lumina gemmae.  
Ipsa Serenatum nebulis absolvit Olympum  
Publica Lux, dum Majestas Se Publica mundo  
Commodat, & Socium Phoebo confundit honorem,  
Astrorum Rex Clarus ovat, dum clarior Orbi  
Rex vacat, & Solio fulget Sublimis avito:  
Undique moerentes Coeli indulgentia nubes  
Exuit, & nitidis inter diademata stellis  
Expandit Natura polos; Rutupinaque circum  
Littora in oppositum diffundit lumina Belgam,  
Vicinosque ciet Populos, & amica Tiaris  
Nomina: dumque novos animat sub Rege Brigantas,  
Nos tacitos moerere vetat; magnumque putamus  
Cum Regno gaudere decus. Tu fracta Tyrannis  
Anglia, regali supplex advolvere Pompae,  
Et veterem circumda humero Laetissima pallam,  
Signatamque Rosis Geminis superindue Regi  
Gratatura Stolam: Tecum devota Caledon  
Accedat fluidis, libans sua dona, lacernis,  
Foecundas Telluris opes: Haec Sceptra STUARTIS  
Progenuit, Tantosque Deûm de Sanguine Reges.  
Tertia Regalis pars Majestatis Iërne,  
Tota Populis animosa, procul famulantibus undis  
Supplicet, & sociis inclinet flumina regnis:  
Adstent condecores votis spumantibus amnes,  
Ausoba, pacatoque ruens sub murmure Duris  
Unanimes confundat aquas; plaudensque boando  
Argita, belligerum ripis servilibus hostem  
Conciliet, rapidoque undantem vortice Senum,  
Liberiumque suis felix involvat alumnis:  
Tuque resultantem confer Sabrina Tuaedam,  
Vindiciasque adverte Tuas. Decorique Supremum  
Obsequium dona Regali, ostroque Verendum  
Numinis Haeredem concors venerare STUARTUM.  
Ite triumphantes pariter: Sit debita Tellus  
Quaelibet, & quantum Proavis concessit Honoris,  
Reddite Regnantis Solio. Vos aequa Leonis  
Foedera, Belgarum Patres; dum regia Pompam  
Londinum, grandisque parat vadimonia Sortis:  
Salvantes conferte sonos: interque Potentum  
Agmina, Semideûmque choros confundite plausus;  
Festaque Tergemino coram suffragia Sceptro.   

Tuque adeò Regale, Brito, dum Numen adoras;  
Hunc Illum reverenter habe, quem cernis, Athlantem,  
Regnorum sublime Caput: Dîs Regibus ortum  
Ter Fidei venerare Patrem: famulantibus astris  
Pro CAROLO instaurans CAROLUM, nunc altior Isto  
Coelitus exactos post Defensore Tyrannos,  
Sceptriferum dum condis Ebur, Solioque reducis  
Augustos Proauûm numeroso Rege STUARTOS;  
Excute Tarquinios fastis regalibus hosteis;  
Factaque, fortunasque Virûm: & sub Numine Tanto  
Regia prostratis iterum Diademata monstris  
Irradient: Trino rutilet Reverentia Sceptro,  
Majestatis amor: Longum furialibus armis  
Indefensa Fides, tandem tutantibus orbi  
Destinet Invictum fausto moderamine Martem,  
Tota Regum Praelustre Jubar: divulsaque regno  
Sceptra, Coronato parens submittere Regi  
Gestiat, atque Uni fasces advolvere Dextrae.  
Aspice fatales foliis vernantibus illo  
Ut coëant sub Rege Rosae: civilia rursum  
Symbola foecundis portendant otia seclis.  
Ipsa Caledonias socians Testudine Gentes  
Arctius unanimes Procerum Constantia jungat  
Obsequiosa manus, exultabundaque passim,  
Qua graditur, festis circumferat omnia votis  
Rectori gratanda suo: Quae numine Diuûm  
Erigitur, tantoque tumet fulgentior ortu,  
Trans Tamesin digno sub Regnatore Potestas;  
Discat honorandis Solio debere Deorum  
Cultibus: Augustae Supplex adsuescere Stirpi,  
Evitare minas: Tanto nos credimur Orbi,  
Atque eadem Belgae Sors est, quae salva Britannis.  
Nostra Triumphanti concors assibilat Anglo  
Libertas, pelagoque Potens sub Vindice pugnat  
Rege Leo; ternisque juvat septemplice Telo  
Consentire Rosis. Fidei Par Numen adorat  
Res Concors, Secura Domi, Si Libera Septo  
Sufficit, atque uno imperium moderamine firmat.  
Qui Genitor Britonûm fatis salvantibus Haeres  
Celsius evehitur, Trino Augustissimus Ostro;  
Grande Patrocinium Belgae est: Quo sospite nobis  
Continuat Fortuna foris, pelagoque potentes  
Imus in oppositos Regum ludibria fastus,  
Et debellandos laetis arcessimus hosteis  
Auspiciis: Salva sub Majestate triumphant  
Foedera Belgarum: & Tanti Spes Celsa Leonis  
Junior Auriacae erigitur Dux Stirpis Jülus  
Exemplo formante Virum: Praetextaque fervet  
Martia Nassavios consummatura Parentes  
Ausibus, & dignis Proauûm contendere gestis.   

At Tu, Grande Decus, Famae Pars altera, MONCKI,  
Inclyte Cunctator Britonum, quo Vindice Regno  
Parta Salus; Te tot Fabiis praelustribus aetas  
Posthuma, magnanimis feret exaequanda Camillis  
Gloria: Tu Populo non indignantibus armis  
Eripis imperium; Tu Regno Sceptra Jovemque  
Concilias: magno Solium damnante tumultu  
Luctantes animos, tempestatesque sonoras  
Discutis, elapsamque suo moderamine Gentem  
Fascibus instauras: Per Te languêre Potentum  
Consilia, & pavido mutans Vis Perfida Sceptro  
Suc cubuit dominis Scelerum: Tu subvenis Orbi,  
Quassatumque diu dubiis Rectoribus Anglum,  
Totque truces Regni ruituro culmine motus  
Solus ad obsequium, majestatemque reducis  
Pervigil. Inversis parent Tentoria signis,  
Castraque regali tollunt fastigia jussu,  
Mutatisque Ducum juxtà stant agmina turmis.  
Te Ductore suis Mars impavidissimus armis  
Creditur excussam monstris trepidantibus Uni  
Conjurasse Fidem CAROLO: generique rigentes  
Explorasse manus: quin Defensoribus Istis  
Obstrinxisse ferum tutandis Viribus ensem,  
Et Dominis cessisse lubens. Tunc undique bella  
Subsedêre; vago passim Discordia mundo  
Exuit armatas fracto molimine partes:  
Regalesque procul Borea melioribus astris  
Diffugêre minae, & circum furialibus armis  
Proscripsit Bellona moras: Quae nuper Ibero  
Militat adversis concors secedit ab armis  
Gallia, certatimque alio sub foedere differt  
Martis opus: cuncto species praetenditur Hosti,  
Dissimulatque suos anceps Europa furores.  
Per Te tuta novo rediit Fiducia Regno,  
Dum novitas obversa labat; civilia Gentis  
Aequora divulsis fidunt contraria Turbis,  
Insultusque ruunt rabidi: Spes redditur Orbis  
Imperio, quid in arma suis sub Regibus ausit,  
Quo bellatrici diffusa Britannia dextra  
Suppostas pelagi puppes, & praelia formet  
Mox nutu formanda Tuo, cum classica poscet  
Regalis Vindicta; Duces in bella ciebunt  
Ultoresque viros animi. Te vindice Celtae  
Et vicinorum sternens hostilia Regum  
Agmina, Consiliis ibit validissima septis  
Publica Vis: Triplicique Fidem jurata Coronae  
Acer in oppositum Virtus desaeviet hostem,  
Praefractisque feras subdet Cervicibus iras.  
Nec cedet sub Rege Salus Te Nectore, Tanto  
Te Cynea Decus Imperii: cum Posthuma tandem  
Fama parentabit Cineri, Virtutibus Aetas  
Annuet, & celsis Laus indelebilis astris  
Sceptra redonantem CAROLO transcribet Achillem.   
KEUCHENIUS.   

ROBERTI KEUCHENII JC. EPIGRAMMATA AUGUSTA In Restitutionem & Adventum SERENISSIMI MAGNAE BRITANNIAE, FRANCIAE, SCOTIAE, ET HIBERNIAE REGIS. CAROLI TWO, FIDEI DEFENSORIS, etc. OMNES COELICOLAS, OMNES SUPERA ALTA TENENTES.  
CAROLUS TWO, MAGNAE BRITANNIAE, FRANCIAE, SCOTIAE, ET HIBERNIAE REX; FIDEI DEFENSOR.  

IMPERIUM OCEANO, FAMAM QUI TERMINAT ASTRIS.  
QUantum Instàr Superis, quantum Regalibus Instàr  
Vultibus: Hoc tantum Fulget adinstar ebur.  
Anglia sic Regem videt instaurata STUARTUM,  
Et Solio Dominum Ter veneranda suum.  
Coelitùs Hoc victrix radiat sub Sole Caledon,  
Talis adorandum cernit Iërna jubar,  
Et populos, terrasque Deum diffundit in omnes,  
Quàque patet, tantum Luminis Orbis habet.  
Qualia servando Britoni Dî sidera volvunt,  
Qui Britoni Tantum restituêre Jovem.    

HENRICA MARIA, AUGUSTISSIMI DIVI CAROLI I. VIDUA.  

LAETA DEÛM PARTV, CENTUM COMPLEXA NEPOTES,  
Illa Fgo Borbonia germen de stirpe, STUARTO  
Nupta, Caledonias cerno redire faces;  
Et Diuûm regnare genus: Thamesique Serenum  
Regibus & Sceptris irradiare Diem.  
Prô Superi! quantis scintillant sidera fulcris,  
Sera quibus Patrium vespera condit ebur.  
Non Druidum jam Nata queror; non fata Brigantum,  
Dum meus imperiis conciliatur amor.  
Regnantem si ferre nefas, amplectar orantem  
Spreta Tyrannorum gloria, Laeta Deûm.    

MARIA STUART, PRINCEPS AURIACA.  

MAGNUM COELI VENTURA SUBAXEM.  
QUalis ab opposito fulgens Latonia Sole,  
Spargit inexstinctum suspicienda jubar:  
Talis adorandi Soror imperiosa STUARTI  
Splendet, & AURIACO cum Duce Mater ovat.  
Celsa triumphatum CAROLUS diffundit in orbem  
Lumina, & imperio fulminat astra suo.  
Cunctorum Sol ille micat; de Lumine Cujus  
Pandit inassuetum Luna, MARIA, diem.    

JACOBUS STUART, DUX EBORACENSIS.  

MISSUS IN IMPERIUM MAGNUM, CVI DEINDE SUBIBIT.  
QUem superi Imperio, Vi proscripsere Tyrannis,  
Exiliisque Parem, Rex Thamesine, Tuis:  
Talibus Infractus Dux EBORACENSIS in armis  
Emicat, & regni Pars veneranda patet.  
Castora si cernis Regem, cum Castore Pollux  
Fulget, & alterno sidere splendet apex.  
Imperio stat salva salus: Si deficit Athlas.  
Nec dum etiam fracti succubat orbis onus.    

HENRICUS STUART, DUX CLOVERNIAE.  

OSTENDENT TERRIS HUNC TANTUM FATA. NEQVE VLTRA ESSE SINENT.  
ME quoque Me Sceleris vis imperiosa Britanni  
Jussit ad externas profugitare manus:  
Trans pelagus proscribor inops: Feror exul in altum.  
Et queror in Flandro littore solus opem.  
Condolet Auriacae clemens Fortuna Sororis,  
Et dubiis consors subvenit una meis:  
Par fatis nunc tollor ovans Regalibus: Illum  
Dî Soliis, & nos inseruêre Polis.    

HENRICA STUART;  

MARTIS SOROR ET DIVARUM SANGVINIS una.  
NYmpha Caledoniae Venerabilis altera Stirpis,  
Filia Dîs geniti relligiosa Patris.  
Venit Laeta Duci congratatura STUARTO,  
Et Geminos inter constitit alma Deos.  
Andegaro nuptura: Soror nunc altera Martis,  
Mox Soror, & Conjux imperiosa Jovis.    

GUILIELMUS III. PRINCEPS AURIACUS.  

ALIQVIS MAGNA DE STIRPE NEPOTUM.  
ORte Diis, geniture Deos: Spes Celsa Leonis;  
Gloria Belgarum suspicienda Patrum:  
Indue magnanimum augurio jam Stirpis Jülum,  
Et Proavos vultu belligerante refer.  
Indue Pellaeum generoso Junior ausu,  
Vel praetextatis Hectora pande comis.  
Martius Auriacos mox consummabis Achilleis,  
Et Magno haud poteris degener esse Patri.  
Hoc spondent jam Fata Deûm: dum Julius alter  
Erigis armisonam Rege vigente fidem.    

GEORGIUS MONCK.  

TV MAXIMUS ILLE ES, VNUS QVI NOBIS CUNCTANDO RESTITVIS REM.  
PUgnasti Dux Magne domi: Te vindice, MONCKI,  
Contudit infractum sors inopina scelus.  
Cedunt attoniti furiis fatalibus Angli,  
Consiliisque Pares succubuêre suis.  
Reddis adorandum Solio Populisque STUARTUM,  
Sceptraque Tergeminis conciliata Rosis.  
Cum superis partire decus Cunctator: ovantem  
Instaurasse, Deûm est; praevaluisse, Tuum.    

IN REGIAM CORONAM, VENERANDO LEMMATE RESTITUTO REGI OBLATAM. PATIENTIAE DABITUR.  

MAxime Rex, Soliis pridem exturbatus avitis,  
Cum lueret fatis Sors truculenta suis:  
Maxime Rex, soliis Idem Sublatus avitis,  
Annueret fatis cum luculenta Tuis:  
Vim, noctem, scelus, arma, dolos transgressus & iras;  
Passus inaequandis tot graviora malis:  
Accipe Regalem, Meriti diadema, Coronam;  
Imperiique decus, Ter Venerande, Tui.  
Illam devotis offert Patientia dextris,  
Donat inoffensâ religione Fides.  
Qui Patiens, qui Passus ovat, non dignius Illum  
Cingere, quam titulis Dî valuere Suis.  
Imperitare, Deûm est: Sed & hoc: tolerante STUARTO,  
Tandem etiam regnis imperitante, PATI.   
Scribebam Arnhemi Gelrorum, Anno Christi M DC LX. Restituti Regis mirabilis ROBERTUS KEUCHENUS. JC.   

ROCHUS HOFFERUS ZIRIZAEUS AUGUSTO BRITANNIARUM etc. REGI. CAROLO TWO,  

S.  
DUm discors, qua terra patet, regnabat Erinnys,  
Et Bellona vagos Martis agebat equos;  
Dum furor armorum bellum undique & undique bellum,  
Jactabatque feras, sanguineasque manus;  
Atque, Europaei disrupto faedere mundi,  
Flagitii, & facies plurima caedis erat:  
Tuta Caledoniae peragebant otia gentes,  
Et tranquilla suis Insula stabat aquis.  
Pax populos concors divisos orbe ligabat;  
Non timor armorum, non peregrinus amor.  
Res fallax Fortuna rotat, quae regna, vel urbes  
Faelices stabili non sinit esse gradu.  
Hinc data libertas odiis, diductataque partes  
In varias Manes Anglia passa suos.  
Non longam potuit pacem, non ferre quietem;  
Armorum rabiem movit & ipsa quies.  
Et Mars civilis, turpisque licentia ferri,  
Et placuit proprio sanguine foeda man us.  
Et juvit mediis etiam pugnare medullis,  
Visceraque imperii dilacerare sui.  
Persuasit sibi quisque nefas, discordia jussit  
Omne malum, & cives conseruisse manus.  
Inque suum saevire Patrem, sacrumque cruento  
Ense, pudor saecli! desecuisse caput.  
O furor insani sceleris! Mens talia fando  
Horret, & à lacrymis vix tenet ora meis.  
Hinc fuga tot Procerum patriâ de sede, Ducumque,  
Dum vix spes vitae, aut mortis honesta fuit▪  
Dum rupit vis jura ferox, Astraea madentem  
Tristior infandâ caede reliquit humum.  
Exililium miseris fati solamen acerbi,  
Erroresque mali mite levamen erant.  
Si peteret solas, vel ficto crimine, fiscus  
Insidiosus opes, poena benigna fuit.  
Ipse Britannorum Princeps regnisque, domoque  
Expulsus, sociis fratribus, exul erat:  
Carolus exul erat triplicis diadematis haeres,  
Securae vario nescius orbe fugae.  
Sed tamen antè, licet disjectis undique turmis,  
Venturi faelix temporis omen erat;  
Emicuitque favor nova per miracula coeli,  
Quum fugit laqueos, Cromveliane, tuos.  
Servavitque unctum rebus melioribus olim,  
Mira caput magni cura, manusque Dei:  
Perque infaelices duxit faeliciter oras,  
Ambiguasque vias, implicitamque fugam.  
Hoc nemus Hamptoniae novit, saltusque profundi,  
Quêis licuit paucos delituisse dies;  
Atque annosa cavo profugum quae robore quercus  
Texit, & hospitio fovit amica suo.  
Arbor erat longos fessi miserata labores,  
Mitior & populis sylva ferebat opem.  
Hîc jacuit cultu regali exutus, & armis  
Carolus, at jacuit non sine Rege tamen:  
Hic domus, hic sedes, magnique palatia regni,  
Et, quod Londinum non erat, arbor erat.  
Ferratam vireat nunquam passura securim,  
Hospitis aeternùm stet memor illa sui.  
Janaque Lana fuit tantarum conscia rerum,  
Et vidit Domini tristia fata sui;  
Vidit, & ingemuit; tandem est gavisa perîclis,  
Per varios casus, tot superesse tamen;  
Praesumpsitque boni praesagia laeta futuri,  
Et cepit fausti Numinis inde fidem.  
Mascula se Regis commisit foemina fatis,  
Et voluit metui praeposuisse necem.  
Expediitque dolis Dominum sub imagine Servi;  
Elusitque truces, hoste sequente, minas.  
O pietas aevis nunquam moritura nepotum!  
O pulchrum famae nobilioris opus!  
Sic quaesita fuit, sic Regi inventa per artes;  
Posteaque in totum restituenda salus.  
Intereà subigit cunctas Olivarius urbes,  
Et capit indignâ regia sceptra manu.  
Libera gens servire cupit, parere Tyranno;  
Et juga truncato Principe dura pati.  
Libertas ut vera perit, sic ficta ministros  
In miserum populos compede nectit opus.  
Tandem & ficta perit, vario confusa tumultu;  
Impatiensque novi est Terra Britanna Ducis.  
Aemula vis animos hominum moderamine nullo  
Concitat, & praeceps ambitione furor.  
Hic tenet, ille petit regnum, variata potestas  
Fluctuat, estque fides lubrica, nulla quies:  
Vix color imperii, minimas discordia rerum  
Concutit, & turpes datque, iteratque vices.  
Anglia mactati damnat sua crimina Regis,  
Anglia, quae dederat funera, funus habet.  
Servitiumque suum, atque extorris triste perosa  
Principis exilium, quaerit, & optat opem.  
Sed nescit medicina viam, dum Monquius aequum  
Gentibus è Scoto limit sidus adest.  
Solus hic astringit lacerati vulnera regni,  
Congeriemque rudem solvit, & omne chaos.  
Et removet civile nefas, gentisque pudorem,  
Et reddit patriae jusque piumque suae.  
Et Regem regnare facit, reducemque paternis  
Restituit sceptris, restituitque suis.  
Vendicat Albiones veteri sine sanguine fato,  
Et cum Rege suam vendicat ipse domum.  
At tu magna Patris, prolesque augusta Stuarti,  
Dum fortuna redit, dum tibi prisca salus;  
Dumque tibi meritis, non armis, fama resurgit,  
Dumque animos hominum, non modò regna, capis;  
Dum sperata diu cernunt spectacula cives,  
Dumque suum Dominum te reverenter habent;  
Parce precor Patriae, culpamque ignosce fatenti,  
Posse est magnanimi plectere, nolle tamen.  
Horret ad invisi nomen ferale Tyranni,  
Fataque, quae sensit, Cromveliana timet.  
At se legitimo laetatur Rege potitam,  
Et vovet ut regnis sit tibi firma domus.  
Parce precor, sceleris labem tersisse laborat,  
Et, quo se miseram polluit, odit opus.  
Sed quid ago? Tu sponte tuâ placabilis irae es,  
Tuque Tuos populos, sicut amaris, amas.   
ROCHUS HOFFERUS, ZIRIZAEUS.   

IN EFFIGIEM REGIS CAROLI II. AD FORTUNAM.  

HUnc sese artifici Populis dat in aere videndum  
CAROLUS, Augustae spes recidiva domûs;  
Quem fata immeritum regnis fraudare Paternis;  
Post rerum infestas erubuere vices.  
Ille diu (quod victa viri virtute fateris)  
Perfidiae crimen, sors inimica tuae;  
Sacra Britannorum turbatis anchora rebus,  
Et Patriae sero jam sapientis amor,  
Suspicit excussum Capiti diadema rogatus,  
Sceptraque plebejas non bene passa manus.  
Profectum, Fortuna, nihil, vel caede Paternâ,  
Vel quati exilio, bis scelerata, tibi est.  
Accepta auspiciis proavitis Regna referri  
Dum prohibes meritis vindicat empta suis.  
Dilue Sacrilegae maculam, rea, dilue noxae;  
Ne tibi Posteritas hoc licuisse gemat.  
Fata nisi expugnas fatis adversa secundis,  
Aeternum invidiae Colla gravabit onus.  
Expiet innumeris Patrium caput ille triumphis.  
Absolvi haud aliâ lege, nefanda, potes.   
NICOLAUS HEINSIUS, Dan. F.   

Ad Augustum Britanniarum Regem, CAROLUM SECUNDUM, DE MONKIANIS LAUDIBUS.  

INspice scripta Duci facilis praeconia magno,  
Maxime Rex: neque enim sunt aliena tibi.  
E domito victor quam Monkius hoste paravit,  
Auspiciis causae debita palma tuae est.    

Fortissimo Heroi GEORGIO MONKIO, Oppressae rei Britannica Liberatori inclyto.  

HIc Vir, hic est, serâ cumulent quem laude nepotes,  
Quemque senes Fasti, Musaque jactet anus;  
Quo conculcatae respirant vindice leges:  
Tempore sustinuit qui bonus esse malo.  
Invictam praestare fidem qui Regibus ausus,  
His patriam asseruit, cum sibi posset, humum:  
Cesserat in spolium latronibus, inque rapinam  
Squallidus assiduâ caede Britannus ager:  
Captivo Procerum stipatus ab agmine carcer,  
Vixque pares poenis tortor & uncus erant:  
Exilium vitae numeratum in parte beatae:  
Undique nil meritas fiscus agebat opes:  
Regia carnifici cervix objecta nefando,  
Sceptraque plebêi praeda furoris erant:  
Credita mancipiis regni tutela salusque,  
Et populus viles liber adorat heros.  
Tentarant alii numerosam tollere pestem,  
Haud datur indomito par medicina malo.  
Contudit obscooenae fregitque tyrannidis hydram  
Monkius, Herculeâ versus in arma manu.  
Monkius amovit funesti dedecus aevi,  
Saeculaque absolvit crimine nostra suo.  
Harmodios Atthis, Brutos ne Roma loquatur;  
Pulchrius haec longè dextra peregit opus.  
Sanguine (quod stupeas) nec adorea constitit ullo,  
Palmaque se facilem passa sine ense capi est.  
Hinc trepidas ultrix mentes agitabat Erinnys:  
Hinc laesa stantes pro pietate Dei  
Dant animos, coeptisque favent vix Marte parato,  
Laurea praeuênit spem properata suam.  
Dira reos scelerum facies & conscius horror  
Impulit attonitos, admonuitque sui.  
Cesserunt causae damnantis imagine victi,  
E debellato laus minor hoste foret  
Poenaque cum culpae nec crux sat digna daretur,  
Vindictam posuit nobilis ira suam.  
Opprimit armatum clementia nuda furorem.  
Hoc patriae Patrem mite decebat opus.  
Incutere haud ullum sceleri tormenta ruborem,  
Optime Dux, poterant: sed tua dextra potest.   
NIC. HEINSIUS. Dan. F.   

Fortissimo Heroi, GEORGIO MONKIO, Britannici Imperii Regisque Restauratori.  

CReditur & memorant, monstrum letale subactum,  
Quo Regis tandem filia salva fuit.  
Quod clarum facinus celebratur & esse GEORGI;  
Hinc Tutelaris Anglicus ille Deus:  
Nomine servato nunc haec non fabula de te  
Narratur, sed res perbenè gesta patet:  
Nam Britonum subigis monstrum, cui lumen ademptum,  
Quo regna infandis libera facta malis;  
CAROLUS imperio jam dudum exutus avito,  
Illi nunnc etiam restituendus adest.  
Sic in te verus datur esse GEORGIUS Heros:  
Te Protectorem terra Britanna colat.   
JACOBUS BASELIUS. Ecclesiastes Kerckwerviensis.   

CAROLO SECUNDO Magnae Britanniae, etc. Regi.  

SIc variat Fortuna vices! Sic nubila tandem  
Secula, & infandi disperiere dies!  
Anglia Tartareis dudum concussa sagitis,  
Et Domino & sceptris heu! viduata piis,  
Nunc tandem rediviva, caput super aethera tollit,  
Et Regem & Dominum noscit, ut ante, suum.  
Alma dies, sperata dies, quo Regia sceptra,  
Et viget afflictae Relligionis honos:  
Quo Batauûm communis amor, communia surgunt  
Omnia, & Vnanimes in Tua vota Patres.  
Alma dies, sperata dies, quo Belgica Regem  
Suspicit, & toto gaudia corde trahit.  
Alma dies, sperata dies, quo viribus altis  
Anglia cum Batavis pangere foedus amat.  
Alma dies, sperata dies, quo vita resurgit,  
Et Regi, & Regi subdita tota cohors.  
Anglia crede mihi, si fas ita credere Vati,  
Nunc Tua, quae jacuit gloria, nata domi est.  
Belgica crede mihi, si fas ita credere Vati,  
Nunc tua si dubia est gloria, certa domi est.  
Addite vim vestris debellatricibus armis,  
Et tremat heroâ, pars inimica, manu.  
Sic Sucones, sic arma ruant adversa Tyrannum,  
Et cadat horrendis, qui negat orsa, modis.  
Pax orbis, Tua sceptra cluant. Sit mundus Eous  
Testis, & Occiduae, proh diadema! plagae.  
Haerco in obtutu qua se explicat aureus aether,  
Et qua se laetis ingerit ominibus.  
Quid verbis? dum verba negant se offerre paratis,  
Et Vatem & mentem Fata stupenda tegunt.  
Redde Deo, Rex magne, Tuo quae debita Regi,  
Et regat haec quae sunt sceptra gerenda Deus.   
FRANCISCUS PLANTE. V. D. M. Bredanus.   

Serenissimo Potentissimoque Principi CAROLO SECUNDO; D. G. Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Regi, Fidei Defensoris etc. E Batavis in Angliam ad Regnum vocato & proficiscenti.  

ANglia, Protectore diu suppressa feroci,  
Erige te, Regi restituenda tuo,  
Et detestando statuam pro pegmate divis  
Manibus ante sacras pone, severa, fores,  
Quae gravis insculptas truncati Principis umbras  
Imperet à tota posteritate coli.  
Regnorumque trium solio Successor avito  
Perduraturum in saecula sumat ebur,  
Invidiamque odiumque sui proscribat amore,  
Et Superis gratum tollat ad astra caput,  
Tota quod obverso Tellus veneretur ocello,  
Propitiumque sibi cernere Belga queat.  
Sic tua se tractus diffundet Fama per omnes,  
Oppositisque tibi Gentibus horror eris.  
Albionum Populi Regnatorisque STUARTI  
Bataviae crescet vincta salute salus.  
Hoc reduces Domina cum Majestate curules  
Atque uno cultus postulet ore Deus.  
Sic placidae Carolo faveant afflatibus aurae,  
Pacatasque secet, quae tua puppis, aquas.  
Excipiatque suum generosa Britannia Regem,  
Et Patriam damnet relligiosa necem,  
Authoresque solo Nemesis deturbet inulto;  
Aeternumque procul mittat in exilium.  
Vive diu felix, MONKI, pretiumque laboris  
Accipe quod sceptri dat tibi largus amor.  
Dirige tantarum tanto sub Principe rerum  
Pondera, & augustam perge fovere domum.  
Vosque Viri geminas, reliqui qui conditis Aedes,  
Et famulam Solio contribuistis opem,  
Vivite concordes, Caroloque carentia nuper  
Regna coronato condite cum CAROLO.   
C. BOYUS.   

IN DISCESSUM CAROLI SECUNDI MAGNAE BRITANNIAE etc. REGIS è littoribus Hollandiae.  

CAROLE Rex, modò qui, soliis exutus avitis,  
Lusus Fortunae luxuriantis eras:  
Te, nova pertaesi, revocant ad prisca Britanni,  
Raptaque de manibus sceptra paterna tuis.  
Classis adest; & jam ripis allapsa Batavis  
Stat Sceverinaeo multa carrina salo,  
Nil restat praeter celsas conscendere puppes:  
Nunc aderit, pandat qui tua vela, Notus.  
Te cava servavit quondam è certamine quercus:  
Nunc cava te quercus in tua regna vehet.  
Hunc dant fata tibi finem, Rex magne, laborum:  
Sceptrum fit longi terminus exilii.   
J. WESTERBAEN.   

Ad Serenissimum ac Potentissimum PRINCIPEM CAROLUM SECUNDUM MAGNAE BRITANNIAE etc. REGEM, Regno recenter restitutum.  

QUam subito cecidit cujus scelerata tyrannis  
Altius esse aliquid Regibus ausa fuit!  
Quam subito rediit, populi Pater, exilio Rex!  
Tempora, fata, vices tam mora nulla rotat.  
Ecce alius toto vultus jam cernitur orbe,  
Nec modo quae placuit, nunc quoque larva placet.  
Vix hostis dempta est facies, succedit amici:  
Ecce triumphator, qui fuit exul, adest.  
Sed Tibi qui tales vultu, REX maxime, scenas  
Immoto, immotâ cernere ment potes,  
Quam tibi in adversa, tam constans sorte secunda,  
Hoc ego (nec melius quid datur orbe) precor:  
Ut possis Veros prudens discernere Amicos  
Tota Personatas inter Amicitias.   
ROMANE   

In Effigiem Ejusdem MAIESTATIS.  

MAjestas & amor populi, gravitasque benigna  
Quam bene Regali cernitur in facie!  
Ignoscis Populo, REX Clementissime; sed qui  
Jam grave supplicium, Te caruisse, tulit.  
Ne furor is redeat modò docta Britannia tantum  
Sis memor, & dicas: Te sine qualis eram?  
Per DeVM regnet CaroLVs:  
Per CaroLVM regnet DeVs.   
IDEM.   

VIRGINIS DORDRACEAE Ut primogenitae & primariae Hollandicarum urbis CONGRATULATIO Dicta CAROLO SECUNDO, Magnae Britanniae etc. Regi, in transitu Hagam Comitis versus proficiscenti die 14 May 1660.  

ACcede auspiciis laetis ad Virginis Urbem  
Regali Princeps sanguine Nate sacro.  
Moenia tuta petes, nec quae potuere ruinae  
Vincere, ad exemplar, cujus es ipse typus  
Rex invicte malis: prima hic vestigia siste,  
Et gravidum multo pone labore caput.  
Flumina lassato tribuant tibi nostra quietem:  
Nulla quies mediis, quâ fruiturus aquis  
Gratior esse potest, queis cum tribuisse salutem  
Juverit, ornabit te quoque diva Salus:  
Et stabit fortuna loco, non mobilis omni  
Utraque; si vires si capimusve vices,  
Regibus ulla fuit Statio non fida Britannis  
Plus, quam quae cernis tecta paterna, domos:  
Hinc sedes petiere suas, & sceptra Parentum,  
Qualis Honos, ex his Finibus Hospes abis,  
Patria prima mihi merito dedit otia fandi.  
Nunc tecum fari munera prima puto.  
Ne peregrina tibi videar Rex optime Regum,  
Aspice quae Regni membra virosque gero:  
Suspiciesque simul populosi regna Britanni,  
Qualiter ex ipsis unguibus esse Leo  
Noscitur; hic populi prostant commercia vestri.  
Quae Regni socios more modoque ligant.  
Militiam lustrato tuam, qua Patria pollet:  
Praesidium quin Spes Urbibus una fuit;  
Cum ferus adversus saeviret membra Tyrannus  
Albanus; furias, Castra ducemque premens.  
Illinc cognosces numerosi Militus usum,  
Anglia quem Regi servat Amica suo.  
Arma virosque, rates videas in portibus ipsis;  
Ista Britannorum propria nempe manent,  
Mauricius queis Ductor Ovans, Fredericus in armis  
Natus Arausiades, & Gulielmus avus,  
Saepe hostes vicere truces: quae Moenia Bredae  
Incolis, exiguo tempore praeda fuit.  
Nassavium germen, Patris morientis ideam,  
Et Matris Mariae pignus utrumque vide:  
Illic invenies permistum sanguine sidus,  
Quid posset Batavo clarius esse Polo!  
Henricaea Parens gaude, quocumque locorum  
Te tulerit luctus, Rex tibi natus adest:  
Ille tibi lachrimas vultu deterget obortas  
Restauraturus pignora chara tibi.  
Rex Lodovice fave fratri sua regna petenti,  
Adde preces, jubet hoc Regia causa, pares.  
Vosque Patres Patriae Redivivi Patris amoena  
Nomina adorate, & sit pia cura simul,  
UT BENE CONVEN●ANT ET IN UNA SEDE MORENTUR  
MAIESTAS ET AMOR, gentis utrimque datae,  
Sis salvus, Rex Magne, mihi; Tibi terna resurgunt  
Regna, Deus votis debuit ista piis.  
Ajax armatus, sis cautus inermis Achilles  
Consilio, virtus monstret ad astra viam.  
Sit dispar Patris Fatum tibi; Maxime Regum,  
Nestoreos annos, fataque laera precor.  
Sis bonus usque tuis, cum nunc antiqua SECUNDUS  
Regna recepturus, sis memor usque tui,  
Et socios defende tuos; COLLIDIMUR UNA,  
FRANGIMUR: haec eadem sors utriusque manet.  
Jamque Vale, Rex Magne, mihi; sed vela priusquam  
Vota ferant, paucis, non rediture, Vale:  
CAROLE REDDE VICEM: QUID GAUDIA NOSTRA MORARIS?  
TE MOTHER DO REGE DATO, CAROLE REDDE VICEM.   
R. de CARPENTIER.   

AD CAROLUM SECUNDUM, Serenissimum Magnae Britanniae etc. Regem, Urbem Dordrechtum praetervehentem 25. May 1660. quando continuo ictu, lapiedei Martis, qui ante portas est, caput humeris avulsum & in terram prolapsum est, & civis non vulgaris, cui nomen Petro van Godewijck, ad pedes Regis casu provolutus est.  

PErtaesus Martis, magno, Rex, flumine Mosae  
Dum veheris, cecidit Martis inane caput,  
Et non aequa Deo qui gestat nomina Petrus,  
Adlapsus pedibus, Carole Magne, tuis.  
Omen inest rebus, nec nomen displicet ipsum.  
Petrus & ipse casus signa benigna duo.  
Anglia sic pariter saevi discrimina Martis  
Propulset felix, bellaque dira cadant.  
Lapideum cecidit caput & Petrina figura  
Belligeri Petri, sed tibi Papa cadat.  
Est casus in lapsu Petri non unus, ad ima  
Quod ruit is casus est; quod prope Te casus est.  
At casus à coelo est. sine Numine nil cadit usquam.  
Petrus Papa tuos sic cadat ante pedes.   
JAC. LYDIUS.   

Ad Serenissimum Potentissimumque Principem, CAROLUM SECUNDUM, Magnae Britanniae, etc. Regi.  

MAxime Rex, qui post digna atque indigna relatu  
Fata, jubar remeas in tua regna novum,  
Sed prius introitu Batavos dignaris amico,  
Nec quoque praeteriti vis meminisse mali,  
Et cupis, ut rursum coëant in faedera dextrae,  
Auspice quae coelo conciliavit amor,  
Duceris Haganis humeris invectus & ulnis.  
O fortunatos Te veniente lares!  
Excipit hospitio Te Belgica, quale mereris,  
Et quo non Batauûm grandius orbis habet:  
Mauritius, nomen nunquam fine laude loquendum,  
Sidus inocciduum Solis utraque domo,  
Te venerabundus, Te publicus hospes adorat,  
Withaliumque tuum nunc cupit esse tuum;  
Illud in augurium praesens, Auguste, vacabat,  
Humanoque patens debuit esse Jovi.  
Hîc Britonum-votis, hic applaudente Batavo,  
Antiquaque fide, CAROLE, laetus ades.  
Offertur, quod jure suum est; Diadema coronae,  
Confluit huc Britonum purpura & omnis honos.  
Te dominum sibi speratum Thetis omnibus undis  
Te, Te expectatum vela secunda vehant.  
Crede quod interea vox haec comitetur euntem;  
SCEPTRA STU ARTORUM JUGITER ASTRA BEENT.  
STET FORTUNA DOMUS, ET AVI DOMINENTUR AVORUM,  
NEC NISI CUM MUNDO DEPEREUNTE RUAT.   
HENRICUS BRUNO.   

In Conspectum S. R. Majestatis CAROLI SECUNDI MAGNAE BRITANNIAE, etc. REGIS Et Celsissimi Principis GULIELMI HENRICI AURAUSIONENSIUM PRINCIPIS, etc.  

QUalis purpureo Titan porrectus ab ortu  
Diffundit rutilas, dum fugat astra comas,  
Talis, Io, CAROLUS lustrat feliciter urbes;  
Talis ab occasu ritè Parentis adest;  
Ille quidem triplicis tot post spineta coronae,  
Post malè truncatum per scelus omne caput,  
Nunc videt aeterni miracula laetior horti,  
Elysii campi lilia, mista rosis,  
Nunc movet Angelicis comitatus caetibus haeros,  
Davidicâ Christo caelica plectra lyrâ.  
Calcat & insani, calcat ludibria Mundi,  
Sanctus & ignoscens hostibus inde suis;  
Filius, ingenuis dudum sperata Britannis  
Aurea, post caeli nubila, stella micat:  
Perfundit splendore, poli meliore sereno;  
Numine praesenti, te decus, Haga, novum.  
Cernitur & tenero surgens Gulielmus Eoo  
Andromacha soboles Hectore digna, Puer.  
Cernitur, aetherea cum lampade, cernitur, ecce,  
Sic geminis Soles hîc triplicare diem.  
O utinam tenebrae nunquam post tanta sequantur  
Lumina, Belga tibi, sive, Britanne, tibi.  
Non prius his terrae privetur lucibus orbis,  
quam videat caelum destituisse jubar.   
HENRICUS BRUNO.   

In Effigiem Regiam.  

EFfigiem Regis, quem jure Britannia mater  
In gremium recipit devenerata suum,  
Suspice, Belga, nec aspectu satiare sereno:  
Nubila si subitis vidimus astra malis,  
Si Batavis nox ulla fuit, nox ulla Britannis,  
Hic facie reddet, reddet utrisque diem.   
IDEM.   

AD CAROLUM SECUNDUM, POTENTISSIMUM REGEM BRITANNIARUM. SUPER PUBLICATA AMESTIA.  

LUbrica quam multos patitur prudentia lapsus,  
Quantus & humanis casibus error inest?  
Dixerunt veteres, 
* Sueton. in Tiber.  regnabit sanguine multo  
Ad regnum quisquis venit ab exilio.  
Nos aliter longè, quia nunc, ter Maxime Regum,  
Illa fit exemplo regula falsa tuo.  
Ne quisquam vitae metuat cavistis uterque,  
Anglia te revocans, Tu bene prospiciens.  
Illa quidem non victa, ast tot pertaesa malorum,  
Trina dedit dextrae sceptra gerenda Tuae.  
Tu, bonus ignoscens rapuit quos devius error,  
Suscipis imperium, sed sine caede, novum.  
Dicet posteritas, regnabit sanguine nullo  
Ad regnum benè qui venit ab exilio.   
GUIL: GROTIUS.   

AD CAROLUM SECUNDUM Magnae Britanniae Regem etc.  

LAEta per innumeros se tollit Fama triumphos,  
Ingentemque suo jam nomine personat orbem  
CAROLUS, & veterem jam prospicit Anglia Regem:  
Anglica se quantis attollet gloria rebus?  
Et quantos iterum tali sub Rege Britannos  
Cernemus? solus veterum Decora alta Parentum  
Restituet, sua Templa Jovi, sua Praelia Marti,  
Et Themidi sua Jura: Sibi sic denique reddet  
Anglia se, Gentique decus, cum Sceptra resumet  
CAROLUS, & laeto dominabitur ore Britannis.  
Faelicem nimium tanto sub Principe gentem!  
Faelices etiam Batavos! queis jungere dextram  
Et cupit aeterno componere faedere bella.  
Vos Dii, qui tanto decorastis munere terras,  
Et servate diu, serusque patentia caeli  
Limina defunctus repetat, sic Anglia terris  
Imperium & magno laudes aequabit Olympo.   
JAC. ƲANDER DOES.   

IN NUMMUM TRIUMPHALEM RESTITUTO REGE EXCUSUM FLORENT CONCORDIA REGNA.  

EMinet, & rutilo victor supereminet auro,  
Auguriique faces vibrat in aere Sui.  
Undique Regalis scintillant fulgura recti:  
Jamque Deum visu publicus orbis habet.  
Floret tergemino constans Concordia Regno,  
Sceptraque tot validis colligat arcta modis.  
Nunc inscripta novis nascentur nomina terris  
Regis, & in Geminis conspicienda Rosis:  
Quin auro qui floret ovans; florentia Musis  
Condet, & Imperiis aurea secla suis.   
KEUCHENIUS.   

VOTUM ET SALUS AD ILLUSTRUM VIRUM CONSTANTINUM HUGENIUM EQUITEM, ZULECHEMI ET ZEELHEMI TOPARCHAM; CELSISSIMO ARAUSIONENSIUM PRINCIPI A CONSILIIS ET SECRETIS PRO SALUTE ET IMPERIO, MAGNI BRITANNIARUM REGIS CAROLI II. KALENDIS AUSPICIBUS ANNI POST RESTITUTO MIRABILEM SEQUENTIS, CHRISTI M DC LXI,  

SAlve Poëta: plurimumque, CONSTANTER  
Salve Senator, & Toparcha ter salve.  
ZULECHEME salve, & vive Principi salvus,  
Idemque Princeps & Salus Poëtarum  
CONSTANS perenna: dum STUARTUS & BELGA,  
Regisque constat Belgicaeque Majestas.   

Haec vota festis nuncupata sub fastis  
Cape tota, Regi queis Britannico sacros  
Precamur annos, Imperîque longaevam,  
FIDEIQUE, Solio praevalente Tutelam.  
Non jam Triumphis, maximisque mirandis  
Superbus insto, grandiorque regales  
Apto cothurnos: ALITER HOC SACRUM CONSTAT  
CUI CONSTAT UNUS, QUI SUIS SUUS CONSTAT,  
DEBEMUS OMNES: Debito repraesentat  
Hos insolutos Musa Gelra 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.   

MARS ORBIS HAERES, TERROR ORBIS AC TUTOR,  
MARS ORBIS, ATHLAS, IMPERANTIUM LUMEN,  
FIDEIQUE NUMEN COELITUS REDONATUM:  
DOLOS ET ARMA, MACHINASQUE TRANSGRESSUS;  
INVICTUS ARMIS, NEC TAMEN FEROX ARMIS;  
ASTU STUARTUS MAJOR, AT VALENS ASTU;  
FELIX TRIMPHIS, ET PIUS TRIUMPHATOR,  
CUNCTIS VERENDUS, INDOMABILIS CUNCTIS,  
DIS ET BRITANNIS, BELGIOQUE SUBVECTUS,  
DIS ET BRITANNIS, BELGIOQUE REX VIVAT.   
KEUCHENIUS.