The Solemn Mock Procession of the POPE Cardinal's Jesuits Friars &c: through the City of London November the 17th: 1680  
 

The EXPLANATION.  
YOu must first know the occasion of this Mock-Procession to have been, that the Pope, Friars, and their Abetters here in England, contrived the Lamentable Burning of London; some Protestant Gentlemen, partly in a thankful Commemoration of their Deliverance, and partly to raise a just Abhorrency of such Popish practices, do now bring these Incendiaries in Effigy to the Fire they have better deserved; and that rather on Queen Eliz. Coronation Day, for that in her Reign, the Protestant Religion, and the true English Interest, were more conspicuously and candidly minded, with admixture of crooked Ends, or Foreign Policies.  
But not to prolong your expectation, this Popish Cavalcade or Procession, did march out of George's Yard without White-Chappel Bars, and so gravely came on through Algate, Leaden-Hall Street, and strait along to Fleetstreet, and the Temple Gate. 1. Was a Leader on Horseback; after him marched Whisflers, clad like Pioners, to clear the way. 2. A Bellman ringing, and with a dolesome voice saying, Remember Justice Godfrey. 3. A Dead Body, representing Sir Edm. B. Godfrey Strangled and Bloody, and one of his Murderers holding him up on Horseback, after the manner he was carried from Somerset-House to Green-Berry Hill. 4. A large Banner is born by four, where on the painted Cloth are expressed the Wild-House Consulters, viz. the Popish Clergy Plotters, all hanging on a Gallows; among 'em are some other pretended Protestants, Betrayers of the Laws and Liberties; on the Reverse is painted Dame Celliers, and other Plot-makers, Popish Ingeneers under the Mask of Protestants.  
First Pageant. On the foremost Angle of it is one in Black, playing on a Fiddle, with Pen, Ink, and Papers under his Girdle; on the opposite side is the Popish Midwife, leaning on a Meal-Tub; on the hinder part stand some Protestants in Masquerade, in piebald Habits: Then comes one born on an Ass, with his Face to the Tail, and in a black ghastful Hue, representing an Abhorrer of Petitions and Parliaments: After him one bears a Banner with this Motto, We Protestants in Masquerade Usher in Popery.  
Second Pag. Here are born four Grey Friars, some Franciscans, strictly so called; others Minims, a diminutive sort of that Order.  
Third Pag. This carries two Benedictines, or other black Friars, and two Dominicans.  
Fourth Pag. Bears forty Jesuits, a sore burden to the whole World, Corrupters of all Morality, Christianity, and Government, Opulent as Civitates, ubi sunt commoditates semper quarunt isti Patres, Clar●…s aedes, bonum vinum, bonum panem, bonum linum, tanquam Sancti venerantur, tanquam Reges dominantur, tanquam fures depradantur, Martem norunt an imare, & Tumultus suscitare, Inter Reges & sedare: But hang 'em now on the—  
Fifth Pag. Do stand two Popish Bishops, and two Arch bishops, who have not a Rag, but what they are beholding to the Pope for in their Pomp and Courts of Judicature, etc.  
Sixth Pag. Here ride two Patriarches, and two Cardinals; for as about God's Throne, so about the Popes, and the Devils; these are the four Animals, or Beasts, with Eyes all before and behind; the Eyes of Pride and Covetousness. After this Pageant comes an Officer of the Popes, distributing of Pardons, and saying, Lo here you may have Heaven for Money.  
Seventh Pag. Here is the Man of Sin himself on a Throne, with his Counsellor the Devil inspiring of him, what new Artifice of cruelty must come next: He holds two Keys, and two Swords, representing the Civil and Spiritual Dominion over all, and a Page on one side holds this Inscription, This is the King of Kings; and one on the other hath a Streamer, and this Motto, Thou art our God the Pope: Abundance of Crowns and Sceptres are strewed before his feet, to be distributed to those poor slavish Princes that will hold their Kingdoms in Villeinage from him.  
Eighth Pag. Carries Donna Olympia, and poor deluded Nuns, as Whores by Dispensation or necessity, following the Popes Camp.  
Ninth Pag. In the foregoing one's you have seen the Charming Voice, Fineries of the Popish Circe and her sirens, now you have her Cruelties in this Pageant, representing the Fathers of the Inquisition, condemning a Martyr to the Stake for reading the Scripture, or judging by that Word of their new Forgeries.  
Thus the whole Procession went along, and was attended by hundreds of Flamboes' and Torch's. Never were the Streets, Windows, and Balconies more thronged with Spectators, who with Acclamations expressed their abhorrence of Popery; and that they would with their Lives and Fortunes strive to keep out that cruel foolish Religion. When it came to Temple-Bar, the Statue of Queen Eliz. in respect to the day was adorned with a Crown of Laurel, and a Shield, on which was inscribed the Protestant Religion, and Magna Charta; before which the Pope and his Crew having received the Sentence to be burned by the like Flames they have kindled in the City, and the Temple, they were all tumbled down from their Grandeur into the impartial Element; abundance of Fuzes, like falling Stars, and Artificial Fires, in the mean time recreated the Spectators; a great store of Wine, and other Liquors, were profusely poured out to the Multitude, who unanimously of their own accord cried, No Popery; God bless the King, Protestant Religion, the Church, and Dissenting Protestants, both whom God Unite. Amen.  
The Pope, etc. being burnt, the Protestant (by them called Heretic) is discharged from the Inquisition; and then immediately repeats these Verses, looking up to the Statue of Queen Elizabeth on Temple-Bar, which was adorned with a Shield, with this Inscription, Magna Charta, & Religio Protestantium; with several Flambo's about it.   


1  
BEhold the Genius of our Land!  
England's Palladium! may this shrine  
Be honoured still, and ever stand,  
Than Palas Statue more Divine.   

2  
Whilst we thy Praise in Songs repeat,  
Whose Maiden Virtues fixed the State;  
Made us unite, and made us great,  
From whence all happiness we date.   

3  
Thou to the Root the Axe didst lay,  
Both Popish Successor, and Plots;  
At one brave stroke thou took'st away,  
In spite of Rome, France, Spain, and Scots.   

4  
A course of glad and peaceful years  
That did so happily ensue,  
Shows us how we may ease our cares,  
And the Conspirators subdue.   

5  
Nor need the English Senate dread  
The Forts, the Fleet, the Scottish Host,  
The Irish Friends, and Popish Head,  
Apostate H— does boast.   

6  
The Fox, the Lion, and the Goat,  
Have laboured to defame thy days;  
But still thou hast our Senate's Vote,  
In London still thy Statue stays.   

7  
Fixed in our hearts thy Fame shall live,  
And maugre all the Popish spite;  
To honour thee our Youth shall strive,  
And Yearly Celebrate this Night.     

London, Printed for Nathaniel Ponder, at the Peacock near the Stocks Market; Jonathan Wilkins, at the Star in Cheapside, next Mercers Chapel; and Samuel Lee, at the Feathers in Lumbard-Street, near the Post-Office.   

There will be no other true Representation of this Procession but this.