THE TRIUMPHS OF FAME and HONOUR: OR THE NOBLE Accomplished solemnity, full of Cost, Art and state, at the Inauguration and Establishment of the true worthy and right nobly minded ROBERT PARKHURST, into the Right Honourable office of Lord Maior of LONDON. The particularities of every Invention in all the Pageants, Shows and Triumphs both by Water and Land, are here following fully set down, being all performed by the Loves, Liberal Costs, and charges of the Right Worshipful and worthy Brotherhood of the Clothworkers the 29 of October 1634. Written by john Taylor. ¶ Imprinted at London 1634. TO THE MOST WELCOME AND expected Pattern and Patron of Virtue and Goodness, the hopeful deserver of all the Costs and Honours which the Noble Fellowship and Brotherhood of Clothworkers and ample Love of the whole City, in full and generous Bounty bestow upon him, the Right Honourable and Judicious ROBERT PARKHURST, Lord Major of the famous City of London. RIght Honourable Patron, to your state In duty I these Triumphs dedicate, Wherein your Worthy Brotherhood Approves Greatness and goodness of their minds, and loves, Their true affections and their liberal charge, They have most bountiful expressed at large, And London in these Triumphs is renowned Above all cities in the world's wide Round: For no King's Deputy, or Magistrate Is with such pompous state inaugurate, As London's Mayor is, which most plainly shows The King's illustrious greatness whence it flows; To whom then should my dedication run, But unto you, for whom these things were done? Your power is London's watch-towre to espy, Dangers far off, and perils that are nigh: Your foresight must see much, and it is plain, Millions of eyes will look on you again, For envy and detraction pries and stairs T'assault true honour, and t'intrap in snares All that is good, for it is manifest, That envy always feeds upon the best. This city (the King's Chamber) must be kept Clean for his use, from foul pollution swept, And sure, that power that hath you thus advanced, To be thus honoured, loved and countenanced, Will ever be your portion, and content, And govern you in this your government. That you (at helm) a steady course may steer Twixt Justice, and blessed Mercy, many a year Especially in this your greatest state, Let Hospitality still keep your Gate; And Liberality, with welcome stand, To greet men with a free and open hand, Then Muses, Graces, Arts, the praise shall sing Of you (my Lord) Lieutenant to my King. THE TRIUMPHS OF FAME AND HONOUR. T The first show that is to be presented on the water is a vessel like a Boat or Barge, adorned with the arms and Impresses of the honourable City and Company, with seeming properties of being loaden, with Packs, dryfats, and diverse other commodities, that merchants and others that are free of the Company of Clothworkers, do receive from foreign parts by sea; this Barge attends the Lord Mayor and meets him about Paul's wharf or attends further up the River. Thetis (the Goddess of the sea) and Thames, or Thamisis (being one of her fairest daughters) sitting in the head of the Boat; Thetis being habitimented in a mantle of seagreen, with a coronet of shells of diverse sorts of sea-fish on her head with a great whelk-fish in her hand with adornments of strange fishes and other significant representations. Thamisis being habited in a white or silver coloured Robe, having on her head a Chaplet of green Reeds, Flowers and Rushes, and about her feet decked with Sedge, Bulrushes and Flags, at which presentment Thetis speaks this following speech; Know worthy Troop, that I great Thetis am, Who (hearing of these Triumphs) hither came From th'Azure court of my most deep Abyss To grace my fairest daughter Thamisis, I every twelve hours, by this Child of mine, Do send you silks and velvets, oil, and wine, Gold, silver, Jewels, fish, salt, sundry spices, Fine and course linen, drugs of diverse prices: What every Realm or climate can produce, I see it safe transported for your use. Thus from the bosom of the Deep my floods (By Thames) do every Tide send up your goods, For which this matchless well deserving River, Your Cloth doth back again to me deliver, With other riches, which I o'er the Sea Unto my other daughters do convey; For your commodities I'll ever flow Unto Danubius, Ister, Rhine, and Poe, To Maze, Seine, Volga, Ems, Elve, and Tanales, To Tigris, Nilus, Ganges, Euphrates, To Tiber, Jordan, Xanthus, Jndus, Tagus, Past Asphaltites, or Black Mortuus Lacus As far as Sol or Cynthia spread their beams, As far as Oceanus sends his streams, So far will I your servant ever be, In any thing you'll deign to put on me: And humble thanks fair Thames and I do render To you, who of her welfare are so tender, Who with great cost and care do lend your hands, To clear your servant Thames from shelves and sands: Go on and cleanse her, as you have begun, And she shall do for you as she hath done. We are assured that Heaven will ever bless Your stores, who do her injuries redress, Thetis and Thames, their services shall show To you, as long as they do ebb and flow. Thus with our humble duteous bending down, Long may this City flourish with renown. Then the Rowers (consisting of four in number, being two sailors, two watermen) being overjoyed, pike their oars, and every of them drinks his Can as a health, tossing them up, and presently falling into a Rugged friskin dance, return to Paul's wharf, and landing the said Barge, she is carried as the foremost Pageant in the show through the City. The second is a Pageant representing the figures of Time and Mercury (Time being habited in a blue robe with his in his hand) which do wait and attend the Lord Mayor in Paul's Chuch-yard, The speakers being Mounted on two Griphons' (the Supporters of the Clothworkers Arms) which at the approach of my Lord, Mercury (upon one of the Griphons') with his Caducens or charming rod in his hand, with wings on his head to signify quickness of Invention, Acuteness of wit, and Volubility of tongue with Eloquence of speech. He hath also wings on his feet to signify his swiftness; as Messenger to the Gods. Time speaks as followeth. The Speech of Time. Almost 500 days, beheld have I The Triumphs of Great London's Mayoralty, And sure old Time, with Joy doth truly say, He ne'er was better pleased than at this day; Not that I think a temporising Lord, Or Pleaser of the Time shall wield the sword, But as your Honourable Predecessors Have mended Time, by punishing Trangressors; So Time hopes that th'addition of your year, Will make him more Illustrate, pure and clear. For of all fading things 'tis manifest, As Time is used, he's either worst or best. All those that rightly have their Honours won: Have used Time well, (as you my Lord have done.) This Honour was ordained you, from your youth You ever loved my loveliest daughter TRUTH, And she hath raised you; and she did prefer You to this dignity to Maintain her. I do command her, still with you t'abide, Do you defend her, she shall be your guide: For truth-sake Time shall be your servant still; And in your just commands, obey your will. Time shall transport your Merchandise and wares, Time shall assist you in your great'st affairs: Time shall be always yours Auspiciously, And Time will bring you to Eternity. Her's Hermes, from his Spheres circumferance Hath brought the Poet wit, and Eloquence; And quick Invention, likewise he Inflamed Into the Artists that these pageants framed, That for your future Honour, this may be A day of well Composed Variety Of Speech and show, these Triumphs we present, We hope (as they are meant shall give content) We humbly wish, that you this year may find, Full of true worth as is your worthy mind. Next and near to this Pageant of Time and Mercury, is the form of a City representing London, with walls, Battlements, Gates, Churches, Towers, Steeples and lofty Buildings, and some Antique shapes here and there on the tops of the highest Edifices: Also with shops and men at work upon cloth, as Clothworkers, fullers, shermen, and others, the walls of the City being adorned round, with Arms and scoutcheons of the City and company as also diverse figures, as 1 of Antiquity, 2 Record, 3 Memory, 4 Wisdom, and others the like; also an ancient Matron in a civil grave robe with her hair long hanging down in trammels dishevelled behind her back, sitting in one of the Gates of the City, she speaks in the person of London to the Lord Mayor and company as followeth. By me fair London in obedience shows The service, love, and duty that she owes To this day's Triumph, but my aim is higher, My thankfulness doth up to heaven aspire, Which unto me hath so propitious been, That I do see this day, and now am seen The Queen of Cities, Empress of content, And Princess of unmarched government; Weigh well my state, and think on other states, Thebes is ruined with her hundred Gates; Numantia, Carthage, great Jerusalem, And Babylon, what are become of them? Constantinople doth in sorrow lie, And groan beneath the Turkish tyranny: Rome, and all Cities that hold Rome supreme, Their glory's are eclipsed or but a dream; Whilst fire and sword doth Germany molest, London's secure, with peace and plenty blessed, Turk, Pope, and war, bear here no rule or sway, For I one God, one King, one Law obey; there's my security, and my state doth stand Supported by the unsupported hand, These are the means and instruments whereby We rise to Honour, painful Industry. An Idle Citizen is like a Moth, One spoils b'example tother spoils the Cloth, True Citizens are the true City's sons, The others are but bastards, mad that runs, Like Runagates, or cursed Imps of Cain, And never shall to Honour's seat Attain: Work on my Lads, and you in time may be, Good members of this Honoured Company, And though good Freeman (of this Corporation) Deceased before his half years expiration, Yet Heaven hath soon provided for our good Another worthy of this Brotherhood. And now my Lord, I give myself and mine, To your command and charge, and I divine That as great is the Honour of your seat, Your Government shall be more good than great. The next is a Pageant in the form of a Tower, which doth import a Tower of Honour, on the top of which Tower sits one in royal robes, with a majestic Impalement on his head, a sceptre in one hand, and a Ball in the other: under him (in the next descent) sit in equal distances the figures of a Lord Mayor, a Bishop, a Lawyer, and a warlike Captain or General. On the right hand of the Lord Mayor is placed the figure or emblem of Honour: next the Bishop is placed piety or the fear of God: on the right hand of the Judge, a figure representing power is seated, and by the General or Captain stands victory. In the descent below the Lord Mayor is an apprentice, and by him stands obedience: beneath the Bishop is a scholar, and by him is placed patience, under the Judge a clerk, and by him diligence, & under the Lord General is a Common Soldier, and by him is placed virtue, which shows that by virtuous actions and true industry mean men have ascended and may be raised to Honourable places, which is an encouragement and pattern for others to pursue and follow those most worthy ways to Honour and Renown. The Tower being round or circular, and the Basis or Groundwork square or Quadrangle, on each corner whereof sits, the four prime or Cardinal Virtues, namely Justice, Fortitude, Temperance and Prudence, every one of them habited in Robes, significant and Emblematically showing that those virtues do adorn and dignify the above presented noble personages. This Pageant attending my Lord Mayor, in Paul's Churchyard or at the upper end of Cheapside near the little Conduit; he that sits highest in the place and person of Honour speaks this following Speech. The Speech of Honour. Low steps begin to mount the highest hills, Great Rivers have their heads from little Rills: From servitude grows freedom, and from thence (Through Industry) springs Worth and Eminence. All such as will true Honour's seat ascend, Must do (as these have) first obey and bend: For though Humility to man seems low, The fruit of it as high as Heaven doth grow: 'tis diligence doth the puny-clarke prefer, To be a Reverend Judge, or Counsellor; Pains and much peril oft obtains the grace, A common Soldier gains a General's place: The poorest Scholars study (by degrees) Ascends the height of spiritual dignities, And from th'apprentice seven year's servitude Proceeds the grave gown, and the Livery-Hood, Till (in the end) by merit, pains and care, They win the Grace to fit in Honour's chair; Thus Humble service is advanced and reared To Honour's seat, obeyed, beloved and feared. Authoritie's the touchstone of the mind, And shows which way the bearer is inclined: For having power joined to his will, It makes him much more good, or much more ill: It makes him to foresee, with Judgements eye, That Justice without mercy's cruelty: That Mercy without Justice is much worse, Breeds scorn, contempt, makes power to lose her force. When you in scales of Equity do lay The sword of Justice, who dares but obey. Your faith and Honour are in marriage joined By oath this day, which no man can unbind, Therefore my Lord (whose service and true merit Hath made this Honour yours which you inherit) 'tis triple Joy that you do wisely know To mix those virtues well, and to bestow Them justly, as occasion shall incite: To guard the good, and make wrong render right, In which expectance all our hopes abounding, Joy crown this day with Drums and Trumpets sounding. Then his Lordship being come to Saint Laurence lane end in Cheapside, he is saluted by Endymion, or a shepherd riding on a Rams back, (the Ram being the crest of the Clothworkers arms) there being near or next unto him an ancient monument of fame: at the approach of my Lord the shepherd entertains him with this speech. The Speech of Endymion. My Honoured Lord, let me, (a rural Swain, And humble shepherd from the lowly plain) As plainly bid thee welcome to this state Of England's greatest civil Magistrate. A shepherd joys to see this day, and I Will fleece my flock's t'nrich thy company: I am Endymion, that of yore did keep Upon th'Arcadian hills my harmless sheep: Whereas by study, and by observations I found the Moon's change and her variations, And for my sake the Swains do still prefer The book ycleap'd the shepherd's Calendar. Apollo kept Admetus' sheep ('tis said) And Tamburlaine (whom Mighty Kings obeyed) Was once a shepherd, and the Time was when That shepherds were the noblest, ablest men. This golden crested Ram, on which I ride To welcome you, and see you dignifide, Is the Celestial signe, (Aries by name) Come from the Zodiac to adorn your fame. And from the Ram, and his increasing breed Near half mankind have means to Cloth and feed. By picking wool, thousands relief do gain, ●s many carding, spinning doth maintain: Wooll-men, a great and wealthy trade do drive, Weavers, in great abundance work and live, The Clothiers, Fuller's, Tuckers, Shermen, Dyers, From the sheep's fleece have feeding and attires, But all these Trades, which I do here infer, Have all relation to the Clothworker, For were it not for him the rest were nothing, He only makes it Cloth, and fit for Clothing, Without the Clothworker, the Draper's Trade And Merchant's Traffic would decay and fade, These from the fleece got Clothes and nutriment, For (under heaven) the Ram's the Instrument. And when bright Phoebus shall in March begin To take the Ram for his celestial Inn Such golden tincture on his fleece hee●le set, Which many golden pieces shall beget, And whereas men (to make their worths appear) Do give their servants Liveries once a year, The Ram (in bounty) passeth man I note. And gives his Master every year a coat Thus poor Endymion, with the beast he tides, Doth wish you prosperous winds, and happy tides, That by commerce, and good Negotiation, Wool turned to Cloth, and Cloth by transformation, Be turned to gold, that you may say with joy, That jasons' fleece (to yours) was but a toy. A dance of shepherd's with drinking in leather bottles in the 〈◊〉. Lastly, at night, when his Lordship returns from Paul's, the Pageants being six in number, going all before him in their order, attending him to his house, than the last Pageant being an ancient Monument of Fame, shall present itself to his Lordship, in the front of which peace is erected a figure representing Fame, with a silver Trumpet in her hand, the Monument being adorned with the Arms, Escutcheons, Hatchments and Impresses of diverse Lord Mayors that have been of the worshipful company of the Clothworkers, whom (though Time hath interred) Fame revives, sounding their praises, and enforceth Time to revive their noble Memory, encouraging his Lordship to follow them in all their Honourable actions, that when Time shall determinate, his Lordship's shield of Honour may be added to the rest of his predecessors; and as this Pageant of the Monument of Fame is a representation of the night, so the night, and this following speech at his Lordship's Gate is a conclusion and dutiful farewell to the day's Triumph and solemnity. Time speaks. Time, that this day his service hath expressed, In duty brings your Lordship to your rest: Yet ere I take my leave, (for your content) I'll show the meaning of this Monument. Then know, this ruined piece doth show that stones And tombs consume, as do their owner's bones, For Time is circular in his effects, Builds and throws down, and ruins and erects: But fortune, death or fame, or Time cannot Make virtuous men, or virtue be forgot. For Immortality is pleased to make Fame with his Trump the drowsy world to wake, Who from demollished dilapidations Proclaims the memorable nominations Of worthies of this worthy company, Who Honoured lived, and did with Honour die. Sir William Hewet was, as you my Lord, To poyz the balance and to wield the sword: Sir Rowland Hayward next, next Sir james Hawes, Did rule this City justly by the laws; Next was Sir Edward Osboorne London's Mayor; Then Sir john Spencer gained the honoured Chair, Sir Thomas Schinner after had the place; Next did Sir Nicholas Mosley gain the Grace; Then Sir john Watts his year with Honour past, And Noble Freeman who deceased last. King james the wisest, and the learnedst King, Whose fame throughout the spacious world doth ring, He knew your merits, worth and dignity, And therefore chose your worthy company To be his Brotherhood; he did understand, You were most fit for his fraternal band. And you my Lord, whom Time hath brought to be The noblest Branch of this fraternity, Time here salutes you, wishing you may move More high in Honour, as you do in love. 'tis truly said, that man that rules his passions, Doth conquer more, than he that conquers Nations. As you have ruled yourself, let it appear In ruling London this ensuing year, So you, with Time shall be together blessed, And Time shall bring you to Eternal Rest. For a period to these Triumphs, (and to give desert her due) It were shameful impudence in me to assume the invention of these Structures and Architectures to myself, they being business which I never was enured in, or acquainted with all, there being little of my directions in these shows; only the Speeches, and Illustrations which are here printed I do justly challenge as mine own, all the rest of the Composures and Fabrics were form and framed by the ingenious and industrious M'r Robert Norman Citizen and Painter of London, who was indeed the prime inventor prosecutor and finisher of these works, with the assistance of Zachary Taylor a acquaint and well known curious Carvar, which being gracefully accepted & approved of, after good CHRISTMAS, the authors may be the more merry at the next. The explanation of the first Pageant of Thetis. Thetis', daughter to the sea-god Nereus, she was wife to King Peleus, also Thetis was the mother of Achilles, who was seven cubits in height, and the most valiant Captain amongst the Greeks' at the siege of Troy. Danubia is a great River that runs through Hungaria by the famous Cities of Buda, Brundisium, and Belgrade, and so it passeth into Germany, by the Town of Regensberg, and through Swabe, Bavaria, and Austria; it is also called Donawe, but passing into Illyria it is at a part of Thracia called Istria changed into the name of Ister, it receives 60 rivers into it, the most part of which are navigable, it falls into the sea called Pontus Euxinus, or the Euxine sea. Po a famous river in Italy. Seine a river in France which runs through Paris▪ Volgu a river that runs through the large Empire of Russia. Ems in east Frizland, from whence the City of Eniden hath name Elve or Albe, is a river that passeth from Bohem, through Saxony, Misnia, and so to the towns of Hamborough and Stoad, into the Germane Ocean. Tanais, a great river northward, which parts Asia from Europe. Nilus' a famous river that runs through Ethiopia and Egypt, and because it never raines in Egypt, it is watered and made fruitful once a year by the overflowing of Nilus. Ganges is a mighty river that runs through and divides India, it is one of the four rivers of Paradise, and is called by Moses Phison. Tigris one of the four named Hiddekell. Euphrates passeth by Babylon, and was also one of the rivers of Paradise named by Moses Perah, and the Tiber a river that runs through Rome. jordan a river that runs betwixt Gallile and judea, and falls into Mare mortuum or the dead sea. Xanthus' a river in Phrygia near Troy, of which it is said that if sheep drank of the water, their fleeces became yellow. Indus a great and goodly navigable river, that hath its head from the mountain Taurus or Caucasus, it incompasseth India on the west, and falls by Asia into the Lake called Paulus Meotis, and part into the Indian sea. Asphaltites is the dead sea or Mare mortuum, it is in Syria, and it is held to be the place where Sodom, Gomorah, and the rest of the five Cities stood which were consumed with fire and brimstone from heaven. The meaning of the second Pageant being Time and Mercury. 2 TIme hath seen 426 several days of Mayoralty, which is so many years since the City's government was changed (by King Richard the first) from Portgraves, Provosts and Bailiffs, to the Honourable title and dignity of Lord Mayor. Men that come rightly to places of Honour & dignity must make good use of Time. Truth is the daughter of Time, who though falsehood may obscure her, yet Time will bring her forth at last, where her bright virtue shall outshine the Sun: there is nothing goes beyond Time but Eternity. Upon the third Pageant which represented a City. LOndon doth express her duty and thankfulness, in acknowledging her happy preservation and government, when many of the goodliest Cities in the world are either ruined, and confounded, or else far short of her peaceful and plentiful felicity. As first, Thebes was a great City in Egypt, it was built by King Busiris, it had 100 gates about the walls, it was 40 miles in compass, the walls were 30 stads high, and six stads in breadth; it is written that 200 watchmen watched at every gate: when it was destroyed by Allexander the Great, there were found the Toombs of 77 Kings, (and good Kings they had been) for the law was amongst them that bad Kings should have no burial. Also there was another Thebes in Boetia built by Cadmus, and a third Thebes in Cillicia, where it is said Andromche the wife to the worthy Hector was borne. Numantia was in Spain, and being besieged by the brave roman Scipio, rather than they would yield their City, they burned it with their wives, children, goods and families. Carthage was a goodly City in Africa, it was 40 English miles in circuit, it was held against the Romans 44 years when Rome was in her greatest greatness, it brought forth the valiant Captain Hannibal, and was at last destroyed by Scipio Affricanus 144 years before Christ's birth; the place and country where it stood is now called Tunis, which is a harbour or Receptacle for Pirates, sea-Rovers and misbelieving Turks. jerusalem the chief City of judea, where King salomon's Temple was, and where our Saviour suffered his passion, it is now a ruined piece under the subjection of the Turk. There are two Babylon's, one in Caldea, where Nimrods' Tower was erected, and another Babylon there was in Egypt, they being (as their names do signify) both in confusion under the Turk. Constantinople was the metropolis and the head City of the Grecian or Eastern Empire, it was won from the Christians the 29 of May 1453. by the Turkish Emperor Mahomet the second, which Mahomet did also win the Empire of Trebizond, and took 12 Kingdoms and 200 Cities from the Christians. Rome nor any City that holds Rome for chief, cannot declare any such true Reality in their happiness and government, as London justly may do. These few expressions I thought fit to set down here for the illustration of such words and places as may seem hard and obscure to some mean Readers. FINIS.