THE TRIVMPHS OF FAME and HONOVR: OR THE NOBLE AC­complish'd solemnity, full of Cost, Art and state, at the Inauguration and Establish­ment of the true worthy and right nobly min­ded ROBERT PARKHVRST, into the Right Honourable office of Lord Maior of LONDON. The particularities of every Invention in all the Pageants, Shewes and Triumphs both by Water and Land, are here following fully set downe, being all performed by the Loves, Liberall Costs, and charges of the Right Worshipfull and worthy Bro­ther-hood of the Cloth-workers the 29 of October 1634.

Written by Iohn Taylor.

¶ Imprinted at London 1634.

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TO THE MOST WELCOME AND expected Pattern and Patron of Vertue and Goodnesse, the hopefull deserver of all the Costs and Honours which the Noble Fellowship and Brother-hood of Clothworkers and ample Love of the whole City, in full and generous Bounty be­stow upon him, the Right Honourable and Judicious ROBERT PARKHVRST, Lord Major of the famous Ci­ty of London.

RIght Honourable Patron, to your state
In duty I these Triumphs dedicate,
Wherein your Worthy Brother-hood Approves
Greatnesse and goodnes of their minds, and loves,
Their true affections and their liberall charge,
They have most bountifull exprest at large,
And London in these Triumphs is renownd
Above all cities in the worlds wide Round:
For no Kings Deputy, or Magistrate
Is with such pompous state inaugurate,
As Londons Mayor is, which most plainly showes
The Kings illustrious greatnesse whence it flowes;
To whom then should my dedication run,
But unto you, for whom these things were done?
Your power is Londons watch-towre to espie,
Dangers far off, and perills that are nigh:
Your foresight must see much, and it is plaine,
Millions of eyes will looke on you againe,
For envy and detraction pries and stares
T'assault true honour, and t'intrap in snares
All that is good, for it is manifest,
That envie alwaies feeds upon the best.
This citie (the Kings Chamber) must be kept
Cleane for his use, from foule pollution swept,
And sure, that power that hath you thus advanc'd,
To be thus honour'd, lov'd and countenanc'd,
Will ever be your portion, and content,
And governe you in this your government.
That you (at helme) a steddy course may steare
Twixt Justice, and blest Mercy, many a yeare
Especially in this your greatest state,
Let Hospitality still keepe 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 TRIVMPHS OF FAME AND HONOUR.

T The first shew that is to be presented on the water is a vessell like a Boat or Barge, adorned with the armes and Impresses of the honoura­ble Citie and Company, with seeming pro­perties of being loaden, with Packs, dryfats, and divers other commodities, that marchants and others that are free of the Company of Cloth-workers, doe re­ceive from foreigne parts by sea; this Barge attends the Lord Mayor and meets him about Pauls wharfe or attends further up the River. Thetis (the Goddesse of the sea) and Thames, or Thamisis (being one of her fairest daughters) sitting in the head of the Boate; Thetis being habitiment­ed in a mantle of sea-Greene, with a corronet of shels of divers 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 [Page] a white or silver coloured Robe, having on her head a Chaplet of green Reeds, Flowers and Rushes, and about her feet deck'd with Sedge, Bulrushes and Flaggs, 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 deepe Abysse
To grace my fairest daughter Thamisis,
I every twelve houres, by this Child of mine,
Do send you silks and velvets, oyle, and wine,
Gold, silver, Jewels, fish, salt, sundry spices,
Fine and course linnen, druggs of divers prices:
What every Realme or climate can produce,
I see it safe transported for your use.
Thus from the bosome of the Deepe my floods
(By Thames) doe every Tyde send up your goods,
For which this matchlesse well deserving River,
Your Cloth doth backe againe to me deliver,
With other riches, which I o're the Sea
Unto my other daughters doe convay;
For your commodities I'le ever flow
Unto Danubius, Ister, Rhine, and Poe,
To Maze, Seine, Volga, Ems, Elve, and Tanales,
To Tygris, Nilus, Ganges, Euphrates,
To Tyber, Jordan, Xanthus, Jndus, Tagus,
Past Asphaltites, or Blacke Mortuus Lacus
As far as Sol or Cynthia spread their beames,
As far as Oceanus sends his streames,
So far will I your servant ever be,
In any thing you'l deigne to put on me:
And humble thanks faire Thames and I doe render
To you, who of her well-fare are so tender,
Who with great cost and care doe lend your hands,
To cleare your servant Thames from shelves and sands:
Go on and cleanse her, as you have begun,
And she shall doe for you as she hath done.
We are assur'd that Heaven will ever blesse
Your stores, who doe her injuries redresse,
Thetis and Thames, their services shall show
To you, as long as they doe ebb and flow.
Thus with our humble dutious bending downe,
Long may this Citie flourish with renowne.

Then the Rowers (consisting of foure in number, being two Saylours, two watermen) being ouer-joyed, pike their oares, and every of them drinks his Kan as a health, tossing them up, and presently falling into a Rugged friskin daunce, returne to Pauls wharfe, and landing the said Barge, she is carried as the formost Pageant in the shew through the Citie.

The second is a Pageant representing the figures of Time and Mercury (Time being habited in a blew roabe with his Sithe in his hand) which do wait and attend the [Page] Lord Mayor in Paules Chuch-yard, The speakers being Mounted on two Griphons (the Supporters of the Cloth-workers Armes) 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 signifie quicknesse of Invention, Acutenesse of wit, and Volubility of tongue with Eloquence of speech. He hath also wings on his feet to signifie his swiftnesse; as Messen­ger to the Gods. Time speakes as followeth.

The Speech of Time.
Almost 500 daies, beheld have I
The Triumphs of Great Londons Mayoralty,
And sure old Time, with Joy doth truely say,
He n're was better pleas'd than at this day;
Not that I thinke a temporizing Lord,
Or Pleaser of the Time shall weild the sword,
But as your Honourable Predecessors
Have mended Time, by punishing Trangressors;
So Time hopes that th'addition of your yeare,
Will make him more Illustrate, pure and cleare.
For of all fading things 'tis manifest,
As Time is us'd, hee's either worst or best.
All those that rightly have their Honours won:
Have us'd Time well, (as you my Lord have done.)
This Honour was ordaind you, from your youth
You ever lov'd my loveliest daughter TRVTH,
And she hath rais'd you; and she did prefer
You to this dignity to Maintaine her.
I doe command her, still with you t'abide,
Doe 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 Marchandise and wares,
Time shall assist you in your great'st affaires:
Time shall be alwaies yours Auspitiously,
And Time will bring you to Eternity.
Her's Hermes, from his Spheares circumferance
Hath brought the Poet wit, and Eloquence;
And quick Invention, likewise he Inflam'd
Into the Artists that these pageants fram'd,
That for your future Honour, this may be
A day of well Compos'd Variety
Of Speach and shew, these Triumphs we present,
We hope (as they are meant shall give content)
We humbly wish, that you this yeare may finde,
Full of true worth as is your worthy mind.

Next and neere to this Pageant of Time and Mercury, is the forme of a Citie 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 worke upon cloth, as Cloth-workers, fullers, shermen, and others, the walls of the Citie being adorned round, with Armes and scoutcheons of the Cittie and company as [Page] also divers figures, as 1 of Antiquitie, 2 Record, 3 Memo­ry, 4 Wisedome, and others the like; also an ancient Matron in a civill grave robe with her haire long hanging downe in trammels dishevelled behind her backe, sitting in one of the Gates of the Citie, shee speaks in the person of London to the Lord Mayor and company as follow­eth.

By me faire London in obedience shewes
The service, love, and duty that she owes
To this daies Triumph, but my aime is higher,
My thankfulnesse doth up to heaven aspire,
Which unto me hath so propitious beene,
That I doe see this day, and now am seene
The Queene of Cities, Empresse of content,
And Princesse of unmarched government;
Weigh well my state, and think on other states,
Thebes is ruin'd with her hundred Gates;
Numantia, Carthage, great Jerusalem,
And Babylon, what are become of them?
Constantinople doth in sorrow lye,
And groane beneath the Turkish tyranny:
Rome, and all Cities that hold Rome supreme,
Their glorie's are eclips'd or but a dreame;
Whilst fire and sword doth Germany molest,
London's secure, with peace and plenty blest,
Turke, Pope, and war, beare here no rule or sway,
For I one God, one King, one Law obey;
Ther's my security, and my state doth stand
Supported by the unsupported hand,
These are the meanes and instruments whereby
We rise to Honour, painfull Industry.
An Idle Citizen is like a Moth,
One spoyles b'example t'oher spoyles the Cloth,
True Citizens are the true Cities sonnes,
The others are but bastards, mad that runnes,
Like Runnagates, or cursed Imps of Caine,
And never shall to Honours seat Attaine:
Worke on my Lads, and you in time may be,
Good members of this Honour'd Company,
And though good Freeman (of this Corporation)
Deceas'd before his halfe yeares expiration,
Yet Heaven hath soone provided for our good
Another worthy of this Brother-hood.
And now my Lord, I give my selfe 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 forme of a Tower, which doth import a Tower of Honour, on the top of which Tower sits one in royall robes, with a majestique Impale­ment on his head, a scepter in one hand, and a Ball in the other: under him (in the next descent) sit in equall distances the figures of a Lord Mayor, a Bishop, a Lawyer, [Page] and a warlike Captaine or Generall. On the right hand of the Lord Mayor is placed the figure or emblem of Ho­nour: next the Bishop is placed piety or the feare of God: on the right hand of the Judge, a figure representing power is seated, and by the Generall or Captaine stands victory. In the descent below the Lord Mayor is an appren­tice, and by him stands obedience: beneath the Bishop is a scholler, and by him is placed patience, under the Judge a clark, and by him diligence, & under the Lord Generall is a Common Souldiour, and by him is placed vertue, which shewes that by vertuous actions and true industry meane men have ascended and may be raised to Honourable places, which is an encouragement and paterne for others to pursue and follow those most worthy wayes to Honour and Renowne. The Tower being round or circu­lar, and the Basis or Ground-worke square or Quadrangle, on each corner whereof sits, the foure prime or Cardinall Vertues, namely Justice, Fortitude, Temperance and Pru­dence, every one of them habited in Robes, significant and Emblematically shewing that those vertues doe adorne and dignifie the above presented noble personages. This Pageant attending my Lord Mayor, in Pauls Church­yard or at the upper end of Cheapside neere the little Con­duit; he that sits highest in the place and person of Honour speakes 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 growes freedome, and from thence
(Through Industry) springs Worth and Eminence.
All such as will true Honours seat ascend,
Must doe (as these have) first obey and bend:
For though Humility to man seemes low,
The fruit of it as high as Heaven doth grow:
Tis diligence doth the puny-clarke prefer,
To be a Reverend Judge, or Counceller;
Paines and much perill oft obtaines the grace,
A common Souldiour gaines a Generals place:
The poorest Schollers study (by degrees)
Ascends the height of spirituall dignities,
And from th'apprentice seven yeares servitude
Proceeds the grave gowne, and the Livery-Hood,
Till (in the end) by merit, paines and care,
They win the Grace to fit in Honours chaire;
Thus Humble service is advanc'd and rear'd
To Honours seat, obey'd, belov'd and fear'd.
Authoritie's the touch-stone of the minde,
And shewes which way the bearer is inclin'd:
For having power joyned to his will,
It makes him much more good, or much more ill:
It makes him to foresee, with Judgements eye,
That Justice without Mercie's cruelty:
That Mercy without Justice is much worse,
Breeds scorne, contempt, makes power to leese her force.
When you in scales of Equity doe lay
The sword of Justice, who dares but obey.
Your faith and Honour are in marriage joynd
By oath this day, which no man can unbinde,
Therefore my Lord (whose service and true merit
Hath made this Honour your's which you inherit)
Tis treble Joy that you doe wisely know
To mix those vertues well, and to bestow
Them justly, as occasion shall incite:
To gard the good, and make wrong render right,
In which expectance all our hopes abounding,
Joy crowne this day with Drums and Trumpets sounding.

Then his Lordship being come to Saint Laurence lane end in Cheapside, he is saluted by Endimion, or a shep­herd rideing on a Rams back, (the Ram being the crest of the Cloth-workers armes) there being neere or next unto him an ancient monument of fame: at the approach of my Lord the shepherd entertaines him with this speech.

The Speech of Endimion.
My Honour'd Lord, let me, (a rurall Swaine,
And humble shepherd from the lowly plaine)
As plainly bid thee welcome to this state
Of Englands greatest civill Magistrate.
A shepherd joyes to see this day, and I
Will fleece my flock's t'nrich thy company:
I am Endimion, that of yore did keepe
Upon th'Arcadian hils my harmeles sheepe:
Whereas by study, and by observations
I found the Moones change and her variations,
And for my sake the Swaines doe still prefer
The booke ycleap'd the shepherds Kallender.
Apollo kept Admetus sheepe (tis said)
And Tamberlaine (whom Mighty Kings obey'd)
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 Celestiall figne, (Aries by name)
Come from the Zodiack to adorne your fame.
And from the Ram, and his increasing breed
Neere halfe mankinde have meanes to Cloath and feed.
By picking wooll, thousands releife doe gaine,
[...]s many carding, spinning doth maintaine:
Wooll-men, a great and wealthy trade doe drive,
Weavers, in great abundance worke and live,
The Clothiers, Fullers, Tuckers, Shermen, Dyers,
From the sheepes fleece have feeding and attires,
But all these Trades, which I doe here infer,
Have all relation to the Cloth-worker,
For were it not for him the rest were nothing,
He onely makes it Cloth, and fit for Clothing,
Without the Cloth-worker, the Drapers Trade
And Merchants Traffick 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 celestiall Inne
Such golden tincture on his fleece hee [...]le set,
Which many golden peeces shall beget,
And whereas men (to make their worths appeare)
Doe give their servants Liveries once a yeare,
The Ram (in bounty) passeth man I note.
And gives his Master every yeare a coate
Thus poore Endimion, with the beast he tides,
Doth wish you prosperous windes, and happy tides,
That by commerce, and good Negotiation,
Wooll turn'd to Cloth, and Cloth by transformation,
Be turn'd to gold, that you may say with joy,
That Iasons fleece (to yours) was but a toy.
A dance of shephards with drinking in leather bottles in the [...].

Lastly, at night, when his Lordship returnes from Pauls, the Pageants being six in number, going all before him in their order, attending him to his house, then the last [Page] Pageant being an ancient Monument of Fame, shall pre­sent it selfe 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 adorn'd with the Armes, Escucheons, Hatchments and Impresses of divers Lord Mayors that have bin of the worshipfull company of the Cloth-workers, whom (though Time hath inter­red) Fame revives, sounding their praises, and inforceth Time to revive their noble Memory, encouraging his Lordship to follow them in all their Honourable actions, that when Time shall determinate, his Lordships 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 Lordships Gate is a conclusion and dutifull farewell to the daies Triumph and solemnity.

Time speaks.
Time, that this day his service hath exprest,
In duty brings your Lordship to your rest:
Yet er'e I take my leave, (for your content)
I'le shew the meaning of this Monument.
Then know, this ruind peece doth shew that stones
And tombes consume, as doe their owners bones,
For Time is circular in his effects,
Builds and throwes downe, and ruins and erects:
But fortune, death or fame, or Time cannot
Make vertuous men, or vertue be forgot.
For Immortallity is pleas'd to make
Fame with his Trumpe the drowsie world to wake,
Who from demollished delapidations
Proclaimes the memorable nominations
Of worthies of this worthy company,
Who Honourd liv'd, and did with Honour die.
Sir William Hewet was, as you my Lord,
To poyz the ballance and to weild the sword:
Sir Rowland Hayward next, next Sir Iames Hawes,
Did rule this Citie justly by the lawes;
Next was Sir Edward Osboorne Londons Mayor;
Then Sir Iohn Spencer gaind the honourd Chaire,
Sir Thomas Schinner after had the place;
Next did Sir Nicholas Mosley gaine the Grace;
Then Sir Iohn Watts his yeare with Honour past,
And Noble Freeman who deceased last.
King Iames 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 Brother-hood; he did understand,
You were most fit for his fraternall 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 doe in love.
Tis truly said, that man that rules his passions,
Doth conquer more, than he that conquers Nations.
As you have rul'd your selfe, let it appeare
In ruling London this ensuing yeare,
So you, with Time shall be together blest,
And Time shall bring you to Eternall Rest.

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 Captaine amongst the Greekes at the siege of Troy.

Danubia is a great River that runs through Hungaria by the famous Cities of Buda, Brundusium, and Belgrad, and so it passeth into Germany, by the Towne of Regens­berg, and through Swabe, Bavaria, and Austria; it is also called Donawe, but passing into Illyria it is at a part of Thracia cald 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 Citie of Eniden hath name Elve or Albe, is a river that passeth from Bohem, through Saxony, Misnia, and so to the townes of Hamborough and Stoad, into the German 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 fruitfull once a yeare by [Page] the overflowing of Nilus. Ganges is a mighty river that runs through and divides India, it is one of the foure rivers of Paradise, and is called by Moses Phison. Tigris one of the foure named Hiddekell. Euphrates passeth by Babylon, and was also one of the rivers of Paradise named by Moses Perah, and the Tyber a river that runs through Rome. Iordan a river that runs betwixt Gallile and Iudea, and fals into Mare mortuum or the dead sea. Xanthus a river in Phrygia neere Troy, of which it is said that if sheepe dranke of the water, their fleeces became yellow. Indus a great and goodly navigable river, that hath its head from the mountaine 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 Siria, 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 seene 426 severall daies of Mayoralty, which is so many yeares since the Cities govern­ment was changed (by King Richard the first) from Portgraves, Provosts and Bayliffs, 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 falshood may obscure her, yet Time will bring her forth at last, where her bright vertue shall outshine the Sun: there is nothing goes beyond Time but Eternity.

Ʋpon the third Pageant which represented a Citie.

LOndon doth expresse her duty and thankfullnesse, in acknowledging her happy preservation and govern­ment, when many of the goodliest Cities in the world are either ruind, and confounded, or else far short of her peacefull and plentifull felicity. As first, Thebes was a great Citie in Egypt, it was built by King Busiris, it had 100 gates about the walls, it was 40 miles in compasse, the walles were 30 stads high, and six stads in breadth; it is written that 200 watchmen watched at euery gate: when it was destroy'd by Allexander the Great, there were found the Toombs of 77 Kings, (and good Kings they had bin) for the law was amongst them that bad Kings should have no buriall. 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 Spaine, and being besieged by the brave roman Scipio, rather than they would yeeld their Citie, they burned it with their wives, children, goods and families. Carthage was a good­ly Citie in Affrica, it was 40 English miles in circuit, it was held against the Romans 44 yeares when Rome was in her greatest greatnesse, it brought forth the valiant Cap­taine Haniball, and was at last destroy'd by Scipio Affri­canus 144 yeares before Christs birth; the place and coun­try where it stood is now called Tunis, which is a harbour [Page] or Receptacle for Pirats, sea-Rovers and misbeleeving Turkes. Ierusalem the chiefe Citie of Iudea, where King Salomons Temple was, and where our Saviour suffered his passion, it is now a ruind peece under the subjection of the Turk. There are two Babylons, one in Caldea, where Nim­rods Tower was erected, and another Babylon there was in Egypt, they being (as their names doe signifie) both in confusion under the Turk. Constantinople was the metro­polis and the head Citie of the Grecian or Easterne Em­pire, it was won from the Christians the 29 of May 1453. by the Turkish Emperour Mahomet the second, which Mahomet did also win the Empire of Trebizond, and tooke 12 Kingdomes and 200 Cities from the Christians. Rome nor any Citie that holds Rome for chiefe, cannot declare any such true Reality in their happinesse and government, as London justly may doe.

These few expressions I thought fit to set downe here for the illustration of such words and places as may seeme hard and obscure to some meane Readers.

FINIS.

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