Part 15
Early the next morning they were awakened with music, and at their uprising invested in their hermits’ habits, which was a gown of gray cloth, girded close, and a hood of the same, and a linen coif underneath, and an handkercher hanging at his girdle, cloth stockings soled with leather, but no shoes; and thus apparelled, their esquires governors, with the heralds wearing the coats of arms, and sundry sorts of wind instruments before them, they proceed from their lodging, the meanest in order foremost, as the night before, until they came to the chapel, where, after service ended, their oath was ministered unto them by the Earl of Arundel, lord marshal, and the Earl of Pembroke, lord chamberlain, in a solemn and ceremonious manner, all of them standing forth before their stalls, and at their coming out making low reverence towards the altar, by which the commissioners sate: then were they brought up by the heralds by two at once, the chiefest first, and so the rest, till all successively had received their oath,[322] which in effect was this: That above all things they should seek the honour of God, and maintenance of true religion; love their sovereign; serve their country; help maidens, widows, and orphans; and, to the utmost of their power, cause equity and justice to be observed.
This day, whilst they were yet in the chapel, wine and sweetmeats were brought them, and they departed to their chamber to be disrobed of their hermits’ weeds, and were revested in robes of crimson taffeta, implying they should be martial men, the robes lined with white sarcenet, in token of sincerity, having white hats on their heads with white feathers, white boots on their legs, and white gloves tied unto the strings of their mantles; all which performed, they mount on horseback, the saddle of black leather, the arson[323] white, stirrup-leathers black gilt, the pectoral[324] of black leather, with a cross paty[325] of silver thereon, and without a crupper, the bridle likewise black, with a cross paty on the forehead or frontlet; each knight between his two esquires well apparelled, his footmen attending, and his page riding before him, carrying his sword, with the hilts upward, in a white leather belt without buckles or studs, and his spurs hanging thereon. In this order ranked, every man according to his degree— the best or chiefest first—they rode fair and softly towards the court, the trumpets sounding, and the heralds all the way riding before them. Being come to the King’s hall, the Marshal meets them, who is to have their horses, or else 100s. in money, for his fee: then, conducted by the heralds and others appointed for that purpose, his Majesty sitting under his cloth of estate, gave to them their knighthood in this manner:
First, the principal lord that is to receive the order comes, led by his two esquires, and his page before him bearing his sword and spurs, and kneeleth down before his Majesty; the Lord Chamberlain takes the sword of the page and delivers it to the King, who puts the belt over the neck of the knight, aslope his breast, placing the sword under his left arm; the second nobleman of the chief about the King puts on his spurs, the right spur first; and so is the ceremony performed. In this sort Lord Maltravers, son and heir to the Earl of Arundel, lord marshal, which was the principal of this number, being first created, the rest were all consequently knighted alike. And when the solemnity thereof was fully finished, they all returned in order as they came, saving some small difference, in that the youngest or meanest knight went now foremost, and their pages behind them.
Coming back to the Parliament House, their dinner was ready prepared, in the same room and after the fashion as their supper was the night before; but being set, they were not to taste of any thing that stood before them, but, with a modest carriage and graceful abstinence, to refrain; divers kinds of sweet music sounding the while; and after a convenient time of sitting, to arise and withdraw themselves, leaving the table so furnished to their esquires and pages.
About five of the clock in the afternoon they rode again to court, to hear service in the King’s chapel, keeping the same order they did at their return from thence in the morning, every knight riding between his two esquires, and his page following him. At their entrance into the chapel, the heralds conducting them, they make a solemn reverence, the youngest knight beginning, the rest orderly ensuing; and so one after another take their standing before their stalls, where all being placed, the eldest knight maketh a second reverence, which is followed to the youngest; and then all ascend into their stalls, and take their accustomed places. Service then beginneth, and is very solemnly celebrated with singing of divers anthems to the organs; and when the time of their offertory is come, the youngest knights are summoned forth of their stalls by the heralds, doing reverence first within their stalls, and again after they are descended, which is likewise imitated by all the rest; and being all thus come forth, standing before their stalls as at first, the two eldest knights, with their swords in their hands, are brought up by the heralds to the altar, where they offer their swords, and the dean receives them, of whom they presently redeem them with an angel[326] in gold, and then come down to their former places, whilst two other are led up in like manner. The ceremony performed and service ended, they depart again in such order as they came, with accustomed reverence. At the chapel-door, as they came forth, they were encountered by the King’s master cook, who stood there with his white apron and sleeves, and a chopping-knife in his hand, and challenged their spurs, which were likewise redeemed with a noble[327] in money, threatening them, nevertheless, that if they proved not true and loyal to the King, his lord and master, it must be his office to hew them from their heels.
On Monday morning they all met together nigh at the court, where, in a private room appointed for them, they were clothed in long robes of purple satin, with hoods of the same, all lined and edged about with white taffeta; and thus apparelled, they gave their attendance upon the Prince at his creation, and dined that day in his presence, at a side-board, as is already declared.
_The Names of such Lords and Gentlemen as were made Knights of the Bath, in honour of his Highness’ Creation._
James Lord Maltravers, son and heir to the Earl of Arundel. Algernon Lord Percy, son and heir to the Earl [of] Northumberland. James Lord Wriothesley, son to the Earl of Southampton. Edward [Theophilus] Lord Clinton, son to the Earl of Lincoln. Edward Lord Beauchamp, grandchild to the Earl of Hertford. [George] Lord Berkeley. [John] Lord Mordaunt. Sir Alexander Erskine, son to the Viscount Fenton. Sir Henry Howard, second son to the Earl of Arundel. Sir Robert Howard, fourth [fifth] son to the Earl of Suffolk. Sir Edward Sackville, brother to the Earl of Dorset. Sir William Howard, fifth [sixth] son to the Earl of Suffolk. Sir Edward Howard, sixth [seventh] son to the Earl of Suffolk. Sir Montague Bertie,[328] eldest son to the Lord Willoughby of Eresby. [Sir William Stourton, son to the Lord Stourton.] Sir Henry Parker, son to the Lord Mounteagle. Sir Dudley North, eldest son to the Lord North. Sir Spencer Compton, son and heir to Lord Compton. Sir William Spencer, son to the Lord Spencer. [Sir William Seymour, brother to the Lord Beauchamp.] Sir Rowland St. John, third son to the Lord St. John. Sir John Cavendish, second son to the Lord Cavendish. Sir Thomas Neville, grandchild to the Lord Abergavenny. Sir John Roper, grandchild to the Lord Tenham. Sir John North, brother to the Lord North. Sir Henry Carey, son to Sir Robert Carey.
And for an honourable conclusion of the King’s royal grace and bounty shewn to this solemnity, his Majesty created Thomas Lord Ellesmere, lord chancellor of England, Viscount Brackley; the Lord Knolles, Viscount Wallingford; Sir Philip Stanhope, Lord Stanhope of Shelford in Nottinghamshire: these being created[329], on Thursday the seventh of November, the Lord Chancellor Viscount Brackley being led out of the council-chamber into the privy gallery by the Earl of Montgomery and Viscount Villiers.
THE TRIUMPHS
OF
LOVE AND ANTIQUITY.
_The Triumphs of Loue and Antiquity. An Honourable Solemnitie performed through the Citie, at the confirmation and establishment of the Right Honourable Sir William Cockayn, Knight, in the office of his Maiesties Lieutenant, the Lord Maior of the Famous Citie of London: Taking beginning in the morning at his Lordships going, and perfecting it selfe after his returne from receiuing the oath of Maioralty at Westminster, on the morrow after Symon and Judes Day, October 29. 1619. By Tho: Middleton. Gent. London, Printed by Nicholas Okes. 1619._ 4to.
Reprinted in Nichols’s _Progresses of King James_, vol. iii. p. 570.
_To the honour of him to whom the noble Fraternity of Skinners, his worthy brothers, have dedicated their loves in costly Triumphs, the Right Honourable_ SIR WILLIAM COCKAINE, _Knight, Lord Mayor of this renowned City, and Lord General of his Military Forces_.
Love, triumph, honour, all the glorious graces This day holds in her gift; fix’d eyes and faces Apply themselves in joy all to your look; In duty, then, my service and the book,
At your Lordship’s command,
THO. MIDDLETON.
THE TRIUMPHS
OF
LOVE AND ANTIQUITY.
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If foreign nations have been struck with admiration at the form, state, and splendour of some yearly triumphs, wherein Art[330] hath been but weakly imitated and most beggarly worded, there is fair hope that things where invention flourishes, clear Art and her graceful proprieties should receive favour and encouragement from the content of the spectator, which, next to the service of his honour and honourable Society, is the principal reward it looks for; and not despairing of that common favour—which is often cast upon the undeserver, through the distress and misery of judgment—this takes delight to present itself.
And first, to begin early with the love of the city to his lordship, let me draw your attentions to his honour’s entertainment upon the water, where Expectation, big with the joy of the day, but beholding[331] to free love for language and expression, thus salutes the great master of the day and triumph.
_The speech to entertain his lordship upon the water._
Honour and joy double their blessings on thee! I, the day’s love, the city’s general love, Salute thee in the sweetness of content; All that behold me worthily may see How full mine eye stands of the joy of thee; The more, because I may with confidence say Desert and love will be well match’d to-day; And herein the great’st pity will appear, This match can last no longer than a year; Yet let not that discourage thy good ways, Men’s loves will last to crown thy end of days; If those should fail, which cannot easily die, Thy good works wed thee to eternity. Let not the shortness, then, of time dismay The largeness of thy worth, gain every day; So, many years thou gain’st that some have lost; For they that think their care is at great cost, If they do any good in time so small, They make their year but a poor day in all; For, as a learnèd man will comprehend, In compass of his hour, doctrine so sound, Which give another a whole year to mend, He shall not equal upon any ground; So the judicious, when he comes to bear This powerful office, struck with divine fear, Collects his spirits, redeems his hours with care, Thinks of his charge and oath, what ties they are; And with a virtuous resolution then Works more good in one year than some in ten: Nor is this spoken any to detract, But all t’ encourage to put truth in act. Methinks I see oppression hang the head, Falsehood and injury with their guilt struck dead, At this triumphant hour; ill causes hide Their leprous faces, daring not t’ abide The brightness of this day; and in mine ear Methinks the Graces’ silver chimes I hear. Good wishes are at work now in each heart, Throughout this sphere of brotherhood play their part; Chiefly thy noble own fraternity, As near in heart as they’re in place to thee, The ensigns of whose love bounty displays, Yet esteems all their cost short of thy praise. There will appear elected sons of war, Which this fair city boasts of, for their care, Strength, and experience, set in truth of heart, All great and glorious masters in that art Which gives to man his dignity, name, and seal, Prepar’d to speak love in a noble peal, Knowing two triumphs must on this day dwell, For magistrate one, and one for coronel:[332] Return lord-general, that’s the name of state The soldier gives thee, peace the magistrate. On then, great hope! here that good care begins, Which now earth’s love and heaven’s hereafter wins.
At his lordship’s return from Westminster, those worthy gentlemen whose loves and worths were prepared before in the conclusion of the former speech by water, are now all ready to salute their lord-general with a noble volley at his lordship’s landing; and in the best and most commendable form, answerable to the nobleness of their free love and service, take their march before his lordship, who, being so honourably conducted, meets the first Triumph by land waiting his lordship’s most wished arrival in Paul’s-Churchyard, near Paul’s-Chain, which is a Wilderness, most gracefully and artfully furnished with divers kind of beasts bearing fur, proper to the fraternity; the presenter the musical Orpheus, great master both in poesy and harmony, who by his excellent music drew after him wild beasts, woods, and mountains; over his head an artificial cock, often made to crow and flutter with his wings. This Orpheus, at the approach of his lordship, gives life to these words:
_The speech delivered by_ ORPHEUS.
Great lord, example is the crystal glass By which wise magistracy sets his face, Fits all his actions to their comeliest dress, For there he sees honour and seemliness: ’Tis not like flattering glasses, those false books Made to set age back in great courtiers’ looks; Like clocks on revelling nights, that ne’er go right, Because the sports may yield more full delight, But when they break off, then they find it late, The time and truth appear:[333] such is their state Whose death by flatteries is set back awhile, But meets ’em in the midst of their safe smile; Such horrors those forgetful things attend, That only mind their ends, but not their end. Leave them to their false trust, list thou to me; Thy power is great, so let thy virtues be, Thy care, thy watchfulness, which are but things Remember’d to thy praise; from thence it springs, And not from fear of any want in thee, For in this truth I may be comely free,— Never was man advanc’d yet waited on With a more noble expectation: That’s a great work to perfect; and as those That have in art a mastery can oppose All comers, and come off with learnèd fame, Yet think not scorn still of a scholar’s name, A title which they had in ignorant youth,— So he that deals in such a weight of truth As th’ execution of a magistrate’s place, Though never so exact in form and grace, Both from his own worth and man’s free applause, Yet may be call’d a labourer in the cause, And be thought good to be so, in true care The labour being so glorious, just, and fair. Behold, then, in a rough example here, The rude and thorny ways thy care must clear; Such are the vices in a city sprung, As are yon thickets that grow close and strong; Such is oppression, cozenage, bribes, false hires, As are yon catching and entangling briers; Such is gout-justice, that’s delay in right, Demurs in suits that are as clear as light; Just such a wilderness is a commonwealth That is undrest, unprun’d, wild in her health; And the rude multitude the beasts a’ the wood, That know no laws, but only will and blood; And yet, by fair example, musical grace, Harmonious government of the man in place, Of fair integrity and wisdom fram’d, They stand as mine do, ravish’d, charm’d, and tam’d: Every wise magistrate that governs thus, May well be call’d a powerful Orpheus. Behold yon bird of state, the vigilant cock, The morning’s herald and the ploughman’s clock, At whose shrill crow the very lion trembles, The sturdiest prey-taker that here assembles; How fitly does it match your name and power, Fix’d in that name now by this glorious hour, At your just voice to shake the bold’st offence And sturdiest sin that e’er had residence In secure man, yet, with an equal eye, Matching grave justice with fair clemency! It being the property he chiefly shews, To give wing-warning still before he crows, To crow before he strike; by his clapt wing To stir himself up first, which needful thing Is every man’s first duty; by his crow, A gentle call or warning, which should flow From every magistrate; before he extend The stroke of justice, he should reprehend And try the virtue of a powerful word, If that prevail not, then the spur, the sword. See, herein honours to his majesty Are not forgotten, when I turn and see The several countries, in those faces plain, All owing fealty to one sovereign; The noble English, the fair-thriving Scot, Plain-hearted Welsh, the Frenchman bold and hot, The civilly instructed Irishman, And that kind savage the Virginian, All lovingly assembled, e’en by fate, This thy day’s honour to congratulate. On, then; and as your service fills this place, So through the city do his lordship grace.
At which words this part of Triumph moves onward, and meets the full body of the show in the other Paul’s-Churchyard; then dispersing itself according to the ordering of the speeches following, one part, which is the Sanctuary of Fame, plants itself near the Little Conduit in Cheap; another, which hath the title of the Parliament of Honour, at St. Laurence-Lane end. Upon the battlements of that beauteous sanctuary, adorned with six-and-twenty bright-burning lamps, having allusion to the six-and-twenty aldermen—they being, for their justice, government, and example, the lights of the city—a grave personage, crowned with the title and inscription of Example, breathes forth these sounds:
EXAMPLE.
From that rough wilderness, which did late present The perplex’d state and cares of government, Which every painful magistrate must meet, Here the reward stands for thee,—a chief seat In Fame’s fair Sanctuary, where some of old, Crown’d with their troubles, now are here enroll’d In memory’s sacred sweetness to all ages; And so much the world’s voice of thee presages. And these that sit for many, with their graces Fresh as the buds of roses, though they sleep, In thy Society had once high places, Which in their good works they for ever keep; Life call’d ’em in their time honour’s fair stars, Large benefactors, and sweet governors. If here were not sufficient grace for merit, Next object, I presume, will raise thy spirit.
In this masterpiece of art, Fame’s illustrious Sanctuary, the memory of those worthies shine[s] gloriously that have been both lord mayors of this city and noble benefactors and brothers of this worthy fraternity; to wit, Sir Henry Barton, Sir William Gregory, Sir Stephen Jennings, Sir Thomas Mirfen, Sir Andrew Judd, Sir Wolstone Dixie, Sir Stephen Slany, Sir Richard Saltonstall, and now the right honourable Sir William Cockaine.
That Sir Henry Barton, an honour to memory, was the first that, for the safety of travellers and strangers by night through the city, caused lights to be hung out from Allhollontide[334] to Candlemas; therefore, in this Sanctuary of Fame, where the beauty of good actions shine[s], he is most properly and worthily recorded.
His lordship by this time gracefully conducted toward that Parliament of Honour, near St. Laurence-Lane end, Antiquity, from its eminence, thus gloriously salutes him:
ANTIQUITY, _in the Parliament of Honour_.
Grave city-governor, so much honour do me, Vouchsafe thy presence and thy patience to me, And I’ll reward that virtue with a story, That shall to thy fraternity add glory; Then to thy worth no mean part will arise, That art ordain’d chief for that glorious prize. ’Tis I that keep all the records of fame, Mother of truths, Antiquity my name; No year, month, day, or hour, that brings in place Good works and noble, for the city’s grace, But I record, that after-times may see What former were, and how they ought to be Fruitful and thankful, in fair actions flowing, To meet heaven’s blessings, to which much is owing. For instance, let all grateful eyes be plac’d Upon this mount of royalty, by kings grac’d, Queens, prince, dukes, nobles, more by numbering gain’d Than can be in this narrow sphere contain’d; Seven kings, five queens, only one prince alone, Eight dukes, two earls, Plantagenets twenty-one; All these of this fraternity made free, Brothers and sisters of this Company: And see with what propriety the Fates Have to this noble brotherhood knit such states;[335] For what society the whole city brings Can with such ornaments adorn their kings,— Their only robes of state, when they consent To ride most glorious to high parliament? And mark in this their royal intent still; For when it pleas’d the goodness of their will To put the richest robes of their loves on To the whole city, the most ever came To this Society, which records here prove, Adorning their adorners with their love; Which was a kingly equity. Be careful then, great lord, to bring forth deeds To match that honour that from hence proceeds.
At the close of which speech the whole Triumph takes leave of his lordship for that time; and, till after the feast at Guildhall, rests from service. His lordship, accompanied with many noble personages; the honourable fellowship of ancient magistrates and aldermen of this city; the two new sheriffs, the one of his own fraternity (the complete Brotherhood of Skinners), the right worshipful master sheriff Dean, a very bountiful and worthy citizen; not forgetting the noble pains and loves of the heroic captains of the city, and gentlemen of the Artillery-garden,[336] making, with two glorious ranks, a manly and majestic passage for their lord-general, his lordship, thorough Guildhall-yard; and afterward their loves to his lordship resounding in a second noble volley.
Now, that all the honours before mentioned in that Parliament, or Mount of Royalty, may arrive at a clear and perfect manifestation, to prevent[337] the over-curious and inquisitive spirit, the names and times of those kings, queens, prince, dukes, and nobles, free of the honourable Fraternity of Skinners in London, shall here receive their proper illustrations.