DERIVED FROM REMARKABLE ANTIQUITY, AND CELEBRATED IN THE HONORABLE CITY OF LONDON, AT THE SOLE MUNIFICENT CHARGE AND EXPENCES OF THE RIGHT WORTHY AND WORSHIPFULL FRATERNITY, OF THE EMINENT MERCHANT-TAYLORS. DIRECTED IN THEIR MOST AFFECTIONATE LOVE, AT THE CONFIRMATION OF THEIR RIGHT WORTHY BROTHER JOHN GORE IN THE HIGH OFFICE OF HIS MAIESTIES LI EU!TENANT OVER THIS HIS ROY A!LL CHAMBER. EXPRESSING IN A MAGNIFICENT TRYUMPH, ALL THE PAGEANTS, CHARIOTS OF GLORY, TEMPLES OF HONOR, BESIDES A SPECIOUS AND GOODLY SEA TRYUMPH, AS WELL PARTICULARLY TO THE HONOR OF THE CITY, AS GENERALLY TO THE GLORY OF THIS OUR KINGDOME. MERCHANT-TAYLOR. ---NON NORUNT HAEC MONUMENTA MORI. PRINTED AT LONDON BY NICHOLAS OKES. 1624. TO THE RIGHT WORTHY DESERVER OF THIS SO NOBLE A CEREMONY THIS DAY CONFIRDE UPON HIM, JOHN GORE LORD MAYOR AND CHANCELOR OF THE RENOWNED CITY OF LONDON. MY WORTHY LORD, THESE PRESENTMENTES WHICH WERE IN- TENDED PRINCIPALLY FOR YOUR HONOR, AND FOR ILLUSTRATING THE WORTH OF THAT WORTHY CORPORATION(WHEREOF YOU ARE A MEMBER) COME NOW HUMBLY TO KISSE YOUR LORDSHIPS HANDES; AND TO PRESENT THE INVENTOR OF THEM TO THAT SERVICE, WHICH MY ABILITY (EXPREST IN THIS) MAY CALL ME TO(UNDER YOUR LORDSHIPS FAVOR) TO DO YOU HONOR, AND THE CITY SERVICE, IN THE QUALITY OF A SCHOLLER: ASSURING YOUR LORDSHIP, I SHALL NEVER EITHER TO YOUR EARE, OR TABLE PRESSE UNMANNERLY, OR IMPERTINENTLY. MY INDEVOURS THIS WAY HAVE RECEIVED GRACE, AND ALOWANCE FROM YOUR WORTHY BROTHERS(THAT WERE SUPERVISORS OF THE COST OF THESE TRYUMPHS)& MY HOPE IS, THAT THEY SHALL STAND NO LESSE RESPECTED IN YOUR EYE, NOR UNDER-VALUED IN YOUR WORTHY JUDGEMENT: WHICH FAVOURS DONE TO ONE BORNE FREE OF YOUR COMPANY,AND YOUR SERVANT, SHALL EVER BE ACKNOWLEDGED BY HIM STANDS IN- TERRESTED TO YOUR LORDSHIP IN ALL DUTY, JOHN WEBSTER. MONUMENTS OF HONOR. I COULD IN THIS MY PREFACE(BY AS GREAT LIGHT OF LEARNING AS ANY FORMERLY IMPLOYED IN THIS SERVICE CAN ATTAINE TO) DELIVER TO YOU THE ORIGINAL AND CAUSE OF ALL TRYUMPHES, THEIR EXCESSIVE COST IN THE TIME OF THE ROMANS: I COULD LIKEWISE WITH SO NOBLE AMPLIFICATION MAKE A SURVEY OF THE WORTH, AND GLORY OF THE TRIUMPHS OF THE PRECEDENT TIMES IN THIS HONORABLE CITY OF LONDON: THAT, WERE MY WORK OF A BIGGER BULKE, THEY SHOLD REMAINE TO ALL POSTERITY: BUT BOTH MY PEN, AND ABILITY THIS WAY ARE CONFIN'D IN TOO NARROW A CIRCLE: NOR HAVE I SPACE ENOUGH IN THIS SO SHORT A VOLUME TO EXPRESSE ONELY WITH ROUGH LINES, AND A FAINT SHADOW(AS THE PAINTERS PHRASE IS) FIRST THE GREAT CARE AND ALACRITY OF THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL THE MASTER AND WARDENS, AND THE REST OF THE SELECTED AND INDUSTRIOUS COM- MI T!TEES; BOTH FOR THE CURIOUS AND JUDGING ELECTION OF THE SUBJECT FOR THE PRESENT SPECTACLES; AND NEXT THAT THE WORKING OR MECHANICKE PART OF IT MIGHT BE ANSWERABLE TO THE INVENTION: LEAVING THEREFORE THESE WORTHY GENTLEMEN TO THE EMBRACES, AND THANKES OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND WORTHY PRETOR; AND MY SELFE UNDER THE SHADDOW OF THEIR CREST,(WHICH IS A SAFE ONE, FOR 'TIS THE HOLY LAMBE IN THE SUNNE-BEAMES:) I DO PRESENT TO ALL MODEST AND INDIFFERENT JUDGES THESE MY PRESENT ENDEAVOURS. I FASHIONED FOR THE MORE AMPLEFYING THE SHEW UPON THE WATER TWO EMINENT SPECTACLES, IN MANER OF A SEA-TRIUMPH. THE FIRST FURNISHT WITH FOWER PERSONS; IN THE FRONT OCEANUS AND THETIS, BEHIND THEM, THEMESIS AND MEDWAY: THE TWO RIVERS ON WHOM THE LORD MAYOR EXTENDS HIS POWER, AS FARRE AS FROM STANES TO ROCHESTER. THE OTHER SHEW IS OF A FAIRE TERRESTIALL GLOBE, CIRCLED ABOUT, IN CONVENIENT SEATES, WITH SEAVEN OF OUR MOST FAMOUS NAVIGATORS: AS, SR. FRANCIS DRAKE, SR. JOHN HAUKINS, SR. MARTINE FURBISHER, SR. HUMFERY GILBERT, CAPTAINE THOMAS CAVENDISH, CAPTAINE CHRISTOPHER CARLILE, AND CAPTAINE JOHN DAVIS. THE CONCEITE OF THIS DEVICE TO BE, THAT IN REGARD THE TWO RIVERS PAY DUE TRIBUT OF WATERS TO THE SEAS, OCEANUS IN GRATE- FULL RECOMPENCE RETURNES THE MEMORY OF THESE SEAVEN WORTHY CAPTAINES, WHO HAVE MADE ENGLAND SO FAMOUS IN REMOTEST PARTES OF THE WORLD. THESE TWO SPECTACLES, AT MY LORD MAIORS TAKING WATER AT THE THREE CRANES, APROACHING MY LORDS BARGE: AFTER A PEALE OF SEA-THUNDER FROM THE OTHER SIDE THE WATER; THESE SPEECHES BETWEENE OCEANUS AND THETIS FOLLOW. WHAT BRAVE SEA-MUSICKE BIDS US WELCOME, HARKE^ SURE THIS IS VENICE, AND THE DAY SAINT MARKE, IN WHICH THE DUKE AND SENATS THEIR COURSE HOLD TO WED OUR EMPIRE WITH A RING OF GOLD. NO THETIS, Y'ARE MISTAKEN, WE ARE LED WITH INFINITE DELIGHT FROM THE LANDS HEAD, IN KEN OF GOODLY SHIPPING AND YON BRIDGE- VENICE HAD NE'ER! THE LIKE; SURVEY THAT RIDGE OF STATELY BUILDINGS WHICH THE RIVER HEM, AND GRACE THE SILVER STREAME, AS THE STREAME THEM; THAT BEAUTIOUS SEATE IS LONDON, SO MUCH FAM'D, WHERE ANY NAVIGABLE SEA IS NAM'D; AND IN THAT BOTTOME EMINENT MARCHANTS PLAC'T, AS RICH, AND VENTUROUS AS EVER GRAC'T VENICE OR EUROPE; THESE TWO RIVERS HEARE, OUR FOLLOWERS, MAY TELL YOU WHERE WE ARE; THIS THAMESIS,THAT M E!D-WAY,WHO ARE SENT TO YO N! MOST WORTHY PRETOR TO PRESENT ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF DUTY NE'ER! SHALL ERR, FROM STANES UNTO THE ANCIENT ROCHESTER; AND NOW TO GRACE THEIR TRYUMPH, IN RESPECT THESE PAY US TRIBUTE, WE ARE PLEASD TO SELECT SEVEN WORTHY NAVIGATORS OUT BY NAME, SEATED BENEATH THIS GLOBE; WHOSE AMPLE FAME IN THE REMOTEST PART A'THE EARTH IS FOUND, AND SOME OF THEM HAVE CIRCLED THE GLOBE ROUND: THESE YOU OBSERVE ARE LIVING IN YOUR EYE, AND SO THEY OUGHT, FOR WORTHY MEN NE'ER!DYE: DRAKE,HAWKINS,FURBISHER,GILBERT,BRAVE KNIGHTS, THAT BROUGHT HOME GOLD, AND HONOR FROM SEA FIGHTS, CANDISH,CARLILE, AND DAVIS, AND TO THESE, SO MANY WORTHIES I COULD ADDE AT SEAS, OF THIS BOLD NATION,IT WOULD ENVY STRIKE, ITH' REST ATH' WORLD,WHO CANNOT SHEW THE LIKE; TIS ACTION VALEWS HONOR AS THE FLINT LOOK S! BLACKE AND FEELES LIKE ICE,YET FROM WITHIN'T THEIR ARE STROOKE SPARKES WHICH TO THE DARKEST NIGHTS YEELD QUICKE AND PERCING FOOD FOR SEVERALL LIGHTS. YOU HAVE QUICKNED WELL MY MEMORY,AND NOW OF THIS YOUR GRATEFULL TRYUMPH I ALLOW; HONOR LOOKES CLEARE AND SPREADS HER BEAMES AT LARGE FROM THE GRAVE SENATE SEATED IN THAT BARGE; RICH LADING SWELL YOUR BOTTOMES,A BLEST GALE FOLLOW YOUR VENTURES THAT THEY NEVER FAILE; AND MY YOU LIVE SUCCESSIVELY TO WEARE THE JOY OF THIS DAY,EACH MAN HIS WHOLE YEARE. THIS SHEW HAVING TENDRED THIS SERVICE TO MY LORD UPPON THE WATER,IS AFTER TO BE CONVEYED A-SHORE, AND IN CONVENIENT PLACE EMPLOYED FOR ADORNING THE REST OF THE TRIUMPH. AFTER MY LORD MAIORS LANDING, AND COMMING PAST PAULES CHAINE,THERE FIRST ATTENDS FOR HIS HONOR IN PAULS CHURCH-YARDE,A BEAUTIFULL SPECTACLE,CALLED THE TEMPLE OF HONOR, THE PILLARS OF WHICH ARE BOUND ABOUT WITH ROSES, AND OTHER BEAUTIFULL FLOWERS, WHICH SHOOT UP TO THE ADORNING OF THE KINGS MAJESTIES ARMES ON THE TOP OF THE TEMPLE. IN THE HIGHEST SEATE A PERSON REPRESENTING TROYNOVANT OR THE CITY,INTHRONED,IN RICH HABILAMENTS; BENEATH HER,AS ADMIRING HER PEACE AND FELICITY,SIT FIVE EMINENT CITIES,AS ANTWERPE, PARIS,ROME,VENICE AND CONSTANTINOPLE: UNDER THESE SIT FIVE FAMOUS SCHOLLERS AND POETS OF THIS OUR KINGDOME,AS SIR JEFFERY CHAUCER,THE LEARNED GOWER,THE EXCELLENT JOHN LIDGATE,THE SHARPE-WITTED SR.THOMAS MOORE,AND LAST AS WORTHY BOTH SOULDIER AND SCHOLLER,SIR PHILLIP SIDNEY,THESE BEING CELEBRATORS OF HONOR, AND THE P RE!SERVERS BOTH OF THE NAMES OF MEN,AND MEMORIES OF CITIES ABOVE,TO POSTERITY. I PRESENT RIDING AFORE THIS TEMPLE,HENRY DE ROYALL,THE FIRST PILGRIME OR GATHERER OF QUARTRIDGE FOR THIS COMPANY; AND JOHN OF YEACKSLEY,KING EDWARD THE THIRDS PAVILLION-MAKER,WHO PURCHAST OUR HALL IN THE SIXT YEARE OF THE AFORESAYD KINGS GOVERNMENT: THESE LIVED IN EDWARD THE FIRSTS TIME LIKEWISE, (IN THE SIXT OF WHOSE RAIGNE,THIS COMPANY WAS CONFIRMED A GUILD OR CORPORATION BY THE NAME OF TAYLORS AND LINNIN ARMORE R!S,WITH POWER TO CHOOSE A MAISTER AND WARDENS AT MIDSOMER:) THESE ARE DECENTLY HABITED AND HOODED ACCORDING TO THE ANCIENT MANNER:MY LORD IS HEERE SALUTED WITH TWO SPEECHES, FIRST BY TROYNOVANT IN THESE LINES FOLLOWING. HISTORY,TRUTH,AND VERTUE SEEKE BY NAME TO CELEBRATE THE MERCHANT-TAYLORS FAME; THAT HENRY DE ROYALL,THIS WEE CALL WORTHY JOHN YEACKSLEY PURCHAST FIRST THEIR HALL; AND THUS FROM LOW BEGINNINGS THE RE! OFT SPRINGS SOCIETIES CLAIME BROTHER-HOODS OF KINGS. I TROYNOVANT PLAC'T EMINENT IN THE EYE OF THESE ADMIRE AT MY FELICITY: FIVE CITIES,ANTWERPE AND THE SPACIOUS PARIS, ROME,VENICE,AND THE TURKES METROP O!LIS: BENEATH THESE,FIVE LEARNED POETS,WORTHY MEN, WHO DO ETERNIZE BRAVE ACTS BY THEIR PEN; CHAUCER,GOWER,LIDGATE,MOORE AND FOR OUR TIME SR.PHILLIP SIDNEY,GLORY OF OUR CLIME; THESE BEYOND DEATH A FAME TO MONARCKES GIVE, AND THESE MAKE CITIES AND SOCIETIES LIVE. THE NEXT DELIVERED BY HIM REPRESENTS SIR PHILLIP SIDNEY. TO HONOR BY OUR WRIGHTINGS WORTHY MEN FLOWES AS A DUTY FROM A JUDGING PEN, AND WHEN WE ARE EMPLOID IN SUCH SWEET PRAISE, BEES SWARME AND LEAVE THEIR HONEY ON OUR BAYES: EVER MORE MUSICALLY VERSES RUNNE, WHEN THE LOTH'D V E!INE OF FLATTERY THEY SHUN. SURVEY,MOST NOBLE PRETOR,WHAT SUCCEEDES- VERTUE LOW-BRED ASPIRING TO HIGH DEEDES. THESE PASSING ON,IN THE NEXT PLACE,MY LORD IS INCOUNTRED WITH THE PERSON OF S. JOHN HAWKWOOD IN COMPLEATE ARMOUR, HIS PLUME AND FEATHER FOR HIS HORSES SHAFFORNE OF THE COMPANIES COLOURS, WHITE AND WATCHET: THIS WORTHY KNIGHT DID MOST WORTHY SERVICE, IN THE TIME OF EDWARD THE THIRD IN FRANCE, AFTER SERVED AS GENERALL DIVERS PRINCES OF ITALY, WENT TO THE HOLY- LAND, AND IN HIS RETURNE BACKE, DYED AT FLORENCE, AND THERE LYES BURIED WITH A FAIRE MONUMENT OVER HIM: THIS WORTHY GENTLE- MAN WAS FREE OF OUR COMPANY; AND THUS I PREPARE HIM TO GIVE MY LORD ENTERTAINMENT. MY BIRTH WAS MEANE, YET MY DESERVINGS GREW TO EMINENCE, AND IN FRANCE A HIGH PITCH FLEW, FROM A POORE COMMON SOULDIER I ATTAIND THE STILE OF CAPTAINE, AND THEN KNIGHT-HOOD GAIND; SERVD THE BLACKE PRINCE IN FRANCE IN ALL HIS WARRS; THEN WENT T'THE HOLY-LAND, THENCE BROUGHT MY SCARS AND WEARIED BODY WHICH NO DANGER FEARD, TO FLORENCE WHERE IT NOBLY LYES INTEERD, THERE SIR JOHN HAWKEWOODS MEMORY DOTH LIVE, AND TO THE MERCHANT-TAYLORS FAME DOTH GIVE. AFTER HIM FOLLOWES A TRUIMPHANT CHARIOT WITH THE ARMES OF THE MERCHANT-TAYLORS, COLORED AND GUILT IN SEVERAL PLACES OF IT, AND OVER IT, THERE IS SUPPORTED FOR A CANNOPY, A RICH AND VERY SPATIOUS PAVILLION, COLOURED CRIMSON, WITH A LYON PASSANT: THIS IS DRAWNE WITH FOWER HORSES,(FOR PORTERS WOULD HAVE MADE IT MOVE TOTTERING AND IMPROPERLY.) IN THE CHARIOT I PLACE FOR THE HONOR OF THE COMPANY (OF WHICH RECORDS REMAINE IN THE HALL:) EIGHT FAMOUS KINGS OF THIS LAND, THAT HAVE BIN FREE OF THIS WORSHIPFULL COMPANY. FIRST THE VICTORIOUS EDWARD THE THIRD, THAT FIRST QUARTERED THE ARMES OF FRANCE WITH ENGLAND, NEXT THE MUNIFICENT RICHARD THE SECOND, THAT KEPT TEN-THOUSAND DAILY IN HIS COURT IN CHECKROULE, BY HIM THE GRAVE AND DISCREET HENRY THE FOURTH, IN THE NEXT CHAYRES THE SCOURGE AND TERROUR OF FRANCE, HENRY THE FIFTH, AND BY HIM HIS RELIGIOUS, THOUGH UNFORTUNATE SONNE, HENRY THE SIXT: THE TWO NEXT CHAYRES ARE SUPPLIED WITH THE PERSONS OF THE AMAROUS AND PERSONABLE EDWARD THE FOURTH(FOR SO PHILLIP COMMINEUS, AND SIR THOMAS MOORE DESCRIBE HIM) THE OTHER WITH THE BAD MAN, BUT THE GOOD KING, RICHARD THE THIRD, FOR SO THE LAWES HE MADE IN HIS SHORT GOVERNMENT DOE ILLUSTRATE HIM; BUT LASTLY IN THE MOST EMINENT PART OF THE CHARIOT I PLACE THE WISE AND POLITIQUE HENRY THE SEAVENTH, HOULDING THE CHARTER BY WHICH THE COMPANY WAS IMPROVED FROM THE TITLE OF LININ- ARMORERS INTO THE NAME OF MASTER AND WARDENS OF MERCHANT- TAYLORS OF SAINT JOHN BAPTIST. THE CHAYRES OF TH O!SE KINGS THAT WERE OF THE HOUSE OF LANCASTER ARE GARNISHT WITH ARTIFICIALL RED ROSES, THE REST WITH WHITE, BUT THE UNITER OF THE DEVISION AND HOUSES, HENRY THE SEAVENTH, BOTH WITH WHITE AND RED, FROM WHENCE HIS ROYALL MAJESTY NOW RAIGNING TOOKE HIS MOTTO FOR ONE PEICE OF HIS COYNE, HENRICUS ROSAS REGNA JACOBUS. THE SPEAKER IN THIS PAGEANT IS EDWARD THE THIRD, THE LAST LINE OF HIS SPEECH IS REPEATED BY ALL THE REST IN THE CHARIOT. VIEW WHENCE THE MERCHANT-TAYLORS HONOR SPRINGS-- FROM THIS MOST ROYALL CONVENTICLE OF KINGS: EIGHT THAT SUCCESSIVELY WORE ENGLANDS CROWNE HELD IT SPECIALL HONOR, AND RENOWNE (THE SOCIETY WAS SO WORTHY, AND SO GOOD) T'UNITE THEMSELVES INTO THEIR BROTHERHOOD. THUS TIME, AND INDUSTRY ATTAINE THE PRISE, AS SEAS FROM BROOKES, AS BROOKES FROM HILLOCKS RISE, LET ALL GOOD MEN THIS SENTENCE OFT REPEATE, BY UNITY THE SMALLEST THINGS GROW GREAT. BY UNITY THE SMALLEST THINGS GROW GREAT. AND THIS REPETITION WAS PROPER, FOR IT IS THE COMPANIES MOTTO: CONCORDIA PARVAE RES CRESCUNT. AFTER THIS PAGEANT RIDES QUEENE ANNE,WIFE TO RICHARD THE SECOND, FREE LIKEWISE OF THIS COMPANY, NOR LET IT SEEME STRANGE, FOR BESIDES HER, THERE WERE TWO DUCHESSE S!, FIVE COUNTESSES, AND TWO BARONNESSES FREE OF THIS SOCIETY, SEVENTEENE PRINCES AND DUKES, ONE ARCH-BISHOP, ONE AND THIRTY EARLES,(BESIDES THOSE MADE WITH NOBLE PRINCE HENRY.) ONE VICOUNT,TWENTY FOURE BISHOPS, SIXTY SIX BARONS, SEVEN ABBOTTS, SEVEN PRIORS OR SUB- PRIOR S!, AND WITH PRINCE HENRY IN THE YEARE 1607. THE DUKE OF LINOX, THE EARLES OF NOTTINGHAM,SUFFOLKE, ARUNDEL, OXFORD, WORCESTER, PEMBROOKE, ESSEX, NORTHAMPTON, SALISBURY, MONT- GOMERY, THE EARLE OF PERTH, VICOUNT CRANBORNE: BARONS, THE LORD EVERS, HUNSDEN,HAYES,BORLEY,MR. HOWARD, MR. SHEFFIELD, SIR JOHN HARRINGTON, SIR THOMAS CHALINER, BESIDES STATES OF THE LOW-COUNTRIES, AND SIR NOEL CAROONE THEIR LEGIER EMBASSADOUR. AND IN REGARD OUR COMPANY ARE STILD BRETHEN OF THE FRATERNITY OF ST. JOHN BAPTIST, AND THAT THE ANCIENT KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM, (TO WHICH NOW DEMOLISHT HOUSE IN ST. JOHNS STREETE OUR COMPANY THEN USING TO GO TO OFFER, IT IS RECORDED HENRY THE SEVENTH THEN ACCOMPAN Y!ING THEM, GAVE OUR MR. THE UPPER HAND,) BECAUSE THESE KNIGHTS, I SAY, WERE IN- STITUTED TO SECURE THE WAY FOR PILGRIMES IN THE DESERT, I PRESENT THEREFORE TWO OF THE WORTHIEST BROTHERS OF THIS SOCIETY OF ST. JOHN BAPTIST I CAN FIND OUT IN HYSTORY. THE FIRST, AMADE LE GRAUNDE, BY WHOSE AYDE RHODES WAS RECOVERED FROM THE TURKES, AND THE ORDER OF ANUNTIADE OR SALUTATION INSTITUTED WITH THAT MOTTO! OF FOURE LETTERS FERT, SIGNIFYING, FORTITUDO EIUS RHODUM TENUIT; AND THE OTHER, MOUNSIEUR JEAN VALET, WHO DEFENDED MALTA FROM THE TURKES INVA S!ION, AND EXPELD THEM FROM THAT IMPREGNABLE KEY OF CHRISTENDOME; THIS STILD, GREAT MAISTER OF MALTA, THAT, GOVERNOUR OF RHODES. NEXT I BRING OUR TWO SEA-TRYUMPHS, AND AFTER THAT, THE SHIPPE CALLED THE HOLY-LAMBE, WHICH BRINGS HANGING IN HER SHROWDES THE GOLDEN-FLEECE, THE CONCEITE OF THIS BEING THAT GOD IS THE GUIDE AND PROTECTOR OF ALL PROSPEROUS VENTURES. TO SECOND THIS, FOLLOW THE TWO BEASTS, THE LYON AND CAMMELL, PROPER TO THE ARMES OF THE COMPANY; ON THE CAMELL RIDES A TURKE, SUCH AS USE TO TRAVAILE WITH CARAVANS, AND ON! THE LYON A MOORE OR WILD NUMIDIAN. THE FOURTH EMINENT PAGIANT, I CALL THE MONUMENT OF CHARITY AND LEARNING-THIS FASHIONED LIKE A BEAUTIFULL GARDEN WITH ALL KIND OF FLOWERS, AT THE FOURE CORNERS FOURE ARTIFICIALL BIRD CAGES, WITH VARIETY OF BIRDS IN THEM: THIS FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE FLOWERS, AND MELODY OF THE BIRDS, TO REPRESENT A SPRING IN WINTER: IN THE MIDDEST OF THE GARDEN, UNDER ONE ELME-TREE, SITS THE FAMOUS AND WORTHY PATRIOT SIR THOMAS WHITE; WHO HAD A DREAME THAT HEE SHOULD BUILD A COLLEDGE WHERE TWO BODIES OF AN ELME SPRANG FROM ONE ROOTE, AND BEEING INSPIRED TO IT BY GOD, FIRST ROD TO CAMBRIDGE, TO SEE IF HE COULD FIND ANY SUCH; FAILING OF IT THERE, WENT TO OXFORD AND SURVEIGHING ALL THE GROUNDS, IN AND NEERE THE UNIVERSITY, AT LAST IN GLOSTER-HALL- GARDEN, HE FOUND ONE THAT SOMEWHAT RESEMBLED IT, UPON WHICH HE RESOLVED TO ENDOW IT WITH LARGER REVENEW, AND TO INCREASE THE FOUNDATION: HAVING SET MEN AT WORKE UPON IT, AND RIDING ONE DAY OUT AT THE NORTH-GATE AT OXFORD, HE SPIED ON HIS RIGHT HAND THE SELFE SAME ELME HAD BIN FIGURD HIM IN HIS DREAME, WHEREUPON HE GIVES O'RE HIS FORMER PURPOSE, OF SO AMPLY IN- LARGING GLOSTER-HALL(YET NOT WITHOUT A LARGE EXHIBITION TO IT:) PURCHASES THE GROUND WHERE THE ELME-STOOD: AND IN THE SAME PLACE BUILT THE COLLEDGE OF SAINT JOHN BAPTIST; AND TO THIS DAY THE ELME GROWES IN THE GARDEN, CAREFULLY PRESERVED; AS BEEING UNDER GOD A MOTIVE TO THEIR WORTHY FOUNDATION. THIS I HAVE HEARD FELLOWES OF THE HOUSE OF APPROVED CREDIT, AND NO WAY SUPERSTITIOUSLY GIVEN, AFFIRME TO HAVE BIN DELIVERED FROM MAN TO MAN, SINCE THE FIRST BUILDING OF IT, AND THAT SIR THOMAS WHITE INVITING THE ABBOT OF OSNYE TO DINNER IN THE AFORSAYD HALL, IN THE ABBOTS PRESENCE, AND THE HEARING OF DIVERS OTHER GRAVE PERSONS AFFIRM'D BY GODS INSPIRATION IN THE FORMER RECITED! MANER, HE BUILT AND ENDOWED THE COLLEDGE. THIS RELATION IS SOMEWHAT WITH THE LARGEST, ONLY TO GIVE YOU BETTER LIGHT OF THE FIGURE: THE CHEIFE PERSON IN THIS IS SIR THOMAS WHITE, SITTING IN HIS EMINENT HABIT OF LORD MAIOR; ON THE ONE HAND SITS CHARITY WITH A PELLICAN ON HER HEAD, ON THE OTHER LEARNING WITH A BOOKE IN ONE HAND, AND A LAWREL WREATH IN THE OTHER; BEHIND HIM IS THE COLLEDGE OF ST. JOHN BAPTIST IN OXFORD EXACTLY MODELD, TWO CORNETS WHICH FOR MORE PLEASURE ANSWERE ONE AND ANOTHER INTERCHANGABLY, AND ROUND ABOUT THE PAGEANT SIT TWELVE OF THE FOURE AND TWENTIE CITIES, (FOR MORE WOULD HAVE OVER-BURTHENED IT) TO WHICH THIS WORTHY GENTLEMAN HATH BEENE A CHARITABLE BENEFACTOR: WHEN MY LORD APPROACHES TO THE FRONT OF THIS PEECE, LEARNING HUMBLES HER SELFE TO HIM IN THESE ENSUING VERSES. TO EXPRESSE WHAT HAPPINESSE THE COUNTRY YEILDS, THE POETS FAIGN'D HEAVEN IN TH'ELIZIAN FIELDS; WE FIGURE HERE A GARDEN,FRESH AND NEW, IN WHICH THE CHIEFEST OF OUR BLESSINGS GREW: THIS WORTHY PATRIOT HERE, SR. THOMAS WHITE, WHILST HE WAS LIVING HAD A DREAME ONE NIGHT, HE HAD BUILT A COLLEDGE AND GIVEN LIVING TOO'T, WHERE TWO ELME-BODIES SPRANG UP FROM ONE! ROOT; AND AS HE DREAMT, MOST CERTAINE TIS HE FOUND THE ELME NEARE OXFORD, AND UPON THAT GROUND BUILT SAINT JOHNS COLLEDGE-TRUTH CAN TESTIFIE HIS MERRIT, WHILST HIS FAITH AND CHARITY WAS THE TRUE COMPASSE, MEASUR'D EVERY PART, AND TOOKE THE LATITUDE OF HIS CHRISTIAN HEART; FAITH KEPT THE CENTER, CHARITY WALKT THIS ROUND, UNTILL A TRUE CIRCUMFERENCE WAS FOUND; AND MAY THE IMPRESSION OF THIS FIGURE STRIKE EACH WORTHY SENATOR TO DO THE LIKE^ THE LAST, I CALL THE MONUMENT OF GRATITUDE, WHICH THUS DILATES IT SELFE. UPPON AN ARTIFICALL ROCKE, SET WITH MOTHER OF PEARLE, AND SUCH OTHER PRECIOUS STONES, AS ARE FOUND IN QUARRIES, ARE PLACED FOURE CURIOUS P I!RAMIDS CHARGED WITH THE PRINCES ARMES, THE THREE FEATHERS, WHICH BY DAY YEELD A GLORIOUS SHEW, AND BY NIGHT A MORE GOODLY, FOR THEY HAVE LIGHTS IN THEM, THAT AT SUCH TIME AS MY LORD MAIOR RETURNES FROM PAULS, SHALL MAKE CERTAINE OVALS AND SQUARES RESEMBLE PRETIOUS STONES; THE ROCKE EXPRESSES THE RICHES OF THE KINGDOME PRINCE HENRY WAS BORNE HEIRE TO, THE PIRAMIDS, WHICH ARE MONUMENTS FOR THE DEAD, THAT HEE IS DECEASED: ON THE TOP OF THIS RESTS HALFE A CELESTIALL GLOBE, IN THE MIDDEST OF THIS HANGS THE HOLY LAMBE IN THE SUN-BEAMES, ON EITHER SIDE OF THESE, AN ANGELL; UPON A PEDESTALL OF GOLD STANDS THE FIGURE OF PRINCE HENRY WITH HIS CORONET, GEORGE AND GARTER; IN HIS LEFT HAND HEE HOLDS A CIRCKLET OF CRIMSON VELVET, CHARGED WITH FOURE HOLY LAMBES, SUCH AS OUR COMPANY CHOOSE MASTERS WITH; IN SEVERALL CANTS BENEATH SITS, FIRST, MAGISTRACY TENDING A BEE HIVE, TO EXPRESSE HIS GRAVETY IN YOUTH, AND FORWARD INDUSTRY TO HAVE PROVED AN ABSOLUTE GOVERNOUR: NEXT, LIBERALITY, BY HER A DROMEDARY SHEWING HIS SPEED AND ALACRETY IN GRATIFYING HIS FOLLOWERS: NAVIGATION WITH A JACOBS STAFFE AND COMPASSE, EXPRESSING HIS DESIRE THAT HIS READING THAT WAY MIGHT IN TIME GROW TO THE PRACTICKE, & BUILDING TO THAT PURPOSE ONE OF THE GOODLIEST SHIPS WAS EVER LAUNCHT IN THE RIVER: IN THE NEXT UNANIMITY WITH A CHAPLET OF LYLLIES, IN HER LAP A SHEAFE OF ARROWES, SHEWING HE LOVED NOBILITY, AND COMMUNALTY WITH AN INTIRE HEART. NEXT, INDUSTRY ON A HILL WHERE ANTES ARE WHORDING UP CORNE, EXPRESSING HIS FORWARD INCLINATION TO ALL NOBLE EXERCISE: NEXT, CHASTITY, BY HER A UNICORNE, SHEWING IT IS GUIDE TO ALL OTHER VERTUES, AND CLEARES THE FOUNTAINE-HEAD FROM ALL POYSON: JUSTICE WITH HER PROPERTIES: THEN OBEDIENCE, BY HER AN ELEPHANT, THE STRONGEST BEAST, BUT MOST OBSERVANT TO MAN OF ANY CREATURE: THEN PEACE SLEEPING UPON A CANON, ALLUDING TO THE ETERNALL PEACE HE NOW POSSESSES: FORTITUDE, A PILLAR IN ONE HAND, A SERPENT WREATH'D ABOUT THE OTHER, TO EXPRESS! HIS HEIGHT OF MINDE, AND THE EXPECTATION OF AN UNDAUNTED RESOLUTION. THESE TWELVE THUS SEATED, I FIGURE LOYALTY, AS WELL SWORNE SERVANT TO THIS CITY, AS TO THIS COMPANY, AND AT MY LORD MAIORS COMMING FROM PAULS, AND GOING DOWNE WOOD-STREETE, AMADE LE GRAUNDE DELIVERS THIS SPEECH UNTO HIM. OF ALL THE TRIUMPHS WHICH YOUR EYE HAS VIEW'D THIS THE FAYRE MONUMENT OF GRATITUD, THIS CHEEFLY SHOULD YOUR EYE, AND EARE IMPLOY THAT WAS OF AL YOUR BROTHER-HOOD THE JOY- WORTHY PRINCE HENRY, FAMES BEST PRESIDENT, CALD TO A HIGHER COURT OF PARLIAMENT, IN HIS FULL STRENGTH OF YOUTH AND HEIGHT OF BLOOD, AND, WHICH CROWND ALL, WHEN HE WAS TRUELY GOOD: ON VERTUE, AND ON WORTH HE STILL WAS THROWING MOST BOUNTEOUS SH O!WERS, WHERE E'RE HE FOUND THEM GROWING, HE NEVER DID DISGUISE HIS WAYES BY ART BUT SUITED! HIS INTENTS UNTO HIS HART, AND LOV'D TO DO GOOD, MORE FOR GOODNESSE SAKE, THAN ANY RETRIBUTION MAN COULD MAKE. SUCH WAS THIS PRINCE, SUCH ARE THE NOBLE HEARTS, WHO WHEN THEY DYE, YET DYE NOT IN ALL PARTS: BUT FROM THE INTEGRETY OF A BRAVE MIND, LEAVE A MOST CLEERE AND EMINENT FAME BEHIND. THUS HATH THIS JEWELL NOT QUITE LOST HIS RAY, ONLY CAS'D UP 'GAINST A MORE GLORIOUS DAY. AND BEE'T REMEMBERED THAT OUR COMPANY HAVE NOT FORGOT HIM WHO OUGHT NE'RE TO DYE: YET, WHERFORE SHOULD OUR SORROW GIVE HIM DEAD, WHEN A NEW PHAENIX! SPRINGS UP IN HIS STEAD: THAT AS HE SECONDS HIM IN EVERY GRACE, MAY SECOND HIM IN BROTHER-HOOD, AND PLACE? GOOD REST MY LORD^- INTEGRITY THAT KEEPS THE SAFEST WATCH AND BREEDS THE SOUNDEST SLEEPS, MAKE THE LAST DAY OF THIS YOUR HOULDING SEATE, JOYFULL AS THIS, OR RATHER, MORE COMPLEATE. I COULD A MORE CURIOUS AND ELABORATE WAY HAVE EXPREST MY SELFE IN THESE MY ENDEAVORS, BUT TO HAVE BIN RATHER TOO TEADIOUS IN MY SPEECHES, OR TOO WEIGHTY, MIGHT HAVE TROUBLED MY NOBLE LORD, AND PUSLED THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMMON PEOPLE; SUFFICE IT, I HOPE 'TIS WELL, AND IF IT PLEASE HIS LORDSHIP, AND MY WORTHY IMPLOYES, I AM AMPLY SATISFIED. FINIS.