kingdoms, bearing messages of congratulation and loyalty, were
presented to the king. First of all came the worshipful lord
mayor, aldermen and council of the city of London, in great pomp
and state; when the common-sergeant made a speech to his majesty
respecting the affection of the city towards him, and the lord
mayor, on hospitable thoughts intent, besought the honour of his
company to dinner, the which Charles promised him most readily.
And the same day the commissioners from Ireland presented
themselves, headed by Sir James Barry, who delivered himself of a
fine address regarding the love his majesty's Irish subjects bore
him; as proof of which he presented the monarch with a bill for
twenty thousand pounds, that had been duly accepted by Alderman
Thomas Viner, a right wealthy man and true. Likewise came the
deputy steward and burgesses of the city of Westminster, arrayed
in the glory of new scarlet gowns; and the French, Italian, and
Dutch ministers, when Monsieur Stoope pronounced an harangue with
great eloquence. Also the vice-chancellor of the University of
Oxford, with divers doctors, bachelors of divinity, proctors, and
masters of arts of the same learned university, who, having first
met at the Temple Church, went by two and two, according to their
seniority, to Essex House, that they might wait on the most noble
the Marquis of Hertford, then chancellor. Accompanied by him,
and preceded by eight esquires and yeomen beadles, having their
staves, and three of them wearing gold chains, they presented
themselves before the king, and spoke him words of loyalty and
greeting. The heads of the colleges and halls of Cambridge, with
some masters of arts, in like manner journeyed to Whitehall, when
Dr. Love delivered a learned Latin oration, expressive of their
devotion to royalty in the person of their most illustrious
monarch.