fifteen hundred pounds." Nor had the city hesitated in lavishing
vast sums towards decorating the streets through which the king
was to pass. Four triumphal arches were erected, that were left
standing for a year in memory of this joyful day. These were
"composed" by John Ogilby, Esquire; and were respectively
erected in Leadenhall Street, the Exchange on Cornhill, Wood
Street, and Fleet Street.

The thoroughfares were newly gravelled, railed all the way on
both sides, and lined with the city companies and trained bands.
The "relation of his majesty's entertainment passing through the
City of London," as narrated by John Ogilby, and by the papers of
the day, is extremely quaint and interesting, but too long for
detailed description. During the monarch's progress through
"Crouched Friers," he was diverted with music discoursed by a
band of eight waits, placed upon a stage. At Aldgate, and at
several other stages of his journey, he was received in like
manner. Arriving at the great arch in Leadenhall Street, his
ears were greeted by sounds of trumpets and drums playing
marches; when they had finishes, a short scene was enacted on a
balcony of the arch, by figures representing Monarchy, Rebellion,
and Loyalty. Then the great procession wended its way to the
East India House, situate in the same street, when the East India
Company took occasion to express their dutiful affections, in a
manner "wholly designed by person of quality." As the king
advanced, a youth in an Indian habit, attended by two
blackamoors, knelt down before his majesty's horse, and delivered
himself of some execrable verse, which he had no sooner ended
than another youth in an Indian vest, mounted on a camel, was led
forwards and delivered some lines praying his majesty's subjects