the Safeguard of the State, the Dilight of Her A. C. Subjects, the Terrour of Her Enemies, the Sup- 1706 port of Her Allies; and that Her Reign over us may be as lafting and profperous, as to them, and all good Men, it is dear and defirable. WhichAddrefs Her Majefty was pleafed to receive very gracioufly, and to return the following Anfwer.

Thank the University, and take their Expreffions of The Queen's Duty to Me very kindly; and they may always depend Answer. on My Protection.

Sometime after the following remarkable Addrefs of the Corporation of Brackley in Northamptonshire, was prefented to the Queen, by Charles Egerton, Efq; and Brigadier Henry Mordaunt, their Representatives, E, your Majefty's as Loyal, as Ancient Corporation, (tho we cannot value Our felves for that early Zeal in Addreffing, which fome of your Special loving Subjects have fhewn before us) do flatter our felves with the Hopes, that, tho'

८

८

WE

we

fet out late, it is not altogether impoffible for us to overtake them in Zeal and Sincerity. We there fore, moft Heartily and Sincerely Congratulate Your Majefty's late Signal and Glorious Succeffes, We cannot, with fome of thofe early Zealots, call them wonderful; becaufe, under the Conduct of fuch Generals; Under the Administration of fuch a Miniftry; Under the Care and Protection of fuch a QUEEN, and under the Bleffing of GOD Almighty, on fo GOOD a CAUSE, it would ra ther feem Wonderful to be otherwife.

Purfue then, Great Princefs, and finish this Glorious Undertaking; the Perfecting and Compleating of which (tho' the Foundation was laid by HIS LATE MAJESTY of ever Glorious Memory) has been by fuch a continued Chain of Succeffes, as a Reward for fo many accumulated Virtues referv'd for your Majefty, to Set Bounds to the almoft unlimited 'Ambition of that moft Arbitrary Prince, Let your Arms reduce him to Reafon, and your Example convince him, tho' late, that no • Monarch whatfoever, though never fo Abfolute, can Reign Entirely Happy, but in the Hearts of his People, And, if fo Glorious an Example fhould fail, let the Terrour of your Arms compel him to

A

fuch

A. C. 1706.

.

fuch a Peace, that, for Variety, he must be neceffi'tated to keep; And whilft your Majefty is fettling the Peace of Europe Abroad, you may not only Unite your Kingdoms, but your People at Home; That in time of War your Armies may never want fuch GENERALS, and confequently fuch Succeffes; That your Fleets may never want faithful COMMANDERS and REAL VICTORIES; That, in time of Peace you may never want fo able and fo well difpofed a MINISTRY; That in Peace or WAR, you may never want fuch a PARLIAMENT; and, for the fake of all, that every Subject you now have, may never want fo Good and Gracious a Queen, is (tho' we are fo late in Addreffing) the every Day's early Prayer of your An

The Queencient Corporation.

comes to

Kenfing

The Queen

goes to the

Her Majefty and his Royal Highnefs the Prince, ton. came on the 24th of June, from Windfor to KenfingJune. 24. ton: And the 27th of the fame Month being the Publick day appointed, by Her Majefty's Proclamation, to Thangfgiu- be obferv'd throughout the Kingdom, as a Day of ingo ferv'd Publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God for his great June 27. Goodnefs and Mercy, in giving to Her Majesty's Arms, and thofe of Her Allies, under the Command of the Duke Cathedral of Marlborough, a Signal and Glorious Victory over the of St. French in Brabant, and the Happy and Wonderful ProPaul's in grefs of the Confederate Forces, in restoring the greatest great So- Part of the Spanish Netherlands to the Poffeffion of the bemnity. Houfe of Auftria, in the Perfon of King Charles III: As alfo for his Bjeffing Her Majefty's Arms, and thofe of Her Allies with great Succeffes in Catalonia, and other Parts of Spain, the fame was folemniz'd by Her Majefty, Her Court, the Nobility, and by the Magitracy of the City of London, in the following manner:

About 10 in the Morning a Batallion of the Foot Guards marched to St. Paul's, and made a Guard in the Body of the Church. The Companies of this City, in their Livery Gowns, repair'd to their feveral Stands, which were erected on both fides of Fleetftreet, from Chancery-lane end as far as St. Paul's. The way from that Church to Temple-bar, was lin'd by three Regiments of the City Train'd Bands, and from thence to St. James's by the Militia of Westminster. Most of the Lords, and Privy Councillors, that were in and near the Town, met between 10 and

II

11 in the Morning in the Council Chamber at St. James's, the Knights of the Moft Noble Order of the Garter wearing the Collars of that Order; and having been marshall'd by fome of the Officers of Arms, proceeded a little before 12 in their Coaches and fix Horfes towards St. Paul's, viz. Edward Southwell, Efq; Wm. Blaithwaith Efq; Sir Simon Harcourt, Sollicitor General; Sir Edward Northey, Attorney Ge neral; Lieutenant General Earl; the Right Honourable James Vernon, Efq; Sir Thomas Trevor, Kt. Lord Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas; Sir John Trevor, Kt. Mafter of the Rolls; Sir John Holt, Kt. Lord Chief Juftice of the Court of Queen's Bench; the Rt. Hon. Rob. Harley, Efq; and Sir Charles Hedges, Kt. principal Secretaries of State; the Rt. Hon. John Smith, Efq; Speaker of the Houfe of Commons: Thomas Manfell, Efq; Comptroller; Henry Boyle, Efq; Chancellor, and under Treasurer of the Exchequer; the Lords Allington, Colerane, Harvey, Conway, Guernsey, Granville, Sommers, Dartmouth, Rockingham, Mohun, Howard of Effingham, Wharton, and la Warr; the Bishops of Bangor and Rechefter; the Lords Woodstock and Walden, the Lord Viscount Townsend; the Earls of Ranelaugh, Orrery, Portmore, Grantham, Orford, Scarborough, Rochefter, Radnor, Feverfham, Carlife, Anglefey, Effex, Sunderland, Kingston, Rivers, Manchefter, Denbigh, Derby, and Kent Lord Chamberlain, the Dukes of Schombergh, Bolton, Nor thumberland, Ormond, Grafton, Richmond, and Devonfoire, Lord High Steward of her Majefty's Houf hold; the Earl of Pembroke, Lord Prefident of the Privy Council; the Lord Godolphin, Lord High Treafurer; the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, and the Archbishop of Canterbury. In the Proceffion went Baron Spanheim, the King of Pruffia's Ambaffador in a Chair, attended with a fine Equipage, and his Lady, Daughter, &c. in a Coach and fix Horses.

After them came Her Majefty attended in the following manner, viz. Firft the Knight Marshal, and his Men on Horfeback; the Equerries, Pages of Honour, and the Gentlemen Ufhers in waiting, in her Majefty's leading Coach; the Women of the Bed-Chamber to her Majefty in another of the Queen's Coaches; the Maids of Honour in another; £ 4

the

A C.

1706.

A. C. the Duke of Somerset, Mafter of the Horfe; and the 1705. Duke of Ormond Captain of the Guards, in waiting, in the Queen's Body Chariot, drawn by fix Horfes, dreft up with Knots of blue and red Ribbons; A Detachment of the Horfe Grenadiers: her Majefty's Footmen; the Yeomen of the Guards led by the Marquis of Hertingdon, fome before, and fome on each fide of the Queen's Coach; Then her Majefty, with the Dutchefs of Marlborough, Groom of the Stole, and the Countefs of Burlington, being the Lady of the Bed-Chamber in waiting, in the Coach of State, drawn by eight fine Horfes dreft with Red and white Knots; a Troop of Horfe, Guards clofing the Proceffion. At the end of Fetter Lane, Fleetftreet, his Grace the Duke of Somerset, Mafter of the Horfe to her Majefty, alighted out of one of the Queen's Coaches, and taking Horfe, rid afterwards, at a little distance, on the right hand of her Majefty.

Within Temple-bar, Sir Thomas Rawlinson Knight, Lord Mayor of London, in a very rich Crimion, Velyet Gown, and wearing the City Jewel, attended with the Court of Aldermen and Sheriffs on Horfeback, (all the proper, Officers being on Foot in their Formalities, led by the City Marshal) waiting for her Majefty. When the Queen enter'd the Gate, his Lordship alighted, and congratulating her Majefty upon this happy Occafion, with a bended Knee, prefented the City Sword, but the Queen was gra cioufly pleas'd to return it to him, after which he mounted again, and rid bare-headed, carrying it before her Majefty to the Entrance of the Cathedral of St. Paul's, (the Aldermen, &c. immediately preceding him, where the Sword-bearer to the City receiv'd it from his Lordship, who, with his Bre thren, went directly to their Seats, at the East End of the Gallery, on the South fide.

Her Majefty came to St. Paul's at half an Hour paft One, and was handed out of the Coach by the Earl of Kent, Lord Chamberlain. And the great Officers, Nobility, &c. came down to the lower End of the Church to receive Her; from whence the pro-ceeding was thus !'

First, the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, 6. Officers of Arms; then the Privy Councellors (not. Peers) before mentioned; Barons two and two

B

Bifhops, Viscount Townsend; Earls, two and two; A. C. Dukes, two and two; Norroy King of Arms; Lord 1706. Keeper, Duke of Devonshire, Lord Steward; Lord Prefident, Lord Treafurer, and the Lord Archbifhop of Canterbury; Serjeants at Arms with their Maces; Garter King of Arms between two Gentlemen Ufhers; the Sword of State, born by his Grace the Duke of Northumberland with his Collar and George; the Lord Chamberlain leading her Majefty follow'd by the Dutchefs of Marlborough and the Countess of Burlington; (the Maids of Honour and Ladies of the Bed-Chamber, having, as they alighted, gone before to their Places appointed in the Choir, The Duke of Ormond, Captain of the Guard, and the Duke of St Albans, Captain of the Penfioners, with the Band of Penfioners clofing the Proceffion. The Peers, &c. and great Officers were conducted to the Stalls on the North fide of the Choir; The Morroco Ambaffador, with hisRetinue fat in the little MiddleGallery; Towards the Weft-End, fat Baron Spanheim, and other Foreign Minifters,with their Ladies; and Sir Charles Cotterell, Mafter of the Ceremonies, in the middle Gallery on the North fide. The Lady Mayorefs, and Aldermen's Ladies, in the Gallery at the East End on the fame fide.

Her Majefty having afcended the Throne, plac'd in the middle of the Choir, juft before the Organ, feated herself in an Arm'd Chair; behind the Queen were Stools for the Groom of the Stole, and the Lady of the Bed-Chamber in Waiting. The Principal Officers in Waiting, viz. the Lord Steward, the Duke of Ormond, Marquis of Hartington, Lord Cham berlain, Vice Chamberlain, &c. attended all within the Throne; as did alfo the Mafter of the Horfe to her Majefty, and the Duke of Richmond; the Ladies of the Bed-Chamber fat in the Stalls; on the South fide the Maids of Honour, and her Majefty's Bed-Chamber-Women; below them, at the Eaft end of the Stalls, were plac'd the Earl of Ranelaugh, Lord Viscount Cheyne, Lord Colerane, the Speaker, Comptroller of the Exchequer, Secretaries, PrivCouncellors, &c. the Peereffes were plac'd at the Weft End of the middle Gallery; the Dean and Prebendaries fat within the Rails of the Altar, exçept fuch as officiated in Reading Prayers.

The