The triumphs of fame and honour, or, The noble accomplish'd solemnity, full of cost, art and state, at the inauguration and establishment of the true worthy and right nobly minded Robert Parkhurst, into the right honourable office of Lord Maior of London: the particularities of every invention in all the pageants, shewes and triumphs both by water and land, are here following fully set downe, being all performed by loves, liberall costs, and charges of the right worshipfull and worthy Brother-hood of the Cloth-workers the 29 of October 1634 / written by Iohn Taylor.

The explanation of the first Pageant of Thetis.

THetis, daughter to the sea-god Nereus, she was wife to King Peleus, also Thetis was the mother of Achilles, who was seven cubits in height, and the most valiant Captaine amongst the Greekes at the siege of Troy.

Danubia is a great River that runs through Hungaria by the famous Cities of Buda, Brundusium, and Belgrad, and so it passeth into Germany, by the Towne of Regens∣berg, and through Swabe, Bavaria, and Austria; it is also called Donawe, but passing into Illyria it is at a part of Thracia cald Istria changed into the name of Ister, it receives 60 rivers into it, the most part of which are na∣vigable, it falls into the sea called Pontus Euxinus, or the Euxine sea.

Po a famous river in Italy. Seine a river in France which runs through Paris▪ Volgu a river that runs through the large Empire of Russia. Ems in east Frizland, from whence the Citie of Eniden hath name Elve or Albe, is a river that passeth from Bohem, through Saxony, Misnia, and so to the townes of Hamborough and Stoad, into the German Ocean. Tanais, a great river northward, which parts Asia from Europe. Nilus a famous river that runs through Ethiopia and Egypt, and because it never raines in Egypt, it is watered and made fruitfull once a yeare by

the overflowing of Nilus. Ganges is a mighty river that runs through and divides India, it is one of the foure rivers of Paradise, and is called by Moses Phison. Tigris one of the foure named Hiddekell. Euphrates passeth by Babylon, and was also one of the rivers of Paradise named by Moses Perah, and the Tyber a river that runs through Rome. Iordan a river that runs betwixt Gallile and Iudea, and fals into Mare mortuum or the dead sea. Xanthus a river in Phrygia neere Troy, of which it is said that if sheepe dranke of the water, their fleeces became yellow. Indus a great and goodly navigable river, that hath its head from the mountaine Taurus or Caucasus, it incompasseth India on the west, and falls by Asia into the Lake called Pau∣lus Meotis, and part into the Indian sea. Asphaltites is the dead sea or Mare mortuum, it is in Siria, and it is held to be the place where Sodom, Gomorah, and the rest of the five Cities stood which were consumed with fire and brimstone from heaven.

The meaning of the second Pageant being Time and Mercury.

2 TIme hath seene 426 severall daies of Mayoralty, which is so many yeares since the Cities govern∣ment was changed (by King Richard the first) from Portgraves, Provosts and Bayliffs, to the Honourable title and dignity of Lord Mayor. Men that come rightly to places of Honour & dignity must make good use of Time. Truth is the daughter of Time, who though falshood may obscure her, yet Time will bring her forth at last, where her bright vertue shall outshine the Sun: there is nothing goes beyond Time but Eternity.

Ʋpon the third Pageant which represented a Citie.

LOndon doth expresse her duty and thankfullnesse, in acknowledging her happy preservation and govern∣ment, when many of the goodliest Cities in the world are either ruind, and confounded, or else far short of her peacefull and plentifull felicity. As first, Thebes was a great Citie in Egypt, it was built by King Busiris, it had 100 gates about the walls, it was 40 miles in compasse, the walles were 30 stads high, and six stads in breadth; it is written that 200 watchmen watched at euery gate: when it was destroy'd by Allexander the Great, there were found the Toombs of 77 Kings, (and good Kings they had bin) for the law was amongst them that bad Kings should have no buriall. Also there was another Thebes in Boetia built by Cadmus, and a third Thebes in Cillicia, where it is said Andromche the wife to the worthy Hector was borne. Numantia was in Spaine, and being besieged by the brave roman Scipio, rather than they would yeeld their Citie, they burned it with their wives, children, goods and families. Carthage was a good∣ly Citie in Affrica, it was 40 English miles in circuit, it was held against the Romans 44 yeares when Rome was in her greatest greatnesse, it brought forth the valiant Cap∣taine Haniball, and was at last destroy'd by Scipio Affri∣canus 144 yeares before Christs birth; the place and coun∣try where it stood is now called Tunis, which is a harbour

or Receptacle for Pirats, sea-Rovers and misbeleeving Turkes. Ierusalem the chiefe Citie of Iudea, where King Salomons Temple was, and where our Saviour suffered his passion, it is now a ruind peece under the subjection of the Turk. There are two Babylons, one in Caldea, where Nim∣rods Tower was erected, and another Babylon there was in Egypt, they being (as their names doe signifie) both in confusion under the Turk. Constantinople was the metro∣polis and the head Citie of the Grecian or Easterne Em∣pire, it was won from the Christians the 29 of May 1453. by the Turkish Emperour Mahomet the second, which Mahomet did also win the Empire of Trebizond, and tooke 12 Kingdomes and 200 Cities from the Christians. Rome nor any Citie that holds Rome for chiefe, cannot declare any such true Reality in their happinesse and government, as London justly may doe.

These few expressions I thought fit to set downe here for the illustration of such words and places as may seeme hard and obscure to some meane Readers.

FINIS.