Troia-Nova Triumphans, or London Triumphing Author Thomas Dekker Printer Nicholas Okes Bookseller John Wright Editor Mark Kaethler Editor Janelle Jenstad Transcriber EEBO-TCP Transcriber Melanie Chernyck Transcriber Cameron Butt Encoder Melanie Chernyck Encoder Kim McLean-Fiander Encoder Zaqir Virani Encoder Quinn MacDonald Encoder Cameron Butt Encoder Chase Templet Markup Editor Kate LeBere Markup Editor Lucas Simpson CSS Editor Zaqir Virani CSS Editor Kim McLean-Fiander CSS Editor Cameron Butt CSS Editor Chase Templet CSS Editor Chris Horne Transcription Proofreader Lucas Simpson Data Manager Tye Landels Junior Programmer Joey Takeda Programmer Martin Holmes Associate Project Director Kim McLean-Fiander Project Director Janelle Jenstad The Map of Early Modern Londonhttp://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/includes.xmlVictoria, BC, Canada
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 Provider: University of Victoria Database: The Map of Early Modern London Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - ELEC A1 - Dekker, Thomas ED - Jenstad, Janelle T1 - Troia-Nova Triumphans, or London Triumphing T2 - The Map of Early Modern London ET - 7.0 PY - 2022 DA - 2022/05/05 CY - Victoria PB - University of Victoria LA - English UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/TROI1.htm UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml/standalone/TROI1.xml ER - Dekker, Thomas. Troia-Nova Triumphans, or London Triumphing. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/TROI1.htm. Dekker, Thomas. Troia-Nova Triumphans, or London Triumphing. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/TROI1.htm. Dekker, T. 2022. Troia-Nova Triumphans, or London Triumphing. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/TROI1.htm. Transcription taken from the copy of STC 6530 (578 held by the Chapin Library at Williams College. This copy (Chapin Library STC 6530) lacks the D1-D2 leaves. MoEML has taken the Huntington Library copy as the basis for its transcription of the D1-D2 leaves. The <pb> elements in the transcription link to our local copy of the facsimile supplied to us by the Chapin Library, except in the case of the D1-D2 leaves, where the <pb> elements link to ProQuest’s Early English Books Online. Dekker, Thomas. Troia-Noua Triumphans. London: Nicholas Okes, 1612. STC 6530. DEEP 578. Greg 302a. Copy: Chapin Library; Shelfmark: 01WIL_ALMA. EEBO-TCP (EEBO Text Creation Partnership). [The Text Creation Partnership offers searchable diplomatic transcriptions of many EEBO items.] Early English Books Online (EEBO). Proquest LLC. London

The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (London).

(LOND5.xml) Westminster Palace Information is not yet available. (WEST5.xml) Christ Church Information is not yet available. (CHRI1.xml) Paul’s Chain

Paul’s Chain was a street that ran north-south between St Paul’s Churchyard and Paul’s Wharf, crossing over Carter Lane, Knightrider Street, and Thames Street. It was in Castle Baynard Ward. On the Agas map, it is labelled Paules chayne. The precinct wall around St. Paul’s Church had six gates, one of which was on the south side by Paul’s Chain. It was here that a chain used to be drawn across the carriage-way entrance in order to preserve silence during church services.

(PAUL1.xml) St. Paul’s Churchyard

Surrounding St. Paul’s Cathedral, St. Paul’s Churchyard has had a multi-faceted history in use and function, being the location of burial, crime, public gathering, and celebration. Before its destruction during the civil war, St. Paul’s Cross was located in the middle of the churchyard, providing a place for preaching and the delivery of Papal edicts (Thornbury).

(STPA3.xml) Cheapside Street

Cheapside Street, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside Street separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside Street was the centre of London’s wealth, with many mercers’ and goldsmiths’ shops located there. It was also the most sacred stretch of the processional route, being traced both by the linear east-west route of a royal entry and by the circular route of the annual mayoral procession.

(CHEA2.xml) Little Conduit (Cheapside)

The Little Conduit (Cheapside), also known as the Pissing Conduit, stood at the western end of Cheapside Street outside the north corner of Paul’s Churchyard. On the Agas map, one can see two water cans on the ground just to the right of the conduit.

(LITT2.xml) Cheapside Cross (Eleanor Cross)

Cheapside Cross (Eleanor Cross), pictured but not labelled on the Agas map, stood on Cheapside Street between Friday Street and Wood Street. St. Peter, Westcheap lay to its west, on the north side of Cheapside Street. The prestigious shops of Goldsmiths’ Row were located to the east of the Cross, on the south side of Cheapside Street. The Standard in Cheapside (also known as the Cheap Standard), a square pillar/conduit that was also a ceremonial site, lay further to the east (Brissenden xi).

(ELEA1.xml) St. Bartolomew’s Priory

A priory of Augustinian canons once encompassing St. Bartholomew the Great, St. Bartholomew the Less, and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Dissolved by Henry VIII.

(STBA5.xml) St. Saviour (Southwark)

St. Saviour (Southwark) dates back at least to 1106. It was originally known by the name St. Mary Overies, with Overies referring to its being "over" the Thames, that is, on its southern bank. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the church was rededicated and renamed St. Saviour (Sugden 335). St. Saviour (Southwark) is visible on the Agas map along New Rents street in Southwark. It is marked with the label S. Mary Owber.

(STSA1.xml) Creechurch Lane Information is not yet available. (CREE1.xml) Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey was and continues to be a historically significant church. One of its many notable features is "Poets’ Corner". Located in the south transept of the church, it is the final resting place of Geoffrey Chaucer, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, and many other notable authors; in 1740, a monument for William Shakespeare was erected in Westminster Abbey (ShaLT). The church is located on the bottom-left corner of the Agas map.

(WEST1.xml) Guildhall Information is not yet available. (GUIL1.xml) St. Paul’s Cathedral

St. Paul’s Cathedral was—and remains—an important church in London. In 962, while London was occupied by the Danes, St. Paul’s monastery was burnt and raised anew. The church survived the Norman conquest of 1066, but in 1087 it was burnt again. An ambitious Bishop named Maurice took the opportunity to build a new St. Paul’s, even petitioning the king to offer a piece of land belonging to one of his castles (Times 115). The building Maurice initiated would become the cathedral of St. Paul’s which survived until the Great Fire of London.

(STPA2.xml)

Commemorative pageant book prepared for the inauguration of Sir John Swynnerton as Lord Mayor of London on October 29, 1612. Pageants coordinated by Thomas Dekker on behalf of the Worshipful Company of the Merchant Taylors. Book printed by Nicholas Okes. Diplomatic transcription prepared by the MoEML Team. See https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/TROI1.htm for full credits and editorial procedures.

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The Anno Mundi (year of the world) calendar is based on the supposed date of the creation of the world, which is calculated from Biblical sources. At least two different creation dates are in common use. See Anno Mundi (Wikipedia).

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Links to page-images in the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA).

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The molstow prefix is used on @facs attributes to link to the HCMC verison of the Stow facsimiles. Usually the first group is the year (1633) and then last is the image number (0001).

The molshows prefix is used on @facs attributes to link to the copies of page-images from mayoral shows stored in the london account on the HCMC server. The first group is the year (1633), the second is the source repository, and then last is the image file name.

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These digital editions are diplomatic transcriptions. Our goal has been to provide clean, readable TEI transcriptions of all the extant mayoral shows from 1585 to 1639. Because this corpus has never before been made available in one place, we provide XML base texts that other scholars can repurpose according to our Creative Commons Licence.

MoEML transcriptions of the mayoral shows are based intially on the EEBO-TCP transcriptions. A MoEML research assistant or contributing scholar has carefully checked the TCP transcription at least once against the EEBO images (and sometimes against the Early English Books I microfilms when the film is clearer). We silently correct errors in TCP transcriptions and fill in many of the gaps left by TCP transcribers. When we make surmises about characters or supply characters in places where the text has been cropped, damaged, overinked, or underinked, we record our supplied values using <supplied>. The transcription is checked again by another MoEML research assistant, and finally by the Project Director or Assistant Project Director. Users may report transcription errors via the Send Feedback link on each page.

We treat title pages, dedications, and prefaces as front matter, encoded with the <front> element. We treat speeches, narrative descriptions, and interpretations as the body of the text, encoded with the <body> element. We treat colophons and concluding statements, including the word Finis, as back matter, encoded with the <back> element.

Normalizationmethod: silent:

Our practice has been to preserve most of the typographical, orthographical, and compositorial features of the original text. We use CSS styling to describe the peculiarities of font and justification. We also include links to the page images on EEBO; users who subscribe to EEBO may thus view the pages at any point and judge our transcription thereof for themselves.

Our encoders follow these rules for preserving or regularizing the text: Textual Component Rule Long ſ

TCP transcriptions do not preserve the long ſ. We have restored the long ſ through a series of find-and-replace functions based on typical early modern printing house habits, followed by a careful human checking against the digital images of the original.

 Capitalization

We preserve the capitalization of the source, including the second upper-case letter after a woodblock dropped capital.

 Italicization

We preserve the italicization of words by tagging them with a <hi> element with a @style value of "font-style: italic;". We consider italicization to be a bibliographic code rather than a linguistic code.

 Interchangeable Characters

We retain the interchangeable u/v and i/j and the use of vv for w. These are not marked up with any encoding.

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We retain the vowel digraphs using the appropriate Unicode characters (e.g., æ). Typographical ligatures (e.g., fl) have been silently expanded.

 Nasal Tildes

We retain the nasal tilde over vowels (e.g., õ) using the appropriate Unicode characters.

 Spacing Within Lines

MoEML closes up extra spaces between words and punctuation marks. However, we retain the spacing in authorial initials, such as A. M. (for Anthony Munday). We have added a single space after a comma when the comma has been used to separate two words.

 Lineation

MoEML preserves the line breaks in verse sections and the line wrapping in prose sections of mayoral shows. Prose line breaks have been encoded with a self-closing <lb> element. All line breaks in verse are produced by the use of <l> elements contained by <lg> elements.

 Hyphenation

MoEML transcriptions of mayoral shows preserve the hyphenation of words, both within and at the end of lines.

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All quotation marks are retained in the text and are represented by appropriate Unicode characters. We do not use the <quote> element for quotations in primary-source texts. MoEML practice calls for curly apostrophes and straight double quotation marks in both transcriptions and born-digital texts.

Interpretation:

We have interpreted and encoded toponyms, names, and dates. The encoding of toponyms requires some research to point the toponym to the right location file (and thence to the map), but the relative stability of the processional route has meant that we have high confidence in our encoding of toponyms in the mayoral shows. When our encoding has veered into interpretation, such as in our decision to encode abstract nouns as allegorical characters even when it is not completely clear that the abstraction is embodied by an actor, we have encoded with the goal of building analytical capacity into our texts, such as the capacity for users to search for characters like Time across the corpus of mayoral shows. For our treatment of early modern dates, see our encoding instructions at Encode Dates. Other than toponyms, names, and dates, we have undertaken no interpretative encoding.

Our editorial and encoding practices are documented in detail in the Praxis section of our website.

Author A person or organization chiefly responsible for the intellectual or artistic content of a work, usually printed text. This term may also be used when more than one person or body bears such responsibility. MoEML uses the term author to designate a contributor who is wholly or partly responsible for the original content of either a born-digital document, such as an encyclopedia entry, or a primary source document, such as a MoEML Library text. Bookseller A person or organization who makes books and other bibliographic materials available for purchase. Interest in the materials is primarily lucrative. MoEML uses the term bookseller to designate an early modern publisher whose name appear in the transcribed title page. In early modern printing practice, the roles of printer, bookseller, and publisher might coincide in one person, or be performed by different people. Data manager A person or organization responsible for managing databases or other data sources. MoEML uses the term data manager to designate contributors who maintain and manage our databases. They add and update the data sent to us by external contributors or found by MoEML team members. They also monitor journals and sources regularly to ensure that our databases are current. Editor A person or organization who prepares for publication a work not primarily their own, such as by elucidating text, adding introductory or other critical matter, or technically directing an editorial staff. MoEML uses the term editor to designate a person who creates a modern edition of a work based on one of our encoded diplomatic transcriptions of a primary source. We use the term commentator to designate a person who adds editorial or explanatory notes to one of our diplomatic transcriptions. 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CSS editor MoEML uses the term CSS Editor for a person who adds CSS styling to the transcription of a primary source. We use CSS styling to describe the bibliographic features of the texts we transcribe. For further information, see our page on CSS styling. Added @xml:ids to <pb> elements using utilities/add_sig_ids_to_shows.xsl. Began reviewing and editing the transcription. Began implementing show into new template Collapsed element rendition using XSLT. Changed calendar value from "julian" to "julianSic" using XSLT. Standardized <respStmt>s for JENS1, MCFI1, and HOLM3 and added TAKE1 as Junior Programmer. Added XInclude for <listPrefixDef> in the header. Added CSS style to show. started to remove legacy use of seg. Added global publicationStmt through XInclude. Standardized the use of @resp in editorial notes. Removed extra spaces. Added CSS style to show. Fixed error in respStmts (changed mol to molresp). Eliminated superfluous catRef elements from the header. Put <change> elements inside <revisionDesc> into the correct (latest first) order. Added <profileDesc> containing document type information expressed in <catRef> elements. Various encoding updates and fixes: respStmts, l, lg, p, sp, fw, label, dates, italics. Various encoding fixes for spacing errors, added formwork transcriptions, respStmts. Tidied front section. Changed multi-text structure based on <group> to single text element. Converted @rend to @style, through XSLT transformation. Added <front> element with <docTitle> as part of a normalization process. This will be used as the definitive page title on rendering. Various updates and fixes made through XSLT, to standardize and normalize encoding practices. Troia-Noua Triumphans. London Triumphing, OR, The Solemne, Magnificent, and Me morable Receiuing of that worthy Gentle man, Sir Iohn Svvinerton Knight, intothe Citty of London, after his Returne from taking the Oath of Maioralty at Weſtminſter, on the Morrow next after Simon and Iudes day, being the 29. of October. 1612.All the Showes, Pageants, Chariots of Triumph, with other Deuices, (both on the Water and Land) here fully expreſſed. By Thomas Dekker.
Printer’s Ornament
LONDON, Printed by Nicholas Okes, and are to be ſold by Iohn Wright dwelling at Chriſt Church-gate. 1612.
Printer’s Ornament
To the Deſeruer of all thoſe Honors, which the Cuſtomary Rites of this Day,And the generall Loue of this City beſtow vpon him; Sir Iohn Svvinerton, Knight, Lord Maior of the renowmed Cityof London.

HONOR (this day) takes you by the Hand, and giues you welcomes into your New-Office of Pretorſhip. A Dignity worthie the Cities beſtowing, and moſt worthy your Receiuing. You haue it with the Harts of many people, Voices and Held-vp hands: they know it is a Roabe fit for you, and therefore haue clothed you in it. May the Laſt-day of your wearing the ſame, yeeld to your Selfe as much Ioy, as to Others does this Firſt-day of your putting it on. I ſwimme (for my owne part) not onely in the Maine Full-ſea of the General praiſe and Hopes of you. But powre out alſo (for my particular) ſuch a ſtreame as my Prayers can render, for a ſucceſſe anſwerable to the On-ſet: for it is no Field, vnleſſe it be Crowned with victory.

I preſent (Sir) vnto you, theſe labours of my Pen, as the firſt and neweſt Congratulatory Offrings tendred into your hands, which albeit I ſhould not (of my ſelfe) deſerue to ſee accepted, I know notwithſtanding you will giue to them a generous and gratefull entertainement, in regard of that Noble Fellowſhip and Society, (of which you Yeſterday

A2 were The Epistle Dedicatory.

were a Brother, and This Day a Father) who moſt freely haue beſtowed theſe their Loues vpon you. The Colours of this Peece are mine owne; the Coſt theirs: to which nothing was wanting, that could be had, and euery thing had that was required. To their Laſting memory I ſet downe This; And to your Noble Diſpoſition, this I Dedicate. My wiſhes being (as euer they haue bene) to meete with any Obiect, whoſe reflexion may preſent to your Eyes, that Loue and Duty, In which

I ſtand Bounden To your Lordſhip. Thomas Dekker.
Printer’s Ornament
Troia Noua Triumphans. London Triumphing.

TRyumphes, are the moſt choice and daintieſt fruit that ſpring from Peace and Abundance; Loue begets them; and Much Coſt brings them forth. Expectation feeds vpon them, but ſeldome to a ſurfeite, for when ſhe is moſt full, her longing wants ſomething to be ſatisfied. So in ticing a ſhape they carry, that Princes themſelues take pleaſure to behold them; they with delight; common people with admiration. They are now and then the Rich and Glorious Fires of Bounty, State and Magnificence, giuing light and beauty to the Courts of Kings: And now and then, it is but a debt payd to Time and Cuſtome: And out of that dept come Theſe. Ryot hauing no hand in laying out the Expences, and yet no hand in plucking backe what is held decent to be beſtowed. A ſumptuous Thriftineſſe in theſe Ciuil Ceremonies managing All. For it were not laudable, in a City (ſo rarely gouerned and tempered) ſuperfluouſly to exceed; As contrariwiſe it is much honor to her (when the Day of ſpending comes) not to be ſparing in any thing. For the Chaires of Magiſtrates ought to be adorned, and to ſhine like the Chariot which caries the Sunne; And Beames (if it were poſſible) muſt be thought to be ſhot from the One as from the Other: As well to dazle and amaze the common

A3 Eye, London Triumphing.

Eye, as to make it learne that there is ſome Excellent, and Extraordinary Arme from heauen thruſt downe to exalt a Superior man, that thereby the Gazer may be drawne to more obedience and admiration.

In a happy houre therefore did your Lordſhip take vpon you this inſeperable burden (of Honor and Cares) becauſe your ſelfe being Generous of mind, haue met with men, and with a Company equall to your Selfe in Spirit. And vpon as fortunate a Tree haue they ingrafted their Bounty; the fruites whereof ſhoot forth and ripen, are gathered, and taſte ſweetly, in the mouthes not onely of this Citty, but alſo of our beſt-to-be-beloued friends, the Nobleſt ſtrangers. Vpon whom, though none but our Soueraigne King can beſtow Royall welcomes; yet ſhall it be a Memoriall of an Exemplary Loue and Duty (in thoſe who are at the Coſt of theſe Triumphs) to haue added ſome Heightning more to them then was intended at firſt, of purpoſe to do honor to their Prince and Countrey. And I make no doubt, but many worthy Companies in this City could gladly be content to be partners in the Diſburſements, ſo they might be ſharers in the Glory. For to haue bene leaden-winged now, what infamy could be greater? When all the ſtreames of Nobility and Gentry, run with the Tide hither. When all Eares lye liſtning for no newes but of Feaſts and Triumphs: All Eyes ſtill open to behold them: And all harts and hands to applaud them: When the heape of our Soueraignes Kingdomes are drawne in Little: and to be ſeene within the Walles of this City. Then to haue tied Bounty in too ſtraight a girdle: Proh ſcelus infandum! No; ſhe hath worne her garments looſe, her lippes haue

bene London Triumphing.

bene free in Welcomes, her purſe open, and her hands liberall. If you thinke I ſet a flattering glaſſe before you, do but ſo much as lanch into the Riuer, and there the Thames it ſelfe ſhall ſhew you all the Honors, which this day hath beſtowed vpon her: And that done, ſtep againe vpon the Land, and Fame will with her owne Trumpet proclaime what I ſpeake; And her I hope you cannot deny to beleeue, hauing at leaſt twenty thouſand eyes about her, to witneſſe whether ſhe be a Truetong’d Fame or a Lying.

By this time the Lord Maior hath taken his oath, is ſeated in his barge againe; a lowd thundring peale of Chambers giue him a Fare-well as he paſſes by. And ſee! how quickly we are in ken of land, as ſuddenly therefore let vs leap on ſhore, and there obſerue what honorable entertainement the Citty affoords to their new Prætor, and what ioyfull ſalutations to her noble Viſitants.

THE Lord Maior, and Companyes being landed, the firſt Deuice which is preſented to him on the ſhore, ſtands ready to receiue him at the end of Pauls-Chayne, (on the ſouth ſide the Church) and this it is.

A Sea-Chariot artificially made, proper for a God of the ſea to ſit in; ſhippes dancing round about it, with Dolphins and other great Fiſhes playing or lying at the foot of the ſame, is drawne by two Sea-horſes.

In this Chariot ſits Neptune, his head circled with a Coronet of ſiluer, Scollup-ſhels, ſtucke with branches of

Corrall London Triumphing.

Corrall, and hung thicke with ropes of pearle; becauſe ſuch things as theſe are the treaſures of the Deepe, and are found in the ſhels of fiſhes. In his hand he holds a ſiluer Trident, or Three-forked-Mace, by which ſome Writers will haue ſignified the three Naturall qualiies proper to Waters; as thoſe of fountaines to bee of a delitious taſte, and Chriſtalline colour: thoſe of the Sea, to bee ſaltiſh and vnpleaſant, and the colour ſullen, and greeniſh: And laſtly, thoſe of ſtanding Lakes, neither ſweet nor bitter, nor cleere, nor cloudy, but altogether vnwholeſome for the taſte, and loathſome to the eye. His roabe and mantle with other ornaments are correſpondent to the quality of his perſon; Buskins of pearle and cockle-ſhels being worne vpon his legges. At the lower part of this Chariot ſit Mer-maids, who for their excellency in beauty, aboue any other creatures belonging to the ſea, are preferred to bee ſtill in the eye of Neptune.

At Neptunes foot ſits Luna (the Moone) who beeing gouerneſſe of the ſea, & all petty Flouds, as from whoſe influence they receiue their ebbings and flowings, challenges to herſelfe this honour, to haue rule and command of thoſe Horſes that draw the Chariot, and therefore ſhe holds their reynes in her hands.

She is atired in light roabes fitting her ſtate and condition, with a ſiluer Creſcent on her head, expreſsing both her power and property.

The whole Chariot figuring in it ſelfe that vaſt compaſſe which the ſea makes about the body of the earth: whoſe Globicall Rotundity is Hieroglifically repreſented by the wheele of the Chariot.

Before London Triumphing.

Before this Chariot ride foure Trytons, who are feyned by Poets to bee Trumpeters to Neptune, and for that cauſe make way before him, holding ſtrange Trumpets in their hands, which they ſound as they paſſe along, their habits being Antike, and Sea-like, and ſitting vpon foure ſeuerall fiſhes, viz. two Dolphins, and two Mer-maids, which are not (after the old procreation) begotten of painted cloath, and browne paper, but are liuing beaſts, ſo queintly diſguiſed like the natural fiſhes, of purpoſe to auoyd the trouble and peſtering of Porters, who with much noyſe and little comlineſſe are euery yeare moſt vnneceſſarily imployed.

The time being ripe, when the ſcope of this Deuice is to be deliuered, Neptunes breath goeth forth in theſe following Speeches.

WHence breaks this warlike thunder of lowd drummes, (Clarions and Trumpets) whoſe ſhrill eccho comes Vp to our Watery Court, and calles from thence Vs, and our Trytons? As if violence Weere to onr Siluer-footed Siſter done (Of Flouds the Queene) bright Thameſis, who does runne Twice euery day to our boſome, and there hides * Her wealth, whoſe Streame in liquid Chriſtall glides Guarded with troopes of Swannes? what does beget Theſe Thronges? this Confluence? why do voyces beate The Ayre with acclamations of applauſe, Good wiſhes, Loue, and Praiſes? what is’t drawes All Faces this way? This way Rumor flyes, B Clapping London Triumphing. Clapping her infinite wings, whoſe noyſe the Skyes From earth receiue, with Muſicall rebounding, And ſtrike the Seas with repercuſsiue ſounding. Oh! now I ſee the cauſe: vaniſh vaine feares, *Iſis no danger feeles: for her head weares Crowns of Rich Triumphes, which This day puts on, And in Thy Honor all theſe Rites are done. Whoſe Name when Neptune heard, t’was a ſtrange Spell, Thus farre-vp into th’ Land to make him ſwell Beyond his Bownds, and with his Sea-troops wait Thy wiſh’t arriuall, to congratulate. Goe therefore on, goe boldly: thou muſt ſaile In rough Seas (now) of Rule: and euery Gale Will not perhaps befriend thee: But (how blacke So ere the Skyes looke) dread not Thou a Wracke, For when Integrity and Innocence ſit Steering the Helme, no Rocke the Ship can ſplit. Nor care the Whales (neuer ſo great) their Iawes Should ſtretch to ſwallow thee: Euery good mans cauſe Is in all ſtormes his Pilot: He that’s ſound To himſelfe (in Conſcience) nere can run-a-ground. Which that thou mayſt do, neuer looke on’t ſtill: For (Spite of Fowle guſts) calmer Windes ſhall fill Thy Sayles at laſt. And ſee! they home haue brought A Ship which Bacchus (God of Wines) hath fraught With richeſt Iuice of Grapes, which thy Friends ſhall Drinke off in Healths to this Great Feſtiuall. If any at Thy happineſſe repine, They gnaw but their Owne hearts, and touch not Thine. Let Bats and Skreech-Owles murmure at bright Day, Whiles Prayers of Good-men Guid Thee on the way. Sownd old Oceanus Trumpeters, and lead on. The London Triumphing.

The Trytons then ſownding, according to his command, Neptune in his Chariot paſſeth along before the Lord Maior. The foure Windes (habilimented to their quality, and hauing both Faces and Limbes proportionable to their bluſtring and boiſterous condition) driue forward that Ship of which Neptune ſpake. And this concludes this firſt Triumph on the Land.

Theſe two Shewes paſſe on vntill they come into Pauls-Church-yard, where ſtandes another Chariot; the former Chariot of Neptune, with the Ship, beeing conueyd into Cheap-ſide, this other then takes the place: And this is the Deuice.

IT is the Throne of Vertue, gloriouſly adorned & beautified with all things that are fit to expreſſe the Seat of ſo noble and diuine a Perſon.

Vpon the height, and moſt eminent place (as worthieſt to be exalted) ſits Arete (Vertue) herſelfe; her temples ſhining with a Diadem of ſtarres, to ſhew that her Deſcent is onely from heauen: her roabes are rich, her mantle white (figuring Innocency) and powdred with ſtarres of gold, as an Embleme that ſhe puts vpon Men, the garments of eternity.

Beneath Her, in diſtinct places, ſit the Seauen liberall Sciences, viz. Grammer, Rhetoricke, Logicke, Muſicke, Arithmetike, Geometry, Aſtronomy.

Hauing thoſe roomes alotted them, as being Mothers to all Trades, Profeſsions, Myſteries and Societies, and the readieſt guide to Vertue. Their habits are Light Roabes,

B2 and London Triumphing.

and Looſe (for Knowledge ſhould be free.) On their heads they weare garlands of Roſes, mixt with other flowers, whoſe ſweet Smels are arguments of their cleere and vnſpotted thoughts, not corrupted with uice. Euery one carrying in her hand, a Symbole, or Badge of that Learning which ſhe profeſſeth.

At the backe of this Chariot ſit foure Cupids, to ſignifie that vertue is moſt honored when ſhe is followed by Loue.

This Throne, or Chariot, is drawne by foure Horſes: vpon the two formoſt ride Time and Mercury: the firſt, the Begetter and Bringer forth of all things in the world, the ſecond, the God of Wiſedome and Eloquence. On the other two Horſes ride Deſire and Induſtry; it beeing intimated hereby, that Tyme giues wings to Wiſedome, and ſharpens it, Wiſedome ſets Deſire a burning, to attaine to Vertue, and that Burning Deſire begets Induſtry (earneſtneſtly to purſue her.) And all theſe (together) make men in Loue with Arts, Trades, Sciences, and Knowledge, which are the onely ſtaires and aſcenſions to the Throne of Vertue, and the onely glory and vpholdings of Cities. Time hath his wings, Glaſſe, and Sythe, which cuts downe All.

Mercury hath his Caduceus, or Charming Rod, his fethered Hat, his Wings, and other properties fitting his condition, Deſire caries a burning heart in her hand.

Induſtry is in the ſhape of an old Country-man, bearing on his ſhoulder a Spade, as the Embleme of Labour.

Before this Chariot, or Throne (as Guardians and Protectors to Vertue, to Arts, and to the reſt; and as Aſsiſtants to Him who is Chiefe within the Citty for that yeare) are mounted vpon horſebacke twelue Perſons (two by two)

repreſenting London Triumphing.

repreſenting the twelue ſuperior Companyes, euery one carrying vpon his left arme a faire Shield with the armes in it of one of the twelue Companies, and in his right hand a launce with a light ſtreamer or pendant on the top of it, and euery horſe led and attended by a Footman.

The Lord Maior beeing approached to this Throne, Vertue thus ſalutes him.

HAile (worthy Pretor) ſtay, and do Me grace, (Who ſtill haue cald thee Patron) In this place To take from me heap’d welcomes, who combine Theſe peoples hearts in one, to make them thine. Bright Vertues name thou know’ſt and heau’nly birth, And therefore (ſpying thee) downe ſhe leapd to earth Whence vicious men had driuen her: On her throne The Liberall Arts waite: from whoſe breſts do runne The milke of Knowledge: on which, Sciences feed, Trades and Profeſſions: And by Them, the ſeed Of Ciuill, Popular gouernment, is ſowne; Which ſpringing vp, loe! to what heigth tis growne In Thee and *Theſe is ſeene. And (to maintaine This Greatneſſe) Twelue ſtrong Pillars it ſuſtaine; Vpon whoſe Capitals, *Twelue Societies ſtand, (Graue and well-ordred) bearing chiefe Command Within this City, and (with Loue) thus reare Thy fame, in free election, for this yeare. All arm’d, to knit their Nerues (in One) with Thine, To guard this new Troy: And, (that She may ſhine In Thee, as Thou in Her) no Miſers kay B3 Has London Triumphing. Has bard the Gold vp; Light flies from the Day Not of more free gift, thaun from them their Coſt: For whats now ſpar’d, that only they count Loſt. As then their Ioynd-hands lift Thee to thy Seate. (Changing thereby thy Name for one More* Great) And as this City, with her Loud, Full Voice, (Drowning all ſpite that murmures at the Choice, If at leaſt ſuch there be) does Thee preferre, So art thou bound to loue, both Them and Her. For know, thou art not like a Pinnacle, plac’d Onely to ſtand aloft, and to be grac’d With wondring eyes, or to haue caps and knees Heape worſhip on thee: for that Man does leeze Himſelfe and his Renowne, whoſe growth being Hye In the weale-publicke (like the Cypres tree) Is neither good to Build-with, nor beare Fruit; Thou muſt be now, Stirring, and Reſolute. To be what thou art Sworne, (a waking Eye) A farre off (like a Beacon) to deſcry What ſtormes are comming, and (being come) muſt then Shelter with ſpred armes, the poor’ſt Citizen. Set Plenty at thy Table, at thy Gate Bounty, and Hoſpitality: hee’s moſt Ingrate Into whoſe lap the Publicke-weale hauing powr’d Her Golden ſhewers, from Her his wealth ſhould hoord. Be like thoſe Antient Spirits, that (long agon) Could thinke no Good deed ſooner, than twas Don; Others to pleaſure. Hold it Thou more Glory, Than to be pleas’d Thy Selfe. And be not ſory If Any ſtriue (in beſt things) to exceed thee, But glad, to helpe thy Wrongers, if they need thee. Nor London Triumphing. Nor feare the Stings of Enuy, nor the Threates Of her inuenomd Arrowes, which at the Seates Of thoſe Who Beſt Rule, euermore are ſhot, But the Aire blowes off their fethers, and they hit not. Come therefore on; nor dread her, nor her Sprites, The poyſon ſhe ſpits vp, on her owne Head lights. On, on, away.

This Chariot or Throne of Vertue is then ſet forward, and followes that of Neptune, this taking place iuſt before the Lord Maior: And this concludes the ſecond Triumphant ſhew.

THe third Deuice is a Forlorne Caſtle, built cloſe to thelittle Conduit in Cheap-ſide, by which as the Throne of Vertue comes neerer and neerer, there appeare aboue (on the battlements) Enuy, as chiefe Commandreſſe of that infernall Place, and euery part of it guarded with perſons repreſenting all thoſe that are fellowes and followers of Enuy: As Ignorance, Sloth, Oppreſsion,Diſdaine, &c. Enuy her ſelfe being attired like a Fury, her haire full of Snakes, her countenance pallid, meagre and leane, her body naked, in her hand a knot of Snakes, crawling and writhen about her arme.

The reſt of her litter are in as vgly ſhapes as the Dam, euery one of thẽthem being arm’d with black bowes, & arrows ready to bee ſhot at Vertue. At the gates of this Fort of Furies, ſtand Ryot and Calumny, in the ſhapes of Gyants, with clubs, who offer to keep back the Chariot of Vertue,

and London Triumphing.

and to ſtop her paſſage. All the reſt likewiſe on the battlements offering to diſcharge their blacke Artillery at her: but ſhe onely holding vp her bright ſhield, dazzles them, and confounds them, they all on a ſudden ſhrinking in their heads, vntill the Chariot be paſt, and then all of them appearing againe: their arrowes, which they ſhoote vp into the aire, breake there out in fire-workes, as hauing no power to do wrong to ſo ſacred a Deity as Vertue.

This caue of Monſters ſtands fixed to the Conduit,Little Conduit (Cheapside). in which Enuie onely breathes out her poyſon to this purpoſe.

Envy.ADders ſhoote, hyſſe ſpeckled Snakes; Sloth craule vp, ſee Oppreſſion wakes; (Baine to learning) Ignorance Shake thy Aſſes eares, Diſdaine, aduance Thy head Luciferan: Ryot ſplit Thy ribbes with curſes: Calumny ſpit Thy rancke-rotten gall vp: See, See, See, That Witch, whoſe bottomeleſſe Sorcery Makes fooles runne mad for her; that Hag For whom your Dam pines, hangs out her flag Our Den to ranſacke: Vertue, that whoore; See, ſee, how braue ſhee’s, I am poore. Vertue. On, on, the beames of Vertue, are ſo bright, They dazle Enuy, on: the Hag’s put to flight. Envy. Snakes, from your virulent ſpawne ingender Dragons, that may peece-meale rend her: Adders ſhoote your ſtings like quils Of London Triumphing. Of Porcupines, (Stiffe) hot Aetnean hils Vomit ſulphure to confound her, Fiendes and Furies (that dwell vnder) Lift hell gates from their hindges: come You clouen-foote-broode of Barrathrum, Stop, ſtay her, fright her, with your ſhreekes, And put freſh bloud in Enuies cheekes. Vertve. On, on, the beames of Vertue, are ſo bright, They dazle Enuy: on the Hag’s put to flight. Omnes. Shoote, Shoote, &c. All that are with Enuy.

Either during this ſpeech, or elſe when it is done, certaine Rockets flye vp into the aire; The Throne of Vertue paſſing on ſtill, neuer ſtaying, but ſpeaking ſtill thoſe her two laſt lines, albeit, ſhee bee out of the hearing of Enuy: and the other of Enuies Faction, crying ſtill, ſhoote, ſhoote, but ſeeing they preuaile not, all retire in, and are not ſeene till the Throne comes backe againe.

And this concludes this Triumphant aſſault of Enuy: her conqueſt is to come.

THis Throne of Vertue paſſeth along vntill it come to the Croſſe in Cheape, where the preſentation of another Triumph attends to welcome the Lord Maior, in his paſſage, the Chariot of Vertue is drawne then along, this other that followes taking her place, the Deuice bearing this argument.

Vertue hauing by helpe of her followers, conducted

C the London Triumphing.

the Lord Maior ſafely, euẽeven, as it were, through the iawes of Enuy and all her Monſters: The next and higheſt honour ſhee can bring him to, is to make him ariue at the houſe of Fame, And that is this Pageant. In the vpper ſeat ſits Fame crowned in rich attire, a Trumpet in her hand, &c. In other ſeuerall places ſit Kings, Princes, and Noble perſons, who haue bene free of the Marchant-tailors: A perticular roome being reſerued for one that repreſents the perſon of Henry the now Prince of Wales.

The onely ſpeaker heere is Fame her ſelfe, whoſe wordes ſound out theſe glad welcomes.

VVElcome to Fames high Temple: here fix faſt Thy footing; for the wayes which thou haſt paſt Will be forgot and worne out, and no Tract Of ſteps obſeru’d, but what thou now ſhalt Act. The booke is ſhut of thy precedent deedes, And Fame vnclaſpes another, where ſhee reades (Aloud) the Chronickle of a dangerous yeare, For Each Eye will looke through thee, and Each Eare Way-lay thy Words and Workes. Th’haſt yet but gon About a Pyramid’s foote; the Top’s not won, That’s glaſſe; who ſlides there, fals, and once falne downe Neuer more riſes: No Art cures Renowne The wound being ſent to’th Heart. Tis kept from thence By a ſtrong Armor, Vertues influence; She guides thee, Follow her. In this Court of Fame None elſe but Vertue can enrole thy Name. Erect thou then a Serious Eye, And looke What London Triumphing. What Worthies fill vp Fames Voluminous booke, That now (thine owne name read there) none may blot Thy leafe with foule inke, nor thy Margent quoate With any Act of Thine, which may diſgrace This Citties choice, thy ſelfe, or this thy Place: Or, that which may diſhonour the high Merits Of thy Renown’d Society: Roiall Spirits Of Princes holding it a grace to weare That Crimſon Badge, which theſe about them beare, Yea, Kings themſelues ’mongſt you haue Fellowes bene, Stil’d by the Name of a Free-citizen: For inſtance, ſee, ſeuen Engliſh Kings there plac’d, Cloth’d in your Liuery, The firſt Seate being grac’d By ſecond Richard: next him *Bullingbrooke: Then, that Fift (thundring) Henry: who all France ſhook: By him, his ſonne (ſixth Henry) By his ſide Fourth Edward: who the Roſes did diuide: Richard the third, next him, and then that King, Who made both Roſes in one Branch to ſpring: A Sprig of which Branch, (Higheſt now but One) Is Henry Prince of Wales, followed by none: Who of this Brotherhood, laſt and beſt ſteps forth, Honouring your Hall: To Heighthen more your worth. I can a Regiſter ſhow of ſeuenteene more, (Princes and Dukes All:) entombed long before, Yet kept aliue by Fame; Earles thirty one, And Barons ſixty ſix that path haue gone: Of Viſecounts onely one, your Order tooke: Turne ouer one leafe more in our vaſt booke And you may reade the Names of Prelates there, Of which one Arch-biſhop your cloth did weare. C2 And London Triumphing. And Byſhops twenty foure: of Abbots ſeuen, As many Priors, to make the number euen: Of forty Church men, I, one ſub-prior adde, You from all theſe, Theſe from you honour had: Women of high bloud likewiſe laid aſide Their greater State ſo to be dignified: Of which a Queene the firſt was, then a paire of Dukes wiues: And to leaue the Roll more faire Fiue Counteſſes and two Ladies are the laſt, Whoſe Birth & Beauties haue your Order gracd. But I too long ſpin out this Thrid of Gold; Here breakes it off. Fame hath them All en-rold On a Large File (with Others,) And their Story The world ſhall reade, to Adde vnto thy Glory, Which I am loath to darken: thouſand eyes Yet aking till they enioy thee, win then that priſe Which Vertue holds vp for thee, And (that done) Fame ſhall the end crowne, as ſhe hath begun. Set forward. Iohn Duke of Lancaſter Edmond Duke of Yorke. The Duke of Gloſter. The Duke of Surrey. Humfry Duke of Gloſter. Richard Duke of Yorke. George D. of Clarence. Duke of Suffolke Iohn D. of Norfolke George D. of Bedford. Edward London Triumphing.

Edward D. of Buckingham, In the time of Henry the 7. with others, whoſe Rol is too long, here to be opened. The Queene ſpoken of, was Anne wife to Richard the 2.

The Dutcheſſe of Gloſter. In the time of Richard the 2. Elionor Dutcheſſe of Gloſter. In the time of H. the 5.

The Prior of Saint Bartholmewes, And his Sub-prior. The Prior of Elſing-ſpittle, Thomas Arundell Arch-biſhop of Canterbury Henry Bewfort Biſhop of Winton. The Abbot of Barmondſey. The Abbot of Towrchill. Philip Morgan Biſhop of Worſter. The Abbot of Tower-hill. The Prior of Saint Mary Ouery. The Prior of Saint Trinity in Cree-church. The Abbot and Prior of Weſtminſter. Kemp Biſhop of London. W. Wainfleete B. of Wincheſter. George Neuill Biſhop of VVincheſter, and Chauncelor of England. Iohn May Abbot of Chertſay, Laurence Biſhop of Durham. Iohn Ruſſell Biſhop of Rocheſter.

If I ſhould lengthen this number, it were but to trouble you with a large Index of names onely, which I am loath to do, knowing your expectation is to bee otherwiſe feaſted.

C3 The London Triumphing.

The Speech of Fame therefore being ended, as ’tis ſet downe before, this Temple of Hers takes place next before the Lord Maior, thoſe of Neptune and Vertue marching in precedent order. And as this Temple is carryed along, a Song is heard, the Muſicke being queintly conueyed in a priuate roome, and not a perſon diſcouered.

HOnor, eldeſt Child of Fame, Thou farre older then thy Name, Waken with my Song, and ſee One of thine, here waiting thee. Sleepe not now But thy brow Chac’t with Oliues, Oke and Baies And an age of happy dayes Vpward bring Whilſt we ſing In a Chorus altogether, Welcome, welcome, welcome hither. Longing round about him ſtay Eyes, to make another day, Able with their vertuous Light Vtterly to baniſh Night. All agree This is hee Full of bounty, honour, ſtore And a world of goodneſſe more Yet to ſpring Whilſt we ſing In London Triumphing. In a Chorus altogether, Welcome, welcome, welcome hither. Enuy angry with the dead, Far from this place hide thy head: And Opinion, that nere knew What was either good or true Fly, I ſay For this day Shall faire Iuſtice, Truth, and Right, And ſuch happy ſonnes of Light To vs bring Whilſt we ſing In a Chorus altogether, Welcome, welcome, welcome hither. Goe on nobly, may thy Name, Be as old, and good as Fame. Euer be remembred here Whilſt a bleſsing, or a teare Is in ſtore With the pore So ſhall Svvinerton nere dye, But his vertues vpward flye And ſtill ſpring Whilſt we ſing In a Chorus ceaſing neuer, He is liuing, liuing euer.

And this concludes this fourth Triumph, till his Lordſhips returne from the Guild-hall.

In London Triumphing.

In returning backe from the Guild-hall, to performe the Ceremoniall cuſtomes in Pauls Church, theſe ſhewes march in the ſame order as before: and comming with the Throne of Vertue, Enuy and her crue are as buſie againe, Enuy vttering ſome three or foure lines toward the end of her ſpeech onely: As thus:

Envy. FIends and Furies that dwell vnder, Lift Hell-gates from their hindges: Come You clouen-footed-brood of Barathrum, Stop, ſtony her, fright her with your ſhreekes, And put freſh bloud in Enuyes cheekes. Vertve. On, on, the beames of Vertue are ſo bright, They dazzle Enuy: On, the Hag’s put to flight.

This done, or as it is in doing, thoſe twelue that ride armed diſcharge their Piſtols, at which Enuy, and the reſt, vaniſh, and are ſeene no more.

When the Lord Maior is (with all the reſt of their Triumphes) brought home, Iuſtice (for a fare-well) is mounted on ſome couenient ſcaffold cloſe to his entrance at his Gate, who thus ſalutes him.

MY This-dayes-ſworne-protector, welcome home, If Iuſtice ſpeake not now, be ſhe euer dumbe: The world giues out ſhee’s blinde; but men ſhall ſee, Her Sight is cleere, by influence drawne from Thee. For One-yeare therefore, at theſe Gates ſhee’l ſit, To guid thee In and Out: thou ſhalt commit (If London Triumphing. (If Shee ſtand by thee) not One touch of wrong: And though I know thy wiſdome built vp ſtrong, Yet men (like great ſhips) being in ſtorms, moſt neere To danger, when vp all their ſailes they beare. And ſince all Magiſtrates tread ſtill on yce, From mine owne Schoole I reade thee this aduice: Do good for no mans ſake (now) but thine owne, Take leaue of Friends & foes, both muſt be knowne But by one Face: the Rich and Poore muſt lye In one euen Scale: All Suiters, in thine Eye Welcome alike; Euen Hee that ſeemes moſt baſe, Looke not vpon his Clothes, but on his Caſe. Let not Oppreſſion waſh his hands ith’ Teares Of Widowes, or of Orphans: Widowes prayers Can pluck downe Thunder, & poore Orphans cries Are Lawrels held in fire; the violence flyes Vp to Heauen-gates, and there the wrong does tell, Whilſt Innocence leaues behind it a ſweet ſmell. Thy Conſcience muſt be like that Scarlet Dye; One fowle ſpot ſtaines it All: and the quicke Eye Of this prying world, will make that ſpot thy ſcorne. That Collar (which about thy Necke is worne) Of Golden Eſſes, bids thee ſo to knit Mens hearts in Loue, and make a Chayne of it. That Sword is ſeldome drawne, by which is meant, It ſhould ſtrike ſeldome: neuer th’innocent. Tis held before thee by anothers Hand, But the point vpwards (heauen muſt that cõmandcommand) Snatch it not then in Wrath; it muſt be giuen, But to cut none, till warranted by Heauen. The Head, the politike Body muſt aduance D For London Triumphing. For which thou haſt this Cap of Maintenance, And ſince the moſt iuſt Magiſtrate often erres, Thou guarded art about with Officers, Who knowing the pathes of Others that are gone, Should teach thee what to do, what leaue vndone. Nights Candles lighted are, and burne amaine, Cut therefore here off, Thy Officious Traine Which Loue and Cuſtome lend thee: All Delight Crowne both this Day and Citty: A good Night To Thee, and theſe Graue Senators, to whom My laſt Fare-wels, in theſe glad wiſhes come, That thou & they (whoſe ſtrength the City beares) May be as old in Goodneſſe as in Yeares.

THe Title-page of this Booke makes promiſe of all the Shewes by water, as of theſe On the Land; but Apollo hauing no hand in them, I ſuffer them to dye by that which fed them; that is to ſay, Powder & Smoake. Their thunder (according to the old Gally-foyſt-faſhion) was too lowd for any of the Nine Muſes to be bidden to it. I had deuiz’d One, altogether Muſicall, but Times Glaſſe could ſpare no Sand, nor lend conuenient Howres for the performance of it. Night cuts off the glory of this Day, and ſo conſequently of theſe Triumphes, whoſe brightneſſe beeing ecclipſed, my labours can yeeld no longer ſhadow. They are ended, but my Loue and Duty to your Lordſhip ſhall neuer.

⎯⎯⎯Non diſplicuiſſe meretur, Feſtinat (Prætor) Qui placuiſſe Tibi. FINIS.
Participants Lucas Simpson Lucas Simpson LS

Research Assistant, 2018-2021. Lucas Simpson was a student at the University of Victoria.

 Chris Horne Chris Horne CH

Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Chris Horne was an honours student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. His primary research interests included American modernism, affect studies, cultural studies, and digital humanities.

 Kate LeBere Kate LeBere KL

Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. She published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. During her time at MoEML, Kate made significant contributions to the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey of London, old-spelling anthology of mayoral shows, and old-spelling library texts. She authored the MoEML’s first Project Management Manual and "quickstart" guidelines for new employees and helped standardize the Personography and Bibliography. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.

 Tracey El Hajj Tracey El Hajj TEH

Junior Programmer 2018-2020. Research Associate 2020-2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019-20 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life. Tracey was also a member of the Linked Early Modern Drama Online team, between 2019 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.

 Joey Takeda Joey Takeda JT

Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.

 Chase Templet Chase Templet CT

Research Assistant, 2017-2019. Chase Templet was a graduate student at the University of Victoria in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) stream. He was specifically focused on early modern repertory studies and non-Shakespearean early modern drama, particularly the works of Thomas Middleton.

 Tye Landels-Gruenewald Tye Landels-Gruenewald TLG

Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.

 Zaqir Virani Zaqir Virani ZV

Research Assistant, 2013-2014. Zaqir Virani completed his MA at the University of Victoria in April 2014. He received his BA from Simon Fraser University in 2012, and has worked as a musician, producer, and author of short fiction. His research focused on the linkage of sound and textual analysis software and the work of Samuel Beckett.

 Cameron Butt Cameron Butt CB

Research Assistant, 2012–2013. Cameron Butt completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2013. He minored in French and has a keen interest in Shakespeare, film, media studies, popular culture, and the geohumanities.

 Quinn MacDonald Quinn MacDonald QM

Research Assistant, 2013. Quinn MacDonald was a fourth-year honours English student at the University of Victoria. Her areas of interest included postcolonial theory and texts, urban agriculture, journalism that isn’t lazy, fine writing, and roller derby. She was the director of community relations for The Warren Undergraduate Review and senior editor of Concrete Garden magazine.

 Melanie Chernyk Melanie Chernyk MJC

Research Assistant, 2004–2008. BA honours, 2006. MA English, University of Victoria, 2007. Melanie Chernyk went on to work at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria and now manages Talisman Books and Gallery on Pender Island, BC. She also has her own editing business at http://26letters.ca.

 Kim McLean-Fiander Kim McLean-Fiander KMF

Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.

 Mark Kaethler Mark Kaethler MK

Mark Kaethler is Department Chair, Arts, at Medicine Hat College; Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, with MoEML; and Assistant Director for LEMDO. They are the author of Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama (De Gruyter, 2021) and a co-editor with Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Janelle Jenstad of Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge, 2018). Their work has appeared in The London Journal, Early Theatre, Literature Compass, Digital Studies/Le Champe Numérique, and Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, as well as in several edited collections. Mark’s research interests include digital media and humanities; textual editing; game studies; and early modern drama.

 Janelle Jenstad Janelle Jenstad JJ

Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).

 Martin D. Holmes Martin D. Holmes MDH

Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.

 George Plantagenet George Plantagenet

First Duke of Clarence. Drowned in a vessel filled with malmsey (a fortified wine).

ODNB Wikipedia Thomas Dekker Thomas Dekker

Playwright, poet, and author.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Edward IV Edward IV King of England

King of England 1461-1470 and 1471-1483.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Fame Fame

Personification of fame. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows, Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London and John Stow’s Survey of London.

 Neptune Neptune

God of the sea in Roman mythology.

EB EM Virtue Virtue

Personification of virtue. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows, Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London and John Stow’s Survey of London. See also Arete.

 Oceanus Oceanus

Personification of the great river the Greeks believed encircled the world. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

EB EM Henry Beaufort Henry Beaufort

Third Duke of Somerset. Lancastrian military commander during the Wars of the Roses.

ODNB Wikipedia Apollo Apollo Phoebus

God of healing, medicine, archery, music, poetry, and the sun in Greek and Roman mythology. Defined as the god of divine distance since the time of Homer.

EB EM (Greek) EM (Roman) Luna Luna Cynthia

Goddess of the moon in Roman mythology.

Wikipedia Thames Thames Thamesis

Personification of the Thames. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Rumour Rumour

Personification of hearsay and rumour. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Arete Arete

Greek personification of goodness and virtue. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows. Also referred to as Vertue.

OR Envy Envy

Personification of envy. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows and Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London.

 Justice Justice

Personification of lawfulness and fairness. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows and Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London.

 Mercury Mercury

God of merchandise and merchants in Roman mythology. Equated with Hermes in Greek mythology.

EB EM Wisdom Wisdom

Personification of wisdom. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Desire Desire

Personification of desire. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Industry Industry

Personification of industry. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Ignorance Ignorance

Personification of ignorance. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Sloth Sloth

Personification of laziness. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Oppression Oppression

Personification of oppression. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Disdain Disdain

Personification of disdain. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Riot Riot

Personification of uprising and disorder. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Calumny Calumny

Personification of slander and defamation. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Bacchus Bacchus

God of wine and ecstasy in Roman mythology. Equated with Dionysus in Greek mythology.

EB EM Four Winds Four Winds

Wind gods in Greek mythology. Appear as a set of four allegorical characters in mayoral shows.

 John of Gaunt John

Duke of Aquitaine and First Duke of Lancaster. Husband of Blanche of Lancaster.

MoEML ODNB Wikipedia Henry VI Henry VI King of England

King of England 1422-1461 and 1470-1471.

ODNB Wikipedia Henry IV Henry IV King of England

King of England 1399-1413.

ODNB Wikipedia Henry VII Henry VII King of England

King of England and Lord of Ireland 1485-1509. Buried at Henry VII’s Chapel.

ODNB Wikipedia Henry V Henry V King of England

King of England 1413-1422. Buried at Westminster Abbey.

ODNB Wikipedia Henry Frederick Henry Frederick

Prince of Wales. Son of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark. Brother of Charles I and Elizabeth Stuart of Bohemia. Died of typhoid fever at the age of eighteen.

ODNB Wikipedia Thomas Holland Thomas Holland

Sixth Earl of Kent and Duke of Surrey. Father of Elizabeth Neville.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Humphrey of Lancaster Humphrey

First Duke of Gloucester. Prince, soldier, and literary patron. Rebuit Baynard’s Castle after it was destroyed by fire in 1428. Husband of Eleanor de Cobham. Son of Henry IV and Mary de Bohun.

ODNB Wikipedia Edmund of Langley Edmund

First Duke of York and Earl of Cambridge. Father of Richard of Conisburgh.

ODNB Wikipedia Love Love

Personification of love. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 John Mowbray John Mowbray

Fourth Duke of Norfolk. Buried at Whitefriars Church.

ODNB Nicholas Okes Nicholas Okes

Printer. Member of the Stationers’ Company. Business partner of John Norton. Father of John Okes.

BBTI Wikipedia John de la Pole John de la Pole

Second Duke of Suffolk.

ODNB Wikipedia Richard II Richard II King of England

King of England 1377-1399. Buried at Westminster Abbey.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Richard III Richard III King of England

King of England and Lord of Ireland 1483-1485.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Sir John Swynnerton Sir John Swynnerton Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1602-1603. Mayor 1612-1613. Member of the Merchant Taylors’ Company. Knighted on 26 July 1603.

BHO MASL Wikipedia Time Time

Personification of time. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows and John Stow’s Survey of London.

 Truth Truth

Personification of truth. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows and John Stow’s Survey of London.

 Thomas of Woodstock Thomas

Duke of Gloucester. Husband of Eleanor de Bohun. Son of Edward III. Buried at Westminster Abbey.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Richard of York Richard

Third Duke of York. Father of Richard III.

EB ODNB Anne of Bohemia Anne Queen consort of England

Queen consort of England 1382-1394. Wife of Richard II. Daughter of Charles IV of Bohemia. Sister of Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. Buried at Westminster Abbey.

ODNB Wikipedia George Neville George Neville

First Duke of Bedford. Not to be confused with George Neville.

Wikipedia Edward Stafford Edward Stafford

Third Duke of Buckingham. Buried at Austin Friars.

ODNB Wikipedia Eleanor de Bohun Eleanor de Bohun

Duchess of Gloucester. Wife of Thomas of Woodstock. Daughter of Humphrey de Bohun IX. Sister of Mary de Bohun. Buried at Westminster Abbey.

Wikipedia Eleanor de Cobham Eleanor de Cobham

Duchess of Gloucester. Wife of Humfrey of Lancaster.

ODNB Wikipedia John Wright John Wright

Bookseller.

BBTI Wikipedia John Russell John Russell Bishop of Rochester Bishop of Lincoln

Bishop of Rochester 1476-1480. Bishop of Lincoln 1480-1483. Lord Chancellor of England 1483-1485.

ODNB Wikipedia John May John May

Abbot of Chertsey.

BHO William Waynflete William Waynflete Bishop of Winchester

Bishop of Winchester 1447-1486. Lord Chancellor of England 1456-1460.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Philip Morgan Philip Morgan Bishop of Worchester Bishop of Ely

Bishop of Worchester 1419-1426. Bishop of Ely 1426-1435.

ODNB Wikipedia Thomas Arundel Thomas Arundel Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury 1397-1399.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Geometry Geometry

Personification of geometry, one of the liberal sciences. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Astronomy Astronomy

Personification of astronomy, one of the liberal sciences. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Music Music

Personification of music, one of the liberal sciences. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Arithmetic Arithmetic

Personification of arithmetic, one of the liberal sciences. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Logic Logic

Personification of logic, one of the liberal sciences. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Rhetoric Rhetoric

Personification of rhetoric, one of the liberal sciences. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Grammar Grammar

Personification of grammar, one of the liberal sciences. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Innocence Innocence

Personification of innocence. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Integrity Integrity

Personification of integrity. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Thomas Kempe Thomas Kempe Bishop of London

Bishop of London 1448–1489.

ODNB Wikipedia Laurence Booth Laurence Booth Bishop of Durham Archbishop of York

Bishop of Durham 1456–1476. Archbishop of York 1476–1480.

ODNB Wikipedia Right Right

Personification of moral guidance. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Worshipful Company of Merchant TaylorsMerchant Taylors’ Company

The Merchant Taylors’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. Since 1484, the Merchant Taylors and the Skinners have alternated precedence annually; the Merchant Taylors are now sixth in precedence in odd years and seventh in even years, changing precedence at Easter. The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors is still active and maintains a website at http://www.merchanttaylors.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company and a list of historical milestones.

The coat of arms of the Merchant Taylors’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size image]
Early English Books Online–Text Creation PartnershipEEBO-TCP

The EEBO-TCP is a partnership with ProQuest and with more than 150 libraries to generate highly accurate, fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts corresponding to books from the Early English Books Online Database. Website.