PART OF THE
KINGS
ENTERTAINMENT
IN PASSING TO
his
Coronation.
The Author B. I.
MART.
Quando magis dignos licuit spectare triumphos!
LONDON,
M. DC. XVI.

At Fen-Church.
THe Scene presented it selfe in a square and flat
vpright, like to the side of a Citie: the top
there of, aboue the Vent, and Crest, adorn'd
with houses, towres, and steeples, set off in
prospectiue. Vpon the battlements in a
great capitall letter was inscribed,
LONDINIVM:
According to TACITVS: At SVETO-
Annal.l.14
NIVS mirâ constantiâ, medios inter hosteis
Londinium perrexit, cognomento quidem Co-
loni¦ non insigne, sed copiâ Negotiatorum, & commeatu maxime celebre. Be-
neath that, in a lesse and different character, was written
CAMERA REGIA,
Which title immediately after the Norman conquest it began to haue; and
Camd.Brit.374.
by the indulgence of succeeding Princes, hath beene hitherto continued.
In the Freeze ouer the gate, it seemeth to speake this verse:
PAR DOMVS HÆC COELO,
SED MINOR EST DOMINO.
Taken out of MARTIAL, and implying, that though this citie (for the
Lib.B.Epig.36.
state, and magnificence) might (by Hyperbole) be said to touch the starres,
and reach vp to heauen, yet was it farre in ferior to the master there of, who
was his Maiestie; and in that respect vnworthy to receiue him. The high-
est person aduanc'd therein, was
MONARCHIA BRIT ANNICA,
and fitly: applying to the aboue mentioned title of the citie, THE KINGS
CHAMBER, and therefore here placed as in the proper seate of the empire:
for, so the glorie and light of our kingdome M. CAMDEN, speaking of
Brit.367.
London, saith, sheeis, totius Britanniæ Epitome, Britanniciq Imperij sedes,
Regumq Angli¦ Camera, tantum inter omneis eminet, quantum (vt ait ille) inter
viburna Cupressus. Shee was a woman, richly attyr'd, in cloth of gold