Thomas Heywood's Pageants

Thomas Heywood, David M. Bergeron

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9780429575310
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Letteratura
• Subtopic: Critica letteraria

Published in 1986: This book is about the shows which were put on during the inauguration of new Mayors of London. Such pageants were processions through the city of London with tableaux vivants; some of the shows also included dramatic entertainment on the Thames.

Londini Artium & Scientiarum Scaturigo:

or,

Londons Fountaine of Arts and Sciences: Exprest in sundry Triumphs, Pageants, and Showes, at the Initiation of the Right Honorable Nicholas Raynton into the Maioralty of the famous and farre renowned City London.

All the Charge and Expence of the laborious Projects both by Water and Land, being the sole undertaking of the Right Worshipfull Company of the Haberdashers,

Written by Thomas Haywood.

Redeunt Spectacula.

Printed at London by Nicholas Okes, 1632.

Title page of Londini Artium & Scientiarum Scaturigo (1632). Reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

To the Right Honorable Nicholas Raynton, Lord Maior of this renowned Metropolis London.

Right Honourable,

Concerning the Dignity of your place, and Magnificence of your Inauguration: The first equaling, the latter precelling all the famous Magistracies in Christendome, I shall not much stand to dispute, as being a Maxim already granted: yet one thing I cannot omit, as most worthy remarke; namely, how many of like Judicature have borne the Sword in this famous and florishing Citty, who breathed their first ayre in the County of Lincolne; from whence you derive your selfe, as Sir John Stockton Mercer, borne at Bratost, Lord Maior 1470. Sir Nicholas Aldwin Mercer, borne at Spalding, Lord Maior 1499. Sir William Rennington Fishmonger, at Bosten, Lord Maior 1500. Sir William Forman Haberdasher, at Gainsborow, Lord Maior 1538. Sir Henry Hobberthrone Merchant-Tayler, at Wadingworth, Lord Maior 1546. Sir Henry Amcoats Fishmonger, at Astrop, Lord Maior 1548. Sir John Langley Goldsmith, at Althrop, Lord Maior 1576. Sir John Allot Fishmonger, at Limbergh, Lord Maior 1590. Sir George Bowles Grocer, at Gosperton, Lord Maior 1617. and now in present your Honored selfe Nicholas Raynton borne at Heighington, Lord Maior 1632, not so many having attained to the same Dignity bred in any one County, the City of London excepted. Worthy observation it is also, that at one time in the raigne of Queene Elizabeth, most of the Prime Officers of State, were Country-men of the same County: As the Archbishop of Canterbury, Whitguift: the Lord High Treasurer of England, Lord Burleigh Cecill, the Lord Keeper of the Great Seale, Sir John Puckering, Viz-Chamberlaine and Chancellor of the Dutchy, Sir Thomas Hennidge one of her Majesties Privy Councell: The Lord Chiefe Justice, Judge Wraye, &c. Moreover it may be justly spoken of you to your great Reputation and Honour, that since the yeere 1209, from Henry Fitzalwin the first Lord Maior of this Honourable City, and Peter Duke, and Thomas Neele the first Sheriffes of the same, never had any Magistrate a more generall, free, and affectionate Election even to this present Yeere 1632. Now Time and your owne Demerit Right Honourable, have raysed you to this Eminence and Dignity, the universall eye and expectation of all men is upon you, who well know, that a wise Magistrate preferres Consideration before Conclusion: And (according to the saying of King Agesilaus) Magistrates who governe by just Lawes, must strengthen them by good example: judge by Providence, Wisedome and Justice, and defend by Power, Care and Vigilance; and thus I humbly take my leave of your Lordship with this Sentence. Non sat est te tuum officium fecisse, si non id fama approbat.

Your Lordship Countreyman and Servant,

Thomas Heywood.

To the Right Worshipfull Hugh Perry, and Henry Andrewes; the two Sheriffes of the Honourable City London, last Elected.

Right Worshipfull, and every way worthy; Your Armes display’d in the Front of this Show, approve your Gentry, and your Trafficke and Commerce, (being free Merchant-adventurers) testifie to the World your Noble Profession; as Trading in the East-Indies, Turkey, Italy, Spayne, and France, &c. to the Honour of our Nation abroad, and singular Profits redounding to the Realme at home. Your more private Imployments heretofore, aswell in furthering Arts, as incouraging Armes, adding no common Luster to these Offices, unto which Time and your owne Demerits have at this present called you. Then as that Publicke weale is most blest and flourishing where the Governours are aswell beloved in their Persons, as feared in their Places: So likewise it belongeth to all such as are in Authority, to steare themselves by the rule of Socrates, that is, To heare courteously, answere discreetly, consider seriously, and sentence unpartially. But I presume not to advise, where I rather desire to be instructed; shutting up my present Service with that of Seneca, Id facere laus est quod decet, non quod licet.

Your Worships to bee commanded.

Thomas Heywood.

Londons Scaturigo.

The Title of the Show is Scaturigo, i. the Fountaine and Well-spring of all the Liberall Arts, and Sciences, or Mysteries whatsoever; which as they have beene long since planted, and incouraged: so they are at this time the more liberally watered, and therefore more plenteously inriched by their blessed Mother and bountifull Nurse, the most illustrious Citty London: For the first, namely, the Arts and Studies of the Braine; How many Grammer Schooles have beene by her and her indulgent Children erected (through all, or most of all) the Shieres and Counties of England, to the propagation and advancement of Learning, to the furnishing of the Accademies with Students, and from them, the foure flourishing Kingdomes (now under the Sword and Scepter of his most Sacred Majesty) with profound Theologists, expert Phisitians, learned Philosophers, skilfull Mathematitians, &c. If any man desire to bee further instructed, in the number of their Free-schooles, Hospitals, Almes-houses, Lectures, Exercises (scarce to be numbred) with the names of the founders, and the Annuall revenewes still continued, and dayly inlarged for their perpetuall maintenance, I referre them unto our English Annalls, where they may be plenteously satisfied; neither can these few Sheets of Paper containe them, much rather require a Volumne.

So much for the Studies of the Braine.

Now for all other Sciences, Mysteries, Trades, and Manufactures, (including aswell Merchants as Mechannicks) What City in Europe yeeldeth more plenty? more variety? In so much that by reason of Bartering, Bargening, Trade and Commerce, (besides the Busse or Exchange, dayly throngd with Merchants of ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Londons Jus Honorarium (1631)
• Londini Artium & Scientiarum Scaturigo (1632)
• Londini Emporia, or Londons Mercatura (1633)
• Londini Sinus Salutis (1635)
• Londini Speculum: or, Londons Mirror (1637)
• Porta Pietatis, or, The Port or Harbour of Piety (1638)
• Londini Status Pacatus: or, Londons Peaceable Estate (1639)
• A speech spoken before the right Honourable the Earle of Dover … as a preparation to a Maske (1637)