*p1687 10 29 city London's Triumph; or, The Goldsmith's Jubilee. Performed on Saturday, October XXIX. 1687. For the Confirmation and Entertainment of the Right Honourable $Sir John Shorter=, Kt. <i>Lord Mayor</i> of the $City of London=. Containing A Description of the several Pageants and Speeches, made proper for the Occasion. Together with a Song, for the Entertainment of $His Majesty=, who with His Royal Consort; the <i>Queen Dowager</i>; their Royal Highnesses, the $Prince and Princess of Denmark=, and the whole $Court=, honour his Lordship, this Year, with their Presence. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful $Company of Goldsmiths=. By $Mr Taubman=.*c1687 10 29 city <i>Newdigate newsletters</i> (<i>Folger Shakespeare Library</i>), 22 Oct. 1687: There are to be 5 Pageants on the <i>Ld Mayors day</i> one representing Liberty by a Beautifull young Lady attended with Riches Plenty and ffreedom &c. (transcribed by $Professor John Harold Wilson=). $Luttrell= (<i>A Brief Relation</i>, I, 418): The 29th was the anniversary of the lord mayors show, the new one, sir John Shorter, now entring on his office; the shew was splendid and the entertainment great, according to custome: his majestie, with the $prince of Denmark=, did the citty the honour to dine with them at <i>Guildhall</i>, as also the nobility, foreign ministers, amongst which was the popes nuncio (who was invited particularly by some of the aldermen): the streets were new gravell'd all that morning on one side of the way, from <i>Charing-crosse</i> to the citty, for his majesties passage. His majestie was well satisfied with the whole entertainment. The $Duke of Beaufort= to the $Duchess=, 29 Oct. 1687 [a summary, apparently]: Has just come from the greatest entertainment he ever saw at a <i>Lord Mayor's feast</i> in the city, and the best ordered, though there was the greatest concourse there and in the streets that was ever known, and the greatest acclamations, all through the city as the King passed. The $Queen= did not dare venture, remembering that the <i>Bristol</i> entertainment had put her out of order, but all the nobility in town, and the foreign ministers were there. The <i>Pope's Nuncio</i> in particular was invited by the Lord Mayor and nobly entertained (<i>HMC, 12th Report</i>, Appendix, <i>Beaufort MSS</i>., Part IX, pp. 90-91).