*p1662 08 23 thames Aqua Triumphalis.*c1662 08 23 thames Edition of 1662: Being a True Relation of the Honourable the City of Londons Entertaining $Their Sacred Majesties= Upon the River of <i>Thames</i>, and Welcoming them from <i>Hampton-Court</i> to <i>White-Hall</i>. Expressed and set forth in several Shews and Pageants, the 23 day of August 1662. According to the printed version, the management of the pageant was under the care of $Peter Mills=, Surveyor; $Malin=, Water Bayliff; $Thomas Whiting=, Joyner; $Richard Cleere=, Carver. The songs were set by $John Gamble=, one of His Majesty's Servants. <i>Evelyn, Diary</i>: I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the thames, considering the innumerable number of boates & Vessels, dressed and adorned with all imaginable Pomp: but above all, the Thrones, Arches, Pageants, & other representations, stately barges of the <i>Lord Major</i>, & Companies, with various Inventions, musique, & Peales of Ordnance both from the vessels & shore, going to meete & Conduct the new $Queene= from Hampton Court to White-hall, at the first time of her Coming to Towne.... his Majestie & the Queene, came in an antique-shaped open Vessell, convered with a State or Canopy of Cloth of Gold, made in forme of a Cupola, supported with high Corinthian Pillars, wreathd with flowers, festoones & Gyrlands: <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: We got into White Hall garden, and so to the Bowling-green, and up to the top of the new Banqueting House there, over the thames, which was a most pleasant place as any I could have got; and all the show consisted chiefly in the number of boats and barges; and two pageants, one of a King, and another of a Queen, with her Maydes of Honour sitting at her feet very prettily; and they tell me the Queen is $Sir Richard Ford='s daughter. Anon come the King and Queen in a barge under a canopy with 10,000 barges and boats, I think, for we could see no water for them, nor discern the King nor Queen. And so they landed at <i>White Hall Bridge</i>, and the great guns on the other side went off.