"In Moorfields waited about five hundred horsemen, being the masters, wardens, and prime men of each company, in velvet or plush coats, with gold chains, every horseman attended by a footman with truncheons and torches. Each company was preceded by a pendant of its arms; and fourteen trumpeters, with bannered trumpets and scarfs, were placed, four at the head of the troop, and two between every hundred horsemen.* * * * "At Guildhall their majesties' dinner was served up on the hustings, which were almost two yards from the ground, and the floor (of which was) covered with Turkey carpets. In the middle were two chairs under a cloth of state, and before them was placed a table six yards long: two yards from which, on the south, was 'a table of garnish,' or sideboard, of three yards square; and on the north, a room for music of all sorts. "Upon a lower platform, raised about a yard from the ground, and extending from the hustings nearly to the door, were two tables for lords and ladies; while in the west end of the hall was a long table for his majesty's pensioners; and in other rooms were tables prepared for the several sorts of their majesties' attendants. "The dinner was served without confusion by means of two ranks of liverymen, formed of eighty grave citizens attired in furs and liveries, who, standing at about two yards' distance from each other, passed the dishes from the dressers at the west end of the hall until the servers received them and placed them on the table. "Their majesties' meat was apportioned in four services. The first consisted of fifty dishes of cold meats, as brawn, fish, and cold baked meats, upon the garnish or side-table; the other three were of all sorts of hot flesh and fish, boiled, roasted, and baked, to the number of one hundred and twenty dishes: after which was served up a curious and well-ordered dessert. To the two tables of the lords and ladies were appointed ten messes, consisting of five hundred dishes. "Only a few months after, on the 5th of January, the king came into London under very different circumstances,--to demand the members of the House of Commons whom he had accused of high treason, and believed to be shrouded in the City. The populace greeted him with exclamations for the 'privileges of parliament;' and one Henry Walker, an ironmonger, threw into his coach a paper whereon was written, 'To your tents, O Israel!'" Stormy times followed soon after this visit, when Cromwell and his Ironsides obtained the ascendency; until at last the Protector's fiery spirit passed away in an accompanying storm of thunder and lightning. Then Charles II. regained the throne, and together with his queen, more frequently joined the Lord Mayor's banquet than any other monarch ever did before or since.