“On the 13th day of _April_ 1686. which was the anniversary of their majesties coronation, the same was kept with all due solemnity; the mayor, aldermen, and the rest of the body, meeting in their formalities in the _Guild-Hall_, after Divine Service at the church, proceeded from thence attended with musick, to the great Market-place; in the middle whereof, by the Gentlemen and other Loyal Inhabitants of the corporation, was then erected the Effigies of his Sacred Majesty upon a Pedestal, with several carvings and embellishments, inclosed with a Pallisade of Iron, under inscribed, _Non Immemor_ _Quantum Divinis Invictiss. Principis_ _JACOBI II_. _Virtutibus debeat_ _Hanc Regiæ Majestatis Effigiem_ _Æternum Fidei et Obsequii_ _Monumentum_, _Erexit_ _S. P. Q. L._ _Anno Salutis_ 1686. In English “Not forgetting how much is due to the _Divine Virtues_ of the _Victorious_ King JAMES _the Second_, the Senate and People of Lynn, as a _lasting Monument_ of their _Faith_ and _Loyalty_, have erected this Statue of his Royal Majesty, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred and Eighty six. “N.B. The King, Queen, and the rest of the Royal Family’s Healths were drank; and the Day was concluded with Ringing of Bells, Bonfires, all sorts of loud Musick, Fire works, discharging the Great Guns, with all other Demonstrations of Joy and Loyalty.” {803} Such is Mackerell’s account of the extraordinary festivities and rejoicings at Lynn on this great and important occasion. It was, no doubt, worth recording, and it may still be worth preserving here, if it were only for this special reason, that it may help to give us just ideas of the general character of corporations, and of their proceedings. Here is a _Statue_ erected to one of the vilest of human beings; and here are _virtues_, and even _Divine Virtues_! ascribed to one who was as devoid of every thing of that kind as the very devil: and here is an _Inscription_ denominating the erection of the Statue a _Lasting Monument_ of _Faith_ and _Loyalty_; and yet this boasted _faith_ and _loyalty_, and _lasting Monument_, lasted only about _three_ or _four_ years. The Statue was pulled down mutilated, decollated, disfigured, dismembered, and buried in dirt and rubbish, where it remains to this day.