loo History of the Company. 



sloners for managing and ordering collections for 

 the distressed inhabitants of Marlborough dated 

 9th June, 1653, from Saddlers' Hall, accompany- 

 ing orders of the Council of State for the same 

 purpose.^ 



The Restoration took place eleven years after 

 the execution of Charles I., and on the 



The Restoration ^^^^ February, 1660, occurs the first 

 indication of the return of the Com- 

 pany's loyalty to the throne. 



'' Ordered y* y° Master and Wardens doe forthwith 

 agree with some able workmen to sett up the King's 

 Armes in painted glasse in the hall-window where it 

 formerly stood." 



The occasion of the public entry of Charles H. 

 into London on the 29th May, 1660, was made 

 one of surpassing splendour. Evelyn pictu- 

 resquely describes the rejoicing occasioned by the 

 event. 



*' This day his majestie, Charles II., came to London 

 after a sad and long exile and calamitous suffering, both 

 of the King and Church, being 17 yeares. This was 

 also his birthday, and with a triumph of above 20,000 

 horse and foote brandishing their swords and shouting 

 with inexpressible joy ; the waycs strewed with flowers, 

 the bells ringing, the streets hung with tapestry, foun- 

 taines running with wine, the Maior, Aldermen, and all 



^ Reports of the Hist. MSS. Commission, Appendix viii., 

 p. 386. 



