Lives of the last four princesses of the royal house of Stuart

13G MARY, PRINCESS-ROYAL. [16G0..
brother, to grant them his company, they hoped she
would compensate them for that disappointment, by ac-
ceding to their humble prayer. This Mary found it im-
possible to refuse, and she indulged the hope that they
would bestow all the dignities her beloved husband had
held, on her boy. She took him with her to Leyden, on
Monday, June 4th, to be ready to start for Amsterdam.
They were most honourably received in that seat of learn-
ing. All the students in the university, went out in pro-
cession, to meet their young fellow scholar and his royal
mother, and brought them in, with great triumph, eighteen
chariots having been prepared for their reception. All the
guns the place could boast, were fired to welcome the
illustrious visitors, and nothing but feasting and rejoicing
took place all the time they stayed.
Their reception at Amsterdam, was far more splendid
and complimentary. There were twenty pageants, repre-
senting, chiefly, the favourable change that had befallen
the royal house of Stuart ; and several full of hope, and
promising a bright destiny to the Prince, who was
represented as a phoenix rising from the ashes of his
sire
*
An orange tree was introduced, bearing only one orange r
to indicate that he was the sole hope of that illustrious
house. The Holland East India house offered costly pre-
sents to the Princess and her son. The young Prince, fol-
lowed by all the nobles of the district, rode through the city
on the 9th of June ; the people were delighted to see him ;
he returned to dine with the Princess, his mother. They
both attended the principal church on the following day,.
which was Sunday. A state seat, lined with tapestry, and
adorned with oranges and green foliage, had been pro-
vided for them, and they were the delight of all eyes.
* ' Thcat. European ;' De Them's despatches.