noon
There was to be a great Pageant . He was to be met at Temple Bar by the Mayor and Aldermen , and to be escorted towards Cheapside by those city Trainbands which had done such execution on the Parliament side during the wars , and by the Companies with their Livery banners . Foreign Ambassadors were to bear him company ; for Oliver was then at the height of his power , and had made the name of England dreaded , and even his own prowess respected , by all nations that were beyond sea . He was to hear a sermon at Bow Church at noon , and at two o'clock -- for the preacher was to be Mr. Hugh Peters , who always gave his congregation a double turn of the hour-glass -- he was to dine at the Guildhall , where I know not how many geese , bustards , capons , pheasants , ruffs and reeves , sirloins , shoulders of veal , pasties , sweet puddings , jellies , and custards , with good store of Rhenish and Buckrack and Canary , and Bordelais and Gascoin wines , were provided to furnish a banquet worthy of the day . For although the Protectorate was a stern sad period , and Oliver was -LRB- or had schooled himself to be -RRB- a temperate man , the citizens had not quite forgotten their love of good cheer ; and the Protector himself was not averse from the keeping up some state and splendour , Whitehall being now well-nigh as splendid as in the late King 's time , and his Highness sitting with his Make-Believe Lords around him -LRB- Lisle , Whitelocke , and the rest -RRB- , and eating his meat to tuckets upon Trumpets , and being otherwise puffed up with Vanity . The good folks with whom Arabella was sojourning thought it might help to cure her of her sad moping ways if she saw the grand pageant go by , and mingled in the merriment and feasting which the ladies of Sir Fortunatus 's family -- the Knight himself being bidden to the Guildhall -- proposed to give their neighbours on the day when Oliver came into the City . To this intent , the windows of their house without Ludgate were all taken out of their frames , and the casements themselves hung with rich cloths and tapestries , and decked with banners .