A description of the royal fireworks : prepared for celebrating the universal joy, for the inestimable blessing afforded by God to the King, Queen, and people of these realms, in the happy birth of the most illustrious Prince of Wales, presented on the Thames over-againts White-hall, on Tuesday night the 17th of July, 1688, before both their Majesties, the Queen Dowager, the Prince and Princess of Denmark, and the whole court.

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