ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Company refashioned its public identity, as its members sought to erase all traces of its Civil War past and to transform the Company into a leading prop of royalist, Anglican and Tory policies within the City of London. It examines this metamorphosis through the Company's membership, ceremonies, annual sermons, leadership elections, addresses to the king and policing duties in the city. The lengths to which the Artillery Company went in order to refashion its public image as a loyalist bastion is demonstrated by the fact that its own ceremonial displays in the early years of the Restoration pointedly stressed the futility of rebellion. As John Tatham, the chronicler of the Lord Mayors' shows of the Restoration era explained, the moral of Browne's show was that 'he merits more Honour, who can maintain a City in Peace, then he that defendeth it in Warr'.
