stack Annex 1*DA Libris O G D E N QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PROGRESSES. VOLUME IV. PART I. THE ■ (B.mm'^ Cntntainment BY THE COUNTESS OF DERBY, AT HAREFIELD PLACE, MIDDLESEX, 3n ful^ 1602. WITH SOME PAKTICULARS RELATIVE TO SEVERAL EARLIER VISITS, AT LOSELEY, CHICHESTER, SOUTHAMPTON, WINCHESTER, SUTTON, BARN-ELMS, KINGSTON, AND PUTNEY; THE PRINCELY ENTERTAINMENTS AT KENILWORTH, COVENTRY, WARWICK, LICHFIELD, STAFFORD, WORCESTER, &c. ■Jtiib ■CjrtracW from the OnpuMii^fiEl) lltttcrp Df JOHN CHAMBERLAIN, ESQ. to SIR DUDLEY CARLETON, RELATIVE TO THE queen's PRO9RESSES, HER SICKNESS, AND DEATH. LONDON: PRINTED BY AND FOR JOHN NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET. 182L ADVERTISEMENT. t 1 HE Editor of the " Progresses of Queen Elizabeth" has great pleasure in laying before the Readers of that Work, and the Publick in general, an account of the Entertainment of that illustrious Princess, by the Countess Dowager of Derby, at Harefield Place, in the North Western angle of the County of Middlesex, three miles from Uxbridge, and eighteen from London ; which, as it was the last of these splendid Pageants in point of time, happens also to be the last that comes from the press, and nearly completes the series*. By way of Introduction to this curious remain of elder days, two things, and only two, seem necessary ; first, a short account of Harefield, the seat of these festivities ; and, secondly, some account of the Manu- script from which the Speeches and Verses, spoken before the Queen on that memorable occasion, and now to be produced, were carefully copied. It is remarkable, as Mr. Lysons observes, that the manor of Harefield (with the exception of a temporary alienation) has descended by inter- marriages and a regular succession, in the families of Bacheworth, Swan- land, and Newdigate, from the year 1284, when, by verdict of a juiy, it appeared that Roger de Bacheworth and his ancestors had then held it from time immemorial. Mr. Lysons adds, that it is the only instance in which he had traced such remote possession in the county of Middlesex. The alienation was in 1585, when John Newdigate, Esquire, exchanged the manor of Harefield with Sir Edmund Anderson, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, for the manor of Arbury in Warwickshire. *■ Of the Queen's Entertainment by Sir Thomas Gresham, at Osterley Park, some particulars have been given in ilie Second Volume of the Queen's " Progresses," under 1578, p. 108. But a publication by Churchyard, under the title of " The Devises of Warre, and a Play, at Austerley, her Highness being at Sir Thomas Gresham's," still eludes the Editor's most diligent researches. Perhaps, however, it was only circulated in MS. as was the custom of these times; for it appears that both Sir Dudley Carleton and Sir Robert Sydney had a copy of the " Speeches and Verses at Harefield ;" and a single Speech there made is already printed (from the Talbot Papers) in the Third Volume of her " Progresses." — Sir Robert Sydney had also the ". Speeches" at Sir Wil- liam llussel's at Cliiswick; and Mr. Chamberlain those at Mr. Secretary Cecil's in 1602. B 2 4 ADVERTISEMENT. In 1601 Sir Edmund Anderson conveyed this estate to Sir Thomas^ Egerton, Lord Keeper; to his wife Alice Countess Dowager of Derby; and to Lady Anne, Lady Frances, and Lady Elizabeth Stanley, her daughters. Norden informs us, that " Harefield Place was a fair house, standing on the edge of the hill ; the River Colne passing near the same, through the pleasant meadows and sweet pastures, yielding both delight and pleasure. The mansion-house *, which is situated near the church, was the ancient residence of the Lords of the Manor, And here it was that the Lord Keeper Egerton and the Countess Dowager of Derby were honoured by a Visit from Queen Elizabeth j- ; and here, in or about the year 1635, Milton's Arcades was presented to the same Countess Dowager in her second widowhood, by some noble persons of her family." Sir Thomas Egerton had been appointed Solicitor General to the Queen in 1581. He was knighted, and became Attorney General In 1592 ; Master of the Rolls in 1594 ; and Lord Keeper in 1596. He was thrice married. The first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Ravenscroft, Esq. and mother of John first Earl of Brldgewater. The second Lady, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William More;};, of Loseley Farm, Surrey , whom he married in or about 1577) died In January 1599-1600. In the Summer of 1600 the Lord Keeper entertained the Queen with " a Lottery § ;"' and in October following he married Alice daughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorpe, and relict of Ferdlnando fifth Earl of Derby. Harefield Place was purchased in 1601 ; the Royal Visit was in July 1602; and the Queen died March 24, 1602-3. * Mr. Lysons says, Harefield Place was burnt down about 1660. The View which he gives (Environs, vol. V. p. 106) is of the house by which it was re-placed. A more recent Picturesque View of Harefield Place accompanies the present publication. t The first printed notice of this Royal Visit was in the Second Volume of the Eliza- bethan Progresses, under the year 1602, p. 21, from a MS Letter of John Chamber- lain, Esq. to Mr. (afterwards Sir) Dudley Carleton. (See the Appendix, No. I. p. 19.) From the mention, in an earlier Letter of Mr. Chamberlain, of an intended Visit to '• the Lord Chief Justice," it was supposed (but erroneously) that the Queen had twice honoured Harefield by lier presence ; but the Lord Chief Justice there meant was not Sir Edmund Anderson (who possessed Harefield in 1601), but Sir John Popham, Cliief Justice of the King's Bench, who then resided at Litilecot in Wiltshire. See hereafter, p. 21. X Of this Family, and the Queen's Visit at Loseley, see the Appendix, No. H. § See the Note in page 9. ADVERTISEMENT. 5 Sir Thomas Egerton, July 21, 1603, was appointed Lord Chancellor, and created Baron Ellesmere; and Viscount Brackley, Nov. 7, 1616. He died, at York House in the Strand, March 15, I6I6-I7, '" '"s 77^^ Year, and was burled at Doddleston in Cheshire. The Countess* died Jan. 16, 1636-7; ^"d "''IS burled at Harefield, where she has a sumptuous monument. Lady Jane Stanley, her eldest daughter, was married, first, to Grey Lord Chandos ; and secondly, in 1624, to Mervvn Lord Castlehaven. She survived her mother only ten years ; and on her death, George Lord Chandos (her eldest son by her first husband) inherited the manor of Harefield under the deed of 1601. He died in February 1655, having be- queathed it to his wife Jane. This Lady was soon after re-married to Sir William Sedley, who died in 1656; and in 1657 she took a third husband, George Pitt, Esq. of Stratfield Say in Hampshire. Having vested all her estates, by a deed bearing date 1673, in Mr. Pitt and his heirs, he, in con- junction with his Trustees, in the month of February 1675 (his Lady being still living), conveyed by bargain and sale the manors of Harefield and Morehall to Sir Richard Newdlgate, Bart. Serjeant at Law ; in whose de- scendants the estate remained vested till 1760, when the late Sir Roger Newdlgate, Baronet, having fixed his residence in Warwickshire, sold Harefield Place\ (retaining the manor and his other estates in the parish) to John Truesdale, Esquire, whose Executors in I78O sold it to William Baynes, Esquire; from whom, or his Representatives, it-passed by purchase to the Widow of the late Charles Parker, Esquire, and is now the property of her son, Charles Newdlgate Newdlgate, Esq. to whom the late Sir Roger Newdlgate bequeathed his Middlesex estate, and also the reversion of his Warwickshire estate. * In 1607 this Countess of Derby was entertained with a splendid Masque, at Ashby- de-la-Zouch, by her son-in-law, Henry fifth Earl of Huntingdon, who in June 1G03 had married Lady Elizabetli Stanley, who died in 1632. See some extracts from the Masque in Gent. Mag. vol. XCI. p. 17. t Harefield Lodge, about a mile from Uxbridge, was built by Sir Roger Newdigate in 1786. It commands a beautiful prosjject, and is now the property of ihe above-men- tioned Charles Newdigate Newdigate, Esq. — On the site of a neighbouring Farm now stands Bellamonds, a house which was either built or much enlarged by Sir George Cooke, Prothonolary of the Common Pleas, and now the property of Colonel George Cooke. 6 ADVERriSEMENT. But we must return to the days of Masques and Chivalry. It was in July 1602, at the Visit of Queen Elizabeth to Harefield *, that the Speeches, which, after the lapse of two centuries, are now for the first time to be produced, were addressed to her Highness. Of this Entertainment the Publlck have been informed that the late Sir Roger Newdigate once possessed an account in manuscript, but that the MS. was unfortunately lost-j-. It has also been mentioned, that the papers, which had for a time been missing, were afterwards found J. But the history of the MS. though a matter in itself of no great moment, involves some circumstances which may serve to render it not unworthy of distinct recital. As there happened to be in the Library at Arbui-y two copies of Strype's " Annals of the Reformation," the late excellent Proprietor, ever to be remembered with affectionate esteem by those who knew him, made a present of the duplicate to his Friend the Rev. Ralph Churton§, who * By the Accompts of the Cliurchwardens of Wandsworth it appears that the bridge over the Wandle was built, at the Queen's expence, between the 25th and 28th of July, 1602 ; and ou Friday the 28tb, the bells at Lambeth were rung, on her passing through " from Greenwich to Chiswick ;" where she remained one night; and on Saturday the 29th, after stopping to visit Rlr. Coppinger at Harlington, reached Harefield in the evening; and was entertained till Monday the 31st, when she removed to Sir William Clarke's, at Burnham, in Buckinghamshire. t Nearly twenty years after the first notice, iu the second Volume of the " Progresses," of the Visit at Harefield, the Editor had the satisfaction of remarking, in the Preface to the Third Volume, " that his enquiries had not been entirely unsuccessful, as the MS. description of that Entertainment (though then mislaid) was possessed by Sir Roger Newdigate, who recollected that the Queen was first welcomed at a farm-house, now called Dew's/arm, by several allegorical persons, who attended her to a long avenue of elms leading to the house, which obtained from this circumstance the name of 'The Queen's Walk.' Four trees of this avenue are distinctly represented in Mr. Lysons's View ; and the greater part were standing not many years ago." But I am sorry to add that the venerable old mansion has been entirely demolished, all the trees cut down, and not a vestige of the Queen's Walk, or any part of its former magnificence remains. I Gent. Mag. 1807, p. 633. § Rector of Middleton Cheney, and Archdeacon of St. David's. To this learned and exemplary Divine the present Editor is indebted for the communication of this curious and hitherto unpublished Royal Visit — He would add much more on the head of obligation, for an uninterrupted and friendly intercourse of many years, if he were not confident that by so doing he should wound the feelings of unaffected modesty. ADVERTISEMENT. 7 having seen in Mr. Lysons, as now quoted, an account of this lost MS. had the good fortune, in turning over Strype's second volume, to find what he supposed to be the indentical papers so long missing ; of which he lost no time to inform the kind Donor of the book, whose joy and surprize on the occasion were thus expressed : " You never were a more agreeable Correspondent than in your letter before me. I read it over and over with new amazement ; and all your good faith I find necessary to confirm the good news it contains. How can it be, that papers, which for many years I have hunted, and accused all my Antiquarian Friends of purloining, and made them and their Executors search their cabinets in vain ! — how can it be, that they could have crept into an old book on my shelves, which, though perhaps I have sometimes referred to, I am sure I never read ? It must have been, that some of my Friends, to whom I have given them to peruse, have accidentally made use of them to keep a place, where tliey were reading, and on some sudden call left it, and thought no more of it*. But happy am I that it has fallen into the hands of an Antiquary, who, by a kind of habitual instinct, con- cludes he shall find a jewel in every torn ragged scrap of paper. I long much to see it," &c. (Arbury, 26 Nov. 1803.) Being thus assured that the treasure which he had discovered was the real MS. which had so long been missing, Mr. Churton returned it to its proper owner, having first, for the greater security, taken a correct copy of it. When the packet reached its destination, the Park at Arbury was occu- pied with Volunteers and Inspecting Colonels, and the hospitable mansion filled with guests: No room left for a single Muse ! Not even for such as our great Queen could patiently sit under a tree in a shower to hear! Flat- tery can do much ; but I will not persuade myself she had not a better * This conjecture is probably right. In a subsequent letter the worthy Baronet remarked, " Your reference to Strype fairly accounts for the original concealment of the papers, whether purposely or by neglect." — They were found in Strype's second volume, where (pp. 391--394) he gives an account of the sumptuous reception of Queen Elizabeth by the Earl of Leicester at Kenilworth Castle, in ,Fuly 1575, from a contem- porary and circumstantial detail of the whole by Master Uobert Laneliam, gent. R. C. S ADVERTISEMENT. motive, sensible and learned as she was, to induce her to listen to so much nonsense, that more amiable one, which Shakespear put into the mouth of Theseus : For never any thing was done amiss. When simpleness and duty tender it." * The transcript, as was desired and intended, being more legible than the original MS. was shortly afterwards dispatched to Arbury ; and it was naturally concluded, that what had once so narrowly escaped, and was so much valued, would be reposited in some place, which was at once secure and obvious. But danger equally unforeseen and formidable still impended. When the incomparable Baronet, full of hope in his blessed Redeemer, had calmly breathed his last, in the 87th year of his age, Nov. 26, 1806, in due time, among other important cares and duties, which, on such sad occasions," providentially occupy the surviving Relatives of departed worth, frequent and minute search was made by Francis Newdigate, Esq. the present very worthy proprietor of Arbury, and others of the family, for the Elizabethan MSS. which could no where be found, till a few weeks ago, when Mr. Newdigate, by great good luck, discovered, among papers of a totally different description, Mr. Churton's copy of the Harefield Entertainment — but, alas ! the original MS. is still concealed in its second hiding-place, till some successful search or fortunate chance shall bring it again to light, perhaps after many a day, or after many long years. . In the mean time the Editor of the Elizabethan Progresses is happy in being able to lay the account of this celebrated visit before the Publick, by the kind permission of Mr. Newdigate; who, with true liberality of senti- ment, judges it to be expedient that this curious relique, which has so long been a desideratum among Antiquaries, should be offered to their perusal, and by means of the press preserved from future risk and contingences. Feh. 14, 1821. J. NICHOLS. * The Letter here quoted, which was closely written, and of considerable length, was dared, " Arbury, 28th Jan. I y04 :'J and ended thus : " It is near midnight, .\dieu." [ 9 ] Copy of some Papers belonging to the late Sir Roger Nevvdigate, Baronet (7 pages folio), lettered on the back, by a later hand, '* Entertainment of Q. Eliz. at Harefield, by Countesse of Derby *." %* The Speeches, &c. are in a hand little later than the time of. Queen Elizabeth. After the Queene entered (out of the high way) into the Deamesne grounde of Harefielde, near the Dayrie -j- howse, she was mett with 2 persons, the one representing a Baylife, the other a Dayrie-maidk, * Several passages in the Speeches indicate a Master as well as Mistress. See p. 1 1, " I doubt my Mr. and Mrs. are not at home;" " my Mr. Iiouse," p. 12; " mine Owners," p. 14; " my Owners," p. 17. — No doubt, the Lord Keeper, as well as the Countess of Derby his wife, was present to receive the Royal Visitor. R. C. The Queen liad honoured Sir Thomas Egerton with a Visit at his London residence (see p. 27) in the Summer of 1601. And to that Visit must be referred " A Lottery before the late Queenes Majestic at the Lord Chancellor's, 1601," signed J. D. [i. e. Sir John Davis], printed in "A Poetical Rhapsodic of Sonnets, Odes, Elegies, &c. by Francis Davison;" first published in 1608 (which accounts for the Lord Keeper's being styled ♦' Lord Chancellor"); again in 1611 and 1621; and re-printed at the Lee Priory Press in 1814. — " The Lottery" is also inserted in the Third Volume of the Ehzabethan Pro- gresses. But it is remarkable that no notice is taken of either of the Queen's Entertain- ments in the Life of Lord Chancellor Egerton, by his learned kinsman, the Hon. and Rev. Francis Egerton, Prebendary of Duriiam. Editor. t See the Introductory Advertisement, p. 5. R. _C. VOL. IV. C 10 THE QUEEN AT HAREFIELD PLACE, 1602. with the Speech. Her Majesty, being on horsebacke, stayed under a tree (because it rayned) to heare it. jB. Why, how now, Joane ! are you heere ? Gods my hfe, what make you heere, gaddlnge and gazinge after this manner ? You come to buy gape-seede, doe you ? Wherefore come you abroade now I faith* can you tell ? Joa. I come abroade to welcome these Strang-ers. Ji. Strangers ? how knew you there would come Strangers ? Jo. All this night I could not sleepe, dreaming of greene rushes ; and yesternight the chatting of the pyes, and the chirkinge of the frisketts-f-, did foretell as much ; and, besides that, all this day my lefte eare glowed, and that is to me (let them all say what they wil} allwaies a sigue of strangers, if it be in the Summer; marye, if it be in the winter, tis a signe of anger. But what make you in this company, I pray you ? a. I make the way for these Strangers, which the Way-maker him- self could not doe ; for it is a way was never passed before. Besides, the Mrs. of this faire company, though she know the way to all men's harts, yet she knowes the way but to few men's howses, except she love them very well, I can tell you ; and therefore I myselfe, without any comission, have taken upon me to conduct them to the house. Jo. The house ? which house ? doe you remember yourselfe ? which way goe you ? jB. I goe this way, on the right hand J. Which way should I goe ? Jo. You say true, and you're a trim man ; but I faith I'll talke noe more to you, except you ware wyser. I pray you hartely, 'forsooth, come neare the house, and take a simple lodginge with vs to-night ; for I can assuere you that yonder house that he talks of is but a Pigeon-house, * " I faith," i. e. as we now write, " i' faitli," contracted for " in faith," p. 1 1. R. C. t Probably crickets. R. C. X It might yet perhaps be seen on the spot (if Dew's house, i. e. the Dayrie house, remains) whether going to the right would lead to the avenue. But perhaps there is an equivoque, " I go the right zcat/, which way (but the right) should I go ?" R. C. THE QUEEN AT HAREFIELD PLACE, 1G02. 11 which is very little if it were finlsht, and yet very little of it is fiiiisht. And* you will believe me, vpon my life, Lady, I saw Carpenters and Bricklayers and other Workmen about it within less then these two howers. Besides, I doubt my Mr. and Mrs. are not at home ; or, if they be, you must make your owne provision; for they have noe provision for such Strangers. You should seeme to be Ladies; and we in the country have an old saying, that " halfe a pease a day will serve a Lady." I know not what you ai'e, nether am I acquainted with your dyet ; but, it you will goe with me, you shall haue cheare for a Lady : for first you shall haue a dayntie slllibub ; next a messe of clowted creame; stroakings, in good faith, redd cowes milk, and they say in London that's restorative: you shall have greene cheeses and creame. (I'll speake a bould word) if the Queene herself (God save her Grace) [were heref], she might be seene to eat of it. Wee will not greatly bragge of our possets, but we would be loath to learne to praise : and if you loue frute, forsooth, wee haue jenitings, paremayns, russet coates, pippines, able-johns +, and perhaps a pareplum, a damsone, I § or an apricocke too, but that they are noe dainties this yeare ; and therefore, I pray, come neare the house, and well- come heartily, doe soe. B. Goe to, gossip; your tongue must be running. If my Mrs. should heare of this, I faith shee would give you little thankes I can tell you, for offeringe to draw so faire a flight from her Pigeon-house (as you call it) to your Dayrie-house. Jo. Wisely, wisely, brother Richard ; I faith as I would vse the matter, I dare say shee would giue me great thankes : for you know my Mrs. charged me earnestly to retaine all idele hearvest-folkes that past this way ; and my meaning was, that, if I could hold them all this nigbt and to-morrow, on Monday morning to carry them into the fields ; and * "//"you will believe me," as common f'oimerl)-. So in the Verses, p. IS, '^ and she Cometh," 1 suppose is, " i/"she cometli." R. C. t The words within the brackets are wanting in the MS. R. C. X Q. '^ Apple Johns," tliat being the name of an apple ? R. C. § "/ or an apricocke," i.e. '■^ aye, or," &c. R. C.' 12 THE QUEEN AT HAREFIELD PLACE, i6o2. to make them earne their entertaynment well and thriftily ; and to that end I have heere a Rake* and ForJce*, to deliver to the best Huswife in all this company. J3. Doe soe then : deliver them to the best Huswife in all this com- pany ; for wee shall haue as much vse of her paines and patience there as here. As for the dainties that you talke of, if you have any such, you shall doe well to send them ; and as for these Strangers, sett thy hart at rest, Joane ; they will not rest with [theefj this night, but will passe on to my Mr. house, ifoa. Then, I pray, take this Hake and Forke with you ; but I am ashamed, and woe at my hart, you should goe away soe late. And I pray God you repent you not, and wish yourselves here againe, when you finde you haue gone further and fared worsse. When her Maiestie was alighted from her horse, and ascended 3 steeps neare to the entering into the house, a carpet and chaire there sett for her ; Place and Time present themselves, and vsed this Dialogue. Place in a partie-colored roahe, like the brick house. Ti3iE with yeollow haire, and in a green roabe, with a hoiver glasse, stopped, not runninge. P. Wellcome, good Time. T. GoddenJ, my little pretie priuat Place. P. Farewell, godbwy§ Time; are you not gone ? doe you stay heere ? I wonder that Time should stay any where ; what's the cause ? * A note in the original MS. calls these " 2 Juells;" probably in ihe form, one of a Hake, and the other of a Fork; but how elegant such a form or shape of a jewel might be, I cannot say. R. C. t The word in brackets, as before, is wanting in the IMS. R. C. X Meant, I suppose, for Good e'en, that is, good evening, to you. R. C. § Is this meant for Good bye, or for God be with you, of which, or of Good be with you. Good bye is a contraction. R. C. THE OUEEN AT HAREFIELD PLACE, 1G02. 13 T. If thou knewst the cause, thou wouldst not wonder ; for I stay to entertaine the Wonder of this time ; wherein I would pray thee to ioyne mee, if thou wert not too httle for her greatnes ; for it weare as great a meracle for thee to receive her, as to see the Ocean shut up in a Httle creeke, or the circumference shriiike vnto the pointe of the center. P. Too little ! by that reason shee should rest in noe place, for no place is great ynough to receive her. Too little ! I haue all this day entertayned the Sunn, which, you knowe, is a great and glorious Guest ; hee's but euen now gone downe yonder hill ; and now he is gone, methinks, if Cinthia her selfe would come in his place, the place that contaynde him should not he to little to receave her. T. You say true, and I like your comparison ; for the Guest that wee are to entertaine doth fill all places with her divine vertues, as the Sunn fills the World with the light of his beames. But say, poore Place, in what manner didst thou entertaine the Sunn ? P. 1 received his glory, and was fill'd with it : but, I must confesse, not according to the proportion of his greatnes, but according to the measure of my capacitie : his bright face (methought) was all day turnd vpon mee ; nevertheless his beames in infinite abundance weere dlsperst and spread vpon other places. T. Well, well; this is noe time for vs to entertaine one another, when wee should loine to entertaine her. Our enteHa^nment of this Goddesse will be much alike ; for though her selfe shall ecclipse her soe much, as to suffer her brightnes to bee shadowed in this obscuere and narrow Place, yet the sunne beames that follow her, the traine I meane that attends vpon her, must, by the necessitie of this Place, be deuided from her. Are you ready, Place ? Time is ready. P. Soe it should seeme indeed, you arc so gave, fresh, and cheerfuU. You are the present Time, are you not ? then what neede you make such haste ? Let me see, your wings are clipt, and, for ought 1 see, your hower-glasse runncs not. 14 THE QUEEN AT HAREFIELD PLACE, 1602. T. My wings are dipt indeed, and it is her hands hath dipt them : and, tis true, my glasse runnes not : indeed it hath hine stopt a longe time, it can never rune as long as I waite upon this M"'. I [am*] her Time ; and Time weare very vngratefuU, if it should not euer stand still, to serue and preserue, cherish and delight her, that is the glory of her time, and makes the Time happy wherein she liueth. P. And doth not she make Place happy as well as Time ? What if she make thee a contynewall holy-day, she makes me a perpetuall sanc- tuary. Doth not the presence of a Prince make a Cottage a Court, and the presence of the Gods make euery place Heauen ? But, alas, my lit- tlenes is not capable of that happines that her great grace would impart vnto me : but, weare I as large as thei'e harts that are mine Owners, I should be the fairest Pallace in the world ; and weere I agreeable to the wishes of there hartes, I should in some measure resemble her sacred selfe, and be in the outward frount exceeding faire, and in the inward furniture exceeding rich. T, In good time do you remember the hearts of your Owners ; for, as I was passing to this place, I found this Hart\, which, as my daughter Truth tould mee, was stolne by owne of the Nymphes from one of the seruants of this Goddesse ; but her guiltle conscience enforming her that it did belong only of right vnto her that is Mrs. of all harts in the world, she cast [it J] from her for this time; and Ojjortunity, finding it, deliuered it vnto me. Heere, Place, take it thou, and present it vnto her as a pledge and mirror of their harts that owe thee. P. It is a mirror indeed, for so it is transparent. It is a cleare hart, you may see through it. It hath noe close corners, noe darkenes, noe unbutifuU spott in it. I will therefore presume the more boldly to deliver it ; with this assurance, that Time, Place, Persons, and all other cir- cumstances, doe concurre alltogether in biddinge her wellcome. * The word in brackets is wanting, as before. R. C. t " A Diamond." Original MS. X Tills word is wantin 18 THE QUEEN AT HAREFIELD PLACE, 1602. On our browes if homes doe growe, Was not Bacchus armed soe ? Yet of him the Candean maid Held no scorne, nor was affraid. Say our colours tawny hee, Phoebus was not faire to see ; Yet faire Clymen did not shunn To bee Mother of his Sonne. If our beards be rough and long, Soe had Hercules the strong : Yet Deianier, with many a kisse, Joyn'd her tender lipps to his. If our bodies hayry bee, Mars as rugged was as wee : Yet did Ilia think her grac'd, For to be by Mars imbrac'd. Say our feet ill-fauored are, Cripples leggs are worse by farre : Yet faire Venus, during life, Was the lymping Vulcan's wife. Breefly, if by nature we But imperfect creatures be; Thinke not our defects so much. Since Celestial Powers be such. But you Nymphes, whose veniall * loue Loue of gold alone doth moue. Though you scorne vs, yet for gold Your base loue is bought and sold. finis f. * This evidently should be "venal" ; yet possibly it was written "venial." R. C. t This " Complaint" is on a separate leaf, and seems to be in a different hand, though little, if at all, more recent than the otiier. It does not appear when or how the " Com- plaint" was introduced ; and it may possibly be doubted whether it formed a part of the Entenainment, though it probably did. The title, " Entertainment of Q. Eliz ;" &c. is written on the back of this paper ; but the title, as already said, is in a later hand. R. C. [ 19 ] APPENDIX, No. I. Extracts of Letters from Mr. John Cha3Iberlain*, to Mr, (afterwards Sir Dudley) Carleton f . September l/th, 1598. The Queen removed on Wednesday [Sept. 18] towards Nonsuch ;{:, taking Dr. Caesar § [at Mltcham] hi her way, who had provided for her eight several times. * " Mr. John Chamberlain was a gentleman well accomplished in learning and lan- guages, both antient and modern, and by the advantages of travelling, and an intimacy with some of the most considerable men of his time, though I can find few circumstances relating to the personal history of him. One indeed of both his names was Member for Clitheroe in Lancashire, in the Parliament which met at Westminster, Nov. 19, 1592; and for St. Germain's in Cornwall, in the Parliament of 1597; but I cannot determine whether this was the Friend of Sir Thomas Bodley and Sir Ralph Winwood, as well as the Correspondent of Sir Dudley Carleton. The last of these he accompanied to Venice, when Sir Dudley was sent thither Ambassador, in September 1610." (Win- wood's Memorials, vol. II. p. 213; but he returned to London, 3 Nov.) Dr. Birch, MS. t Some of these Extracts (from an imperfect transcript) have appeared in the Second Volume of the " Progresses." But it has been thought expedient to give them here more correctly, and with several important additions. % See hereafter, p. 27. ^ Julius Caesar, Doctor of Laws, knighted in 1603, and made Master of the Rolls. In a MS of his, intituled, "A short Memorial, or brief Chronicle of things past, con- cerning my Father, myself, my Wives and Children ;" he mentions, " that on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 1598, the Queen visited him at his house at Mitcham, and supped and lodged and dined there the next day; and that he presented her with a gown of cloth of silver richly embroidered, a black work mantle with pure gold, a taffeta hat while with several flowers, and a jewel of gold .set therein with silver and diamonds. — Her Majesty," adds he, "removed from my house after dinner, the 13th of September, to Nonsuch, with exceeding good contentment. Which Kntertainment of her Majesty, with the charges o^ Jive former disappomtnients, amounted to 700/. sterling, besides mine own provisions, and whatever was sent unto me by my friends." — In a Letter from Rowland White to Sir Robert Sydney, Sept. 30, 1596, the Queen's intention to visit Mitciiam is mentioned; at which time, probably, one of the five disappointmci)ts here alluded to happened. Mr. Chamberlain mentions eight. 20 THE QUEEN'S PROGRESSES, 1598, 1599. Nov. 20, 1598. The Queen came to Whitehall the last week, being received a mile out of town by the Lord Mayor and his brethren, accom- panied with 400 Velvet Coats and Chains of Gold. Her day* passed without any extraordinary matter more than running and ringing. August 1, 1599. The Queen removed from Greenwich the 27th of the last month; and dined the same day at Monsieur Caron's -f-, and so to the Lord Burleigh's ][ at Wimbledon, where she tarried three days, and is now at Nonsuch. August 13, 1601. The Queen came to Windsor, and is expected • Her Accession to the Throne, Nov. 17. t Sir Noel Caron was Ambassador from the States of Holland for twenty-eight years, in the Reigns of Elizabeth and James the First. He built a noble house at South Lam- beth, where he had a park for deer, which extended to Vauxhall and Kennington Lane. The house, which was in the form of a Roman H, and on the gate whereof was writ- ten " Omne Solu.m Forti Patria," was pulled down about 1687. — It appears by the above-cited extract, that, on the first of August 1599 he was honoured with a Visit from the Queen; who gave him on the 15th of October following, on his dei)arture out of England, a present of ten chains of gold, weighing together more than 68 ounces. In 1607 he obtained a lease for 21 years of the Prince of Wales's manor of Kennington, with all the houses, buildings, &c. containing 122 acres, at an annual rent of 16/. 10.?. 9d. In the same year he gave 10/. towards the repairs of Lambeth Church, and 50/. to the poor. In 1615 he built an almshouse, by the road leading from Vauxhall to Kingston, for seven poor women ; and secured to each of them an annual pension of 4/. — His helmet, coat of mail, gauntlets, and spurs, together with his arms (Sable, a bend Azure, sem6 of fleurs de lis Or,) were placed in Lambeth Church, and are still in good preser- tion. See Nichols's History of that Parish, pp. 92. 1 14. t Sir Thomas Cecil, eldest son of William Lord Burleigh, Lord Treasurer, presented to the Queen, in 1588-9, "a French gown of black silk net- work, of two sorts, flourished with Venice gold, and lined with white camlet." In return, he had 30| ounces of gilt plate. — In 1 590 the manor of Wimbledon was given to him by the Queen, in exctiange for an estate in Lincolnshire. On the death of his father, Aug. 4, 1598, he succeeded to the title of Lord Burleigh ; and on New Year's Day 1599- 1600 he presented to the Queen "a jewel of gold, with a large table sapphire foil, having eight small diamonds about it, and one pearl pen- dant." LadyBurghley gave "a waistcoat of white sarcenet, embroidered with flowers of silk of sundry colours." In return. Lord Burghley had 30^ ounces of gilt plate; his Lady 28| ounces. — He was elected a Knight of the Garter, May 26, 1601 ; and, after the accession of King James, May 4, 1605, was created Earl of Exeter. He died Feb. 7, 1621-2, aged 80. THE QUEEN'S PROGRESS, 1601. Si shortly at Mr. Comptroller's * at Causham. And so the Progress should hold on as far as Littlecot, a house of the Lord Chief Justice f , in Wilt- shire. But there be so many endeavours to hinder it, that I will lay no great wagers of the proceeding. Sept. 10, 1601. The Queen is now in Progress as far as Basing, a house of the Lord Marquis J, where she entertained your Frenchmen with all favour and gracious usage. I cannot tell you the particulars §, for I was nothing near. * Sir William Knollys. See p. 25. t Sir John Popliam, then Chief Justice of the King's Bench. On New Year's Day 1 599-1600, he presented to the Queen lOZ. in gold, and had in return 23| ounces of gilt plate. He afterwards built a noble mansion at Wellington in Somersetshire. He died in 1607, at the age of 76, and has a monument in Wellington Church. X William Powlet, fourth Marquis of Winchester, and Earl of Wiltshire, great grand- son of William the first Marquis (who built the beautiful and magnificent seat at Basing, where he died March 10, 1571-2.) — He married Lucy, daughter of Sir Thomas Cecil, afterwards Earl of Exeter. On New Year's Day 1599-1600, the Marquis presented to the Queen 20/. in gold ; and the Dowager Lady Marquesse gave " a sprig of gold, garnished with sparks of rubies, a small diamond, and pearls of sundry sorts and big- nesses." The Marquis had in return 29| ounces of gilt plate, and the Dowager Lady Marquesse 30 ounces. § This portion of the Progress is thus recorded in Stow's Annals : "The 5th of September, the Queen, in her Progress, came inta Hampshire; and upon Chichester-heath was received by the Sheriff of that Shire, Francis Palmer, accompanied by many gentlemen of merit in the said Shire, so that her Majesty said, she was never so honourably received in any Shire ; for as Hampshire is a country pleasant of soil, and full of dehght for Princes of this land, who often make their progress therein; so it is well inhabited by antient gentlemen, civilly educated, and who live in great amity together. Her Majesty was that night attended into Basing, a house of the Lord Mar- quis, whereto she took such great content, as well with the seat of the house, as honourable carriage of the worthy Lady Lucie Marquesse of Winchester, that she stayed there thirteen days, to the great charge of the said Lord Marquis. The fourth day after the Queen's coming to Basing, the said Sheriff was commanded to attend the Duke of Biron at his coming into that country. Whereupon, the next day, being the 10th of September, he went towards Blackwater, being the uttermost confines of t^at Sbire towards London ; and there met the said Duke, accompanied with above twenty of the 22 THE QUEEN'S PROGRESS, 1601. Nobilitie of France, and attended with about four hundred Frenchmen, who were met by George Earl of Cumberland, and by him conducted from London into Hampshire. The said Duke was that night brought to the Vine, a fair and large house of the Lord Sonds, which house was furnished with hangings and plate from the Tower and Hamp- ton Court ; and with seven-score beds and furniture, which the willing and obedient people of the County of Southampton, upon two days warning, had brought thither, to lend the Queen. The Duke abode there four or five days, all at the Queen's charges, and spent her more at the Vine, then her own Court for that time spent at Basing. During her abode there, her Majesty went to him at the Vine, and he to her at Basing. And one day he attended her at Basing Park at hunting; where the Duke stayed her coming, and did there see her in such Royalty, and so attended by the Nobi- lity, so costly furnished and mounted, as the like had seldom been seen. But, when she came to the place where the Duke stayed, the said Sheriff (as the manner is) being bare-headed, and riding next before her, stayed his horse, thinking the Queen would then have saluted the Duke ; whereat the Queen, being much offended, commanded the Sheriff to go on. The Duke followed her very humbly, bowing low towards her horse's main, with his cap off, about twenty yards. Her Majesty, on the sudden, took off her mask, looked back upon him, and roost graciously and courteously saluted him, as holding it not becoming so mighty a Prince as she was, and who so well knew all Kingly Majesty, to make her stay directly against a subject, before he had shewed his obedience in following after her. She tarried at Basing thirteen days, as is afore said, being very well contented with all things there done; affirming she had done that in Hampshire that none of her Ancestors ever did, neither that any Prince in Cristendom could do ; that was, she lived in her Progress, in her subjects' houses, entertained a Royal Ambas- sador, and had Royally entertained him. At her departure from Basing, being the 14th of September, she made ten Knights (having never in her reip^n made at one time so many before), whose names were. Sir Edward Cecil, second son to the Lord Burlegh ; Sir Edward Hungerford, next heir to the Lord Hungerford ; Sir Edward Bainton of Wiltshire ; SirW. Kingsmil; Sir Carew Rawleigh; Sir Francis Palmer, then Sheriff of the Shire; Sir Benjamin Tichbourne; Sir HamdenPaulet; Sir Richard Norton, of Hampshire; Sir Francis Stoner, of Oxfordshire ; and Sir Edmund Lutlow, of Wiltshire. That day she went from Basing toward Farnham, a castle belonging to the See of Winchester ; and in her way to Farnham, she knighted Sir Richard White in his own house, having feasted her and her train very Royally ; near unto which town the Sheriff of Hampshire took his leave, and the Sheriff" of Surrey met her; but the Sheriff of Hampshire and the Gentlemen of that County went to Farnham by command, and there attended the next day, where they were feasted and kindly entertained by the learned Prelate, Doctor Bilson, Bishop of Winchester, upon whose only commendation, two ancient and worthy Gentlemen of Hampshire, Sir Richard Mill and Sir William Udall, received there the dignity of Knighthood." THE QUEEN'S PROGRESS, l6oi. 33 Our friend the Sheriff* of Berkshire was almost out of heart at the first news of the Queen's coming into the country, because he was altogether unacquainted with Courting ** ; but yet he performed it very well, and sufficiently, being exceedingly well horsed and attended, which won him great commendation on all sides. The Queen's first remove from Windsor was to Mr. Warder's. Then to Reading. During her abode there, she went one day to dinner to Mr. Comptroller's at Causham. Mr. Green, Sheriff of Oxfordshire, met her at the Bridge, very well accompanied. Mr. Comptroller made great chear, and entertained her with many devises, of singing, dancing, and* playing-wenches, and such like. At her going thence, she made three Knights, your cousin Sir Edward Goodwin -j-. Sir Edward Fetti place;};, and Sir Richard Warde. But what need I trouble you with those things, when your Brother was there in person, who can relate all at large, " et quorum pars magna fuit ?" for I imagine his small troop was half drowned in the sea of such shews as the Oxfordshire men made, when Sir Anthony Cope§, Sir Richard Waynman, and the rest, set up their sails; and Mr. Dormer, for his part, came with ten or twelve men, well mounted. Two or three days after, the Queen dined with Sir Edward Norris |[ at * Samuel Backhouse, of Swallowfield, Esq. was then Sheriff. His immediate suc- cessors were Sir John Norris and Sir Edward Fettiplace, both knighted by the Queen in this Progress. ** i. e. with the duties and services of a Court. t Of Bishop's Wooburn, Buckinghamshire. He was probably son oi John Goodwin, and either the father or elder brother of Sir Francis, both of whom are mentioned by Mr. Lysons, Buckinghamshire, p. 669. — Sir Francis was High Sheriff in 21 James I. and a Representative for that County in several successive Parliaments. The dispute con- cerning the legality of his election in 1604 proved the cause of establishing the great constitutional doctrine, that the House of (Commons have the sole right of judging and deciding on the validity of their own elections and returns. Sir Francis was a parti- cular friend of the celebrated John Hampden, and zealously concurred with his measures, at the commencement of the disputes between King Charles and his Parliament. X All antient and numerous family in Bedfordshire. § Three successive Anthonij Copes, of Han well, were High Sheriffs of Oxfordshire, in 1583, 1592, and 1604. II Youngest son of Henry Lord Norris of Ricott (where the Queen had made a visit in 1592). Sir Edward led the front at the Siege of Ostend. He'was the only son, out of six,-th;it survived his parents; and died in 1606. 24 THE QUEEN'S PROGRESS, l6oi. Englefleld * ; where I heard of no wonders, but that she knighted Sir Richard Stafford and his Lady's Father. Some do make much marvel that he would be the means to make such a Sir John Norris. From thence the Queen removed to Sir Humphrey Foster's -f ; and so meant to have gone on to the Lord Chief Justice's ;};, and the Earl of Hertford's §, if these Frenchmen had not stayed her. But now, I think, she be at the farthest for this year, and, they say, is driving back to AVindsor ; where, at her last being, I forgot to tell you that she made a step to Mr. Attorney's || at Stoke, where she was most sumptuously enter- tained, and presented with jewels, and other gifts, to the amount of a thousand or twelve hundred pounds. April 26, 1602. Your French Galants were gone before I came to town. They have somewhat mended the matter, and redeemed the rascal report, that Biron and his train left behind them. For I hear their carriage well commended, especially the Duke of Nevers, saving that the Queen's Musicians and other inferior officers complain, that he was very dry- handed. The Queen graced him very much, and did him the favour to dance with him. We hear he Is gone Into Holland, and so to the Duke of Cleve his kinsman. * Eiiglefield house had belonged to a family of its own name very early. The last of them was Sir Francis, who was buried in the grave of Sir Edward Norris. t Who had been Sheriff of Berkshire in 1594. His seat was at Padworth ; but he was buried in the family chapel at Aldermaston. -^ Sir John Popham, Chief Justice of the King's Bench. See p. 21. § At Elvetham in Hampshire, where the Queen was sumptuously entertained in 1591, as related in her Progresses under that year. On New Year's Day, 1599-1600, the Earl presented to the Queen 10^. in gold; and received 21| ounces of gilt plate. II Sir Edward Coke, some time Recorder of London, afterwards Lord Chief Justice, and whom Fuller quaintly styles "our English Trebonianus, so famous for his Comments on our Coinjiion Law." At the christening of one of his ciiildren, in 1600, the Queen presented to him a gilt bowl and cover, weighing 43| ounces. His residence was at Stoke Pogeis in Buckinghamshire, where he died Sept. 3, 1634. His last words were, " Thy kingdom come, thy will be done." — He was buried at Tittlesiiall, where a sump- tuous altar-tomb records his acquirements, heroism, and virtues. THE (2UEEN AT LEWISHAM, 1C02. 25 May 8. On May-day the Queen went a-maying^, to Sir Richard Buckley's -j- at Lewisham, some three or four miles off Greenwich. And this week she came to St. James's Park, where she was feasted by Mr. Comptroller J. June 27. The Council have lately spied a great inconvenience, of the Increase of housing within and without London, by building over stables, In gardens, and other odd corners : whereupon they have taken order to have them pulled down ; and this week they have begun almost In every parish to light on the unlucklest, here and there one, which, God knows, Is far from removing the mischief. * This appears to have been the Queen's occasional amusement on Maij-dai).' In the Third Volume of the " Progresses," is an " Ode to Cynthia, sung before her Sacred Majesty, at a show on horseback, wherewith the Right Honourable the Earl of Cum- berland presented her Highness, on May-day 1600." This noble Earl had been ap- pointed, in 1590 her Majesty's Champion at the exercise of arms annually solemnized on the 17th of November, the day of her accession to the Throne. — On New Year's Day 1599-1600, he gave the Queen "a petticoat of white sarcenet, embroidered all over with Venice silver plate, and some carnation silk, like columbines." His Lady gave " a pair of gold bracelets, containing eight pieces like knots, and eight round pieces gar- nished with sparks of rubies, pearls and half pearls." In return, the Earl had 22 ounces of gilt plate; and the Countess 21| ounces. t This was Sir Richard Bulkeley of Beaumaris, ancestor of the present Lord Bulkeley. — Sir Richard was knighted in 1576 ; and represented the County of Anglesea in several Parliaments in the reigns of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth ; to the latter of whom he proved an excellent soldier, and faithful servant on many occasions ; and was also Chamberlain of North Wales. X Sir William Knollys, Knight, son of Sir Francis Knollys, K. B. who had been Trea- surer of the Household, was Comptroller of the Household in 1579. He was employed by the Queen, in 1 592, to negotiate between the King of Spain and the Low Countries ; and on the New Year's Day following presented to her Majesty " a round kirtell of ash- coloured cloth of silver, like stripes of trees, of orange-coloured silk; with eight buttons, embroidered like coronets." In return, he had 26f ounces of gilt plate. — In 1601 he was made Treasurer of the Household; and in 1603 he was created Baron Knollys by King James, whose Queen he entertained at Causham, on her way to Bath, 1613. He was made Master of the Wards in 1614, and about the same time elected K. G. He was made Viscount Wallingford in 1616 ; Earl of Banbury in 1022 ; and died in 1631. VOL. IV. E 526 THE QUEEN AT CHISWICK, 1602. June 27. Young Coppinger, that was coming into France, turned his course, and went to sea with Sir Richard Levison ; and being at the taking of the carrick, was sent with the first news, and hath waited hard at Court since, in hope to be knighted ; but he speeds no better than his fellows, of whom fourteen have attended all this term with great devotion to make their wives ladies ; but hitherto they have lost oleum et operam ; and some of them, for expedition, having paid their money before-hand, are in great danger to lose their earnest. July 8. We speak of a Progress, to begin toward the end of his month ; first, to Sir John Fortescue's*, in Buckinghamshire ; then to the Earl of Hertford's and the Chief Justice [Popham]]; where there were Jewels and presents provided the last yearf , that would not be lost; and so to Bath and Bristol, to visit the Lord Chamberlain %, that lives there for help. Oct. 2. The Queen's Progress went not far — first, to Chiswick § to Sir William Russel'sH, then to Ambrose Coppinger's^, who, because he had been a Master of Arts, entertained her himself with a Latin Oration ; * Sir John Fortescue, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was honoured by a Visit from King James I. soon after his accession to the Throne. He died in 1607, and was buried in Mursley clmrcii. t See page 24. % George Carey, second Lord Hunsdown. See p. 47. § Tliis Visit is briefly noticed by Mr. Lysons, Environs of London, vol. IL p. 96; where is also the following quotations from the Sidney Papers. " I send you (says Sir William Browne, writing to Sir Robert Sydney) all the Queen's Entertainment at Chiswick, and at my Lord Keeper's." — The latter of these is now before the Reader. II Fourth and youngest son of Francis second Earl of Bedford, and a distinguished military character. He was knighted for his valour in Ireland ; and by king James \. in 1603, created Baron of Thornhaugh. Stow, speaking of his heroic achievements at the battle of Zutphen, says, " he charged so terribly, that, after he had broke his lance, he with his cutleaux so plaid his part, that the enemy reported him to be a devil and not a man; for where he saw six or seven of the enemies together, thither would he, and so behaved himself with his cutleaux, that he would separate their friendship." % Ambrose Coppinger, M. A. was lord of the manors of Dawley and Harlingon in Middlesex, and occurs as patron of Harlington church in 1597 and 1602. His son "young Ambrose," was knighted by King James, July 23, 1603, previous to the Coro- nation. Sir Ambrose married Letitia, daughter of David Earl of Kildare; but died s. p. in May 160-i. His estates in Harlington descended to Francis Coppinger, his nephew and heir, then aged 24, who sold them in 1C07. THE QUEEN AT HAREFIELD AND BURNHAM, 1G02. 27 then to Harvll to the Lord Keeper's *, and to Sir WiUiam Clarke's by Burnham, who so behaved himself that he pleased nobody, but gave occasion to have his misery and vanity spread far and wide. Then to Ote- lands, where she continues till the 7th of this month, that she comes to Richmond. The causes that withheld her from the Earl of Hertford's, and the Lord Chief Justice's were, the foul weather, and a general infec- tion of the small-pox over all the country-f'. * On New Year's Day 1 599-1 600, the Queen accepted from tlie Lord Keeper Egerton an amulet of gold, garnished with sparks of rubies, pearls, and half pearls; and from Dame Elizabeth Egerton, the Lord Keeper's second wife, "a round kirtell, of velvet satten, cut and embroidered all over like Esses of Venice gold, and a border embroidered like pyra- mids; and a doublet of silver chamlett, embroidered with pearls like leaves, flourished with silver." In return Sir Thomas received 34| ounces of gilt plate; and his Lady 17| ounces. Lady Egerton died in the same month of January. — In the Summer of 1600 the Lord Keeper married his third wife ; and tlie Queen honoured her by a Visit at iiis town residence in 1601, before the purchase of Herefield. See before, pp. 5 and 9. Sir Michael Stanhope, in a Letter to Sir Robert Cecil, in November 1601, says, " I humbly beseech your Honour to give me leave to unburden myself, and to entreat your help in that which I cannot now, as my case is, perform according unto my duty. These pearls my Lord Keeper presented by me uuto her Majesty as a token (in respect of her greatness) of his very thankful mynd for her gracious care in maintaining of his credit, whereby he is the better enabled to his public calling and service. Her Majesty liking marvellous well of the present in respect of the goodness thereof, and better of his Lordship's nature and thankful mind, pleased to say that he was hardly imposed by the arbitrators ; and no reason he should be at so great a further charge." t Sir Thomas Edmonds, in a letter to the Earl of Siirewsbury, August 23, 1602, says, " Her Majesty hath had compassion, notwithstanding her earnest affection to go her Progress, yet to forbear the same in favour to her people, in regard of the unseasonable- ness of the weather; and for that purpose doth appoint to return by the end of this week, and settle at Oatlands. Her Highness hath been very Ijonourably entertained at my Lord Keeper's house, and many times richly presented ; yet all here are not con- fident that the same will procure an abolition of former unkijidness." In a subsequent Letter, Sept. 1, 1602, Sir Thomas Edmonds says, " Since the writing of my other Letter, there hath been a great forwardness to have continued the Progress to my Lord of Hert- ford's house; but now at length it is utterly broken, in respect of the lateness of the season ; and it is in deliberation to find out some |)lace between Oatlands and Windsor, as Horsley, and Sunning Hill, and other like, where to eiitertain the Queen a fortnight, and afterwards to return to Nonsuch." . 28 THE QUEEN'S PROGRESS, l602. \_Tlie Two Jbllotving Extracts are taken from the Talbot Papers. William Browne to the Earl of Shrewsbury. " Sept. 18, 1602. I send your Lordship here inclosed some verses compounded by Mr. Secretary, who got Hales* to frame a ditty unto it. The occasion was, as I hear, that the young Lady of Darby -f- wearing about her neck, in her bosom, a picture, which was in a dainty tablet; the Queen espying itt, asked what fyne Jewell that was ? The Lady Darby was curious to excuse the shewing of it; but the Queen wold have it, and, opening it, and finding it to be Mr. Secretary's, snatcht it away, and tyed itt upon her shoe, and walked long with it there ; then took it thence, and pinned itt on her elbow, and wore it there some time also ; which Mr. Secretary being told of, made these verses, and had Hales to sing them in his chamber J. It was told her Ma'>', that Mr. Secretary had rare musick, and song ; she would needes hear them ; and so this ditty was soung which you see first written. More verses there be lykewise, whereof som, or all, were lyke-wyse soung §. I do boldly send these things to your Lo. which I wold not do to any els, for 1 heare they are very seci'ett. Some of the verses argue, that he repynes not, thoghe her Ma'^' please to grace others, and contents himself with the favour he hath." * Probably one of the Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal ; see p 29. — On New Year's Day 1599-1600, Robert Hales presented to the Queen " a pair of perfumed gloves." t Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Edward Vere Earl of Oxford, and wife to William sixth Earl of Derby. She is called here " the young Lady," to distinguish her from her sister-in-law, the preceding Earl's widow. Lodge's Illustrations, vol. IIL p. 146. X The Earl of Worcester, in a Letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury, says, " We are frolick here in Court ; much dancing in the privy chamber of country dances before the Q. M. who is exceedingly pleased therewith. Irish tunes are at this time most pleasing; but in winter. Lullaby, an old song of Mr. Bird's [then an Organist of the Chapel Royal] will be in more request, as I think." § I much regret that I am unable to trace these verses to their hiding-place. It is possible, however, that they may still be preserved, either at the Marquis of Salisbury's at Hatfield, or the Marquis of Exeter's at Burleigh. In an indorsement at the back of the title they are called "The Verses of the Picture taken from Dianae's Nymph." THE QUEEN'S PROGRESS, 1(702. 29 Sir Foolke Grevllle * to the Countess of Shrewsbury. " Sept. 19. Tlie best newes 1 can yet write your Ladyship is of the Queen's heahhe and disposition of body; which, I assure you, is excellent good ; and I have not seen her every way better disposed thes many years. " I understand my Lord Marquis has offered his house -j- to sale j and there is one Swinnertown, a merchant, that hath engaged himself to deal for it. The price, as I hear, is 5000/. ; his offer 4500/. So, as the one's need;];, and the other's desire. I doubt, will easily reconcile this difference of price between them. In the mean season, I thought it my duty to give your Ladyship notice, because both your house and my Lady of Warwick's are included in this bargain; and we, your poor neighbours, would think our dwellings desolate without you, and conceive your Ladyship would not willingly become a tenant to such a fellow §. It may therefore please you to determine of your own in your wisdom ; wherein, if my travail to * This gentleman, though one of the prhici|)al ornaments of Elizabeth's Court, never held any high olTice of State; owing, in some measure, to a dignified indolence of temper, but more to a degree of refinement in morality, which rendered him unfit for the common pursuits of mankind. His name occurs repeatedly in the various Rolls of New Years Gifts to the Queen. In 1577-8, he gave " a smocke of canibrick, wrought above the coUer, with sieves of .Spanish work of roses and I'res ; and a night-coyf, with a forehead clothe of the same work." In return he had 13| ounces of gilt plate. — Next year he gave "a small jewel of gold, with the Holy Lamb, of mother of perle, garnished with two very small perles, and two very small diamonds, with three small perles pen- dant ;" and received a gilt bowl, of U| ounces. In 1599-1600 he gave "one cloke, and one smoskyn of silver tubyne, tufted with ash-colour silk, and lined with white plush ;" and had 25| ounces of gilt plate. — He was created Lord Brooke by King James in 1621, and in 1628, at the age of 75, was murdered by an old servant. His fine monument at Warwick is thus inscribed in his own words : " Fulk Greville, Servant to Queen Eliza- beth, Councellor to King James, and Friend to Sir Philip .Svdney." t 'I'his house, which was built on the site of the Augustine Friary, near London W'M, was in 1735 the birth-place of the late celebrated Antiquary, Richard Gou<'-h, Esq. X The Marquis of Winchester, having been reduced to great necessities l)y his mag- nificent style of living, (see p. 21), and the burthen of a large family, was obliged to dispose of this mansion and its appendages, to raise money for the payment of his debts. § The person of whom Mr. Greville speaks so conteniptiiously was John Swinnerton, Esq. a respectable merchant, and nearly allied to the Swinnertons of Staffordshire. 30 THE QUEEN'S PROGRESS, 1G02. my Lord Marquis might do you any service, when I shall receive your directions, I shall bestow myself more contentedly in no business what- soever. Good Madam, be pleased to resolve with my Lord, and do some- thing in it that we may not lose you. (From the Court at Oatlands*)." 3Ir. Chamberlain's Letters resumed. Oct. 2, 1602, The Lord Hume-j- came this way home, and had audience at Court on Sunday. The Queen was very pleasant with him, and well disposed. Oct. 15. The Court came to Richmond the 8th of this present, where the Queen finds herself so well, that she will not easily remove. * Mr. Secretary Cecil, in a Letter to tiie Earl of Shrewsbury, Sept. 25, says, " Because you may know where to find us, this Letter comes from Oatlands; and will shortly write from Richmond. — Good Fouike, our true Friend, for so I now protest to you I cordially hold him, was about to have stolen down to you ; and then should you have had our sack of news, even from the Privy-Chamber door to the Porter's Lodge; but further than that, you know, we are no censurers. Well, Sir, he cannot for his life get down now from the Queen ; for, though his services at such time much contented her, she now will not let him go from her." In another (undated) Letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury, writ- ten " From the Court of Oatlands," he says, " We were again desired on Wednesday to go onward to my Lord of Hertford's, though in my opinion we shall not much pass Windsor." Oatlands was one of the Royal Palaces; and the Queen was there, August 11 — 14, 1590; and again, August 27, 1602, and is said to have shot with a cross-bow in the pad- dock. In her lime, the keeper of the house had the yearly fee of 5l. 2s. 6d. ; of the park 31. Os. \0d. ; of the garden and orchard 12/. 2s. 6d. ; and of the wardrobe Ol. 2s. 6d. Anne the Queen of James I. was here, and built a room called the silk-worm room- King Charles I. on 14 March, amio 2, granted the same to his Queen Henrietta Maria for her life. His youngest son was called in his cradle Henri) of Oatlands, being born there in 1640, in the house which Fuller, when he wrote, says was taken down to the ground. He died 13 September next after the Restoration 16G0. The Royal House was on low ground, near the present kitchen garden. It was destroyed in the time of the Usurpation, except some lodgings which one of the Earls of Dorset enjoyed, and the gardener's chamber, which was the silk-worm room, erected by Queen Anne (wife of James I.) and the jiark was disparked. Many foundations of buildings are to be traced in the land where the house stood, especially when sown with corn. t Sir George Hume, who afterwards attended King James from Scotland ; and was raised to the English Peerage, as Lord Hume of Berwick ; created Earl of Dunbar in Scotland, and elected K. G. He died in 1611. THE QUEEN'S ENTERTAINMENTS, 1602. 31 Nov. 19. The Queen came to Whitehall on Monday by water; and the Lord Mayor, with his troops of 500 velvet coats, and chains of gold, was already mounted, and marching to meet her at Charing Cross. The sudden alteration grew ujDon an inkling or suspicion of some dan- gerous attempt. Her Day * passed with the ordinary solemnity of preaching, singing, shooting, ringing, and running. The Bishop ut Limerick, Dr. Tiiornborough f , made a dull Sermon at Paul's Cross. At the Tilt, there were many young runners, as you may perceive by the paper of their names. Your Fool Garret made as fair a shew as the fairest of them, and was as well disguised, marry not altogether so well mounted ; for his horse was no bigger than a good ban-dog ; but he delivered his scutcheon with his imprese himself, and had good audience of her Alajesty, and made her very merry. I send you here the Queen's Entertainment at the Lord Keeper's;};. If you have seen or heard it already, it is but so much labour lost. Dec. 6. The Queen should have come to the warming of Mr. Secre- tary's § new house II on Monday; but then the cold weather hindered it; and * November 17, the tlay of lier Accession to the Throne. t He was made Bishop of Bristol in 1603, pf Worcester 16 17, and died July 9, 1641. X A duplicate, probably, of the '* I'.ntertainmeiu" now printed. § Sir Robert Cecil, son of Lord Treasurer Burleigh by his second marriage, was knighted in 1.591; made Principal Secretary of State, and Master of the Court of Requests. On New Year's Day, 1599-1600, he presented to the Queen " seven sprigs of gold, garnished with sparks of rubies, diamonds, and pearls pendant ; and a jewel of gold like a hunter's horn, with a stone called a , garnished with small rubies, and a pearl pendant." In return, he had 26| ounces of gilt plate. In 1603 King .James created him Baron of Essenden in Rutland ; in 1604 Viscount Cranbrouk; and in 1605 Earl of Salisbury. During this time he continued sole Secretary of State. On the death of the Earl of Dorset, in 1607, he was made Lord High Treasurer; and died in May 1612. II " Mr. Secretary's new house" was that with which Norden in 1563 concludes the following description : " Burleigh House, the house of the Right Hon. Lord Burleigh, Lord High Treasurer of England, and by him erected ; standing on the North side of the Strand ; a very fair house, raised with bricks, proportioiiably adornetl wiili four turrets, placed on the four quarters of the house. Within, it is curiously beautified with rare devices, and especially the oratory j)laced in the ai>gle of the great chamber. — 32 THE QUEEN AT BURLEIGH HOUSE, 1602. on Wednesday the foul weather; and whether it is held this day is a question. The Queen dined this day at the Secretary's ; where, they say, there is great variety of Entertainment provided for her, and many rich jewels and presents*. Dec. 23. I have pacified Wat Cope-j-, in shewing what you wrote touching his papers. Mr. Secretary did him a very extraordinary favour. Unto this is annexed, on tlie East, a proper house of the Honourable Sir Robert Cecil, Knight, and of her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council. — The first Lord Burghley, according to Norden, had also " a proper little house" at Panns in Middlesex. — On the death of that great statesman, the large mansion descended to his eldest son Sir Thomas Cecil; and it is accordingly described by Stow as " Cecil House, built on the site of what some time belonged to the parson of St. Martin in the Fields, and by com- position came to Sir Thomas Palmer, Knt. in the reign of Edward the Sixth, who began to build the same of brick and timber, very large and spacious ; but of later time, it hath been far more beautifully increased by the late Sir William Cecil, Baron of Burghley, Lord Treasurer, and great Counsellor of the Estate." After the mansion called Doctors Commons, upon Bennet's Hill, London, was burnt in the Fire of London in 1666, this house was taken by the Society of the Doctors of the Civil Law, where, till the year 1672 (that Doctors' Commons was re-built) ; the Civilians lodged, and kept their Courts of Arches, Admiralty, and Prerogative. But now of late their house is turned into an Exchange, and called Exeter Exchange. — The names of Burleigh Street, Cecil Street, Salisbury Street, &c. &c. remain as testimonials of the residence of their original owners. * It is the opinion of Carte, that " Queen Elizabeth made it her business to depress the Nobility: even her appearing favours," says he, "ministered to this purpose. Whether she stayed a time with any of them on her Progress (as she did A. D. 1601, for a fort- night together with the Marquis of Winchester at Basing) or only took a dinner, thej- paid very dear for the honour of the visit, and whatever exorbitant expence she put them to, she did not think herself well entertained, unless they made her a rich present at parting. Thus, dining on Dec. 6, not four months before her death, at Sir Robert Cecil's, he made her when she went away, according to the custom, presents, to the value of two thousand crowns. Her Ministers might, perhaps, be able to support such an expence ; but, by impoverishing the Nobility, who were generally discontented at their usage, it sunk their credit so low, that it was impossible for any of them to get a number of followers, were they never so inclined to make a disturbance." Vol. HL p. 701. t Walter Cope, Esq. a considerable land-owner in Kensington. He was the builder of Holland House ; and was knighted by King James. He died August 1, 1614. THE QUEEN AT SECRETARY CECIL'S, 1602. 33 to admit him a partner in his Entertainment to the Queen ; and to per- mit him to present her with some toys in his house ; for the nhich he had many fair words, but as yet cannot get into the Privy Chamber, though he expects it daily. You liked the Lord Keeper's Devices so ill, that I care not to get Mr. Secretary's, that were not much better, saving a pretty Dialogue * of John Davies, ' 'twixt a Maid, a Widow, and a Wife,' which I do not think but Mr. Saunders hath seen, and no doubt will come out one of these days in print with the rest of his Works. Dec. 23. The Lord Admiral's f feasting the Queen had nothing extra- ordinary ; neither were his presents so precious as was expected, being only a whole suit of apparel ; whereas it was thought he would have bestowed his rich hangings of all the fights with the Spanish Armada * I am sorry that I cannot recover this " Dialogue," which was written expressly for the Entertainment of the Virgin Queen. t Charles second Lord Howard of Effingham was appointed Chamberlain of the Household in 1574. On New Year's Day 1575-6, Lady Howard presented to the Queen " a bracelet of gold, garnished with four pearls and four sparks." On New Year's Day 1577-8, Lord Howard gave " a fore part of white net-work, embroidered with pearls." The Lady Howard Dowager gave lOl. in gold ; and the Lady Howard Junior " a fore part of net-work, changeable, embroidered with flowers like roses, of gold, silver, and silk, and lined with crimson tapheti." In return, Lord Howard had I04| ounces of silver plate ; his Lady 24 ounces ; and the Dowager Lady 20 ounces. — In 1578-9 Lord Howard gave " a locket of gold, black-enameled, garnished with 16 small diamonds;" Lady Howard gave " a jewel of gold, garnished with rubies and diamonds, and three pearls pendant;" and the Dowager Lady Howard gave 10/. in gold. — In return, Lord Howard had 104 ounces of gilt plate; Lady Howard a gilt bowl and cover, 24§ ounces; the Dowager Lady a gold cup 24 ounces. — In 1584-5 Lady Howard gave " a jewel of gold, being a dolphin fully garnished with sparks of rubies, with a personatre upon her, having a lute in his hand." — In 1587-8, Lady Howard gave "a bodkin of gold, with a pendant at the end, garnished on the one side with a pearl and rock rubies, and two small table diamonds pendant." — Lord Howard was appointed Lord High Admiral in 1588; and in 1588-9 he presented to the Queen " a carconet of gold, containing five pieces garnished with sparks of diamonds, four whereof each a ruby ; four lesser pieces like knots, garnished with sparks of diamonds; eight little pendants of diamonds with foils, and nine small pearls pendant." The Baroness Howard gave " a .covering of a gown of black net-work, fair flourished over with Venice gold." In return, the Lord Admiral had 104| ounces of gilt plate; his Lady 25i ounces.-«-He was created Karl VOL^ IV. F 34 THE QUEEN'S VISITS IN 1602. ia eighty-eight*. These feastuigs have had their effect, to stay the Court here this Christmas, tho' most of the Carriages were well onward on their way to Richmond. The Queen christened the French Ambassador's daughter, by her Deputy the Lady Marquesse [of Winchester] ; the Countess of Worcester and the Lord Admiral being the other assistants. Jan. 27, 1602-3. The Court removed hence to Richmondf the 21st of this month J in very foul and wet weather: but the wind suddenly chang- ing to the North-east, hath made here ever since the sharpest season that I have lightly known. On Monday before her going, the Queen was en- tertained and feasted by the Lord Thomas Howard at the Charter-house §. of Nottingham in 1597 ; and in 1600 presented to the Queen " a carconet, contain- ing nineteen pieces of gold, whereof nine bigger pieces, and ten lesser; eighteen pendants like mullets, likewise garnished with small rubies and pearls, with a round jewel pendant in the middle garnislied with one whole topaz, and a pearl pendant, and nine small rubies." The Countess also gave a carconet of gold, garnished with 15 pieces of gold, set with sparks of rubies, and a small diamond in the midst of every of them ; and seven pieces like mullets, with pearls, and a ruby in the midst of each of them, and pearls thereabout between them. In return, the Earl had 108| ounces of gilt plate; the Countess 26^ ounces. — The Lord Admiral's house was in King-street, Westminster. * These seem to be the hangings, of which part is now in the House of Lords. More were preserved in the Royal Wardrobe when Pine engraved the others in 1739. They were designed by Henry Cornelius Vroom, a famous Painter of Shipping, at Haerlem, and woven by Francis Spiring. t The Queen having been taken ill with a cold, and having been ever forewarned by Dr. Dec to beware of Whitehall, removed four days after to Richmond. (MS. in the Cotton Library Titus, VIL 46.) — Dr. Dee had been a favourite of the Queen from the time of her accession to the Throne; and was occasionally honoured by her Majesty's Visits at his house at Mortlake. X It appears by the Accompts of the Churchwardens of Fulham, that the Queen dined that day with Mr. Lacy at Putney. § Son, by a second marriage, of Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of Norfolk. He was created Lord Howard of Walden in 1597, Earl of Suffolk in 1603 ; and died in 1626. II The Queen had resided some time at this house on her accession to the Throne. See the First Volume of the "Progresses," p. 37. " King James, on his accession to the Throne of England, was pleased to shew a very remarkable regard to the family of the Howards, as having been sufferers for his mother the Queen of Scots. And out of an especial respect to Lord Thomas Howard (and at the same time to imitate the steps of Queen THE QUEEN'S DEATH, 1602-3. 35 Two days after, the Lady of Effingham * was brought to bed of a daughter, altogether unlooked-for, and almost before she or any body else supposed she was with child. March 30, 1603. I make no question but you have heard of our great loss before this came to you ; and no doubt but you shall hear her Majesty's sickness and manner of death diversely related ; for even here the Papists do tell strange stories, as utterly void of truth, as of all civil honesty and humanity. I had good means to understand how the world went, and find her disease to be nothing but a settled and unremoveable melancholy, insomuch that she could not be won or persuaded, neither by Councils, Divines, Physicians, nor the Women about her, once to sup, or touch any physic, though ten or twelve Physicians, that were continu- ally about her, with all manner of asseverations of perfect and easy recovery, if she would follow their advice ; so that it cannot be said of her, as it was of the Emperor Hadrian, Turha Medicorum occidit Regem ; for they say, she died only for lack of physic. Here was some whispering that her brain was somewhat distempered ; but there was no such matter ; only she held an obstinate silence for the most part, because she had a persuasion, that if she once lay down she should never rise ; could not be got to go to bed in a whole week, till three days before her death ; so that, after three weeks languishing she departed, being the 24th of this present, being on Lady's Eve, between two and three in the morning, as she was born on our Lady's Eve, in Sep- tember. And as one Lee was Mayor of London when she came to the Crown ; so is there one Lee Mayor now she left it -f". • F.lizabetli) wlien the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, and five hundred of the chief citizens, all in velvet gowns and gold chains, met his Majesty on horse-back, at Stanford Hill, on the King's approach towards London from Scotland, on the 7th of May 1603, his Majesty was pleased to be conducted in grand procession to the Charter-house, and to keep his Court there four days; and before his departure. May 1 1, to make more than 80 knights, to do this Lord more abundant honour, whom he soon after created Earl of Suffolk. " Bearcrolt. * Anne, daughter and coheir of John Lord St. John of Bletsoe, and wife of AVilliarn Lord Howard of Kffingham, the Lord Admiral's eldest son. + Sir Thomas Leigh was Lord Mayor in 1558-9 ; Sir Robert Lee in 1602-3. 36 THE QUEEN'S DEATH, 1602-3. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Almoner^ and other her Chaplains and Divines, had access to her in her sickness divers times, when she gave good testimony of her faith by word, but specially towards her ends by signs, when she was speechless, and would not suffer the Archbishop to depart as long as she had sense; but held him twice or thrice when he was going, and could no longer endure, both by reason of his own weakness and compassion of hers. She made no will, nor gave any thing away; so that they which came after, shall find a well-furnished jewell-house, and a rich wardrobe of more than 2000 gowns, with all things else answerable. The Nobility and Council came from Richmond that morning ; and before ten o'clock had proclaimed King James at Whitehall, Temple Bar, and so forward in Cheapside and other places. The Council went on Saturday to Richmond ; and that night brought the Corpse with an honourable attendance to Whitehall, where the Household remains. The body was not opened, but wrapt up in sear cloths, and other preservatives, April 12. The Queen's Funeral is appointed the 28th of this present, with as much solemnity as hath been used to any former prince, and that by the King's own direction. It shall be kept at Westminster ; and the Lady Arabella is the Chief Mourner, accompanied with two Marquesses, sixteen Countesses, and thirty Baronesses, with all their train; besides the greatest part of the Nobility, all the Council, and Officers of the Household. Dec. 6', 1608. I come now from reading a short Discourse of Queen Elizalfeth's Life, written in Latin * by Sir Francis Bacon f. If you have not seen or heard of it, it is worth inquiry ; yet methinks he does languescere toward the end, and falls from his first part ; neither do I warrant that his Latin will abide test or touch. * Harl. MSS. 6353 ; and styled, " In Memoriam Elizabethae AnglisE Reginae." t Sir Francis Bacon entertained Queen Elizabeth at Twickenham Park, when he pre- sented her with a Sonnet in honour of the Earl of Essex. Lysons"s Environs, vol. II. p. 565, from the information of the Earl of Orford. [ 37 ] APPENDIX, No. II. THE QUEEN AT LOSELEY*, COWDRY, CHICHESTER, PETWORTH, STANSTEAD, PORTSMOUTH, SOUTHAMPTON, WINCHESTER, ELVETHAM, AND SUTTON. Queen Elizabeth visited Sir William More twice at his house at Loseley, near Guildford, in Surrey : but it is very extraordinary that amongst the numerous letters and papers preserved by that gentleman, and now at Loseley, there is no actual account of either of these Visits, though there are several that shew the intention, August 2nd, without the addition of the year, Sir Anthony Wingfield writes to Mr. More (which address proves that it was prior to 14 May, 1576, when he was knighted by the Earl of Leicester, in the Queen's presence, at Pirford in Surrey, the seat of Sir John Wolleyij;) as follows : " After I had advertised my Lord Chamberlain what few small rooms, and how unmeet your house was for the Queen's Majesty, he did this day shew it unto her Majesty, and thereupon [she] determined to go to the Manor house [in Guildford Park]] ; and now upon the sudden is changed, and is determined to come to your house ; and for that' it shall not [be] a great trouble and a hindrance unto you, [I] have spoken with my Lady * For the communication of the several curious particulars from which the Appemiix, No. II. is formed, the Editor is obliged to his worthy friend, William Bray, Esq. Treas. A.S. t This may be the time mentioned in the " Elizabethan Progresses," vol. I. pp. I 18, 119, where it is said that the Queen was at Guildford, 21 August 1569, which was the year after the building of the new house at Loseley was finished. Unluckily the Corpo- ration books of that town do not give any account of her coming thither; but there is an eiiiry in one of them, of a later date, directing that, on a Royal Visit to the Town, the Mayor should be allowed 10/. for his expcnce. — The Charter granted by King James the First, early in his first year, to the Town of Guildford, appoints the Mayor and others to be Justices of the Peace ; which had been promised by the Queen when she was at Guildford; not mentioning the time. % Of whom see hereafter, p. 41. 38 QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PROGRESSES. Clinton in your cause, and she doth think it good that you should come and declare unto my Lord of Leicester your estate, that her Majesty might not come unto your house." 24 Aug. 1576, Mr. Horsman (a gentleman in the employ of the Lord Treasurer Cecil) writes to Sir William More (he having been knighted in the preceding May), with a letter from the Lord Treasurer, which he meant to have brought, but was prevented by illness, that " Lord Lin- coln means to see you shortly. 'Tis thought the Queen will not come to your house this Summer. She removes to-morrow to Hatfield from Hertford, and there remaineth it is not known how long, and so to St. Alban's*, then to Cheynies-j-, or to Mr. Sands J his house, and to Reading, and there remaineth during her pleasure, for my Lord Trea- surer told me that he heard the plague was about Otelands." By the following Letter it should seem that her Majesty did go to Loseley at that time. 10 July, 15775 Henry Goring, Esq. of Burton in Sussex, writes to Sir William More, as an old friend, " that, hearing the Queen has laid two nights at Losely, and intended to lie two nights at his house in Sussex, he asks how he is to entertain her ; whether she brings her own stufFe §, beer, and other provisions, or whether Sir William provided every part." * Qu. to Gorhambury ? f The Earl of Bedford's. I Mr. Sandys, of the Vine, in Hants. § This probably means " bedding." If the Goring family still remaining in Sussex have preserved old letters, as Sir William More did, the answer to this letter would be a curious thing. John James, Esq. of Godalming (who died in March 1803) had two stools handsomely worked, and an Italian carved cabinet, which had been left by Queen Elizabeth in " a Visit to Wyatt of Loseley." By this it should seem that the Queen provided at least a part of her " stuff;" and that these curiosities were genuine there is no doubt; but there is a slight error in this traditionary narrative, which may be thus cor- rected. There was no Mr. Wyatt ever had Loseley ; but a gentleman of that name had a house at Shackleford, in the parish of Godalming, about a mile from Loseley ; and it is very possible that, when the house at Loseley was avoided to make room for the Queen, Lady More might be received at Shackleford, and might afterwards present the stools to Mrs. Wyatt, as a complimentary return for her reception. THE QUEEN AT LOSELEY. 39 If the Queen did go, it seems that she liked her entertainment so well as to make, or at least threaten, another Visit; for on 4 Aug. 1583, Sir Christopher Hatton writes to Sir William More, " that in 10 or 12 days the Queen intended to come to Losely for four or five days, and he desires that every thing may be got in order, and the house kept clean and sweet." On the 24th of August he writes again to Sir William, " that the Queen intends dining at Wokeing on the 27th, and to go to bed at his house ; that he should have every thing made sweet and meet to receive her ; should avoyd [remove] his family, and have every thing ready ; the Sheriff* need not attend her, but S-r William, Mr. Lifield f , and some other gentlemen should meet her at Guildford." Whetiier this Visit took place, we have yet to learn. Another Visit was made in 1591. On the 10th of July in that year Lord Hunsdon J, then Lord Chamberlain, writes to Sir William More : " I have thought good to let you understand that her Majestv is re- solved to make a Progress this year as far as Portsmouth, and to begin the same the 22 or 23 of this month, and to come to your house. She is very desirous to go to Petworth § andCowdry||, if it be possible; but none of us all can set her down any where to lie at between your house and Cowdry. And therefore I am to require you that you will sett this bearer some way for her to pass, and that you will let some one of your * Sir Thomas Brown, of Betch worth Castle, Dorking. t Of Stoke Dabernon, near Letherhead. X George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon. — On New Year's Day, 1599-1600, he pre- sented to the Queen " ten large buttons of gold, garnished vvith small rubies, and great ragged pearls ;" and had in return 30| ounces of gilt plate. — By the Accompts of the Churchwardens of Lambeth it appears that the Ringers were paid 2s. 6(1. on the 29th of April, 1602, when the Queen passed through that Town on a Visit to tiie Lord Cham- berlain. — On the 3d of July he was at Bath, when the Queen had an intention of visiting him. (See p. 26.) He died Sept. 9, 1603. § The Earl of Northumberland's. II The Viscount Montagu's. Each of those places was about 18 miles from Loseley. 40 QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PROGRESSES. own men who Is best acquainted with that way, to be his guide, that he may see whether they be fit for her Majesty or no. And whether it will be best going from your house to Petworth, and so to Cowdry, or else from your house to Cowdry. And if you can set her down [at] any place be- tweeen your house and Cowdry that may serve her for one night, you shall do her a great pleasure, and she will take it very thankfully at your hands. But I have thought good to let you understand that, though she cannot pass by Cowdry and Petworth, yet she will assuredly come to your house, and so towards Portsmouth such other way as shall be set down to her. And therefore, I pray you, advertise me by this bearer of your full know- ledge and opinion therein. And so I commit you to God. In haste, this 10 of July 1591, your very loving frend, Hunnesdon." The following was folded up in the same paper, and appears to be a copy of Sir William More's answer to the above : " With remembrance of my duty to your hon*"'" Lordship. Under- standing by your letters her Ma'"''' good pleasure in purposing to visit my poor house, I am most heartly glad thereof, and account myself infinitely bound to her Highness favour therein. And whereas your Lo: doth require to be advertised from me of some fit place betweerr my house and Cowdry for her Ma'-^ to lodge in one night, it may please you to under- stand that there is not any convenient house for that purpose standing near the way from my house towards Petworth or Cowdry : only there is a little house of Mr. Law. EUiott*, distant 3 miles from mine, the direct way towards either of the said places, and within 10 miles of Petworth, and 1 1 of Cowdry ; to which house I have directed Mr. Constable by a servant of mine who hath viewed the same, and can make report to your Lordship thereof. From thence there is another the like house in ShillingUef , of one Bonners, distant 5 miles, the direct way to Petworth, and about a mile out of the way to Cowdry." * Busbridge, now belonging to Henry Hare Townsend, Esq. t Now the Earl of Winterton's. THE QUEEN AT LOSELEY. 41 Sir William More's daughter Elizabeth married Richard Polsted, Esq. of Aldbury in Surrey, where he died in 1576. She soon after married, secondly, Mr. (afterwards Sir John) WoUey*, of Pirford in the same County, who died in 1595; and, lastly, in 1596 or 1597, Sir Thomas Egerton, then Lord Keeper. Lady Wolley, in a letter to her Father (without date), says, " Since my coming to the Court, I have had many gratious words of her Majesty, * This gentleman was a native of Shropshire, and was educated at Merton College in Oxford in 1553; where he took the degree of B. A. Oct. II, 1553; was elected Fellow the same year; and studied the Canon and Civil Law. He proceeded M. A. July 5, 1557 ; and in December travelled bej^ond the seas, where he improved himself much in learning, and in knowledge of men and manners. After the death of Roger Ascham, in 1568, he became Latin Secretary to Queen Elizabteh ; and, in 1569, was made (though a Layman) Prebendary of Compton-Dundon in the Church of Wells. In 1576 he had the honour of a Visit from the Queen at his house at Pirford, where Sir William More (whose daughter he soon after married) was knighted. — On New Year's Day 1577-8, Mr. ^Volley presented to the Queen " a fork of agathe, garnished with gold;" and received a gilt cup with a cover, weighing 28| ounces. — In 1578 he was made Dean of Carlisle; and in 1586 was appointed one of the Commissioners for the Trial of Mary Queen of Scots. In 1588-0 he gave the Queen " a round cloke of black clothe of gold, with buttons and loops on the inside of Venice gold and black silk;" and Mrs. Wolley gave " a doublet of black stitched cloth of between two sorts, flourished with Venice gold and silver. In return they had 45| ounces of gilt plate. — In 1589 he was made Chancellor of the Order of the Garter; in 1592 was knighted; and, about the same time, made one of the Privy Council ; being elected also, the year following, one of the Representatives in P.irliament for the County of Surrey. He died at Pirford in February or March 1595-6 ; and was buried in the middle of the Chancel of St. Paul's Cathedral, behind the high altar. Over his grave was soon after laid a flat stone, v\ith an inscription thereon, under which in 1600 was laid his witiow Elizabeth (then Lady E^gerton), and Sir Francis Wolley, his son and heir, who died in 1611 ; all whose bodies were removed in 16 1 J-, and buried between St. George's Chapel and that of Our Lady, within the precincts of the Cathedral ; and a very goodly tomb (as Stowe informs us*) erected over them thus inscribed : " Joannes Wolleius, Flques Auratus, Reginx ElizabetluD a Secretioribus Conciliis, Secrctarius Lingua; Latina;, Cancellarius Ordinis Perisceliuis : Doctrina, Pietate, Fide, Gravitate, clarissimus. Obiit anno 1 595. • Annals, 1GI7, llo, p. 633. VOL. IV. G 42 THE QUEEN AT LOSELEY, 1591- and many times bad me welcome with all her heart, ever since I have waited. Yesterday she wore the gown you gave her *, and thereby took occasion to speak of you, saying, " Ere long I should find a Mother- in-law," which was herself; but she was afraid of the tivo ividoivs\ that are there with you, that they would be angry with her for it ; and that she would give ten thousand pounds if you were twenty years younger, for that she hath but few such servants as you are ; with many gracious speeches both of yourself and my Brother." Id another letter, written to her Brother Sir George More, dated 5 April, but also without the year, she says, " Her Majesty bad me welcome to the Court, and said I was absent a fortnight, she had kepte a reconninge of the dayes ; she verie carefully enquired how my Father did, and his tivoe tui/dowes-f, and was verie glad of his health, the contynuance whereof she did praie for." WoLLEU claiuni nomen, Natusque Paterque Ambo Equites. Natus Fraiiciscus Patre Joanne : Clarus, ut hwredem viitutis, amoris, lionoiis Piffistaret, Monunienta sibi hsec ; & utrique Parenti Constituit, generis, qui nominis, unicus bares. Tarn cito, tilm claros est defecisse dolendum. Ille Pater, lumen literarum nobile, sydus Oxonios, ex meritis Regime accitus Elizse, Ut qui a Secreiis, cum scriberet ilia Latiiie, Atque a Conciliis cum consultaret in Aula, Atque Periscelidis qui Caiicellarius esset. Tantuni ille iiigenio voluit, tantum instar in illo. Non minias omnimoda virtute ilia inclyta Mater Nobilibus Patre & Fatre illustrissima moris; Clara domi per se : sed Elizam ascivit Eliza, Clarior ut fieret WoUeio ornata marito. Quo, viduata, viro, quo non prtBclarior alter, Nubat Egertono, repetat sed niortua primum. Franciscus tandem, at nimium cito, utrumque sequutus. Hie jacet ante pedes Eqiies Illustrissimus, illis, Haec poni jussit, seque & tria nomina poni ; Sic voluit, placuit Superis pia, grata voluntas. Discite mortales, memores sic esse Parentum, Discite qui legitis, sic sic petit sethera virtus." *■ From this circumstance, and what she says of her father's age, this letter was pro- bably written after the Queen's Visit to Loseley in 1591. — Sir W. More died .July 20, 1600. t This allusion is not easily to be explained. THE QUEEN AT LOSELEY &c. 1591. 43 No particulars of this Visit are found ; but it appears by the following paper, that she did go to Loseley, and had been there before. The abuses of Purveyors of the Royal Household, in procuring, amongst other things, carriages for removing goods, provisions, and other things, which they took at their own prices, which were less than the real value, and sometimes even that money not paid, occasioned frequent complaints, which were often attended to. On one of those occasions the inhabitants of Merrow, and other places near Guildford, were ordered to make a return of what charges they had been put to by the Purveyors. The Constable of Merrow accordingly delivered a paper, addressed to Sir William More and the other Justices of the Peace, which states, " that, they being sworn and appointed to bring in a true presentment of all provisions served for her Majesty's Houshold within that parish before Michaelmas 1591, they say; " That in August 1591 they carried 4 bushels of wheat to Guildford, for her Majesty's use, being j^aid 2s. 4d. a bushel. At the same place a bushel and half of oats at her 3Iajestys last being at Loseley. And carried for her use one load of beer or ale from Guildford to Southampton, at her last being at Loseley ; and that 5^. 6d. was paid for the carriage*." 16 Aug. 1591. The parishioners of Horsell (4 miles North of Guild- ford) carried 2 loads of beer from VVeybridge Mead to Godalming. And there is a similar return from Send and Ripley, 6 miles from Guildford, dated 11 Jan. 1591 (meaning 1591-2), in which are the followinji: articles r " Item, we have paid for the carriage of 3 lodes of mault from Wick- ham bushesf to SbalfordJ, when her Ma'> did lie at S'" W'" More's liouse. *' Item, Rich. Symon hath carried a tonne of beer from Gildford to Coudry, for which he was paid '6s. \d. * From Merrow to Giiililfoiil is a mile and half, and from thence to Southampton about 52 miles. Can it be supposed that there was no public brewery between Guildford and Souiliiimptoii, or at the hitter |ilace .' t NVar Bagshot. J A mile from Guildford. 44 THE QUEEN AT COWDRY, CHICHESTER, &c. 1591. " Item, Geo. Stanton hath carried a tonne of wine from the heath between Cobham and Ripley to Chiddingfold *, being paid for the car- riage 2s. " Item, dehvered by Geo. Harry, Head Constable of Send, to George Watkins, Purveyor, 18 trusses of hay, and 4 bushels of oats, at the Lyon at Guildford, for which he [was] paid Ad. for every truss of hay, and Qd. for every bushel of oats, ivhen her Majesty lay at Sutton-\." By the foregoing returns it is plain that the Queen proceeded to Cowdry '\,, where six gentlemen were knighted, of whom one was Sir Henry Goring of Burton, who has been noticed in p. 38; and where she was entertained from Saturday, August 16, 1591, till Friday the 22d, when she departed towards Chichester. Of her Majesty's entertainment in that city, there was a full account in one of the Corporation Books; but unfortunately the Book is lost. Mr. Dallaway, in his " History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex §," says, " It is certain that she staid at Petworth and Stanstead ||. John Lord Lumley prepared a house in the East street near the Cross (now belonging to Mr. Waller), for her reception, with a spacious banqueting room, still retaining its richly ornamented cieling, in which she gave audience to the Mayor and Citizens. In a MS Index of the lost Register, still preserved, is this entry : " 1591. The manner of the Queen's reception and entertainment In the Progresse to Chichester; and rewards given by the City to the Queen's Officers." * Shillinglie house, mentioned in page 40, is in tlie County of Sussex; but Cliidding- fold, in Surrey, extends so near it as to take in part of the garden. t The Seat of Sir Henry Weston, near Guildford. See p. 45. X This Visit is described in the printed Ehzabethan Progresses, vol. II. under the year 1591 ; where it is noticed that " the escutchions on the oke remaine, and there shall hang whilst they can hang together one piece by another." § Of this valuable work, a part of the second volume was printed, and ready to be delivered by the Printer, Mr. Bensley, when the fire happened at his house, and con- sumed all but a very few copies of the impression. It is to be feared that this loss will not be supplied, nor the remainder of the work completed. y Then the seat of John Lord Lumley; now of Lewis Way, Esq. THE QUEEN AT WINCHESTER, ELVETHAM, &c. 1591. 45 It Is stated in p. 44 that the Queen was at Cowdry on August 16, 1591, and went towards Chichester on the 22d ; and she probahly returned by Petworth and Stanstead to Portsmouth, and thence (as all was sent there for her use) by Southampton and Winchester ; for, though no mention of it is to be found in the Records of that City*, the following entries are pre- served in the Accompts of Winchester College : "A. D. 1591, 33 Eliz. Custus Panatrice. " Item, pro lavandis linteaminibus post discessura Aulicorum, Ss. 6d. " Custus JVecessai'iorum : " Item, pi-o Vino, dat' Famulis Doniine Regine, 6s. 2d." The Queen was afterwards entertained four days, from the 20th to the 23d of September, by the Earl of Hertford, at Elvetham -f-, which is near Hertford bridge, and would be in the way of her return from Winchester to Oatlands. The dates of all the foregoing papers correspond with this. On her return, the Queen visited Sir Henry Weston ;};, at Sutton ; and a Letter from her Majesty to Sir Henry Unton, her Ambassador in France Sept. 26, 1591, is dated from that place §. In the first story of the South West front of Sutton Place was a spacious gallery, in which the Queen was entertained ; and, from the ex- traordinary quantity of fuel used on that occasion, or the neglect of the servants to see it properly extinguished, shortly after her departure the gallery took fire, when the whole building on that side was reduced to ashes, and in this condition it remained till the year 1/21, when the outer wall, which had tumbled down, was re-built, and the whole put into proper repair again by the late John Weston, Esq. || * The Queen liad been at Winchester in 1560, and again in 1570, both at Winchester and Southampton. Through the interest of Sir Francis Walsingham, a new Charter was granted by Queen Elizabeth to the City of Winchester, in vvliich the great ruin, decay, and poverty into which it liad fallen, are explicitly staled, and, in order to relieve the inhabitants, permission was given them to manufacture particular kinds of cloth. t See the Elizabethan Progresses, under the year 1591, vol. II. pp. I — 18. J This gentleman died April 14, 1592. § Rymer, Feed. XVI. 122, || See Manning and Bray's Surrey, vol. I. p. 136. [ 46 ] APPENDIX, No. Ill, THE QUEEN AT BARN-ELMS, KINGSTON, AND PUTNEY. The " Lady Walsingham, Widow," In page 15, was Ursula daughter of HenrvSt. Barb, of Somersetshire, and widow of Sir Richard Worsley; by whom she had two sons, John and George, who were both unfortunately blown up by gunpowder, at Apuldercombe, in the porter's lodge, their mother being then newly re-married to the famous Sir Francis Walsingham, who was at that time Principal Secretary of State, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and a prime Favourite with his Royal Mistress. On New Year's Day 1575-6, " Mr. Secretary Walsingham" pre- sented to the Queen " a collar of gold, being two serpents, the heads being ophal, a pyramid of sparks of diamonds ; in the top thereof a strawberry with a rock ruby ; weight 5| ounces." — In 1577-8, Sir Francis presented "a gown of blue satin, with rows of gold; and two small perfume boxes, of Venice gold, faced with powdered armyns ;" and Lady Walsingham gave " two pillow-biers of cambrick, wrought with silk of divers colours, cut." Sir Francis had, in return, 60^ ounces of gilt plate ; his Lady 16| ounces. In the next yseir Sir Francis gave " a night-gown of tawny satin, all over embi'oidered, faced with satin like heare-colour ;" and his Lady gave " a pair of gloves, with buttons of gold." In return, Sir Francis had three gilt bowls, weighing 591 ounces; his Lady 16§ ounces of gilt plate. In 1580-1 Ladv Walsingham gave " a jewel of gold, being a scorpion of agatha, garnished with small sparks of rubies and diamonds." In 1588-9, Sir Francis presented " a cloak and a savegard of fair- coloured velvet, laced round-about and striped down ; and eight loops, in the four quarters of a broad passermayn lace, of Venice gold and silver plate ; the cloke lined with printed cloth of silver, and the savegard lined with white sarsenett ; and a doublet of white satin cut, embroidered all over with Esses of Venice gold, and striped overabout with a .passermayn of Venice gold and plate." His Lady gave " a skimskyn THE QUEEN AT BARN-ELMS. 47 of cloth of silvei", embroidered all over very fair with beasts, fowls, and trees, of Venice gold, silver, silke, and small seed-pearls, with five but- tons of seed-pearls, lined with carnation plush; a pair of perfumed gloves, the coaffe embroidered with seed-pearl, and lined with carnation velvet." The return was 60^ ounces of gilt plate to Sir Francis, 20 to his Lady. This was followed, in 1589, by the honour of a Visit to Sir Francis and Lady Walsingham by the Queen and her whole Court. Lord Talbot, in a Letter to his Father the Earl of Shrewsbury, i\Iay 26, 1589, says, " This daye her Majestie goethe to Barn-ellmes, where she is purposed to tarry all day to morrow, being Tewsday, and on Wed- nesday to return to VVhytehall agayne*. I am appoynted, among the rest, to attende her Majestie to Barn-ellmes. I pray God my diligent attend- ance there may procui'e me a gracious answere in my suite at her return ; for, whilst she is there, nothing may be moved but matter of delyghte and to content her, which is the only cause of her going thither." Previously to this Visit, the Queen had taken a lease of the manor of Barn-elms, which was to commence in 1600 after the expiration of Sir Henry Wyatt's, Her Interest in this lease she granted by letters patent, bearing date in 15/7 of her reign, to Sir Francis Walsingham and his heirs. Sir Francis f died In 1590, at his house in Seething Lane, so poor, it is said, that his friends were obliged to bury him late at night, in the most private manner, in St. Paul's Cathedral ; in confirmation of which fact, no certificate of his funeral appears to have been entered at the Heralds' College, as was usual when any person of consequence was entered suitable to his rank. — " There is no tomb or any other monument," says Stow "l, but only this inscription : " Virtuti & Honorl sacrum. " Fi'anciscus TValsinghamus, ortus Famllia multis seculis illustri, Claritatem Generis, Nobilitate Ingenii praestantlbusque Animi Dotibus superavit. Puer, ingenufc domi educatus, generosis Moribus Artibusque * The bells at Lambeth were runjj; on the 2f)th of May, 158!.", on the Queen's passing through to Mr. Secretary Walsingham's at Barn-elnies, ami on the JStli when slie re- turned. 'I'lie hells at Fulhani Hcre also rung on the (Queen's return. t A melancholy account of his last illness is given by Mr. Lodge, vol. II. p. 355. X Survey of London, 4to, ed. 1617, p. 1632. 48 SIR FRANCIS AND LADY WALSINGHAM. optimls Aiilmutn excolult. Adolescens, peregrinatus in exteras Regiones, earuin Instituta, Linguas, Politiam, ad civilem Scientlam, Reique publicae usum didlclt. Juvenis, Exilium, Marid regnante, subilt voluntarium Religionis ergo. Serenlssimje Reginee ElizabethcB, matura jam setate, Orator fuit apud Galium, turbulentlssimo tempore, annls compluribus : rursum bis in Galliam, seme) in Scotiam, semel in Belgium, super gra- vissimis Principis Negotiis Legatione functus est; eique annis sedecim ab intimis Conciliis & Secretis fuit, ac triennium Cancellarius Ducatus Lancastrice. Quibus in Muneribus tanta cum Prudentia, Abstinentia, Munificentia, Moderatione, Pietate, Industria, & Solicitudine versatus est, ut a niultis Periculis Patriam liberarit, servant Rempublicam, confirmarit Pacem, juvare cunctos studuerit, imprimis quos Doctrina aut bellica Virtus commendarit, seipsum denique neglexerit, quo prodesset aliis, eosque Valetudinis & Facultatum suarum dispendio sublevaret. " In matrimonio habuit lectissimam Feminam Ursulam, ^ Stirpe S. Barbo7'ztm, antiquse nobilitatis : e qua unicam Filiam suscepit, Francis- cam, Philippo Sydneio primum nuptam ; deinde honoratissimo Comiti Essexics. — Obiit Apr. 6, an. 1590." " These Verses called Acrosticks (Stow adds) are also there hanged up:'* Shall Honour, Fame, and Titles of Renowne, In Clods of Clay be thus inclosed still ? Rather will I, though wiser Wits may frowne. For to inlarge his Fame extend my Skill. Right gentle Reader, be it knowne to thee, A famous Knight doth here interred lye, Noble by Birth, renown'd for Policie , Confounding Foes, which wrought our Jeopardy. In Forraine Countries their Intents he knew. Such was his zeal to do his Country good. When Dangers would by Enemies ensue, , As well as they themselves, he understood. Lanch forth, ye Muses, into Streames of Praise, Sing, and sound forth Praise-worthy Harmony ; In England Death cut off his dismall Dayes, Not wrong'd by Death, but by false Trechery. Grudge not at this unperfect Epitaph ; Herein I have exprest my simple Skill, As the First-fruits pi'oceeding from a GrafFe : Make then a better whosoever will. Disce quid es, quid eris ; Memor esto quod morieris. E. W." SIR FRANCIS AND LADY WALSINGHAM. 49 In the New Year's Gifts of 1599-1600, is a present from " the Lady Walsingham, Widow," of " a petticoat of white satin, embroidered all over with flies and branches, with a wide border." In return, she had 2^^ ounces of gilt plate. Mr. Lysons informs us, from Stow's Annals, that this Lady died at Barn-elms*, June 19, ]6'02; and was buried the next day privately, near her husband, in St. Paul's Cathedral. Their only surviving daughter had the singular good fortune of being wife to three of the most accomplished men of the age, Sir Philip Sydney, the Earl of Essex, and the Earl of Clanrickard. Her second husband, so well known, and so much pitied for his misfortunes, resided frequently at Barn-elms, which, after the death of Sir Francis Walsing- ham, was called one of his houses. " Some think," says Rowland White, writing to Sir Robert Sydney, June 11, 1600, " that the Earl of Essex shall have the liberty of his houses at London and Barn-elmes, and that he shall have his friends come to him." It was, in that age, customary for some of the Nobility, or great people about Court, if one may use the expression, to farm the Royal Children ; that is, they discharged the expences of their board and educa- tion by contract. The younger Lady Walsingham was accordingly sent to Scotland, to bring up some of King James's children ; and, as appears by Baker's Chronicle, returned, with Prince Henry and the Princess Elizabeth, about * Her death is not noticed in tlie Parish Register of Barnes ; though it there appears that Robert Beale, who had married the sister of Sir Francis W'alsingham's lady, died at Barn-elms, 25 May, 1601, and was buried in London. — This Mr. Beale was often employed by Queen Elizabeth in her negotiations with Mary Queen of Scots, and was sent witli Lord Buckhurst to her to announce the sentence of her death. He was afterwards sent to Fotheringay with the warrant for beheading her, wiiich he read on the scaffold, and witnessed the execution. He was employed on an Embassy to Zealand with Sir William Winter, in 157G, and a year before his death was one of the Commis- sioners at the treaty of Buologne. Several of his letters on the business of the Queen of Scots arc among the Talbot Papers. Mr. Lodge, not aware that Beale died two years before the Queen, supposes he was discharged by her Successor. Camden calls him "a man of an impetuous and moiose disposition." His daughter married .Sir Henry Yelverton, one of the Judges in the Common Pleas. Manning and Bray's Surrey, vol. HI. p. 316. t See the Visit to Harefield, p. 15. VOL. IV. H 50 THE QUEEN AT KINGSTON. the beginning of July 1603. And it should seem, by the Parish Register of Barnes, that the Princess Mary* also, and the daughter of King James I. had been resident there, as two of her servants were buried at Barnes in August and September 1603. THE QUEEN AT KINGSTON UPON THAMES. In the Churchwardens' Accompts of Kingston upon Thames are noticed some Visits of the Queen to Mr. Evelyn, at Norbiton Hall in that parish ; and in the Corporation Books are entries of payments made on the Queen's occasionally passing through that Town in state. Among these occurs 12c/. to the Ringers in 1571, on the Queen's going to Horsley f ; and 6d. when the Boat went by. In 1581, when the Queen came from Hampton Court, to course, Sd. In 1592, when her Majesty was abroad in the Wick, 8d. In 1594, for five torches, when the Queen came through the Town, 5*. ; and to the, footmen and coachmen 18*. 9d. In 1597? the Ringers had 5*. when the Queen dined in the Town. In 1599, Mr. Bailiff Yates paid 61. 10s. " towards the Queen's Officers' Fees." In 1600 the Ringers had 55. when the Queen dined at the Lodge. In 1601, the Queen passed through the Town in state; and received on that occasion a gift of 41. 6s. ij; * Mr. Lysons observes, that there must be a mistake, either in the Register, or in tlie Historians, who do not bring her out of Scotland till after that period. t West Horsley was at tliat time the property, and probably the residence, of Edward Fynes, Lord Clinton, who had been created Earl of Lincoln by Queen Elizabeth in 1563, and to whom this manor came by marriage with the relict of Sir Anthony Brown. The Earl died Jan. 16,1584-5; and the Countess in August 1588. I Paid Mr. Cockes, for the gift to the Queen, 4/. 6s. To Thomas Haywarde, to pay for the Queen's gloves, 40i. Paid to the Queen's Officers their ordinary fees ; viz. The Serjeants at Arms for their fees, 20s. The Trumpeters 20s. Yeomen Ushers 6s. Sd. Gentlemen Ushers 20s> Footmen 205. The Porters lOs. Lytermen 6s. 8d. Yeomen of the hotels 6s. Sd. [ 51 ] THE QUEEN AT PUTNEY. In 1578 Queen Elizabeth lionoured John Lacy, Esq. a rich Citizen of London, by visiting him at Putney, where he had then recently built a spacious house*, on the site of the antient mansion of the Waldecks. Her Majesty, no doubt, derived either convenience or amusement from this gentleman's acquaintance ; for she seems to have honoured him with her company more frequently than any of her subjects -j-, and sometimes stayed at Putney two or three nights. Her Visits were repeated twice in 1579. She was there again in 1580. In 1582 she stayed two nights, July ]0 and 11. In 1584 one night. In 1585 two nights, July 27 and 28. She was there July 29, 1585 ; and again in 1589. She dined three times in 1596 ; and staid three days in March 1596-7. She was at Putney again one night in 1597, and two nights in 1601. On her final removal from Whitehall to Richmond, Jan. 21, 1602-3, two months before her death, she dined at Mr. Lacy's J. * Mr. Lacy was a member of the Clothworkers' Company; and the armorial bearings of that Corporation are still on the cieling of one of the rooms of his house, which is now the property of Mrs. Mary and Mrs. Henrietta D'Aranda. t All these Visits are recorded in the Churchwardens Accompts of Fulham, by p;iy- ments to the Ringers. X It appears, by an entry in the Churchwardens Books at Fulham, that King James and his Queen went from Putney to Whitehall, July 22, 1603, previously to tiieir Coronation; and a Surveyof Putney, anno 1617, mentions the circumstance of the King's having been in Mr. Lacy's house. Lysons, Environs, vol. IL p. 394. C 52 ] APPENDIX, No. IV. THE QUEEN AT COVENTRY, KENILWORTH, &c. The public attention having lately been re-called to the " Princely Pleasures of Kenilworth," by Miss Aikin's entertaining " Annals of Queen Elizabeth;" and again, more forcibly, by the necromantic pen of Sir Walter Scott, In the popular Romance of " Kenilworth ;" I cannot better conclude the present brochure (which Is in fact a continuation of the " Elizabethan Progresses," and which I hope to resume on some future occasion), than by selecting, out of my own former Volumes, some particulars not generally known, relative to Three several Visits with which that once magnificent Palace was honoured by the Virgin Queen. Lord Robert Dudley, fifth son of John Duke of Northumberland, and younger brother of Ambrose Earl of Warwick, was one of the most am- bitious. Insolent, and unprincipled persons of^his age. But he was a man of engaging person, address, and insinuating behaviour. On the accession of Elizabeth he became very high In her favour; and she had such an affection for him, that she declared, " If he was a Prince and not a Subject, she would have married him." By letters patent, dated Sept. 6, 1563, he obtained a grant in fee, to himself and his heirs, of the manor and castle of Kenihvorth, to the value of four and twenty pounds and better, which had been long vested in the Crown ; and which he considerably Improved ; the charges he bestowed on the castle, parks, and chase, amounting to 60,000/. Sept. 4, 1564, the Queen created him Baron of Denbigh, and the next day Earl of Leicester — a title appropriated to the Royal Progeny, in right of the Duchy of Leicester. Before the close of that year he was made Chancellor of Oxford; and had two years earlier been elected High Steward of Cambridge. In 1565 the Earl of Leicester was honoured, at his newly-acquired Castle of Kenilworth, by a Visit from his Royal Mistress ; of which the THE QUEEN AT COVENTRY AND KENILWORTIT, IJG5. 53 only record now known is preserved in the Corporation Books of Coventry; where it appears that, on the 17th of August 1565, in the Mayoralty of Humphrey Brownell, the Queen, in her Pi'ogress, came to that antient City, where she was honourably received by the Mayor and Citizens, with many fair Shows and Pageants. The Tanners Pageant stood at St. John's church ; the Drapers at the Cross ; the Smiths at Little Park-street ; and the Weavers at Much Park-street. The Sheriff's, Julius Hearing and William Wilkes, in their scarlet cloaks, and twenty young men on horseback, all in one livery of fine purple, met her Grace at the utmost of the Liberties towards Woolvey, every one having a white rod in their hands, which they presented to her Majesty; which she receiving, delivered to them again ; and so they rode before her still, till they came near the City, where the Mayor and his Brethren, in scarlet gowns, met her Grace; also Mr. John Throgmorton*, Recorder of Coventry, a man, both for his gravity, wisdom, and learning, worthy of great commendation, as in his Oration it may appear, and which brought no small commendation ; and, because it should not be forgotten, it is here subjoined, in full order, as he spake it f. He was clothed in a scarlet gown, like unto the Mayor and his Brethren; the Mayor kneeling down, and having the great mace in his hand, and being on the upper hand of the Recorder, until such time as he spake these words, " in token whereof we most humbly yield up Ourselves unto your Majesty's most Regal power and merciful authority;" at which words, the Mayor, kissing the mace, delivered it into her hands, and so kneeled down on the other side of the Recorder. And then the Recorder presented unto her Majesty a purse, supposed to be worth 20 marks, and in it about 100/. in angels; which her Grace accepting, was pleased to say to her Lords, "it was a good gift, 100/. in gold: I have but few such gifts." To which the Mayor answered boldly, " If it please your Grace, there is * See what is said of this Gentleman in p. 54. t The pithy and eloquent Oration of tlie learned Recorder may be seen at large in the Third Volume of the Elizabethan Progresses, under the year 1565, where it fills nearly four closely printed quarto pages. 54 THE QUEEN AT COVENTRY AND KENILWORTH, 1565. a great deal more in it." — " What is that ?" said she. — " It is," said he, " the hearts of all your loving subjects." — " We thank you, Mr. Mayor," said she; " it is a great deal more indeed." The Oration being ended, for which the Recorder was much praised, her Grace asked him his name, with divers points in the Oration ; and so de- livered the mace again to the Mayor, who rode before her Grace, next to the Earl of Huntingdon ; and so coming in at Bishop-gate, the Common Council standing in their gowns and hoods, her Majesty alighted at the Free-school, and went into the Library, and made a present of some money. Thence she rode unto the White Friers, where her Grace lay Saturday and Sunday nights. On Sunday the Mayor and all the Council dined with her Majesty. On Monday her Grace went forth at Spon-gate, and so to Kenilworth, where her Grace willed the Mayor and his Brethren to come on the Tues- day following ; and then, being come to the utmost of the Liberties, the Queen delivered the mace into the Mayor's hands again. On Tuesday the Mayor and his Brethren rode to Kenilworth, and were well entertained. Also her Majesty made the Recorder a Knigh^*, and demanded what lands the Mayor had; for it was thought that, if he dispensed 41. a year, he had been knighted also. The Queen gave to the Mavor and his Brethren thirty bucks, which were delivered. Nothing further occurs respecting the Royal Progress of this year ; but the two following brief entries in the Corporation Books at Coventry relate to the Noble Owner of Kenilworth : " 1567- Paid for a yoke of fat oxen, and 20 fat wethers, given to mv Lord of Leicester, 201. '' Paid more, for a yoke of fat oxen and 20 fat wethers for him, 23/. Js. " 1578. Gave four oxen to the Earl of Leicester." * Sir William Dugdale, in his account of the Throgmortons of Coughton (vol. II. p. 751), mentions a Sir John Throgmorton, who was Master of the Requests to Queen Mary, and afterwards Justice of Chester, as being knighted at Kenilworth, by Queen Elizabeth in the first year of her reign. Could this be the Recorder of Coventry? Whether so or not, there seems to be an error in Dugdale, either in date or place. THE QUEEN AT WARWICK, 1572. 55 In the Summer of 15/2 the Queen made a long-extended Progress, through Essex, Hertt'ordshhe, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, and thence to Warwick and KUlIngworth ; and Hohnshed, In his Chronicle, after noticing her Majesty's Visits to the Lord Treasurer Burghley, atTheohalds; Sir Anthony Bacon, at Gorhambury ; and Francis Russel, second son of the Earl of Bedford, at Woburn, adds, " She was also at Kenllworth, the seat of the Earl of Leicester, another of her great Peers, where she was most splendidly entertained In the month of August." Notwithstanding the extent of this Royal Progress both In time and distance, and the many noble houses which the Queen honoured by her presence ; It Is remarkable that few or no particulars are preserved of the various Masques and Pageants which were provided for her amusement, not even of this second " splendid Entertainment" at Kenllworth, except as connected with her Majesty's Visit at Warwick, which Is described in a MS. (called The Black BookJ belonging to that Corporation; from which, therefore, I subjoin some ample extracts. " Be it remembrld, that in the yere of our Lord God 1572, and In the fourtenth yere of the relgne of our Soverelgne Lady Queue Elizabeth, the 12th day of August in the said yere, It pleased our said Soverelgne Lady to visit this Borough of Warwick in her HIghnes' person ; whereof the Ballief of this Borough and the Principall Burgesses being advysed by the Right Honorable the Erie of Leycester, the said Balllof and Principall Burgesses, associated with some other of the Commoners, after the election of Edward Aglionby to be their Recorder in place of Sir William WIgston, Knight, prepared themselves, according to their bounden duety, to attend her Hieghnes at the uttermost confynes of their LIbertye, towards the place from whence her Majesty should come from dynner, which was at Ichington*, the house of Edward Fysher, being two miles from Warwick, * Bishop's Icli'mgton, so called from having long been part of tlie possessions of the Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry, is divided into two parts, Ichington Superior, and Ichington Inferior ;' and was alienated from the See, I Edw. VI. to Thomas Fisher, esq. (Secretary to the Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector); whom Dugdale represents to have been "as greedy of Church Lands as other Courtiers were;" observing, that "he swallowed 56 THE QUEEN AT WARWICK, 1572. where it pleasid her Highnes to dyne the said 12th of August, heing Monday ; the direct way from thence leading by Tachebrok f, and so through Myton J Field. And therefore it was thought convenient by the said Bailief, Recorder, and Burgesses, to expect her Majesty at the gate betweene Tachebrok feld and Myton feld. Nevertheless the weather having bene very fowle long tyme before, and the way much staynid with carriage, her Majesty was led an other way thorough Chesterton pastures, and so by Okeley, and by that meanes came towards the Towne by Fourd Alyll; whereof the said Balllef, Recorder, and Burgesses, having word, they left there place afore taken, and resorted to the said Fourd Myl Hill ; where being placid in order, first the Bailief, than the Recorder, than eich of the Principall Burgesses, in order kneling, and behind Mr. Bailief knelid Mr. Griffyn, Preacher; her Majesty, about three of the clok, in her coache, accompanyed with the Lady of Warwick in the same coache, and many other Ladys and Lordes attending ; namely, the Lord Burghley, lately made Lord Tresurer of Englond ; the Earle of Sussex, lately made Lord Chamberleyne to her Majesty; the Lord Howard of Effingham, lately made Lord Pryvy Scale ; the Earle of Oxford, Lord Gret Cham- berleyn of Englond ; the Erie of Rutlond ; the Erie of Huntingdon, lately made President of the North ; the Erie of Warwick ; the Erie of Leycester, Master of the Horse; and many other Lords, Bishops, Ladyes, and Great Estates, aprochid, and came as nere as the coache could be brought nyeghe to the place where the said Bailief and Company knelid; divers large morsels, whereof this was one ; made an absolute depopulation of that part called Nether Ichmgton, where the Church stood (which he also pulled down for the building of a large manor-house in its room) ; and, to perpetuate his memory, changed the name of it to Fisher's Ichington.'''' There is another Ichington in this neighbouriiood, distinguished by the name of Long Ichington ; of which both the Town and Lordship belonged to the Earl of Leicester, and which will be duly noticed in the description of the Progress of 1575. t Tachebrok Episcopi was another Lordship of Thomas Fisher's, which had also been alienated to him by the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. X Of Myton, Dugdale says, " there is no more left than a grove of elms in the place where the village stood." THE QUEEN AT WARWICK, 1572. 57 and there staid, causing every part and side of the coache to be openyd, that all her subjects present might behold her, which most gladly they desired. Whereupon, after a pause made, the said Recorder made his Oration ;" [in whlch^, after learnedly descanting on the general history of Britain, and of Warwick in particular, under the Romans, Saxons, and Danes*, he added,] " To return to the aunclent estate of this Towne of Warwik ; wee reade in olde writings and auntentlcall cronycles the same to have bene a Citie, or Wallld Towne, in the tyme of the Brytayns, callid then Carwar ; and afterwards, in the tyme of the Saxons, that name was chaungid into Warwik. We reade also of noble Earles of the same, namely, of one Guido, or Guye, who, being Baron of Wallingford, became Earle of Warwik by mariage of the Ladle Fellxe, the sole daughter and heyre of that House, in the tyme of King Athelston, who rayned over this lande about the yere of our Lorde God 933. Wee reade also that it was Indowed with a Blshoppe's See, and so continued a florishing Citie, untill the tyme of King Etheldred, in whose dayes it was sackld and brent by the Daynes, and brought to utter desolaclon, the common evil of all Bar- barous Naclons overflowing Clvill Countreys, as may appeare by the famouse Cities and Monuments of Germanye, Fraunce, and Italye, defaced and destroyed by the Goathes, Vandales, Normannes, and Hunnes. Synce this overthrowe, it was never hable to recover the name of a Citie, supportid onely of long tyme by the countenance and liberality of the Earles of that place, especially of the name of Beaivchmn/pe, of whom your Maiestie may see divers noble Monuments remanyng here untill this dale, whose noble services to their Prynces and Countrey are rccordld in Histories, in the tyme of King Henry the Third, King Edward the First, Second, and Thlrde; and so untill the tyme of King Henry the Sixt, about whose tyme that House, being advanced to a Dukedom, even in the toppe of his honor failed in heires males, and so was translated to the House of Salisbury, wliich afterward dekayd also. And so this Earledome being extinct in * The whole of this pithy Oration is printed in the Elizabethan Progresses, under the year 1572, vol. I. pp. \\} — 22. VOL. IV. I 58 THE QUEEN AT WARWICK, 1572. the tyme of your Hieghiies' Graundfather King Henry the Seventh, re- mained so all the tyme of your noble Father, our late dear Sovereigne King Henry the Eight, who, having compassion of the pitlfull desolacion of this Towne, did incorporate the same, by the name of ' Burgesses of the Towne of Warvvik ;' endowing them also with possessions and lands to the value of 541. I4s. 4d. by yere; inioyning them vvithall to kepe a Vykar to serve in the Church, and dyvers other Ministers, with a Skolemalster for the bringing up of youth In learnyng and vertue. The noble Prynces Quene Mai'y, your Heighnes' Sister, folowing the example of her Father in respect of the anclentness of the said Towne, by her lettres patents augmented the Corporaclon, by creating a Balllef and Twelve Principall Burgesses, with divers other liberties and franchises, to the advancement of the poore Towne, and the perpetuall fame and praise of her goodness, so long as the same shall stand. Your Maletle hath graciously confirmed thies lettres patents, adding therunto the greatest honor that ever came to the Towne sins the dekay of the Earles Beawchampe afore namyd, by giving unto them an Earle, a noble and valiaunt Gentleman *, lineally extracted out of the same House; and further, of your great good bountlfullnes, your Majestv hath advaunced his Noble Brother to like dlgnytle and honour, establishing him in the confynes of the same Libertie ; to the great good and benifite of the Inhabitants of this Towne, of whose liberalltie (being inhablld by your Hieghnes only) they have bountifully tasted, by enloy- ing from him the erection of an Hospital to the relief of the Poore of the same Towne for ever; besides an anuall pencion of fivetle poundes by yere bestowed by him upon a Preacher, without the which they should lack the hevenly foode of their soules by want of preaching, the Towne being not hable to fynde the same, by reason that the necessary charges and stipend of the Ministers and other Officers there farre surmount their yerely revenue, notwithstanding the bountifull gift of your noble Father bestow- ing the same to their great good and benlfyt. Such is your gracious and * Ambrose Dudley, created Earl of Warwick, 1561, 4 Elizabeth, with remainder to his Brother Robert (;\t'terw;vrds Earl of Leicester), who died before him. THE OUEEN AT WARWICK, 1572. 59 bountifull goodness ; such are the persones and fruytes rising up and springing out of the same. To which Twoo Noble Personages I knowe your Maiestie's presence here to be most comfortable, most desired, and most welcome; and to the Inhal)itants of this Towne the same dothe bode and pronosticate the conversion of their old fatall dekaye and poverty into some better estate and fortune, even as the comyng of Carolus Magnus to the old ruynes of Aquisgraln, now callid Achi*, in Brabant, being an auncient Citie buyldid by one Granus, brother to Nero-j-, was the occasion, by the pitiful compassion of so noble a Prynce, to re-edfye the same, and to advaunce it to such honor, as untill this day it recevith every Emperor at his first Coronacion. But what cause soever hath brought your Maiestie hither, either the bewtifulnes of the place, or your Hieghnes' gracious favor to thies parties, surely the Incomparable joy that all this countrey hathe recevid, for that It bathe pleased you to blesse them with your com- pany, cannot be by me expressid. But, as their duetlfull hartes can shewe themselves by external signes and testymonyes, so may it to your Maiestie appeare. The populous concourse of this multitude; the wayes and streetes filled with companyes of all ages, desirous to have the frulcion of your divine countenance; the houses and habltaclons themselves chaungid from their old naked barennes into a more freshe shewe, and, as it were, a smyling llvelynes; declare sufficiently, thoughe I spake not at all, the joy- full hartes, the singler affections, the readie and bumble good-willes of us your truehartid subjects. And for further declaraclon of the same, as the Balllef and Burgesses of this poore Towne doo present to your Maiestie a simple and small gift, comyng from large and ample willing hartes, thoughe the same be In dede but as a droppe of water in the ocean sea in comparison of that your Maiestie deservith, and yet in their substance as much as the twoo mytcs of the poore widowe mencloned in the Scrip- ture : so there hope and most humble desire is, that your Hieghnes will accept and allowe the same, even as the twoo mytes were allowld ; or as the handfull of water was acceptid by Alexander the Great, offred unto * Aix, or Aix-la-Chapelle. t A legei;diiry foundation. 60 THE (OUEEN AT WARWICK, 1572. him by a poore soldier of his ; mesuring the gift, not by the value of it, but by the redie will of the oflferers, whom your Maiestie shall finde as readie and willing to any service that youe shall ymploy them in as those that be greatest. And thus, craving pardon for my rude and lardge speach, I make an end ; desiring God long to contynewe your Maiestie's happy and prosperous reigne over us, even to Nestor's years, if it be his good pleasure. Amen, Amen." " The Oracion endid, Robart Philippes, Bailief, rising out of the place where he knelid, apj)roachid nere to the coche or chariott wherein her Majesty satt : and coming to the side thereof, knellng downe, oflFred unto her Majesty a purse very faire wrought, and in the purse twenty pounds, all in sovereignes ; which her Majesty putting furth her hand recevid, showing withall a very benign and gracious countenance, and, smyling, said to the Erie of Leycester, ' My Lord, this is contrary to your promise !' And, turning towards the Bailief, Recorder, and Burgesses, said, ' Bailief, I thank you, and you all, with all my hart, for your good willes ; and I am very lothe to tak any thing at your hands nowe, because you at the last time of my being here* presentid us to our great liking and contentacion ; and it is not the maner to be alwayes presentid with gifts : and I am the more unwilling to tak any thing of you, because I knowe that a myte of their haunds is as much as a thowsand pounds of some others. Nevertheless, because you shall not think that I mislike of your good willes, I accept it with most hearty thanks to you all ; praying God that I may perform, as Mr. Recorder salth, such benefyt as is hopid.' '' And therewithall offered her hand to the Bailief to kisse, who kissed it ; and than she delivered to him agavn his mace, which before the Oracion he had delivered to her Majesty, which she kept in her lappe all the tyme of the Oration. And after the mace delivered, she called Mr. Aglionby to her, and offred her hand to him to kisse, withall smyling, said, ' Come hither, little Recorder. It was told me that youe wold be * Tills was, most probably, in 1565, when she visited Coventry and Keniluorth THE OUEEN AT WARWICK, 1572. 61 afraid to look upon me, or to speak boldly ; but you were not so fraid of me as I was of youe ; and I now thank you for putting me in mynd of my duety, and that should be in me/ " And so thereupon shewing a most gracious and favourable counten- ance to all the Burgesses and company, said again, ' I most hartely thank you all, my good people.' " This being done, Mr. GrifFyn, the Preacher, aproching nigh her Majesty, ofFred a paper to her, and knelld downe; to whom she said, ' If It be any matter to be auswerid, we will look upon it, and give your aunswer at my Lord of Wyrwik's house ;' and so was desirous to be going. Thies verses her Majestic deliverid to the Countes of Warwik, riding with her in the coache ; and my Lady of Warwik showid them to Master Aglionby, and Master Aglionby to this Writer, who took a copie of them *. " Than the Bailief, Recorder, and Principall Burgesses, with their assistants, were commaunded to their horses, which they took with as good spede as they might, and in order rode two and two togither before her Majestic, from the Fourd Mil hill till they cam to the Castell gate ; and thus were they marshallld by the Heralds and Gentlemen Ushers. " First, the Attendantes or Assistants to the Bailief, to the nomber of thirty, two and two togither, in coates of puke f , laid on with lace ; than the Twelve Principall Burgesses in gownes of puke, lyned with satten and damask, upon foot-clothes ; than two Bishoppes ; than the Lords of the Counsaill ; than next before the Quene's Majestle was placid the Bailief in a gowne of scarlet, on the right hand of the Lord Compton J, who * Master GrifFyn's Latin Verses, a part of which consisteJ of a double acrostick formed by the initial and final letters of each line, may be seen -in tlie Elizabethan Progresses, under the year 1572, vol. I. p. 24. t Crcij colour, i^o jruke stockings, in Shakespeare's Henry IV. part I. Scene IV. are gi'er/ stockings. t Henry Compton, born Feb. 16, 1537-8, was knighted by the Earl of Leicester, at Arundel House, Feb. 10, 1566 ; and being called by writ to the House of Peers, 8 Mali, 62 THE QUEEN AT WARWICK, 1572. than was High Shlref of this Shire, and therefore wold have carried up his rod into the Towne ; which was forbidden him by the Heralds and Gentlemen Ushers, who therefore had placid the Bailief on the right hand with his mace. And in this maner her Hieghnes was conveld to the Castell gate, where the said Principall Burgesses and Assistants staid, every man in his order, deviding themselfs on either side, making a lane or roume where her Majestie should passe ; who passing thorough tliem, and viewing them well, gave them thanks, saying withall, ' It is a wel- favored and comly Company.' What that meant, let him divyne that can. " The Bailief nevertheles rode into the Castell, still carrieng his mace, being so directid by the Gentlemen Ushers and Heralds, and so attendith her Majestie up into the Hall. Which done, he reparid home, on whom the Principal Burgesses and Commoners attended to his house ; from whence every man repayred to his own home ; and Mr. Recorder went with John Fisher, where he was simply lodgid, because the best lodgings were taken up by IVIr. Comptroller. That Monday night her Majesty tarryed at Warwik, and so all Tuesday. " On Wensday she desired to go to Kenelworth, leaving her houshold and trayne still at Warwik ; and so was on Wensday morning con- veid thorough the streets to the North gate, and from thens thorough Mr. Thomas Fisher's groundes, and so by Woodloes, the fairest way to Kenelworth, where she restid, at the chardge of the Lord of Leicester, from Wensday morning till Saturday night, having in the mean tyme such Princely Sports made to her Majesty as could be devised. " On Saturday night very late her Majesty returned to Warwik ; and because she woold see what chere my Lady of Warwik made, she sodenly went into Mr. Thomas Fisher's house ; and there fynding them at supper, satt downe a-while, and after a little repast rose agayne, leaving the rest at supper, and went to visite the good man of the house, Thomas Fisher, who at that time was grevously vexid with the gowt ; who being brought 1572, as Baron Comptoti of Compton (during the year of his Shrievalty), was accordingly admitted, and look his place in the House. He died at his seat at Compton in 1589, and was honourably buried in Compton church. THE QUEEN AT WARWICK, 1572. 63 out into the galory, and woold have knelid, or rather fallen downe, hut her Majesty would not suffer it, hut witii most gracious words comfortid him ; so that, forgetting, or rather counterfeyting liis payne, he woold, in more haste than good spede, he on horseback the next tyme of her going abrode, which was on Monday following, whan he rode with the Lord Tresorer, attending her Majestie to Kenelworth again, reaporting such things as, some for their untruetiies, and some for other causes, had better bene untold ; but as he did it counsell rashly and in heat, so by expe- rience at leysure coldly he repentid. What thies things meane is not for every one to knowe *. But to returne. " Her Majesty that Saturday night was lodgid agayn in the Castell at Warwik ; where also she restid all Sonday, where it pleased her to have the countrey people, resorting to see her, daunce in the Court of the Castell, her Majesty beholding them out of her chamber wyndowe ; which thing, as it pleasid well the country people, so it seemed her Majesty was much delyghted, and made very myrry. That afternone passid, and supper done, a showe of fireworks -f, prepayrid for that purpose in the Temple felds, was sett abroche, the maner wherof this Writer cannot so truly set furth as if he had bene at it, being than sick in bed. But the report was, that there was devised on the Temple diche a fort made of slender tymber coverid with canvas. In this fort were appointid divers persons to serve as soldiers, and therefore so many harnesses as might be gotten within Towne were had, wherwith men were armed, appointed to shew themselfs; some others appointid to cast out fire-woorks, as squibbes and balles of fyre. Against that fort was another castlevvise prepared of like strength whereof was Governor, the Earle of Oxford J, a lusty gentleman, with a * Here some Court Scandal seems to be insinuated. t Every trait in the picture of the golden age of Elizabeth, that " Reigne of Faerie," is a new illustration of the manners of a period so conspicuous in England's Annals. The new specimen of ingenious devices here exhibited to the admirer of old English mannurs was contrived by one of lier Majesty's especial Favourites; who, before he treated her with the " Princelie Pleasures of Kenilworth," led his own vanity by taking upon himself llie French Order of St. Michael. J Edward Vere, who married a daughter of Lord Treasurer Burghley, and died in 1604. 64 THE QUEEN AT WARWICK, 1572. lusty band of gentlemen. Between thies forts or against them were placid certen battering-pieces, to the nomber of twelve or fourteen, brought from London, and twelve faire chambers or mortyr-pieces, brought also from the Towre, at the chardge of the Erie of Warwik. Thies pieces and chambers were by traines fyred, and so made a great noise as though it had bene a sore assault ; having some intermission, in which time the Erie of Oxford and his soldiers, to the nomber of 200, with qualivers * and harquebuyces, likewise gave dyvers assaults ; they in the fort shoting agayn, and casting out divers fyers, terrible to those that have not bene in like experiences, valiant to such as delighted therin, and in dede straunge to them that understood it not ; for the wildfyre falling into the ryver Aven, wold for a tyme lye still, and than agayn rise and flye abrode, casting furth many flashes and flambes, whereat the Quene's INIajesty took great pleasure ; till after, by mischances, a poore man or two were much trowbled : for at the last, whan it was apointid that the overthrow- ing of the fort should bee, a dragon, flieing, casting out huge flames and squibes, lighted upon the fort, and so set fyere thereon, to the subversion thereof; but whether by negligence or otherwise, it happned that a ball of fvre fell on a house at the end of the bridge, wherin one Henry Cowper, otherwise called Myller, dwellid, and set fyre on the same house, the man and wief being bothe in bed and in slepe, which burned so, as before any reskue could be, the house and all things in it utterly perished, with much ado to save the man and woman ; and besides that house, another house or two nere adjoyning were also fyred, but reskued by the diligent and carefull helpe, as well of the Erie of Oxford, Sir Fulk Grevile, and other Gentlemen and Townesmen, which reparid thither in gi-eater nomber than could be orderid. And no marvaile it was that so little harme was done, for the fire-balles and squibbes cast upp did so flye quiet over the Castell, and into the myds of the Towne, falling downe, some on houses, some in courts and baksides, and some in the streate, as farre as almost to Saint Mary churche, to the great perill, or else great feare, of the Inhabitants of * Calibers. THE QUEEN AT KENILWORTH, 1572. 65 this Borouoh : and so as, by what meanes is not yet knowen, foure houses in the Towne and Suhurbes were on fyre at once, wherof one had a hall came therough both sides, and made a hole as big as a man's head, and did no more harme. "This fyre appesid, it was tyme to goo to rest; and in the next morning it pleasid her Majesty to have the poore old man and woman that had their house brent brought unto her ; whom so brought, her Majesty recomfortid them much ; and, by her Grace's bounty, and other courtiers, there was given towards their losses that had taken hurt 25/. 12^. 8d. or therabouts, which was disposid to them accordingly. " On Monday [the 21st] her Majesty taking that plesure in the sport she had at Kenelworth, wold thither agayn, where she restid till the Saturday after [the 26th], and than from thens, by Charlecot, she went to the Lord Compton's*, and so forwards, &c." During this Visit at Kenihvorth, the Queen gave a positive refusal to an offer of marriage f, as appears from the following entry in Lord Bur- leigh's Diary: " 1572, Aug. 22. Answer gyven to La Motte, at Kenel- worth, that came to move marriage for Francis Duke of Alancon (the youngest Brother of the French King), that there were two difficulties ; one for difference of Religion, the other for their ages; but yet that the arti- cles moved in his Brother the Duke of Anjou's case, might serve for him." It was also during this Visit that Thomas Percy Earl of Northumber- land was executed. This Nobleman, who had been at the head of the * At Compton in Warwickshire (see p. 6 I ). — Lord Treasurer Burgliley thus concludes a Letter to tlie Earl of Shrewsbury, on the 23d of August : " From Compton in the Hole, so well called for a deep valley : but surely the entertainment is very great; and here have I wished you." — The Lord Treasurer's next Letter is dated from Woodstock, Aug. 27, in which he says, " Of the Earl of Northumberland's death, I think, your Lordship cannot be ignorant. The Earl of Huntingdon is appointed Lord President of the North." A subsequent Letter, Sept. 7, is dated from ihe Court at Woodstock ; as is one from the Earl of Leicester, Sept. 8. t On the subject of this proffered marriage, see a curious Letter from the Earl of Lei- cester to the Earl of Lincoln, dated June 20, 1572, under the Elizabethan Progresses of that year, vol. L p. 30. VOL. IV. K 66 THE QUEEN AT KENILWORTH, 1572. Rebellion In the North, was in January 1570 treacherously betrayed into the custody of James Stewart Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland, and in July 1572, for a large bribe, he was delivered to Henry Carey Lord Hunsdon, then Governor of Berwick; by whom he was sent to York, and beheaded there on the 22d of August; averring the Pope's supremacy, affirming the Realm to be in a state of sedition, and their obedience to Elizabeth no better tban Hereticks *. After her Visit to Lord Compton, the Queen returned to her Palace at Woodstock, where sbe rested several days ; and thence to Reading, where sbe also remained some time ; and ended her Progress at Windsor f on the 22d of September. Before the expiration of that month, the Queen, who had hitherto been very healthy (never eating without an appetite, nor drinking without an alloy), fell sick of the small-pox at Hampton Court. But she recovered before there was any news of her being sick ; and falling to the care of Government, ordered Portsmouth J to be strengthened with new fortifi- cations, her navy to be increased with more men of war, musters to be observed in every County at set times, and the youth to be trained up to war; and this when she enjoyed a profound peace §. * The Earl of Leicester, in a Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham, dated from Killing- worth, August 22, says, that " the Earl of Northumberland suffered death that day; for that, the day before, it was ordered that he should be brought thither that day, under the conduct of Fisher, for that purpose." Strype's Annals, IL 212. t A Letter from the Queen to the Earl of Shrewsbury is dated " from the Castle at Windsor, Oct. 22. 1572." I In the beginning of October the Earl of Leicester and Sir Francis Knowles, Trea- surer of the Household, were sent to Portsmouth, commissioned to see in hand the forti- fications of that town, against the invasion of the French or others. Stovv's Annals, IL 673. § Previously to her Progress in this year, the Queen had written to the Lord Mayor, strictly enjoining him to have a special regard to the good government and peace of the City during her absence ; and, for its better accomplishment, gave him, as assistants, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, Lord Wentworth, Sir Anthony Cook, Sir Thomas Wrott, Sir Owyen Hopton, Sir Thomas Gresham, Dr. Wilson, and Thomas Wilbraham. See the Letter in the Elizabethan Progresses, 1572, p. 21. THE QUEEN AT HAMPTON COURT, 1572. 67 The Queen kept the Christmas of 15/2 at Hampton Court * ; and in the following month of March, at her Palace at Greenwich, assisted person- ally in the performance of the accustomed ceremonies of the Maundy -f-. The influence of the Earl of Leicester was now become so considerable, that his patronage was solicited, not only by the Nobility in general, but by all such Public Corporations as had favours to solicit from the Court. In 1573 the Town of Tewkesbury presented to that all-powerful Noble- man " a cup of silver and gUt," for which the Town was levied and gathered. This was preparatory to an expected Incorporation; and in the following year " an ox of unusual size was sent to Kenllworth Castle, to be presented to the Earl of Leicester, being High Steward, who had then procured the Town to be incorporated ; which o.\ was seventeen hands high, and in length from head to tail twenty-six hands three inches, and cost iAl. ; for which the whole Town was also levied and gathered J." We now come to the Progress of 1575, the most memorable amongst all those of the preceding or following years; e.xtending to a greater distance of place, and to a period of nearly three months. In this Progress the Queen's good subjects in Leicester were grievously disappointed. That they had prepared for her Majesty's reception, appears by the following entry in the Books of that antient and loyal Corporation : " 29 April, 1575, 17 Eliz. At Common Hall, agreed for four post-horses, to allow 61. \3s. 4d.; that is, 33^.4(/. each; the Twenty-fbur§ to pay 2s. and the Forty-eight 11 12fZ. each ; and the rest to be levied on the inhabitants. " Also, it being supposed that the Queen will come to Leicester, it is ordered, that, for a stock of money, the Twenty-four pay 40*. and the Forty-eight 20s. each to the Chamberlains, upon a fortnight's warning; and that the Mayor, and such as have been Mayors, meet her in scarlet gowns ; and that the rest of the Twenty-four wear black gowns, made of * Sir Thomas Smith, her Majesty's Principal Secretary, writing to a Friend from that place, at the time, says, " If ye would know what we do here, we play at tables, dance, and keep Christmas." Life of Sir Thomas Smith, p. 239. + See the Elizabethan Progresses, 1572-3, vol. 1. p. 37. % From the Public Records of the Borough of Tewkesbiiry. § The number of the Aldermen. [| The Cgmmon Council. G8 THE QUEEN AT KENILWORTH, 1575. a new comely fashion; also the Forty-eight at that present to wear coats of fine black cloth, and to be guarded with velvet ; and to meet her Majesty on horseback. And that every Householder forthwith amend and beautify the fore front of their houses, and amend the pavement ; and this to be done at furthest within a fortnight after Whitsuntide week*. Some further extracts from the " Black Book" at Warwick will con- tribute to the illustration of this Progress. " The Somer following [15/5] it pleased her Majesty to make her progress into Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Worces- tershire, and so to returne to Woodstock in Oxfordshire; in which journey her Majesty lay at Kenelworth nineteen days, and her houshold at War- wick ; by reason whereof great diligence was to be given by tlie Bailief of Warwick, as well for the good government of the towne, as for the dutyfuU expediting of such things as by him were to be done for the furtheraunce of her Majesty's service divers wayes ; as by dispersing of letters by post, which came very thick ; as also by providing and fur- nishing her Majesty's officers with all manner of carriages, which were also very many, by reason of her Majesty's and her household's lying asunder; and by reason of horses provided for such as had commission to take horses, which were so many, that, for a month's space and more, 24 horses, 30 horses, and, when they were fewest, 20 horses would scarce suffice to serve commissions, some to Kenelworth, some to Lichfield, some further. And as in this, so in all things else, his service was not only expected, but also at all hours of day and nyght required. Wherein he so well behaved himself, that her Majesty was well served, to the good contentacion of her officers, and his good recommendacion ; which pro- cured to him further chardge (as this writer gesses} ; for the yomen offi- * See the History of Leicestershire, vol. I. p. 80. — Similar preparations had been made for the Queen's reception at Northampton, on a former Progress, in 1563, when the Town-gates were new painted, and the houses elegantly ornamented ; and, at her departure, she was presented by the Magistrates with 20/. in a purse of gold valued at 6/. Amongst other presents made to the Queen in 1575 was " a Jewell, being a grey- hound of gold," &c. a present from the Lady Howard, which was delivered to the Queen at Killingworth, to give to Sir John Hybote, Knight, there. THE (2UEEN AT KENILWORTH, 1575. 69 cers of the Court attending her person lleng at Kenelworth, hearing of the painfull service and willingness of the Ballief of Warwick, tooke paynes to visite him as her Majesty's lyeutenant and good officers, and, bringing with theni a cast of their office, by courtly mean, devised the opening of his largesse ; so as la fees (as they callld them) that way It cost him 40 marks, or 30 pounds, as may appear by his accompt thereof; of which chardge the said Ballief was not willing to ask any allowance ; but woold have borne it of his owne purse, contrary to all reason. If some of his freends had not earnestly perswadid him to the contrary. Such was his benlvolent mynd towards the towne, M'hich he knoweth to be greatly chargid otherwise, as by presents given to the Earl of Leycester, to the Countyes Warwick, and others." Strype, in his Annals, says, " Concerning Kenelworth Castle, and some of the preparations made by the Earl against the Queen's coming thither, one In those times writes, ' That In this Castle there are sufficient to fur- nish 1 0,000 soldiers, of all things necessary for horse and man ; besides all munition, and artillery brought thither when her Majesty was there, never carried back again.' " It was during the Entertainment of the Queen at this Visit, of which the splendour far exceeded what had any where else been given, that the Earl of Leicester exerted his whole munificence in a manner so splendid, as to claim a remembrance even In the Annals of our Country* ; and which are most copiously displayed In Master Robert Laneham's very ample description of the Pageants, and In Gascolgne's " Princely Plea- sures," both of which are preserved In the Ellzabetiian Progresses. Laneham's narrative sets out with an historical detail and description of the Castle, which Leicester had repaired, and In part rebuilt ; whose ruins are now so reduced, that the plan given by Sir William Dugdalc is scarcely traceable, and the grand Gateway is the principal remain -f-. * Bishop Hurd, Dialogues Moial ami Political. t An interesting print has lately been published, being a View of Kenilworth Castle, as it appeared in 1620, from a drawing (in the possession of J. Newdigate Ludford, Esq. LL.D. of Ansley Hall) made in 1716, of the curious fresco painting then existing upon a Wall (since destroyed) at Newnham Padox, the Seat of the Earl of Denbigh. See a reduced copy of it in Gent. Mag. vol. XCI. i. 240. 70 THE QUEEN AT KENILWORTH, 1575. The Queen's reception and entertainment there are described in so animated a manner, that we fancy ourselves present at the chace and other amusements, though the scenery of this day does not permit ima- gination to realize them. We learn from Dugdale, that " the Earl of Leicester gave the Queen a glorious entertainment at Long Ichington, erecting a tent of extraordinary largeness for that purpose, the ruins belonging whereto amounted to seven cart-loads, by which the magnificence thereof may be guessed at." And Laneham informs us that " on Saturday the 9th of July, at Long Ichington, a town and lordship of my Lord's, within seven miles of Killingworth, his Honor made her Majesty great cheer at dinner and plea- sant pastime in hunting, by the way after, that it was eight o'clock in the evening ere her Highness came to Killingworth." At Kenilworth, and every other place where the Queen was enter- tained, the whole Heathen Mythology was pressed into her service. Thus, Master Laneham, after describing the rare presents of inferior Deities*, informs his friend Humphrev Martin, that "Jupiter sent per- sonages of high honour and dignity ; Barons, Lords, Ladies, Judges, Bishops, Lawyers, and Doctors ; with them Virtue, Nobleness, Equity, Liberality, and Compassion ; due season and fair weather ; saving that, at the petition of his dear Sister Ceres, he granted a day or two of some sweet showers for ripening of her corn, that was so well set, and to get forward harvest." — Again, " What a number of Estates and Nobility had Jupiter assembled there, guess you by this, that of Sort Worshipful there were In the Court daily above forty, wherof the meanest of a thousand marks yearly revenue, and many much more. This great gift beside did his Deity confer upon her Highness — to have fair and seasonable weather at her own appointment, according whereunto her Majesty so had. For her gracious presence, therefore, with this great gift endowed, Lichfield f, Worcester J, and Middleton §, with many places more, made humble suit unto her Highness to come; to such whereof as her Majesty could, it came, and the season acceptable." * Compare the description of the Garden at Kenilworth, with Lord Burleigh's in Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, vol. I. p. 23. n. t See hereafter, page 72. J See page 76. § Qu. Which Middleton is this r THE QUEEN AT KENILWORTH, 1575. 71 The Queen appears regularly to have attended on the Sunday mornings at the Parish Church of Kenilworth. After divine service, balls and tiltin^s filled up the afternoon ; and on one Sunday a Masque was intended*. The old Coventry Play of HocTc Tuesday-^ was performed for the entertain- ment of her Majesty, by some of the inhabitants of this City, under the management of Captain Cox. At this representation her Majesty laughed heartily, and rewarded the performers with two bucks and five marks. An antient Minstrel and his Song were also prepared to have been prof- fered, if meet time and place had been found for it J. * Carpets were spread for the Queen near the water, as cloth of gold before the Bride of Henry II. in the Romance of Coeur de Lion. Warton's Poetry, vol. I. p. 153. t This Play must not be confounded with the Mysteries acted on Corpus Christi day by the Franciscans of Coventry, which were also called " Coventry Plays." Hock Tuesday was founded on the story of the massacre of the Danes, on St. Brice's night (Nov. 13), 1002. In the Play were represented, as described by Laneham, the inso- lency of the Danes, the grievous complaint of Hunna (King Ethelred's chieftain in war), his plot and contrivance to dispatch them ; the violent encounters between the Danish and English Knights on horseback, armed with spear and shield, and afterwards between hosts of footmen ; the contest at length ended in the defeat of the Danes, who were many of them led captive by our English women. " The antient Play of Hock Tuesday, it seems, had been exhibited j/ear/y in Coventry, but of late had been suppressed through the instance of some well-meaning, but precise Preachers, of whose sourness, on this occasion, the Citizens complained ; and contended that their Play was without example either of ill-manners, popery, or any superstition. But, when Queen Elizabeth came, the Coventry men were so eager to revive their Play, that apparently they had not been able to recover their old rhymes, or to procure new ones to accompany the action ; their performance, therefore, was entirely reduced to a dumb shew." Percy's " Reliques." — In 1574 the Queen granted a Licence to James Burbage, John Perkyn, John Latham, and two others, servants to the Earl of Leycester, to exhibit all kinds of stage plays, during pleasure, in any part of England. In the Accompts of the Churchwardens of Tewkesbury, under 1578, is the following entry: " Payd for the Players' geers, six sheepskins for Christ's garments." And in an inventory recorded in the same book, 1585, are tiiese words, " And order eight heads of hair for the Apostles, and ten beards, and a face or vizer for the Devil." X This Laneham styles « a ridiculous device ;" and introduces «' the Squire Minstrel of Middlesex," as bearing the ancient arms of the Village ot Islington. 72 THE OUEEN AT KENILWORTH AND LICHFIELD, 1575. Monday, the 18th of July, according to Laneham, " was a day of great bustle, wherein were advanced five gentlemen of worship unto the degree of knighthood: Sir Thomas Cecil, son and heir unto the right honourable the Lord Ti'easurer; Sir Henry Cobham, brother unto the Lord Cobham; Sir Thomas Stanhope; Sir Arthur Basset; and Sir Thomas Tresham. And also, by her Highness' accustomed mercy and charity, nine were cured of the painful and dangerous disease called the King's Evil." On Wednesday the 20th, it was intended that the Queen should sup at Wedgenock, a goodly park belonging to the Earl of Warwick ; and pre- parations were made for that purpose ; but bad weather prevented. The Queen's removal from Kenllworth was to Lichfield, where she con- tinued eight days*; as appears from the document now first printed -j-. AccoMPTE of Symox Bydpull and John Walkelet, Baylieffs and Justic's of Peace within the Cyttye of Lich', from St. James Apostle 1575 to 1576. Charges when the Queenes Ma*'^ was at the Cyttye of Lich', A° 15 75 (.July 27 to Aug. 3.) Inp'mis, to the Queenes most excellent Ma*"^ in golde - - 40 Itm, for charges for viij dayes, when the Queene's Ma*'^ was here, as appeareth by p'tyculers in the booke, to the some of - It"m, paid to Thomas Harvye, for poles for the scaffold It'm, to olde Bate, for goinge to M'' Sprott - - - - W"^ Holcroft, for kepynge Madde Richard when her Ma''*" was here _______ It'm, to Gregorye Ballard's Maid, for brynginge checkyns - It'm, to the Pavyoures, for pavynge about the M'ket Crosse It'm, bestowed ujion the Harbcngers at Widdowe Hills It'm, for payntynge the M'kett Crosse _ - . _ It'm, to Gostalowe, for takynge downe the skaffold - - _ It'm, to the Oueenes Ma*'*^' Harbengers _ _ _ _ * Within that period the Queen seems to have made some excursions into the neigh- bourhood. The following entry is taken from the Parish Register of Alrewas, a village five miles from Lichfield : " Elizabetha llegina rediebat Lichfeldiie 30 die nieii^is Julii, et illic remanebat usque ad tertiam diem mensis Augusti, anno Domini 157 5." t Communicated by Thomas Sharp, Esq. of Coventry, 7 10 6 1 2 5 3 2 8 19 1 10 THE QUEEN AT LICHFIELD, 1575. 73 It'm, to tlie Gierke of the M'kett ----- It'm, to the Fotenien ------ It'm, to the Messengers of the Chamber - _ - - It'm, to the Truinppettors ------ It'm, to theTrumpettors, at the tyme of p'clamac'on, made by the Clerke of the INI-'ket ------ It'm, to the Knyght M'shalls men ----- Yomen of the bottells _ _ - _ It'm, to Robes ------- the Queene's Porters _ - - - - Keeper of M"" Raffe Boos tent . - - - Blacke gards ------ them of the P'vye backhowse - - _ _ It'm, to the Slawghter men _ - - _ It'm, to the Queene's Coachemen - - - - Post maister ----- Sergiant of Amies • Harrolde of Armes Yoman that caryed the sworde Yoman that caryed the male - - - Yoman that surveyed the wayes for y Queene - M'' Cartwright, that shuld have made the Orac'on - the Ringers of Sa3ait Maryes churche It'm, for ij dayes laborynge at Longbridge, to cast downe the waye for the Queenes Ma^'"^ comynge . - - - - It'm, for mendyng the dyche in akeryard - - - - It'm, to Gregorye Ballard, for goinge w**' I'res to Kyllyngworthe Kelynge, for payntynge and mendyng the geylehall Rob'rt Dale, for salt fysshe _ - _ - Wyddowe Hill, for ij dos' waxe torches, and one lyncke Nycholas Smyth, for victiialls . _ - - James Oliver, for beare , . - - - vi men, to go w*'^ the Qucene's treasure to Rydgeley * * Rugeley, to which place the Queen's "Treasure" was carried, is a market town in the direct road between Liclifield and Stafford. VOL. IV. h 2 3 1 2 10 13 4 13 4 2 10 2 6 1 0. 3 4 3 4 10 1 3 ( sic.) 10 10 6 8 5 1 4 7 4 6 3 4 3 10 6 1 4 1 17 1 12 1 74 THE QUEEN AT LICHFIELD AND CHARTLEY CASTLE, 1575. Other Extracts from the " Charges Extraordinary " of the year, appearivg to be connected with the Queens Visit, are as follow : It'm, to Thomas Ylseleye, for goinge to Kyllyngworthe with our Charter 10 Kyllam Hawks, for a horse hyre to Kyllyngworthe - - 1 . to my Lorde of Warvvyk's Players [see p. 7 1 .] - - 8 8 Kyllam Hawkes, for a horse hyre to Worcester - - 1 6 It'm, given to the Queene's Bearward in reward - - - 3 4 In the Museum of the late Mr. Greene of Litchfield was an Instrument of brass, by Humph. Cole, 1575 (the time of this Royal Visit), consisting of a Nocturnal, a Table of Latitude, an Horizontal and South Dial, a Marine Compass, and Perpetual Almanack. Round the verge, '• AS TIME AND HOWRES PASSITH AWAY, SO DOTH THE LIFE OF MAN DECAY, AS TIME CAN BE REDEEMED WITH NO COSTE, BESTOW IT WELL, AND LET NO HOW'r BE LCST." By a Letter from Sir Thomas Smith, then Principal Secretary to the Queen, and an attendant on her Majesty in this Progress, it appears that she procceeded from Lichfield to Chartley Castle, an antient seat of the noble family of De Ferrariis, at that time the property of Walter Deve- reux Earl of Essex * ; whose great grandfather, Sir Walter Devereux, had obtained that Baronial Residence by marriage with Anne, daughter and heir of William Lord Ferrers of Chartley ; and was himself summoned to Parliament in 1461 as Lord Ferrers of Chartley \. * His grandson was created Viscount Hereford in 145^-50; and in 1572 the Earldom of Essex was conferred on Walter the second Viscount, who died in 1576. t Chartley is remarkable as having been for some time the prison of the unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots; and liere was a bed wrought by lier during her confinemeiu. The ancient edifice was built round a Court. It was curiously made of wood, the sides carved, and the top embattled as represented in Plott's History. The arms of the Devereux, with the devices of the Ferrers and Garnishes, were in the windows and in many parts within and without the house ; which was destroyed accidentally by fire in 1781, and scarcely any thing but the moat which surrounded it remains to mark its site. — Chartley is now the property of Robert Shirley, Earl Ferrers, into whose family it came by the marriage of his immediate ancestor, Sir Henry Shirley, with Lady Dorothy, daughter of Robert Devereux second Earl of Essex, and sister and heir of Robert the third Earl, THE QUEEN AT STAFFORD, CHILLINGTON, &c. 1575. tO From Chartley the Queen proceeded to Stafford Castle, the then Baronial Residence of Edward Lord Stafford*. Of this Visit some parti' culars are most probably preserved in the Records of the Corporation; but I have not met with more than the following anecdote: " Queen Elizabeth asking what was the cause of the decay of the Town, was answered, that the decay of Capping was one cause ; and another, that the Assizes were taken away from the Town. To which her Majesty replied, that she would renew and establish better the statute for Capping, and for the Assizes, she gave her promise that the same should ever after be kept at Stafford f ." After quitting Staffx)rd, the Queen was entertained at Chillington by John GiffardJ, Esq. who had been High Sheriff" of Staffordshire in IS/S; an office which several of his ancestors (some of them of knightly degree) had honourably sustained in that and the two preceding centuries §. On the 12th and 13th of August, the Queen was entertained at Hartle- bury Castle by Dr. Nicholas BuUingham||, Bishop of Worcester. * Life of Sir Tliomas Smitli, p. 139. t Dearie's MS. cited by Mr. Gough in liis Camden, vol. II. p. 389. X Chillington is yet in the family of GifFard ; and Tliomas Giffard, Esq. is possessed of a large estate in the County, and resides at this antient seat. The house seems to be of the date of Henry VIII.; and is remarkable for the various forms of the chimneys and doorways. Harwood's Erdeswick, p. 123. § Edward Stafford, third Duke of Buckingham, of that family, was beheaded in 1521. His son Henry, by an Act passed in the same year, was restored in blood, but not to his honours : but many of the lands were afterwards restored to him, particularly the Castle and Manor of StaiTord. In 1 Edvv. VI. he was again restored in blood, and, being sum- moned to Parliament, was i)laced next to Baron Talbot. He was a man of learning and great accomplishments; was the Compiler of the Stafford MSS. ; and died in 1553. — His sou Henry Baron Stafford had the honour in 1575 of entertaining his Royal Mistress in the old Baronial Castle of Stafford ; and on the following New Year's Day Lady Stafford pre- sented to the Queen "a pair of bracelets of gold, set with agalha beads, and other stones." — This Nobleman died without issue about 1580, and was succeeded by his brother Edward, who was summoned to Parliament 23 Elizabeth. Harwood's Erdeswick, p. 125. II Bishop of Lincoln, 1559; and of Worcester, 1570. He died April 18, 1576. 76 THE QUEEN AT WORCESTER, 1575- Of the Queen's reception at Worcester *, the following description is extracted from the Chamber Order Book of that City, pp. 122 — 128. " CiviTAS Wigorn'. '' At a Convocation and Common Council holden at the Geld Hall of the said Citie, in the Councell Chamber there, the sixteenth day of July, in the seventeenth* year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God, England, France, and Yerland, Queen, Defender of the Fayth, &c. " I. Imprimis ; for as much as it is reported that the Queen's Majestie will come to this Citie, hit is agreed that, before her Majesties comyng, the fower gates shall be sett in some decent color, viz. in an ashe color, with her Majesties arms both within and without. " II. Item, that every person havyng any donghills or myskyns and tymber within the Liberties shall cause the same to be carryed away within ten days next ; and so shall kepe cleane their soyles, and pave the same with all convenyent spede: And that every inhabitant of the Foregate Street, the Hygh Street, the Broad Street, Newport Street, and so on to the Bridge unto the end of the Liberties, the Leech Lane, Sudbury Street, to the end of the Liberties there, shall provide gravell for their soyles. " III. Item, that every Inhabitant within the Liberties of tbe Citie shall forthwith whltlyme and color their bowses with comeley colours. " IV. Item, that the Chamberlains shall set out very comeley with colors the front of the Geld Hall, with gelding the Queen's arms. * Green's Worcester, 1796, vol. I. p. 295 ; and Appendix, p. xxxvii. This Visit was first noticed in Garbett's " Survey of Worcester," published with Plates by Valentine Green in 1764; but, by mis-calculating " the 17th of Elizabeth," the date is there erroneously placed in 1574. The same error in the date is copied by Dr. Nash, and again by Mr. Green in 1796. Dr. Nash's brief account is taken from the Collections of Archdeacon Worth and Mr. Broughton of Hartlebury, supposed to be the writinof of Bishop Blandford. And Mr. Garbett says, "The Speech which the Queen made in her haranguement of the populace, is preserved in the MS. Notitia of the late Chancellor Price in the Bishop's Library at Hartlebury." In answer to an enquiry after that Speech which I took the liberty of making in 1788, I was informed by the late excellent Bishop Hurd (whom I am proud thus to mention as my constant and friendly Patron) that it was not then to be found in the Episcopal Library. THE QUEEN AT WORCESTER, 1575. 77 *' V. Item, the fouer maces and the Alderman's staff shall be gylt, on the heds, the fethers, and knotts. " VI. Item, two Pageants, or Stages, to be sett forward; viz. the one at the Grass Crosse, and the other in St. Alban's Street end, at St. Helen's Church. " VII. Item, Mr. Bell*, as Depute to Sir John Throckmorton-|', Knyght, our Recorder, to be spoken with, touching the Oration, and to be rewarded for his paynes. " VIII. Item, the Grass Cross and the Cross with' Sidbury to be set in colors, together with the Kyng's Pycturelj; at Sudbury Gate. " IX. Item, that Mr. Baylyffs, Mr. Aldermen, and the High Cham- berlain, in Scarlett; and to have their horses in reddynes at Salt Lane end, in the Foregate Street, to meet her Majestic, and to beare their maces on horseback before her Majestic : And that the rest of the number of the 24, that hath been Baylyffs, in scai'lett gownes faced with black satten, with doubletts of satten, on foote ; and the other, the residue of them, in murrey in grayne; and the 48 in their liverey gownes of velvet in grayne, faier and comeley, with the rest of the Freemen and every Occup'on by himself in their gowns and other decent apparel, on a row, on the East side of the said street ; and before every Occupa.tion their streamers to be holden. " X. Item, that the livery gownes of every Company of the Chamber to be view*^ by Mr. Baylyffs and their Brethren, and to be comeley and decent. *' XI. Item, that Mr. Dighton, being High Baylyff, at the next Chamber after the Queens Majesties dep'ture from this City, shall be by this House consid', either with money or some other recompence, in cons" as well for taking upon the charge of his office for this year, as also towards his extraordinary charges during her Majesties beyng heere. " XII. Item, a fare cupp to be bought at London, for the presenting the gyfte to the Queens Majestic, and 40Z. in sov'raignes and angclls of her own coign and stamp. * This name is variously written — Bell, Bella, and Btllu. t Tlie Recorder of Worcester, tlie Recorder of Coventry, and also the Sir John Throgmorton noticed in p. 54, are probably one and the same person. X The Statue of a King now unknown ; it was in being when the Gate was taken down. 78 THE QUEEN AT WORCESTER, 1575. " XIII. Item, that Mr. High Bayliffs shall see allOflficers and Servants of the Queens Majestle to be paid their accustomed fees and rewards. " XIV. Item, a cupp worth 101. to be provided and bought, to present Sir James Croft, Kn', Controller of the Queens Majesties howse, for his councell and friendship shewed to this Citie. " XV. Item, it is agreed that 212/. shall be levied towards the charges in receiving the Queen's Majestic, as followeth : Imprimis, to be borrowed out of the Thresury of the City 201. Item, to be levied by the way of tax of the Chamber; viz. 961. — viz. of every of the 24, 40s. ; and of every of the 48, 20*. Item, of the Inhabitants, Com'ons, and Citizens of the Citie, 961. Collectors of the 24 charge, Richard NicoUs, Richard Darok. Collectors of the 48 charge, Robert Crosbye, Thomas Latye. " XVI. Item, Mr. BaylifFs shall nominate the Assessors of the Com- monaltie towards their charges as followeth : The High Ward 20/.— John Parton, Stephen Whitfoote, Thomas Ward, Thomas Harley. Allhallow Ward 201. — John Harte, Thomas Spencer, Thomas Antony, Thomas Porter. St. Andrew Ward 13/. 6s. 8d. — Thomas Handley, Francis Nott, John Case, Thomas Yate. St. Switin WWd 13/. 6s. 8d. — Thomas Adams, John Archer, William Blagden, John Bradshaw. St. Peters Ward 13/. 6s. 8d. — Peter Humphreys, Will. CuUambyne, Rob. Shepherd, Will. Wythe. St. Nicholas Ward 13/. 6s. 8d. — R. How^sman, Hugh Hollyngshead, Ant. Wythe, W. Jackson. St. Clement 3/. — Hugh Chadock, Harry Kynnett, with the Constables of each Ward. " XVII. Item, it is agreed that there be in a readiness 1/ post horses through the Citie, and readie to shew. — The High Ward 4 post horses ; Allhallow Ward, 4; St. Andrew Ward, 2; St. Martin Ward, 2; St. Peters Ward, 2; Saint Nicholas Ward, 2; Saint Clements Ward, 1. THE QUEEN AT WORCESTER, 1575- 79 THE ORDER OF RECEIVING THE QUEEn's MAJESTIE, WITH A BREEF DISCOURSE OF HER CONTYNUED MANNER HERE. Viz. On Saturday the thirteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and seventy-fyve, and in the 17th year of the raigne of our most victorious and Sovereign Lady Ehzabeth, by the grace of God, of England, France, and Yirland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c. the same her Highness came towards this Citie from the Castle of Hartlebury, where she did rest the night before in her Progresse, between 7 and 8 of the clock in the afternoone of the same Seturday ; and did alight at a house neer to the same Citie, called Whyston's Farme, there to attler herself, in that respect of her wyllyng good mynde to shew herself comfortable to the Cytyzens, and to a great number of people of all countreys ab' her assembled. And, after a little space, her Majestic came rydyng upon her palfrey towards the said Citie. And in the confines of the Liberties of the same Citie, beyng at Salt Lane end, Mr. Chrisf Dighton and Mr. Rich-^ Spark, BailifFs of the s'' Citie, Mr. Thomas Hey- wood and Mr. John Coombs, Aldermen of the same, and Mr. George VVarberton, High Chamberlain of the Citie afores'', together with one Mr. William Bell, Master of Arts, supplying the place and room of Sir John Throckmorton, Knyght, Recorder of the s** Citie, together with others to the nomber of 12 persons, who had been BaylyfFs, all in scarlett gowns faced with black satten, and the residue of the nomber of the 24 in murrey in grayne gownes, and all the 48 i