tower added to it, under which lie buried those kings of Denmark, that reigned in England.

II. Gray's Inn. And,

III. Lincoln's Inn.

In these colleges numbers of the young nobility, gentry, and others, are educated, and chiefly in the study of phyfic, for very few apply themselves to that of the law: they are allowed a very good table, and filver cups to drink out of. Once a perfon of distinction, who could not help being furprised at the great number of cups, faid, "He “should have thought it more suitable to the life of "ftudents, if they had ufed rather glass, or ear

then-ware, than filver." The college anfwered, "They were ready to make him a prefent of all "their plate, provided he would undertake to supply "them with all the glass, and earthen-ware, they "fhould have a demand for; fince it was very "likely he would find the expence, from constant "breaking, exceed the value of the filver.”

The streets in this city are very handsome and clean; but that which is named from the goldsmiths who inhabit it, surpasses all the reft: there is in it a gilt tower, with a fountain that plays. Near it, on the farther fide, is a handfome houfe, built by a goldsmith, and presented by him to the city. There are befides to be seen in this street, as in all others

where there are goldsmiths' fhops, all forts of gold and filver veffels expofed to fale; as well as ancient and modern medals, in fuch quantities as must furprize a man the first time he fees and confiders them.

Fitz-Stevens, a writer of English history, reckoned in his time in London, one hundred and twenty-feven parish churches, and thirteen belonging to convents: he mentions befides, that upon a review there of men able to bear arms, the people brought into the field under their colours, forty thousand foot, and twenty thousand horse. Vide Cambden's Britan. Middlesex.

The best oysters are fold here in great quantities.

Every body knows that English cloth is much approved of, for the goodness of the materials, and imported into all the kingdoms and provinces of Europe.

We were shewn, at the house of Leonard Smith, a taylor, a most perfect looking-glass, ornamented with gold, pearl, filver, and velvet, so richly as to be estimated at five hundred ecus du foleil. We faw at the fame place the hippocamp and eagle stone, both very curious and rare.

And thus much of LONDON.

Upon taking the air down the river, the first thing that ftruck us, was the fhip of that noble pirate, fir Francis Drake, in which he is faid to have furrounded this globe of earth. On the left hand lies Ratcliffe, a confiderable fuburb: on the opposite shore is fixed a long pole with rams-horns upon it, the intention of which was vulgarly said to be, a reflection upon wilful and contented cuckolds.

We arrived next at the royal palace of Greenwich, reported to have been originally built by Humphrey duke of Gloucester, and to have received very magnificent additions from Henry VII. It was here Elizabeth, the prefent queen, was born, and here the generally refides; particularly in summer, for the delightfulness of its fituation. We were admitted by an order Mr. Rogers had procured from the lord chamberlain, into the prefence-chamber, hung with rich tapestry, and the floor after the English fashion, ftrewed with * hay, through which the queen commonly paffes in her way to chapel : at the door ftood a gentleman dreffed in velvet, with a gold chain, whofe office was to introduce to the queen any person of diftinction, that came to wait on her: it was Sunday, when there is usually the greatest attendance of nobility. In the fame hall were the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishop of London, a great number of counsellors of ftate, of

*He probably means ruflies.

ficers of the crown, and gentlemen, who waited the queen's coming out; which fhe did from her own apartment, when it was time to go to prayers, attended in the following manner:

First went gentlemen, barons, earls, knights of the garter, all richly dreffed and bareheaded; next came the chancellor, bearing the feals in a red-filk purse, between two; one of which carried the royal fcepter, the other the fword of ftate, in a red fcabbard, ftudded with golden fleurs de lis, the point upwards: next came the queen, in the fixtyfifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes fmall, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black; (a defect the English seem fubject to, from their too great use of sugar) fhe had in her ears two pearls, with very rich drops; she wore false hair, and that red; upon her head she had a small crown, reported to be made of fome of the gold of the celebrated Lunebourg table *: her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it, till they marry; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low; her air was stately, her manner of speaking mild and obliging. That day she was dreffed in white filk, bordered with pearls of the fize of beans, and over it a mantle of

* At this distance of time, it is difficult to fay what this was.

black filk, fhot with filver threads; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness; instead of a chain, she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels. As she went along in all this state and magnificence, fhe spoke very graciously, first to one, then to another, whether foreign minsters, or those who attended for different reasons, in English, French, and Italian; for, befides being well fkilled in Greek, Latin, and the languages I have mentioned, fhe is mistress of Spanish, Scotch and Dutch: whoever fpeaks to her, it is kneeling; now and then she raises fome with her hand. While we were there, W. Slawata, a Bohemian baron, had letters to prefent to her; and fhe, after pulling off her glove, gave him her right hand to kiss, sparkling with rings and jewels, a mark of particular favour: whereever she turned her face, as fhe was going along, every body fell down on their knees. The ladies of the court followed next to her, very handfome and well shaped, and for the most part dressed in white; fhe was guarded on each side by the gentlemen pensioners, fifty in number, with gilt battleaxes. In the antichapel next the hall where we were, petitions were presented to her, and she re

*Her father had been treated with the fame deference, It is mentioned by Fox in his acts and monuments, that when the lord chancellor went to apprehend queen Catherine Parr, he spoke to the king on his knees.

King James I. fuffered his courtiers to omit it.

BACON's Papers, Vol. II. p. 516,