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struction, and fallen into Wake's own hands, and was actually produced, and at the time was triumphantly exposed also to many persons, both of the Romish and Reformed communions. Bossuet himself admitted in his second letter, that the manuscript from which the authorized impression was printed, differed, in a few things, from the copy, which he had so very conveniently called "surreptitious.' Johnstone, a Benedictine, and the chief leader of Bossuet's defenders, did (and no doubt most unwillingly so) admit, that perhaps the Sarbonnists, who were Bossuet's kind friends, might have made some corrections, additions, &c. Alas! for poor Barbier! How the detection also of this wholesale cheat brands Bossuet with the stain of the most perverse faithlessness! The pretended surreptitious edition was unanswerably proved to be authorised. Chamoisy, a person of character, property, and respectability, was its Editor. Chamoisy was no less than head Director of the King's printing establishment, and was even Bossuet's own bookseller. Now this self-same first, but repudiated, edition,

MR. URBAN,

just like that which was afterwards circulated by Bossuet's express authority, was printed by the King's permission, and, as we above stated, was most warmly approved and recommended by the eleven French Bishops. Besides, this very Chamoisy afterwards published the Exposition, and all Bossuet's Tuture works. This plain fact, without further comment, quite falsifies the ridiculous or interested manœuvres of Bossuet, and all his Vindicators.

I heartily thank J. R. for giving me this good opportunity to make a fuller exhibition of Bossuet's personally clever but sly trickery, in addition to what we had before, in your Magazine of July, p. 36, established, namely-the sophistical silliness or jesuitry of Dr. Murray's recommending this Exposition to the Protestants of the Empire, and the really farcical display which all the circumstances connected with this Exposition give of the blissful unity, peace, love, and concord of Romish literary and doctrinal infallibility. WM. BAILEY.

North Grove House, Tunbridge Wells.

THEOBALDS PALACE.

WHEN I furnished you with the recapitulation of the history of Theobalds Palace, which accompanied the View published in your number for February last, I was obliged to defer, for want of space, my remarks on the visits of Queen Elizabeth, and other occurrences, which form the historical portion of the memoir. Circumstances have hitherto prevented the execution of my proposal; which now, with your permission, I will proceed to fulfil.

1 must first, however, mention a very remarkable circumstance, connected with the view you have engraved. It was not previously unpublished, as Mr. Pickering supposed,

when he engraved the vignette in his edition of Walton's Angler, and as we all supposed when it was prepared for your Miscellany: on the contrary, there is a folio plate of it, engraved at the expense of the Society of Antiquaries in the year 1765, but under the misnomer of RICHMOND PALACE, a very extraordinary instance of carelessness and want of research, as there are two old views in existence of Richmond Palace, showing that its architecture was totally different in style to that of Theobalds.

From the propinquity of Theobalds to London, and our present ideas of rapid locomotion, it might be supposed that Queen Elizabeth would have

It might have been remarked in Feb. p. 147 that the identity of the building in the back-ground of Queen Anne of Denmark's figure, in the tapestry at Houghton, with the palace of Theobalds, is fully confirmed by our view, though Mr. Lysons seemed to doubt it. Several features of identity may be recognised.

The original painting was then "in the possession of Lord Viscount Fitzwilliam at Richmond;" a circumstance which naturally led to the misnomer with inconsiderate persons.

visited her favourite Minister there with great facility, and perhaps several times in the course of every year. Such, however, was not the fact. Like her royal predecessors, she is known to have been continually in progress to the several mansions of her nobility, whilst in the splendour and expense of

the entertainments which she exacted from her hosts, she surpassed every former sovereign. But she did not move without an enormous train, which, like an army of locusts, devoured "all the provision of bread," and meat, and every thing else; and not only made a constant transit indispensable, but did not leave the country behind it in a state to receive a second visit until after a due respite and the return of another fruitful season. In some degree this would apply to situations even so near the metropolis as Theobalds; at any rate, the royal tours had their settled course, and the turn for Theobalds does not appear to have generally recurred more frequently than once a year.

At the same time, in comparison with other places, Theobalds was considered to enjoy a large share of the royal presence; and the manner in which Lord Burghley's contemporary biographer speaks of the matter is as follows:

"His Lordship's extraordinary chardg in enterteynment of the Quene, was greater to him then to anie of her subjects; for he enterteyned her at his house twelve severall times; which cost him two or three thousand pounds 3 every tyme; [the Queen] lyeing there, at his Lordship's chardg, sometymes three weeks, a moneth, yea six weeks together. But his love to his Sovereigne, and joye to enterteyn her and her traine, was so greate, as he thought no troble, care, nor cost too much, and all too little, so it weare bountifully performed to her Majesties recreation, and the contentment of her traine. Her Majesty sometymes had straungers and Ambassadors came to her at Theobalds; where she hath byn sene

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Thus we see that, though in point of expense Lord Burghley's hospitality was exceeded by none, yet the number of visits is still limited, and in fact they were well known to have been altogether twelve.

With some research, I have been able to trace out most of them.

1. The first is thus mentioned by Lord Burghley in his Diary :

jestie came to Thebalds, wher these verses "1571. Sept. 22. The Queen's Mafollowing were presented to hir Majestie, with a portrait of the House."

jesty came on this occasion to see the This evidently shows that her Manew House, or what was then erected of it. Neither portrait nor verses are known to be now in existence; but,

should a copy of either be preserved among the papers of the Marquesses of Salisbury or Exeter, it is to be hoped that they and all similar curiosities will, as early as possible, be removed from the power which Ben Jonson personifies as "Master Vulcan," by means of the multiplication of copies, lest in the next fire at Hatfield or Burghley they should be lost for ever.

It was expected that the Queen, during this visit, would be present at the marriage of his Lordship's elder daughter with the Earl of Oxford.5 This alliance proved unfortunate; for the Earl illtreated his wife, it is said to revenge upon Burghley the ruin of the Duke of Norfolk.

2. Of the second visit we have only this brief notice from Lord Burghley's Diary:

3 The Lord Treasurer's ordinary household expenses at Theobalds were 801. a week.

4 It was before shown in Feb. p. 148, that the supposed visit of the Queen in 1564 was a mistake.

5 Hugh Fitzwilliam to the Countess of Shrewsbury :-"Thei say the Quene wil be at my Lorde of Burlyes howse besides Walton on Sunday nexte (the letter is dated, however, Sept. 21, the very day of her Majesty's visit); wheare my Lorde of Oxford shall marry Mrs. Anne Sicelle, his daughter."-Hunter's Hallamshire, p. 83.

“1572. July 22. The Queen's Majesty was at Theobalds."

This was only one week after Burghley had been made Lord Treasurer. Mr. Nichols has stated, but without mentioning any authority, that this visit lasted three days; but there can be little doubt that, if that had been the case, his Lordship would have said so.

3. The third visit is thus recorded in the Diary:

"1575. May 24. The Q. Majesty was at Thebolds, and so she was afore in July 22, 1572."

4. The fourth in

"1577. May 14. The Q. Majesty was at Thebolds, and so she was in May

1575, and in July 1572."

In 1578 the Queen was expected to go to Theobalds, and to " tarry" three or four days; but we may conclude from Lord Burghley's Diary that her Majesty's fifth visit was in 1583, when his Lordship again recapitulates the former visits.

5. The fifth

"1583. May. The Queens Majesty at Thebalds the 27, 28, 29, 30 Maij.

"Nota. In the 24th May 1575 she was also at Thebals; 14th May 1577, and in July 1572."

A list of the several lodgings the mansion contained, and the manner in which they were assigned on this occasion to the several attendants of the Court, is printed in Queen Elizabeth's Progresses, vol. ii. pp. 400—404.

6. In Lord Burghley's Diary:

1587. June. The Queen's Majesty was at Thebalds."

7. The next visit was a more memorable one; at least much more has been preserved about it. Lord Burghley says:

"1591. May 10. The Queen came to Thebalds from Hackney."

On the day of her arrival, by the hand of Sir Christopher Hatton, Chancellor of England, she addressed a mock heroic epistle "to the disconsolate and retired spryte, the Heremite of Tybole." This was Mr. Robert

Cecil, Lord Burghley's younger and highly talented son. It was mentioned in the former article, that Theobalds was settled upon that distinguished personage by indenture dated 16 June 1577; and it appears from this burlesque epistle, that about March 1588-9 he had taken actual possession, whilst Lord Burghley himself had retired to his former smaller house, which Mr. Robert had for ten years occupied. Of this arrangement it is clear the Queen did not approve, and she seems to have commissioned Sir Christopher Hatton, in a playful way, to make her wishes known. Sir Christopher, with right good-will, began his epistle in the following style:

"ELIZABETHA Anglorum, id est, a nitore Angelorum Regina formosissima et

felicissima: To the disconsolate and re

tired spryte, the Heremite of Tybole, and to al oother disaffected sowles, claiming by, from, or under the said Heremit, sendeth greeting: Whereas in our High Coourt of Chanceri it is given us to understand, that you Sir Heremite, the abandonate of Nature's fair works, and servaunt to Heaven's woonders, have, for the space of two years and two moonthes, possessed yoorself of fair Tybollet, with her sweet rosary the same tyme, the rebeloved Sir William Sitsilt, Knt. leaving creation of our right trusty and right well to him the old rude repoze, wherein twice five years (at his cost) yoor contemplate life was releived; which place and fate inevitable hath brought greefs innumerable (for lover greef biddeth no compare) suffering yoor solitary eye to bring into hiz house desolation and moorning, joyes destroyers, and annoye frendes, whereby Paradice is grown Wilderness, and for green grass are comen gray hearz," &c. &c.

After further preamble in the same strain, the Queen commanded the Hermit to return to his "old cave, too good for the forsaken, too bad for our worthily belooved Coouncillour;' all which was wholly incomprehensible to poor old Strype, who thought "it would be a very difficult, perhaps an impracticable task, should one endeavour to write a commentary capa

6 Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. i. p. 309. 7 Letter of Gilbert Talbot. Ibid. ii. p. 93.

8 See the whole in Strype's Annals, iv. 77, and the Progresses of Queen Elizabeth,

ii. 75.

ble of explaining this singular piece:" nor, I believe, has any one yet remarked what that other mansion was

which had the honour of being the more sequestered retreat of the great Cecil and his son. There can, however, be no question that it was a house in the parish of Edmonton, which Norden, in his Survey of Middlesex, briefly describes as Pymmes, a proper little house of the right honourable Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer of England.""

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The Queen prolonged her stay at Theobalds at this time for ten days. On the 16th of the month she "dyned abrode,”—that is, out of her Privychamber, "in the chamber called the Queen's Arbor, in company with the French Ambassador and L."" On her Majesty's departure, on the 20th, she bestowed the honour of knighthood on Sir Robert Cecil." "I suppose you have heard," say Sir T. Wylkes in a letter to Sir R. Sydney, on the 18th of June, "of her Majesty's great entertainment at fibbuls; of her knighting Sir Robert Cecill, and of the expectation of his advance to the Secretaryship. But so it is (as we said in Court) that the knighthood must serve for both."

8. The next visit was in

"1593. June 13. The Queen came to Thebolds, and continued there to the 21st

thereof."

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"your Majesties Beadman, who, at your last coming hither (where God grant you may com many years), upon my complaynt, by your pryncely favor was restored to my HERMITAGE, by an injunction, when my Founder, uppon a strange conceite, to feed his owne humour, had placed me, contrary to my profession, in his HOUSE, amongst a number of worldlings, and retired himselfe in my poore cell, where I have ever since, by your only goodness (most peerelesse and powerful Queen), lived in all happines, spending three parts of the day in repentance, the fourth in praying for your Majestie, that as your virtues have been the world's wonder, so your dayes may see the

world's end.

"And now a little further to acquaint your Majestie with my happ (though I must arme myself with patience), my Founder, to leave all free for you and your trayne, hath comitted to my NEST 12 all his unfledged birds, being the comfort of his age, and his pretious jewells, being to some of them Grandfather, to others more, all derived from his good opinion of me.

But such a wanton charge for a poor old man, as they now hear of the arryvall of such an admirable Worke of Nature, a man must pluck their quilles, or els they will daylie fly out to see your Majestie, such is the working of the Grandfather's affection in them, and your

vertue and beautie !"

Here the entries of Lord Burghley's Diary fail us; but it may be readily imagined that during the five subsequent years of the Lord Treasurer's life, the Queen made the four other visits which complete the number of twelve.

9. The occasion mentioned in the Memoirs of Sir Robert Carey (afterwards of Monmouth) when he found

9 Dr. Robinson, in his History of Edmonton, p. 60, says: This house was situated on the north side of Watery Lane; it is now entirely demolished. It took its name from William Pymme, who built it: the family were settled in Edmonton in the reign of Edward II. It is mentioned in the Inquisition on the death of Robert Earl of Salisbury, 1612; as in that of Lord Burghley (see Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, p. 189). "On the 12th July 1594," says Lord Burghley in his Diary, "the Queen came to Robert Cecill's house to speak with me." This was probably Pymmes. 10 Lord Burghley's Diary. Some commentator has added a note,-"Qu. who is L.? Probably Lord Treasurer Burghley:" but it is much more probable that the meaning was, the Ambassador Extraordinary and the Leiger or Resident Ambassador. 11"May 20. Robert Cecill made Knight at the Queen Majesties removing."Lord Burghley's Diary.

12 i. e. to Pymmes; where, it may be presumed, one of Lord Burghley's grandchildren died, being interred in the parish church of Edmonton, and thus recorded in the register: Frances Vere, fil. Comitis Oxfordiæ, sepult. September 12, 1587."

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10. On the 7th Sept. 1597 the Queen was again at Theobalds, and there gave audience to the Danish Ambassador. It was her birthday; and the Ambassador

"tooke thereby occasion to say, That sithen it had pleased God on that day to glorifie the worlde with so gratious a Creature, who had brought so great happiness to the Realme, and the neighbour Kingdomes, hee doubted not but that the Kinge his maister shoulde in that happy day have an happy answere of his request."

To which the Queen made this witty reply:

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I blame you not to expect a reasonable answere and a sufficient; but you may think it a great miracle, that a Childe borne at four of the clocke this morning should bee able to aunswere so learned and wise a Man as you are, sent from so great a Prince as yours, about so great and waighty affayres as you speake of, and in an unknowne tongue, by three of the clocke in the afternoone."

And so," after using with him more prudent and gracious wordes, shee ended, and gave him leave to depart."

And here, after this confident testimony, from the Queen's own mouth, to her skill in languages, of which her

Majesty seems to have been not a little proud, we have an opportunity to notice an interlude written by the celebrated Sir John Davies, in which, among other topics of personal adulation, Elizabeth's accomplishments as a linguist are particularly alluded to, and which has been connected with the name of Theobalds. It is entitled "A Conference between a Gentleman Huisher and a Poet, before the Queene, at Mr. Secretary's House," and Mr. Nichols has printed it in his Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. iii. pp. 76-78, under the year 1591, supposing it to have been delivered" at Theobalds." But there is nothing to shew that Theobalds was here designated by the title of "Mr. Secretary's house ;" and another similar "pretty Dialogue of John Davies, 'twixt a Maid, a Widow, and a Wife "14 (of which no copy is known), was performed so late as Dec. 1602, at "Mr. Secretary's house” in London; which adjoined on the east to his brother's mansion in the Strand, called Burghley House, and afterwards Exeter 'Change, and was itself called Cecil House, and I believe afterwards Salisbury House.

Lord Burghley died in London on the 4th of August 1598; and the Queen is said to have been again at Theobalds on the 5th of the following month; but, as I have found no subsequent notices of Elizabeth being at Theobalds, and have already written to a considerable extent, I will defer the further annals of the mansion, during the next and subsequent reigns, to another letter.

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13" Usher.-Art thou a Post, and hast ridden so manie myles, and met with so many men; and hast thou not hard that which all the world knowes, that shee speakes and understands all the languages in the world which are worthy to be spoken or understood?"

14 See Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, iii. 601.

FONT IN SHORNE CHURCH, Kent.

THE Font represented in the accompanying plate, by the able pencil of Mr. Hollis, jun., is the same which was very inadequately delineated, fifty years ago, in Thorpe's Custumale Roffense.

Its architectural panelling shows it to be of the later period of Pointed ar

chitecture; as well as the circumstance that its basin is not sufficiently capacious for baptism by immersion. Each of its eight sides exhibits a sculptured bas-relief, except one, which formerly stood against the wall. They occur in the following order: 1. the sacred name of Jesus, in its customary abbre

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