furprized at the great Number of Cups, faid, "He "fhould have thought it more fuitable to the Life of "Students, if they had used rather Glafs, or Ear“then-ware, than Silver." The College answered, "They were ready to make him a Present of all "their Plate, provided he would undertake to fupply "them with all the Glafs, and Earthen-ware, they "should have a Demand for; fince it was very "likely he would find the Expence, from conftant "breaking exceed the Value of Silver."

The Streets in this City are very handsome and clean; but that which is named from the Gold fmiths who inhabit it, furpaffes all the reft: There is in it a gilt Tower, with a Fountain that plays. Near it on the farther Side is a handfome House, 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 Shops, all Sorts of Gold and Silver Veffels expofed to fale; as well as ancient and modern Medals, in fuch Quantites as must furprize a Man the first Time he sees and confiders them.

Fitz-Stephens, a Writer of English History, reckoned in his Time in Lomdon, 127 Parish Churches, and 13 belonging to Convents: He mentions be fides, that upon a Review there of Men able to bear Arms, the People brought into the Field under their Colours, 40,000 Foot, and 20,000 Horfe. Vide. Cambden's Britan. Middlefex.

The best Oysters are fold here in great Quantites.

Every body knows that English Cloth is much approved of, for the Goodness of the Materials, and imported into all the Kingdoms and Provinces in Europe.

We were fhewn, at the House of Leonard Smith, a Taylor, a moft perfect Looking-glass, ornamented with Gold, Pearl, Silver and Velvet, fo 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 firft Thing that struck us, was the Ship of that noble Pirate, Sir Francis Drake, in which he is faid to have furrounded this Globe of Earth. On the left Hand lies Ratcliffe, a confiderable Suburb: On the oppofite Shore is fixed a long Pole with Rams-horns upon it, the Intention of which was vulgarly faid to be, a Reflexion 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 Eli zabeth, the prefent Queen, was born, and here fhe generally refides; particularly in Summer, for the Delightfulness of its Situation. We were admitted, by an Order Mr. Rogers had procured from the Lord Chamberlain, into the Prefence-Chamber, hung with

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rich Tapestry, and the Floor, after the English Fashion, ftrewed with Hay, through which the Queen commonly passes in her way to Chapel: At the Door ftood a Gentleman dreffed in Velvet, with a Gold Chain, whose Office was to introduce to the Queen any Person of Diftinction, that came to wait on her : It was Sunday, when there is ufually the greatest Attendance of Nobility. In the fame Hall were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, a great Number of Counsellors of State, Officers of the Crown, and Gentlemen, who waited the Queen's coming out; which she 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 bare-headed; next came the Chancellor, bearing the Seals in a red-filk Purfe, between Two: One of which carried the Royal Scepter, the other the Sword of State, in a red Scabbard, ftudded with golden Fleurs de Lis, the Point upward: Next came the Queen, in the Sixty-fifth Year of her Age, as we are told, very Majeftic; 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 Ufe 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

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Lunebourg Tablet: Her Bofom was uncovered, as all the English Ladies have it, till they marry; and fhe had on a Necklace of exceeding fine Jewels; her Hands were fmall, her Fingers long, and her Stature neither tall nor low; her Air was ftately, her Manner of Speaking mild and obliging. That Day fhe was dreffed in white Silk, bordered with Pearls of the Size of Beans, and over it a Mantle of black Silk, fhot with Silver Threads; her Train was very long, the End of it borne by a Marchionefs; instead of a Chain, fhe had an oblong Collar of Gold and Jewels. As he went along in all this State and Magnificence, the spoke very graciously, first to one, then to another, whether foreign Ministers, or those who attended for different Reasons, in English, French and Italian; for, befides being well skilled in Greek, Latin, and the Languages I have mentioned, she is Miftrefs of Spanish, Scotch and Dutch: Whoever fpeaks to her, it is kneeling; now and then fhe raises fome with her Hand. While we were there, W. Slatawa, a Bohemian Baron, had Letters to present 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 the turned her Face, as fhe was going along, every body fell down on ‡ their Knees. The Ladies

At this Diftance of Time, it is difficult to say what this was. 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 thei King on his Knees,

King James I. fuffered his Courtiers to omit it:

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

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of the Court followed next to her, very handfome and well-fhaped, and for the moft Part dreffed in white; he was guarded on each Side by the Gentle men Penfioners, fifty in Number, with gilt Battle-> In the Antichapel next the Hall where we were, Petitions were prefented to her, and the received them moft graciously, which occafioned the Acclamation of, LONG LIVE QUEEN ELIZABETH! She answered it with, I THANK YOU MY GOOD PEOPLE. In the Chapel was excellent Mufic; as foon as it and the Service was over, which scarce exceeded half an Hour, the Queen returned in the fame State and Order, and prepared to go to Din ner. But while she was still at Prayers, we faw her Table fet out with the following Solemnity.

A Gentleman entered the Room bearing a Rod, and along with him another who had a Table-cloth, which, after they had both kneeled three Times with the utmost Veneration, he spread upon the Table, and after kneeling again, they both retired. Then came two others, one with the Rod again, the other with a Salt-feller, a Plate and Bread; when they had kneeled, as the others had done, and placed what was brought upon the Table, they too retired with the fame Ceremonies performed by the firft. At laft came an unmarried Lady (we were told the was a Countefs) and along with her a married one, bearing a Tafting-knife; the former was dreffed in white Silk, who, when the had proftrated herself three Times in the moft graceful Manner, approached the Table, and rubbed the Plates with Bread and Salt, Ta with