return by Cambridge, by Mr. Hynde's ', by Somersham 2, by Mr. Crumwell's 3, and so by Justice Dyer's 4, and the Lord St. John's 5, and so through Buckinghamshire towards Windsor. Thus much was signified by the Lord Burghley to the Vice-chancellor of Cambridge; that so the University might be prepared to receive her Majesty if she came that way.

But now, before we go further in this Progress, to relate something concerning the University's waiting upon the Queen while she was at Audley End, which was in the latter end of July.

Dr. Howland, Master of St. John's, and Vice-chancellor, had sent his letter to the Lord Burghley their Chancellor, with notice of their purpose in that respect; and likewise to give them his advice and instructions therein, "That they intended to wait upon her Majesty, with the heads of the Colleges and to have in readiness some Disputants upon two moral questions. The one whereof was, "An Clementia magis sit laudanda in Principe quam Severitas. "The second, De Fortund & Fato.

when they intended to present the Queen with a book well bound;" but what that book was, I find not; perhaps some curious edition of the Bible".

1

Madingley, by Cambridge, the seat of John Hynde, Serjeant at Law, in the reign of Henry VIII. since of the Cottons of Landwade, in this County, by marriage of Sir John Cotton, Knt. with Jane, daughter and sole heir of Edward Hynde, in the beginning of the last century. The house built about the time of Henry VIII. or Elizabeth, though much improved by the late Mr. Essex, retains traces of its antient magnificence.

2

? A noble Palace of the Bishop of Ely (then Dr. Cox), of which one wing remained till pulled down by the late Duke of Manchester.

3 Ramsey Abbey, the seat of Sir Henry Cromwell, called from his liberality The Golden Knight, whom the Queen had knighted 1573, and who died 1603. His grandson Henry sold it Colonel Titus, whose surviving coheiress left it to her servants, who sold it to Coulson Fellowes, Esq. whose son William Fellowes afterwards possessed it. The Mansion-house now remaining was fitted up out of the ruins of the Monastery by Sir Henry Cromwell, whose initials are still on the doors.

↑ Probably at Great Stoughton, co. Huntingdon, of which family Lodowick Dyer, Sheriff 11 Charles I. was created a Baronet by Charles I. 1627, which title is now extinct. Fuller's Worthies, p. 167.

5 At Melchborne, in the county of Bedford, the seat of Oliver St. John, on whom the Queen had conferred the barony of Bletshoe in 1558. He was great-great-grandson to Oliver St. John, first husband to Lady Margaret Beauchamp, who resided much here.

• Son and heir of John Howland, of London, Fellow of Peter House, Cambridge, Master of Magdalen College in 1575; then of St. John's, 1577; Bp. of Peterborough, 1584; died June 1600. Godwin, p. 559. › This book proved to be Robert Stephens's first edition of the New Testament in Greek, bound in red velvet and gold, ornamented with the arms of England on each side. See p. 112.

"In answer, their High Chancellor heartily thanked them; and that he liked well of their purpose of presenting themselves unto her Majesty at Audley End. And that of the two questions he liked better the first. And that the second might yield many reasons impertinent for christian ears, if it were not circumspectly used; but yet he left the further consideration thereof to themselves'. That the present to her Majesty he allowed of; but that they must have regard, that the book had no savour of spyke, which commonly bookbinders did seek to add, to make their books savour well; for that her Majesty could not abide such a strong scent. That they should do well to provide for the Earl of Leicester, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Earl of Oxford, some gloves, with a few verses in a paper joined to them, proper to every of their degrees; so that in number they exceeded not above eight verses. That for himself he could spare them, so that others might have them; and that if Mr. Vice-chamberlain [Hatton] might have a pair with some verses, it should do well to conciliate his good-will, being a lover of learned men." This was dated, from the Court at Havering, July 15. It was not before the 25th of July, that the Lord Burghley could inform the Vicechancellor when the Queen was certainly to come to Audley End, viz. the next day. And forthwith ordering him, that his servant should bring a letter from him, as Vicechancellor, and from some of the heads of the Colleges, jointly directed to the Earl of Leicester as their Steward, and to him [Lord Burghley] as their Chancellor ; therein requiring those said Lords to direct them [the Heads] at what time, and in what order they should think meet, that they of the University should come. And that his particular opinion was, that he thought fittest for them all, to present themselves in their long black gowns. And as for the matter of the Oration to be uttered by their Orator, he knew it must be demonstrativo genere, mingled with thanks and praise to Almighty God, for his long blessings, delivered to the whole Realm by her Majesty's government; and particularly to the two Universities, which were kept by her, as by a Nurse, in quietness to be nourished in piety, and all other learning; free from all outward troubles, as rebellions, and such other innumerable calamities, as other countries were then subject unto. And so to the end, with thanks to her Majesty, and request to continue her favour. This Entertainment was soon after set forth in print, in a book by Gabriel Harvey 3. 'The first of these Questions was a little varied; the second totally changed. See p. 114. See before, vol. I. pp. 93, 94. 253. 307. 387.

› Gabriel Harvey, a native of Saffron Walden, and educated in the Free School of the Town, was a great master of the Latin tongue, an Orator, and a Poet; and, on the occasion of the Royal Visit,

The particulars of the attendance of the University at Audley End, are thus related in Mr. Cole's Collections:

"The 26th day of Julie 1578, the Queen's Majestie came in her Progresse intended into Norfolke, to Audley End, at the town of Walden. It was bie the Lord Treasurer, Highe Chauncelour of the University of Cambridge, the Vicechauncelour, and the Masters of Colledges, thought meet and convenient for the dischardge of dutie, that the said Vice-chauncelor and hedds of Colledges should shewe themselves at the Courte, and welcome her Grace into thesse quarters. Wherupon the 27th day of Julie, being Sondaie, they came all to the Courte in

Harvey poured forth his encomiastic strains in great abundance; and afterwards published them in a separate volume, under the following title: "Gabrielis Harueii Gratulationum Valdinensium Libri Quatuor. Ad illustriss. augustissimamque Principem Elizabetham, Angliæ, Franciæ, Hiberniæque, Reginam longe serenissimam atque optatissimam. Londini, ex Officinâ Typographicâ Henrici Binnemani. Anno ciɔ.io.lxxviii. Mense Septemb." 4to; of which the following is a brief analysis : "Dedication to Queen Elizabeth in 52 hexameter and pentameter verses."

Then Liber Primus has several Latin Epigrams prefixed, principally by celebrated foreign Scholars, commendatory of Queen Elizabeth.

Liber Secundus is dedicated to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, whose crest adorns the title of the second book, and whose arms and quarterings are at the end of it, accompanied by "Corollarium Edouardi Grantæ," on this "Symbolum gentilitium."

Liber Tertius is dedicated in like manner, and with similar ornaments, to Lord Burleigh.

Liber Quartus is divided into three parts. The first is dedicated to the Earl of Oxford, the second to Sir Christopher Hatton, and the third to Sir Philip Sydney.

This last," Ad Nobilissimum humanissimumque Juvenem, Philippum SIDNEIUM, mihi multis nominibus longe charissimum," begins,

Then follows

"Tene ego, te solum taceam, Præclare Philippe,

Quemque aliæ gentes, quemque ora externa loquuntur ?''

Elegia ad eundem, paulo ante decessum," beginning"Sum jecur, ex quo te primum, Sidneie, vidi;

Os, oculosque regit, cogit amare jecur."

He was also the Author of, 1. "Gabrielis Harueii Ciceronianus, vel Oratio post reditum, habita Cantabrigiæ suos auditores. Quorum potissimum causa, diuulgata est. Londini, ex Officina Typographicâ Henrici Binneman. Anno ciɔ.iɔ.lxxvii," 4to.

2. "Gabrielis Harueii Valdinatis, Smithus; vel Musarum Lachrymæ; pro obitu Honoratissimi viri, atque hominis multis nominibus clarissimi Thomæ Smithi, Equitis Britannie Maiestatisque Regiæ Secretarii. Ad Gualterum Mildmaium, Equitem Britannum, et Consiliarium Regium. Londini, ex Officina Typographica Henrici Binnemani. Anno cic.io.lxxviii." 4to.