PROGRESSES,

PUBLIC PROCESSIONS, &c.

OF

QUEEN ELIZABETH.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

"The splendor and magnificence of ELIZABETH's Reign is no where more strongly painted than in these little Diaries of some of her Summer Excursions to the houses of her Nobility; nor could a more acceptable present be given to the world, than a re-publication of a select number of such details as this of the Entertainment at Elvetham, that at Killingworth, &c. &c. which so strongly mark the spirit of the times, and present us with scenes so very remote from modern manners." PERCY'S Reliques of Antient English Poetry, vol. III. p. 64.

Ὣς ΚΕΙΝΗ περὶ κῆρι τετίμηταί τε, καὶ ἐστὶν,

*Ex λawv, oì μív ja, Deòv côs, eioopówVTES,

Δειδέχαται μύθοισιν, ὅτε στείχησ ̓ ἀνὰ ἄστυ.

Odyss. vii. 69.

When through the street she gracious deigns to move,
(The public wonder, and the public love,)

The tongues of all with transport sound her praise,

The

eyes of all, as on a goddess, gaze.

POPE'S Odyssey, ver. 90.

Printed by P Simoneau

PROGRESSES

AND

PUBLIC PROCESSIONS

OF

QUEEN ELIZABETH.

AMONG WHICH ARE INTERSPERSED

OTHER SOLEMNITIES, PUBLIC EXPENDITURES, AND REMARKABLE EVENTS,
DURING THE REIGN OF THAT ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCESS.

COLLECTED FROM

Original Manuscripts, Scarce Pamphlets, Corporation Records, Parochial Kegisters, Ec. Ec.
ILLUSTRATED WITH HISTORICAL NOTES,

BY JOHN NICHOLS, F. S. A. LOND. EDINB. & PERTH.