Mr. Hatton, if he come home: thinkinge "that your Lordships will furnishe the places with "your own ftuffe. They faie that myne house "is of an evill aire, hanging upon the church, "and having no profpect to loke on the people, "but yet I truste the conveniencie of the build ing would ferve. If her Hyghness be minded "to have her own palace at St. Auftens, then "might your Lordships be otherwise placed, with "the Deane and certain Prebendaries. Mr. "Lawte, Prebendary, would fayn have your "Lordship in his convenient house, trusting the " rather to doe your Lordship now fervice, as " he did once in teaching Grammar Schoole in "Stamford, by your appointment. Mr. Bungey "alfo would be glad to have your Lordship in "his lodging, where the Frenche Cardinal laye, " and his house is fayer and fufficient. Mr. "Pearson would gladly have your Lordship in "his faire house, most fit for your Lordship, if "you think fo good. 66 "The cuftome hath beene when Princes have come to Caunterbury, for the Bishop the Deane "and the Chapter to waite on them at the west "end of their Churche, and fo to attend on them, and there to heare an oration. After "that her Hyghness may goe under a canopye "till fhe cometh to the middle of the Churche, "where certain prayers fhall be fayde, and after " that L 2 that to wayte on her Hyghnefs through the "Quier to the Communion Table to heare the " even-fonge, fo afterwardes to departe to her "own lodginge. Or elfe, upon Sondaye follow❝ing, (if it be her pleasure,) to come from her "houfe of St. Auftens by the new bridge, and fo to enter the weft end of the Churche, or in her coache by the street. It would much re joice and ftablifh the people here in this reli"gion to fee her Hyghness that Sondaye (being "the firft Sondaye of the moneth, when others "alfo cuftomablie may receive) as a godlie de"voute Prince, in her cheife and metropoliticall « Churche, openlie to receive the Communion " (which by her favour I would adminifter to her): Plurima funt magna et neceffaria, fed hoc "unum eft neceffarium. I prefume not to pre « scribe this to her Hyghhefs, but as her truftie Chapleyn fhewe my judgement. And after "that Communion yt might please her Majeftie · "to heare the Deane preache, fitting either in "her traverse, or els to fuffer him to go to the "common Chapter, being the place of Sermons, "where a greater multitude fhould hear. And "yet her Highness might goe to a very fitt place "with fome of her Lords and Ladies, to be there in a convenient clofett above the heads of the people to heare the fermon. And after that, I "would defier to fee her Hyghness at her and myne "myne house for the dinner following. And "if her Hyghness will give me leave, I would keepe my bigger Hall that daye for her Nobiles. "and the reft of her trayne. And if it please "her Majeftie, she may come in through my Gal"lerie, and fee the difpofition of the Hall in dynner time at a window opening thereunto, I pray your Lordship be not offended, though "I write unto my Lord of Suffex as Lord Cham berlayne, in fome of thofe matters as may con«cerne his office. I am in preparing for three "or fouer of my good Lords fome Geldings; or "if I knewe whether would like you beft, either "one for your own faddle, or a fine little white "Gelding for your own footclothe, or one for "one of your Gentlemen, I would fo appointe you. And thus trufting to have your counsell "as Mr. Deane cometh for the fame, I commit " your Honor to God's tuycion as myself. From my house of Beakefbone, nighe to Caunterburie, this 18th of Augufte, 1573.. "Your L. affured in Chrifte, "MATTHEW CANTUAR." 150 MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.. ON the death of her husband, Francis the Second, Mary quitted France; and, as if conscious of the fate that was to await her in Scotland, in her paffage to that country fhe kept her eyes conftantly fixed on the French coaft, and breathed out her expreffive forrow at quitting it, in the following elegant verses: 1 Adieu, plaifant Pays de France! La plus chérie, Qui as nourri ma jeune enfance: La nef qui déjoint nos amours, N'a eu de moi que la moitié: Une part te refte, elle eft tienne: Je la fie à ton amitié, Pour que de l'autre il te fouvienne. In the year 1564, Buchanan made fome elegant verses upon the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots with Lord Darnley, and also on a diamond ring in the form of a heart, which Mary fent in the fame year to Elizabeth Queen of England. They are published in an account of the life and writings of of George Buchanan, by Monf. Le Clerc, and may be thus tranflated: This gem behold, the emblem of my heart, From which my Coufin's image ne'er shall part! -As clear, as spotless, is this heart of mine! What though the stone a greater hardness wears, This ring was prefented by King James the First to Sir Thomas Warner, and, is now in the poffeffion of the great-grandfon of Sir Thomas. By the kindness of Mr. PLANTA, the reader is prefented with the first letter that this unfortunate Queen ever wrote in English. It was written, most probably, in the fummer or autumn of the year 1568, and was addreffed to Sir Francis Knollys: "Mafter Knoleis, y hauu har fum news from Scotland, y fend zou to da the double of them. y wreit to the Quin my gud fifter, and prey zou "to do the lyk conforme to that y spak zefter"nicht unto zou, and sut hasti anfur y refer all to: "zour discretion and wil lipne beter in zour gud dalin for me nor y con perfuad zou nemli "in this langafg excus mi ivel wretein for y "nevver used it afor and am hafted ze schal fi "mi bel whuilk is opne it is fed Saterday mi "unfrinds will be vth (with) zou y fey nothing "but |