Thomas Richardson too lies buried here. On the tomb of Edward I lies a great sword which he used, 9 spans long, a hand broad, very heavy. He conquered the Scots and brought hither their king's sceptre and crown, together with the chair in which they used to be crowned; this chair is of wood and of coarse, poor workmanship, under it is a large stone on which the patriarch Jacob is said to have rested when he saw the angels in a dream. On the chair hangs a little tablet on which are some verses that may be read in Zeiller p. 179.[*]cf. Dart 1. I. II, p. 32. In the cloisters there is a library for the use of all. (3) Near to Westminster was the palace in which the kings of England formerly lived; what is left of it is the chamber where the King, Lords and Commons meet when a parliament is held; there, in A. D. 1605, as Barclay tells the story, they were to have been sent up to heaven in smoke. (4). the collegia Ictorum, which the English call hospitia, in English 'Inns', of which the chief are: I. the Temple, in which some Saxon kings have been buried,[*]Hentzner has: 'The Temple has a round Tower added to it, under which lie buried those kings of Denmark that reigned in England.' Rye p. 283 adds in brackets 'meaning the Knights Templars. Hentzner transformed Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn into Grezin and Lyconsin, explained by the English editor of the reprint of t 807 as the names of two Danish kings buried in the Temple! the chapel is said to be like that which stands over the Sepulchre of Christ in Jerusalem, in the choir of the chapel is a stone, on which [is graven] 'obliuioni sacrum'; H. Lincoln's Inn (Lincolns Inne); III. Gray's Inn (Grayes lane) etc. (5). In the Town Hall called Guildhall, well built [there are] the statues of two giants, Gog and Magog (Goe Magot Albiong and Corineus Britannus).[*]The names of these two giants were originally Gogmagog and Corineus (Guildhall huge Corinaeus Rye p. 139); the name of the former has been split in two, and one of the giants is now called Gog, the other Magog. Corineus is one of the principal characters in the old tragedy of Locrine, once attributed to Shakspeare; he is one of the two brothers of Brutus who are companions in his wanderings; Brutus details the history of his wanderings from Troy, until upon the strands of Albion To Corus haven happily we came, And quell'd the giants, come of Albion's race, With Gogmagog, son to Samotheus, The cursed captain of that damned crew. T. W. Fairholt, Gog and Magog, London 1859. (6). The old merchants' Bursa, which they call Exchange, an imposing square building with fine corridors and vaults; in the space below, where the merchants meet, is the coat of arms of the founder, above, all round the courtyard, are the statues of all the kings of England down to the present one; four corridors run round above, where all kinds of wares are sold. The new 'bursa' is not so large, neither does it contain so many goods. (7). London Tower, or the Fortress, which is called in British Bringwin and Towgwin[*]Camden, Britannia I p. 4 Bringwin and Towergwin.; its shape is that of a square, without wings, it resembles a strong castle, there are many large pieces of ordnance on the top of it behind the parapets or bulwark running round; here great men are kept prisoners, and there is, in the large square within, a scaffold on which such are executed. Within the Tower is besides to be seen the Royal Mint. In the armoury there are to be found strange spears, many arrows, shields, halberds, muskets, guns, suits of armour and the like; amongst others the old weapons of Henry VIII,[*]In the Badenfahrt these weapons are enumerated, and Rye p. 19 translates 'langes rohr and fäustling' by 'long barrel and stock'. In Cellius, Eques Auratus Anglo-Wirtemb., 1605 p. 86 the passage runs Monstratur ibidem . . . sclopetum longum, et manuarium quod ab ephippii arcuto pendens gestasse dicitur, Musketis, ut vocant, nostris ferè comparandum. Is not a long hand-gun meant? cf. Meyrick, Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour p. 46: 'si quis clericus . . . . tormentum quoduis manuarium, id est, sclopetum . . . if any clerk shall carry . . . any hand-gun, that is, harquebuss.' — There is another passage in the Badenfahrt on which Cellius' translation throws light. Rye p. 16 translates '(ein kleines knäblein) colorirt dermassen mit seinem zünglein' by 'threw such a charm over the music with his little tongue'; 'coloriren' of music occurs in Scheidt, Grobianus (1551): wie die Musici offtermals under die fuergeschribne notten ire laeufflin machen, und das gesang colerieren, doch alweg wider in schlag komen (Germania, 1884 p. 348), Cellius (p. 81) uses for it: agilima sua lingula tàm celeriter voces variabat. E. Kölbing, Englische studien. X. 3. some suits of armour as used for ballets, and one very strange one which a fool is said to have worn, also a wooden piece of ordnance on which is written 'quid opus est Marte, cui Minerva non desit'. In another room we saw much imposing gold, silver and silk tapestry, likewise royal chairs, apparel, bed furniture and the like, of great value, especially a beautiful cushion which Queen Elizabeth worked in prison. Furthermore we were shown here a fine horn of a unicorn of fair length, a gold font in which the king's son was baptised, six large silver candlesticks brought over by the king from Spain, four large gilt flasks, two high gilt beakers, a drinking vessel of terebinthus (? MS. turpentin) and a large sword which Pope Julius III. gave to Henry VIII. Besides these are to be seen here a few pairs of lions, a leopard, a lynx, and an eagle; also a very large snake skin. The Royal Palace, called Whitehall (Weithall) is not very splendid, but it has some fine rooms and apartments, in which [are] many fine pictures, particularly of Rubens (Rubentz) a Dutchman; in one gallery there are on old paper shields all kinds of beautiful emblems. By the side of the Palace is a garden. The Queen's Palace, called Somerset House (Sommerseth), a large and beautiful house, with a square courtyard inside; this is more beautifully built than the King's Palace, and there are also far more costly things to be seen in the rooms, such as pictures and all kinds of silver plate. York House (Yorkenhauss) which belonged to the Duke of Buckingham, which is much grander than the rest as regards rooms, noble pictures, statues and other objects of art; in the garden hard by are some boars. In the special palace of the Prince of Wales (Wallis), the king's son, are also to be seen fine pieces of painting, in the gardens [is] an ostrich; we have not seen the king's statuary and library which are likewise there. In the art museum of Mr. John Tradescant[*]John Tradescant, one of the earliest naturalists of Great Britain, died 1638; his son John Tradescant published in 1656 Musaeum Tradescantianum or a Collection of Rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London. [are] the following things: first in the courtyard there lie two ribs of a whale, also a very ingenious little boat of bark; then in the garden all kinds of foreign plants, which are to be found [enumerated] in a special little book which Mr. Tradescant has had printed about them.[*]Mus. Trad. p. 41: 'A Booke of Mr. Tradescant's choicest Flowers and Plants, exquisitely limned in vellum, by Mr. Alex. Marshall.' In the museum itself we saw a salamander, a chameleon, a pelican, a remora, a lanhado[*]Mus. Trad. p. 6: lanhado is mentioned amongst snakes. from Africa, a white partridge, a goose which has grown in Scotland on a tree,[*]On the so-called Barnacle Goose cf. M. Müller, Science of Lang. II p. 585 foll. a flying squirrel, another squirrel like a fish, all kinds of bright coloured birds from India, a number of things changed into stone, amongst others a piece of human flesh on a bone, gourds, olives, a piece of wood, an ape's head, a cheese etc; all kinds of shells, the hand of a mermaid, the hand of a mummy, a very natural wax hand under glass, all kinds of precious stones, coins, a picture wrought in feathers, a small piece of wood from the cross of Christ, pictures in perspective of Henry IV and Louis XIII of France, who are shown, as in nature, on a polished steel mirror, when this is held against the middle of the picture, a little box in which a landscape is seen in perspective, pictures from the church of S. Sophia in Constantinople copied by a Jew into a book, two cups of 'rinocerode' (the horn of the quadruped, or the beak of the hornbill?[*]P. B. Duncan, Introd. to the Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum p. 4, mentions as deserving especial notice 'the beak of the helmet hornbill, from the East Indies, which has been but lately imported in the entire state, having been long suspected to have been a foolish imposition contrived to deceive Tradescant.' The younger Tradescant bequeathed the Museum in 1662 to Ashmole who presented it to the University of Oxford.), a cup of an East Indian alcedo which is a kind of unicorn,[*]The Mus. Trad. does not give Alcedo, but it mentions (p. 53) Albado horn together with Unicorn horn and Rinoceros horn. many Turkish and other foreign shoes and boots, a sea parrot, a toad-fish, an elk's hoof with three claws, a bat as large as a pigeon, a human bone weighing 42 pounds, Indian arrows, an elephant's head, a tiger's head, poisoned arrows such as are used by the executioners in the West Indies — when a man is condemned to death, they lay open his back with them and he dies of it — an instrument used by the Jews in circumcision (with picture) some very light wood from Africa, the robe of the king of Virginia, a few goblets of agate, a girdle such as the Turks wear in Jerusalem, [a representation of] the passion of Christ carved very daintily on a plumstone, a large magnet stone, [a figure of] S. Francis in wax under glass as also of S. Jerome, the Pater Noster of Pope Gregory XV, pipes from the East and West Indies, a stone found in the West Indies in the water, whereon were graven Jesus, Mary and Joseph, a beautiful present from the Duke of Buckingham, which was of gold and diamonds affixed to a feather by which the four elements were signified, Isidor's MS. of de natura hominis, a scourge with which Charles V. is said to have scourged himself, a hat band of snake bones.