and three nyghtes, and the thyrde daye caryed hym from thens to Lambeth, wth a garde of horse men furnyshed wth yr supplyauntes horses, armure, and weapons, and ffrom thens to the seide lorde chauncellor's howse, at the Clynke, who admerveyling to see hym there, demaunded what was the matter, saying he knewe nothing therof, and from thens browghte him before certen of the counsell, sytting at Seynte James, whoo did not there charge hym wt any matter specyall or gen'rall, but wt gentill woordes willed him to repayre to his own howse at the late Blake fryers, wthowte bounde, * wth lib'tye for all his freendes to have acces to him, and there to remayne untill he herde ferther from the said Lordes. In the meane tyme wherof the seide Sr Thomas Saunders calling to hym William Saunders, of Ewell, in the seide countye of Surr', for assystaunce (the cuntrye before warned) broughte in (as yor supplyaunte is credibly informed) to the number of xviii waynes, and in the same laded away yor supplyaunts armure, weapon, munysyon, ordynaunce, and furnytures for horses, toke also awaye eighte greate horses, and spoyled moche of his haye, corne, and strawe, by occasion of ther abode there, and repaire of psones comynge thether to them, the pticularyties wherof cannot welbe pfectely expressed, for that the spoyle was soden, and yor supplyauntes w'fe and s'vauntes, amased to see his goods so carryed awaye, some by footmen, some in pannyers on horsebacke by pilfery, and some in cartes wthout indentyng or other mensyon of sertentye notised, besydes a greate pte for wch yor supplyauntes wyfe (not whowte greate and erneste adoe to pcure it) endented betwene her and the seide Sr Thomas and Will'm Saunders. After wch by the space

*Without any limit of confinement.

of one monethe or therabout, the seide Lorde Chauncellor sent for yor suplyaunte to come to his howse, where as he, Mr. Rochester, Mr. Inglefeilde, and Mr. Walys, wth others, dyd discharge and sett him at libertye. Wherupon yor suplyaunt made his humble petysion for restytusion of goods, who being hardly beleved (for yt so greate spoyle, unjuste dealing, and crewell usage, was thowghte unlykely for any psone to comytt) it was there affyrmed before them that ten or eleven lodes of the armure passed throwghe Sothewerke over the brydge, the daye before Wyatt's comynge thether, and that certen cartes were also mett towardes Rygate, and certen other towardes Ewell. Wherupon they willed yr supplyaunte to be the next daye at the corte, and upon his comynge thether sente Sr Will'm Peter to understand the seide quenes pleasure, whoe imedyately com'aunded letters to be wrytten to the seide Shrefe, to redelyver to yor supplyaunte of the p'misses what so ev' (whatsoever) was taken from him, being in the custodye of the seide Shrefe, or of any others by his deliverye, wch letters yor supplyaunte delyv'd to the seide sherefe, whoe notwt. stonding the same, made redelyverye to yr supplyant but only of ffower lodes, pcell of the seide seventene by hym so taken away from yor supplyaunte; and his horses so spoyled (excepte for husbandry, draughte, or burden) they were never after mete for any servys or use in warre or journey, nor yor saide supplyaunte is yett any waye otherwise satisfied, recompensed, or consydered for his losses, harmes, wrongs, and trobles of, in, and concerning the p'misses, to his greate hindrance and utter undoing, onles yor honorable consyderacy on and redres herin the rather extended (ffor reformacion wherof the p'misses tenderly consydered) it may please yor honor of yor accustomed goodnes, indefferencye, and justyce, that yor supplyaunte may ether by yor good meanes and charytable

order be restored to his gooddes,wt recompens for his greate losses and indempnytyes and trobles, or ells be pmytted to take his remedy and advantage by the Lawes of the Realme, and yor seide orator shall dayly pray for yor good and godly . . . . in all yor p'sedings longe to psper wt moche encrease of honor.

Documents relating to the royal Palace of Nonesuch.

The palace of Nonesuch stood near the site of the old manor house and the village church of Cuddington near Cheam, in Surrey. The manor had, as early as the reign of Edward the Confessor, been a demesne of the crown but had been alienated. Henry VIII. about the year 1526, resumed possession of it by means of an exchange with Richard de Codinton. The king was pleased with the beauty of the spot, and its fitness to be made a seat for hunting and other rural diversions of the court; he began to erect in consequence at Cuddington, a magnificent structure of freestone, the facade of which extended one hundred and fifty feet in length. It had a central gate house and was flanked at either end by lofty multangular towers, crowned with three cupolas in the form of inverted balloons, which had become distinctive architectural features of the period, and which remind us of the minarets of the pagodas of the East. There were two courts to the building, an inner and an outer, of proportionate dimen

* The same year in which he obtained Hampton Court of Cardinal Wolsey, who, to use the expression of the Chronicler, had there" done great cost in building.'

sions. The writers of the sixteenth century are profuse in their descriptions of the magnificence of this royal villa, they speak of its wainscotted chambers, filled with pictures, tapestries, and statues, rivalling the works of Greece and Rome, of its delicious gardens, its long raised banks and verdant alleys of trellis work, of its orchards stocked with the choicest fruit trees, its extensive parks filled with the dappled tenants of the forest, its artificial fountains, one of which, in an avenue called the Grove of Diana, represented the goddess as in the bath, with her attendant nymphs, who dash water over the rashly intrusive huntsman, Actæon, converted into a stag. It may be suspected that Lord Bacon had the palace of Nonesuch in his eye when he wrote those two lively and beautiful essays, so descriptive of the economy of the palaces and pleasure grounds of his day, the one " Of Building," the other "Of Gardens." He prescribes an inner and an outer court, a stately central tower, a chapel, a room for masks and triumphs, oriel or embowed windows, which "he holds of good use, for they be pretty retiring places for conference;" galleries, turrets, rich cabinets, in modern phraseology, boudoirs; "daintily paved, richly hanged, glazed with chrystalline glass," surmounted with cupolas and "all other elegancy that may be thought upon," cameras, and antecameras, the sleeping rooms for princes and their chamberlains, terraces, fountains, &c. The pleasure grounds, he says should be calculated for all the months of the year, in which severally things of beauty may be then in season. "God Almighty!" observes the sage essayist," first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures, it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks." Of the bright and many coloured blossoms of the vegetable kingdom he poetically

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adds "as the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that best perfume the air." Umbrageous avenues, grassy mounds, lakelets agitated by falling waters, aviaries, and a wilderness,* furnish out the garden plot. Such then, surrounded by a park, timbered by trees of noble growth, was the royal demesne established by Henry VIII. at Cuddington.

We find in the following documents foreign ambassadors, princely prelates, admitted as a matter of distinguished favour to take their diversion within this Elysian precinct, and that it acquired by way of eminent and deserved distinction, the emphatic appellation of Nonesuch. It should have been observed that it was never completely finished by Henry VIII.; but that Henry Earl of Arundel, desirous to see the designs of his old master completed, rather than suffer it to be pulled down, as was contemplated in Queen Mary's time, and sold piecemeal, obtained it of the queen by exchange for divers "faire landes." He then completed it according to the original design, and left it at his death" garnished and replenyshed with rich furnitures," and a rare library.

Queen Elizabeth was frequently at Nonesuch, whether as a guest or tenant, says Lysons,† does not appear; and

* For the heath, which is the third part of our plot, I wish it to be framed as much as may be to a natural wildness. See "Of Gardens" in Essays Moral, Economical, and Political, by Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam," &c.

"The v day of August (1559) the Quen grace removyd from Eltham unto Nonshyche, my lord of Arundell's, and ther her grace had as gret cher evere nyght, and banketts; but ye sonday at nyght my lord of Arundell mad her a grett bankett at ys cost as ever was sene, for soper, bankett, and maske,