wn at the upper
end of the Hall. Which done, the _Utter-Barristers_ and
_Inner-Barristers_, perform a second solemn Revell before them. Which
ended, the _Utter-Barristers_ take their places and sit down. Some of
the Gentlemen of the _Inner-Barr_, do present the House with dancing,
which is called the _Post Revells_, and continue their Dances, till
the Judges or Bench think meet to rise and depart."

THE HARD FROST OF 1564

gave the citizens of London an opportunity of keeping Christmas on the
ice. An old chronicler says: "From 21st December, 1564, a hard frost
prevailed, and on new year's eve, people went over and alongst the
Thames on the ise from London Bridge to Westminster. Some plaied at
the football as boldlie there, as if it had been on the drie land;
divers of the Court, being then at Westminster shot dailie at prickes
set upon the Thames, and tradition says, Queen Elizabeth herself
walked upon the ise. The people both men and women, went on the Thames
in greater numbers than in any street of the City of London. On the
third daie of January, 1565, at night it began to thaw, and on the
fifth there was no ise to be seene between London Bridge and Lambeth,
which sudden thaw caused great floods, and high waters, that bore
downe bridges and houses and drowned Manie people in England."

HOW QUEEN ELIZABETH WENT TO WORSHIP, CHRISTMAS, 1565.

Nichols[55] gives the following particular account of Queen
Elizabeth's attendance at Divine worship, at the "Chappell of
Whitehall, Westminster," Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, 1565:--

"Item, on Monday, the 24th of December, the Officers of Arms being
there present, the Queen's Majesty came to the evening prayer, the
sword borne by the Earle of Warwick, her trayn borne by the Lady
Strange.

"Item, on Christmas Day her Majesty came to service very richly
apparelled in a gown of purple velvet embroidered with silver very
richly set with stones, with a rich collar set with stones; the Earl
of Warwick bare the sword, the Lady Strange the trayn. After the
Creed, the Queene's Majesty went down to the offering, and having a
short forme with a carpet, and a cushion laid by a gentleman usher,
the ... taken by the Lord Chamberlain, her Majesty kneeled down, her
offering given her by the Marquis of Northampton; after which she went
into her traverse, where she abode till the time of the communion, and
then came forth, and kneeled down at the cushion and carpet aforesaid;
the G