that part of the Hill next abutting upon his Court none
dares presume to set his foot: that being for his safeguard to fly
unto in time of need. The Palace is walled about with a Clay Wall,
and Thatched, to prevent the Claye's being melted by the Rains, which
are great and violent: Within this Wall it is all full of houses;
most of which are low and thatched; but some are two Stories high, and
tyled very handsomely, with open Galleries for Air, rayled about with
turned Banisters, one Ebony, and one painted, but not much Prospect,
standing between two Hills. And indeed the King lives there not so
much for pleasure as security. The Palace it self hath many large and
stately Gates two leaved; these Gates, with their Posts excellently
carved; the Iron work thereunto belonging, as Bolts and Locks, all
rarely engraven. The Windows inlayd with Silver Plates and Ebony. On
the top of the houses of his Palace and Treasury, stand Earthen Pots
at each corner; which are for ornament; or which is a newer fashion,
something made of Earth resembling Flowers and Branches. And no
Houses besides, except Temples, may have these placed upon them. The
contrivance of his Palace is, as I may say, like Woodstock Bower,
with many turnings and windings, and doors, he himself having ordered
and contrived all these Buildings, and the manner of them. At all the
Doors and Passages stand Watches: and they who thus give attendance
are not to pass without special Order from one place to another,
but are to remain in that place or at that Gate, where the King hath
appointed them. By means of these contrivances it is not easie to know
in what part or place his Person is, neither doth he care they should.

[Strong Guards about his Court.] He has strong Watches night and
day about his Court. And they are his Grandees, who themselves in
person watch in certain places, where the King himself appoints them:
and they dare not be absent from thence, without it be to go to eat,
or upon such like occasions. At Night they all have their set places
within the Court, where they cannot one come to the speech of the
other, neither dare they that are near together, or in fight one of
the other, so much as come and sit together and talk, to pass away
the Nights. All these great men have Souldiers under them, and they
are also to come by turns to watch the Court. But at Night as their
Masters and Commanders watch within the Walls, so they must watch
without, in outward C