t the Duke's palace in
Norwich, so magnificently that the like hath scarce been seen. They
had dancing every night, and gave entertainments to all that would
come; _hee_ built up a room on purpose to dance in, very large, and
hung with the bravest hangings I ever saw; his candlesticks,
snuffers, _tongues_, fire-shovel, and and-irons, were silver; a
banquet was given every night after dancing; and three coaches were
employed every afternoon to fetch ladies, the greatest of which would
holde fourteen persons, and coste five hundred pounde, without the
harnesse, which cost six score more; I have seen of his pictures,
which are admirable; he hath prints and draughts, done by most of the
great masters' own hands. Stones and jewels, as onyxes, sardonyxes,
jacinths, jaspers, amethysts, &c. more and better than any prince in
Europe. Ringes and seales, all manner of stones, and limnings beyond
compare. These things were most of them collected by the old Earl of
Arundel (the Duke's grandfather).

"This Mr. Howard hath lately bought a piece of ground of Mr. Mingay,
in Norwich, by the waterside in Cunisford, which hee intends for a
place of walking and recreation, having made already walkes round and
across it, forty feet in breadth; if the quadrangle left be spacious
enough, he intends the first of them for a bowling-green, the third
for a wildernesse, and the fourth for a garden. These and the like
noble things he performeth, and yet hath paid 100,000 pounds of his
ancestors' debts.

"Jan. 6th. I dined at my Aunt Bendish's, and made an end of
Christmas at the Duke's palace, with dancing at night and a great
banquet. His gates were opened, and such a number flocked in, that
all the beer they could set out in the streets could not divert the
stream of the multitude.

"Jan. 7th. I opened a dog.

"Jan. 9th. Mr. Osborne sent my father a calf, whereof I observed the
knee joint, and the neat articulation of the put-bone, which was here
very perfect.

"This day Monsieur Buttet, who plays most admirably on the flageolet,
bagpipe, and sea-trumpet, a long three-square instrument, having but
one string, came to see me.

"Jan. 11th. This day, being Mr. Henry Howard's birthday, we danced
at Mr. Howard's, till 2 of the clock in the morning.

"Jan. 12th. Cutting up a turkey's h