eries to which his long and faithful service had
entitled him from the bounty of his master.

Amongst other particulars of the visit of her majesty at Coudray, we are
told that on the morning after her arrival she rode in the park, where
"a delicate bower" was prepared, and a nymph with a sweet song delivered
her a cross-bow to shoot at the deer, of which she killed three or four
and the countess of Kildare one:--it may be added, that this was a kind
of amusement not unfrequently shared by the ladies of that age; an
additional trait of the barbarity of manners.

Viscount Montagu died two years after this visit, and, to complete his
story, lies buried in Midhurst church under a splendid monument of
many-colored marbles, on which may still be seen a figure representing
him kneeling before an altar, in fine gilt armour, with a cloak and
"beard of formal cut." Beneath are placed recumbent effigies of his two
wives dressed in rich cloaks and ruffs, with chained unicorns at their
feet, and the whole is surrounded with sculptured scutcheons laboriously
executed with innumerable quarterings.

At Elvetham in Hampshire the queen was sumptuously entertained during a
visit of four days by the earl of Hertford. This nobleman was reputed to
be master of more ready money than any other person in the kingdom; and
though the cruel imprisonment of nine years, by which Elizabeth had
doomed him to expiate the offence of a clandestine union with the
blood-royal, could scarcely have been obliterated from his indignant
memory, certain considerations respecting the interests of his children
might probably render him not unwilling to gratify her by a splendid act
of homage, though peculiar circumstances increased beyond measure the
expense and inconvenience of her present visit. Elvetham, which was
little more than a hunting-seat, was far from possessing sufficient
accommodation for the court, and the earl was obliged to supply its
deficiencies by very extensive erections of timber, fitted up and
furnished with all the elegance that circumstances would permit. He
likewise found it necessary to cause a large pond to be dug, in which
were formed three islands, artificially constructed in the likeness of a
fort, a ship, and a mount, for the exhibition of fireworks and other
splendid pageantries. The water was made to swarm with swimming and
wading sea-gods, who blew trumpets instead of shells, and recited verses
in praise of her majesty: finally