se Reginæ animi, sanè multum recreabatur. Nam cum ante, ut diximus, Palatium illud Cantuariense vetustate & prædecessorum suorum incuria ad ruinam propensum & ferè devastatum magnis sumptibus reparasset; lætabatur tam secundum eventum illorum sumptuum accidisse, ut refectum jam & ornatum a se Palatium Reginæ Convivæ præsentia nobilitaretur. Tum & illud opportunum maximè fuit; quod septuagesimus Cantuariensis Ecclesiæ Archiepiscopus, in septuagesimo aetatis suæ anno, natali Reginæ die convivium ei exhiberet; ut cujus matri adolescens sacellanus deservierat, ad maturam jam provectus senectutem Archiepiscopûs pro sua dignitate ampla & grata officia Reginæ præstaret. Quod ita venerandi senis animum exhilaravit tantoque gaudio perfudit, ut cum antea languere ipsâ senectute coepisset, tamen post illius Cantianæ peragrationis labores atque sumptus animo corporeque sic composito fuit, ut renovata ei senectus, annique quasi juveniles restituti esse videbantur."

But to return to the Queen. After tarrying fourteen days at Canterbury, she departed to Feversham', where she continued two days.

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Queen Elizabeth lay two nights in Faversham, which cost the Town £.44. 19s. 4d. including a silver cup presented to her, which cost £.27. 2s." Jacob's History of Faversham, p. 106; and see the "List of Plate and Jewels."-Mr. Jacob also preserves the following Extracts of memorable circumstances from the Account-book of the Chamberlain of Feversham:

1315 Paide for brede and wine given the Queen of France 1516 For wine to my Lord Warden and Lord Bergavenny

Spent at auditing the accounts

1518 To entertain my Lord Chief Justice cost

1519 For spiced brede and wine to the Lord Archbishop

For spiced brede, wine, bere, and ale, to the King and Queen

For spiced brede, wine, and capons, to my Lord Cardinal

1522 To entertain the King's Highnes and the Emperoure when they came by the town towards London

For a gallon of wine to the Lord Archbishop

£. s. d.

7 4

1100563

1

448941 a

65

O 18 9

313

100

307

1523 For three capons 3s. and for wine to the Lord Warden 7d.

1525 For the Mayor and six Jurats, and their servants expences and horse-hires in going to the Court of Shipway

I 16 4

1546 King Henry VIII. granted his royal Charter to the town, appointing John Seth Mayor

1545 King Henry VIII. lay here one night, and was presented with two dozen of capons, two dozen of chekins, and a seive of cheris

1 15 4

1547 King Edward VI. renewed his Father's Charter.

1549 The silver crosse and chalyce sold for

1555 Given the King and Queen's Jesters

To the King and Queen's Trumpeters

To the Lord Warden's Mynstrells

1557 Given the King and Queen's Trumpeters at their Grace's passing by the town 1558 Given to my Lord Warden's Mynstrells

1561 Given in rewards to the Queen's Majesty's Players

On Friday, September 17, the Queen proceeded to Sittingbourne1; and on the same day to Mr. Cromer's 2, at the neighbouring village of Tunstall.

On the evening of Saturday, the 18th, she arrived at Rochester, and took up her abode for four days at the Crown Inn.

On Sunday she attended divine Service 3, and heard a Sermon at the Cathedral.

1562 Given to th' Erle of Oxford's Players

1563 Given to the Queen's Majesty's berewards

1565 A present of capons and chekyns to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, who came and preached here, and entertained the Mayor and others at dinner, and gave to the poor

1571 The Mayor's salary advanced from £.5 to

1572 Paid to diverse Noblemen's Players

1660 King Charles II. visited this Town, and dined with the Mayor, the expence of the

"In 1688 King James made an unwilling Visit to this Town ;" and of that Visit a particular narrative, by Captain Richard Marsh, is given by Mr. Jacob, in his "History of Faversham," p. 205; on which, in a copy of that book once belonging to Mr. Cole, of Milton, I find this note: "In my 41 vol. of MS. Collections is this account of the King's coming to Faversham, at p. 241, very little different from this, of which no sort of account is given how it came into the Editor's hands. The paper from whence I transcribed mine, was nearly, if not quite coeval with the transaction, and was given to me in 1769, by Mr. Akehurst, of Ely, one of the daughters and coheirs of the late Samuel Gatward, Esq. Recorder of Cambridge."—" P. 209. The gentlemen were contriving his escape; but the rabble or seamen would by no means admit of it, &c."-P. 212. 1. ult. r. "Genison."

1 Fulston, a large mansion in Sittingborne parish, belonged in the reign of Henry VIII. to John Cromer, Esq. third son of Sir James Cromer, of Tunstall, Knight, who died 1539; and the estate descended to his nephew Sir James Cromer, of Tunstall, Knight, grandson of the same name, who enjoyed it, and died 1613. This last gentleman probably had the honour of entertaining her Majesty under his roof; for the Archbishop's Latin account calls him esquire.-Elizabeth granted this town, in the following year, the 16th of her reign, a Charter of Incorporation, with a market and two fairs; but the Charter does not appear to have been used. The market was kept up but a few years, and only the two fairs subsist. Hasted, vol. II. pp. 614, 615.

• William Cromer, Esq. became possessed of the manor of Tunstall at the early age of 10 years, on the death of his father Sir James Cromer, May 30, 1541; but being afterwards concerned in the first year of Queen Mary in the Rebellion raised by Sir Thomas Wyatt, he was on the 11th of February, 1552-3, committed to the Tower with many others; and, being attainted, this manor, among the rest of his estates, became forfeited to the Crown; where it remained till he was restored in blood, as well as in his possessions, by Act of Parliament, anno 5 Elizabeth. After which he served the office of Sheriff in the 9th and 27th years of that reign; was a Justice of the Peace; and was knighted. Sir William Cromer died on the 12th of May, 1598, æt. 67, and was buried in Tunstall Church, having been twice married; first, to Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Kempe, of Wye, Knight, by whom he had only one daughter Anne, married to Thomas Bishop, gent.; and secondly, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Guldeford, Knight, by whom he left issue one son James, and three daughters. This solemn duty she never neglected in any of her Progresses; and she never travelled on a Sunday.

On one of the subsequent days the Queen took a survey of the Dock-yard at Chatham 1; and on the last day Mr. Watts had the honour of entertaining her at his house on Bushy Hill. There is a traditional story of this Royal Guest having given the title of Satis to this mansion; either as declaring it to be her opinion that the apartments were sufficiently large and commodious even for a Lady of her exalted rank, and that therefore all further apologies on that subject from the master were needless, or as expressing her satisfaction at the treatment she had received in it 4.

From Rochester the Queen proceeded to Cobham Hall, the mansion of the Lord Cobham 5, where she was splendidly entertained for two days; thence to her Palace at Dartford; and then returned to her Palace at Greenwich 6.

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When we consider the peculiar talents of Queen Elizabeth for business, and her close attention to the important affairs of State, we can hardly imagine that amusement was her principal motive for her long continuance in this place. As she had the year before issued orders for an increase of her navy, it is not unlikely that she was determined to be an eye witness how far her commands had been executed and she might likewise be desirous of giving, after a careful survey, proper directions for the security of her fleet whilst in harbour, and for the enlargement and improvement of the dock yard. Denne's History of Rochester, 1782, p. 17.

• Richard Watts, Esq. was a Representative in several Parliaments for the Borough of Rochester, by his last will, dated August 22, 1579, he fouuded the Hospital in that City, which still remains there, for six poor travellers, who not being rogues or procters, may receive gratis, for one night, lodging, entertainment, and four-pence each.

'This elegant and commodious House, which is opposite to the Castle, and commands a fine view of the River Medway, was in 1790 the residence of John Langley, Esq. Recorder of Rochester.

♦ If the former be the original meaning of the term, the strict propriety of it cannot be disputed ; otherwise persons, not much disposed to cavil, might insinuate, that had the Queen, instead of being quite so sparing of her Latin words, condescended to have prefixed Plus to Satis, she would not have paid a higher compliment to Mr. Watts than he deserved for his generosity, nor more than was reasonably to be expected from so accomplished a Princess. Denne's Rochester, p. 16.

s William Brooke, Lord Cobham, entertained the Queen in her first year, July 17, at Cobham Hall, with a noble welcome, on her Progress through Kent, (see p. 73). Being much in favour with her, and continually employed by her on different negotiations abroad: he was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Constable of the Tower, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Kent, Lord Chamberlain of the Queen's Houshold, a Privy Counsellor, and Knight of the Garter. He died March 6, 1596-7 In a spacious apartment at Cobham, where Queen Elizabeth was entertained in this Progress with a splendour worthy of the Royal Guest, an inscription, with the arms of that Princess, still records her Visit. Sir James Hales, of Beakesbourn, and Sir Humphry Hales, of Woodchurch, were both knighted here by the Queen in 1573. Hasted, vol. I. p. 493.

• The fees paid at Canterbury to the Queen's Officers in this Progress may be seen, with those of Worcester, under the year 1575.