inspire. The engines of torture, as thumb-screws, iron cravats, bilboes, spadas, with poisoned points, &c. are frightful emblems of the savage barbarity with which our threatened invaders were inflamed. Doubtless, however, the heretics, as the English were called, failed not to imagine many cruelties, and invent many stories, which were never intended to be realized; and which, if they had been true, would not therefore have furnished a single solid argument against the errors of the Roman Catholic religion, as admitted by all who know and follow its genuine dictates; yet, for this ignoble purpose, these stories have been, and still are partially believed. The axe which took off the head of Anne Bullen, and also that of the favourite Earl of Essex, is shewn here. A more pleasing object is a representation of Queen Elizabeth, in armour, standing near a fine creain-coloured horse, and attended by her page, holding the bridle with his left hand, and the queen's helmet, with a plume of white feathers, in his right. He is richly dressed in the costume of the time. Her majesty is supposed just to have alighted from her horse at Tilbury Fort, to review the fleet destined to act against the Armada in 1588. She is dressed in the armour she then wore, with a white silk petticoat, ornamented with pearls and spangles. Her upper dress is crimson sattin, laced with gold, and richly fringed; the horse is superbly caparisoned. This group stands at the upper end of the room, under a grand canopy, enclosed with Gothic arches and pillars: a curtain is drawn up when the group is exhibited.

Near what is termed The Bloody Tower, is some exquisitely wrought shell and grotto-work, performed by a lady and her daughter, and representing various buildings, &c, &c. in Kew Gardens, and other places.

The Volunteer Armoury, The Sea Armoury, and other parts of this great magazine of wealth, strength, and curiosities, pos

* Stowe (Chron. p. 572,) says, that this unfortunate queen lost her head by a single blow with a sword.