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"Belov'd wife, my Comendations remembred to youre selfe and to all my children, I have here sent unto you the maner of the Creation of prince Henrie. First, that great roome, which is called the Councle of requests, was hanged rounde about with Clothe of Arrasse, with five or six benches or formes one above another rounde about the house, and in the middes of the house there was as it were an allie rayled on each side for a cleare passage to goe in and out. At the upper end was the Kinges throne with a rich canopy over his head; on his righte hande sate the Lorde Chancellor, and at his lefte hande sate the Lorde Treasurer, with the rest of the Lordes on each side some. A litell distance beneath there sate all the upper house of parlyment upon red woole packes as the maner is; the Lorde Bishopps sate on the righte hande, and the Judges and Barrons on the lefte hande. In the very middes of the house there was a partition made after the maner of a barre of Arrangement; beneath the partition sate the whole lower house of Parlyment, in the middes of which, although unworthy, I placed myselfe more boldlie than wiselie I confess. The speaker of the lower house sate in his chayre face to face right over against the Kinges majestie; and in the upper part of the court of Requests there were places of purpose provided for strange Ambassadors, as the Ambassadors of Spayn, of France, and the ambassadors of the Lowe Countries. Likewise on the lefte hande there were scats prepared for the Lorde Maier of London, with twenty of his bretherne, and a litell beneath them sate the litell Sonnes of the nobilitie, I think to the number of 24, which was a verie goodlye sight to beholde so manie litell Infants of such noble parentage, about the age of nine or tenne yeares apeace, some more and some lesse. At the verie lower end of the Court of Requests in an upper roome, above all the reste, there sate the Duke the Kinges second sonne, with his sister the ladie Elizabeth and the ladie Arabella, with manie other Ladies and maides of honor belonging to the Court; onlie the Quenes Majestie her selfe was not at this action for aught that I could see or heare. In an upper gallerie above all this were placed the Trumpeters and Drum Players to the number of twenty or thereabouts. Yf I should goe about exactly to discribe the riche

apparell that there was worne of all estates, this whole paper would not contayne the one halfe thereof. To passe by the Kinges attyre, which was gloriouslie garnished with pretious stones and pearells, the noblemen had red velvet Garments with ornaments of white pretious Furres uppon theyer shoulders; theyer hattes also were of red

The

velvet made after the maner of Cronetts wth shininge gold bandes, and they did weare athwart theyer shoulders as it were girdles besett_with pretioùs pearells, as souldiers use to weare theyer belts. The Lorde Maier of London and his bretherne were all in red scarlet gownes with chaynes of golde about theyer neckes for the most part of them, with other ornaments uppon theyer shoulders of silke changable coloures; the Bishopps were in white riche apparell with silke Rochets about theyer neckes of changable coloures. Judges and Barrons were also in red gownes with verie costlie and riche furniture about theyer neckes. The noblemens litell sonnes were in theyer doublets and hose of changable silks, with theyer silke hattes and theyer feathers of divers coloures. Yf I should undertake in hande to write of the apparel and fasions of the Ladies and maydes. of honor, I should be as foolishe as they were vain, and therefore I say no more than this, that they were unspeakably brave and intollerable curious; yea, and some knights of the Lower House of Parlyment (as it is thought) did weare apparell worth an hundred pounds a man, laces of golde almost an hande breadth apeace one above another rounde about theyer Clokes was nothinge to speake of, for some of them the verie panes of theyer breeches was nothing els but laces embroydered with golde. The whole house being thus furnished with sumptuous and shininge apparell, I thought myselfe to be like a crowe in the middes of a great manie of golden feather'd doves. Well, all this was yet nothinge to the maner of the Prince's creation. After two howres of expectation and more came the Prince in at the lower end of the house, accompanied with five and twentie Knights of the Bath; so termed, as some thinke, because they were bathed and wash'd with swete waters, all which were clad in purple satten garments after the fasion of gownes, and the prince himselfe in the like garment of the same stuffe, but his Garment was girded unto him, and so were none of the rest. Then at the verie first appearing of the Prince all the Trumpeters and drum players did sound out theyer instruments, with other which played uppon Cornets and flutes, with such an acclamation and exultation as if the Heavens and the Earth would have come together; but this endureth but a verie litell time. When the Prince was come into the middes of the house there he stoode stille awhile, beinge attended with his five and twenty knightes; then came there down two noblemen

from the Kinges side which led up the Prince, arme in arme, unto his Father, but before he came to his Father he made three verie lowe and humble curtesies, and after him followed the Earle of Pembroke, and as some say the Earle of Bedford, which carried the Princes robe after him, betwixt them uppon theyer shoulders, the one end of the robe lying uppon one of the Earles shoulder, and the other end uppon the other Earll's shoulder, which robe he was to put on afterward. After them followed two Haroldes of armes, the one with a golden rod in his hande of the length of an elle and a halfe, th'other carried a sword in his hande with gilded hiltes, and a black leather girdle and leather hangings, when the Prince was come neare and right before his Father the Kinge, where there stoode fower Sergiants with fower golden maces uppon theyer shoulders, two of them uppon theyer right hande and two uppon theyer lefte hande. There the Prince kneeled uppon his knees for the space of a quarter of an hour, while the Kinges pattents for the princes creation were made in Lattine, in the which letters he was first declared to be the heyer apparent unto the Crowne of England, and also unto the crowne of Scotland; then he was declared to be the Duke of Cornewall and the Earle of Chester by his birthright. Afterward, by the vertue of the same letters pattent he was created the Prince of Wales, and also the Prince of Patsie (?) in Scotland. Then did two other noblemen put on divers robes uppon the Prince, and the Kinges Majesty himselfe did put a Cronett of Golde and girde the foresaid sworde uppon the Prince with his owne handes, and did put the golden rod into his hande and a ring of golde uppon his fynger and kisse him, and so tooke him up from his knees. Then two of the noblemen did place the prince uppon a royall seate at the Kinges lefte hande; these things being thus performed the Trumpeters and drum players blewe theyer Trumpets, and shake up theyer drums again with a verie pleasant noyse for the space of a quarter of an hower, and so fynished the creation of the Prince, with a verie joyfull and solempne applause, everie man rejoisinge and praysinge God, and the Kinge, and the younge prince, whose lyves God long continue in all happiness and honor, and after this mortal lyfe, grant them everlasting lyfe in the world to come. Amen, Amen.

This creation of the prince was uppon Monday last uppon Tuesday at Night there was great maskinge at the court, whereof I was no eye witness, for I love not such kind of spectacles; but as I have hearde there was exceeding braverie both among Men and also among Women, with such revellinge and daunsinge as belongeth to

[* Duke of Rothsay?]

such workes as be done in the night, with no small expences, I warrante you, bothe in apparell and in manie other needles employments. Uppon Wensdaye, in the afternoon, there was great runninge of great horses at the Tilt, which had such costlie furniture about them (as I have hearde) that never the like was seene in England. I was not present thereat for fear of hurtinge myselfe, for I set more by mine own saftie than I do by all the pomp and glorie in the worlde. It was saide that it cost the noblemen no lesse than a thousand pounds a piece, and some of them a great deale more; theyer Saddells and theyre Saddell clothes were altogether layde over with golde laces as thick as they could lye, and some of theyer Saddell clothes were embroydered with golde and besett with pearells; and as it was saide the armor which the noblemen did weare uppon theyer backes were some of them of shininge silver, and some of them were gilded over with golde, and the plumes of feathers which they did weare in theyer head-peeces were exceedinge great, unspeakable costlie, every man havinge as many coloures in his plume as could possibly be invented and imagined. Many noblemen did behave themselves verie valiantlie in runninge at the Tilt, but especially the duke of Lincage, the earle of Arundell, and the Lorde Northe, who never missed to breake theyer stafes one uppon another most courageouslie; but of all the noblemen, it is thought that the Lorde Compton was at twice so much charges as any of the rest; he buylded himself as it were a bower uppon the top of the walle which is next to St Jeames' parke; it was made in the maner of a Sheepcote; and there he sate in a gay russet Cloke as longe as a Gowne, and he had a sheepe crooke in one hande, with a bottell hanginge thereon, and a dog in a chayne in the other hande, as though he had bine a Sheppard; and thorowe the top of the bower there stoode up as it were the mast of a ship gilded rounde about with golde, and uppon the topp thereof there was fastened a pan with fyre burninge in it, and as some thought there was pitch in it, and an iron marke to marke sheepe withal. What the morall of this should be I cannot tell, unless it should signifie that my Lorde Spenser, his Father-in-lawe, was a great Sheepe master, and that he fared much the better for the weightie fleeces of his sheepe. After that he sent forth an Ambassador unto the Kinges majestie, who looked forthe of the windowe of the gallerie which is at the upper end of the Tilt yarde, and as the Ambassador talked with the Kinge he would oftentimes poynt backward with his hande toward the bower where my Lorde Compton his master was: what was the conference betwixt them I have not hearde, and therefore I cannot tell. After that Ambassador a Scottishe Lorde sent unto the Kinge à pagiat made after the fasion and forme of

difficulties in Romanism ("N. & Q." 1" S. viii. 294.) T. J. BUCKTON.

Lichfield..

EPICURISM: LINGUAL COINCIDENCES: QUIETISM : * JEWISH SCIENCE, ETC."

The Jewish opinion advanced by MR. ELMES referring the word "Epicurean" to the Talmudic aipikurios," an "infidel"-may be very ingenious for "a learned philosopher, grammarian, and poet" like the Rabbi Jehudah Hallevy: but, like a vast deal of Jewish interpretation, it is evidently absurd. "Infidel" can no how be twisted" into an appropriate epithet for the " porcus of Horace; or as MR. ELMES gives it" the fat swine of Epicurus' sty - unless applied exclusively by a Jew who holds that savoury and succulent grunter in hideous aversion therefore may deem him worthy of any epithet, however defamatory.

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By the testimony of all antiquity it is certain that the "term of reproach," Epicurean was the result of a very common misrepresentation natural enough, perhaps, but still the result of calumny. Observing that the Athenians were at the time immersed either in pleasures or in ideal and useless disputes, Epicurus attempted to lead them to such an enjoyment of their rational faculties as would be conducive to the true enjoyment of life, and for this purpose introduced amongst them a system of philosophy the professed object of which was to enable men to preserve them selves from pain, grief, and sorrow of every kind, and to secure to themselves the uninterrupted possession of tranquillity and happiness. The great end, he assured himself, would be effected if, by taking off the forbidding mask with which the Stoics had concealed the fair face of Virtue, he could persuade men to embrace her as the only guide to a happy life. (Laert. 1. x. s. 122, 144, quoted by Enfield abridging Brucker-Hist. of Phil. b. ii. c. 15.)

Now, the preceptor pointing out such a seemingly royal and enticing road to Virtue could not fail to make numerous proselytes: his school was more frequented than any other — a circumstance which, of course, excited great jealousy and envy amongst his contemporaries-especially the Stoics, whose futile system and ostentatious hypocrisy Epicurus spared no pains to expose. Pleasure, rightly understood, was the proposed end of his doctrine-wisdom was his guide to happiness. The Stoics perceived that a preceptor who attempted to correct the false and corrupt taste of the times, and to lead men to true pleasure by natural and casy steps in the path of virtue, would be more likely to command public attention than one who rested his authority and influ

2nd S. vi. 188.

ence upon a rigid system of doctrine, and an unnatural severity of manners. In order, therefore, to secure their own popularity they thought it necessary to misrepresent the principles and character of Epicurus, and held him up to public censure as an advocate for infamous pleasures ; and they supported their misrepresentations by inventing and circulating many scandalous tales, which obtained a ready reception among the indolent and credulous Athenians. (See Enfield, ubi supra, for authorities.) In fact, the quarrel was exceedingly like that between the Jesuits and the Jansenists or Port-Royalists with Pascal and his Provincial Letters in their hands and everybody knows the popular meaning of the word "Jesuit" in consequence of certain apprehensions or misapprehensions-according to the side we take in the controversy.

The irregularities of some of his disciples reflected dishonour on the master; and at Rome, Cicero, with his usual vehemence, inveighed against the sect-giving easy credit to the calumnies circulated against its founder: -finally, Amafanius, Catius Insuber and others, borrowing their notions of pleasure not from the founder of the School but from some of his degenerate followers, under the guise of Epicurean doctrine wrote precepts of luxury. (See Enfield, ubi suprà, book iii. c. 1.) The true doctrine of Epicurus was not fully stated by any Roman writer until Lucretius unfolded the Epicurean system in his poem De Rerum Naturâ. Meanwhile, however, the mud of slander stuck to the name of Epicurus

-as is usual in such cases - and as all the facts herein stated are incontestable, surely they are sufficient to explain the etymology of "Epicurism"-precisely like the facts which exalt or stigmatise any other ism in the estimation of men. Vainly, therefore, did Epicurus write to his disciple:

"Whilst we contend that Pleasure is the end of happiness in life, it must not be thought that we mean those pleasures which consist in the enjoyments of luxury, in effeminacy as certain blockheads and the opponents of our principles have pretended by a malignant interpretation of our sentiments. Our Pleasure is nothing but the possession of a tranquil mind, and a body free from pain."

Vainly did Seneca exclaim: I do not believe, like most of our Stoics, that the sect of Epicurus is the school of vice: but this I say malè audit, it has got a bad name, infamis est, it is stigmatised, et immeritò, and undeservedly. The fable was invented from appearances which give rise to the misapprehension -frons ipsa dat locum fabula et ad malam spem invitat. (De beatâ Vitâ, c. 13.) Vainly has Gassendi put forth all his erudition and zeal in defending Epicurus from the calumnies which were originally concocted by the Stoics;-the mud sticks, and will stick for ever, everybody will call a sensualist or volup