Master Compton chanced to be sore hurt by Edward Neville esquier, brother to the lord of Aburgavennie, so that he was like to have died. One person there was that knew the King, and cried God save the King; and, with that, all the people were astonied, and then the King discovered himself, to the great comfort of the people."

"On Newyeeres day 1511, at Richmont, the Queene was delivered of a Prince, to the great rejoicing of the whole realme. He was named Henry; but died on the 23. of Februarie next following at Richmont, and was buried at Westminster."

Shortly after this, the manor of Richmond was eclipsed by the magnificence of the new palace erected by Cardinal Wolsey at Hampton Court, and which the Cardinal relinquished to the King in 1526; "in recompence whereof," adds Stowe, "the King licensed him to lie in his mannor of Richmond at his pleasure, and so hee lay there at certaine times." It is remarked by Hall, that "when the common people, and especially such as had been servants to Henry VII. saw the Cardinal keep house in the manorroyal of Richmond, which that monarch so highly esteemed, it was a marvel to hear how they grudged, saying, Soe a butcher's dogge dothe lie in the Manor of Richemounde!" Their indignation was still further excited by the circumstance that Wolsey kept his Christmas in great state here, whilst the King himself observed that feast with the utmost privacy at Eltham, on account of the plague.

On the 20th Jan. 1540-1, King Henry granted Richmond, amongst other estates in several counties, to his divorced wife, Anna of Cleves, towards the maintenance of her dignity so long as she should reside in England. She surrendered it to King Edward the Sixth in the second year of his reign.

Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth both gave Richmond a large share of their presence; and it was here that Queen Elizabeth breathed her last, on the 24th March 1602. The Court had removed thither on the 21st of January preceding. Upon a Saturday night,' says Sir Robert Carey, (it was twelve days before her death,)" she gave command that the Great Closet should

be prepared for her to go to Chappell the next morning. The next day, all things being in a readinesse, wee long expected her coming. After eleven o'clock, one of the groomes came out and bade make ready for the Private Closet, she would not go to the Great. There we stayed long for her coming; but at the last she had cushions layd for her in the Privy Chamber hard by the Closet doore, and there she heard service. From that day forwards she grew worse and worse. She remained upon her cushions four days and nights at the least. All about her could not persuade her either to take any sustenance or to go to bed. My Lord Admirall was sent for; what by fair means, what by force, he gat her to bed. There was no hope of her recovery, because she refused all remedies." the day before the Queen's death, the Lord Admiral, Lord Keeper, and Secretary Cecil, attended at her bed's foot, to request her wishes upon the accession; Elizabeth was speechless, but she made certain signs, which the Lords were pleased to understand as signifying her approval of the King of

Scotland.

On

There are only occasional instances of the presence of King James the First at Richmond; for it was not retained as one of his own palaces, but was assigned in succession to his two sons, Henry and Charles, Princes of Wales.†

Charles, when King, was occasionally here; but Hampton Court had obtained the preference; and these two Palaces were too nearly contiguous to be both maintained for the Sovereign at the same time. It appears from the names given to several of the rooms at Richmond in the survey which follows, that it was used for the dwelling and education of the Royal children. King Charles the Second was here educated by Bishop Duppa.

When the levelling days of the Commonwealth arrived, this Palace was seized and dismantled by the Parliament; previously to which, a Survey was made in 1649, from which the

*If the reader will turn to Hume, he will see how very inaccurately the popular historian has described the last days of Elizabeth.

+ See Nichols's Progresses, &c. of King James the First, index to Places visited.

"All that capital messuage, Palace, or Court House, commonly called Richmond Court, consisting of one large and fair structure of free-stone, of two stories high, covered with lead. The lower of which stories conteyns one very large room called the Great Buttery, well floored and lighted, and one other little room called the Buttery Chamber, another room called the Silver Scullery, and one other little room called the Saucery, and a large and fayr passage. The higher story conteyning one fayr and large room 100 feet in length, and 40 in breadth, called the Great Hall, This room hath a screen in the lower end thereof, over which is a little gallery, and a fayr foot-pace in the higher end thereof; the pavement is of square tile, and it is very well lighted and seeled, and adorned with eleven statues in the sides thereof; in the midst a brick hearth for a charcoal fire, having a large lanthorn in the roof of the hall fitted for that purpose, turreted and covered with lead. Mem. In the north end of the Great Hall there is one turret or clock case, covered with lead; which, together with the lanthorn in the middle thereof, are a special ornament unto that building.

"The Privy Lodgings, consisting of a very large free-stone building, of curious workmanship, three stories high, all covered with lead, conteyning twelve rooms upon every storie; the lowest whereof conteyns one fayr room, called the Waiters' Chamber, floored with boards; three rooms called the Robe Rooms; four rooms belonging to the Master of the Horse; one other room called the Servants' Dining Room; and three other rooms be.. longing to the Groom of the Stole, all well floored, lighted, and seeled. The middle storie conteyns one room, called the Lobby, arched over head, and covered with lead, in the middle of which roof is a fayr lanthorn; one other fayr chamber floored with board, called the Guard Chamber; one other room called the Presence Chamber; one other room called the Privy Closet; one other room called the Privy Chamber; one other room called the Passage; one other room called the Bedchamber: one other room called the With-drawing-chamber; one other room called the Duke of York's Bed Chamber; one other room called the School Chamber; and one other room called the Room for the Pages of the Bed Chamber; one other room used for a Passage; being all of them well lighted and seeled, and matted upon the floors, and in themselves very pleasant and useful. The third storie conteyns twelve chambers very well

and all fit for present use. Mem. That the structure last mentioned is leaded and battayled,and hath upon it fourteen turrets all covered with lead, standing a convenient height above the said leads; which turrets very much adorn and set forth the fabrick of the whole structure, and are a very graceful ornament unto the whole house, being perspicuous to the country round about. In the middle of the structure last mentioned is one paved court, of twenty-four feet broad, and forty feet long, which renders all the rooms thereof, that lye inwards, to be very light and pleasant.

"One round structure or building of freestone, called the Canted Tower, four stories high, covered with lead and embattled, conteyning one cellar and four handsome rooms, one above another, and one stayr-case of stone, 120 steps in ascent: this tower is a chief ornament unto the whole fabrick of Richmond Court.

"One fair and large structure or building three stories high, called the Chapel Building, covered with lead and battled; the lowest of which stories conteyns one fayr and spacious cellar, very well arched, called the Wyne Cellar, and one little room in the side thereof. The middle storie conteyns three rooms used for the Yeomen of the Wyne Cellar; and two rooms called the Groom-Porter's Rooms. The third storie conteyns one fayr and large room, 96 foot long, and 30 foot broad, used for a Chapel. This room is very well fitted with all things useful for a chapel; as fair lights, handsome cathedral seats and pews, a removable pulpit, and a fayr case of carved work for a payr of organs.

"The Queen's Closet, consisting of one pile of building of two stories high, covered with lead and batteled, adjoyning to the said chapel building on the east side thereof, conteyning one room below-stayrs, called the Princess Mary's Kitchen, one other little room used for a Poultry Room, and a little room belonging to the Groom Porter; and conteyning one large room above stayrs called the Queen's Closet, well matted, lighted, and seeled, having a fayr windowe therein opening into the Chapel, and three other rooms, called the Passages above-stayrs.

"The Prince's Closet, consisting of one other pile or structure of stone building, covered with lead and batteled, being two stories high, adjoyning to the said Chapel building on the west side thereof, conteyning below-stayrs, one room called the Ewry, two little rooms called the Vestry Rooms, and one large payr of stayrs leading from the Middle Court to

the Chapel, and one fayr room, called the Prince's Closet, well matted, lighted, and seeled, having one fayr window opening into the Chapel, and one room or passage, and two little rooms, part of the Lord Chamberlain's Lodgings above-stayrs; and also consisting of one other pile or structure of building, two stories high, covered with lead, and batteled with stone, lying between and unto the aforesaid buildings called the Hall and Chapel Buildings towards the south, conteyning two long, fayr, and large passages twentyseven yards long, the one below-stayrs and the other above, of singular use and special ornament to the fabrick of the whole house; and also consisting of one other structure of stone building, two stories high, called the Middle Gate,

covered with lead and batteled with stone, lying between and unto the said Hall and Chapel Building towards the north, conteyning one fayr arched gate, and one large payr of stairs, leading into the Great Hall, and one little room belonging to the Yeomen of the Buttery below-stayrs, and two rooms, part of Lord Chamberlain's Lodgings above-stairs. Unto the north east corner of this building adjoins one other little building, two stories high, covered with lead and battelled, conteyning three little rooms below-stayrs, and three above, two whereof were part of the Lord Chamberlain's Lodgings.

"Mem. That the aforesaid structures, called the Great Hall building, the Passage Building, the building adjoyning to the west side of the Chapel Building, and the Middle Gate Building, do include within them one fayr court, paved with free-stone, 67 feet long, and 66 feet broad, in which court stands one very large

fountain of lead."

The remainder of the Survey is equally curious, though too long for insertion here. It proceeds to describe other ranges of building, containing the Wardrobe and other domestic offices; a building called the Fryars (evidently the remains of the ancient convent before mentioned as founded by King Henry V. and called Bethlem,) the Kitchens, Larders, Woodyard, Bakehouse, &c. &c. The whole document will be found in the Vetusta Monumenta, and in Nichols's Progresses of Queen Elizabeth (new edition).

The commissioners of the House of Commons sold the palace, April 12, 1650, to Rookesby, Goodrich, and Baynes, on behalf of themselves and other creditors, and it afterwards came into the hands of Sir Gregory Norton,

Bart. one of the regicides. The materials were valued at 10,7821. 198. 2d. and shortly after the great mass of the ancient structure was removed. Portions adjoining to the Green were left; and some small remains of them, of which the most conspicuous is an ancient gateway, still linger on that spot, partially concealed by the several residences* which have sprung up upon the site of the palace, much in the same way as the courts of St. James's Palace, Westminster, have been crowded with a heterogeneous assemblage of parasitical buildings.

Before we conclude, we will mentinct views of Richmond Palace :tion that there are the following dis

1. On a small scale, at the corner of Speed's map of the county of Surrey.

2. A drawing in the possession of the Earl of Cardigan (afterwards Duke of Montagu), engraved by J. Basire for the Society of Antiquaries in 1765. (Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 11. pl. xxiii.) The same is copied in folio, in Maurice's "Richmond, a Poem ;' and again, in the plate now placed before the reader.

3. A view taken from the same point, and attributed to Hollar by Mr. Lysons. It is engraved by Vandergucht in a long slip plate, which is inserted in the fifth volume of Aubrey's History of Surrey; and again publishEnvirons of London. ed (from the same copper) in Lysons's

4. A distant view, taken from the Ferry (on the site of the present Bridge), with a curious group of morrice dancers in front. The original, painted by Vinkeboom, was formerly in the possession of Lord Viscount Fitz William; and is now in his gallery at the University of Cambridge. It is engraved, 1. by R. B. Godfrey, 1774; 2. by J. Barlow, for Maurice's "Richmond;" and afterwards inserted in the second edition of Nichols's Progresses, &c. of Queen Elizabeth.

5. A distant view, from the hill, with a train of travellers on the road,

* See a very clear account of nine several "messuages," and the leases by which they were held, in Manning and Bray's Surrey, I. 412.

"Wentzel Hollar delineavit 1638;" a small slip (74 inc. by 2) aquatinted by G. Lewis, for the late Henry Smedley,

esq.

6. The east view of the gateway and remains next the Green, engraved by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, 1737.

7. A bird's eye from the Green, W. Shaftoe, delin. N. Parr, sc. small 4to.

8. The gateway, aquatint. by I. C. Barlow, folio, 1791.

The second view in the possession of Viscount Fitz William, and published by the Society of Antiquaries in 1765, as representing the Palace when viewed from the Green, and particularly described as such both in Lysons's Environs and in the History of Surrey, in fact represents the Palace of Theobalds, and is the same which was copied in the Gentleman's Magazine for Feb. 1836. J. G. N.

AFTER the lamented death of the Reverend Edward Smedley, an event which called forth the sympathy of the numerous friends by whom he was known and esteemed, there was published, under the editorial care of the Marquess of Northampton, a volume of poems contributed by different authors, and entitled a "Tribute" to the memory of Mr. Smedley.

The motives which induced the noble editor and his numerous coadjutors to put forth this volume are so amiable, as not only to disarm criticism, but also to command our respect. There is, however, in the volume one exception; an instance of literary disingenuousness, not to use

La benda lacera,

Tutto sconvolto,
Amor di lagrime
Bagnava il volto.
Mostrava l'omero

Inerme e scarco,
Che rotto Venere
Aveagli l'arco.
Cio a te ben devesi,
Empio, gridai;
A te che nuocere
Altro non sai.

Si volge, mirami,

Si acciglia, e tace:
Ma dentro l'anima
Non trova pace,
Su fiori il gomito
Appoggia e il canto ;
Dormir dissimula
Ma veglia intanto.
Quindi in un subito
Si leva, e irato
Grida, Vittoria :
L'arco è trovato.

L'arco infallibile

Che val per mille,
E l'adorabile
Ciglio di Fille.

Disse; e scoccandomi

Un dardo al core,

"Or vanne, e lagnatia" Gridò, "d'amore."

**

Now, Mr. Urban, it is impossible to deny some merit to this "Impromptu," and, were it "the Marchese Spineto's" own composition, he might claim some little rank as a poet; but the truth is, that the soi-disant "Impromptu" is borrowed from the celebrated Sicilian poet, Giovanni Meli," and has been printed so long since as

He

the year 1787.* Nor even has "the Marchese" the little merit of first giving to Meli's production an Italian dress, for I find it in Italian in the "Rime" of Giovanni Rosini, printed at Pisa in 1831. (Tom. iv. p. 157.)

I give the Sicilian text of Meli with Rosini's version; and your readers will

LU GIGGHIU.

La benda lacera, Spinnatu tuttu, Chiancia Cupidini A chiantu ruttu ;

Rucculiavasi

Pallidu, e zarcu :
Me Matri Veneri
Mi rumpìu l'arcu.

Oh! beni stìjati,

(Ci dissi allura :)
Tu sì diavulu,
Non criatura;

'Ncrepati; ruditi ;

Sì: c'aju gustu;
Almenu termina,
Speddi stu sustu.

A st' improperii
S'ingatta, e taci;
Ma dintra è torbidu,
Non trova paci.

Posa lu guvitu
Supra d'un sciuri;
Finci di dormiri,
Ma' un dormi Amuri.

Poi tuttu 'nzemmula
Pigghiannu sciatu,
Grida: Vittoria,
L'arcu è truvatu;

L'arcu infallibili,
Chi và pri milli,
E l'adorabili
Gigghiu di Filli;

Dissi; e d'un subitu

Scuccandu un dardu;
Si 'ntisi un murmuru :
Ai! ai! com' ardu!

It is only fair that the elegant little poem of Meli should be restored to its right author, and, if presented to the English reader of Italian, that it should be given in its harmonious original, and in the honest version of Rosini. It is desirable also that future pla

judge for themselves not only of the originality of the Marchese's" Impromptu, but also of the feebleness of the alterations which he has ventured to make. Can it be that "the Marchese" did not understand the fourth stanza of the Sicilian that he has omitted it?

IL CIGLIO.

La benda lacera,
Mozze le piume,
Struggeasi in lacrime
Di Gnido il Nume;

E querelandosi,

Fra i gridi e il pianto
Sclamava: ahi! Venere
M'ha l'arco infranto!

Oh! ben fè a toglierti
Quel reo trastullo;
Che tu se' un demone,
Non un fanciullo;

Rispondo: or, barbaro,
Piangi, e ti rodi!
Così almen termine
Avran tue frodi.

A' miei rimproveri

S'acquatta, e tace;
Ma in volto è torbido,
Nè trova pace.

Posando il gomito

Poi sovra un fiore,

S'addorme . . . Ahi! stolidi!

Non dorme Amore.

Ch'anzi, in subito,

Come destato,
Grida, vittoria,
L'arco è trovato.

L'arco infallibile,

Che val per mille,
E l'adorabile
Ciglio di Fille.

Disse; e sollecito
Scoccando un dardo,
Udissi un gemito:

Ahi ahi com'ardo!

giarists should not suppose that they may trust with impunity to the sources from which they borrow remaining undiscovered because somewhat out of the common track.

I am, Sir, yours, &c.
J. H.