es wch my vnckle Ruffel was made Lo: Ruffell "of Thorney; and for Knights, they weare in"nuemerable, "All this Springe I had my health verie well. "My father vfed to come fome tymes to vs at "Clerken well, but not often; for he had at "this tyme, as it weare, whollie left my mother: 66 yet the house was kept still at his charge. "About this tyme my aunt of Bath and hir "Lord came to London, and brought wth them "my Lo: Fitzwaren and my cozen Fraunces "Bourcher, whom I mett at Bagshot, wher I lay "all night wth my cozen Fraunces Bourcher and "Mrs. Marie Carie, wch was the first beginnings "of the greatnes betweene vs. About 5 mile "from London ther mett them, my mother, my "Lo: of Bedford and his La: my unckle Ruffell "and much other companie, foe that we weare "in number about 300, weh did all accompanie "them to Bath House, wher they continued "most of that fommer, whether I went dailie "and vifited them, and grew more inward wh my cozen Fraunces and Mrs. Cary. ch "About this tyme my aunt of Warwick went 66 to meete the Queene, haueinge Mrs. Bridges "wth hir, and my [coufin] Anne Vauifor; my "mother "mother and I should have gone w'h them, but "that hir horses, wch fhe borrowed of Mr. Elmes "and old Mr. Hickley, weare not ready; yet I "went the fame night and ouertooke my aunt at Ditten Hanger, my Lady Blunt's house, "wher my mother came the next day to me "about noone, my aunt being gone before. "Then my mother and I went on o' iorney to "ouertake hir, and kild 3 horfes that day wth "extreamitie of heate, and came to Wreft, my "Lord of Kent's houfe*, where we found the "dores fhutt, and none in the house but one "fervaunt, who only had the keyes of the hall, "fo that we weare enforced to lie in the hall all "night, till towards morneinge, at wch tyme ❝came a man and lett vs into the higher roomes, "wher we flept 3 or 4 howers. "This morneinge we hafted away betyme, and 66 came that night to Rockingham Castle, wher we ouertooke my aunt of Warwick and hir "companie, wher we continued a day or two "wth old St Edward Watson and his Lady. "Then we went to my La: Nedums, who once "ferued my aunt of Warwick, and from thence "to a fifter of hirs whofe name I haue forgotten. "Thither came my La: of Bedford, who was In Hertfordshire, the feat at this time of Lady Hardwicke, the representative of the Kent family. "then fo great a woman wth the Queene as "euerie body much respected hir, she haueinge "attended the Queene from out of Scotland. 66 ch "The next day we went to M• Griffin of "Dinglies, wh was the first tyme I euer faw the Queene and Prince Henrie, wher she kiffed vs "all, and vfed vs kindly. Thither came my "La: of Suffolk, my yeonge La: Darby, and 66 my La: Walfingham, wch 3 Ladies wear the great fauorits of S Robert Sicill. That night "we went alonge wth the Queene's traine, ther beinge an infinit companie of coaches; and, 66 as I take it, my aunt and my mother and I lay at St. Ritchard Knightlies, wher my La: "Eliz. Knightly made exceedinglie much of vs. "The fame night my mother and I, and my 66 coz. Ann Vauifor rid on horfeback throw "Couentrie, and went to a gentleman's house "wher y La: Eliz. hir grace lay, wch was the "first tyme I ever faw hir, my La: Kildare and "ye La: Harington being hir gouerneffes. The "fame night we returned to S. Ritchard 66 Knightlies. cr "The next day, as I take it, we "went alonge wh the Queene to Althroppe, my Lo: Spencers "house, wher my mother and I faw 66 my cozen Henrie Clifford, my The Queene and Prince came to Al thorpe the 23 of June, beinge Saterday, but as I remember unckle's my aunt of Warwick, my mother and I, came not thither till the we was next day, wch Sunday kept wth great folemnitie, ther beinge an infinit number of Lords and Ladies. Heere faw my coz. Clifford first. Heere we faw the Queenes fauore to my La: Hatton and my La: Cicill; for fhe fhewed noe fauore to the elderly Las: but to my La: Rich and fuch like companie. "unckle's fon, web was the firft 66 tyme we euer faw him. "From thence ye 27, beinge Munday, the Queene went to "Hatton Fermers, wher the Kinge "mett hir, wher ther wear an infi"nit companie of Lords and La: "and other people, that the coun"trie could scarfe lodge them. ' "From thence the Court re"moued and wear banquetted wth great royaltie by my father at "Grafton, wher the King and "Queene weare entertayned wh "fpeeches and delicat prefents, at "wch tyme my Lord and the Al"lexanders did run a course at y "feild, wher he hurt Hen: Allexander verie dangerouflie. Where the Court lay this night 66 Iam vncertaine. "At this tyme of the King's being at Graf"ton, my mother was ther, but not heald as "Mrs. of the house, by reafon of ye difference "betweene my Lo: and hir, weh was growen to a great height. "The "The night after, my aunt of Warwick, my "mother, and I, as I take it, lay at Doctor "Challeners, (wher my aunt of Bath and my "unckle Ruffell mett vs, wch houfe my grand"father of Bedford vfed to lie much at,) being " in Amerfom. "The next day the Queene went to [a] "gentlemans house (whose name I can not re"memb') wher ther mett hir many great Ladies "to kifs her hands; as, the Marquefs of Win"cheft, my La: of Northumberland, my La; of "Southampton, &c. "From thence the Court re"moued to Windfor, wher the "Feaft of St. George was folem"nised, thoughe it should haue bin "don before; ther I ftood wth my "La: Eliz: grace in the fchrine in "the great Hall at Windsor, to fe "the Kinge and all the Knights "fit at dinner. Thither came the "Archduk's Embaffador, who was "receaved by the Kinge and Queene in the great Hall, wher ther was fuch an infinit companie of Lo: and La: and fo great a court as I think I shall "like. From Windfor the Court "remoued to Hampton Court, 6 neuer se the At Hampton "wher |