continued in that family till the civil wars, when it was sequestrated by Parliament; and afterwards purchased by Oliver Cromwell, who, in 1643, exchanged it for Hampton Court; and New Hall being again offered to sale, became the property of three opulent citizens, for the sum of 18,000l. On the Restoration, it reverted to the family of Villiers, and it was then transferred to Monk, Duke of Albemarle, who lived in it with great splendor. New Hall continued in this family till 1734, when it was transferred, by purchase, to Richard Hoare, Esq. who re-sold it to John Olons, Esq., by whom the size of the edifice was considerably diminished. According to tradition, Henry VIII. breakfasted in Epping Forest, contiguous to this palace, on the morning of Anne Boleyn's execution; and, on hearing the signalgun, exclaimed, with joy, -"Away! unkennel the hounds."- Moran's History of Essex. No. III. The original French of the First Letter of Henry the Eighth to Anne Boleyn. [Extracted from the Harleian Miscellany.] MA Maitresse et Amie; moy et mon cœur s'en remettent en vos mains, vous suppliant les avoir pour recommander à votre bonne grace, et que par absence votre affection ne leur soit diminué. Car pur augmenter leur peine, ce seroit grand pitié, car l'absence leur fait assez, et plus que jamais je n' eusse pensé, en nous faisant rementevoir un point, d'astronomie qui est tel. Tant plus loin que les Mores sont, tant plus eloigné est le soleil, et nonobstant plus fervent, aussi faitil de notre amour, par absence nous sommes eloignez et neanmoins il garde sa ferveur au moins de notre costè. Ayant en espoir la pareille du votre, vous assurant que de ma part l'ennuye d'absence deja m'est trop grande, et quand je pense à l'augmentation de celuy que par force faut il que je soufre, il m'est presque intollerable, s'il n'estoit en ferme espoir que j'aye de votre andissoluble affection vers moy; et pur le vous rementevoir alcune fois cela, et voyant que personellement je ne puis etre en votre presence, chose la plus approchante à cela qui m'est possible au present je vous envoye est a dire, ma picture mise en brasselettes à toute la devise que deja scavez, me souhaitant en leur place, quant il yous plairoit c'est de la main de Votre serviteur et amy, H. R. No. IV. Coronation of Anne Boleyn. (Extract from Stow.) On Saturday, the one-and-thirtieth day of May, the Queene was conveyed through London in order as followeth : To the intent that horses should not slide on the pavement, nor that the people should be hurt by the horses, the high streets where through the Queene should passe were all gravelled, from the Tower unto Templebarre, and rayled on each side; within which rayles stood the crafts along in their order from Gracechurch, where the merchants of the Stillyarde stoode, until the Little Conduit in the Cheape, where the aldermen stoode; and on the other side of the streete stood the constables of the city, apparelled in velvet and silkes, with great staves in their handes, to cause the people to give roome, and keep good order; and when the streets were somewhat ordered, the maior in a gown of crimson velvet, and a rich collar of esses, with two footmen clothed in white and red damaske, rode to the Tower, to give his attendance on the Queene, on whom the sheriffs, and their officers did awaite until they came to the Tower-hill, where they, taking their leave, rode down the high streets, commanding the constables to see roome, and good order kept, and so went and stood by the aldermen in Cheape: and before the Queene, with her train, should come, Grace-street and Cornehill were hanged with fine scarlet, crimson, and other grained clothes, and in some places with rich arras; and the most part of Cheape was hanged with cloth of tissue, gold, velvet, and many rich hangings, whiche did make a goodly shew; and all the windows were replenished with ladies and gentlemen, to beholde the Queene and her traine as they should pass. The first of the Queene's company that set forward, were twelve Frenchmen belonging to the French ambassador, cloathed in coats of blue velvet, with sleues of yellow and blue velvet, their horses trapped with close trappers of blew sarsonet, powdred with white crosses: after them marched Gentlemen, Esquires, Knights, two and two: after them the Judges after them the Knights of the : |