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entertained the French ambassadors; and the other at Westminster, forthe reception also of French commissioners, by Queen Elizabeth .

“ The king caused a banket-house to be made on one syde of theTylt-yarde at Grenewyche : the roofe was purple clothe, full of roses andpomegranates; the windowes were all clere stories, with curious monellsstrangely wrought; the jawe pieces and crests were carved with vinettesand trailes of savage worke, and richly gilted with gold and bise. Atthe one syde was a haute place for heraulds and minstrelles: this housewas richely hanged. At the nether end were two broade arches uponthree antick pillars, all of gold, burnished, swaged, and graven full ofgargells and serpents, supporting the edifice; the arches were vautedwith armorie all of bice and golde; and above the arches were madesundrie anticks and devices. When supper was done,” continues thehistorian, “ the kyng, the quene, and the ambassadors, rose and wentout of the banquet-chambre by the aforesaid arches ; and when theywere betweene the uttermost door and the arches, the kyng caused themto turn back and look on that side of the arches, and there they saw howTyrwyn was besieged, and the very manner of every man’s camp veryconynglie wrought, which worke more pleased them than the remem-bering the thing in deede.”*

“ On the six and twentieth daie of March, in the morning (beingEaster daie)f a banketting-house was begun at Westminster, on thesouth-west side of her majesties palace of White hall, made in manerand forme of a long square, three hundred thirtie two feete in measure

* In 1520, at a Disguising for the entertainment of the French hostages. Henry causedthe roof of his Great Chamber at Greenwich to be “ covered with blue sattin, sett full ofpresses of fine gold and flowers ; and under written was ‘ lammes ’ (jamais); the meaningwhereof was, that the flower of youth could not be oppressed.”— Holingshed.

t 1581.