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Title: The progresses and public processions of Queen Elizabeth. : Among which are interspersed other solemnities, public expenditures, and remarkable events during the reign of that illustrious princess. Collected from original manuscripts, scarce pamphlets, corporation records, parochial registers, &c., &c. Illustrated, with historical notes
Year: 1823 (1820s)
Authors: Nichols, John, 1745-1826
Subjects: Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 Processions Visits of state Monarchy
Publisher: London : Printed by and for John Nichols and Son
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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and alarge and fayr passage. The higher story conteyning one fayr and large room 100 feetin length, and 40 in breadth, called the Great Hall. This room hath a screen in thelower end thereof, over which is a little gallery, and a fayr foot-pace in the higher endthereof; the pavement is a square tile, and it is very well lighted and seeled, andadorned with eleven statues in the sides thereof; in the midst a brick hearth for a char-coal fire, having a large Ian thorn in the roof of the hall fitted for that purpose, turretedand covered with lead. Mem. In the North end of the Great Hall there is one turret 1 See before, p. 62. 2 Sir Thomas Brown, of Betchworth Castle, Dorking. 1 Of Stoke Dabernon, near Letherhead. 4 Whether this Visit took place, we have yet to learn. A Visit was certainly made in 1591. 5 From the Original Return made by the Commissioners of Parliament in 1649, and now remainingin the Augmentation-office.—The earlier history of this noble Palace has been given in p. 404.
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