6 s7\i(;/u\\ir// ./.)■/> ,1/.///, /.y /ins or )(>a7; 



\\\\\\ tluMT |n>K's." Majt^stv iniist havo Ixhmi soiv 

 pill to it lo li>olv uini(>siii' on such »)(.*(.';vsi()iis, and in 

 lh,> h.ul coiulition o{ all ivkuIs al tliat tiiut> wf I'md 

 a iii>\\ siu'iiil'u'aiuu^ ii) \\u' coinM liiu^ss of Sii- \\'alt(>r 

 KaliMU'li. NNlioat (IrctMiw ic'h llirow his V(d\tM cloak 

 upon iho urouml for I'lli/alu'th to walk o\c\'. 



Illi.aluMh \>as an acconiplisluul horsiMvoniau. 

 aiul i( is not surin"isinu\ uniKn- tluvst^ I'ircMiiu- 

 stani'os. that slu^ niado full us^m^I' the accomplish- 

 UKMU. cvMUinuiui;- on all possibh^ public occasions 

 to apiH>ar in this manner. On lon^-ci' journeys 

 she roile on a pillion hehiml a niounteJ chaniher- 

 lain. hohlinu" on to him l\\ his waisthelt just as 

 hulies continued to ilo for centuries yet to cinne. 

 The curious in these thiuii's may t'uul interest in 

 the tact that the moilern ^a-ov^m's hwthern waist- 

 belt. \\hich now serves no practical function, is 

 meridv a strange surN ival oi that oUl necessity of 

 fiMuinine travel. The commonly-receivcil opinion 

 that Kli/.abeili objected to carriaii'cs from the 

 snpposcd •' etVeminacy "' (^i usiuii' them receives a 

 severe sluH'k from her cavriau'e experiences. Avhich 

 make it quite idn ions that travelling- in the 

 earliest o{ them was only to be induli^'cd in hy 

 persons of the stroni^cst frame and in the rudest 

 health. She w lu\ mounted on her palfrey before 

 her troops at Tilbury, w hen the Armada threatened. 

 could justly claim that thouirh but a woman she 

 had the spirit of a Kiuir— aye. and a Kinir of 

 Eiiicland-- quailed before the riirours of a carria^ro- 

 drive. 



In lo7i> the Earl of Arundel imported one of 



