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*' Considerations on the Sea." This similarity was pointed out to the Edi- 

 tor by the Rev. Dr. J. T. Barrett, of Westminster. 



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Tins favorite palace of King James I. formerly stood in a large Manor 

 called Thebaudes, in the County of Hertford, and Parish of Cheshunt, 

 somewhat north of the Ware road, about twelve miles from London. It 

 was erected about the year 1570, by John Thorpe, for Secretary Cecil, 

 afterwards Lord-Treasurer Burghley. On the 2/th of July, 1564, Eliza- 

 beth made her first visit to the house ; and, having probably expressed 

 her intention of repeating it, by her second progress to Theobald's on the 

 22d of September, 1571, it was considerably enlarged and improved. 

 During her reign, the Queen went thither twelve different times ; at some 

 of which, the expenses of her entertainment amounted to from 2,000 to 

 j3,ooo. On the death of Lord Burghley, he was succeeded at Theobald's 

 by his son Robert, subsequently the Earl of Salisbury ; who, on the 3d of 

 May, 1603, entertained King James I., then on his journey to London to 

 assume the English Crown. This costly entertainment was repeated in 

 1606, when that sovereign was accompanied by Christiern IV., King of 

 Denmark, and, from these visits, King James became so great an admirer 

 of Theobald's, that he at length exchanged for it the Palace of Hatfield ; 

 after which it became his favorite residence, and he died there on March 

 the 27th, 1625. His son Charles also occasionally lived at Theobald's : 

 he there received the Petition from the Parliament in 1642, and it was 

 thence he went to assume the command of his army. In 1650, after a 

 minute Parliamentary survey, and some disputes concerning its sale, the 

 greater part of Theobald's was taken down, and the amount received for 

 the materials sold employed for the use of the army. About 1660, George 

 Monk, Duke of Albemarle, received Theobald's by patent from King 

 Charles II. ; but on the failure of male issue in the second Duke Christo- 

 pher, the property again returned to the Crown. In 1689, King William 

 III. issued a patent granting it to William Bentinck, Earl of Portland ; 

 but about 1762, it was sold to George Prescott, Esq., from whom it has 

 ultimately descended to Sir George William Prescott, Bart., the present 

 possessor. Of the magnificence of the Palace at Theobald's, some idea 

 may be formed from the particular description given of it in the Life of 

 Lord Burghley, in Peck's " Desiderata Curiosa" ; that by Sir Paul Hentz- 

 ner ; that in the "Voyages Celebres"-of the Sieur Jean Albert de Man- 

 delslo ; that in the Parliamentary Survey of 1650, already mentioned ; 

 and also from a short notice in the "Description of Hertfordshire," by 

 John Norden. See also the Rev. Daniel Lysons's " Environs of London," 

 vol. iv. pp. 29-39, and " Clutterbuck's History and Antiquities of the 

 County of Hertford," vol. ii. pp. 87-95, when ce the foregoing account has 



