ready as ye would think to devore you; yonder a horse; yonder a dog at the chass; and all this so glittering by reason that its covered wt gold that it would dazell any mans eyes.  But calling away your eyes from this we deschended to the walls of the chamber, wheir ye have standing in one broad Justice, a martiall like woman wt a sword in hir one hand, and the balance in the other.  On her right stands Verity, a woman painted naked to show that the truth most be naked since it demands no coverture.  On the other stands Magnanimity, a woman of a bravadoing countenance.  In another broad stands Prudence.  In a 3d (la chambre de Lucresse) as a emblem of Chastity we have the story of Lucretias rapture by Tarquinius Superbus sone:  first ye have him standing at hir chamber door wt his men at his back looking thorow the lock whither she was their or not; in the same broad[97] ye have represented the violence he used to hir; then as the epiloge of the tragaedy ye have hir killing herselfe.  In another broad ye have to the life don the story of Judith bringing away the head of Holofernes.

    [95] Holyrood.

    [96] When the Duke of Lauderdale was under forfeiture the estate of
        Brunston, belonging to him, was granted to Swinton of Swinton.—­
        Sir G. Mackenzie’s Memoirs, p. 48.

    [97] Panel.

In another chamber ye have Lewis the 13 portraicts wt those of all the rest of the royall family and the most part of the courtiers, counsellers and statesmen of that tyme, togither wt a embleme of the joy of the city of Paris at the nativity of this King.

Of this chamber goes a pitty but pretty litle cabinet for Devotion.  Their stands a large crucifix of marble wonderously weill done, round about hings the 12 Apostles wt the sufferings they ware put to.  Their may ye sie the barbarous Indians knocking Bartholemew, who was spreading the gospell among them, wt clubs to death; and so of the rest.

In another chamber on the cielery we have panted Thetis dipping hir sone Achilles in the Ocean to render him immortall.  She hath him by the foot, whence in all his parts he becames immortal and impatible, save only in the sole of his feet, which ware not dippt.  Next ye have him slain by Paris whiles he is busy on his knees at his devotion in the temple; Paris letting a dart at him thorow a hole of the door, which wounding him in the sole of his foot slow him.  Nixt ye have Achilles dragging Hectors dead body round about the walls of Troy.  Then ye have Priamus coming begging his sones body.  Ye have also Diomedes and Glaucus frendly renconter wt the exambion they made of their armes.

In another chamber we found wery delicat weill wrought Tapistry wheirin ware to be sien, besydes sewerall other stories taken out of Homer, the funestous and lamentable taking of Troy.

In this same chamber saw we hinging the cardinals oune portraiture to the full, in his ride robes and his cardinals hat wt a letter in his hand to tel that he was the Kings secretary:  his name is beneath. Armandus Richeleus anagrammatized Hercules alter.  Surely the portrait represents a man of wery grave, wise and reverend aspect.  Besydes him hinges the portraict of his father and mother.  His father had bein a souldier; the cardinal was born in Richeliew.