such attendance and food as she conceived necessary for their situation. Miss Apsley, being the first daughter of her parents, received particular attention from them. She read well at four years of age, and at seven had no less than eight tutors; who were employed to teach her languages, musick, dancing, writing, and needlework. Such then, it may be inferred, was the practice in educating females of some importance in life during the reign of James I.

After the marriage of this young lady with Mr. Hutchinson, and his decease, she described him to their children as possessing such skill in fencing as became a gentleman; as being extremely fond of musick; "often diverting himself with a viol, on which he played masterly;" having, besides, an excellent ear, and much judgment in the science. He was a good

marksman with the guns or match-locks then in use, and equally expert in archery; and, to conclude the list of his accomplishments, he was an amateur in paintings and engravings, and had a cabinet of curiosities, the articles of which pleased him in proportion to the ingenuity of their contrivance and the excellence of their execution. Beyond these circumstances of a general nature, it will not be necessary to proceed with the character of Colonel Hutchinson; as my object is only to ascertain the customs prevailing at different periods.

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When Charles I. kept his court at Richmond, as Prince of Wales, the beauty and elegance of the females there were so very attractive, nay fascinating, that it was generally said, he who wished to retain the government of his heart should never venture to the place; which, it must be admitted, has still an hundred natural charms calculated to inspire and promote the tender passion. Mrs. Hutchinson relates a story with the utmost gravity, that affords a very strong illustration of the weakness of the human mind, or the enervating influence of this modern Paphos.

A gentleman visited Richmond, and found all the inhabitants deeply lamenting the death of a lady, whose perfections they described in terms so extremely florid and affecting, that the poor man became ardently in love with the portrait his fancy composed of the deceased; "no other discourse could at first please him, nor could he at last endure any other; he grew desperately melancholy; and would go to a mount where the print of her foot was cut, and lie there, pining and kissing of it all the day long, till at length death, in some months' space, concluded his languishment. This story was very true."

Mr. Hutchinson did not, however, apprehend any danger from trying the soft air of Richmond; and went there confident in his own temperament. He lodged with one of the king's musicians, whose house was much frequented by

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others of the band to rehearse their performances, and many elegant and accomplished women were attracted there by this circumstance; yet he contrived to escape the snares thus surrounding him. But the presiding Cupid was not to be contemned on his own ground with impunity. Finding he could not conquer in the usual way, he had recourse to stratagem; and sent the youngest daughter of Sir Allen Apsley to the very house where Mr. H. resided, under the ostensible purpose of learning the science of musick, though in reality to introduce Miss Lucy Apsley to his notice by proxy; and, by this means, he actually became most violently in love with a person he had never seen; which "he began to wonder at himself (says his lady) that his heart, which had ever had such an indifferency for the most excellent of woman-kind, should have so strong impulses towards a stranger he never saw; and certainly it was of the Lord (though he perceived it not), who had ordained him, through so many Providences, to be yoaked with her in whom he found so much satisfaction."

This page presents an emblematical plate, which will be found, on examination, to serve the double purpose of illustrating the dress of the arms and legs, and the total change of manners between the age of chivalry and 1627, the date when it was prefixed to a sermon preached by Samuel Ward, of Ipswich, whose artist deserves

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