 | Charles Mathew Clode - 1888 - 446 pages
...great solemnity. Paul Hentzner in 1598 describes what he saw at Elizabeth's palace at Greenwich : " A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod and along with him another who had a table cloth, and after they had both knelt three times with the utmost veneration, he spread the cloth... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1890 - 304 pages
...But while fhe was at prayers, Hentzner fays, " we faw her table fet out with the following folemnity. A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along...another who had a tablecloth, which, after they had both knelt three times, with the utmoft veneration he fpread upon the table, and after kneeling again they... | |
 | Douglas Campbell - 1892 - 578 pages
...more was to come afterwards. He witnessed the setting of her dinner-table, and there saw this sight: "A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along...which, after they had both kneeled three times with the utmost veneration, he spread upon the table, and after kneeling again they both retired. Then came... | |
 | William Andrews - 1896 - 316 pages
...is so entertaining and informing that it well merits reproduction. "A gentleman," it is •stated, " entered the room bearing a rod, and along with him...after they had both kneeled three times, with the utmost veneration, he spread upon the table, and after kneeling again, they both retired. Then came... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 228 pages
...service was over in half an hour. 60 This is Hentzner's description of the setting out of her table: " A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along...table-cloth, which, after they had both kneeled three times, he spread upon the table; and after kneeling again they both retired. Then came two others, one with... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1899 - 408 pages
...Catherine Parr, he spoke to the King on his Knees. King James I. suffered his Courtiers to omit it. ' A Gentleman entered the Room bearing a Rod, and along...which, after they had both kneeled three Times with the utmost Veneration, he spread upon the Table, and after kneeling again they both retired. Then came... | |
 | Charles William Heckethorn - 1899 - 394 pages
...thus describes it : ' While she was at prayers, we saw her table set in the following solemn manner : a gentleman entered the room, bearing a rod, and along...another, who had a tablecloth, which, after they had both knelt down three times with the utmost veneration, he spread upon the table, and, after kneeling again,... | |
 | Mandell Creighton - 1899 - 334 pages
...bore a table-cloth, which, after they had both knelt three times with the utmost veneration, he spread upon the table, and, after kneeling again, they both retired. Then came two others, one with a rod, the other with a salt-cellar, a plate and bread ; they knelt, placed them on the table with... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1904 - 434 pages
...whole service was over in half an hour. This is Hentzner's description of the setting out of her table: "A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along...table-cloth, which, after they had both kneeled three times, he spread upon the table; and after kneeling again they both retired. Then came two others, one with... | |
 | 1905 - 292 pages
...dinner. But while she was still at prayers, we saw her table set out with the following solemnity : a Gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along with him another who had a table cloth, which, after they had both kneeled three times with the utmost veneration, he spread upon... | |
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A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along with him another, who had a table-cloth, which, after they had both kneeled three times with the utmost veneration, he spread upon the table, and after kneeling again they both retired. Then came two... 
