e there was room enough and spare for a greater
than myself.

So leaving the Castle, as it is both defensive against my opposition,
and magnific for lodging and receite,[13] I descended lower to the City,
wherein I observed the fairest and goodliest street that ever mine eyes
beheld, for I did never see or hear of a street of that length, (which
is half an English mile from the Castle to a fair port which they call
the _Nether-Bow_) and from that port, the street which they call the
_Kenny-gate_ is one quarter of a mile more, down to the King's Palace,
called _Holy-rood-House_, the buildings on each side of the way being
all of squared stone, five, six, and seven stories high, and many
bye-lanes and closes on each side of the way, wherein are gentlemen's
houses, much fairer than the buildings in the High Street, for in the
High Street the merchants and tradesmen do dwell, but the gentlemen's
mansions and goodliest houses are obscurely founded in the aforesaid
lanes: the walls are eight or ten foot thick, exceeding strong, not
built for a day, a week, or a month, or a year; but from antiquity to
posterity, for many ages; there I found entertainment beyond my
expectation or merit, and there is fish, flesh, bread and fruit, in such
variety, that I think I may offenceless call it superfluity, or satiety.
The worst was, that wine and ale was so scarce, and the people there
such misers of it, that every night before I went to bed, if any man had
asked me a civil question, all the wit in my head could not have made
him a sober answer.

I was at his Majesty's Palace, a stately and princely seat, wherein I
saw a sumptuous chapel, most richly adorned with all appurtenances
belonging to so sacred a place, or so royal an owner. In the inner
court I saw the King's arms cunningly carved in stone, and fixed over a
door aloft on the wall, the red lion being in the crest, over which was
written this inscription in Latin,

_Nobis haec invicta miserunt, 106 proavi._

I enquired what the English of it was? it was told
me as followeth, which I thought worthy to be
recorded.

_106, forefathers have left this to us unconquered._

This is a worthy and memorable motto, and I think few kingdoms or none
in the world can truly write the like, that notwithstanding so many
inroads, incursions, attempts, assaults, civil wars, and foreign
hostilities, bloody battles, and mighty foughten fields, that maugre the
strength and policy of