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jeants and appfcntices that they would not cellor! " danced the measures at the nuptial plead before the new Chancellor; but a few, festivity. who looked eagerly for advancement, dis At Stoke Pogis, in Buckinghamshire, he sented. The Chancellor himself was deter had a country house constructed in the true mined to brave the storm, and Elizabeth and Elizabethan taste. Here, when he was Lord all her ministers expressed a determination Chancellor, he several times had the honor to stand by him. He was exceedingly cau to entertain Her Majesty, and showed that tious, " not venturing to wade beyond the the agility and grace which had won her shallow margin of equity, where he could heart, when he was a student in the Inner distinctly see the bottom." He always took Temple, remained little abated. time to consider in cases of any difficulty; The Queen's admiration for him seems and in these he was guided by the advice of finally to have somewhat cooled, and all one Sir Richard Swale, described as his contemporary accounts agree that her neg "servant-friend," who was a doctor of the lect and cruelty had such an effect upon his civil law, and a clerk in the Chancery, and spirits that he died of a broken heart. In well skilled in all the practice and doctrines Trinity term, i 591, it was publicly observed of the court. that he had lost his gaiety and good looks. pfe did not rally during the long vacation, While holding the Great Seal, Sir Chris topher's greatest distinction continued to be and when Michaelmas term came round, he his skill in dancing, and as often as he had was confined to his bed. His sad condition an opportunity, he abandoned himself to being related to Elizabeth, all her former this amusement. Attending the marriage fondness for him revived, and she herself, of his nephew and heir with a judge's so the story goes, hurried to his house in daughter, he was decked, according to the Ely Place with cordial broths in the hope custom of the age, in his official robes; and of restoring him. But all in vain! He it is recorded that when the music struck died on the 2ist of November in the fiftyup, he doffed them, threw them down upon fourth year of his age. the floor, and saying, " Lie there, Mr. Chan