d eventually it became the property of SirW. Smijth, of Hill Hall, in whose family it hasremained up to the present time. Of the learned Sir Thomas Smijth, the secre-tary to King Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth,there is still preserved an ancient portrait onpanel, which is let into a circle over the… … Hall, and is the side-saddle of Queen Elizabeth ;the pommel is of wrought metal, and has beengilt, the ornament upon it is in the then fash-ionable style of the Renaissance ; the seat ofvelvet is now in a very ruinous condition ; but WONDEKFUL THINGS. , 135 it is carefully kept beneath a glass…
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