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Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul
Hentzner AND Fragmenta Regalia by Sir Robert Naunton. 1892
Cassell

TRAVELS IN ENGLAND AND FRAGMENTA REGALIA

INTRODUCTION

Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with
sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of
social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir
Robert Naunton.
Paul Hentzner was a German lawyer, born at Crossen, in Brandenburg,
on the 29th of January, 1558. He died on the 1st January, 1623. In 1596,
when his age was thirty-eight, he became tutor to a young Silesian
nobleman, with whom he set out in 1597 on a three years' tour through
Switzerland, France, England, and Italy. After his return to Germany in
1600, he published, at Nuremberg, in 1612, a description of what he
had seen and thought worth record, written in Latin, as "Itinerarium
Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Italiae, cum Indice Locorum, Rerum
atque Verborum."
Horace Walpole caused that part of Hentzner's Itinerary which tells
what he saw in England to be translated by Richard Bentley, son of the
famous scholar, and he printed at Strawberry Hill two hundred and
twenty copies. In 1797 "Hentzner's Travels in England" were edited,
together with Sir Robert Naunton's "Fragmenta Regalia," in the volume
from which they are here reprinted, with notes by the translator and the
editor.
Sir Robert Naunton was of an old family with large estates, settled at
Alderton, in Suffolk. He was at Cambridge in the latter years of
Elizabeth's reign, having entered as Fellow Commoner at Trinity
College, and obtained a Fellowship at Trinity Hall. Naunton went to
Scotland in 1589 with an uncle, William Ashby, whom Queen
Elizabeth sent thither as Ambassador, and was despatched to

Elizabeth's court from Scotland as a trusty messenger. In 1596-7 he was
in France, and corresponded with the Earl of Essex, who was his friend.
After the fall of Essex he returned to Cambridge, and was made Proctor
of the University in 1601, three years after Paul Hentzner's visit to
England. Then he became Public Orator at Cambridge, and by a speech
made to King James at Hinchinbrook won his Majesty's praise for Latin
and learning. He came to court in the service of Sir James Overbury,
obtained the active friendship of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham,
and was sworn as Secretary of State on the 8th January, 1617. The king
afterwards gave Naunton the office of Master of the Court of Wards
and Liveries.
Sir Robert Naunton wrote his recollections of the men who served
Queen Elizabeth when he was