Lives of the bachelor kings of England . y way of bridle, which has a rest,leaving the bridle hand occasionally free. All theseclumsy defences are attached to a sort of plated petticoat,fastened to a clasping saddle as difficult to be thrown outof as to get into. The poor horse must have been illat ease in this monstrous gear, and little able to boundon his native earth for attack or defence; just as theiron-plated frigates, which our neighbours are contrivingto compete with English nautical skill and courage, willbe unable to triumph over the breakers of a wave-guardedisland. All these heavy
Lives of the bachelor kings of England . y way of bridle, which has a rest,leaving the bridle hand occasionally free. All theseclumsy defences are attached to a sort of plated petticoat,fastened to a clasping saddle as difficult to be thrown outof as to get into. The poor horse must have been illat ease in this monstrous gear, and little able to boundon his native earth for attack or defence; just as theiron-plated frigates, which our neighbours are contrivingto compete with English nautical skill and courage, willbe unable to triumph over the breakers of a wave-guardedisland. All these heavy impediments to the impetuousmovements of man, horse, and ship have been tried before, * State Paper Office MS,, from Domestic Papers, 1560, No. 46, f Ibid. 374 EDWARD THE SIXTH. and cast away. The wild rider on the pampas, scarcelyclothed, with his bare-backed steed and his lasso, wouldhave made terrible havoc among the lobster-platedchivalry, man and horse, if he had been permitted acareer in the tilt yard of Greenwich or Edward VI. in tilting the Equestrian Effigies at the Tower, arranged by Sir Samuel Merrick. EDWARD THE SIXTH. CHAPTER VI. Close of the Christmas festivities at Greenwich—King Edward returns toWhitehall—Duke of Somerset beheaded—Mrs. Huggons disloyal speechof the king—King Edwards lively letter to Barnaby Fitz-Patrick—Anecdote of king Edward and sir John Perrot—King Edwards statisticalessays—Falls sick of the small pox and measles—His recovery—Visited byhis sister Mary at Greenwich—His summer progress—His conferencewith Cardano the astronomer—Cardanos high opinion of his character andattainments—First poor rate in England—Misery and destitution in themetropolis—King Edward desires to provide remedies—His conference withbishop Ridley—He founds Christ Church school and St. Thomass hospital.—Gives his palace of Bridewell for a reformatory prison (Descriptionof portrait and the vignette, from Holbiens
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