_Twickenham--Did Elizabeth visit Bacon there?_--I believe all the authors
who within the last sixty years have written on the history of Twickenham,
Middlesex (and among the most known of these I may mention Lysons,
Ironside, and John Norris Brewer), have, when mentioning Twickenham Park,
formerly the seat of Lord Bacon, stated that he there entertained Queen
Elizabeth. Of this circumstance I find no account in the works of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His lordship entertained her at
Gorhambury in one of her progresses; and I would ask if it be possible that
Twickenham may have been mistaken for his other seat of Gorhambury? It is
well known Queen Elizabeth passed much of the latter part of her life at
Richmond, and ended her days there; and in Mr. Nares' _Memoirs of Lord
Burghley_ there is an account of her visit to Barn-Elms; and there is also
a curious description of her visit to Kew (in that neighbourhood) in the
_Sydney Papers_, published by Arthur Collins, in two vols. folio, vol. i.
p. 376., in a letter from Rowland Whyte, Esq. Had Lord Bacon received her
majesty, it must most probably have been in 1595. But perhaps some of your
readers may be able to supply me with information on this subject.