be made out, as well as the position of a clock tower; and at some little distance there remains another niche with a headless statue in it, no doubt that of Henry VIII., which we are told was put up on the occasion of the Queen's second visit to Gorhambury. Her first visit was paid in 1572, four years after the completion of the house, on which occasion the Queen told the Lord Keeper that he had made his house too little for him, whereupon he replied, "Not so, madam, but your Majesty has made me too big for my house." He was, however, resolved not to be open to such a reproach again, and on receiving an intimation that the Queen would visit him a second time (in 1577) he is said to have built a gallery of lath and plaster 120 feet long by 18 feet wide, beneath which were cloisters, and in the middle of their length the statue of King Henry in gilt armour. This enlarging of the house for the express purpose of receiving the Queen was only one of numerous instances, which will be referred to in a subsequent chapter, as also will the proportion of the long galleries so distinctive of the period. [Illustration: 72.--CHASTLETON, OXFORDSHIRE. GROUND PLAN (CIR. 1603). 1. Hall. 2. Little Parlour. 3. Great Parlour. 4. Nursery. 5. Chamber over Kitchen. 6. Pantry. 7. Parlour.] The gallery, was panelled with oak gilt, and on the panelling were Latin inscriptions, so aptly selected that it was considered worth while to collect them in a small volume, illuminated with much beauty. In the orchard was a banqueting-house, which in its turn was adorned with busts and inscriptions. These all related to specific subjects--grammar, arithmetic, logic, music, rhetoric, geometry, and astrology; and each subject was not only depicted on the walls, but was further illustrated by appropriate verses and the pictures of such learned men as had excelled in it.[13] Although most of them were selected from the ancients, yet Sir Nicholas Bacon was sufficiently catholic in his taste to admit such modern names as Lilly, the grammarian, and Copernicus, the "astrologer," the latter of whom had only been dead some thirty years. [13] _Nichols' Progresses of Queen Elizabeth_, Vol. II. [Illustration: PLATE XXVI. CRANBORNE MANOR HOUSE, DORSETSHIRE. THE PORCH (ABOUT 1612).] Another kind of entrance is afforded by the arcaded porch, of which a simple example is to be seen at Hambleton, in Rutland (Fig. 71), and a more elaborate one at Cranborne, in Dorset (Plate XXVI.), where it was added, along with other "modern" features, to an old manor house dating from the thirteenth century, in order to bring the house into the prevailing fashion. [Illustration: 73.--DOORWAY AT LYDDINGTON, RUTLAND.]