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Twickenham—Did Elizabeth visit Bacon there?
By D. N.
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…
Topics: Royal History, Historical Visits, Elizabethan Era
Locations: Twickenham, Middlesex, Twickenham Park, Gorhambury, Richmond, Barn-Elms, Kew