The walls are all hung with pictures of the most famous men both of their oune country and abroad, as weell moderne as ancient.  Mr. Digby is drawen lik a old philosopher.  The roof is al painted alongs with the armes of the University, wheir most artificially and couched up[461] in sundry faschions the name of him who built the gallery, Thomas Bodley.  I saw a great many pretty medals wheirof they had 2 presses full.  Their be also J. Caesars portrait brought from Rome by a gentleman.

    [461] Couched up, disposed, laid on (like embroidery).  See Murray’s
        New English Dict., s.v.

A litle below the Library is the Anatomy house, not altogither so weill furnished as that of Leiden:  sundry anatomies of men, women, children, and embryoes.  On man hes a great musket shot just in his breast, yet he did not dy of it but afterwards was hanged; a mans skin tanned sewed on straw, seimes like a naked man; the taille of an Indian cow, its white, wery long, at least in a dozen of sundry peices; the skines of some hideous serpents and crocodils brought from America and Nilus; a mans scull with 4 litle hornes in its front, they ware within the skin while he was alive; another cranium all covered over with fog which they told me was of great use in medicine; sea horses or sharpes[462] skins; a Indian kings croune made of a great sort of straw, deckt all with curious feathers to us (some being naturally red, some grein, etc.) tho not to them—­they despise gold because they have it in abundance; a ring intier put in thorow a 4 nooked peice of wood, and we cannot tell whow; a stone as big as my hand, folded, taken out of a mans bladder, another lesse taken out of ones kidneyes.  We saw that the crocodile moved only his upper jaw.

    [462] Sharpe, so written, query sharks.

From this we went to a house wheir we drank aromatik, then to New Colledge, a great building.  In the tyme of the plague the king lodged in the on syde and forrein embassadors on the other.  They wer the French for gifting them a poringer worth 5 pound; but it was just at the tyme his Master declared war against England so that he went away in a fougue[463].  Went up to their hall, a pretty roome.  Above the chimly is the Bischop that founded it; under him stands other 2 that ware each of this foundation, afterwards Bischops; and each of them built a Colledge, n, Marlan[464] and Lincolne.  Saw the Chappel, the richest of Oxford; brave orgues,[465] excellent pictures, one of the resurrection, done by Angelo the Italian, just above the altar.

    [463] Rage.  The sentence is obscure.  Apparently the French ambassador
        intended to present the college where he was entertained with a
        piece of plate, when a rupture between the sovereigns occurred.

    [464] Merton, distinctly Marlan in MS. He had written it by the ear. 
        Apparently it was pronounced Marton.  Merton was founded before New
        College.