_Mask of Squires_. On 23 Dec. Chamberlain wrote to Carleton (Birch, i.
282), ‘Sir Francis Bacon prepares a masque to honour this marriage,
which will stand him in above £2000; and though he have been offered
some help by the House, and specially by Mr. Solicitor, Sir Henry
Yelverton, who would have sent him £500, yet he would not accept
it, but offers them the whole charge with the honour. Marry, his
obligations are such, as well to his majesty as to the great lord
and to the whole house of Howards, as he can admit no partner’. On 5
Jan. (Birch, i. 288) he briefly notes, ‘Mr. Attorney’s masque is for
to-morrow, and for a conclusion of Christmas and these shows together’.
The records of Gray’s Inn confirm Chamberlain’s account, by giving no
signs that any expense fell on the Inn. On a letter by Bacon which may
refer to this occasion, cf. s.v. Bacon.
Osborne, _James_, 82, a not very accurate writer, speaks of a Gray’s
Inn mask at court, following an Anglo-Scottish quarrel between Mr.
Hawley of Gray’s Inn and Mr. Maxwell. Probably he has this mask, which
was to honour a Scot, in mind. The quarrel was in fact over in June
1612 (Birch, i. 173). I doubt whether either this mask or the joint
Gray’s Inn and Inner Temple mask of 1612–13 had anything to do with it.
C. RECEPTIONS AND ENTERTAINMENTS
_Coronation Triumph. 1559_
_S. R._ 1558–9. ‘The passage of the quenes maiesties Throwoute the
Cytie of London.’ _Richard Tottle_ (Arber, i. 96).
1558[9], Jan. 23. The Passage of our most drad Soueraigne Lady Quene
Elyzabeth through the citie of London to westminster the daye before
her coronacion. _Richard Tottill. Cum privilegio._
N.D. [1604.] The Royal Passage of her Majesty from the Tower of London
to her Palace of Whitehall, with all the Speaches and Devices, both
of the Pageants and otherwise, together with her Majesties severall
Answers, and most pleasing Speaches to them all. _S. S. for Jone
Millington._
N.D. [1604.] _S. S. for John Busby._ [Another issue.]
_Editions_ in Nichols, _Eliz._ i. 38 (1823), and A. F. Pollard, _Tudor
Tracts_ (_England’s Garner_^2), 365.
There are also accounts in Machyn, 186, and in Holinshed (1808), iv.
158. For a list of the pageants cf. ch. iv.
_Bristol Entertainment. August 1574_
1575. The whole Order howe our Soveraigne Ladye Queene Elizabeth was
receyved into the Citie of Bristowe, in August, and the Speeches
spoken before her presens at her Entry; with the residue of Versis and
Matter that might not be spoken (for distance of the place), but sent
in a Book over the Waetter. _Thomas Marshe._ [In ‘_The Firste Parte
of Churchyardes Chippes, contayning Twelve seueral Labours_. Devised
and published, only by Thomas Churchyard, Gentilman’. Epistle to
Christopher Hatton.]
1578. _Thomas Marsh._
_Editions_ in Nichols, _Eliz._ i. 393 (1788, 1823), and by J. P.
Collier (1867).
Probably Churchyard was the deviser of the entertainment, as he
calls the _Chippes_ ‘a book of all my English verses in meter’. He
says, ‘Some of these Speeches could not be spoken, by means of a
Scholemaister, who envied that any stranger should set forth these
Shows’. _A worthie Dittie, song before the Queens Majestie at Bristow_,
by D. S[and], not in the Entertainment, is in _The Paradise of Daynty
Devises_ (1576). Elizabeth was at Bristol 13–21 Aug. 1574 and lay at
John Young’s. Fame, a boy with a speech in English verse, met her at
the High Cross. At the next gate were Salutation, Gratulation, and
Obedient Good Will, with their verses. On 14 Aug. the Queen attended
divine service at the College. On 15 and 16 Aug. the Forts of Peace
and Feeble Policy were arrayed, and there were sham fights by land and
sea, with speeches by Dissuasion, Persuasion, and John Roberts, who
apparently wrote his own. Was he the envious schoolmaster?
_Kenilworth Entertainment. 1575_
There are two descriptions:
A. By _Gascoigne_
1576. The Princelye pleasures, at the Courte at Kenelwoorth. That is to
saye, The Copies of all such verses Proses, or Poeticall inuentions,
and other Deuices of pleasure, as were there deuised, and presented
by sundry Gentle men, before the Quenes Maiestie: In the yeare 1575.
_Richard Jones_. [The unique copy is believed to have been burnt
in the Shakespeare Library at Birmingham. The printer’s Epistle is
dated March 26, 1576.]
1587. [Part of _Collection_.]
_Editions_ in Nichols, _Eliz._^2 i. 486 (1823), and elsewhere (cf.
Schelling, 121).
B. By _Robert Laneham_
1575. A letter: Whearin part of the entertainment untoo the Queez
Majesty at Killingwoorth Castl, in Warwick Sheer in this Soomerz
Progress, 1575, is signified: from a freend officer attendant in the
Coourt untoo hiz freend a Citizen, and Merchaunt of London. [_No
imprint or colophon._]
_Editions_ in Nichols, _Eliz._^2 i. 420 (1823), by F. J. Furnivall,
_Captain Cox, his Ballads and Books_ (1871, _Ballad Soc._; 1890, _N.
S. S._), in _Sh.-Jahrbuch_, xxvii, 251 (1892), and elsewhere (cf.
Furnivall, ix, clxxvi).
Elizabeth was at Kenilworth 9–27 July 1575. The diary of entertainments
is given in ch. iv. The contributions of specific authors were as
follows:
9 July. Speeches of Sibylla, by William Hunnis; the Porter Hercules, by
John Badger; the Lady of the Lake, by George Ferrers; a Poet, in Latin,
by Richard Mulcaster, or Mercury (?) Paten. It is uncertain which was
used; Gascoigne prints Mulcaster’s, Laneham Paten’s.
11 July. Dialogue of a Savage Man and Echo, ‘devised, penned, and
pronounced’ by Gascoigne.
18 July. Device of the Delivery of the Lady of the Lake, by William
Hunnis, with verses by Hunnis, Ferrers, and Henry Goldingham, who
played Arion.
20 July. Device of Zabeta prepared by Gascoigne, but not shown.
27 July. Device of the Farewell of Silvanus, by Gascoigne.
_Woodstock Entertainment. 1575_
See ch. xxiii, s.v. SIR HENRY LEE.
_Suffolk and Norfolk Entertainments. August 1578_
There are two contemporary descriptions:
A
_S. R._ 1578, Aug. 30. ‘The ioyfull Receavinge of the Quenes maiestie
into Norwyche.’ _Henry Bynneman_ (Arber, ii. 336).
N.D. The Ioyfull Receyuing of the Queenes most excellent Maiestie into
her Highnesse Citie of Norwich: The things done in the time of hir
abode there: and the dolor of the Citie at hir departure. Wherein are
set down diuers Orations in Latine, pronounced to hir Highnesse by
Sir Robert Wood Knight, now Maior of the same Citie, and others: and
certain also deliuered to hir Maiestie in writing: euery of the turned
into English. _Henrie Bynneman._ [Epistle by Ber[nard] Gar[ter] to Sir
Owen Hopton.]
_Edition_ in Nichols, _Eliz._ (1823), ii. 136.
B
_S. R._ 1578, Sept. 20. ‘The enterteignement of the Quenes Maiestie in
Suffolk and Norffolk; gathered by Thomas Churchyard.’ _Henry Bynneman_
(Arber, ii. 338).
N.D. A Discourse of the Queenes Maiesties entertainement in Suffolk
and Norffolk: With a description of many things then presently seene.
Deuised by Thomas Churchyarde, Gent. with diuers shewes of his own
inuention sette out at Norwich: ... _Henrie Bynneman_. [Epistle by
Churchyard to Gilbert Garrard. Adnitt (cf. s.v. Churchyard) says there
were two issues with varying prefatory matter.]
_Extracts_ in Nichols, _Eliz._ (1823), ii. 115, 128, 130, 133, 179.
A ballad and a sonnet, presumably from their titles based on A, were
registered by J. Charlwood and R. Jones respectively on 24 and 31 March
1579 (Arber, ii. 349, 350).
Elizabeth was at Norwich 16–22 Aug. 1578. The diary is as follows:
16 Aug. 1578. Oration by Mayor at Hartford Bridge; Speech, prepared but
prevented by rain, of King Gurgunt in Town Close near Blanch Flower
Castle; Pageant of the Commonwealth, with representations of local
loom industries, and speech by Garter in St. Stephen’s Street; Pageant
of the City of Norwich, Deborah, Judith, Esther, and Queen Martia,
with the City Waits and songs by Garter and Churchyard, at entry to
Market-place; Speech of a Turkish Boy by Churchyard, at Mr. Peck’s door.
18 Aug. Speech of Mercury in an elaborate coach, by Churchyard.
19 Aug. Show of Chastity, with dialogue and song of Chastity, Cupid, a
Philosopher, Wantonness, Riot, Modesty, Temperance, Good Exercise, and
Shamefastness, by Churchyard; Oration by Minister of Dutch Church.
20 Aug. Oration by Stephen Limbert, Master of the Grammar School.
21 Aug. Shows of Water Nymphs, with speeches, and of Manhood and
Desert, a contention of Manhood, Good Favour, Desert, and Good
Fortune, for Lady Beauty, prepared but prevented by rain, both by
Churchyard; Mask by Henry Goldingham in Privy Chamber after supper of
Jupiter, Juno, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Pallas, Neptune, Diana, Mercury as
presenter, Cupid, torchbearers and musicians, who marched about the
chamber and made speeches and characteristic gifts, but apparently did
not dance.
22 Aug. Speech and Song at St. Benet’s Gate by Garter; Show of Fairies
with their Queen and seven speeches, outside the gate, by Churchyard;
written Oration by Mayor at departure over City boundary.
Churchyard also mentions ‘speeches well sette out and a speciall device
much commended’ in the park of the Earl of Surrey at Kenninghall on
12 Aug.; also divers ‘triumphes and devises’ in Suffolk, of which he
only specifies ‘a shew representing the Phayries (as well as might
be) ... in the whiche shew a rich jewell was presented to the Queenes
Highnesse’ at Sir Thomas Kidson’s house, Hengrave Hall, during 28–30
Aug. In _Churchyards Challenge_ (1593) he claims ‘The whole
deuises pastimes and plaies at Norwich, before her Maistie’, and also
‘The Commedy before her Maestie at Norwich in the fielde when she went
to dinner to my Lady Gerninghams’ at Costessy (19 Aug.).
_Fortress of Perfect Beauty. 15–16 May 1581_
_S. R._ 1581, July 1. ‘The Tryumphe Shewed before the Quene and the
Ffrenche Embassadors.’ _Robert Walgrave_ (Arber, ii. 396).
N.D. A brief declaratiō of the shews, deuices, speeches, and
inuentions, done & performed before the Queenes Maiestie, & the French
Ambassadours, at the most valiaunt and worthye Triumph, attempted and
executed on the Munday and Tuesday in Whitson weeke last, Anno 1581.
Collected, gathered, penned & published, by Henry Goldwel, Gen. _Robert
Waldegrave._ [Epistle by Goldwell to Rowland Brasebridge of Great
Wycombe.]
_Edition_ in Nichols, _Eliz._^2 (1823), ii. 310.
This was a tilt, before François of Bourbon, dauphin of Auvergne, Artus
de Cossé, marshal of France, and other commissioners from France, for
the treaty of marriage between Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou. The
challenge was delivered by a boy in red and white, as the Queen came
from Chapel on 16 April 1581. The tilt, first fixed for 24 April, was
put off to 1 May, 8 May, and finally 15 May. The gallery at the end
of the tilt-yard was named the Castle or Fortress of Perfect Beauty,
and the challengers, the Earl of Arundel, Lord Windsor, Philip Sidney,
and Fulke Greville, called themselves the Four Foster Children of
Desire. They entered from the stable, with trains of followers and a
Rowling Trench of printed canvas, to besiege the fortress. From this
boys spoke and sang, and cannonades of perfumes were shot off, while
flowers and other fancies were flung from scaling ladders. Then came
twenty-one defendants, each with his ‘invention’ and speech. They were
Henry Grey, Sir Thomas Perot, Anthony Cooke, Thomas Ratcliffe, Henry
Knolles, William Knolles, Robert Knolles, Francis Knolles, Rafe Bowes,
Thomas Kelwaie, George Goring, William Tresham, Robert Alexander,
Edward Dennie, Hercules Meautus, Edward Moore, Richard Skipwith,
Richard Ward, Edward Digbie, Henry Nowell, Henry Brunkerd. Perot and
Cooke were ‘both in like armour, beset with apples and fruit, the one
signifying Adam and the other Eve, who had haire hung all down his
helmet’. Their page was an Angel. Ratcliffe was a Desolate Knight, with
a page who presented his shield. The four Knolles brothers were Sons of
Despair, with Mercury for a page. The speeches of the pages are given.
Each defendant ran six courses with the challengers. ‘In the middest
of the running came in Sir Henrie Leigh, as unknowne, and when he had
broken his six staves, went out in like manner againe.’ At the end of
the first day the boy who gave the challenge announced a second on the
morrow.
On the second day the challengers entered in a chariot ‘forewearied
and half overcome’ with a lady representing Desire, and a consort of
music. A herald made a speech for them. The defendants entered, and the
tournay and barriers followed. At the end a boy clad in ash colour and
bearing an olive-branch made submission of the challengers to the Queen.
Foulkes, lxiii. 49, says that a set of blank cheques for this tilt are
in _Ashm. MS._ 845, f. 166.
_Tilbury Visit. 1588_
There are or were three accounts:
A
_S. R._ 1588, Aug. 10. ‘The quenes visitinge the campe at Tilberye and
her enterteynement there the 8 and 9 of August 1588, with condicon yat
yt may be aucthorised hereafter.’ _John Wolf_ (Arber, ii. 495).
N.D. The Queenes visiting of the Campe at Tilsburie with her
Entertainment there. _Iohn Wolfe for Edward White._ [At end, ‘T. D.’,
doubtless the initials of Thomas Deloney.]
_Editions_ in A. F. Pollard, _Tudor Tracts_ (_England’s Garner_^2),
492, and F. O. Mann, _Deloney’s Works_ (1912).
B
_S. R._ 1588, Aug. 10 (Stallard). ‘A ioyfull songe of the Roiall
Receaving of the quenes maiestie into her Campe at Tilbery: the 8 and
9 of August 1588.’ _John Wolf for Richard Jones_ (Arber, ii. 496). [It
does not seem likely that this entry relates to Aske’s book.]
C
1588. Elizabetha Triumphans. By James Aske. _Thomas Orwin for Thomas
Gubbin and Thomas Newman._
_Edition_ in Nichols, _Eliz._ ii. 545 (1823).
The two extant narratives are discussed by M. Christy in _E. H. R._
xxxiv. 43.
_Tilt-yard Entertainment. 17 Nov. 1590_
See ch. xxiii, s.v. Lee.
_Cowdray Entertainment. 1591_
1591. The Speeches and Honorable Entertainment giuen to the Queenes
Maiestie in Progresse, at Cowdrey in Sussex, by the right Honorable the
Lord Montacute. _Thomas Scarlet, sold by William Wright._
1591. The Honorable Entertainment.... _Thomas Scarlet, sold by William
Wright._ [A different text, with a fuller description, but without the
words of the songs, and inaccurately dated.]
_Editions_ by J. Nichols, _Eliz._^2 iii. 90 (1823), and R. W. Bond,
_Lyly_, i. 421 (1902).
The host was Anthony Browne, first Viscount Montague. Gascoigne’s
mask of 1572 was also written for him. Bond assigns the present
entertainment, conjecturally, to Lyly. McKerrow, 20, records that
William Barley, the stationer, was brought before the High Commission
for selling at Cowdray, on some date before 1598, a twopenny book
relating to Her Majesty’s progress.
The diary is as follows:
14 Aug. 1591. Speech by a Porter at the bridge on arrival at night.
15 Aug. Sunday: a day of rest.
16 Aug. Hunting in Park, and delivery of bow with a ditty by a Nymph.
17 Aug. Dinner at the Priory, where Lord Montague lodged, and speeches
in the walks by a Pilgrim and a Wild Man, at an oak hung with Sussex
escutcheons, and a ditty before hunting.
18 Aug. Speeches and ditty by an Angler and offering of fish by a
Netter at a pond in the walks before hunting.
19 Aug. Dance of country people with tabor and pipe.
20 Aug. Knighting, and departure to Chichester for dinner.
_Elvetham Entertainment. 1591_
_S. R._ 1591, Oct. 1. ‘The honorable entertaynement gyven to the quenes
maiestie in progresse at Elvetham in Hampshire by the righte honorable
the Erle of Hertford.’ _John Wolf_ (Arber, ii. 596).
1591. The Honorable Entertainement gieuen to the Queenes Maiestie in
Progresse, at Eluetham in Hampshire, by the right Honorable the Earle
of Hertford. _John Wolfe._ [There appear to be two editions or issues,
(_a_) without and (_b_) with a woodcut of the pond.]
1591.... Newly corrected and amended. [This has a woodcut of the pond,
different from that in (1) (_b_).]
_Editions_ by J. Nichols, _Eliz._ ii. (1788), iii. 101 (1823), and R.
W. Bond, _Lyly_, i. 431.
Elizabeth was at Elvetham 20–23 Sept. 1591. The host was Edward
Seymour, Earl of Hertford. A Three Men’s Song of Phillida and Coridon,
which formed part of the Entertainment, is ascribed in _England’s
Helicon_ (1600) and _MSS._ to Nicholas Breton. Bond ascribes the
Entertainment to Lyly. An account of the amusements is in ch. iv.
_Bisham, Sudeley, and Rycote Entertainments. 1592_
1592. Speeches deliuered to her Maiestie this last progresse, at the
Right Honorable the Lady Russels, at Bissam, the Right Honorable the
Lorde Chandos at Sudley, at the Right Honorable the Lord Norris, at
Ricorte. _Joseph Barnes, Oxford._ [There appear to be two issues,
with slight variants.]
_Editions_ by J. Nichols, _Eliz._^2 iii. 130 (1823), Sir S. E. Brydges
(1815), and R. W. Bond, _Lyly_, i. 471 (1902).
_Bisham_
The hosts were Sir Edward Hoby and his mother, Elizabeth, Dowager Lady
Russell.
21 Aug. 1592. On arrival, at the top of the hill, speech by a Wild Man;
at the middle of the hill, dialogue of Pan and two Virgins, Sybilla
and Isabella; at the foot of the hill, ditty by Ceres and Nymphs in a
harvest-cart, followed by speech and gift of crown of wheat-ears and
jewel.
_Sudeley_
The host was Giles Brydges, third Lord Chandos.
10 Sept. 1592. Speech of old Shepherd at entry to castle.
11 Sept. Show of Apollo and Daphne, with gift of tables of verses.
12 Sept. Contemplated Presentation of High Constable of Cotswold, and
Choosing of King and Queen by Shepherds, with song and dialogue of
Melibœus, Nisa, and Cutter of Cotswold--prevented by weather.
_Rycote_
The host was Henry, Lord Norris.
28 Sept. 1592. On arrival from Oxford, speech by an Old Gentleman [Lord
Norris].
2 Oct. Music in garden, with speech by Old Gentleman, and letters
containing jewels by messengers as from his sons in Ireland, Flanders,
and France.
3 Oct. At departure, letter with jewel as from daughter in Jersey.
Between Sudeley and Rycote, the Queen was entertained at Oxford (cf.
ch. iv) and Woodstock (cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Sir Henry Lee).
_Tilt-yard Entertainment. 17 Nov. 1595_
See ch. xxiii, s.v. Peele, _Anglorum Feriae_.
_Harefield Entertainment. 1602_
Elizabeth was at Harefield Place, Middlesex, the house of Sir Thomas
Egerton, Lord Keeper, and his wife Alice, Countess Dowager of Derby,
from 31 July to 2 Aug. 1602. At the same house Milton’s _Arcades_
was performed before Lady Derby in 1634. Seven fragments of the
entertainment have been preserved, and are printed by Nichols, _Eliz._
iii. 570, 586, and Bond, _Lyly_, i. 491. Accounts of expenditure
involved, and a list of the gifts in kind contributed by Egerton’s
friends on this occasion are in _Egerton Papers_, 340, but the account
in 342–4 is a forgery (_vide infra_).
(i) Dialogue between a Bailiff and Dairymaid, and presentation of a
rake and fork to the Queen, as she entered the demesne near the dairy
house.
(ii) Dialogue at the steps of the house, and presentation of a heart,
by Place ‘in a partie-colored roobe, like the brick house’ and Time
‘with yeollow haire, and in a green roabe, with an hower glasse,
stopped, not runninge’.
(iii) Verse petition accompanying gift of a robe of rainbows on behalf
of St. Swithin by Lady Walsingham on Monday morning [2 Aug.].
(iv) Farewell of Place, ‘attyred in black mourning aparell’ on the
Queen’s departure, with presentation of an anchor.
(v) Verse ‘Complaint of the Satyres against the Nymphes’.
(vi) Song and speech by a Mariner, who entered the ‘presence’ with a
lottery box, ‘supposed to come from the Carricke’.
(vii) ‘The Severall Lottes’, a list of gifts and blanks, with a
poesy accompanying each, and the names of the ladies who drew them.
These were the Queen, the Dowager Countess of Derby, the Countesses
of Derby, Worcester, and Warwick, Lady Scroope, Mistresses Nevill,
Thynne, Hastinges, and Bridges, Ladies Scudamore, Francis, Knevette,
and Susan Vere, Mrs. Vavissour, Ladies Southwell and Anne Clifford,
Mrs. Hyde, Ladies Kildare, Howard of Effingham and Paget, Mistresses
Kiddermister and Strangwidge, the Mother of the Maids, Ladies
Cumberland, Walsingham, and Newton, Mrs. Wharton, Ladies Digbye and
Dorothy [Hastinges] and Mrs. Anselowe. One name, ending in ‘liffe’
is illegible. It may be Ratcliffe. One MS. adds three lots assigned
to ‘country wenches’. Most of these ladies were maids of honour and
others who came with the court; one or two, e.g. Mrs. Kiddermister,
were country neighbours of the Egerton’s.
These pieces are derived from various sources:
(_a_) A transcript made by R. Churton in 1803 of a contemporary MS.
found at Arbury, the house of Sir Roger Newdigate, to whose family
Harefield passed in 1675, contains (i)-(v) and was printed by Nichols.
(_b_) A _Conway MS._, printed by P. Cunningham in _Sh. Soc. Papers_,
ii. 65, contains (iii), the song from (vi), and (vii), with the heading
‘The Devise to entertayne hir M^{ty} at Harfielde ...’ and the date
1602.
(_c_) The second edition (1608) of Francis Davison’s _Poetical
Rhapsody_ contains the speech from (vi) and (vii), with the incorrect
indication ‘at the Lord Chancellor’s house, 1601’, which misled Nichols
into supposing it to belong to some entertainment at York Place, the
year before that of Harefield. The item comes between two pieces by Sir
John Davies and has the initials J. D.
(_d_) The diary of John Manningham (_Harl. MS._ 5353, f. 95) contains
amongst entries of Feb. 1603 some extracts from (i) and (vii), dating
the latter in ‘the last Sumer at hir M^{ties} being with the L. Keeper’.
(_e_) A contemporary MS., printed as _Poetical Miscellanies_ (_Percy
Soc._ lv), 5, has (vii) dated 1602.
(_f_) _Talbot MS._ K, f. 43, in the College of Arms, contains (iv) as
given at ‘Harville’ with the date ‘Aug. 1602’ and is printed by Lodge,
ii. 560.
(_g_) _B.M. Birch MS._ 4173 contains a similar copy of (iv).
On the strength of the _Poetical Rhapsody_, (vii) is generally assigned
to Sir John Davies, which hardly justified Dr. Grosart in assigning all
the pieces to him (_Works_, ii, clxxii). Bond transferred the whole
to Lyly, primarily as a conjecture, but was confirmed in his view by
finding in _Egerton Papers_, 343, a payment to ‘M^r Lillyes man, which
brought the lotterye boxe to Harefield’. But the document in which this
is found, and which also contains the item ‘x^{li} to Burbidges players
for Othello’, is one of Collier’s forgeries (Ingleby, 261).
John Chamberlain (_Letters_, 164, 169) sent Dudley Carleton ‘the Quenes
entertainment at the Lord Kepers’ on 19 Nov. 1602, and on 23 Dec. wrote
that, as Carleton liked the Lord Keeper’s devices so ill, he had not
cared to get Sir Robert Cecil’s (cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Cecil).
_Progress from Scotland. 1603_
There were several contemporary prints:
A
_S. R._ 1603, May 9. ‘Kinge James his entrance into England.’ _Burby
and Millington_ (Arber, iii. 234).
1603. The True Narration of the Entertainment of his Royal Majestie.
_Thomas Creede for Thomas Millington._ [Epistle by T. M. to Reader.]
_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), i. 53, and C. H. Firth, _Stuart
Tracts_ (_English Garner_^2), 11.
B
_S. R._ 1603, May 14. ‘King James his entertainement at Theobaldes,
with his welcomme to London.’ _Thomas Snodham_ (Arber, iii. 234).
1603. King James his entertainment at Theobalds: With his Welcome to
London. By John Sauile. _Thomas Snodham, sold by T. Este._
_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), i. 135, and C. H. Firth, _Stuart
Tracts_, 53.
C
_S. R._ 1604, Mar. 27. ‘The tyme Triumphant.’ _Ralph Blore_ (Arber,
iii. 256).
1604. The Time Triumphant, Declaring in brief the arrival of our
Sovereign liege Lord, King James, into England, His Coronation at
Westminster, ... [&c.]. By Gilbert Dugdale. _By R. B._
_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), i. 408, and C. H. Firth, _Stuart
Tracts_, 69.
D
Jonson’s _Althorp Entertainment_ (cf. ch. xxiii).
E
_S. R._ 1603, June 16. A ballad of ‘Englandes sweet Comfort with the
kinges entertaynmente by the Maior of Yorke’. _William White_ (Arber,
iii. 238).
There is also an account in Stowe, _Annales_ (1631), 819. For the
stages of the progress cf. App. A. Besides the device at Althorp,
speeches were prepared by Dekker for the entry to London, but not used
(cf. s.a. 1604).
_Coronation Triumph. 1604_
There are four contemporary prints:
A
_S. R._ 1604, Apr. 2 (Pasfield). ‘The magnificent Entertainement ...
the 15 of marche 1603.’ _Thomas Man junior_ (Arber, iii. 258).