his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, vpon the day of his Maiesties
Tryumphant Passage (from the Tower) through the Honourable Citie (and
Chamber) of London, being the 15. of March, 1603. As well by the
English as by the Strangers: With the speeches and Songes, deliuered in
the seuerall Pageants. Tho. Dekker. _T. C. for Tho. Man the younger._
1604. The Whole Magnificent Entertainment.... And those speeches that
before were publish’t in Latin, now newly set forthe in English. _E.
Allde for Tho. Man the younger._
1604. _Thomas Finlason, Edinburgh._
_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_, i. 337, and _Somers Tracts_ (1810),
iii. 1.
The speeches for three of the pageants were Jonson’s, and some of those
for a fourth Middleton’s. Two others were in Latin. But Dekker himself
probably contributed the rest. Prefixed is a dialogue intended, but not
used, for James’s original entry into London in 1603, which may also be
assigned to Dekker.
B
Jonson’s _Coronation Entertainment_ (cf. ch. xxiii).
C
1604. The Arches of Triumph Erected in honor of the High and mighty
prince, James, the first of that name, King of England, and the sixt of
Scotland, at his Maiesties Entrance and passage through his Honorable
Citty and chamber of London, vpon the 15^{th} day of March 1603.
Invented and published by Stephen Harrison Joyner and Architect: and
graven by William Kip. _John Windet._ [Verses by Thomas Dekker and
John Webster.]
1604.... _John Windet, sold by John Sudbury and George Humble._
D
G. Dugdale’s _Time Triumphant_. See s.a. 1603.
There is also an account in Stowe, _Annales_, 835, based on A. Some
ballads are registered in Arber, iii. 255–7, and various verses and
other illustrative materials are printed by Nichols. A list of the
pageants is in ch. iv.
_Entertainment of King of Denmark. 1606_
There are four contemporary prints:
A
_S. R._ 1606, July 30 (Wilson). ‘The Kinge of Denmarkes entertainement
at Tilberie Hope by the kinge &c.’ _Henry Robertes_ (Arber, iii. 327).
1606. The Most royall and Honourable entertainement, of the famous and
renowmed King, Christiern the fourth, King of Denmarke, &c.... With
the royall passage on Thursday the 31. of July, thorough the Citty of
London, and honorable shewes there presented them, and maner of their
passing. By H. R. _W. Barley for H. R._ [Epistle to Sir Thomas
Smith, signed ‘Hen. Robarts’.]
_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 54, and _Harleian
Miscellany_, ix. 431.
B
_S. R._ 1606, Aug. 19 (Wilson). ‘A Booke called Englandes farewell to
Christian the Ffourthe kinge of Denmarke With a Relacon of suche shewes
and seuerall pastymes presented to his Maiestie, as well at Courte
the ffirste of Auguste as in other places since his honorable passage
through the Cytie of London &c.’ _William Welbye_ (Arber, iii. 328).
1606. Englands Farewell to Christian the fourth, famous King of
Denmarke. By H. Roberts. _For William Welby._ [Epistle to Sir John
Jolles, signed ‘H. Roberts’.]
_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 75, and _Harleian
Miscellany_, ix. 440.
C
Jonson’s _Entertainment of the King of Denmark_ at Theobalds (cf. ch.
xxiii).
D
_S. R._ 1606, Aug. 8 (Hartwell). ‘A booke called the Kinge of Denmarkes
welcomme into England &c.’ _Edward Allde_ (Arber, iii. 327).
1606. The King of Denmarkes welcome: Containing his arriual, abode, and
entertainement, both in the Citie and other places. _Edward Allde._
_Extracts_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), iv. 1072.
There are also an account in Stowe, _Annales_, 885, and a _Relatio
oder Erzehlung wie ... Christianus IV, &c. im Königreich Engellandt
angelanget_ (1607, Hamburg). For the itinerary cf. App. A. Bond,
_Lyly_, i. 505, prints a song at Theobalds on 24 July and a pastoral
dialogue in Fleet Street on 31 July as possibly Lyly’s.
_The Christmas Prince. 1607–8_
[_MS._] _St. John’s College, Oxford, MS._ ‘A True and Faithfull
Relation of the Risinge and Fall of Thomas Tucker, Prince of Alba
Fortunata, Lord of St. John’s,’ &c. The writer is said (_D. N. B._) to
be Griffin Higgs, but the evidence is inadequate.
_Edition_ [by P. Bliss], An Account of the Christmas Prince (1816,
_Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana_). Another is planned in _M. S. R._
This is the narrative of a lordship of misrule at St. John’s during
the Christmas of 1607–8. The MS. includes the text of a number of
plays and shows. Unfortunately Bliss omits the text of these, with the
exception of one called _The Seven Days of the Week_. The others were
_Ara Fortunae_, _Saturnalia_, _Philomela_, _Time’s Complaint_, _Somnium
Fundatoris_, _Philomathes_, _Yuletide_, _Ira seu Tumulus Fortunae_,
_Periander_ (an English play). Others were planned, but not given; cf.
_Mediaeval Stage_, i. 409.
_Chesters Triumph. 23 April 1610_
_S. R._ 1610, June 12 (Wilson). ‘A booke called Chesters Triumph in
honour of ye Prince, as it was performed vpon Saincte Georges Day 1610
in thaforesayd Citty.’ _John Browne_ (Arber, iii. 436).
1610. Chesters Triumph in Honor of her Prince. As it was performed
vpon S. Georges Day 1610, in the foresaid Citie. _For I. B._ [The name
of Robert Amerie appears at the end. A preface and one poem are by R.
Davies.]
_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_, ii. 291 (1828), and in _Chetham Soc._
publications (1844).
G. Ormerod, _Hist. of Cheshire_ (1882), i. 381, gives a description of
the show from a shorter account or programme in _Harl. MS._ 2150, f.
186, indexed (f. 3^v) as ‘M^r. Amory’s new shew invented by him’. This
is confirmed by the lines:
Amor is loue and Amory is his name,
That did begin this pompe and princelye game.
_Camp-Bell. 29 Oct. 1609_
N.D. [1609?] Running title: Campbell, or The Ironmongers Faire Field.
[The only known copy (B.M. C. 33, E. 7) lacks the t.p. and sig. A.
Thomas Campbell was mayor in 1609. For his grandson, James Campbell,
mayor in 1629, Dekker wrote _London’s Tempe, or The Field of Happines_.]
Greg, _Masques_, 21, assigns this to Munday, without stating his
grounds.
_London’s Love to Prince Henry. 31 May 1610_
1610. Londons Loue, to the royal Prince Henrie, meeting him on the
Riuer of Thames, at his returne from Richmonde, with a worthie fleete
of her Cittizens, on Thursday the last of May, 1610. With a breife
reporte of the water Fight, and Fire workes. _Edward Allde, for
Nathaniel Fosbrooke._ [Epistle to Sir Thomas Campbell, Lord Mayor.]
_Edition_ by J. Nichols, _James_, ii. 315 (1828).
It appears from the city records that the device was by Munday, and
that Richard Burbadge and John Rice of the King’s men delivered the
speeches as Amphion and Corinea; cf. _Repertory_, xxix, f. 232^v,
and Letter Book D.D., f. 148^v, quoted by Halliwell-Phillipps in
_Athenaeum_ (19 May 1888), Stopes, _Burbage_, 108, and C. W. Wallace in
_Times_ (28 March 1913). Doubtless Munday also wrote the description.
_Creation of Henry Prince of Wales. 4 June 1610_
_S. R._ 1610, June 14 (Mokett). ‘A booke called, The creation of the
Prince, by master Danyell Price.’ _Roger Jackson_ (Arber, iii. 436).
1610. The Order and Solemnitie of the Creation of the High and mightie
Prince Henrie, Eldest Sonne to our sacred Soueraigne, Prince of Wales,
Duke of Cornewall, Earle of Chester, &c. As it was celebrated in the
Parliament House, on Munday the fourth of Iunne last past. Together
with the Ceremonies of the Knights of the Bath, and other matters of
speciall regard, incident to the same. Whereunto is annexed the Royall
Maske, presented by the Queene and her Ladies, on Wednesday at night
following. _For John Budge._ [The Mask is Daniel’s _Tethys’ Festival_,
with a separate t.p.]
_Editions_ in W. Scott, _Somers Tracts_ (1809–15), ii. 183, and
Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 324.
The ceremonies are also described in Stowe, _Annales_ (1615), 899, and
in MSS. of W. Camden quoted by Nichols.
The diary is:
31 May 1610. City reception with water pageant.
4 June. Creation.
5 June. Daniel’s mask.
6 June. Tilt; fireworks; sea-fight.
_Marriage of Frederick and Elizabeth. 1613_
The most important descriptions, besides the masks of Campion,
Beaumont, and Chapman (q.v.), are.
A
_S. R._ 1613, Feb. 18 (Mokett). ‘A booke called The Mariage of the twoo
great prynces Ffriderick Counte Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth &c with
the shewes and fierwoorkes on the Water, the maskes and Revels at the
Courte.’ _William Barley_ (Arber, iii. 516).
1613. The Magnificent Marriage of the two great princes Frederick
Count Palatine, &c. and the Lady Elizabeth, Daughter to the Imperial
Majesties of King James and Queen Anne, to the Comfort of All Great
Britain. Now the second time imprinted, with many new additions of the
same Tryumphes, performed by the Gentlemen of the Innes of Court in the
Kings Pallace at Whitehall. _T. C. for W. Barley._ [Nichols says that a
manuscript copy of the first edition is in _Addl. MS._ 5767.]
_Editions_ in W. Scott, _Somers Tracts_ (1809–15), iii. 35, and
Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 536.
B
1613. Heavens Blessing and Earths Joy: or, a True Relation of the
Supposed Sea-Fights and Fire-Workes as were Accomplished before the
Royall Celebration of the All-beloved Marriage of the two Peerlesse
Paragons of Christendome, Fredericke and Elizabeth. By John Taylor, the
Water Poet. _For Joseph Hunt, sold by John Wright._
1630. [Part of Taylor’s _Works_.]
_Edition_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 527.
C
1613. Beschreibung der Reiss: Empfahung des Ritterlichen Ordens:
Volbringung des Heyraths: vnd glückliche Heimführung: Wie auch der
ansehnlichen Einführung, gehaltene Ritterspiel vnd Freudenfests des
Durchleuchtigsten Hochgeboren Fürsten und Herrn Friedrichen des Fünften
... mit der ... Princessin Elisabethen. _G. Vögelin, Heidelberg._ [Of
this there is also a French translation, _Les Triomphes ... pour le
Mariage et Reception de Monseigneur le Prince Frederic V ... et de
Madame Elisabeth_. 1613.]
D
A distinct French account in _Mercure François_, iii. 72.
For other accounts, extant and lost, and verses, cf. Arber, iii. 499,
514–18; Nichols, ii. *463, 536, 601, 624; Rimbault, 161–3; M. A. Green,
_Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia_, 36.
The diary is:
16 Oct. 1612. Arrival of Frederick at Gravesend.
18 Oct. Reception at Court.
29 Oct. Visit to Guildhall.
21 Dec. Investiture with Garter.
27 Dec. Betrothal.
7 Feb. 1613. Garter installation.
11 and 13 Feb. Fireworks and sea-triumph at Whitehall.
14 Feb. Wedding. Campion’s mask.
15 Feb. Running at the ring. Chapman’s mask.
21 Feb. Beaumont’s mask.
_Bristol Entertainment. 1613_
[_MS._] _Calendar_ by William Adams, _penes_ C. J. Harford (in 1828).
_S. R._ 1613, Oct. 8 (Mason). ‘A booke called the Queenes Maiesties
entertaynement at Bristoll.’ _John Budge_ (Arber, iii. 533).
1613. A Relation of the Royall, Magnificent, and Sumptuous
Entertainment given to the High and Mighty Princesse Queen Anne, at
the Renowned Citie of Bristoll, by the Mayor, Sheriffes, and Aldermen
thereof; in the moneth of June last past, 1613. Together with the
Oration, Gifts, Triumphes, Water-combats and other Showes there made.
_For John Budge._ [Epistle by Robert Naile.]
_Editions_ in _Bristol Memorialist_, No. 3 (1816), and Nichols,
_James_, ii. 648 (1828).
APPENDIX A
A COURT CALENDAR
[_Bibliographical Note._--This is primarily a list of plays, masks, and
quasi-dramatic entertainments at court. The chronological evidence for
the plays mainly rests upon Appendix B. Tilts and a few miscellaneous
entertainments are included. And it has seemed worth while to trace
the movements of the court, partly in order to locate the palaces
at which the winter performances were given, partly because of the
widespread use of mimetic pageantry during Elizabeth’s progresses and
visits abroad. For the main migrations of the household (in small
capitals), the authorities here cited are confirmed by the daily or
weekly indications of a much more detailed _Itinerarium_ than can be
printed. Additions from sources not explored by me may be possible to
the record of shorter visits or even that of the by-progresses, upon
which Elizabeth was not always accompanied by the full household. I
have not attempted to deal so completely with the Jacobean period.
The King’s constant absences from court on hunting journeys are
difficult to track and of no interest to dramatic history. Appendix
B will show at which of the court plays he was personally present.
The principal material used may be classified as follows: (_a_) The
royal movements are frequently noted in ambassadorial dispatches,
in private letters, notably those of Roger Manners to the Earls of
Rutland (_Rutland MSS._), of Rowland Whyte, court postmaster, to Sir
Robert Sidney (_Sydney Papers_), and of John Chamberlain to Sir Dudley
Carleton (_Letters_, ed. Camden Soc., and Birch, _Court of James_) and
Sir Ralph Winwood (_Winwood Memorials_); and in the diaries of Henry
Machyn, Lord Burghley (Haynes-Murdin, ii. 745; _Hatfield MSS._, i. 149;
v. 69; xiii. 141, 199, 389, 464, 506, 596), Sir Francis Walsingham
(_Camden Miscellany_, vi), and John Dee. (_b_) Collections of State and
quasi-State Papers contain many dated and located documents emanating
from the court, such as proclamations, privy seals, signet letters,
and less formal communications from the sovereign or a secretary
or other officer in attendance. Unfortunately Elizabeth’s letters
missive have never been collected, and many of them are unlocated.
Naturally ministerial documents require handling with discretion,
lest the writers should be away from court. Letters patent bear the
date and location of the Chancellor’s _recepi_, and the Chancellor
was largely detached from the court. The sources for (_a_) and (_b_)
are given in the _Bibl. Note_ to ch. i. (_c_) The _Register_ of the
Privy Council records the localities of the meetings of that body, but
it must be borne in mind that the registration was not very perfect
(cf. ch. ii), and also that, although the Council ordinarily followed
the court, meetings were occasionally held in Westminster or London,
either at the Star Chamber or in the house of a councillor or even a
citizen, when the court happened to be out of town. (_d_) Church bells
were rung when the sovereign moved into or out of a parish, and the
churchwardens entered the ringers’ fees in their accounts. The entries
in J. V. Kitto, _The Accounts of the Churchwardens of St. Martin’s in
the Fields, 1525–1603_ (1901, cited as _Martin’s_), record many comings
and goings from Whitehall, but in some cases the date entered appears
to be other than that of the actual ringing, either by error or because
the payment was on a different day. The extracts from the accounts of
St. Margaret’s, Westminster (cited as _Margaret’s_), in J. Nichols,
_Illustrations_, 1, of Lambeth in D. Lysons, _Environs of London_, i.
222, and S. Denne, _Historical Particulars of Lambeth_ (1795, _Bibl.
Top. Brit._ x. 185), of Fulham in T. Faulkner, _Fulham_ (1813), 139,
of Kingston in Lysons, _Environs_, i. 164, and of Wandsworth by C.
T. Davis in _Surrey Arch. Colls._, xviii (1903), 96, are scrappy and
the year concerned is not always clear. Nichols, _Eliz._ iii. 37,
gives an analogous record from the accounts of Chalk in Kent of the
occasions on which the local carts were requisitioned for removes from
Greenwich. (_e_) The dates and localities of knightings are given in
W. A. Shaw, _The Knights of England_ (1906), but many of them are from
inconsistent and untrustworthy sources. (_f_) The _Chamber Accounts_
(cf. App. B) contain under the annual heading ‘Apparelling of Houses’
summaries of monthly bills sent in by the Gentlemen Ushers of the
Chamber of their expenses while engaged in making preparations for
royal visits. They yield much new information as to the houses visited,
but only very approximately date the visits. And it may be that the
Ushers occasionally had to prepare for a visit which never took place.
Analogous information is contained in the _Declared Accounts_ of the
Office of Works. A single account of the Cofferer of the Household,
printed by Nichols, i. 92, gives a daily record of the locality of
the household throughout the progress of 1561; as far as I know, it
is the only extant document of its kind. (_g_) J. Nichols, in his
_Progresses of Elizabeth_^2 (1823) and _Progresses of James I_ (1828),
drew fully upon the contemporary printed descriptions of state entries
and progresses, of which a list is given in ch. xxiv, and upon such
‘gests’ of progresses (cf. ch. iv) as survive. I have been able to
correct and amplify his record of houses visited to a great extent, as
much of the material now available, notably the Privy Council Register
and the Chamber Accounts, was not used by him, and he occasionally
assumed that royal plans were carried out, when they were not. I have
done what I can to identify the royal hosts and their houses, but there
is more of conjecture in my lists than my query-marks quite indicate.
The Chamber Accounts entries are not in chronological order. Often
only a name or a locality is given, and a good deal of plotting of
routes on a map has been necessary. A more thorough study of local and
family histories than I have been able to undertake would doubtless add
corrections and further details. Local antiquaries might well follow
the lines of study opened up by E. Green, _Did Queen Elizabeth visit
Bath in 1574 and 1592_ (1879, _Proc. of Bath Field Club_, iv. 105), W.
D. Cooper, _Queen Elizabeth’s Visits to Sussex_ (1852, _Sussex Arch.
Colls._, v. 190), W. Kelly, _Royal Progresses and Visits to Leicester_
(1884), and M. Christy, _The Progresses of Queen Elizabeth through
Essex and the Houses in which she stayed_ (1917, _Essex Review_, xxvi.
115, 181). A knowledge of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century roads is
useful. The Elizabethan list in W. Smith, _The Particular Description
of England, 1588_ (ed. H. B. Wheatley and E. W. Ashbee, 1879) is fuller
than that in W. Harrison, _Description of England_ (ed. _N. S. S._
ii. 107), or that described from a manuscript of _c._ 1603 by G. S.
Thomson in _E. H. R._ xxxiii. 234. The seventeenth-century description
of J. Ogilby, _Itinerarium Angliae_ (1675) became the parent of many
travellers’ guides. But it does not include three private royal roads
largely used in removes; viz. the King’s road by Chelsea to Richmond
and Hampton Court, Theobald’s Road, and a road from Lambeth Ferry to
Greenwich and Eltham. Useful studies are T. F. Ordish, _History of
Metropolitan Roads_ (_L. T. R._ viii. 1), and H. G. Fordham, _Studies
in Carto-Bibliography_ (1914). Other books are given in D. Ballen,
_Bibliography of Roadmaking and Roads_ (1914).]
1558
Nov. 17. Accession of Elizabeth at HATFIELD.
Nov. 22. PROGRESS through Herts and Middlesex to London by Hadley
(Alice Lady Stamford?, Nov. 22–3) and Charterhouse (Lord North, Nov.
23–8).[1]
Nov. 28. _Tower of London._[2]
Dec. 5. _Somerset House_, by water.[3]
Dec. 22. _Whitehall._[4]
1559
Jan. 6. Play (=Queen’s=?) and mask (Papists).[5]
Jan. 12. TOWER, by water.[6]
Jan. 14. Entry through London with pageants to WHITEHALL.[7]
Jan. 15. Coronation.[8]
Jan. 16. Tilt and mask (Almains and Palmers?).
Jan. 17. Barriers.[9]
Jan. 29. Mask (Moors?).
Feb. 5 (S.S.). Mask (Swart Rutters).
Feb. 7. Mask (Fishers).
March 21. Morris from Household feast at Mile End to court.[10]
_c._ March 31. Visit to Greenwich?[11]
Apr. 25. Supper at Baynard’s Castle (Earl of Pembroke).[12]
May 1. Maying on Thames at Whitehall.[13]
_c._ May 17. Visit to Greenwich.[14]
May 24. Mask (Astronomers) for French embassy.[15]
May 25. Baiting at palace for embassy.[16]
June 21. GREENWICH.[17]
June 25. May game from London to court.[18]
July 2. City musters and tilt at court.[19]
July 3. Visit to Woolwich, with banquet in the _Elizabeth
Jonas_.[20]
July 11. Joust by pensioners and mask.[21]
July 17. PROGRESS in Kent and Surrey.[22] Dartford (July 17–18), Cobham
Hall (Lord Cobham, July 18–21 <), Gillingham, Otford (July > 23–28 <),
Eltham (Aug. 4), Croydon (Abp. of Canterbury, Aug. 5–6?) and Nonsuch
(Earl of Arundel, Aug. 6–10).
Aug. 7. =Paul’s.=
Aug. 10. HAMPTON COURT.[23]
Aug. 17–> 23. Visit to West Horsley (Lord Clinton), with mask
(Shipmen and Country Maids).[24]
Sept. 28. WHITEHALL.[25]
Nov. 5. Tilt.[26]
Dec. 31. Play (=Chapel=?) and mask (Clowns or Nusquams?).[27]
1560
Jan. 1. Mask (Barbarians) for John Duke of Finland.[28]
Jan. 6. Masks (Patriarchs, Italian Women).
Feb. 25 (S.S.) or 26. Mask (Nusquams or Clowns?).
Feb. 27. Masks (Diana and Nymphs, Actaeon?).
Apr. 10. Morris and ‘queen’ from London to court.[29]
Apr. 21. Tilt.[30]
Apr. 24 < > 27. Visit to Deptford.[31]
Apr. 28. Tilt.[32]
May 14. GREENWICH.[33]
_c._ May 24. Visit to Westminster?[34]
_c._ May. Visit to Eltham.[35]
July 29. RICHMOND by Lambeth (Abp. Parker).[36]
Aug. 3. OATLANDS.[37]
Aug. 5–30. PROGRESS in Surrey and Hants.[38] Sutton Place, Woking (Sir
Henry Weston, Aug. 5), Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Aug. 7, 8), Rotherfield
(John? Norton), Southwick (John White), Portsmouth, Netley Castle (Aug.
12–13), Southampton (Aug. 13–16), Winchester (Aug. 16–23), Micheldever
(Edmund Clerk, Aug. 23), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, Aug. 23–28),
Odiham (Chidiock Paulet?), Hartley Wintney (Sir John Mason?), Bagshot
(Sir Henry Weston?).
Aug. 30. _Windsor._[39]
Sept. 22 < > 30. HAMPTON COURT.[40]
_c._ Oct. Visit to Horsley (Lord Clinton?).[41]
Nov. 10 < > 25. WHITEHALL.[42]
Nov. 27–> Dec. 2. Visit to Greenwich and Eltham.[43]
_c._ Dec. Visit to Queenborough.[44]
Christmas. =Dudley’s= and =Paul’s=, and masks. One of
the plays was Preston’s _Cambyses_.[45]
1561
Feb. 17 (S.M.). Wrestling in ‘prychyng-plase’ at court.[46]
Feb. 18, 19. Masters of fence at court.[47]
Apr. 26 < > 29. GREENWICH.[48]
June 24. River triumph. Dinner with Lord R. Dudley.[49]
July 10–Sept. 22. PROGRESS in Essex, Suffolk, Herts., Middlesex.[50]
Tower (July 10), Charterhouse (Lord North, July 10–14) with visit to
Strand (Sir W. Cecil, July 13), Wanstead (Lord Rich, July 14), Havering
(July 14–19) with visits to Pyrgo (Lord John Grey, July 16) and
Loughton Hall (Lord Darcy?, July 17), Ingatestone (Sir William Petre,
July 19–21), New Hall in Boreham (Earl of Sussex, July 21–26), Felix
Hall (Henry Long?, July 26), Colchester (Sir Thomas Lucas, July 26–30)
with visit to Layer Marney (George Tuke), St. Osyth (Lord Darcy, July
30–Aug. 2), Harwich (Aug. 2–5), Ipswich (Aug. 5–11),[51] Shelley Hall
(Philip Tilney, Aug. 11), Smallbridge (William Waldegrave, Aug. 11–14),
Hedingham (Earl of Oxford, Aug. 14–19), Gosfield (Sir John Wentworth,
Aug. 19–21), Lees (Lord Rich, Aug. 21–25), Great Hallingbury (Lord
Morley, Aug. 25–27), Standon (Sir Ralph Sadleir, Aug. 27–30), Hertford
(Aug. 30–Sept. 16), Hatfield?, Enfield (Sept. 16–22).
Sept. 22. ST. JAMES’S.[52]
Oct. 28. Visit to Whitehall. Baiting and mask (Wise and Foolish
Virgins) for French embassy.[53]
Dec. 4 < > 14. WHITEHALL.[54]
Christmas. =Dudley’s= and =Paul’s=.
Dec. 27 < > Jan. 3. Lord of Misrule from Temple to court.[55]
1562
Jan. 15–16. Visit to Baynard’s Castle (Earl of Pembroke), with mask.[56]
Jan. 18. _Gorboduc_ and mask by Inner Temple.
Feb. 1. Mask from London to court, ‘and Julyus Sesar’.[57]
Feb. 2 < > 10 (S. T.). =Paul’s.=
Feb. 10. Tilt.[58]
Feb. 14. Running at ring.[59]
June 5. GREENWICH.[60]
Sept. 16 < > 19. HAMPTON COURT, by Southwark.[61]
_c._ Oct. Visit to Oatlands.[62]
Nov. 8. SOMERSET HOUSE.[63]
Dec. 14 < > 21. WHITEHALL.[64]
Christmas. =Dudley’s= and =Paul’s=.
1563
Feb. 21 (S.S.).
June 14. GREENWICH.[65]
July 20 < > Aug. 1. RICHMOND, by Lambeth.[66]
Aug. 2 < > 4. WINDSOR by Stanwell.[67]
1562–3. Visits to Sunninghill, Oatlands, Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel), the
New Lodge, the Twelve Oaks.[68]
Christmas.[69] Two plays by unnamed companies.
1564
Feb. 2. Play by unnamed company.
Feb. 13 (S.S.).
Apr. 23 < > May 5. RICHMOND.[70]
June 9. Three masks and ‘devise with the men of armes’ for French
embassy.[71]
June 28. Visit _incognita_ to Baynard’s Castle (Earl of Pembroke) for
St. Peter’s watch.[72]
June 30 < > July 5. WHITEHALL.[73]
July 5. Visit to Sackville House (Sir Richard Sackville), with play and
mask.[74]
July 6. Visit to Cecil House (Sir W. Cecil) for christening of
Elizabeth Cecil.[75]
July 6 < > 16. GREENWICH.[76]
July 21 or 22. WHITEHALL.[77]