Press-corrections, iii. 197.
Prices of seats, ii. 531–4, 536.
Prince Charles’s men, ii. 241–6.
Prince Henry’s men, ii. 186–90.
Printed plays (list), iv. 379–97.
Prison scenes, iii. 62, 66.
Private performances, i. 219, 283, 292, 340; ii. 159; iii. 451–3;
iv. 36, 276, 300, 302, 308.
‘Private’ playhouses, i. 380; ii. 355, 511, 522, 536; iii. 149; iv.
366, 372;
arrangements of, ii. 554–6;
staging in, iii. 130–54.
‘Privileges’ for books, iii. 159.
Privy Chamber, i. 14, 42.
Privy Council, i. 66–70;
Clerks of, i. 48, 68;
register of, i. 68, 277; iv. 259;
control of plays by, i. 69, 217, 266–8, 269–307; iii. 367; iv.
259–345;
of printing, iii. 159–63, 168, 172.
Privy Gallery, i. 14.
Privy Garden, i. 14.
Privy Purse, i. 62, 66.
Privy Seal, i. 54, 56, 67.
Proclamations, i. 68, 270, 273, 276, 279, 302.
Profanity in plays, i. 255, 303, 322; iv. 338.
_Profilo_ (section of playhouse), iv. 353–5.
Profits of players, i. 348, 368–70; iv. 200, 219, 269, 371.
Progresses, i. 17, 21, 107–31; ii. 25;
plays during, i. 214.
Prologue, ii. 542, 547; iii. 72; iv. 367.
Prompters. _See_ Bookholders.
Properties, i. 224, 231, 372; ii. 168; iii. 88, 137; iv. 367.
_Proscenio_ (floor of stage), iii. 4; iv. 355, 358.
Proscenium, ii. 528, 540; iii. 16, 31.
Proscenium arch of masks, i. 181, 234;
of plays, i. 234; iii. 20.
Provinces, plays in, i. 304, 328, 332–41, 387; ii. 1; iv. 36, 273,
311, 319.
‘Provision’, offices of, i. 35.
Public halls, plays in, ii. 356.
‘Public’ playhouses, ii. 355, 511, 522, 536; iv. 366.
Publishers, iv. 379;
play-lists of, iv. 398.
_Pueri elemosinariae_, ii. 9, 70.
Puppet plays. _See_ Motions.
Puritans and plays, i. 236–68, 294; iv. 184–259 (extracts).
Purveyance, i. 116.
Q
_Quadri_ (squares), iv. 356, 358.
‘Quality’ of players, i. 309.
‘Queen’ of folk, i. 124; iv. 78.
Queen’s men, ii. 83, 104–15, 229–40.
Queen’s Revels, children of, ii. 48–51, 56–61; iii. 273.
Quintain, i. 123.
R
‘Rake’ of stage, i. 233; iv. 356.
Ranting of players, i. 384; ii. 447.
_Rappresentazioni_, iii. 6.
Recesses on stage, iii. 42, 51, 70, 81, 110.
Recognisances by players, i. 283, 300, 319; iv. 261, 269, 275, 298,
325, 327, 333, 340.
Recreation, i. 267, 309.
Red Bull playhouse, ii. 445–8.
Red Lion playhouse, ii. 379.
_Rederijker_, iii. 102.
Refreshments, ii. 548.
Regensburg theatre, iii. 78.
Rehearsals, i. 87, 223; iv. 149, 152, 157, 252, 286, 372.
Religious subjects in plays, i. 239–45, 255, 266, 323, 325; ii.
265; iv. 185, 188, 196, 198, 222, 369.
_Remembrancia_ of City, i. 277, 286; iv. 259.
‘Removes’, i. 17, 20.
_Renghiere_ (balconies), iv. 360.
‘Repertory’ theatres, ii. 148;
output of, ii. 162.
Requests, Masters of, i. 48, 69.
Restraint of plays, i. 265, 269–307; iv. 259–345;
area of, i. 278, 282, 331; ii. 94, 123.
_See_ Innovation, Lent, Plague, Prayer-time, Royal deaths,
Sedition, Sunday.
Retainers, i. 271, 279; ii. 86; iv. 268, 293.
Revels, children of, ii. 51.
Revels companies in provinces, ii. 53, 59–61, 67.
‘Revels’ in mask, i. 198; iii. 386.
Revels Office, i. 71–105, 116, 223;
airings in, i. 78, 101;
allowances to officers of, i. 76, 79, 90, 94, 101;
arms and seal of, i. 104;
commission for, i. 84, 89, 99;
finance and accounts of, i. 71–105; iv. 135–41, 142–83
(extracts);
functions of, at court plays, i. 223;
housing of, i. 74, 75, 81, 83, 87, 89, 95, 101; ii. 477, 491–3,
516;
inventories of, i. 73, 74, 76, 89, 158; iv. 136;
ledgers of, i. 74, 82.
_See_ Clerk, Clerk Comptroller, Groom, Master, Yeoman.
Revision of plays, i. 373, 384; ii. 130, 170, 172, 179; iii. 396,
423, 431, 433, 440.
Revivals of plays, i. 373; ii. 43, 211; iii. 104, 364.
Rewards for plays, i. 217, 369; ii. 78–9.
Rich’s men, ii. 91.
‘Riding’ charges, i. 63.
Rings, ii. 355, 449, 525.
‘Rivers’, iii. 51, 58, 90, 107.
Robes, Master of, i. 52;
Mistress of, i. 44.
Rome, plays at, iii. 3, 9.
‘Room’. _See_ ‘Hall’.
‘Rooms’, ii. 530.
Roscius, i. 376–7; ii. 297–8, 329, 331; iii. 223, 353; iv. 195,
204, 228, 230, 236, 239.
Rose playhouse, ii. 405–10.
Round playhouses, ii. 355, 434, 524; iv. 372.
_Roxana_ engraving, ii. 519.
Royal deaths, restraint for, i. 302, 304, 329, 339; iv. 335, 341.
_Ruffiana_ (courtesan), iii. 32; iv. 359.
Running at the ring, iii. 243, 279; iv. 74, 80, 121, 125, 127.
‘Runs’ of plays, ii. 148.
Rushes on stage, ii. 529; iv. 366–8.
S
St. Elizabeth’s Day, i. 18.
St. George’s Day, i. 20; iii. 367; iv. 71.
St. Peter’s watch, iv. 81.
Salisbury Court playhouse, ii. 373, 375, 517.
Satire in plays, i. 258, 261–3, 268–9, 322–8; iv. 194, 238, 253,
256, 368;
of bishops, i. 294;
citizens, i. 264; iv. 239;
courtiers, iii. 310;
French, i. 323; ii. 53; iii. 257, 426;
Henri IV, ii. 53;
James, i. 325–8; ii. 53;
humours, i. 263;
lawyers, iii. 365, 475;
magistrates, iv. 254;
persons of honour, i. 321, 324, 327; ii. 343; iii. 455, 496; iv.
332;
Poles, iii. 455;
Puritans, i. 261, 262, 294; iii. 372, 476; iv. 229–33, 245, 249;
Scotch, i. 323, 326; ii. 51; iii. 254, 286, 354, 432;
soldiers, iii. 365;
sovereigns, i. 327–8, 493; iv. 247, 254;
Spanish, i. 323;
Swedish, i. 324;
usurers, iii. 286, 288; iv. 239;
women, iii. 417; &c., &c.
_See_ Marprelate, Sedition.
_Satyre_, iv. 362.
Saxony, players at court of, ii. 288–9.
_Scale_ (steps), iv. 358.
_Scena_, ii. 539; iii. 3.
_Scenae trigemina corona_, i. 251.
_Scenarie_, iv. 404.
_Scene_, iv. 353–65.
Scenes, as background for stage, i. 233; iii. 12, 129; iv. 366,
370, 371, 372;
for masks, i. 155, 170–84;
as divisions of play, iii. 50, 125, 131, 199;
types of, iii. 50–68, 106.
_See_ Perspective.
Scenic presentation. _See_ Staging.
Schoolboy plays, i. 378; ii. 11, 69–76; iii. 211.
Scotland, players in, i. 341; ii. 78, 265–70.
Scriveners’ copies of plays, iii. 193.
Seasons for plays, i. 329.
Seats on stage, ii. 534–8; iv. 366–8.
Secondaries of the Compter, plays licensed by, i. 275.
Secretaries of State, i. 48, 56, 67, 68.
_Secretarii_, i. 55, 56.
_Sedie_ (seats), iv. 355, 358.
_Sedilia_, ii. 530.
Sedition in plays, i. 264, 266, 271, 273, 275, 283, 295, 299; iii.
453–5; iv. 322.
_See_ Politics, Restraints, Satire, Theology.
‘Senate houses’, i. 231; iii. 44, 58, 95.
Serjeants, i. 34, 42;
at Arms, i. 47.
Servitors in playhouses. _See_ Attendants.
Setting of plays. _See_ Staging.
Sewers for Chamber, i. 46.
‘Shadow’, ii. 544.
Sharers, i. 352–8, 369; iv. 369.
_Sharers Papers_ of 1635, i. 357; ii. 59, 384, 417, 425, 508–10.
Shepherds, king and queen of, iv. 66.
Ship-board scenes, iii. 116.
Shoes, in play, ii. 326, 365; iii. 362.
Shops on stage, iii. 59, 110.
Shorthand, plays reported by, iii. 185, 343–4.
Shrovetide, i. 20, 213; iv. 237.
Shrove-Tuesday riots, i. 265; ii. 240.
‘Side’ of stage, iii. 74.
Siege scenes, iii. 38, 54, 96.
Signet, Clerks of, i. 48, 57.
Signet licences for players, i. 306, 338; ii. 260.
Signs of theatres, ii. 362, 400, 424.
Silver mine, satire of, in play, ii. 53.
Sinking curtains, iii. 9, 30.
Size of companies, i. 354.
Small seals, i. 56.
Smoking in playhouse, ii. 548; iv. 367.
‘Solace’ of queen, i. 267, 292.
‘Soundings’ in playhouse, ii. 542; iii. 72; iv. 368.
Sovereign, plays licensed by, i. 275.
Spain, players in, ii. 292.
Spanish landings in Cornwall, iv. 251.
Spectators, _rôle_ of, in mask, i. 150, 153, 155, 197.
‘Split’ scenes, iii. 86.
Square playhouse, ii. 439, 524.
Stage, structure of, ii. 528.
Stage-directions, nature of, iii. 180, 193–8;
players named in, iii. 196, 227, 271, 285, 295, 330; iv. 32, 43,
45.
Stagekeepers, ii. 109, 541; iv. 38.
Staging, in Italy, iii. 2–12; iv. 353–65;
in France, iii. 12–19;
at court, iii. 19–46;
in 16th century, iii. 47–102;
in 17th century, iii. 103–30;
in private theatres, iii. 130–54;
change of locality the problem of, iii. 18, 99, 121–30.
_See_ Above, Academic, Alcove, Alternationist, Animals, Arbours,
Arras, Atmospheric, Back cloths, Beam, Bears, Bed, Black,
Canopy, Castles, Close walk, Counting house, Curtains,
Descents, Diagrams, Discoveries, Domus, Doors, Edge,
Εκκύκλημα, End, Entrance, Excursions, Foreshortening,
Hangings, Heavens, Hell, Houses, Hut, Interior action,
Interludes, Juxtaposition, Locality, Machines, Multiple,
Out-of-doors, Over, Perspective, Place, Posts, Properties,
Rake, Recesses, Rivers, Rushes, Scenes, Senate houses, Shops,
Side, Stairs, Standardization, Studies, Tents, Throne,
Thunder, Titles, Traps, Traverse, Trees, Upper stage, Walls,
Windows, Wings.
‘Stairs’, iii. 95.
‘Standardization of effects’, iii. 2, 50, 131.
‘Standing’ houses, i. 8, 115;
offices, i. 49, 71, 102.
Stanley’s boys, ii. 119.
Star Chamber, i. 67, 69, 273, 300, 328; ii. 43; iv. 327;
orders of, on printing, iii. 162, 166, 172.
‘State’ for sovereign, i. 203, 226.
Stationers, ethics of, iii. 186.
Stationers’ Company, iii. 160–77, 186–91, 505; iv. 265, 303.
Stationers’ Register, iii. 158, 163–77, 188–91, 422; iv. 379, 398.
Statistics of plays, iii. 22, 49, 105, 177, 181–3.
Statutes concerning players, i. 270, 276, 279, 299, 303, 304; iv.
260, 263, 269, 324, 336, 338.
‘Staying’ of printing, ii. 172, 204; iii. 183–91, 292, 359–60.
Steward of Household, Lord, i. 35, 55, 67.
‘Stinkards’, ii. 533; iv. 366.
Stock of playing companies, i. 352, 372; ii. 55, 137, 230, 243.
Stole, Groom of, i. 53.
‘Stools’, ii. 535–7; iv. 366–8.
_Strade_ (gangways), iv. 355.
Strange’s men, ii. 118–24.
Street scenes, iii. 56.
_Strenae_, i. 5, 19.
‘Strolling’ players, i. 332.
‘Studies’, iii. 67, 110.
Suburbs convenient for players, i. 278, 284, 298, 300; ii. 370.
Sunday performances, i. 255, 283, 285, 287–90, 293–6, 301, 302,
314; iv. 195, 200, 201, 202, 203, 206, 210, 221, 225, 249, 262,
267, 268, 275, 279, 282, 285, 288, 292, 295, 296, 297, 302,
305, 307, 310, 329, 335.
‘Supers’, i. 371.
‘Surreptitious’ prints of plays, iii. 184–92.
Surveyors, court of, i. 58.
Sussex’s men, ii. 92–6.
Swan playhouse, ii. 411–14, 521 (drawing), 526–31, 538–9, 544–7.
Sweden, players in, ii. 274.
Sword dance, i. 171; iii. 280; iv. 117.
Syndicates for companies, i. 379; ii. 43, 45, 56, 65.
T
‘Taking out’ in mask, i. 150, 153, 155, 197.
Takings of playhouses, i. 370; ii. 122, 148.
Taphouses at playhouses, i. 369; ii. 406, 424, 442.
_Tectum_, ii. 531.
_Telari_ (scenic cloths), iv. 358.
Temperament of players, i. 351.
Tenancy, joint and in common, ii. 417.
Tents, office of, i. 49, 72, 74, 76, 82, 94, 102; ii. 491.
Tents on stage, iii. 53, 86, 106.
Terence engravings, iii. 6, 15.
_Théâtre en demi-rond_, iii. 14.
Theatre playhouse, ii. 383–400.
_Théâtre tout en pastoralle_, iii. 17, 34, 35, 44, 48, 52.
Theatres. _See_ Playhouses.
_Theatri_, iv. 353–65.
Themes, ii. 191, 300, 343–4, 349, 553; iv. 244, 246.
Theocracy at Geneva, i. 245.
Theology in plays, i. 242, 271, 273, 294; ii. 328; iv. 254.
Threshold scenes, iii. 59.
‘Throne’, iii. 64, 72, 77, 87, 89, 108; iv. 248.
Thunder on stage, iii. 76, 110; iv. 248.
Thursdays kept for bear-baiting, i. 316.
Tilts, i. 18, 19, 20, 21, 139–48; iii. 212–13, 245, 268–9, 316,
393, 399, 402–5, 463, 509; iv. 63.
_See_ Books, Challenges, Cheques, Devices, Lists, Tourney.
Tiltyards, i. 141.
‘Tiph, toph’, ii. 293.
Tire-men, i. 371; ii. 149, 226, 541; iii. 83; iv. 404.
Tire-women, i. 163; iii. 387.
Tiring house, i. 100, 225, 229, 231; ii. 392, 538, 555; iii. 72,
82; iv. 248, 370.
Titles. _See_ Labels.
‘Tombs’, iii. 59, 110.
‘Top’, iii. 98.
Topical allusions in plays, i. 322–8.
_See_ Satire, Sedition.
Torch-bearers in mask, i. 195.
_Torze_ (torches), iv. 364.
Touching for evil, i. 123.
Tourney, i. 140.
_Tragedie_, iv. 360.
Tragedy, definitions of, i. 240, 257.
Traps, ii. 528; iii. 42, 89, 96, 107, 133.
‘Traverse’, i. 181; iii. 25, 78, 234, 279, 282, 434; iv. 59.
Treason, executions for, iii. 286, 433, 440, 491.
Treasurer, Lord High, i. 54, 67;
of Chamber, i. 54–67, 217; iv. 132–5;
of Household, i. 35, 37, 55, 67.
Trees on stage, iii. 52, 89, 107.
_Trionfi_, i. 152.
Truchmen, i. 163, 165, 166, 190.
Trumpets in playhouse, iv. 367.
Tumblers. _See_ Activities.
_Tuono_ (thunder), iv. 365.
Turkish rope-dancer, ii. 111, 261, 550.
Twelfth Night, i. 19, 205, 213; iii. 281.
U
Unchastity in plays, i. 252, 255, 258, 282–3, 304.
‘Understanders’, ii. 527.
Unity of place, iii. 18, 22, 29, 34, 36, 40, 121, 134.
_See_ Locality.
Universities, public plays within, ii. 100, 113, 213; iii. 469;
criticism of plays at, i. 249.
University receptions, i. 127.
Unlocated scenes, iii. 50.
Upper rooms, ii. 387.
Upper stage, iii. 120, 153.
_Ursarii_, ii. 449.
V
Vaux’s men, ii. 103.
‘Veil’, iii. 80.
Verge, iii. 387.
_Versurae_ (wings), iii. 3, 11, 100.
_Vexillatores_, ii. 547.
_Viae ad forum_, iii. 4, 100.
‘Vice’, iii. 317, 412, 437, 466, 504, 505; iv. 3, 6, 7, 9, 229,
233.
Vice-Chamberlain of household, i. 41, 67.
Vitruvius on stage, iii. 3.
Vizards, i. 151, 196, 371; iii. 241, 376, 387; iv. 38.
‘Void’, i. 152.
_Vuota di dicitori_ (tiring room?), iv. 364.
W
Wager paid in play, iv. 181.
Wager plays, ii. 297, 468, 554.
‘Wages’ at court, i. 51.
_Wagner Book_, iii. 71.
‘Walls’, ii. 36, 39, 44; iii. 54, 72, 96, 106.
Wardrobe as organ of administration, i. 55.
Wardrobe, Great, i. 72, 80, 90, 94, 211.
Wardrobe officers, i. 42, 56.
Warwick’s men, ii. 97–9.
Watching Chamber, i. 13.
Water triumphs, i. 123, 134, 138; iv. 72, 73, 74, 103, 124, 127.
Watermen, i. 63, 296; ii. 121, 370; iv. 312, 368.
Waymaker, i. 108, 116.
Weddings at court, iii. 233, 239, 241, 245, 260, 276, 351, 378,
381, 388, 393; iv. 82, 83, 86, 87, 94, 99, 109, 112, 113, 119,
120, 122, 123, 127, 128, 129.
Welsh play, iii. 457.
Westminster, children of, ii. 69–73.
White staves, i. 39, 205, 226.
Whitefriars, children of, ii. 55.
Whitefriars playhouse, ii. 515–17.
Wild men. _See_ Woodwoses.
‘Windows’, iii. 42, 58, 95, 98, 116, 119, 153.
Windsor chapel, children of, ii. 61–4.
‘Wings’, iii. 100.
Withdrawing Chamber, i. 14.
_Wits_ engraving, ii. 519.
Women on stage, i. 371; iii. 296.
Woodcuts in plays, iii. 210, 322, 328; iv. 20.
‘Woodwoses’, i. 123–4, 135, 194; iv. 65, 66.
Worcester’s men, ii. 220–9.
Works, office of, i. 49, 80, 90, 211, 226.
Y
‘Yard’, ii. 527.
Yeomen of Chamber, i. 44;
of Crown, i. 47;
of Guard, i. 47, 63;
of Revels, i. 72, 94.
Yeomen Ushers of Chamber, i. 45, 47, 69; iv. 353.
‘Young minstrels’, ii. 13, 31–2.
Z
_Zoglia_ (lintle), iii. 21.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] _P. C._ (Nov. 22, 24); Machyn, 179; Lettenhove, i. 300.
[2] Machyn, 180; Burghley, _Diary_.
[3] _P. C._ (Dec. 4, 5); Machyn, 180; Stowe, _Annales_.
[4] _P. C._ (Dec. 22, 23); _V. P._ vii. 2.
[5] Cf. ch. v.
[6] _P. C._ (Jan. 14); _V. P._ vii. 11; Machyn, 186; Stowe,
_Annales_.
[7] Machyn, 186; Stowe, _Annales_; cf. ch. xxiv.
[8] Machyn, 186; Nichols, i. 60; from _Bodl. Ashm. MS._, 863;
_V. P._, vii. 11.
[9] Machyn, 187; _V. P._ vii. 18.
[10] Machyn, 191.
[11] _S. P. D._
[12] Machyn, 196; _V. P._ vii. 80.
[13] Machyn, 196.
[14] _V. P._ vii. 84; Lettenhove, i. 522.
[15] Machyn, 198; _V. P._ vii. 91; cf. chh. i, v.
[16] Machyn, 198.
[17] _Sp. P._ i. 79.
[18] Machyn, 201.
[19] Machyn, 202.
[20] _C. A._; Machyn, 203.
[21] Machyn, 203.
[22] _C. A._; _S. P. F._; _Sc. P._ (July 28, Aug. 7); _Sadler Papers_
(Aug. 8); Burghley, _Diary_; Machyn, 204, 206.
[23] _Procl._ 513; Machyn, 206.
[24] _C. A._; _Procl._ 514; _S. P. F._ (Aug. 16; _S. P. D._ (Aug.
23); Machyn, 207 (app. Aug. 15 in error); Nichols, i. 75; Feuillerat,
_Eliz._ 105. Quadra (Aug. 18, _C. D. I._ lxxxvii. 231), ‘Los
Embajadores de Suecia se van muy quejosos y agraviados porque creo que
ha llegado á su noticia que burlaban en Palacio dellos, y la Reina
mejor que los demás’ hardly bears out the interpretation of M. A. S.
Hume, _Courtships of Elizabeth_, 32, that the ridicule was in a mask.
[25] _Sp. P._ i. 98; _Sadler Papers_, i. 462.
[26] Machyn, 216.
[27] Machyn, 221, ‘the plaers plad suche matter that they wher
commondyd to leyff off, and contenent the maske cam in dansyng’.
[28] Machyn, 221.
[29] Machyn, 230.
[30] Machyn, 231.
[31] _C. A._; Machyn, 232.
[32] Machyn, 233.
[33] Machyn, 234; Lodge^1, i. 313.
[34] _Procl._ 525.
[35] _C. A._
[36] Machyn, 241; Parker, 120; _Sc. P._ i. 459.
[37] Machyn, 241; _Sc. P._ i. 459.
[38] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 23, 27); _S. P. F._ (Aug. 22, 27, 28);
_Sc. P._ i. 475; Machyn, 241; Wright, i. 43; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 50,
142; Howard, 215; _V. H. Hants_, iii. 531.
[39] _S. P. D. Addl._; Lodge, i. 423.
[40] _Procl._ 529; _S. P. F._ (Sept. 30).
[41] _C. A._
[42] _S. P. F._ (Nov. 10, 25).
[43] _C. A._; _Hardwicke Papers_, i. 163; _Hatfield
MSS._ xiii. 62.
[44] _C. A._
[45] Christopher Playter to Mr. Kytson (J. Gage, _Hist. of Hengrave_,
180), ‘at the corte new plays, which lasted almost all night--the name
of the play was huff-suff-and ruff, with other masks, both of ladies
and gents’. The only date is ‘21 Feb.’, but the year can be fixed by
references in the letter to the masters of fence at court, and to
_Procl._ 538 and 541 of this winter.
[46] Machyn, 251.
[47] Machyn, 250.
[48] _S. P. F._ (Apr. 26, 29).
[49] Machyn, 261; _Sp. P._ i. 208.
[50] Nichols, i. 92, from Cofferer’s Account in _Cott. MS. Vesp._ C.
xiv; _C. A._; Works Account in _Lansd. MS._, 5; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 9,
11); _S. P. F._ (July 15, 21; Aug. 16, 17, 27; Sept. 10, 17); _Sc. P._
(July 13; Aug. 16; Sept. 3, 17); _Procl._ 547–50; Rymer (July 27);
Machyn, 263, 267; Parker (Aug. 9, 12, 22); Wright, i. 67, 68, 69, 71;
Hardwicke, i. 174; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 752; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 69; cf.
M. Christy in _Essex Review_, xxvi. 115, 181.
[51] Fleay, 62, suggests a revival of Bale’s _Kinge Johan_, the MS. of
which was found at Ipswich.
[52] Machyn, 267; Nichols, i. 103.
[53] Machyn, 270; Brantôme, i. 312; cf. ch. v.
[54] Parker, 156; Wallace, ii. 65.
[55] Machyn, 273.
[56] Machyn, 275.
[57] Machyn, 276. The word ‘played’, after ‘Sesar’, appears to be in a
modern hand; cf. Wallace, i. 200.
[58] Machyn, 276.
[59] Machyn, 277.
[60] _Sp. P._ i. 243; Machyn, 284. Dasent, vii. 238, has a reference to
this as ‘a tyme of progresse begonne’, but there was no real progress;
cf. Somers to Throckmorton (Aug. 29, _S. P. F._ v. 269), ‘The Queen
has all this summer kept herself here, without accustomed progress or
hunting pleasures, to attend to that whereof she shall have honour’.
On the unrealized plans for a meeting with Mary of Scots and the mask
devised, cf. ch. v.
[61] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 16); _S. P. F._ (Sept.
19).
[62] _C. A._
[63] Machyn, 295.
[64] _S. P. D. Addl._ (Dec. 14); _S. P. F._ (Dec. 14);
_Procl._ 572.
[65] Machyn, 309.
[66] _C. A._; _Procl._ 578, 579; _Rutland MSS._ (June
30); _S. P. F._ (Aug. 2); Parker, 184 (Aug. 1).
[67] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 4); _S. P. F._ (Aug. 4).
[68] _C. A._
[69] Francis to Sir Thos. Chaloner (Froude, vii. 92), ‘Regina tota
amoribus dedita est venationibusque, aucupiis, choreis et rebus
ludicris insumens dies noctesque’.
[70] Wright, i. 171, 172 (Apr. 23); _S. P. D._ (May 5); _S. P. F._ (May
5).
[71] Cf. ch. v.
[72] _Sp. P._ i. 366.
[73] _S. P. D._ (June 30); _Sp. P._ i. 368.
[74] _Sp. P._ i. 367, 385; Parker, 219; Burghley, _Diary_.
[75] Burghley, _Diary_.
[76] _S. P. D. Addl._ (July 16).
[77] _Procl._ 597; _Sp. P._ i. 368.
[78] _C. A._; _Pipe Office D. A._ (_Works_), 3202; _P. C._; _Procl._
598; _S. P. F._ (Aug. 1, 8; Sept. 11); _Sp. P._ i. 373, 374, 376,
379; Stowe, _Annales_; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 756; Nichols, i. 151, from
Cambridge MSS.; Lysons, _Magna Britannia_, i. 143, 496, 571, 627, from
Lord Hampden’s MSS. (year uncertain); Bridges, _Northants_, i. 431
(misdated 1563).
[79] For Cambridge plays cf. ch. iv.
[80] For mask at Hinchinbrook cf. ch. v.
[81] _Sp. P._ i. 376, 379.
[82] _Sp. P._ i. 381.
[83] _C. A._
[84] _P. C._; _Martin’s_, 218; _S. P. D._ (Dec. 9).
[85] _Sp. P._ i. 403.
[86] _Sp. P._ i. 404.
[87] Cf. ch. v.
[88] _Sp. P._ i. 428.
[89] _C. A._; _Lambeth_.
[90] _C. A._; Burghley, _Diary_; Wright, i. 198.
[91] Stowe, _Annales_ (June 24); _Sp. P._ i. 442.
[92] _Martin’s_, 222; _Sp. P._ i. 446; _Procl._ 611;
_P. C._ (July 15).
[93] _Sp. P._ i. 446, 451; cf. ch. v.
[94] _Martin’s_, 222.
[95] _Sp. P._ i. 465; _Pepys MSS._ 67.
[96] _C. A._
[97] _Martin’s_, 222; _Sp. P._ i. 475.
[98] _C. A._
[99] _Sp. P._ i. 487, 494.
[100] _C. A._; _Lambeth_; _P. C._ (Oct. 29, Nov. 2).
[101] _C. A._; Leland, _Collectanea_, ii. 666.
[102] _V. P._ vii. 374.
[103] _Martin’s_, 228; _Sp. P._ i. 523.
[104] _Sp. P._ i. 526.
[105] Cf. ch. v.
[106] _Martin’s_, 229; _Sp. P._ i. 564.
[107] _C. A._; _Lambeth_; cf. ch. v.
[108] _C. A._; _Pipe Office D. A._ (_Works_), 3203; Works Account in
_Rawl. MS._, A. 195^c; _S. P. D._ (July 21); _S. P. F._ (July 29,
Aug. 30, Sept. 8); _Sp. P._ i. 568, 571, 574, 577, 578; _Margaret’s_;
_Martin’s_; Shaw, ii. 72; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 762 (Aug. 3, 5);
_Middleton MSS._ (_Hist. MSS._), 528; Stowe, _Annales_; Burgon,
_Gresham_, ii. 155, 212; Nichols, i. 192, 197, 199*, 206, 247, from
Coventry records, &c.; Plummer, _Elizabethan Oxford_, 115, 175, 191,
198, 205; Boas, 385.
[109] At the entry to Coventry the Corpus Christi pageant of the
Tanners stood at St. John’s Church, the Drapers at the Cross, the
Smiths at Little Park Street End, the Weavers at Much Park Street
(H. Craig, _Two Coventry C. C. Plays_, xxi, 106). The date is
sometimes given as 1565 or 1567 in error.
[110] For the Oxford plays cf. ch. iv.
[111] _S. P. F._ (Sept. 10); _Sp. P._ i. 580.
[112] _D. A._ (_Works_).
[113] _S. P. F._ (Sept. 10, 17).
[114] _Martin’s_, 229; _Sp. P._ i. 582.
[115] _Sp. P._ i. 609.
[116] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 232; _Sp. P._ i. 609, 610,
612, 613.
[117] Shaw, ii. 73.
[118] _Sp. P._ i. 633: ‘The hatred that this Queen has of marriage is
most strange. They represented a comedy before her last night, until
nearly one in the morning, which ended in a marriage, and the Queen, as
she told me herself, expressed her dislike of the woman’s part.’
[119] _Sp. P._ i. 644.
[120] _Sp. P._ i. 661.
[121] _Sc. P._ ii. 373; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 764.
[122] _C. A._ (‘Mr. Kyrres’).
[123] _C. A._; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 764; _S. P. F._ (Aug. 20,
24); _Sc. P._ (Aug. 29); _Sp. P._ i. 672; Kempe, 265.
[124] _Sp. P._ i. 672.
[125] _Sp. P._ i. 679.
[126] _Sp. P._ i. 690; _Martin’s_, 234.
[127] Nichols, i. 266, from _Privy Purse Acct._
[128] _C. A._
[129] _Sp. P._ ii. 21; _Martin’s_, 239.
[130] _C. A._; _Parker Letters_ (July 7); Burghley, _Diary_; _S. P.
F._ (July 11); _C. D. I._ xc. 98, ‘Vino por el rio hasta Reder’;
the translation ‘Reading’ in _Sp. P._ ii. 50 is absurd; it might be
Knightrider St.
[131] _C. A._; Works Account in _Rawl. MS._ A. 195^e; Burghley,
_Diary_; _S. P. D._ (July 30, Aug. 8); _S. P. F._ (July 22, Aug. 21,
27); _Sc. P._ (July 22, Aug. 14); _Sp. P._ ii. 54, 57, 64, 71, 72, 74;
_Syd. P._ i. 36; _Procl._ 628, 629; Shaw, ii. 73.
[132] _Sp. P._ ii. 73.
[133] _S. P. D._ (Oct. 3); Burghley, _Diary_ (Oct. 20).
[134] La Mothe, i. 203.
[135] _C. A._; _Sp. P._ ii. 149; Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 124 (May 10);
Nichols, i. 257 (May 9). The May 11 of La Mothe, i. 373, must be an
error.
[136] Cf. ch. iv.
[137] _Sp. P._ ii. 178, 180. The July 27 or 28 of La Mothe, ii. 100,
133, 138, must again be an error.
[138] Sp. P. ii. 182.
[139] C. A.; Works Accounts in _Rawl. MS._ A. 195^c; _S. P. F._ (Sept.
4) _Sc. P._ (Aug. 12, 20); _Sp. P._ ii. 189, 191; _P. C. Wales_ (Aug.
22); Burghley, _Diary_; _Hatfield MSS._ i. 418, 421, 435; Camden, 420;
Nichols, i. 261; _Finch MSS._ (Aug. 9); _V. H. Surrey_, iii. 383;
Lodge, i. 480, 482, 483, 485; La Mothe, ii. 196, 218, 223, 229, 237.
[140] Lodge, i. 483, 485; _S. P. F._ (Sept. 24); _Parker Letters_
(Sept. 24).
[141] Cf. ch. i.
[142] _C. A._
[143] _Sp. P._ ii. 228; _Sadler Papers_ (Jan. 18).
[144] _Sp. P._ ii. 239.
[145] _P. C._ (June 18, 20).
[146] _C. A._; Works Accounts in _Rawl. MS._ A. 195^c; _P. C._; _S. P.
D._ (Sept. 25); _S. P. F._ (Aug. 8; Sept. 7, 26); _Procl._ 657, 658;
_Finch MSS._ (_Hist. MSS._); Burghley, _Diary_; _Hatfield MSS._ i. 481;
Wiffen, i. 474; Digges, 5; Shaw, ii. 74; La Mothe, iii. 240, 246, 258,
264, 289.
[147] La Mothe, iii. 317; _P. C._ (Sept. 30).
[148] _P. C._ (Nov. 6, 7).
[149] _P. C._ (Jan. 14, 19); La Mothe, iii. 434.
[150] Holinshed, iii. 1224; La Mothe, iii. 443, 450, 454; _Margaret’s_,
18.
[151] _P. C._ (Jan. 29).
[152] _Sp. P._ ii. 295; _Rutland MSS._ i. 91.
[153] _P. C._ (March 31); Stowe, _Annales_ (Apr. 2).
[154] _Lambeth._
[155] La Mothe, iv. 94; Rimbault, 160.
[156] Holinshed, iii. 1225; Nichols, ii. 334, from Segar; _Arch_,
lxiii. 47; _Arch. Journal_, lv. 315; lxi. 305; Clephan, 171, from
_Ashm. MSS._ 837, 845; La Mothe, iv. 88, 95.
[157] Digges, 108.
[158] _Lambeth._
[159] _P. C._ (July 7); _S. P. F._ (July 8).