[161] _C. A._; _P. C._; _C. D. I._ xc. 492; Burghley, _Diary_;
_Hatfield MSS_. i. 516; v. 70; _Rutland MSS._ i. 95; Wright, i. 393;
Lodge, i. 525, 527; La Mothe, iv. 245; Digges, 134, 138; Shaw, ii. 75;
Hunter, _Hallamshire_, 111; Nichols, i. 280; cf. M. Christy in _Essex
Review_, xxvi. 115, 181.
[162] _Rutland MSS._ i. 96.
[163] La Mothe, iv. 245; _Wandsworth_.
[164] _C. A._, _P. C._
[165] _Sp. P._ ii. 355; _S. P. F._ (Dec. 15, 16); _Procl._ 663 (Jan.
3). I think the _P. C._ entries of Greenwich for Dec. 25, 31 must be
errors.
[166] _Hatfield MSS._ v. 70; _Rutland MSS._ i. 94–96; La Mothe, iv.
319; _Sp. P._ ii. 358. The wedding was originally planned for Theobalds
in Sept. (Hunter, _Hallamshire_, 111).
[167] La Mothe, iv. 319, 321; _Sp. P._ ii. 358. Possibly Elizabeth
was also at the weddings of Lords Dudley and Paget this week.
[168] La Mothe, iv. 424.
[169] La Mothe, iv. 447.
[170] _Sp. P._ ii. 393.
[171] _Martin’s_, 268.
[172] Nichols, i. 305 (dating June 14), from _Lambeth MS._ 959; ii.
335. from Segar.
[173] _Martin’s_, 268.
[174] _C. A._; _P. C._ (July 31); _S. P. D._ (Aug. 10); _S. P. F._
(Aug. 22); _Procl._ 676; _Margaret’s_; _Martin’s_; _Select Committee
on Public Records_ (1800), 174; _Sp. P._ ii. 399, 413, 417; _Hatfield
MSS._ v. 69, xiii. 110; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 773; _Finch MSS._ (Sept.
16); La Mothe, v. 47, 59, 63, 65, 76, 77, 79, 84, 89, 91, 92, 99, 122,
134; L. Howard, 195; _Wilts. Arch. Mag._ xviii. 261; 1 Ellis, ii. 265;
Lodge, i. 540, 542, 548, 549; Strype, _Sir T. Smith_, 121; _Zurich
Letters_, ii. 211; Digges, 228–65; Nichols, i. 309, from _Warwick
Corporation MSS._, with errors.
[175] At Kenilworth were ‘such princely sports as could be devised’
(Nichols, i. 318, from Warwick _Black Book_).
[176] At Warwick on Aug. 17 were a country dance and a show of
fireworks (ibid.).
[177] Digges, 260, 263.
[178] _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 28; _Sp. P._ ii. 435; La Mothe, v.
200.
[179] _Martin’s_, 272 (Feb. 27, 28, in error?); Digges, 328 (Jan. 29);
_P. C._ (Feb. 3); Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 171.
[180] _C. A._; _P. C._; La Mothe, v. 262, 267, 270; _Sp. P._ ii. 467;
Wright, i. 466; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 70 (misdated); Nichols, i. 378.
[181] Nichols, i. 332, 378, 548, from M. Parker, _Matthaeus_,
Dering MS., and local archives; _C. A._; _P. C._; W. D.
Cooper, _Winchelsea_, 107, and in _Sussex Arch. Coll._ v.
190, from _Acct._ of Controller of Household and local archives;
Denne, _Bibl. Top. Brit._ xlv. 211; Parker Corres. 436, 437,
441, 475; _Arch. Cantiana_, vi. 43; ix. 235; xi. 199; _Zurich
Letters_, ii. 221; _S. P. F._ (Sept. 15); Lodge, ii. 33; Shaw,
ii. 75; La Mothe, v. 412; 1 Ellis, ii. 267.
[182] There was a reception at Orpington by a Nymph as Genius of the
house, and a sea-fight in a bark (Hasted, i. 134).
[183] A mock sea-fight was shown at Sandwich on Sept. 1 (Nichols, i.
337, from town archives).
[184] There was a mask of Mariners at Canterbury on Sept. 7
(Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 183).
[185] Nichols, i. 351; La Mothe, v. 412.
[186] _C. A._
[187] La Mothe, v. 454; _P. C._ (Nov. 25, 28, 29).
[188] _Martin’s_, 273; _P. C._ (Dec. 19, 21).
[189] Walsingham, _Diary_; La Mothe, vi. 8.
[190] Walsingham, _Diary_; La Mothe, vi. 34.
[191] La Mothe, vi. 39.
[192] Walsingham, _Diary_; _Lambeth_; Nichols, i. 325 (misdated), 384.
[193] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_; La Mothe, vi. 167.
[194] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.
[195] _C. A._; _P. C._; Walsingham, _Diary_; Burghley, _Diary_; _S. P.
D._ (Aug. 15); _S. P. F._ (July 18, 30; Aug. 10, 11; Sept. 15); _Zurich
Letters_, ii. 258; A. Hall, _Life_, 57; Shaw, ii. 75, 76; Lodge, ii.
43; La Mothe, vi. 197, 229; Nichols, i. 321 (misdated 1572), 379, 392,
408; R. H. Gretton, _Burford Records_, 415; cf. E. Green in _Proc. Bath
Field Club_, iv. 105.
[196] For _Bristol Entertainment_ cf. ch. xxiv.
[197] Walsingham, _Diary_.
[198] Ibid.
[199] Walsingham, _Diary_.
[200] Some particulars of this winter’s revels appear to be in _S. P.
D. Eliz._ ciii. 54.]
[201] Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 241 (Feb. 2); _P. C._ (Feb. 6).
[202] Lysons, i. 381; Dee, _Compendious Rehearsal_ (ed. Hearne), 516.
[203] _P. C._ (March 21, 23, 25); _Martin’s_, 284.
[204] _C. A._
[205] _Martin’s_, 284.
[206] Hunter, _Hallamshire_, 84.
[207] _C. A._; _P. C._; _P. C. Wales_ (June 13, Aug. 17); _S. P. D._
(Aug. 21; Sept. 4, 12; Oct. 6); _S. P. F._ (July 12, Aug. 29, Sept. 4,
7); _Procl._ 693, 696; _Sp. P._ ii. 492, 498; La Mothe, vi. 437, 442,
444, 487, 495, 498, 502; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 776; _Hatfield MSS._ ii.
99, 107, 108, 112, 116; v. 70; xiii. 142; Walsingham, _Diary_; _Rutland
MSS._ i. 104, 105; _Middleton MSS._ 538; Shaw, ii. 76; _Sydney Papers_,
i. 71; Wright, ii. 11, 16; Devon, i. 119; _Wilts. Arch. Mag._ xviii.
261; _Kenilworth Entertainments_ (cf. ch. xxiv); Nichols, i. 417, 529,
533, from local archives.
[208] For Kenilworth entertainments cf. chh. iv, xxiv.
[209] Warwick’s players were at Lichfield (cf. ch. xiii).
[210] There were pageants by Ralph Wyatt and Thomas Heywood at the
Cross and St. Ellen’s Church, Worcester (Nichols, i. 537).
[211] Cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Lee.
[212] Walsingham, _Diary_.
[213] _C. A._; _Sp. P._ ii. 515.
[214] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.
[215] Walsingham, _Diary_.
[216] Walsingham, _Diary_; Shaw, ii. 77.
[217] _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 134.
[218] _P. C._
[219] _C. A._
[220] Walsingham, _Diary_.
[221] _P. C._ (July 22, 23).
[222] _C. A._, apparently (_Sp. P._ ii. 531) a false start for the
progress.
[223] _C. A._; _P. C._; Walsingham, _Diary_; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 6, 12);
_S. P. F._ (Sept. 6); _Sp. P._ ii. 533; _Procl._ 708; _Syd. P._ i. 392;
_Hatfield MSS._ ii. 133; Kempe, 490; Lodge, _App._ 38, 39; cf. App. B.
[224] Walsingham, _Diary_.
[225] Ibid.
[226] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_; _Martin’s_, 297.
[227] _C. A._
[228] _P. C._ (Apr. 27–29); Walsingham, _Diary_ (May 6);
_Martin’s_, 297 (Apr. 26 in error).
[229] _Martin’s_, 297.
[230] _C. A._; _P. C._ (May 14); Birch, i. 12; Nichols, ii. 55, from
_Birch MS._ 4100; Shaw, ii. 78; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 779; _Hatfield MSS._
v. 70; Walsingham, _Diary_ (May 25).
[231] Wiffen, i. 508.
[232] _C. A._
[233] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.
[234] _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 157.
[235] Ibid.
[236] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.
[237] _P. C._; Walsingham, _Diary_: _Finch MSS._ (Sept. 4); Lodge, ii.
91.
[238] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.
[239] _C. A._
[240] _C. A._; _S. P. F._; Walsingham, _Diary_.
[241] _C. A._
[242] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.
[243] _C. A._ A lost device and play at Osterley by Churchyard (cf. ch.
xxiii) may belong to this visit.
[244] Walsingham, _Diary_; _Fulham_; Nichols, ii. 92.
[245] Walsingham, _Diary_.
[246] _S. P. F._; Walsingham, _Diary_.
[247] _Sp. P._ ii. 576, 581.
[248] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (May 8, 9, 10); _S. P. F._ (May 6, 15);
Walsingham, _Diary_; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 70; _Sp. P._ ii. 582; Lodge,
ii. 99. Sidney’s _May Lady_ entertainment may belong to this Wanstead
visit or to that of 1579 (cf. ch. xxiii). For Italian tumblers in
1577–8, cf. App. B.
[249] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_; _S. P. F._ (May 16).
[250] _C. A._; _P. C._; _Procl._ 724; _S. P. D._ (July 11, 14, 17;
Sept. 2, 21); _Sp. P._ ii. 607, 610; Shaw, ii. 78, 79; Haynes-Murdin,
ii. 780; _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 190, 192; xiii. 160; _Sydney Papers_,
i. 270; Hatton, 93; Lodge, ii. 119; Kempe, 248 (misdated?);
_Archaeologia_, xix. 283; Cullum, _Hawsted_, 130; Hollingsworth,
_Stowmarket_, 128; Nichols, ii. III sqq., from local archives;
_Entertainments_ by Churchyard and Garter (cf. ch. xxiv).
[251] Speeches and verses sent from Cambridge to Audley End are in G.
Harvey, _Gratulationes Valdinenses_ (1578).
[252] A. G. H. Hollingsworth, _Hist. of Stowmarket_ (1844), 128, 130,
says that players from Ipswich under John Corke were employed.
[253] For devices at Kenninghall, Norwich, and Hengrave, cf.
_Entertainments_ by Churchyard and Garter (ch. xxiv). Blomefield,
vii. 214, prints from _Harl. MS._ 890, f. 282, verses given at
Norwich with a pair of golden spurs by William (Edward?) Downes of
Earlham.
[254] Dee, 5; _S. P. D. Addl._ (Sept. 25); _P. C._ (Sept. 26).
[255] _C. A._
[256] _Sp. P._ ii. 627, 630.
[257] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Jan. 20, 22).
[258] _C. A._; _Procl._ 735.
[259] _C. A._
[260] Devereux, i. 170; Lodge, ii. 140, 146, ‘There was never any of
his cote that was able to brag of the like entertainment’.
[261] Lodge, ii. 146, ‘prettier than it happened to be performed’;
_Sp. P._ ii. 655, ‘a grand ball, in which there were comedies and many
inventions’. In the previous August (_Sp. P._ ii. 607) Oxford had
declined a request of the queen to dance before Alençon’s agents, ‘as
he did not want to entertain Frenchmen’.
[262] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 310; _Sp. P._ ii. 669, 679.
[263] _Martin’s_, 310; _Sp. P._ ii. 681.
[264] _Martin’s_, 310; _Lambeth_ (June 2 in error).
[265] _P. C. Wales_, 192; Stowe, _Annales_.
[266] _S. P. F._ xiv. 46, 49; _V. P._ vii. 609, 611, 612, 614; _Sp. P._
ii. 690, 694; _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 293.
[267] _P. C._; Shaw, ii. 79.
[268] _C. A._; _P. C._; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 13, 27); _Sp. P._ ii. 697;
_Hatfield MSS._ (Sept. 17); _Procl._ 740; cf. M. Christy in _Essex
Review_, xxvi. 115, 181. But Nichols, ii. 285, has clearly used _two_
abandoned ‘gests’.
[269] _P. C._ (Oct. 2).
[270] _Martin’s_, 311; _P. C._ (Dec. 21, 23).
[271] _C. A._
[272] _C. A._; _P. C._ (May 26, 29); Lysons, i. 297.
[273] _C. A._
[274] _C. A._; _P. C._ (July 11); Walsingham, _Diary_.
[275] _C. A._
[276] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.
[277] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 340.
[278] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.
[279] Dee, 9.
[280] Dee, 9.
[281] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ cl. 62 (app. misdated 1581).
[282] _Martin’s_, 321; Dee, 10.
[283] _M. S. C._ i. 181; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 199; Nichols, ii. 334,
from Segar; Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 336, noting devices in the ‘meane
season’ between challenge and tilt.
[284] _Martin’s_, 329.
[285] _C. A._; _Sp. P._ iii. 95, 101; Nichols, ii. 303.
[286] _Martin’s_, 329.
[287] _S. P. F._ xv. 82, 115, 144, 202; _Sp. P._ iii. 110, 131; _V.
P._ viii. 2–15; Walsingham, _Diary_; Wright, ii. 134; _Remembrancia_,
487. On Apr. 6 the Queen was only thinking ‘whether there are any new
devices in the joust, or where a ball is to be held, or what beautiful
women are to be at court’ (_Sp. P._ iii. 91).
[288] Cf. chh. iv, xxiv.
[289] Walsingham, _Diary_.
[290] _Sp. P._ iii. 141, 144.
[291] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.
[292] _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 200; _Rutland MSS._ i. 127.
[293] _C. A._
[294] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_; _Rutland MSS._ i.
127.
[295] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 201.
[296] Walsingham, _Diary_.
[297] _S. P. F._ xv. 357; _Sp. P._ iii. 203; _V. P._
viii. 21.
[298] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_; Dee, 13; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 201.
[299] _Sp. P._ iii. 222; Clephan, 132, from _Bodl. Ashm. MS._ 845, ff.
164, 167; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 201.
[300] _S. P. F._ xv. 442, 453, 473, and _V. P._ viii. 26, note the
princely entertainment of Anjou.
[301] Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 344 (table); Nichols, ii. 336, from Segar.
[302] _C. A._
[303] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Feb. 1); Holinshed, iii. 1330; Walsingham,
_Diary_; _Sp. P._ iii. 280, 282; _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 500; _S. P.
F._ xv. 444 (misdated), 484, 485; _V. P._ viii. 29. Apparently the
Sandwich and Dover stages are for Anjou only, and Elizabeth remained at
Canterbury Feb. 5–13.
[304] Walsingham, _Diary_; _P. C._ (Feb. 18).
[305] _Hatfield MSS._ v. 70; _S. P. D._ clv. 54; 3 Ellis, iv.
43; cf. ch. vii.
[306] _C. A._
[307] _C. A._
[308] _Sp. P._ iii. 375.
[309] _Rutland MSS._ i. 136; Shaw (May 22).
[310] _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 203; Hatton, 255; Lysons, i. 297.
[311] _C. A._
[312] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 12, 17).
[313] _C. A._
[314] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.
[315] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.
[316] _C. A._
[317] _C. A._; _S. P. D. Addl._ (Jan. 12); Peck, 131 (Jan.
18).
[318] Walsingham, _Diary_; Dee, 18; _Lambeth_.
[319] _C. A._
[320] Lodge, app. 46; _Rutland MSS._ i. 149.
[321] _C. A._; Dee, 20; _Lambeth_.
[322] _Sp. P._ iii. 474.
[323] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 70; xiii. 229; _Rutland MSS._ i. 150,
151; Birch, i. 37.
[324] _C. A._
[325] _C. A._; _S. P. I._ (July 29, 30); _Martin’s_, 349; _Margaret’s_;
Dee, 21; _Finch MSS._; Hatton, 346.
[326] _C. A._; Kempe, 269; _Sussex Arch. Colls._ v. 193; _S. P. D._
clxi. 15.
[327] _C. A._
[328] _C. A._
[329] _Martin’s_, 349; _Margaret’s_; _S. P. I._ (Oct.
14).
[330] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 349; _Remembrancia_, 407, ‘for her private
recreation, to take the air abroad’.
[331] _Martin’s_, 350.
[332] Duke of Norfolk, _Life of Philip Earl of Arundel_, 22.
[333] Shaw, ii. 82.
[334] _S. P. F._ (Apr. 20); Peck, 149 (May 2).
[335] _C. A._; _S. P. D._; Shaw; _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 35.
[336] _S. P. F._ (July 17); Hatton, 382 (July 21).
[337] _C. A._; Hatton, 388; Peck, 154.
[338] _C. A._
[339] _C. A._; Lodge, ii. 246.
[340] _Sc. P._ (Oct. 6); _S. P. D._ (Oct. 10).
[341] _C. A._; _S. P. F._ xix. 92 (misdated Oct. 5?).
[342] _C. A._; Stowe, _Annales_.
[343] 2 _R. Hist. Soc. Trans._ ix. 258.
[344] Ibid. 262; Clephan, 171, from _Bodl. Ashm. MS._ 845, f. 168.
[345] _C. A._; Duke of Norfolk, _Life of Earl of Arundel_, 193, puts
this or another visit after the Earl’s committal to the Tower on 25
Apr. 1585.
[346] Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 365.
[347] Ibid.; _Martin’s_, 371; _S. P. I._ (Feb. 8); _S. P. F._ (Feb. 12).
[348] _Hatfield MSS._ vi. 556.
[349] _C. A._
[350] _Margaret’s_; Stowe, _Annales_ (March 29).
[351] _C. A._; Hatton, 416.
[352] _C. A._
[353] Hatton, 426.
[354] _C. A._; Shaw, ii. 83; Nichols, ii. 427.
[355] Cf. ch. xxiii (Lee).
[356] _Lambeth._
[357] Hatton, 406 (July 20); _S. P. D._ (July 24).
[358] Lysons, i. 297.
[359] _C. A._; _S. P. F._ (Aug. 25).
[360] _C. A._
[361] _Sc. P._ (Sept. 26); Nichols, ii. 440 (Oct. 1).
[362] _C. A._; _Rutland MSS._ i. 183; _Margaret’s_.
[363] _Martin’s_, 374; _Lambeth_.
[364] _Lambeth._
[365] _Lambeth._
[366] _C. A._; _P. C._ (July 10); _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 178; _Rutland
MSS._ i. 199.
[367] _C. A._
[368] _C. A._; Nichols, ii. 460, from speech of Mayor of Windsor.
[369] _C. A._
[370] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 182.
[371] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 386; _Lambeth_.
[372] Nichols, ii. 529, from private MS.
[373] _C. A._; Dasent, xv. 59, 64; _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 249.
[374] _P. C._ (May 2).
[375] _C. A._
[376] _C. A._; _Rutland MSS._ i. 215 (May 25); _P. C._
(May 29).
[377] _C. A._; _P. C._; _S. P. D._ (July 16, 18); _Rutland MSS._ i.
222; _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 270; v. 71; Devon, i. 187; Goodman, ii. 1.
[378] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Aug. 20).
[379] _P. C._ (Sept. 19, 24).
[380] _Martin’s_, 397; _Margaret’s_; _Lambeth_; Gawdy, 18.
[381] Gawdy, 25; Shaw.
[382] Gawdy, 25.
[383] _Foljambe MSS._ 28; Gawdy, 25, 29; _Sc. P._ (Dec. 2).
[384] _Rutland MSS._ i. 232; _Hist. MSS._ vii. 520.
[385] _Rutland MSS._ i. 234.
[386] _C. A._; _Margaret’s_; _Lambeth_; _Rutland MSS._ i. 236, 237.
[387] Cf. ch. xxiii (Churchyard).
[388] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Apr. 12, 16); Wright, ii. 370.
[389] _C. A._; Gawdy, 35.
[390] _C. A._; _P. C._ (July 7, 8); _Margaret’s_;
_Lambeth_.
[391] _C. A._; _P. C._ (July 28, 29); _Rutland MSS._ i. 253; _Lambeth_;
_Margaret’s_.
[392] _C. A._; Wright, ii. 387, 389; _Margaret’s_; _Lambeth_; M.
Christy in _E. H. R._ xxxiv. 43, quoting J. Aske, _Elizabetha
Triumphans_, and T. Deloney, _The Queen’s Visiting of the Camp at
Tilbury_ (cf. ch. xxiv).
[393] _Sp. P._ iv. 419.
[394] Ibid.
[395] _P. C._ (Oct. 26); _S. P. D._ (Oct. 23, 26);
_Margaret’s_ (Oct. 15 in error).
[396] _Sp. P._ iv. 487 (Nov. 8); Arber, ii. 506; Nichols, ii. 544.
[397] _P. C._ (Nov. 17).
[398] _Sp. P._ iv. 494; Arber, ii. 508.
[399] _C. A._; Stowe, _Annales_; _Sp. P._ iv. 494;
Arber, ii. 508.
[400] _Martin’s_, 407; _P. C._ (Dec. 1).
[401] _Sp. P._ iv. 504; _S. P. D._ (Dec. 19); _Margaret’s_.
[402] _C. A._
[403] Stowe, _Annales_; _Martin’s_, 411; Arber, v. lxxvii.
[404] _Martin’s_, 411; _Margaret’s_; _Lambeth_; _Fulham_; Lodge,
ii. 368, 375, ‘whilst she is there may be moved to her but matter
of delight and to content her, which is the only cause of her going
thither’.
[405] _Margaret’s._
[406] _C. A._; Lodge, ii. 379; _Margaret’s_.
[407] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Aug. 10); _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 427; xiii. 416
(Aug. 10, 16).
[408] _C. A._
[409] Dasent, xviii. 329 (Sept. 26); _Rutland MSS._ i. 276 (Sept. 27).
[410] Cf. ch. v.
[411] _Martin’s_, 413; _Margaret’s_.
[412] _C. A._
[413] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 414; _Margaret’s_.
[414] _Martin’s_, 422; _P. C._ (Jan. 25).
[415] _Martin’s_, 422.
[416] _C. A._; _P. C._; _Procl._ 825; _Margaret’s_; _Martin’s_; Lodge,
app. 83.
[417] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 52 (July 28); _P. C._ (Aug. 6).
[418] _C. A._
[419] _S. P. D._ (Aug. 30); _P. C._ (Aug. 31); _Rutland
MSS._ i. 283; Lodge, app. 83.
[420] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Sept. 6).
[421] _C. A._
[422] _C. A._; Dasent, xx. 71, 75 (Nov. 8, 15); Lodge, ii. 422.
[423] Lodge, ii. 419; cf. ch. xxiii (Lee).
[424] _C. A._
[425] Lodge, ii. 419 (Nov. 20), ‘secretly, as she thought’, to meet the
French ambassador, Viscount Turenne.
[426] Lodge, ii. 420; _P. C._ (Nov. 22); Dee, 36 (Nov. 20 in error).
[427] Dee, 37.
[428] _Syd. P._ i. 317; _Martin’s_, 430; _Margaret’s_.
[429] _C. A._; _P. C._; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 796; _Hatfield MSS._ iv.
108, 115; v. 71; _Rutland MSS._ i. 291; Wright, ii. 412.
[430] Lodge, app. 68. Probably she did not go, as the letter refers to
a plot to murder her there.
[431] _Hatfield MSS._ v. 71; Burghley, _Diary_.
[432] _C. A._; _P. C._; Burghley, _Diary_; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 71; iv.
136; vi. 238; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 1, 2, 5, 31); Rymer, xvi. 109, 116–23;
Kempe, 270, 305; G. C. Williamson, _Earl of Cumberland_, 77; _Procl._
836; Nichols, iii. 96, 99; cf. W. D. Cooper in _Sussex Arch. Colls._ v.
176, 196, with some doubtful localities.
[433] For _Cowdray Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiv.
[434] For _Elvetham Entertainment_, cf. chh. iv, xxiv.
[435] Burghley, _Diary_.
[436] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 144 (Oct. 4); _P. C._ (Oct. 7).
[437] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Nov. 15); Burghley, _Diary_.
[438] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Nov. 20).
[439] _C. A._; G. C. Williamson, _George Earl of Cumberland_, 108.
[440] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 187; xiii. 465; _P. C._ (Apr. 12,
15, 16); _Margaret’s_.
[441] _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 465.
[442] _Lambeth._
[443] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 220.
[444] _C. A._; _P. C._; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 224, 226, 227; xiii. 466;
_S. P. D._ (Aug. 13, Sept. 6); _Procl._ 851–3; Shaw; Lodge, app. 69,
70; Birch, i. 79; _Rutland MSS._ i. 302; Rye, 11–14; _Finch MSS._
(Sept. 15); Nichols, _Illustrations_, 135; Plummer, _Elizabethan
Oxford_, 249, 261; Boas, 252.
[445] For _Bisham Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiv.
[446] For a possible entertainment at Ramsbury, cf. ch. xxiii (Mary
Herbert).
[447] For _Sudeley Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiv.
[448] For _Woodstock_ (or _Ditchley_) _Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiii,
s.v. Lee.
[449] For Oxford plays, cf. ch. iv.
[450] For _Rycote Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiv.
[451] _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 466.
[452] Gawdy, 67.
[453] _C. A._
[454] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 451.
[455] _Martin’s_, 451; _P. C._ (Feb. 7, 8, 11, 12, 14); Dee,
43.
[456] _Martin’s_, 451.
[457] Ibid.
[458] Gawdy, 67.
[459] _Martin’s_, 452.
[460] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 452; _P. C._ (May 6, 13, 14); _S. P. D._
(May 9); _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 309 (May 5).
[461] _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 319 (May 22).
[462] _C. A._; _Procl._ 861; _P. C._ (June 24).
[463] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Aug. 1, 4).
[464] _C. A._
[465] Carey, _Memoirs_, 32; Clephan, 133, from _Bodl. Ashm. MS._
1109, f. 154^v; Arber, ii. 640; G. C. Williamson, _George Earl of
Cumberland_, 121.
[466] _C. A._; Birch, i. 137.
[467] Birch, i. 146. ‘Mr. [Anthony] Standen was at the play and dancing
on twelfth-night, which lasted till one after midnight, more by
constraint than by choice, the earl of Essex having committed to him
the placing and entertaining of certain Germans. The queen appeared
there in a high throne, richly adorned, and “as beautiful”, says he,
“to my old sight, as ever I saw her; and next to her chair the earl,
with whom she often devised in sweet and favourable manner”.’
[468] _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 506; _Martin’s_, 462.
[469] _C. A._; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 804; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 539, 552,
558; v. 71; _Martin’s_; Dee, 49; _Rutland MSS._ i. 320; Wright, ii.
433; J. H. Lloyd, _Highgate_, 225, from _Frere MS._ (misdated 1593);
Gawdy, 85.
[470] _Hatfield MSS._ v. 71; xiii. 507; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 804.
[471] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 1; xiii. 508.
[472] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Oct. 31); _Sc. P._ (Oct. 25).
[473] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 19; _Martin’s_ (misdated Oct.).
[474] _C. A._; Arber, ii. 664.
[475] _Martin’s_, 465; _Rutland MSS._ i. 324.
[476] Dee, 51.
[477] _C. A._; _S. P. I._ (Dec. 8).
[478] _Martin’s_, 465.
[479] _C. A._; Stowe, _Annales_.
[480] _Martin’s_, 471; cf. my paper on _The Occasion of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream_ in _Sh. Homage_, 154. I there thought that the wedding
must have been at Burghley House, but I now find that _C. A._ confirms
Stowe in placing it at Greenwich, and must suppose that, after the
ceremony, Elizabeth accompanied the bridal pair to Burghley House. If
_M. N. D._ was produced, it may have been at either place.
[481] _C. A._; Nichols, iii. 38; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 121.
[482] _C. A._; _Rutland MSS._ i. 326; _Hatfield MSS._ v.
135, 138.
[483] Cf. ch. xxiv.
[484] _C. A._; _Gesta Grayorum_, 68.
[485] _Martin’s_, 472.
[486] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ i. 344; Lodge, app. 78; _Martin’s_, 472.
[487] _C. A._
[488] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Oct. 19); Birch, i. 311.
[489] _Syd. P._ i. 357.
[490] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ i. 365 (misdated Nov. 25 for 15); _Martin’s_,
473.
[491] _C. A._
[492] _Syd. P._ i. 366, 369, 371; _Martin’s_, 473.
[493] _Syd. P._ i. 376.
[494] _Syd. P._ i. 380; _Martin’s_, 474.
[495] _Syd. P._ i. 382.
[496] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Dec. 28); _Syd. P._ i. 384; _Martin’s_, 474.
[497] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 483; _P. C._ (Apr. 4).
[498] _Martin’s_, 483.
[499] _C. A._
[500] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 5, 6; _Martin’s_, 488; _Margaret’s_.
[501] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ vi. 425; Birch, ii. 173 (Oct. 13).
[502] _C. A._; Wright, ii. 465.
[503] _C. A._; cf. ch. xxiii (Bacon).
[504] _Martin’s_, 488.
[505] _Syd. P._ ii. 17; _Fulham_.
[506] Lysons, i. 297.
[507] _Martin’s_, 496.
[508] _C. A._; Wright, ii. 477 (July 20); _Hatfield MSS._ vii. 306
(July 22).
[509] _C. A._; _P. C._; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 13); _Hatfield MSS._ vii.
361, 370, 378; _Rutland MSS._ i. 342, 343; iv. 209; Stowe, _Annales_;
Stiffkey, 141; Carey, _Memoirs_, 51; 1 Ellis, ii. 274.
[510] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Sept. 21).
[511] _P. C._; _Martin’s_, 497.
[512] _C. A._
[513] Cf. ch. v.
[514] _Martin’s_, 514; _Rutland MSS._ i. 345 (May 1).
[515] _Martin’s_, 515.
[516] _C. A._
[517] _C. A._
[518] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Sept. 13); Chamberlain, 19; Lysons,
i. 257.
[519] _C. A._
[520] _C. A._; Chamberlain, 20.
[521] _C. A._; Stowe, _Annales_; _Martin’s_, 516; Chamberlain, 29.
[522] Chamberlain, 29.
[523] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 522; _Rutland MSS._ i. 351.
[524] _Martin’s_, 523; _P. C._ (Apr. 2, 3, 4).
[525] Henslowe, i. 104.
[526] Chamberlain, 52; Nichols, iii. 467.
[527] _C. A._
[528] _C. A._; Chamberlain, 57; _Lambeth_.
[529] Chamberlain, 57.
[530] _Syd. P._ ii. 118.
[531] _Procl._ 903.
[532] _S. P. D._; _Syd. P._ ii. 119.
[533] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 129, 130.
[534] _C. A._
[535] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 141; _Martin’s_, 525; _Margaret’s_; Stowe,
_Annales_.
[536] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 142.
[537] Devereux, ii. 92.
[538] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 149; Winwood, i. 137;
_Martin’s_, 525.
[539] _Syd. P._ ii. 155 (Jan. 5): ‘Her Majestie is in very good health,
and comes much abroad these holidayes; for almost every night she is in
the presence, to see the ladies dawnce the old and new country dawnces,
with the taber and pipe.’
[540] _Syd. P._ ii. 161.
[541] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Apr. 13, 20).
[542] _Hatfield MSS._ x. 139 (May 5), ‘The Queen would fain hear the
French gentleman sing and play who is so much commended, and saith if
she had been put in mind or could yet tell how to do it, she would
see the gentleman who danced on the rope and is so cunning in those
voltiges’; _Syd. P._ ii. 194 (May 12), ‘Her Maiestie is very well; this
day she appointes to see a Frenchman doe feates upon a rope in the
Conduit court. To morrow she hath comanded the beares, the bull, and
the ape, to be baited in the tilt-yard. Upon Wednesday she will have
solemn dawncing.’ On Peter Bromvill, cf. App. D, No. cxxiii.