1571
Jan. 6. Challenge for jousting.
Jan. 14 < > 19. Somerset House.[149]
Jan. 23. Visit to Bishopsgate (Sir Thomas Gresham) to open Royal Exchange.[150]
Jan. 20 < > 29. Whitehall.[151]
Feb. 25–27 (S.). =Chapel=, =Windsor Chapel=, and =Paul’s=.
March 2. Greenwich.[152]
March 31 < > Apr. 2. Whitehall.[153]
Apr. 20. Visit to St. George’s Fields.[154]
Apr. 29. Queen at wedding of Marquis of Northampton and Helena von Snavenberg or Snachenberg.[155]
May 1–3. Tilt, tourney, barriers.[156]
June 7, 8. Visit to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham).[157]
c. Apr.-July. Two visits to Bermondsey (Earl of Sussex).[158]
July 7 < > 8. Hampton Court.[159]
July-Aug. Visits to Horsley (Earl of Lincoln), Oatlands, Byfleet.[160]
Aug. 8 < > 12–Sept. 22. Progress in Middlesex, Herts., and Essex.[161] Gunnersbury, Hendon (Edward Herbert), Hatfield (Aug. 15–21), Knebworth (Rowland Lytton), Brent Pelham (Lord Morley, Aug. 26), Saffron Walden, Audley End (Duke of Norfolk, Aug. 29–Sept. 3), Horham Hall in Thaxted (Sir John Cutts, Sept. 5) with hunt in Henham Park, Lees (Lord Rich, Sept. 7, 8), Rookwood Hall in Roding Abbess (Wiston Browne), Mark Hall in Latton (James Altham, Sept. 13, 14, 17), Stanstead Abbots (Edward Bashe, Sept. 20), Theobalds (Lord Burghley, Sept. 22), Hadley (Lady Stamford), Harrow (William Wightman).
Sept. 22. St. James’s.[162]
Sept. 26. Richmond.[163]
Oct. 23 < > 28. Greenwich.[164]
Dec. 12. Whitehall.[165]
Dec. 16 < > 23. Wedding of Earl of Oxford and Anne Cecil.[166]
Dec. 23. Wedding of Edward Somerset (Lord Herbert) and Elizabeth Hastings.[167]
Christmas. The Revels prepared six masks this winter.
Dec. 27. =Lane’s= (Lady Barbara).
Dec. 28. =Paul’s= (Iphigeneia).