1574
Jan. 1. =Westminster= (Truth, Faithfulness, and Mercy). Mask (Foresters and Wild Men).
Jan. 3. =Clinton’s= (Herpetulus the Blue Knight and Perobia).
Jan. 6. =Windsor Chapel= (Quintus Fabius). Mask (Sages).
Jan. 12. Hampton Court.[189]
Feb. 2. =Merchant Taylors= (Timoclea at the Siege of Thebes by Alexander). Mask (Virtues) not shown.
Feb. 18–20. Visits to Earl of Lincoln and to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham).[190]
Feb. 21–23 (S.). Queen entertained privately by neighbours.[191]
Feb. 21. =Leicester’s= (Philemon and Philecia).
Feb. 23. =Merchant Taylors= (Perseus and Andromeda). Masks (Warriors and Ladies).
March 2–3. Greenwich, by Lambeth (Abp. Parker).[192]
June 30. Richmond, by Merton Abbey (Gregory? Lovell).[193]
July 7. Windsor, by Stanwell and Colnbrook.[194]
July 11 < > 13. =Italians.=
July 15–Sept. 25. Progress in Berks., Oxon., Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wilts., Hants, and Surrey.[195] Binfield, Reading (July 15–23) with play (July 15) by =Italians=, Caversham or Rotherfield Greys (Sir Francis Knollys, July 23), Ewelme (July 23–24), Holton (Christopher Browne, July 24), Woodstock (July 24–Aug. 2), Langley (Sir Edward Unton, Aug. 2–3), Burford (Aug. 3), Sherborne (Thomas Dutton, Aug. 3–4), Sudeley Castle (Lady Chandos, Aug. 4, 5), Boddington (Mr. Denne), Gloucester (Aug. 10) with visit to Churcham?, Frocester (George Huntley, Aug. 10–11), Iron Acton (Sir Nicholas Pointz), Berkeley Castle (Lord Berkeley, Aug. 11–12), Berkeley Hearne?, Bristol St. Lawrence, Bristol (Sir John Young, Aug. 14–21),[196] Keynsham (Henry? Brydges, Aug. 21), Morecroft (Stokes Croft?, Aug. 21), Bath (Aug. 21–23), Hazelbury (John Bonham, Aug. 23), Lacock (Sir Henry Sherington, Aug. 23–28), Erlestoke (William Brouncker, Aug. 28–31), Heytesbury (Mr. Hawker, Aug. 31–Sept. 3) with visit to Longleat (Sir John Thynne, Sept. 2), Wylye? (Lady Mervyn, Sept. 3), Wilton (Earl of Pembroke, Sept. 3–6) with visit to Clarendon Park, Salisbury (Bp.’s, Sept. 6–9) with visit to Amesbury, Winterslow (Giles Thistlethwaite?, Sept. 9), Mottisfont (Lord Sandys, Sept. 9–10), Somborne (Henry? Gifford, Sept. 10), Winchester (Sept. 10–13), Abbotstone (Marquis of Winchester, Sept. 13), Alresford, Herriard (George Puttenham), Odiham (Sept. 14–16), Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Sept. 15, 19), Bagshot (Sept. 24–25).
Sept. 25. Oatlands.[197]
Oct. 1. Hampton Court.[198]
Oct. 19–22. Visit to Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel).[199]
Christmas. Phedrastus and Phigon and Lucia rehearsed by =Sussex’s=, Three masks this winter (Pilgrims, Mariners. Hobby-horses).[200]
Dec. 26. =Leicester’s=, with boys.
Dec. 27. =Clinton’s= (Pretestus?).