1579
Jan. 1. =Paul’s= (Marriage of Mind and Measure).
Jan. 4. =Leicester’s= (A Greek Maid).
Jan. 6. =Sussex’s= (Rape of the Second Helen).
Jan. 11. Mask (Amazons and Knights) and barriers, for Alençon’s agent, M. de Simier.[256]
Jan. 22 < > 25. Whitehall, by Chelsea.[257]
c. Jan. 31. Visit to Hampton Court, by Putney (John Lacy).[258]
c. Jan.-Feb. Visit to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester).[259]
Feb. 1–2. Tilt and barriers for John Casimir, son of Elector Palatine.[260] Play by =Warwick’s= ready, but not shown.
March 1 (S.S.). =Warwick’s= (Knight in the Burning Rock).
March 2. =Chapel= (Loyalty and Beauty).
March 3. =Sussex’s= (Murderous Michael). Device by Earls of Oxford and Surrey, Lord Thomas Howard, and Lord Windsor before French ambassador and De Simier. Morris mask prepared, but not danced.[261]
Apr. 28 or 29–May 2. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester), by Greenwich.[262]
June 24–26. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[263]
July 2. Greenwich, by Lambeth.[264]
July 15–17. Visits to Gravesend and Deptford.[265]
Aug. 17–29. Private visit of Duke of Alençon to England.[266]
c. Aug. 30–31. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[267]
Sept. 9–27 < > Oct. 2. Progress in Essex.[268] Stratford at Bow (Richard? Young, Sept. 9), Havering (Sept. 11–14), Ingatestone (Lady Petre), New Hall in Boreham (Earl of Sussex, Sept. 17, 18), Moulsham (Sir Thomas Mildmay), Thoby (Anthony? Berners), Brentwood (John? Searle), Giddy Hall in Romford (Richard Cooke, Sept. 25–7), Ilford (Thomas Fanshawe, at St. Mary’s Hospital?).
Sept. 27 < > Oct. 2. Greenwich.[269]
Dec. 22. Whitehall.[270]
Dec. 26. =Sussex’s= (Duke of Milan and Marquis of Mantua).
Dec. 27. =Chapel= (Alucius).
Dec. 28. Play by =Leicester’s= ready, but not shown.