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Jan. 1. =King’s= (two plays, one of Robin Goodfellow, Midsummer Night’s Dream?). Mask (Indian and Chinese Knights).[620]
Jan. 2. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 4. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 6. Mask.
Jan. 8. Queen’s mask (The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses).
Jan. 13. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 15. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 21. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 22. =Prince’s.=
Jan. Tilt.[621]
Feb. 2. =King’s.=
Feb. 13. Whitehall.[622]
Feb. 19 (S.S.). =King’s.=
Feb. 20. =Prince’s= and =Paul’s= (Middleton’s Phoenix?).[623]
Feb. 21. =Queen’s Revels.=
March 12. Tower.[624]
March 13. Lion baiting.[625]
March 15. Entry through London with pageants to Whitehall.[626]
March 29. Tilt.[627]
May 1. Visit to Highgate (Sir William Cornwallis) with Jonson’s Penates.[628]
May 30 < > June 2. Greenwich.[629]
June 16. Visit to Ruckholt in Leyton (Michael Hicks).[630]
July 3 or 4. Whitehall.[631]
July 12–21. Visits to Oatlands (July 14–16) and Windsor (July 18, 21).[632]
July 24–Aug. 14. Progress in Herts., Hunts., and Beds., broken by Spanish visit.[633] Theobalds (Lord Cecil, July 24–29), Somersham (Sir John Cutts, > Aug. 2), Bletsoe (Lord St. John, Aug. 5–14).
Aug. 10. Arrival of Fernandez de Velasco, Constable of Castile, and other Spanish and Flemish commissioners at Somerset House.
Aug. 14. Whitehall.[634]
Aug. 19. Signature of treaty and dinner to commissioners at Whitehall, with baiting and activities.[635]
Aug. 25. Departure of Constable of Castile.
Aug. 20–Sept. 6 < > 15. Progress resumed in Herts. and Oxon.[636] Ware (Aug. 20), Woodstock (Sept. 6), Langley.
Sept. 6 < > 15. Windsor.[637]
Sept. 21. Visit to Eton College.[638]
Sept. 22. Hampton Court.[639]
Oct. 1–6. Visit to Windsor and Easton Neston (Sir George Fermor) to meet Charles.[640]
Oct. 16. Whitehall.[641]
Nov. 1. =King’s= (Othello).
Nov. 4. =King’s= (Merry Wives of Windsor).
Nov. 23. =Prince’s.=
Nov. 24. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 14. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 19. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 26. =King’s= (Measure for Measure).
Dec. 27. Mask for wedding of Sir Philip Herbert and Lady Susan Vere.
Dec. 28. =King’s= (Comedy of Errors).
Dec. 30. =Queen’s= (How to Learn of a Woman to Woo).