1606
Jan. 1. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 4. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 5. Mask (Hymenaei) for wedding of Essex and Frances Howard.
Jan. 6. Barriers, with speeches (Truth and Opinion) by Jonson.
March 3 (S.M.). =Prince’s.=
March 4. =Prince’s.=
March 22. Rumoured assassination of James on visit to Woking.[657]
March 24. Tilt.[658]
March 28. Visit incognito to Guildhall for trial of Henry Garnet.[659]
May 16. Greenwich.[660]
June 1. Challenge for tilt by Knights of the Fortunate Island, or the Lucent Pillar.[661]
June 22–23. Birth and death of Princess Sophia.
July c. 15–17. Visits to Oatlands and Farnham.[662]
July 17–Aug. 11. Visit of Christian IV of Denmark.[663] Plays (two) by =King’s= at Greenwich.
July 18. Kings meet at Tilbury.
July 18–24. Greenwich.
July 24–28. Visit to Theobalds (Earl of Salisbury), by Blackwall and Stratford. Mask (Solomon and Queen of Sheba).[664]
July 24. Entertainment by Jonson.
July 28–31. Greenwich.
July 30. =Paul’s= (Abuses).[665]
July 31. Triumph through London to Somerset House, with pageants at Great Conduit (Bower of the Muses), Little Conduit (Concord), and Fleet Conduit (Pastoral).
Aug. 1–2. Whitehall.
Aug. 2–6. Greenwich.
Aug. 4. Ringing.
Aug. 5. Tilt.
Aug. 6. Masters of defence.
Aug. 6. Visit to Richmond.
Aug. 7. Visit to Hampton Court, with play by =King’s=.
Aug. 7–8. Visit to Windsor.
Aug. 8–9. Greenwich.
Aug. 9–11. Rochester (Bp. William Barlow).
Aug. 10. Dinner on Elizabeth James near Chatham.
Aug. 11. Farewell on Admiral of Denmark at Gravesend, with fireworks,
c. Aug. 17. Hampton Court.[666]
Aug. Progress, including Farnham (Aug. 23–24, Bp. of Winchester) and Beaulieu (Aug. 30, Earl of Southampton).[667]
Sept. 11–c. 18. Visit to Windsor.[668]
Oct. 20 < > Nov. 1. Whitehall.[669]
Dec. 26. =King’s= (King Lear).
Dec. 28. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 29. =King’s=.