1609
Jan. 1. =Children of Blackfriars= (Middleton’s Trick to catch the Old One).
Jan. 4. =Children of Blackfriars.=
Feb. 2. Queen’s mask (Mask of Queens).
Feb. 28 (S.T.). Ringing.[689]
March 24. Tilt.[690]
Apr. 11. Visit to Durham House for opening of Britain’s Burse.[691]
Apr. 18. Baiting.[692]
May 6 < > 15. Greenwich.[693]
June 23. Lion baiting in Tower.[694]
July 6. Whitehall.[695]
July 22. Windsor.[696]
July 23–Aug. 20 < > 31. Progress in Surrey, Hants, Wilts., Dorset.[697] Farnham (Bp. of Winchester, July 23–26), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, July 26), Beaulieu (Earl of Southampton, Aug. 3–7), Salisbury (Aug. 15, 20), Cranborne (Aug. 17–19), Tarrant.
Aug. 20 < > 31. Windsor.[698]
Sept. 1 < > 7. Hampton Court.[699]
Oct. 30. Whitehall.[700]
Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (thirteen) and =Children of Whitefriars= (five).
Dec. 26. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 27. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 28. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 31. Challenge for barriers by Henry as Meliadus.