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[1] P. C. (Nov. 22, 24); Machyn, 179; Lettenhove, i. 300.
[2] Machyn, 180; Burghley, Diary.
[3] P. C. (Dec. 4, 5); Machyn, 180; Stowe, Annales.
[4] P. C. (Dec. 22, 23); V. P. vii. 2.
[5] Cf. ch. v.
[6] P. C. (Jan. 14); V. P. vii. 11; Machyn, 186; Stowe, Annales.
[7] Machyn, 186; Stowe, Annales; cf. ch. xxiv.
[8] Machyn, 186; Nichols, i. 60; from Bodl. Ashm. MS., 863; V. P., vii. 11.
[9] Machyn, 187; V. P. vii. 18.
[10] Machyn, 191.
[11] S. P. D.
[12] Machyn, 196; V. P. vii. 80.
[13] Machyn, 196.
[14] V. P. vii. 84; Lettenhove, i. 522.
[15] Machyn, 198; V. P. vii. 91; cf. chh. i, v.
[16] Machyn, 198.
[17] Sp. P. i. 79.
[18] Machyn, 201.
[19] Machyn, 202.
[20] C. A.; Machyn, 203.
[21] Machyn, 203.
[22] C. A.; S. P. F.; Sc. P. (July 28, Aug. 7); Sadler Papers (Aug. 8); Burghley, Diary; Machyn, 204, 206.
[23] Procl. 513; Machyn, 206.
[24] C. A.; Procl. 514; S. P. F. (Aug. 16; S. P. D. (Aug. 23); Machyn, 207 (app. Aug. 15 in error); Nichols, i. 75; Feuillerat, Eliz. 105. Quadra (Aug. 18, C. D. I. lxxxvii. 231), ‘Los Embajadores de Suecia se van muy quejosos y agraviados porque creo que ha llegado á su noticia que burlaban en Palacio dellos, y la Reina mejor que los demás’ hardly bears out the interpretation of M. A. S. Hume, Courtships of Elizabeth, 32, that the ridicule was in a mask.
[25] Sp. P. i. 98; Sadler Papers, i. 462.
[26] Machyn, 216.
[27] Machyn, 221, ‘the plaers plad suche matter that they wher commondyd to leyff off, and contenent the maske cam in dansyng’.
[28] Machyn, 221.
[29] Machyn, 230.
[30] Machyn, 231.
[31] C. A.; Machyn, 232.
[32] Machyn, 233.
[33] Machyn, 234; Lodge1, i. 313.
[34] Procl. 525.
[35] C. A.
[36] Machyn, 241; Parker, 120; Sc. P. i. 459.
[37] Machyn, 241; Sc. P. i. 459.
[38] C. A.; S. P. D. (Aug. 23, 27); S. P. F. (Aug. 22, 27, 28); Sc. P. i. 475; Machyn, 241; Wright, i. 43; Hatfield MSS. xiii. 50, 142; Howard, 215; V. H. Hants, iii. 531.
[39] S. P. D. Addl.; Lodge, i. 423.
[40] Procl. 529; S. P. F. (Sept. 30).
[41] C. A.
[42] S. P. F. (Nov. 10, 25).
[43] C. A.; Hardwicke Papers, i. 163; Hatfield MSS. xiii. 62.
[44] C. A.
[45] Christopher Playter to Mr. Kytson (J. Gage, Hist. of Hengrave, 180), ‘at the corte new plays, which lasted almost all night—the name of the play was huff-suff-and ruff, with other masks, both of ladies and gents’. The only date is ‘21 Feb.’, but the year can be fixed by references in the letter to the masters of fence at court, and to Procl. 538 and 541 of this winter.
[46] Machyn, 251.
[47] Machyn, 250.
[48] S. P. F. (Apr. 26, 29).
[49] Machyn, 261; Sp. P. i. 208.
[50] Nichols, i. 92, from Cofferer’s Account in Cott. MS. Vesp. C. xiv; C. A.; Works Account in Lansd. MS., 5; S. P. D. (Aug. 9, 11); S. P. F. (July 15, 21; Aug. 16, 17, 27; Sept. 10, 17); Sc. P. (July 13; Aug. 16; Sept. 3, 17); Procl. 547–50; Rymer (July 27); Machyn, 263, 267; Parker (Aug. 9, 12, 22); Wright, i. 67, 68, 69, 71; Hardwicke, i. 174; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 752; Hatfield MSS. v. 69; cf. M. Christy in Essex Review, xxvi. 115, 181.
[51] Fleay, 62, suggests a revival of Bale’s Kinge Johan, the MS. of which was found at Ipswich.
[52] Machyn, 267; Nichols, i. 103.
[53] Machyn, 270; Brantôme, i. 312; cf. ch. v.
[54] Parker, 156; Wallace, ii. 65.
[55] Machyn, 273.
[56] Machyn, 275.
[57] Machyn, 276. The word ‘played’, after ‘Sesar’, appears to be in a modern hand; cf. Wallace, i. 200.
[58] Machyn, 276.
[59] Machyn, 277.
[60] Sp. P. i. 243; Machyn, 284. Dasent, vii. 238, has a reference to this as ‘a tyme of progresse begonne’, but there was no real progress; cf. Somers to Throckmorton (Aug. 29, S. P. F. v. 269), ‘The Queen has all this summer kept herself here, without accustomed progress or hunting pleasures, to attend to that whereof she shall have honour’. On the unrealized plans for a meeting with Mary of Scots and the mask devised, cf. ch. v.
[61] C. A.; S. P. D. (Sept. 16); S. P. F. (Sept. 19).
[62] C. A.
[63] Machyn, 295.
[64] S. P. D. Addl. (Dec. 14); S. P. F. (Dec. 14); Procl. 572.
[65] Machyn, 309.
[66] C. A.; Procl. 578, 579; Rutland MSS. (June 30); S. P. F. (Aug. 2); Parker, 184 (Aug. 1).
[67] C. A.; S. P. D. (Aug. 4); S. P. F. (Aug. 4).
[68] C. A.
[69] Francis to Sir Thos. Chaloner (Froude, vii. 92), ‘Regina tota amoribus dedita est venationibusque, aucupiis, choreis et rebus ludicris insumens dies noctesque’.
[70] Wright, i. 171, 172 (Apr. 23); S. P. D. (May 5); S. P. F. (May 5).
[71] Cf. ch. v.
[72] Sp. P. i. 366.
[73] S. P. D. (June 30); Sp. P. i. 368.
[74] Sp. P. i. 367, 385; Parker, 219; Burghley, Diary.
[75] Burghley, Diary.
[76] S. P. D. Addl. (July 16).
[77] Procl. 597; Sp. P. i. 368.
[78] C. A.; Pipe Office D. A. (Works), 3202; P. C.; Procl. 598; S. P. F. (Aug. 1, 8; Sept. 11); Sp. P. i. 373, 374, 376, 379; Stowe, Annales; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 756; Nichols, i. 151, from Cambridge MSS.; Lysons, Magna Britannia, i. 143, 496, 571, 627, from Lord Hampden’s MSS. (year uncertain); Bridges, Northants, i. 431 (misdated 1563).
[79] For Cambridge plays cf. ch. iv.
[80] For mask at Hinchinbrook cf. ch. v.
[81] Sp. P. i. 376, 379.
[82] Sp. P. i. 381.
[83] C. A.
[84] P. C.; Martin’s, 218; S. P. D. (Dec. 9).
[85] Sp. P. i. 403.
[86] Sp. P. i. 404.
[87] Cf. ch. v.
[88] Sp. P. i. 428.
[89] C. A.; Lambeth.
[90] C. A.; Burghley, Diary; Wright, i. 198.
[91] Stowe, Annales (June 24); Sp. P. i. 442.
[92] Martin’s, 222; Sp. P. i. 446; Procl. 611; P. C. (July 15).
[93] Sp. P. i. 446, 451; cf. ch. v.
[94] Martin’s, 222.
[95] Sp. P. i. 465; Pepys MSS. 67.
[96] C. A.
[97] Martin’s, 222; Sp. P. i. 475.
[98] C. A.
[99] Sp. P. i. 487, 494.
[100] C. A.; Lambeth; P. C. (Oct. 29, Nov. 2).
[101] C. A.; Leland, Collectanea, ii. 666.
[102] V. P. vii. 374.
[103] Martin’s, 228; Sp. P. i. 523.
[104] Sp. P. i. 526.
[105] Cf. ch. v.
[106] Martin’s, 229; Sp. P. i. 564.
[107] C. A.; Lambeth; cf. ch. v.
[108] C. A.; Pipe Office D. A. (Works), 3203; Works Account in Rawl. MS., A. 195c; S. P. D. (July 21); S. P. F. (July 29, Aug. 30, Sept. 8); Sp. P. i. 568, 571, 574, 577, 578; Margaret’s; Martin’s; Shaw, ii. 72; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 762 (Aug. 3, 5); Middleton MSS. (Hist. MSS.), 528; Stowe, Annales; Burgon, Gresham, ii. 155, 212; Nichols, i. 192, 197, 199*, 206, 247, from Coventry records, &c.; Plummer, Elizabethan Oxford, 115, 175, 191, 198, 205; Boas, 385.
[109] At the entry to Coventry the Corpus Christi pageant of the Tanners stood at St. John’s Church, the Drapers at the Cross, the Smiths at Little Park Street End, the Weavers at Much Park Street (H. Craig, Two Coventry C. C. Plays, xxi, 106). The date is sometimes given as 1565 or 1567 in error.
[110] For the Oxford plays cf. ch. iv.
[111] S. P. F. (Sept. 10); Sp. P. i. 580.
[112] D. A. (Works).
[113] S. P. F. (Sept. 10, 17).
[114] Martin’s, 229; Sp. P. i. 582.
[115] Sp. P. i. 609.
[116] C. A.; Martin’s, 232; Sp. P. i. 609, 610, 612, 613.
[117] Shaw, ii. 73.
[118] Sp. P. i. 633: ‘The hatred that this Queen has of marriage is most strange. They represented a comedy before her last night, until nearly one in the morning, which ended in a marriage, and the Queen, as she told me herself, expressed her dislike of the woman’s part.’
[119] Sp. P. i. 644.
[120] Sp. P. i. 661.
[121] Sc. P. ii. 373; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 764.
[122] C. A. (‘Mr. Kyrres’).
[123] C. A.; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 764; S. P. F. (Aug. 20, 24); Sc. P. (Aug. 29); Sp. P. i. 672; Kempe, 265.
[124] Sp. P. i. 672.
[125] Sp. P. i. 679.
[126] Sp. P. i. 690; Martin’s, 234.
[127] Nichols, i. 266, from Privy Purse Acct.
[128] C. A.
[129] Sp. P. ii. 21; Martin’s, 239.
[130] C. A.; Parker Letters (July 7); Burghley, Diary; S. P. F. (July 11); C. D. I. xc. 98, ‘Vino por el rio hasta Reder’; the translation ‘Reading’ in Sp. P. ii. 50 is absurd; it might be Knightrider St.
[131] C. A.; Works Account in Rawl. MS. A. 195e; Burghley, Diary; S. P. D. (July 30, Aug. 8); S. P. F. (July 22, Aug. 21, 27); Sc. P. (July 22, Aug. 14); Sp. P. ii. 54, 57, 64, 71, 72, 74; Syd. P. i. 36; Procl. 628, 629; Shaw, ii. 73.
[132] Sp. P. ii. 73.
[133] S. P. D. (Oct. 3); Burghley, Diary (Oct. 20).
[134] La Mothe, i. 203.
[135] C. A.; Sp. P. ii. 149; Feuillerat, Eliz. 124 (May 10); Nichols, i. 257 (May 9). The May 11 of La Mothe, i. 373, must be an error.
[136] Cf. ch. iv.
[137] Sp. P. ii. 178, 180. The July 27 or 28 of La Mothe, ii. 100, 133, 138, must again be an error.
[138] Sp. P. ii. 182.
[139] C. A.; Works Accounts in Rawl. MS. A. 195c; S. P. F. (Sept. 4) Sc. P. (Aug. 12, 20); Sp. P. ii. 189, 191; P. C. Wales (Aug. 22); Burghley, Diary; Hatfield MSS. i. 418, 421, 435; Camden, 420; Nichols, i. 261; Finch MSS. (Aug. 9); V. H. Surrey, iii. 383; Lodge, i. 480, 482, 483, 485; La Mothe, ii. 196, 218, 223, 229, 237.
[140] Lodge, i. 483, 485; S. P. F. (Sept. 24); Parker Letters (Sept. 24).
[141] Cf. ch. i.
[142] C. A.
[143] Sp. P. ii. 228; Sadler Papers (Jan. 18).
[144] Sp. P. ii. 239.
[145] P. C. (June 18, 20).
[146] C. A.; Works Accounts in Rawl. MS. A. 195c; P. C.; S. P. D. (Sept. 25); S. P. F. (Aug. 8; Sept. 7, 26); Procl. 657, 658; Finch MSS. (Hist. MSS.); Burghley, Diary; Hatfield MSS. i. 481; Wiffen, i. 474; Digges, 5; Shaw, ii. 74; La Mothe, iii. 240, 246, 258, 264, 289.
[147] La Mothe, iii. 317; P. C. (Sept. 30).
[148] P. C. (Nov. 6, 7).
[149] P. C. (Jan. 14, 19); La Mothe, iii. 434.
[150] Holinshed, iii. 1224; La Mothe, iii. 443, 450, 454; Margaret’s, 18.
[151] P. C. (Jan. 29).
[152] Sp. P. ii. 295; Rutland MSS. i. 91.
[153] P. C. (March 31); Stowe, Annales (Apr. 2).
[154] Lambeth.
[155] La Mothe, iv. 94; Rimbault, 160.
[156] Holinshed, iii. 1225; Nichols, ii. 334, from Segar; Arch, lxiii. 47; Arch. Journal, lv. 315; lxi. 305; Clephan, 171, from Ashm. MSS. 837, 845; La Mothe, iv. 88, 95.
[157] Digges, 108.
[158] Lambeth.
[159] P. C. (July 7); S. P. F. (July 8).
[160] C. A.; La Mothe, iv. 206; Kingston.
[161] C. A.; P. C.; C. D. I. xc. 492; Burghley, Diary; Hatfield MSS. i. 516; v. 70; Rutland MSS. i. 95; Wright, i. 393; Lodge, i. 525, 527; La Mothe, iv. 245; Digges, 134, 138; Shaw, ii. 75; Hunter, Hallamshire, 111; Nichols, i. 280; cf. M. Christy in Essex Review, xxvi. 115, 181.
[162] Rutland MSS. i. 96.
[163] La Mothe, iv. 245; Wandsworth.
[164] C. A., P. C.
[165] Sp. P. ii. 355; S. P. F. (Dec. 15, 16); Procl. 663 (Jan. 3). I think the P. C. entries of Greenwich for Dec. 25, 31 must be errors.
[166] Hatfield MSS. v. 70; Rutland MSS. i. 94–96; La Mothe, iv. 319; Sp. P. ii. 358. The wedding was originally planned for Theobalds in Sept. (Hunter, Hallamshire, 111).
[167] La Mothe, iv. 319, 321; Sp. P. ii. 358. Possibly Elizabeth was also at the weddings of Lords Dudley and Paget this week.
[168] La Mothe, iv. 424.
[169] La Mothe, iv. 447.
[170] Sp. P. ii. 393.
[171] Martin’s, 268.
[172] Nichols, i. 305 (dating June 14), from Lambeth MS. 959; ii. 335. from Segar.
[173] Martin’s, 268.
[174] C. A.; P. C. (July 31); S. P. D. (Aug. 10); S. P. F. (Aug. 22); Procl. 676; Margaret’s; Martin’s; Select Committee on Public Records (1800), 174; Sp. P. ii. 399, 413, 417; Hatfield MSS. v. 69, xiii. 110; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 773; Finch MSS. (Sept. 16); La Mothe, v. 47, 59, 63, 65, 76, 77, 79, 84, 89, 91, 92, 99, 122, 134; L. Howard, 195; Wilts. Arch. Mag. xviii. 261; 1 Ellis, ii. 265; Lodge, i. 540, 542, 548, 549; Strype, Sir T. Smith, 121; Zurich Letters, ii. 211; Digges, 228–65; Nichols, i. 309, from Warwick Corporation MSS., with errors.
[175] At Kenilworth were ‘such princely sports as could be devised’ (Nichols, i. 318, from Warwick Black Book).
[176] At Warwick on Aug. 17 were a country dance and a show of fireworks (ibid.).
[177] Digges, 260, 263.
[178] Hatfield MSS. ii. 28; Sp. P. ii. 435; La Mothe, v. 200.
[179] Martin’s, 272 (Feb. 27, 28, in error?); Digges, 328 (Jan. 29); P. C. (Feb. 3); Feuillerat, Eliz. 171.
[180] C. A.; P. C.; La Mothe, v. 262, 267, 270; Sp. P. ii. 467; Wright, i. 466; Hatfield MSS. v. 70 (misdated); Nichols, i. 378.
[181] Nichols, i. 332, 378, 548, from M. Parker, Matthaeus, Dering MS., and local archives; C. A.; P. C.; W. D. Cooper, Winchelsea, 107, and in Sussex Arch. Coll. v. 190, from Acct. of Controller of Household and local archives; Denne, Bibl. Top. Brit. xlv. 211; Parker Corres. 436, 437, 441, 475; Arch. Cantiana, vi. 43; ix. 235; xi. 199; Zurich Letters, ii. 221; S. P. F. (Sept. 15); Lodge, ii. 33; Shaw, ii. 75; La Mothe, v. 412; 1 Ellis, ii. 267.
[182] There was a reception at Orpington by a Nymph as Genius of the house, and a sea-fight in a bark (Hasted, i. 134).
[183] A mock sea-fight was shown at Sandwich on Sept. 1 (Nichols, i. 337, from town archives).
[184] There was a mask of Mariners at Canterbury on Sept. 7 (Feuillerat, Eliz. 183).
[185] Nichols, i. 351; La Mothe, v. 412.
[186] C. A.
[187] La Mothe, v. 454; P. C. (Nov. 25, 28, 29).
[188] Martin’s, 273; P. C. (Dec. 19, 21).
[189] Walsingham, Diary; La Mothe, vi. 8.
[190] Walsingham, Diary; La Mothe, vi. 34.
[191] La Mothe, vi. 39.
[192] Walsingham, Diary; Lambeth; Nichols, i. 325 (misdated), 384.
[193] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary; La Mothe, vi. 167.
[194] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.
[195] C. A.; P. C.; Walsingham, Diary; Burghley, Diary; S. P. D. (Aug. 15); S. P. F. (July 18, 30; Aug. 10, 11; Sept. 15); Zurich Letters, ii. 258; A. Hall, Life, 57; Shaw, ii. 75, 76; Lodge, ii. 43; La Mothe, vi. 197, 229; Nichols, i. 321 (misdated 1572), 379, 392, 408; R. H. Gretton, Burford Records, 415; cf. E. Green in Proc. Bath Field Club, iv. 105.
[196] For Bristol Entertainment cf. ch. xxiv.
[197] Walsingham, Diary.
[198] Ibid.
[199] Walsingham, Diary.
[200] Some particulars of this winter’s revels appear to be in S. P. D. Eliz. ciii. 54.
[201] Feuillerat, Eliz. 241 (Feb. 2); P. C. (Feb. 6).
[202] Lysons, i. 381; Dee, Compendious Rehearsal (ed. Hearne), 516.
[203] P. C. (March 21, 23, 25); Martin’s, 284.
[204] C. A.
[205] Martin’s, 284.
[206] Hunter, Hallamshire, 84.
[207] C. A.; P. C.; P. C. Wales (June 13, Aug. 17); S. P. D. (Aug. 21; Sept. 4, 12; Oct. 6); S. P. F. (July 12, Aug. 29, Sept. 4, 7); Procl. 693, 696; Sp. P. ii. 492, 498; La Mothe, vi. 437, 442, 444, 487, 495, 498, 502; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 776; Hatfield MSS. ii. 99, 107, 108, 112, 116; v. 70; xiii. 142; Walsingham, Diary; Rutland MSS. i. 104, 105; Middleton MSS. 538; Shaw, ii. 76; Sydney Papers, i. 71; Wright, ii. 11, 16; Devon, i. 119; Wilts. Arch. Mag. xviii. 261; Kenilworth Entertainments (cf. ch. xxiv); Nichols, i. 417, 529, 533, from local archives.
[208] For Kenilworth entertainments cf. chh. iv, xxiv.
[209] Warwick’s players were at Lichfield (cf. ch. xiii).
[210] There were pageants by Ralph Wyatt and Thomas Heywood at the Cross and St. Ellen’s Church, Worcester (Nichols, i. 537).
[211] Cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Lee.
[212] Walsingham, Diary.
[213] C. A.; Sp. P. ii. 515.
[214] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.
[215] Walsingham, Diary.
[216] Walsingham, Diary; Shaw, ii. 77.
[217] Hatfield MSS. ii. 134.
[218] P. C.
[219] C. A.
[220] Walsingham, Diary.
[221] P. C. (July 22, 23).
[222] C. A., apparently (Sp. P. ii. 531) a false start for the progress.
[223] C. A.; P. C.; Walsingham, Diary; S. P. D. (Sept. 6, 12); S. P. F. (Sept. 6); Sp. P. ii. 533; Procl. 708; Syd. P. i. 392; Hatfield MSS. ii. 133; Kempe, 490; Lodge, App. 38, 39; cf. App. B.
[224] Walsingham, Diary.
[225] Ibid.
[226] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary; Martin’s, 297.
[227] C. A.
[228] P. C. (Apr. 27–29); Walsingham, Diary (May 6); Martin’s, 297 (Apr. 26 in error).
[229] Martin’s, 297.
[230] C. A.; P. C. (May 14); Birch, i. 12; Nichols, ii. 55, from Birch MS. 4100; Shaw, ii. 78; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 779; Hatfield MSS. v. 70; Walsingham, Diary (May 25).
[231] Wiffen, i. 508.
[232] C. A.
[233] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.
[234] Hatfield MSS. ii. 157.
[235] Ibid.
[236] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.
[237] P. C.; Walsingham, Diary: Finch MSS. (Sept. 4); Lodge, ii. 91.
[238] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.
[239] C. A.
[240] C. A.; S. P. F.; Walsingham, Diary.
[241] C. A.
[242] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.
[243] C. A. A lost device and play at Osterley by Churchyard (cf. ch. xxiii) may belong to this visit.
[244] Walsingham, Diary; Fulham; Nichols, ii. 92.
[245] Walsingham, Diary.
[246] S. P. F.; Walsingham, Diary.
[247] Sp. P. ii. 576, 581.
[248] C. A.; S. P. D. (May 8, 9, 10); S. P. F. (May 6, 15); Walsingham, Diary; Hatfield MSS. v. 70; Sp. P. ii. 582; Lodge, ii. 99. Sidney’s May Lady entertainment may belong to this Wanstead visit or to that of 1579 (cf. ch. xxiii). For Italian tumblers in 1577–8, cf. App. B.
[249] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary; S. P. F. (May 16).
[250] C. A.; P. C.; Procl. 724; S. P. D. (July 11, 14, 17; Sept. 2, 21); Sp. P. ii. 607, 610; Shaw, ii. 78, 79; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 780; Hatfield MSS. ii. 190, 192; xiii. 160; Sydney Papers, i. 270; Hatton, 93; Lodge, ii. 119; Kempe, 248 (misdated?); Archaeologia, xix. 283; Cullum, Hawsted, 130; Hollingsworth, Stowmarket, 128; Nichols, ii. III sqq., from local archives; Entertainments by Churchyard and Garter (cf. ch. xxiv).
[251] Speeches and verses sent from Cambridge to Audley End are in G. Harvey, Gratulationes Valdinenses (1578).
[252] A. G. H. Hollingsworth, Hist. of Stowmarket (1844), 128, 130, says that players from Ipswich under John Corke were employed.
[253] For devices at Kenninghall, Norwich, and Hengrave, cf. Entertainments by Churchyard and Garter (ch. xxiv). Blomefield, vii. 214, prints from Harl. MS. 890, f. 282, verses given at Norwich with a pair of golden spurs by William (Edward?) Downes of Earlham.
[254] Dee, 5; S. P. D. Addl. (Sept. 25); P. C. (Sept. 26).
[255] C. A.
[256] Sp. P. ii. 627, 630.
[257] C. A.; P. C. (Jan. 20, 22).
[258] C. A.; Procl. 735.
[259] C. A.
[260] Devereux, i. 170; Lodge, ii. 140, 146, ‘There was never any of his cote that was able to brag of the like entertainment’.
[261] Lodge, ii. 146, ‘prettier than it happened to be performed’; Sp. P. ii. 655, ‘a grand ball, in which there were comedies and many inventions’. In the previous August (Sp. P. ii. 607) Oxford had declined a request of the queen to dance before Alençon’s agents, ‘as he did not want to entertain Frenchmen’.
[262] C. A.; Martin’s, 310; Sp. P. ii. 669, 679.
[263] Martin’s, 310; Sp. P. ii. 681.
[264] Martin’s, 310; Lambeth (June 2 in error).
[265] P. C. Wales, 192; Stowe, Annales.
[266] S. P. F. xiv. 46, 49; V. P. vii. 609, 611, 612, 614; Sp. P. ii. 690, 694; Hatfield MSS. ii. 293.
[267] P. C.; Shaw, ii. 79.
[268] C. A.; P. C.; S. P. D. (Sept. 13, 27); Sp. P. ii. 697; Hatfield MSS. (Sept. 17); Procl. 740; cf. M. Christy in Essex Review, xxvi. 115, 181. But Nichols, ii. 285, has clearly used two abandoned ‘gests’.
[269] P. C. (Oct. 2).
[270] Martin’s, 311; P. C. (Dec. 21, 23).
[271] C. A.
[272] C. A.; P. C. (May 26, 29); Lysons, i. 297.
[273] C. A.
[274] C. A.; P. C. (July 11); Walsingham, Diary.
[275] C. A.
[276] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.
[277] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. ii. 340.
[278] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.
[279] Dee, 9.
[280] Dee, 9.
[281] C. A.; S. P. D. cl. 62 (app. misdated 1581).
[282] Martin’s, 321; Dee, 10.
[283] M. S. C. i. 181; Hatfield MSS. xiii. 199; Nichols, ii. 334, from Segar; Feuillerat, Eliz. 336, noting devices in the ‘meane season’ between challenge and tilt.
[284] Martin’s, 329.
[285] C. A.; Sp. P. iii. 95, 101; Nichols, ii. 303.
[286] Martin’s, 329.
[287] S. P. F. xv. 82, 115, 144, 202; Sp. P. iii. 110, 131; V. P. viii. 2–15; Walsingham, Diary; Wright, ii. 134; Remembrancia, 487. On Apr. 6 the Queen was only thinking ‘whether there are any new devices in the joust, or where a ball is to be held, or what beautiful women are to be at court’ (Sp. P. iii. 91).
[288] Cf. chh. iv, xxiv.
[289] Walsingham, Diary.
[290] Sp. P. iii. 141, 144.
[291] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.
[292] Hatfield MSS. xiii. 200; Rutland MSS. i. 127.
[293] C. A.
[294] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary; Rutland MSS. i. 127.
[295] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. xiii. 201.
[296] Walsingham, Diary.
[297] S. P. F. xv. 357; Sp. P. iii. 203; V. P. viii. 21.
[298] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary; Dee, 13; Hatfield MSS. xiii. 201.
[299] Sp. P. iii. 222; Clephan, 132, from Bodl. Ashm. MS. 845, ff. 164, 167; Hatfield MSS. xiii. 201.
[300] S. P. F. xv. 442, 453, 473, and V. P. viii. 26, note the princely entertainment of Anjou.
[301] Feuillerat, Eliz. 344 (table); Nichols, ii. 336, from Segar.
[302] C. A.
[303] C. A.; P. C. (Feb. 1); Holinshed, iii. 1330; Walsingham, Diary; Sp. P. iii. 280, 282; Hatfield MSS. ii. 500; S. P. F. xv. 444 (misdated), 484, 485; V. P. viii. 29. Apparently the Sandwich and Dover stages are for Anjou only, and Elizabeth remained at Canterbury Feb. 5–13.
[304] Walsingham, Diary; P. C. (Feb. 18).
[305] Hatfield MSS. v. 70; S. P. D. clv. 54; 3 Ellis, iv. 43; cf. ch. vii.
[306] C. A.
[307] C. A.
[308] Sp. P. iii. 375.
[309] Rutland MSS. i. 136; Shaw (May 22).
[310] Hatfield MSS. xiii. 203; Hatton, 255; Lysons, i. 297.
[311] C. A.
[312] C. A.; S. P. D. (Aug. 12, 17).
[313] C. A.
[314] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.
[315] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.
[316] C. A.
[317] C. A.; S. P. D. Addl. (Jan. 12); Peck, 131 (Jan. 18).
[318] Walsingham, Diary; Dee, 18; Lambeth.
[319] C. A.
[320] Lodge, app. 46; Rutland MSS. i. 149.
[321] C. A.; Dee, 20; Lambeth.
[322] Sp. P. iii. 474.
[323] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. v. 70; xiii. 229; Rutland MSS. i. 150, 151; Birch, i. 37.
[324] C. A.
[325] C. A.; S. P. I. (July 29, 30); Martin’s, 349; Margaret’s; Dee, 21; Finch MSS.; Hatton, 346.
[326] C. A.; Kempe, 269; Sussex Arch. Colls. v. 193; S. P. D. clxi. 15.
[327] C. A.
[328] C. A.
[329] Martin’s, 349; Margaret’s; S. P. I. (Oct. 14).
[330] C. A.; Martin’s, 349; Remembrancia, 407, ‘for her private recreation, to take the air abroad’.
[331] Martin’s, 350.
[332] Duke of Norfolk, Life of Philip Earl of Arundel, 22.
[333] Shaw, ii. 82.
[334] S. P. F. (Apr. 20); Peck, 149 (May 2).
[335] C. A.; S. P. D.; Shaw; Hatfield MSS. iii. 35.
[336] S. P. F. (July 17); Hatton, 382 (July 21).
[337] C. A.; Hatton, 388; Peck, 154.
[338] C. A.
[339] C. A.; Lodge, ii. 246.
[340] Sc. P. (Oct. 6); S. P. D. (Oct. 10).
[341] C. A.; S. P. F. xix. 92 (misdated Oct. 5?).
[342] C. A.; Stowe, Annales.
[343] 2 R. Hist. Soc. Trans. ix. 258.
[344] Ibid. 262; Clephan, 171, from Bodl. Ashm. MS. 845, f. 168.
[345] C. A.; Duke of Norfolk, Life of Earl of Arundel, 193, puts this or another visit after the Earl’s committal to the Tower on 25 Apr. 1585.
[346] Feuillerat, Eliz. 365.
[347] Ibid.; Martin’s, 371; S. P. I. (Feb. 8); S. P. F. (Feb. 12).
[348] Hatfield MSS. vi. 556.
[349] C. A.
[350] Margaret’s; Stowe, Annales (March 29).
[351] C. A.; Hatton, 416.
[352] C. A.
[353] Hatton, 426.
[354] C. A.; Shaw, ii. 83; Nichols, ii. 427.
[355] Cf. ch. xxiii (Lee).
[356] Lambeth.
[357] Hatton, 406 (July 20); S. P. D. (July 24).
[358] Lysons, i. 297.
[359] C. A.; S. P. F. (Aug. 25).
[360] C. A.
[361] Sc. P. (Sept. 26); Nichols, ii. 440 (Oct. 1).
[362] C. A.; Rutland MSS. i. 183; Margaret’s.
[363] Martin’s, 374; Lambeth.
[364] Lambeth.
[365] Lambeth.
[366] C. A.; P. C. (July 10); Hatfield MSS. iii. 178; Rutland MSS. i. 199.
[367] C. A.
[368] C. A.; Nichols, ii. 460, from speech of Mayor of Windsor.
[369] C. A.
[370] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. iii. 182.
[371] C. A.; Martin’s, 386; Lambeth.
[372] Nichols, ii. 529, from private MS.
[373] C. A.; Dasent, xv. 59, 64; Hatfield MSS. iii. 249.
[374] P. C. (May 2).
[375] C. A.
[376] C. A.; Rutland MSS. i. 215 (May 25); P. C. (May 29).
[377] C. A.; P. C.; S. P. D. (July 16, 18); Rutland MSS. i. 222; Hatfield MSS. iii. 270; v. 71; Devon, i. 187; Goodman, ii. 1.
[378] C. A.; P. C. (Aug. 20).
[379] P. C. (Sept. 19, 24).
[380] Martin’s, 397; Margaret’s; Lambeth; Gawdy, 18.
[381] Gawdy, 25; Shaw.
[382] Gawdy, 25.
[383] Foljambe MSS. 28; Gawdy, 25, 29; Sc. P. (Dec. 2).
[384] Rutland MSS. i. 232; Hist. MSS. vii. 520.
[385] Rutland MSS. i. 234.
[386] C. A.; Margaret’s; Lambeth; Rutland MSS. i. 236, 237.
[387] Cf. ch. xxiii (Churchyard).
[388] C. A.; P. C. (Apr. 12, 16); Wright, ii. 370.
[389] C. A.; Gawdy, 35.
[390] C. A.; P. C. (July 7, 8); Margaret’s; Lambeth.
[391] C. A.; P. C. (July 28, 29); Rutland MSS. i. 253; Lambeth; Margaret’s.
[392] C. A.; Wright, ii. 387, 389; Margaret’s; Lambeth; M. Christy in E. H. R. xxxiv. 43, quoting J. Aske, Elizabetha Triumphans, and T. Deloney, The Queen’s Visiting of the Camp at Tilbury (cf. ch. xxiv).
[393] Sp. P. iv. 419.
[394] Ibid.
[395] P. C. (Oct. 26); S. P. D. (Oct. 23, 26); Margaret’s (Oct. 15 in error).
[396] Sp. P. iv. 487 (Nov. 8); Arber, ii. 506; Nichols, ii. 544.
[397] P. C. (Nov. 17).
[398] Sp. P. iv. 494; Arber, ii. 508.
[399] C. A.; Stowe, Annales; Sp. P. iv. 494; Arber, ii. 508.
[400] Martin’s, 407; P. C. (Dec. 1).
[401] Sp. P. iv. 504; S. P. D. (Dec. 19); Margaret’s.
[402] C. A.
[403] Stowe, Annales; Martin’s, 411; Arber, v. lxxvii.
[404] Martin’s, 411; Margaret’s; Lambeth; Fulham; Lodge, ii. 368, 375, ‘whilst she is there may be moved to her but matter of delight and to content her, which is the only cause of her going thither’.
[405] Margaret’s.
[406] C. A.; Lodge, ii. 379; Margaret’s.
[407] C. A.; P. C. (Aug. 10); Hatfield MSS. iii. 427; xiii. 416 (Aug. 10, 16).
[408] C. A.
[409] Dasent, xviii. 329 (Sept. 26); Rutland MSS. i. 276 (Sept. 27).
[410] Cf. ch. v.
[411] Martin’s, 413; Margaret’s.
[412] C. A.
[413] C. A.; Martin’s, 414; Margaret’s.
[414] Martin’s, 422; P. C. (Jan. 25).
[415] Martin’s, 422.
[416] C. A.; P. C.; Procl. 825; Margaret’s; Martin’s; Lodge, app. 83.
[417] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. iv. 52 (July 28); P. C. (Aug. 6).
[418] C. A.
[419] S. P. D. (Aug. 30); P. C. (Aug. 31); Rutland MSS. i. 283; Lodge, app. 83.
[420] C. A.; P. C. (Sept. 6).
[421] C. A.
[422] C. A.; Dasent, xx. 71, 75 (Nov. 8, 15); Lodge, ii. 422.
[423] Lodge, ii. 419; cf. ch. xxiii (Lee).
[424] C. A.
[425] Lodge, ii. 419 (Nov. 20), ‘secretly, as she thought’, to meet the French ambassador, Viscount Turenne.
[426] Lodge, ii. 420; P. C. (Nov. 22); Dee, 36 (Nov. 20 in error).
[427] Dee, 37.
[428] Syd. P. i. 317; Martin’s, 430; Margaret’s.
[429] C. A.; P. C.; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 796; Hatfield MSS. iv. 108, 115; v. 71; Rutland MSS. i. 291; Wright, ii. 412.
[430] Lodge, app. 68. Probably she did not go, as the letter refers to a plot to murder her there.
[431] Hatfield MSS. v. 71; Burghley, Diary.
[432] C. A.; P. C.; Burghley, Diary; Hatfield MSS. v. 71; iv. 136; vi. 238; S. P. D. (Aug. 1, 2, 5, 31); Rymer, xvi. 109, 116–23; Kempe, 270, 305; G. C. Williamson, Earl of Cumberland, 77; Procl. 836; Nichols, iii. 96, 99; cf. W. D. Cooper in Sussex Arch. Colls. v. 176, 196, with some doubtful localities.
[433] For Cowdray Entertainment, cf. ch. xxiv.
[434] For Elvetham Entertainment, cf. chh. iv, xxiv.
[435] Burghley, Diary.
[436] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. iv. 144 (Oct. 4); P. C. (Oct. 7).
[437] C. A.; P. C. (Nov. 15); Burghley, Diary.
[438] C. A.; P. C. (Nov. 20).
[439] C. A.; G. C. Williamson, George Earl of Cumberland, 108.
[440] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. iv. 187; xiii. 465; P. C. (Apr. 12, 15, 16); Margaret’s.
[441] Hatfield MSS. xiii. 465.
[442] Lambeth.
[443] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. iv. 220.
[444] C. A.; P. C.; Hatfield MSS. iv. 224, 226, 227; xiii. 466; S. P. D. (Aug. 13, Sept. 6); Procl. 851–3; Shaw; Lodge, app. 69, 70; Birch, i. 79; Rutland MSS. i. 302; Rye, 11–14; Finch MSS. (Sept. 15); Nichols, Illustrations, 135; Plummer, Elizabethan Oxford, 249, 261; Boas, 252.
[445] For Bisham Entertainment, cf. ch. xxiv.
[446] For a possible entertainment at Ramsbury, cf. ch. xxiii (Mary Herbert).
[447] For Sudeley Entertainment, cf. ch. xxiv.
[448] For Woodstock (or Ditchley) Entertainment, cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Lee.
[449] For Oxford plays, cf. ch. iv.
[450] For Rycote Entertainment, cf. ch. xxiv.
[451] Hatfield MSS. xiii. 466.
[452] Gawdy, 67.
[453] C. A.
[454] C. A.; Martin’s, 451.
[455] Martin’s, 451; P. C. (Feb. 7, 8, 11, 12, 14); Dee, 43.
[456] Martin’s, 451.
[457] Ibid.
[458] Gawdy, 67.
[459] Martin’s, 452.
[460] C. A.; Martin’s, 452; P. C. (May 6, 13, 14); S. P. D. (May 9); Hatfield MSS. iv. 309 (May 5).
[461] Hatfield MSS. iv. 319 (May 22).
[462] C. A.; Procl. 861; P. C. (June 24).
[463] C. A.; P. C. (Aug. 1, 4).
[464] C. A.
[465] Carey, Memoirs, 32; Clephan, 133, from Bodl. Ashm. MS. 1109, f. 154v; Arber, ii. 640; G. C. Williamson, George Earl of Cumberland, 121.
[466] C. A.; Birch, i. 137.
[467] Birch, i. 146. ‘Mr. [Anthony] Standen was at the play and dancing on twelfth-night, which lasted till one after midnight, more by constraint than by choice, the earl of Essex having committed to him the placing and entertaining of certain Germans. The queen appeared there in a high throne, richly adorned, and “as beautiful”, says he, “to my old sight, as ever I saw her; and next to her chair the earl, with whom she often devised in sweet and favourable manner”.’
[468] Hatfield MSS. xiii. 506; Martin’s, 462.
[469] C. A.; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 804; Hatfield MSS. iv. 539, 552, 558; v. 71; Martin’s; Dee, 49; Rutland MSS. i. 320; Wright, ii. 433; J. H. Lloyd, Highgate, 225, from Frere MS. (misdated 1593); Gawdy, 85.
[470] Hatfield MSS. v. 71; xiii. 507; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 804.
[471] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. v. 1; xiii. 508.
[472] C. A.; S. P. D. (Oct. 31); Sc. P. (Oct. 25).
[473] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. v. 19; Martin’s (misdated Oct.).
[474] C. A.; Arber, ii. 664.
[475] Martin’s, 465; Rutland MSS. i. 324.
[476] Dee, 51.
[477] C. A.; S. P. I. (Dec. 8).
[478] Martin’s, 465.
[479] C. A.; Stowe, Annales.
[480] Martin’s, 471; cf. my paper on The Occasion of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Sh. Homage, 154. I there thought that the wedding must have been at Burghley House, but I now find that C. A. confirms Stowe in placing it at Greenwich, and must suppose that, after the ceremony, Elizabeth accompanied the bridal pair to Burghley House. If M. N. D. was produced, it may have been at either place.
[481] C. A.; Nichols, iii. 38; Hatfield MSS. v. 121.
[482] C. A.; Rutland MSS. i. 326; Hatfield MSS. v. 135, 138.
[483] Cf. ch. xxiv.
[484] C. A.; Gesta Grayorum, 68.
[485] Martin’s, 472.
[486] C. A.; Syd. P. i. 344; Lodge, app. 78; Martin’s, 472.
[487] C. A.
[488] C. A.; P. C. (Oct. 19); Birch, i. 311.
[489] Syd. P. i. 357.
[490] C. A.; Syd. P. i. 365 (misdated Nov. 25 for 15); Martin’s, 473.
[491] C. A.
[492] Syd. P. i. 366, 369, 371; Martin’s, 473.
[493] Syd. P. i. 376.
[494] Syd. P. i. 380; Martin’s, 474.
[495] Syd. P. i. 382.
[496] C. A.; P. C. (Dec. 28); Syd. P. i. 384; Martin’s, 474.
[497] C. A.; Martin’s, 483; P. C. (Apr. 4).
[498] Martin’s, 483.
[499] C. A.
[500] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 5, 6; Martin’s, 488; Margaret’s.
[501] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. vi. 425; Birch, ii. 173 (Oct. 13).
[502] C. A.; Wright, ii. 465.
[503] C. A.; cf. ch. xxiii (Bacon).
[504] Martin’s, 488.
[505] Syd. P. ii. 17; Fulham.
[506] Lysons, i. 297.
[507] Martin’s, 496.
[508] C. A.; Wright, ii. 477 (July 20); Hatfield MSS. vii. 306 (July 22).
[509] C. A.; P. C.; S. P. D. (Sept. 13); Hatfield MSS. vii. 361, 370, 378; Rutland MSS. i. 342, 343; iv. 209; Stowe, Annales; Stiffkey, 141; Carey, Memoirs, 51; 1 Ellis, ii. 274.
[510] C. A.; P. C. (Sept. 21).
[511] P. C.; Martin’s, 497.
[512] C. A.
[513] Cf. ch. v.
[514] Martin’s, 514; Rutland MSS. i. 345 (May 1).
[515] Martin’s, 515.
[516] C. A.
[517] C. A.
[518] C. A.; P. C. (Sept. 13); Chamberlain, 19; Lysons, i. 257.
[519] C. A.
[520] C. A.; Chamberlain, 20.
[521] C. A.; Stowe, Annales; Martin’s, 516; Chamberlain, 29.
[522] Chamberlain, 29.
[523] C. A.; Martin’s, 522; Rutland MSS. i. 351.
[524] Martin’s, 523; P. C. (Apr. 2, 3, 4).
[525] Henslowe, i. 104.
[526] Chamberlain, 52; Nichols, iii. 467.
[527] C. A.
[528] C. A.; Chamberlain, 57; Lambeth.
[529] Chamberlain, 57.
[530] Syd. P. ii. 118.
[531] Procl. 903.
[532] S. P. D.; Syd. P. ii. 119.
[533] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 129, 130.
[534] C. A.
[535] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 141; Martin’s, 525; Margaret’s; Stowe, Annales.
[536] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 142.
[537] Devereux, ii. 92.
[538] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 149; Winwood, i. 137; Martin’s, 525.
[539] Syd. P. ii. 155 (Jan. 5): ‘Her Majestie is in very good health, and comes much abroad these holidayes; for almost every night she is in the presence, to see the ladies dawnce the old and new country dawnces, with the taber and pipe.’
[540] Syd. P. ii. 161.
[541] C. A.; P. C. (Apr. 13, 20).
[542] Hatfield MSS. x. 139 (May 5), ‘The Queen would fain hear the French gentleman sing and play who is so much commended, and saith if she had been put in mind or could yet tell how to do it, she would see the gentleman who danced on the rope and is so cunning in those voltiges’; Syd. P. ii. 194 (May 12), ‘Her Maiestie is very well; this day she appointes to see a Frenchman doe feates upon a rope in the Conduit court. To morrow she hath comanded the beares, the bull, and the ape, to be baited in the tilt-yard. Upon Wednesday she will have solemn dawncing.’ On Peter Bromvill, cf. App. D, No. cxxiii.
[543] Syd. P. ii. 201.
[544] Cf. ch. v.
[545] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 208.
[546] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 210.
[547] Syd. P. ii. 210.
[548] Nichols, iii. 489.
[549] C. A.; S. P. D. (Aug. 23); Syd. P. ii. 208–213.
[550] Syd. P. ii. 213.
[551] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 213.
[552] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 213, 214.
[553] Syd. P. ii. 215.
[554] C. A.
[555] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 217; Chamberlain, 89.
[556] C. A.; Stowe, Annales; Margaret’s.
[557] C. A.; Winwood, i. 271, 274; Gawdy, 103, 105; cf. ch. xxiii (Clifford).
[558] Hatfield MSS. x. 406. A visit of 1600 to Baynard’s Castle (Sir Robert Sydney) described in Harrington, i. 312, must fall between Nov. 13 and the Essex outbreak of 8 Feb. 1601, as Sydney was abroad earlier in 1600.
[559] Chamberlain, 97.
[560] Martin’s, 546; Hatfield MSS. xi. 543, ‘There is a great gest expected to come a maying hither. I wish your leisure and disposition may serve for maying’.
[561] Hatfield MSS. xi. 185.
[562] Martin’s, 546.
[563] Lambeth.
[564] C. A.
[565] C. A.; Lambeth; Hatfield MSS. xi. 328, 329.
[566] C. A.
[567] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. xi. 332; Chamberlain, 118; S. P. D. (Sept. 19).
[568] C. A.; P. C.; Shaw; S. P. D. (Aug. 27; Sept. 1, 19, 23); Stowe, Annales, 797; Chamberlain, 117; Hatfield MSS. xi. 381, 392, 394; Carew-Cecil Corres. 95; Goodman, ii. 22; Remembrancia, 286; Rutland MSS. i. 379, 380; Egerton Papers, 328.
[569] Chamberlain, 117, ‘Mr. Controller made great chere, and entertained her with many devises of singing, dauncing, and playing wenches, and such like’; Hatfield MSS. xi. 362 (J. Herbert—R. Cecil), ‘Her Majesty, God be praised, liketh her journey, the air of this soil and the pleasures and pastimes shewed her in the way, marvellous well’.
[570] Rutland MS. i. 380.
[571] C. A.; P. C. (Oct. 25); Margaret’s; Martin’s, 548.
[572] C. A.
[573] Chamberlain in S. P. D. cclxxxii, 48, ‘There has been such a small court this Christmas that the guard were not troubled to keep doors at the plays and pastimes’.
[574] Hatfield MSS. xi. 544.
[575] S. P. D. Eliz. cclxxxii. 48, ‘The Q: dined this day priuatly at my Ld Chamberlains; I came euen now from the Blackfriers, where I saw her at the play with all her candidae auditrices’; cf. ch. xiii (Chamberlain’s) and M. L. R. ii. 12.
[576] C. A.; Martin’s, 558; Lambeth (misdated 1602/3).
[577] Hatfield MSS. xii. 99.
[578] C. A.; Chamberlain, 126; Lambeth.
[579] C. A.; Chamberlain, 133. Lord Cumberland’s May Day show of horsemen (cf. ch. xxiii) may belong to this year, or less probably 1601.
[580] Hatfield MSS. xii. 140; Chamberlain, 133.
[581] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. xii. 226.
[582] C. A.; S. P. D. (Aug. 4, 6, 7); Martin’s; Fulham; Hatfield MSS. xii. 302, 305, 358; Lodge, ii. 552, 554; Egerton Papers, 340; Winwood, i. 429; Chamberlain, 150.
[583] For Harefield Entertainment, cf. ch. xxiv.
[584] S. P. D. (Aug. 6, 15).
[585] C. A.
[586] C. A.; cf. Chamberlain, 152.
[587] Chamberlain, 157.
[588] C. A.; Chamberlain, 162; Martin’s, 561.
[589] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. xii. 438, 459; Chamberlain, 163.
[590] Chamberlain, 167; Hatfield MSS. xii. 507, 560, 568; cf. ch. xxiii (Cecil).
[591] Chamberlain, 169.
[592] Chamberlain, 172, ‘The court hath flourisht more then ordinarie’, with ‘many playes’; Syd. P. ii. 262, ‘Mrs. Mary [Fitton] upon St. Steuens day in the afternoon dawnced before the Queen two galliards with one Mr. Palmer, the admirablest dawncer of this tyme; both were much commended by her Majestie; then she dawnced with hym a corante’.
[593] Chamberlain, 174.
[594] C. A.; Lysons, i. 297; Chamberlain, 174; Martin’s, 567.
[595] Contemporary Prints (cf. ch. xxiv); Stowe, Annales; Camden; Nichols, iii. 306; iv. 1054; Shaw; 1 Ellis, iii. 71, 75; Procl. 943, 944; S. P. D. (Apr. 21, 22, 25, 29; May 10); Hawarde, 180; Egerton Papers, 369.
[596] At Worksop were huntsmen in green with a woodman’s speech (Nichols, i. 86, from printed description).
[597] For an abandoned entertainment at Bishopsgate, cf. ch. xxiv (Dekker, Coronation Entertainment).
[598] Stowe, Annales; Shaw; Hawarde, 181.
[599] Hawarde, 181.
[600] Hawarde, 182; Shaw; Gawdy, 132.
[601] Shaw; 2 Ellis, iii. 201, ‘having vewed all his housese’.
[602] Green, 4, from Account of Marmaduke Darrell; Nichols, i. 189; iv. 1056, and Leicestershire, i. 417; iii. 589; Kelly, Progresses, 318; Middleton MSS. 463; Wiffen, ii. 70; 1 Ellis, iii. 73; Lodge, App. 108.
[603] For entertainment at Althorp, cf. ch. xxiii (Jonson).
[604] Lodge, iii. 15; 1 Ellis, iii. 81; Shaw; Gardiner, i. 113.
[605] There were ‘speeches and delicate presents’ at Grafton (Wiffen, ii. 71).
[606] Wiffen, ii. 71; Shaw.
[607] S. P. D. (July 13); Procl. 965.
[608] Stowe, Annales; V. P. x. 74.
[609] Stowe, Annales; V. P. x. 75.
[610] V. P. x. 74.
[611] Nichols, i. xi, 250 (from gests in B.M. Cole MS. xlvi. 324); iv. 1059; S. P. D. (Aug. 17, 22, 31; Sept. 11, 15); Procl. 969–71 Shaw; Bradley, ii. 180–3; Hawarde, 272; Lodge, iii. 22, 24, 26, 28, 33, 34 (‘our camp volant, which every week dislodgeth’), 38, App. 108, 109, 115; V. P. x. 83.
[612] Lodge, iii. 34, 36, 41.
[613] Bradley, ii. 190 (Arabella Stuart to Lord Shrewsbury), ‘There was an interlude, but not so ridiculous, as ridiculous as it was, as my letter’.
[614] Cf. ch. v.
[615] Shaw; Beaumont in King’s MS. cxxiv, f. 174v.
[616] Lodge, iii. 58; S. P. D. (Oct. 20); Procl. 974 (Oct. 24).
[617] Nichols, iv. 1059; S. P. D. (Nov. 1).
[618] S. P. D. (Dec. 21).
[619] Bradley, ii. 195, ‘It is said there shall be 30 playes’, 199; Wilbraham’s Journal (Camd. Misc. x), 66, ‘manie plaies and dances with swordes.’ One of the King’s men’s plays was Fair Maid of Bristow.
[620] Cf. ch. xxiii (Daniel, Twelve Goddesses).
[621] Law, Hampton Court, ii. 11.
[622] Margaret’s.
[623] Gawdy, 141 (Feb. 20), ‘Ther hath bene ij playes this shroftyde before the king and ther shall be an other to morrow’.
[624] V. P. x. 139.
[625] Stowe, Annales.
[626] Cf. ch. xxiv.
[627] Arber, iii. 257.
[628] Shaw; cf. ch. xxii (Jonson).
[629] Shaw (May 30, June 2).
[630] Shaw.
[631] Shaw (July 3); S. P. D. (July 4).
[632] Procl. 995; S. P. D. (July 14, 18); Shaw; V. P. x. 171.
[633] S. P. D. (July 28, 29, 30; Aug. 2, 6); Shaw; V. P. x. 171; Lodge, App. 115.
[634] 2 Ellis, iii. 207; Egerton Papers, 395.
[635] C. D. I. lxxi. 483; Rye, 117; E. Law, Shakespeare as a Groom of the Chamber; V. P. x. 175; Gawdy MSS. 95; Winwood, ii. 26; cf. App. B.
[636] S. P. D. (Sept. 6); Winwood, ii. 26; Gawdy MSS. 95; Warton, Hist. of Kiddington (1815), 58; Shaw.
[637] Procl. 1001; S. P. D. (Sept. 16, 20).
[638] Shaw; Winwood, ii. 33.
[639] Gawdy MSS. 96.
[640] Stowe, Annales, 823; Carey, Memoirs, 83.
[641] Gawdy MSS. 97; Margaret’s.
[642] This is probably the play which concluded an entertainment by the Spanish ambassador to the Duke of Holst (Winwood, ii. 44; Sullivan, 26). Carleton says, ‘After Dinner he came home to us, with a Play and a Banquett’.
[643] Cf. App. B (introd.).
[644] Cf. ch. xxiii (Jonson, Blackness).
[645] Winwood, ii. 51; S. P. D. (March 6).
[646] Winwood, ii. 54.
[647] V. P. x. 234.
[648] Lodge, iii. 162.
[649] Stowe, Annales.
[650] S. P. D.; Winwood, ii. 81.
[651] Stowe, Annales.
[652] Leland, Collectanea, ii. 626, from gests; Nichols, i. 517, apparently from abandoned gests (Lodge, App. 97, 99), 518, 560; Procl. 1015, 1016; S. P. D. (July 26, Aug. 5); V. P. x. 265; Shaw (July 27); Winwood, ii. 99, 107; Lodge, iii. 171; Warton, Life of Sir T. Pope (1772), 413; Reliquiae Hearnianae2, ii. 68 (misdated 1608); and for Oxford, Camden, Annales; Nichols, i. 530, iv. 1067, from description of Philip Stringer in Harl. MS. 7044; A. Nixon, The Oxford Triumph (1605); I. Wake, Rex Platonicus (1607); A. Wood, Annals; S. P. D. Addl. xxxvii. 66, 67; V. P. x. 270; Winwood, ii. 140.
[653] For plays at Oxford, cf. chh. iv, vii.
[654] Nichols, i. 518, 560, from Marlow Accts.
[655] S. P. D. (Sept. 10); Winwood, ii. 132.
[656] Rutland MSS. i. 396.
[657] Stowe, Annales, 882; Procl. 1030; V. P. x. 332; Winwood, ii. 204; Margaret’s.
[658] V. P. x. 332; Winwood, ii. 205.
[659] Winwood, ii. 205.
[660] Margaret’s.
[661] Cf. ch. iv.
[662] S. P. D. (July 16); Shaw (July 15); Nichols, ii. 53, from Drummond (app. a day out).
[663] Nichols, ii. 54; iv. 1072, from prints (cf. ch. xxiv); Stowe, 885; Harington, i. 348; Boderie, i. 223, 226, 241, 259, 283, 297; V. P. x. 379, 383, 386, 391; Winwood, ii. 247; Birch, i. 65.
[664] Cf. ch. v.
[665] King of Denmarkes Welcome, 16, ‘On Wednesday at night, the Youthes of Paules, commonlye cald the Children of Paules, plaide before the two Kings, a playe called Abuses: containing both a Comedie and a Tragedie, at which the Kinges seemed to take delight and be much pleased’.
[666] Shaw (Aug. 17).
[667] Procl. 1037; Shaw.
[668] Lodge, iii. 184.
[669] Procl. 1039; Shaw.
[670] Boderie, ii. 144.
[671] Boderie, ii. 253; V. P. x. 501.
[672] Boderie, ii. 247, 264, ‘Et à la fin d’icelui se présenta une Tragédie d’Enée et de Didon, qui les tint jusques à deux heures après minuit’.
[673] Stowe, Annales, 890; V. P. x. 8; Nichols, ii. 133.
[674] Cf. ch. iv.
[675] S. P. D.; Margaret’s; Shaw; Procl. 1044; Birch, i. 68 (misdated), ‘The King went home yesterday’.
[676] S. P. D.; Procl. 1046; Shaw; Winwood, ii. 328; Rymer, xvi. 664; Hunter, Hallamshire, 95.
[677] S. P. D.
[678] Shaw; Winwood, ii. 344; Lodge, app. 102.
[679] Nichols, ii. 155; V. P. xi. 59.
[680] Birch, i. 69.
[681] Boderie, iii. 195.
[682] Shaw; Winwood, ii. 403.
[683] Margaret’s.
[684] Birch, i. 76; Procl. 1063–4; S. P. D. (July 14, 18, 20, 24; Aug. 10); Rymer, xvi. 673; Lodge, App. 126; Shaw; Nichols, ii. 203.
[685] S. P. D. (Aug. 28).
[686] Procl. 1065; S. P. D. (Sept. 17).
[687] Procl. 1066; S. P. D. (Oct. 21).
[688] Birch, i. 85 (Jan. 3), ‘a dull and heavy Christmas hitherto’.
[689] V. P. xi. 243, 246.
[690] Birch, i. 92.
[691] Stowe, Annales.
[692] Birch, i. 96 (misdated Apr. 6).
[693] Procl. 1077, 1078, 1079.
[694] Stowe, Annales.
[695] Margaret’s.
[696] Lodge, iii. 261.
[697] S. P. D. (July 26, Aug. 15, 20); Lodge, iii. 267, 268; Shaw (Aug. 2, 13, misdated?); Nichols, ii. 263; Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 381.
[698] S. P. D. (Aug. 31).
[699] S. P. D. (Sept. 1, 7).
[700] Margaret’s.
[701] Cf. ch. xxiii (Jonson).
[702] At St. James’s, 10 p.m., after a supper by Henry to the players at barriers (Arch. xii. 258).
[703] Nichols, ii. 287; V. P. xi. 453, 460.
[704] Nichols, ii. 307; Stowe, Annales, 895.
[705] Cf. ch. xxiv.
[706] Cf. ch. xxiv.
[707] Ibid.
[708] Arch. xii. 258. On June 10 a newswriter (Winwood, iii. 182) says, ‘As often as he can he absents himself from the town, yet is quickly fetched again on every occasion, which much troubles him’.
[709] Procl. 1095; S. P. D. (July 29; Aug. 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 19, 23; Sept. 2); Rymer, xvi. 703, 704; Nichols, ii. 364, and Illustrations, 135; Birch, i. 131; Winwood, iii. 201, 213; Rutland MSS. i. 423; V. P. xii. 26, 41; Hearne, Reliquiae2, ii. 69.
[710] Rutland MSS. i. 423; S. P. D. (Sept. 2).
[711] S. P. D. (Oct. 8, 18).
[712] Margaret’s.
[713] S. P. D.
[714] Ibid.
[715] Procl. 1115; S. P. D.; Nichols, iv. 1083.
[716] Procl. 1117.
[717] S. P. D. (Oct. 31).
[718] There is some doubt as to the dates of this winter’s plays; cf. p. 140.
[719] Cunningham, 211.
[720] Ibid.
[721] Ibid.
[722] Ibid.; Birch, i. 133 (Jan. 29), ‘The prince went on Saturday to Royston, called thither from his martial sports of tilt, tourney, and barrier, which he followed so earnestly, that he was every day five or six hours in armour. The rest of the time was spent in—— and every night a play, in all which exercises the Lord Cranbourne attended him, keeping an honourable table all the while they were at Greenwich, and grows daily into his favour.’ The plays of Jan. 12 and 13 were certainly and those of Jan. 15, 19, 21, almost certainly at Greenwich. An extant challenge to tilt of 1612 (Clephan, 133, 176, from Harl. MS. 4888) may be of this period.
[723] Birch, i. 137.
[724] V. P. xii. 329; Cunningham, 211.
[725] V. P. xii. 349.
[726] Birch, i. 169, 174 (June 17, ‘The King has been coming and going to Eltham all the last week’), 181; Shaw (June 3).
[727] Birch, i. 187.
[728] Nichols, ii. 450 (from records at Leicester and Nottingham); iv. 1083; Kelly, Progresses, 344 (from Leicester gests); S. P. D. (July 23, 26, 28); Procl. 1123; Rymer, xvi. 724; Shaw; Birch, i. 188, 189, 197; Winwood, iii. 384.
[729] Birch, i. 197, ‘The prince made the king an entertainment, with some devices, at Woodstock’.
[730] Procl. 1124; S. P. D. (Sept. 24).
[731] Winwood, iii. 403; Birch, i. 198; V. P. xii. 443; cf. ch. xxiv for descriptions of visit and wedding.
[732] Birch, i. 198 (cf. App. B).
[733] Winwood, iii. 406.
[734] Birch, i. 201; Winwood, iii. 406.
[735] Ibid.
[736] Cf. App. B.
[737] Winwood, iii. 421; V. P. xii. 473.
[738] Birch, i. 229; Wood, Annals, ii. 315.
[739] Birch, i. 238; Rutland MSS. iv. 494; Arber, iii. 518.
[740] Stowe, 1007; Nichols, ii. 611.
[741] Nichols, ii. 628, 643; Wotton, ii. 20, 22, 29; Winwood, iii. 454, 461; Birch, i. 243.
[742] For entertainment at Caversham, cf. ch. xxiii (Campion).
[743] For entertainment at Bristol, cf. ch. xxiv.
[744] For entertainment at Bishop’s Cannings, cf. ch. xxiii (Ferebe).
[745] Wotton, ii. 25 (misdated).
[746] S. P. D. (July 1, 3, 4); Shaw.
[747] Winwood, iii. 468.
[748] S. P. D. (July 19); Remembrancia, 290; Birch, i. 261.
[749] S. P. D. (July 20, 23, 24, 26, 27, 31); Birch, i. 257; Winwood, iii. 461, 475; Egerton Papers, 462.
[750] Birch, i. 257, 275; V. P. xiii. 36; Hist. MSS. i. 107; Journal of Arch. Ass. xvi. 319. For entertainment at Wells, cf. ch. iv.
[751] Birch, i. 269.
[752] S. P. D. (Sept. 9); Birch, i. 275.
[753] S. P. D.; Wotton, ii. 35.
[754] Cf. ch. xxiii (Middleton).
[755] Cf. ch. xxiv.
[756] Nichols, ii. 754.
[757] Nichols, ii. 759, from Harl. MS. 5171.
[758] Shaw; Wotton, ii. 39; Nichols, iii. 6.
[759] C. A.; Procl. 1145.
[760] Birch, i. 329.
[761] Nichols, iii. 10, from gests at Leicester; S. P. D. (July 14, 18, 21, 22); Shaw; Stowe, Annales, 1012; Birch, i. 333, 339; Camden, Annales; Procl. 1147, 1148.
[762] Birch, i. 339; V. P. xiii. 166.
[763] Stowe, 1012.
[764] Birch, i. 341, 342; Stowe, 1012.
[765] Nichols, iii. 20; Kelly, Progresses, 360; Birch, i. 343; Shaw (Aug. 25); Wood, Annals, ii. 319; Egerton Papers, 464.
[766] Birch, i. 346.
[767] Birch, i. 290, ‘They have plays at least every night, both holidays and working days, wherein they show great——, being for the most part such poor stuff, that instead of delight, they send the auditory away with discontent. Indeed, our poets’ brains and inventions are grown very dry, insomuch that of five new plays there is not one pleases, and therefore they are driven to furbish over their old, which stand them in best stead, and bring them most profit’ (John Chamberlain).
[768] Nichols, iii. 41.
[769] For plays at Cambridge in March and May, see chh. iv, vii.
[770] Birch, i. 358.
[771] S. P. D.
[772] S. P. D. (July 3, 5); Shaw.
[773] Birch, i. 368.
[774] Camden, Annales; S. P. D. (July 23, 26, 28–31); Shaw; Birch, i. 369; Nichols, iii. 97.
[775] Birch, i. 369.
[776] Nichols, iii. 104.
[777] Birch, i. 395, 397; cf. ch. iv, App. K (Susenbrotus).
[778] Birch, i. 394; Rutland MSS. iv. 508.
[779] This payment was by warrant of the Lord Chamberlain.
[780] P. C. Acts name Westcote.
[781] On the unrewarded plays of 1563–4 and 1564–5, cf. ch. vii.
[782] In P. C. Acts, by an obvious error, £7 13s. 8d.
[783] P. C. Acts specify ‘Shrove Tuesday’.
[784] Apparently one play was unrewarded.
[785] P. C. Acts describe the company as Lane’s, and put the performance 26 Dec., Windsor 27 Dec., and Paul’s 1 Jan.
[786] P. C. Acts give payees as ‘Lawrence Dutton and his fellows’. Wallace, i. 213, states in error that this and the next payment are not in D. A.
[787] P. C. Acts give payee as ‘——, Master of the Children of Westminster’.
[788] Wallace, i. 215, reads ‘cumyng’ in error.
[789] In view of the date in the warrant, the ‘Monday’ of the Revels Accounts should clearly be ‘Sunday’.
[790] The D. A. give all three plays on Shrove Sunday, but Cunningham has Shrove Monday for Warwick’s and omits Muncaster’s, which may have been on the Tuesday, although two plays were sometimes given on the same night.
[791] The D. A. give Sunday before Shrovetide, which might mean either Shrove Sunday (Mar. 4) or the preceding Sunday (Feb. 26).
[792] P. C. Acts name John Dutton, as well as Lawrence, and put Muncaster’s play on Sunday. It is safer to follow D. A.
[793] As the entry stands, it should refer to Warwick’s, but I think it probably does refer to Leicester’s.
[794] P. C. Acts have Chamberlain’s for Howard’s.
[795] As two plays on one night are exceptional, it is safer to follow the Revels Account.
[796] The £10 payment has now become normal, but to the end of the reign is stated, usually but not invariably, as made up of £6 13s. 4d. with a ‘more’ sum of £3 6s. 8d., by way of Her Majesty’s ‘rewarde’, ‘speciall rewarde’, or ‘further liberalitie and rewarde’.
[797] The Pipe Office D. A. date Sunday, Jan. ‘firste’. Jan. 5 was Sunday; the ‘fifte’ of A. O. (Wallace, i. 220) is right.
[798] Presumably the Revels Accounts put this play on 4 Jan. in error.
[799] The 27 Dec. of Revels Accounts is preferable.
[800] P. C. Acts give Shrove Sunday for the Chamberlain’s as well as Warwick’s.
[801] Both the ‘Twesday’ of the Pipe Office and the ‘Tewsday’ of the Audit Office (Wallace, i. 223) D. A. are doubtless errors for ‘Twelfday’. P. C. Acts have ‘Twelfte Daye’.
[802] P. C. Acts give Shrove Sunday (Feb. 9).
[803] P. C. Acts give 23 Dec., obviously in error.
[804] So P. C. Acts.
[805] P. C. Acts do not name Ottewell, and call the company the Admiral’s.
[806] P. C. Acts give 27 Dec.
[807] Cf. p. 56.
[808] Dasent reads ‘Flemings’.
[809] P. C. Acts have ‘John’ Shawe.
[810] So P. C. Acts.
[811] For a discussion of these entries, cf. p. 136.
[812] For a discussion of these entries, cf. p. 140.
[813] The payment is for 12 plays; one date [13 Jan.?] is obviously omitted.
[814] Cunningham gives the date as 16 Jan.
[815] This item is entered in Account for 1612–13; Rawl. MS. gives the date.
[816] Cunningham gives this date as 18 Feb.
[817] The dates of the Prince’s, Lady Elizabeth’s, and Revels plays are given by Rawl. MS. but not D. A.
[818] This is probably the play of 20 Oct. in the Cockpit to which (Birch, i. 198) Elizabeth invited Frederick.
[819] Both D. A. and Cunningham, xliii, have the error for £46 13s. 4d. Both records also date the King’s men’s plays of this winter as ‘1614’ instead of ‘1613’.
[820] So D. A., but Cunningham’s 28 Dec. is more probable.
[821] Henceforward play payments are by warrant from Lord Chamberlain, not Privy Council; cf. ch. vii.
[822] This item is entered in the Account for 1615–16.
[823] This item is entered in the Account for 1616–17.
[824] errant. Om. A. B has marginal note ‘Erratum in the last impression’.
[825] B adds in margin, King Agesilaus teaches the respect due to common players in his answere to Callipides, who being a presumptious excellent actor; & thinking himself not graced enough by the kings notice, as the king passed along, doth sawcily interrupt him thus; doth not your grace know me? Yes, said the king, thou art Calipides the Player.
[826] Hee ... goodnes. A, If hee cannot beleeue, hee doth coniecture strongly; but dares not resolue vpon particulars.
[827] Epilogue. A adds: ‘vnlesse he be prevented’.
[828] B, in margin, Iuxta Plautinum illud Collybisci: quin aedepol conductior sum quam tragaedi aut comici.
[829] When ... eccho. Om. A.
[830] sawsie rude. A, lying.
[831] glaunce. A, glaunces.
[832] hath. A, hath once.
[833] To ... infected. Om. A.
[834] Reproofe ... blushing. Om. A.
[835] When ... board. Om. A.
[836] also. A, enough.
[837] commonwealth. A, common-wealths.
[838] Painting ... Revells. Om. A. B, in margin, I would haue the correcting Pedant goe study Logicke.
[839] title. A, denomination.
[840] Yet ... number. Om. A.
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