On page 266 appears:
The Foole. Item, for making of a Gaskyn cote for a foole of graie cloth, striped with sylke lace sewed with sylke, with buttons and poyntynge riband faced with taffata, lined with fustian; for making of a doublet for him of Striped Sackcloth trymmed with silk lace, faced with taffeta lined with fustian.... Item, for making a hatt for the said foole of gray clothe, layd upon with sundry devices of sylke lace and a feather trimmed with gold and spangles. For a pair of gaskins for a foole of gray clothe trimmed with lace of divers colours.
On page 310:
Monarcho ... a gowne of gold Tincell for Monarcho guarded with yellow velvet layd on with lace, faced with chaungeable macadowe ... a doublet for him of striped sackcloth trymmed with lace ... a jerkin [for him] of chaungeable mockado striped above with billymente lace, furred with 44 black coney skynnes and 10 white lamb skynnes.
On page 312:
Item, for making of a coate of freyze for William Shenton our Foole, cut and lined underneath with mockado ... for making of a doblet of striped sackcloth trymmed with lace ... a pair of gascons of mockado trimmed all over with billyment lace, 2 paire of knit stockings, garters, and girdle of leven taffata and 2 knit cappes.
The resemblance between the dress of “William Shenton our Foole” and that of “Monarcho” makes me think the latter also of the class Fool.
Some have suggested that Richard Tarleton acted the Fool to Elizabeth, but he was very different. He was the chief of the Queen’s company of players, of whom Stow says “for a wondrous pleasant extemporal wit, he was the wonder of his time.”
After many years of accounts for “Ipolyta the Tartarian” she disappears, and her place in the books is filled by another (v. 36), even more gorgeously robed, in 1577-8 (page 110):
The Dwarf. Item, for making of two gownes, thone of white damask, thother of blew chamblet [for a woman dwarf] for two peticoats, thone of mockado, thother of red kersey [for the said Dwarf], laced with blew silk, upperbodied with mockado.