[6] J. A. Lester, Some Franco-Scottish Influences on the Early English Drama in Haverford Essays (1909).
[7] Scaramelli wrote to the Signory in July 1603 (V. P. x. 71) that James had eight palaces on the Thames, of which Hampton Court was the biggest. Each had its own furniture, which was never taken to furnish another. I suppose the eight must be Whitehall, St. James's, Somerset House, the Tower, Greenwich, Richmond, Hampton Court, and Windsor. Letters of 1602, when Elizabeth was at Oatlands, contemplate her return to 'Richmond or some other of her houses of abode' and to 'a standing house' (Hatfield MSS. xii. 385, 448). I suppose that these were the permanently furnished houses.
[8] Cheyney, i. 143, says that the Exchequer court near Westminster Hall, the gallery of which was built or repaired in 1570, 'served the queen and court not infrequently as a ball-room'; but this is only an old tradition, for which Smith, Westminster, 54, could find no confirmation in 1807, and for which the records of Court entertainments certainly furnish none.
[9] The accounts of Smith and Sheppard (cf. Bibl. Note) may be supplemented from W. R. Lethaby in Archaeologia, lx. 131; London Topographical Record, i. 38; ii. 23; vi. 23, 35; vii. passim. Von Wedel (2 R. Hist. Soc. Trans. ix. 234) describes the palace in 1584.
[10] E. B. Chancellor, Historical Richmond (1885); R. Garnett, Richmond on the Thames (1896); Chapman, 123; Survey of 1503 in Grose and Astle, Antiquarian Repertory; Survey of 1649 in Nichols, Eliz. ii. 412.
[11] E. Law, History of Hampton Court Palace (1885-91); W. H. Hutton, Hampton Court (1897). De Silva reports to Philip on 13 Oct. 1567 (Sp. P. i. 679) that Elizabeth was then at Hampton Court for the first time since her attack of small-pox there in 1562, after which she took a dislike to it. It was the largest of all the palaces, 'with 1800 inhabitable rooms or at least with doors that lock' (V. P. x. 71).
[12] A. G. K. L'Estrange, The Palace and the Hospital: Chronicles of Greenwich (1886); Chapman, 9. The building is shown in Wyngaerde's drawing of c. 1543 (Mitton, I). Hentzner was told in 1598 that it was Elizabeth's preferred abode.
[13] W. H. St. J. Hope, Windsor Castle (1913); R. R. Tighe and J. E. Davis, Annals of Windsor (1858); E. Ashmole, The Institution, Lawes and Ceremonies of the Garter (1672); J. Pote, History and Antiquities of Windsor Castle (1749); G. M. Hughes, Windsor Forest (1890).
[14] R. Gower, The Tower of London (1901-2); Clapham and Godfrey, 29. Elizabeth was there in 1559, 1561, and 1565.
[15] For its mediaeval use as an occasional royal lodging, cf. N. H. Nicolas, Wardrobe Accounts of Edw. IV, 121, 127.