[56] V. P. xii. 533; Stowe, 916; Birch, i. 229; Finett, 11; cf. p. 14.
[57] Stowe, 787, 789, 791; Von Wedel in 2 R. Hist. Soc. Trans. ix. 256; P. P. Laffleur de Kermaingant, Mission de Jean de Thumery, i. 368, both describing the procession at length; Mission de Christophe de Harlay, 252, 'la coustume a tousjours esté, et mesmes du temps de la feue Royne de trés heureuse memoire, que les ambassadeurs residens en Angleterre sont priez d'accompagner les roys, lorsqu'ilz retournent en leur ville de Londres, après leur progrès'; Goodman, i. 164, 'The Queen's constant custom was a little before her coronation-day to come from Richmond to London, and to dine with my lord Admiral at Chelsea, and to set out from Chelsea at dark night, where the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen were to meet her'. Precepts by the Lord Mayor and other records of civic expenditure on the receptions are in Arber, i. 510; v. lxxvii; Kitto, 538; Young, Barber Surgeons, 108; Welch, Pewterers, ii. 33.
[58] Camden, 191, 'Anno iam regni Elizabethae duodecimo feliciter exacto, in quo aureum ut vocarunt diem creduli Pontificii sibi ex ariolorum predictione expectabant, boni omnes per Angliam laetanter triumphabant et xvii Novembris Anniversarium regni inchoati diem, gratiarum actionibus, concionibus per Ecclesias, votis multiplicatis, laetisona campanarum pulsatione, hastiludiis, et festiva quadam laetitia celebrare coeperunt, et in obsequiosi amoris testimonium, dum illa viveret, non destiterunt'; La Mothe, v. 204; Arber, i. 561, 566, 578; Sydney Papers, i. 371, 'the Triumphes of her Coronation'; Ellis, II. iii. 160, citing Pauls Cross Sermon of T. Holland on 17 Nov. 1599, published 1601, with a Defence of the Church of England for keeping Queen's Day, for the origin at Oxford under Vice-Chancellor Cooper, which is perhaps confirmed by the records of the tilt (cf. ch. iv). But the City churches rang their bells on the day before 1570; cf. Westminster, 18 (1568), 'ringing for the prosperous reign of the eleventh year of Queen Elizabeth'; Kitto, 248, 'ringing for the quene the xvij of November 1569', 269 (1572), 'ringing at the quenes maᵗᶦᵉˢ chaunginge of her raign', &c. The Chamber Accounts for 1595-6 use the term 'Raigne day'. Goodman, i. 98, notes the Jacobean revival.
[59] Birch, Eliz. i. 92.
[60] Sp. P. iv. 494; cf. Kitto, 407: 'Pᵈ ye iijᵈ of November to yᵉ Parritoʳ for a warrant to kepe holy yᵉ xixᵗʰ day At wᶜʰ tyme heʳ maᵗᶦᵉ should a gone to Powles'. The ceremony, however, was deferred to 24 Nov. There was also a tilt on 19 Nov. in 1590. Von Wedel (2 R. Hist. Soc. Trans. ix. 236, 256) says in 1584 that this was a regular day for tilting; but he also says it was the royal birthday, which was 7 Sept.
[61] I find no prolonged stay at Whitehall between May 1584 and Jan. 1589. If her presence in London was necessary during this period Elizabeth seems to have preferred St. James or Somerset House. She opened Parliament in Feb. 1586 from Lambeth; there were other visits to Lambeth and the Lord Admiral's house (Hance's) in Westminster.
[62] V. P. vii. 374 (6 Jan. 1566). Machyn, 273, records a visit to the court of a lord of misrule from the city in 1561.
[63] Cf. Mediaeval Stage, i. 238. Nichols, Eliz. i. 108; ii. 65, 249; iii. 1, 445, prints rolls of gifts to and from the Queen for 1562, 1578, 1579, 1589, and 1600 from manuscripts in the British Museum and in private hands. A roll for 1585 is noticed in Arch. i. 11. Those for 1563, 1577, 1598, and 1603 appear to be among the Miscellaneous Rolls of Chancery in the R. O. (Scargill-Bird², 363), but are unprinted. Nichols also prints shorter lists of jewels given to the Queen for a number of years.
[64] Machyn, 195, 232, 257, 280, 305; V. P. vii. 74; Hawarde, 74, 109; Sydney Papers, ii. 44; cf. E. Ashmole, The Institution of the Order of the Garter (1672); N. H. Nicolas, Orders of Knighthood (1841); G. F. Beltz, Memorials of the Order of the Garter (1841). Henri IV was installed by proxy in Apr. 1600, and the attendance of the Admiral's men perhaps implies a play (Hatfield MSS. x. 118, 269; Henslowe, i. 120). There are Garter allusions in Merry Wives of Windsor.
[65] Cf. Appendix A. The Chamber Accounts show an annual payment for a bonfire on Midsummer Day.