[236] Machyn, 157.
[237] Brewer, vii. 560; Feuillerat, M. P. 22; cf. Tudor Revels, 7.
[238] Brewer, xiv. 1. 574; 2. 102, 159.
[239] Patent in Feuillerat, Eliz. 53. The appointment was retrospective from 16 March 1544. Cawarden had taken an inventory of Revels stuff for the King as far back as 10 Dec. 1542 (Feuillerat, M. P. 27). The historical memorandum of 1573 (cf. p. 82) printed in Tudor Revels, 2, says, 'After the deathe of Travers Seriaunt of the said office. Sir Thomas Carden knight, beinge of the kinges maiesties pryvie Chamber, beinge skilfull and delightinge in matters of devise, preferred to that office, did mislyke to be tearmed a Seriaunt because of his better countenaunce of roome and place beinge of the kinges maiesties privye Chamber. And so became he by patent the first master of the Revelles.'
[240] Patent in Feuillerat, Eliz. 70; cf. Feuillerat, Edw. and M. 4, 9.
[241] Tudor Revels, 2, from memorandum of 1573.
[242] Brewer, xx. I. 213; Feuillerat, M. P. 28; Edw. and M. 49; Patent to Lees in Feuillerat, Eliz. 56.
[243] Patent in Feuillerat, Eliz. 66.
[244] Patent in Feuillerat, Eliz. 68; cf. Edw. and M. 74, 180, 272. Blagrave is described as Cawarden's 'servant' in 1546-7, and again in Cawarden's will of 1559. He was aged about 50 on 27 June 1572 (M. S. C. ii. 52).
[245] Kempe, 93.