[356] Chalmers, Apology, 531, 628, has an engraving from a block of the Revels Office seal or stamp, as used by Thomas Killigrew under Charles II. It has Killigrew's arms with the legend 'Sigill: Offic: Iocor: Mascar: Et Revell: Dni: Reg.'
[357] Cf. p. 98. The verses to the Britannia are headed 'Georgij Buc Equitis aurati Reg[iorum] Sp[ectaculorum] C[uratoris] Heptastichon'.
[358] This is sometimes ascribed to a younger Buck, but the manuscript copy in Cott. MS. Tiberius, E. x, is dated from the Revels Office on St. Peter's Hill in 1619.
[359] Feuillerat, Lyly, 237; Dramatic Records, 11, 39; Herbert, 7, 102; S. P. D. Jac. I (cxxxii, p. 432). Chalmers, 492, says, 'Yet, this was not old Ben, as it seemeth, who died in 1637, but young Ben, who died in 1635'. This seems rather improbable. Was Jonson already a suitor for the post in 1601, when Dekker wrote Satiromastix, iv. i. 244, 'Master Horace ... I have some cossens Garman at Court, shall beget you the reuersion of the Master of the Kings Reuels, or else be his Lord of Misrule now at Christmas'?
[360] S. P. D. Jac. I, cxxviii. 96.
[361] Murray, ii. 193, from Inner Temple MS. 515; cf. Collier, i. 402; Gildersleeve, 64.
[362] Herbert, 67, 109.
[363] Thomas Herbert to Robert Cecil, 26 Aug. 1601 (Hatfield MSS. xi. 362): 'Her Majesty, God be praised, liketh her journey, the air of this soil, and the pleasures and pastimes showed her in the way, marvellous well'; cf. p. 111 (1577). In March 1581, Thomas Scot reported to Leicester (S. P. D. cxlviii. 34) the scurrilous statement of one Henry Hawkins, 'that my Lord Robert hath had fyve children by the Queene, and she never goethe in progress but to be delivered'.
[364] Machyn, 262, 267, describes the start from and return to London in 1561. Puttenham, iii. 22 (ed. Arber, 266), has a story of Elizabeth's mirth at one Serjeant Bendlowes, 'when in a progresse time comming to salute the Queene in Huntingtonshire he said to her Cochman, stay thy cart good fellow, stay thy cart, that I may speake to the Queene'.
[365] Hunsdon to Cecil, 31 Aug. 1599 (S. P. D. cclxxii. 94): 'She ... will go more privately than is fitting for the time, or beseeming her estate; yet she will ride through Kingston in state, proportioning very unsuitably her lodging at Hampton Court unto it, making the Lady Scudamores lodging her presence chamber, Mrs. Ratcliffes her privy chamber.' James said of certain law courts, 'They be like houses in progress, where I have not, nor can have, such distinct rooms of state as I have here at Whitehall or at Hampton Court' (Bacon, Apophthegms, in Works, vii. 166). The distribution of rooms at Theobalds for a visit of 1572 is given in Hatfield MSS. xiii. 110.