[386] H. O. 145: 'It is often and in manner dayly seene, that as well in the kings owne houses, as in the places of other noblemen and gentlemen, where the kings Grace doth fortune to lye or come unto, not onely lockes of doores, tables, formes, cupboards, tressells, and other ymplements of household, be carryed, purloyned, and taken away, by such servants and others as be lodged in the same houses and places; but also such pleasures and commodities as they have about their houses, that is to say, deer, fish, orchards, hay, corne, grasse, pasture, and other store belonging to the same noblemen and gentlemen, or to others dwelling neere abouts, is by ravine taken, dispoiled, wasted and spent, without lycence or consent of the owner, or any money paid for the same, to the kings great dishonour, and the no little damage and displeasure of those to whose houses the Kings Highnesse doth fortune to repaire....'
[387] 1 Ellis, ii. 277, evidently misdated 'ann. 15' for 'ann. 16'.
[388] Kelly, Progresses, 325.
[389] The Cofferer's Account for the progress of 1561, printed in Nichols, Eliz. i. 92, from Cott. Vesp. C. xiv, shows expenditure while the court lay or dined at several private houses. On 24 July 1560 Sir N. Bacon wrote to Parker, 'The Queen's majesty meaneth on Monday next to dine at Lambeth; and although it shall be altogether of her provision, yet I thought it meet to make you privy thereto, lest, other men forgetting it, the thing should be too sudden' (Parker, 120). This was a dinner on a remove from Greenwich to Richmond, not during a progress; but the principle was probably the same. The older practice was certainly for the crown to pay. Puttenham, iii. 24 (ed. Arber, 301), records that Henry VII, 'if his chaunce had bene to lye at any of his subiects houses, or to passe moe meales then one, he that would take vpon him to defray the charge of his dyet, or of his officers and houshold, he would be maruelously offended with it, saying what priuate subiect dare vndertake a Princes charge, or looke into the secret of his expence?' And the discreet courtier adds, 'Her Maiestie hath bene knowne oftentimes to mislike the superfluous expence of her subiects bestowed vpon her in times of her progresses'.
[390] Cf. p. 17.
[391] 1 Ellis, ii. 265, from Lansd. MS. 16, f. 107.
[392] In 1576 the Board of Green Cloth paid £3 6s. 8d. by way of 'rewards given to inns in progress time where her majesty hath been' (Nichols, Eliz. ii. 48).
[393] Kelly, Progresses, 298, 320, 345, 359; Nichols, Eliz. i. 551.
[394] At Coventry in 1566 'The tanners pageant stood at St. Johns Church, the drapers pageant at the Cross, the smiths pageant at Little Park Street End, and the weavers pageant at Much Park Street' (H. Craig, Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, xxi, misdated 1567; cf. ibid. 106).
[395] Feuillerat, Eliz. 105, 109, 118, 130, 182, 225, shows that the Revels followed the progresses of 1559, when they furnished a banqueting house and mask at Horsley; of 1566, when their expenses came to £187 8s. 11½d.; of 1571, when the Master took nine men, three horses and a wagon; of 1573, when they spent £21 10s. 8d. on carriage and apparently the mask at Canterbury; and of 1574, when they furnished the Italian players at Windsor and Reading. A Green Cloth document of 1576 (Nichols, Eliz. ii. 50) also records the expenditure of £109 1s. 11d. by the Woodyard on 'necessaries, as plancks, boards, quarters, tressets, forms, and carpenters, hired in time of progresses'. Another of 1604 (Nichols, James, i. xi) is a record of wood felled to furnish the king's house with fuel during the recent progress.