[448] Cf. ch. xxiv.
[449] Dekker sadly records that a great part of the speeches was left unspoken, lest they should be tedious to James.
[450] Machyn, 180.
[451] See ch. xxiv, s.v. Dekker, Coronation Entertainment. On 15 April 1605 the Spanish ambassador provoked a riot by 'joys and shews' to celebrate the birth of a Spanish prince (Lodge, iii. 147; Stowe, Annales, 862).
[452] V. P. x. 384; Nichols, iv. 1074.
[453] Clode, Early History of the Merchant Taylors, i. 276, gives many details from records of the company, including the item, 'To Mʳ. Hemmyngs for his direccion of his boy that made the speech to his Majesty 40s., and 5s. given to John Rise the speaker'.
[454] Cf. ch. xxiii. The entry of payments to Burbage and Rice, trumpeted as a discovery by C. W. Wallace in The Times for 28 March 1913, was in fact published by Halliwell-Phillipps in the Athenaeum for 19 May 1888; it is also in Stopes, Burbage, 108.
[455] Cf. ch. xxiv.
[456] Machyn, 191, 196, 201, 261, 273; cf. App. A (1559-1561).
[457] Cf. Mediaeval Stage, ii. 165, 382. Machyn, 287, records a watch with a 'castylle' at the Tower on 28 June 1562. There was another on 28 June 1564, which Elizabeth saw privately from Baynard's Castle (Sp. P. i. 366; cf. App. A). Puttenham, 165, speaks of 'these midsommer pageants in London, where to make the people wonder are set forth great and vglie Gyants marching as if they were aliue, and armed at all points, but within they are stuffed full of browne paper and tow, which the shrewd boys vnderpeering, do guilefully discouer and turne to a great derision'.