[468] Cf. ch. xxiii.
[469] John Taylor, Heaven's Blessing and Earth's Joy (Nichols, ii. 527). The use of fireworks at Kenilworth in 1575 and Elvetham in 1591, with a miniature sea-fight at the latter, has already been noted. An undated device for three days' fireworks by an Italian before the Queen, 'in the meadow', 'in the courtyard of the Palace', 'in the river' (Pepys MSS. 178) may belong to 1575, or possibly to the Warwick visit of 1572, at which a firework assault upon a fort in the meadow below the castle is recorded by La Mothe, v. 96.
[470] M. S. C. i. 89.
[471] Cf. ch. xxiv.
[472] Nichols, Eliz. ii. 529, from a MS. in private hands.
[473] Halle, i. 22, 189; Cripps-Day, 118 (misdated 1510). The illuminated roll of 1511 is engraved in Vetusta Monumenta, i, pll. xxi-xxvi. Some interesting documents on early Tudor tilting are given in Cripps-Day, xliii, from Harl. MS. 69 (The Book of Certaine Triumphes).
[474] The rules are extant in Heralds' College MSS. I. 26, M. 6; Harl. MSS. 69, 1354, 1776, 2358, 2413, 6064; Bodl. Ashm. MS. 763; versions are printed in Vetusta Monumenta, i; Grose and Astle, Antiquarian Repertory, i. 144; Meyrick, Antient Armor, ii. 179; Harington, i. 1; Cripps-Day, xxvii. Viscount Dillon prints (Arch. lvii. 29) an illuminated fifteenth-century collection of ordinances of chivalry which belonged to Prince Henry.
[475] Dillon, An Elizabethan Armourer's Album (Arch. Journal, lii. 113), Tilting in Tudor Times (A. J. lv. 296), Barriers and Foot-Combats (A. J. lxi. 276), Armour and Arms in Shakespeare (A. J. lxv. 270); C. ffoulkes. Jousting Cheques of the Sixteenth Century (Archaeologia, lxiii. 31), W. Segar, Honor, Military and Ciuill (1602), iii. 54, records a number of Elizabethan jousts, or, as he calls them, 'triumphs'. Dillon (A. J. lv. 303) reproduces drawings of a tilt, tourney, and barriers by William Smith (c. 1597).
[476] W. L. Spiers in L. T. R. vii. 62; Machyn, 269.
[477] E. Law, Hampton Court, i. 135, 206.