[665] Cf. ch. xxiii; also Busino in V. P. xv. 114.

[666] Winwood. ii. 43.

[667] On 2 Feb. 1604, the Earl of Worcester wrote to the Earl of Shrewsbury of The Twelve Goddeses (Lodge, iii. 87), 'I have been at sixpence charge with you to send you the book'. He adds that the books of another ballet were 'all called in'. After the Mask of Beauty Lord Lisle wrote to Shrewsbury (Lodge, App. 102) that he could not get the verses, because Jonson was busy writing more for the Haddington wedding.

[668] Cf. ch. iii.

[669] Feuillerat, Eliz. 110, 153, 168, 345, 392.

[670] Feuillerat, Eliz. 18, 112, et passim.

[671] Newcastle, On Government (S. A. Strong, Cat. of Documents at Welbeck, 223). The direct reference is to tilts, but an earlier passage runs, 'Well Sʳ Then your Maᵗᶦᵉ is well returned to White-Halle & ther prepare a maske for twelve-tyde,—Etaliens makes the Seanes beste,—& all butt your Maᵗᶦᵉ maye have their Glorius Atier off Coper which will doe as well for two or three nightes as Silver or Golde & much less charge, which otherwise will bee much founde falte withall by those thatt attendes your Maᵗᶦᵉ in the maske'.

[672] Cunningham, 203-17; cf. ch. iii.

[673] They certainly supervised Queens, Tethys' Festival, Love Freed, Lords' Mask.

[674] The privy seal of 1 Dec. 1608 for Queens is in S. P. D. Jac. I, xxxviii. 1, and that of 7 Jan. 1613 for the Lords' Mask in Collier, i. 364; a certificate of 25 May 1610 for Tethys' Festival is printed by Sullivan, 219, from S. P. D. Jac. I, liv. 74.