[175] At Kenilworth were ‘such princely sports as could be devised’ (Nichols, i. 318, from Warwick Black Book).
[176] At Warwick on Aug. 17 were a country dance and a show of fireworks (ibid.).
[177] Digges, 260, 263.
[178] Hatfield MSS. ii. 28; Sp. P. ii. 435; La Mothe, v. 200.
[179] Martin’s, 272 (Feb. 27, 28, in error?); Digges, 328 (Jan. 29); P. C. (Feb. 3); Feuillerat, Eliz. 171.
[180] C. A.; P. C.; La Mothe, v. 262, 267, 270; Sp. P. ii. 467; Wright, i. 466; Hatfield MSS. v. 70 (misdated); Nichols, i. 378.
[181] Nichols, i. 332, 378, 548, from M. Parker, Matthaeus, Dering MS., and local archives; C. A.; P. C.; W. D. Cooper, Winchelsea, 107, and in Sussex Arch. Coll. v. 190, from Acct. of Controller of Household and local archives; Denne, Bibl. Top. Brit. xlv. 211; Parker Corres. 436, 437, 441, 475; Arch. Cantiana, vi. 43; ix. 235; xi. 199; Zurich Letters, ii. 221; S. P. F. (Sept. 15); Lodge, ii. 33; Shaw, ii. 75; La Mothe, v. 412; 1 Ellis, ii. 267.
[182] There was a reception at Orpington by a Nymph as Genius of the house, and a sea-fight in a bark (Hasted, i. 134).
[183] A mock sea-fight was shown at Sandwich on Sept. 1 (Nichols, i. 337, from town archives).
[184] There was a mask of Mariners at Canterbury on Sept. 7 (Feuillerat, Eliz. 183).