[245] Walsingham, Diary.
[246] S. P. F.; Walsingham, Diary.
[247] Sp. P. ii. 576, 581.
[248] C. A.; S. P. D. (May 8, 9, 10); S. P. F. (May 6, 15); Walsingham, Diary; Hatfield MSS. v. 70; Sp. P. ii. 582; Lodge, ii. 99. Sidney’s May Lady entertainment may belong to this Wanstead visit or to that of 1579 (cf. ch. xxiii). For Italian tumblers in 1577–8, cf. App. B.
[249] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary; S. P. F. (May 16).
[250] C. A.; P. C.; Procl. 724; S. P. D. (July 11, 14, 17; Sept. 2, 21); Sp. P. ii. 607, 610; Shaw, ii. 78, 79; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 780; Hatfield MSS. ii. 190, 192; xiii. 160; Sydney Papers, i. 270; Hatton, 93; Lodge, ii. 119; Kempe, 248 (misdated?); Archaeologia, xix. 283; Cullum, Hawsted, 130; Hollingsworth, Stowmarket, 128; Nichols, ii. III sqq., from local archives; Entertainments by Churchyard and Garter (cf. ch. xxiv).
[251] Speeches and verses sent from Cambridge to Audley End are in G. Harvey, Gratulationes Valdinenses (1578).
[252] A. G. H. Hollingsworth, Hist. of Stowmarket (1844), 128, 130, says that players from Ipswich under John Corke were employed.
[253] For devices at Kenninghall, Norwich, and Hengrave, cf. Entertainments by Churchyard and Garter (ch. xxiv). Blomefield, vii. 214, prints from Harl. MS. 890, f. 282, verses given at Norwich with a pair of golden spurs by William (Edward?) Downes of Earlham.
[254] Dee, 5; S. P. D. Addl. (Sept. 25); P. C. (Sept. 26).