[255] C. A.
[256] Sp. P. ii. 627, 630.
[257] C. A.; P. C. (Jan. 20, 22).
[258] C. A.; Procl. 735.
[259] C. A.
[260] Devereux, i. 170; Lodge, ii. 140, 146, ‘There was never any of his cote that was able to brag of the like entertainment’.
[261] Lodge, ii. 146, ‘prettier than it happened to be performed’; Sp. P. ii. 655, ‘a grand ball, in which there were comedies and many inventions’. In the previous August (Sp. P. ii. 607) Oxford had declined a request of the queen to dance before Alençon’s agents, ‘as he did not want to entertain Frenchmen’.
[262] C. A.; Martin’s, 310; Sp. P. ii. 669, 679.
[263] Martin’s, 310; Sp. P. ii. 681.
[264] Martin’s, 310; Lambeth (June 2 in error).