[535] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 141; Martin’s, 525; Margaret’s; Stowe, Annales.
[536] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 142.
[537] Devereux, ii. 92.
[538] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 149; Winwood, i. 137; Martin’s, 525.
[539] Syd. P. ii. 155 (Jan. 5): ‘Her Majestie is in very good health, and comes much abroad these holidayes; for almost every night she is in the presence, to see the ladies dawnce the old and new country dawnces, with the taber and pipe.’
[540] Syd. P. ii. 161.
[541] C. A.; P. C. (Apr. 13, 20).
[542] Hatfield MSS. x. 139 (May 5), ‘The Queen would fain hear the French gentleman sing and play who is so much commended, and saith if she had been put in mind or could yet tell how to do it, she would see the gentleman who danced on the rope and is so cunning in those voltiges’; Syd. P. ii. 194 (May 12), ‘Her Maiestie is very well; this day she appointes to see a Frenchman doe feates upon a rope in the Conduit court. To morrow she hath comanded the beares, the bull, and the ape, to be baited in the tilt-yard. Upon Wednesday she will have solemn dawncing.’ On Peter Bromvill, cf. App. D, No. cxxiii.
[543] Syd. P. ii. 201.
[544] Cf. ch. v.