Remembrancia, iii, 74 (Index, p. 132).
"The lord mayor was sent for by the king to entertain the new married couple, with their friends and followers; but he making an excuse that his house was too little to receive them, it was not accepted, but word sent back that he might command the biggest hall in the town."—Chamberlain to Carleton, 5 Jan.—"Court and Times of James I," i, 288.
Repertory 31, pt. ii, fos. 235, 239b. The minutes of the Court of Aldermen relative to the proposed entertainment are printed in Nichols, "Progresses of James I," ii, 731.
£671 4s. 3d. was the exact sum disbursed by the chamberlain on account of the entertainment.—Repertory 31, pt. ii, fo. 243b.
Repertory 31, pt. ii, fo. 235.
Nichols, "Progresses of James I," vol. ii, p. 726.
"Our aldermen have new privy seals for £200 apiece before their old money be paid."—Chamberlain to Carleton, 10 June, 1613.—"Court and Times of James I," i, 244; Cf. Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 186.
"This Meeting or Assembly is to be held a blank parliament, or rather a parley, not leaving so much as the name of a session, but (as the words went) 'Parliamentum inchoatum.'"—Chamberlain to Carleton, 9 Jan.—"Court and Times," i, 322.
Chamberlain to Carleton, 30 June, 1614.—"Court and Times," i, 328; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 239; Remembrancia, iii, 152 (Index, p. 190).
The same to the same. 7 July, 1614.—Cal. State Papers Dom., (1611-1618), p. 242; City's Records, Letter Book EE, fo. 244.