Chapter IV: Of Subjects (4)

Licences, _for plays_, by high commission, i. 275;
by local officers, i. 276;
by master of revels, i. 318; ii. 222; iii. 276;
by privy council, i. 275;
by secondaries of the compter, i. 275;
by sovereign, i. 275;
by special commission, i. 295, 319;
by Samuel Daniel, ii. 49;
_for playhouses_, by local officers, i. 276, 279, 299, 306, 337;
by master of revels, i. 288, 295;
by privy council, i. 300;
_for playing companies_, by lords, i. 266, 270, 274, 276, 279,
286, 294, 299, 304, 310, 335, 337, 354; ii. 222;
by master of revels, i. 288; ii. 221;
by privy council, i. 274, 300; ii. 94, 123;
under signet, i. 306, 338; ii. 260;
_for printing books_, by correctors, iii. 162–77, 187–92;
by high commission, iii. 162, 166–8;
by lord chamberlain, iii. 192;
by master of revels, iii. 158, 169, 191, 258;
by privy council, iii. 159–63, 168;
by sovereign, iii. 160;
by Stationers’ company, iii. 162–77, 187–92;
subject to conditions, iii. 169, 188–90.
_See_ Censorship, Deputations, Exemplifications, Patents,
Restraints.

_Liebeskampff_, ii. 285.

Lighting of plays, i. 225, 227; ii. 541, 543, 556; iv. 372.

Lincoln’s Inn, i. 222; iii. 260; iv. 127.

Lincoln’s men, ii. 96.

Lion-baiting, ii. 454.

Lists for tilt, i. 140.

Livery of Household, i. 51, 539;
of players, i. 311, 313; ii. 82, 86, 105, 107, 211, 229, 239.

Local players, i. 280, 310, 328.

Locality, indicated in dialogue, iii. 41, 127;
change of, iii. 18, 25, 34, 36, 38–9, 43, 102, 121.
_See_ Edge, Foreshortening, Juxtaposition, Labels, Multiple,
Split Scenes, Unity.

_Loggia_, iii. 25, 32, 36, 43.

Long Parliament, plays suppressed by, i. 306, 387.

Lord Lieutenant, plays licensed by, i. 276.

Lord Mayor’s show, i. 135–8; iii. 305, 443, 445, 448, 455, 463; iv.
72.

Lords of Misrule, i. 19, 135; iv. 55, 71, 80, 200.

Lords of players, i. 266, 270, 274, 276, 279, 286, 294, 299, 304,
310, 335, 337, 354; ii. 3, 221; iii. 180, 188; iv. 205, 210,
230, 237, 263, 264, 268, 293, 298, 316, 319, 320, 324, 326,
328, 334, 337.

Lords’ rooms, ii. 531, 535–7; iii. 118; iv. 366.

Lost plays (list), iv. 398–404.

Lotteries, iv. 67, 400.

_Lumi artificiali_, iv. 355, 363.

_Luoghi deputati_, iii. 6.

Lutenists, i. 49; ii. 31, 277.

M

Machines, i. 179, 184, 232, 233; iii. 77, 97, 282, 376, 378–9, 383,
386; iv. 370, 371.

Maids of Honour, i. 45; iii. 514; iv. 114, 352.

‘Maisons’, iii. 16.

Managers of companies, i. 352; ii. 219, 238–9.

Manuscript plays (list), iv. 404–6.

Manuscripts used by players, iii. 193–7; iv. 4, 32, 43, 45.

Maps and plans of London, ii. 353–5, 376–9, 433.

Marprelate controversy, i. 261, 294; ii. 18, 110, 412; iii. 450;
iv. 229–33.

_Mascarade_, i. 176.

‘Mask’, etymology of, i. 153.

Masks, i. 75, 76, 78, 79, 86, 100, 149–212; iii. 500;
characters in, i. 158, 192;
inserted in plays, i. 186–90.
_See_ Alphabetical, Antimask, Assaults, Banquets, Books,
Commoning, Devices, Double Mask, Entry, Finance,
Folk-survivals, Gifts, Hall, Honour, Patterns, Perspective,
Proscenium, Revels, Scenes, Spectators, Taking out,
Torch-bearers, Truchmen.

‘Masque’, so spelt by Jonson, i. 176.

Master of Ceremonies, i. 53;
of Horse, i. 34, 67, 100, 107, 209;
of Paris Garden, ii. 450–3;
of Posts, i. 48, 62, 69;
of Requests, i. 48, 69;
of Robes, i. 52.

Master of Revels, i. 71–105, 282, 288, 295, 299, 300, 303, 305,
318–22; iv. 135–41, 272, 285, 293, 305, 308–9, 325, 338, 340,
342, 343;
fees of, i. 319; ii. 184;
play-texts altered by, i. 320;
supposed players of, i. 318; ii. 223.
_See_ Licences.

Masters of Chapel, ii. 23, 27;
of Eton, ii. 73;
of Merchant Taylors, ii. 75;
of Paul’s, ii. 8, 21;
of Westminster, ii. 69;
of Windsor Chapel, ii. 61.

Masters of companies, i. 379, 386; iv. 371.

Masterships in Household, i. 34.

Matachines, iii. 280, 382; iv. 162.

Mat-layer, i. 182, 208; iii. 262.

May games, i. 4, 6, 20, 120, 135, 303; iii. 268, 391; iv. 44, 77,
94, 113, 115, 200, 231–3, 247, 311, 338.

Mayors, control of plays by. _See_ Justices, Restraint.

Measures, i. 198; iii. 234, 239, 241, 278, 280, 282, 375, 378, 383,
385, 386, 434; iv. 56, 57, 59.

Men companies, list of, ii. 77.

Merchant Taylors, i. 296; ii. 72, 75, 213; iii. 394, 493; iv. 309;
children of, ii. 75.

‘Merriments’, ii. 325; iv. 24.

_Messalina_ engraving, ii. 519.

Messengers of Chamber, i. 45, 69; ii. 114; iii. 444.

‘Mewing’, ii. 549; iv. 369.

Middle Temple, i. 222; iii. 260; iv. 111, 127.

Midsummer bonfires, i. 20;
watch, i. 4, 135; iv. 81.

_Mimorum aedes_, ii. 538.

Minstrels, i. 48; iv. 337.

‘Momer’, ii. 324, 332.

_Momeries_, i. 152.

‘Monarke’ at Revels office, i. 87.

‘Morals’ written for printing, iii. 179.

Morascos, i. 198; iv. 59.

_Moresche_, i. 195; iii. 6; iv. 356.

Morley’s men, ii. 113, 120, 124, 192.

Morris dance, i. 4, 124, 126, 135, 151, 156, 195, 262; ii. 326;
iii. 362, 391, 453, 513; iv. 77, 78, 96, 200, 217, 231, 311,
367.

Mother of the Maids, i. 45, 54; iv. 67.

Motions, i. 281; iii. 373; iv. 271;
in masks, iii. 382, 387.

‘Mouth’, officers for, i. 46.

‘Multiple’ staging, iii. 18, 21, 25, 43.

Mumming, i. 150–1.

Music, ii. 541, 556.

Music house, i. 225; ii. 542, 557; iii. 139.

Music room, iii. 96, 120.

Music tree, ii. 557; iii. 137.

Musicians at court, i. 48, 63;
in masks, i. 201.

N

‘ne’, significance of, ii. 122, 141, 145; iii. 421.

Netherlands, players in, ii. 273–4, 285, 288, 291, 292.

New Year’s Day, i. 19, 213.

Newington Butts playhouse, ii. 404.

Night performances, i. 304; iv. 225, 247, 268, 302, 306, 340.

Nîmes, synod of, i. 249.

Nottingham’s men, ii. 141–86.

O

Open country scenes, iii. 51.

_Orchestra_, ii. 530.

_Ordinanze di figurette_ (plots?), iv. 364.

Original Accounts, iv. 132.

‘Originals’ of plays, iii. 193, 227.

_Orizonte_ (vanishing-point), iv. 355–8.

Ostend, siege of, iv. 39.

Out-of-doors action, convention of, iii. 29, 42, 60, 63.

Outer Chamber, i. 42, 45.

‘Over the stage’, ii. 534.

Oxford’s boys, ii. 100–1.

Oxford’s men, ii. 99–102.

P

‘Pageanter’, iii. 445.

Pageants, i. 126, 132, 135, 138, 151, 160, 175, 303; ii. 90; iii.
20, 305, 358, 445; iv. 60, 63, 77, 92, 118, 121, 231, 339.

Pages of Chamber, i. 45.

Palaces, i. 8–15.

Palsgrave’s men, ii. 190–2.

Papist plays, i. 328.

_Pariete_ (scenic wall), iv. 355, 362.

Paris Garden, ii. 450–65.

Parliaments, i. 22.

‘Parts’ of plays, ii. 44; iii. 185, 194, 329.

Passports, ii. 138, 274.

Patents, stages of, i. 272;
for Master of Revels, i. 89, 99; iv. 285;
for playing companies, i. 281, 302, 304, 305, 385; ii. 49, 55,
56, 67, 68, 87, 187, 190, 208, 218, 229, 230, 243, 246; iv.
270, 272, 335–43, 344;
for playhouse, ii. 472.

Patterns for masks, i. 163, 165.

Paul’s, children of, ii. 8–23;
grammar school, ii. 9–11, 16, 21;
playhouse, ii. 16; iii. 144.

Payments for court plays, iv. 141–83.

Pembroke’s men, ii. 128–34, 166, 199.

_Pendentia_ (rake of stage), iv. 356.

Pensioners, i. 47, 50, 140; iv. 352.

Pensions of players, i. 352; ii. 191, 237.

Pent-house, ii. 544.

_Pergoli_ (balconies), iv. 360.

Περίακτοι (turn-tables), i. 233; iii. 3.

Perspective, in mask-settings, i. 184;
on court stage, i. 231;
on Italian stage, iii. 8–10, 13; iv. 355;
on French stage, iii. 17;
on court stage, iii. 21, 44;
in private theatres, iii. 133, 154.

Phoenix playhouse, ii. 372, 375.

_Pianta_ (ground-plan of stage), iv. 355.

Pippins in playhouses, iv. 203, 218.

‘Piracy’ of plays, iii. 184–92.

Pit, ii. 555; iv. 372.

‘Place’, iii. 22, 27, 37.

‘Place behind the stage’, iii. 82.

Plagiarism, iii. 408.

Plague, history of, in London, i. 329; iv. 345–51;
bills of, i. 292, 302, 330; iv. 301, 336, 338, 345;
restraint of plays for, i. 267, 278, 282, 286–97, 302–4, 329;
ii. 113; iv. 259–345, 346–51;
subsidies to King’s men in, i. 218; ii. 210, 214; iv. 168, 174,
176;
in progress time, i. 109, 111, 119, 121.

_Platea_, iii. 16, 22.

_Plaudite_, ii. 549; iii. 370; iv. 366.

Players as covenant servants, ii. 154;
as gentlemen, i. 349; ii. 98, 298;
as Grooms of Chamber, i. 47, 52, 311; ii. 105, 211; iv. 169;
as rogues and vagabonds, i. 254, 270, 279, 287, 292, 294, 299,
305, 383; iv. 224, 230, 255, 258, 270, 300, 324, 337;
in masks, i. 200; ii. 217;
in poets’ feathers, i. 376; iii. 326, 450;
in prison, i. 298, 339; ii. 52, 55, 155, 323; iii. 257, 353, 496;
iv. 305, 323;
on the road, i. 332, 376, 380, 383–4; iii. 353; iv. 236, 241,
257;
pressing of, i. 383; iv. 18.
_See_ Apparel, Apprentices, Arms, Boys, Casts, Chameleon, Clowns,
Continent, Contracts, Conversion, Copper lace, Debts,
Doubling, Fines, Hireling, Infamia, Lawsuits, Quality,
Ranting, Recognisances, Statutes, Supers, Temperament,
Vizards, Women.

Playhouses, list of, ii. 379;
succession of, ii. 355–79;
iconography of, ii. 519;
audience in, ii. 548, 555;
auditorium of, ii. 526–38, 555;
cost of, i. 368; ii. 387, 391, 406–9, 423, 436, 441, 443;
destruction of, ii. 374;
luxury of, i. 285, 348; ii. 358, 395, 530; iv. 197, 200, 217,
269;
profits of, i. 355, 368; ii. 391, 424–5, 510, 512;
seating of, ii. 530–8, 555;
shape of, ii. 524, 554;
size of, ii. 527, 554;
structure of, ii. 393, 409, 434, 439, 443, 448, 522–57;
suppression of, in city, ii. 359;
visits of foreigners to, ii. 358–69.
_See_ Accidents, Attendants, Bills, Bookholders, Books, Boxes,
Boxholders, Bullettini, Burning, Cards, Contracts, Cressets,
Cutpurses, Disorders, Doors, Entrance fees, Executions,
Flags, Free list, Galleries, Gatherers, Groundlings, Harlots,
Hiring, Hissing, Hour, Housekeepers, Hut, Ladies, Licences,
Lighting, Lords’ rooms, Mewing, Night, Pent-house, Pippins,
Pit, Plaudite, Private, Public, Refreshments, Rooms, Round,
Shadow, Seats, Signs, Smoking, Sounding, Square, Stage,
Stagekeepers, Staging, Stinkards, Stools, Taphouses, Tiring
house, Tombs, Top, Trumpets, Understanders, Upper rooms,
Yard.

Playing companies, lists of, i. 341; ii. 8, 77;
succession of, ii. 3–8;
organization of, i. 310–13, 352–68, 378.
_See_ Adult, Amalgamation, Articles, Associations, Badges, Bonds,
Boy, Competition, Compositions, Deputations, Division,
Exemplifications, Finance, Housekeepers, Licences, Local,
Lords, Managers, Masters, Patents, Pensions, Provincial,
Sharers, Size, Stock, Syndicates.

Plays, lists of, iv. 373–406;
called ballads, iii. 504, 505;
falsity of, i. 254; iv. 211, 217;
incongruities in, iii. 40, 88; iv. 201, 203, 215, 226, 248;
preferred to sermons, i. 255, 258; iv. 199, 219, 223, 304;
price of, i. 372; ii. 160–4;
written for printing, iii. 28;
within plays, iii. 93.
_See_ Acts, Calvinism, Closet, Defences, Duration, Epilogue,
Ethics, Extempore, Get-penny, Length, Morals, Plots,
Politics, Prayers, Prologue, Puritans, Religious, Revision,
Revivals, Runs, Satire, Sedition, Topical, Vice.

Play-texts, sold to printers, iii. 184, 194;
printing of, i. 341; ii. 114, 128; iii. 158–200, 479.
_See_ Abridgement, Assembled, Copy, Copyright, Corrector, Good
and Bad, Manuscripts, Morals, Originals, Parts, Piracy,
Press-corrections, Publishers, Scriveners, Shorthand,
Stage-directions, Star Chamber, Stationers, Staying,
Surreptitious.

Playwrights, collaboration of, ii. 161, 253; iii. 368;
in prison, iii. 254, 257, 263, 270, 353, 367, 394, 419, 428, 454,
500;
relation of, to players, i. 372–86; ii. 162, 251–3; iii. 325,
365, 450; iv. 236, 241, 450;
to boy companies, i. 378; ii. 50.
_See_ Amanuensis, Benefits, Earnest.

_Pléiade_, plays of, iii. 13, 19.

‘Plot’ of playhouse, ii. 439.

‘Plots’ of plays, ii. 125, 136, 150, 158, 175–7; iii. 125, 459,
496, 500; iv. 9, 14, 47, 51, 404.

_Poetomachia_, i. 381; iii. 252, 292, 293, 353, 365, 369, 428, 430;
iv. 11, 17, 21, 40, 47.

_Poggiuoli_ (balconies), iv. 360.

Politics in plays, i. 244, 262–3, 276, 304, 321, 322–8; ii. 51–5,
196, 204, 210, 211, 215; iii. 254, 257, 271, 275, 286, 296,
364, 367, 415.

_Pomponiani_, iii. 3.

Poor rate on playhouses, i. 281, 283, 294, 300, 301, 317; ii. 410;
iv. 304, 316, 324, 325, 327, 328.

Porter of St. John’s Gate, i. 79, 93, 100.

Porter’s Hall playhouse, ii. 472–4; iii. 272.

_Porticus_, ii. 530.

Posts, Master of, i. 48, 62, 69.

Posts on stage, ii. 544–5; iii. 27, 38, 72, 75, 108.

Prayers at end of plays, i. 245, 311; ii. 550; iii. 180, 466, 470,
504, 505; iv. 3, 37, 50, 51.

Prayer-time, restraint in, i. 282, 283, 289, 292, 313; ii. 123.

Presence Chamber, i. 14; iv. 351–3.

Presenters, iii. 92, 128.

President of Council, i. 68.

Press-corrections, iii. 197.

Prices of seats, ii. 531–4, 536.

Prince Charles’s men, ii. 241–6.

Prince Henry’s men, ii. 186–90.

Printed plays (list), iv. 379–97.

Prison scenes, iii. 62, 66.

Private performances, i. 219, 283, 292, 340; ii. 159; iii. 451–3;
iv. 36, 276, 300, 302, 308.

‘Private’ playhouses, i. 380; ii. 355, 511, 522, 536; iii. 149; iv.
366, 372;
arrangements of, ii. 554–6;
staging in, iii. 130–54.

‘Privileges’ for books, iii. 159.

Privy Chamber, i. 14, 42.

Privy Council, i. 66–70;
Clerks of, i. 48, 68;
register of, i. 68, 277; iv. 259;
control of plays by, i. 69, 217, 266–8, 269–307; iii. 367; iv.
259–345;
of printing, iii. 159–63, 168, 172.

Privy Gallery, i. 14.

Privy Garden, i. 14.

Privy Purse, i. 62, 66.

Privy Seal, i. 54, 56, 67.

Proclamations, i. 68, 270, 273, 276, 279, 302.

Profanity in plays, i. 255, 303, 322; iv. 338.

_Profilo_ (section of playhouse), iv. 353–5.

Profits of players, i. 348, 368–70; iv. 200, 219, 269, 371.

Progresses, i. 17, 21, 107–31; ii. 25;
plays during, i. 214.

Prologue, ii. 542, 547; iii. 72; iv. 367.

Prompters. _See_ Bookholders.

Properties, i. 224, 231, 372; ii. 168; iii. 88, 137; iv. 367.

_Proscenio_ (floor of stage), iii. 4; iv. 355, 358.

Proscenium, ii. 528, 540; iii. 16, 31.

Proscenium arch of masks, i. 181, 234;
of plays, i. 234; iii. 20.

Provinces, plays in, i. 304, 328, 332–41, 387; ii. 1; iv. 36, 273,
311, 319.

‘Provision’, offices of, i. 35.

Public halls, plays in, ii. 356.

‘Public’ playhouses, ii. 355, 511, 522, 536; iv. 366.

Publishers, iv. 379;
play-lists of, iv. 398.

_Pueri elemosinariae_, ii. 9, 70.

Puppet plays. _See_ Motions.

Puritans and plays, i. 236–68, 294; iv. 184–259 (extracts).

Purveyance, i. 116.

Q

_Quadri_ (squares), iv. 356, 358.

‘Quality’ of players, i. 309.

‘Queen’ of folk, i. 124; iv. 78.

Queen’s men, ii. 83, 104–15, 229–40.

Queen’s Revels, children of, ii. 48–51, 56–61; iii. 273.

Quintain, i. 123.

R

‘Rake’ of stage, i. 233; iv. 356.

Ranting of players, i. 384; ii. 447.

_Rappresentazioni_, iii. 6.

Recesses on stage, iii. 42, 51, 70, 81, 110.

Recognisances by players, i. 283, 300, 319; iv. 261, 269, 275, 298,
325, 327, 333, 340.

Recreation, i. 267, 309.

Red Bull playhouse, ii. 445–8.

Red Lion playhouse, ii. 379.

_Rederijker_, iii. 102.

Refreshments, ii. 548.

Regensburg theatre, iii. 78.

Rehearsals, i. 87, 223; iv. 149, 152, 157, 252, 286, 372.

Religious subjects in plays, i. 239–45, 255, 266, 323, 325; ii.
265; iv. 185, 188, 196, 198, 222, 369.

_Remembrancia_ of City, i. 277, 286; iv. 259.

‘Removes’, i. 17, 20.

_Renghiere_ (balconies), iv. 360.

‘Repertory’ theatres, ii. 148;
output of, ii. 162.

Requests, Masters of, i. 48, 69.

Restraint of plays, i. 265, 269–307; iv. 259–345;
area of, i. 278, 282, 331; ii. 94, 123.
_See_ Innovation, Lent, Plague, Prayer-time, Royal deaths,
Sedition, Sunday.

Retainers, i. 271, 279; ii. 86; iv. 268, 293.

Revels, children of, ii. 51.

Revels companies in provinces, ii. 53, 59–61, 67.

‘Revels’ in mask, i. 198; iii. 386.

Revels Office, i. 71–105, 116, 223;
airings in, i. 78, 101;
allowances to officers of, i. 76, 79, 90, 94, 101;
arms and seal of, i. 104;
commission for, i. 84, 89, 99;
finance and accounts of, i. 71–105; iv. 135–41, 142–83
(extracts);
functions of, at court plays, i. 223;
housing of, i. 74, 75, 81, 83, 87, 89, 95, 101; ii. 477, 491–3,
516;
inventories of, i. 73, 74, 76, 89, 158; iv. 136;
ledgers of, i. 74, 82.
_See_ Clerk, Clerk Comptroller, Groom, Master, Yeoman.

Revision of plays, i. 373, 384; ii. 130, 170, 172, 179; iii. 396,
423, 431, 433, 440.

Revivals of plays, i. 373; ii. 43, 211; iii. 104, 364.

Rewards for plays, i. 217, 369; ii. 78–9.

Rich’s men, ii. 91.

‘Riding’ charges, i. 63.

Rings, ii. 355, 449, 525.

‘Rivers’, iii. 51, 58, 90, 107.

Robes, Master of, i. 52;
Mistress of, i. 44.

Rome, plays at, iii. 3, 9.

‘Room’. _See_ ‘Hall’.

‘Rooms’, ii. 530.

Roscius, i. 376–7; ii. 297–8, 329, 331; iii. 223, 353; iv. 195,
204, 228, 230, 236, 239.

Rose playhouse, ii. 405–10.

Round playhouses, ii. 355, 434, 524; iv. 372.

_Roxana_ engraving, ii. 519.

Royal deaths, restraint for, i. 302, 304, 329, 339; iv. 335, 341.

_Ruffiana_ (courtesan), iii. 32; iv. 359.

Running at the ring, iii. 243, 279; iv. 74, 80, 121, 125, 127.

‘Runs’ of plays, ii. 148.

Rushes on stage, ii. 529; iv. 366–8.

S

St. Elizabeth’s Day, i. 18.

St. George’s Day, i. 20; iii. 367; iv. 71.

St. Peter’s watch, iv. 81.

Salisbury Court playhouse, ii. 373, 375, 517.

Satire in plays, i. 258, 261–3, 268–9, 322–8; iv. 194, 238, 253,
256, 368;
of bishops, i. 294;
citizens, i. 264; iv. 239;
courtiers, iii. 310;
French, i. 323; ii. 53; iii. 257, 426;
Henri IV, ii. 53;
James, i. 325–8; ii. 53;
humours, i. 263;
lawyers, iii. 365, 475;
magistrates, iv. 254;
persons of honour, i. 321, 324, 327; ii. 343; iii. 455, 496; iv.
332;
Poles, iii. 455;
Puritans, i. 261, 262, 294; iii. 372, 476; iv. 229–33, 245, 249;
Scotch, i. 323, 326; ii. 51; iii. 254, 286, 354, 432;
soldiers, iii. 365;
sovereigns, i. 327–8, 493; iv. 247, 254;
Spanish, i. 323;
Swedish, i. 324;
usurers, iii. 286, 288; iv. 239;
women, iii. 417; &c., &c.
_See_ Marprelate, Sedition.

_Satyre_, iv. 362.

Saxony, players at court of, ii. 288–9.

_Scale_ (steps), iv. 358.

_Scena_, ii. 539; iii. 3.

_Scenae trigemina corona_, i. 251.

_Scenarie_, iv. 404.

_Scene_, iv. 353–65.

Scenes, as background for stage, i. 233; iii. 12, 129; iv. 366,
370, 371, 372;
for masks, i. 155, 170–84;
as divisions of play, iii. 50, 125, 131, 199;
types of, iii. 50–68, 106.
_See_ Perspective.

Scenic presentation. _See_ Staging.

Schoolboy plays, i. 378; ii. 11, 69–76; iii. 211.

Scotland, players in, i. 341; ii. 78, 265–70.

Scriveners’ copies of plays, iii. 193.

Seasons for plays, i. 329.

Seats on stage, ii. 534–8; iv. 366–8.

Secondaries of the Compter, plays licensed by, i. 275.

Secretaries of State, i. 48, 56, 67, 68.

_Secretarii_, i. 55, 56.

_Sedie_ (seats), iv. 355, 358.

_Sedilia_, ii. 530.

Sedition in plays, i. 264, 266, 271, 273, 275, 283, 295, 299; iii.
453–5; iv. 322.
_See_ Politics, Restraints, Satire, Theology.

‘Senate houses’, i. 231; iii. 44, 58, 95.

Serjeants, i. 34, 42;
at Arms, i. 47.

Servitors in playhouses. _See_ Attendants.

Setting of plays. _See_ Staging.

Sewers for Chamber, i. 46.

‘Shadow’, ii. 544.

Sharers, i. 352–8, 369; iv. 369.

_Sharers Papers_ of 1635, i. 357; ii. 59, 384, 417, 425, 508–10.

Shepherds, king and queen of, iv. 66.

Ship-board scenes, iii. 116.

Shoes, in play, ii. 326, 365; iii. 362.

Shops on stage, iii. 59, 110.

Shorthand, plays reported by, iii. 185, 343–4.

Shrovetide, i. 20, 213; iv. 237.

Shrove-Tuesday riots, i. 265; ii. 240.

‘Side’ of stage, iii. 74.

Siege scenes, iii. 38, 54, 96.

Signet, Clerks of, i. 48, 57.

Signet licences for players, i. 306, 338; ii. 260.

Signs of theatres, ii. 362, 400, 424.

Silver mine, satire of, in play, ii. 53.

Sinking curtains, iii. 9, 30.

Size of companies, i. 354.

Small seals, i. 56.

Smoking in playhouse, ii. 548; iv. 367.

‘Solace’ of queen, i. 267, 292.

‘Soundings’ in playhouse, ii. 542; iii. 72; iv. 368.

Sovereign, plays licensed by, i. 275.

Spain, players in, ii. 292.

Spanish landings in Cornwall, iv. 251.

Spectators, _rôle_ of, in mask, i. 150, 153, 155, 197.

‘Split’ scenes, iii. 86.

Square playhouse, ii. 439, 524.

Stage, structure of, ii. 528.

Stage-directions, nature of, iii. 180, 193–8;
players named in, iii. 196, 227, 271, 285, 295, 330; iv. 32, 43,
45.

Stagekeepers, ii. 109, 541; iv. 38.

Staging, in Italy, iii. 2–12; iv. 353–65;
in France, iii. 12–19;
at court, iii. 19–46;
in 16th century, iii. 47–102;
in 17th century, iii. 103–30;
in private theatres, iii. 130–54;
change of locality the problem of, iii. 18, 99, 121–30.
_See_ Above, Academic, Alcove, Alternationist, Animals, Arbours,
Arras, Atmospheric, Back cloths, Beam, Bears, Bed, Black,
Canopy, Castles, Close walk, Counting house, Curtains,
Descents, Diagrams, Discoveries, Domus, Doors, Edge,
Εκκύκλημα, End, Entrance, Excursions, Foreshortening,
Hangings, Heavens, Hell, Houses, Hut, Interior action,
Interludes, Juxtaposition, Locality, Machines, Multiple,
Out-of-doors, Over, Perspective, Place, Posts, Properties,
Rake, Recesses, Rivers, Rushes, Scenes, Senate houses, Shops,
Side, Stairs, Standardization, Studies, Tents, Throne,
Thunder, Titles, Traps, Traverse, Trees, Upper stage, Walls,
Windows, Wings.

‘Stairs’, iii. 95.

‘Standardization of effects’, iii. 2, 50, 131.

‘Standing’ houses, i. 8, 115;
offices, i. 49, 71, 102.

Stanley’s boys, ii. 119.

Star Chamber, i. 67, 69, 273, 300, 328; ii. 43; iv. 327;
orders of, on printing, iii. 162, 166, 172.

‘State’ for sovereign, i. 203, 226.

Stationers, ethics of, iii. 186.

Stationers’ Company, iii. 160–77, 186–91, 505; iv. 265, 303.

Stationers’ Register, iii. 158, 163–77, 188–91, 422; iv. 379, 398.

Statistics of plays, iii. 22, 49, 105, 177, 181–3.

Statutes concerning players, i. 270, 276, 279, 299, 303, 304; iv.
260, 263, 269, 324, 336, 338.

‘Staying’ of printing, ii. 172, 204; iii. 183–91, 292, 359–60.

Steward of Household, Lord, i. 35, 55, 67.

‘Stinkards’, ii. 533; iv. 366.

Stock of playing companies, i. 352, 372; ii. 55, 137, 230, 243.

Stole, Groom of, i. 53.

‘Stools’, ii. 535–7; iv. 366–8.

_Strade_ (gangways), iv. 355.

Strange’s men, ii. 118–24.

Street scenes, iii. 56.

_Strenae_, i. 5, 19.

‘Strolling’ players, i. 332.

‘Studies’, iii. 67, 110.

Suburbs convenient for players, i. 278, 284, 298, 300; ii. 370.

Sunday performances, i. 255, 283, 285, 287–90, 293–6, 301, 302,
314; iv. 195, 200, 201, 202, 203, 206, 210, 221, 225, 249, 262,
267, 268, 275, 279, 282, 285, 288, 292, 295, 296, 297, 302,
305, 307, 310, 329, 335.

‘Supers’, i. 371.

‘Surreptitious’ prints of plays, iii. 184–92.

Surveyors, court of, i. 58.

Sussex’s men, ii. 92–6.

Swan playhouse, ii. 411–14, 521 (drawing), 526–31, 538–9, 544–7.

Sweden, players in, ii. 274.

Sword dance, i. 171; iii. 280; iv. 117.

Syndicates for companies, i. 379; ii. 43, 45, 56, 65.

T

‘Taking out’ in mask, i. 150, 153, 155, 197.

Takings of playhouses, i. 370; ii. 122, 148.

Taphouses at playhouses, i. 369; ii. 406, 424, 442.

_Tectum_, ii. 531.

_Telari_ (scenic cloths), iv. 358.

Temperament of players, i. 351.

Tenancy, joint and in common, ii. 417.

Tents, office of, i. 49, 72, 74, 76, 82, 94, 102; ii. 491.

Tents on stage, iii. 53, 86, 106.

Terence engravings, iii. 6, 15.

_Théâtre en demi-rond_, iii. 14.

Theatre playhouse, ii. 383–400.

_Théâtre tout en pastoralle_, iii. 17, 34, 35, 44, 48, 52.

Theatres. _See_ Playhouses.

_Theatri_, iv. 353–65.

Themes, ii. 191, 300, 343–4, 349, 553; iv. 244, 246.

Theocracy at Geneva, i. 245.

Theology in plays, i. 242, 271, 273, 294; ii. 328; iv. 254.

Threshold scenes, iii. 59.

‘Throne’, iii. 64, 72, 77, 87, 89, 108; iv. 248.

Thunder on stage, iii. 76, 110; iv. 248.

Thursdays kept for bear-baiting, i. 316.

Tilts, i. 18, 19, 20, 21, 139–48; iii. 212–13, 245, 268–9, 316,
393, 399, 402–5, 463, 509; iv. 63.
_See_ Books, Challenges, Cheques, Devices, Lists, Tourney.

Tiltyards, i. 141.

‘Tiph, toph’, ii. 293.

Tire-men, i. 371; ii. 149, 226, 541; iii. 83; iv. 404.

Tire-women, i. 163; iii. 387.

Tiring house, i. 100, 225, 229, 231; ii. 392, 538, 555; iii. 72,
82; iv. 248, 370.

Titles. _See_ Labels.

‘Tombs’, iii. 59, 110.

‘Top’, iii. 98.

Topical allusions in plays, i. 322–8.
_See_ Satire, Sedition.

Torch-bearers in mask, i. 195.

_Torze_ (torches), iv. 364.

Touching for evil, i. 123.

Tourney, i. 140.

_Tragedie_, iv. 360.

Tragedy, definitions of, i. 240, 257.

Traps, ii. 528; iii. 42, 89, 96, 107, 133.

‘Traverse’, i. 181; iii. 25, 78, 234, 279, 282, 434; iv. 59.

Treason, executions for, iii. 286, 433, 440, 491.

Treasurer, Lord High, i. 54, 67;
of Chamber, i. 54–67, 217; iv. 132–5;
of Household, i. 35, 37, 55, 67.

Trees on stage, iii. 52, 89, 107.

_Trionfi_, i. 152.

Truchmen, i. 163, 165, 166, 190.

Trumpets in playhouse, iv. 367.

Tumblers. _See_ Activities.

_Tuono_ (thunder), iv. 365.

Turkish rope-dancer, ii. 111, 261, 550.

Twelfth Night, i. 19, 205, 213; iii. 281.

U

Unchastity in plays, i. 252, 255, 258, 282–3, 304.

‘Understanders’, ii. 527.

Unity of place, iii. 18, 22, 29, 34, 36, 40, 121, 134.
_See_ Locality.

Universities, public plays within, ii. 100, 113, 213; iii. 469;
criticism of plays at, i. 249.

University receptions, i. 127.

Unlocated scenes, iii. 50.

Upper rooms, ii. 387.

Upper stage, iii. 120, 153.

_Ursarii_, ii. 449.

V

Vaux’s men, ii. 103.

‘Veil’, iii. 80.

Verge, iii. 387.

_Versurae_ (wings), iii. 3, 11, 100.

_Vexillatores_, ii. 547.

_Viae ad forum_, iii. 4, 100.

‘Vice’, iii. 317, 412, 437, 466, 504, 505; iv. 3, 6, 7, 9, 229,
233.

Vice-Chamberlain of household, i. 41, 67.

Vitruvius on stage, iii. 3.

Vizards, i. 151, 196, 371; iii. 241, 376, 387; iv. 38.

‘Void’, i. 152.

_Vuota di dicitori_ (tiring room?), iv. 364.

W

Wager paid in play, iv. 181.

Wager plays, ii. 297, 468, 554.

‘Wages’ at court, i. 51.

_Wagner Book_, iii. 71.

‘Walls’, ii. 36, 39, 44; iii. 54, 72, 96, 106.

Wardrobe as organ of administration, i. 55.

Wardrobe, Great, i. 72, 80, 90, 94, 211.

Wardrobe officers, i. 42, 56.

Warwick’s men, ii. 97–9.

Watching Chamber, i. 13.

Water triumphs, i. 123, 134, 138; iv. 72, 73, 74, 103, 124, 127.

Watermen, i. 63, 296; ii. 121, 370; iv. 312, 368.

Waymaker, i. 108, 116.

Weddings at court, iii. 233, 239, 241, 245, 260, 276, 351, 378,
381, 388, 393; iv. 82, 83, 86, 87, 94, 99, 109, 112, 113, 119,
120, 122, 123, 127, 128, 129.

Welsh play, iii. 457.

Westminster, children of, ii. 69–73.

White staves, i. 39, 205, 226.

Whitefriars, children of, ii. 55.

Whitefriars playhouse, ii. 515–17.

Wild men. _See_ Woodwoses.

‘Windows’, iii. 42, 58, 95, 98, 116, 119, 153.

Windsor chapel, children of, ii. 61–4.

‘Wings’, iii. 100.

Withdrawing Chamber, i. 14.

_Wits_ engraving, ii. 519.

Women on stage, i. 371; iii. 296.

Woodcuts in plays, iii. 210, 322, 328; iv. 20.

‘Woodwoses’, i. 123–4, 135, 194; iv. 65, 66.

Worcester’s men, ii. 220–9.

Works, office of, i. 49, 80, 90, 211, 226.

Y

‘Yard’, ii. 527.

Yeomen of Chamber, i. 44;
of Crown, i. 47;
of Guard, i. 47, 63;
of Revels, i. 72, 94.

Yeomen Ushers of Chamber, i. 45, 47, 69; iv. 353.

‘Young minstrels’, ii. 13, 31–2.

Z

_Zoglia_ (lintle), iii. 21.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] _P. C._ (Nov. 22, 24); Machyn, 179; Lettenhove, i. 300.

[2] Machyn, 180; Burghley, _Diary_.

[3] _P. C._ (Dec. 4, 5); Machyn, 180; Stowe, _Annales_.

[4] _P. C._ (Dec. 22, 23); _V. P._ vii. 2.

[5] Cf. ch. v.

[6] _P. C._ (Jan. 14); _V. P._ vii. 11; Machyn, 186; Stowe, _Annales_.

[7] Machyn, 186; Stowe, _Annales_; cf. ch. xxiv.

[8] Machyn, 186; Nichols, i. 60; from _Bodl. Ashm. MS._, 863; _V. P._, vii. 11.

[9] Machyn, 187; _V. P._ vii. 18.

[10] Machyn, 191.

[11] _S. P. D._

[12] Machyn, 196; _V. P._ vii. 80.

[13] Machyn, 196.

[14] _V. P._ vii. 84; Lettenhove, i. 522.

[15] Machyn, 198; _V. P._ vii. 91; cf. chh. i, v.

[16] Machyn, 198.

[17] _Sp. P._ i. 79.

[18] Machyn, 201.

[19] Machyn, 202.

[20] _C. A._; Machyn, 203.

[21] Machyn, 203.

[22] _C. A._; _S. P. F._; _Sc. P._ (July 28, Aug. 7); _Sadler Papers_ (Aug. 8); Burghley, _Diary_; Machyn, 204, 206.

[23] _Procl._ 513; Machyn, 206.

[24] _C. A._; _Procl._ 514; _S. P. F._ (Aug. 16; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 23); Machyn, 207 (app. Aug. 15 in error); Nichols, i. 75; Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 105. Quadra (Aug. 18, _C. D. I._ lxxxvii. 231), ‘Los Embajadores de Suecia se van muy quejosos y agraviados porque creo que ha llegado á su noticia que burlaban en Palacio dellos, y la Reina mejor que los demás’ hardly bears out the interpretation of M. A. S. Hume, _Courtships of Elizabeth_, 32, that the ridicule was in a mask.

[25] _Sp. P._ i. 98; _Sadler Papers_, i. 462.

[26] Machyn, 216.

[27] Machyn, 221, ‘the plaers plad suche matter that they wher commondyd to leyff off, and contenent the maske cam in dansyng’.

[28] Machyn, 221.

[29] Machyn, 230.

[30] Machyn, 231.

[31] _C. A._; Machyn, 232.

[32] Machyn, 233.

[33] Machyn, 234; Lodge^1, i. 313.

[34] _Procl._ 525.

[35] _C. A._

[36] Machyn, 241; Parker, 120; _Sc. P._ i. 459.

[37] Machyn, 241; _Sc. P._ i. 459.

[38] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 23, 27); _S. P. F._ (Aug. 22, 27, 28); _Sc. P._ i. 475; Machyn, 241; Wright, i. 43; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 50, 142; Howard, 215; _V. H. Hants_, iii. 531.

[39] _S. P. D. Addl._; Lodge, i. 423.

[40] _Procl._ 529; _S. P. F._ (Sept. 30).

[41] _C. A._

[42] _S. P. F._ (Nov. 10, 25).

[43] _C. A._; _Hardwicke Papers_, i. 163; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 62.

[44] _C. A._

[45] Christopher Playter to Mr. Kytson (J. Gage, _Hist. of Hengrave_, 180), ‘at the corte new plays, which lasted almost all night--the name of the play was huff-suff-and ruff, with other masks, both of ladies and gents’. The only date is ‘21 Feb.’, but the year can be fixed by references in the letter to the masters of fence at court, and to _Procl._ 538 and 541 of this winter.

[46] Machyn, 251.

[47] Machyn, 250.

[48] _S. P. F._ (Apr. 26, 29).

[49] Machyn, 261; _Sp. P._ i. 208.

[50] Nichols, i. 92, from Cofferer’s Account in _Cott. MS. Vesp._ C. xiv; _C. A._; Works Account in _Lansd. MS._, 5; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 9, 11); _S. P. F._ (July 15, 21; Aug. 16, 17, 27; Sept. 10, 17); _Sc. P._ (July 13; Aug. 16; Sept. 3, 17); _Procl._ 547–50; Rymer (July 27); Machyn, 263, 267; Parker (Aug. 9, 12, 22); Wright, i. 67, 68, 69, 71; Hardwicke, i. 174; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 752; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 69; cf. M. Christy in _Essex Review_, xxvi. 115, 181.

[51] Fleay, 62, suggests a revival of Bale’s _Kinge Johan_, the MS. of which was found at Ipswich.

[52] Machyn, 267; Nichols, i. 103.

[53] Machyn, 270; Brantôme, i. 312; cf. ch. v.

[54] Parker, 156; Wallace, ii. 65.

[55] Machyn, 273.

[56] Machyn, 275.

[57] Machyn, 276. The word ‘played’, after ‘Sesar’, appears to be in a modern hand; cf. Wallace, i. 200.

[58] Machyn, 276.

[59] Machyn, 277.

[60] _Sp. P._ i. 243; Machyn, 284. Dasent, vii. 238, has a reference to this as ‘a tyme of progresse begonne’, but there was no real progress; cf. Somers to Throckmorton (Aug. 29, _S. P. F._ v. 269), ‘The Queen has all this summer kept herself here, without accustomed progress or hunting pleasures, to attend to that whereof she shall have honour’. On the unrealized plans for a meeting with Mary of Scots and the mask devised, cf. ch. v.

[61] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 16); _S. P. F._ (Sept. 19).

[62] _C. A._

[63] Machyn, 295.

[64] _S. P. D. Addl._ (Dec. 14); _S. P. F._ (Dec. 14); _Procl._ 572.

[65] Machyn, 309.

[66] _C. A._; _Procl._ 578, 579; _Rutland MSS._ (June 30); _S. P. F._ (Aug. 2); Parker, 184 (Aug. 1).

[67] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 4); _S. P. F._ (Aug. 4).

[68] _C. A._

[69] Francis to Sir Thos. Chaloner (Froude, vii. 92), ‘Regina tota amoribus dedita est venationibusque, aucupiis, choreis et rebus ludicris insumens dies noctesque’.

[70] Wright, i. 171, 172 (Apr. 23); _S. P. D._ (May 5); _S. P. F._ (May 5).

[71] Cf. ch. v.

[72] _Sp. P._ i. 366.

[73] _S. P. D._ (June 30); _Sp. P._ i. 368.

[74] _Sp. P._ i. 367, 385; Parker, 219; Burghley, _Diary_.

[75] Burghley, _Diary_.

[76] _S. P. D. Addl._ (July 16).

[77] _Procl._ 597; _Sp. P._ i. 368.

[78] _C. A._; _Pipe Office D. A._ (_Works_), 3202; _P. C._; _Procl._ 598; _S. P. F._ (Aug. 1, 8; Sept. 11); _Sp. P._ i. 373, 374, 376, 379; Stowe, _Annales_; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 756; Nichols, i. 151, from Cambridge MSS.; Lysons, _Magna Britannia_, i. 143, 496, 571, 627, from Lord Hampden’s MSS. (year uncertain); Bridges, _Northants_, i. 431 (misdated 1563).

[79] For Cambridge plays cf. ch. iv.

[80] For mask at Hinchinbrook cf. ch. v.

[81] _Sp. P._ i. 376, 379.

[82] _Sp. P._ i. 381.

[83] _C. A._

[84] _P. C._; _Martin’s_, 218; _S. P. D._ (Dec. 9).

[85] _Sp. P._ i. 403.

[86] _Sp. P._ i. 404.

[87] Cf. ch. v.

[88] _Sp. P._ i. 428.

[89] _C. A._; _Lambeth_.

[90] _C. A._; Burghley, _Diary_; Wright, i. 198.

[91] Stowe, _Annales_ (June 24); _Sp. P._ i. 442.

[92] _Martin’s_, 222; _Sp. P._ i. 446; _Procl._ 611; _P. C._ (July 15).

[93] _Sp. P._ i. 446, 451; cf. ch. v.

[94] _Martin’s_, 222.

[95] _Sp. P._ i. 465; _Pepys MSS._ 67.

[96] _C. A._

[97] _Martin’s_, 222; _Sp. P._ i. 475.

[98] _C. A._

[99] _Sp. P._ i. 487, 494.

[100] _C. A._; _Lambeth_; _P. C._ (Oct. 29, Nov. 2).

[101] _C. A._; Leland, _Collectanea_, ii. 666.

[102] _V. P._ vii. 374.

[103] _Martin’s_, 228; _Sp. P._ i. 523.

[104] _Sp. P._ i. 526.

[105] Cf. ch. v.

[106] _Martin’s_, 229; _Sp. P._ i. 564.

[107] _C. A._; _Lambeth_; cf. ch. v.

[108] _C. A._; _Pipe Office D. A._ (_Works_), 3203; Works Account in _Rawl. MS._, A. 195^c; _S. P. D._ (July 21); _S. P. F._ (July 29, Aug. 30, Sept. 8); _Sp. P._ i. 568, 571, 574, 577, 578; _Margaret’s_; _Martin’s_; Shaw, ii. 72; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 762 (Aug. 3, 5); _Middleton MSS._ (_Hist. MSS._), 528; Stowe, _Annales_; Burgon, _Gresham_, ii. 155, 212; Nichols, i. 192, 197, 199*, 206, 247, from Coventry records, &c.; Plummer, _Elizabethan Oxford_, 115, 175, 191, 198, 205; Boas, 385.

[109] At the entry to Coventry the Corpus Christi pageant of the Tanners stood at St. John’s Church, the Drapers at the Cross, the Smiths at Little Park Street End, the Weavers at Much Park Street (H. Craig, _Two Coventry C. C. Plays_, xxi, 106). The date is sometimes given as 1565 or 1567 in error.

[110] For the Oxford plays cf. ch. iv.

[111] _S. P. F._ (Sept. 10); _Sp. P._ i. 580.

[112] _D. A._ (_Works_).

[113] _S. P. F._ (Sept. 10, 17).

[114] _Martin’s_, 229; _Sp. P._ i. 582.

[115] _Sp. P._ i. 609.

[116] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 232; _Sp. P._ i. 609, 610, 612, 613.

[117] Shaw, ii. 73.

[118] _Sp. P._ i. 633: ‘The hatred that this Queen has of marriage is most strange. They represented a comedy before her last night, until nearly one in the morning, which ended in a marriage, and the Queen, as she told me herself, expressed her dislike of the woman’s part.’

[119] _Sp. P._ i. 644.

[120] _Sp. P._ i. 661.

[121] _Sc. P._ ii. 373; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 764.

[122] _C. A._ (‘Mr. Kyrres’).

[123] _C. A._; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 764; _S. P. F._ (Aug. 20, 24); _Sc. P._ (Aug. 29); _Sp. P._ i. 672; Kempe, 265.

[124] _Sp. P._ i. 672.

[125] _Sp. P._ i. 679.

[126] _Sp. P._ i. 690; _Martin’s_, 234.

[127] Nichols, i. 266, from _Privy Purse Acct._

[128] _C. A._

[129] _Sp. P._ ii. 21; _Martin’s_, 239.

[130] _C. A._; _Parker Letters_ (July 7); Burghley, _Diary_; _S. P. F._ (July 11); _C. D. I._ xc. 98, ‘Vino por el rio hasta Reder’; the translation ‘Reading’ in _Sp. P._ ii. 50 is absurd; it might be Knightrider St.

[131] _C. A._; Works Account in _Rawl. MS._ A. 195^e; Burghley, _Diary_; _S. P. D._ (July 30, Aug. 8); _S. P. F._ (July 22, Aug. 21, 27); _Sc. P._ (July 22, Aug. 14); _Sp. P._ ii. 54, 57, 64, 71, 72, 74; _Syd. P._ i. 36; _Procl._ 628, 629; Shaw, ii. 73.

[132] _Sp. P._ ii. 73.

[133] _S. P. D._ (Oct. 3); Burghley, _Diary_ (Oct. 20).

[134] La Mothe, i. 203.

[135] _C. A._; _Sp. P._ ii. 149; Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 124 (May 10); Nichols, i. 257 (May 9). The May 11 of La Mothe, i. 373, must be an error.

[136] Cf. ch. iv.

[137] _Sp. P._ ii. 178, 180. The July 27 or 28 of La Mothe, ii. 100, 133, 138, must again be an error.

[138] Sp. P. ii. 182.

[139] C. A.; Works Accounts in _Rawl. MS._ A. 195^c; _S. P. F._ (Sept. 4) _Sc. P._ (Aug. 12, 20); _Sp. P._ ii. 189, 191; _P. C. Wales_ (Aug. 22); Burghley, _Diary_; _Hatfield MSS._ i. 418, 421, 435; Camden, 420; Nichols, i. 261; _Finch MSS._ (Aug. 9); _V. H. Surrey_, iii. 383; Lodge, i. 480, 482, 483, 485; La Mothe, ii. 196, 218, 223, 229, 237.

[140] Lodge, i. 483, 485; _S. P. F._ (Sept. 24); _Parker Letters_ (Sept. 24).

[141] Cf. ch. i.

[142] _C. A._

[143] _Sp. P._ ii. 228; _Sadler Papers_ (Jan. 18).

[144] _Sp. P._ ii. 239.

[145] _P. C._ (June 18, 20).

[146] _C. A._; Works Accounts in _Rawl. MS._ A. 195^c; _P. C._; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 25); _S. P. F._ (Aug. 8; Sept. 7, 26); _Procl._ 657, 658; _Finch MSS._ (_Hist. MSS._); Burghley, _Diary_; _Hatfield MSS._ i. 481; Wiffen, i. 474; Digges, 5; Shaw, ii. 74; La Mothe, iii. 240, 246, 258, 264, 289.

[147] La Mothe, iii. 317; _P. C._ (Sept. 30).

[148] _P. C._ (Nov. 6, 7).

[149] _P. C._ (Jan. 14, 19); La Mothe, iii. 434.

[150] Holinshed, iii. 1224; La Mothe, iii. 443, 450, 454; _Margaret’s_, 18.

[151] _P. C._ (Jan. 29).

[152] _Sp. P._ ii. 295; _Rutland MSS._ i. 91.

[153] _P. C._ (March 31); Stowe, _Annales_ (Apr. 2).

[154] _Lambeth._

[155] La Mothe, iv. 94; Rimbault, 160.

[156] Holinshed, iii. 1225; Nichols, ii. 334, from Segar; _Arch_, lxiii. 47; _Arch. Journal_, lv. 315; lxi. 305; Clephan, 171, from _Ashm. MSS._ 837, 845; La Mothe, iv. 88, 95.

[157] Digges, 108.

[158] _Lambeth._

[159] _P. C._ (July 7); _S. P. F._ (July 8).

[160] _C. A._; La Mothe, iv. 206; _Kingston_.

[161] _C. A._; _P. C._; _C. D. I._ xc. 492; Burghley, _Diary_; _Hatfield MSS_. i. 516; v. 70; _Rutland MSS._ i. 95; Wright, i. 393; Lodge, i. 525, 527; La Mothe, iv. 245; Digges, 134, 138; Shaw, ii. 75; Hunter, _Hallamshire_, 111; Nichols, i. 280; cf. M. Christy in _Essex Review_, xxvi. 115, 181.

[162] _Rutland MSS._ i. 96.

[163] La Mothe, iv. 245; _Wandsworth_.

[164] _C. A._, _P. C._

[165] _Sp. P._ ii. 355; _S. P. F._ (Dec. 15, 16); _Procl._ 663 (Jan. 3). I think the _P. C._ entries of Greenwich for Dec. 25, 31 must be errors.

[166] _Hatfield MSS._ v. 70; _Rutland MSS._ i. 94–96; La Mothe, iv. 319; _Sp. P._ ii. 358. The wedding was originally planned for Theobalds in Sept. (Hunter, _Hallamshire_, 111).

[167] La Mothe, iv. 319, 321; _Sp. P._ ii. 358. Possibly Elizabeth was also at the weddings of Lords Dudley and Paget this week.

[168] La Mothe, iv. 424.

[169] La Mothe, iv. 447.

[170] _Sp. P._ ii. 393.

[171] _Martin’s_, 268.

[172] Nichols, i. 305 (dating June 14), from _Lambeth MS._ 959; ii. 335. from Segar.

[173] _Martin’s_, 268.

[174] _C. A._; _P. C._ (July 31); _S. P. D._ (Aug. 10); _S. P. F._ (Aug. 22); _Procl._ 676; _Margaret’s_; _Martin’s_; _Select Committee on Public Records_ (1800), 174; _Sp. P._ ii. 399, 413, 417; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 69, xiii. 110; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 773; _Finch MSS._ (Sept. 16); La Mothe, v. 47, 59, 63, 65, 76, 77, 79, 84, 89, 91, 92, 99, 122, 134; L. Howard, 195; _Wilts. Arch. Mag._ xviii. 261; 1 Ellis, ii. 265; Lodge, i. 540, 542, 548, 549; Strype, _Sir T. Smith_, 121; _Zurich Letters_, ii. 211; Digges, 228–65; Nichols, i. 309, from _Warwick Corporation MSS._, with errors.

[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).

[185] Nichols, i. 351; La Mothe, v. 412.

[186] _C. A._

[187] La Mothe, v. 454; _P. C._ (Nov. 25, 28, 29).

[188] _Martin’s_, 273; _P. C._ (Dec. 19, 21).

[189] Walsingham, _Diary_; La Mothe, vi. 8.

[190] Walsingham, _Diary_; La Mothe, vi. 34.

[191] La Mothe, vi. 39.

[192] Walsingham, _Diary_; _Lambeth_; Nichols, i. 325 (misdated), 384.

[193] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_; La Mothe, vi. 167.

[194] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.

[195] _C. A._; _P. C._; Walsingham, _Diary_; Burghley, _Diary_; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 15); _S. P. F._ (July 18, 30; Aug. 10, 11; Sept. 15); _Zurich Letters_, ii. 258; A. Hall, _Life_, 57; Shaw, ii. 75, 76; Lodge, ii. 43; La Mothe, vi. 197, 229; Nichols, i. 321 (misdated 1572), 379, 392, 408; R. H. Gretton, _Burford Records_, 415; cf. E. Green in _Proc. Bath Field Club_, iv. 105.

[196] For _Bristol Entertainment_ cf. ch. xxiv.

[197] Walsingham, _Diary_.

[198] Ibid.

[199] Walsingham, _Diary_.

[200] Some particulars of this winter’s revels appear to be in _S. P. D. Eliz._ ciii. 54.]

[201] Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 241 (Feb. 2); _P. C._ (Feb. 6).

[202] Lysons, i. 381; Dee, _Compendious Rehearsal_ (ed. Hearne), 516.

[203] _P. C._ (March 21, 23, 25); _Martin’s_, 284.

[204] _C. A._

[205] _Martin’s_, 284.

[206] Hunter, _Hallamshire_, 84.

[207] _C. A._; _P. C._; _P. C. Wales_ (June 13, Aug. 17); _S. P. D._ (Aug. 21; Sept. 4, 12; Oct. 6); _S. P. F._ (July 12, Aug. 29, Sept. 4, 7); _Procl._ 693, 696; _Sp. P._ ii. 492, 498; La Mothe, vi. 437, 442, 444, 487, 495, 498, 502; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 776; _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 99, 107, 108, 112, 116; v. 70; xiii. 142; Walsingham, _Diary_; _Rutland MSS._ i. 104, 105; _Middleton MSS._ 538; Shaw, ii. 76; _Sydney Papers_, i. 71; Wright, ii. 11, 16; Devon, i. 119; _Wilts. Arch. Mag._ xviii. 261; _Kenilworth Entertainments_ (cf. ch. xxiv); Nichols, i. 417, 529, 533, from local archives.

[208] For Kenilworth entertainments cf. chh. iv, xxiv.

[209] Warwick’s players were at Lichfield (cf. ch. xiii).

[210] There were pageants by Ralph Wyatt and Thomas Heywood at the Cross and St. Ellen’s Church, Worcester (Nichols, i. 537).

[211] Cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Lee.

[212] Walsingham, _Diary_.

[213] _C. A._; _Sp. P._ ii. 515.

[214] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.

[215] Walsingham, _Diary_.

[216] Walsingham, _Diary_; Shaw, ii. 77.

[217] _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 134.

[218] _P. C._

[219] _C. A._

[220] Walsingham, _Diary_.

[221] _P. C._ (July 22, 23).

[222] _C. A._, apparently (_Sp. P._ ii. 531) a false start for the progress.

[223] _C. A._; _P. C._; Walsingham, _Diary_; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 6, 12); _S. P. F._ (Sept. 6); _Sp. P._ ii. 533; _Procl._ 708; _Syd. P._ i. 392; _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 133; Kempe, 490; Lodge, _App._ 38, 39; cf. App. B.

[224] Walsingham, _Diary_.

[225] Ibid.

[226] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_; _Martin’s_, 297.

[227] _C. A._

[228] _P. C._ (Apr. 27–29); Walsingham, _Diary_ (May 6); _Martin’s_, 297 (Apr. 26 in error).

[229] _Martin’s_, 297.

[230] _C. A._; _P. C._ (May 14); Birch, i. 12; Nichols, ii. 55, from _Birch MS._ 4100; Shaw, ii. 78; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 779; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 70; Walsingham, _Diary_ (May 25).

[231] Wiffen, i. 508.

[232] _C. A._

[233] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.

[234] _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 157.

[235] Ibid.

[236] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.

[237] _P. C._; Walsingham, _Diary_: _Finch MSS._ (Sept. 4); Lodge, ii. 91.

[238] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.

[239] _C. A._

[240] _C. A._; _S. P. F._; Walsingham, _Diary_.

[241] _C. A._

[242] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.

[243] _C. A._ A lost device and play at Osterley by Churchyard (cf. ch. xxiii) may belong to this visit.

[244] Walsingham, _Diary_; _Fulham_; Nichols, ii. 92.

[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).

[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).

[265] _P. C. Wales_, 192; Stowe, _Annales_.

[266] _S. P. F._ xiv. 46, 49; _V. P._ vii. 609, 611, 612, 614; _Sp. P._ ii. 690, 694; _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 293.

[267] _P. C._; Shaw, ii. 79.

[268] _C. A._; _P. C._; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 13, 27); _Sp. P._ ii. 697; _Hatfield MSS._ (Sept. 17); _Procl._ 740; cf. M. Christy in _Essex Review_, xxvi. 115, 181. But Nichols, ii. 285, has clearly used _two_ abandoned ‘gests’.

[269] _P. C._ (Oct. 2).

[270] _Martin’s_, 311; _P. C._ (Dec. 21, 23).

[271] _C. A._

[272] _C. A._; _P. C._ (May 26, 29); Lysons, i. 297.

[273] _C. A._

[274] _C. A._; _P. C._ (July 11); Walsingham, _Diary_.

[275] _C. A._

[276] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.

[277] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 340.

[278] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.

[279] Dee, 9.

[280] Dee, 9.

[281] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ cl. 62 (app. misdated 1581).

[282] _Martin’s_, 321; Dee, 10.

[283] _M. S. C._ i. 181; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 199; Nichols, ii. 334, from Segar; Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 336, noting devices in the ‘meane season’ between challenge and tilt.

[284] _Martin’s_, 329.

[285] _C. A._; _Sp. P._ iii. 95, 101; Nichols, ii. 303.

[286] _Martin’s_, 329.

[287] _S. P. F._ xv. 82, 115, 144, 202; _Sp. P._ iii. 110, 131; _V. P._ viii. 2–15; Walsingham, _Diary_; Wright, ii. 134; _Remembrancia_, 487. On Apr. 6 the Queen was only thinking ‘whether there are any new devices in the joust, or where a ball is to be held, or what beautiful women are to be at court’ (_Sp. P._ iii. 91).

[288] Cf. chh. iv, xxiv.

[289] Walsingham, _Diary_.

[290] _Sp. P._ iii. 141, 144.

[291] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.

[292] _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 200; _Rutland MSS._ i. 127.

[293] _C. A._

[294] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_; _Rutland MSS._ i. 127.

[295] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 201.

[296] Walsingham, _Diary_.

[297] _S. P. F._ xv. 357; _Sp. P._ iii. 203; _V. P._ viii. 21.

[298] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_; Dee, 13; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 201.

[299] _Sp. P._ iii. 222; Clephan, 132, from _Bodl. Ashm. MS._ 845, ff. 164, 167; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 201.

[300] _S. P. F._ xv. 442, 453, 473, and _V. P._ viii. 26, note the princely entertainment of Anjou.

[301] Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 344 (table); Nichols, ii. 336, from Segar.

[302] _C. A._

[303] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Feb. 1); Holinshed, iii. 1330; Walsingham, _Diary_; _Sp. P._ iii. 280, 282; _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 500; _S. P. F._ xv. 444 (misdated), 484, 485; _V. P._ viii. 29. Apparently the Sandwich and Dover stages are for Anjou only, and Elizabeth remained at Canterbury Feb. 5–13.

[304] Walsingham, _Diary_; _P. C._ (Feb. 18).

[305] _Hatfield MSS._ v. 70; _S. P. D._ clv. 54; 3 Ellis, iv. 43; cf. ch. vii.

[306] _C. A._

[307] _C. A._

[308] _Sp. P._ iii. 375.

[309] _Rutland MSS._ i. 136; Shaw (May 22).

[310] _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 203; Hatton, 255; Lysons, i. 297.

[311] _C. A._

[312] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 12, 17).

[313] _C. A._

[314] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.

[315] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_.

[316] _C. A._

[317] _C. A._; _S. P. D. Addl._ (Jan. 12); Peck, 131 (Jan. 18).

[318] Walsingham, _Diary_; Dee, 18; _Lambeth_.

[319] _C. A._

[320] Lodge, app. 46; _Rutland MSS._ i. 149.

[321] _C. A._; Dee, 20; _Lambeth_.

[322] _Sp. P._ iii. 474.

[323] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 70; xiii. 229; _Rutland MSS._ i. 150, 151; Birch, i. 37.

[324] _C. A._

[325] _C. A._; _S. P. I._ (July 29, 30); _Martin’s_, 349; _Margaret’s_; Dee, 21; _Finch MSS._; Hatton, 346.

[326] _C. A._; Kempe, 269; _Sussex Arch. Colls._ v. 193; _S. P. D._ clxi. 15.

[327] _C. A._

[328] _C. A._

[329] _Martin’s_, 349; _Margaret’s_; _S. P. I._ (Oct. 14).

[330] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 349; _Remembrancia_, 407, ‘for her private recreation, to take the air abroad’.

[331] _Martin’s_, 350.

[332] Duke of Norfolk, _Life of Philip Earl of Arundel_, 22.

[333] Shaw, ii. 82.

[334] _S. P. F._ (Apr. 20); Peck, 149 (May 2).

[335] _C. A._; _S. P. D._; Shaw; _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 35.

[336] _S. P. F._ (July 17); Hatton, 382 (July 21).

[337] _C. A._; Hatton, 388; Peck, 154.

[338] _C. A._

[339] _C. A._; Lodge, ii. 246.

[340] _Sc. P._ (Oct. 6); _S. P. D._ (Oct. 10).

[341] _C. A._; _S. P. F._ xix. 92 (misdated Oct. 5?).

[342] _C. A._; Stowe, _Annales_.

[343] 2 _R. Hist. Soc. Trans._ ix. 258.

[344] Ibid. 262; Clephan, 171, from _Bodl. Ashm. MS._ 845, f. 168.

[345] _C. A._; Duke of Norfolk, _Life of Earl of Arundel_, 193, puts this or another visit after the Earl’s committal to the Tower on 25 Apr. 1585.

[346] Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 365.

[347] Ibid.; _Martin’s_, 371; _S. P. I._ (Feb. 8); _S. P. F._ (Feb. 12).

[348] _Hatfield MSS._ vi. 556.

[349] _C. A._

[350] _Margaret’s_; Stowe, _Annales_ (March 29).

[351] _C. A._; Hatton, 416.

[352] _C. A._

[353] Hatton, 426.

[354] _C. A._; Shaw, ii. 83; Nichols, ii. 427.

[355] Cf. ch. xxiii (Lee).

[356] _Lambeth._

[357] Hatton, 406 (July 20); _S. P. D._ (July 24).

[358] Lysons, i. 297.

[359] _C. A._; _S. P. F._ (Aug. 25).

[360] _C. A._

[361] _Sc. P._ (Sept. 26); Nichols, ii. 440 (Oct. 1).

[362] _C. A._; _Rutland MSS._ i. 183; _Margaret’s_.

[363] _Martin’s_, 374; _Lambeth_.

[364] _Lambeth._

[365] _Lambeth._

[366] _C. A._; _P. C._ (July 10); _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 178; _Rutland MSS._ i. 199.

[367] _C. A._

[368] _C. A._; Nichols, ii. 460, from speech of Mayor of Windsor.

[369] _C. A._

[370] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 182.

[371] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 386; _Lambeth_.

[372] Nichols, ii. 529, from private MS.

[373] _C. A._; Dasent, xv. 59, 64; _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 249.

[374] _P. C._ (May 2).

[375] _C. A._

[376] _C. A._; _Rutland MSS._ i. 215 (May 25); _P. C._ (May 29).

[377] _C. A._; _P. C._; _S. P. D._ (July 16, 18); _Rutland MSS._ i. 222; _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 270; v. 71; Devon, i. 187; Goodman, ii. 1.

[378] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Aug. 20).

[379] _P. C._ (Sept. 19, 24).

[380] _Martin’s_, 397; _Margaret’s_; _Lambeth_; Gawdy, 18.

[381] Gawdy, 25; Shaw.

[382] Gawdy, 25.

[383] _Foljambe MSS._ 28; Gawdy, 25, 29; _Sc. P._ (Dec. 2).

[384] _Rutland MSS._ i. 232; _Hist. MSS._ vii. 520.

[385] _Rutland MSS._ i. 234.

[386] _C. A._; _Margaret’s_; _Lambeth_; _Rutland MSS._ i. 236, 237.

[387] Cf. ch. xxiii (Churchyard).