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[388] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Apr. 12, 16); Wright, ii. 370.

[389] _C. A._; Gawdy, 35.

[390] _C. A._; _P. C._ (July 7, 8); _Margaret’s_; _Lambeth_.

[391] _C. A._; _P. C._ (July 28, 29); _Rutland MSS._ i. 253; _Lambeth_; _Margaret’s_.

[392] _C. A._; Wright, ii. 387, 389; _Margaret’s_; _Lambeth_; M. Christy in _E. H. R._ xxxiv. 43, quoting J. Aske, _Elizabetha Triumphans_, and T. Deloney, _The Queen’s Visiting of the Camp at Tilbury_ (cf. ch. xxiv).

[393] _Sp. P._ iv. 419.

[394] Ibid.

[395] _P. C._ (Oct. 26); _S. P. D._ (Oct. 23, 26); _Margaret’s_ (Oct. 15 in error).

[396] _Sp. P._ iv. 487 (Nov. 8); Arber, ii. 506; Nichols, ii. 544.

[397] _P. C._ (Nov. 17).

[398] _Sp. P._ iv. 494; Arber, ii. 508.

[399] _C. A._; Stowe, _Annales_; _Sp. P._ iv. 494; Arber, ii. 508.

[400] _Martin’s_, 407; _P. C._ (Dec. 1).

[401] _Sp. P._ iv. 504; _S. P. D._ (Dec. 19); _Margaret’s_.

[402] _C. A._

[403] Stowe, _Annales_; _Martin’s_, 411; Arber, v. lxxvii.

[404] _Martin’s_, 411; _Margaret’s_; _Lambeth_; _Fulham_; Lodge, ii. 368, 375, ‘whilst she is there may be moved to her but matter of delight and to content her, which is the only cause of her going thither’.

[405] _Margaret’s._

[406] _C. A._; Lodge, ii. 379; _Margaret’s_.

[407] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Aug. 10); _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 427; xiii. 416 (Aug. 10, 16).

[408] _C. A._

[409] Dasent, xviii. 329 (Sept. 26); _Rutland MSS._ i. 276 (Sept. 27).

[410] Cf. ch. v.

[411] _Martin’s_, 413; _Margaret’s_.

[412] _C. A._

[413] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 414; _Margaret’s_.

[414] _Martin’s_, 422; _P. C._ (Jan. 25).

[415] _Martin’s_, 422.

[416] _C. A._; _P. C._; _Procl._ 825; _Margaret’s_; _Martin’s_; Lodge, app. 83.

[417] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 52 (July 28); _P. C._ (Aug. 6).

[418] _C. A._

[419] _S. P. D._ (Aug. 30); _P. C._ (Aug. 31); _Rutland MSS._ i. 283; Lodge, app. 83.

[420] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Sept. 6).

[421] _C. A._

[422] _C. A._; Dasent, xx. 71, 75 (Nov. 8, 15); Lodge, ii. 422.

[423] Lodge, ii. 419; cf. ch. xxiii (Lee).

[424] _C. A._

[425] Lodge, ii. 419 (Nov. 20), ‘secretly, as she thought’, to meet the French ambassador, Viscount Turenne.

[426] Lodge, ii. 420; _P. C._ (Nov. 22); Dee, 36 (Nov. 20 in error).

[427] Dee, 37.

[428] _Syd. P._ i. 317; _Martin’s_, 430; _Margaret’s_.

[429] _C. A._; _P. C._; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 796; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 108, 115; v. 71; _Rutland MSS._ i. 291; Wright, ii. 412.

[430] Lodge, app. 68. Probably she did not go, as the letter refers to a plot to murder her there.

[431] _Hatfield MSS._ v. 71; Burghley, _Diary_.

[432] _C. A._; _P. C._; Burghley, _Diary_; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 71; iv. 136; vi. 238; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 1, 2, 5, 31); Rymer, xvi. 109, 116–23; Kempe, 270, 305; G. C. Williamson, _Earl of Cumberland_, 77; _Procl._ 836; Nichols, iii. 96, 99; cf. W. D. Cooper in _Sussex Arch. Colls._ v. 176, 196, with some doubtful localities.

[433] For _Cowdray Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiv.

[434] For _Elvetham Entertainment_, cf. chh. iv, xxiv.

[435] Burghley, _Diary_.

[436] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 144 (Oct. 4); _P. C._ (Oct. 7).

[437] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Nov. 15); Burghley, _Diary_.

[438] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Nov. 20).

[439] _C. A._; G. C. Williamson, _George Earl of Cumberland_, 108.

[440] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 187; xiii. 465; _P. C._ (Apr. 12, 15, 16); _Margaret’s_.

[441] _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 465.

[442] _Lambeth._

[443] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 220.

[444] _C. A._; _P. C._; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 224, 226, 227; xiii. 466; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 13, Sept. 6); _Procl._ 851–3; Shaw; Lodge, app. 69, 70; Birch, i. 79; _Rutland MSS._ i. 302; Rye, 11–14; _Finch MSS._ (Sept. 15); Nichols, _Illustrations_, 135; Plummer, _Elizabethan Oxford_, 249, 261; Boas, 252.

[445] For _Bisham Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiv.

[446] For a possible entertainment at Ramsbury, cf. ch. xxiii (Mary Herbert).

[447] For _Sudeley Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiv.

[448] For _Woodstock_ (or _Ditchley_) _Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Lee.

[449] For Oxford plays, cf. ch. iv.

[450] For _Rycote Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiv.

[451] _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 466.

[452] Gawdy, 67.

[453] _C. A._

[454] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 451.

[455] _Martin’s_, 451; _P. C._ (Feb. 7, 8, 11, 12, 14); Dee, 43.

[456] _Martin’s_, 451.

[457] Ibid.

[458] Gawdy, 67.

[459] _Martin’s_, 452.

[460] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 452; _P. C._ (May 6, 13, 14); _S. P. D._ (May 9); _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 309 (May 5).

[461] _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 319 (May 22).

[462] _C. A._; _Procl._ 861; _P. C._ (June 24).

[463] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Aug. 1, 4).

[464] _C. A._

[465] Carey, _Memoirs_, 32; Clephan, 133, from _Bodl. Ashm. MS._ 1109, f. 154^v; Arber, ii. 640; G. C. Williamson, _George Earl of Cumberland_, 121.

[466] _C. A._; Birch, i. 137.

[467] Birch, i. 146. ‘Mr. [Anthony] Standen was at the play and dancing on twelfth-night, which lasted till one after midnight, more by constraint than by choice, the earl of Essex having committed to him the placing and entertaining of certain Germans. The queen appeared there in a high throne, richly adorned, and “as beautiful”, says he, “to my old sight, as ever I saw her; and next to her chair the earl, with whom she often devised in sweet and favourable manner”.’

[468] _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 506; _Martin’s_, 462.

[469] _C. A._; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 804; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 539, 552, 558; v. 71; _Martin’s_; Dee, 49; _Rutland MSS._ i. 320; Wright, ii. 433; J. H. Lloyd, _Highgate_, 225, from _Frere MS._ (misdated 1593); Gawdy, 85.

[470] _Hatfield MSS._ v. 71; xiii. 507; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 804.

[471] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 1; xiii. 508.

[472] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Oct. 31); _Sc. P._ (Oct. 25).

[473] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 19; _Martin’s_ (misdated Oct.).

[474] _C. A._; Arber, ii. 664.

[475] _Martin’s_, 465; _Rutland MSS._ i. 324.

[476] Dee, 51.

[477] _C. A._; _S. P. I._ (Dec. 8).

[478] _Martin’s_, 465.

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

[480] _Martin’s_, 471; cf. my paper on _The Occasion of A Midsummer Night’s Dream_ in _Sh. Homage_, 154. I there thought that the wedding must have been at Burghley House, but I now find that _C. A._ confirms Stowe in placing it at Greenwich, and must suppose that, after the ceremony, Elizabeth accompanied the bridal pair to Burghley House. If _M. N. D._ was produced, it may have been at either place.

[481] _C. A._; Nichols, iii. 38; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 121.

[482] _C. A._; _Rutland MSS._ i. 326; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 135, 138.

[483] Cf. ch. xxiv.

[484] _C. A._; _Gesta Grayorum_, 68.

[485] _Martin’s_, 472.

[486] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ i. 344; Lodge, app. 78; _Martin’s_, 472.

[487] _C. A._

[488] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Oct. 19); Birch, i. 311.

[489] _Syd. P._ i. 357.

[490] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ i. 365 (misdated Nov. 25 for 15); _Martin’s_, 473.

[491] _C. A._

[492] _Syd. P._ i. 366, 369, 371; _Martin’s_, 473.

[493] _Syd. P._ i. 376.

[494] _Syd. P._ i. 380; _Martin’s_, 474.

[495] _Syd. P._ i. 382.

[496] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Dec. 28); _Syd. P._ i. 384; _Martin’s_, 474.

[497] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 483; _P. C._ (Apr. 4).

[498] _Martin’s_, 483.

[499] _C. A._

[500] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 5, 6; _Martin’s_, 488; _Margaret’s_.

[501] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ vi. 425; Birch, ii. 173 (Oct. 13).

[502] _C. A._; Wright, ii. 465.

[503] _C. A._; cf. ch. xxiii (Bacon).

[504] _Martin’s_, 488.

[505] _Syd. P._ ii. 17; _Fulham_.

[506] Lysons, i. 297.

[507] _Martin’s_, 496.

[508] _C. A._; Wright, ii. 477 (July 20); _Hatfield MSS._ vii. 306 (July 22).

[509] _C. A._; _P. C._; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 13); _Hatfield MSS._ vii. 361, 370, 378; _Rutland MSS._ i. 342, 343; iv. 209; Stowe, _Annales_; Stiffkey, 141; Carey, _Memoirs_, 51; 1 Ellis, ii. 274.

[510] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Sept. 21).

[511] _P. C._; _Martin’s_, 497.

[512] _C. A._

[513] Cf. ch. v.

[514] _Martin’s_, 514; _Rutland MSS._ i. 345 (May 1).

[515] _Martin’s_, 515.

[516] _C. A._

[517] _C. A._

[518] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Sept. 13); Chamberlain, 19; Lysons, i. 257.

[519] _C. A._

[520] _C. A._; Chamberlain, 20.

[521] _C. A._; Stowe, _Annales_; _Martin’s_, 516; Chamberlain, 29.

[522] Chamberlain, 29.

[523] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 522; _Rutland MSS._ i. 351.

[524] _Martin’s_, 523; _P. C._ (Apr. 2, 3, 4).

[525] Henslowe, i. 104.

[526] Chamberlain, 52; Nichols, iii. 467.

[527] _C. A._

[528] _C. A._; Chamberlain, 57; _Lambeth_.

[529] Chamberlain, 57.

[530] _Syd. P._ ii. 118.

[531] _Procl._ 903.

[532] _S. P. D._; _Syd. P._ ii. 119.

[533] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 129, 130.

[534] _C. A._

[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.

[545] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 208.

[546] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 210.

[547] _Syd. P._ ii. 210.

[548] Nichols, iii. 489.

[549] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 23); _Syd. P._ ii. 208–213.

[550] _Syd. P._ ii. 213.

[551] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 213.

[552] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 213, 214.

[553] _Syd. P._ ii. 215.

[554] _C. A._

[555] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 217; Chamberlain, 89.

[556] _C. A._; Stowe, _Annales_; _Margaret’s_.

[557] _C. A._; Winwood, i. 271, 274; Gawdy, 103, 105; cf. ch. xxiii (Clifford).

[558] _Hatfield MSS._ x. 406. A visit of 1600 to Baynard’s Castle (Sir Robert Sydney) described in Harrington, i. 312, must fall between Nov. 13 and the Essex outbreak of 8 Feb. 1601, as Sydney was abroad earlier in 1600.

[559] Chamberlain, 97.

[560] _Martin’s_, 546; _Hatfield MSS._ xi. 543, ‘There is a great gest expected to come a maying hither. I wish your leisure and disposition may serve for maying’.

[561] _Hatfield MSS._ xi. 185.

[562] _Martin’s_, 546.

[563] _Lambeth._

[564] _C. A._

[565] _C. A._; _Lambeth_; _Hatfield MSS._ xi. 328, 329.

[566] _C. A._

[567] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ xi. 332; Chamberlain, 118; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 19).

[568] _C. A._; _P. C._; Shaw; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 27; Sept. 1, 19, 23); Stowe, _Annales_, 797; Chamberlain, 117; _Hatfield MSS._ xi. 381, 392, 394; _Carew-Cecil Corres._ 95; Goodman, ii. 22; _Remembrancia_, 286; _Rutland MSS._ i. 379, 380; _Egerton Papers_, 328.

[569] Chamberlain, 117, ‘Mr. Controller made great chere, and entertained her with many devises of singing, dauncing, and playing wenches, and such like’; _Hatfield MSS._ xi. 362 (J. Herbert--R. Cecil), ‘Her Majesty, God be praised, liketh her journey, the air of this soil and the pleasures and pastimes shewed her in the way, marvellous well’.

[570] _Rutland MS._ i. 380.

[571] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Oct. 25); _Margaret’s_; _Martin’s_, 548.

[572] _C. A._

[573] Chamberlain in _S. P. D._ cclxxxii, 48, ‘There has been such a small court this Christmas that the guard were not troubled to keep doors at the plays and pastimes’.

[574] _Hatfield MSS._ xi. 544.

[575] _S. P. D._ _Eliz._ cclxxxii. 48, ‘The Q: dined this day priuatly at my L^d Chamberlains; I came euen now from the Blackfriers, where I saw her at the play with all her _candidae auditrices_’; cf. ch. xiii (Chamberlain’s) and _M. L. R._ ii. 12.

[576] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 558; _Lambeth_ (misdated 1602/3).

[577] _Hatfield MSS._ xii. 99.

[578] _C. A._; Chamberlain, 126; _Lambeth_.

[579] _C. A._; Chamberlain, 133. Lord Cumberland’s May Day show of horsemen (cf. ch. xxiii) may belong to this year, or less probably 1601.

[580] _Hatfield MSS._ xii. 140; Chamberlain, 133.

[581] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ xii. 226.

[582] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 4, 6, 7); _Martin’s_; FULHAM; HATFIELD MSS. xii. 302, 305, 358; Lodge, ii. 552, 554; _Egerton Papers_, 340; Winwood, i. 429; Chamberlain, 150.

[583] For _Harefield Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiv.

[584] _S. P. D._ (Aug. 6, 15).

[585] _C. A._

[586] _C. A._; cf. Chamberlain, 152.

[587] Chamberlain, 157.

[588] _C. A._; Chamberlain, 162; _Martin’s_, 561.

[589] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ xii. 438, 459; Chamberlain, 163.

[590] Chamberlain, 167; _Hatfield MSS._ xii. 507, 560, 568; cf. ch. xxiii (Cecil).

[591] Chamberlain, 169.

[592] Chamberlain, 172, ‘The court hath flourisht more then ordinarie’, with ‘many playes’; _Syd. P._ ii. 262, ‘M^{rs}. Mary [Fitton] upon S^t. Steuens day in the afternoon dawnced before the Queen two galliards with one M^r. Palmer, the admirablest dawncer of this tyme; both were much commended by her Majestie; then she dawnced with hym a corante’.

[593] Chamberlain, 174.

[594] _C. A._; Lysons, i. 297; Chamberlain, 174; _Martin’s_, 567.

[595] _Contemporary Prints_ (cf. ch. xxiv); Stowe, _Annales_; Camden; Nichols, iii. 306; iv. 1054; Shaw; 1 Ellis, iii. 71, 75; _Procl._ 943, 944; _S. P. D._ (Apr. 21, 22, 25, 29; May 10); Hawarde, 180; _Egerton Papers_, 369.

[596] At Worksop were huntsmen in green with a woodman’s speech (Nichols, i. 86, from printed description).

[597] For an abandoned entertainment at Bishopsgate, cf. ch. xxiv (Dekker, _Coronation Entertainment_).

[598] Stowe, _Annales_; Shaw; Hawarde, 181.

[599] Hawarde, 181.

[600] Hawarde, 182; Shaw; Gawdy, 132.

[601] Shaw; 2 Ellis, iii. 201, ‘having vewed all his housese’.

[602] Green, 4, from _Account_ of Marmaduke Darrell; Nichols, i. 189; iv. 1056, and _Leicestershire_, i. 417; iii. 589; Kelly, _Progresses_, 318; _Middleton MSS._ 463; Wiffen, ii. 70; 1 Ellis, iii. 73; Lodge, App. 108.

[603] For entertainment at Althorp, cf. ch. xxiii (Jonson).

[604] Lodge, iii. 15; 1 Ellis, iii. 81; Shaw; Gardiner, i. 113.

[605] There were ‘speeches and delicate presents’ at Grafton (Wiffen, ii. 71).

[606] Wiffen, ii. 71; Shaw.

[607] _S. P. D._ (July 13); _Procl._ 965.

[608] Stowe, _Annales_; V. P. x. 74.

[609] Stowe, _Annales_; _V. P._ x. 75.

[610] _V. P._ x. 74.

[611] Nichols, i. xi, 250 (from gests in B.M. _Cole MS._ xlvi. 324); iv. 1059; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 17, 22, 31; Sept. 11, 15); _Procl._ 969–71 Shaw; Bradley, ii. 180–3; Hawarde, 272; Lodge, iii. 22, 24, 26, 28, 33, 34 (‘our _camp volant_, which every week dislodgeth’), 38, App. 108, 109, 115; _V. P._ x. 83.

[612] Lodge, iii. 34, 36, 41.

[613] Bradley, ii. 190 (Arabella Stuart to Lord Shrewsbury), ‘There was an interlude, but not so ridiculous, as ridiculous as it was, as my letter’.

[614] Cf. ch. v.

[615] Shaw; Beaumont in _King’s MS._ cxxiv, f. 174^v.

[616] Lodge, iii. 58; _S. P. D._ (Oct. 20); _Procl._ 974 (Oct. 24).

[617] Nichols, iv. 1059; _S. P. D._ (Nov. 1).

[618] _S. P. D._ (Dec. 21).

[619] Bradley, ii. 195, ‘It is said there shall be 30 playes’, 199; _Wilbraham’s Journal_ (_Camd. Misc._ x), 66, ‘manie plaies and dances with swordes.’ One of the King’s men’s plays was _Fair Maid of Bristow_.

[620] Cf. ch. xxiii (Daniel, _Twelve Goddesses_).

[621] Law, _Hampton Court_, ii. 11.

[622] _Margaret’s._

[623] Gawdy, 141 (Feb. 20), ‘Ther hath bene ij playes this shroftyde before the king and ther shall be an other to morrow’.

[624] _V. P._ x. 139.

[625] Stowe, _Annales_.

[626] Cf. ch. xxiv.

[627] Arber, iii. 257.

[628] Shaw; cf. ch. xxii (Jonson).

[629] Shaw (May 30, June 2).

[630] Shaw.

[631] Shaw (July 3); _S. P. D._ (July 4).

[632] _Procl._ 995; _S. P. D._ (July 14, 18); Shaw; _V. P._ x. 171.

[633] _S. P. D._ (July 28, 29, 30; Aug. 2, 6); Shaw; _V. P._ x. 171; Lodge, App. 115.

[634] 2 Ellis, iii. 207; _Egerton Papers_, 395.

[635] _C. D. I._ lxxi. 483; Rye, 117; E. Law, _Shakespeare as a Groom of the Chamber_; _V. P._ x. 175; _Gawdy MSS._ 95; Winwood, ii. 26; cf. App. B.

[636] _S. P. D._ (Sept. 6); Winwood, ii. 26; _Gawdy MSS._ 95; Warton, _Hist. of Kiddington_ (1815), 58; Shaw.

[637] _Procl._ 1001; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 16, 20).

[638] Shaw; Winwood, ii. 33.

[639] _Gawdy MSS._ 96.

[640] Stowe, _Annales_, 823; Carey, _Memoirs_, 83.

[641] _Gawdy MSS._ 97; _Margaret’s_.

[642] This is probably the play which concluded an entertainment by the Spanish ambassador to the Duke of Holst (Winwood, ii. 44; Sullivan, 26). Carleton says, ‘After Dinner he came home to us, with a Play and a Banquett’.

[643] Cf. App. B (introd.).

[644] Cf. ch. xxiii (Jonson, _Blackness_).

[645] Winwood, ii. 51; _S. P. D._ (March 6).

[646] Winwood, ii. 54.

[647] _V. P._ x. 234.

[648] Lodge, iii. 162.

[649] Stowe, _Annales_.

[650] _S. P. D._; Winwood, ii. 81.

[651] Stowe, _Annales_.

[652] Leland, _Collectanea_, ii. 626, from gests; Nichols, i. 517, apparently from abandoned gests (Lodge, App. 97, 99), 518, 560; _Procl._ 1015, 1016; _S. P. D_. (July 26, Aug. 5); _V. P._ x. 265; Shaw (July 27); Winwood, ii. 99, 107; Lodge, iii. 171; Warton, _Life of Sir T. Pope_ (1772), 413; _Reliquiae Hearnianae^2_, ii. 68 (misdated 1608); and for Oxford, Camden, _Annales_; Nichols, i. 530, iv. 1067, from description of Philip Stringer in _Harl. MS._ 7044; A. Nixon, _The Oxford Triumph_ (1605); I. Wake, _Rex Platonicus_ (1607); A. Wood, _Annals_; _S. P. D. Addl._ xxxvii. 66, 67; _V. P._ x. 270; Winwood, ii. 140.

[653] For plays at Oxford, cf. chh. iv, vii.

[654] Nichols, i. 518, 560, from _Marlow Accts._

[655] _S. P. D_. (Sept. 10); Winwood, ii. 132.

[656] _Rutland MSS._ i. 396.

[657] Stowe, _Annales_, 882; _Procl._ 1030; _V. P._ x. 332; Winwood, ii. 204; _Margaret’s_.

[658] _V. P._ x. 332; Winwood, ii. 205.

[659] Winwood, ii. 205.

[660] _Margaret’s._

[661] Cf. ch. iv.

[662] _S. P. D._ (July 16); Shaw (July 15); Nichols, ii. 53, from Drummond (app. a day out).

[663] Nichols, ii. 54; iv. 1072, from prints (cf. ch. xxiv); Stowe, 885; Harington, i. 348; Boderie, i. 223, 226, 241, 259, 283, 297; _V. P._ x. 379, 383, 386, 391; Winwood, ii. 247; Birch, i. 65.

[664] Cf. ch. v.

[665] _King of Denmarkes Welcome_, 16, ‘On Wednesday at night, the Youthes of Paules, commonlye cald the Children of Paules, plaide before the two Kings, a playe called _Abuses_: containing both a Comedie and a Tragedie, at which the Kinges seemed to take delight and be much pleased’.

[666] Shaw (Aug. 17).

[667] _Procl._ 1037; Shaw.

[668] Lodge, iii. 184.

[669] _Procl._ 1039; Shaw.

[670] Boderie, ii. 144.

[671] Boderie, ii. 253; _V. P._ x. 501.

[672] Boderie, ii. 247, 264, ‘Et à la fin d’icelui se présenta une Tragédie d’Enée et de Didon, qui les tint jusques à deux heures après minuit’.

[673] Stowe, _Annales_, 890; _V. P._ x. 8; Nichols, ii. 133.

[674] Cf. ch. iv.

[675] _S. P. D._; _Margaret’s_; Shaw; _Procl._ 1044; Birch, i. 68 (misdated), ‘The King went home yesterday’.

[676] _S. P. D._; _Procl._ 1046; Shaw; Winwood, ii. 328; Rymer, xvi. 664; Hunter, _Hallamshire_, 95.

[677] _S. P. D._

[678] Shaw; Winwood, ii. 344; Lodge, app. 102.

[679] Nichols, ii. 155; _V. P._ xi. 59.

[680] Birch, i. 69.

[681] Boderie, iii. 195.

[682] Shaw; Winwood, ii. 403.

[683] _Margaret’s._

[684] Birch, i. 76; _Procl._ 1063–4; _S. P. D._ (July 14, 18, 20, 24; Aug. 10); Rymer, xvi. 673; Lodge, App. 126; Shaw; Nichols, ii. 203.

[685] _S. P. D._ (Aug. 28).

[686] _Procl._ 1065; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 17).

[687] _Procl._ 1066; _S. P. D._ (Oct. 21).

[688] Birch, i. 85 (Jan. 3), ‘a dull and heavy Christmas hitherto’.

[689] _V. P._ xi. 243, 246.

[690] Birch, i. 92.

[691] Stowe, _Annales_.

[692] Birch, i. 96 (misdated Apr. 6).

[693] _Procl._ 1077, 1078, 1079.

[694] Stowe, _Annales_.

[695] _Margaret’s._

[696] Lodge, iii. 261.

[697] _S. P. D._ (July 26, Aug. 15, 20); Lodge, iii. 267, 268; Shaw (Aug. 2, 13, misdated?); Nichols, ii. 263; Hutchins, _Dorset_, iii. 381.

[698] _S. P. D._ (Aug. 31).

[699] _S. P. D._ (Sept. 1, 7).

[700] _Margaret’s._

[701] Cf. ch. xxiii (Jonson).

[702] At St. James’s, 10 p.m., after a supper by Henry to the players at barriers (_Arch._ xii. 258).

[703] Nichols, ii. 287; _V. P._ xi. 453, 460.

[704] Nichols, ii. 307; Stowe, _Annales_, 895.

[705] Cf. ch. xxiv.

[706] Cf. ch. xxiv.

[707] Ibid.

[708] _Arch._ xii. 258. On June 10 a newswriter (Winwood, iii. 182) says, ‘As often as he can he absents himself from the town, yet is quickly fetched again on every occasion, which much troubles him’.

[709] _Procl._ 1095; _S. P. D._ (July 29; Aug. 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 19, 23; Sept. 2); Rymer, xvi. 703, 704; Nichols, ii. 364, and _Illustrations_, 135; Birch, i. 131; Winwood, iii. 201, 213; _Rutland MSS._ i. 423; _V. P._ xii. 26, 41; Hearne, _Reliquiae^2_, ii. 69.

[710] _Rutland MSS._ i. 423; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 2).

[711] _S. P. D._ (Oct. 8, 18).

[712] _Margaret’s._

[713] _S. P. D._

[714] Ibid.

[715] _Procl._ 1115; _S. P. D._; Nichols, iv. 1083.

[716] _Procl._ 1117.

[717] _S. P. D._ (Oct. 31).

[718] There is some doubt as to the dates of this winter’s plays; cf. p. 140.

[719] Cunningham, 211.

[720] Ibid.

[721] Ibid.

[722] Ibid.; Birch, i. 133 (Jan. 29), ‘The prince went on Saturday to Royston, called thither from his martial sports of tilt, tourney, and barrier, which he followed so earnestly, that he was every day five or six hours in armour. The rest of the time was spent in---- and every night a play, in all which exercises the Lord Cranbourne attended him, keeping an honourable table all the while they were at Greenwich, and grows daily into his favour.’ The plays of Jan. 12 and 13 were certainly and those of Jan. 15, 19, 21, almost certainly at Greenwich. An extant challenge to tilt of 1612 (Clephan, 133, 176, from _Harl. MS._ 4888) may be of this period.

[723] Birch, i. 137.

[724] _V. P._ xii. 329; Cunningham, 211.

[725] _V. P._ xii. 349.

[726] Birch, i. 169, 174 (June 17, ‘The King has been coming and going to Eltham all the last week’), 181; Shaw (June 3).

[727] Birch, i. 187.

[728] Nichols, ii. 450 (from records at Leicester and Nottingham); iv. 1083; Kelly, _Progresses_, 344 (from Leicester gests); _S. P. D._ (July 23, 26, 28); _Procl._ 1123; Rymer, xvi. 724; Shaw; Birch, i. 188, 189, 197; Winwood, iii. 384.

[729] Birch, i. 197, ‘The prince made the king an entertainment, with some devices, at Woodstock’.

[730] _Procl._ 1124; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 24).

[731] Winwood, iii. 403; Birch, i. 198; _V. P._ xii. 443; cf. ch. xxiv for descriptions of visit and wedding.

[732] Birch, i. 198 (cf. App. B).

[733] Winwood, iii. 406.

[734] Birch, i. 201; Winwood, iii. 406.

[735] Ibid.

[736] Cf. App. B.

[737] Winwood, iii. 421; _V. P._ xii. 473.

[738] Birch, i. 229; Wood, _Annals_, ii. 315.

[739] Birch, i. 238; _Rutland MSS._ iv. 494; Arber, iii. 518.

[740] Stowe, 1007; Nichols, ii. 611.

[741] Nichols, ii. 628, 643; Wotton, ii. 20, 22, 29; Winwood, iii. 454, 461; Birch, i. 243.

[742] For entertainment at Caversham, cf. ch. xxiii (Campion).

[743] For entertainment at Bristol, cf. ch. xxiv.

[744] For entertainment at Bishop’s Cannings, cf. ch. xxiii (Ferebe).

[745] Wotton, ii. 25 (misdated).

[746] _S. P. D._ (July 1, 3, 4); Shaw.

[747] Winwood, iii. 468.

[748] _S. P. D._ (July 19); _Remembrancia_, 290; Birch, i. 261.

[749] _S. P. D._ (July 20, 23, 24, 26, 27, 31); Birch, i. 257; Winwood, iii. 461, 475; _Egerton Papers_, 462.

[750] Birch, i. 257, 275; _V. P._ xiii. 36; _Hist. MSS._ i. 107; _Journal of Arch. Ass._ xvi. 319. For entertainment at Wells, cf. ch. iv.

[751] Birch, i. 269.

[752] _S. P. D._ (Sept. 9); Birch, i. 275.

[753] _S. P. D._; Wotton, ii. 35.

[754] Cf. ch. xxiii (Middleton).

[755] Cf. ch. xxiv.

[756] Nichols, ii. 754.

[757] Nichols, ii. 759, from _Harl. MS._ 5171.

[758] Shaw; Wotton, ii. 39; Nichols, iii. 6.

[759] _C. A._; _Procl._ 1145.

[760] Birch, i. 329.

[761] Nichols, iii. 10, from gests at Leicester; _S. P. D._ (July 14, 18, 21, 22); Shaw; Stowe, _Annales_, 1012; Birch, i. 333, 339; Camden, _Annales_; _Procl._ 1147, 1148.

[762] Birch, i. 339; _V. P._ xiii. 166.

[763] Stowe, 1012.

[764] Birch, i. 341, 342; Stowe, 1012.

[765] Nichols, iii. 20; Kelly, _Progresses_, 360; Birch, i. 343; Shaw (Aug. 25); Wood, _Annals_, ii. 319; _Egerton Papers_, 464.

[766] Birch, i. 346.

[767] Birch, i. 290, ‘They have plays at least every night, both holidays and working days, wherein they show great----, being for the most part such poor stuff, that instead of delight, they send the auditory away with discontent. Indeed, our poets’ brains and inventions are grown very dry, insomuch that of five new plays there is not one pleases, and therefore they are driven to furbish over their old, which stand them in best stead, and bring them most profit’ (John Chamberlain).

[768] Nichols, iii. 41.

[769] For plays at Cambridge in March and May, see chh. iv, vii.

[770] Birch, i. 358.

[771] _S. P. D._

[772] _S. P. D._ (July 3, 5); Shaw.

[773] Birch, i. 368.

[774] Camden, _Annales_; _S. P. D._ (July 23, 26, 28–31); Shaw; Birch, i. 369; Nichols, iii. 97.

[775] Birch, i. 369.

[776] Nichols, iii. 104.

[777] Birch, i. 395, 397; cf. ch. iv, App. K (_Susenbrotus_).

[778] Birch, i. 394; _Rutland MSS._ iv. 508.

[779] This payment was by warrant of the Lord Chamberlain.

[780] P. C. Acts name Westcote.

[781] On the unrewarded plays of 1563–4 and 1564–5, cf. ch. vii.

[782] In P. C. Acts, by an obvious error, £7 13_s._ 8_d._

[783] P. C. Acts specify ‘Shrove Tuesday’.

[784] Apparently one play was unrewarded.

[785] P. C. Acts describe the company as Lane’s, and put the performance 26 Dec., Windsor 27 Dec., and Paul’s 1 Jan.

[786] P. C. Acts give payees as ‘Lawrence Dutton and his fellows’. Wallace, i. 213, states in error that this and the next payment are not in _D. A._

[787] P. C. Acts give payee as ‘----, Master of the Children of Westminster’.

[788] Wallace, i. 215, reads ‘cumyng’ in error.

[789] In view of the date in the warrant, the ‘Monday’ of the Revels Accounts should clearly be ‘Sunday’.

[790] The _D. A._ give all three plays on Shrove Sunday, but Cunningham has Shrove Monday for Warwick’s and omits Muncaster’s, which may have been on the Tuesday, although two plays were sometimes given on the same night.

[791] The _D. A._ give Sunday before Shrovetide, which might mean either Shrove Sunday (Mar. 4) or the preceding Sunday (Feb. 26).

[792] P. C. Acts name John Dutton, as well as Lawrence, and put Muncaster’s play on Sunday. It is safer to follow _D. A._

[793] As the entry stands, it should refer to Warwick’s, but I think it probably does refer to Leicester’s.

[794] P. C. Acts have Chamberlain’s for Howard’s.

[795] As two plays on one night are exceptional, it is safer to follow the Revels Account.

[796] The £10 payment has now become normal, but to the end of the reign is stated, usually but not invariably, as made up of £6 13_s._ 4_d._ with a ‘more’ sum of £3 6_s._ 8_d._, by way of Her Majesty’s ‘rewarde’, ‘speciall rewarde’, or ‘further liberalitie and rewarde’.

[797] The Pipe Office _D. A._ date Sunday, Jan. ‘firste’. Jan. 5 was Sunday; the ‘fifte’ of A. O. (Wallace, i. 220) is right.

[798] Presumably the Revels Accounts put this play on 4 Jan. in error.

[799] The 27 Dec. of Revels Accounts is preferable.

[800] P. C. Acts give Shrove Sunday for the Chamberlain’s as well as Warwick’s.

[801] Both the ‘Twesday’ of the Pipe Office and the ‘Tewsday’ of the Audit Office (Wallace, i. 223) _D. A._ are doubtless errors for ‘Twelfday’. P. C. Acts have ‘Twelfte Daye’.

[802] P. C. Acts give Shrove Sunday (Feb. 9).

[803] P. C. Acts give 23 Dec., obviously in error.

[804] So P. C. Acts.

[805] P. C. Acts do not name Ottewell, and call the company the Admiral’s.

[806] P. C. Acts give 27 Dec.

[807] Cf. p. 56.

[808] Dasent reads ‘Flemings’.

[809] P. C. Acts have ‘John’ Shawe.

[810] So P. C. Acts.

[811] For a discussion of these entries, cf. p. 136.

[812] For a discussion of these entries, cf. p. 140.

[813] The payment is for 12 plays; one date [13 Jan.?] is obviously omitted.

[814] Cunningham gives the date as 16 Jan.

[815] This item is entered in Account for 1612–13; _Rawl. MS_. gives the date.

[816] Cunningham gives this date as 18 Feb.

[817] The dates of the Prince’s, Lady Elizabeth’s, and Revels plays are given by _Rawl. MS._ but not _D. A._

[818] This is probably the play of 20 Oct. in the Cockpit to which (Birch, i. 198) Elizabeth invited Frederick.

[819] Both _D. A._ and Cunningham, xliii, have the error for £46 13_s._ 4_d._ Both records also date the King’s men’s plays of this winter as ‘1614’ instead of ‘1613’.

[820] So _D. A._, but Cunningham’s 28 Dec. is more probable.

[821] Henceforward play payments are by warrant from Lord Chamberlain, not Privy Council; cf. ch. vii.

[822] This item is entered in the Account for 1615–16.

[823] This item is entered in the Account for 1616–17.

[824] errant. _Om._ A. B has marginal note ‘_Erratum_ in the last impression’.

[825] B adds in margin, King Agesilaus teaches the respect due to common players in his answere to Callipides, who being a presumptious excellent actor; & thinking himself not graced enough by the kings notice, as the king passed along, doth sawcily interrupt him thus; _doth not your grace know me?_ _Yes_, said the king, _thou art Calipides the Player_.

[826] Hee ... goodnes. A, If hee cannot beleeue, hee doth coniecture strongly; but dares not resolue vpon particulars.

[827] _Epilogue._ A adds: ‘vnlesse he be prevented’.

[828] B, in margin, Iuxta Plautinum illud Collybisci: quin aedepol conductior sum quam tragaedi aut comici.

[829] When ... eccho. _Om._ A.

[830] sawsie rude. A, lying.

[831] glaunce. A, glaunces.

[832] hath. A, hath once.

[833] To ... infected. _Om._ A.

[834] Reproofe ... blushing. _Om._ A.

[835] When ... _board_. _Om._ A.

[836] also. A, enough.

[837] commonwealth. A, common-wealths.

[838] Painting ... _Revells_. _Om._ A. B, in margin, I would haue the correcting Pedant goe study _Logicke_.

[839] title. A, denomination.

[840] Yet ... number. _Om._ A.

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