Chapter C: Receptions and Entertainments

_Coronation Triumph. 1559_

_S. R._ 1558–9. ‘The passage of the quenes maiesties Throwoute the Cytie of London.’ _Richard Tottle_ (Arber, i. 96).

1558[9], Jan. 23. The Passage of our most drad Soueraigne Lady Quene Elyzabeth through the citie of London to westminster the daye before her coronacion. _Richard Tottill. Cum privilegio._

N.D. [1604.] The Royal Passage of her Majesty from the Tower of London to her Palace of Whitehall, with all the Speaches and Devices, both of the Pageants and otherwise, together with her Majesties severall Answers, and most pleasing Speaches to them all. _S. S. for Jone Millington._

N.D. [1604.] _S. S. for John Busby._ [Another issue.]

_Editions_ in Nichols, _Eliz._ i. 38 (1823), and A. F. Pollard, _Tudor Tracts_ (_England’s Garner_^2), 365.

There are also accounts in Machyn, 186, and in Holinshed (1808), iv. 158. For a list of the pageants cf. ch. iv.

_Bristol Entertainment. August 1574_

1575. The whole Order howe our Soveraigne Ladye Queene Elizabeth was receyved into the Citie of Bristowe, in August, and the Speeches spoken before her presens at her Entry; with the residue of Versis and Matter that might not be spoken (for distance of the place), but sent in a Book over the Waetter. _Thomas Marshe._ [In ‘_The Firste Parte of Churchyardes Chippes, contayning Twelve seueral Labours_. Devised and published, only by Thomas Churchyard, Gentilman’. Epistle to Christopher Hatton.]

1578. _Thomas Marsh._

_Editions_ in Nichols, _Eliz._ i. 393 (1788, 1823), and by J. P. Collier (1867).

Probably Churchyard was the deviser of the entertainment, as he calls the _Chippes_ ‘a book of all my English verses in meter’. He says, ‘Some of these Speeches could not be spoken, by means of a Scholemaister, who envied that any stranger should set forth these Shows’. _A worthie Dittie, song before the Queens Majestie at Bristow_, by D. S[and], not in the Entertainment, is in _The Paradise of Daynty Devises_ (1576). Elizabeth was at Bristol 13–21 Aug. 1574 and lay at John Young’s. Fame, a boy with a speech in English verse, met her at the High Cross. At the next gate were Salutation, Gratulation, and Obedient Good Will, with their verses. On 14 Aug. the Queen attended divine service at the College. On 15 and 16 Aug. the Forts of Peace and Feeble Policy were arrayed, and there were sham fights by land and sea, with speeches by Dissuasion, Persuasion, and John Roberts, who apparently wrote his own. Was he the envious schoolmaster?

_Kenilworth Entertainment. 1575_

There are two descriptions:

A. By _Gascoigne_

1576. The Princelye pleasures, at the Courte at Kenelwoorth. That is to saye, The Copies of all such verses Proses, or Poeticall inuentions, and other Deuices of pleasure, as were there deuised, and presented by sundry Gentle men, before the Quenes Maiestie: In the yeare 1575. _Richard Jones_. [The unique copy is believed to have been burnt in the Shakespeare Library at Birmingham. The printer’s Epistle is dated March 26, 1576.]

1587. [Part of _Collection_.]

_Editions_ in Nichols, _Eliz._^2 i. 486 (1823), and elsewhere (cf. Schelling, 121).

B. By _Robert Laneham_

1575. A letter: Whearin part of the entertainment untoo the Queez Majesty at Killingwoorth Castl, in Warwick Sheer in this Soomerz Progress, 1575, is signified: from a freend officer attendant in the Coourt untoo hiz freend a Citizen, and Merchaunt of London. [_No imprint or colophon._]

_Editions_ in Nichols, _Eliz._^2 i. 420 (1823), by F. J. Furnivall, _Captain Cox, his Ballads and Books_ (1871, _Ballad Soc._; 1890, _N. S. S._), in _Sh.-Jahrbuch_, xxvii, 251 (1892), and elsewhere (cf. Furnivall, ix, clxxvi).

Elizabeth was at Kenilworth 9–27 July 1575. The diary of entertainments is given in ch. iv. The contributions of specific authors were as follows:

9 July. Speeches of Sibylla, by William Hunnis; the Porter Hercules, by John Badger; the Lady of the Lake, by George Ferrers; a Poet, in Latin, by Richard Mulcaster, or Mercury (?) Paten. It is uncertain which was used; Gascoigne prints Mulcaster’s, Laneham Paten’s.

11 July. Dialogue of a Savage Man and Echo, ‘devised, penned, and pronounced’ by Gascoigne.

18 July. Device of the Delivery of the Lady of the Lake, by William Hunnis, with verses by Hunnis, Ferrers, and Henry Goldingham, who played Arion.

20 July. Device of Zabeta prepared by Gascoigne, but not shown.

27 July. Device of the Farewell of Silvanus, by Gascoigne.

_Woodstock Entertainment. 1575_

See ch. xxiii, s.v. SIR HENRY LEE.

_Suffolk and Norfolk Entertainments. August 1578_

There are two contemporary descriptions:

A

_S. R._ 1578, Aug. 30. ‘The ioyfull Receavinge of the Quenes maiestie into Norwyche.’ _Henry Bynneman_ (Arber, ii. 336).

N.D. The Ioyfull Receyuing of the Queenes most excellent Maiestie into her Highnesse Citie of Norwich: The things done in the time of hir abode there: and the dolor of the Citie at hir departure. Wherein are set down diuers Orations in Latine, pronounced to hir Highnesse by Sir Robert Wood Knight, now Maior of the same Citie, and others: and certain also deliuered to hir Maiestie in writing: euery of the turned into English. _Henrie Bynneman._ [Epistle by Ber[nard] Gar[ter] to Sir Owen Hopton.]

_Edition_ in Nichols, _Eliz._ (1823), ii. 136.

B

_S. R._ 1578, Sept. 20. ‘The enterteignement of the Quenes Maiestie in Suffolk and Norffolk; gathered by Thomas Churchyard.’ _Henry Bynneman_ (Arber, ii. 338).

N.D. A Discourse of the Queenes Maiesties entertainement in Suffolk and Norffolk: With a description of many things then presently seene. Deuised by Thomas Churchyarde, Gent. with diuers shewes of his own inuention sette out at Norwich: ... _Henrie Bynneman_. [Epistle by Churchyard to Gilbert Garrard. Adnitt (cf. s.v. Churchyard) says there were two issues with varying prefatory matter.]

_Extracts_ in Nichols, _Eliz._ (1823), ii. 115, 128, 130, 133, 179.

A ballad and a sonnet, presumably from their titles based on A, were registered by J. Charlwood and R. Jones respectively on 24 and 31 March 1579 (Arber, ii. 349, 350).

Elizabeth was at Norwich 16–22 Aug. 1578. The diary is as follows:

16 Aug. 1578. Oration by Mayor at Hartford Bridge; Speech, prepared but prevented by rain, of King Gurgunt in Town Close near Blanch Flower Castle; Pageant of the Commonwealth, with representations of local loom industries, and speech by Garter in St. Stephen’s Street; Pageant of the City of Norwich, Deborah, Judith, Esther, and Queen Martia, with the City Waits and songs by Garter and Churchyard, at entry to Market-place; Speech of a Turkish Boy by Churchyard, at Mr. Peck’s door.

18 Aug. Speech of Mercury in an elaborate coach, by Churchyard.

19 Aug. Show of Chastity, with dialogue and song of Chastity, Cupid, a Philosopher, Wantonness, Riot, Modesty, Temperance, Good Exercise, and Shamefastness, by Churchyard; Oration by Minister of Dutch Church.

20 Aug. Oration by Stephen Limbert, Master of the Grammar School.

21 Aug. Shows of Water Nymphs, with speeches, and of Manhood and Desert, a contention of Manhood, Good Favour, Desert, and Good Fortune, for Lady Beauty, prepared but prevented by rain, both by Churchyard; Mask by Henry Goldingham in Privy Chamber after supper of Jupiter, Juno, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Pallas, Neptune, Diana, Mercury as presenter, Cupid, torchbearers and musicians, who marched about the chamber and made speeches and characteristic gifts, but apparently did not dance.

22 Aug. Speech and Song at St. Benet’s Gate by Garter; Show of Fairies with their Queen and seven speeches, outside the gate, by Churchyard; written Oration by Mayor at departure over City boundary.

Churchyard also mentions ‘speeches well sette out and a speciall device much commended’ in the park of the Earl of Surrey at Kenninghall on 12 Aug.; also divers ‘triumphes and devises’ in Suffolk, of which he only specifies ‘a shew representing the Phayries (as well as might be) ... in the whiche shew a rich jewell was presented to the Queenes Highnesse’ at Sir Thomas Kidson’s house, Hengrave Hall, during 28–30 Aug. In _Churchyards Challenge_ (1593) he claims ‘The whole deuises pastimes and plaies at Norwich, before her Maistie’, and also ‘The Commedy before her Maestie at Norwich in the fielde when she went to dinner to my Lady Gerninghams’ at Costessy (19 Aug.).

_Fortress of Perfect Beauty. 15–16 May 1581_

_S. R._ 1581, July 1. ‘The Tryumphe Shewed before the Quene and the Ffrenche Embassadors.’ _Robert Walgrave_ (Arber, ii. 396).

N.D. A brief declaratiō of the shews, deuices, speeches, and inuentions, done & performed before the Queenes Maiestie, & the French Ambassadours, at the most valiaunt and worthye Triumph, attempted and executed on the Munday and Tuesday in Whitson weeke last, Anno 1581. Collected, gathered, penned & published, by Henry Goldwel, Gen. _Robert Waldegrave._ [Epistle by Goldwell to Rowland Brasebridge of Great Wycombe.]

_Edition_ in Nichols, _Eliz._^2 (1823), ii. 310.

This was a tilt, before François of Bourbon, dauphin of Auvergne, Artus de Cossé, marshal of France, and other commissioners from France, for the treaty of marriage between Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou. The challenge was delivered by a boy in red and white, as the Queen came from Chapel on 16 April 1581. The tilt, first fixed for 24 April, was put off to 1 May, 8 May, and finally 15 May. The gallery at the end of the tilt-yard was named the Castle or Fortress of Perfect Beauty, and the challengers, the Earl of Arundel, Lord Windsor, Philip Sidney, and Fulke Greville, called themselves the Four Foster Children of Desire. They entered from the stable, with trains of followers and a Rowling Trench of printed canvas, to besiege the fortress. From this boys spoke and sang, and cannonades of perfumes were shot off, while flowers and other fancies were flung from scaling ladders. Then came twenty-one defendants, each with his ‘invention’ and speech. They were Henry Grey, Sir Thomas Perot, Anthony Cooke, Thomas Ratcliffe, Henry Knolles, William Knolles, Robert Knolles, Francis Knolles, Rafe Bowes, Thomas Kelwaie, George Goring, William Tresham, Robert Alexander, Edward Dennie, Hercules Meautus, Edward Moore, Richard Skipwith, Richard Ward, Edward Digbie, Henry Nowell, Henry Brunkerd. Perot and Cooke were ‘both in like armour, beset with apples and fruit, the one signifying Adam and the other Eve, who had haire hung all down his helmet’. Their page was an Angel. Ratcliffe was a Desolate Knight, with a page who presented his shield. The four Knolles brothers were Sons of Despair, with Mercury for a page. The speeches of the pages are given. Each defendant ran six courses with the challengers. ‘In the middest of the running came in Sir Henrie Leigh, as unknowne, and when he had broken his six staves, went out in like manner againe.’ At the end of the first day the boy who gave the challenge announced a second on the morrow.

On the second day the challengers entered in a chariot ‘forewearied and half overcome’ with a lady representing Desire, and a consort of music. A herald made a speech for them. The defendants entered, and the tournay and barriers followed. At the end a boy clad in ash colour and bearing an olive-branch made submission of the challengers to the Queen.

Foulkes, lxiii. 49, says that a set of blank cheques for this tilt are in _Ashm. MS._ 845, f. 166.

_Tilbury Visit. 1588_

There are or were three accounts:

A

_S. R._ 1588, Aug. 10. ‘The quenes visitinge the campe at Tilberye and her enterteynement there the 8 and 9 of August 1588, with condicon yat yt may be aucthorised hereafter.’ _John Wolf_ (Arber, ii. 495).

N.D. The Queenes visiting of the Campe at Tilsburie with her Entertainment there. _Iohn Wolfe for Edward White._ [At end, ‘T. D.’, doubtless the initials of Thomas Deloney.]

_Editions_ in A. F. Pollard, _Tudor Tracts_ (_England’s Garner_^2), 492, and F. O. Mann, _Deloney’s Works_ (1912).

B

_S. R._ 1588, Aug. 10 (Stallard). ‘A ioyfull songe of the Roiall Receaving of the quenes maiestie into her Campe at Tilbery: the 8 and 9 of August 1588.’ _John Wolf for Richard Jones_ (Arber, ii. 496). [It does not seem likely that this entry relates to Aske’s book.]

C

1588. Elizabetha Triumphans. By James Aske. _Thomas Orwin for Thomas Gubbin and Thomas Newman._

_Edition_ in Nichols, _Eliz._ ii. 545 (1823).

The two extant narratives are discussed by M. Christy in _E. H. R._ xxxiv. 43.

_Tilt-yard Entertainment. 17 Nov. 1590_

See ch. xxiii, s.v. Lee.

_Cowdray Entertainment. 1591_

1591. The Speeches and Honorable Entertainment giuen to the Queenes Maiestie in Progresse, at Cowdrey in Sussex, by the right Honorable the Lord Montacute. _Thomas Scarlet, sold by William Wright._

1591. The Honorable Entertainment.... _Thomas Scarlet, sold by William Wright._ [A different text, with a fuller description, but without the words of the songs, and inaccurately dated.]

_Editions_ by J. Nichols, _Eliz._^2 iii. 90 (1823), and R. W. Bond, _Lyly_, i. 421 (1902).

The host was Anthony Browne, first Viscount Montague. Gascoigne’s mask of 1572 was also written for him. Bond assigns the present entertainment, conjecturally, to Lyly. McKerrow, 20, records that William Barley, the stationer, was brought before the High Commission for selling at Cowdray, on some date before 1598, a twopenny book relating to Her Majesty’s progress.

The diary is as follows:

14 Aug. 1591. Speech by a Porter at the bridge on arrival at night.

15 Aug. Sunday: a day of rest.

16 Aug. Hunting in Park, and delivery of bow with a ditty by a Nymph.

17 Aug. Dinner at the Priory, where Lord Montague lodged, and speeches in the walks by a Pilgrim and a Wild Man, at an oak hung with Sussex escutcheons, and a ditty before hunting.

18 Aug. Speeches and ditty by an Angler and offering of fish by a Netter at a pond in the walks before hunting.

19 Aug. Dance of country people with tabor and pipe.

20 Aug. Knighting, and departure to Chichester for dinner.

_Elvetham Entertainment. 1591_

_S. R._ 1591, Oct. 1. ‘The honorable entertaynement gyven to the quenes maiestie in progresse at Elvetham in Hampshire by the righte honorable the Erle of Hertford.’ _John Wolf_ (Arber, ii. 596).

1591. The Honorable Entertainement gieuen to the Queenes Maiestie in Progresse, at Eluetham in Hampshire, by the right Honorable the Earle of Hertford. _John Wolfe._ [There appear to be two editions or issues, (_a_) without and (_b_) with a woodcut of the pond.]

1591.... Newly corrected and amended. [This has a woodcut of the pond, different from that in (1) (_b_).]

_Editions_ by J. Nichols, _Eliz._ ii. (1788), iii. 101 (1823), and R. W. Bond, _Lyly_, i. 431.

Elizabeth was at Elvetham 20–23 Sept. 1591. The host was Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford. A Three Men’s Song of Phillida and Coridon, which formed part of the Entertainment, is ascribed in _England’s Helicon_ (1600) and _MSS._ to Nicholas Breton. Bond ascribes the Entertainment to Lyly. An account of the amusements is in ch. iv.

_Bisham, Sudeley, and Rycote Entertainments. 1592_

1592. Speeches deliuered to her Maiestie this last progresse, at the Right Honorable the Lady Russels, at Bissam, the Right Honorable the Lorde Chandos at Sudley, at the Right Honorable the Lord Norris, at Ricorte. _Joseph Barnes, Oxford._ [There appear to be two issues, with slight variants.]

_Editions_ by J. Nichols, _Eliz._^2 iii. 130 (1823), Sir S. E. Brydges (1815), and R. W. Bond, _Lyly_, i. 471 (1902).

_Bisham_

The hosts were Sir Edward Hoby and his mother, Elizabeth, Dowager Lady Russell.

21 Aug. 1592. On arrival, at the top of the hill, speech by a Wild Man; at the middle of the hill, dialogue of Pan and two Virgins, Sybilla and Isabella; at the foot of the hill, ditty by Ceres and Nymphs in a harvest-cart, followed by speech and gift of crown of wheat-ears and jewel.

_Sudeley_

The host was Giles Brydges, third Lord Chandos.

10 Sept. 1592. Speech of old Shepherd at entry to castle.

11 Sept. Show of Apollo and Daphne, with gift of tables of verses.

12 Sept. Contemplated Presentation of High Constable of Cotswold, and Choosing of King and Queen by Shepherds, with song and dialogue of Melibœus, Nisa, and Cutter of Cotswold--prevented by weather.

_Rycote_

The host was Henry, Lord Norris.

28 Sept. 1592. On arrival from Oxford, speech by an Old Gentleman [Lord Norris].

2 Oct. Music in garden, with speech by Old Gentleman, and letters containing jewels by messengers as from his sons in Ireland, Flanders, and France.

3 Oct. At departure, letter with jewel as from daughter in Jersey.

Between Sudeley and Rycote, the Queen was entertained at Oxford (cf. ch. iv) and Woodstock (cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Sir Henry Lee).

_Tilt-yard Entertainment. 17 Nov. 1595_

See ch. xxiii, s.v. Peele, _Anglorum Feriae_.

_Harefield Entertainment. 1602_

Elizabeth was at Harefield Place, Middlesex, the house of Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper, and his wife Alice, Countess Dowager of Derby, from 31 July to 2 Aug. 1602. At the same house Milton’s _Arcades_ was performed before Lady Derby in 1634. Seven fragments of the entertainment have been preserved, and are printed by Nichols, _Eliz._ iii. 570, 586, and Bond, _Lyly_, i. 491. Accounts of expenditure involved, and a list of the gifts in kind contributed by Egerton’s friends on this occasion are in _Egerton Papers_, 340, but the account in 342–4 is a forgery (_vide infra_).

(i) Dialogue between a Bailiff and Dairymaid, and presentation of a rake and fork to the Queen, as she entered the demesne near the dairy house.

(ii) Dialogue at the steps of the house, and presentation of a heart, by Place ‘in a partie-colored roobe, like the brick house’ and Time ‘with yeollow haire, and in a green roabe, with an hower glasse, stopped, not runninge’.

(iii) Verse petition accompanying gift of a robe of rainbows on behalf of St. Swithin by Lady Walsingham on Monday morning [2 Aug.].

(iv) Farewell of Place, ‘attyred in black mourning aparell’ on the Queen’s departure, with presentation of an anchor.

(v) Verse ‘Complaint of the Satyres against the Nymphes’.

(vi) Song and speech by a Mariner, who entered the ‘presence’ with a lottery box, ‘supposed to come from the Carricke’.

(vii) ‘The Severall Lottes’, a list of gifts and blanks, with a poesy accompanying each, and the names of the ladies who drew them. These were the Queen, the Dowager Countess of Derby, the Countesses of Derby, Worcester, and Warwick, Lady Scroope, Mistresses Nevill, Thynne, Hastinges, and Bridges, Ladies Scudamore, Francis, Knevette, and Susan Vere, Mrs. Vavissour, Ladies Southwell and Anne Clifford, Mrs. Hyde, Ladies Kildare, Howard of Effingham and Paget, Mistresses Kiddermister and Strangwidge, the Mother of the Maids, Ladies Cumberland, Walsingham, and Newton, Mrs. Wharton, Ladies Digbye and Dorothy [Hastinges] and Mrs. Anselowe. One name, ending in ‘liffe’ is illegible. It may be Ratcliffe. One MS. adds three lots assigned to ‘country wenches’. Most of these ladies were maids of honour and others who came with the court; one or two, e.g. Mrs. Kiddermister, were country neighbours of the Egerton’s.

These pieces are derived from various sources:

(_a_) A transcript made by R. Churton in 1803 of a contemporary MS. found at Arbury, the house of Sir Roger Newdigate, to whose family Harefield passed in 1675, contains (i)-(v) and was printed by Nichols.

(_b_) A _Conway MS._, printed by P. Cunningham in _Sh. Soc. Papers_, ii. 65, contains (iii), the song from (vi), and (vii), with the heading ‘The Devise to entertayne hir M^{ty} at Harfielde ...’ and the date 1602.

(_c_) The second edition (1608) of Francis Davison’s _Poetical Rhapsody_ contains the speech from (vi) and (vii), with the incorrect indication ‘at the Lord Chancellor’s house, 1601’, which misled Nichols into supposing it to belong to some entertainment at York Place, the year before that of Harefield. The item comes between two pieces by Sir John Davies and has the initials J. D.

(_d_) The diary of John Manningham (_Harl. MS._ 5353, f. 95) contains amongst entries of Feb. 1603 some extracts from (i) and (vii), dating the latter in ‘the last Sumer at hir M^{ties} being with the L. Keeper’.

(_e_) A contemporary MS., printed as _Poetical Miscellanies_ (_Percy Soc._ lv), 5, has (vii) dated 1602.

(_f_) _Talbot MS._ K, f. 43, in the College of Arms, contains (iv) as given at ‘Harville’ with the date ‘Aug. 1602’ and is printed by Lodge, ii. 560.

(_g_) _B.M. Birch MS._ 4173 contains a similar copy of (iv).

On the strength of the _Poetical Rhapsody_, (vii) is generally assigned to Sir John Davies, which hardly justified Dr. Grosart in assigning all the pieces to him (_Works_, ii, clxxii). Bond transferred the whole to Lyly, primarily as a conjecture, but was confirmed in his view by finding in _Egerton Papers_, 343, a payment to ‘M^r Lillyes man, which brought the lotterye boxe to Harefield’. But the document in which this is found, and which also contains the item ‘x^{li} to Burbidges players for Othello’, is one of Collier’s forgeries (Ingleby, 261).

John Chamberlain (_Letters_, 164, 169) sent Dudley Carleton ‘the Quenes entertainment at the Lord Kepers’ on 19 Nov. 1602, and on 23 Dec. wrote that, as Carleton liked the Lord Keeper’s devices so ill, he had not cared to get Sir Robert Cecil’s (cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Cecil).

_Progress from Scotland. 1603_

There were several contemporary prints:

A

_S. R._ 1603, May 9. ‘Kinge James his entrance into England.’ _Burby and Millington_ (Arber, iii. 234).

1603. The True Narration of the Entertainment of his Royal Majestie. _Thomas Creede for Thomas Millington._ [Epistle by T. M. to Reader.]

_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), i. 53, and C. H. Firth, _Stuart Tracts_ (_English Garner_^2), 11.

B

_S. R._ 1603, May 14. ‘King James his entertainement at Theobaldes, with his welcomme to London.’ _Thomas Snodham_ (Arber, iii. 234).

1603. King James his entertainment at Theobalds: With his Welcome to London. By John Sauile. _Thomas Snodham, sold by T. Este._

_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), i. 135, and C. H. Firth, _Stuart Tracts_, 53.

C

_S. R._ 1604, Mar. 27. ‘The tyme Triumphant.’ _Ralph Blore_ (Arber, iii. 256).

1604. The Time Triumphant, Declaring in brief the arrival of our Sovereign liege Lord, King James, into England, His Coronation at Westminster, ... [&c.]. By Gilbert Dugdale. _By R. B._

_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), i. 408, and C. H. Firth, _Stuart Tracts_, 69.

D

Jonson’s _Althorp Entertainment_ (cf. ch. xxiii).

E

_S. R._ 1603, June 16. A ballad of ‘Englandes sweet Comfort with the kinges entertaynmente by the Maior of Yorke’. _William White_ (Arber, iii. 238).

There is also an account in Stowe, _Annales_ (1631), 819. For the stages of the progress cf. App. A. Besides the device at Althorp, speeches were prepared by Dekker for the entry to London, but not used (cf. s.a. 1604).

_Coronation Triumph. 1604_

There are four contemporary prints:

A

_S. R._ 1604, Apr. 2 (Pasfield). ‘The magnificent Entertainement ... the 15 of marche 1603.’ _Thomas Man junior_ (Arber, iii. 258).

1604. The Magnificent Entertainment: Giuen to King Iames, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, vpon the day of his Maiesties Tryumphant Passage (from the Tower) through the Honourable Citie (and Chamber) of London, being the 15. of March, 1603. As well by the English as by the Strangers: With the speeches and Songes, deliuered in the seuerall Pageants. Tho. Dekker. _T. C. for Tho. Man the younger._

1604. The Whole Magnificent Entertainment.... And those speeches that before were publish’t in Latin, now newly set forthe in English. _E. Allde for Tho. Man the younger._

1604. _Thomas Finlason, Edinburgh._

_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_, i. 337, and _Somers Tracts_ (1810), iii. 1.

The speeches for three of the pageants were Jonson’s, and some of those for a fourth Middleton’s. Two others were in Latin. But Dekker himself probably contributed the rest. Prefixed is a dialogue intended, but not used, for James’s original entry into London in 1603, which may also be assigned to Dekker.

B

Jonson’s _Coronation Entertainment_ (cf. ch. xxiii).

C

1604. The Arches of Triumph Erected in honor of the High and mighty prince, James, the first of that name, King of England, and the sixt of Scotland, at his Maiesties Entrance and passage through his Honorable Citty and chamber of London, vpon the 15^{th} day of March 1603. Invented and published by Stephen Harrison Joyner and Architect: and graven by William Kip. _John Windet._ [Verses by Thomas Dekker and John Webster.]

1604.... _John Windet, sold by John Sudbury and George Humble._

D

G. Dugdale’s _Time Triumphant_. See s.a. 1603.

There is also an account in Stowe, _Annales_, 835, based on A. Some ballads are registered in Arber, iii. 255–7, and various verses and other illustrative materials are printed by Nichols. A list of the pageants is in ch. iv.

_Entertainment of King of Denmark. 1606_

There are four contemporary prints:

A

_S. R._ 1606, July 30 (Wilson). ‘The Kinge of Denmarkes entertainement at Tilberie Hope by the kinge &c.’ _Henry Robertes_ (Arber, iii. 327).

1606. The Most royall and Honourable entertainement, of the famous and renowmed King, Christiern the fourth, King of Denmarke, &c.... With the royall passage on Thursday the 31. of July, thorough the Citty of London, and honorable shewes there presented them, and maner of their passing. By H. R. _W. Barley for H. R._ [Epistle to Sir Thomas Smith, signed ‘Hen. Robarts’.]

_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 54, and _Harleian Miscellany_, ix. 431.

B

_S. R._ 1606, Aug. 19 (Wilson). ‘A Booke called Englandes farewell to Christian the Ffourthe kinge of Denmarke With a Relacon of suche shewes and seuerall pastymes presented to his Maiestie, as well at Courte the ffirste of Auguste as in other places since his honorable passage through the Cytie of London &c.’ _William Welbye_ (Arber, iii. 328).

1606. Englands Farewell to Christian the fourth, famous King of Denmarke. By H. Roberts. _For William Welby._ [Epistle to Sir John Jolles, signed ‘H. Roberts’.]

_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 75, and _Harleian Miscellany_, ix. 440.

C

Jonson’s _Entertainment of the King of Denmark_ at Theobalds (cf. ch. xxiii).

D

_S. R._ 1606, Aug. 8 (Hartwell). ‘A booke called the Kinge of Denmarkes welcomme into England &c.’ _Edward Allde_ (Arber, iii. 327).

1606. The King of Denmarkes welcome: Containing his arriual, abode, and entertainement, both in the Citie and other places. _Edward Allde._

_Extracts_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), iv. 1072.

There are also an account in Stowe, _Annales_, 885, and a _Relatio oder Erzehlung wie ... Christianus IV, &c. im Königreich Engellandt angelanget_ (1607, Hamburg). For the itinerary cf. App. A. Bond, _Lyly_, i. 505, prints a song at Theobalds on 24 July and a pastoral dialogue in Fleet Street on 31 July as possibly Lyly’s.

_The Christmas Prince. 1607–8_

[_MS._] _St. John’s College, Oxford, MS._ ‘A True and Faithfull Relation of the Risinge and Fall of Thomas Tucker, Prince of Alba Fortunata, Lord of St. John’s,’ &c. The writer is said (_D. N. B._) to be Griffin Higgs, but the evidence is inadequate.

_Edition_ [by P. Bliss], An Account of the Christmas Prince (1816, _Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana_). Another is planned in _M. S. R._

This is the narrative of a lordship of misrule at St. John’s during the Christmas of 1607–8. The MS. includes the text of a number of plays and shows. Unfortunately Bliss omits the text of these, with the exception of one called _The Seven Days of the Week_. The others were _Ara Fortunae_, _Saturnalia_, _Philomela_, _Time’s Complaint_, _Somnium Fundatoris_, _Philomathes_, _Yuletide_, _Ira seu Tumulus Fortunae_, _Periander_ (an English play). Others were planned, but not given; cf. _Mediaeval Stage_, i. 409.

_Chesters Triumph. 23 April 1610_

_S. R._ 1610, June 12 (Wilson). ‘A booke called Chesters Triumph in honour of ye Prince, as it was performed vpon Saincte Georges Day 1610 in thaforesayd Citty.’ _John Browne_ (Arber, iii. 436).

1610. Chesters Triumph in Honor of her Prince. As it was performed vpon S. Georges Day 1610, in the foresaid Citie. _For I. B._ [The name of Robert Amerie appears at the end. A preface and one poem are by R. Davies.]

_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_, ii. 291 (1828), and in _Chetham Soc._ publications (1844).

G. Ormerod, _Hist. of Cheshire_ (1882), i. 381, gives a description of the show from a shorter account or programme in _Harl. MS._ 2150, f. 186, indexed (f. 3^v) as ‘M^r. Amory’s new shew invented by him’. This is confirmed by the lines:

Amor is loue and Amory is his name,
That did begin this pompe and princelye game.

_Camp-Bell. 29 Oct. 1609_

N.D. [1609?] Running title: Campbell, or The Ironmongers Faire Field. [The only known copy (B.M. C. 33, E. 7) lacks the t.p. and sig. A. Thomas Campbell was mayor in 1609. For his grandson, James Campbell, mayor in 1629, Dekker wrote _London’s Tempe, or The Field of Happines_.]

Greg, _Masques_, 21, assigns this to Munday, without stating his grounds.

_London’s Love to Prince Henry. 31 May 1610_

1610. Londons Loue, to the royal Prince Henrie, meeting him on the Riuer of Thames, at his returne from Richmonde, with a worthie fleete of her Cittizens, on Thursday the last of May, 1610. With a breife reporte of the water Fight, and Fire workes. _Edward Allde, for Nathaniel Fosbrooke._ [Epistle to Sir Thomas Campbell, Lord Mayor.]

_Edition_ by J. Nichols, _James_, ii. 315 (1828).

It appears from the city records that the device was by Munday, and that Richard Burbadge and John Rice of the King’s men delivered the speeches as Amphion and Corinea; cf. _Repertory_, xxix, f. 232^v, and Letter Book D.D., f. 148^v, quoted by Halliwell-Phillipps in _Athenaeum_ (19 May 1888), Stopes, _Burbage_, 108, and C. W. Wallace in _Times_ (28 March 1913). Doubtless Munday also wrote the description.

_Creation of Henry Prince of Wales. 4 June 1610_

_S. R._ 1610, June 14 (Mokett). ‘A booke called, The creation of the Prince, by master Danyell Price.’ _Roger Jackson_ (Arber, iii. 436).

1610. The Order and Solemnitie of the Creation of the High and mightie Prince Henrie, Eldest Sonne to our sacred Soueraigne, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornewall, Earle of Chester, &c. As it was celebrated in the Parliament House, on Munday the fourth of Iunne last past. Together with the Ceremonies of the Knights of the Bath, and other matters of speciall regard, incident to the same. Whereunto is annexed the Royall Maske, presented by the Queene and her Ladies, on Wednesday at night following. _For John Budge._ [The Mask is Daniel’s _Tethys’ Festival_, with a separate t.p.]

_Editions_ in W. Scott, _Somers Tracts_ (1809–15), ii. 183, and Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 324.

The ceremonies are also described in Stowe, _Annales_ (1615), 899, and in MSS. of W. Camden quoted by Nichols.

The diary is:

31 May 1610. City reception with water pageant.

4 June. Creation.

5 June. Daniel’s mask.

6 June. Tilt; fireworks; sea-fight.

_Marriage of Frederick and Elizabeth. 1613_

The most important descriptions, besides the masks of Campion, Beaumont, and Chapman (q.v.), are.

A

_S. R._ 1613, Feb. 18 (Mokett). ‘A booke called The Mariage of the twoo great prynces Ffriderick Counte Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth &c with the shewes and fierwoorkes on the Water, the maskes and Revels at the Courte.’ _William Barley_ (Arber, iii. 516).

1613. The Magnificent Marriage of the two great princes Frederick Count Palatine, &c. and the Lady Elizabeth, Daughter to the Imperial Majesties of King James and Queen Anne, to the Comfort of All Great Britain. Now the second time imprinted, with many new additions of the same Tryumphes, performed by the Gentlemen of the Innes of Court in the Kings Pallace at Whitehall. _T. C. for W. Barley._ [Nichols says that a manuscript copy of the first edition is in _Addl. MS._ 5767.]

_Editions_ in W. Scott, _Somers Tracts_ (1809–15), iii. 35, and Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 536.

B

1613. Heavens Blessing and Earths Joy: or, a True Relation of the Supposed Sea-Fights and Fire-Workes as were Accomplished before the Royall Celebration of the All-beloved Marriage of the two Peerlesse Paragons of Christendome, Fredericke and Elizabeth. By John Taylor, the Water Poet. _For Joseph Hunt, sold by John Wright._

1630. [Part of Taylor’s _Works_.]

_Edition_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 527.

C

1613. Beschreibung der Reiss: Empfahung des Ritterlichen Ordens: Volbringung des Heyraths: vnd glückliche Heimführung: Wie auch der ansehnlichen Einführung, gehaltene Ritterspiel vnd Freudenfests des Durchleuchtigsten Hochgeboren Fürsten und Herrn Friedrichen des Fünften ... mit der ... Princessin Elisabethen. _G. Vögelin, Heidelberg._ [Of this there is also a French translation, _Les Triomphes ... pour le Mariage et Reception de Monseigneur le Prince Frederic V ... et de Madame Elisabeth_. 1613.]

D

A distinct French account in _Mercure François_, iii. 72.

For other accounts, extant and lost, and verses, cf. Arber, iii. 499, 514–18; Nichols, ii. *463, 536, 601, 624; Rimbault, 161–3; M. A. Green, _Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia_, 36.

The diary is:

16 Oct. 1612. Arrival of Frederick at Gravesend.

18 Oct. Reception at Court.

29 Oct. Visit to Guildhall.

21 Dec. Investiture with Garter.

27 Dec. Betrothal.

7 Feb. 1613. Garter installation.

11 and 13 Feb. Fireworks and sea-triumph at Whitehall.

14 Feb. Wedding. Campion’s mask.

15 Feb. Running at the ring. Chapman’s mask.

21 Feb. Beaumont’s mask.

_Bristol Entertainment. 1613_

[_MS._] _Calendar_ by William Adams, _penes_ C. J. Harford (in 1828).

_S. R._ 1613, Oct. 8 (Mason). ‘A booke called the Queenes Maiesties entertaynement at Bristoll.’ _John Budge_ (Arber, iii. 533).

1613. A Relation of the Royall, Magnificent, and Sumptuous Entertainment given to the High and Mighty Princesse Queen Anne, at the Renowned Citie of Bristoll, by the Mayor, Sheriffes, and Aldermen thereof; in the moneth of June last past, 1613. Together with the Oration, Gifts, Triumphes, Water-combats and other Showes there made. _For John Budge._ [Epistle by Robert Naile.]

_Editions_ in _Bristol Memorialist_, No. 3 (1816), and Nichols, _James_, ii. 648 (1828).