Note 19 — I ELIZABETH AND JAMES

S. Pegge, Curialia (1806); R. Needham and A. Webster, Somerset House, Past and Present (1905). Elizabeth was there in 1558, 1562, 1571, 1573, 1582, 1583, 1585, 1587, 1588, 1589, 1590, 1593, 1594, and 1599. She gave lodgings there to Somerset's son, the Earl of Hertford, and amongst other guests were the Duke of Holstein (1560), Cornelius de la Noye, an alchemist (1567), the Duke of Montmorency (1572), and the Duke of Mayenne (1600). Conferences were held there with Alençon's commissioners in 1581. In 1574 (Berkeley MSS. 223) the keepership was given to Henry Lord Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain, who took up his residence there, and after his death to Lady Hunsdon. In early documents of the reign, the name Strand House (P. C. Acts, Jan. 1563; Procl. 496) or Strand Place (Procl. 497) occurs; in the patent of Hunsdon's predecessor John West in 1559 (Berkeley MSS. 218) it is 'Somersett Place al. Strande House al. Somersett House'.