APPENDIX A A COURT CALENDAR
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[Bibliographical Note.—This is primarily a list of plays, masks, and quasi-dramatic entertainments at court. The chronological evidence for the plays mainly rests upon Appendix B. Tilts and a few miscellaneous entertainments are included. And it has seemed worth while to trace the movements of the court, partly in order to locate the palaces at which the winter performances were given, partly because of the widespread use of mimetic pageantry during Elizabeth’s progresses and visits abroad. For the main migrations of the household (in small capitals), the authorities here cited are confirmed by the daily or weekly indications of a much more detailed Itinerarium than can be printed. Additions from sources not explored by me may be possible to the record of shorter visits or even that of the by-progresses, upon which Elizabeth was not always accompanied by the full household. I have not attempted to deal so completely with the Jacobean period. The King’s constant absences from court on hunting journeys are difficult to track and of no interest to dramatic history. Appendix B will show at which of the court plays he was personally present. The principal material used may be classified as follows: (a) The royal movements are frequently noted in ambassadorial dispatches, in private letters, notably those of Roger Manners to the Earls of Rutland (Rutland MSS.), of Rowland Whyte, court postmaster, to Sir Robert Sidney (Sydney Papers), and of John Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton (Letters, ed. Camden Soc., and Birch, Court of James) and Sir Ralph Winwood (Winwood Memorials); and in the diaries of Henry Machyn, Lord Burghley (Haynes-Murdin, ii. 745; Hatfield MSS., i. 149; v. 69; xiii. 141, 199, 389, 464, 506, 596), Sir Francis Walsingham (Camden Miscellany, vi), and John Dee. (b) Collections of State and quasi-State Papers contain many dated and located documents emanating from the court, such as proclamations, privy seals, signet letters, and less formal communications from the sovereign or a secretary or other officer in attendance. Unfortunately Elizabeth’s letters missive have never been collected, and many of them are unlocated. Naturally ministerial documents require handling with discretion, lest the writers should be away from court. Letters patent bear the date and location of the Chancellor’s recepi, and the Chancellor was largely detached from the court. The sources for (a) and (b) are given in the Bibl. Note to ch. i. (c) The Register of the Privy Council records the localities of the meetings of that body, but it must be borne in mind that the registration was not very perfect (cf. ch. ii), and also that, although the Council ordinarily followed the court, meetings were occasionally held in Westminster or London, either at the Star Chamber or in the house of a councillor or even a citizen, when the court happened to be out of town. (d) Church bells were rung when the sovereign moved into or out of a parish, and the churchwardens entered the ringers’ fees in their accounts. The entries in J. V. Kitto, The Accounts of the Churchwardens of St. Martin’s in the Fields, 1525–1603 (1901, cited as Martin’s), record many comings and goings from Whitehall, but in some cases the date entered appears to be other than that of the actual ringing, either by error or because the payment was on a different day. The extracts from the accounts of St. Margaret’s, Westminster (cited as Margaret’s), in J. Nichols, Illustrations, 1, of Lambeth in D. Lysons, Environs of London, i. 222, and S. Denne, Historical Particulars of Lambeth (1795, Bibl. Top. Brit. x. 185), of Fulham in T. Faulkner, Fulham (1813), 139, of Kingston in Lysons, Environs, i. 164, and of Wandsworth by C. T. Davis in Surrey Arch. Colls., xviii (1903), 96, are scrappy and the year concerned is not always clear. Nichols, Eliz. iii. 37, gives an analogous record from the accounts of Chalk in Kent of the occasions on which the local carts were requisitioned for removes from Greenwich. (e) The dates and localities of knightings are given in W. A. Shaw, The Knights of England (1906), but many of them are from inconsistent and untrustworthy sources. (f) The Chamber Accounts (cf. App. B) contain under the annual heading ‘Apparelling of Houses’ summaries of monthly bills sent in by the Gentlemen Ushers of the Chamber of their expenses while engaged in making preparations for royal visits. They yield much new information as to the houses visited, but only very approximately date the visits. And it may be that the Ushers occasionally had to prepare for a visit which never took place. Analogous information is contained in the Declared Accounts of the Office of Works. A single account of the Cofferer of the Household, printed by Nichols, i. 92, gives a daily record of the locality of the household throughout the progress of 1561; as far as I know, it is the only extant document of its kind. (g) J. Nichols, in his Progresses of Elizabeth2 (1823) and Progresses of James I (1828), drew fully upon the contemporary printed descriptions of state entries and progresses, of which a list is given in ch. xxiv, and upon such ‘gests’ of progresses (cf. ch. iv) as survive. I have been able to correct and amplify his record of houses visited to a great extent, as much of the material now available, notably the Privy Council Register and the Chamber Accounts, was not used by him, and he occasionally assumed that royal plans were carried out, when they were not. I have done what I can to identify the royal hosts and their houses, but there is more of conjecture in my lists than my query-marks quite indicate. The Chamber Accounts entries are not in chronological order. Often only a name or a locality is given, and a good deal of plotting of routes on a map has been necessary. A more thorough study of local and family histories than I have been able to undertake would doubtless add corrections and further details. Local antiquaries might well follow the lines of study opened up by E. Green, Did Queen Elizabeth visit Bath in 1574 and 1592 (1879, Proc. of Bath Field Club, iv. 105), W. D. Cooper, Queen Elizabeth’s Visits to Sussex (1852, Sussex Arch. Colls., v. 190), W. Kelly, Royal Progresses and Visits to Leicester (1884), and M. Christy, The Progresses of Queen Elizabeth through Essex and the Houses in which she stayed (1917, Essex Review, xxvi. 115, 181). A knowledge of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century roads is useful. The Elizabethan list in W. Smith, The Particular Description of England, 1588 (ed. H. B. Wheatley and E. W. Ashbee, 1879) is fuller than that in W. Harrison, Description of England (ed. N. S. S. ii. 107), or that described from a manuscript of c. 1603 by G. S. Thomson in E. H. R. xxxiii. 234. The seventeenth-century description of J. Ogilby, Itinerarium Angliae (1675) became the parent of many travellers’ guides. But it does not include three private royal roads largely used in removes; viz. the King’s road by Chelsea to Richmond and Hampton Court, Theobald’s Road, and a road from Lambeth Ferry to Greenwich and Eltham. Useful studies are T. F. Ordish, History of Metropolitan Roads (L. T. R. viii. 1), and H. G. Fordham, Studies in Carto-Bibliography (1914). Other books are given in D. Ballen, Bibliography of Roadmaking and Roads (1914).]
1558
Nov. 17. Accession of Elizabeth at Hatfield.
Nov. 22. Progress through Herts and Middlesex to London by Hadley (Alice Lady Stamford?, Nov. 22–3) and Charterhouse (Lord North, Nov. 23–8).[1]
Nov. 28. Tower of London.[2]
Dec. 5. Somerset House, by water.[3]
Dec. 22. Whitehall.[4]
1559
Jan. 6. Play (=Queen’s=?) and mask (Papists).[5]
Jan. 12. Tower, by water.[6]
Jan. 14. Entry through London with pageants to Whitehall.[7]
Jan. 15. Coronation.[8]
Jan. 16. Tilt and mask (Almains and Palmers?).
Jan. 17. Barriers.[9]
Jan. 29. Mask (Moors?).
Feb. 5 (S.S.). Mask (Swart Rutters).
Feb. 7. Mask (Fishers).
March 21. Morris from Household feast at Mile End to court.[10]
c. March 31. Visit to Greenwich?[11]
Apr. 25. Supper at Baynard’s Castle (Earl of Pembroke).[12]
May 1. Maying on Thames at Whitehall.[13]
c. May 17. Visit to Greenwich.[14]
May 24. Mask (Astronomers) for French embassy.[15]
May 25. Baiting at palace for embassy.[16]
June 21. Greenwich.[17]
June 25. May game from London to court.[18]
July 2. City musters and tilt at court.[19]
July 3. Visit to Woolwich, with banquet in the Elizabeth Jonas.[20]
July 11. Joust by pensioners and mask.[21]
July 17. Progress in Kent and Surrey.[22] Dartford (July 17–18), Cobham Hall (Lord Cobham, July 18–21 <), Gillingham, Otford (July > 23–28 <), Eltham (Aug. 4), Croydon (Abp. of Canterbury, Aug. 5–6?) and Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel, Aug. 6–10).
Aug. 7. =Paul’s.=
Aug. 10. Hampton Court.[23]
Aug. 17–> 23. Visit to West Horsley (Lord Clinton), with mask (Shipmen and Country Maids).[24]
Sept. 28. Whitehall.[25]
Nov. 5. Tilt.[26]
Dec. 31. Play (=Chapel=?) and mask (Clowns or Nusquams?).[27]
1560
Jan. 1. Mask (Barbarians) for John Duke of Finland.[28]
Jan. 6. Masks (Patriarchs, Italian Women).
Feb. 25 (S.S.) or 26. Mask (Nusquams or Clowns?).
Feb. 27. Masks (Diana and Nymphs, Actaeon?).
Apr. 10. Morris and ‘queen’ from London to court.[29]
Apr. 21. Tilt.[30]
Apr. 24 < > 27. Visit to Deptford.[31]
Apr. 28. Tilt.[32]
May 14. Greenwich.[33]
c. May 24. Visit to Westminster?[34]
c. May. Visit to Eltham.[35]
July 29. Richmond by Lambeth (Abp. Parker).[36]
Aug. 3. Oatlands.[37]
Aug. 5–30. Progress in Surrey and Hants.[38] Sutton Place, Woking (Sir Henry Weston, Aug. 5), Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Aug. 7, 8), Rotherfield (John? Norton), Southwick (John White), Portsmouth, Netley Castle (Aug. 12–13), Southampton (Aug. 13–16), Winchester (Aug. 16–23), Micheldever (Edmund Clerk, Aug. 23), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, Aug. 23–28), Odiham (Chidiock Paulet?), Hartley Wintney (Sir John Mason?), Bagshot (Sir Henry Weston?).
Aug. 30. Windsor.[39]
Sept. 22 < > 30. Hampton Court.[40]
c. Oct. Visit to Horsley (Lord Clinton?).[41]
Nov. 10 < > 25. Whitehall.[42]
Nov. 27–> Dec. 2. Visit to Greenwich and Eltham.[43]
c. Dec. Visit to Queenborough.[44]
Christmas. =Dudley’s= and =Paul’s=, and masks. One of the plays was Preston’s Cambyses.[45]
1561
Feb. 17 (S.M.). Wrestling in ‘prychyng-plase’ at court.[46]
Feb. 18, 19. Masters of fence at court.[47]
Apr. 26 < > 29. Greenwich.[48]
June 24. River triumph. Dinner with Lord R. Dudley.[49]
July 10–Sept. 22. Progress in Essex, Suffolk, Herts., Middlesex.[50] Tower (July 10), Charterhouse (Lord North, July 10–14) with visit to Strand (Sir W. Cecil, July 13), Wanstead (Lord Rich, July 14), Havering (July 14–19) with visits to Pyrgo (Lord John Grey, July 16) and Loughton Hall (Lord Darcy?, July 17), Ingatestone (Sir William Petre, July 19–21), New Hall in Boreham (Earl of Sussex, July 21–26), Felix Hall (Henry Long?, July 26), Colchester (Sir Thomas Lucas, July 26–30) with visit to Layer Marney (George Tuke), St. Osyth (Lord Darcy, July 30–Aug. 2), Harwich (Aug. 2–5), Ipswich (Aug. 5–11),[51] Shelley Hall (Philip Tilney, Aug. 11), Smallbridge (William Waldegrave, Aug. 11–14), Hedingham (Earl of Oxford, Aug. 14–19), Gosfield (Sir John Wentworth, Aug. 19–21), Lees (Lord Rich, Aug. 21–25), Great Hallingbury (Lord Morley, Aug. 25–27), Standon (Sir Ralph Sadleir, Aug. 27–30), Hertford (Aug. 30–Sept. 16), Hatfield?, Enfield (Sept. 16–22).
Sept. 22. St. James’s.[52]
Oct. 28. Visit to Whitehall. Baiting and mask (Wise and Foolish Virgins) for French embassy.[53]
Dec. 4 < > 14. Whitehall.[54]
Christmas. =Dudley’s= and =Paul’s=.
Dec. 27 < > Jan. 3. Lord of Misrule from Temple to court.[55]
1562
Jan. 15–16. Visit to Baynard’s Castle (Earl of Pembroke), with mask.[56]
Jan. 18. Gorboduc and mask by Inner Temple.
Feb. 1. Mask from London to court, ‘and Julyus Sesar’.[57]
Feb. 2 < > 10 (S. T.). =Paul’s.=
Feb. 10. Tilt.[58]
Feb. 14. Running at ring.[59]
June 5. Greenwich.[60]
Sept. 16 < > 19. Hampton Court, by Southwark.[61]
c. Oct. Visit to Oatlands.[62]
Nov. 8. Somerset House.[63]
Dec. 14 < > 21. Whitehall.[64]
Christmas. =Dudley’s= and =Paul’s=.
1563
Feb. 21 (S.S.).
June 14. Greenwich.[65]
July 20 < > Aug. 1. Richmond, by Lambeth.[66]
Aug. 2 < > 4. Windsor by Stanwell.[67]
1562–3. Visits to Sunninghill, Oatlands, Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel), the New Lodge, the Twelve Oaks.[68]
Christmas.[69] Two plays by unnamed companies.
1564
Feb. 2. Play by unnamed company.
Feb. 13 (S.S.).
Apr. 23 < > May 5. Richmond.[70]
June 9. Three masks and ‘devise with the men of armes’ for French embassy.[71]
June 28. Visit incognita to Baynard’s Castle (Earl of Pembroke) for St. Peter’s watch.[72]
June 30 < > July 5. Whitehall.[73]
July 5. Visit to Sackville House (Sir Richard Sackville), with play and mask.[74]
July 6. Visit to Cecil House (Sir W. Cecil) for christening of Elizabeth Cecil.[75]
July 6 < > 16. Greenwich.[76]
July 21 or 22. Whitehall.[77]
c. July 27–Sept. 12. Progress in Middlesex, Herts., Cambridgeshire, Hunts., Northants., Leicestershire, Bucks., and Beds.[78] Theobalds (Sir William Cecil), Enfield (July 31, Aug. 1), Hertford Castle, Aldbury (Thomas Hyde), Haslingfield (Mr. Worthington, Aug. 4–5), Grantchester (Aug. 5), Cambridge (King’s College, Aug. 5–10),[79] Long Stanton (Bp. of Ely, Aug. 10), Hinchinbrook (Sir Henry Cromwell, Aug. 10),[80] Kimbolton (Thomas? Wingfield), Boughton (Edward Montague), Launde (Henry, Lord Cromwell, c. Aug. 18), Braybrooke Castle (Sir Thomas Griffin), Dallington? (Sir Andrew Corbett), Northampton (Mr. Crispe), Easton Neston (Sir John Fermor), Grafton, Thornton (George Tyrrell), Toddington (Sir Henry Cheyne), St. Albans (Sir Richard Lee), Great Hampden? (Griffith Hampden), Princes Risborough? (Mr. Penton), Shardeloes in Amersham? (William Totehill), Harrow (Sept. 12), Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham).
Sept. 13. St. James’s.[81]
Sept. 15. Dinner with Marchioness of Northampton at Whitehall.[82]
c. Oct.-Nov. Visits to Oatlands and Windsor.[83]
Dec. 7. Whitehall.[84]
Christmas. =Warwick’s= (twice), =Paul’s=, and =Chapel= (Damon and Pythias?).
1565
Jan. =Westminster= (Miles Gloriosus and (?) Heautontimorumenos).
Jan. 7. Tilt, dance, and foot tourney at night.[85]
Feb. 2. =Paul’s.=
Feb. 18. Play by =Sir Percival Hart’s sons= and mask (Hunters and Muses).
March 5 (S.M.). Tilt.[86]
March 6. Tourney. Masks (Satyrs and Tilters) and play by =Gray’s Inn= at supper by Earl of Leicester.[87]
Apr. 27. Visit to Earl of Leicester.[88]
May 12. Visit to Greenwich.[89]
c. June 2. Visit to Tower, with imperial ambassador, Adam Swetkowyz.[90]
June 24 < > 26. Greenwich.[91]
July 14. Whitehall.[92]
July 16. Visit to Durham Place for wedding of Henry Knollys and Margaret Cave, with tourney and two masks.[93]
July 17. Richmond.[94]
Aug. 8. Windsor, by Ankerwyke (Sir Thomas Smith).[95]
c. Aug.-Sept. Visits to Sunninghill, Farnham, and Bagshot.[96]
Sept. 14. Whitehall. Visit to Cecilia of Sweden (Bedford House?).[97]
c. Sept. Visit to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham).[98]
Oct. 7, 13. Visits to Cecilia of Sweden.[99]
Oct. 29–> Nov. 2. Visit to Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel).[100]
Nov. 11. Tilt at wedding of Earl of Warwick and Lady Anne Russell.[101]
Nov. 12. Tourney.
Nov. 13. Barriers.
Christmas. =Paul’s= (thrice by Jan. 3, including one at Savoy for Cecilia of Sweden) and =Westminster= (Sapientia Solomonis).
1566
Jan. 6. King of the Bean at court.[102]
Feb. 5. Greenwich.[103]
Feb. 14. Visit to Baynard’s Castle (Earl of Pembroke).[104]
Feb. 24–26 (S.). Gismond of Salerne by Inner Temple (?). Wedding of Earl of Southampton and Mary Browne, with two masks and tourney.[105]
June 28 or 29. St. James’s.[106]
July 1. Wedding of Thomas Mildmay and Frances Radcliffe at Bermondsey (Earl of Sussex).[107]
July 8–Sept. 9. Progress in Middlesex, Herts., Beds., Hunts., Northants., Lincs., Rutland, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Berks.[108] Hendon (Edward? Herbert, July 8), Shenley (Michael Pulteney), Hatfield, Knebworth (Rowland Lytton), Bygrave (William Warren?), Wrest (Duchess of Suffolk), Dame Ellensbury’s in Houghton Conquest, Willington (John Gostwick), Bletsoe (Lord St. John), Bushmead (William Gery), Kimbolton (Thomas? Wingfield, July 21), Leighton Bromswold, Fotheringay Castle, Apethorpe (Sir Walter Mildmay), Colly Weston (July 29, Aug. 3), Greyfriars at Stamford (Sir W. Cecil, Aug. 5), Grimsthorpe (Duchess of Suffolk), Sempringham (Lord Clinton), Irnham (Richard Thimelby), Exton (Sir James Harington), Kingscliffe, Deene (Edmund Brudenell), Dingley (Edward Griffin), Whitefriars at Coventry (Aug. 17–19),[109] Kenilworth (Earl of Leicester, Aug. 19–22), Warwick (Earl of Warwick), Charlecote (Sir Thomas Lucy, > Aug. 24), Broughton (Richard Fiennes), Woodstock (Aug. > 26–31), Oxford (Aug. 31–Sept. 6),[110] Rycote (Sir Henry Norris, Sept. 6–7), Bradenham (Lord Windsor, Sept. 7–9).
Sept. 9. Windsor.[111]
Sept. Visit to Bagshot (The Bush).[112]
Sept. 10 < > 17. Richmond.[113]
Sept. 27. Whitehall.[114]
Christmas. =Paul’s= (twice).
1567
Jan. 10. Queen in country.[115]
Jan. 17–Feb. 1. Visits to Croydon (Abp.?) by Lambeth (?), Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel, Jan. 21–27), and Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham, Jan. 27–Feb. 1).[116]
Feb. 9–11 (S.). =Westminster.=
Feb. 10. Visit to Arundel House (Earl of Arundel)?[117]
Feb. 11. =Windsor Chapel.=
Apr. 13. Play for Spanish embassy.[118]
June 11. Richmond.[119]
July 22. Windsor.[120]
Aug. 12? Oatlands.[121]
Aug. Visit to Beddington? (Francis Carew) by Kingston.[122]
Aug. 18 < > 20–30. Progress or visits in Surrey and Hants. Woking, Guildford Manor (Aug. 20, 21), Loseley? (William More), Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Aug. 24, 25, 29), Odiham, Bagshot.[123]
Aug. 30. Windsor.[124]
Oct. 12. Hampton Court.[125]
Dec. 23. Whitehall.[126]
Christmas. =Rich’s= (twice), =Paul’s= (twice), =Westminster=. The Revels prepared eight plays this winter, The King of Scots (tragedy), As Plain As Can Be, The Painful Pilgrimage, Jack and Jill, Six Fools, Wit and Will, Prodigality, Orestes (the extant play?), and six masks, of which two were not used.
1568
Jan. 2. Visit to Charterhouse.[127]
c. Feb. Visit to Hackney.[128]
Feb. 29–March 2 (S.). =Chapel= (tragedy) and =Windsor Chapel=.
Apr. 6. Greenwich.[129]
July 6–12? Visit to Charterhouse (Duke of Norfolk).[130]
July 12–Sept. 22. Progress in Essex, Middlesex, Herts., Beds., Bucks., Northants., Oxon., Berks.[131] Havering (July 13–15) with visits to Giddy Hall in Romford (Sir Anthony Cooke) and Pyrgo (Lord John Grey), Copt Hall (Thomas Heneage, July 19), Enfield (July 22, 25), Hatfield (July 30, Aug. 3, 4, 7), Knebworth (Rowland Lytton), St. Albans (Sir Ralph Rowlett, Aug. 8), Dunstable (Edward Wingate), Brickhill (Thomas Duncombe?), Whaddon (Lord Grey), Buckingham (William Davers? at parsonage), Easton Neston (Sir John Fermor, Aug. 14, 21), Grafton Regis, Charlton (Sir Robert Lane), Bicester (Mr. More, Aug. 27), Rycote (Sir Henry Norris), Ewelme, Wallingford (Thomas Parry at College), Yattendon (Sir Henry Norris?), Donnington Castle, Newbury (Sept. 12, 13), Aldermaston (William? Forster), Reading (Queen’s house, Mr. Stafford, Mr. Gare, Sept. 18?).
Sept. 22. Windsor.[132]
Oct. 3 < > 20. Hampton Court.[133]
Dec. 26. =Rich’s.=
1569
Jan. 1. =Paul’s.=
Feb. 12. Whitehall.[134]
Feb. 22 (S.T.). =Windsor Chapel.=
May 6. Greenwich.[135]
May 15 (?). Visit of Earl of Leicester and Odo de Coligny, Cardinal of Châtillon, to Oxford, with The Destruction of Thebes.[136]
July 21. Richmond, by Lambeth.[137]
July 29. Oatlands.[138]
Aug. 5 < > 8–Sept. 23 or 24. Progress in Surrey and Hants.[139] Chertsey (Sir William FitzWilliam?), Woking (Aug. 9), Guildford (Aug. 10, 12), Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Aug. 14, 17, 20, 22) with visit to Kingsley (Nicholas Backhouse), Odiham, Basing (Marquis of Winchester, Aug. 27, 29; Sept. 1), Abbotstone (Lord St. John), Soberton (Anne, Lady Lawrence), Tichfield (Lady Southampton, Sept. 4, 6), Southampton Tower (Sept. 6?, 8, 9, 14), Melchet (Richard? Audley), Mottisfont (Lord Sandys), Wherwell (Sir Adrian Poynings), Hurstbourne? (Sir Robert Oxenbridge), Steventon (Sir Richard Pexall), The Vine in Sherborne St. John (Lady Sandys, Sept. 22), Hartley Wintney (Lady Mason), Bagshot (Sir Henry Sutton).
Sept. 23 or 24. Windsor.[140]
Nov. 17. Accession day first kept.[141]
c. Dec. Visit to Bisham (Lady Hoby).[142]
Dec. 27. =Windsor Chapel.=
1570
Jan. 6. =Chapel.=
Jan. 20. Hampton Court.[143]
Feb. 5 (S.S.). =Rich’s.=
March 19. Visit to Ham House (Madame de Châtillon).[144]
June 18 < > 20. Oatlands.[145]
July 16–Sept. 29. Progress in Middlesex, Bucks., Beds., Oxon., and Berks.[146] Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham, July 16–18), Denham (Sir George Peckham, July 18–19), Chenies (Earl of Bedford, July 19–Aug. 13), Pendley (Edmund Verney, Aug. 15–17), Toddington (Sir Henry Cheyne, Aug. 19, 20), Dame Ellensbury in Houghton Conquest, Segenhoe in Ridgmont (Peter Grey), Wing (Sir William Dormer, c. Aug. 24), Eythorpe (Sir W. Dormer), Rycote (Sir Henry Norris, Aug. 30, Sept. 2, 6, 7), Ewelme, Reading (Sept. 17, 24–26), Philberds in Bray (Sir Thomas Neville).
Sept. 29. Windsor.[147]
Nov. 6 or 7. Hampton Court.[148]
Dec. 28. =Paul’s.=
1571
Jan. 6. Challenge for jousting.
Jan. 14 < > 19. Somerset House.[149]
Jan. 23. Visit to Bishopsgate (Sir Thomas Gresham) to open Royal Exchange.[150]
Jan. 20 < > 29. Whitehall.[151]
Feb. 25–27 (S.). =Chapel=, =Windsor Chapel=, and =Paul’s=.
March 2. Greenwich.[152]
March 31 < > Apr. 2. Whitehall.[153]
Apr. 20. Visit to St. George’s Fields.[154]
Apr. 29. Queen at wedding of Marquis of Northampton and Helena von Snavenberg or Snachenberg.[155]
May 1–3. Tilt, tourney, barriers.[156]
June 7, 8. Visit to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham).[157]
c. Apr.-July. Two visits to Bermondsey (Earl of Sussex).[158]
July 7 < > 8. Hampton Court.[159]
July-Aug. Visits to Horsley (Earl of Lincoln), Oatlands, Byfleet.[160]
Aug. 8 < > 12–Sept. 22. Progress in Middlesex, Herts., and Essex.[161] Gunnersbury, Hendon (Edward Herbert), Hatfield (Aug. 15–21), Knebworth (Rowland Lytton), Brent Pelham (Lord Morley, Aug. 26), Saffron Walden, Audley End (Duke of Norfolk, Aug. 29–Sept. 3), Horham Hall in Thaxted (Sir John Cutts, Sept. 5) with hunt in Henham Park, Lees (Lord Rich, Sept. 7, 8), Rookwood Hall in Roding Abbess (Wiston Browne), Mark Hall in Latton (James Altham, Sept. 13, 14, 17), Stanstead Abbots (Edward Bashe, Sept. 20), Theobalds (Lord Burghley, Sept. 22), Hadley (Lady Stamford), Harrow (William Wightman).
Sept. 22. St. James’s.[162]
Sept. 26. Richmond.[163]
Oct. 23 < > 28. Greenwich.[164]
Dec. 12. Whitehall.[165]
Dec. 16 < > 23. Wedding of Earl of Oxford and Anne Cecil.[166]
Dec. 23. Wedding of Edward Somerset (Lord Herbert) and Elizabeth Hastings.[167]
Christmas. The Revels prepared six masks this winter.
Dec. 27. =Lane’s= (Lady Barbara).
Dec. 28. =Paul’s= (Iphigeneia).
1572
Jan. 1. =Windsor Chapel= (Ajax and Ulysses).
Jan. 6. =Chapel= (Narcissus).
Feb. 17 (S.S.). =Lane’s= (Cloridon and Radiamanta).
Feb. 19. =Westminster= (Paris and Vienna, with tourney and barriers).
Apr. 10 or 11. Greenwich.[168]
May 5. St. James’s.[169]
c. May 25. Visit to Hampton Court (?).[170]
c. June 10. Visit to Greenwich.[171]
June 15. Baiting, and mask (Apollo and Peace) and tourney in banqueting house at Cockpit for French embassy.[172]
June 20. Whitehall.[173]
July 15–Sept. 28. Progress in Middlesex, Essex, Herts., Beds., Bucks., Northants., Warwickshire, Oxon., Berks.[174] Bishopsgate (Jasper Fisher), Bethnal Green (Joan, Lady White), Havering (July 19, 20), Birch Hall in Theydon Bois (Edward? Elderton), Theobalds (Lord Burghley, July 22–25) visit to Enfield, Hatfield, Gorhambury (Sir Nicholas Bacon, July 25–28), Dunstable (Edward Wingate?, July 28–29), Woburn (Earl of Bedford, July 29–31) with visit to Chicheley (Elizabeth Weston), Salden (John Fortescue, Aug. 1–4), Beachampton (Thomas? Pigott), Easton Neston (Sir John Fermor, Aug. 4–8), Edgecott (William Chauncy, Aug. 10), Bishop’s Itchington (Edward Fisher, Aug. 11), Warwick Castle (Earl of Warwick, Aug. 11–13), Kenilworth (Earl of Leicester, Aug. 13–16),[175] Warwick Castle (Aug. 16–18) with visit to Warwick Priory (Thomas Fisher, Aug. 16),[176] Kenilworth (Aug. 18–23), Charlecote (Sir Thomas Lucy, Aug. 23), Compton Wyniates (Lord Compton, Aug. 23), Great Tew (Henry Rainsford), Woodstock (Aug. 27, Sept. 7–19) with visit to Langley (Sir Edward Unton), Holton (Sir Christopher Browne), Ewelme, Reading (Sept. 21–28), Philberds in Bray (Sir Thomas Neville, Sept. 28).
Sept. 28. Windsor.[177]
c. Nov. 11. Hampton Court.[178]
Christmas. =Leicester’s= (thrice) and =Paul’s=. The Revels prepared plays on Theagenes and Chariclea, Perseus and Andromeda, and Fortune, and a double mask (Fishermen and Fruit-wives) this winter.
1573
Jan. 1. =Windsor Chapel.=
Jan. 6. =Eton.=
c. Jan. 29. Greenwich, by Somerset House.[179]
Feb. 1–3 (S.). =Sussex’s=, =Lincoln’s= and =Merchant Taylors= (Perseus and Andromeda?).
Feb. 24–March 10. Visits to Fold in South Mimms (Mr. Waller), Islehampstead Latimer (Miles Sandys), Gorhambury (Sir Nicholas Bacon), Brockett Hall in Hatfield (John Brockett), Northiaw (Earl of Warwick), Theobalds (Lord Burghley, 8 days), and Bishopsgate (Jasper Fisher, March 7).[180]
July 14–Sept. 26. Progress in Surrey, Kent, and Sussex.[181] Croydon (Abp. of Canterbury, July 14–21), Orpington (Sir Percival Hart, July 21–24),[182] Otford (July 24), Knole in Sevenoaks (July 24–29), Bastead (July 29), Comfort in Birling(Lord Abergavenny, July 29–Aug. 1), Oxenheath in West Peckham? (Sir Thomas Cotton, Aug. 1), Eridge (Lord Abergavenny, Aug. 1–7) with visit to Mayfield (Sir Thomas Gresham)?, Bedgebury in Goudhurst (Alexander Culpepper, Aug. 7–8) by Kilndown, Hemstead in Benenden (Thomas Guildford, Aug. 8–11), Northiam (George Bishop, Aug. 11), Rye (Aug. 11–14) with visit to Winchelsea (Mr. Savage?), Northiam (Aug. 14), Sissinghurst in Cranbrook (Richard Baker, Aug. 14–17), Boughton Malherbe (Thomas Wotton, Aug. 17–19) by Smarden, Hothfield (John Tufton, Aug. 19–21), Olantigh in Wye (Sir Thomas Kempe, Aug. 21–22), Brabourne (Sir Thomas Scott, Aug. 22), Westenhanger (Aug. 22–25), Sandgate Castle (Aug. 25), Dover, (Aug. 25–31) by Folkestone with visit to Thomas? Fisher, Sandwich (Roger? Manwood, Aug. 31–Sept. 3),[183] Wingham (Sept. 3), Canterbury (St. Augustine’s, Sept. 3–16) with visit to Abp. Parker (Sept. 7),[184] Faversham (Sept. 16–18), Tunstall (William Cromer, Sept. 18–19), Gillingham (Sept. 19), Rochester (the Crown, Sept. 19–23) with visit to a ship, Bulley Hill (Richard Watts, Sept. 23–24), Cobham (Lord Cobham, Sept. 24), Sutton (Sept. 24), Dartford (Sept. 24–26).
Sept. 26. Greenwich.[185]
c. Nov. Two visits to Deptford.[186]
Nov. 25. Somerset House, by Leicester House (?).[187]
Dec. 19. Whitehall.[188]
Dec. 26. =Leicester’s= (Predor and Lucia). Mask (Lance-knights).
Dec. 27. =Paul’s= (Alcmaeon).
Dec. 28. =Leicester’s= (Mamillia).
1574
Jan. 1. =Westminster= (Truth, Faithfulness, and Mercy). Mask (Foresters and Wild Men).
Jan. 3. =Clinton’s= (Herpetulus the Blue Knight and Perobia).
Jan. 6. =Windsor Chapel= (Quintus Fabius). Mask (Sages).
Jan. 12. Hampton Court.[189]
Feb. 2. =Merchant Taylors= (Timoclea at the Siege of Thebes by Alexander). Mask (Virtues) not shown.
Feb. 18–20. Visits to Earl of Lincoln and to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham).[190]
Feb. 21–23 (S.). Queen entertained privately by neighbours.[191]
Feb. 21. =Leicester’s= (Philemon and Philecia).
Feb. 23. =Merchant Taylors= (Perseus and Andromeda). Masks (Warriors and Ladies).
March 2–3. Greenwich, by Lambeth (Abp. Parker).[192]
June 30. Richmond, by Merton Abbey (Gregory? Lovell).[193]
July 7. Windsor, by Stanwell and Colnbrook.[194]
July 11 < > 13. =Italians.=
July 15–Sept. 25. Progress in Berks., Oxon., Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wilts., Hants, and Surrey.[195] Binfield, Reading (July 15–23) with play (July 15) by =Italians=, Caversham or Rotherfield Greys (Sir Francis Knollys, July 23), Ewelme (July 23–24), Holton (Christopher Browne, July 24), Woodstock (July 24–Aug. 2), Langley (Sir Edward Unton, Aug. 2–3), Burford (Aug. 3), Sherborne (Thomas Dutton, Aug. 3–4), Sudeley Castle (Lady Chandos, Aug. 4, 5), Boddington (Mr. Denne), Gloucester (Aug. 10) with visit to Churcham?, Frocester (George Huntley, Aug. 10–11), Iron Acton (Sir Nicholas Pointz), Berkeley Castle (Lord Berkeley, Aug. 11–12), Berkeley Hearne?, Bristol St. Lawrence, Bristol (Sir John Young, Aug. 14–21),[196] Keynsham (Henry? Brydges, Aug. 21), Morecroft (Stokes Croft?, Aug. 21), Bath (Aug. 21–23), Hazelbury (John Bonham, Aug. 23), Lacock (Sir Henry Sherington, Aug. 23–28), Erlestoke (William Brouncker, Aug. 28–31), Heytesbury (Mr. Hawker, Aug. 31–Sept. 3) with visit to Longleat (Sir John Thynne, Sept. 2), Wylye? (Lady Mervyn, Sept. 3), Wilton (Earl of Pembroke, Sept. 3–6) with visit to Clarendon Park, Salisbury (Bp.’s, Sept. 6–9) with visit to Amesbury, Winterslow (Giles Thistlethwaite?, Sept. 9), Mottisfont (Lord Sandys, Sept. 9–10), Somborne (Henry? Gifford, Sept. 10), Winchester (Sept. 10–13), Abbotstone (Marquis of Winchester, Sept. 13), Alresford, Herriard (George Puttenham), Odiham (Sept. 14–16), Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Sept. 15, 19), Bagshot (Sept. 24–25).
Sept. 25. Oatlands.[197]
Oct. 1. Hampton Court.[198]
Oct. 19–22. Visit to Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel).[199]
Christmas. Phedrastus and Phigon and Lucia rehearsed by =Sussex’s=, Three masks this winter (Pilgrims, Mariners. Hobby-horses).[200]
Dec. 26. =Leicester’s=, with boys.
Dec. 27. =Clinton’s= (Pretestus?).
1575
Jan. 1. =Leicester’s= (Panecia?).
Jan. 2. =Clinton’s.=
Jan. 6. =Windsor Chapel= (Xerxes?).
Feb. 2. =Paul’s.=
Feb. 3 < > 6. Richmond.[201]
Feb. 13 (S.S.). =Chapel.=
Feb. 14. =Warwick’s.=
Feb. 15? =Merchant Taylors.=
March 16. Visit to Mortlake (Dr. Dee).[202]
March 23 < > 25. St. James’s.[203]
c. Apr. (?). Visit to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham), by Chiswick.[204]
Apr. 20. Greenwich.[205]
c. May 5–8. Two visits to Lady Pembroke in illness at Baynard’s Castle.[206]
May 23–Oct. 10 < > 11. Progress in Middlesex, Herts., Beds., Bucks., Northants., Warwickshire, Staffs., Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Oxon., Berks.[207] Stoke Newington (John Dudley, May 23), Theobalds (Lord Burghley, May 24–June 6), Broxbourne (Sir George Penruddock), Woodhall (Sir John Butler), Hatfield (June 7–14), Luton (George Rotherham), Toddington (Lord Cheyne), Segenhoe in Ridgmont (Peter Grey), Holcutt (Richard Charnock), Chicheley (Elizabeth Weston), Grafton (June 19–July 6), Fawsley (Sir Richard Knightley), Long Itchington (Earl of Leicester, July 9), Kenilworth (Earl of Leicester, July 9–27),[208] Meriden (William Foster), Middleton (Sir Francis Willoughby), Swinfen (John Dyott?), Lichfield (July 30–Aug. 3)[209] with visits to Beaudesert (Lord Paget) and Alrewas (Walter Griffith, July 30), Colton (Katharine, Lady Gresley), Chartley (Lady Essex), Stafford Castle (Lord Stafford, Aug. 7, 8) with visit to Ellenhall (Walter? Harcourt), Chillington (John Giffard), Dudley Castle (Lord Dudley, Aug. 12), Hartlebury Castle (Bp. of Worcester, Aug. 12–13), Worcester (Bp. of Worcester, Aug. 13–20)[210] with visits to Hindlip (John Habington, Aug. 16), Hallow Park (John Habington, Aug. 18) and Batenhall Park (Thomas Bromley, Aug. 19), Elmley Bredon (Anne Daston, Aug. 20–22), Evesham? (Aug. 21), Campden (Thomas Smythe), Sudeley Castle (Lord Chandos), Sherborne (Thomas Dutton), Langley (Sir Edward Unton, Aug. 27), Cornbury (Thomas Stafford?, Aug. 29), Woodstock (Aug. 29–Oct. 3) with entertainment by Sir Henry Lee,[211] Holton (Christopher Browne), Rycote (Lord Norris, Oct. 6–8), Bradenham (Frederick Lord Windsor), Wooburn (Sir John Goodwin), Philberds in Bray (Sir Thomas Neville).
Oct. 10 or 11. Windsor.[212]
Dec. 20. Hampton Court, by Colnbrook.[213]
Dec. 26. =Warwick’s.=
Dec. 27. =Windsor Chapel.=
Dec. 28. =Leicester’s.=
1576
Jan. 1. =Warwick’s.=
Jan. 6. =Paul’s.=
Feb. 2. =Sussex’s.=
Feb. 6 or 7. Whitehall, by Sion.[214]
Feb. 27. =Italians.=
March 4 (S.S.). =Leicester’s.=
March 5. =Warwick’s.=
March 6. =Merchant Taylors.=
Apr. 26. Greenwich.[215]
May 9–19. Visits to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester, May 9–10), Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham, May 10–12), Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln, May 12–15), Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel, May 15–17), Beddington (Sir Francis Carew, May 17–19).[216]
c. June 7. Visit to Hatfield.[217]
June 18. Visit to Deptford.[218]
c. June. Visit to Eltham.[219]
July 9. St. James’s.[220]
July 22 or 23. Whitehall.[221]
c. July. Visits to Highgate (Thomas? Lichfield), Fold? at Barnet (Mr. Waller), and Hendon (Edward Herbert).[222]
July 30–Oct. 9. Progress in Essex, Herts., Bucks., Berks., and Surrey.[223] Stratford at Bow (Richard? Young, July 30), Havering (July 30–Aug. 7) with visit to Pyrgo (Henry Grey) and hunt in Harolds Park, Chigwell Hall (Sir John Petre, Aug. 7), Loughborough (John Stonard, Aug. 7), Upshire? (Aug. 10), Mark Hall in Latton (James Altham, Aug. 10–11), Hatfield Broadoak (Sir Thomas Barrington, Aug. 11), Great Hallingbury (Lord Morley, Aug. 11–14), Stanstead Abbots (Edward Bashe, Aug. 14–19), Hertford Castle (Aug. 19–22), Hatfield (Aug. 24), Hertford again (Aug. 26–28), Northiaw (Earl of Warwick, Aug. 30), St. Albans (Aug. 30–Sept. 1), Gorhambury (Sir Nicholas Bacon, Sept. 1), Latimer (Miles Sandys, Sept. 1–3) with visit to Chalfont St. Giles (John? Gardiner), Hedgerley (Sir Robert Drury, Sept. 3), Windsor (Sept. 3–10) with visit to Folly John Park, Thorpe (Richard Polsted, Sept. 10), Byfleet (Sept. 10–11), Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln, Sept. 11–12), Guildford (Sept. 12), Loseley in Artington (Sir William More, Sept. 12–13), Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Sept. 13?-20), Odiham (Sept. 20–22), Mr. Hall’s (Sept. 22), Reading (Sept. 22–Oct. 8), Rotherfield Greys (Sir Francis Knollys Oct. 8), Hurst (Richard Ward, Oct. 8–9), Windsor (Oct. 9–12).
Oct. 12. Hampton Court.[224]
Dec. 26. =Warwick’s= (Painter’s Daughter).
Dec. 27. =Howard’s= (Tooley).
Dec. 30. =Leicester’s= (Collier).
1577
Jan. 1. =Paul’s= (Error).
Jan. 6. =Chapel= and =Windsor Chapel= together (Mutius Scaevola).
Feb. 2. =Sussex’s= (Cynocephali).
Feb. 12. Whitehall.[225]
Feb. 17–19 (S.). Cutwell rehearsed, but not played.
Feb. 17. =Howard’s= (Solitary Knight).
Feb. 18. =Warwick’s= (Irish Knight).
Feb. 19. =Paul’s= (Titus and Gisippus). Mask of children.
Feb. 26–March 3. Visit to Wanstead? (Earl of Leicester).[226]
April. Italian play before Privy Council at Durham Place.[227]
Apr. 29 < > May 6. Greenwich.[228]
May 9–10. Visit to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester).[229]
May 14–c. 25. Visits to Stoke Newington (John Dudley), Theobalds (Lord Burghley, May 14 or 15, for 3 days), Northiaw (Earl of Warwick), Gorhambury (Sir Nicholas Bacon, May 18–22), Fold? at Barnet (Mr. Waller), Highgate (Thomas? Lichfield).[230]
June 24. Visit to Southwark for weddings of George, Earl of Cumberland, to Margaret Russell, and Philip, Lord Wharton, to Frances Clifford.[231]
c. July. Visit to Deptford.[232]
July 19. Richmond, by Clapham.[233]
July 24. Visit to Isleworth (Countess of Derby).[234]
July 26. Visits to Barn Elms (Sir Francis Walsingham?) and Mortlake Park Lodge (Earl of Leicester).[235]
Aug. 23. Oatlands, by Hampton Court.[236]
Sept. 4–7 or 8. Visit to Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln).[237]
Sept. 12. Visit to Hanworth (Duchess of Somerset).[238]
c. Sept. Visit to Sir John Zouch.[239]
Sept. 23. Windsor, by Thorpe (Richard Polsted?).[240]
c. Sept. Visit to Sunninghill.[241]
Dec. 10. Hampton Court, by Staines.[242]
Dec. 26. =Leicester’s.=
Dec. 27. =Chapel.=
Dec. 28. =Warwick’s.=
Dec. 29. =Paul’s.=
1578
Jan. 5. =Howard’s.=
Jan. 6. =Warwick’s.=
Feb. 2. =Sussex’s.=
Feb. 9 (S.S.). =Warwick’s.=
Feb. 11. =Lady Essex’s= (instead of =Leicester’s=).
c. Feb. Visit to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham).[243]
Feb. 25–27. Visit to Putney (John Lacy?).[244]
Feb. 27–March 3 (?). Visit to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester).[245]
March 3. Greenwich.[246]
Apr. 5 and 28. Visits to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester).[247]
May 6–16. Visits to Tottenham (Lord Compton, May 6, 7), Theobalds (Lord Burghley, May 7–10), Stanstead Abbots (Edward Bashe, May 10–12), Copt Hall (Sir Thomas Heneage, May 12–13), Wanstead (Earl of Leicester, May 13–16).[248]
May 16. Greenwich.[249]
July 11 < > 12–Sept. 23 < > 24. Progress in Essex, Herts., Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire.[250] West Ham (Henry? Meautys), Havering (July 12–20), Theydon Garnon (John Branch), Mark Hall in Latton (James Altham, July 23), Standon (Sir Ralph Sadleir, July 24), Berden Priory (Margery Averie), Audley End (Thomas Howard, July 26–30),[251] Barham Hall in Linton (Robert Milsent), Keddington (Thomas Barnardiston), De Greys in Cavendish (Sir George Colt, Aug. 1), Long Melford (Sir William Cordell, Aug. 3–5), Lawshall (Sir William Drury, Aug. 5), Bury St. Edmunds (Aug. 5, 6), Onehouse? (Sir William Drury), Stowmarket?,[252] Euston (Edward Rookwood, Aug. 10), Kenninghall (Earl of Surrey, Aug. 11, 12),[253] Bracon Ash (Thomas Townsend, Aug. 16), Norwich (Bp. of Norwich, Aug. 16–22) with visits to Costessey (Mary, Lady Jerningham, Aug. 19) and Mount Surrey on Mousehold Hill (Earl of Surrey, Aug. 20), Kimberley (Sir Roger Woodhouse, Aug. 22 or 23), Wood Rising (Sir Robert Southwell, Aug. 24), Breckles (Francis Woodhouse), Thetford (Sir Edward Cleere, Aug. 27), Hengrave (Sir Thomas Kitson, Aug. 28–30), Chippenham (Thomas Revett, Sept. 1), Kirtling (Lord North, Sept. 1–3), Horseheath (Sir Giles Alington, Sept. 4), Waltons in Ashdon (Edward Tyrell). Horham Hall in Thaxted (Sir John Cutts, Sept. 7, 11), Manuden (Thomas Crawley), Hadham Hall (Henry Capel, Sept. 14), Hyde Hall in Sawbridgeworth (Henry? Heigham), Hatfield Broadoak? (Sir Thomas Barrington, Sept. 15), Rookwood Hall in Roding Abbess (Wiston Browne, Sept. 18), Theydon Bois (Mrs. Elderton) with visit to Gaynes Park (Sir William Fitzwilliam, Sept. 19), Loughborough (John Stonard, Sept. 21, 22), Wanstead (Earl of Leicester), Greenwich.
Sept. 25. Richmond.[254]
c. Dec. Visit to Hampton Court.[255]
Dec. 26. =Warwick’s= (Three Sisters of Mantua).
Dec. 27. =Chapel.=
Dec. 28. =Sussex’s= (Cruelty of a Stepmother).
1579
Jan. 1. =Paul’s= (Marriage of Mind and Measure).
Jan. 4. =Leicester’s= (A Greek Maid).
Jan. 6. =Sussex’s= (Rape of the Second Helen).
Jan. 11. Mask (Amazons and Knights) and barriers, for Alençon’s agent, M. de Simier.[256]
Jan. 22 < > 25. Whitehall, by Chelsea.[257]
c. Jan. 31. Visit to Hampton Court, by Putney (John Lacy).[258]
c. Jan.-Feb. Visit to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester).[259]
Feb. 1–2. Tilt and barriers for John Casimir, son of Elector Palatine.[260] Play by =Warwick’s= ready, but not shown.
March 1 (S.S.). =Warwick’s= (Knight in the Burning Rock).
March 2. =Chapel= (Loyalty and Beauty).
March 3. =Sussex’s= (Murderous Michael). Device by Earls of Oxford and Surrey, Lord Thomas Howard, and Lord Windsor before French ambassador and De Simier. Morris mask prepared, but not danced.[261]
Apr. 28 or 29–May 2. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester), by Greenwich.[262]
June 24–26. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[263]
July 2. Greenwich, by Lambeth.[264]
July 15–17. Visits to Gravesend and Deptford.[265]
Aug. 17–29. Private visit of Duke of Alençon to England.[266]
c. Aug. 30–31. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[267]
Sept. 9–27 < > Oct. 2. Progress in Essex.[268] Stratford at Bow (Richard? Young, Sept. 9), Havering (Sept. 11–14), Ingatestone (Lady Petre), New Hall in Boreham (Earl of Sussex, Sept. 17, 18), Moulsham (Sir Thomas Mildmay), Thoby (Anthony? Berners), Brentwood (John? Searle), Giddy Hall in Romford (Richard Cooke, Sept. 25–7), Ilford (Thomas Fanshawe, at St. Mary’s Hospital?).
Sept. 27 < > Oct. 2. Greenwich.[269]
Dec. 22. Whitehall.[270]
Dec. 26. =Sussex’s= (Duke of Milan and Marquis of Mantua).
Dec. 27. =Chapel= (Alucius).
Dec. 28. Play by =Leicester’s= ready, but not shown.
1580
Jan. 1. =Warwick’s= (Four Sons of Fabius).
Jan. 3. =Paul’s= (Scipio Africanus).
Jan. 6. =Leicester’s.=
Jan. 15. =Strange’s tumblers.=
Feb. 2. =Sussex’s= (Portio and Demorantes).
Feb. 14 (S.S.). =Derby’s= (The Soldan and the Duke of —— ).
Feb. 16. =Sussex’s= (Sarpedon).
c. Feb. Visit to Charterhouse.[271]
May 26 < > 29. Nonsuch, by Putney (John Lacy).[272]
c. June. Visits to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[273]
July 11 or 12. Oatlands, by Molesey.[274]
c. July-Aug. Visits to Chobham (Abp. Heath, Edward? Bray, John Wolley) and Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln).[275]
Aug. 16–20. Visit to Sunninghill, and Windsor?[276]
c. Aug. 25–27. Visit to Woking.[277]
Sept. 13. Richmond, by Molesey (Thomas Brand).[278]
Sept. 17. Visit to Mortlake (Dr. John Dee).[279]
Oct. 10. Visit to Mortlake (Dr. Dee).[280]
c. Nov. Visits to Harmondsworth (Mr. Drury), Colnbrook (Henry? Draper), Windsor, Eton College, Ditton Park, and Nonsuch.[281]
Dec. 6. Whitehall.[282]
Dec. 26. =Leicester’s= (Delight).
Dec. 27. =Sussex’s.=
1581
Jan. 1. =Derby’s.=
Jan. 6. =Paul’s= (Pompey). Challenge for tilt.
Jan. 22. Tilt.[283]
Feb. 2. =Sussex’s.=
Feb. 5 (S.S.). =Chapel.=
Feb. 7. =Leicester’s.=
March 20. St. James’s.[284]
Apr. 4. Visit to Golden Hind (Sir Francis Drake) at Deptford.[285]
Apr. 14. Challenge for Whitehall tilt.
Apr. 20. Whitehall.[286]
Apr. 20–June 14. Commissioners for marriage with Duke of Alençon in London. Revels prepared barriers and two masks.[287]
Apr. 25. Dinner by Queen for commissioners.
Apr. 27. Dinner by Earl of Leicester for commissioners.
Apr. 30. Dinner by Lord Burghley for commissioners.
May 1. Baiting for commissioners.
May 4. Supper by Earl of Sussex for commissioners.
May 6–7. Tilt at Hampton Court for commissioners.
May 15–16. Tilt at Whitehall for commissioners.[288]
June 20. Greenwich.[289]
June 26 < > 30. Visit to Eltham.[290]
July 5–8. Visits to Aldersbrook in Little Ilford? (Nicholas? Fuller), Loughborough (Francis Stonard), and Leyton (Mary, Lady Paulett).[291]
July 27–29. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[292]
c. Sept. Visits to Eltham and Sundridge (William Isley).[293]
Sept. 22–23. Nonsuch, by Streatham (Dr. Robert Forth).[294]
Oct. 3. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[295]
Oct. 4. Richmond.[296]
Nov. 1. Visit of Duke of Alençon to England.[297]
Nov. 16 or 17. Whitehall, by Putney (John Lacy).[298]
Nov. 17–19. Tilt.[299]
Christmas. The Revels prepared five plays and a mask.[300]
Dec. 26. =Paul’s.=
Dec. 28. =Strange’s= (activities).
Dec. 31. =Chapel.=
1582
Jan. 1. Barriers.[301]
Jan. Visit to Deptford for launch of Golden Lion.[302]
Feb. 1–17. Progress in Kent at departure of Duke of Alençon. Southfleet (William? Sedley, Feb. 1), Rochester (the Crown, Feb. 1–3), Sittingbourne (the George, Feb. 3–5), Canterbury (Sir Roger Manwood, Feb. 5–6), Sandwich (Mr. Manwood, Feb. 8), Dover (St. James), Canterbury (Feb. 12), Faversham (Feb. 13), Newington
(Feb. 14), Rochester (Feb. 14–16) with visit to Bulley Hill (Anne? Watts), Swanscombe (Ralph Weldon, Feb. 16), Horseman Place in Dartford (Nicholas? Beer, Feb. 16–17).[303]
Feb. 17. Greenwich.[304]
Feb. 26 (S.M.). Play at wedding of William Wentworth and Elizabeth Cecil.[305]
Feb. 27. =Chapel.=
c. March. Visit to Highgate (Lady Sheffield).[306]
c. Apr. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[307]
May 17–19. Hunting visit.[308]
May 20–22. Visit to Somerset House (Lord Hunsdon) for wedding of Sir Edward Hoby and Margaret Carey.[309]
July 10–12. Nonsuch, by Putney (John Lacy).[310]
c. July-Aug. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[311]
Aug. 17. Oatlands, by Molesey (Thomas Brand).[312]
c. Aug.-Sept. Visits to Woking and Chobham (John Wolley).[313]
Sept. 1–2 <. Visit to Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln), by Byfleet (Lady Anne Askewe)?[314]
Sept. 20. Windsor, by Egham (Richard Kellefet).[315]
c. Sept. Visits to Folly John, Mote Park, and Sunninghill.[316]
Dec. 26. =Chapel= (A Game of the Cards).
Dec. 27. =Hunsdon’s= (Beauty and Housewifery).
Dec. 30. =Derby’s= (Love and Fortune).
1583
Jan. 1. =Strange’s= (activities).
Jan. 5. Mask by ladies and boys.
Jan. 6. =Sussex’s= (Ferrar).
Jan. 12 < > 18. Richmond, by Colnbrook.[317]
Feb. 10 (S.S.). =Leicester’s= (Telomo).
Feb. 11. Visit to Barn Elms (Sir Francis Walsingham).[318]
Feb. 12. =Merchant Taylors= (Ariodante and Genevora).
c. March. Visit to Somerset House (Lord Hunsdon).[319]
c. Apr. 13. Wedding of Robert Southwell and Elizabeth Howard.[320]
Apr. 18. Greenwich, by Clapham (John Worsopp).[321]
May. Tilt for Count Albert of Alasco and French ambassador.[322]
May 27–31 < > June 1. Visits to Theobalds (Lord Burghley) and Ponsbourne (Sir Henry Cock), by Edmonton (Lady Nicholas) and Hackney (Sir Rowland Hayward).[323]
c. July. Visit to Nonsuch, by Streatham.[324]
July 30. Oatlands, by Chelsea, Mortlake, and Sion.[325]
c. Aug. 27. Visits to Woking, Loseley (Sir William More), Guildford, and (?) Petworth (Earl of Northumberland).[326]
c. Aug. Visits to Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln) and Sunninghill, and to Hampton Court.[327]
c. Sept. Visits to Chobham (John Wolley) and Egham.[328]
Oct. 5. St. James’s.[329]
Nov. 25–29. Visit to Hampton Court, by Brentford (Thomas Wilkes).[330]
Dec. 20. Whitehall.[331]
c. Oct.-Dec.? Visit to Arundel House (Earl of Arundel).[332]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 29. =Queen’s.=
1584
Jan. 1. =Oxford’s= (Campaspe?).
Jan. 6. =Chapel.=
? Jan. or Feb. Visits to Heneage House (Sir Thomas Heneage) and Tower Hill (Lord Lumley).[333]
Feb. 2. =Chapel.=
March 3 (S.T.). =Queen’s= and =Oxford’s= (Sapho and Phao?).
Apr. 20 < > May 2. Greenwich.[334]
June 9. Richmond, by Stockwell.[335]
July 17 < > 21. Nonsuch.[336]
Aug. 7. Oatlands, by Kingston (George Evelyn).[337]
c. Aug. Visit to Cobham (Robert Gavell?).[338]
c. Sept. 2. Visits to Egham, Sunninghill, Windsor, Burley Bushes, Bagshot (Sir Henry Weston), and Blackwater.[339]
Oct. 6 < > 10. Hampton Court.[340]
c. Nov. 5. Visit to Nonsuch.[341]
Nov. 12. St. James’s, by Putney (John Lacy).[342]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[343]
Dec. 6. Tilt.[344]
c. Dec. Visit to Arundel House.[345]
> Christmas. Greenwich.[346]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s= (Phyllida and Corin).
Dec. 27. =Oxford’s boys= (Agamemnon and Ulysses).
1585
Jan. 1. =Oxford’s= (activities).
Jan. 3. =Queen’s= (Felix and Philiomena).
Jan. 6. =Queen’s= (Five Plays in One).
Feb. 8 < > 12. Somerset House.[347]
Feb. 21 (S.S.). =Queen’s= (Three Plays in One), ready, but not shown.
Feb. 23. =Queen’s= (‘antick’ play and comedy).
Feb. 23 < > 26. Greenwich.[348]
c. March. Visit to Oatlands (?).[349]
March 26–30. Visit to Lambeth and Westminster.[350]
March 30 (?)-Apr. 3. Visits to Croydon (Abp.), Beddington (Sir Francis Carew), and Lambeth (Abp.).[351]
c. Apr. Visit to Lewisham.[352]
c. May 2. Visit to Croydon.[353]
c. June 18. Visit to Theobalds by Edmonton (Mr. Brassey) and Tottenham High Cross (Richard Martin).[354]
March-July. Tilt for M. de Campagny.[355]
July 11. Visit to Barn Elms.[356]
July 20 < > 24. Nonsuch.[357]
July 27–29. Visit to Putney (John Lacy).[358]
c. Aug. 25. Visit to Wimbledon.[359]
c. Aug. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[360]
Sept. 26 < > Oct. 1. Richmond.[361]
Nov. 17–19. Visit to Westminster (Lord Admiral).[362]
Dec. 20–21. Greenwich, by Lambeth (Lord Burgh).[363]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 27. =Howard’s.=
1586
Jan. 1. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 6. =Howard’s and Hunsdon’s.=
Jan. 9. =Stanley’s boys= (activities).
Feb. 13 (S.S.). =Queen’s.=
Feb. 26. Visit to Lambeth (Abp.).[364]
March 27–Apr. 6. Visit to Lambeth and Westminster.[365]
c. July 12. Richmond, by Putney (John Lacy).[366]
c. July. Visit to Hampton Court.[367]
Aug. 10. Windsor, by Staines.[368]
c. Sept. Visit to New Lodge.[369]
Oct. 24. Richmond, by Colnbrook.[370]
Dec. 20–21. Greenwich, by Clapham and Lambeth.[371]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 27. =Leicester’s.=
1587
Jan. 1. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 6. =Queen’s.=
Feb. 26 (S.S.). =Paul’s.=
Feb. 28. =Queen’s.=
c. Jan.-Apr. Archery show (Arthur and Round Table) by Hugh Offley between Merchant Taylors and Mile End.[372]
Apr. 26–May 1 or 2. Visit to Croydon.[373]
May 1 or 2. Nonsuch.[374]
c. May. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[375]
May 25 < > 29. Greenwich, by Streatham (Dr. Robert Forth).[376]
c. July 9–Aug. 13. Theobalds (Lord Burghley), by Hackney (Sir Rowland Hayward) and Enfield (Henry Middlemore), with visits to Waltham Forest, Cheshunt (Lord Talbot), and Northiaw (Earl of Warwick, July 20–21).[377]
Aug. 13 < > 20. Oatlands, by Barnet (Mr. Waller), Harrow (William Wightman), Sion, and West Molesey (Thomas Brand).[378]
Sept. 19 < > 24. Richmond.[379]
Oct. 24. Dinner at Westminster (Lord Admiral).[380]
Nov. 17–21. Visit to Westminster (Lord Admiral) with dinner at Barn Elms (Sir F. Walsingham, Nov. 20).[381]
Nov. 18. Tilt.[382]
Nov. 21–Dec. 6. Visit to Ely House (Sir Christopher Hatton).[383]
Dec. 6. Somerset House.[384]
Dec. 23. Greenwich.[385]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 28. Symons and company (? =Queen’s=, activities).
1588
Jan. 1. =Paul’s= (Galathea?).
Jan. 6. =Queen’s.=
c. Jan. 16–20. Visits to Fulham (Bp. of London), Hounslow (Thomas Crompton), Kensington (Mr. Malinge), and Lambeth (Abp.).[386]
Feb. 2. =Paul’s= (Endymion?).
Feb. 18 (S.S.). =Queen’s.=
Feb. 20. =Evelyn’s.=
Feb. 10 or 20. Show in honour of Leicester.[387]
Feb. 28. =Gray’s Inn= (Misfortunes of Arthur).
c. Apr. 13–16. Visits to Hackney (Sir Rowland Hayward), Tottenham High Cross (Richard Martin), and Stoke Newington? (Roger? Townsend).[388]
Apr.-May. Visits to Erith (Thomas? Compton), Croydon (Abp. of Canterbury), by Lewisham and Wanstead (Earl of Leicester, May 7).[389]
July 5–6. Richmond, by Lambeth and Stockwell.[390]
July 29. St. James’s, by Putney (John Lacy).[391]
Aug. 8–10. Visit to Tilbury camp, Ardern Hall in Horndon (Thomas Rich), and (?) Belhus in Aveley (Edward Barrett).[392]
Aug. 19. Visit to Ely House (Sir Christopher Hatton).[393]
Aug. 26. Tilt.[394]
Oct. 25. Greenwich.[395]
Nov. 8 or 12. Salute from the Desire (Thomas Cavendish).[396]
Nov. 12 < > 17. Somerset House.[397]
Nov. 17. Tilt.
Nov. 19. Tilt.[398]
Nov. 24. Visit to St. Paul’s.[399]
Nov. 30. Greenwich.[400]
Dec. 21–23. Richmond, by Lambeth.[401]
Christmas. The Admiral’s showed activities as well as plays this winter.
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 27. =Paul’s.=
Dec. 29. =Admiral’s.=
1589
Jan. 1. =Paul’s.=
Jan. 12. =Paul’s.=
c. Jan. Visit to Hampton Court.[402]
Jan. 30. Whitehall, by Chelsea.[403]
Feb. 9 (S.S.). =Queen’s.=
Feb. 11. =Admiral’s.=
May 26–28. Visit to Barn Elms (Sir Francis Walsingham).[404]
c. June 11. Visit to Highgate.[405]
June 18–19. Nonsuch, by Merton Abbey (Gregory Lovell).[406]
Aug. 10 < > 16. Oatlands, by West Molesey (Thomas Brand).[407]
c. Sept. Visit to Hampton Court.[408]
Sept. 26 or 27. Richmond.[409]
c. Sept. Mask prepared for wedding of James VI in Scotland.[410]
Nov. 15. Somerset House.[411]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[412]
Dec. 2. Richmond, by Putney (John Lacy).[413]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 28. =Paul’s= and =Admiral’s= (activities).
1590
Jan. 1. =Paul’s.=
Jan. 6. =Paul’s= (Midas?).
Jan. 23–24. Greenwich, by Lambeth.[414]
Jan. 27. Visit to Earl of Warwick (at Bedford House?).[415]
March 1 (S.S.). =Queen’s.=
March 3. =Admiral’s.=
May 30 or 31–June 6. Visits to Hackney (Sir Rowland Hayward, Aug. 31), Waltham Forest (Sir Richard Bartlett), and Ely House (Sir Christopher Hatton, June 4–6).[416]
July 28 < > Aug. 6. Oatlands, by Sydenham House (William Aubrey?), Beddington (Sir Francis Carew), Chessington (William Harvey), and Stoke d’Abernon (Thomas Leyfield).[417]
Aug. Visit to the New Lodge.[418]
Aug. 30–31. Visit to Woking.[419]
Aug. 31 < > Sept. 6. Windsor, by Chobham (Edward? Bray) and Sunninghill.[420]
Sept. Visits to Ditton Park and Folly St. John Park (Mr. Norris).[421]
Nov. 8 < > 14. Somerset House, by Staines, Richmond, and Putney (John Lacy).[422]
Nov. 17, 19. Tilts.[423]
c. Nov. Visit to Sydenham Park.[424]
c. Nov. Visit to Ely House (Sir C. Hatton).[425]
c. Nov. 24. Richmond.[426]
Dec. 4, 14. Visits to Mortlake and East Sheen.[427]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 27. =Strange’s and Admiral’s= (play and activities).
1591
Jan. 1. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 3. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 6. =Queen’s.=
Feb. 11–13. Greenwich, by Lambeth.[428]
Feb. 14 (S.S.). =Queen’s.=
Feb. 16. =Strange’s and Admiral’s= (play and activities).
May 2 < > 9–20 < > 23. Visits to Hackney (Sir Rowland Hayward, May 9, 10), Tottenham High Cross (Sir Richard Martin), Theobalds (Lord Burghley, May 10–20), Enfield (Robert Wroth), and Havering.[429]
c. July 1. Visit to Croydon (?).[430]
July 19. Visit to Burghley House (Lord Burghley) for review of Earl of Essex’s horse in Covent Garden.[431]
July 29 < > Aug. 1–Sept. 27. Progress in Surrey, Sussex, and Hants.[432] Mitcham (Margaret, Lady Blank), Nonsuch (Aug. 1, 2) with visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew), Leatherhead (Edmund Tilney), East Horsley (Thomas Cornwallis, Aug. 3), Clandon Park (Sir Henry Weston), Guildford (Aug. 4), Loseley (Sir William More, Aug. 5–9), Katherine Hall, Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Aug. 10–14), Bramshott (Edmund Mervyn, Aug. 14), The Holt (Lord Delawarr), Cowdray (Lord Montague, Aug. 14–20) with visit to Oseburn Priory (Lord Montague, Aug. 17),[433] West Dean (Sir Richard Lewknor, Aug. 20), Chichester (Lord Lumley, Aug. 20–22), Stanstead (Lord Lumley, Aug. 26), Portsmouth (Earl of Sussex, Aug. 26–31), Southwick (John White, Aug. 31, Sept. 1), Tichfield (Earl of Southampton, Sept. 2, 3), South Stoneham? (John Caplen), Southampton (Sept. 5, 6), Fairthorne (Francis? Serle), Bishop’s Waltham (Bp. Winchester, Sept. 8, 9), Warnford (William Neale), Tichborne (Sir Benjamin Tichborne), Winchester (Bp.), Abbotstone (Marquis of Winchester), Wield (William Wallop), Farleigh (Sir Henry Wallop, Sept. 12, 13), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, Sept. 13–16) with visit to The Vine in Sherborne St. John? (Lord Sandys, Sept. 18), Odiham (Edward More, Sept. 19, 20), Elvetham (Earl of Hertford, Sept. 20–23),[434] Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Sept. 23, 24) with visit to Bagshot?, Sutton in Woking (Sir Henry Weston, Sept. 26–27).
Sept. 27. Oatlands.[435]
Oct. 4 < > 7. Richmond, by Hampton Court.[436]
c. Nov. 11. Visit to Ely House (Sir C. Hatton).[437]
Nov. 15 < > 20. Whitehall.[438]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[439]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 27. =Strange’s.=
Dec. 28. =Strange’s.=
1592
Jan. 1. =Strange’s.=
Jan. 2. =Sussex’s.=
Jan. 6. =Hertford’s.=
Jan. 9. =Strange’s.=
Feb. 6 (S.S.). =Strange’s.=
Feb. 8. =Strange’s.=
Apr. 7–21. Visits to Hammersmith (William Payne, Apr. 7), Osterley (Lady Gresham, Apr. 7–9), Hampton Court (Apr. 12), Wimbledon (Sir Thomas Cecil, Apr. 14–17), Croydon (Abp. of Canterbury, Apr. 17–21?), Beddington (Sir Francis Carew, Apr. 18), Sydenham (William Aubrey, Apr. 21).[440]
Apr. 21. Greenwich.[441]
c. Apr.-July (?). Visit to Blackfriars (Sir George Carey).[442]
July 29–31. Nonsuch, by Mitcham (John Dent).[443]
c. Aug. 9–Oct. 9. Progress in Surrey, Middlesex, Bucks., Berks., Wilts., Gloucestershire, and Oxon.[444] West Molesey (Thomas Brand), Hanworth, Eastridge in Colnbrook (Ostrich Inn?), Eton College, Maidenhead (the Lion), Bisham (Lady Russell, Aug. 11–13),[445] John Haynes, Hurst (Edward? Ward), Reading (Mr. Davies, Aug. 15–19), Burghfield (Francis? Plowden, Aug. 19), Aldermaston (Sir Humphrey Forster, Aug. 19–22), Chamberhouse in Thatcham (Nicholas Fuller), Shaw near Newbury (Thomas Dolman, Aug. 24–26) with hunt in Donnington Park, Hampstead Marshall (Thomas Parry, Aug. 26–27?), Avington (Richard? Choke, Aug. 27?), Ramsbury (Earl of Pembroke, Aug. 27–29?),[446] Burderhope (Thomas Stevens, Aug. 29), Lydiard Tregoze (Sir John St. John, Sept. 1), Down Ampney (Anthony Hungerford, Sept. 1–2), Cirencester (Sir John Danvers, Sept. 2–7), Rendcombe (Sir Richard Berkeley), Whittington (John Cotton, Sept. 9), Sudeley Castle (Lord Chandos, Sept. 9–12)[447] with visit to Alderton (Sir John Hickford), Northleach (William Dutton?), Sherborne (William Dutton, Sept. 14–15), Taynton? (Mr. Bray?), Burford (Laurence Tanfield, Sept. 15–16), Witney (James Yate, Sept. 16–18), Woodstock (Sept. 18–23) with visit to Ditchley (Sir Henry Lee),[448] Yarnton (Sir William Spencer, Sept. 23), Oxford (Sept. 23–28),[449] Holton (George Browne, Sept. 28), Rycote (Lord Norris, Sept. 28–Oct. 1),[450] Princes Risborough (John Reve at parsonage), Hampden (Mrs. Hampden, Oct. 2, 3), Chequers in Elsborough? (William Hawtrey), Amersham?, Chenies (Lady Bedford, Oct. 4, 5), Latimer? (Edwin Sandys), Denham (John Norris, Oct. 7), Uxbridge (Francis? Clifford), Bedfont (John Draper, Oct. 9).
Oct. 9. Hampton Court.[451]
Nov. 17. Challenge for Shrovetide tilt.[452]
Dec. 26. =Pembroke’s.=
Dec. 27. =Strange’s.=
Dec. 31. =Strange’s.=
1593
Jan. 1. =Strange’s.=
Jan. 6. =Pembroke’s.=
c. Jan. Visit to Chelsea (Lord Admiral).[453]
Jan. 30–Feb. 1. Visit to Strand (Sir Robert Cecil), by Putney (John Lacy)?[454]
Feb. 5–14. Visit to Burghley House (Lord Burghley).[455]
Feb. 17. Somerset House.[456]
Feb. 25. St. James’s.[457]
Feb. 26 (S.M.). Tilt.[458]
Apr. 21. Whitehall.[459]
May 2–14 <. Visit to Croydon (Abp.), by Streatham (Dr. Robert Forth).[460]
May 14 < > 22. Nonsuch.[461]
June 18 < > 24. Oatlands, by Hampton Court.[462]
Aug. 1 < > 4. Windsor, by Egham (Richard Kellefet).[463]
c. Aug. Visit to Sunninghill.[464]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[465]
Dec. 1. Hampton Court, by Laleham (Lawrence? Tomson).[466]
1594
Jan. 6. =Queen’s.=[467]
Feb. 10–12 (S.).
March 19. Greenwich, by Richmond and Somerset House (Lord Hunsdon).[468]
May 29 < > June 2–June 22 < > July 5. Visits to Lambeth (Abp. of Canterbury), Sion (June 3), Wimbledon (Sir Thomas Cecil, June 3), Richmond, Osterley (Anne, Lady Gresham), Willesden (Mr. Payne, June 7), Highgate (Sir William Cornwallis, June 7), Hendon (Sir John Fortescue), Friern Barnet (Sir John Popham), Theobalds (Lord Burghley, June 13–23?), Pyneste near Waltham, Enfield (Robert Wroth), Loughborough (Francis Stonard), Hackney (Katharine, Lady Hayward).[469]
July 12. Visit to Strand (Sir R. Cecil).[470]
Oct. 1 or 2. Nonsuch, by Camberwell (Bartholomew Scott) and Mitcham (Lady Blank).[471]
Oct. 25 < > 31. Richmond, by Combe (Thomas Vincent).[472]
Nov. 14. Whitehall?, by Battersea.[473]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[474]
Nov. 27. Somerset House.[475]
Dec. 7. Visit to Savoy (Sir Thomas Heneage).[476]
Dec. 8. Visit to Hampton Court.[477]
Dec. 11. Greenwich.[478]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 28. =Admiral’s.=
1595
Jan. 1. =Admiral’s.=
Jan. 6. =Admiral’s.=
Jan. 26. Wedding of Earl of Derby and Lady Elizabeth Vere.[479] =Chamberlain’s= (Midsummer Night’s Dream)?.
Jan. 30–Feb. 1. Visit to Burghley House (Lord Burghley).[480]
Feb. 18. St. James’s, by Lambeth (Abp.).[481]
Feb. 24 < > March 3. Whitehall.[482]
March 3 (S.M.). Mask (Proteus and the Rock Adamantine) by Gray’s Inn.[483]
March 4. Tilt and Barriers.[484]
May 3. Greenwich.[485]
Aug. 18–22. Nonsuch, by Whitehall and Mitcham (John? Dent).[486]
c. Aug.-Oct. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[487]
Oct. 19 < > 24. Richmond, by Combe (Thomas Vincent).[488]
Nov. 4. Visit to Barn Elms (Earl of Essex).[489]
Nov. 14. Whitehall, by Putney (John Lacy).[490]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[491]
Nov. 27 or 28. Richmond.[492]
Dec. 11. Visit to Kew (Sir John Puckering).[493]
Dec. 18 or 19. Whitehall.[494]
Dec. 20. Visit to Huntingdon House (Lady Huntingdon).[495]
Dec. 23. Richmond, by Putney (John Lacy).[496]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 28. =Chamberlain’s.=
1596
Jan. 1. =Admiral’s.=
Jan. 4. =Admiral’s.=
Jan. 6. =Chamberlain’s.=
Feb. 22 (S.S.). =Chamberlain’s= and =Admiral’s=.
Feb. 24. =Admiral’s.=
Apr. 2–3. Greenwich, by Putney (John Lacy) and Lambeth.[497]
Apr. 8. Visit to Burghley House (Lord Burghley).[498]
c. Aug. Visit to Eltham.[499]
Oct. 1–2. Nonsuch, by Lambeth (Lord Burgh) and Mitcham.[500]
Oct. 12. Richmond, by Kingston (John? Cox).[501]
Dec. 23. Visit to Strand (Sir R. Cecil).[504]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Chamberlain’s.=
1597
Jan. 1. =Chamberlain’s.=
Jan. 6. =Chamberlain’s=.
Feb. 6 (S.S.). =Chamberlain’s.=
Feb. 8. =Chamberlain’s.=
Feb. 19. Visit to Chelsea (Earl of Nottingham).[505]
March. Visit to Putney (John Lacy).[506]
May 7. Greenwich.[507]
c. July 20–22. Visit to Scadbury (Sir Thomas Walsingham), by Eltham and Chislehurst (Richard Carmarden).[508]
Aug. 17–Sept. 20. Progress in Essex, Middlesex, and Herts.[509] Hackney (Lady Hayward), Ruckholt in Leyton (Michael Hicks, Aug. 17–19), Claybury (Thomas Knyvett, Aug. 19), Havering (Aug. 19–30) with visit to Pyrgo (Sir Henry Grey), Loughborough (Francis Stonard) with hunt at Loughton (Robert Wroth), Mrs. Bracy (Sept. 5), Theobalds (Lord Burghley, Sept. 5, 7, 9) with visit to Enfield Chase (Sir Robert Cecil) and hunt in Waltham forest (Ralph Colston’s walk), Edmonton (Mr. Woodward), Highgate (Sir William Cornwallis, Sept. 13, 18, 19), Kensington (Walter Cope, Sept. 19), Putney (John Lacy, Sept. 19–20).
Sept. 20. Richmond.[510]
c. Oct. 20. Whitehall, by Putney (John Lacy) and Chelsea (Lord Delawarr).[511]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[512]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Admiral’s.=
1598
Jan. 1. =Chamberlain’s.=
Jan. 6. =Chamberlain’s.= Mask (Passions) by Middle Temple.[513]
Feb. 26 (S.S.). =Chamberlain’s.=
Feb. 28. =Admiral’s.=
May 2. Greenwich.[514]
July 5. Visit to Burghley House (Lord Burghley).[515]
c. July. Visit to Eltham (Hugh Miller and John Lee).[516]
c. Sept. Visit to Newington (Mr. Saunderson).[517]
Sept. 12–13. Nonsuch, by Mitcham (Dr. Julius Caesar).[518]
Sept. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[519]
c. Oct. 10. Richmond, by Kingston (George? Evelyn).[520]
Nov. 13 or 14. Whitehall, by Chelsea (Earl of Shrewsbury).[521]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[522]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Admiral’s.=
1599
Jan. 1. =Chamberlain’s.=
Jan. 6. =Admiral’s.=
Feb. 10. Richmond, by Chelsea (Earl of Shrewsbury).[523]
Feb. 18 (S.S.). =Admiral’s.=
Feb. 20. Chamberlain’s.
Apr. 3. Greenwich, by Lambeth (Abp.).[524]
Apr. 7 (Easter Eve). Two Admiral’s men at court.[525]
June 25. Visit to Alice, Countess of Derby (Holborn?), for wedding of Mary Hemingham.[526]
c. July. Visit to Eltham.[527]
July 27–30. Visit to Wimbledon (Thomas, Lord Burghley), by Vauxhall (Sir Noel Caron).[528]
July 30. Nonsuch.[529]
Aug. 16–17. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[530]
c. Aug. 22. Visit to Somerset House.[531]
Sept. 4–7. Visit to Hampton Court.[532]
Oct. 3. Richmond, by Kingston (George? Evelyn).[533]
c. Oct. Visit to Hampton Court.[534]
Nov. 13. Whitehall, by Putney (John Lacy) and Chelsea (Earl of Nottingham and Sir Arthur Gorges).[535]
Nov. 19. Tilt.[536]
Nov. 28. Visit to Earl of Essex at York House.[537]
Dec. 7. Richmond, by Putney (John Lacy).[538]
Christmas.[539]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Admiral’s= (Old Fortunatus?).
1600
Jan. 1. =Admiral’s= (Shoemaker’s Holiday).
Jan. 6. =Chamberlain’s.=
Jan. 19–21. Visit to Chelsea (Earl of Nottingham).[540]
Feb. 3 (S.S.). =Chamberlain’s.=
Feb. 5. =Derby’s.=
Apr. 13 < > 20. Greenwich, by Lambeth.[541]
May 12. Activities, by Peter Bromvill.
May 13. Baiting.[542]
June 10. Visit to Lumley House (Lord Lumley), Greenwich.[543]
June 16–17. Visit to Blackfriars (Lady Russell and Lord Cobham) for wedding of Lord Herbert and Anne Russell, with mask (The Lost Muse).[544]
July 29. Nonsuch, by Newington (Mr. Carey).[545]
Aug. 5–6. Visit to Tooting (John Lacy).[546]
Aug. 13–16. Visit to Beddington (Sir F. Carew) and Croydon (Aug. 14).[547]
Aug.? Visit to Kingston (George Evelyn).[548]
Aug. 24 < > 26. Oatlands, by Molesey (Dorothy, Lady Edmondes).[549]
Sept. 1. Hunt at New Lodge.[550]
Sept. 4. Visit to Hanworth (William Killigrew).[551]
Sept. 9. Visit to Esher (Richard Drake).[552]
> Sept. 12. Visit to Hampton Court (Earl of Nottingham).[553]
c. Sept.-Oct. Visit to Thorpe (Mr. Bereblock).[554]
Oct. 9. Richmond, by Sunbury (Sir Philip Boteler).[555]
Nov. 13. Whitehall, by Chelsea (Earl of Shrewsbury).[556]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[557]
> Dec. 4. Visit to Sackville House (Lady Glemham).[558]
Dec. 22. Visit to Strand (Sir R. Cecil).[559]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 28. =Admiral’s.=
1601
Jan. 1. =Paul’s= and =Derby’s=.
Jan. 6. =Chamberlain’s=, =Admiral’s=, =Derby’s=, and =Chapel= (‘showe’).
Feb. 2. =Admiral’s.=
Feb. 22 (S.S.). =Chapel.=
Feb. 24. =Chamberlain’s.=
May 1. Visit to Highgate (Sir William Cornwallis).[560]
May 2. Visit to Chelsea (Earl of Lincoln)?[561]
May 7. Greenwich.[562]
May 23. Visit by Lambeth.[563]
c. July. Visits to Eltham (Hugh Miller) and Blackwall.[564]
Aug. 6–8. Windsor, by Fulham (Bp. of London), Brentford, Hanworth (William Killigrew), Staines (Bush Inn, Aug. 8).[565]
Aug. Visits to Old Windsor (William? Meredith), Little Park, Mote Park, Folly John Park (Anthony? Duck), and Philberds in Bray (William? Goddard).[566]
Aug. 13. Visit to Stoke Poges (Sir Edward Coke).[567]
Aug. 28–Sept. 28. Progress in Berks., Hants, and Surrey.[568] Hurst (Sir Richard Ward, Aug. 28), Reading (Mr. Davies?, Aug. 28–Sept. 1) with visit to Caversham (Sir William Knollys),[569] Englefield (Sir Edward Norris), Aldermaston (Sir Humphrey Forster, Sept. 5), Silchester Heath (Sept. 5), Beaurepaire (Sir Robert Remington), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, Sept. 5–19), South Warnborough (Richard White, Sept. 20), Crondall (Mr. Paulet), Farnham (Bp. of Winchester, Sept. 22, 23), Seale (Lady Woodruff), Loseley (Sir George More, Sept. 23), Clandon (Sir Richard Weston), Stoke d’Abernon (Thomas? Vincent), Absey (Epsom?) Court (Mr. Blanden).
Sept. 28. Richmond.[570]
Oct. 24. Whitehall, by Putney.[571]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[572]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Chamberlain’s= and =Admiral’s= (with activities).
Dec. 29. Visit to Blackfriars (Lord Hunsdon), with play.[575]
1602
Jan. 1. =Chamberlain’s.=
Jan. 3. =Worcester’s.=
Jan. 6. =Chapel.=
Jan. 10. =Chapel.=
Feb. 14 (S.S.). =Chamberlain’s= and =Chapel=.
Feb. 19. Richmond, by Putney (John Lacy).[576]
Apr. 9 or 10. Visit to Wimbledon (Lord Burghley)?[577]
Apr. 19. Greenwich, by Lambeth (Abp.) and Blackfriars (Lord Hunsdon).[578]
May 1. Visit to Sydmonscourt, Lewisham (Sir Richard Buckley).[579]
May 5. Visit to St. James’s Park (Dorothy Lady Chandos and Sir William Knollys).[580]
c. July 15. Visit to Eltham (Sir John Stanhope, Hugh Miller, and Sir Thomas Walsingham).[581]
July 28–Aug. 10? Progress in Middlesex and Bucks.[582] Lambeth (July 28), Chiswick (Sir William Russell, July 28), Hounslow (Mr. Whitby), Harlington (Ambrose Copinger), Harefield (Sir Thomas Egerton, July 31–Aug. 3),[583] Hitcham (Sir William Clarke, Aug. 3–9) with visit to Taplow (Sir Henry Guilford, Aug. 7), Riddings in Datchet (Richard? Hanbury), Thorpe (Mr. Oglethorpe).
Aug. c. 10. Oatlands.[584]
c. Aug.-Sept. Visits to Woking, Chertsey (John Hammond), Byfleet Lodge, New Lodge, and to Mr. Brooke in the forest, Mr. Bromley, and Mr. Woodward.[585]
Oct. 2 <. Visit to West Drayton (Lord Hunsdon) by Bedfont (John Draper).[586]
Oct. 8. Richmond.[587]
Nov. 15. Whitehall, by Putney (John Lacy).[588]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[589]
Dec. 6. Visit to Savoy (Sir Robert Cecil), with dialogues.[590]
Dec. 6 < > 23. Visits to Arundel House (Earl of Nottingham) and Blackfriars (Lord Hunsdon).[591]
Christmas.[592]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Admiral’s.=
1603
Jan. 1. =Paul’s.=
Jan. 6. =Hertford’s.=
Jan. 17. Visit to Charterhouse (Lord Howard de Walden).[593]
Jan. 21. Richmond, by Putney (John Lacy).[594]
Feb. 2. =Chamberlain’s.=
March 6 (S.S.). =Admiral’s.=
March 8 (?). =Admiral’s.=
March 24. Obiit Elizabetha. Accession of James.
Apr. 5–May 11. Progress of James from Scotland.[595] Seton (Earl of Wintoun, Apr. 5), Dunglass (Lord Home, Apr. 5, 6), Berwick (Apr. 6–8). Fenham (Sir William Read, Apr. 8), Widdrington (Sir Robert Carey, Apr. 8, 9), Newcastle (Robert Dudley, Apr. 9–13), Lumley Castle (Lord Lumley, Apr. 13), Durham Castle (Bp. of Durham, Apr. 13, 14), Walworth (Mrs. Jenison, Apr. 14, 15), Topcliffe (William Ingleby, Apr. 15, 16), York (Lord Burghley, Apr. 16–18), Grimston Hall (Sir Edward Stanhope, Apr. 18, 19), Pontefract Castle (Apr. 19), Doncaster (Bear and Sun, Apr. 19, 20), Blyth (Apr. 20), Worksop (Earl of Shrewsbury, Apr. 20, 21),[596] Southwell (Apr. 21), Newark Castle (Apr. 21, 22), Belvoir Castle (Earl of Rutland, Apr. 22, 23), Burley on the Hill (Sir John Harington, Apr. 23), Burghley (Lord Burghley, Apr. 23–27) with another visit to Burley on the Hill (Apr. 25, 26), Apethorpe (Sir Anthony Mildmay, Apr. 27), Hinchinbrook (Sir Oliver Cromwell, Apr. 27–29), Godmanchester (Apr. 29), Royston (Robert Chester, Apr. 29, 30), Standon (Thomas Sadleir, Apr. 30–May 2), Broxbourne (Henry Cock, May 2, 3), Theobalds (Sir Robert Cecil, May 3–7), Stamford Hill (May 7),[597] Charterhouse (Lord Howard de Walden, May 7–11) with visits to Whitehall and St. James’s.
May 11. Tower, by Whitehall.[598]
May 13. Greenwich.[599]
May 25–27. Visits to Nonsuch by Putney, Beddington (Sir Francis Carew), Oatlands, and Hampton Court.[600]
c. June 12. Visits to Sion and Windsor.[601]
June 1–27. Progress of Anne from Scotland.[602] Berwick (June 3), Bishop Auckland? (Bp. of Durham), York (June 11–15), Grimston Hall (Sir Edward Stanhope, June 15), Worksop (Earl of Shrewsbury), Newark, Nottingham, Wollaton (Sir Percival Willoughby, June 21), Ashby de la Zouch (Earl of Huntingdon. June 23), Leicester (Sir William Skipwith, June 23, 24), Dingley (Sir Thomas Griffin, June 24, 25), Holdenby (Christopher Hatton, June 25), Althorp (Sir Robert Spencer, June 25–27),[603] Easton Neston (Sir George Fermor, June 27).
June 24. Windsor, by Hanworth (Sir William Killigrew).[604]
June 27–30. Visits to Easton Neston (June 27) meeting Anne, Grafton (Earl of Cumberland, June 27, 28),[605] Salden in Muresly (Sir John Fortescue), and probably Aylesbury (Sir John Packington), Hampden (Alexander Hampden), and Great Missenden (Sir William Fleetwood).[606]
July 13 < > 16. Hampton Court.[607]
July 22–23. Whitehall, by Fulham (Bp. of London).[608]
July 25. Coronation.[609]
July 27. Hampton Court.[610]
Aug. 10–Sept. 20. Progress in Surrey, Hants, Berks., and Oxon.[611] Pyrford (Sir Francis Wolley, Aug. 10), Loseley (Sir George More, Aug. 11, 12), Farnham Castle (Bp. of Winchester, Aug. 14, 17), South Warnborough (Sir Thomas White), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, Aug. 17, 22, 23), Salisbury (Bp. of Salisbury, Aug. 26–28), Basing again (Aug. 31), Shaw (Thomas Dolman), Woodstock (Sept. 8–20) with visit to Sir Henry Lee (Sept. 15).
Sept. 20. Winchester.[612]
Sept. 20 < > Oct, 6. Play.[613]
Sept. 20 < > Oct. 17. Mask on arrival of Henry.[614]
Sept. 20 < > Oct. 17. Visits to Southampton and Isle of Wight.[615]
Oct. 20 < > 24. Wilton (Earl of Pembroke).[616]
Nov. 1. Visit to Salisbury.[617]
Dec. 2. =King’s= (As You Like It?).
Dec. 12 < > 21. Hampton Court.[618]
Christmas.[619]
Dec. 26. =King’s.=
Dec. 27. =King’s.=
Dec. 28. =King’s.=
Dec. 30. =King’s.=
1604
Jan. 1. =King’s= (two plays, one of Robin Goodfellow, Midsummer Night’s Dream?). Mask (Indian and Chinese Knights).[620]
Jan. 2. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 4. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 6. Mask.
Jan. 8. Queen’s mask (The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses).
Jan. 13. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 15. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 21. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 22. =Prince’s.=
Jan. Tilt.[621]
Feb. 2. =King’s.=
Feb. 13. Whitehall.[622]
Feb. 19 (S.S.). =King’s.=
Feb. 20. =Prince’s= and =Paul’s= (Middleton’s Phoenix?).[623]
Feb. 21. =Queen’s Revels.=
March 12. Tower.[624]
March 13. Lion baiting.[625]
March 15. Entry through London with pageants to Whitehall.[626]
March 29. Tilt.[627]
May 1. Visit to Highgate (Sir William Cornwallis) with Jonson’s Penates.[628]
May 30 < > June 2. Greenwich.[629]
June 16. Visit to Ruckholt in Leyton (Michael Hicks).[630]
July 3 or 4. Whitehall.[631]
July 12–21. Visits to Oatlands (July 14–16) and Windsor (July 18, 21).[632]
July 24–Aug. 14. Progress in Herts., Hunts., and Beds., broken by Spanish visit.[633] Theobalds (Lord Cecil, July 24–29), Somersham (Sir John Cutts, > Aug. 2), Bletsoe (Lord St. John, Aug. 5–14).
Aug. 10. Arrival of Fernandez de Velasco, Constable of Castile, and other Spanish and Flemish commissioners at Somerset House.
Aug. 14. Whitehall.[634]
Aug. 19. Signature of treaty and dinner to commissioners at Whitehall, with baiting and activities.[635]
Aug. 25. Departure of Constable of Castile.
Aug. 20–Sept. 6 < > 15. Progress resumed in Herts. and Oxon.[636] Ware (Aug. 20), Woodstock (Sept. 6), Langley.
Sept. 6 < > 15. Windsor.[637]
Sept. 21. Visit to Eton College.[638]
Sept. 22. Hampton Court.[639]
Oct. 1–6. Visit to Windsor and Easton Neston (Sir George Fermor) to meet Charles.[640]
Oct. 16. Whitehall.[641]
Nov. 1. =King’s= (Othello).
Nov. 4. =King’s= (Merry Wives of Windsor).
Nov. 23. =Prince’s.=
Nov. 24. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 14. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 19. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 26. =King’s= (Measure for Measure).
Dec. 27. Mask for wedding of Sir Philip Herbert and Lady Susan Vere.
Dec. 28. =King’s= (Comedy of Errors).
Dec. 30. =Queen’s= (How to Learn of a Woman to Woo).
1605
Jan. 1. =Queen’s Revels= (All Fools).
Jan. 3. =Queen’s Revels.=[642]
Jan. 6. Creation of Charles as Duke of York. Queen’s mask (Mask of Blackness).
Jan. 7. =King’s= (Henry V).
Jan. 8. =King’s= (Every Man Out of His Humour).
Jan. 9 < > 14. =King’s= (Love’s Labour’s Lost), at the Earl of Southampton’s or Viscount Cranborne’s for the Queen.[643]
Jan. 15. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 22. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 2. =King’s= (Every Man in His Humour). Mask by Duke of Holst (?).[644]
Feb. 3. =King’s= (play ready but not shown).
Feb. 5. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 10 (S.S.). =King’s= (Merchant of Venice).
Feb. 11. =King’s= (Spanish Maze).
Feb. 12. =King’s= (Merchant of Venice).
Feb. 19. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 28 < > March 6. Greenwich.[645]
March 24. Tilt.[646]
Apr. 4. Tilt.[647]
May 20. Tilt.[648]
June 3. Lion baiting in Tower.[649]
June 26. Whitehall.[650]
July 15. Baiting for imperial ambassador.[651]
July 16–Aug. 31. Progress in Essex, Herts., Beds., Northants., Oxon., and Berks.[652] Havering (July 16–18), Loughton (Sir Robert Wroth, July 18–20), Theobalds (Earl of Salisbury, July 20–24), Hatfield (July 24–26), Luton (Sir John Rotheram, July 26–27), Ampthill (July 27–Aug. 1), Bletsoe (Lord St. John, Aug. 1–3), Drayton (Lord Mordaunt, Aug. 3–6), Apethorpe (Sir Anthony Mildmay, Aug. 6–9), Rockingham (Sir Edward Watson, Aug. 9–12), Harrowden (Lord Vaux, Aug. 12–15), Castle Ashby (Lord Compton, Aug. 15–16), Grafton (Earl of Cumberland, Aug. 16–20), Hanwell (Sir Anthony Cope, Aug. 20–21), Wroxton (Sir William Pope, Aug. 21), Woodstock (Aug. 21–27), Oxford (Aug. 27–30),[653] Bisham (Sir Edward Hoby, Aug. 30–31).
Aug. 31. Windsor.[654]
Sept. 10 < > 12. Hampton Court.[655]
c. Sept. 30. Whitehall.[656]
Dec. 1. =Prince’s.=
Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (ten) and =Paul’s= (two).
Dec. 27. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 30. =Prince’s.=
1606
Jan. 1. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 4. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 5. Mask (Hymenaei) for wedding of Essex and Frances Howard.
Jan. 6. Barriers, with speeches (Truth and Opinion) by Jonson.
March 3 (S.M.). =Prince’s.=
March 4. =Prince’s.=
March 22. Rumoured assassination of James on visit to Woking.[657]
March 24. Tilt.[658]
March 28. Visit incognito to Guildhall for trial of Henry Garnet.[659]
May 16. Greenwich.[660]
June 1. Challenge for tilt by Knights of the Fortunate Island, or the Lucent Pillar.[661]
June 22–23. Birth and death of Princess Sophia.
July c. 15–17. Visits to Oatlands and Farnham.[662]
July 17–Aug. 11. Visit of Christian IV of Denmark.[663] Plays (two) by =King’s= at Greenwich.
July 18. Kings meet at Tilbury.
July 18–24. Greenwich.
July 24–28. Visit to Theobalds (Earl of Salisbury), by Blackwall and Stratford. Mask (Solomon and Queen of Sheba).[664]
July 24. Entertainment by Jonson.
July 28–31. Greenwich.
July 30. =Paul’s= (Abuses).[665]
July 31. Triumph through London to Somerset House, with pageants at Great Conduit (Bower of the Muses), Little Conduit (Concord), and Fleet Conduit (Pastoral).
Aug. 1–2. Whitehall.
Aug. 2–6. Greenwich.
Aug. 4. Ringing.
Aug. 5. Tilt.
Aug. 6. Masters of defence.
Aug. 6. Visit to Richmond.
Aug. 7. Visit to Hampton Court, with play by =King’s=.
Aug. 7–8. Visit to Windsor.
Aug. 8–9. Greenwich.
Aug. 9–11. Rochester (Bp. William Barlow).
Aug. 10. Dinner on Elizabeth James near Chatham.
Aug. 11. Farewell on Admiral of Denmark at Gravesend, with fireworks,
c. Aug. 17. Hampton Court.[666]
Aug. Progress, including Farnham (Aug. 23–24, Bp. of Winchester) and Beaulieu (Aug. 30, Earl of Southampton).[667]
Sept. 11–c. 18. Visit to Windsor.[668]
Oct. 20 < > Nov. 1. Whitehall.[669]
Dec. 26. =King’s= (King Lear).
Dec. 28. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 29. =King’s=.
1607
Jan. 4. =King’s.=
Jan. 6. =King’s.= Mask (by Campion) for wedding of Lord Hay and Honora Denny.
Jan. 8. =King’s.=
Jan. 13, 24, 30. =Prince’s= (three plays).
Feb. 1. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 2. =King’s= (Barnes’s Devil’s Charter).
Feb. 5. =King’s.=
Feb. 11. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 15 (S.S.). =King’s.=
Feb. 27. =King’s.=
March 24. Tilt.[670]
May c. 20–24. Entry on Theobalds, with entertainment by Jonson.[671]
May 25. Tilt for Prince de Joinville. Play (Aeneas and Dido) at banquet by Earl of Arundel for Anne.[672]
June 12. Visit to Lord Mayor and Clothworkers.[673]
July 16. Visit to Merchant Taylors, with speech by Jonson.[674]
July 19. Windsor, by Oatlands?[675]
Aug. Progress in Hants and Wilts.[676] Basing (Marquis of Winchester, Aug. 5), Romsey, Beaulieu (Earl of Southampton, Aug. 10, 12), Salisbury (Aug. 14–23), and possibly Isle of Wight.
Aug. 23 < > Sept. 7. Windsor.[677]
Sept. 23 < > 27. Hampton Court.[678]
Oct. 27 < > 29. Whitehall.[679]
Nov. 19. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 26, 27, 28. =King’s= (three plays).
Dec. 30. =Prince’s.=
1608
Jan. 2. =King’s.=
Jan. 3. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 4. =Prince’s.= Fireworks.[680]
Jan. 6. =King’s= (two plays).
Jan. 7. =King’s.=
Jan. 9. =King’s.=
Jan. 10. Queen’s mask (Mask of Beauty).
Jan. 17. =King’s= (two plays).
Jan. 26. =King’s.=
Feb. 2, 7 (S.S.). =King’s= (two plays).
Feb. 9. Mask (by Jonson) for wedding of Viscount Haddington and Elizabeth Radcliffe.
March 24. Tilt.[681]
May 13 < > 19. Greenwich.[682]
July 1. Whitehall.[683]
July 7 < > 14–Aug. 14 < > 28. Progress in Herts., Beds., and Northants.[684] Theobalds (July 14–20) with visit to Lamer in Wheathampstead (Sir John Garrard, July 19), Toddington (Lady Cheyne, July 24, 25), Grafton (Duke of Lennox, Aug. 1–3), Alderton (Sir Thomas Hesilrige, Aug. 4), Holdenby (Duke of York, Aug. 5–14) with visit to Bletsoe (Lord St. John, Aug. 5).
Aug. 14 < > 28. Windsor.[685]
Sept. 4 < > 17. Hampton Court.[686]
Oct. 1 < > 21. Whitehall.[687]
Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (twelve), =Queen’s= (five), Prince’s (three), and =Children of Blackfriars= (three).[688]
1609
Jan. 1. =Children of Blackfriars= (Middleton’s Trick to catch the Old One).
Jan. 4. =Children of Blackfriars.=
Feb. 2. Queen’s mask (Mask of Queens).
Feb. 28 (S.T.). Ringing.[689]
March 24. Tilt.[690]
Apr. 11. Visit to Durham House for opening of Britain’s Burse.[691]
Apr. 18. Baiting.[692]
May 6 < > 15. Greenwich.[693]
June 23. Lion baiting in Tower.[694]
July 6. Whitehall.[695]
July 22. Windsor.[696]
July 23–Aug. 20 < > 31. Progress in Surrey, Hants, Wilts., Dorset.[697] Farnham (Bp. of Winchester, July 23–26), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, July 26), Beaulieu (Earl of Southampton, Aug. 3–7), Salisbury (Aug. 15, 20), Cranborne (Aug. 17–19), Tarrant.
Aug. 20 < > 31. Windsor.[698]
Sept. 1 < > 7. Hampton Court.[699]
Oct. 30. Whitehall.[700]
Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (thirteen) and =Children of Whitefriars= (five).
Dec. 26. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 27. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 28. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 31. Challenge for barriers by Henry as Meliadus.
1610
Jan. 6. Henry’s barriers, with speeches by Jonson.[701]
Jan. 7. =Prince’s.=[702]
Jan. 18. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 9. Duke of York’s.
Feb. 18–20 (S.).
March 24, 27. Tilt.[703]
Apr. 20. Lion baiting in Tower.[704]
Apr. 23. Triumph for Henry at Chester.[705]
May 31–June 6. Creation of Henry as Prince of Wales.[706]
June 5. Queen’s mask (Tethys’ Festival).
June 6. Tilt, water triumph, and fireworks.[707]
June 19. Visit to Woolwich.[708]
July 24–c. Sept. 2. Progress in Northants., Oxon., Berks., and Hants.[709] Bletsoe (Lord St. John, July 29), Holdenby (Duke of York, Aug. 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 19) with visits to Apethorpe (Sir Anthony Mildmay) and Kirby (Sir Christopher Hatton, Aug. 7) and Castle Ashby (Lord Compton, Aug. 13, 14), Grafton (Duke of Lennox, Aug. 19), Woodstock (Aug. 22–25), Bisham (Sir Edward Hoby, Aug. 28), Aldershot (Walter Tichborne? Sept. 2).
c. Sept. 2. Hampton Court.[710]
Oct. 8 < > 18. Whitehall.[711]
Dec. 10. =Queen’s= (three plays).
Dec. 12. =Duke of York’s.=
Dec. 19. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 20. =Duke of York’s.=
Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (fifteen).
Dec. 27. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 28. =Prince’s.=
1611
Jan. 1. Prince’s mask (Oberon).
Jan. 14. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 15. =Duke of York’s.=
Jan. 16. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 2. Queen’s mask (Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly).
Feb. 3–5 (S.).
Feb. 3. King’s (Mucedorus)?
Apr. 27. Greenwich.[712]
June 26 < > July 2. Windsor.[713]
July 18–21. Visit to Englefield (Sir Edward Norris).[714]
July 22 < > 25–Sept. 1 < > 10. Progress in Surrey, Hants, Wilts., and Isle of Wight.[715] Farnham (Bp. of Winchester, July 25–8), Salisbury (Aug. 3, 6, 10, 13), Beaulieu (Earl of Southampton, Aug. 19, 21, 26) with visit to Isle of Wight (Aug. 22), Tichborne (Sir Benjamin Tichborne, Aug. 29), Farnham (Aug. 31), Bagshot (Sept. 1).
Sept. 1 < > 10. Hampton Court.[716]
Oct. 31. Whitehall.[717] =King’s.=
Nov. 1. King’s (Tempest).
Nov. 5. King’s (Winter’s Tale).
Nov. 9. =King’s.=
Nov. 19. =King’s.=
Dec. 16. =King’s.=
Christmas.[718]
Dec. 26. Ringing.[719] =King’s= (A King and no King).
Dec. 27. =Queen’s= (Greene’s Tu Quoque).
Dec. 28. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 29. =Prince’s= (Almanac).
Dec. 31. =King’s.=
1612
Jan. 1. Ringing.[720] =King’s= (Twins’ Tragedy).
Jan. 5. =King’s= and/or =Children of Whitefriars= (Cupid’s Revenge).
Jan. 6. Ringing.[721] Prince’s mask (Love Restored?) by gentlemen of the court.
Jan. 7. =King’s.=
Jan. > 12–22. Visit of Anne and Henry to Greenwich.[722]
Jan. 12. =King’s and Queen’s= (Silver Age) and/or =Duke of York’s=.
Jan. 13. =King’s and Queen’s= (Rape of Lucrece).
Jan. 15. =King’s.=
Jan. 19. =Lady Elizabeth’s.=
Jan. 21. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 23. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 28. =Duke of York’s.=
Feb. 2. =Queen’s= (Greene’s Tu Quoque).
Feb. 5. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 9. =King’s.=
Feb. 13. =Duke of York’s.=
Feb. 19. =King’s.=
Feb. 20. =King’s= (two plays).
Feb. 23 (S.S.). =King’s= (Nobleman).
Feb. 24. =Duke of York’s= (Hymen’s Holiday or Cupid’s Vagaries).
Feb. 25. Ringing. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (Proud Maid’s Tragedy).
Feb. 28. Visit by Henry to Marquis of Winchester, with plays.[723] =King’s.=
Feb. 29. =Prince’s.=
March 11. =Lady Elizabeth’s.=
March 24. Tilt.[724]
March 28. =King’s.=
Apr. 3. =King’s.=
Apr. 11. =Prince’s.=
Apr. 16. =King’s.=
Apr. 26. =King’s=, for Duc de Bouillon?[725]
May-June. Visits to Eltham, Wanstead (Sir Edward Phelips, June 17, 25), and Havering (Lady Oxford, June 18).[726]
c. July 9. Visit to Kensington (Sir Walter Cope).[727]
c. July 17–c. Sept. 1. Progress in Herts., Beds., Northants., Rutland, Notts., Leicester, Oxon., Berks.[728] Theobalds (July 17), St. Albans?, Wrest? (Earl of Kent), Ampthill (July 23), Bletsoe (Lord St. John, July 24–27), Castle Ashby (Lord Compton, July 27–30), Kirby (Sir Christopher Hatton, July 30–Aug. 3), Apethorpe (Sir Anthony Mildmay, Aug. 3–6), Brooke (Sir Edward Noel, Aug. 6–7), Belvoir (Earl of Rutland, Aug. 7–10), Newark Castle (Aug. 10–11), Rufford Abbey (Sir George Saville, Aug. 11–14), Newstead Abbey (Sir John Byron, Aug. 14–17), Nottingham (Thurland House, Aug. 17–18), Loughborough (Aug. 18–19), Leicester (Earl of Huntingdon, Aug. 19–21), Dingley (Sir Thomas Griffin, Aug. 21–22), Holdenby (Duke of York, Aug. 22–24), Grafton (Duke of Lennox, Aug. 24–26?), Hanwell? (Sir Anthony Cope), Woodstock (Prince Henry, Aug. 26–31?),[729] Rycote (Lord Norris, Aug. 31–Sept. 1?), Bisham (Sir Edward Hoby, Sept. 1?).
Sept. 1 < > 21. Whitehall.[730]
Oct. 16. Arrival of Elector Palatine.[731]
Oct. 20. =Lady Elizabeth’s.=[732]
Oct. 29. Visit of Elector to Lord Mayor’s show.[733]
Oct. 31 or Nov. 1. Play put off for Henry’s illness.[734]
Nov. 2 or 3. =Queen’s Revels= (Coxcomb)?[735]
Nov. 6. Death of Henry.
Christmas. Twenty plays by =King’s= this winter (Shakespeare’s 1, 2 Hen. IV (?), J. C., M. Ado (twice), Oth., W. Tale, Tp.; Jonson’s Alchemist; Beaumont and Fletcher’s Philaster (twice), Maid’s Tragedy, King and No King, Captain; Tourneur’s Nobleman; Niccolls’s Twins; Ford’s A Bad Beginning, and Cardenio, Merry Devil of Edmonton, Knot of Fools).[736]
Dec. 27. Betrothal of Elector and Elizabeth.[737]
1613
Jan. 1. =Queen’s Revels= (Cupid’s Revenge).
Jan. 9. =Queen’s Revels= (Cupid’s Revenge).
Feb. 11. Fireworks.
Feb. 13. River triumph.
Feb. 14 (S.S.). Wedding of Elector and Elizabeth. Lords’ mask (by Campion).
Feb. 15. Ringing. Middle Temple and Lincoln’s Inn mask (by Chapman).
Feb. 16. =King’s.= Mask put off.
Feb. 20. Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn mask (by Beaumont).
Feb. 21. Banquet for James and the maskers.
Feb. 25. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (Dutch Courtesan).
Feb. 27. =Queen’s Revels= (Widow’s Tears).
March 1. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (Raymond Duke of Lyons).
March 2. =Prince Charles’s= (1 The Knaves).
March 2–c. 4. Visit of Charles and Elector to Cambridge, with Brooke’s Adelphe (Mar. 2) and Scyros (Mar. 3) by Trinity men.
March? Visit by Frederick to Oxford.[738]
March 10. =Prince’s= (2 The Knaves).
March 24. Tilt.[739]
Apr. 10. Departure of Elector and Elizabeth, accompanied by James to Rochester (Apr. 13).[740]
Apr. 24–June 17. Progress of Anne.[741] Hampton Court, with James, Windsor, Reading (the Friars), Caversham (Lord Knollys, Apr. 27–28),[742] Bath, Bristol (Marchioness of Winchester, June 4–8),[743] Siston (Sir Henry Billingsley, June 8), Bishop’s Cannings (June 11).[744]
May 26. Greenwich.[745]
June 8. =King’s= (Cardenio) for Savoyard ambassador.
July 1–4. Visits to Hampton Court and Oatlands.[746]
c. July 8. Whitehall.[747]
c. July 18. Windsor.[748]
July 19 < > 20–c. Aug. 21. Progress in Surrey, Hants, and Wilts.[749] Farnham (Bp. of Winchester, July 20), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, July 23), Andover (July 24, 26), Lydiard (Sir Oliver St. John?, July 27), Charlton (Earl of Suffolk, July 31), Salisbury (Aug. 5), Beaulieu (Earl of Southampton, c. Aug. 6 < > 21).
July-Sept. Visits of Anne to Bath and Wells (Aug. 20–22).[750]
c. Aug. 21. Windsor.[751]
Sept. 8. Whitehall.[752]
c. Sept. 28. Visit to Hampton Court.[753]
Nov. 1. =King’s.=
Nov. 4. =King’s.=
Nov. 5. =King’s.=
Nov. 15. =King’s.=
Nov. 16. =King’s.=
Dec. 12. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (Dutch Courtesan).
Dec. 24 or 28. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 26. Mask (by Campion) for wedding of Earl of Somerset and Frances Howard.
Dec. 27. =King’s.= Challenge for tilt, with device by Jonson.
Dec. 29. Mask (Irish Mask) for wedding.
1614
Jan. 1. Tilt. =King’s.=
Jan. 3. Irish Mask repeated.
Jan. 4. =King’s.=
Jan. 4. Play and two masks (one Middleton’s lost Mask of Cupid) by City at Merchant Taylors for wedding.[754]
Jan. 5. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 6. Gray’s Inn mask (Mask of Flowers) for wedding.[755]
Jan. 10. =King’s.=
Jan. 25. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (Eastward Hoe).
Feb. 2. =King’s.=
Feb. 3. Play (Daniel’s Hymen’s Triumph) for wedding of Lord Roxborough and Jean Drummond at Somerset House.
Feb. 4. =King’s.= Play for Lord Mayor at Somerset House.[756]
Feb. 8. =King’s.=
Feb. 10. =King’s.=
Feb. 18. =King’s.=
March 6 (S.S.). =King’s.=
March 8. =King’s.=
March 24. Tilt.[757]
June 8 < > 12. Greenwich.[758]
June 21. Whitehall.[759]
June 29. Visit to Richmond.[760]
July 17–23. Progress in Herts., Essex, Beds., broken by Denmark visit.[761] Theobalds (July 17), The Rye in Hatfield Broadoak (Richard Francke, July 18–19), Audley End (Earl of Suffolk, July 19–21), Royston (July 21–22), Haynes (Robert Newdigate, July 22–23).
July 22. Arrival of Christian IV, King of Denmark, at Somerset House.[762]
July 24 < > 30. Plays before Christian.[763]
Aug. 1. Visit to Woolwich, Rochester, and Gravesend for departure of Christian.[764]
Aug. 1–31. Progress resumed in Herts., Northants., Rutland, Notts., Leicestershire, Oxon., Berks.[765] Theobalds (Aug. 1), Apethorpe (Sir Anthony Mildmay, Aug. 3–4), Burley on the Hill (Lord Harington, Aug. 4–6), Belvoir (Earl of Rutland, Aug. 6–9), Newark Castle (Aug. 9–10), Rufford Abbey (Sir George Saville, Aug. 10–15), Newstead Abbey (Sir John Byron, Aug. 15–17), Nottingham (Thurland House, Aug. 17–18), Leicester (Earl of Huntingdon, Aug. 18–19), Dingley (Sir Thomas Griffin, Aug. 19–20), Holdenby (Duke of York, Aug. 20–22), Grafton (Duke of Lennox, Aug. 22–25), Woodstock (Aug. 25–29), Oxford (Aug. 29), Rycote (Lord Norris, Aug. 29–30), Bisham (Sir Edward Hoby, Aug. 30–31).
> Sept. 11. Whitehall.[766]
Nov. 1. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (Bartholomew Fair).
Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (eight), =Queen’s= (three), =Elector Palatine’s= (three), =Prince’s= (six).[767]
1615
Jan. 6. Household mask (Mercury Vindicated?).
Jan. 8. Mask repeated.
Feb. 19–21 (S.). Mask by Spanish ambassador?[768]
March 7–11. Visit of James and Charles to Cambridge.[769]
March 24. Tilt.[770]
May 13–15. Visit to Cambridge.
> May 21. Greenwich.[771]
c. July 2–5. Visit to Oatlands.[772]
July 20. Windsor.[773]
July 21–c. Sept. 2. Progress in Surrey, Hants, Wilts., and Dorset.[774] Bagshot (July 22), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, July 23), Andover (July 26), Salisbury (July 28–31, Aug. 5), Lulworth Castle (Viscount Bindon, Aug. 15), Broadlands (Henry? St. Barbe, Aug. 27), Tichborne (Sir Benjamin Tichborne, Aug. 29), Farnham (Bp. of Winchester, Aug. 31).
c. Sept. 2. Windsor.[775]
Sept. 2 < > Oct. 18. Whitehall.[776]
Dec. 17. =Queen’s= at Somerset House.
Dec. 21. =King’s= at Somerset House.
Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (fourteen), =Queen’s= (four), and =Prince’s= (four).
1616
Jan. 1. Household mask (Golden Age Restored?).
Jan. 6. Mask repeated.
Feb. 11–13 (S.).
March 4 < > 16. Visit to Royston, with play (Susenbrotus?) by Cambridge men.[777]
March 25. Tilt.[778]
Apr. 23. Obiit Gulielmus Shakespeare.