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.[1]
Sept. 26. Richmond.[2]
Oct. 23 < > 28. Greenwich.[3]
Dec. 12. Whitehall.[4]
Dec. 16 < > 23. Wedding of Earl of Oxford and Anne Cecil.[5]
Dec. 23. Wedding of Edward Somerset (Lord Herbert) and Elizabeth
Hastings.[6]
Christmas. The Revels prepared six masks this winter.
Dec. 27. Lane's (Lady Barbara).
Dec. 28. Paul's (Iphigeneia).
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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.[7]
May 5. St. James's.[8]
c. May 25. Visit to Hampton Court (?).[9]
c. June 10. Visit to Greenwich.[10]
June 15. Baiting, and mask (Apollo and Peace) and tourney in
banqueting house at Cockpit for French embassy.[11]
June 20. Whitehall.[12]
July 15-Sept. 28. Progress in Middlesex, Essex, Herts., Beds., Bucks.,
Northants., Warwickshire, Oxon., Berks.[13] Bishopsgate (Jasper
- [Footnote: i. 516; v. 70; Rutland MSS. i. 95; Wright, i. 393; Lodge, i. 525, 527;
La Mothe, iv. 245; Digges, 134, 138; Shaw, ii. 75; Hunter, Hallamshire, 111; Nichols, i. 280; cf. M. Christy in Essex Review, xxvi. 115, 181.]*
- ↑ Rutland MSS. i. 96.
- ↑ La Mothe, iv. 245; Wandsworth.
- ↑ C. A., P. C.
- ↑ Sp. P. ii. 355; S. P. F. (Dec. 15, 16); Procl. 663 (Jan. 3). I think the P. C. entries of Greenwich for Dec. 25, 31 must be errors.
- ↑ Hatfield MSS. v. 70; Rutland MSS. i. 94-96; La Mothe, iv. 319; Sp. P. ii. 358. The wedding was originally planned for Theobalds in Sept. (Hunter, Hallamshire, 111).
- ↑ La Mothe, iv. 319, 321; Sp. P. ii. 358. Possibly Elizabeth was also at the weddings of Lords Dudley and Paget this week.
- ↑ La Mothe, iv. 424.
- ↑ La Mothe, iv. 447.
- ↑ Sp. P. ii. 393.
