1604
Jan. 1. King's (two plays, one of Robin Goodfellow, Midsummer Night's Dream?). Mask (Indian and Chinese Knights).[1] 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.[2]
Feb. 2. King's.
Feb. 13. Whitehall.[3]
Feb. 19 (S.S.). King's.
Feb. 20. Prince's and Paul's (Middleton's Phoenix?).[4] Feb. 21. Queen's Revels.
March 12. Tower.[5]
March 13. Lion baiting.[6]
March 15. Entry through London with pageants to Whitehall.[7]
March 29. Tilt.[8]
May 1. Visit to Highgate (Sir William Cornwallis) with Jonson's
Penates.[9]
May 30 < > June 2. Greenwich.[10]
June 16. Visit to Ruckholt in Leyton (Michael Hicks).[11]
July 3 or 4. Whitehall.[12]
July 12-21. Visits to Oatlands (July 14-16) and Windsor (July 18, 21).[13]
July 24-Aug. 14. Progress in Herts., Hunts., and Beds., broken by
Spanish visit.[14] 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.[15]
Aug. 19. Signature of treaty and dinner to commissioners at Whitehall,
with baiting and activities.[16]
Aug. 25. Departure of Constable of Castile.
- ↑ Cf. ch. xxiii (Daniel, Twelve Goddesses).
- ↑ Law, Hampton Court, ii. 11.
- ↑ Margaret's.
- ↑ Gawdy, 141 (Feb. 20), 'Ther hath bene ij playes this shroftyde before the king and ther shall be an other to morrow'.
- ↑ V. P. x. 139.
- ↑ Stowe, Annales.
- ↑ Cf. ch. xxiv.
- ↑ Arber, iii. 257.
- ↑ Shaw; cf. ch. xxii (Jonson).
