FOOTNOTES:
[1] P. C. (Nov. 22, 24); Machyn, 179; Lettenhove, i. 300.
[2] Machyn, 180; Burghley, Diary.
[3] P. C. (Dec. 4, 5); Machyn, 180; Stowe, Annales.
[4] P. C. (Dec. 22, 23); V. P. vii. 2.
[5] Cf. ch. v.
[6] P. C. (Jan. 14); V. P. vii. 11; Machyn, 186; Stowe, Annales.
[7] Machyn, 186; Stowe, Annales; cf. ch. xxiv.
[8] Machyn, 186; Nichols, i. 60; from Bodl. Ashm. MS., 863; V. P., vii. 11.
[9] Machyn, 187; V. P. vii. 18.
[10] Machyn, 191.
[11] S. P. D.
[12] Machyn, 196; V. P. vii. 80.
[13] Machyn, 196.
[14] V. P. vii. 84; Lettenhove, i. 522.
[15] Machyn, 198; V. P. vii. 91; cf. chh. i, v.
[16] Machyn, 198.
[17] Sp. P. i. 79.
[18] Machyn, 201.
[19] Machyn, 202.
[20] C. A.; Machyn, 203.
[21] Machyn, 203.
[22] C. A.; S. P. F.; Sc. P. (July 28, Aug. 7); Sadler Papers (Aug. 8); Burghley, Diary; Machyn, 204, 206.
[23] Procl. 513; Machyn, 206.
[24] C. A.; Procl. 514; S. P. F. (Aug. 16; S. P. D. (Aug. 23); Machyn, 207 (app. Aug. 15 in error); Nichols, i. 75; Feuillerat, Eliz. 105. Quadra (Aug. 18, C. D. I. lxxxvii. 231), ‘Los Embajadores de Suecia se van muy quejosos y agraviados porque creo que ha llegado á su noticia que burlaban en Palacio dellos, y la Reina mejor que los demás’ hardly bears out the interpretation of M. A. S. Hume, Courtships of Elizabeth, 32, that the ridicule was in a mask.
[25] Sp. P. i. 98; Sadler Papers, i. 462.
[26] Machyn, 216.
[27] Machyn, 221, ‘the plaers plad suche matter that they wher commondyd to leyff off, and contenent the maske cam in dansyng’.
[28] Machyn, 221.
[29] Machyn, 230.
[30] Machyn, 231.
[31] C. A.; Machyn, 232.
[32] Machyn, 233.
[33] Machyn, 234; Lodge1, i. 313.
[34] Procl. 525.
[35] C. A.
[36] Machyn, 241; Parker, 120; Sc. P. i. 459.
[37] Machyn, 241; Sc. P. i. 459.
[38] C. A.; S. P. D. (Aug. 23, 27); S. P. F. (Aug. 22, 27, 28); Sc. P. i. 475; Machyn, 241; Wright, i. 43; Hatfield MSS. xiii. 50, 142; Howard, 215; V. H. Hants, iii. 531.
[39] S. P. D. Addl.; Lodge, i. 423.
[40] Procl. 529; S. P. F. (Sept. 30).
[41] C. A.
[42] S. P. F. (Nov. 10, 25).
[43] C. A.; Hardwicke Papers, i. 163; Hatfield MSS. xiii. 62.
[44] C. A.
[45] Christopher Playter to Mr. Kytson (J. Gage, Hist. of Hengrave, 180), ‘at the corte new plays, which lasted almost all night—the name of the play was huff-suff-and ruff, with other masks, both of ladies and gents’. The only date is ‘21 Feb.’, but the year can be fixed by references in the letter to the masters of fence at court, and to Procl. 538 and 541 of this winter.
[46] Machyn, 251.
[47] Machyn, 250.
[48] S. P. F. (Apr. 26, 29).
[49] Machyn, 261; Sp. P. i. 208.
[50] Nichols, i. 92, from Cofferer’s Account in Cott. MS. Vesp. C. xiv; C. A.; Works Account in Lansd. MS., 5; S. P. D. (Aug. 9, 11); S. P. F. (July 15, 21; Aug. 16, 17, 27; Sept. 10, 17); Sc. P. (July 13; Aug. 16; Sept. 3, 17); Procl. 547–50; Rymer (July 27); Machyn, 263, 267; Parker (Aug. 9, 12, 22); Wright, i. 67, 68, 69, 71; Hardwicke, i. 174; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 752; Hatfield MSS. v. 69; cf. M. Christy in Essex Review, xxvi. 115, 181.
[51] Fleay, 62, suggests a revival of Bale’s Kinge Johan, the MS. of which was found at Ipswich.
[52] Machyn, 267; Nichols, i. 103.
[53] Machyn, 270; Brantôme, i. 312; cf. ch. v.
[54] Parker, 156; Wallace, ii. 65.
[55] Machyn, 273.
[56] Machyn, 275.
[57] Machyn, 276. The word ‘played’, after ‘Sesar’, appears to be in a modern hand; cf. Wallace, i. 200.
[58] Machyn, 276.
[59] Machyn, 277.
[60] Sp. P. i. 243; Machyn, 284. Dasent, vii. 238, has a reference to this as ‘a tyme of progresse begonne’, but there was no real progress; cf. Somers to Throckmorton (Aug. 29, S. P. F. v. 269), ‘The Queen has all this summer kept herself here, without accustomed progress or hunting pleasures, to attend to that whereof she shall have honour’. On the unrealized plans for a meeting with Mary of Scots and the mask devised, cf. ch. v.
[61] C. A.; S. P. D. (Sept. 16); S. P. F. (Sept. 19).
[62] C. A.
[63] Machyn, 295.
[64] S. P. D. Addl. (Dec. 14); S. P. F. (Dec. 14); Procl. 572.
[65] Machyn, 309.
[66] C. A.; Procl. 578, 579; Rutland MSS. (June 30); S. P. F. (Aug. 2); Parker, 184 (Aug. 1).
[67] C. A.; S. P. D. (Aug. 4); S. P. F. (Aug. 4).
[68] C. A.
[69] Francis to Sir Thos. Chaloner (Froude, vii. 92), ‘Regina tota amoribus dedita est venationibusque, aucupiis, choreis et rebus ludicris insumens dies noctesque’.
[70] Wright, i. 171, 172 (Apr. 23); S. P. D. (May 5); S. P. F. (May 5).
[71] Cf. ch. v.
[72] Sp. P. i. 366.
[73] S. P. D. (June 30); Sp. P. i. 368.
[74] Sp. P. i. 367, 385; Parker, 219; Burghley, Diary.
[75] Burghley, Diary.
[76] S. P. D. Addl. (July 16).
[77] Procl. 597; Sp. P. i. 368.
[78] C. A.; Pipe Office D. A. (Works), 3202; P. C.; Procl. 598; S. P. F. (Aug. 1, 8; Sept. 11); Sp. P. i. 373, 374, 376, 379; Stowe, Annales; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 756; Nichols, i. 151, from Cambridge MSS.; Lysons, Magna Britannia, i. 143, 496, 571, 627, from Lord Hampden’s MSS. (year uncertain); Bridges, Northants, i. 431 (misdated 1563).
[79] For Cambridge plays cf. ch. iv.
[80] For mask at Hinchinbrook cf. ch. v.
[81] Sp. P. i. 376, 379.
[82] Sp. P. i. 381.
[83] C. A.
[84] P. C.; Martin’s, 218; S. P. D. (Dec. 9).
[85] Sp. P. i. 403.
[86] Sp. P. i. 404.
[87] Cf. ch. v.
[88] Sp. P. i. 428.
[89] C. A.; Lambeth.
[90] C. A.; Burghley, Diary; Wright, i. 198.
[91] Stowe, Annales (June 24); Sp. P. i. 442.
[92] Martin’s, 222; Sp. P. i. 446; Procl. 611; P. C. (July 15).
[93] Sp. P. i. 446, 451; cf. ch. v.
[94] Martin’s, 222.
[95] Sp. P. i. 465; Pepys MSS. 67.
[96] C. A.
[97] Martin’s, 222; Sp. P. i. 475.
[98] C. A.
[99] Sp. P. i. 487, 494.
[100] C. A.; Lambeth; P. C. (Oct. 29, Nov. 2).
[101] C. A.; Leland, Collectanea, ii. 666.
[102] V. P. vii. 374.
[103] Martin’s, 228; Sp. P. i. 523.
[104] Sp. P. i. 526.
[105] Cf. ch. v.
[106] Martin’s, 229; Sp. P. i. 564.
[107] C. A.; Lambeth; cf. ch. v.
[108] C. A.; Pipe Office D. A. (Works), 3203; Works Account in Rawl. MS., A. 195c; S. P. D. (July 21); S. P. F. (July 29, Aug. 30, Sept. 8); Sp. P. i. 568, 571, 574, 577, 578; Margaret’s; Martin’s; Shaw, ii. 72; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 762 (Aug. 3, 5); Middleton MSS. (Hist. MSS.), 528; Stowe, Annales; Burgon, Gresham, ii. 155, 212; Nichols, i. 192, 197, 199*, 206, 247, from Coventry records, &c.; Plummer, Elizabethan Oxford, 115, 175, 191, 198, 205; Boas, 385.
[109] At the entry to Coventry the Corpus Christi pageant of the Tanners stood at St. John’s Church, the Drapers at the Cross, the Smiths at Little Park Street End, the Weavers at Much Park Street (H. Craig, Two Coventry C. C. Plays, xxi, 106). The date is sometimes given as 1565 or 1567 in error.
[110] For the Oxford plays cf. ch. iv.
[111] S. P. F. (Sept. 10); Sp. P. i. 580.
[112] D. A. (Works).
[113] S. P. F. (Sept. 10, 17).
[114] Martin’s, 229; Sp. P. i. 582.
[115] Sp. P. i. 609.
[116] C. A.; Martin’s, 232; Sp. P. i. 609, 610, 612, 613.
[117] Shaw, ii. 73.
[118] Sp. P. i. 633: ‘The hatred that this Queen has of marriage is most strange. They represented a comedy before her last night, until nearly one in the morning, which ended in a marriage, and the Queen, as she told me herself, expressed her dislike of the woman’s part.’
[119] Sp. P. i. 644.
[120] Sp. P. i. 661.
[121] Sc. P. ii. 373; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 764.
[122] C. A. (‘Mr. Kyrres’).
[123] C. A.; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 764; S. P. F. (Aug. 20, 24); Sc. P. (Aug. 29); Sp. P. i. 672; Kempe, 265.
[124] Sp. P. i. 672.
[125] Sp. P. i. 679.
[126] Sp. P. i. 690; Martin’s, 234.
[127] Nichols, i. 266, from Privy Purse Acct.
[128] C. A.
[129] Sp. P. ii. 21; Martin’s, 239.
[130] C. A.; Parker Letters (July 7); Burghley, Diary; S. P. F. (July 11); C. D. I. xc. 98, ‘Vino por el rio hasta Reder’; the translation ‘Reading’ in Sp. P. ii. 50 is absurd; it might be Knightrider St.
[131] C. A.; Works Account in Rawl. MS. A. 195e; Burghley, Diary; S. P. D. (July 30, Aug. 8); S. P. F. (July 22, Aug. 21, 27); Sc. P. (July 22, Aug. 14); Sp. P. ii. 54, 57, 64, 71, 72, 74; Syd. P. i. 36; Procl. 628, 629; Shaw, ii. 73.
[132] Sp. P. ii. 73.
[133] S. P. D. (Oct. 3); Burghley, Diary (Oct. 20).
[134] La Mothe, i. 203.
[135] C. A.; Sp. P. ii. 149; Feuillerat, Eliz. 124 (May 10); Nichols, i. 257 (May 9). The May 11 of La Mothe, i. 373, must be an error.
[136] Cf. ch. iv.
[137] Sp. P. ii. 178, 180. The July 27 or 28 of La Mothe, ii. 100, 133, 138, must again be an error.
[138] Sp. P. ii. 182.
[139] C. A.; Works Accounts in Rawl. MS. A. 195c; S. P. F. (Sept. 4) Sc. P. (Aug. 12, 20); Sp. P. ii. 189, 191; P. C. Wales (Aug. 22); Burghley, Diary; Hatfield MSS. i. 418, 421, 435; Camden, 420; Nichols, i. 261; Finch MSS. (Aug. 9); V. H. Surrey, iii. 383; Lodge, i. 480, 482, 483, 485; La Mothe, ii. 196, 218, 223, 229, 237.
[140] Lodge, i. 483, 485; S. P. F. (Sept. 24); Parker Letters (Sept. 24).
[141] Cf. ch. i.
[142] C. A.
[143] Sp. P. ii. 228; Sadler Papers (Jan. 18).
[144] Sp. P. ii. 239.
[145] P. C. (June 18, 20).
[146] C. A.; Works Accounts in Rawl. MS. A. 195c; P. C.; S. P. D. (Sept. 25); S. P. F. (Aug. 8; Sept. 7, 26); Procl. 657, 658; Finch MSS. (Hist. MSS.); Burghley, Diary; Hatfield MSS. i. 481; Wiffen, i. 474; Digges, 5; Shaw, ii. 74; La Mothe, iii. 240, 246, 258, 264, 289.
[147] La Mothe, iii. 317; P. C. (Sept. 30).
[148] P. C. (Nov. 6, 7).
[149] P. C. (Jan. 14, 19); La Mothe, iii. 434.
[150] Holinshed, iii. 1224; La Mothe, iii. 443, 450, 454; Margaret’s, 18.
[151] P. C. (Jan. 29).
[152] Sp. P. ii. 295; Rutland MSS. i. 91.
[153] P. C. (March 31); Stowe, Annales (Apr. 2).
[154] Lambeth.
[155] La Mothe, iv. 94; Rimbault, 160.
[156] Holinshed, iii. 1225; Nichols, ii. 334, from Segar; Arch, lxiii. 47; Arch. Journal, lv. 315; lxi. 305; Clephan, 171, from Ashm. MSS. 837, 845; La Mothe, iv. 88, 95.
[157] Digges, 108.
[158] Lambeth.
[159] P. C. (July 7); S. P. F. (July 8).
[160] C. A.; La Mothe, iv. 206; Kingston.
[161] C. A.; P. C.; C. D. I. xc. 492; Burghley, Diary; Hatfield MSS. 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.
[162] Rutland MSS. i. 96.
[163] La Mothe, iv. 245; Wandsworth.
[164] C. A., P. C.
[165] 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.
[166] 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).
[167] La Mothe, iv. 319, 321; Sp. P. ii. 358. Possibly Elizabeth was also at the weddings of Lords Dudley and Paget this week.
[168] La Mothe, iv. 424.
[169] La Mothe, iv. 447.
[170] Sp. P. ii. 393.
[171] Martin’s, 268.
[172] Nichols, i. 305 (dating June 14), from Lambeth MS. 959; ii. 335. from Segar.
[173] Martin’s, 268.
[174] C. A.; P. C. (July 31); S. P. D. (Aug. 10); S. P. F. (Aug. 22); Procl. 676; Margaret’s; Martin’s; Select Committee on Public Records (1800), 174; Sp. P. ii. 399, 413, 417; Hatfield MSS. v. 69, xiii. 110; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 773; Finch MSS. (Sept. 16); La Mothe, v. 47, 59, 63, 65, 76, 77, 79, 84, 89, 91, 92, 99, 122, 134; L. Howard, 195; Wilts. Arch. Mag. xviii. 261; 1 Ellis, ii. 265; Lodge, i. 540, 542, 548, 549; Strype, Sir T. Smith, 121; Zurich Letters, ii. 211; Digges, 228–65; Nichols, i. 309, from Warwick Corporation MSS., with errors.
[175] At Kenilworth were ‘such princely sports as could be devised’ (Nichols, i. 318, from Warwick Black Book).
[176] At Warwick on Aug. 17 were a country dance and a show of fireworks (ibid.).