[177] Digges, 260, 263.

[178] Hatfield MSS. ii. 28; Sp. P. ii. 435; La Mothe, v. 200.

[179] Martin’s, 272 (Feb. 27, 28, in error?); Digges, 328 (Jan. 29); P. C. (Feb. 3); Feuillerat, Eliz. 171.

[180] C. A.; P. C.; La Mothe, v. 262, 267, 270; Sp. P. ii. 467; Wright, i. 466; Hatfield MSS. v. 70 (misdated); Nichols, i. 378.

[181] Nichols, i. 332, 378, 548, from M. Parker, Matthaeus, Dering MS., and local archives; C. A.; P. C.; W. D. Cooper, Winchelsea, 107, and in Sussex Arch. Coll. v. 190, from Acct. of Controller of Household and local archives; Denne, Bibl. Top. Brit. xlv. 211; Parker Corres. 436, 437, 441, 475; Arch. Cantiana, vi. 43; ix. 235; xi. 199; Zurich Letters, ii. 221; S. P. F. (Sept. 15); Lodge, ii. 33; Shaw, ii. 75; La Mothe, v. 412; 1 Ellis, ii. 267.

[182] There was a reception at Orpington by a Nymph as Genius of the house, and a sea-fight in a bark (Hasted, i. 134).

[183] A mock sea-fight was shown at Sandwich on Sept. 1 (Nichols, i. 337, from town archives).

[184] There was a mask of Mariners at Canterbury on Sept. 7 (Feuillerat, Eliz. 183).

[185] Nichols, i. 351; La Mothe, v. 412.

[186] C. A.

[187] La Mothe, v. 454; P. C. (Nov. 25, 28, 29).

[188] Martin’s, 273; P. C. (Dec. 19, 21).

[189] Walsingham, Diary; La Mothe, vi. 8.

[190] Walsingham, Diary; La Mothe, vi. 34.

[191] La Mothe, vi. 39.

[192] Walsingham, Diary; Lambeth; Nichols, i. 325 (misdated), 384.

[193] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary; La Mothe, vi. 167.

[194] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.

[195] C. A.; P. C.; Walsingham, Diary; Burghley, Diary; S. P. D. (Aug. 15); S. P. F. (July 18, 30; Aug. 10, 11; Sept. 15); Zurich Letters, ii. 258; A. Hall, Life, 57; Shaw, ii. 75, 76; Lodge, ii. 43; La Mothe, vi. 197, 229; Nichols, i. 321 (misdated 1572), 379, 392, 408; R. H. Gretton, Burford Records, 415; cf. E. Green in Proc. Bath Field Club, iv. 105.

[196] For Bristol Entertainment cf. ch. xxiv.

[197] Walsingham, Diary.

[198] Ibid.

[199] Walsingham, Diary.

[200] Some particulars of this winter’s revels appear to be in S. P. D. Eliz. ciii. 54.

[201] Feuillerat, Eliz. 241 (Feb. 2); P. C. (Feb. 6).

[202] Lysons, i. 381; Dee, Compendious Rehearsal (ed. Hearne), 516.

[203] P. C. (March 21, 23, 25); Martin’s, 284.

[204] C. A.

[205] Martin’s, 284.

[206] Hunter, Hallamshire, 84.

[207] C. A.; P. C.; P. C. Wales (June 13, Aug. 17); S. P. D. (Aug. 21; Sept. 4, 12; Oct. 6); S. P. F. (July 12, Aug. 29, Sept. 4, 7); Procl. 693, 696; Sp. P. ii. 492, 498; La Mothe, vi. 437, 442, 444, 487, 495, 498, 502; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 776; Hatfield MSS. ii. 99, 107, 108, 112, 116; v. 70; xiii. 142; Walsingham, Diary; Rutland MSS. i. 104, 105; Middleton MSS. 538; Shaw, ii. 76; Sydney Papers, i. 71; Wright, ii. 11, 16; Devon, i. 119; Wilts. Arch. Mag. xviii. 261; Kenilworth Entertainments (cf. ch. xxiv); Nichols, i. 417, 529, 533, from local archives.

[208] For Kenilworth entertainments cf. chh. iv, xxiv.

[209] Warwick’s players were at Lichfield (cf. ch. xiii).

[210] There were pageants by Ralph Wyatt and Thomas Heywood at the Cross and St. Ellen’s Church, Worcester (Nichols, i. 537).

[211] Cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Lee.

[212] Walsingham, Diary.

[213] C. A.; Sp. P. ii. 515.

[214] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.

[215] Walsingham, Diary.

[216] Walsingham, Diary; Shaw, ii. 77.

[217] Hatfield MSS. ii. 134.

[218] P. C.

[219] C. A.

[220] Walsingham, Diary.

[221] P. C. (July 22, 23).

[222] C. A., apparently (Sp. P. ii. 531) a false start for the progress.

[223] C. A.; P. C.; Walsingham, Diary; S. P. D. (Sept. 6, 12); S. P. F. (Sept. 6); Sp. P. ii. 533; Procl. 708; Syd. P. i. 392; Hatfield MSS. ii. 133; Kempe, 490; Lodge, App. 38, 39; cf. App. B.

[224] Walsingham, Diary.

[225] Ibid.

[226] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary; Martin’s, 297.

[227] C. A.

[228] P. C. (Apr. 27–29); Walsingham, Diary (May 6); Martin’s, 297 (Apr. 26 in error).

[229] Martin’s, 297.

[230] C. A.; P. C. (May 14); Birch, i. 12; Nichols, ii. 55, from Birch MS. 4100; Shaw, ii. 78; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 779; Hatfield MSS. v. 70; Walsingham, Diary (May 25).

[231] Wiffen, i. 508.

[232] C. A.

[233] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.

[234] Hatfield MSS. ii. 157.

[235] Ibid.

[236] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.

[237] P. C.; Walsingham, Diary: Finch MSS. (Sept. 4); Lodge, ii. 91.

[238] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.

[239] C. A.

[240] C. A.; S. P. F.; Walsingham, Diary.

[241] C. A.

[242] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.

[243] C. A. A lost device and play at Osterley by Churchyard (cf. ch. xxiii) may belong to this visit.

[244] Walsingham, Diary; Fulham; Nichols, ii. 92.

[245] Walsingham, Diary.

[246] S. P. F.; Walsingham, Diary.

[247] Sp. P. ii. 576, 581.

[248] C. A.; S. P. D. (May 8, 9, 10); S. P. F. (May 6, 15); Walsingham, Diary; Hatfield MSS. v. 70; Sp. P. ii. 582; Lodge, ii. 99. Sidney’s May Lady entertainment may belong to this Wanstead visit or to that of 1579 (cf. ch. xxiii). For Italian tumblers in 1577–8, cf. App. B.

[249] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary; S. P. F. (May 16).

[250] C. A.; P. C.; Procl. 724; S. P. D. (July 11, 14, 17; Sept. 2, 21); Sp. P. ii. 607, 610; Shaw, ii. 78, 79; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 780; Hatfield MSS. ii. 190, 192; xiii. 160; Sydney Papers, i. 270; Hatton, 93; Lodge, ii. 119; Kempe, 248 (misdated?); Archaeologia, xix. 283; Cullum, Hawsted, 130; Hollingsworth, Stowmarket, 128; Nichols, ii. III sqq., from local archives; Entertainments by Churchyard and Garter (cf. ch. xxiv).

[251] Speeches and verses sent from Cambridge to Audley End are in G. Harvey, Gratulationes Valdinenses (1578).

[252] A. G. H. Hollingsworth, Hist. of Stowmarket (1844), 128, 130, says that players from Ipswich under John Corke were employed.

[253] For devices at Kenninghall, Norwich, and Hengrave, cf. Entertainments by Churchyard and Garter (ch. xxiv). Blomefield, vii. 214, prints from Harl. MS. 890, f. 282, verses given at Norwich with a pair of golden spurs by William (Edward?) Downes of Earlham.

[254] Dee, 5; S. P. D. Addl. (Sept. 25); P. C. (Sept. 26).

[255] C. A.

[256] Sp. P. ii. 627, 630.

[257] C. A.; P. C. (Jan. 20, 22).

[258] C. A.; Procl. 735.

[259] C. A.

[260] Devereux, i. 170; Lodge, ii. 140, 146, ‘There was never any of his cote that was able to brag of the like entertainment’.

[261] Lodge, ii. 146, ‘prettier than it happened to be performed’; Sp. P. ii. 655, ‘a grand ball, in which there were comedies and many inventions’. In the previous August (Sp. P. ii. 607) Oxford had declined a request of the queen to dance before Alençon’s agents, ‘as he did not want to entertain Frenchmen’.

[262] C. A.; Martin’s, 310; Sp. P. ii. 669, 679.

[263] Martin’s, 310; Sp. P. ii. 681.

[264] Martin’s, 310; Lambeth (June 2 in error).

[265] P. C. Wales, 192; Stowe, Annales.

[266] S. P. F. xiv. 46, 49; V. P. vii. 609, 611, 612, 614; Sp. P. ii. 690, 694; Hatfield MSS. ii. 293.

[267] P. C.; Shaw, ii. 79.

[268] C. A.; P. C.; S. P. D. (Sept. 13, 27); Sp. P. ii. 697; Hatfield MSS. (Sept. 17); Procl. 740; cf. M. Christy in Essex Review, xxvi. 115, 181. But Nichols, ii. 285, has clearly used two abandoned ‘gests’.

[269] P. C. (Oct. 2).

[270] Martin’s, 311; P. C. (Dec. 21, 23).

[271] C. A.

[272] C. A.; P. C. (May 26, 29); Lysons, i. 297.

[273] C. A.

[274] C. A.; P. C. (July 11); Walsingham, Diary.

[275] C. A.

[276] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.

[277] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. ii. 340.

[278] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.

[279] Dee, 9.

[280] Dee, 9.

[281] C. A.; S. P. D. cl. 62 (app. misdated 1581).

[282] Martin’s, 321; Dee, 10.

[283] M. S. C. i. 181; Hatfield MSS. xiii. 199; Nichols, ii. 334, from Segar; Feuillerat, Eliz. 336, noting devices in the ‘meane season’ between challenge and tilt.

[284] Martin’s, 329.

[285] C. A.; Sp. P. iii. 95, 101; Nichols, ii. 303.

[286] Martin’s, 329.

[287] S. P. F. xv. 82, 115, 144, 202; Sp. P. iii. 110, 131; V. P. viii. 2–15; Walsingham, Diary; Wright, ii. 134; Remembrancia, 487. On Apr. 6 the Queen was only thinking ‘whether there are any new devices in the joust, or where a ball is to be held, or what beautiful women are to be at court’ (Sp. P. iii. 91).

[288] Cf. chh. iv, xxiv.

[289] Walsingham, Diary.

[290] Sp. P. iii. 141, 144.

[291] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.

[292] Hatfield MSS. xiii. 200; Rutland MSS. i. 127.

[293] C. A.

[294] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary; Rutland MSS. i. 127.

[295] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. xiii. 201.

[296] Walsingham, Diary.

[297] S. P. F. xv. 357; Sp. P. iii. 203; V. P. viii. 21.

[298] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary; Dee, 13; Hatfield MSS. xiii. 201.

[299] Sp. P. iii. 222; Clephan, 132, from Bodl. Ashm. MS. 845, ff. 164, 167; Hatfield MSS. xiii. 201.

[300] S. P. F. xv. 442, 453, 473, and V. P. viii. 26, note the princely entertainment of Anjou.

[301] Feuillerat, Eliz. 344 (table); Nichols, ii. 336, from Segar.

[302] C. A.

[303] C. A.; P. C. (Feb. 1); Holinshed, iii. 1330; Walsingham, Diary; Sp. P. iii. 280, 282; Hatfield MSS. ii. 500; S. P. F. xv. 444 (misdated), 484, 485; V. P. viii. 29. Apparently the Sandwich and Dover stages are for Anjou only, and Elizabeth remained at Canterbury Feb. 5–13.

[304] Walsingham, Diary; P. C. (Feb. 18).

[305] Hatfield MSS. v. 70; S. P. D. clv. 54; 3 Ellis, iv. 43; cf. ch. vii.

[306] C. A.

[307] C. A.

[308] Sp. P. iii. 375.

[309] Rutland MSS. i. 136; Shaw (May 22).

[310] Hatfield MSS. xiii. 203; Hatton, 255; Lysons, i. 297.

[311] C. A.

[312] C. A.; S. P. D. (Aug. 12, 17).

[313] C. A.

[314] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.

[315] C. A.; Walsingham, Diary.

[316] C. A.

[317] C. A.; S. P. D. Addl. (Jan. 12); Peck, 131 (Jan. 18).

[318] Walsingham, Diary; Dee, 18; Lambeth.

[319] C. A.

[320] Lodge, app. 46; Rutland MSS. i. 149.

[321] C. A.; Dee, 20; Lambeth.

[322] Sp. P. iii. 474.

[323] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. v. 70; xiii. 229; Rutland MSS. i. 150, 151; Birch, i. 37.

[324] C. A.

[325] C. A.; S. P. I. (July 29, 30); Martin’s, 349; Margaret’s; Dee, 21; Finch MSS.; Hatton, 346.

[326] C. A.; Kempe, 269; Sussex Arch. Colls. v. 193; S. P. D. clxi. 15.

[327] C. A.

[328] C. A.

[329] Martin’s, 349; Margaret’s; S. P. I. (Oct. 14).

[330] C. A.; Martin’s, 349; Remembrancia, 407, ‘for her private recreation, to take the air abroad’.

[331] Martin’s, 350.

[332] Duke of Norfolk, Life of Philip Earl of Arundel, 22.

[333] Shaw, ii. 82.

[334] S. P. F. (Apr. 20); Peck, 149 (May 2).

[335] C. A.; S. P. D.; Shaw; Hatfield MSS. iii. 35.

[336] S. P. F. (July 17); Hatton, 382 (July 21).

[337] C. A.; Hatton, 388; Peck, 154.

[338] C. A.

[339] C. A.; Lodge, ii. 246.

[340] Sc. P. (Oct. 6); S. P. D. (Oct. 10).

[341] C. A.; S. P. F. xix. 92 (misdated Oct. 5?).

[342] C. A.; Stowe, Annales.

[343] 2 R. Hist. Soc. Trans. ix. 258.

[344] Ibid. 262; Clephan, 171, from Bodl. Ashm. MS. 845, f. 168.

[345] C. A.; Duke of Norfolk, Life of Earl of Arundel, 193, puts this or another visit after the Earl’s committal to the Tower on 25 Apr. 1585.

[346] Feuillerat, Eliz. 365.

[347] Ibid.; Martin’s, 371; S. P. I. (Feb. 8); S. P. F. (Feb. 12).

[348] Hatfield MSS. vi. 556.

[349] C. A.

[350] Margaret’s; Stowe, Annales (March 29).

[351] C. A.; Hatton, 416.

[352] C. A.

[353] Hatton, 426.