[354] C. A.; Shaw, ii. 83; Nichols, ii. 427.

[355] Cf. ch. xxiii (Lee).

[356] Lambeth.

[357] Hatton, 406 (July 20); S. P. D. (July 24).

[358] Lysons, i. 297.

[359] C. A.; S. P. F. (Aug. 25).

[360] C. A.

[361] Sc. P. (Sept. 26); Nichols, ii. 440 (Oct. 1).

[362] C. A.; Rutland MSS. i. 183; Margaret’s.

[363] Martin’s, 374; Lambeth.

[364] Lambeth.

[365] Lambeth.

[366] C. A.; P. C. (July 10); Hatfield MSS. iii. 178; Rutland MSS. i. 199.

[367] C. A.

[368] C. A.; Nichols, ii. 460, from speech of Mayor of Windsor.

[369] C. A.

[370] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. iii. 182.

[371] C. A.; Martin’s, 386; Lambeth.

[372] Nichols, ii. 529, from private MS.

[373] C. A.; Dasent, xv. 59, 64; Hatfield MSS. iii. 249.

[374] P. C. (May 2).

[375] C. A.

[376] C. A.; Rutland MSS. i. 215 (May 25); P. C. (May 29).

[377] C. A.; P. C.; S. P. D. (July 16, 18); Rutland MSS. i. 222; Hatfield MSS. iii. 270; v. 71; Devon, i. 187; Goodman, ii. 1.

[378] C. A.; P. C. (Aug. 20).

[379] P. C. (Sept. 19, 24).

[380] Martin’s, 397; Margaret’s; Lambeth; Gawdy, 18.

[381] Gawdy, 25; Shaw.

[382] Gawdy, 25.

[383] Foljambe MSS. 28; Gawdy, 25, 29; Sc. P. (Dec. 2).

[384] Rutland MSS. i. 232; Hist. MSS. vii. 520.

[385] Rutland MSS. i. 234.

[386] C. A.; Margaret’s; Lambeth; Rutland MSS. i. 236, 237.

[387] Cf. ch. xxiii (Churchyard).

[388] C. A.; P. C. (Apr. 12, 16); Wright, ii. 370.

[389] C. A.; Gawdy, 35.

[390] C. A.; P. C. (July 7, 8); Margaret’s; Lambeth.

[391] C. A.; P. C. (July 28, 29); Rutland MSS. i. 253; Lambeth; Margaret’s.

[392] C. A.; Wright, ii. 387, 389; Margaret’s; Lambeth; M. Christy in E. H. R. xxxiv. 43, quoting J. Aske, Elizabetha Triumphans, and T. Deloney, The Queen’s Visiting of the Camp at Tilbury (cf. ch. xxiv).

[393] Sp. P. iv. 419.

[394] Ibid.

[395] P. C. (Oct. 26); S. P. D. (Oct. 23, 26); Margaret’s (Oct. 15 in error).

[396] Sp. P. iv. 487 (Nov. 8); Arber, ii. 506; Nichols, ii. 544.

[397] P. C. (Nov. 17).

[398] Sp. P. iv. 494; Arber, ii. 508.

[399] C. A.; Stowe, Annales; Sp. P. iv. 494; Arber, ii. 508.

[400] Martin’s, 407; P. C. (Dec. 1).

[401] Sp. P. iv. 504; S. P. D. (Dec. 19); Margaret’s.

[402] C. A.

[403] Stowe, Annales; Martin’s, 411; Arber, v. lxxvii.

[404] Martin’s, 411; Margaret’s; Lambeth; Fulham; Lodge, ii. 368, 375, ‘whilst she is there may be moved to her but matter of delight and to content her, which is the only cause of her going thither’.

[405] Margaret’s.

[406] C. A.; Lodge, ii. 379; Margaret’s.

[407] C. A.; P. C. (Aug. 10); Hatfield MSS. iii. 427; xiii. 416 (Aug. 10, 16).

[408] C. A.

[409] Dasent, xviii. 329 (Sept. 26); Rutland MSS. i. 276 (Sept. 27).

[410] Cf. ch. v.

[411] Martin’s, 413; Margaret’s.

[412] C. A.

[413] C. A.; Martin’s, 414; Margaret’s.

[414] Martin’s, 422; P. C. (Jan. 25).

[415] Martin’s, 422.

[416] C. A.; P. C.; Procl. 825; Margaret’s; Martin’s; Lodge, app. 83.

[417] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. iv. 52 (July 28); P. C. (Aug. 6).

[418] C. A.

[419] S. P. D. (Aug. 30); P. C. (Aug. 31); Rutland MSS. i. 283; Lodge, app. 83.

[420] C. A.; P. C. (Sept. 6).

[421] C. A.

[422] C. A.; Dasent, xx. 71, 75 (Nov. 8, 15); Lodge, ii. 422.

[423] Lodge, ii. 419; cf. ch. xxiii (Lee).

[424] C. A.

[425] Lodge, ii. 419 (Nov. 20), ‘secretly, as she thought’, to meet the French ambassador, Viscount Turenne.

[426] Lodge, ii. 420; P. C. (Nov. 22); Dee, 36 (Nov. 20 in error).

[427] Dee, 37.

[428] Syd. P. i. 317; Martin’s, 430; Margaret’s.

[429] C. A.; P. C.; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 796; Hatfield MSS. iv. 108, 115; v. 71; Rutland MSS. i. 291; Wright, ii. 412.

[430] Lodge, app. 68. Probably she did not go, as the letter refers to a plot to murder her there.

[431] Hatfield MSS. v. 71; Burghley, Diary.

[432] C. A.; P. C.; Burghley, Diary; Hatfield MSS. v. 71; iv. 136; vi. 238; S. P. D. (Aug. 1, 2, 5, 31); Rymer, xvi. 109, 116–23; Kempe, 270, 305; G. C. Williamson, Earl of Cumberland, 77; Procl. 836; Nichols, iii. 96, 99; cf. W. D. Cooper in Sussex Arch. Colls. v. 176, 196, with some doubtful localities.

[433] For Cowdray Entertainment, cf. ch. xxiv.

[434] For Elvetham Entertainment, cf. chh. iv, xxiv.

[435] Burghley, Diary.

[436] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. iv. 144 (Oct. 4); P. C. (Oct. 7).

[437] C. A.; P. C. (Nov. 15); Burghley, Diary.

[438] C. A.; P. C. (Nov. 20).

[439] C. A.; G. C. Williamson, George Earl of Cumberland, 108.

[440] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. iv. 187; xiii. 465; P. C. (Apr. 12, 15, 16); Margaret’s.

[441] Hatfield MSS. xiii. 465.

[442] Lambeth.

[443] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. iv. 220.

[444] C. A.; P. C.; Hatfield MSS. iv. 224, 226, 227; xiii. 466; S. P. D. (Aug. 13, Sept. 6); Procl. 851–3; Shaw; Lodge, app. 69, 70; Birch, i. 79; Rutland MSS. i. 302; Rye, 11–14; Finch MSS. (Sept. 15); Nichols, Illustrations, 135; Plummer, Elizabethan Oxford, 249, 261; Boas, 252.

[445] For Bisham Entertainment, cf. ch. xxiv.

[446] For a possible entertainment at Ramsbury, cf. ch. xxiii (Mary Herbert).

[447] For Sudeley Entertainment, cf. ch. xxiv.

[448] For Woodstock (or Ditchley) Entertainment, cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Lee.

[449] For Oxford plays, cf. ch. iv.

[450] For Rycote Entertainment, cf. ch. xxiv.

[451] Hatfield MSS. xiii. 466.

[452] Gawdy, 67.

[453] C. A.

[454] C. A.; Martin’s, 451.

[455] Martin’s, 451; P. C. (Feb. 7, 8, 11, 12, 14); Dee, 43.

[456] Martin’s, 451.

[457] Ibid.

[458] Gawdy, 67.

[459] Martin’s, 452.

[460] C. A.; Martin’s, 452; P. C. (May 6, 13, 14); S. P. D. (May 9); Hatfield MSS. iv. 309 (May 5).

[461] Hatfield MSS. iv. 319 (May 22).

[462] C. A.; Procl. 861; P. C. (June 24).

[463] C. A.; P. C. (Aug. 1, 4).

[464] C. A.

[465] Carey, Memoirs, 32; Clephan, 133, from Bodl. Ashm. MS. 1109, f. 154^v; Arber, ii. 640; G. C. Williamson, George Earl of Cumberland, 121.

[466] C. A.; Birch, i. 137.

[467] Birch, i. 146. ‘Mr. [Anthony] Standen was at the play and dancing on twelfth-night, which lasted till one after midnight, more by constraint than by choice, the earl of Essex having committed to him the placing and entertaining of certain Germans. The queen appeared there in a high throne, richly adorned, and “as beautiful”, says he, “to my old sight, as ever I saw her; and next to her chair the earl, with whom she often devised in sweet and favourable manner”.’

[468] Hatfield MSS. xiii. 506; Martin’s, 462.

[469] C. A.; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 804; Hatfield MSS. iv. 539, 552, 558; v. 71; Martin’s; Dee, 49; Rutland MSS. i. 320; Wright, ii. 433; J. H. Lloyd, Highgate, 225, from Frere MS. (misdated 1593); Gawdy, 85.

[470] Hatfield MSS. v. 71; xiii. 507; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 804.

[471] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. v. 1; xiii. 508.

[472] C. A.; S. P. D. (Oct. 31); Sc. P. (Oct. 25).

[473] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. v. 19; Martin’s (misdated Oct.).

[474] C. A.; Arber, ii. 664.

[475] Martin’s, 465; Rutland MSS. i. 324.

[476] Dee, 51.

[477] C. A.; S. P. I. (Dec. 8).

[478] Martin’s, 465.

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

[480] Martin’s, 471; cf. my paper on The Occasion of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Sh. Homage, 154. I there thought that the wedding must have been at Burghley House, but I now find that C. A. confirms Stowe in placing it at Greenwich, and must suppose that, after the ceremony, Elizabeth accompanied the bridal pair to Burghley House. If M. N. D. was produced, it may have been at either place.

[481] C. A.; Nichols, iii. 38; Hatfield MSS. v. 121.

[482] C. A.; Rutland MSS. i. 326; Hatfield MSS. v. 135, 138.

[483] Cf. ch. xxiv.

[484] C. A.; Gesta Grayorum, 68.

[485] Martin’s, 472.

[486] C. A.; Syd. P. i. 344; Lodge, app. 78; Martin’s, 472.

[487] C. A.

[488] C. A.; P. C. (Oct. 19); Birch, i. 311.

[489] Syd. P. i. 357.

[490] C. A.; Syd. P. i. 365 (misdated Nov. 25 for 15); Martin’s, 473.

[491] C. A.

[492] Syd. P. i. 366, 369, 371; Martin’s, 473.

[493] Syd. P. i. 376.

[494] Syd. P. i. 380; Martin’s, 474.

[495] Syd. P. i. 382.

[496] C. A.; P. C. (Dec. 28); Syd. P. i. 384; Martin’s, 474.

[497] C. A.; Martin’s, 483; P. C. (Apr. 4).

[498] Martin’s, 483.

[499] C. A.

[500] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 5, 6; Martin’s, 488; Margaret’s.

[501] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. vi. 425; Birch, ii. 173 (Oct. 13).

[502] C. A.; Wright, ii. 465.

[503] C. A.; cf. ch. xxiii (Bacon).

[504] Martin’s, 488.

[505] Syd. P. ii. 17; Fulham.

[506] Lysons, i. 297.

[507] Martin’s, 496.

[508] C. A.; Wright, ii. 477 (July 20); Hatfield MSS. vii. 306 (July 22).

[509] C. A.; P. C.; S. P. D. (Sept. 13); Hatfield MSS. vii. 361, 370, 378; Rutland MSS. i. 342, 343; iv. 209; Stowe, Annales; Stiffkey, 141; Carey, Memoirs, 51; 1 Ellis, ii. 274.

[510] C. A.; P. C. (Sept. 21).

[511] P. C.; Martin’s, 497.

[512] C. A.

[513] Cf. ch. v.

[514] Martin’s, 514; Rutland MSS. i. 345 (May 1).

[515] Martin’s, 515.

[516] C. A.

[517] C. A.

[518] C. A.; P. C. (Sept. 13); Chamberlain, 19; Lysons, i. 257.

[519] C. A.

[520] C. A.; Chamberlain, 20.

[521] C. A.; Stowe, Annales; Martin’s, 516; Chamberlain, 29.

[522] Chamberlain, 29.

[523] C. A.; Martin’s, 522; Rutland MSS. i. 351.

[524] Martin’s, 523; P. C. (Apr. 2, 3, 4).

[525] Henslowe, i. 104.

[526] Chamberlain, 52; Nichols, iii. 467.

[527] C. A.

[528] C. A.; Chamberlain, 57; Lambeth.

[529] Chamberlain, 57.

[530] Syd. P. ii. 118.

[531] Procl. 903.

[532] S. P. D.; Syd. P. ii. 119.

[533] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 129, 130.

[534] C. A.

[535] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 141; Martin’s, 525; Margaret’s; Stowe, Annales.

[536] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 142.

[537] Devereux, ii. 92.

[538] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 149; Winwood, i. 137; Martin’s, 525.