[539] Syd. P. ii. 155 (Jan. 5): ‘Her Majestie is in very good health, and comes much abroad these holidayes; for almost every night she is in the presence, to see the ladies dawnce the old and new country dawnces, with the taber and pipe.’
[540] Syd. P. ii. 161.
[541] C. A.; P. C. (Apr. 13, 20).
[542] Hatfield MSS. x. 139 (May 5), ‘The Queen would fain hear the French gentleman sing and play who is so much commended, and saith if she had been put in mind or could yet tell how to do it, she would see the gentleman who danced on the rope and is so cunning in those voltiges’; Syd. P. ii. 194 (May 12), ‘Her Maiestie is very well; this day she appointes to see a Frenchman doe feates upon a rope in the Conduit court. To morrow she hath comanded the beares, the bull, and the ape, to be baited in the tilt-yard. Upon Wednesday she will have solemn dawncing.’ On Peter Bromvill, cf. App. D, No. cxxiii.
[543] Syd. P. ii. 201.
[544] Cf. ch. v.
[545] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 208.
[546] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 210.
[547] Syd. P. ii. 210.
[548] Nichols, iii. 489.
[549] C. A.; S. P. D. (Aug. 23); Syd. P. ii. 208–213.
[550] Syd. P. ii. 213.
[551] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 213.
[552] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 213, 214.
[553] Syd. P. ii. 215.
[554] C. A.
[555] C. A.; Syd. P. ii. 217; Chamberlain, 89.
[556] C. A.; Stowe, Annales; Margaret’s.
[557] C. A.; Winwood, i. 271, 274; Gawdy, 103, 105; cf. ch. xxiii (Clifford).
[558] Hatfield MSS. x. 406. A visit of 1600 to Baynard’s Castle (Sir Robert Sydney) described in Harrington, i. 312, must fall between Nov. 13 and the Essex outbreak of 8 Feb. 1601, as Sydney was abroad earlier in 1600.
[559] Chamberlain, 97.
[560] Martin’s, 546; Hatfield MSS. xi. 543, ‘There is a great gest expected to come a maying hither. I wish your leisure and disposition may serve for maying’.
[561] Hatfield MSS. xi. 185.
[562] Martin’s, 546.
[563] Lambeth.
[564] C. A.
[565] C. A.; Lambeth; Hatfield MSS. xi. 328, 329.
[566] C. A.
[567] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. xi. 332; Chamberlain, 118; S. P. D. (Sept. 19).
[568] C. A.; P. C.; Shaw; S. P. D. (Aug. 27; Sept. 1, 19, 23); Stowe, Annales, 797; Chamberlain, 117; Hatfield MSS. xi. 381, 392, 394; Carew-Cecil Corres. 95; Goodman, ii. 22; Remembrancia, 286; Rutland MSS. i. 379, 380; Egerton Papers, 328.
[569] Chamberlain, 117, ‘Mr. Controller made great chere, and entertained her with many devises of singing, dauncing, and playing wenches, and such like’; Hatfield MSS. xi. 362 (J. Herbert—R. Cecil), ‘Her Majesty, God be praised, liketh her journey, the air of this soil and the pleasures and pastimes shewed her in the way, marvellous well’.
[570] Rutland MS. i. 380.
[571] C. A.; P. C. (Oct. 25); Margaret’s; Martin’s, 548.
[572] C. A.
[573] Chamberlain in S. P. D. cclxxxii, 48, ‘There has been such a small court this Christmas that the guard were not troubled to keep doors at the plays and pastimes’.
[574] Hatfield MSS. xi. 544.
[575] S. P. D. Eliz. cclxxxii. 48, ‘The Q: dined this day priuatly at my Ld Chamberlains; I came euen now from the Blackfriers, where I saw her at the play with all her candidae auditrices’; cf. ch. xiii (Chamberlain’s) and M. L. R. ii. 12.
[576] C. A.; Martin’s, 558; Lambeth (misdated 1602/3).
[577] Hatfield MSS. xii. 99.
[578] C. A.; Chamberlain, 126; Lambeth.
[579] C. A.; Chamberlain, 133. Lord Cumberland’s May Day show of horsemen (cf. ch. xxiii) may belong to this year, or less probably 1601.
[580] Hatfield MSS. xii. 140; Chamberlain, 133.
[581] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. xii. 226.
[582] C. A.; S. P. D. (Aug. 4, 6, 7); Martin’s; Fulham; Hatfield MSS. xii. 302, 305, 358; Lodge, ii. 552, 554; Egerton Papers, 340; Winwood, i. 429; Chamberlain, 150.
[583] For Harefield Entertainment, cf. ch. xxiv.
[584] S. P. D. (Aug. 6, 15).
[585] C. A.
[586] C. A.; cf. Chamberlain, 152.
[587] Chamberlain, 157.
[588] C. A.; Chamberlain, 162; Martin’s, 561.
[589] C. A.; Hatfield MSS. xii. 438, 459; Chamberlain, 163.
[590] Chamberlain, 167; Hatfield MSS. xii. 507, 560, 568; cf. ch. xxiii (Cecil).
[591] Chamberlain, 169.
[592] Chamberlain, 172, ‘The court hath flourisht more then ordinarie’, with ‘many playes’; Syd. P. ii. 262, ‘Mrs. Mary [Fitton] upon St. Steuens day in the afternoon dawnced before the Queen two galliards with one Mr. Palmer, the admirablest dawncer of this tyme; both were much commended by her Majestie; then she dawnced with hym a corante’.
[593] Chamberlain, 174.
[594] C. A.; Lysons, i. 297; Chamberlain, 174; Martin’s, 567.
[595] Contemporary Prints (cf. ch. xxiv); Stowe, Annales; Camden; Nichols, iii. 306; iv. 1054; Shaw; 1 Ellis, iii. 71, 75; Procl. 943, 944; S. P. D. (Apr. 21, 22, 25, 29; May 10); Hawarde, 180; Egerton Papers, 369.
[596] At Worksop were huntsmen in green with a woodman’s speech (Nichols, i. 86, from printed description).
[597] For an abandoned entertainment at Bishopsgate, cf. ch. xxiv (Dekker, Coronation Entertainment).
[598] Stowe, Annales; Shaw; Hawarde, 181.
[599] Hawarde, 181.
[600] Hawarde, 182; Shaw; Gawdy, 132.
[601] Shaw; 2 Ellis, iii. 201, ‘having vewed all his housese’.
[602] Green, 4, from Account of Marmaduke Darrell; Nichols, i. 189; iv. 1056, and Leicestershire, i. 417; iii. 589; Kelly, Progresses, 318; Middleton MSS. 463; Wiffen, ii. 70; 1 Ellis, iii. 73; Lodge, App. 108.
[603] For entertainment at Althorp, cf. ch. xxiii (Jonson).
[604] Lodge, iii. 15; 1 Ellis, iii. 81; Shaw; Gardiner, i. 113.
[605] There were ‘speeches and delicate presents’ at Grafton (Wiffen, ii. 71).
[606] Wiffen, ii. 71; Shaw.
[607] S. P. D. (July 13); Procl. 965.
[608] Stowe, Annales; V. P. x. 74.
[609] Stowe, Annales; V. P. x. 75.
[610] V. P. x. 74.
[611] Nichols, i. xi, 250 (from gests in B.M. Cole MS. xlvi. 324); iv. 1059; S. P. D. (Aug. 17, 22, 31; Sept. 11, 15); Procl. 969–71 Shaw; Bradley, ii. 180–3; Hawarde, 272; Lodge, iii. 22, 24, 26, 28, 33, 34 (‘our camp volant, which every week dislodgeth’), 38, App. 108, 109, 115; V. P. x. 83.
[612] Lodge, iii. 34, 36, 41.
[613] Bradley, ii. 190 (Arabella Stuart to Lord Shrewsbury), ‘There was an interlude, but not so ridiculous, as ridiculous as it was, as my letter’.
[614] Cf. ch. v.
[615] Shaw; Beaumont in King’s MS. cxxiv, f. 174v.
[616] Lodge, iii. 58; S. P. D. (Oct. 20); Procl. 974 (Oct. 24).
[617] Nichols, iv. 1059; S. P. D. (Nov. 1).
[618] S. P. D. (Dec. 21).
[619] Bradley, ii. 195, ‘It is said there shall be 30 playes’, 199; Wilbraham’s Journal (Camd. Misc. x), 66, ‘manie plaies and dances with swordes.’ One of the King’s men’s plays was Fair Maid of Bristow.
[620] Cf. ch. xxiii (Daniel, Twelve Goddesses).
[621] Law, Hampton Court, ii. 11.
[622] Margaret’s.
[623] Gawdy, 141 (Feb. 20), ‘Ther hath bene ij playes this shroftyde before the king and ther shall be an other to morrow’.
[624] V. P. x. 139.
[625] Stowe, Annales.
[626] Cf. ch. xxiv.
[627] Arber, iii. 257.
[628] Shaw; cf. ch. xxii (Jonson).
[629] Shaw (May 30, June 2).
[630] Shaw.
[631] Shaw (July 3); S. P. D. (July 4).
[632] Procl. 995; S. P. D. (July 14, 18); Shaw; V. P. x. 171.
[633] S. P. D. (July 28, 29, 30; Aug. 2, 6); Shaw; V. P. x. 171; Lodge, App. 115.
[634] 2 Ellis, iii. 207; Egerton Papers, 395.
[635] C. D. I. lxxi. 483; Rye, 117; E. Law, Shakespeare as a Groom of the Chamber; V. P. x. 175; Gawdy MSS. 95; Winwood, ii. 26; cf. App. B.
[636] S. P. D. (Sept. 6); Winwood, ii. 26; Gawdy MSS. 95; Warton, Hist. of Kiddington (1815), 58; Shaw.
[637] Procl. 1001; S. P. D. (Sept. 16, 20).
[638] Shaw; Winwood, ii. 33.
[639] Gawdy MSS. 96.
[640] Stowe, Annales, 823; Carey, Memoirs, 83.
[641] Gawdy MSS. 97; Margaret’s.
[642] This is probably the play which concluded an entertainment by the Spanish ambassador to the Duke of Holst (Winwood, ii. 44; Sullivan, 26). Carleton says, ‘After Dinner he came home to us, with a Play and a Banquett’.
[643] Cf. App. B (introd.).
[644] Cf. ch. xxiii (Jonson, Blackness).
[645] Winwood, ii. 51; S. P. D. (March 6).
[646] Winwood, ii. 54.
[647] V. P. x. 234.
[648] Lodge, iii. 162.
[649] Stowe, Annales.
[650] S. P. D.; Winwood, ii. 81.
[651] Stowe, Annales.
[652] Leland, Collectanea, ii. 626, from gests; Nichols, i. 517, apparently from abandoned gests (Lodge, App. 97, 99), 518, 560; Procl. 1015, 1016; S. P. D. (July 26, Aug. 5); V. P. x. 265; Shaw (July 27); Winwood, ii. 99, 107; Lodge, iii. 171; Warton, Life of Sir T. Pope (1772), 413; Reliquiae Hearnianae2, ii. 68 (misdated 1608); and for Oxford, Camden, Annales; Nichols, i. 530, iv. 1067, from description of Philip Stringer in Harl. MS. 7044; A. Nixon, The Oxford Triumph (1605); I. Wake, Rex Platonicus (1607); A. Wood, Annals; S. P. D. Addl. xxxvii. 66, 67; V. P. x. 270; Winwood, ii. 140.
[653] For plays at Oxford, cf. chh. iv, vii.
[654] Nichols, i. 518, 560, from Marlow Accts.
[655] S. P. D. (Sept. 10); Winwood, ii. 132.
[656] Rutland MSS. i. 396.
[657] Stowe, Annales, 882; Procl. 1030; V. P. x. 332; Winwood, ii. 204; Margaret’s.
[658] V. P. x. 332; Winwood, ii. 205.
[659] Winwood, ii. 205.
[660] Margaret’s.
[661] Cf. ch. iv.
[662] S. P. D. (July 16); Shaw (July 15); Nichols, ii. 53, from Drummond (app. a day out).
[663] Nichols, ii. 54; iv. 1072, from prints (cf. ch. xxiv); Stowe, 885; Harington, i. 348; Boderie, i. 223, 226, 241, 259, 283, 297; V. P. x. 379, 383, 386, 391; Winwood, ii. 247; Birch, i. 65.
[664] Cf. ch. v.
[665] King of Denmarkes Welcome, 16, ‘On Wednesday at night, the Youthes of Paules, commonlye cald the Children of Paules, plaide before the two Kings, a playe called Abuses: containing both a Comedie and a Tragedie, at which the Kinges seemed to take delight and be much pleased’.
[666] Shaw (Aug. 17).
[667] Procl. 1037; Shaw.
[668] Lodge, iii. 184.
[669] Procl. 1039; Shaw.
[670] Boderie, ii. 144.
[671] Boderie, ii. 253; V. P. x. 501.
[672] Boderie, ii. 247, 264, ‘Et à la fin d’icelui se présenta une Tragédie d’Enée et de Didon, qui les tint jusques à deux heures après minuit’.
[673] Stowe, Annales, 890; V. P. x. 8; Nichols, ii. 133.
[674] Cf. ch. iv.
[675] S. P. D.; Margaret’s; Shaw; Procl. 1044; Birch, i. 68 (misdated), ‘The King went home yesterday’.
[676] S. P. D.; Procl. 1046; Shaw; Winwood, ii. 328; Rymer, xvi. 664; Hunter, Hallamshire, 95.
[677] S. P. D.
[678] Shaw; Winwood, ii. 344; Lodge, app. 102.
[679] Nichols, ii. 155; V. P. xi. 59.
[680] Birch, i. 69.
[681] Boderie, iii. 195.
[682] Shaw; Winwood, ii. 403.
[683] Margaret’s.
[684] Birch, i. 76; Procl. 1063–4; S. P. D. (July 14, 18, 20, 24; Aug. 10); Rymer, xvi. 673; Lodge, App. 126; Shaw; Nichols, ii. 203.
[685] S. P. D. (Aug. 28).
[686] Procl. 1065; S. P. D. (Sept. 17).
[687] Procl. 1066; S. P. D. (Oct. 21).
[688] Birch, i. 85 (Jan. 3), ‘a dull and heavy Christmas hitherto’.
[689] V. P. xi. 243, 246.
[690] Birch, i. 92.
[691] Stowe, Annales.
[692] Birch, i. 96 (misdated Apr. 6).
[693] Procl. 1077, 1078, 1079.
[694] Stowe, Annales.
[695] Margaret’s.
[696] Lodge, iii. 261.
[697] S. P. D. (July 26, Aug. 15, 20); Lodge, iii. 267, 268; Shaw (Aug. 2, 13, misdated?); Nichols, ii. 263; Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 381.
[698] S. P. D. (Aug. 31).
[699] S. P. D. (Sept. 1, 7).
[700] Margaret’s.
[701] Cf. ch. xxiii (Jonson).
[702] At St. James’s, 10 p.m., after a supper by Henry to the players at barriers (Arch. xii. 258).
[703] Nichols, ii. 287; V. P. xi. 453, 460.
[704] Nichols, ii. 307; Stowe, Annales, 895.
[705] Cf. ch. xxiv.
[706] Cf. ch. xxiv.
[707] Ibid.
[708] Arch. xii. 258. On June 10 a newswriter (Winwood, iii. 182) says, ‘As often as he can he absents himself from the town, yet is quickly fetched again on every occasion, which much troubles him’.
[709] Procl. 1095; S. P. D. (July 29; Aug. 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 19, 23; Sept. 2); Rymer, xvi. 703, 704; Nichols, ii. 364, and Illustrations, 135; Birch, i. 131; Winwood, iii. 201, 213; Rutland MSS. i. 423; V. P. xii. 26, 41; Hearne, Reliquiae2, ii. 69.
[710] Rutland MSS. i. 423; S. P. D. (Sept. 2).
[711] S. P. D. (Oct. 8, 18).
[712] Margaret’s.
[713] S. P. D.
[714] Ibid.