in this year.[1] But the chivalric revival was fated to be dashed for ever by the untimely death of its princely patron on the following 6 November. The Accession tilt of 1613 is made memorable by the fact that the Earl of Rutland had the signal honour of being furnished with an impresa by the united genius of Shakespeare and Burbage, whom we must presume to have been the poet and the painter respectively.[2] At Elizabeth's wedding in 1613 there was ringing only.[3] One more device by Jonson, with Cupids and Hymen, introduced a tilt on 1 January 1614, after the wedding of the Earl of Somerset, and my chronicle must end with the Accession tilt of 1616, for which again Burbage furnished the Earl of Rutland with a shield, although the name of Shakespeare, then probably on his death-bed, does not appear.[4]
- ↑ Clephan, 133, 176, from Harl. MSS. 4888, art. 20; cf. App. A.
- ↑ Rutland MSS. iv. 494, 'Item 31 Martii to M^r. Shakspeare in gold about my Lords impreso xliiij^s. To Richard Burbadge for paynting and making y^t in gold xliiij^s'. Wotton, ii. 17, mentions the 'bare imprese, whereof some were so dark that their meaning is not yet understood, unless perchance that were their meaning, not to be understood'.
- ↑ Nichols, ii. 549.
- ↑ Rutland MSS. iv. 508, 'Paid given Richard Burbidg for my lordes shield and for the embleance, 4^l. 18^s'.
