Oct. 19-22. Visit to Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel).[1]
Christmas. Phedrastus and Phigon and Lucia rehearsed by Sussex's, Three masks this winter (Pilgrims, Mariners. Hobby-horses).[2] Dec. 26. Leicester's, with boys. Dec. 27. Clinton's (Pretestus?). 1575 Jan. 1. Leicester's (Panecia?). Jan. 2. Clinton's.
Jan. 6. Windsor Chapel (Xerxes?). Feb. 2. Paul's.
Feb. 3 < > 6. Richmond.[3]
Feb. 13 (S.S.). Chapel.
Feb. 14. Warwick's.
Feb. 15? Merchant Taylors.
March 16. Visit to Mortlake (Dr. Dee).[4]
March 23 < > 25. St. James's.[5]
c. Apr. (?). Visit to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham), by Chiswick.[6]
Apr. 20. Greenwich.[7]
c. May 5-8. Two visits to Lady Pembroke in illness at Baynard's
Castle.[8]
May 23-Oct. 10 < > 11. Progress in Middlesex, Herts., Beds., Bucks., Northants., Warwickshire, Staffs., Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Oxon., Berks.[9] Stoke Newington (John Dudley, May 23), Theobalds (Lord Burghley, May 24-June 6), Broxbourne (Sir George Penruddock), Woodhall (Sir John Butler), Hatfield (June 7-14), Luton (George Rotherham), Toddington (Lord Cheyne), Segenhoe in Ridgmont (Peter Grey), Holcutt (Richard Charnock), Chicheley (Elizabeth Weston), Grafton (June 19-July 6), Fawsley (Sir Richard Knightley), Long Itchington (Earl of Leicester, July 9), Kenilworth (Earl of Leicester, July 9-27),[10] Meriden (William Foster), Middleton (Sir Francis Willoughby), Swinfen (John Dyott?), Lichfield (July 30-Aug. 3)[11] with visits to Beaudesert (Lord Paget) and Alrewas (Walter Griffith, July 30), Colton (Katharine, Lady Gresley), Chartley
- ↑ Walsingham, Diary.
- ↑ Some particulars of this winter's revels appear to be in S. P. D. Eliz. ciii. 54.
- ↑ Feuillerat, Eliz. 241 (Feb. 2); P. C. (Feb. 6).
- ↑ Lysons, i. 381; Dee, Compendious Rehearsal (ed. Hearne), 516.
- ↑ P. C. (March 21, 23, 25); Martin's, 284.
- ↑ C. A.
- ↑ Martin's, 284.
- ↑ Hunter, Hallamshire, 84.
- ↑ 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.
