1579
Jan. 1. Paul's (Marriage of Mind and Measure).
Jan. 4. Leicester's (A Greek Maid).
Jan. 6. Sussex's (Rape of the Second Helen).
Jan. 11. Mask (Amazons and Knights) and barriers, for Alençon's
agent, M. de Simier.[1]
Jan. 22 < > 25. Whitehall, by Chelsea.[2]
c. Jan. 31. Visit to Hampton Court, by Putney (John Lacy).[3]
c. Jan.-Feb. Visit to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester).[4]
Feb. 1-2. Tilt and barriers for John Casimir, son of Elector Palatine.[5]
Play by Warwick's ready, but not shown.
March 1 (S.S.). Warwick's (Knight in the Burning Rock).
March 2. Chapel (Loyalty and Beauty).
March 3. Sussex's (Murderous Michael). Device by Earls of Oxford
and Surrey, Lord Thomas Howard, and Lord Windsor before French
ambassador and De Simier. Morris mask prepared, but not
danced.[6]
Apr. 28 or 29-May 2. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester), by Greenwich.[7]
June 24-26. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[8]
July 2. Greenwich, by Lambeth.[9]
July 15-17. Visits to Gravesend and Deptford.[10]
Aug. 17-29. Private visit of Duke of Alençon to England.[11]
c. Aug. 30-31. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[12]
Sept. 9-27 < > Oct. 2. Progress in Essex.[13] Stratford at Bow
(Richard? Young, Sept. 9), Havering (Sept. 11-14), Ingatestone
(Lady Petre), New Hall in Boreham (Earl of Sussex, Sept. 17, 18),
Moulsham (Sir Thomas Mildmay), Thoby (Anthony? Berners),
Brentwood (John? Searle), Giddy Hall in Romford (Richard Cooke,
Sept. 25-7), Ilford (Thomas Fanshawe, at St. Mary's Hospital?).
Sept. 27 < > Oct. 2. Greenwich.[14]
Dec. 22. Whitehall.[15]
- ↑ Sp. P. ii. 627, 630.
- ↑ C. A.; P. C. (Jan. 20, 22).
- ↑ C. A.; Procl. 735.
- ↑ C. A.
- ↑ Devereux, i. 170; Lodge, ii. 140, 146, 'There was never any of his cote that was able to brag of the like entertainment'.
- ↑ 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'.
- ↑ C. A.; Martin's, 310; Sp. P. ii. 669, 679.
- ↑ Martin's, 310; Sp. P. ii. 681.
- ↑ Martin's, 310; Lambeth (June 2 in error).
