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(Feb. 14), Rochester (Feb. 14-16) with visit to Bulley Hill (Anne? Watts), Swanscombe (Ralph Weldon, Feb. 16), Horseman Place in Dartford (Nicholas? Beer, Feb. 16-17).[1]


Feb. 17. Greenwich.[2]


Feb. 26 (S.M.). Play at wedding of William Wentworth and Elizabeth Cecil.[3]


Feb. 27. Chapel.

c. March. Visit to Highgate (Lady Sheffield).[4]

c. Apr. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[5]

May 17-19. Hunting visit.[6]


May 20-22. Visit to Somerset House (Lord Hunsdon) for wedding of Sir Edward Hoby and Margaret Carey.[7]


July 10-12. Nonsuch, by Putney (John Lacy).[8]

c. July-Aug. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[9]

Aug. 17. Oatlands, by Molesey (Thomas Brand).[10]

c. Aug.-Sept. Visits to Woking and Chobham (John Wolley).[11]


Sept. 1-2 <. Visit to Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln), by Byfleet (Lady Anne Askewe)?[12]


Sept. 20. Windsor, by Egham (Richard Kellefet).[13]

c. Sept. Visits to Folly John, Mote Park, and Sunninghill.[14]

Dec. 26. Chapel (A Game of the Cards).

Dec. 27. Hunsdon's (Beauty and Housewifery).

Dec. 30. Derby's (Love and Fortune).


1583

Jan. 1. Strange's (activities).

Jan. 5. Mask by ladies and boys.

Jan. 6. Sussex's (Ferrar).

Jan. 12 < > 18. Richmond, by Colnbrook.[15]

Feb. 10 (S.S.). Leicester's (Telomo).

Feb. 11. Visit to Barn Elms (Sir Francis Walsingham).[16]

Feb. 12. Merchant Taylors (Ariodante and Genevora).

c. March. Visit to Somerset House (Lord Hunsdon).[17]

c. Apr. 13. Wedding of Robert Southwell and Elizabeth Howard.[18]

Apr. 18. Greenwich, by Clapham (John Worsopp).[19]

  1. C. A.; P. C. (Feb. 1); Holinshed, iii. 1330; Walsingham, Diary; Sp. P. iii. 280, 282; Hatfield MSS. ii. 500; S. P. F. xv. 444 (misdated), 484, 485; V. P. viii. 29. Apparently the Sandwich and Dover stages are for Anjou only, and Elizabeth remained at Canterbury Feb. 5-13.
  2. Walsingham, Diary; P. C. (Feb. 18).
  3. Hatfield MSS. v. 70; S. P. D. clv. 54; 3 Ellis, iv. 43; cf. ch. vii.
  4. C. A.
  5. C. A.
  6. Sp. P. iii. 375.
  7. Rutland MSS. i. 136; Shaw (May 22).
  8. Hatfield MSS. xiii. 203; Hatton, 255; Lysons, i. 297.
  9. C. A.