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Apr. 9 or 10. Visit to Wimbledon (Lord Burghley)?[1]

Apr. 19. Greenwich, by Lambeth (Abp.) and Blackfriars (Lord Hunsdon).[2]


May 1. Visit to Sydmonscourt, Lewisham (Sir Richard Buckley).[3]


May 5. Visit to St. James's Park (Dorothy Lady Chandos and Sir William Knollys).[4]


c. July 15. Visit to Eltham (Sir John Stanhope, Hugh Miller, and Sir Thomas Walsingham).[5] July 28-Aug. 10? Progress in Middlesex and Bucks.[6] Lambeth (July 28), Chiswick (Sir William Russell, July 28), Hounslow (Mr. Whitby), Harlington (Ambrose Copinger), Harefield (Sir Thomas Egerton, July 31-Aug. 3),[7] Hitcham (Sir William Clarke, Aug. 3-9) with visit to Taplow (Sir Henry Guilford, Aug. 7), Riddings in Datchet (Richard? Hanbury), Thorpe (Mr. Oglethorpe). Aug. c. 10. Oatlands.[8] c. Aug.-Sept. Visits to Woking, Chertsey (John Hammond), Byfleet Lodge, New Lodge, and to Mr. Brooke in the forest, Mr. Bromley, and Mr. Woodward.[9] Oct. 2 <. Visit to West Drayton (Lord Hunsdon) by Bedfont (John Draper).[10] Oct. 8. Richmond.[11] Nov. 15. Whitehall, by Putney (John Lacy).[12] Nov. 17. Tilt.[13] Dec. 6. Visit to Savoy (Sir Robert Cecil), with dialogues.[14] Dec. 6 < > 23. Visits to Arundel House (Earl of Nottingham) and Blackfriars (Lord Hunsdon).[15] Christmas.[16] Dec. 26. Chamberlain's.

Dec. 27. Admiral's.


1603

Jan. 1. Paul's.

Jan. 6. Hertford's.upon S^t. Steuens day in the afternoon dawnced before the Queen two galliards with one M^r. Palmer, the admirablest dawncer of this tyme; both were much commended by her Majestie; then she dawnced with hym a corante'.]

  1. Hatfield MSS. xii. 99.
  2. C. A.; Chamberlain, 126; Lambeth.
  3. C. A.; Chamberlain, 133. Lord Cumberland's May Day show of horsemen (cf. ch. xxiii) may belong to this year, or less probably 1601.
  4. Hatfield MSS. xii. 140; Chamberlain, 133.
  5. C. A.; Hatfield MSS. xii. 226.
  6. 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.
  7. For Harefield Entertainment, cf. ch. xxiv.
  8. S.P.D. (Aug. 6, 15).
  9. C. A.