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Jan. 17. Visit to Charterhouse (Lord Howard de Walden).[1]

Jan. 21. Richmond, by Putney (John Lacy).[2]

Feb. 2. Chamberlain's.

March 6 (S.S.). Admiral's.

March 8 (?). Admiral's.

March 24. Obiit Elizabetha. Accession of James.


Apr. 5-May 11. Progress of James from Scotland.[3] Seton (Earl of Wintoun, Apr. 5), Dunglass (Lord Home, Apr. 5, 6), Berwick (Apr. 6-8). Fenham (Sir William Read, Apr. 8), Widdrington (Sir Robert Carey, Apr. 8, 9), Newcastle (Robert Dudley, Apr. 9-13), Lumley Castle (Lord Lumley, Apr. 13), Durham Castle (Bp. of Durham, Apr. 13, 14), Walworth (Mrs. Jenison, Apr. 14, 15), Topcliffe (William Ingleby, Apr. 15, 16), York (Lord Burghley, Apr. 16-18), Grimston Hall (Sir Edward Stanhope, Apr. 18, 19), Pontefract Castle (Apr. 19), Doncaster (Bear and Sun, Apr. 19, 20), Blyth (Apr. 20), Worksop (Earl of Shrewsbury, Apr. 20, 21),[4] Southwell (Apr. 21), Newark Castle (Apr. 21, 22), Belvoir Castle (Earl of Rutland, Apr. 22, 23), Burley on the Hill (Sir John Harington, Apr. 23), Burghley (Lord Burghley, Apr. 23-27) with another visit to Burley on the Hill (Apr. 25, 26), Apethorpe (Sir Anthony Mildmay, Apr. 27), Hinchinbrook (Sir Oliver Cromwell, Apr. 27-29), Godmanchester (Apr. 29), Royston (Robert Chester, Apr. 29, 30), Standon (Thomas Sadleir, Apr. 30-May 2), Broxbourne (Henry Cock, May 2, 3), Theobalds (Sir Robert Cecil, May 3-7), Stamford Hill (May 7),[5] Charterhouse (Lord Howard de Walden, May 7-11) with visits to Whitehall and St. James's.


May 11. Tower, by Whitehall.[6]

May 13. Greenwich.[7]


May 25-27. Visits to Nonsuch by Putney, Beddington (Sir Francis Carew), Oatlands, and Hampton Court.[8]


c. June 12. Visits to Sion and Windsor.[9]


June 1-27. Progress of Anne from Scotland.[10] Berwick (June 3), Bishop Auckland? (Bp. of Durham), York (June 11-15), Grimston Hall (Sir Edward Stanhope, June 15), Worksop (Earl of Shrewsbury), Newark, Nottingham, Wollaton (Sir Percival Willoughby, June 21), Ashby de la Zouch (Earl of Huntingdon. June 23), Leicester (Sir

  1. Chamberlain, 174.
  2. C. A.; Lysons, i. 297; Chamberlain, 174; Martin's, 567.
  3. Contemporary Prints (cf. ch. xxiv); Stowe, Annales; Camden; Nichols, iii. 306; iv. 1054; Shaw; 1 Ellis, iii. 71, 75; Procl. 943, 944; S. P. D. (Apr. 21, 22, 25, 29; May 10); Hawarde, 180; Egerton Papers, 369.
  4. At Worksop were huntsmen in green with a woodman's speech (Nichols, i. 86, from printed description).
  5. For an abandoned entertainment at Bishopsgate, cf. ch. xxiv (Dekker, Coronation Entertainment).
  6. Stowe, Annales; Shaw; Hawarde, 181.
  7. Hawarde, 181.
  8. Hawarde, 182; Shaw; Gawdy, 132.
  9. Shaw; 2 Ellis, iii. 201, 'having vewed all his housese'.