March 24. Tilt.[1]
Apr. 4. Tilt.[2]
May 20. Tilt.[3]
June 3. Lion baiting in Tower.[4]
June 26. Whitehall.[5]
July 15. Baiting for imperial ambassador.[6]
July 16-Aug. 31. Progress in Essex, Herts., Beds., Northants., Oxon.,
and Berks.[7] Havering (July 16-18), Loughton (Sir Robert Wroth,
July 18-20), Theobalds (Earl of Salisbury, July 20-24), Hatfield
(July 24-26), Luton (Sir John Rotheram, July 26-27), Ampthill
(July 27-Aug. 1), Bletsoe (Lord St. John, Aug. 1-3), Drayton (Lord
Mordaunt, Aug. 3-6), Apethorpe (Sir Anthony Mildmay, Aug. 6-9),
Rockingham (Sir Edward Watson, Aug. 9-12), Harrowden (Lord
Vaux, Aug. 12-15), Castle Ashby (Lord Compton, Aug. 15-16),
Grafton (Earl of Cumberland, Aug. 16-20), Hanwell (Sir Anthony
Cope, Aug. 20-21), Wroxton (Sir William Pope, Aug. 21), Woodstock
(Aug. 21-27), Oxford (Aug. 27-30),[8] Bisham (Sir Edward Hoby,
Aug. 30-31).
Aug. 31. Windsor.[9]
Sept. 10 < > 12. Hampton Court.[10]
c. Sept. 30. Whitehall.[11] Dec. 1. Prince's.
Christmas. Plays this winter by King's (ten) and Paul's (two). Dec. 27. Queen's.
Dec. 30. Prince's.
1606
Jan. 1. Prince's.
Jan. 4. Prince's.
Jan. 5. Mask (Hymenaei) for wedding of Essex and Frances Howard. Jan. 6. Barriers, with speeches (Truth and Opinion) by Jonson. March 3 (S.M.). Prince's.
March 4. Prince's.
March 22. Rumoured assassination of James on visit to Woking.[12]
March 24. Tilt.[13]
- ↑ Winwood, ii. 54.
- ↑ V. P. x. 234.
- ↑ Lodge, iii. 162.
- ↑ Stowe, Annales.
- ↑ S. P. D.; Winwood, ii. 81.
- ↑ Stowe, Annales.
- ↑ Leland, Collectanea, ii. 626, from gests; Nichols, i. 517, apparently from abandoned gests (Lodge, App. 97, 99), 518, 560; Procl. 1015, 1016; S. P. D. (July 26, Aug. 5); V. P. x. 265; Shaw (July 27); Winwood, ii. 99, 107; Lodge, iii. 171; Warton, Life of Sir T. Pope (1772), 413; Reliquiae Hearnianae^2, ii. 68 (misdated 1608); and for Oxford, Camden, Annales; Nichols, i. 530, iv. 1067, from description of Philip Stringer in Harl. MS. 7044; A. Nixon, The Oxford Triumph (1605); I. Wake, Rex Platonicus (1607); A. Wood, Annals; S. P. D. Addl. xxxvii. 66, 67; V. P. x. 270; Winwood, ii. 140.
- ↑ For plays at Oxford, cf. chh. iv, vii.
- ↑ Nichols, i. 518, 560, from Marlow Accts.
