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Jan. 12. King's and Queen's (Silver Age) and/or Duke of York's. Jan. 13. King's and Queen's (Rape of Lucrece). Jan. 15. King's.

Jan. 19. Lady Elizabeth's.

Jan. 21. Queen's.

Jan. 23. Queen's.

Jan. 28. Duke of York's.

Feb. 2. Queen's (Greene's Tu Quoque). Feb. 5. Prince's.

Feb. 9. King's.

Feb. 13. Duke of York's.

Feb. 19. King's.

Feb. 20. King's (two plays). Feb. 23 (S.S.). King's (Nobleman). Feb. 24. Duke of York's (Hymen's Holiday or Cupid's Vagaries). Feb. 25. Ringing. Lady Elizabeth's (Proud Maid's Tragedy). Feb. 28. Visit by Henry to Marquis of Winchester, with plays.[1] King's.


Feb. 29. Prince's.

March 11. Lady Elizabeth's.

March 24. Tilt.[2]

March 28. King's.

Apr. 3. King's.

Apr. 11. Prince's.

Apr. 16. King's.

Apr. 26. King's, for Duc de Bouillon?[3]


May-June. Visits to Eltham, Wanstead (Sir Edward Phelips, June 17, 25), and Havering (Lady Oxford, June 18).[4]


c. July 9. Visit to Kensington (Sir Walter Cope).[5]


c. July 17-c. Sept. 1. Progress in Herts., Beds., Northants., Rutland, Notts., Leicester, Oxon., Berks.[6] Theobalds (July 17), St. Albans?, Wrest? (Earl of Kent), Ampthill (July 23), Bletsoe (Lord St. John, July 24-27), Castle Ashby (Lord Compton, July 27-30), Kirby (Sir Christopher Hatton, July 30-Aug. 3), Apethorpe (Sir Anthony Mildmay, Aug. 3-6), Brooke (Sir Edward Noel, Aug. 6-7), Belvoir (Earl of Rutland, Aug. 7-10), Newark Castle (Aug. 10-11), Rufford Abbey (Sir George Saville, Aug. 11-14), Newstead Abbey (Sir John Byron, Aug. 14-17), Nottingham (Thurland House, Aug. 17-18), Loughborough (Aug. 18-19), Leicester (Earl of Huntingdon, Aug.


  • [Footnote: grows daily into his favour.' The plays of Jan. 12 and 13 were certainly

and those of Jan. 15, 19, 21, almost certainly at Greenwich. An extant challenge to tilt of 1612 (Clephan, 133, 176, from Harl. MS. 4888) may be of this period.]

  1. Birch, i. 137.
  2. V. P. xii. 329; Cunningham, 211.
  3. V. P. xii. 349.
  4. Birch, i. 169, 174 (June 17, 'The King has been coming and going to Eltham all the last week'), 181; Shaw (June 3).
  5. Birch, i. 187.
  6. Nichols, ii. 450 (from records at Leicester and Nottingham); iv. 1083; Kelly, Progresses, 344 (from Leicester gests); S. P. D. (July 23, 26, 28); Procl. 1123; Rymer, xvi. 724; Shaw; Birch, i. 188, 189, 197; Winwood, iii. 384.