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Jan. 4. Play and two masks (one Middleton's lost Mask of Cupid) by City at Merchant Taylors for wedding.[1] Jan. 5. Queen's.

Jan. 6. Gray's Inn mask (Mask of Flowers) for wedding.[2] Jan. 10. King's.

Jan. 25. Lady Elizabeth's (Eastward Hoe). Feb. 2. King's.


Feb. 3. Play (Daniel's Hymen's Triumph) for wedding of Lord Roxborough and Jean Drummond at Somerset House. Feb. 4. King's. Play for Lord Mayor at Somerset House.[3] Feb. 8. King's.

Feb. 10. King's.

Feb. 18. King's.

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

March 8. King's.

March 24. Tilt.[4]

June 8 < > 12. Greenwich.[5]

June 21. Whitehall.[6]

June 29. Visit to Richmond.[7]


July 17-23. Progress in Herts., Essex, Beds., broken by Denmark visit.[8] Theobalds (July 17), The Rye in Hatfield Broadoak (Richard Francke, July 18-19), Audley End (Earl of Suffolk, July 19-21), Royston (July 21-22), Haynes (Robert Newdigate, July 22-23).


July 22. Arrival of Christian IV, King of Denmark, at Somerset House.[9]


July 24 < > 30. Plays before Christian.[10]


Aug. 1. Visit to Woolwich, Rochester, and Gravesend for departure of Christian.[11]


Aug. 1-31. Progress resumed in Herts., Northants., Rutland, Notts., Leicestershire, Oxon., Berks.[12] Theobalds (Aug. 1), Apethorpe (Sir Anthony Mildmay, Aug. 3-4), Burley on the Hill (Lord Harington, Aug. 4-6), Belvoir (Earl of Rutland, Aug. 6-9), Newark Castle (Aug. 9-10), Rufford Abbey (Sir George Saville, Aug. 10-15), Newstead Abbey (Sir John Byron, Aug. 15-17), Nottingham (Thurland House, Aug. 17-18), Leicester (Earl of Huntingdon, Aug. 18-19), Dingley (Sir Thomas Griffin, Aug. 19-20), Holdenby (Duke of York, Aug. 20-22), Grafton (Duke of Lennox, Aug. 22-25), Woodstock (Aug. 25-29), Oxford (Aug. 29), Rycote (Lord Norris, Aug. 29-30), Bisham (Sir Edward Hoby, Aug. 30-31).


> Sept. 11. Whitehall.[13]

  1. Cf. ch. xxiii (Middleton).
  2. Cf. ch. xxiv.
  3. Nichols, ii. 754.
  4. Nichols, ii. 759, from Harl. MS. 5171.
  5. Shaw; Wotton, ii. 39; Nichols, iii. 6.
  6. C. A.; Procl. 1145.
  7. Birch, i. 329.
  8. Nichols, iii. 10, from gests at Leicester; S. P. D. (July 14, 18, 21, 22); Shaw; Stowe, Annales, 1012; Birch, i. 333, 339; Camden, Annales; Procl. 1147, 1148.
  9. Birch, i. 339; V. P. xiii. 166.