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Dec. 4 < > 14. Whitehall.[1]

Christmas. Dudley's and Paul's. Dec. 27 < > Jan. 3. Lord of Misrule from Temple to court.[2] 1562 Jan. 15-16. Visit to Baynard's Castle (Earl of Pembroke), with mask.[3] Jan. 18. Gorboduc and mask by Inner Temple. Feb. 1. Mask from London to court, 'and Julyus Sesar'.[4] Feb. 2 < > 10 (S. T.). Paul's.

Feb. 10. Tilt.[5]

Feb. 14. Running at ring.[6]

June 5. Greenwich.[7]

Sept. 16 < > 19. Hampton Court, by Southwark.[8]

c. Oct. Visit to Oatlands.[9]

Nov. 8. Somerset House.[10]

Dec. 14 < > 21. Whitehall.[11]

Christmas. Dudley's and Paul's.


1563

Feb. 21 (S.S.).

June 14. Greenwich.[12]

July 20 < > Aug. 1. Richmond, by Lambeth.[13]

Aug. 2 < > 4. Windsor by Stanwell.[14]


1562-3. Visits to Sunninghill, Oatlands, Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel), the New Lodge, the Twelve Oaks.[15]


Christmas.[16] Two plays by unnamed companies.

  1. Parker, 156; Wallace, ii. 65.
  2. Machyn, 273.
  3. Machyn, 275.
  4. Machyn, 276. The word 'played', after 'Sesar', appears to be in a modern hand; cf. Wallace, i. 200.
  5. Machyn, 276.
  6. Machyn, 277.
  7. Sp. P. i. 243; Machyn, 284. Dasent, vii. 238, has a reference to this as 'a tyme of progresse begonne', but there was no real progress; cf. Somers to Throckmorton (Aug. 29, S. P. F. v. 269), 'The Queen has all this summer kept herself here, without accustomed progress or hunting pleasures, to attend to that whereof she shall have honour'. On the unrealized plans for a meeting with Mary of Scots and the mask devised, cf. ch. v.
  8. C. A.; S. P. D. (Sept. 16); S. P. F. (Sept. 19).
  9. C. A.