1564
Feb. 2. Play by unnamed company.
Feb. 13 (S.S.).
Apr. 23 < > May 5. Richmond.[1]
June 9. Three masks and 'devise with the men of armes' for French
embassy.[2]
June 28. Visit incognita to Baynard's Castle (Earl of Pembroke) for St. Peter's watch.[3]
June 30 < > July 5. Whitehall.[4]
July 5. Visit to Sackville House (Sir Richard Sackville), with play
and mask.[5]
July 6. Visit to Cecil House (Sir W. Cecil) for christening of Elizabeth Cecil.[6]
July 6 < > 16. Greenwich.[7]
July 21 or 22. Whitehall.[8]
c. July 27-Sept. 12. Progress in Middlesex, Herts., Cambridgeshire,
Hunts., Northants., Leicestershire, Bucks., and Beds.[9] Theobalds
(Sir William Cecil), Enfield (July 31, Aug. 1), Hertford Castle,
Aldbury (Thomas Hyde), Haslingfield (Mr. Worthington, Aug. 4-5),
Grantchester (Aug. 5), Cambridge (King's College, Aug. 5-10),[10]
Long Stanton (Bp. of Ely, Aug. 10), Hinchinbrook (Sir Henry
Cromwell, Aug. 10),[11] Kimbolton (Thomas? Wingfield), Boughton
(Edward Montague), Launde (Henry, Lord Cromwell, c. Aug. 18),
Braybrooke Castle (Sir Thomas Griffin), Dallington? (Sir Andrew
Corbett), Northampton (Mr. Crispe), Easton Neston (Sir John
Fermor), Grafton, Thornton (George Tyrrell), Toddington (Sir
Henry Cheyne), St. Albans (Sir Richard Lee), Great Hampden?
(Griffith Hampden), Princes Risborough? (Mr. Penton), Shardeloes
in Amersham? (William Totehill), Harrow (Sept. 12), Osterley (Sir
Thomas Gresham).
Sept. 13. St. James's.[12]
Sept. 15. Dinner with Marchioness of Northampton at Whitehall.[13]
c. Oct.-Nov. Visits to Oatlands and Windsor.[14]
Dec. 7. Whitehall.[15]
Christmas. Warwick's (twice), Paul's, and Chapel (Damon and
Pythias?).
- ↑ Wright, i. 171, 172 (Apr. 23); S. P. D. (May 5); S. P. F. (May 5).
- ↑ Cf. ch. v.
- ↑ Sp. P. i. 366.
- ↑ S. P. D. (June 30); Sp. P. i. 368.
- ↑ Sp. P. i. 367, 385; Parker, 219; Burghley, Diary.
- ↑ Burghley, Diary.
- ↑ S. P. D. Addl. (July 16).
- ↑ Procl. 597; Sp. P. i. 368.
- ↑ C. A.; Pipe Office D. A. (Works), 3202; P. C.; Procl. 598; S. P. F. (Aug. 1, 8; Sept. 11); Sp. P. i. 373, 374, 376, 379; Stowe, Annales; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 756; Nichols, i. 151, from Cambridge MSS.; Lysons, Magna Britannia, i. 143, 496, 571, 627, from Lord Hampden's MSS. (year uncertain); Bridges, Northants, i. 431 (misdated 1563).
