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July 1. Wedding of Thomas Mildmay and Frances Radcliffe at Bermondsey (Earl of Sussex).[1]


July 8-Sept. 9. Progress in Middlesex, Herts., Beds., Hunts., Northants., Lincs., Rutland, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Berks.[2] Hendon (Edward? Herbert, July 8), Shenley (Michael Pulteney), Hatfield, Knebworth (Rowland Lytton), Bygrave (William Warren?), Wrest (Duchess of Suffolk), Dame Ellensbury's in Houghton Conquest, Willington (John Gostwick), Bletsoe (Lord St. John), Bushmead (William Gery), Kimbolton (Thomas? Wingfield, July 21), Leighton Bromswold, Fotheringay Castle, Apethorpe (Sir Walter Mildmay), Colly Weston (July 29, Aug. 3), Greyfriars at Stamford (Sir W. Cecil, Aug. 5), Grimsthorpe (Duchess of Suffolk), Sempringham (Lord Clinton), Irnham (Richard Thimelby), Exton (Sir James Harington), Kingscliffe, Deene (Edmund Brudenell), Dingley (Edward Griffin), Whitefriars at Coventry (Aug. 17-19),[3] Kenilworth (Earl of Leicester, Aug. 19-22), Warwick (Earl of Warwick), Charlecote (Sir Thomas Lucy, > Aug. 24), Broughton (Richard Fiennes), Woodstock (Aug. > 26-31), Oxford (Aug. 31-Sept. 6),[4] Rycote (Sir Henry Norris, Sept. 6-7), Bradenham (Lord Windsor, Sept. 7-9).


Sept. 9. Windsor.[5]

Sept. Visit to Bagshot (The Bush).[6]

Sept. 10 < > 17. Richmond.[7]

Sept. 27. Whitehall.[8]

Christmas. Paul's (twice). 1567 Jan. 10. Queen in country.[9] Jan. 17-Feb. 1. Visits to Croydon (Abp.?) by Lambeth (?), Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel, Jan. 21-27), and Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham, Jan. 27-Feb. 1).[10] Feb. 9-11 (S.). Westminster.

Feb. 10. Visit to Arundel House (Earl of Arundel)?[11]

Feb. 11. Windsor Chapel.

  1. C. A.; Lambeth; cf. ch. v.
  2. C. A.; Pipe Office D. A. (Works), 3203; Works Account in Rawl. MS., A. 195^c; S. P. D. (July 21); S. P. F. (July 29, Aug. 30, Sept. 8); Sp. P. i. 568, 571, 574, 577, 578; Margaret's; Martin's; Shaw, ii. 72; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 762 (Aug. 3, 5); Middleton MSS. (Hist. MSS.), 528; Stowe, Annales; Burgon, Gresham, ii. 155, 212; Nichols, i. 192, 197, 199*, 206, 247, from Coventry records, &c.; Plummer, Elizabethan Oxford, 115, 175, 191, 198, 205; Boas, 385.
  3. At the entry to Coventry the Corpus Christi pageant of the Tanners stood at St. John's Church, the Drapers at the Cross, the Smiths at Little Park Street End, the Weavers at Much Park Street (H. Craig, Two Coventry C. C. Plays, xxi, 106). The date is sometimes given as 1565 or 1567 in error.
  4. For the Oxford plays cf. ch. iv.
  5. S. P. F. (Sept. 10); Sp. P. i. 580.
  6. D. A. (Works).
  7. S. P. F. (Sept. 10, 17).
  8. Martin's, 229; Sp. P. i. 582.
  9. Sp. P. i. 609.