Apr. 13. Play for Spanish embassy.[1]
June 11. Richmond.[2]
July 22. Windsor.[3]
Aug. 12? Oatlands.[4]
Aug. Visit to Beddington? (Francis Carew) by Kingston.[5]
Aug. 18 < > 20-30. Progress or visits in Surrey and Hants. Woking,
Guildford Manor (Aug. 20, 21), Loseley? (William More), Farnham
(Bp. Winchester, Aug. 24, 25, 29), Odiham, Bagshot.[6]
Aug. 30. Windsor.[7]
Oct. 12. Hampton Court.[8]
Dec. 23. Whitehall.[9]
Christmas. Rich's (twice), Paul's (twice), Westminster. The Revels
prepared eight plays this winter, The King of Scots (tragedy), As
Plain As Can Be, The Painful Pilgrimage, Jack and Jill, Six Fools,
Wit and Will, Prodigality, Orestes (the extant play?), and six masks,
of which two were not used.
1568
Jan. 2. Visit to Charterhouse.[10]
c. Feb. Visit to Hackney.[11]
Feb. 29-March 2 (S.). Chapel (tragedy) and Windsor Chapel.
Apr. 6. Greenwich.[12]
July 6-12? Visit to Charterhouse (Duke of Norfolk).[13]
July 12-Sept. 22. Progress in Essex, Middlesex, Herts., Beds., Bucks.,
Northants., Oxon., Berks.[14] Havering (July 13-15) with visits to
Giddy Hall in Romford (Sir Anthony Cooke) and Pyrgo (Lord John
Grey), Copt Hall (Thomas Heneage, July 19), Enfield (July 22, 25),
Hatfield (July 30, Aug. 3, 4, 7), Knebworth (Rowland Lytton),
St. Albans (Sir Ralph Rowlett, Aug. 8), Dunstable (Edward Wingate),
Brickhill (Thomas Duncombe?), Whaddon (Lord Grey),
Buckingham (William Davers? at parsonage), Easton Neston (Sir
John Fermor, Aug. 14, 21), Grafton Regis, Charlton (Sir Robert
- ↑ Sp. P. i. 633: 'The hatred that this Queen has of marriage is most strange. They represented a comedy before her last night, until nearly one in the morning, which ended in a marriage, and the Queen, as she told me herself, expressed her dislike of the woman's part.'
- ↑ Sp. P. i. 644.
- ↑ Sp. P. i. 661.
- ↑ Sc. P. ii. 373; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 764.
- ↑ C. A. ('Mr. Kyrres').
- ↑ C. A.; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 764; S. P. F. (Aug. 20, 24); Sc. P. (Aug. 29); Sp. P. i. 672; Kempe, 265.
- ↑ Sp. P. i. 672.
- ↑ Sp. P. i. 679.
- ↑ Sp. P. i. 690; Martin's, 234.
