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THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE
VOL. IV

Oxford University Press
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Humphrey Milford Publisher to the University

DESIGN BY INIGO JONES FOR THE COCKPIT THEATRE AT WHITEHALL
NOW IN THE LIBRARY OF WORCESTER COLLEGE OXFORD

THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE
BY E. K. CHAMBERS.
VOL. IV

OXFORD: AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
M.CMXXIII

Printed in England

CONTENTS

VOLUME IV
PAGE
XXIV. Anonymous Work 1
A. Plays 1
B. Masks 55
C. Receptions and Entertainments 60

APPENDICES
A. A Court Calendar 75
B. Court Payments 131
C. Documents of Criticism 184
D. Documents of Control 259
E. Plague Records 345
F. The Presence-Chamber at Greenwich 351
G. Serlio’s Trattato sopra le Scene 353
H. The Gull’s Hornbook 365
I. Restoration Testimony 369
K. Academic Plays 373
L. Printed Plays 379
M. Lost Plays 398
N. Manuscript Plays 404

INDEXES
I. Plays 409
II. Persons 425
III. Places 445
IV. Subjects 454

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Design for Cockpit Theatre at Whitehall. By Inigo Jones. From Library of Worcester
College, Oxford Frontispiece
The Profilo or Section of a Stage. From Sebastiano Serlio, Architettura (1551) p. 354
The Pianta or Ground-Plan of a Stage (ibid.) p. 357
Elevation of a Scena Comica (ibid.) p. 359
Elevation of a Scena Tragica (ibid.) p. 361
Elevation of a Scena Satyrica (ibid.) p. 362

NOTE
I have found it convenient, especially in Appendix A, to use the symbol
< following a date, to indicate an uncertain date not earlier than that named,
and the symbol > followed by a date, to indicate an uncertain date not later
than that named. Thus 1903 < > 23 would indicate the composition date of
any part of this book. I have sometimes placed the date of a play in italics,
where it was desirable to indicate the date of production rather than
publication.
The documents from J. R. Dasent, Acts of the Privy Council (1890–
1907), are reprinted by permission of the Controller of His Majesty’s
Stationery Office.

XXIV

ANONYMOUS WORK

[Here I bring together, giving them the same treatment as the individual
works in ch. xxiii, pieces of which the authorship, as regards the whole or a
large part, is unknown or conjectural. They are grouped as (A) Plays, (B)
Masks, (C) Receptions and Entertainments. It has been convenient, for the
sake of classification, to include in the third group a few which might
alternatively have been brought into ch. xxiii under the name of a part-
author or describer.]
A. PLAYS

An Alarum for London > 1600

S. R. 1600, May 27. ‘Allarum to London’ is included in a memorandum
of ‘my lord chamberlens menns plaies Entred’ and noted as entered on this
day to J. Roberts (Arber, iii. 37).
1600, May 29. ‘The Allarum to London, provided that yt be not printed
without further Aucthoritie.’ John Roberts (Arber, iii. 161).
1602. A Larum for London, or The Siedge of Antwerpe. With the
ventrous actes and valorous deeds of the lame Soldier. As it hath been
playde by the right Honorable the Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants. For
William Ferbrand. [Prologue and Epilogue.]
Editions by R. Simpson (1872), J. S. Farmer (1912, T.F.T.), and W. W.
Greg (1913, M.S.R.).
The play has been ascribed to Shakespeare by Collier, to Shakespeare
and Marston by Simpson, and to Lodge by Fleay, Shakespeare, 291, but no
serious case has been made out for any of these claims. Bullen, Marlowe, 1,
lxxiv, says that Collier had a copy with doggerel rhymes on the t.p.
including the line,
Our famous Marloe had in this a hand,

which Bullen calls ‘a very ridiculous piece of forgery’.
Albion Knight > 1566

S. R. 1565–6. ‘A play intituled a merye playe bothe pytthy and pleasaunt
of Albyon knyghte.’ Thomas Colwell (Arber, i. 295).
Fragment in Devonshire collection.
[The t.p. is lost, but the seventeenth-century play lists (Greg, Masques,
xlvii) include an interlude called Albion. A fragment on Temperance and
Humility, conjecturally assigned by Collier, i. 284, to the same play, is of
earlier printing by thirty years or so (M.S.C. i. 243).]
Editions by J. P. Collier (1844, Sh. Soc. Papers, i. 55) and W. W. Greg
(1910, M. S. C. i. 229).—Dissertations: M. H. Dodds, The Date of A. K.
(1913, 3 Library, iv. 157); G. A. Jones, The Political Significance of A. K.
(1918, J. G. P. xvii. 267).
Collier suggests that this was the play disliked at court on 31 Dec. 1559,
but, as Fleay, 66, points out, that would hardly have been licensed for
printing. Dodds thinks it motived by the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536–7) and
written shortly after.
Alice and Alexis

A fragment (to iii. 1) of a play on the loves of Alice and Alexis, thwarted
by Tanto, with an argument of the whole, is in Douce MS. 171 (Bodl.
21745), f. 48v. The date ‘1604’ is scribbled amongst the pages. The
manuscript also contains sixteenth-century accounts. There seems nothing
to connect this with Massinger’s Alexius, or the Chaste Lover, licensed by
Herbert on 25 Sept. 1639 and apparently included in Warburton’s list of
burnt plays (3 Library, ii. 232, 249).
Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany > 1636

S. R. 1653, Sept. 9. ‘A play called Alphonso, Emperor of Germany, by
John Poole.’ H. Moseley (Eyre, i. 428).
1654. The Tragedy of Alphonsus Emperour of Germany. As it hath been
very often Acted (with great applause) at the Privat house in Black-Friers
by his late Maiesties Servants. By George Chapman Gent. For Humphrey
Moseley. [Epistle to the Reader. The B.M. copy of the play is dated
‘Novemb. 29, 1653’.]

Editions by K. Elze (1867) and H. F. Schwarz (1913), and in collections
of Chapman (q.v.).
Alphonsus may reasonably be identified with the Alfonso given before
the Queen and the Elector Palatine at the Blackfriars on 5 May 1636
(Cunningham, xxiv). The ascription on the title-page to Chapman is
repeated therefrom by Langbaine who rejects that of Kirkman in 1661 and
1671 (Greg, Masques, xlviii) to Peele, but the intimate knowledge of
German shown in the dialogue has led Elze and Ward, ii. 428, to give
Chapman a German collaborator, conceivably one Rudolf Weckerlin of
Würtemberg, who after a preliminary visit before 1614 settled permanently
in England about 1624 and obtained political employment, which he varied
with literary exercises. Later critics are inclined to reject Chapman’s
authorship altogether, and the case against it has been effectively put by E.
Koeppel, Quellen-Studien zu den Dramen Chapman’s, 78, and Parrott. The
ascription to Peele has been revived by Robertson, T. A. 123, and though
Parrott does not accept the full argument, he agrees in regarding the play as
originally of Peele’s date, possibly by him, with or without a collaborator,
and drastically revised at a later period, perhaps by Weckerlin in 1636.
Fleay, ii. 156, 311, also accepts Peele and identifies the play with Harry of
Cornwall, revived by Strange’s for Henslowe on 25 Feb. 1592, but, as Greg
(Henslowe, ii. 151) points out, the character in Alphonsus is not Henry, but
Richard of Cornwall. It must be observed that no critic has noticed the S. R.
ascription to John Poole, which may quite well be the origin of Kirkman’s
‘Peele’. Who John Poole was, I do not know.
Apius and Virginia > 1567–8

S. R. 1567–8. ‘A Tragedy of Apius and Virgine.’ Richard Jones (Arber, i.
357).
1575. A new Tragicall Comedie of Apius and Virginia, Wherein is liuely
expressed a rare example of the vertue of Chastitie, by Virginias constancy,
in wishing rather to be slaine at her owne Fathers handes, then to be
deflowred of the wicked Iudge Apius. By R. B. William How for Richard
Jones. [Prologue and Epilogue.]
Editions in Dodsley3, 4 (1825–76), and by J. S. Farmer (1908, T. F. T.)
and R. B. McKerrow (1911, M. S. R.).

‘Haphazard, the Vice’ is a character. The stage-directions name ‘the
stage’, ‘the scaffold’. A prologue addresses ‘lordings’; an epilogue has a
prayer for the queen, nobles, and commons. The play is not controversial,
but the tone is Protestant. Fleay, 61, thinks it a Westminster play of 1563–4;
but no Westminster play of 1563–4 is on record. If Fleay means 1564–5, the
Westminster play of that Christmas was Miles Gloriosus. There is nothing
but the initials to identify the author with Richard Bower of the Chapel
(q.v.), but the suggestion is more plausible than that of Wallace, i. 108, who
gives the play to Richard Edwardes (q.v.), finding that the ‘R. E.’
subscribed to some of his manuscript poems is capable of being misread ‘R.
B.’.
Arden of Feversham > 1592

S. R. 1592, April 3 (Bishop of London). ‘The tragedie of Arden of
Feuersham and Blackwall.’ Edward White (Arber, ii. 607). [See s.v. Kyd,
Spanish Tragedy, for the record of a piracy of the play in 1592 by Abel
Jeffes.]
1592. The Lamentable and True Tragedie of M. Arden of Feuersham in
Kent. Who was most wickedlye murdered, by the meanes of his disloyall
and wanton wyfe, who for the love she bare to one Mosbie, hyred two
desperat ruffins Blackwill and Shakbag, to kill him. Wherin is shewed the
great mallice and discimulation of a wicked woman, the vnsatiable desire of
filthie lust and the shamefull end of all murderers. For Edward White.
[Epilogue.]
1599. J. Roberts for Edward White.
1633. Eliz. Allde.
Editions by E. Jacob (1770), A. H. Bullen (1887), R. Bayne (1897, T.
D.), J. S. Farmer (1911, T. F. T.), and in Sh. Apocrypha.—Dissertations: C.
E. Donne, Essay on the Tragedy of A. of F. (1873); C. Crawford, The
Authorship of A. of F. (1903, Jahrbuch, xxxix. 74; Collectanea, i. 101); W.
Miksch, Die Verfasserschaft des A. of F. (1907, Breslau diss.); K. Wiehl,
Thomas Kyd und die Autorschaft von ... A. of F. (1912, E. S. xliv. 356); H.
D. Sykes, Sidelights upon Shakespeare, 48 (1919); L. Cust, A. of F. (1920,
Arch. Cant. xxxiv. 101).

Jacob first claimed the authorship for Shakespeare. In spite of the
advocacy of Swinburne (Study of Sh., 129) modern criticism remains
wholly unconvinced. The play has tragic merit, but it is not of a
Shakespearian character, and it is impossible to fit its manner, before 1592,
into any coherent theory of Shakespeare’s development. More plausible is
the case for Kyd, suggested by Fleay, ii. 28, who puts the date as far back as
1585 on quite unreliable grounds of improbable guess-work, and supported
by Robertson, T. A. 151, and elaborately argued by Crawford and Sykes.
But Boas, Kyd, lxxxix, thinks that the author was more likely an imitator of
Kyd, and opinion remains divided. Oliphant (M. P. viii. 420) suggests Kyd
and Marlowe, possibly with a third. The theme may also have been that of
the Murderous Michael played at court by Sussex’s in 1579.
The Birth of Hercules. 1597 <

[MS.] B.M. Add. MS. 28722. ‘The birthe of hercules.’ [Prologus
Laureatus; Mercurius Prologus; after text, ‘Testamentum poetae, ad peleum.
Comoedarum pariter et histrionum princeps Peleu, tuo pro iudicio, volo
hanc meam Comoediam, vel recitari, vel reticeri: hoc est: aut vivere aut
mori. Scripsi, nec poeta, nec moriens: et tamen poeta moriens’. Written in
one hand, with stage-directions by a second and corrections by a third and
possibly a fourth, on paper datable by the watermark in 1597.]
Editions by M. W. Wallace (1903) and R. W. Bond (1911, M. S. R.).
This is pretty clearly a University play, and any connexion with the
Hercules of the Admiral’s men in 1595 is highly improbable. As George
Peele died in 1596, it seems difficult to identify him with the Peleus of the
MS. Bond thinks that ‘the styles of composition and writing agree in
placing a date before 1600 out of the question’.
Caesar’s Revenge > 1606

S. R. 1606, June 5. ‘A booke called Julius Caesars reuenge.’ J. Wright
and N. Fosbrook, licensed by Dr. Covell and the wardens (Arber, iii. 323).
n.d. The Tragedie of Caesar and Pompey Or Caesars Reuenge. G. E. for
Iohn Wright.
1607.... Priuately acted by the Studentes of Trinity Colledge in Oxford.
For Nathaniel Fosbrook and Iohn Wright. [Re-issue with cancel t.p.]

Editions by F. S. Boas (1911, M. S. R.) and W. Mühlfeld (1911, 1912,
Jahrbuch, xlvii. 132; xlviii. 37), and J. S. Farmer (S. F. T.).—Dissertations:
T. M. Parrott, The Academic Tragedy of C. and P. (1910, M. L. R. v. 435);
H. M. Ayres, C. R. (1915, M. L. A. xxx. 771); G. C. Moore Smith, The
Tragedy of C. R. (1916, 12 N. Q. ii. 305).
There is no traceable connexion between this and any other of the
several plays on Caesar, extant and lost, which are upon record. C.
Crawford (M. S. C. i. 290) indicates some parallels which suggest a date of
authorship between 1592 and 1596.
Charlemagne or The Distracted Emperor c. 1600

[MS.] Egerton MS. 1994. At the end is the note, ‘Nella Φ δ Φ ν ρ la B’ =
‘Nella fedeltà finirò la vita’.
Editions by A. H. Bullen (1884, O. E. P. iii) and F. L. Schoell (1920).—
Dissertation: F. L. Schoell, Un Drame Élisabéthain Anonyme C (1912,
Revue Germanique, viii. 155).
Bullen suggests that the author was Chapman, and also thinks Tourneur
or Marston conceivable. He quotes Fleay’s opinion in favour of Field.
Fleay, ii. 319, withdraws Field and substitutes Dekker. He identifies the
play with the ‘King Charlemagne’ of Peele’s Farewell of 1589 (cf. s.v.
Peele, Battle of Alcazar). Schoell makes an elaborate case for Chapman,
and thinks that the play might be The Fatall Love, a French Tragedy,
entered as his in S. R. on 29 June 1660, and included, without author’s
name, in Warburton’s list of burnt plays (3 Library, ii. 231). A date later
than 1584 is indicated by the use of Du Bartas’s Seconde Semaine of that
year. It may be added that the style points to c. 1600 rather than c. 1590.
Claudius Tiberius Nero > 1607

S. R. 1607, April 10 (Buck). ‘A booke called the tragicall Life and Death
of Claudius Tiberius Nero.’ Francis Burton (Arber, iii. 346).
1607. The Tragedie of Claudius Tiberius Nero, Rome’s greatest Tyrant.
Truly represented out of the purest Records of those Times. For Francis
Burton. [Epistle to Sir Arthur Mannering, son of Sir George of Eithfield,
Shropshire; Verses Ad Lectores.]

1607. The Statelie Tragedie of Claudius Tiberius Nero.... For Francis
Burton. [Another issue.]
Edition by J. S. Farmer (S. F. T.).
The play, which is on Tiberius, not Nero, is to be distinguished from
Nero (1624). The epistle, not apparently by the author, says that the play’s
‘Father was an Academician’.
Club Law. 1599–1600

[MS.] St. John’s College, Cambridge, MS. S. 62. [Without t.p. and
imperfect; probably identical with a MS. of the play owned by Richard
Farmer.]
Edition by G. C. Moore Smith (1907). [Epilogue.]—Dissertation: G. C.
Moore Smith, The Date of C. L. (1909, M. L. R. iv. 268).
The play is described by Fuller, Hist. of Cambridge (1655), 156, as given
at Clare Hall in 1597–8. But J. S. Hawkins, in his edition of Ruggle’s
Ignoramus (1787), xvi, gives the alternative date 1599, and this has now
been confirmed by the discovery of manuscript annals of Cambridge,
probably by Fuller himself, with the entry, under the academic year 1599–
1600, ‘Aula Clarensis. Club Law fabula festivissima data multum ridentibus
Academicis, frustra Oppidanis dolentibus’. The play is a satire on the
townsmen, and especially the anti-gown mayor of 1599–1600, John Yaxley.
Fuller says that the townsmen were invited to the performance and made to
sit it through, and that they complained to the Privy Council, who first ‘sent
some slight and private check to the principall Actors therein’, and then,
when pressed, said that they would come to Cambridge, and see the comedy
acted over again in the presence of the townsmen. The fact that there is no
record of these letters in the extant register of the Council hardly disproves
the substance of Fuller’s story. Hawkins ascribed the play to Ruggle (q.v.)
on the authority of an eighteenth-century memorandum.
Sir Clyomon and Clamydes c. 1570

1599. The Historie of the two valiant Knights, Syr Clyomon knight of
the Golden Sheeld, sonne to the King of Denmarke: And Clamydes the
White Knight, sonne to the King of Suauia. As it hath been sundry times
Acted by her Maiesties Players. Thomas Creede. [Prologue.]

Editions by W. W. Greg (1913, M. S. R.) and J. S. Farmer (S. F. T.), and
in collections of Peele.
Subtle Shift ‘the vice’, Providence, and Rumour are among the
characters.
Dyce ascribed the play to George Peele on the strength of a manuscript
note ‘in a very old hand’ on a copy of the 1599 edition. Bullen thinks it of
earlier date than Peele. Greg agrees, regarding it as about contemporary
with Common Conditions. L. Kellner, in Englische Studien, xiii. 187,
compares the language and style at great length with Peele’s and concludes
against his authorship, unless indeed he wrote it in a spirit of parody. His
arguments are challenged by R. Fischer in Englische Studien, xiv. 344.
Fleay, 70, assigned it, with Common Conditions, to R. Wilson. Later (ii.
295), he substituted R[ichard] B[ower]. He noted a parallel to Thomas
Preston’s Cambyses, and suggested as a date 1570 or 1578, the years,
according to him, of the original production and of a revival of Cambyses.
G. L. Kittredge, in Journal of Germanic Philology, ii. 8, suggests that
Preston himself was the author of Sir Clyomon and Clamydes. If the ‘her
Maiesties Players’ of the title-page means the later company of that name,
the play, if not written, must have been revived 1583–94. Fleay, ii. 296,
further identifies it with The Four Kings licensed for Henslowe (i. 103) in
March 1599; but an old Queen’s play would not have needed a licence. An
Anglo-German repertory of 1626 includes a ‘Tragikomödie vom König in
Dänemark und König in Schweden’ (Herz, 66, 72).
Common Conditions > 1576

S. R. 1576, July 26. ‘A newe and pleasant comedie or plaie after the
maner of common condycons.’ John Hunter (Arber, ii. 301). [Clearly
‘maner’ is a misreading of the ‘name’ of the t.p.]
Q1, n.d. An excellent and pleasant Comedie, termed after the name of the
Vice, Common Condicions, drawne out of the most famous historie of
Galiarbus Duke of Arabia, and of the good and eeuill successe of him and
his two children, Sedmond his sun, and Clarisia his daughter: Set foorth
with delectable mirth, and pleasant shewes. William How for John Hunter.
[T.p. adds ‘The Players names’ and ‘Six may play this Comedie’; Prologue.]

Q2. Fragment, without t.p. or date, under r.t. ‘A pleasant Comedie called
Common Conditions’.
Editions in Brandl, 597 (1898), and by J. S. Farmer (1908, Five
Anonymous Plays) from Q2, and by Tucker Brooke (1915, Yale Elizabethan
Club Reprints, i) from Q1.
The prologue refers to the audience ‘that sit in place’ and the ‘actours’
that ‘redy stand’. Fleay, ii. 296, suggests the authorship of Richard Bower,
on grounds of style.
The Contention of York and Lancaster > 1592

S. R. 1594, March 12. ‘A booke intituled, the firste parte of the
Contention of the twoo famous houses of York and Lancaster with the
deathe of the good Duke Humfrey and the banishement and Deathe of the
Duke of Suffolk and the tragicall ende of the prowd Cardinall of
Winchester, with the notable rebellion of Jack Cade and the Duke of Yorkes
ffirste clayme vnto the Crowne. Thomas Millington (Arber, ii. 646). [Part i.]
1602, April 19. Transfer from T. Millington to T. Pavier, ‘The first and
Second parte of Henry the Vjt, ij bookes’ (Arber, iii. 204). [Parts i and ii.]
1594. The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of
Yorke and Lancaster, with the death of the good Duke Humphrey: And the
banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolke, and the Tragicall end of the
proud Cardinall of Winchester, with the notable Rebellion of Iacke Cade:
And the Duke of Yorkes first claime vnto the Crowne. Thomas Creede for
Thomas Millington. [Part i.]
1595. The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of
good King Henrie the Sixt, with the whole contention betweene the two
Houses Lancaster and Yorke, as it was sundrie times acted by the Right
Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruants. P. S. for Thomas
Millington. [Part ii.]
1600. Valentine Simmes for Thomas Millington. [Part i.]
1600. W. W. for Thomas Millington. [Part ii.]
[1619] n.d. The Whole Contention betweene the two Famous Houses,
Lancaster and Yorke. With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke Humfrey,

Richard Duke of Yorke, and King Henrie the sixt. Diuided into two Parts:
And newly corrected and enlarged. Written by William Shakespeare, Gent.
For T. P. [Parts i and ii, printed continuously with Pericles, 1619 (q.v.).]
Editions by J. O. Halliwell (1843, Sh. Soc.), Wright and Clark (1863–6,
1893, Cambridge Shakespeare), W. C. Hazlitt (1875, Sh. Libr. v, vi), F. J.
Furnivall and T. Tyler (1886, 1889, 1891, Sh. Q), and J. S. Farmer (S. F. T.).
—Dissertations: E. Malone, On the Three Parts of Hen. 6 (1821, Variorum,
xviii. 553); R. Grant White, On the Authorship of Hen. 6 (Works of Sh.
1859–65, vii); J. Lee, On the Authorship of 2, 3 Hen. vi and their Originals
(N. S. S. Trans. 1875–6, 219); C. F. T. Brooke, The Authorship of 2, 3 Hen.
6 (1912, Trans. of Connecticut Academy, xvii. 141).
The various claims of Marlowe, Kyd, Greene, Peele, Lodge, and
Shakespeare himself to the Contention can only be discussed in relation to
Shakespeare’s revision of them as 2, 3 Henry VI, which probably belongs
approximately to the date of 1 Henry vi, produced by Strange’s on 3 March
1592.
Thomas Lord Cromwell > 1602

S. R. 1602, Aug. 11 (Jackson). ‘A booke called the lyfe and Deathe of the
Lord Cromwell, as yt was lately Acted by the Lord Chamberleyn his
servantes.’ William Cotton (Arber, iii. 214).
1602. The True Chronicle Historie of the whole life and death of Thomas
Lord Cromwell. As it hath beene sundrie times publikely Acted by the Right
Honorable the Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants. Written by W. S. For
William Jones.
S. R. 1611, Dec. 16. Transfer from William Jones to John Browne of a
‘booke called the lyfe and death of the Lord Cromwell, by W: S.’ (Arber, iii.
474).
1613.... As it hath been sundry times publikely Acted by the Kings
Maiesties Seruants. Written by W. S. Thomas Snodham.
1664; 1685. [Parts of F3 and F4 of Shakespeare.]
Editions printed by R. Walker (1734) and by T. E. Jacob (1889, Old
English Dramas), J. S. Farmer (1911, T. F. T.), and in Sh. Apocrypha.—
Dissertation: W. Streit, The L. and D. of T. L. C. (1904, Jena diss.).

The W. S. of the title-page was interpreted as William Shakespeare in
Archer’s play-list of 1656 (Greg, Masques, lx). No modern critic accepts
the attribution, except Hopkinson, who thinks that the original author was
Greene, and that Shakespeare revised his work. Heywood was suggested by
R. Farmer, and Drayton by Fleay, Shakespeare, 298; B.C. i. 152, 160. The
guesses at Wentworth Smith and William Sly rest merely on their initials.
King Darius > 1565

S. R. 1565–6. ‘A playe intituled of the story of kyng Daryous beyinge
taken oute of the iijde and iiijth chapeter of the iijde boke of Esdras &c.’.
Thomas Colwell (Arber, i. 298).
1565, October. A Pretie new Enterlude both pithie & pleasaunt of the
Story of Kyng Daryus, Beinge taken out of the third and fourth Chapter of
the thyrd booke of Esdras. Colwell. [On t.p. ‘Syxe persons may easely play
it’.]
1577. Hugh Jackson. [B.M. C. 34, i. 21, from Irish sale of 1906.]
Editions by J. O. Halliwell (1860), A. Brandl (1898), 359, J. S. Farmer
(1907, 1909, T. F. T.).
The characters, other than Darius and Zorobabell, are mainly abstract,
and include Iniquitie, ‘the Vyce’. There is a Prolocutor.
The Dead Mans Fortune > 1591

[MS.] Add. MS. 10449. ‘The plotte of the deade mans fortune.’ [Probably
from Dulwich.]
The text is given by Steevens, Variorum (1803), iii. 414; Boswell,
Variorum (1821), iii. 356; Greg, Henslowe Papers, 133; and a facsimile by
Halliwell, The Theatre Plats of Three Old English Dramas (1860).
The names of actors who took part in the play point to a performance by
the Admiral’s, about 1590–1 (cf. ch. xiii).
The Reign of King Edward the Third > 1595

S. R. 1595, Dec. 1. ‘A book Intitled Edward the Third and the Blacke
Prince their warres with kinge John of Fraunce.’ Burby (Arber, iii. 55).

1596. The Raigne of King Edward the third: As it hath bin sundrie times
plaied about the Citie of London. For Cuthbert Burby.
1599. Simon Stafford for Cuthbert Burby.
Editions with Shakespeare Apocrypha, and by E. Capel (1759–60,
Prolusiones), F. J. Furnivall (1877, Leopold Sh.), J. P. Collier (1878,
Shakespeare), G. C. Moore Smith (1897, T. D.), J. S. Farmer (1910, T. F.
T.).—Dissertations: H. von Friesen, Ed. iii, angeblich ein Stück von Sh.
(1867, Jahrbuch, ii. 64); J. P. Collier, K. Edw. III, a Historical Play by W.
Sh. (1874); A. Teetgen, Sh’s. K. Edw. iii, absurdly called, and scandalously
treated, as a ‘Doubtful Play’: an Indignation Pamphlet (1875); A. C.
Swinburne, On the Historical Play of K. Edw. iii (1879, Gent. Mag., 1880,
&c., Study of Sh.); G. von Vincke, K. Edw. iii, ein Bühnenstück? (1879,
Jahrbuch, xiv. 304); E. Phipson, Ed. iii (1889, N. S. S. Trans. 58*); G.
Liebau, K. Ed. iii von England und die Gräfin von Salisbury (1900, 1901),
K. Ed. iii von England im Lichte europäischer Poesie (1901); R. M. Smith,
Edw. III (1911, J. G. P. x. 90).
The authorship was first ascribed to Shakespeare (with that of Edw. IV
and Edw. II!) in Rogers and Ley’s play-list of 1656 (Greg, Masques, lxiv).
The theory was advocated by Capell, and has received much support,
largely owing to the assent of Tennyson, against whose authority, however,
may be set that of Swinburne. In its latest and not altogether unplausible
form, Shakespeare is regarded as the author, not of the whole play, but of i.
2 and ii, which deal with the episode of the wooing of Lady Salisbury by
the king, and are possibly, although by no means certainly, due to another
hand than that of the chronicle narrative, to which they are only slightly
linked. The style of these scenes is not demonstrably un-Shakespearian, and
they, and in less degree the play as a whole, contain many parallels with
Hen. V and other works of the ‘nineties, of which the repetition in ii. i. 451
and in Sonnet xciv of the line
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds

is the most striking. The controversy cannot be dealt with in detail here.
Shakespeare’s contribution, if any, may with most probability be assigned
to the winter of 1594–5; but it does not follow that the original play may not
have been of earlier date. No importance is to be attached to the argument
of Fleay (ii. 62; Shakespeare, 282) that the use of the phrase ‘Ave, Caesar’

in i. i. 164 caused its use in Greene’s Francesco’s Fortunes of 1590 (cf.
App. C, no. xliii), but it is noteworthy that a play on the subject was
produced, apparently under Anglo-German influence, at Danzig in 1591
(Herz, 5). Of non-Shakespearian authors, for the whole or a part of the play
as extant, Marlowe is preferred by Fleay, Greene by Liebau and Robertson,
and Kyd by Sarrazin.
Edward the Fourth > 1599

S. R. 1599, Aug. 28. ‘Twoo playes beinge the ffirst and Second parte of
Edward the iiijth and the Tanner of Tamworth With the history of the life
and deathe of master Shore and Jane Shore his Wyfe as yt was lately acted
by the Right honorable the Erle of Derbye his seruantes.’ John Oxonbridge
and John Burby (Arber, iii. 147).
1600, Feb. 23. Transfer of Busby’s interest to Humphrey Lownes (Arber,
iii. 156).
1600. The First and Second Parts of King Edward the Fourth. Containing
His mery pastime with the Tanner of Tamworth, as also his loue to faire
mistrisse Shoare, her great promotion, fall and miserie and lastly the
lamentable death of both her and her husband. Likewise the besieging of
London, by the Bastard Falconbridge, and the valiant defence of the same
by the Lord Maior and the Citizens. As it hath diuers times beene publikely
played by the Right Honorable the Earle of Derbie his seruants. F. K. for
Humfrey Lownes and John Oxenbridge.
1605; 1613; 1619; 1626.
Edition by B. Field (1842, Sh. Soc.).—Dissertation: A. Sander, T.
Heywood’s Historien von König Edward iv und ihre Quellen (1907, Jena
diss.).
Sander and others date the play 1594, by an identification with the
anonymous Siege of London revived by the Admiral’s on 26 Dec. 1594.
Greg (Henslowe, ii. 173) more cautiously says that the play of 1594 ‘may
underlie’ certain scenes of 1 Edward iv. He regards Edward iv, ‘on internal
evidence, as unquestionably Heywood’s’. This is the usual view, but Fleay,
ii. 288, had doubted it. There is no external evidence for Heywood’s
authorship, or for any connexion between him and Derby’s men. Moreover,
in May 1603, he authorized Henslowe, on behalf of Worcester’s, to pay

Chettle and Day for ‘the Booke of Shoare, now newly to be written’, also
described as ‘a playe wherein Shores wiffe is writen’. If this was a revision
of his own play, he would hardly have left it to others. It is fair to add that
in the previous January he had himself received payment with Chettle for
an unnamed play, which might be the same (Henslowe, ii. 234). The ‘three-
mans song’ on Agincourt in iii. 2 of Part I closely resembles Drayton’s
Ballad of Agincourt (ed. Brett, 81), and must, I think, be his. Jane Shore is
mentioned as a play visited by citizens in The Knight of the Burning Pestle
(1607), ind. 57, and ‘the well-frequented play of Shore’ in Pimlyco or
Runne Redcap (1609). A play, apparently on the same subject, was
performed by English actors at Graz on 19 Nov. 1607 (Herz, 98).
Every Woman in Her Humour. 1607–8?

1609. Everie Woman in her Humor. E. A. for Thomas Archer. [Prologue.]
Editions by A. H. Bullen (1885, O. E. P. iv) and J. S. Farmer (1913, S. F.
T.).—Dissertation: J. Q. Adams, E. W. I. and The Dumb Knight (1913, M. P.
x. 413).
Fleay, ii. 321, suggests a date c. 1602 on the ground of apparent
reference to the Poetomachia. But this is not conclusive, and Adams points
to the use of a song (p. 335) from Bateson’s Madrigals (1604). He thinks
that Lewis Machin was the author, as the style resembles that of the comic
part of The Dumb Knight (vide s. Markham), and two passages are
substantially reproduced in the latter. If so, this also may be a King’s Revels
play. Allusions on p. 270 to the ‘babones’ (cf. s.v. Sir Giles Goosecap) and
on p. 316 to the Family of Love (cf. s.v. Middleton) are consistent with a
date of 1603–8.
Fair Em c. 1590

n.d. For T. N. and I. W.

[In Bodleian. Greg says that this is ‘considerably earlier’ than 1631. The
t.p. is as in 1631. Chetwood mentions three early editions, including one
undated and one of 1619. This is not now known.]
1631. A Pleasant Comedie of Faire Em, the Millers Daughter of
Manchester. With the loue of William the Conqueror. As it was sundry

times publiquely acted in the Honourable Citie of London, by the right
Honourable the Lord Strange his Seruants. For John Wright.
Editions by R. Simpson (1878, S. of S. ii), J. S. Farmer (1911, T. F. T.),
and in collections of Sh. Apocrypha.—Dissertations: R. Simpson, Some
Plays Attributed to Sh. (1875–6, N. S. S. Trans. 155); K. Elze,
Nachträgliche Bemerkungen zu Mucedorus und F. E. (1880, Jahrbuch, xv.
339); P. Lohr, Le Printemps d’Yver und die Quelle zu F. E. (1912).
The play has a double plot. One theme is the contest of William the
Conqueror and the Marquess Lubeck for the loves of Princess Blanch of
Denmark and of Mariana, a Swedish captive; the other is the contest of
Manvile, Mountney and Valingford for Em, daughter of the Miller of
Manchester. A ‘ballad intituled The Miller’s daughter of Manchester’ was
entered on the Stationers’ Register by Henry Carr on 2 March 1581 (Arber,
ii. 390). Fair Em has been included in the Shakespeare Apocrypha on the
strength of a volume formerly in the collection of Charles II, and then in
that of Garrick, in which it was bound up with Mucedorus and The Merry
Devil of Edmonton and lettered ‘Shakespeare, vol. i’. On the other hand,
Edward Phillips, in his Theatrum Poetarum (1675), assigned it to Greene.
Clearly Greene is not the author, although there are certain resemblances of
situation between the play and Friar Bacon; for he satirizes it in the preface
to Farewell to Folly (Works, ix. 232), quoting one or two of its expressions
and blaming them as borrowed out of Scripture. Of the author he says, ‘He
that cannot write true English without the help of clerks of parish churches
will needs make himself the father of interludes’, and, ‘The sexton of St.
Giles without Cripplegate would have been ashamed of such blasphemous
rhetoric’. Farewell to Folly seems to have appeared in 1591 (cf. s.v.
Greene), and Fair Em may perhaps therefore be dated between this
pamphlet and Friar Bacon (c. 1589). Simpson adopts the theory, which
hardly deserves serious discussion, of Shakespeare’s authorship. He finds
numerous (but impossible) attacks by Greene upon Shakespeare from the
Planetomachia (1585) onwards, and thinks that Shakespeare retorted in
Fair Em, satirizing Greene as Manvile and Marlowe as Mountney, and
depicting himself as Valingford. ‘Fair Em’ herself is the Manchester stage.
In the story of William the Conqueror he finds an allusion to the travels of
William Kempe and other actors in Denmark and Saxony. Fleay,
Shakespeare Manual (1878), 281, adopts much of this fantasy, but turns

‘Fair Em’ into the Queen’s company and Valingford into Peele. In 1891 (ii.
282) he makes ‘Fair Em’ Strange’s company. His minor identifications,
whether of 1878 or of 1891, may be disregarded. More plausible is his
suggestion that the author of the play may be Robert Wilson (q.v.), which
would explain the attack upon Greene (q.v.) for his Farewell to Folly in R.
W.’s Martin Mar-sixtus (1591). The suggestion that the play was the Sir
John Mandeville revived by Strange’s for Henslowe in 1592 rests on a
confusion between Mandeville and Manvile, but it may have been the
William the Conqueror similarly revived by Sussex’s on 4 Jan. 1594 (Greg,
Henslowe, ii. 151, 158).
The Fair Maid of Bristow > 1604

S. R. 1605, Feb. 8. ‘A commedy called “the fayre Mayd of Bristoe”
played at Hampton Court by his Maiesties players.’ Thomas Pavier (Arber,
iii. 283).
1605. The Faire Maide of Bristow. As it was plaide at Hampton, before
the King and Queenes most excellent Maiesties. For Thomas Pavier.
Editions by A. H. Quinn (1902, Pennsylvania Univ. Publ.) and J. S.
Farmer (1912, T. F. T.).
The court performance must have been during the Christmas of 1603–4,
which was at Hampton Court. Bullen, Works of Day, 10, rejects the theory
of Collier that this was Day’s Bristol Tragedy, written for the Admiral’s in
May 1602, on the grounds that it is not a tragedy and does not resemble the
known work of Day. Moreover, the King’s men are not likely to have
acquired an Admiral’s play.
The Fair Maid of the Exchange c. 1602

S. R. 1607, April 24 (Buck). ‘A booke called the faire Mayde of the
Exchaunge.’ Henry Rocket (Arber, iii. 347).
1607. The Fayre Mayde of the Exchange. With the pleasaunt Humours of
the Cripple of Fanchurch. Very delectable, and full of mirth. For Henry
Rockit. [Dramatis Personae headed ‘Eleauen may easily acte this Comedie’,
and Prologue.]
1525. I. L.

1637. A. G.
Edition by B. Field (1845, Sh. Soc.).—Dissertations: L. A. Hibberd, The
Authorship and Date of the Fair Maid of the Exchange (M. P. vii. 383); P.
Aronstein, Die Verfasserschaft des Dramas The Fair Maid of the Exchange
(1912, E. S. xlv. 45).
Heywood’s authorship was asserted by Kirkman in 1671 (Greg,
Masques, lxvii), denied by Langbaine in 1687, accepted by Charles Lamb
and out of respect to him by Ward, ii. 572, and is still matter of dispute.
Fleay, ii. 329, assigned it to Machin on quite inadequate grounds. Hibberd
argues the case for Heywood, and Aronstein attempts a compromise by
giving ii. i, iv. i, and v to Heywood and the rest to some young academic
student of Shakespeare and Jonson. The imitations of these point to a date c.
1602. I do not offer an opinion.
Fedele and Fortunio or Two Italian Gentlemen c. 1584

S. R. 1584, Nov. 12. ‘A booke entituled Fedele et Fortuna. The deceiptes
in love Discoursed in a Commedie of ij Italyan gent and translated into
Englishe.’ Thomas Hackett (Arber, ii. 437).
1585. Fedele and Fortunio. The deceites in Loue: excellently discoursed
in a very pleasaunt and fine conceited Comoedie, of two Italian Gentlemen.
Translated out of Italian, and set downe according as it hath beene
presented before the Queenes moste excellent Maiestie. For Thomas
Hacket.
[In the Mostyn sale (1919). Epistle ‘To the Woorshipfull, and very
courteous Gentleman, Maister M. R. M.A. commendeth this pleasaunt and
fine conceited comœdie’, signed M.A.; Prologue before the Queene;
Epilogue at the Court, signed M.A. The compiler of the Mostyn sale
catalogue says that this differs from the imperfect print in the Chatsworth
collection, containing sheets B to G only, without t.p., epistle, prologue, or
epilogue, which is the basis of the modern editions. Both have the running
title, ‘A pleasant Comœdie of two Italian Gentlemen’. Collier, iii. 60, had
seen a copy with the epistle as found in the Mostyn print, but addressed to
John Heardson and signed A.M. This has been recently found in the
Huntington collection.

Editions by P. Simpson (1909, M. S. R.) and F. Flügge (1909, Archiv,
cxxiii, 45), and extracts by Halliwell (1852, Literature of the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries, 15).—Dissertations: W. W. Greg, Notes on
Publications (1909, M. S. C. i. 218); F. Flügge, Fidele und Fortunio (1912,
Breslau diss.).
The epistle says ‘I commende to your freendly viewe this prettie
Conceit, as well for the inuention, as the delicate conueiance thereof: not
doubting but you will so esteeme thereof, as it dooth very well deserue, and
I hartely desire’. This praise of the ‘conueiance’ (which I take to mean
either ‘style’ or possibly ‘translation’) does not suggest that M. A. (or A.
M.) was the translator. It is true that ll. 224–41 appear in England’s Helicon
(1600) signed ‘Shep. Tonie’, and that this signature is often taken to
indicate Munday. On the other hand, two lines of this passage also appear in
England’s Parnassus (1600, ed. Crawford, 306) over the initials S. G.,
which suggest Gosson. Another passage in E. P. (231) combines ll. 661–2
and 655–6 of the play over the signature G. Chapman. This has led
Crawford (E. S. xliii. 203), with some support from Greg, to suggest
Chapman’s authorship. I do not think the suggestion very convincing, in
view of the inconsistency and general unreliability of E. P. and the fact that
Chapman’s first clear appearance as a writer is ten years later, in 1594. The
evidence is quite indecisive, but of Munday, Chapman, Gosson, I incline to
think Gosson the most likely candidate. On the other hand, if M. R. is
Matthew Roydon, he was the dedicatee of poems by Chapman in 1594 and
1595. For M. A. I hardly dare guess Matthew Arundel. In any case, the play
is only a translation from L. Pasqualigo’s Il Fedele (1576).
2 Fortune’s Tennis c. 1602

[MS.] Add. MS. 10449. ‘The [plott of the sec]ond part of fortun[s
Tenn]is.’ [A fragment, probably from Dulwich.]
The text is given by Greg, Henslowe Papers, 143. The actors named
show that it belonged to the Admiral’s, and Greg suggests that it may be
Dekker’s ‘fortewn tenes’ of Sept. 1600. Is it not more likely to have been a
sequel to that, possibly Munday’s Set at Tennis of Dec. 1602?
Frederick and Basilea. 1597

[MS.] Add. MS. 10449. ‘The plott of Frederick & Basilea.’ [Probably
from Dulwich.]
The text is given by Steevens, Variorum (1803), iii. 414; Boswell,
Variorum (1821), iii. 356; Greg, Henslowe Papers, 135; and a facsimile by
Halliwell, The Theatre Plats of Three Old English Dramas (1860).
The play was produced by the Admiral’s on 3 June 1597, and the actors
named represent that company at that date (cf. ch. xiii).
George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield > 1593

S. R. 1595, April 1. ‘An Enterlude called the Pynder of Wakefeilde.’
Cuthbert Burby (Arber, ii. 295).
1599. A Pleasant Conceyted Comedie of George a Greene, the Pinner of
Wakefield. As it was sundry times acted by the seruants of the right
Honourable the Earle of Sussex. Simon Stafford for Cuthbert Burby.
Editions in Dodsley1–3 (1744–1825), by W. Scott (1810, A. B. D. i), F. W.
Clarke (1911, M. S. R.), and J. S. Farmer (S. F. T.), and in collections of
Greene.—Dissertation: O. Mertins, Robert Greene and the Play of G. a G.
(1885, Breslau diss.).
Sussex’s men revived the play for Henslowe on 29 Dec. 1593 (Greg,
Henslowe, ii. 158). The Chatsworth copy has on the title-page the following
notes in two early seventeenth-century hands: ‘Written by ... a minister,
who ac[ted] the piñers p̄ t in it himself. Teste W. Shakespea[re]’, and ‘Ed
Iuby saith that the play was made by Ro. Gree[ne]’. These, though first
produced by Collier, appear (M. S. C. i. 288) to be genuine. Greene’s
authorship has been very commonly accepted. Fleay, i. 264, ii. 51, supposed
first Greene and Peele, then added Lodge, but, although the text has been
abridged, there is no evidence of double authorship. Oliphant’s suggestion
(M. P. viii. 433) of revision by Heywood only rests on the inclusion of the
play next his in the Cockpit list of 1639 (Variorum, iii. 159). R. B.
McKerrow thinks (M. S. C. i. 289) that the ‘by Ro. Greene’ of the note may
mean ‘about Ro. Greene’ as a leading incident is apparently based on an
episode of Greene’s life. An allusion in i. i. 42 to Tamburlaine gives an
anterior limit of date.
Sir Giles Goosecap. 1601 < > 3

S. R. 1606, Jan. 10. (Wilson). ‘An Comedie called Sir Gyles Goosecap
Provided that yt be printed accordinge to the Copie wherevnto master
Wilson’s hand ys at.’ Edward Blount (Arber, iii. 309).
1606. Sir Gyles Goosecappe. Knight. A Comedie presented by the Chil:
of the Chappell. John Windet for Edward Blount.
1636....A Comedy lately Acted with great applause at the private House
in Salisbury Court. For Hugh Perry, sold by Roger Bell. [Epistle to Richard
Young of Woolley Farm, Berks. Signed ‘Hugh Perry’.]
Editions by A. H. Bullen (1884, O. E. P. iii), W. Bang and R. Brotanek
(1909, Materialien, xxvi), J. S. Farmer (1912, T. F. T.), and T. M. Parrott
(1914, Chapman, ii).—Dissertations: G. L. Kittredge, Notes on Elizabethan
Plays (1898, J. G. P. ii. 10); T. M. Parrott, The Authorship of S. G. G. (1906,
M. P. iv. 25).
Bullen thought the author, who is stated in Perry’s epistle to be dead in
1636, might be some imitator of Chapman. Fleay, ii. 322, suggests
Chapman himself. This view receives elaborate support from Parrott, and
appears very plausible. As ‘your greatest gallants, for men, in France were
here lately’ (iii. i. 47) the date is after the visit of Biron in Sept. 1601 and
possibly after that of Nevers in April 1602. It cannot be later than the
beginning of 1603, as ‘She is the best scholar of any woman, but one, in
Europe’ (i. i. 140) points to Elizabeth’s lifetime. Moreover, Dekker, in his
Wonderful Year of 1603 (Grosart, i. 116), has ‘Galen could do no more
good, than Sir Giles Goosecap’, and though ‘goosecap’ is a known term for
a booby, e.g. in Nashe’s Four Letters Confuted of 1592 (Works, i. 281), the
play seems to be responsible for the ‘Sir Giles’. The phrase ‘comparisons
odorous’ in iv. ii. 64 echoes Much Ado, iii. v. 18. The later part of the period
1601–3 would perhaps best fit the allusions to the Family of Love (ii. i.
263), as to which cf. s.v. Middleton’s play of that name, and to the baboons
(i. i. 11), the memory of which is still alive in Volpone (1606) and Ram
Alley (1607–8). Probably these had already amused London before 1605, as
on Oct. 5 of that year the Norwich records (Murray, ii. 338) note that ‘This
day John Watson ironmonger brought the Kyngs maiesties warrant graunted
to Roger Lawrence & the deputacion to the seid Watson to shewe two
beasts called Babonnes’. So, too, Kelly, 247, has a Leicester payment of
1606 ‘to the Mr of the Babons, lycensed to travell by the Kings warrant’.

There is a story of a country fellow who wanted to go to a market town ‘to
haue seene the Baboones’ as late as J. Taylor’s Wit and Mirth in 1629
(Hazlitt, Jest Books, iii. 43). Fleay’s identifications of Chapman himself
with Clarence and Drayton with Goosecap hardly deserve consideration.
Grim the Collier of Croydon. 1600

[Alleged prints of 1599 (Chetwood), 1600 (Ward, i. 263), and 1606
(Jacob) probably rest on no authority.]
1662. Grim the Collier of Croyden; Or, The Devil and his Dame: With
The Devil and Saint Dunston. [Part of Gratiae Theatrales, or, A choice
Ternary of English plays. Composed upon especial occasions by several
ingenious persons; viz.... Grim the Collier ... a Comedy, by I. T. Never
before published: but now printed at the request of sundry ingenious
friends. R. D. 1662, 12mo.]
Editions by W. Scott (1810, A. B. D. iii), in Dodsley4, viii (1876), and by
J. S. Farmer (S. F. T.).—Dissertation: H. D. Sykes, The Authorship of G. the
C. of C. (1919, M. L. R. xiv. 245).
Of I. T. nothing is known. Greg (Henslowe, ii. 213) regards the play as
clearly of the sixteenth century on internal evidence, and points out that
Henslowe, on behalf of the Admiral’s, paid Haughton 5s. on 6 May 1600,
‘in earneste of a boocke which he wold calle the devell & his dame’. The
entry was subsequently cancelled, and presumably Haughton transferred the
play to another company. Sykes calls attention to analogies with
Englishmen for my Money, which confirm the probability of Haughton’s
authorship. It is only the ascription of 1662 to I. T. which causes hesitation.
Farmer (Hand List, 19) suggests that this was John Tatham. Grim and the
Devil both appear in the Like Will to Like of Ulpian Fulwell (q.v.), but I do
not understand what kind of indirect connexion Greg thinks may have
existed between Haughton’s play and a possible revival of Fulwell’s by
Pembroke’s men in Oct. 1600.
The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth > 1588

S. R. 1594, May 14. ‘A booke intituled, The famous victories of Henrye
the Fyft, conteyninge the honorable battell of Agincourt.’ Thomas Creede
(Arber, ii. 648).

1598. The Famous Victories of Henry the fifth: Containing the
Honourable Battell of Agincourt: As it was plaide by the Queenes Maiesties
Players. Thomas Creede.
1617.... as it was Acted by the Kinges Maiesties Seruants. Bernard
Alsop. [Another issue of the same sheets.]
Editions by J. Nichols (1779, Six Old Plays, ii. 317), W. C. Hazlitt (1875,
Shakespeare’s Library, v. 321), P. A. Daniel (1887, Sh. Q.), and J. S. Farmer
(S. F. T.).
In Tarlton’s Jests (ed. Halliwell for Sh. Soc. 24) is a story of Knell acting
Henry V and Tarlton doubling the parts of the judge and the clown, which
clearly refers to this play. The performance took place ‘at the Bull in
Bishopsgate’. Tarlton died in 1588. Fleay, 67; ii. 259, suggests that Tarlton
was the author. Nashe in Pierce Penilesse (1592, Works, i. 213) speaks of
‘Henrie the fifth represented on the stage’. This is obviously too early to be
the new play of ‘harey the V’, given thirteen times for Henslowe between
28 Nov. 1595 and 15 July 1596 by the Admiral’s, in whose inventories of
March 1598 Harry the Fifth’s doublet and gown appear. An earlier
Henslowe entry on 14 May 1592, sometimes quoted as ‘harey the vth’ by
Collier, is really ‘harey the 6’ (Greg, Henslowe, ii. 152, 177; Henslowe
Papers, 121). Sykes thinks the author S. Rowley (q.v.).
Histriomastix. 1589 (?), 1599

S. R. 1610, Oct. 31 (Buck). ‘A booke called, Histriomastix or the player
whipte.’ Thomas Thorpe (Arber, iii. 447).
1610. Histrio-Mastix. Or, the Player whipt. For Thomas Thorp.
Editions by R. Simpson (1878, S. of S. ii. 1) and J. S. Farmer (1912, T. F.
T.).—Dissertation: F. Hoppe, Histriomastix-Studien (1906, Breslau diss.).
Fleay, ii. 69, gives the whole play to Marston, but the sounder view of
Simpson that Marston, whose style in places is unmistakable, was only the
reviser of an earlier play, is revived in the elaborate and mainly satisfactory
study of Small, 67. The passages assigned by Small to Marston are ii. 63–9,
128–9, 247–79; iii. 179–v. 191; v. 234; vi. 259–95. I should be inclined to
add v. 244–67, but to omit ii. 128–9; iii. 218–64; iv. 159–201; v. 61–102; v.
147–180; vi. 259–95, which may just as well belong to the original play. No

doubt vi. 259–95 is an addition, constituting an alternative ending for a
court performance before Elizabeth; but this may just as well have been a
contemporary as a Marstonian addition, and in fact there is no court
performance at the end of the century available for it, while the attempt to
find one led Fleay to the impossible theory that it was given by Derby’s
men. As its whole substance is a satire on professional players, it must have
been both produced and revived by amateurs or boys; and the same
conclusion is pointed to by the enormous number of characters. The original
matter is so full of the technical learning of the schools as to suggest an
academic audience; I think it was a University or possibly an Inns of Court,
not a choirboy, play. The theme is the cyclical progression of a state through
the stages Peace, Plenty, Pride, Envy, War, Poverty, and Peace again. It is
illustrated by the fortunes of a company of players, who wax insolent in
prosperity, and when war comes, are pressed for soldiers. Their poet
Posthaste is clearly Munday and not, as Simpson and others have vainly
imagined, Shakespeare. With him is contrasted the scholar-poet,
Chrisoganus, a philosopher with whom the players will have nothing to do.
He seems to belong to the order of ideas connected with the scientific
school of Thomas Harriott. Small thinks that the date was 1596, when there
was scarcity of food, a persecution of players, and a pressing of men for
service against Spain; and that the author might be Chapman. Certainly
Chapman was an early admirer of Harriott. But I disagree as to the date.
The style seems to me to be that of Peele or some imitator, the attitude to
the players an academic reflection of the attacks of Greene, and the political
atmosphere that of the years following the Armada, when the relief of peace
was certainly not unbroken by fears of renewed Spanish attempts.
Impressment was not a device of 1596 alone. The only notice of it known to
me in which players are known to have especially suffered is in an undated
letter of Philip Gawdy, assigned by his editor to 1602 (Gawdy, 121), ‘All
the playe howses wer besett in one daye and very many pressed from
thence, so that in all ther ar pressed ffowre thowsand besydes fyve hundred
voluntaryes, and all for flaunders’. This is too late for the proto-
Histriomastix, and probably also for the revival, but men were being
pressed for foreign service as early as 1585, and again in 1588 and possibly
in 1589 and 1591 (Cheyney, i. 158, 197, 219, 255; Procl. 805, 809). As to
the revival, Small puts it definitely in August 1599, when a scare of a
Spanish invasion, which had lasted for a month, came to a crisis in London

on Aug. 7 (Stowe, Annales, 788; Chamberlain, 59; Sydney Papers, ii. 113;
Hist. MSS. xv, app. v, 66), and he thinks that the words ‘The Spaniards are
come!’ (v. 234) are an insertion of this date. They are not ‘extra-metrical’,
as Fleay says, for the passage is not in metre. There had, however, been
earlier scares, e.g. in Oct. 1595 (Sydney Papers, i. 355; cf. Arber, iii. 55, 56)
and in Oct. 1597 (Edmondes Papers, 303). The date of 1599 would agree
well enough with the career of Marston, and with that of the Paul’s boys, to
whom the revival was probably due, although I do not agree with Small that
it was their court play of 1 Jan. 1601, because I see no evidence that the
court ending belongs to the revision. I take it that Histriomastix was one of
the ‘musty fopperies of antiquity’ with which we learn from Jack Drum’s
Entertainment, v. 112, that the Paul’s boys began. The revision leaves
Posthaste untouched, save for the characteristic Marstonian sneer of
‘goosequillian’ (iii. 187). Munday of course was still good sport in 1599.
But Chrisoganus is turned from a scientific into a ‘translating’ scholar (ii.
63). I agree with Small that Marston has given him Jonsonian traits, and
that he intended to be complimentary rather than the reverse. I do not know
that it is necessary to suppose that Jonson misunderstood this and took
offence, for the real offence was given by Jack Drum’s Entertainment in the
next year. But certainly some of the ‘fustian’ words put in the mouth of
Clove in Every Man Out of His Humour, iii. i. 177 sqq., later in 1599 come
from Histriomastix, and their origin is pointed by the phrase ‘as you may
read in Plato’s Histriomastix’. One of the fragments of plays recited by the
players contains the lines (ii. 269):
Come Cressida, my Cresset light,
Thy face doth shine both day and night;
Behold behold thy garter blue
Thy knight his valiant elbow wears,
That when he shakes his furious Speare
The foe in shivering fearful sort
May lay him down in death to snort.

I am not convinced with Small that this belongs to the revision, even though
it seems discontinuous with the following fragment of a Prodigal Child
play. But in any case the hit at Shakespeare, if there really is one, remains
unexplained. There is nothing else which points to so early a date as 1599
for his Troilus and Cressida. I note the following parallel from S.
Rowlands, The Letting of Humors Blood in the Head-Veine (1600), Sat. iv:

Be thou the Lady Cressit-light to mee,
Sir Trollelolle I will proue to thee.

The Honest Lawyer > 1615

S. R. 1615, Aug. 14. (Taverner). ‘A play called The Honest Lawyer.’
Richard Redmer (Arber, iii. 571). [Assigned by Redmer, apparently at once,
to Richard Woodriffe.]
1616. The Honest Lawyer. Acted by the Queenes Maiesties Seruants.
Written by S. S. George Purslowe for Richard Woodroffe. [Epilogue.]
Edition by J. S. Farmer (1914, S. F.).
A conceivable author is Samuel Sheppard (q.v.), but the absence of
extant early work by him makes a definite attribution hazardous.
How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad c. 1602

1602. A pleasant conceited Comedie, Wherein is shewed how a man may
chuse a good Wife from a bad. As it hath bene sundry times Acted by the
Earle of Worcesters Seruants. For Mathew Law.
1605; 1608; 1614; 1621; 1630; 1634.
Editions: 1824 (for Charles Baldwin), in O. E. D. (1825, i) and Dodsley4
(1876–9, ix), and by A. E. H. Swaen (1912, Materialien, xxxv) and J. S.
Farmer (1912, T. F. T.).—Dissertations: C. R. Baskervill, Sources and
Analogues of H. (1909, M. L. A. xxiv. 711); J. Q. Adams, Thomas Heywood
and H. (1912, E. S. xlv. 30).
The B.M. copy of 1602 (C. 34, b. 53) has the note ‘Written by Ioshua
Cooke’ in ink on the title-page. Presumably the author of Greene’s Tu
Quoque (q.v.) is meant, with which Swaen, xiii, declares that the play
shows ‘absolutely no similarity or point of agreement’. Fleay, i. 289,
suggested an ascription to Heywood on the ground of parallelisms with The
Wise Woman of Hogsdon, and this case is elaborately and plausibly argued
by Swaen and Adams. The date must be before Worcester’s begin to appear
in Henslowe’s diary, 17 Aug. 1602. Fleay’s attempt to twist its mentions of
a certain ‘Thomas’ in the text (l. 790) into references to Heywood himself
and Thomas Blackwood, the actor, is mere childishness.
Impatient Poverty (?)

S. R. 1560, June 10. ‘ ... nyce wanton; impaciens poverte ...’ John King
(Arber, i. 128).
1560. A Newe Interlude of Impacyente pouerte newlye Imprynted. John
King. [B.M. C. 34, i. 26, from Irish sale of 1906 (cf. Jahrbuch, xliii. 310).
Engraved t.p.; on tablet at foot ‘T. R.’ Thomas Petit’s mark after colophon.
The t.p. has also ‘Foure men may well and easelye playe thys Interlude’,
with an arrangement of the parts.]
n.d. An new enterlude of Impacient pouerte newly Imprynted. [In
Mostyn sale (1919). The t.p. has three woodcut figures. There is no imprint,
but as the woodcuts are also found in W. Copland’s print of Youth and as
King’s copy of Lusty Juventus also passed to Copland (1548–69), he was
probably the printer.]
S. R. 1582, Jan. 15. Transfer from Sampson Awdeley to John Charlwood
(Arber, ii. 405).
Editions by J. S. Farmer (1907, T. F. T.) and R. B. McKerrow (1911,
Materialien, xxxiii).
The play has come to light since the issue of The Mediaeval Stage, and I
therefore include it here, although it is pre-Elizabethan. The characters are
Peace, Envy, Impatient Poverty (afterwards Prosperity), Conscience,
Abundance, Misrule, ‘Collhasarde’, and a Summoner. The drama is a
moral, non-controversial, and not even necessarily Protestant in tone. It sets
out the mutability of the world and the defects of poverty and prosperity.
The scene is a ‘place’, and there are allusions to Newgate and Tyburn. If the
T. R. of the title-page is the same whose name is at the end of Nice Wanton,
the play is probably not later than the reign of Edward VI; but the
Summoner and allusions to penance and courts spiritual suggest an even
earlier date. The final address to the ‘Soueraynes’ contains the following
stanza:
Let vs pray al to that lorde of great magnificence
To send amonge vs peace rest and vnyte
And Jesu preserue our soueraigne Quene of preclare preeminence
With al her noble consanguynyte
And to sende them grace so the yssue to obtayne
After them to rule this most chrysten realme.

The form of the companion stanzas suggests that the two last lines
originally rhymed, and that a line has dropped out before them. Possibly an
ending originally meant for Henry VIII and Jane Seymour has been altered
with a view to making it appropriate to Elizabeth. The play is offered with
other pre-Elizabethan plays by the company in Sir Thomas More, iv. i. 42,
and was also in the obsolete library of Captain Cox (Robert Laneham’s
Letter, ed. Furnivall, 30).
Jack Drum’s Entertainment. 1600

S. R. 1600, Sept. 8. ‘A booke Called Jack Drum’s enterteynmente. A
commedy as yt bathe ben diuerse tymes Acted by the Children of Paules.’
Felix Norton (Arber, iii. 172).
1600, Oct. 23. Transfer from Norton to Richard Oliff (Arber, iii. 175).
1601. Iacke Drums Entertainment: Or the Comedie of Pasquill and
Katherine. As it hath bene sundry times plaide by the Children of Powles.
For Richard Olive. [Introduction, i.e. Induction.]
1616.... Newly Corrected. W. Stansby for Philip Knight.
1618.... The Actors 12 men, and 4 women. For Nathaniel Fosbrooke.
Editions by R. Simpson (1878, S. of S. ii. 125) and J. S. Farmer (1912, T.
F. T.).
All critics have recognized the style as Marston’s and some of the
vocabulary is vomited in Poetaster; cf. Small, 93. The date is fixed to 1600
by allusions to hopes of ‘peace with Spaine’, ‘Kemps morice’, and
‘womens yeare’ (i. 37, 45, 166). There is little doubt that the critical
Brabant Senior is Jonson, and that the play is that in which he told
Drummond that Marston staged him. The cuckolding of Brabant Senior is
based upon a story narrated by Jonson to Drummond (Laing, 21) as one in
which he had played the active, not the passive, part. If he had imparted the
same story to Marston, he not unnaturally resented the use made of it. The
minor identifications suggested by Fleay, ii. 74, have nothing to commend
them, except possibly that of Sir Edward Fortune with Edward Alleyn, who
was building the Fortune in 1600. Were not this a Paul’s play, one might
infer from the closing line,
Our Fortune laughes, and all content abounds,

that it was given at the Fortune. Can the Admiral’s have shared it with
Paul’s, as the Chamberlain’s shared Satiromastix? In iv. 37–48 Brabant
Senior criticizes three ‘moderne wits’ whom he calls ‘all apes and guls’ and
‘vile imitating spirits’. They are Mellidus, Musus, and Decius. I take them
to be Marston, Middleton, and Dekker, all writers for Paul’s; others take
Decius for Drayton, to whom Sir John Davies applied the name, and Musus,
by a confusion with Musaeus, for Chapman or Daniel. For v. 102–14, which
bears on the history of the company, cf. ch. xii (Paul’s).
The Life and Death of Jack Straw > 1593

S. R. 1593, Oct. 23. ‘An enterlude of the lyfe and deathe of Jack Strawe.’
John Danter (Arber, ii. 639).
1593. [Colophon, 1594]. The Life and Death of Iacke Straw, A notable
Rebell in England: Who was kild in Smithfield by the Lord Maior of
London. John Danter, sold by William Barley.
1604. For Thomas Pavier.
Editions in Dodsley4 (1874, v), and by H. Schütt (1901) and J. S. Farmer
(1911, T. F. T.).
Fleay, ii. 153, Schütt, and Robertson, 121, all incline to suggest the
authorship, whole or in part, of Peele. Schütt would date c. 1588, but the
theme is that of T. Nelson’s pageant of 1590–1, for which year a member of
Walworth’s company, the Fishmongers, was Lord Mayor. The text of the
play is very short, with only four acts.
Jacob and Esau > 1558

S. R. 1557–8. ‘An enterlude vpon the history of Jacobe and Esawe out of
the xxvii chapeter of the fyrste boke of Moyses Called genyses.’ Henry
Sutton (Arber, i. 77).
1568. A newe mery and wittie Comedie or Enterlude, newely imprinted,
treating vpon the Historie of Iacob and Esau, taken out of the xxvij. Chap.
of the first booke of Moses, entituled Genesis. Henrie Bynneman.
Editions in Dodsley4 (1874, ii), and by J. S. Farmer (1908, T. F. T.).
The play must necessarily, from the date of the S. R. entry, be pre-
Elizabethan, and should have been included in Appendix X of The

Mediaeval Stage. C. C. Stopes, Hunnis, 265, and in Athenaeum (28 April
1900), claims the authorship for Hunnis; W. Bang has suggested Udall,
which seems plausible. The parts of Mido and Abra point to boy-actors.
1 Jeronimo c. 1604

1605. The First Part of Ieronimo. With the Warres of Portugall, and the
life and death of Don Andræa. For Thomas Pavier. [Dumbshows.]
Editions by W. Scott (1810, A. B. D. i), in Dodsley4 (1874, iv), and by F.
S. Boas (1901, Works of Kyd).—Dissertations: J. E. Routh, T. Kyd’s Rime
Schemes and the Authorship of Soliman and Perseda and 1 J. (1905, M. L.
N. xx. 49); A. L. Elmquist, Zur Frage nach dem Verfasser von 1 J. (1909, E.
S. xl. 309); A. Seeberger (1909, Archiv für Stenographie, iv. 306); K. Wiehl,
Thomas Kyd und die Autorschaft von ... 1 J. (1912, E. S. xliv. 343); B.
Neuendorff, Zur Datierung des 1 J. (1914, Jahrbuch, l. 88).
The ascription by Fleay, ii. 27, and Sarrazin to Kyd is rejected on
stylistic grounds by R. Fischer, Zur Kunstentwicklung der Englischen
Tragödie, 100, with whom Boas and other writers concur. A reference to the
jubilee of 1600 (i. i. 25) points to a date at the beginning of the seventeenth
century. If so, the play cannot be that revived by Strange’s for Henslowe in
Feb. 1592 and given, sometimes under the title of Don Horatio, and
sometimes under that of the Comedy of Jeronimo, during a run of, and
several times on the night before, the Spanish Tragedy (Greg, Henslowe, ii.
150, 154). It is, moreover, not a comedy. It may, however, be a later version
of the same theme, motived by another revival of the Spanish Tragedy by
the Admiral’s in 1601–2. If so, it was probably itself due, not to the
Admiral’s, but to the Chamberlain’s, and a piracy of their property by the
Revels boys explains the jest at ‘Ieronimo in decimo sexto’ in the induction
to the 1604 version of Marston’s Malcontent. It must be uncertain whether 1
Jeronimo was the ‘Komödie vom König in Spanien und dem Vice-Roy in
Portugall’ given at Dresden in 1626 (Herz, 66, 76).
The Troublesome Reign of King John 1587< >91

1591. The Troublesome Raigne of Iohn King of England, with the
discouerie of King Richard Cordelions Base sonne (vulgarly named, The
Bastard Fawconbridge): also the death of King Iohn at Swinstead Abbey. As
it was (sundry times) publikely acted by the Queenes Maiesties Players, in

the honourable Citie of London. For Sampson Clarke. There is a Second
part with separate signatures and title-page. The Second part of the
troublesome Raigne of King Iohn, conteining the death of Arthur
Plantaginet, the landing of Lewes, and the poysning of King Iohn at
Swinstead Abbey. As ... London ... 1591. [The text of each part is preceded
by lines ‘To the Gentlemen Readers’, and a head-piece, which has the
initials W. D.]
1611. The First and Second Part ... As they were (sundry times) lately
acted by the Queenes Maiesties Players. Written by W. Sh. Valentine
Simmes for John Helme. [The signatures are continuous through both parts.]
1622.... as they were (sundry times) lately acted. Written by W.
Shakespeare. Augustine Mathewes for Thomas Dewes.
Editions by G. Steevens (1760, T. P. ii), J. Nichols (1779, Six Old Plays,
ii), W. C. Hazlitt (1875, Sh. Libr. v), F. G. Fleay, King John (1878), F. J.
Furnivall (1888, Sh. Q), J. S. Farmer (1911, T. F. T.), F. J. Furnivall and J.
Munro (1913, Sh. Classics).—Dissertations: E. Rose, Shakespeare as an
Adapter (Macmillan’s Magazine, Nov. 1878); G. C. Moore Smith, Sh.’s K.
J. and the T. R. (1901, Furnivall Miscellany, 335); H. D. Sykes, Sidelights
on Shakespeare, 99 (1919).
The authorship was assigned by Malone to Marlowe, by Pope to
Shakespeare and W. Rowley, by Fleay, ii. 53, and King John, 34, to Greene,
Peele, and Lodge, working on a Marlowian plot. Furnivall and Munro
accept none of these theories, and the latter suggests a common authorship
with the early Leir. Sykes argues strongly for Peele. The lines prefixed to
Part I begin
You that with friendly grace of smoothed brow
Have entertained the Scythian Tamburlaine.

They do not claim to be a prologue, and may have been added on
publication. The play is not therefore necessarily later than Tamburlaine (c.
1587). But the tone is that of the Armada period. Shakespeare used the play,
with which, from the booksellers’ point of view, his King John seems to
have been treated as identical.
Judith c. 1595 (?)

[MS.] National Library of Wales, Peniarth (formerly Hengwrt), MS. 508.
G. A. Jones, A Play of Judith (1917, M. L. N. xxxii. 1) describes the MS.
which contains the Latin text of the Judithae Constantia of Cornelius
Schonaeus, of which a reprint was issued in London in 1595, together with
an incomplete English translation in unrhymed verse written as prose,
perhaps as a school exercise, in a late sixteenth-century or early
seventeenth-century hand.
A Knack to Know an Honest Man. 1594

S. R. 1595, Nov. 26. ‘A booke intituled The most Rare and plesaunt
historie of A knack to knowe an honest man.’ Cuthbert Burby (Arber, iii.
54).
1596. A Pleasant Conceited Comedie, called, A knacke to know an
honest Man. As it hath beene sundrie times plaied about the Citie of
London. For Cuthbert Burby.
Editions by H. De Vocht (1910, M. S. R.) and J. S. Farmer (1912, T. F.
T.).
The play was produced by the Admiral’s on 22 Oct. 1594, and twenty-
one performances were given between that date and 3 Nov. 1596 (Greg,
Henslowe, ii. 171). The text is confused and probably surreptitious.
A Knack to Know a Knave. 1592

S. R. 1594, Jan. 7. ‘A commedie entitled “a Knack to knowe a knave”
newlye sett fourth as it hath sundrye tymes been plaid by Ned. Allen and his
Companie with Kemps applauded Merymentes of the menn of Goteham.’
Richard Jones (Arber, ii. 643).
1594. A most pleasant and merie new Comedie, Intituled, A Knacke to
knowe a knave. Newlie set foorth, as it hath sundrie tymes bene played by
Ed. Allen and his Companie. With Kemps applauded Merrimentes of the
men of Goteham, in receiuing the King into Goteham. Richard Jones.
Editions by J. P. Collier (1851, Five Old Plays), in Dodsley4 (1874, vi),
and by J. S. Farmer (1911, T. F. T.).
Strange’s men produced ‘the Knacke to Knowe a Knave’ on 10 June
1592, and played it seven times to 24 Jan. 1593. Henslowe usually enters it

as ‘the cnacke’. Fleay, 100, suggests that the Osric, revived by the
Admiral’s men on 3 and 7 Feb. 1597, may also be this play. Both Fleay, ii.
310, and Greg, Henslowe, ii. 156, suggest that Kempe’s ‘merriments’ are to
be found in sc. 12, and that of the rest the romantic part may be Peele’s and
the moral part Wilson’s. Gayley (R. E. C. i. 422) would like to find in the
play the comedy written by Greene and the ‘young Juvenall’, Nashe. The
character Cuthbert Cutpurse the Conicatcher is from the pamphlet (cf. s.v.
Greene) entered in S. R. on 21 April 1592, and the story of Titus
Andronicus is alluded to in F_{2}v:
As Titus was vnto the Roman Senators,
When he had made a conquest on the Goths.

Leire > 1594

S. R. 1594, May 14. ‘A booke entituled, The moste famous Chronicle
historye of Leire kinge of England and his Three Daughters.’ Adam Islip
(Arber, ii. 649). [Islip’s name is crossed out, and Edward White’s
substituted.]
1605, May 8. ‘A booke called “the Tragecall historie of kinge Leir and
his Three Daughters &c”, As it was latelie Acted.’ Simon Stafford (Arber,
iii. 289). [Assigned the same day by Stafford with the consent of William
Leake to John Wright, ‘provided that Simon Stafford shall haue the
printinge of this booke’.]
1605. The True Chronicle History of King Leir, and his three daughters,
Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordelia. As it hath bene diuers and sundry times
lately acted. Simon Stafford for John Wright.
S. R. 1624, June 29. Transfer of ‘Leire and his daughters’ from Mrs.
White to E. Alde (Arber, iv. 120).
Editions by J. Nichols (1779, S. O. P. ii), W. C. Hazlitt (1875, Sh. Libr. ii.
2), W. W. Greg (1907, M. S. R.), S. Lee (1909, Sh. Classics), J. S. Farmer
(1910, T. F. T.), R. Fischer (1914, Quellen zu König Lear).—Dissertations:
W. Perrett, The Story of King Lear (1904, Palaestra, xxxv); R. A. Law, The
Date of King Lear (1906, M. L. A. xxi. 462); H. D. Sykes, Sidelights on
Shakespeare, 126 (1919).

The Queen’s and Sussex’s revived ‘kinge leare’ for Henslowe on 6 and 8
April 1594, shortly before the first S. R. entry (Greg, Henslowe, ii. 162). As
the play is not named in the Sussex’s repertory of 1593–4, there is a
presumption that it belonged to the Queen’s. The authorship is quite
obscure. Fleay, 90, assigns it to Lodge and Peele; Fleay, 97, to Lodge and
Greene; Fleay, ii. 51, to Lodge and Kyd. Robertson, 176, thinks the claim
for Lodge indecisive, and surmises the presence of Greene. Sykes argues
for Peele. Lee hints at Rankins. The publishing history is also difficult. The
entries of 1605 appear to ignore White’s copyright, although this was still
alive in his son’s widow in 1624. Lee suggests that the Stafford-Wright
enterprise was due to negotiation between Wright and White, whose
apprentice he had been. The play was clearly regarded as distinct from that
of Shakespeare, which was entered to N. Butter and J. Busby on 22 Nov.
1607, and it, though based on its predecessor, is far more than a revision of
it. It seems a little improbable that Leire should have been revived as late as
1605, and the ‘Tragecall’ and ‘lately acted’ of the title-page, taken by
themselves, would point to an attempt by Stafford to palm off the old play
as Shakespeare’s. But although 1605 is not an impossible date for
Shakespeare’s production, 1606 is on other grounds more probable.
Liberality and Prodigality. 1601

1602. A Pleasant Comedie, Shewing the contention betweene Liberalitie
and Prodigalitie. As it was playd before her Maiestie. Simon Stafford for
George Vincent. [Prologue and Epilogue.]
Editions by J. S. Farmer (1912, T. F. T.) and W. W. Greg (1913, M. S. R.).
A reference to ‘childish yeeres’ in the prologue points to boy actors. The
trial (l. 1261) is for an alleged crime on 4 Feb., 43 Eliz. (1601), and the next
court performance after this date was on 22 Feb. 1601 by the Chapel, to
which occasion the production may be assigned. Elizabeth could be
described as a ‘prince’, so that the use of this term does not bear out Fleay,
ii. 323, in assuming a revival of an Edwardian play, but the characters are
mainly abstract and the style archaic for the seventeenth century, and it is
conceivable that the Prodigality of 1567–8 had been revived.
Locrine c. 1591

S. R. 1594, July 20. ‘The lamentable Tragedie of Locrine, the eldest
sonne of Kinge Brutus, discoursinge the warres of the Brittans, &c.’
Thomas Creede (Arber, ii. 656).
1595. The Lamentable Tragedie of Locrine, the eldest sonne of King
Brutus, discoursing the warres of the Britaines, and Hunnes, with their
discomfiture: The Britaines victorie with their Accidents, and the death of
Albanact. No lesse pleasant then profitable. Newly set foorth, ouerseene
and corrected, By W. S. Thomas Creede. [Prologue and Epilogue.]
1664; 1685. [F3; F4 of Shakespeare.]
Editions of 1734 (J. Tonson), 1734 (R. Walker), and by R. B. McKerrow
(1908, M. S. R.), J. S. Farmer (1911, T. F. T.), and in Sh. Apocrypha.—
Dissertations: R. Brotanek (1900, Anglia-Beiblatt, xi. 202); C. Crawford,
Edmund Spenser, L. and Selimus (1901, 9 N. Q. vii. 61; Collectanea, i. 47);
W. S. Gaud, The Authorship of L. (1904, M. P. i. 409); T. Erbe, Die L.-Sage
(1904); J. M. Robertson, Did Sh. Write T. A.? (1905); E. Köppel, L. und
Selimus (1905, Jahrbuch, xli. 193); A. Neubner, König Lokrin. Deutsche
Übersetzung mit literar-historischer Einleitung (1908); F. G. Hubbard (MS.
cited by J. W. Cunliffe in C. H. v. 84); C. A. Harper, L. and the Faerie
Queene (1913, M.L.R. viii. 369).
The interpretation of the W. S. of the title-page in F3 of 1664 as
indicating Shakespeare may be accurate, but does not suggest anything
more than revision for a revival, or perhaps only for the press. Some
revision is proved by the allusion in the epilogue to Elizabeth,
That eight and thirtie yeares the scepter swayd,

an allusion which was not chronologically accurate until the close of the
thirty-eighth regnal year on 16 Nov. 1596, after the play was in print, and
could hardly have been made before the beginning of that year on 17 Nov.
1595, after it had been entered in S. R. As to the original author, one is
bound to be sceptical of the unconfirmed notice by J. P. Collier
(Bibliographical Account, i. 95) of an ‘inscription on an existing copy of the
play ... assigning the authorship of it to Charles Tylney’. This, says Collier,
‘is the handwriting of Sir George Buck. He adds the information that he
himself had written the dumb shows by which it was illustrated, and that it
was originally called Elstrild’. Charles Tilney was a cousin of the Master of

the Revels, and was executed for complicity in the Babington plot in 1586
(Camden, transl. 303). The statement, if true, would give an early date to
the play, which the dumb shows and other ‘Senecan’ characteristics have
been supposed to confirm. Fleay, ii. 321, boldly conjectures that the
epilogue originally referred to ‘eight and twentie yeares’, and that the play
was ‘by’ in the sense of ‘about’, Tilney, supposing the moral drawn against
‘ciuill discord’ instigated by ‘priuate amours’ to point at Mary of Scots.
Recent investigations, however, concerning the relations of the play to
Spenser on the one hand, and to Selimus (q.v.) on the other, suggest a date
not earlier and not much later than 1591, either for the original composition
of the play, or for a very substantial revision of it. Most of the points are
well summed up by Cunliffe in C. H. v. 84. Locrine may borrow historical
facts from the Faerie Queene (1590); it does not borrow phrases from it. It
does, however, borrow phrases and whole lines, with more than Elizabethan
plagiarism, from Spenser’s Complaints (1591). There is also an apparent
loan from Wilmot’s Tancred and Gismund (1591). Some of the Complaints
passages are also borrowed by Selimus, which makes similar booty both of
Locrine itself and of the Faerie Queene. I agree with Cunliffe that the
evidence is clearly in favour of Selimus being the later of the two plays, but
am not so certain that the second borrowing of the Complaints passages
tells against a common authorship of the two. It would be so, ordinarily, but
here we have to do with an abnormal plagiarist. Whoever the author, he
belongs to the school of the university wits. Marlowe is preferred by
Malone, Peele by Fleay, Ward, Gaud, and for all but the comic scenes by
Hopkinson, Greene by Brooke, Peele and Greene by Robertson.
The London Prodigal. 1603 < > 05

1605. The London Prodigall. As it was plaide by the Kings Maiesties
seruants. By William Shakespeare. T. C. for Nathaniel Butter.
1664; 1685. [F3; F4 of Shakespeare.]
Editions in 1709, 1734 (J. Tonson), 1734 (R. Walker), by J. S. Farmer
(1910, T. F. T.), and in Sh. Apocrypha.
Shakespeare’s authorship is accepted by few modern critics. An
exception is Hopkinson. Fleay, Shakespeare, 299; B. C. i. 152, thinks that
he may have ‘plotted’ the play, but that the writer is the same as that of
Thomas Lord Cromwell, whom he believes to be Drayton. Perhaps he is

right in regarding an allusion to service ‘under the king’ (ii. i. 16) as
pointing to a Jacobean date. Brooke suggests Marston or Dekker. A play
‘von einem ungehorsamen Khauffmanns Sohn’ appears in Anglo-German
repertories of 1604 and 1606 (Herz, 65, 94).
Look About You. 1599 (?)

1600. A Pleasant Commodie, Called Looke about you. As it was lately
played by the right honourable the Lord High Admirall his seruaunts. For
William Ferbrand.
Editions in Dodsley4 (1874, vii), and by J. S. Farmer (1912, T. F. T.) and
W. W. Greg (1913, M. S. R.).
At the end of the play Gloucester proposes to fight the Saracens in
Portugal, and as Anthony Wadeson (q.v.) was writing The Honourable Life
of the Humorous Earl of Gloster with his Conquest of Portugal in June or
July 1601, it has been suggested by Fleay, ii. 267, and Greg, Henslowe, ii.
204, that Wadeson was also the author of Look About You. The play ought
itself to appear somewhere in Henslowe’s diary, and Fleay may be right in
identifying it with the Bear a Brain of 1599, although the only recorded
payment for that play was not to Wadeson, but to Dekker. There are
reminiscences of R.J. ii. iv. 42; iii. v. 221 in l. 2329, and of 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv.
295 in l. 2426.
The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune. 1582 (?)

1589. The Rare Triumphs of Loue and Fortune. Plaide before the
Queenes most excellent Maiestie: wherein are many fine Conceites with
great delight. E. A. for Edward White.
Editions by J. P. Collier (1851, Roxb. Club) and in Dodsley4 (1874, vi).
Fleay, ii. 26, assigns the play to Kyd on account of the similarity of the
plot to that of Soliman and Perseda, but this is hardly convincing. On 30
Dec. 1582 Derby’s players performed A History of Love and Fortune at
court, for which a city and battlement were provided by the Revels office. If
the two plays were identical, as dates and style make not improbable, the
city presumably served as a background for the scenes at court, while the
battlement was used for the presenters Venus and Fortune, who are said in
Act I to be ‘set sunning like a crow in a gutter’.

Love Feigned and Unfeigned (?)

[MS.] On first and last leaves (sig. a 1 and ii. 8 of a copy (Brit. Mus. IB.
2172) of Johannes Herolt, Sermones Discipuli (1492).
Edition by A. Esdaile (1908, M. S. C. i. 17).—Dissertation: E. B. Daw,
L. F. and U. and the English Anabaptists (1917, M. L. A. xxxii. 267).
The text is a fragment, but there may have been more, as the original fly-
leaves and end papers of the volume are gone. Sir G. F. Warner thinks the
hand ‘quite early seventeenth century’. The corrections in the same hand are
such as rather to suggest an original composition, but may also be those of
an expert copyist. Miss Daw thinks that the date of composition was in the
seventeenth century, and that the play represents ideas belonging to (a) the
Anabaptists and (b) the Family of Love, both of which were then active.
She even suggests the possible authorship of the controversialist Edmond
Jessop. Personally, I find it difficult to assign to the seventeenth century a
moral written precisely in the vein of the middle of the sixteenth century,
even to the notes (2, 69, 103) of action ‘in place’ (cf. ch. xix), and a phrase
(76),
Why stare ye at me thus I wene ye be come to se a play,

closely parallel to Wit and Wisdom, 12, which is probably pre-Elizabethan.
The Jacobean activity of Anabaptism and Familism only revived
movements which had been familiar in England from Edwardian times,
were particularly vigorous in 1575, and had apparently died down during
the last decade of Elizabeth’s reign; cf. for Anabaptists C. Burrage, The
Early English Dissenters (1912), and for Familists s.v. Middleton, Family
of Love.
The Maid’s Metamorphosis. 1600

S. R. 1600, July 24 (Hartwell). ‘Two plaies or thinges thone called the
maides metamorphosis thother gyve a man luck and throw him into the
Sea.’ Richard Oliffe (Arber, iii. 168).
1600. The Maydes Metamorphosis. As it hath beene sundrie times Acted
by the Children of Powles. Thomas Creede for Richard Olive. [Prologue.]
Editions by A. H. Bullen (1882, O. E. P. i), R. W. Bond (1902, Lyly, iii.
341), and J. S. Farmer (1912, T. F. T.).

Archer’s play list of 1656 (Greg, Masques, lxxxvi) started an ascription
to Lyly, which was probably suggested by the similarity of name to Love’s
Metamorphosis. Daniel, with Lyly as reviser, is substituted by Fleay, ii. 324;
Day by Gosse and Bullen; Day, with Lyly as reviser, by Bond. A limit of
date is given by the reopening of Paul’s in 1599, and iv. i. 157 points to the
‘leape yeare’ 1600. Fleay thinks that the play was performed at Anne
Russell’s wedding on 16 June 1600 (cf. ch. v), but, though ‘three or foure
Muses’ dance at the end of the play, there is no indication of a mask, while
the accounts of the wedding say nothing of a play.
The Marriage of Wit and Science > 1570

S. R. 1569–70. ‘A play intituled the maryage of Wytt and Scyence.’
Thomas Marsh (Arber, i. 399).
n.d. A new and Pleasant enterlude intituled the mariage of Witte and
Science. Thomas Marsh.
Editions in Dodsley4 (1874, ii) and by J. S. Farmer (1909, T. F. T.).
An allegorical moral, indebted to John Redford’s Wit and Science (Med.
Stage, ii. 454). Fleay, 64; ii. 288, 294, proposes to identify this with the Wit
and Will played at court in 1567–8 (cf. App. B), as Will is a character.
Meleager (?)

B. Dobell, in Athenaeum for 14 Sept. 1901, described a MS. in his
possession with the title A Register of all the Noble Men of England
sithence the Conquest Created. The date of compilation is probably 1570–
90. On f. 3 is the argument in English of a play headed:
Children of Paules Play.
Publij Ovidij Nasonis Meleager.

Presumably the play was in English also. It was classical in manner with
five acts, a chorus, and dumb-shows. Act I opened with a dumb-show
before Melpomene of the Fates, Althea and the burning brand. It seems
distinct from the Meleager of W. Gager (q.v.).
The Merry Devil of Edmonton c. 1603

S. R. 1607, Oct. 22 (Buck). ‘A Plaie called the Merry Devill of
Edmonton.’ Arthur Johnson (Arber, iii. 362). [The Life and Death of the

Merry Devil of Edmonton, entered 5 April 1608, is a pamphlet by T. B.]
1608. The Merry Devill of Edmonton. As it hath beene sundry times
Acted, by his Maiesties Seruants, at the Globe, on the banke-side. Henry
Ballard for Arthur Johnson. [Prologue; Induction.]
1612; 1617; 1626; 1631.
S. R. 1653, Sept. 9. ‘The merry devil of Edmonton, by Wm:
Shakespeare.’ H. Moseley (Eyre, i. 429).
1655. For William Gilbertson.
Editions in Dodsley (1875, x), and by H. Walker (1897, T. D.), J. S.
Farmer (1911, T. F. T.), J. M. Manly (1913, R. E. C. ii), and in collections of
Sh. Apocrypha.
Moseley’s attribution was repeated in the play lists of Archer in 1656 and
Kirkman in 1661 (Greg, Masques, lxxxix), and the play was bound with
Mucedorus and Fair Em as ‘Shakespeare, vol. i’ in Charles II’s library. The
attempt of Fleay, ii. 313 (cf. his Shakespeare, 294), to show that Sir John
the priest was originally called Oldcastle and gave a name to the play is too
far-fetched, but it leads him to support a tradition originally based on a note
by Coxeter (Dodsley2, v. 247) that the author was Drayton. He puts it in
1597, apparently because Jessica calls Lancelot a ‘merry devil’ in M. V. ii.
iii. 2. But the Host is pretty clearly copied from him of the Merry Wives (c.
1599), and allusions to the king’s hunting (iv. i. 158, 186), although perhaps
merely part of the historic action, might also have been topical under James
I. The play existed by 1604, when it is mentioned in T. M.’s Black Book
(Bullen, Middleton, viii. 36). Jonson calls it ‘your dear delight’ in the
prologue to The Devil is an Ass (1616), and it was revived at court on 3
May 1618 (Cunningham, xlv).
Minds. 1575 <

n.d. Comoedia. A worke in ryme, contayning an Enterlude of Myndes,
witnessing the Mans Fall from God and Christ. Set forth by H. N. and by
him newly perused and amended. Translated out of Base-Almayns into
English. [No imprint or colophon.] [Preface to the Reader; Prologue in
dialogue.]

This is a translation of the Low German Comoedia: Ein Gedicht des
Spels van Sinnen, anno 1575 of Henrick Niklaes, the founder of the
mystical sect known as the Family of Love (cf. s.v. Middleton).
Misogonus. 1560 < > 77

[MS.] In collection of the Duke of Devonshire. [By two hands, of which
one is only responsible for the t.p. and some corrections in the text. The t.p.
has the heading ‘A mery and ρ ... Misogonus’, followed by the names of the
speakers and ‘Laurentius Bariωna Ketthering die 20 Novembris Anno
1577’. The text, which is apparently imperfect, stopping in iv. 4, is probably
all in one other hand, together with a prologue, at the end of which is
‘Thomas Rychardes’. The inscriptions ‘Anthony Rice’ on the title-page,
‘Thomas Warde Barfold 1577’ on the prologue-page, and ‘W. Wyll[~m]’
and ‘John York Jesu’ in margins of the text, are all in later hands, some of
them not of the sixteenth century.]
Editions by A. Brandl (1898, Q. W. D.), J. S. Farmer (1906), and R. W.
Bond (1911, E. P. I.).—Dissertation: G. L. Kittredge, The M. and Laurence
Johnson (1901, J. G. P. iii. 335).
Brandl, following Collier, ii. 368, 378, dates the play in 1560, on the
ground of an allusion in iv. i. 131 to ‘the rising rection ith north’, i.e. the
Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536, as twenty-four years before the time of action,
but it is not quite clear that the rambling dialogue of rustics, in which the
passage occurs, justifies the interpretation put upon it; nor is the allusion in
iii. ii. 3 to the weathercock of Paul’s, set up in 1553 and destroyed in 1561,
any more conclusive, as the phrase may have become proverbial. The style
might be either of c. 1560 or, in a provincial play, of c. 1577, or, as Bond
suggests, a reviser of c. 1577 might have revised a text of ten or twelve
years earlier. For author, Fleay, 16, 58, 60, taking the piece to be that
disliked at court on 31 Dec. 1559, offered Richard Edwardes, and is
followed by Wallace, i. iii. There is nothing to suggest that the play was ever
performed at court at all. It seems more natural to look for him, either in the
Thomas Richards or in the Laurence Barjona of the MS. Conceivably
Richards might be the T. R. whose initials appear on the prints of Impatient
Poverty and Nice Wanton (cf. Mediaeval Stage, ii. 460) in 1560. Barjona
might be the name of a converted Jew. But Kittredge regards it as an
anagram of Johnson, and points out that a Laurence Johnson matriculated at

Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1570, and took his B.A. in 1574 and his
M.A. in 1577, while a Thomas Richards of Trinity took his B.A. in 1571,
and a Thomas Ward of Jesus in 1580. A reference to Cambridge learning
(iii. iii. 74) does not, of course, go far to prove Cambridge authorship.
Anyway, the Barjona of the title-page is probably the ‘Laur. Bariona’ who
signed, also from Kettering, the epistle to a book called Cometographia on
20 Jan. 1579. It is the work of an Anglican; not therefore of the Laurence
Johnson, who was an Oxford Jesuit. I can add a few facts. A Laurence
Jonson, with one Chr. Balam and George Haysyll of Cambridge, made a
complaint through Lord North to the queen against the Bishop of Ely in
Dec. 1575 (S. P. D. Eliz. cv. 88). This is interesting, because George Haysell
of Wisbech was apparently one of Worcester’s players (cf. ch. xiii) in 1583.
There is also a Laurence Johnson who on 12 June 1572 wrote to Lord
Burghley about his service in the Mint (S. P. D. Eliz. lxxxviii. 17); possibly
the same of whom Burghley wrote to his ‘brother’ William Herlle on 3
April 1575, that he could do nothing for him (S. P. D. Eliz. ciii. 24). Finally
a Laurence Johnson engraved plates in 1603 (D. N. B.).
Sir Thomas More c. 1596

[MS.] B.M. Harleian MS. 7368. [The wrapper is endorsed, ‘The Booke
of Sir Thomas Moore’, and is in part composed of a vellum leaf also used
for that of Munday’s John a Kent and John a Cumber. The character of the
damp stains on the two MSS. shows that they must for some time have lain
together. Two passages of the original text have disappeared, and six
passages have been inserted, on fresh leaves or slips, to replace these and
other cancelled matter. One of these leaves appears to have been misplaced.
Greg finds seven distinct hands: (a) the writer of the original text, whom he
has now identified (M. L. R. viii. 89) with Munday; (b) five contributors to
the insertions, of whom one appears also to have acted as a playhouse
corrector, another (writing 30 lines) seems clearly to be Dekker, and a third
(writing 148 lines) has been taken (v. infra) for Shakespeare; (c) the Master
of the Revels, Edmund Tilney, who has given some directions as censor, of
which the most important, at the beginning, runs: ‘Leaue out the
insurrection wholy & the Cause ther off & begin with Sr Tho: Moore att the
mayors sessions with a reportt afterwardes off his good service don being
Shriue off London vppon a mutiny Agaynst the Lumbardes only by A shortt
reporte & nott otherwise att your own perrilles E. Tyllney’. Whether Greg is

right in calling this a ‘conditional licence’ I am not sure, but he corrects
earlier writers by pointing out that the extant insertions do not carry out
Tilney’s instructions, and were probably made before the play reached him.
Although therefore the appearance of an actor’s name in a s.d. suggests that
the play was cast for performance, it is not likely that it was actually
performed, at any rate in its present state.]
Editions by A. Dyce (1844, Sh. Soc.), A. F. Hopkinson (1902), C. F.
Tucker Brooke (1908, Sh. Apocrypha), J. S. Farmer (1910, photo-facsimile
in T. F. S.), and W. W. Greg (1911, M. S. R.).—Dissertations: R. Simpson,
Are there any extant MSS. in Sh.’s Handwriting? (1871, 4 N. Q. viii. 1); J.
Spedding, Sh.’s Handwriting (1872, 4 N. Q. x. 227), On a Question
concerning a Supposed Specimen of Sh.’s Handwriting (1879, Reviews and
Discussions); B. Nicholson, The Plays of S. T. M. and Hamlet (1884, 6 N.
Q. x. 423); C. R. Baskervill, Some Parallels to Bartholomew Fair (1908, M.
P. vi. 109); W. W. Greg, Autograph Plays by A. Munday (1913, M. L. R. viii.
89); L. L. Schücking, Das Datum der pseudo-Sh. S. T. M. (1913, E. S. xlvi.
228); E. M. Thompson, Shakespeare’s Handwriting (1916) and The
Autograph MSS. of Anthony Munday (1919, Bibl. Soc. Trans. xiv. 325); P.
Simpson, The Play of S. T. M. and Sh.’s Hand in It (1917, 3 Library, viii.
79); J. D. Wilson and others, Sh.’s Hand in the Play of S. T. M. (1919, T. L.
S. 24 April onwards); W. J. Lawrence and others, Was S.T.M. ever Acted?
(1920, T.L.S. 1 July onwards); M. A. Bayfield and E. M. Thompson,
Shakespeare’s Handwriting (1921, T. L. S. 30 June, 4 Aug.).
The play has been dated c. 1586 and c. 1596, in both of which years
there were disturbances with some analogy to the ‘Ill May Day’ of the plot,
and an early date has been regarded as favoured by mentions (ll. 1006,
1148) of Oagle a wigmaker, since men of the name were serving the Revels
Office in this and similar capacities from 1571 to 1585 (Feuillerat, Eliz.,
passim), and by the appearance as a messenger in a stage-direction (Greg, p.
89) of T. Goodal, an actor traceable with Berkeley’s men in 1581 and with
the Admiral’s or Strange’s in the plot of The Seven Deadly Sins, c. 1590–1.
But Goodal may have acted much longer, and the Admiral’s men had
business relations with a ‘Father Ogell’ in Feb. 1600 (Greg, Henslowe, ii.
300). Greg, after comparing Munday’s script in the play with other and
better datable examples of that script, inclines to put it ‘between 1596 and
1602, say 1598–1600’, and Sir E. M. Thompson, on a further review of the

same evidence, suggests 1592 or 1593. This, however, involves putting the
MS. of John a Kent and John a Cumber (cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Munday) back to
1590, which, although palaeographically possible, is inconsistent with
evidence pointing to its production by the Admiral’s in 1594. Certain
parallels with Julius Caesar and Hamlet might suggest the latter part of the
possible period, although the parallel suggested by Schücking with
Fletcher’s The Tamer Tamed is too slight to bear out his date of 1605–8, and
the attempt of Fleay (ii. 312; Shakespeare, 292) to identify the play with the
Abuses of Paul’s in 1606 is guess-work. Jonson’s apparent debt to S. T. M.
in Bartholomew Fair, pointed out by Baskervill, is also in favour of a latish
date. Obviously the mention of ‘Mason among the Kings players’ (l. 1151)
does not prove a Jacobean date, as Henry VIII had players. No actor of the
name in either reign is known, although an Alexander Mason was marshal
of the royal minstrels in 1494 (Collier, i. 45). Account must be taken of the
support given by Sir E. M. Thompson to the theory of R. Simpson and
Spedding that three of the added pages are in the hand of Shakespeare. This
is based on a minute comparison with the few undoubted fragments, almost
entirely signatures, of Shakespeare’s writing. Both hands use ‘the native
English script’ and are ‘of an ordinary type’, without marked individual
character ‘to any great extent’, although slight peculiarities, such as ‘the use
of the fine upstroke as an ornamental adjunct to certain letters’, are common
to them. The demonstration would have been more convincing had the
hands been less ‘ordinary’, but Sir E. M. Thompson’s authority is great, and
some support is furnished by P. Simpson from the character of the
punctuation in the addition, and by J. D. Wilson from some orthographic
resemblances to the more reliable Shakespearian quartos. Sir E. M.
Thompson’s views are criticized in G. Greenwood, Shakespeare’s
Handwriting (1920). If Shakespeare was the author, the analogies between
the matter of the addition and the Jack Cade scenes of Henry VI would be in
favour of an earlier date, if that were possible, than 1596 or even 1594,
although I should not like to be committed to the view that Shakespeare
might not have scribbled the fragment at any time in the sixteenth century.
On a balance of the mixed literary and palaeographical evidence before us,
the safest guess seems to be 1596. As to the rest of the authorship, Dr.
Greg’s discoveries point to Munday, with some help from Dekker. Fleay’s
argument (Sh. 292) for Lodge and Drayton is flimsy. If Shakespeare had a

share, the company was probably the Chamberlain’s. Goodal’s name proves
nothing as to this.
Mucedorus > 1598; 1611

1598. A most pleasant Comedie of Mucedorus, the Kings sonne of
Valentia and Amadine the Kings daughter of Arragon, with the merie
conceites of Mouse. Newly set foorth, as it hath bin sundrie times plaide in
the honorable Cittie of London. Very delectable and full of mirth. For
William Jones. [Arrangement of parts for eight actors; Induction.]
1606. For William Jones.
1610.... Amplified with new additions, as it was acted before the Kings
Maiestie at Whitehall on Shroue-sunday night. By his Highness Seruants
vsually playing at the Globe. Very delectable, and full of conceited Mirth.
For William Jones. [Arrangement of parts for ten actors; Prologue. Collier
professes to follow a print of 1609 with this altered title, otherwise
unknown; cf. Greg in Jahrbuch, xl. 104.]
1611; 1613; 1615.
S. R. 1618, Sept. 17. Transfer by Sarah, widow of William Jones, to John
Wright (Arber, iii. 632).
1618; 1619; 1621; 1626; n.d. [1629] fragm.; 1631; 1634; 1639; n.d.
[1639 < > 63]; 1663; 1668.
Editions by J. P. Collier (1824) and with Shakespeare (1878), N. Delius
(1874), in Dodsley4, vii (1874), Warnke-Proescholdt (1878), J. S. Farmer
(1910, T. F. T.), and with Sh. Apocrypha.—Dissertations: R. Simpson, On
Some Plays Attributed to Sh. (1875, N. S. S. Trans. 155); W. Wagner, Ueber
und zu M. (1876, Jahrbuch, xi. 59), Neue Conjecturen zum M. (1879,
Jahrbuch, xiv. 274); K. Elze, Noten und Conjecturen (1878, Jahrbuch, xiii.
45), Nachträgliche Bemerkungen zu M. (1880, Jahrbuch, xv. 339), Last
Notes on M. (1883, E. S. vi. 217); E. Soffé, Ist M. ein Schauspiel Sh.’s?
(1887, Brünn Progr.); W. W. Greg, On the Editions of M. (1904, Jahrbuch,
xl. 95).
It is difficult to date with precision the revival for which the additions
printed in the Q. of 1610 (1610/1?) were written, especially as the
genuineness of the Q. of 1609, in which Collier stated that he found these

additions, cannot be verified, since the accounts of the Treasurer of the
Chamber do not specify the exact days on which the numerous appearances
of the King’s men at court during the winters of 1608–9, 1609–10, and
1610–11 took place. The conjecture of Fleay (ii. 50; Shakespeare, 303) that
the additions date from 1606 was largely based on a guess that they
appeared in the Q. of 1606, which he had not seen. The added or altered
passages are the prologue; i. 1, 2; iv. 1; parts of v. 2; and the final lines of
the induction. The prologue wishes James security
From blemisht Traytors, stayn’d with Periurie.

A bear is introduced in i. 2, as in W. T. iii. 3, and I venture to conjecture that
both episodes were inspired by the successful bear in Jonson’s Mask of
Oberon on 1 Jan. 1611, to which there is also an allusion in his Love
Restored of 6 Jan. 1612. If so, the revival must have been on Shrove
Sunday, 3 Feb. 1611. In i. i. 50 Anselmo says that he was a shepherd in
‘Lord Iulios Maske’. Oberon, however, had no shepherds proper, only
satyrs and sylvans. The induction is altered to compliment James instead of
Elizabeth, and the following dialogue between Comedie and Envie is
introduced:
Envie. Comedie, thou art a shallow Goose;
Ile ouerthrow thee in thine owne intent,
And make thy fall my Comick merriment.
Comedie. Thy pollicie wants grauitie; thou art
Too weake. Speake, Fiend, as how?
Env. Why, thus:
From my foule Studie will I hoyst a Wretch,
A leane and hungry Meager Canniball,
Whose iawes swell to his eyes with chawing Malice:
And him Ile make a Poet.
Com. What’s that to th’ purpose?
Env. This scrambling Rauen, with his needie Beard,
Will I whet on to write a Comedie,
Wherein shall be compos’d darke sentences,
Pleasing to factious braines:
And euery other where place me a Iest,
Whose high abuse shall more torment then blowes:
Then I my selfe (quicker then Lightning)
Will flie me to a puisant Magistrate,
And waighting with a Trencher at his backe,
In midst of iollitie, rehearse those gaules,
(With some additions)

So lately vented in your Theator.
He, vpon this, cannot but make complaint,
To your great danger, or at least restraint.
Com. Ha, ha, ha! I laugh to hear thy folly;
This is a trap for Boyes, not Men, nor such,
Especially desertfull in their doinges,
Whose stay’d discretion rules their purposes.
I and my faction do eschew those vices.

Fleay, with 1606 in his mind, finds here an apology for The Fox,
thinking Jonson the raven and Eastward Hoe the ‘trap for Boyes’. In 1610
there had been no trouble about any London play, although one in
Lincolnshire had given offence. But a careful reading of the passage will
show that it is no apology at all, but a boast, and an attack upon informers
against the stage.
As the play had been in print since 1598, it must not be assumed that,
because the King’s revived it in 1610–11, it was originally a Chamberlain’s
play. It may have belonged to the Queen’s or some other extinct company.
Evidently it was a popular play, as the number of editions shows. K. B. P.
ind. 91 tells us that Ralph has ‘play’d ... Musidorus before the Wardens of
our Company’.
The ascription to Shakespeare is due to Archer’s list of 1656 (Greg,
Masques, xci) and to the inclusion of the play with Fair Em and The Merry
Devil of Edmonton in a volume in Charles II’s library, lettered
‘Shakespeare, vol. i’ (Variorum, ii. 682). It now receives little support, even
as regards the added passages. Greene is preferred as the original author by
Malone and Hopkinson, Peele by von Friesen, and Lodge by Fleay.
After the suppression of the theatres in 1642, Mucedorus was acted by
strolling players in various parts of Oxfordshire. An accident during a
performance at Witney on 3 Feb. 1654 is recorded in John Rowe, Tragi-
Comoedia. Being a brieff relation of the strange and wonderful hand of
God, discovered at Witney in the Comedy acted February the third, where
there were some slaine, many hurt and several other remarkable passages
(1653/4).
Either Mucedorus or Greene’s Alphonsus (q.v.) may have been the play
on a king of Arragon given at Dresden in 1626. It has also been suggested
(Herz, 95) that Mucedorus influenced Pieter Hooft’s Dutch pastoral
Granida (1605).

Narcissus. 6 Jan. 1603

[MS.] Bodl. MS. 147303 (Rawl. Poet. MS. 212), f. 82v. ‘A Twelfe Night
Merriment. Anno 1602.’ [Porter’s speech ‘at the end of supper’, Wassail
Song, Prologue, and Epilogue.]
Edition by M. L. Lee (1893).
The porter’s name is Francis, and from some speeches and a letter
composed for him, which appear in the same manuscript, it is clear that he
was Francis Clark, who became porter of St. John’s, Oxford, on 8 May
1601, at which house therefore the play was doubtless given. It has
borrowings from M. N. D. and 1 Hen. IV.
New Custom. 1558 < > 73

1573. A new Enterlude No less wittie: then pleasant, entituled new
Custome, deuised of late, and for diuerse causes nowe set forthe, neuer
before this tyme Imprinted. William How for Abraham Veale.
Editions in Dodsley4 (1874, iii) and by J. S. Farmer (1908, T. F. T.).
A moral of Protestant controversy, with typical personages, bearing
allegorical names, arranged for four actors.
The final prayer is for Elizabeth, and Avarice played in the days of
Queen Mary. Fleay, 64; ii. 294, thinks it a revised Edward VI play, on the
ground of an allusion to a ‘square caps’ controversy of 1550. But this was
still vigorous in 1565 (cf. Parker’s Letters, 240). Fleay also says that the
Nugize of Captain Cox’s collection (Laneham, 30) is Mankind (Med. Stage,
ii. 438) in which New Gyse is a character. But Mankind was first printed in
1897, and probably this play is the one Laneham had in mind.
Nobody and Somebody > 1606

S. R. 1606, Jan. 8. ‘The picture of No bodye.’ John Trundell (Arber, iii.
308).
1606, March 12 (Wilson). ‘A Booke called no bodie and somme bodie
&c.’ John Trundell (Arber, iii. 316).
n.d. No-Body, and Some-Body. With the true Chronicle Historie of
Elydure, who was fortunately three seuerall times crowned King of

England. The true Coppy thereof, as it hath beene acted by the Queens
Maiesties Seruants. For John Trundle. [Prologue and Epilogue.]
Editions by A. Smith (1877), R. Simpson (1878, S. of S. i), J. S. Farmer
(1911, T. F. T.), of the early German translation by F. Bischoff, Niemand
und Jemand in Graz im Jahre 1608 (1899, Mitteilungen des historischen
Vereins für Steiermark, xlvii. 127), and of Tieck’s translation by J. Bolte
(1894, Jahrbuch, xxix. 4).—Dissertation: J. Bolte, Eine Hamburger
Aufführung von N. a. S. (1905, Jahrbuch, xli. 188).
The play is probably Jacobean. There is a reference to the unwilling
recipients of knighthood (l. 325), and the use of Essex’s nickname for
Cobham, Sycophant, as the name of a courtier, must be later than Cobham’s
disgrace in 1603. Simpson thought that an allusion to the misuse of the
collections for rebuilding Paul’s steeple (l. 754) pointed to an original date
c. 1592, when the matter caused a scandal, but the steeple was still unbuilt
in James’s reign. Greg, Henslowe, ii. 230, revising a conjecture of Fleay, i.
293, suggests that Albere Galles, written by Heywood and Smith for
Worcester’s in Sept. 1602, may be this play, and Henslowe’s title a mistake
for Archigallo, one of the characters. The play seems to have reached
Germany by 1608. A performance at Graz in that year was probably the
occasion of the dedication by ‘Joannes Grün Nob. Anglus’ to the archduke
Maximilian of a manuscript German translation, now in the Rein library. To
it is attached a coloured drawing of a bearded man in a doublet which hides
his breeches, and with a book and chain in his hands. Above is written
‘Nemo’ and ‘Neminis Virtus ubique Laudabilis.’ A version is also in the
Anglo-German collection of 1620 (Herz, 66, 112).
Parnassus. 1598–1602 (?)

[MSS.] Bodl. Rawlinson MS. D. 398. ‘The Pilgrimage to Parnassus’,
‘The Returne from Parnassus’. [1 Parnassus with Prologue; 2 Parnassus
with Stagekeeper’s speech for Prologue. The cover bears the name of
‘Edmunde Rishton, Lancastrensis’, who took his M.A. from St. John’s,
Cambridge, in 1602.]
Halliwell-Phillipps MS. ‘The Returne from Pernassus: or The Scourge of
Simony.’ [3 Parnassus, with induction for Prologue, which says, ‘The
Pilgrimage to Pernassus, and the returne from Pernassus have stood the

honest Stagekeepers in many a Crownes expence for linckes and vizards: ...
this last is the last part of the returne from Pernassus’.]
S. R. 1605, Oct. 16 (Gwyn). ‘An Enterlude called The retourne from
Pernassus or the scourge of Simony publiquely Acted by the studentes in
Sainct Johns College in Cambridg.’ John Wright (Arber, iii. 304).
1606. The Returne from Pernassus: Or The Scourge of Simony.
Publiquely acted by the Students in Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge. G.
Eld, for Iohn Wright. [Two issues. 3 Parnassus only.]
Editions of 3 Parnassus by T. Hawkins (1773, O. E. D. iii), W. Scott
(1810, A. B. D. i), in Dodsley4 (1874, ix), by E. Arber (1878) and O.
Smeaton (1905, T. D.), and of 1, 2, 3 Parnassus by W. D. Macray (1886)
and J. S. Farmer (S. F. T.).—Dissertations: B. Corney (1866, 3 N. Q. ix.
387); J. W. Hales, The Pilgrimage to P. (1887, Academy and Macmillan’s
Magazine; 1893, Folia Litteraria, 165); W. Lühr, Die drei Cambridger
Spiele vom P. in ihren litterarischen Beziehungen (1900, Kiel diss.); E. B.
Reed, The College Element in Hamlet (1909, M. P. vi. 453); G. C. Moore
Smith, The P. Plays (1915, M. L. R. x. 162).
There are several notes of time and authorship. At the end of 1, which
was ‘three daies studie’ (l. 3), the pilgrimage has lasted ‘4 yeares’ (712).
Kinsader’s, i.e. Marston’s, Satires and Bastard’s Epigrams, both of 1598,
are mentioned (212). The prologue to 2, which is a ‘Christmas toy’ (18),
deprecates the former courtesy of ‘our stage’:
Surelie it made our poet a staide man,
Kept his proude necke from baser lambskins weare,
Had like to have made him senior sophister.
He was faine to take his course by Germanie
Ere he could gett a silie poore degree.
Hee never since durst name a peece of cheese,
Thoughe Chessire seems to priviledge his name.
His looke was never sanguine since that daye;
Nere since he laughte to see a mimick playe.

It is now seven years since the scholars started for Parnassus (62). Gullio
has been ‘verie latelie in Irelande’ and ‘scapt knightinge’ (878), obviously
with Essex in 1599. The Epigrams (1599) of ‘one Weaver fellow’, i.e. John
Weever, are alluded to (982). The prologue to 3, also a ‘Christenmas toy’
(30), calls it ‘an old musty show, that hath laine this twelue moneth in the

bottome of a coalehouse’ (25). ‘The Authors wit’ (48) has stood
‘hammering upon ... 2 schollers some foure (1606, whole) yeare’ (37). This
is the third play of a series (76):
In Scholers fortunes twise forlorne and dead
Twise hath our weary play earst laboured.
Making them Pilgrims to Pernassus hill,
Then penning their return with ruder quill.

Belvedere (1600) is published (179) and Nashe is dead (314). The
Dominical letters are C, or for the Annunciation year D and C (1105), and
the moon is in ‘the last quarter the 5 day, at 2 of the cloke and 38 minuts in
the morning’ (1133). These indications fit Jan. 1602 (Lühr, 15, 105). The
siege of Ostend, which extended from 1601 to 1604, has begun (1333).
Jonson has ‘brought vp Horace giving the Poets a pill’ (1811), and Kempe
is back ‘from dancing the morrice over the Alpes’ (1823). Both events took
place in 1601. It is still Elizabeth’s reign (1141).
A quite clear conclusion as to date is not possible. The calendar
references, the four years of hammering (in 3), and the probability that the
writer would try to have his allusions to literary events up to date, suggest
performances at the Christmases of 1598–9, 1599–1600, and 1601–2. This
allows for a twelve-months’ delay, followed by a good deal of revision, in
the performance of 3. On the other hand, the difference between four (in 1)
and seven (in 2) years of pilgrimage points to 1598–9, 1601–2, and 1602–3.
On the whole, I lean to the first alternative.
So far as we know, the association of Kempe with the Chamberlain’s
men was out of date either in 1601 or 1602; conceivably he returned to the
company for a while in 1601, but he was certainly of Worcester’s in 1602.
Moore Smith thinks that the ‘ruder quill’ of the prologue to 3 implies
that the author of 2 and 3 was distinct from the author of 1. But the same
prologue speaks clearly of a single author. Hales took the account of his
troubles in getting his degree literally, and pointed out that foreign students
at German universities were called ‘Käsebettler’ and ‘Käsejäger’. Moore
Smith doubts, and thinks the degree may have been given at Cambridge by
the influence of William Holland, senior fellow of St. John’s, and his name
glanced at in ‘Germanie’. The absence alike of matriculation books and
college admission registers for the period makes identification difficult.

Corney found a copy of the print of 3 with the inscription ‘To my Lovinge
Smallocke J. D.’, which he thought in the same hand as the Lansdowne MS.
of John Day’s Peregrinatio Scholastica. Bullen was inclined to support
Day’s authorship on internal grounds, but Day was a Caius man, whose
university career closed in disgrace, and is not very likely to have written
plays for St. John’s some years later. And it is but a slight connexion with
Cheshire that ‘dey’ means ‘dairy’ in the dialect of that county. Cheshire
ought to be our clue. Charles Chester was not, so far as I know, a writer.
Hales seems to have thought that the theatrical Beestons of London may
have been connected with the Cheshire family of that name. There was a
Cheshire foundation at St. John’s, and Moore Smith cites a suggestion that
the author may have been William Dodd, a Cheshire man, who became
Scholar of St. John’s in 1597, B.A. in 1599, and Fellow in 1602. The
‘priviledge’ reminds me of the traditional jurisdiction of the Dutton family
over minstrelsy in Cheshire (Mediaeval Stage, ii. 259), but I do not know
whether any Dutton can be traced at St. John’s.
In i. 2 of 3 Judicio is exercising the occupation of a ‘corrector of the
presse’, apparently in the employment of a particular printing-house, not of
the licensing authorities. The house would be Danter’s, who is himself
introduced in i. 3 bargaining with Ingenioso to give him 40s. for a
pamphlet. In iv. 3 Burbage and Kempe appear, and here is the famous
passage in which Kempe says:
‘Few of the vniuersity men pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer
Ouid, and that writer Metamorphosis, and talke too much of Proserpina & Iuppiter.
Why heres our fellow Shakespeare puts them all downe, I and Ben Ionson too. O that
Ben Ionson is a pestilent fellow, he brought vp Horace giuing the Poets a pill, but our
fellow Shakespeare hath giuen him a purge that made him beray his credit.’

Fleay, Shakespeare, 221, suggests that the ‘purge’ was the description of
Ajax in Troilus and Cressida, i. ii. 15, and is supported by Small, 167. If so,
it was very irrelevant to its setting. The purge ought to be Satiromastix, and
though there is nothing to indicate that Shakespeare had any responsibility
for Satiromastix, it is just conceivable that a Cambridge man, writing before
the play was assigned to Dekker in print, may have thought that he had. The
allusion is clearly to Shakespeare as a writer, or one might have thought that
he acted Horace-Jonson in Satiromastix.
Especially in 3, the writer is much occupied with contemporary
literature, but this does not justify the slap-dash attempt of Fleay, ii. 347, to

identify nearly all his characters with individual literary men. They are, of
course, not individuals, but types, and types of university men. The most
that can be said is that there may be something of Marston in Furor
Poeticus, and a good deal of Nashe, with probably also a little of Greene, in
Ingenioso, who ultimately takes flight, with Furor and Phantasma, to the
Isle of Dogs (v. 3, 4):
There where the blattant beast doth rule and raigne
Renting the credit of whom ere he please.

Il Pastor Fido > 1601

S. R. 1601, Sept. 16 (Pasfield). ‘A booke called the faythfull Shepheard’.
Waterson (Arber, iii. 192).
1602. Il Pastor Fido: Or The faithfull Shepheard. Translated out of
Italian into English. For Simon Waterson. [Sonnets by S. Daniel and the
Translator to Sir Edward Dymocke; Epistle to the same, dated 31 Dec.
1601, and signed ‘Simon Waterson’.]
1633. For John Waterson. [Epistle by John Waterson to Charles
Dymock.]
1633. Augustine Matthewes for William Sheares. [Another issue.]
The preliminary matter of 1602 and 1633 is shown by Greg, Pastoral,
242, to point to a kinsman, but not the son, of Sir Edward Dymocke as the
translator. He may be a John Dymmocke, to whom Archer’s play-list of
1656 (Greg, Masques, xcvi) assigns in error The Faithful Shepherdess. The
translation is from G. Battista Guarini’s Il Pastor Fido (1590). For a Latin
translation see App. L.
The Pedlar’s Prophecy > 1594

S. R. 1594, May 13. ‘A plea booke intituled the Pedlers Prophesie.’
Thomas Creede (Arber, ii. 649).
1595. The Pedlers Prophecie. Thomas Creede, sold by William Barley.
[Prologue.]
Editions by J. S. Farmer (1911, T. F. T.) and W. W. Greg (1914, M. S. R.).
The analogies of title and date of publication to The Cobler’s Prophecy
have led Fleay, ii. 283, and others to ascribe the authorship to Wilson. To

me the play reads more like a belated piece of c. 1560–70.
Pericles c. 1607–8

See Shakespeare (ch. xxiii), except in relation to whose work the play
can hardly be discussed.
Philotus > 1603

1603. Ane verie excellent and delectabill Treatise intitulit Philotus.
Quhairin we may persaue the greit inconveniences that fallis out in the
Mariage betwene age and zouth. Robert Charteris, Edinburgh. [At end are
verses beginning ‘What if a day or a month or a zeere’, possibly Campion’s;
cf. Bullen, Campion (1903), 270.]
1612. A verie excellent and delectable Comedie.... Andro Hart,
Edinburgh.
Editions by J. Pinkerton (1792, Scottish Poems, iii) and for Bannatyne
Club (1835).
This has been ascribed to Robert Sempill (1530?-95), but merely
because his play before the Regent of Scotland on 17 June 1568 (Diary of
Robert Birrel in Dalyell, Fragments of Scottish History, 14) is not otherwise
known. R. Brotanek (1898, Festschrift zum viii allgemeinen deutschen
Neuphilologentage in Wien; cf. Jahrbuch, xxxv. 302) suggests Alexander
Montgomery.
The Puritan. 1606

S. R. 1607, Aug. 6 (Buck). ‘A book called the comedie of “the Puritan
Widowe”.’ George Elde (Arber, iii. 358).
1607. The Puritaine Or The Widdow of Watling-streete. Acted by the
Children of Paules. Written by W. S. G. Eld. [Running-title ‘The Puritaine
Widdow’.]
1664; 1685. [Parts of F3 and F4 of Shakespeare.]
Editions in 1734 (J. Tonson), 1734 (R. Walker), by J. S. Farmer (1911, T.
F. T.), and in Sh. Apocrypha.
The W. S. of the title-page was interpreted as William Shakespeare in
Archer’s play-list of 1656 (Greg, Masques, c). The attribution is accepted

by no modern critic, and guesses at Wentworth Smith and William Smith
rest similarly on nothing but the initials. Internal evidence points to an
author who was an Oxford man, and familiar with the plays of Shakespeare.
Middleton is preferred by Fleay, ii. 92, Bullen (Middleton, i. lxxix), and
others; Marston by Brooke, who dwells on a general resemblance to
Eastward Hoe, and seems inclined to think that Jonson, whose
Bartholomew Fair the play foreshadows, might also have contributed. The
character George Pyeboard is clearly meant for Peele, and the play uses
episodes which appear in The Merrie Conceited Jests of George Peele Gent.
This, though the extant print is of 1607, was entered in S. R. on 14 Dec.
1605. The Paul’s plays seem to have terminated in 1606, and Fleay points
out that an almanac allusion in iii. vi. 289 is to Tuesday, 15 July, which fits
1606. The attack on the Puritan ministers was resented in W. Crashaw’s
Paul’s Cross sermon of 13 Feb. 1608 (cf. App. C, no. lvi).
The Revenger’s Tragedy. 1606 < > 7

S. R. 1607, Oct. 7 (Buck). ‘Twoo plaies, thone called the revengers
tragedie.’ George Eld (Arber, iii. 360).
1607. The Revengers Tragœdie. As it hath beene sundry times Acted, by
the Kings Maiesties Seruants. G. Eld.
1608. G. Eld.
Editions in Dodsley1–4 (1744–1876), and by W. Scott (1810, A. B. D. ii)
and A. H. Thorndike (1912, M. E. D.).
The authorship is ascribed to ‘Tournour’ in Archer’s list of 1656 and to
‘Cyril Tourneur’ in Kirkman’s lists of 1661 and 1671 (Greg, Masques, cii).
Fleay, ii. 264, is sceptical, thinking the work too good for the author of The
Atheist’s Tragedy, and inclined to suggest Webster. Oliphant (M. P. viii.
427) thinks Tourneur impossible, in view of the difference of manner, and
suggests, only to reject, Middleton. E. E. Stoll, John Webster, 107, 212,
points out that both plays are much under the influence of Marston, and that
the date may be fixed by the borrowing of the name and character of
Dandolo from The Fawn (1606).
The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York > 1592

See The Contention of York and Lancaster.

1 Richard the Second c. 1592 < > 5

[MS.] Egerton MS. 1994. The play forms a separate section of this
composite MS. It has no title-page and a few lines at the end are missing.
The handwriting is of the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century.
Editions by J. O. Halliwell (1870) and W. Keller (1899, Jahrbuch, xxxv.
3.—Dissertations: F. I. Carpenter, Notes on the Anonymous Richard II
(1899, Journ. Germ. Phil. iii. 138); F. S. Boas, A Seventeenth Century
Theatrical Repertoire (Library for July 1917).
The play deals with an earlier part of the reign than that of Shakespeare’s
Richard II. Keller concludes from a study of parallel passages that it was
known to Shakespeare, and that the author knew Marlowe’s Edward II and
2 Henry VI. This gives a date of about 1592–5. Fleay, ii. 320, dates the play
about 1591 and assigns it, for no apparent reason, to the Queen’s men. Boas
accepts the date 1590–5 on internal evidence, but finds the names ‘George’
and ‘Toby’ in the stage-directions as players of servants’ parts, and supposes
the MS. to belong to a seventeenth-century revival and to have been
collected with others in Egerton MS. 1994 by the younger William
Cartwright, who was one of a late King’s Revels company traceable during
1629–37 (Murray, i. 279). He identifies ‘George’, rather hazardously, with
George Stutfield, who belonged to this company, and ‘Toby’ with an
Edward Tobye, who is not known to have belonged to it, but is found in
1623 among the Children of the Revels to the late Queen Anne (Murray, i.
361; ii. 273). My difficulty about this is that the relation of 1 Rich. II to
Shakespeare’s play is so close as to make it natural to regard it as having
become a Chamberlain’s play, and therefore unlikely to get into the hands
of either of these Revels companies. Any company might have a George.
George Bryan, for example, is a possibility. Toby, no doubt, is a rarer name.
Toby Mills died in 1585, but might have left a son or godson of his name.
The True Tragedy of Richard the Third > 1594

S. R. 1594, June 19. ‘An enterlude entituled, The Tragedie of Richard the
Third wherein is showen the Death of Edward the FFourthe with the
smotheringe of the twoo princes in the Tower, with a lamentable end of
Shores wife, and the Coniunction of the twoo houses of Lancaster and
Yorke.’ Thomas Creede (Arber, ii. 654).

1594. The True Tragedie of Richard the Third: Wherein is showne the
death of Edward the fourth, with the smothering of the two yoong Princes
in the Tower: With a lamentable ende of Shore’s wife, an example for all
wicked women. And lastly the conjunction and ioyning of the two noble
Houses, Lancaster and Yorke. As it was playd by the Queenes Maiesties
Players. Thomas Creede, sold by William Barley. [Induction; Epilogue.]
Editions in Variorum (1821), xix. 251, and by B. Field (1844, Sh. Soc.)
and W. C. Hazlitt (1875, Sh. Libr.).—Dissertation: G. B. Churchill, Richard
the Third up to Shakespeare (1900, Palaestra, x).
Collier, Shakespeare, v. 342, put the play earlier than 1588 on the ground
that the epilogue in praise of Elizabeth makes no mention of the Armada.
But ‘She hath put proud Antichrist to flight’ may pass for such a mention.
Fleay, 64, dates it about 1587: in ii. 28 he says ‘1586 or late in 1585’ as a
ballad on the subject was entered on the Stationers’ Register on 15 Aug.
1586; in ii. 315 he prefers 1591, regarding the play as a continuation of The
Contention between York and Lancaster. He considers a later date as
excluded by the close of the court career of the Queen’s men in 1591. This,
however, did not close until 1594, and the epilogue was not necessarily
given at court. Churchill also thinks the play a continuation of the
Contention, and finds influences, not very striking, of Marlowe’s
Tamburlaine, Faustus, and Edward II. He concludes for 1590–1. There is
very little trace of any use by Shakespeare of this play for his Richard III.
Boswell groundlessly took the author to be that of Locrine (q.v.). Fleay,
ii. 315, tries to divide the scenes between Lodge and Peele, and suggests
that they were re-writing Kyd.
Robin Hood > 1560

S. R. 1560, Oct. 30. ‘A newe playe called——.’ William Copland (Arber,
i. 152).
n.d. A mery geste of Robyn Hoode and of hys lyfe, wyth a newe playe
for to be played in Maye games very plesaunte and full of pastyme.
[Colophon] Imprinted at London vpon the thre Crane wharfe by Wyllyam
Copland.
n.d. For Edward White.

Editions in J. Ritson, Robin Hood (1795), ii. 199, F. J. Child, English
and Scottish Popular Ballads, iii (1888) 114, 127, and Manly (1897), ii.
281.
The play, which deals with the episodes of Robin Hood and the Friar and
Robin Hood and the Potter, is appended to a reprint of the narrative Geste,
originally printed by Wynken de Worde. Manly assigns Copland’s edition to
c. 1550, but Arber, v. 32, to ‘c. 1560, by the Printer’s address’, and
Furnivall, Captain Cox, to c. 1561. Apparently Copland is not traceable at
the Three Cranes before that year and had earlier addresses. If so, I think
that his anonymous entry of 1560 in the Stationers’ Register may fairly be
supposed to relate to Robin Hood.
Ruff, Cuff and Band c. 1615

[MS.] Add. MS. 23723.
S. R. 1615, Feb. 10 (Taverner). ‘A booke called a Diologue betwene
Ruffe Cuffe and Band &c.’ Miles Patriche (Arber, iii. 563).
1615. A merrie Dialogue, Betwene Band, Cuffe, and Ruffe: Done by an
excellent Wit, And Lately acted in a Shew in the famous Vniversitie of
Cambridge. William Stansby for Miles Partrich.
1615. Exchange Ware at the second hand, Viz. Band, Ruffe and Cuffe,
lately out, and now newly dearned vp. Or Dialogue, acted in a Shew in the
famous Vniversitie of Cambridge. The second Edition. W. Stansby for
Myles Partrich.
1661. [Title as in ed. 1.] For F. K.
Editions in Harleian Miscellany2, x (1813), and by J. O. Halliwell (1849,
Contributions to Early English Literature) and C. Hindley, Old Book
Collector’s Miscellany, ii (1872).
The Second Maiden’s Tragedy. 1611

[MS.] B.M., Lansdowne MS. 807, f. 29, formerly penes John Warburton.
[Greg distinguishes four contemporary hands: (a) a scribe or copyist of the
original text and certain additions on inserted slips; (b) a corrector, probably
the author; (c) the Master of the Revels, Buck; (d) a theatre official, who
added stage-directions. The contributions of (b) and (c) are not wholly

distinguishable, especially where mere deletions are in question, as the
author may, besides literary corrections, have made others due to the hints,
or known views, of Buck as censor. The presence of a second literary
corrector is just possible. On the verso of the last leaf Buck has written:
‘This second Maydens tragedy (for it hath no name inscribed) may wth the
reformations bee acted publikely. 31 octobr. 1611. G. Buc.’ In later hands
are the title ‘The Second Maydens Tragedy’ at the beginning, and a note
following Buck’s endorsed licence, which originally ran, ‘The Second
Maydens Tragedy October 31th 1611 By Thomas Goffe A Tragedy indeed’.
Here Goffe’s name has been cancelled, and two successive correctors have
substituted, firstly, ‘George Chapman’, and then ‘By Will Shakspear’.
Warburton’s hand is not discernible, and the last correction was probably
made after his time, as his list of manuscript plays (3 Library, ii. 232)
includes ‘2d. pt. Maidens Trag̃ . Geo. Chapman’.]
S. R. 1653, Sept. 9. ‘The Maid’s Tragedie, 2d. part.’ H. Moseley (Eyre, i.
428).
Editions in 1824–5 (O. E. D. i), Chapman’s Works (1875, iii), and
Dodsley4 (1875, x), and by W. W. Greg (1909, M. S. R.).—Dissertations: J.
Phelan, Philip Massinger (1879, Anglia, ii. 47); A. S. W. Rosenbach, The
Curious-Impertinent (1902, M. L. N. xvii. 179); W. Nicholson, The S. M. T.
(1912, M. L. N. xxvii. 33).
The play may be assigned to the King’s men, in view of stage-directions
to ll. 1724, 1928, which show that ‘Mr Goughe’ played Memphonius and
‘Rich Robinson’ the Lady. Perhaps this also explains the ascription of
authorship to Thomas Goffe, which, like those to Chapman and
Shakespeare, now finds no favour. Tieck, who translated the play in his
Shakespeare’s Vorschule (1829, ii), argued for Massinger, whose lost Tyrant
he took the play to be. No doubt the chief character is only entitled ‘Tyrant’
in the manuscript. But the Tyrant has a separate existence both in S. R. and
in Warburton’s list. Fleay, ii. 331, thought that the title was originally meant
to be The Usurping Tyrant, and that the play was by the author of The
Revenger’s Tragedy, generally assigned to Tourneur. Rosenbach doubts
Massinger, and thinks Tourneur’s hand traceable. Swinburne seems to have
suggested Middleton.

Selimus. 1591 < > 94

1594. The First part of the Tragicall raigne of Selimus, sometime
Emperour of the Turkes, and grandfather to him that now raigneth. Wherein
is showne how hee most vnnaturally raised warres against his owne father
Baiazet, and preuailing therein, in the end caused him to be poysoned: Also
with the murthering of his two brethren, Corcut, and Acomat. As it was
playd by the Queenes Maiesties Players. Thomas Creede. [Prologue and
Conclusion.]
1638. The Tragedy of Selimus Emperour of the Turkes. Written T. G.
For John Crooke and Richard Serger. [Re-issue of 1594 sheets with new
t.p.]
Editions by A. B. Grosart (1898, T. D.) and W. Bang (1908, M. S. R.),
and in collections of Greene (q.v.).—Dissertation: H. Gilbert, Robert
Greene’s S. (1899, Kiel diss.); cf. s. Locrine.
The T. G. of the 1638 title-page is probably meant for Thomas Goffe, the
author of contemporary plays on Turkish history. He, however, was only
born in 1591. Six passages from the play are assigned to Greene in R[obert]
A[llot’s] England’s Parnassus (1600). This is fairly strong evidence, and
Greene’s authorship is supported by Grosart, Brooke (Sh. Apocrypha, xix),
and Gilbert. Ward and Gayley (R. E. C. i. 420) take the opposite view.
Crawford, who points out (E. P. xxxv, 407) that Allot is not impeccable,
prefers Marlowe. Fleay, ii. 315, would divide the play between Greene and
Lodge. The problem is bound up with that of the authorship of Locrine
(q.v.), from which Selimus clearly borrows. It can therefore hardly be of
earlier date than 1591. The Conclusion, or epilogue, promises a second part,
of which nothing is known.
Soliman and Perseda c. 1589 < > 92

S. R. 1592, Nov. 20 (Bp. of London). ‘The tragedye of Salamon and
Perceda.’ Edward White (Arber, ii. 622).
n.d. The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda. Wherein is laide open,
Loues constancy, Fortunes inconstancy, and Deaths Triumphs. Edward
Allde for Edward White. [Induction.]
1599. E. Allde for E. White. [In some copies ‘newly corrected and
amended’ is stamped on the t.p.]

[1815]. [A facs. reprint, with date 1599 and imprint Edward Allde for
Edward White, of which two copies, C. 57. c. 15 and G. 18612, are in B.M.;
cf. W. W. Greg in M. L. Q. iv. 188, and R. B. McKerrow, Bibl. Evid. 302.
Some copies have ‘J. Smeeton, Printer, St. Martin’s Lane’ on the vo. of the
t.p.]
Editions by T. Hawkins (1773, O. E. D. ii), in Dodsley4, v (1874), and by
F. S. Boas (1901, Works of Kyd) and J. S. Farmer (S. F. T.).—Dissertations:
E. Sieper (1897, Z. f. vergleichende Litteraturgeschichte, N. F. x); G.
Sarrazin, Die Verfasser von S. u. P. (1891, E. S. xv. 250); E. Koeppel,
Beiträge zur Geschichte des elisabethanischen Dramas (1892, E. S. xvi.
357); J. E. Routh, T. Kyd’s Rime Schemes and the Authorship of S. P. and 1
Jeronimo (1905, M. L. N. xx. 49); K. Wiehl, Thomas Kyd und die
Autorschaft von S. u. P. (1912, E. S. xliv. 343).
Fleay, ii. 26, Sarrazin, and Boas claim the play for Kyd, partly on
grounds of style, partly because the plot is an elaboration of the ‘play within
the play’ of The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1589), iv. 4; Wiehl doubts on metrical
grounds. Schick (Archiv, xc) suggests Peele, who is said in the Merry
Conceited Jests (Bullen, Peele, ii. 389) to have written, or pretended to
have written, a play of The Knight of Rhodes, a title which would apply to
Soliman and Perseda. Robertson, 109, 150, 166, thinks that Greene
collaborated with Kyd.
Captain Thomas Stukeley. 1596

S. R. 1600, Aug. 11 (Vicars). ‘Ye history of the life and Deathe of
Captaine Thomas Stucley, with his Mariage to Alexander Curtis his
daughter, and his valiant endinge of his life at the battell of Alcazar.’
Thomas Pavier (Arber, iii. 169).
1605. The Famous Historye of the life and death of Captaine Thomas
Stukeley. With his marriage to Alderman Curteis Daughter, and valiant
ending of his life at the Battaile of Alcazar. As it hath beene Acted. For
Thomas Pavier.
Editions by R. Simpson (1878, S. of S. i) and J. S. Farmer (1911, T. F. T.).
—Dissertations: E. H. C. Oliphant (1905, 10 N. Q. iii. 301, 342, 382); J. Q.
Adams, C. T. S. (1916, J. G. P. xv. 107).

‘Tom Stucley’ is named as a stage hero by Peele in his Farewell (1589);
but the present play is probably the Stewtley produced by the Admiral’s on
11 Dec. 1596 (Greg, Henslowe, ii. 181). There are allusions to ‘the Theatre
fields’ (611) and ‘her Majesty’ (752), which may only represent historic
time. Although Sebastian of Portugal is a character, there is no reference to
the legend of his survival, which was well known in England in 1598.
Simpson regards the play as belonging to the Chamberlain’s, on the ground
of certain political proclivities which he chose to ascribe to that company.
The text is incoherent, and several theories representing it as a
contamination of two distinct plays have been promulgated. Simpson
supposed that part of a play on Don Antonio has been inserted into one
dealing in five acts with Stukeley’s adventures in England, Ireland, Spain,
Rome, and Africa respectively, and this view is elaborated by Oliphant, who
attempts to disentangle several original and revising hands, including that of
John Fletcher, to whom he assigns 245–335. Fleay, i. 127, thinks that
Dekker made up the play for Paul’s, c. 1600, out of Stewtley and a Mahomet
by Peele. Apparently he starts from Satiromastix, 980, where Horace says
that Demetrius Fannius ‘cut an innocent Moore i’ the middle, to serue him
in twice; & when he had done, made Poules-worke of it’. But surely there is
a difference between making two plays out of one and making one play out
of two.
1 Tamar Cham > 1592

[MS.] ‘The plott of The First parte of Tamar Cham.’ In the possession of
Steevens, but now unknown.
The text is given by Steevens, Variorum (1803), iii. 414; Boswell,
Variorum (1821), iii. 356; Greg, Henslowe Papers, 144.
The actors’ names point to a performance by the Admiral’s, near 2 Oct.
1602, when they bought the book from Alleyn (cf. ch. xiii). The play was
produced as ‘n. e.’ by the same company on 6 May 1596, but probably
Henslowe’s ‘n. e.’ in this case only indicates a substantial revision, as the
letters are also attached to the notice of a performance of Part ii on 11 June
1596, and Part ii had already been played as ‘n. e.’ by Strange’s on 28 April
1592. Obviously a Part i must already have existed (Greg, Henslowe, ii.
155).
The Taming of A Shrew c. 1589

S. R. 1594, May 2. ‘A booke intituled A plesant Conceyted historie called
“the Tayminge of a Shrowe”.’ Peter Short (Arber, ii. 648).
1594. A Pleasant Conceited Historie, called The taming of a Shrew. As it
was sundry times acted by the Right honorable the Earle of Pembrook his
seruants. Peter Short, sold by Cuthbert Burby. [Induction.]
1596. Peter Short, sold by Cuthbert Burby.
1607. V. S. for Nicholas Ling.
Editions by J. Nicholls (1779, Six Old Plays, i), T. Amyot (1844, Sh.
Soc.), W. C. Hazlitt (1875, Sh. Libr. vi), E. W. Ashbee (1876, facs.), F. J.
Furnivall (1886, Sh. Q), F. S. Boas (1908, Sh. Classics), and J. S. Farmer (S.
F. T.).
The Admiral’s and Chamberlain’s revived ‘the tamynge of A shrowe’ for
Henslowe on 11 June 1594, shortly after the entry in S. R. (Greg, Henslowe,
ii. 164). Presumably it belonged to the Chamberlain’s, who had acquired it
from Pembroke’s, and the 1594 performance may have been either of the
original, or of Shakespeare’s revision, The Taming of The Shrew, for which
1594 is a plausible date. An early reference to the printed book is in
Harington’s Metamorphosis of Ajax (1596), 95, ‘For the shrewd wife, read
the book of Taming a Shrew, which hath made a number of us so perfect,
that now every one can rule a shrew in our country, save he that hath her’. It
is to be noted that, unlike Leire (q.v.) and King Lear, the two versions
counted, from the copyright point of view, as one, so that the transfer of A
Shrew to Smethwick made an entry of The Shrew in S. R. for the purposes
of F1 of Shakespeare unnecessary. Probably Pembroke’s in their turn got the
play from the earlier Admiral’s or Strange’s. Its date has been placed in or
before 1589, because certain lines of it appear to be parodied both in
Greene’s Menaphon of that year, and in the prefatory epistle to Menaphon
by Nashe. Some such date is confirmed by its direct imitations from
Marlowe’s Tamburlaine (c. 1587) and to a less extent from Dr. Faustus (c.
1588), which are collected by Boas, 93. For author, Marlowe, Kyd, Greene,
and Peele have all been suggested, but, so far as we know, Marlowe did not
repeat himself, and the others did not plagiarize him, in this flagrant
manner. Shakespeare also is still often credited with a hand in the old play,
as well as in the revision, and the problem can best be discussed in
connexion with Shakespeare. Sykes gives part to S. Rowley (q.v.).

The Thracian Wonder c. 1600

1661. Two New Playes: Viz. A Cure for a Cuckold: A Comedy. The
Thracian Wonder: A Comical History. As it hath been several times Acted
with great Applause. Written by John Webster and William Rowley. Tho.
Johnson, sold by Francis Kirkman. [Separate t.p. The Thracian Wonder ...
as above. Epistle to the Reader, signed ‘Francis Kirkman’.]
Editions by C. W. Dilke (1815, O. E. P. vi), and in collections of Webster
(q.v.).—Dissertations: J. le G. Brereton, The Relation of T. W. to Greene’s
Menaphon (1906, M. L. R. ii. 34); J. Q. Adams, Greene’s Menaphon and T.
W. (1906, M. P. iii. 317); O. L. Hatcher, The Sources and Authorship of T.
W. (1908, M. L. N. xxiii. 16).
The ascription of the title-page is rejected by Stoll, Webster, 34, and
modern writers generally, although Stork, Rowley, 61, thinks that Rowley
may have added comic touches. The use of Webster’s name may be due to
the identity of the plot with that of William Webster’s Curan and Argentile
(1617). But William Webster took it from Warner’s Albion’s England
(1586), iv. xx. From the same source Greene took it, with a change of
names, for Menaphon (1589), and it is Menaphon, with another change of
names, that the play follows. Brereton ascribes it to Greene himself;
Hatcher thinks that the direct plagiarisms from the source and the archaistic
phrase ‘old Menaphon’ (iv. 2), whereas Greene’s hero is a youth, point to an
early sixteenth-century admirer of Greene. Adams supports the suggestion
of Fleay, i. 287, that this is the War Without Blows and Love Without Suit
written by Heywood for the Admiral’s in 1598, but this is a mere guess
based on Heywood’s title (Greg, Henslowe, ii. 199). Fleay then supposed
that it was revised for Queen Anne’s about 1607; elsewhere (ii. 332) he
supposes it a dramatization of Webster’s story for Prince Charles’s about
1617.
Timon c. 1581 < > 90 (?)

[MS.] Dyce MS. 52. [Epilogue. The MS. is a transcript in two hands.]
Editions by A. Dyce (1842, Sh. Soc.) and W. C. Hazlitt (1875, Sh. Libr.
ii. 2).—Dissertation: J. Q. Adams, The Timon Plays (1910, J. G. P. ix. 506).
Greek quotations and other pedantries suggest an academic audience, but
there is little indication of place or date, beyond parallels with Pedantius,

which lead Moore Smith (M. L. R. iii. 143) to suggest Cambridge and c.
1581–90. Adams thinks that the piece may have been performed by London
schoolboys, and known to Shakespeare.
Tom Tyler and his Wife > 1563

S. R. 1562–3. ‘These ballettes folowynge ... an other of Tom Tyler.’
Thomas Colwell (Arber, i. 210).
1661. Tom Tyler and His Wife. An Excellent Old Play, As It was Printed
and Acted about a hundred Years ago. The second Impression. [Prologue
and ‘concluding Song’. There is no imprint, but as most of the extant copies
have a variant t.p. with the additional words ‘Together, with an exact
Catalogue of all the playes that were ever yet printed’, and as Kirkman’s
catalogue of 1661 is appended, he was doubtless the publisher.]
Editions by F. E. Schelling (1900, M. L. A. xv. 253), G. C. Moore Smith
and W. W. Greg (1910, M. S. R.), and J. S. Farmer (1912, T. F. T.).
The S. R. entry may refer to a ballad based on the play, or may possibly
be a loose description of the play itself. In any case there is no reason to
doubt the existence of a print of about that date. The evidence of the 1661
title-page is confirmed by the entry of ‘Tom tyler’ in Archer’s play-list of
1656 (Greg, Masques, cxii). Chetwood, who cannot be relied on, gave the
date as 1598, and an inaccurate reproduction of this seems to be responsible
for the 1578 of other writers. The text of 1661 has been shown by C. P. G.
Scott (in Schelling’s introduction) to be a rendering into seventeenth-
century orthography of a play whose vocabulary may be put, with
decreasing certainty, within the limits 1530–80, 1540–70, and 1550–60. The
prologue says that the play is ‘set out by prettie boyes’, and the ‘concluding
Song’ has a prayer for the preservation of the queen, ‘from perilous chance
that hath been seen’. Fleay, ii. 295, somewhat arbitrarily thinks the Chapel
‘more likely’ to have presented it than Paul’s. A misinterpretation of
Kirkman’s list of 1661 led E. Phillips, Theatrum Poetarum (1675), to assign
the authorship to W. Wager (M. S. C. i. 325).
The Trial of Chivalry c. 1600

S. R. 1604, Dec. 4 (Pasfield). ‘A book called The life and Deathe of
Cavaliero Dick Boyer.’ Nathaniel Butter (Arber, iii. 277).

1605. The History of the tryall of Cheualry, With the life and death of
Caualiero Dicke Bowyer. As it hath bin lately acted by the right Honourable
the Earle of Darby his seruants. Simon Stafford for Nathaniel Butter.
1605. This Gallant Caualiero Dicke Bowyer, Newly acted. [Another
issue.]
Editions by A. H. Bullen (1884, O. E. P. iii) and J. S. Farmer (1912, T. F.
T.).—Dissertation: C. R. Baskervill, Sidney’s Arcadia and the T. of C.
(1912, M. P. x. 197).
Bullen thinks this may be Love Parts Friendship, written by Chettle and
Smith for the Admiral’s in 1602; Fleay, ii. 318, that it may be the Burbon
brought to the Admiral’s by Pembroke’s in 1597, as the Duke of Bourbon is
a chief personage, and also the Cutting Dick to which Heywood wrote
additions for Worcester’s in 1602 (Greg, Henslowe, ii. 187, 221, 231).
There is, of course, no particular reason why a play by Derby’s should
appear in Henslowe’s diary at all. They were in London in the winters of
1599–1600 and 1600–1. The only link between them and Henslowe is
Heywood, if he was the author of their Edward IV (q.v.). Fleay, i. 289,
thinks that the present play may be by the same hands. Probably the Earl of
Derby himself wrote for the company.
The Trial of Treasure > 1567

1567. A new and mery Enterlude, called the Triall of Treasure, newly set
foorth, and neuer before this tyme imprinted. Thomas Purfoot.
[Arrangement for 5 actors; Prologue and Epilogue, headed ‘Praie for all
estates’.]
Editions by J. O. Halliwell (1850, Percy Soc. xxviii), in Dodsley4, iii
(1874), and by J. S. Farmer (1908, T. F. T.—Dissertation: W. W. Greg, The
T. of T., 1567—A Study in Ghosts (1910, 3 Library, i. 28).
Greg shows that there was only one edition, not two, of 1567. The play
is a non-controversial morality, and may very well date from about 1567.
1 Troilus and Cressida. 1599 (?)

[MS.] Add. MS. 10449. [A fragmentary ‘plot’ without title, probably
from Dulwich.]

The text is given by Greg, Henslowe Papers, 142, who infers from the
names of the characters that it may have been the Troilus and Cressida
written by Chettle and Dekker for the Admiral’s in April 1599. The few
names of actors are not inconsistent with this (cf. ch. xiii).
The Valiant Welshman. 1610 < > 15

S. R. 1615, Feb. 21 (Buck). ‘A play called the valiant welshman.’ Robert
Lownes (Arber, iii. 564).
1615. The Valiant Welshman, Or The True Chronicle History of the life
and valiant deedes of Caradoc the Great, King of Cambria, now called
Wales. As it hath beene sundry times Acted by the Prince of Wales his
seruants. Written by R. A. Gent. George Purslowe for Robert Lownes.
[Epistle to the Reader; Induction; Epilogue.]
1663. For William Gilbertson.
Editions by V. Kreb (1902) and J. S. Farmer (1913, S. F. T.).
Borrowings from Ben Jonson’s Alchemist (1610) require a late date, and
the assertion of Fleay, i. 26, that this is The Welshman revived by the
Admiral’s on 29 Nov. 1595 may be disregarded (Greg, Henslowe, ii. 178).
There is nothing, beyond the initials, to connect the play with Robert
Armin, and Kreb would assign it to some young University man.
A Warning for Fair Women > 1599

S. R. 1599; Nov. 17. ‘A warnynge for fayre women.’ William Aspley
(Arber, iii. 151).
1599. A warning for Faire Women. Containing, The most tragicall and
lamentable murther of Master George Sanders of London Marchant, nigh
Shooters hill. Consented vnto By his owne wife, acted by M. Browne,
Mistris Drewry and Trusty Roger agents therin: with their seuerall ends. As
it hath beene lately diuerse times acted by the right Honorable, the Lord
Chamberlaine his Seruantes. Valentine Sims for William Aspley. [Induction.]
Editions by R. Simpson (1878, S. of S. ii) and J. S. Farmer (S. F. T.).
References to ‘this fair circuit’ and ‘this Round’ are inconclusive as to
whether the play was produced before the Chamberlain’s went to the Globe
in 1599, as their earlier houses were probably also round. E. Phillips,

Theatrum Poetarum (1675), 113, and A. Wood, Athenae (1691), i. 676,
assign the authorship, incredibly, to Lyly. Fleay, ii. 54, conjectures Lodge;
Bullen, O. E. P. iv. 1, Yarington.
The Wars of Cyrus King of Persia > 1594

1594. The Warres of Cyrus King of Persia, against Antiochus King of
Assyria, with the Tragicall ende of Panthæa. Played by the children of her
Maiesties Chappell. E. A. for William Blackwal.
Editions by W. Keller (1901, Jahrbuch, xxxvii. 1) and J. S. Farmer
(1911, T. F. T.).
The play, clearly influenced by Tamburlaine, may rest on one by Farrant
(q.v.) c. 1578. There is no record of any court performance by the Chapel
between 1584 and 1601. Fleay, ii. 322, guesses that an allusion in Nashe’s
Summer’s Last Will and Testament (q.v.) points to a performance of this
play at Croydon twelve months earlier. The text is disordered. A prologue
‘To the audience’ is inserted in Act ii at 621 and refers to a chorus, but there
is none. At 367 is ‘Finis Actus primi’, but ‘Actus Secundus’ is at 502.
The Weakest Goeth to the Wall > 1600

S. R. 1600, Oct. 23 (Pasfield). ‘A booke called, the Weakest goethe to the
Walles.’ Richard Oliff (Arber, iii. 175).
1600. The Weakest goeth to the Wall. As it hath bene sundry times plaide
by the right honourable Earle of Oxenford, Lord great Chamberlaine of
England his seruants. Thomas Creede for Richard Oliue. [Dumb Show and
Prologue.]
1618. G. P. for Richard Hawkins.
Editions by J. S. Farmer (1911, T. F. T.), W. W. Greg (1912, M. S. R.),
and with Works of Webster (q.v.).
The ascription of the play to Dekker and Webster by E. Phillips,
Theatrum Poetarum (1675), 116, was rejected by Langbaine (1691) and, so
far as Webster is concerned, has nothing to recommend it (E. Stoll, Webster,
34). Ward, iii. 56, finds Dekker’s humour, and Hunt, Dekker, 42, thinks it
Chettle’s, revised by Dekker. Fleay, ii. 114, gives it to Munday, as the only
known writer for Oxford’s, except Oxford himself. But he is thinking of

Oxford’s boy company of 1580–4, not of the later company of 1601 or
earlier, to whose repertory the play probably belonged, and with whom
Munday is not known to have had anything to do.
Wily Beguiled. 1596 < > 1606

S. R. 1606, Nov. 12 (Hartwell). ‘A booke called Wylie beguilde &c.’
Clement Knight (Arber, iii. 333).
1606. A Pleasant Comedie, Called Wily Beguilde. The Chiefe Actors be
these: A poore Scholler, a rich Foole, and a Knaue at a shifte. H. L. for
Clement Knight. [Induction, Prologue, and Epilogue.]
n.d.; 1623; 1630; 1635; 1638.

Editions by T. Hawkins (1773, O. E. D. iii), in Dodsley4, ix (1874), and
by J. S. Farmer (1912, T. F. T.) and W. W. Greg (1912, M. S. R.).—
Dissertations: J. W. Hales, Shakespearian Imitations (1875, Ath. 1875, 17
July, 4 Sept.); F. J. Furnivall, Parallels (1875, 5 N. Q. iv. 144); P. A. Daniel,
On W. B. (1875, Brooke’s Romeus and Juliet, xxxv, N. S. S.); E. Landsberg,
Zur Verfasserfrage des anonymen Lustspiels W. B. (1911, E. S. xliii. 189).
The register of Merton College, Oxford, has for 3 Jan. 1567 the entry,
‘Acta est Wylie Beguylie Comoedia Anglica nocte in aedibus Custodis per
scolares, praesentibus Vicecustode, magistris, baccalaureis, cum omnibus
domesticis et nonnullis extraneis; merito laudandi recte agendo prae se
tulerunt summam spem’ (Boas, 157). No connexion is traceable between
this and the extant play, which Greg and Boas regard as of Cambridge
origin. But it does not seem to me markedly academic. The character Lelia
does not particularly suggest the Cambridge Latin Laelia of 1595, and the
epilogue was spoken in a ‘circled rounde’. The description of himself by
Churms (l. 68), as ‘at Cambridge a scholler, at Cales a souldier, and now in
the country a lawyer, and the next degree shal be a connicatcher’, does not
go far in the way of proof. This same passage fixes the date as not earlier
than the Cadiz expedition of 1596; obviously the use of the phrase ‘tricke of
Wily Beguily’ in Nashe’s Have With You to Saffron Walden of 1596 (Works,
iii. 107) proves nothing one way or other as to date, although Dekker
naturally knew the play when he described rogues and their ‘knavish
comedy of Wily-Beguily’ in his Belman of London of 1608 (Works, iii.
125). If the date is 1596, the authorship of Peele, suggested by the

description of the prologue-speaker as ‘humorous George’, although he is
clearly distinct from the ‘fiery Poet’, and urged by Fleay, ii. 158, and
Landsberg, becomes just possible, chronologically, before his death in
November of that year. But the Shakespearian imitations, although most
marked of M. V. and earlier plays, seem also to extend to Hamlet, M. W.,
and T. N., and the right date may be c. 1602–6. If the production was in the
‘circled rounde’ of Paul’s, the quasi-academic note is explicable. Sykes
suggests S. Rowley (q.v.) as part author. Fleay, Shakespeare Manual, 272,
makes an amazing attempt to interpret the play as a satire on Lyly, Lodge,
Marston, Chettle, Dekker, Drayton, Middleton, Chapman, Jonson,
Henslowe, the Admiral’s, the Chamberlain’s, the Chapel, and Paul’s. In the
Induction, a juggler finds the title Spectrum exhibited, and later, ‘Spectrum
is conueied away: and Wily beguiled, stands in the place of it’ (l. 46).
The Wisdom of Doctor Dodipoll. 1599 < > 1600

S. R. 1600, Oct. 7. ‘A booke called The Wisdom of Doctor Dodepole
Plaied by the Children of Paules.’ Richard Oliff (Arber, iii. 174).
1600. The Wisdome of Doctor Dodypoll. As it hath bene sundrie times
Acted by the Children of Powles. Thomas Creede for Richard Oliue.
Editions by A. H. Bullen (1884, O. E. P. iii) and J. S. Farmer (1912, T. F.
T.).—Dissertation: E. Koeppel, Sh.’s J. C. und die Entstehungszeit des
anonymen Dramas The W. of D. D. (1907, Jahrbuch, xliii. 210).
Fleay, ii. 155, assigned the play to Peele, chiefly on the ground that a
snatch of song is from his Hunting of Cupid (q.v.). But Peele died in 1596,
and Koeppel points out that the phrase (Bullen, p. 129), ‘Then reason’s fled
to animals, I see’, presupposes the existence of Julius Caesar (1599), iii. ii.
109:

O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

The Wit of a Woman > 1604

1604. A Pleasant Comoedie, Wherein is merily shewen: The wit of a
Woman. For Edward White. [Prologue and Epilogue.]
Editions by J. S. Farmer (1912, T. F. T.) and W. W. Greg (1913, M. S. R.).
Nothing is known of the history of this prose comedy with Italian names.
‘Sweet and twenty’ (l. 753) recalls Tw. N. ii. iii. 52.
Work for Cutlers c. 1615

S. R. 1615, July 4 (Taverner). ‘A little thing called Worke for Cutlers.’
Richard Meighen (Arber, iii. 569).
1615. Worke for Cutlers. Or, a merry Dialogue betweene Sword, Rapier,
and Dagger. Acted in a Show in the famous universitie of Cambridge.
Thomas Creede for Richard Meighen and Thomas Jones. [Epilogue.]
Editions by T. Park (1813, Harleian Miscellany2, x), C. Hindley (1872,
Old Book Collector’s Miscellany, ii), A. F. Sieveking (1904).
This short dialogue is described in the epilogue as ‘a Schollers Prize’.
Sieveking suggests the possibility of Heywood’s authorship, but an
academic author is more likely.
A Yorkshire Tragedy c. 1606

S. R. 1608, May 2 (Wilson). ‘A booke Called A Yorkshire Tragedy
written by Wylliam Shakespere.’ Thomas Pavier (Arber, iii. 377).
1608. A Yorkshire Tragedy. Not so New as Lamentable and true. Acted
by his Maiesties Players at the Globe. Written by W. Shakspeare. R. B. for
Thomas Pauier. [Head-title: ‘All’s One, or, One of the foure plaies in one,
called A Yorkshire Tragedy.’]
1619. Omits ‘Acted ... Globe’. For T. P. [See ch. xxiii.]
Editions of 1735 (J. Tonson), by W. Knight (1843, Pictorial Sh. vii), J. P.
Collier (1878, Works of Sh.), J. S. Farmer (1910, T. F. T.), and in Sh.
Apocrypha.—Dissertations: J. P. Collier (Ath. 1863, i. 332); P. A. Daniel,

Notes on Sh.’s Y. T. 1608 (Ath. 4 Oct. 1879); S. Lee, Walter Calverley (D. N.
B.); B. Dobell, The Author of A Y. T. (1906, 10 N. Q. vi. 41); H. D. Sykes,
The Authorship of A Y. T. (1917, J. G. P. xvi. 437, reprinted in Sidelights on
Shakespeare, 77).
This ten-scene play from a four-play bill has merit, but most modern
critics are unable to regard that merit as of Shakespearian type, although
Ward, ii. 231, finds Shakespeare’s hand in some passages, and Fleay, after
wantonly guessing at Edmund Shakespeare (Shakespeare, 303), remained
impressed (ii. 206) by the external evidence, and thought that the play must
be Shakespeare’s original ending to an earlier version of The Miseries of
Enforced Marriage, subsequently altered by his collaborator, George
Wilkins (q.v.), to end happily. This is ingenious, but too conjectural. The
play, like that of Wilkins, takes its material from the history of Walter
Calverley, executed for murder on 5 Aug. 1605, which is told in Stowe’s
Annales and was the subject of contemporary pamphlets. Dobell and Sykes
argue a case on internal evidence for the authorship of Wilkins himself.
B. MASKS

Gesta Grayorum. 1594

[MS.] Harl. MS. 541, f. 138, contains the speeches in the Shrovetide
mask, probably in the hand of Francis Davison. The opening hymn is not
included, and the final hymn seems to have been added by another hand.
1688. Gesta Grayorum: or, the History Of the High and mighty Prince
Henry Prince of Purpoole, Arch-Duke of Stapulia and Bernardia, Duke of
High and Nether Holborn, Marquis of St. Giles and Tottenham, Count
Palatine of Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell, Great Lord of the Cantons of
Islington, Kentish-Town, Paddington and Knights-bridge, Knight of the
most Heroical Order of the Helmet, and Sovereign of the Same. Who
Reigned and Died, a.d. 1594. Together with A Masque, as it was presented
(by His Highness’s Command) for the Entertainment of Q. Elizabeth; who,
with the Nobles of both Courts, was present thereat. For W. Canning.
[Epistle to Matthew Smyth, of the Inner Temple, signed ‘W. C.’ The
publication is recorded in Trinity Term 1688 (Arber, London Term
Catalogues, ii. 230).]

Editions in Nichols, Elizabeth1, 2, iii. 262 (1807–23), and by W. W. Greg
(1914, M. S. R.) and B. Brown (1921).
This is a narrative of the reign of a Christmas Prince, or Lord of Misrule
(cf. Mediaeval Stage, i. 417), appointed at Gray’s Inn for the Christmas of
1594. The Prince was a Norfolk man, Henry Helmes, and a list of the
members of the Inn who held positions at his court is given in the tract. The
revels began on St. Thomas’s Eve, 20 Dec., continued until Twelfth Night,
were resumed at Candlemas, and again at Shrovetide, when the Prince’s
reign terminated.
On Innocents’ Day, 28 Dec., at night, the Inner Temple were entertained,
and a stage set up, but the crowd was too great for the ‘inventions’
contemplated, and ‘it was thought good not to offer any thing of account,
saving dancing and revelling with gentlewomen; and after such sports, a
Comedy of Errors (like to Plautus his Menechmus) was played by the
players. So that night was begun, and continued to the end, in nothing but
confusion and errors; whereupon, it was ever afterwards called, The Night
of Errors’. On 30 Dec. an indictment was preferred against a supposed
sorcerer, containing a charge ‘that he had foisted a company of base and
common fellows, to make up our disorders with a play of errors and
confusions; and that that night had gained to us discredit, and itself a
nickname of Errors’. Presumably the players of Shakespeare’s Comedy of
Errors were the Chamberlain’s men, and the Treasurer of the Chamber’s
record (App. B) of a play at court by these men, as well as the Admiral’s, on
28 Dec. is a slip for 27 Dec. (M. L. R. ii. 10).
On 3 Jan. many nobles were entertained with a show illustrating the
amity of Graius and Templarius. It was followed by speeches from six
‘Councellors’, advising respectively ‘the Exercise of War’, ‘the Study of
Philosophy’, ‘Eternizement and Fame, by Buildings and Foundations’,
‘Absoluteness of State and Treasure’, ‘Vertue, and a Gracious Government’,
and ‘Pass-times and Sports’. These are ascribed by Spedding, i. 342, to
Francis Bacon (q.v.), a view which finds some confirmation in the fact that
the Alnwick MS., many of the contents of which are by Bacon, once
contained a copy of some ‘Orations at Graies Inne Revells’ (Burgoyne, xii).
It is amusing to note that on 5 Dec. 1594 Lady Bacon, his mother, wrote to
his brother Anthony, ‘I trust they will not mum nor mask nor sinfully revel
at Gray’s Inn’ (Spedding, i. 326). The speeches of three of the

‘Councellors’, with one by the Prince, are also preserved, without
ascription, in Inner Temple Petyt MS. 583, 43, f. 294.
On 6 Jan. appeared six Knights of the Helmet ‘in a very stately mask,
and danced a new devised measure; and after that they took to them ladies
and gentlewomen, and danced with them their galliards, and so departed
with musick’.
On 1 Feb. the Prince visited Greenwich, and promised to return at
Shrovetide. On his way back, he was met with a Latin oration by a boy at
St. Paul’s School.
At Shrovetide, the Prince took his mask to the court at Whitehall. The
maskers were the Prince of Purpoole and his Seven Knights; the
torchbearers eight Pigmies; the presenters Proteus, Thamesis, Amphitrite,
and one of the Prince’s Esquires; the musicians two Tritons, two Nymphs,
and a Tartarian Page.
The performance was upon a stage. After a hymn, the presenters made
speeches setting out how the Prince and Knights were in an Adamantine
Rock, to be released by Proteus, on the discovery of a Power (the Queen) of
more attractive virtue. The maskers issued from the Rock, and danced ‘a
new devised measure, &c.’; then took ladies, and danced ‘their galliards,
courants, &c.’; then danced ‘another new measure’. The Pigmies brought in
eight escutcheons, with the maskers’ impresses, which the Esquire
presented to the Queen. The maskers then entered the rock, while another
hymn was sung.
The maskers were Henry Helmes (Prince), William Cooke, Jarvis
Tevery, John Lambert, Molineux, Grimes, Paylor, and Campnies.
After the mask, the courtiers danced a measure, and Elizabeth said,
‘What! shall we have bread and cheese after a banquet?’
The maskers were presented to the Queen ‘on the next day’ and praised
by her. The narrative goes on to record that ‘the same night’ was fighting at
barriers, in which the Prince took part as a defendant with the Earl of
Cumberland against the Earl of Essex and other challengers, and won the
prize; and concludes, ‘Thus on Shrove-Tuesday, at the Court, were our
sports and revels ended’. The dating is not quite clear, but it seems probable
that the mask and barriers were both on the Tuesday, and the presentation

on Ash Wednesday, presumably as the Queen went to chapel. Conceivably,
however, the mask was on Monday, and the presentation and barriers on
Tuesday. The Gray’s Inn records (Fletcher, 107) note a disbursement on 11
Feb. 1595 to William Johnson and Edward Morrys, who served as the
Prince’s Lord Chancellor and Lord Treasurer, of 100 marks for ‘the
gentlemen for their sports & shewes this Shrovetyde at the court before the
Queens Majestie’. There was also a levy on 8 May for the ‘shewes &
desports’ of sums varying from 4s. to 10s. according to status, while the
public stock of the house was to contribute £30.
The speeches in the mask were apparently by Francis Davison, one of
the Prince’s Gentlemen Pensioners, who included in his Poetical Rapsody
(1602), sign. D 3 vo, amongst Sonnets, &c., ‘To his first Loue’, one ‘Vpon
presenting her with the speech of Grayes-Inne Maske at the Court 1594,
consisting of three partes, The Story of Proteus Transformations, the
wonders of the Adamantine Rocke, and a speech to her Maiestie’. The
Poetical Rapsody, sign. K 8, also contains the opening hymn of the mask,
which begins ‘Of Neptune’s Empyre let us sing’, and ascribes it to Thomas
Campion (q.v.). Whether ‘The Song at the ending’, which according to Dr.
Greg has been inserted in Harl. MS. 541 by a later hand, is also Campion’s
must remain doubtful. The MS. as originally written is just such a present as
Davison may have sent to his mistress. A list of ‘Papers lent’ by Davison in
Harl. MS. 298 includes ‘Grayes In Sportes under Sr Henry Helmes. Eleaz.
Hogdson’.
The Twelve Months. 1608–12

[MS.] Formerly penes Collier, but not now among his papers in Egerton
MS. 2623.
Editions by J. P. Collier, Five Court Masques (1848), 131, with title ‘The
Masque of the Twelve Months’.
The maskers are the twelve Months; the antimaskers Pages; the
presenters Madge Howlet, Pigwiggen a Fairy, Beauty, Aglaia, the Pulses,
Prognostication, and Somnus; the musicians the twelve Spheres.
The locality is not given, but the presence of a king is contemplated. The
text is disordered, but can easily be reconstructed, as follows: Madge
Howlet, ‘going up towards the King’, and Pigwiggen speak the opening

dialogue (Collier, 137). The Spheres sing the first song calling Beauty from
her fort, the Heart (140). This is the scene; on it are plumes, ‘the ensignes of
the darling of the yeare, delicious Aprill’. Beauty, Aglaia, and the Pulses,
‘beating before them up towardes the King’, speak a dialogue (131). The
Pages dance an ‘antemasque’ (133). Beauty and Aglaia speak a dialogue
(134). The maskers appear, and are presented by Beauty (134). The second
‘antemasque’ is danced (134). Beauty and Aglaia speak a dialogue (134).
Prognostication enters, and prognosticates (135). The maskers descend, and
Beauty describes April, a prince ‘lov’d of all, yett will not love’, with a
‘triple plume’ (135). After a second song, ‘they dance their entrie’ (141).
Beauty and Aglaia speak a dialogue (136). There is a third song (141).
‘They dance their mayne dance: which done, Bewty invites them to dance
with the Ladies’ (137). There is a fourth song (142). ‘They dance with the
Ladies, and the whole Revells follows’ (137). Beauty calls on Somnus
(140). There is a last song (142). ‘They dance their going off’ (140).
Brotanek, 346, suggests 1 Jan. 1612 as a probable date. I agree with him
that ‘charming all warre from his mild monarchie’ (136) suggests James I,
although I do not think that ‘our fairy King’ (137) is necessarily a
reminiscence of the Mask of Oberon, especially as this fairy king is James
and not Henry. In any case ‘the heart of the yeare’ (132), ‘prime of this
newe yeare’ (135), ‘this winter nighte’ (141) do not require a performance
on 1 Jan. In fact, April and not January leads the months in the mask. I
would add to Brotanek’s notes that April is clearly danced by a Prince of
Wales, and that ‘lov’d of all, yett will not love’ fits in with the uncertainty
as to Henry’s matrimonial intentions which prevailed in 1612. But he is not
very likely to have given two masks in the winter of 1611–12, nor is there
any evidence of any mask that winter except the Love Restored of 6 Jan. Of
course The Twelve Months may never have been actually performed. I have
thought that it might have been the mask abandoned by Anne on account of
the death of the Queen of Spain in Dec. 1611 (cf. Jonson, Love Restored).
Beauty, ‘our fairy Queene’, is said to be ‘Great president of all those
princely revells’ in honour of the ‘fairy King’. But the mask is danced by
men, not women, which seems to put a Queen’s mask out of the question.
No mask has yet been traced in the winter of 1609–10. I am afraid I must
leave the date open. If Henry led the dance, his death in Nov. 1612 gives
one limit. The ‘antemasque’ is more likely to have been introduced after

than before 1608. The use of Pigwiggen as a fairy name recurs in Drayton’s
Nymphidia, published in 1627.
Mask of Flowers. 6 Jan. 1614

S. R. 1614, Jan. 21 (Nidd). ‘The maske of flowers by the gent. of Graies
Inne vppon Twelfe Night 1613.’ Robert Wilson (Arber, iii. 540).
1614. The Maske of Flowers. Presented By the Gentlemen of Graies-
Inne, at the Court of Whitehall, in the Banquetting House, vpon Twelfe
night, 1613. Being the last of the Solemnities and Magnificences which
were performed at the marriage of the right honourable the Earle of
Somerset, and the Lady Francis daughter of the Earle of Suffolke, Lord
Chamberlaine. N. O. for Robert Wilson. [With Epistle to Sir Francis Bacon
by I. G., W. D., T. B. These initials, presumably of Gray’s Inn men, have not
been identified.]
Editions in Nichols, James (1828), ii. 735, and H. A. Evans, English
Masques (1897).
The maskers, in white embroidered with carnation and silver and
vizards, were thirteen transformed Flowers; the antimaskers in ‘the anticke-
maske of daunce’ Pantaloon, Courtesan, Swiss and his Wife, Usurer,
Midwife, Smug and his Wench, Fretelyne, Bawd, Roaring Boy, Citizen,
Mountebank, Jewess of Portugal, Chimney-Sweeper and his Wench; the
musicians twelve Garden Gods, also described as Priests, and in the
‘anticke-maske of the song’ Miller, Wine Cooper, Vintner’s Boy, Brewer,
Skipper, Fencer, Pedlar, Barber; the presenters Invierno, Primavera, Gallus
the Sun’s Post, Silenus, Kawasha, and attendants.
The locality was the Banqueting House, at the lower end of which was a
‘travers painted in perspective’, as a city wall and gate, with temples of
Silenus and Kawasha on either side. The antimasks represented a challenge,
directed by the Sun, between wine and tobacco. ‘The travers being drawne’
disclosed an elaborate garden sloping up to a mount and arbour (33 ft. long
× 21 ft. high) with a bank of flowers before it. Upon a charm the flowers
vanished to give place to the maskers, who danced their first and second
measure, then took ladies, for ‘measures, corantoes, durettoes, morascoes,
galliards’, and then ‘daunced their parting measure’, which was followed by
compliments to the king and the bride and groom.

For general notices of the Somerset wedding masks, cf. s.v. Campion,
Mask of Squires. On 23 Dec. Chamberlain wrote to Carleton (Birch, i. 282),
‘Sir Francis Bacon prepares a masque to honour this marriage, which will
stand him in above £2000; and though he have been offered some help by
the House, and specially by Mr. Solicitor, Sir Henry Yelverton, who would
have sent him £500, yet he would not accept it, but offers them the whole
charge with the honour. Marry, his obligations are such, as well to his
majesty as to the great lord and to the whole house of Howards, as he can
admit no partner’. On 5 Jan. (Birch, i. 288) he briefly notes, ‘Mr. Attorney’s
masque is for to-morrow, and for a conclusion of Christmas and these
shows together’.
The records of Gray’s Inn confirm Chamberlain’s account, by giving no
signs that any expense fell on the Inn. On a letter by Bacon which may refer
to this occasion, cf. s.v. Bacon.
Osborne, James, 82, a not very accurate writer, speaks of a Gray’s Inn
mask at court, following an Anglo-Scottish quarrel between Mr. Hawley of
Gray’s Inn and Mr. Maxwell. Probably he has this mask, which was to
honour a Scot, in mind. The quarrel was in fact over in June 1612 (Birch, i.
173). I doubt whether either this mask or the joint Gray’s Inn and Inner
Temple mask of 1612–13 had anything to do with it.
C. RECEPTIONS AND ENTERTAINMENTS

Coronation Triumph. 1559

S. R. 1558–9. ‘The passage of the quenes maiesties Throwoute the Cytie
of London.’ Richard Tottle (Arber, i. 96).
1558[9], Jan. 23. The Passage of our most drad Soueraigne Lady Quene
Elyzabeth through the citie of London to westminster the daye before her
coronacion. Richard Tottill. Cum privilegio.
n.d.[1604.] The Royal Passage of her Majesty from the Tower of
London to her Palace of Whitehall, with all the Speaches and Devices, both
of the Pageants and otherwise, together with her Majesties severall
Answers, and most pleasing Speaches to them all. S. S. for Jone Millington.
n.d. [1604.] S. S. for John Busby. [Another issue.]

Editions in Nichols, Eliz. i. 38 (1823), and A. F. Pollard, Tudor Tracts
(England’s Garner2), 365.
There are also accounts in Machyn, 186, and in Holinshed (1808), iv.
158. For a list of the pageants cf. ch. iv.
Bristol Entertainment. August 1574

1575. The whole Order howe our Soveraigne Ladye Queene Elizabeth
was receyved into the Citie of Bristowe, in August, and the Speeches
spoken before her presens at her Entry; with the residue of Versis and
Matter that might not be spoken (for distance of the place), but sent in a
Book over the Waetter. Thomas Marshe. [In ‘The Firste Parte of
Churchyardes Chippes, contayning Twelve seueral Labours. Devised and
published, only by Thomas Churchyard, Gentilman’. Epistle to Christopher
Hatton.]
1578. Thomas Marsh.
Editions in Nichols, Eliz. i. 393 (1788, 1823), and by J. P. Collier (1867).
Probably Churchyard was the deviser of the entertainment, as he calls
the Chippes ‘a book of all my English verses in meter’. He says, ‘Some of
these Speeches could not be spoken, by means of a Scholemaister, who
envied that any stranger should set forth these Shows’. A worthie Dittie,
song before the Queens Majestie at Bristow, by D. S[and], not in the
Entertainment, is in The Paradise of Daynty Devises (1576). Elizabeth was
at Bristol 13–21 Aug. 1574 and lay at John Young’s. Fame, a boy with a
speech in English verse, met her at the High Cross. At the next gate were
Salutation, Gratulation, and Obedient Good Will, with their verses. On 14
Aug. the Queen attended divine service at the College. On 15 and 16 Aug.
the Forts of Peace and Feeble Policy were arrayed, and there were sham
fights by land and sea, with speeches by Dissuasion, Persuasion, and John
Roberts, who apparently wrote his own. Was he the envious schoolmaster?
Kenilworth Entertainment. 1575

There are two descriptions:

A. By Gascoigne

1576. The Princelye pleasures, at the Courte at Kenelwoorth. That is to
saye, The Copies of all such verses Proses, or Poeticall inuentions, and
other Deuices of pleasure, as were there deuised, and presented by sundry
Gentle men, before the Quenes Maiestie: In the yeare 1575. Richard Jones.
[The unique copy is believed to have been burnt in the Shakespeare Library
at Birmingham. The printer’s Epistle is dated March 26, 1576.]
1587. [Part of Collection.]
Editions in Nichols, Eliz.2 i. 486 (1823), and elsewhere (cf. Schelling,
121).

B. By Robert Laneham

1575. A letter: Whearin part of the entertainment untoo the Queez
Majesty at Killingwoorth Castl, in Warwick Sheer in this Soomerz Progress,
1575, is signified: from a freend officer attendant in the Coourt untoo hiz
freend a Citizen, and Merchaunt of London. [No imprint or colophon.]
Editions in Nichols, Eliz.2 i. 420 (1823), by F. J. Furnivall, Captain Cox,
his Ballads and Books (1871, Ballad Soc.; 1890, N. S. S.), in Sh.-Jahrbuch,
xxvii, 251 (1892), and elsewhere (cf. Furnivall, ix, clxxvi).
Elizabeth was at Kenilworth 9–27 July 1575. The diary of
entertainments is given in ch. iv. The contributions of specific authors were
as follows:
9 July. Speeches of Sibylla, by William Hunnis; the Porter Hercules, by
John Badger; the Lady of the Lake, by George Ferrers; a Poet, in Latin, by
Richard Mulcaster, or Mercury (?) Paten. It is uncertain which was used;
Gascoigne prints Mulcaster’s, Laneham Paten’s.
11 July. Dialogue of a Savage Man and Echo, ‘devised, penned, and
pronounced’ by Gascoigne.
18 July. Device of the Delivery of the Lady of the Lake, by William
Hunnis, with verses by Hunnis, Ferrers, and Henry Goldingham, who
played Arion.
20 July. Device of Zabeta prepared by Gascoigne, but not shown.
27 July. Device of the Farewell of Silvanus, by Gascoigne.

Woodstock Entertainment. 1575

See ch. xxiii, s.v. Sir Henry Lee.
Suffolk and Norfolk Entertainments. August 1578

There are two contemporary descriptions:

A

S. R. 1578, Aug. 30. ‘The ioyfull Receavinge of the Quenes maiestie into
Norwyche.’ Henry Bynneman (Arber, ii. 336).
n.d. The Ioyfull Receyuing of the Queenes most excellent Maiestie into
her Highnesse Citie of Norwich: The things done in the time of hir abode
there: and the dolor of the Citie at hir departure. Wherein are set down
diuers Orations in Latine, pronounced to hir Highnesse by Sir Robert Wood
Knight, now Maior of the same Citie, and others: and certain also deliuered
to hir Maiestie in writing: euery of the turned into English. Henrie
Bynneman. [Epistle by Ber[nard] Gar[ter] to Sir Owen Hopton.]
Edition in Nichols, Eliz. (1823), ii. 136.

B

S. R. 1578, Sept. 20. ‘The enterteignement of the Quenes Maiestie in
Suffolk and Norffolk; gathered by Thomas Churchyard.’ Henry Bynneman
(Arber, ii. 338).
n.d. A Discourse of the Queenes Maiesties entertainement in Suffolk and
Norffolk: With a description of many things then presently seene. Deuised
by Thomas Churchyarde, Gent. with diuers shewes of his own inuention
sette out at Norwich: ... Henrie Bynneman. [Epistle by Churchyard to
Gilbert Garrard. Adnitt (cf. s.v. Churchyard) says there were two issues with
varying prefatory matter.]
Extracts in Nichols, Eliz. (1823), ii. 115, 128, 130, 133, 179.
A ballad and a sonnet, presumably from their titles based on A, were
registered by J. Charlwood and R. Jones respectively on 24 and 31 March
1579 (Arber, ii. 349, 350).
Elizabeth was at Norwich 16–22 Aug. 1578. The diary is as follows:

16 Aug. 1578. Oration by Mayor at Hartford Bridge; Speech, prepared
but prevented by rain, of King Gurgunt in Town Close near Blanch Flower
Castle; Pageant of the Commonwealth, with representations of local loom
industries, and speech by Garter in St. Stephen’s Street; Pageant of the City
of Norwich, Deborah, Judith, Esther, and Queen Martia, with the City Waits
and songs by Garter and Churchyard, at entry to Market-place; Speech of a
Turkish Boy by Churchyard, at Mr. Peck’s door.
18 Aug. Speech of Mercury in an elaborate coach, by Churchyard.
19 Aug. Show of Chastity, with dialogue and song of Chastity, Cupid, a
Philosopher, Wantonness, Riot, Modesty, Temperance, Good Exercise, and
Shamefastness, by Churchyard; Oration by Minister of Dutch Church.
20 Aug. Oration by Stephen Limbert, Master of the Grammar School.
21 Aug. Shows of Water Nymphs, with speeches, and of Manhood and
Desert, a contention of Manhood, Good Favour, Desert, and Good Fortune,
for Lady Beauty, prepared but prevented by rain, both by Churchyard; Mask
by Henry Goldingham in Privy Chamber after supper of Jupiter, Juno,
Mars, Venus, Apollo, Pallas, Neptune, Diana, Mercury as presenter, Cupid,
torchbearers and musicians, who marched about the chamber and made
speeches and characteristic gifts, but apparently did not dance.
22 Aug. Speech and Song at St. Benet’s Gate by Garter; Show of Fairies
with their Queen and seven speeches, outside the gate, by Churchyard;
written Oration by Mayor at departure over City boundary.
Churchyard also mentions ‘speeches well sette out and a speciall device
much commended’ in the park of the Earl of Surrey at Kenninghall on 12
Aug.; also divers ‘triumphes and devises’ in Suffolk, of which he only
specifies ‘a shew representing the Phayries (as well as might be) ... in the
whiche shew a rich jewell was presented to the Queenes Highnesse’ at Sir
Thomas Kidson’s house, Hengrave Hall, during 28–30 Aug. In Churchyards
Challenge (1593) he claims ‘The whole deuises pastimes and plaies at
Norwich, before her Maistie’, and also ‘The Commedy before her Maestie
at Norwich in the fielde when she went to dinner to my Lady Gerninghams’
at Costessy (19 Aug.).
Fortress of Perfect Beauty. 15–16 May 1581

S. R. 1581, July 1. ‘The Tryumphe Shewed before the Quene and the
Ffrenche Embassadors.’ Robert Walgrave (Arber, ii. 396).
n.d. A brief declaratiō of the shews, deuices, speeches, and inuentions,
done & performed before the Queenes Maiestie, & the French
Ambassadours, at the most valiaunt and worthye Triumph, attempted and
executed on the Munday and Tuesday in Whitson weeke last, Anno 1581.
Collected, gathered, penned & published, by Henry Goldwel, Gen. Robert
Waldegrave. [Epistle by Goldwell to Rowland Brasebridge of Great
Wycombe.]
Edition in Nichols, Eliz.2 (1823), ii. 310.
This was a tilt, before François of Bourbon, dauphin of Auvergne, Artus
de Cossé, marshal of France, and other commissioners from France, for the
treaty of marriage between Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou. The challenge
was delivered by a boy in red and white, as the Queen came from Chapel on
16 April 1581. The tilt, first fixed for 24 April, was put off to 1 May, 8 May,
and finally 15 May. The gallery at the end of the tilt-yard was named the
Castle or Fortress of Perfect Beauty, and the challengers, the Earl of
Arundel, Lord Windsor, Philip Sidney, and Fulke Greville, called
themselves the Four Foster Children of Desire. They entered from the
stable, with trains of followers and a Rowling Trench of printed canvas, to
besiege the fortress. From this boys spoke and sang, and cannonades of
perfumes were shot off, while flowers and other fancies were flung from
scaling ladders. Then came twenty-one defendants, each with his
‘invention’ and speech. They were Henry Grey, Sir Thomas Perot, Anthony
Cooke, Thomas Ratcliffe, Henry Knolles, William Knolles, Robert Knolles,
Francis Knolles, Rafe Bowes, Thomas Kelwaie, George Goring, William
Tresham, Robert Alexander, Edward Dennie, Hercules Meautus, Edward
Moore, Richard Skipwith, Richard Ward, Edward Digbie, Henry Nowell,
Henry Brunkerd. Perot and Cooke were ‘both in like armour, beset with
apples and fruit, the one signifying Adam and the other Eve, who had haire
hung all down his helmet’. Their page was an Angel. Ratcliffe was a
Desolate Knight, with a page who presented his shield. The four Knolles
brothers were Sons of Despair, with Mercury for a page. The speeches of
the pages are given. Each defendant ran six courses with the challengers.
‘In the middest of the running came in Sir Henrie Leigh, as unknowne, and
when he had broken his six staves, went out in like manner againe.’ At the

end of the first day the boy who gave the challenge announced a second on
the morrow.
On the second day the challengers entered in a chariot ‘forewearied and
half overcome’ with a lady representing Desire, and a consort of music. A
herald made a speech for them. The defendants entered, and the tournay and
barriers followed. At the end a boy clad in ash colour and bearing an olive-
branch made submission of the challengers to the Queen.
Foulkes, lxiii. 49, says that a set of blank cheques for this tilt are in
Ashm. MS. 845, f. 166.
Tilbury Visit. 1588

There are or were three accounts:

A

S. R. 1588, Aug. 10. ‘The quenes visitinge the campe at Tilberye and her
enterteynement there the 8 and 9 of August 1588, with condicon yat yt may
be aucthorised hereafter.’ John Wolf (Arber, ii. 495).
n.d. The Queenes visiting of the Campe at Tilsburie with her
Entertainment there. Iohn Wolfe for Edward White. [At end, ‘T. D.’,
doubtless the initials of Thomas Deloney.]
Editions in A. F. Pollard, Tudor Tracts (England’s Garner2), 492, and F.
O. Mann, Deloney’s Works (1912).

B

S. R. 1588, Aug. 10 (Stallard). ‘A ioyfull songe of the Roiall Receaving
of the quenes maiestie into her Campe at Tilbery: the 8 and 9 of August
1588.’ John Wolf for Richard Jones (Arber, ii. 496). [It does not seem likely
that this entry relates to Aske’s book.]

C

1588. Elizabetha Triumphans. By James Aske. Thomas Orwin for
Thomas Gubbin and Thomas Newman.
Edition in Nichols, Eliz. ii. 545 (1823).

The two extant narratives are discussed by M. Christy in E. H. R. xxxiv.
43.
Tilt-yard Entertainment. 17 Nov. 1590

See ch. xxiii, s.v. Lee.
Cowdray Entertainment. 1591

1591. The Speeches and Honorable Entertainment giuen to the Queenes
Maiestie in Progresse, at Cowdrey in Sussex, by the right Honorable the
Lord Montacute. Thomas Scarlet, sold by William Wright.
1591. The Honorable Entertainment.... Thomas Scarlet, sold by William
Wright. [A different text, with a fuller description, but without the words of
the songs, and inaccurately dated.]
Editions by J. Nichols, Eliz.2 iii. 90 (1823), and R. W. Bond, Lyly, i. 421
(1902).
The host was Anthony Browne, first Viscount Montague. Gascoigne’s
mask of 1572 was also written for him. Bond assigns the present
entertainment, conjecturally, to Lyly. McKerrow, 20, records that William
Barley, the stationer, was brought before the High Commission for selling at
Cowdray, on some date before 1598, a twopenny book relating to Her
Majesty’s progress.
The diary is as follows:
14 Aug. 1591. Speech by a Porter at the bridge on arrival at night.
15 Aug. Sunday: a day of rest.
16 Aug. Hunting in Park, and delivery of bow with a ditty by a Nymph.
17 Aug. Dinner at the Priory, where Lord Montague lodged, and
speeches in the walks by a Pilgrim and a Wild Man, at an oak hung with
Sussex escutcheons, and a ditty before hunting.
18 Aug. Speeches and ditty by an Angler and offering of fish by a Netter
at a pond in the walks before hunting.
19 Aug. Dance of country people with tabor and pipe.
20 Aug. Knighting, and departure to Chichester for dinner.

Elvetham Entertainment. 1591

S. R. 1591, Oct. 1. ‘The honorable entertaynement gyven to the quenes
maiestie in progresse at Elvetham in Hampshire by the righte honorable the
Erle of Hertford.’ John Wolf (Arber, ii. 596).
1591. The Honorable Entertainement gieuen to the Queenes Maiestie in
Progresse, at Eluetham in Hampshire, by the right Honorable the Earle of
Hertford. John Wolfe. [There appear to be two editions or issues, (a)
without and (b) with a woodcut of the pond.]
1591.... Newly corrected and amended. [This has a woodcut of the pond,
different from that in (1) (b).]
Editions by J. Nichols, Eliz. ii. (1788), iii. 101 (1823), and R. W. Bond,
Lyly, i. 431.
Elizabeth was at Elvetham 20–23 Sept. 1591. The host was Edward
Seymour, Earl of Hertford. A Three Men’s Song of Phillida and Coridon,
which formed part of the Entertainment, is ascribed in England’s Helicon
(1600) and MSS. to Nicholas Breton. Bond ascribes the Entertainment to
Lyly. An account of the amusements is in ch. iv.
Bisham, Sudeley, and Rycote Entertainments. 1592

1592. Speeches deliuered to her Maiestie this last progresse, at the Right
Honorable the Lady Russels, at Bissam, the Right Honorable the Lorde
Chandos at Sudley, at the Right Honorable the Lord Norris, at Ricorte.
Joseph Barnes, Oxford. [There appear to be two issues, with slight
variants.]
Editions by J. Nichols, Eliz.2 iii. 130 (1823), Sir S. E. Brydges (1815),
and R. W. Bond, Lyly, i. 471 (1902).
Bisham

The hosts were Sir Edward Hoby and his mother, Elizabeth, Dowager
Lady Russell.
21 Aug. 1592. On arrival, at the top of the hill, speech by a Wild Man; at
the middle of the hill, dialogue of Pan and two Virgins, Sybilla and Isabella;
at the foot of the hill, ditty by Ceres and Nymphs in a harvest-cart, followed
by speech and gift of crown of wheat-ears and jewel.

Sudeley

The host was Giles Brydges, third Lord Chandos.
10 Sept. 1592. Speech of old Shepherd at entry to castle.
11 Sept. Show of Apollo and Daphne, with gift of tables of verses.
12 Sept. Contemplated Presentation of High Constable of Cotswold, and
Choosing of King and Queen by Shepherds, with song and dialogue of
Melibœus, Nisa, and Cutter of Cotswold—prevented by weather.
Rycote

The host was Henry, Lord Norris.
28 Sept. 1592. On arrival from Oxford, speech by an Old Gentleman
[Lord Norris].
2 Oct. Music in garden, with speech by Old Gentleman, and letters
containing jewels by messengers as from his sons in Ireland, Flanders, and
France.
3 Oct. At departure, letter with jewel as from daughter in Jersey.
Between Sudeley and Rycote, the Queen was entertained at Oxford (cf.
ch. iv) and Woodstock (cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Sir Henry Lee).
Tilt-yard Entertainment. 17 Nov. 1595

See ch. xxiii, s.v. Peele, Anglorum Feriae.
Harefield Entertainment. 1602

Elizabeth was at Harefield Place, Middlesex, the house of Sir Thomas
Egerton, Lord Keeper, and his wife Alice, Countess Dowager of Derby,
from 31 July to 2 Aug. 1602. At the same house Milton’s Arcades was
performed before Lady Derby in 1634. Seven fragments of the
entertainment have been preserved, and are printed by Nichols, Eliz. iii.
570, 586, and Bond, Lyly, i. 491. Accounts of expenditure involved, and a
list of the gifts in kind contributed by Egerton’s friends on this occasion are
in Egerton Papers, 340, but the account in 342–4 is a forgery (vide infra).
(i) Dialogue between a Bailiff and Dairymaid, and presentation of a rake
and fork to the Queen, as she entered the demesne near the dairy house.

(ii) Dialogue at the steps of the house, and presentation of a heart, by
Place ‘in a partie-colored roobe, like the brick house’ and Time ‘with
yeollow haire, and in a green roabe, with an hower glasse, stopped, not
runninge’.
(iii) Verse petition accompanying gift of a robe of rainbows on behalf of
St. Swithin by Lady Walsingham on Monday morning [2 Aug.].
(iv) Farewell of Place, ‘attyred in black mourning aparell’ on the
Queen’s departure, with presentation of an anchor.
(v) Verse ‘Complaint of the Satyres against the Nymphes’.
(vi) Song and speech by a Mariner, who entered the ‘presence’ with a
lottery box, ‘supposed to come from the Carricke’.
(vii) ‘The Severall Lottes’, a list of gifts and blanks, with a poesy
accompanying each, and the names of the ladies who drew them. These
were the Queen, the Dowager Countess of Derby, the Countesses of Derby,
Worcester, and Warwick, Lady Scroope, Mistresses Nevill, Thynne,
Hastinges, and Bridges, Ladies Scudamore, Francis, Knevette, and Susan
Vere, Mrs. Vavissour, Ladies Southwell and Anne Clifford, Mrs. Hyde,
Ladies Kildare, Howard of Effingham and Paget, Mistresses Kiddermister
and Strangwidge, the Mother of the Maids, Ladies Cumberland,
Walsingham, and Newton, Mrs. Wharton, Ladies Digbye and Dorothy
[Hastinges] and Mrs. Anselowe. One name, ending in ‘liffe’ is illegible. It
may be Ratcliffe. One MS. adds three lots assigned to ‘country wenches’.
Most of these ladies were maids of honour and others who came with the
court; one or two, e.g. Mrs. Kiddermister, were country neighbours of the
Egerton’s.
These pieces are derived from various sources:
(a) A transcript made by R. Churton in 1803 of a contemporary MS.
found at Arbury, the house of Sir Roger Newdigate, to whose family
Harefield passed in 1675, contains (i)-(v) and was printed by Nichols.
(b) A Conway MS., printed by P. Cunningham in Sh. Soc. Papers, ii. 65,
contains (iii), the song from (vi), and (vii), with the heading ‘The Devise to
entertayne hir Mty at Harfielde ...’ and the date 1602.

(c) The second edition (1608) of Francis Davison’s Poetical Rhapsody
contains the speech from (vi) and (vii), with the incorrect indication ‘at the
Lord Chancellor’s house, 1601’, which misled Nichols into supposing it to
belong to some entertainment at York Place, the year before that of
Harefield. The item comes between two pieces by Sir John Davies and has
the initials J. D.
(d) The diary of John Manningham (Harl. MS. 5353, f. 95) contains
amongst entries of Feb. 1603 some extracts from (i) and (vii), dating the
latter in ‘the last Sumer at hir Mties being with the L. Keeper’.
(e) A contemporary MS., printed as Poetical Miscellanies (Percy Soc.
lv), 5, has (vii) dated 1602.
(f) Talbot MS. K, f. 43, in the College of Arms, contains (iv) as given at
‘Harville’ with the date ‘Aug. 1602’ and is printed by Lodge, ii. 560.
(g) B.M. Birch MS. 4173 contains a similar copy of (iv).
On the strength of the Poetical Rhapsody, (vii) is generally assigned to
Sir John Davies, which hardly justified Dr. Grosart in assigning all the
pieces to him (Works, ii, clxxii). Bond transferred the whole to Lyly,
primarily as a conjecture, but was confirmed in his view by finding in
Egerton Papers, 343, a payment to ‘Mr Lillyes man, which brought the
lotterye boxe to Harefield’. But the document in which this is found, and
which also contains the item ‘xli to Burbidges players for Othello’, is one of
Collier’s forgeries (Ingleby, 261).
John Chamberlain (Letters, 164, 169) sent Dudley Carleton ‘the Quenes
entertainment at the Lord Kepers’ on 19 Nov. 1602, and on 23 Dec. wrote
that, as Carleton liked the Lord Keeper’s devices so ill, he had not cared to
get Sir Robert Cecil’s (cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Cecil).
Progress from Scotland. 1603

There were several contemporary prints:

A

S. R. 1603, May 9. ‘Kinge James his entrance into England.’ Burby and
Millington (Arber, iii. 234).

1603. The True Narration of the Entertainment of his Royal Majestie.
Thomas Creede for Thomas Millington. [Epistle by T. M. to Reader.]
Editions in Nichols, James (1828), i. 53, and C. H. Firth, Stuart Tracts
(English Garner2), 11.

B

S. R. 1603, May 14. ‘King James his entertainement at Theobaldes, with
his welcomme to London.’ Thomas Snodham (Arber, iii. 234).
1603. King James his entertainment at Theobalds: With his Welcome to
London. By John Sauile. Thomas Snodham, sold by T. Este.
Editions in Nichols, James (1828), i. 135, and C. H. Firth, Stuart Tracts,
53.

C

S. R. 1604, Mar. 27. ‘The tyme Triumphant.’ Ralph Blore (Arber, iii.
256).
1604. The Time Triumphant, Declaring in brief the arrival of our
Sovereign liege Lord, King James, into England, His Coronation at
Westminster, ... [&c.]. By Gilbert Dugdale. By R. B.
Editions in Nichols, James (1828), i. 408, and C. H. Firth, Stuart Tracts,
69.

D

Jonson’s Althorp Entertainment (cf. ch. xxiii).

E

S. R. 1603, June 16. A ballad of ‘Englandes sweet Comfort with the
kinges entertaynmente by the Maior of Yorke’. William White (Arber, iii.
238).
There is also an account in Stowe, Annales (1631), 819. For the stages of
the progress cf. App. A. Besides the device at Althorp, speeches were
prepared by Dekker for the entry to London, but not used (cf. s.a. 1604).
Coronation Triumph. 1604

There are four contemporary prints:

A

S. R. 1604, Apr. 2 (Pasfield). ‘The magnificent Entertainement ... the 15
of marche 1603.’ Thomas Man junior (Arber, iii. 258).
1604. The Magnificent Entertainment: Giuen to King Iames, Queene
Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, vpon the day of his
Maiesties Tryumphant Passage (from the Tower) through the Honourable
Citie (and Chamber) of London, being the 15. of March, 1603. As well by
the English as by the Strangers: With the speeches and Songes, deliuered in
the seuerall Pageants. Tho. Dekker. T. C. for Tho. Man the younger.
1604. The Whole Magnificent Entertainment.... And those speeches that
before were publish’t in Latin, now newly set forthe in English. E. Allde for
Tho. Man the younger.
1604. Thomas Finlason, Edinburgh.
Editions in Nichols, James, i. 337, and Somers Tracts (1810), iii. 1.
The speeches for three of the pageants were Jonson’s, and some of those
for a fourth Middleton’s. Two others were in Latin. But Dekker himself
probably contributed the rest. Prefixed is a dialogue intended, but not used,
for James’s original entry into London in 1603, which may also be assigned
to Dekker.

B

Jonson’s Coronation Entertainment (cf. ch. xxiii).

C

1604. The Arches of Triumph Erected in honor of the High and mighty
prince, James, the first of that name, King of England, and the sixt of
Scotland, at his Maiesties Entrance and passage through his Honorable
Citty and chamber of London, vpon the 15th day of March 1603. Invented
and published by Stephen Harrison Joyner and Architect: and graven by
William Kip. John Windet. [Verses by Thomas Dekker and John Webster.]
1604.... John Windet, sold by John Sudbury and George Humble.

D

G. Dugdale’s Time Triumphant. See s.a. 1603.
There is also an account in Stowe, Annales, 835, based on A. Some
ballads are registered in Arber, iii. 255–7, and various verses and other
illustrative materials are printed by Nichols. A list of the pageants is in ch.
iv.
Entertainment of King of Denmark. 1606

There are four contemporary prints:

A

S. R. 1606, July 30 (Wilson). ‘The Kinge of Denmarkes entertainement
at Tilberie Hope by the kinge &c.’ Henry Robertes (Arber, iii. 327).
1606. The Most royall and Honourable entertainement, of the famous
and renowmed King, Christiern the fourth, King of Denmarke, &c.... With
the royall passage on Thursday the 31. of July, thorough the Citty of
London, and honorable shewes there presented them, and maner of their
passing. By H. R. W. Barley for H. R. [Epistle to Sir Thomas Smith, signed
‘Hen. Robarts’.]
Editions in Nichols, James (1828), ii. 54, and Harleian Miscellany, ix.
431.

B

S. R. 1606, Aug. 19 (Wilson). ‘A Booke called Englandes farewell to
Christian the Ffourthe kinge of Denmarke With a Relacon of suche shewes
and seuerall pastymes presented to his Maiestie, as well at Courte the ffirste
of Auguste as in other places since his honorable passage through the Cytie
of London &c.’ William Welbye (Arber, iii. 328).
1606. Englands Farewell to Christian the fourth, famous King of
Denmarke. By H. Roberts. For William Welby. [Epistle to Sir John Jolles,
signed ‘H. Roberts’.]
Editions in Nichols, James (1828), ii. 75, and Harleian Miscellany, ix.
440.

C

Jonson’s Entertainment of the King of Denmark at Theobalds (cf. ch.
xxiii).

D

S. R. 1606, Aug. 8 (Hartwell). ‘A booke called the Kinge of Denmarkes
welcomme into England &c.’ Edward Allde (Arber, iii. 327).
1606. The King of Denmarkes welcome: Containing his arriual, abode,
and entertainement, both in the Citie and other places. Edward Allde.
Extracts in Nichols, James (1828), iv. 1072.
There are also an account in Stowe, Annales, 885, and a Relatio oder
Erzehlung wie ... Christianus IV, &c. im Königreich Engellandt angelanget
(1607, Hamburg). For the itinerary cf. App. A. Bond, Lyly, i. 505, prints a
song at Theobalds on 24 July and a pastoral dialogue in Fleet Street on 31
July as possibly Lyly’s.
The Christmas Prince. 1607–8

[MS.] St. John’s College, Oxford, MS. ‘A True and Faithfull Relation of
the Risinge and Fall of Thomas Tucker, Prince of Alba Fortunata, Lord of
St. John’s,’ &c. The writer is said (D. N. B.) to be Griffin Higgs, but the
evidence is inadequate.
Edition [by P. Bliss], An Account of the Christmas Prince (1816,
Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana). Another is planned in M. S. R.
This is the narrative of a lordship of misrule at St. John’s during the
Christmas of 1607–8. The MS. includes the text of a number of plays and
shows. Unfortunately Bliss omits the text of these, with the exception of
one called The Seven Days of the Week. The others were Ara Fortunae,
Saturnalia, Philomela, Time’s Complaint, Somnium Fundatoris,
Philomathes, Yuletide, Ira seu Tumulus Fortunae, Periander (an English
play). Others were planned, but not given; cf. Mediaeval Stage, i. 409.
Chesters Triumph. 23 April 1610

S. R. 1610, June 12 (Wilson). ‘A booke called Chesters Triumph in
honour of ye Prince, as it was performed vpon Saincte Georges Day 1610 in

thaforesayd Citty.’ John Browne (Arber, iii. 436).
1610. Chesters Triumph in Honor of her Prince. As it was performed
vpon S. Georges Day 1610, in the foresaid Citie. For I. B. [The name of
Robert Amerie appears at the end. A preface and one poem are by R.
Davies.]
Editions in Nichols, James, ii. 291 (1828), and in Chetham Soc.
publications (1844).
G. Ormerod, Hist. of Cheshire (1882), i. 381, gives a description of the
show from a shorter account or programme in Harl. MS. 2150, f. 186,
indexed (f. 3v) as ‘Mr. Amory’s new shew invented by him’. This is
confirmed by the lines:
Amor is loue and Amory is his name,
That did begin this pompe and princelye game.

Camp-Bell. 29 Oct. 1609

n.d. [1609?] Running title: Campbell, or The Ironmongers Faire Field.
[The only known copy (B.M. C. 33, E. 7) lacks the t.p. and sig. A. Thomas
Campbell was mayor in 1609. For his grandson, James Campbell, mayor in
1629, Dekker wrote London’s Tempe, or The Field of Happines.]
Greg, Masques, 21, assigns this to Munday, without stating his grounds.
London’s Love to Prince Henry. 31 May 1610

1610. Londons Loue, to the royal Prince Henrie, meeting him on the
Riuer of Thames, at his returne from Richmonde, with a worthie fleete of
her Cittizens, on Thursday the last of May, 1610. With a breife reporte of
the water Fight, and Fire workes. Edward Allde, for Nathaniel Fosbrooke.
[Epistle to Sir Thomas Campbell, Lord Mayor.]
Edition by J. Nichols, James, ii. 315 (1828).
It appears from the city records that the device was by Munday, and that
Richard Burbadge and John Rice of the King’s men delivered the speeches
as Amphion and Corinea; cf. Repertory, xxix, f. 232v, and Letter Book
D.D., f. 148v, quoted by Halliwell-Phillipps in Athenaeum (19 May 1888),
Stopes, Burbage, 108, and C. W. Wallace in Times (28 March 1913).
Doubtless Munday also wrote the description.

Creation of Henry Prince of Wales. 4 June 1610

S. R. 1610, June 14 (Mokett). ‘A booke called, The creation of the
Prince, by master Danyell Price.’ Roger Jackson (Arber, iii. 436).
1610. The Order and Solemnitie of the Creation of the High and mightie
Prince Henrie, Eldest Sonne to our sacred Soueraigne, Prince of Wales,
Duke of Cornewall, Earle of Chester, &c. As it was celebrated in the
Parliament House, on Munday the fourth of Iunne last past. Together with
the Ceremonies of the Knights of the Bath, and other matters of speciall
regard, incident to the same. Whereunto is annexed the Royall Maske,
presented by the Queene and her Ladies, on Wednesday at night following.
For John Budge. [The Mask is Daniel’s Tethys’ Festival, with a separate
t.p.]
Editions in W. Scott, Somers Tracts (1809–15), ii. 183, and Nichols,
James (1828), ii. 324.
The ceremonies are also described in Stowe, Annales (1615), 899, and in
MSS. of W. Camden quoted by Nichols.

The diary is:
31 May 1610. City reception with water pageant.
4 June. Creation.
5 June. Daniel’s mask.
6 June. Tilt; fireworks; sea-fight.
Marriage of Frederick and Elizabeth. 1613

The most important descriptions, besides the masks of Campion,
Beaumont, and Chapman (q.v.), are.

A

S. R. 1613, Feb. 18 (Mokett). ‘A booke called The Mariage of the twoo
great prynces Ffriderick Counte Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth &c with
the shewes and fierwoorkes on the Water, the maskes and Revels at the
Courte.’ William Barley (Arber, iii. 516).
1613. The Magnificent Marriage of the two great princes Frederick
Count Palatine, &c. and the Lady Elizabeth, Daughter to the Imperial
Majesties of King James and Queen Anne, to the Comfort of All Great

Britain. Now the second time imprinted, with many new additions of the
same Tryumphes, performed by the Gentlemen of the Innes of Court in the
Kings Pallace at Whitehall. T. C. for W. Barley. [Nichols says that a
manuscript copy of the first edition is in Addl. MS. 5767.]
Editions in W. Scott, Somers Tracts (1809–15), iii. 35, and Nichols,
James (1828), ii. 536.

B

1613. Heavens Blessing and Earths Joy: or, a True Relation of the
Supposed Sea-Fights and Fire-Workes as were Accomplished before the
Royall Celebration of the All-beloved Marriage of the two Peerlesse
Paragons of Christendome, Fredericke and Elizabeth. By John Taylor, the
Water Poet. For Joseph Hunt, sold by John Wright.
1630. [Part of Taylor’s Works.]
Edition in Nichols, James (1828), ii. 527.

C

1613. Beschreibung der Reiss: Empfahung des Ritterlichen Ordens:
Volbringung des Heyraths: vnd glückliche Heimführung: Wie auch der
ansehnlichen Einführung, gehaltene Ritterspiel vnd Freudenfests des
Durchleuchtigsten Hochgeboren Fürsten und Herrn Friedrichen des Fünften
... mit der ... Princessin Elisabethen. G. Vögelin, Heidelberg. [Of this there
is also a French translation, Les Triomphes ... pour le Mariage et Reception
de Monseigneur le Prince Frederic V ... et de Madame Elisabeth. 1613.]

D

A distinct French account in Mercure François, iii. 72.
For other accounts, extant and lost, and verses, cf. Arber, iii. 499, 514–
18; Nichols, ii. *463, 536, 601, 624; Rimbault, 161–3; M. A. Green,
Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia, 36.

The diary is:
16 Oct. 1612. Arrival of Frederick at Gravesend.
18 Oct. Reception at Court.
29 Oct. Visit to Guildhall.

21 Dec. Investiture with Garter.
27 Dec. Betrothal.
7 Feb. 1613. Garter installation.
11 and 13 Feb. Fireworks and sea-triumph at Whitehall.
14 Feb. Wedding. Campion’s mask.
15 Feb. Running at the ring. Chapman’s mask.
21 Feb. Beaumont’s mask.
Bristol Entertainment. 1613

[MS.] Calendar by William Adams, penes C. J. Harford (in 1828).
S. R. 1613, Oct. 8 (Mason). ‘A booke called the Queenes Maiesties
entertaynement at Bristoll.’ John Budge (Arber, iii. 533).
1613. A Relation of the Royall, Magnificent, and Sumptuous
Entertainment given to the High and Mighty Princesse Queen Anne, at the
Renowned Citie of Bristoll, by the Mayor, Sheriffes, and Aldermen thereof;
in the moneth of June last past, 1613. Together with the Oration, Gifts,
Triumphes, Water-combats and other Showes there made. For John Budge.
[Epistle by Robert Naile.]
Editions in Bristol Memorialist, No. 3 (1816), and Nichols, James, ii.
648 (1828).

APPENDIX A

A COURT CALENDAR

[Bibliographical Note.—This is primarily a list of plays, masks, and
quasi-dramatic entertainments at court. The chronological evidence for the
plays mainly rests upon Appendix B. Tilts and a few miscellaneous
entertainments are included. And it has seemed worth while to trace the
movements of the court, partly in order to locate the palaces at which the
winter performances were given, partly because of the widespread use of
mimetic pageantry during Elizabeth’s progresses and visits abroad. For the
main migrations of the household (in small capitals), the authorities here
cited are confirmed by the daily or weekly indications of a much more
detailed Itinerarium than can be printed. Additions from sources not
explored by me may be possible to the record of shorter visits or even that
of the by-progresses, upon which Elizabeth was not always accompanied by
the full household. I have not attempted to deal so completely with the
Jacobean period. The King’s constant absences from court on hunting
journeys are difficult to track and of no interest to dramatic history.
Appendix B will show at which of the court plays he was personally
present. The principal material used may be classified as follows: (a) The
royal movements are frequently noted in ambassadorial dispatches, in
private letters, notably those of Roger Manners to the Earls of Rutland
(Rutland MSS.), of Rowland Whyte, court postmaster, to Sir Robert Sidney
(Sydney Papers), and of John Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton (Letters,
ed. Camden Soc., and Birch, Court of James) and Sir Ralph Winwood
(Winwood Memorials); and in the diaries of Henry Machyn, Lord Burghley
(Haynes-Murdin, ii. 745; Hatfield MSS., i. 149; v. 69; xiii. 141, 199, 389,
464, 506, 596), Sir Francis Walsingham (Camden Miscellany, vi), and John
Dee. (b) Collections of State and quasi-State Papers contain many dated and
located documents emanating from the court, such as proclamations, privy
seals, signet letters, and less formal communications from the sovereign or
a secretary or other officer in attendance. Unfortunately Elizabeth’s letters
missive have never been collected, and many of them are unlocated.
Naturally ministerial documents require handling with discretion, lest the
writers should be away from court. Letters patent bear the date and location
of the Chancellor’s recepi, and the Chancellor was largely detached from

the court. The sources for (a) and (b) are given in the Bibl. Note to ch. i. (c)
The Register of the Privy Council records the localities of the meetings of
that body, but it must be borne in mind that the registration was not very
perfect (cf. ch. ii), and also that, although the Council ordinarily followed
the court, meetings were occasionally held in Westminster or London, either
at the Star Chamber or in the house of a councillor or even a citizen, when
the court happened to be out of town. (d) Church bells were rung when the
sovereign moved into or out of a parish, and the churchwardens entered the
ringers’ fees in their accounts. The entries in J. V. Kitto, The Accounts of the
Churchwardens of St. Martin’s in the Fields, 1525–1603 (1901, cited as
Martin’s), record many comings and goings from Whitehall, but in some
cases the date entered appears to be other than that of the actual ringing,
either by error or because the payment was on a different day. The extracts
from the accounts of St. Margaret’s, Westminster (cited as Margaret’s), in J.
Nichols, Illustrations, 1, of Lambeth in D. Lysons, Environs of London, i.
222, and S. Denne, Historical Particulars of Lambeth (1795, Bibl. Top. Brit.
x. 185), of Fulham in T. Faulkner, Fulham (1813), 139, of Kingston in
Lysons, Environs, i. 164, and of Wandsworth by C. T. Davis in Surrey Arch.
Colls., xviii (1903), 96, are scrappy and the year concerned is not always
clear. Nichols, Eliz. iii. 37, gives an analogous record from the accounts of
Chalk in Kent of the occasions on which the local carts were requisitioned
for removes from Greenwich. (e) The dates and localities of knightings are
given in W. A. Shaw, The Knights of England (1906), but many of them are
from inconsistent and untrustworthy sources. (f) The Chamber Accounts (cf.
App. B) contain under the annual heading ‘Apparelling of Houses’
summaries of monthly bills sent in by the Gentlemen Ushers of the
Chamber of their expenses while engaged in making preparations for royal
visits. They yield much new information as to the houses visited, but only
very approximately date the visits. And it may be that the Ushers
occasionally had to prepare for a visit which never took place. Analogous
information is contained in the Declared Accounts of the Office of Works. A
single account of the Cofferer of the Household, printed by Nichols, i. 92,
gives a daily record of the locality of the household throughout the progress
of 1561; as far as I know, it is the only extant document of its kind. (g) J.
Nichols, in his Progresses of Elizabeth2 (1823) and Progresses of James I
(1828), drew fully upon the contemporary printed descriptions of state
entries and progresses, of which a list is given in ch. xxiv, and upon such

‘gests’ of progresses (cf. ch. iv) as survive. I have been able to correct and
amplify his record of houses visited to a great extent, as much of the
material now available, notably the Privy Council Register and the
Chamber Accounts, was not used by him, and he occasionally assumed that
royal plans were carried out, when they were not. I have done what I can to
identify the royal hosts and their houses, but there is more of conjecture in
my lists than my query-marks quite indicate. The Chamber Accounts entries
are not in chronological order. Often only a name or a locality is given, and
a good deal of plotting of routes on a map has been necessary. A more
thorough study of local and family histories than I have been able to
undertake would doubtless add corrections and further details. Local
antiquaries might well follow the lines of study opened up by E. Green, Did
Queen Elizabeth visit Bath in 1574 and 1592 (1879, Proc. of Bath Field
Club, iv. 105), W. D. Cooper, Queen Elizabeth’s Visits to Sussex (1852,
Sussex Arch. Colls., v. 190), W. Kelly, Royal Progresses and Visits to
Leicester (1884), and M. Christy, The Progresses of Queen Elizabeth
through Essex and the Houses in which she stayed (1917, Essex Review,
xxvi. 115, 181). A knowledge of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century roads is
useful. The Elizabethan list in W. Smith, The Particular Description of
England, 1588 (ed. H. B. Wheatley and E. W. Ashbee, 1879) is fuller than
that in W. Harrison, Description of England (ed. N. S. S. ii. 107), or that
described from a manuscript of c. 1603 by G. S. Thomson in E. H. R. xxxiii.
234. The seventeenth-century description of J. Ogilby, Itinerarium Angliae
(1675) became the parent of many travellers’ guides. But it does not include
three private royal roads largely used in removes; viz. the King’s road by
Chelsea to Richmond and Hampton Court, Theobald’s Road, and a road
from Lambeth Ferry to Greenwich and Eltham. Useful studies are T. F.
Ordish, History of Metropolitan Roads (L. T. R. viii. 1), and H. G. Fordham,
Studies in Carto-Bibliography (1914). Other books are given in D. Ballen,
Bibliography of Roadmaking and Roads (1914).]
1558

Nov. 17. Accession of Elizabeth at Hatfield.
Nov. 22. Progress through Herts and Middlesex to London by Hadley
(Alice Lady Stamford?, Nov. 22–3) and Charterhouse (Lord North,
Nov. 23–8).[1]

Nov. 28. Tower of London.[2]
Dec. 5. Somerset House, by water.[3]
Dec. 22. Whitehall.[4]
1559

Jan. 6. Play (=Queen’s=?) and mask (Papists).[5]
Jan. 12. Tower, by water.[6]
Jan. 14. Entry through London with pageants to Whitehall.[7]
Jan. 15. Coronation.[8]
Jan. 16. Tilt and mask (Almains and Palmers?).
Jan. 17. Barriers.[9]
Jan. 29. Mask (Moors?).
Feb. 5 (S.S.). Mask (Swart Rutters).
Feb. 7. Mask (Fishers).
March 21. Morris from Household feast at Mile End to court.[10]
c. March 31. Visit to Greenwich?[11]
Apr. 25. Supper at Baynard’s Castle (Earl of Pembroke).[12]
May 1. Maying on Thames at Whitehall.[13]
c. May 17. Visit to Greenwich.[14]
May 24. Mask (Astronomers) for French embassy.[15]
May 25. Baiting at palace for embassy.[16]
June 21. Greenwich.[17]
June 25. May game from London to court.[18]
July 2. City musters and tilt at court.[19]
July 3. Visit to Woolwich, with banquet in the Elizabeth Jonas.[20]

July 11. Joust by pensioners and mask.[21]
July 17. Progress in Kent and Surrey.[22] Dartford (July 17–18), Cobham
Hall (Lord Cobham, July 18–21 <), Gillingham, Otford (July > 23–28
<), Eltham (Aug. 4), Croydon (Abp. of Canterbury, Aug. 5–6?) and
Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel, Aug. 6–10).
Aug. 7. =Paul’s.=
Aug. 10. Hampton Court.[23]
Aug. 17–> 23. Visit to West Horsley (Lord Clinton), with mask (Shipmen
and Country Maids).[24]
Sept. 28. Whitehall.[25]
Nov. 5. Tilt.[26]
Dec. 31. Play (=Chapel=?) and mask (Clowns or Nusquams?).[27]
1560

Jan. 1. Mask (Barbarians) for John Duke of Finland.[28]
Jan. 6. Masks (Patriarchs, Italian Women).
Feb. 25 (S.S.) or 26. Mask (Nusquams or Clowns?).
Feb. 27. Masks (Diana and Nymphs, Actaeon?).
Apr. 10. Morris and ‘queen’ from London to court.[29]
Apr. 21. Tilt.[30]
Apr. 24 < > 27. Visit to Deptford.[31]
Apr. 28. Tilt.[32]
May 14. Greenwich.[33]
c. May 24. Visit to Westminster?[34]
c. May. Visit to Eltham.[35]
July 29. Richmond by Lambeth (Abp. Parker).[36]
Aug. 3. Oatlands.[37]

Aug. 5–30. Progress in Surrey and Hants.[38] Sutton Place, Woking (Sir
Henry Weston, Aug. 5), Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Aug. 7, 8),
Rotherfield (John? Norton), Southwick (John White), Portsmouth,
Netley Castle (Aug. 12–13), Southampton (Aug. 13–16), Winchester
(Aug. 16–23), Micheldever (Edmund Clerk, Aug. 23), Basing
(Marquis of Winchester, Aug. 23–28), Odiham (Chidiock Paulet?),
Hartley Wintney (Sir John Mason?), Bagshot (Sir Henry Weston?).
Aug. 30. Windsor.[39]
Sept. 22 < > 30. Hampton Court.[40]
c. Oct. Visit to Horsley (Lord Clinton?).[41]
Nov. 10 < > 25. Whitehall.[42]
Nov. 27–> Dec. 2. Visit to Greenwich and Eltham.[43]
c. Dec. Visit to Queenborough.[44]
Christmas. =Dudley’s= and =Paul’s=, and masks. One of the plays was
Preston’s Cambyses.[45]
1561

Feb. 17 (S.M.). Wrestling in ‘prychyng-plase’ at court.[46]
Feb. 18, 19. Masters of fence at court.[47]
Apr. 26 < > 29. Greenwich.[48]
June 24. River triumph. Dinner with Lord R. Dudley.[49]
July 10–Sept. 22. Progress in Essex, Suffolk, Herts., Middlesex.[50] Tower
(July 10), Charterhouse (Lord North, July 10–14) with visit to Strand
(Sir W. Cecil, July 13), Wanstead (Lord Rich, July 14), Havering (July
14–19) with visits to Pyrgo (Lord John Grey, July 16) and Loughton
Hall (Lord Darcy?, July 17), Ingatestone (Sir William Petre, July 19–
21), New Hall in Boreham (Earl of Sussex, July 21–26), Felix Hall
(Henry Long?, July 26), Colchester (Sir Thomas Lucas, July 26–30)
with visit to Layer Marney (George Tuke), St. Osyth (Lord Darcy, July
30–Aug. 2), Harwich (Aug. 2–5), Ipswich (Aug. 5–11),[51] Shelley
Hall (Philip Tilney, Aug. 11), Smallbridge (William Waldegrave, Aug.

11–14), Hedingham (Earl of Oxford, Aug. 14–19), Gosfield (Sir John
Wentworth, Aug. 19–21), Lees (Lord Rich, Aug. 21–25), Great
Hallingbury (Lord Morley, Aug. 25–27), Standon (Sir Ralph Sadleir,
Aug. 27–30), Hertford (Aug. 30–Sept. 16), Hatfield?, Enfield (Sept.
16–22).
Sept. 22. St. James’s.[52]
Oct. 28. Visit to Whitehall. Baiting and mask (Wise and Foolish Virgins) for
French embassy.[53]
Dec. 4 < > 14. Whitehall.[54]
Christmas. =Dudley’s= and =Paul’s=.
Dec. 27 < > Jan. 3. Lord of Misrule from Temple to court.[55]
1562

Jan. 15–16. Visit to Baynard’s Castle (Earl of Pembroke), with mask.[56]
Jan. 18. Gorboduc and mask by Inner Temple.
Feb. 1. Mask from London to court, ‘and Julyus Sesar’.[57]
Feb. 2 < > 10 (S. T.). =Paul’s.=
Feb. 10. Tilt.[58]
Feb. 14. Running at ring.[59]
June 5. Greenwich.[60]
Sept. 16 < > 19. Hampton Court, by Southwark.[61]
c. Oct. Visit to Oatlands.[62]
Nov. 8. Somerset House.[63]
Dec. 14 < > 21. Whitehall.[64]
Christmas. =Dudley’s= and =Paul’s=.
1563

Feb. 21 (S.S.).

June 14. Greenwich.[65]
July 20 < > Aug. 1. Richmond, by Lambeth.[66]
Aug. 2 < > 4. Windsor by Stanwell.[67]
1562–3. Visits to Sunninghill, Oatlands, Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel), the
New Lodge, the Twelve Oaks.[68]
Christmas.[69] Two plays by unnamed companies.
1564

Feb. 2. Play by unnamed company.
Feb. 13 (S.S.).
Apr. 23 < > May 5. Richmond.[70]
June 9. Three masks and ‘devise with the men of armes’ for French
embassy.[71]
June 28. Visit incognita to Baynard’s Castle (Earl of Pembroke) for St.
Peter’s watch.[72]
June 30 < > July 5. Whitehall.[73]
July 5. Visit to Sackville House (Sir Richard Sackville), with play and
mask.[74]
July 6. Visit to Cecil House (Sir W. Cecil) for christening of Elizabeth
Cecil.[75]
July 6 < > 16. Greenwich.[76]
July 21 or 22. Whitehall.[77]
c. July 27–Sept. 12. Progress in Middlesex, Herts., Cambridgeshire,
Hunts., Northants., Leicestershire, Bucks., and Beds.[78] 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),[79]
Long Stanton (Bp. of Ely, Aug. 10), Hinchinbrook (Sir Henry
Cromwell, Aug. 10),[80] 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.[81]
Sept. 15. Dinner with Marchioness of Northampton at Whitehall.[82]
c. Oct.-Nov. Visits to Oatlands and Windsor.[83]
Dec. 7. Whitehall.[84]
Christmas. =Warwick’s= (twice), =Paul’s=, and =Chapel= (Damon and
Pythias?).
1565

Jan. =Westminster= (Miles Gloriosus and (?) Heautontimorumenos).
Jan. 7. Tilt, dance, and foot tourney at night.[85]
Feb. 2. =Paul’s.=
Feb. 18. Play by =Sir Percival Hart’s sons= and mask (Hunters and Muses).
March 5 (S.M.). Tilt.[86]
March 6. Tourney. Masks (Satyrs and Tilters) and play by =Gray’s Inn= at
supper by Earl of Leicester.[87]
Apr. 27. Visit to Earl of Leicester.[88]
May 12. Visit to Greenwich.[89]
c. June 2. Visit to Tower, with imperial ambassador, Adam Swetkowyz.[90]
June 24 < > 26. Greenwich.[91]
July 14. Whitehall.[92]
July 16. Visit to Durham Place for wedding of Henry Knollys and Margaret
Cave, with tourney and two masks.[93]

July 17. Richmond.[94]
Aug. 8. Windsor, by Ankerwyke (Sir Thomas Smith).[95]
c. Aug.-Sept. Visits to Sunninghill, Farnham, and Bagshot.[96]
Sept. 14. Whitehall. Visit to Cecilia of Sweden (Bedford House?).[97]
c. Sept. Visit to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham).[98]
Oct. 7, 13. Visits to Cecilia of Sweden.[99]
Oct. 29–> Nov. 2. Visit to Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel).[100]
Nov. 11. Tilt at wedding of Earl of Warwick and Lady Anne Russell.[101]
Nov. 12. Tourney.
Nov. 13. Barriers.
Christmas. =Paul’s= (thrice by Jan. 3, including one at Savoy for Cecilia of
Sweden) and =Westminster= (Sapientia Solomonis).
1566

Jan. 6. King of the Bean at court.[102]
Feb. 5. Greenwich.[103]
Feb. 14. Visit to Baynard’s Castle (Earl of Pembroke).[104]
Feb. 24–26 (S.). Gismond of Salerne by Inner Temple (?). Wedding of Earl
of Southampton and Mary Browne, with two masks and tourney.[105]
June 28 or 29. St. James’s.[106]
July 1. Wedding of Thomas Mildmay and Frances Radcliffe at Bermondsey
(Earl of Sussex).[107]
July 8–Sept. 9. Progress in Middlesex, Herts., Beds., Hunts., Northants.,
Lincs., Rutland, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Berks.[108] 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),[109] 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),[110] Rycote (Sir Henry
Norris, Sept. 6–7), Bradenham (Lord Windsor, Sept. 7–9).
Sept. 9. Windsor.[111]
Sept. Visit to Bagshot (The Bush).[112]
Sept. 10 < > 17. Richmond.[113]
Sept. 27. Whitehall.[114]
Christmas. =Paul’s= (twice).
1567

Jan. 10. Queen in country.[115]
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).[116]
Feb. 9–11 (S.). =Westminster.=
Feb. 10. Visit to Arundel House (Earl of Arundel)?[117]
Feb. 11. =Windsor Chapel.=
Apr. 13. Play for Spanish embassy.[118]
June 11. Richmond.[119]
July 22. Windsor.[120]
Aug. 12? Oatlands.[121]

Aug. Visit to Beddington? (Francis Carew) by Kingston.[122]
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.[123]
Aug. 30. Windsor.[124]
Oct. 12. Hampton Court.[125]
Dec. 23. Whitehall.[126]
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.[127]
c. Feb. Visit to Hackney.[128]
Feb. 29–March 2 (S.). =Chapel= (tragedy) and =Windsor Chapel=.
Apr. 6. Greenwich.[129]
July 6–12? Visit to Charterhouse (Duke of Norfolk).[130]
July 12–Sept. 22. Progress in Essex, Middlesex, Herts., Beds., Bucks.,
Northants., Oxon., Berks.[131] 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 Lane), Bicester (Mr.
More, Aug. 27), Rycote (Sir Henry Norris), Ewelme, Wallingford
(Thomas Parry at College), Yattendon (Sir Henry Norris?), Donnington
Castle, Newbury (Sept. 12, 13), Aldermaston (William? Forster),
Reading (Queen’s house, Mr. Stafford, Mr. Gare, Sept. 18?).

Sept. 22. Windsor.[132]
Oct. 3 < > 20. Hampton Court.[133]
Dec. 26. =Rich’s.=
1569

Jan. 1. =Paul’s.=
Feb. 12. Whitehall.[134]
Feb. 22 (S.T.). =Windsor Chapel.=
May 6. Greenwich.[135]
May 15 (?). Visit of Earl of Leicester and Odo de Coligny, Cardinal of
Châtillon, to Oxford, with The Destruction of Thebes.[136]
July 21. Richmond, by Lambeth.[137]
July 29. Oatlands.[138]
Aug. 5 < > 8–Sept. 23 or 24. Progress in Surrey and Hants.[139] Chertsey
(Sir William FitzWilliam?), Woking (Aug. 9), Guildford (Aug. 10, 12),
Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Aug. 14, 17, 20, 22) with visit to Kingsley
(Nicholas Backhouse), Odiham, Basing (Marquis of Winchester, Aug.
27, 29; Sept. 1), Abbotstone (Lord St. John), Soberton (Anne, Lady
Lawrence), Tichfield (Lady Southampton, Sept. 4, 6), Southampton
Tower (Sept. 6?, 8, 9, 14), Melchet (Richard? Audley), Mottisfont
(Lord Sandys), Wherwell (Sir Adrian Poynings), Hurstbourne? (Sir
Robert Oxenbridge), Steventon (Sir Richard Pexall), The Vine in
Sherborne St. John (Lady Sandys, Sept. 22), Hartley Wintney (Lady
Mason), Bagshot (Sir Henry Sutton).
Sept. 23 or 24. Windsor.[140]
Nov. 17. Accession day first kept.[141]
c. Dec. Visit to Bisham (Lady Hoby).[142]
Dec. 27. =Windsor Chapel.=
1570

Jan. 6. =Chapel.=
Jan. 20. Hampton Court.[143]
Feb. 5 (S.S.). =Rich’s.=
March 19. Visit to Ham House (Madame de Châtillon).[144]
June 18 < > 20. Oatlands.[145]
July 16–Sept. 29. Progress in Middlesex, Bucks., Beds., Oxon., and Berks.
[146]
Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham, July 16–18), Denham (Sir George
Peckham, July 18–19), Chenies (Earl of Bedford, July 19–Aug. 13),
Pendley (Edmund Verney, Aug. 15–17), Toddington (Sir Henry
Cheyne, Aug. 19, 20), Dame Ellensbury in Houghton Conquest,
Segenhoe in Ridgmont (Peter Grey), Wing (Sir William Dormer, c.
Aug. 24), Eythorpe (Sir W. Dormer), Rycote (Sir Henry Norris, Aug.
30, Sept. 2, 6, 7), Ewelme, Reading (Sept. 17, 24–26), Philberds in
Bray (Sir Thomas Neville).
Sept. 29. Windsor.[147]
Nov. 6 or 7. Hampton Court.[148]
Dec. 28. =Paul’s.=
1571

Jan. 6. Challenge for jousting.
Jan. 14 < > 19. Somerset House.[149]
Jan. 23. Visit to Bishopsgate (Sir Thomas Gresham) to open Royal
Exchange.[150]
Jan. 20 < > 29. Whitehall.[151]
Feb. 25–27 (S.). =Chapel=, =Windsor Chapel=, and =Paul’s=.
March 2. Greenwich.[152]
March 31 < > Apr. 2. Whitehall.[153]
Apr. 20. Visit to St. George’s Fields.[154]

Apr. 29. Queen at wedding of Marquis of Northampton and Helena von
Snavenberg or Snachenberg.[155]
May 1–3. Tilt, tourney, barriers.[156]
June 7, 8. Visit to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham).[157]
c. Apr.-July. Two visits to Bermondsey (Earl of Sussex).[158]
July 7 < > 8. Hampton Court.[159]
July-Aug. Visits to Horsley (Earl of Lincoln), Oatlands, Byfleet.[160]
Aug. 8 < > 12–Sept. 22. Progress in Middlesex, Herts., and Essex.[161]
Gunnersbury, Hendon (Edward Herbert), Hatfield (Aug. 15–21),
Knebworth (Rowland Lytton), Brent Pelham (Lord Morley, Aug. 26),
Saffron Walden, Audley End (Duke of Norfolk, Aug. 29–Sept. 3),
Horham Hall in Thaxted (Sir John Cutts, Sept. 5) with hunt in Henham
Park, Lees (Lord Rich, Sept. 7, 8), Rookwood Hall in Roding Abbess
(Wiston Browne), Mark Hall in Latton (James Altham, Sept. 13, 14,
17), Stanstead Abbots (Edward Bashe, Sept. 20), Theobalds (Lord
Burghley, Sept. 22), Hadley (Lady Stamford), Harrow (William
Wightman).
Sept. 22. St. James’s.[162]
Sept. 26. Richmond.[163]
Oct. 23 < > 28. Greenwich.[164]
Dec. 12. Whitehall.[165]
Dec. 16 < > 23. Wedding of Earl of Oxford and Anne Cecil.[166]
Dec. 23. Wedding of Edward Somerset (Lord Herbert) and Elizabeth
Hastings.[167]
Christmas. The Revels prepared six masks this winter.
Dec. 27. =Lane’s= (Lady Barbara).
Dec. 28. =Paul’s= (Iphigeneia).
1572

Jan. 1. =Windsor Chapel= (Ajax and Ulysses).
Jan. 6. =Chapel= (Narcissus).
Feb. 17 (S.S.). =Lane’s= (Cloridon and Radiamanta).
Feb. 19. =Westminster= (Paris and Vienna, with tourney and barriers).
Apr. 10 or 11. Greenwich.[168]
May 5. St. James’s.[169]
c. May 25. Visit to Hampton Court (?).[170]
c. June 10. Visit to Greenwich.[171]
June 15. Baiting, and mask (Apollo and Peace) and tourney in banqueting
house at Cockpit for French embassy.[172]
June 20. Whitehall.[173]
July 15–Sept. 28. Progress in Middlesex, Essex, Herts., Beds., Bucks.,
Northants., Warwickshire, Oxon., Berks.[174] Bishopsgate (Jasper
Fisher), Bethnal Green (Joan, Lady White), Havering (July 19, 20),
Birch Hall in Theydon Bois (Edward? Elderton), Theobalds (Lord
Burghley, July 22–25) visit to Enfield, Hatfield, Gorhambury (Sir
Nicholas Bacon, July 25–28), Dunstable (Edward Wingate?, July 28–
29), Woburn (Earl of Bedford, July 29–31) with visit to Chicheley
(Elizabeth Weston), Salden (John Fortescue, Aug. 1–4), Beachampton
(Thomas? Pigott), Easton Neston (Sir John Fermor, Aug. 4–8),
Edgecott (William Chauncy, Aug. 10), Bishop’s Itchington (Edward
Fisher, Aug. 11), Warwick Castle (Earl of Warwick, Aug. 11–13),
Kenilworth (Earl of Leicester, Aug. 13–16),[175] Warwick Castle (Aug.
16–18) with visit to Warwick Priory (Thomas Fisher, Aug. 16),[176]
Kenilworth (Aug. 18–23), Charlecote (Sir Thomas Lucy, Aug. 23),
Compton Wyniates (Lord Compton, Aug. 23), Great Tew (Henry
Rainsford), Woodstock (Aug. 27, Sept. 7–19) with visit to Langley (Sir
Edward Unton), Holton (Sir Christopher Browne), Ewelme, Reading
(Sept. 21–28), Philberds in Bray (Sir Thomas Neville, Sept. 28).
Sept. 28. Windsor.[177]

c. Nov. 11. Hampton Court.[178]
Christmas. =Leicester’s= (thrice) and =Paul’s=. The Revels prepared plays
on Theagenes and Chariclea, Perseus and Andromeda, and Fortune,
and a double mask (Fishermen and Fruit-wives) this winter.
1573

Jan. 1. =Windsor Chapel.=
Jan. 6. =Eton.=
c. Jan. 29. Greenwich, by Somerset House.[179]
Feb. 1–3 (S.). =Sussex’s=, =Lincoln’s= and =Merchant Taylors= (Perseus
and Andromeda?).
Feb. 24–March 10. Visits to Fold in South Mimms (Mr. Waller),
Islehampstead Latimer (Miles Sandys), Gorhambury (Sir Nicholas
Bacon), Brockett Hall in Hatfield (John Brockett), Northiaw (Earl of
Warwick), Theobalds (Lord Burghley, 8 days), and Bishopsgate
(Jasper Fisher, March 7).[180]
July 14–Sept. 26. Progress in Surrey, Kent, and Sussex.[181] Croydon (Abp.
of Canterbury, July 14–21), Orpington (Sir Percival Hart, July 21–24),
[182]
Otford (July 24), Knole in Sevenoaks (July 24–29), Bastead (July
29), Comfort in Birling(Lord Abergavenny, July 29–Aug. 1),
Oxenheath in West Peckham? (Sir Thomas Cotton, Aug. 1), Eridge
(Lord Abergavenny, Aug. 1–7) with visit to Mayfield (Sir Thomas
Gresham)?, Bedgebury in Goudhurst (Alexander Culpepper, Aug. 7–8)
by Kilndown, Hemstead in Benenden (Thomas Guildford, Aug. 8–11),
Northiam (George Bishop, Aug. 11), Rye (Aug. 11–14) with visit to
Winchelsea (Mr. Savage?), Northiam (Aug. 14), Sissinghurst in
Cranbrook (Richard Baker, Aug. 14–17), Boughton Malherbe (Thomas
Wotton, Aug. 17–19) by Smarden, Hothfield (John Tufton, Aug. 19–
21), Olantigh in Wye (Sir Thomas Kempe, Aug. 21–22), Brabourne
(Sir Thomas Scott, Aug. 22), Westenhanger (Aug. 22–25), Sandgate
Castle (Aug. 25), Dover, (Aug. 25–31) by Folkestone with visit to
Thomas? Fisher, Sandwich (Roger? Manwood, Aug. 31–Sept. 3),[183]
Wingham (Sept. 3), Canterbury (St. Augustine’s, Sept. 3–16) with visit
to Abp. Parker (Sept. 7),[184] Faversham (Sept. 16–18), Tunstall

(William Cromer, Sept. 18–19), Gillingham (Sept. 19), Rochester (the
Crown, Sept. 19–23) with visit to a ship, Bulley Hill (Richard Watts,
Sept. 23–24), Cobham (Lord Cobham, Sept. 24), Sutton (Sept. 24),
Dartford (Sept. 24–26).
Sept. 26. Greenwich.[185]
c. Nov. Two visits to Deptford.[186]
Nov. 25. Somerset House, by Leicester House (?).[187]
Dec. 19. Whitehall.[188]
Dec. 26. =Leicester’s= (Predor and Lucia). Mask (Lance-knights).
Dec. 27. =Paul’s= (Alcmaeon).
Dec. 28. =Leicester’s= (Mamillia).
1574

Jan. 1. =Westminster= (Truth, Faithfulness, and Mercy). Mask (Foresters
and Wild Men).
Jan. 3. =Clinton’s= (Herpetulus the Blue Knight and Perobia).
Jan. 6. =Windsor Chapel= (Quintus Fabius). Mask (Sages).
Jan. 12. Hampton Court.[189]
Feb. 2. =Merchant Taylors= (Timoclea at the Siege of Thebes by
Alexander). Mask (Virtues) not shown.
Feb. 18–20. Visits to Earl of Lincoln and to Osterley (Sir Thomas
Gresham).[190]
Feb. 21–23 (S.). Queen entertained privately by neighbours.[191]
Feb. 21. =Leicester’s= (Philemon and Philecia).
Feb. 23. =Merchant Taylors= (Perseus and Andromeda). Masks (Warriors
and Ladies).
March 2–3. Greenwich, by Lambeth (Abp. Parker).[192]
June 30. Richmond, by Merton Abbey (Gregory? Lovell).[193]

July 7. Windsor, by Stanwell and Colnbrook.[194]
July 11 < > 13. =Italians.=
July 15–Sept. 25. Progress in Berks., Oxon., Gloucestershire, Somerset,
Wilts., Hants, and Surrey.[195] Binfield, Reading (July 15–23) with
play (July 15) by =Italians=, Caversham or Rotherfield Greys (Sir
Francis Knollys, July 23), Ewelme (July 23–24), Holton (Christopher
Browne, July 24), Woodstock (July 24–Aug. 2), Langley (Sir Edward
Unton, Aug. 2–3), Burford (Aug. 3), Sherborne (Thomas Dutton, Aug.
3–4), Sudeley Castle (Lady Chandos, Aug. 4, 5), Boddington (Mr.
Denne), Gloucester (Aug. 10) with visit to Churcham?, Frocester
(George Huntley, Aug. 10–11), Iron Acton (Sir Nicholas Pointz),
Berkeley Castle (Lord Berkeley, Aug. 11–12), Berkeley Hearne?,
Bristol St. Lawrence, Bristol (Sir John Young, Aug. 14–21),[196]
Keynsham (Henry? Brydges, Aug. 21), Morecroft (Stokes Croft?, Aug.
21), Bath (Aug. 21–23), Hazelbury (John Bonham, Aug. 23), Lacock
(Sir Henry Sherington, Aug. 23–28), Erlestoke (William Brouncker,
Aug. 28–31), Heytesbury (Mr. Hawker, Aug. 31–Sept. 3) with visit to
Longleat (Sir John Thynne, Sept. 2), Wylye? (Lady Mervyn, Sept. 3),
Wilton (Earl of Pembroke, Sept. 3–6) with visit to Clarendon Park,
Salisbury (Bp.’s, Sept. 6–9) with visit to Amesbury, Winterslow (Giles
Thistlethwaite?, Sept. 9), Mottisfont (Lord Sandys, Sept. 9–10),
Somborne (Henry? Gifford, Sept. 10), Winchester (Sept. 10–13),
Abbotstone (Marquis of Winchester, Sept. 13), Alresford, Herriard
(George Puttenham), Odiham (Sept. 14–16), Farnham (Bp.
Winchester, Sept. 15, 19), Bagshot (Sept. 24–25).
Sept. 25. Oatlands.[197]
Oct. 1. Hampton Court.[198]
Oct. 19–22. Visit to Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel).[199]
Christmas. Phedrastus and Phigon and Lucia rehearsed by =Sussex’s=,
Three masks this winter (Pilgrims, Mariners. Hobby-horses).[200]
Dec. 26. =Leicester’s=, with boys.
Dec. 27. =Clinton’s= (Pretestus?).

1575

Jan. 1. =Leicester’s= (Panecia?).
Jan. 2. =Clinton’s.=
Jan. 6. =Windsor Chapel= (Xerxes?).
Feb. 2. =Paul’s.=
Feb. 3 < > 6. Richmond.[201]
Feb. 13 (S.S.). =Chapel.=
Feb. 14. =Warwick’s.=
Feb. 15? =Merchant Taylors.=
March 16. Visit to Mortlake (Dr. Dee).[202]
March 23 < > 25. St. James’s.[203]
c. Apr. (?). Visit to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham), by Chiswick.[204]
Apr. 20. Greenwich.[205]
c. May 5–8. Two visits to Lady Pembroke in illness at Baynard’s Castle.[206]
May 23–Oct. 10 < > 11. Progress in Middlesex, Herts., Beds., Bucks.,
Northants., Warwickshire, Staffs., Worcestershire, Gloucestershire,
Oxon., Berks.[207] Stoke Newington (John Dudley, May 23),
Theobalds (Lord Burghley, May 24–June 6), Broxbourne (Sir George
Penruddock), Woodhall (Sir John Butler), Hatfield (June 7–14), Luton
(George Rotherham), Toddington (Lord Cheyne), Segenhoe in
Ridgmont (Peter Grey), Holcutt (Richard Charnock), Chicheley
(Elizabeth Weston), Grafton (June 19–July 6), Fawsley (Sir Richard
Knightley), Long Itchington (Earl of Leicester, July 9), Kenilworth
(Earl of Leicester, July 9–27),[208] Meriden (William Foster),
Middleton (Sir Francis Willoughby), Swinfen (John Dyott?), Lichfield
(July 30–Aug. 3)[209] with visits to Beaudesert (Lord Paget) and
Alrewas (Walter Griffith, July 30), Colton (Katharine, Lady Gresley),
Chartley (Lady Essex), Stafford Castle (Lord Stafford, Aug. 7, 8) with
visit to Ellenhall (Walter? Harcourt), Chillington (John Giffard),
Dudley Castle (Lord Dudley, Aug. 12), Hartlebury Castle (Bp. of

Worcester, Aug. 12–13), Worcester (Bp. of Worcester, Aug. 13–20)[210]
with visits to Hindlip (John Habington, Aug. 16), Hallow Park (John
Habington, Aug. 18) and Batenhall Park (Thomas Bromley, Aug. 19),
Elmley Bredon (Anne Daston, Aug. 20–22), Evesham? (Aug. 21),
Campden (Thomas Smythe), Sudeley Castle (Lord Chandos),
Sherborne (Thomas Dutton), Langley (Sir Edward Unton, Aug. 27),
Cornbury (Thomas Stafford?, Aug. 29), Woodstock (Aug. 29–Oct. 3)
with entertainment by Sir Henry Lee,[211] Holton (Christopher
Browne), Rycote (Lord Norris, Oct. 6–8), Bradenham (Frederick Lord
Windsor), Wooburn (Sir John Goodwin), Philberds in Bray (Sir
Thomas Neville).
Oct. 10 or 11. Windsor.[212]
Dec. 20. Hampton Court, by Colnbrook.[213]
Dec. 26. =Warwick’s.=
Dec. 27. =Windsor Chapel.=
Dec. 28. =Leicester’s.=
1576

Jan. 1. =Warwick’s.=
Jan. 6. =Paul’s.=
Feb. 2. =Sussex’s.=
Feb. 6 or 7. Whitehall, by Sion.[214]
Feb. 27. =Italians.=
March 4 (S.S.). =Leicester’s.=
March 5. =Warwick’s.=
March 6. =Merchant Taylors.=
Apr. 26. Greenwich.[215]
May 9–19. Visits to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester, May 9–10),
Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham, May 10–12), Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln,

May 12–15), Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel, May 15–17), Beddington (Sir
Francis Carew, May 17–19).[216]
c. June 7. Visit to Hatfield.[217]
June 18. Visit to Deptford.[218]
c. June. Visit to Eltham.[219]
July 9. St. James’s.[220]
July 22 or 23. Whitehall.[221]
c. July. Visits to Highgate (Thomas? Lichfield), Fold? at Barnet (Mr.
Waller), and Hendon (Edward Herbert).[222]
July 30–Oct. 9. Progress in Essex, Herts., Bucks., Berks., and Surrey.[223]
Stratford at Bow (Richard? Young, July 30), Havering (July 30–Aug.
7) with visit to Pyrgo (Henry Grey) and hunt in Harolds Park,
Chigwell Hall (Sir John Petre, Aug. 7), Loughborough (John Stonard,
Aug. 7), Upshire? (Aug. 10), Mark Hall in Latton (James Altham, Aug.
10–11), Hatfield Broadoak (Sir Thomas Barrington, Aug. 11), Great
Hallingbury (Lord Morley, Aug. 11–14), Stanstead Abbots (Edward
Bashe, Aug. 14–19), Hertford Castle (Aug. 19–22), Hatfield (Aug. 24),
Hertford again (Aug. 26–28), Northiaw (Earl of Warwick, Aug. 30), St.
Albans (Aug. 30–Sept. 1), Gorhambury (Sir Nicholas Bacon, Sept. 1),
Latimer (Miles Sandys, Sept. 1–3) with visit to Chalfont St. Giles
(John? Gardiner), Hedgerley (Sir Robert Drury, Sept. 3), Windsor
(Sept. 3–10) with visit to Folly John Park, Thorpe (Richard Polsted,
Sept. 10), Byfleet (Sept. 10–11), Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln, Sept. 11–
12), Guildford (Sept. 12), Loseley in Artington (Sir William More,
Sept. 12–13), Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Sept. 13?-20), Odiham (Sept.
20–22), Mr. Hall’s (Sept. 22), Reading (Sept. 22–Oct. 8), Rotherfield
Greys (Sir Francis Knollys Oct. 8), Hurst (Richard Ward, Oct. 8–9),
Windsor (Oct. 9–12).
Oct. 12. Hampton Court.[224]
Dec. 26. =Warwick’s= (Painter’s Daughter).
Dec. 27. =Howard’s= (Tooley).

Dec. 30. =Leicester’s= (Collier).
1577

Jan. 1. =Paul’s= (Error).
Jan. 6. =Chapel= and =Windsor Chapel= together (Mutius Scaevola).
Feb. 2. =Sussex’s= (Cynocephali).
Feb. 12. Whitehall.[225]
Feb. 17–19 (S.). Cutwell rehearsed, but not played.
Feb. 17. =Howard’s= (Solitary Knight).
Feb. 18. =Warwick’s= (Irish Knight).
Feb. 19. =Paul’s= (Titus and Gisippus). Mask of children.
Feb. 26–March 3. Visit to Wanstead? (Earl of Leicester).[226]
April. Italian play before Privy Council at Durham Place.[227]
Apr. 29 < > May 6. Greenwich.[228]
May 9–10. Visit to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester).[229]
May 14–c. 25. Visits to Stoke Newington (John Dudley), Theobalds (Lord
Burghley, May 14 or 15, for 3 days), Northiaw (Earl of Warwick),
Gorhambury (Sir Nicholas Bacon, May 18–22), Fold? at Barnet (Mr.
Waller), Highgate (Thomas? Lichfield).[230]
June 24. Visit to Southwark for weddings of George, Earl of Cumberland,
to Margaret Russell, and Philip, Lord Wharton, to Frances Clifford.
[231]

c. July. Visit to Deptford.[232]
July 19. Richmond, by Clapham.[233]
July 24. Visit to Isleworth (Countess of Derby).[234]
July 26. Visits to Barn Elms (Sir Francis Walsingham?) and Mortlake Park
Lodge (Earl of Leicester).[235]
Aug. 23. Oatlands, by Hampton Court.[236]

Sept. 4–7 or 8. Visit to Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln).[237]
Sept. 12. Visit to Hanworth (Duchess of Somerset).[238]
c. Sept. Visit to Sir John Zouch.[239]
Sept. 23. Windsor, by Thorpe (Richard Polsted?).[240]
c. Sept. Visit to Sunninghill.[241]
Dec. 10. Hampton Court, by Staines.[242]
Dec. 26. =Leicester’s.=
Dec. 27. =Chapel.=
Dec. 28. =Warwick’s.=
Dec. 29. =Paul’s.=
1578

Jan. 5. =Howard’s.=
Jan. 6. =Warwick’s.=
Feb. 2. =Sussex’s.=
Feb. 9 (S.S.). =Warwick’s.=
Feb. 11. =Lady Essex’s= (instead of =Leicester’s=).
c. Feb. Visit to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham).[243]
Feb. 25–27. Visit to Putney (John Lacy?).[244]
Feb. 27–March 3 (?). Visit to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester).[245]
March 3. Greenwich.[246]
Apr. 5 and 28. Visits to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester).[247]
May 6–16. Visits to Tottenham (Lord Compton, May 6, 7), Theobalds (Lord
Burghley, May 7–10), Stanstead Abbots (Edward Bashe, May 10–12),
Copt Hall (Sir Thomas Heneage, May 12–13), Wanstead (Earl of
Leicester, May 13–16).[248]
May 16. Greenwich.[249]

July 11 < > 12–Sept. 23 < > 24. Progress in Essex, Herts., Suffolk,
Norfolk, Cambridgeshire.[250] West Ham (Henry? Meautys), Havering
(July 12–20), Theydon Garnon (John Branch), Mark Hall in Latton
(James Altham, July 23), Standon (Sir Ralph Sadleir, July 24), Berden
Priory (Margery Averie), Audley End (Thomas Howard, July 26–30),
[251]
Barham Hall in Linton (Robert Milsent), Keddington (Thomas
Barnardiston), De Greys in Cavendish (Sir George Colt, Aug. 1), Long
Melford (Sir William Cordell, Aug. 3–5), Lawshall (Sir William Drury,
Aug. 5), Bury St. Edmunds (Aug. 5, 6), Onehouse? (Sir William
Drury), Stowmarket?,[252] Euston (Edward Rookwood, Aug. 10),
Kenninghall (Earl of Surrey, Aug. 11, 12),[253] Bracon Ash (Thomas
Townsend, Aug. 16), Norwich (Bp. of Norwich, Aug. 16–22) with
visits to Costessey (Mary, Lady Jerningham, Aug. 19) and Mount
Surrey on Mousehold Hill (Earl of Surrey, Aug. 20), Kimberley (Sir
Roger Woodhouse, Aug. 22 or 23), Wood Rising (Sir Robert
Southwell, Aug. 24), Breckles (Francis Woodhouse), Thetford (Sir
Edward Cleere, Aug. 27), Hengrave (Sir Thomas Kitson, Aug. 28–30),
Chippenham (Thomas Revett, Sept. 1), Kirtling (Lord North, Sept. 1–
3), Horseheath (Sir Giles Alington, Sept. 4), Waltons in Ashdon
(Edward Tyrell). Horham Hall in Thaxted (Sir John Cutts, Sept. 7, 11),
Manuden (Thomas Crawley), Hadham Hall (Henry Capel, Sept. 14),
Hyde Hall in Sawbridgeworth (Henry? Heigham), Hatfield Broadoak?
(Sir Thomas Barrington, Sept. 15), Rookwood Hall in Roding Abbess
(Wiston Browne, Sept. 18), Theydon Bois (Mrs. Elderton) with visit to
Gaynes Park (Sir William Fitzwilliam, Sept. 19), Loughborough (John
Stonard, Sept. 21, 22), Wanstead (Earl of Leicester), Greenwich.
Sept. 25. Richmond.[254]
c. Dec. Visit to Hampton Court.[255]
Dec. 26. =Warwick’s= (Three Sisters of Mantua).
Dec. 27. =Chapel.=
Dec. 28. =Sussex’s= (Cruelty of a Stepmother).
1579

Jan. 1. =Paul’s= (Marriage of Mind and Measure).

Jan. 4. =Leicester’s= (A Greek Maid).
Jan. 6. =Sussex’s= (Rape of the Second Helen).
Jan. 11. Mask (Amazons and Knights) and barriers, for Alençon’s agent, M.
de Simier.[256]
Jan. 22 < > 25. Whitehall, by Chelsea.[257]
c. Jan. 31. Visit to Hampton Court, by Putney (John Lacy).[258]
c. Jan.-Feb. Visit to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester).[259]
Feb. 1–2. Tilt and barriers for John Casimir, son of Elector Palatine.[260]
Play by =Warwick’s= ready, but not shown.
March 1 (S.S.). =Warwick’s= (Knight in the Burning Rock).
March 2. =Chapel= (Loyalty and Beauty).
March 3. =Sussex’s= (Murderous Michael). Device by Earls of Oxford and
Surrey, Lord Thomas Howard, and Lord Windsor before French
ambassador and De Simier. Morris mask prepared, but not danced.[261]
Apr. 28 or 29–May 2. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester), by Greenwich.
[262]

June 24–26. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[263]
July 2. Greenwich, by Lambeth.[264]
July 15–17. Visits to Gravesend and Deptford.[265]
Aug. 17–29. Private visit of Duke of Alençon to England.[266]
c. Aug. 30–31. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[267]
Sept. 9–27 < > Oct. 2. Progress in Essex.[268] Stratford at Bow (Richard?
Young, Sept. 9), Havering (Sept. 11–14), Ingatestone (Lady Petre),
New Hall in Boreham (Earl of Sussex, Sept. 17, 18), Moulsham (Sir
Thomas Mildmay), Thoby (Anthony? Berners), Brentwood (John?
Searle), Giddy Hall in Romford (Richard Cooke, Sept. 25–7), Ilford
(Thomas Fanshawe, at St. Mary’s Hospital?).
Sept. 27 < > Oct. 2. Greenwich.[269]

Dec. 22. Whitehall.[270]
Dec. 26. =Sussex’s= (Duke of Milan and Marquis of Mantua).
Dec. 27. =Chapel= (Alucius).
Dec. 28. Play by =Leicester’s= ready, but not shown.
1580

Jan. 1. =Warwick’s= (Four Sons of Fabius).
Jan. 3. =Paul’s= (Scipio Africanus).
Jan. 6. =Leicester’s.=
Jan. 15. =Strange’s tumblers.=
Feb. 2. =Sussex’s= (Portio and Demorantes).
Feb. 14 (S.S.). =Derby’s= (The Soldan and the Duke of —— ).
Feb. 16. =Sussex’s= (Sarpedon).
c. Feb. Visit to Charterhouse.[271]
May 26 < > 29. Nonsuch, by Putney (John Lacy).[272]
c. June. Visits to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[273]
July 11 or 12. Oatlands, by Molesey.[274]
c. July-Aug. Visits to Chobham (Abp. Heath, Edward? Bray, John Wolley)
and Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln).[275]
Aug. 16–20. Visit to Sunninghill, and Windsor?[276]
c. Aug. 25–27. Visit to Woking.[277]
Sept. 13. Richmond, by Molesey (Thomas Brand).[278]
Sept. 17. Visit to Mortlake (Dr. John Dee).[279]
Oct. 10. Visit to Mortlake (Dr. Dee).[280]
c. Nov. Visits to Harmondsworth (Mr. Drury), Colnbrook (Henry? Draper),
Windsor, Eton College, Ditton Park, and Nonsuch.[281]

Dec. 6. Whitehall.[282]
Dec. 26. =Leicester’s= (Delight).
Dec. 27. =Sussex’s.=
1581

Jan. 1. =Derby’s.=
Jan. 6. =Paul’s= (Pompey). Challenge for tilt.
Jan. 22. Tilt.[283]
Feb. 2. =Sussex’s.=
Feb. 5 (S.S.). =Chapel.=
Feb. 7. =Leicester’s.=
March 20. St. James’s.[284]
Apr. 4. Visit to Golden Hind (Sir Francis Drake) at Deptford.[285]
Apr. 14. Challenge for Whitehall tilt.
Apr. 20. Whitehall.[286]
Apr. 20–June 14. Commissioners for marriage with Duke of Alençon in
London. Revels prepared barriers and two masks.[287]
Apr. 25. Dinner by Queen for commissioners.
Apr. 27. Dinner by Earl of Leicester for commissioners.
Apr. 30. Dinner by Lord Burghley for commissioners.
May 1. Baiting for commissioners.
May 4. Supper by Earl of Sussex for commissioners.
May 6–7. Tilt at Hampton Court for commissioners.
May 15–16. Tilt at Whitehall for commissioners.[288]
June 20. Greenwich.[289]
June 26 < > 30. Visit to Eltham.[290]

July 5–8. Visits to Aldersbrook in Little Ilford? (Nicholas? Fuller),
Loughborough (Francis Stonard), and Leyton (Mary, Lady Paulett).
[291]

July 27–29. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[292]
c. Sept. Visits to Eltham and Sundridge (William Isley).[293]
Sept. 22–23. Nonsuch, by Streatham (Dr. Robert Forth).[294]
Oct. 3. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[295]
Oct. 4. Richmond.[296]
Nov. 1. Visit of Duke of Alençon to England.[297]
Nov. 16 or 17. Whitehall, by Putney (John Lacy).[298]
Nov. 17–19. Tilt.[299]
Christmas. The Revels prepared five plays and a mask.[300]
Dec. 26. =Paul’s.=
Dec. 28. =Strange’s= (activities).
Dec. 31. =Chapel.=
1582

Jan. 1. Barriers.[301]
Jan. Visit to Deptford for launch of Golden Lion.[302]
Feb. 1–17. Progress in Kent at departure of Duke of Alençon. Southfleet
(William? Sedley, Feb. 1), Rochester (the Crown, Feb. 1–3),
Sittingbourne (the George, Feb. 3–5), Canterbury (Sir Roger
Manwood, Feb. 5–6), Sandwich (Mr. Manwood, Feb. 8), Dover (St.
James), Canterbury (Feb. 12), Faversham (Feb. 13), Newington
(Feb. 14), Rochester (Feb. 14–16) with visit to Bulley Hill (Anne? Watts),
Swanscombe (Ralph Weldon, Feb. 16), Horseman Place in Dartford
(Nicholas? Beer, Feb. 16–17).[303]
Feb. 17. Greenwich.[304]

Feb. 26 (S.M.). Play at wedding of William Wentworth and Elizabeth Cecil.
[305]

Feb. 27. =Chapel.=
c. March. Visit to Highgate (Lady Sheffield).[306]
c. Apr. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[307]
May 17–19. Hunting visit.[308]
May 20–22. Visit to Somerset House (Lord Hunsdon) for wedding of Sir
Edward Hoby and Margaret Carey.[309]
July 10–12. Nonsuch, by Putney (John Lacy).[310]
c. July-Aug. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[311]
Aug. 17. Oatlands, by Molesey (Thomas Brand).[312]
c. Aug.-Sept. Visits to Woking and Chobham (John Wolley).[313]
Sept. 1–2 <. Visit to Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln), by Byfleet (Lady Anne
Askewe)?[314]
Sept. 20. Windsor, by Egham (Richard Kellefet).[315]
c. Sept. Visits to Folly John, Mote Park, and Sunninghill.[316]
Dec. 26. =Chapel= (A Game of the Cards).
Dec. 27. =Hunsdon’s= (Beauty and Housewifery).
Dec. 30. =Derby’s= (Love and Fortune).
1583

Jan. 1. =Strange’s= (activities).
Jan. 5. Mask by ladies and boys.
Jan. 6. =Sussex’s= (Ferrar).
Jan. 12 < > 18. Richmond, by Colnbrook.[317]
Feb. 10 (S.S.). =Leicester’s= (Telomo).
Feb. 11. Visit to Barn Elms (Sir Francis Walsingham).[318]

Feb. 12. =Merchant Taylors= (Ariodante and Genevora).
c. March. Visit to Somerset House (Lord Hunsdon).[319]
c. Apr. 13. Wedding of Robert Southwell and Elizabeth Howard.[320]
Apr. 18. Greenwich, by Clapham (John Worsopp).[321]
May. Tilt for Count Albert of Alasco and French ambassador.[322]
May 27–31 < > June 1. Visits to Theobalds (Lord Burghley) and
Ponsbourne (Sir Henry Cock), by Edmonton (Lady Nicholas) and
Hackney (Sir Rowland Hayward).[323]
c. July. Visit to Nonsuch, by Streatham.[324]
July 30. Oatlands, by Chelsea, Mortlake, and Sion.[325]
c. Aug. 27. Visits to Woking, Loseley (Sir William More), Guildford, and
(?) Petworth (Earl of Northumberland).[326]
c. Aug. Visits to Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln) and Sunninghill, and to Hampton
Court.[327]
c. Sept. Visits to Chobham (John Wolley) and Egham.[328]
Oct. 5. St. James’s.[329]
Nov. 25–29. Visit to Hampton Court, by Brentford (Thomas Wilkes).[330]
Dec. 20. Whitehall.[331]
c. Oct.-Dec.? Visit to Arundel House (Earl of Arundel).[332]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 29. =Queen’s.=
1584

Jan. 1. =Oxford’s= (Campaspe?).
Jan. 6. =Chapel.=
? Jan. or Feb. Visits to Heneage House (Sir Thomas Heneage) and Tower
Hill (Lord Lumley).[333]

Feb. 2. =Chapel.=
March 3 (S.T.). =Queen’s= and =Oxford’s= (Sapho and Phao?).
Apr. 20 < > May 2. Greenwich.[334]
June 9. Richmond, by Stockwell.[335]
July 17 < > 21. Nonsuch.[336]
Aug. 7. Oatlands, by Kingston (George Evelyn).[337]
c. Aug. Visit to Cobham (Robert Gavell?).[338]
c. Sept. 2. Visits to Egham, Sunninghill, Windsor, Burley Bushes, Bagshot
(Sir Henry Weston), and Blackwater.[339]
Oct. 6 < > 10. Hampton Court.[340]
c. Nov. 5. Visit to Nonsuch.[341]
Nov. 12. St. James’s, by Putney (John Lacy).[342]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[343]
Dec. 6. Tilt.[344]
c. Dec. Visit to Arundel House.[345]
> Christmas. Greenwich.[346]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s= (Phyllida and Corin).
Dec. 27. =Oxford’s boys= (Agamemnon and Ulysses).
1585

Jan. 1. =Oxford’s= (activities).
Jan. 3. =Queen’s= (Felix and Philiomena).
Jan. 6. =Queen’s= (Five Plays in One).
Feb. 8 < > 12. Somerset House.[347]
Feb. 21 (S.S.). =Queen’s= (Three Plays in One), ready, but not shown.
Feb. 23. =Queen’s= (‘antick’ play and comedy).

Feb. 23 < > 26. Greenwich.[348]
c. March. Visit to Oatlands (?).[349]
March 26–30. Visit to Lambeth and Westminster.[350]
March 30 (?)-Apr. 3. Visits to Croydon (Abp.), Beddington (Sir Francis
Carew), and Lambeth (Abp.).[351]
c. Apr. Visit to Lewisham.[352]
c. May 2. Visit to Croydon.[353]
c. June 18. Visit to Theobalds by Edmonton (Mr. Brassey) and Tottenham
High Cross (Richard Martin).[354]
March-July. Tilt for M. de Campagny.[355]
July 11. Visit to Barn Elms.[356]
July 20 < > 24. Nonsuch.[357]
July 27–29. Visit to Putney (John Lacy).[358]
c. Aug. 25. Visit to Wimbledon.[359]
c. Aug. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[360]
Sept. 26 < > Oct. 1. Richmond.[361]
Nov. 17–19. Visit to Westminster (Lord Admiral).[362]
Dec. 20–21. Greenwich, by Lambeth (Lord Burgh).[363]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 27. =Howard’s.=
1586

Jan. 1. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 6. =Howard’s and Hunsdon’s.=
Jan. 9. =Stanley’s boys= (activities).
Feb. 13 (S.S.). =Queen’s.=

Feb. 26. Visit to Lambeth (Abp.).[364]
March 27–Apr. 6. Visit to Lambeth and Westminster.[365]
c. July 12. Richmond, by Putney (John Lacy).[366]
c. July. Visit to Hampton Court.[367]
Aug. 10. Windsor, by Staines.[368]
c. Sept. Visit to New Lodge.[369]
Oct. 24. Richmond, by Colnbrook.[370]
Dec. 20–21. Greenwich, by Clapham and Lambeth.[371]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 27. =Leicester’s.=
1587

Jan. 1. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 6. =Queen’s.=
Feb. 26 (S.S.). =Paul’s.=
Feb. 28. =Queen’s.=
c. Jan.-Apr. Archery show (Arthur and Round Table) by Hugh Offley
between Merchant Taylors and Mile End.[372]
Apr. 26–May 1 or 2. Visit to Croydon.[373]
May 1 or 2. Nonsuch.[374]
c. May. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[375]
May 25 < > 29. Greenwich, by Streatham (Dr. Robert Forth).[376]
c. July 9–Aug. 13. Theobalds (Lord Burghley), by Hackney (Sir Rowland
Hayward) and Enfield (Henry Middlemore), with visits to Waltham
Forest, Cheshunt (Lord Talbot), and Northiaw (Earl of Warwick, July
20–21).[377]

Aug. 13 < > 20. Oatlands, by Barnet (Mr. Waller), Harrow (William
Wightman), Sion, and West Molesey (Thomas Brand).[378]
Sept. 19 < > 24. Richmond.[379]
Oct. 24. Dinner at Westminster (Lord Admiral).[380]
Nov. 17–21. Visit to Westminster (Lord Admiral) with dinner at Barn Elms
(Sir F. Walsingham, Nov. 20).[381]
Nov. 18. Tilt.[382]
Nov. 21–Dec. 6. Visit to Ely House (Sir Christopher Hatton).[383]
Dec. 6. Somerset House.[384]
Dec. 23. Greenwich.[385]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 28. Symons and company (? =Queen’s=, activities).
1588

Jan. 1. =Paul’s= (Galathea?).
Jan. 6. =Queen’s.=
c. Jan. 16–20. Visits to Fulham (Bp. of London), Hounslow (Thomas
Crompton), Kensington (Mr. Malinge), and Lambeth (Abp.).[386]
Feb. 2. =Paul’s= (Endymion?).
Feb. 18 (S.S.). =Queen’s.=
Feb. 20. =Evelyn’s.=
Feb. 10 or 20. Show in honour of Leicester.[387]
Feb. 28. =Gray’s Inn= (Misfortunes of Arthur).
c. Apr. 13–16. Visits to Hackney (Sir Rowland Hayward), Tottenham High
Cross (Richard Martin), and Stoke Newington? (Roger? Townsend).
[388]

Apr.-May. Visits to Erith (Thomas? Compton), Croydon (Abp. of
Canterbury), by Lewisham and Wanstead (Earl of Leicester, May 7).

[389]

July 5–6. Richmond, by Lambeth and Stockwell.[390]
July 29. St. James’s, by Putney (John Lacy).[391]
Aug. 8–10. Visit to Tilbury camp, Ardern Hall in Horndon (Thomas Rich),
and (?) Belhus in Aveley (Edward Barrett).[392]
Aug. 19. Visit to Ely House (Sir Christopher Hatton).[393]
Aug. 26. Tilt.[394]
Oct. 25. Greenwich.[395]
Nov. 8 or 12. Salute from the Desire (Thomas Cavendish).[396]
Nov. 12 < > 17. Somerset House.[397]
Nov. 17. Tilt.
Nov. 19. Tilt.[398]
Nov. 24. Visit to St. Paul’s.[399]
Nov. 30. Greenwich.[400]
Dec. 21–23. Richmond, by Lambeth.[401]
Christmas. The Admiral’s showed activities as well as plays this winter.
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 27. =Paul’s.=
Dec. 29. =Admiral’s.=
1589

Jan. 1. =Paul’s.=
Jan. 12. =Paul’s.=
c. Jan. Visit to Hampton Court.[402]
Jan. 30. Whitehall, by Chelsea.[403]
Feb. 9 (S.S.). =Queen’s.=

Feb. 11. =Admiral’s.=
May 26–28. Visit to Barn Elms (Sir Francis Walsingham).[404]
c. June 11. Visit to Highgate.[405]
June 18–19. Nonsuch, by Merton Abbey (Gregory Lovell).[406]
Aug. 10 < > 16. Oatlands, by West Molesey (Thomas Brand).[407]
c. Sept. Visit to Hampton Court.[408]
Sept. 26 or 27. Richmond.[409]
c. Sept. Mask prepared for wedding of James VI in Scotland.[410]
Nov. 15. Somerset House.[411]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[412]
Dec. 2. Richmond, by Putney (John Lacy).[413]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 28. =Paul’s= and =Admiral’s= (activities).
1590

Jan. 1. =Paul’s.=
Jan. 6. =Paul’s= (Midas?).
Jan. 23–24. Greenwich, by Lambeth.[414]
Jan. 27. Visit to Earl of Warwick (at Bedford House?).[415]
March 1 (S.S.). =Queen’s.=
March 3. =Admiral’s.=
May 30 or 31–June 6. Visits to Hackney (Sir Rowland Hayward, Aug. 31),
Waltham Forest (Sir Richard Bartlett), and Ely House (Sir Christopher
Hatton, June 4–6).[416]
July 28 < > Aug. 6. Oatlands, by Sydenham House (William Aubrey?),
Beddington (Sir Francis Carew), Chessington (William Harvey), and
Stoke d’Abernon (Thomas Leyfield).[417]

Aug. Visit to the New Lodge.[418]
Aug. 30–31. Visit to Woking.[419]
Aug. 31 < > Sept. 6. Windsor, by Chobham (Edward? Bray) and
Sunninghill.[420]
Sept. Visits to Ditton Park and Folly St. John Park (Mr. Norris).[421]
Nov. 8 < > 14. Somerset House, by Staines, Richmond, and Putney (John
Lacy).[422]
Nov. 17, 19. Tilts.[423]
c. Nov. Visit to Sydenham Park.[424]
c. Nov. Visit to Ely House (Sir C. Hatton).[425]
c. Nov. 24. Richmond.[426]
Dec. 4, 14. Visits to Mortlake and East Sheen.[427]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 27. =Strange’s and Admiral’s= (play and activities).
1591

Jan. 1. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 3. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 6. =Queen’s.=
Feb. 11–13. Greenwich, by Lambeth.[428]
Feb. 14 (S.S.). =Queen’s.=
Feb. 16. =Strange’s and Admiral’s= (play and activities).
May 2 < > 9–20 < > 23. Visits to Hackney (Sir Rowland Hayward, May 9,
10), Tottenham High Cross (Sir Richard Martin), Theobalds (Lord
Burghley, May 10–20), Enfield (Robert Wroth), and Havering.[429]
c. July 1. Visit to Croydon (?).[430]

July 19. Visit to Burghley House (Lord Burghley) for review of Earl of
Essex’s horse in Covent Garden.[431]
July 29 < > Aug. 1–Sept. 27. Progress in Surrey, Sussex, and Hants.[432]
Mitcham (Margaret, Lady Blank), Nonsuch (Aug. 1, 2) with visit to
Beddington (Sir Francis Carew), Leatherhead (Edmund Tilney), East
Horsley (Thomas Cornwallis, Aug. 3), Clandon Park (Sir Henry
Weston), Guildford (Aug. 4), Loseley (Sir William More, Aug. 5–9),
Katherine Hall, Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Aug. 10–14), Bramshott
(Edmund Mervyn, Aug. 14), The Holt (Lord Delawarr), Cowdray
(Lord Montague, Aug. 14–20) with visit to Oseburn Priory (Lord
Montague, Aug. 17),[433] West Dean (Sir Richard Lewknor, Aug. 20),
Chichester (Lord Lumley, Aug. 20–22), Stanstead (Lord Lumley, Aug.
26), Portsmouth (Earl of Sussex, Aug. 26–31), Southwick (John White,
Aug. 31, Sept. 1), Tichfield (Earl of Southampton, Sept. 2, 3), South
Stoneham? (John Caplen), Southampton (Sept. 5, 6), Fairthorne
(Francis? Serle), Bishop’s Waltham (Bp. Winchester, Sept. 8, 9),
Warnford (William Neale), Tichborne (Sir Benjamin Tichborne),
Winchester (Bp.), Abbotstone (Marquis of Winchester), Wield
(William Wallop), Farleigh (Sir Henry Wallop, Sept. 12, 13), Basing
(Marquis of Winchester, Sept. 13–16) with visit to The Vine in
Sherborne St. John? (Lord Sandys, Sept. 18), Odiham (Edward More,
Sept. 19, 20), Elvetham (Earl of Hertford, Sept. 20–23),[434] Farnham
(Bp. Winchester, Sept. 23, 24) with visit to Bagshot?, Sutton in
Woking (Sir Henry Weston, Sept. 26–27).
Sept. 27. Oatlands.[435]
Oct. 4 < > 7. Richmond, by Hampton Court.[436]
c. Nov. 11. Visit to Ely House (Sir C. Hatton).[437]
Nov. 15 < > 20. Whitehall.[438]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[439]
Dec. 26. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 27. =Strange’s.=
Dec. 28. =Strange’s.=

1592

Jan. 1. =Strange’s.=
Jan. 2. =Sussex’s.=
Jan. 6. =Hertford’s.=
Jan. 9. =Strange’s.=
Feb. 6 (S.S.). =Strange’s.=
Feb. 8. =Strange’s.=
Apr. 7–21. Visits to Hammersmith (William Payne, Apr. 7), Osterley (Lady
Gresham, Apr. 7–9), Hampton Court (Apr. 12), Wimbledon (Sir
Thomas Cecil, Apr. 14–17), Croydon (Abp. of Canterbury, Apr. 17–
21?), Beddington (Sir Francis Carew, Apr. 18), Sydenham (William
Aubrey, Apr. 21).[440]
Apr. 21. Greenwich.[441]
c. Apr.-July (?). Visit to Blackfriars (Sir George Carey).[442]
July 29–31. Nonsuch, by Mitcham (John Dent).[443]
c. Aug. 9–Oct. 9. Progress in Surrey, Middlesex, Bucks., Berks., Wilts.,
Gloucestershire, and Oxon.[444] West Molesey (Thomas Brand),
Hanworth, Eastridge in Colnbrook (Ostrich Inn?), Eton College,
Maidenhead (the Lion), Bisham (Lady Russell, Aug. 11–13),[445] John
Haynes, Hurst (Edward? Ward), Reading (Mr. Davies, Aug. 15–19),
Burghfield (Francis? Plowden, Aug. 19), Aldermaston (Sir Humphrey
Forster, Aug. 19–22), Chamberhouse in Thatcham (Nicholas Fuller),
Shaw near Newbury (Thomas Dolman, Aug. 24–26) with hunt in
Donnington Park, Hampstead Marshall (Thomas Parry, Aug. 26–27?),
Avington (Richard? Choke, Aug. 27?), Ramsbury (Earl of Pembroke,
Aug. 27–29?),[446] Burderhope (Thomas Stevens, Aug. 29), Lydiard
Tregoze (Sir John St. John, Sept. 1), Down Ampney (Anthony
Hungerford, Sept. 1–2), Cirencester (Sir John Danvers, Sept. 2–7),
Rendcombe (Sir Richard Berkeley), Whittington (John Cotton, Sept.
9), Sudeley Castle (Lord Chandos, Sept. 9–12)[447] with visit to
Alderton (Sir John Hickford), Northleach (William Dutton?),
Sherborne (William Dutton, Sept. 14–15), Taynton? (Mr. Bray?),

Burford (Laurence Tanfield, Sept. 15–16), Witney (James Yate, Sept.
16–18), Woodstock (Sept. 18–23) with visit to Ditchley (Sir Henry
Lee),[448] Yarnton (Sir William Spencer, Sept. 23), Oxford (Sept. 23–
28),[449] Holton (George Browne, Sept. 28), Rycote (Lord Norris, Sept.
28–Oct. 1),[450] Princes Risborough (John Reve at parsonage),
Hampden (Mrs. Hampden, Oct. 2, 3), Chequers in Elsborough?
(William Hawtrey), Amersham?, Chenies (Lady Bedford, Oct. 4, 5),
Latimer? (Edwin Sandys), Denham (John Norris, Oct. 7), Uxbridge
(Francis? Clifford), Bedfont (John Draper, Oct. 9).
Oct. 9. Hampton Court.[451]
Nov. 17. Challenge for Shrovetide tilt.[452]
Dec. 26. =Pembroke’s.=
Dec. 27. =Strange’s.=
Dec. 31. =Strange’s.=
1593

Jan. 1. =Strange’s.=
Jan. 6. =Pembroke’s.=
c. Jan. Visit to Chelsea (Lord Admiral).[453]
Jan. 30–Feb. 1. Visit to Strand (Sir Robert Cecil), by Putney (John Lacy)?
[454]

Feb. 5–14. Visit to Burghley House (Lord Burghley).[455]
Feb. 17. Somerset House.[456]
Feb. 25. St. James’s.[457]
Feb. 26 (S.M.). Tilt.[458]
Apr. 21. Whitehall.[459]
May 2–14 <. Visit to Croydon (Abp.), by Streatham (Dr. Robert Forth).[460]
May 14 < > 22. Nonsuch.[461]

June 18 < > 24. Oatlands, by Hampton Court.[462]
Aug. 1 < > 4. Windsor, by Egham (Richard Kellefet).[463]
c. Aug. Visit to Sunninghill.[464]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[465]
Dec. 1. Hampton Court, by Laleham (Lawrence? Tomson).[466]
1594

Jan. 6. =Queen’s.=[467]
Feb. 10–12 (S.).
March 19. Greenwich, by Richmond and Somerset House (Lord Hunsdon).
[468]

May 29 < > June 2–June 22 < > July 5. Visits to Lambeth (Abp. of
Canterbury), Sion (June 3), Wimbledon (Sir Thomas Cecil, June 3),
Richmond, Osterley (Anne, Lady Gresham), Willesden (Mr. Payne,
June 7), Highgate (Sir William Cornwallis, June 7), Hendon (Sir John
Fortescue), Friern Barnet (Sir John Popham), Theobalds (Lord
Burghley, June 13–23?), Pyneste near Waltham, Enfield (Robert
Wroth), Loughborough (Francis Stonard), Hackney (Katharine, Lady
Hayward).[469]
July 12. Visit to Strand (Sir R. Cecil).[470]
Oct. 1 or 2. Nonsuch, by Camberwell (Bartholomew Scott) and Mitcham
(Lady Blank).[471]
Oct. 25 < > 31. Richmond, by Combe (Thomas Vincent).[472]
Nov. 14. Whitehall?, by Battersea.[473]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[474]
Nov. 27. Somerset House.[475]
Dec. 7. Visit to Savoy (Sir Thomas Heneage).[476]
Dec. 8. Visit to Hampton Court.[477]

Dec. 11. Greenwich.[478]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 28. =Admiral’s.=
1595

Jan. 1. =Admiral’s.=
Jan. 6. =Admiral’s.=
Jan. 26. Wedding of Earl of Derby and Lady Elizabeth Vere.[479]
=Chamberlain’s= (Midsummer Night’s Dream)?.
Jan. 30–Feb. 1. Visit to Burghley House (Lord Burghley).[480]
Feb. 18. St. James’s, by Lambeth (Abp.).[481]
Feb. 24 < > March 3. Whitehall.[482]
March 3 (S.M.). Mask (Proteus and the Rock Adamantine) by Gray’s Inn.
[483]

March 4. Tilt and Barriers.[484]
May 3. Greenwich.[485]
Aug. 18–22. Nonsuch, by Whitehall and Mitcham (John? Dent).[486]
c. Aug.-Oct. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[487]
Oct. 19 < > 24. Richmond, by Combe (Thomas Vincent).[488]
Nov. 4. Visit to Barn Elms (Earl of Essex).[489]
Nov. 14. Whitehall, by Putney (John Lacy).[490]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[491]
Nov. 27 or 28. Richmond.[492]
Dec. 11. Visit to Kew (Sir John Puckering).[493]
Dec. 18 or 19. Whitehall.[494]

Dec. 20. Visit to Huntingdon House (Lady Huntingdon).[495]
Dec. 23. Richmond, by Putney (John Lacy).[496]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 28. =Chamberlain’s.=
1596

Jan. 1. =Admiral’s.=
Jan. 4. =Admiral’s.=
Jan. 6. =Chamberlain’s.=
Feb. 22 (S.S.). =Chamberlain’s= and =Admiral’s=.
Feb. 24. =Admiral’s.=
Apr. 2–3. Greenwich, by Putney (John Lacy) and Lambeth.[497]
Apr. 8. Visit to Burghley House (Lord Burghley).[498]
c. Aug. Visit to Eltham.[499]
Oct. 1–2. Nonsuch, by Lambeth (Lord Burgh) and Mitcham.[500]
Oct. 12. Richmond, by Kingston (John? Cox).[501]
Nov. 17. Whitehall, by Putney (John Lacy).[502] Tilt.[503]
Dec. 23. Visit to Strand (Sir R. Cecil).[504]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Chamberlain’s.=
1597

Jan. 1. =Chamberlain’s.=
Jan. 6. =Chamberlain’s=.
Feb. 6 (S.S.). =Chamberlain’s.=
Feb. 8. =Chamberlain’s.=

Feb. 19. Visit to Chelsea (Earl of Nottingham).[505]
March. Visit to Putney (John Lacy).[506]
May 7. Greenwich.[507]
c. July 20–22. Visit to Scadbury (Sir Thomas Walsingham), by Eltham and
Chislehurst (Richard Carmarden).[508]
Aug. 17–Sept. 20. Progress in Essex, Middlesex, and Herts.[509] Hackney
(Lady Hayward), Ruckholt in Leyton (Michael Hicks, Aug. 17–19),
Claybury (Thomas Knyvett, Aug. 19), Havering (Aug. 19–30) with
visit to Pyrgo (Sir Henry Grey), Loughborough (Francis Stonard) with
hunt at Loughton (Robert Wroth), Mrs. Bracy (Sept. 5), Theobalds
(Lord Burghley, Sept. 5, 7, 9) with visit to Enfield Chase (Sir Robert
Cecil) and hunt in Waltham forest (Ralph Colston’s walk), Edmonton
(Mr. Woodward), Highgate (Sir William Cornwallis, Sept. 13, 18, 19),
Kensington (Walter Cope, Sept. 19), Putney (John Lacy, Sept. 19–20).
Sept. 20. Richmond.[510]
c. Oct. 20. Whitehall, by Putney (John Lacy) and Chelsea (Lord
Delawarr).[511]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[512]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Admiral’s.=
1598

Jan. 1. =Chamberlain’s.=
Jan. 6. =Chamberlain’s.= Mask (Passions) by Middle Temple.[513]
Feb. 26 (S.S.). =Chamberlain’s.=
Feb. 28. =Admiral’s.=
May 2. Greenwich.[514]
July 5. Visit to Burghley House (Lord Burghley).[515]
c. July. Visit to Eltham (Hugh Miller and John Lee).[516]

c. Sept. Visit to Newington (Mr. Saunderson).[517]
Sept. 12–13. Nonsuch, by Mitcham (Dr. Julius Caesar).[518]
Sept. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[519]
c. Oct. 10. Richmond, by Kingston (George? Evelyn).[520]
Nov. 13 or 14. Whitehall, by Chelsea (Earl of Shrewsbury).[521]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[522]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Admiral’s.=
1599

Jan. 1. =Chamberlain’s.=
Jan. 6. =Admiral’s.=
Feb. 10. Richmond, by Chelsea (Earl of Shrewsbury).[523]
Feb. 18 (S.S.). =Admiral’s.=
Feb. 20. Chamberlain’s.
Apr. 3. Greenwich, by Lambeth (Abp.).[524]
Apr. 7 (Easter Eve). Two Admiral’s men at court.[525]

June 25. Visit to Alice, Countess of Derby (Holborn?), for wedding of Mary
Hemingham.[526]

c. July. Visit to Eltham.[527]
July 27–30. Visit to Wimbledon (Thomas, Lord Burghley), by Vauxhall (Sir
Noel Caron).[528]
July 30. Nonsuch.[529]
Aug. 16–17. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[530]
c. Aug. 22. Visit to Somerset House.[531]
Sept. 4–7. Visit to Hampton Court.[532]
Oct. 3. Richmond, by Kingston (George? Evelyn).[533]
c. Oct. Visit to Hampton Court.[534]
Nov. 13. Whitehall, by Putney (John Lacy) and Chelsea (Earl of
Nottingham and Sir Arthur Gorges).[535]
Nov. 19. Tilt.[536]
Nov. 28. Visit to Earl of Essex at York House.[537]
Dec. 7. Richmond, by Putney (John Lacy).[538]
Christmas.[539]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Admiral’s= (Old Fortunatus?).
1600

Jan. 1. =Admiral’s= (Shoemaker’s Holiday).
Jan. 6. =Chamberlain’s.=
Jan. 19–21. Visit to Chelsea (Earl of Nottingham).[540]
Feb. 3 (S.S.). =Chamberlain’s.=
Feb. 5. =Derby’s.=
Apr. 13 < > 20. Greenwich, by Lambeth.[541]

May 12. Activities, by Peter Bromvill.
May 13. Baiting.[542]
June 10. Visit to Lumley House (Lord Lumley), Greenwich.[543]
June 16–17. Visit to Blackfriars (Lady Russell and Lord Cobham) for
wedding of Lord Herbert and Anne Russell, with mask (The Lost
Muse).[544]
July 29. Nonsuch, by Newington (Mr. Carey).[545]
Aug. 5–6. Visit to Tooting (John Lacy).[546]
Aug. 13–16. Visit to Beddington (Sir F. Carew) and Croydon (Aug. 14).[547]
Aug.? Visit to Kingston (George Evelyn).[548]
Aug. 24 < > 26. Oatlands, by Molesey (Dorothy, Lady Edmondes).[549]
Sept. 1. Hunt at New Lodge.[550]
Sept. 4. Visit to Hanworth (William Killigrew).[551]
Sept. 9. Visit to Esher (Richard Drake).[552]
> Sept. 12. Visit to Hampton Court (Earl of Nottingham).[553]
c. Sept.-Oct. Visit to Thorpe (Mr. Bereblock).[554]
Oct. 9. Richmond, by Sunbury (Sir Philip Boteler).[555]
Nov. 13. Whitehall, by Chelsea (Earl of Shrewsbury).[556]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[557]
> Dec. 4. Visit to Sackville House (Lady Glemham).[558]
Dec. 22. Visit to Strand (Sir R. Cecil).[559]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 28. =Admiral’s.=
1601

Jan. 1. =Paul’s= and =Derby’s=.

Jan. 6. =Chamberlain’s=, =Admiral’s=, =Derby’s=, and =Chapel=
(‘showe’).
Feb. 2. =Admiral’s.=
Feb. 22 (S.S.). =Chapel.=
Feb. 24. =Chamberlain’s.=
May 1. Visit to Highgate (Sir William Cornwallis).[560]
May 2. Visit to Chelsea (Earl of Lincoln)?[561]
May 7. Greenwich.[562]
May 23. Visit by Lambeth.[563]
c. July. Visits to Eltham (Hugh Miller) and Blackwall.[564]
Aug. 6–8. Windsor, by Fulham (Bp. of London), Brentford, Hanworth
(William Killigrew), Staines (Bush Inn, Aug. 8).[565]
Aug. Visits to Old Windsor (William? Meredith), Little Park, Mote Park,
Folly John Park (Anthony? Duck), and Philberds in Bray (William?
Goddard).[566]
Aug. 13. Visit to Stoke Poges (Sir Edward Coke).[567]
Aug. 28–Sept. 28. Progress in Berks., Hants, and Surrey.[568] Hurst (Sir
Richard Ward, Aug. 28), Reading (Mr. Davies?, Aug. 28–Sept. 1) with
visit to Caversham (Sir William Knollys),[569] Englefield (Sir Edward
Norris), Aldermaston (Sir Humphrey Forster, Sept. 5), Silchester Heath
(Sept. 5), Beaurepaire (Sir Robert Remington), Basing (Marquis of
Winchester, Sept. 5–19), South Warnborough (Richard White, Sept.
20), Crondall (Mr. Paulet), Farnham (Bp. of Winchester, Sept. 22, 23),
Seale (Lady Woodruff), Loseley (Sir George More, Sept. 23), Clandon
(Sir Richard Weston), Stoke d’Abernon (Thomas? Vincent), Absey
(Epsom?) Court (Mr. Blanden).
Sept. 28. Richmond.[570]
Oct. 24. Whitehall, by Putney.[571]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[572]

Christmas.[573] There may have been barriers.[574]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Chamberlain’s= and =Admiral’s= (with activities).
Dec. 29. Visit to Blackfriars (Lord Hunsdon), with play.[575]
1602

Jan. 1. =Chamberlain’s.=
Jan. 3. =Worcester’s.=
Jan. 6. =Chapel.=
Jan. 10. =Chapel.=
Feb. 14 (S.S.). =Chamberlain’s= and =Chapel=.
Feb. 19. Richmond, by Putney (John Lacy).[576]
Apr. 9 or 10. Visit to Wimbledon (Lord Burghley)?[577]
Apr. 19. Greenwich, by Lambeth (Abp.) and Blackfriars (Lord Hunsdon).
[578]

May 1. Visit to Sydmonscourt, Lewisham (Sir Richard Buckley).[579]
May 5. Visit to St. James’s Park (Dorothy Lady Chandos and Sir William
Knollys).[580]
c. July 15. Visit to Eltham (Sir John Stanhope, Hugh Miller, and Sir Thomas
Walsingham).[581]
July 28–Aug. 10? Progress in Middlesex and Bucks.[582] Lambeth (July
28), Chiswick (Sir William Russell, July 28), Hounslow (Mr. Whitby),
Harlington (Ambrose Copinger), Harefield (Sir Thomas Egerton, July
31–Aug. 3),[583] Hitcham (Sir William Clarke, Aug. 3–9) with visit to
Taplow (Sir Henry Guilford, Aug. 7), Riddings in Datchet (Richard?
Hanbury), Thorpe (Mr. Oglethorpe).
Aug. c. 10. Oatlands.[584]
c. Aug.-Sept. Visits to Woking, Chertsey (John Hammond), Byfleet Lodge,
New Lodge, and to Mr. Brooke in the forest, Mr. Bromley, and Mr.

Woodward.[585]
Oct. 2 <. Visit to West Drayton (Lord Hunsdon) by Bedfont (John Draper).
[586]

Oct. 8. Richmond.[587]
Nov. 15. Whitehall, by Putney (John Lacy).[588]
Nov. 17. Tilt.[589]
Dec. 6. Visit to Savoy (Sir Robert Cecil), with dialogues.[590]
Dec. 6 < > 23. Visits to Arundel House (Earl of Nottingham) and
Blackfriars (Lord Hunsdon).[591]
Christmas.[592]
Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.=
Dec. 27. =Admiral’s.=
1603

Jan. 1. =Paul’s.=
Jan. 6. =Hertford’s.=
Jan. 17. Visit to Charterhouse (Lord Howard de Walden).[593]
Jan. 21. Richmond, by Putney (John Lacy).[594]
Feb. 2. =Chamberlain’s.=
March 6 (S.S.). =Admiral’s.=
March 8 (?). =Admiral’s.=
March 24. Obiit Elizabetha. Accession of James.
Apr. 5–May 11. Progress of James from Scotland.[595] Seton (Earl of
Wintoun, Apr. 5), Dunglass (Lord Home, Apr. 5, 6), Berwick (Apr. 6–
8). Fenham (Sir William Read, Apr. 8), Widdrington (Sir Robert Carey,
Apr. 8, 9), Newcastle (Robert Dudley, Apr. 9–13), Lumley Castle
(Lord Lumley, Apr. 13), Durham Castle (Bp. of Durham, Apr. 13, 14),
Walworth (Mrs. Jenison, Apr. 14, 15), Topcliffe (William Ingleby, Apr.

15, 16), York (Lord Burghley, Apr. 16–18), Grimston Hall (Sir Edward
Stanhope, Apr. 18, 19), Pontefract Castle (Apr. 19), Doncaster (Bear
and Sun, Apr. 19, 20), Blyth (Apr. 20), Worksop (Earl of Shrewsbury,
Apr. 20, 21),[596] Southwell (Apr. 21), Newark Castle (Apr. 21, 22),
Belvoir Castle (Earl of Rutland, Apr. 22, 23), Burley on the Hill (Sir
John Harington, Apr. 23), Burghley (Lord Burghley, Apr. 23–27) with
another visit to Burley on the Hill (Apr. 25, 26), Apethorpe (Sir
Anthony Mildmay, Apr. 27), Hinchinbrook (Sir Oliver Cromwell, Apr.
27–29), Godmanchester (Apr. 29), Royston (Robert Chester, Apr. 29,
30), Standon (Thomas Sadleir, Apr. 30–May 2), Broxbourne (Henry
Cock, May 2, 3), Theobalds (Sir Robert Cecil, May 3–7), Stamford
Hill (May 7),[597] Charterhouse (Lord Howard de Walden, May 7–11)
with visits to Whitehall and St. James’s.
May 11. Tower, by Whitehall.[598]
May 13. Greenwich.[599]
May 25–27. Visits to Nonsuch by Putney, Beddington (Sir Francis Carew),
Oatlands, and Hampton Court.[600]
c. June 12. Visits to Sion and Windsor.[601]
June 1–27. Progress of Anne from Scotland.[602] Berwick (June 3), Bishop
Auckland? (Bp. of Durham), York (June 11–15), Grimston Hall (Sir
Edward Stanhope, June 15), Worksop (Earl of Shrewsbury), Newark,
Nottingham, Wollaton (Sir Percival Willoughby, June 21), Ashby de la
Zouch (Earl of Huntingdon. June 23), Leicester (Sir William Skipwith,
June 23, 24), Dingley (Sir Thomas Griffin, June 24, 25), Holdenby
(Christopher Hatton, June 25), Althorp (Sir Robert Spencer, June 25–
27),[603] Easton Neston (Sir George Fermor, June 27).
June 24. Windsor, by Hanworth (Sir William Killigrew).[604]
June 27–30. Visits to Easton Neston (June 27) meeting Anne, Grafton (Earl
of Cumberland, June 27, 28),[605] Salden in Muresly (Sir John
Fortescue), and probably Aylesbury (Sir John Packington), Hampden
(Alexander Hampden), and Great Missenden (Sir William Fleetwood).
[606]

July 13 < > 16. Hampton Court.[607]
July 22–23. Whitehall, by Fulham (Bp. of London).[608]
July 25. Coronation.[609]
July 27. Hampton Court.[610]
Aug. 10–Sept. 20. Progress in Surrey, Hants, Berks., and Oxon.[611]
Pyrford (Sir Francis Wolley, Aug. 10), Loseley (Sir George More, Aug.
11, 12), Farnham Castle (Bp. of Winchester, Aug. 14, 17), South
Warnborough (Sir Thomas White), Basing (Marquis of Winchester,
Aug. 17, 22, 23), Salisbury (Bp. of Salisbury, Aug. 26–28), Basing
again (Aug. 31), Shaw (Thomas Dolman), Woodstock (Sept. 8–20)
with visit to Sir Henry Lee (Sept. 15).
Sept. 20. Winchester.[612]
Sept. 20 < > Oct, 6. Play.[613]
Sept. 20 < > Oct. 17. Mask on arrival of Henry.[614]
Sept. 20 < > Oct. 17. Visits to Southampton and Isle of Wight.[615]
Oct. 20 < > 24. Wilton (Earl of Pembroke).[616]
Nov. 1. Visit to Salisbury.[617]
Dec. 2. =King’s= (As You Like It?).
Dec. 12 < > 21. Hampton Court.[618]
Christmas.[619]
Dec. 26. =King’s.=
Dec. 27. =King’s.=
Dec. 28. =King’s.=
Dec. 30. =King’s.=
1604

Jan. 1. =King’s= (two plays, one of Robin Goodfellow, Midsummer Night’s
Dream?). Mask (Indian and Chinese Knights).[620]

Jan. 2. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 4. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 6. Mask.
Jan. 8. Queen’s mask (The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses).
Jan. 13. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 15. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 21. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 22. =Prince’s.=
Jan. Tilt.[621]
Feb. 2. =King’s.=
Feb. 13. Whitehall.[622]
Feb. 19 (S.S.). =King’s.=
Feb. 20. =Prince’s= and =Paul’s= (Middleton’s Phoenix?).[623]
Feb. 21. =Queen’s Revels.=
March 12. Tower.[624]
March 13. Lion baiting.[625]
March 15. Entry through London with pageants to Whitehall.[626]
March 29. Tilt.[627]
May 1. Visit to Highgate (Sir William Cornwallis) with Jonson’s Penates.
[628]

May 30 < > June 2. Greenwich.[629]
June 16. Visit to Ruckholt in Leyton (Michael Hicks).[630]
July 3 or 4. Whitehall.[631]
July 12–21. Visits to Oatlands (July 14–16) and Windsor (July 18, 21).[632]

July 24–Aug. 14. Progress in Herts., Hunts., and Beds., broken by Spanish
visit.[633] Theobalds (Lord Cecil, July 24–29), Somersham (Sir John
Cutts, > Aug. 2), Bletsoe (Lord St. John, Aug. 5–14).
Aug. 10. Arrival of Fernandez de Velasco, Constable of Castile, and other
Spanish and Flemish commissioners at Somerset House.
Aug. 14. Whitehall.[634]
Aug. 19. Signature of treaty and dinner to commissioners at Whitehall, with
baiting and activities.[635]
Aug. 25. Departure of Constable of Castile.
Aug. 20–Sept. 6 < > 15. Progress resumed in Herts. and Oxon.[636] Ware
(Aug. 20), Woodstock (Sept. 6), Langley.
Sept. 6 < > 15. Windsor.[637]
Sept. 21. Visit to Eton College.[638]
Sept. 22. Hampton Court.[639]
Oct. 1–6. Visit to Windsor and Easton Neston (Sir George Fermor) to meet
Charles.[640]
Oct. 16. Whitehall.[641]
Nov. 1. =King’s= (Othello).
Nov. 4. =King’s= (Merry Wives of Windsor).
Nov. 23. =Prince’s.=
Nov. 24. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 14. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 19. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 26. =King’s= (Measure for Measure).
Dec. 27. Mask for wedding of Sir Philip Herbert and Lady Susan Vere.
Dec. 28. =King’s= (Comedy of Errors).
Dec. 30. =Queen’s= (How to Learn of a Woman to Woo).

1605

Jan. 1. =Queen’s Revels= (All Fools).
Jan. 3. =Queen’s Revels.=[642]
Jan. 6. Creation of Charles as Duke of York. Queen’s mask (Mask of
Blackness).
Jan. 7. =King’s= (Henry V).
Jan. 8. =King’s= (Every Man Out of His Humour).
Jan. 9 < > 14. =King’s= (Love’s Labour’s Lost), at the Earl of
Southampton’s or Viscount Cranborne’s for the Queen.[643]
Jan. 15. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 22. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 2. =King’s= (Every Man in His Humour). Mask by Duke of Holst (?).
[644]

Feb. 3. =King’s= (play ready but not shown).
Feb. 5. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 10 (S.S.). =King’s= (Merchant of Venice).
Feb. 11. =King’s= (Spanish Maze).
Feb. 12. =King’s= (Merchant of Venice).
Feb. 19. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 28 < > March 6. Greenwich.[645]
March 24. Tilt.[646]
Apr. 4. Tilt.[647]
May 20. Tilt.[648]
June 3. Lion baiting in Tower.[649]
June 26. Whitehall.[650]
July 15. Baiting for imperial ambassador.[651]

July 16–Aug. 31. Progress in Essex, Herts., Beds., Northants., Oxon., and
Berks.[652] Havering (July 16–18), Loughton (Sir Robert Wroth, July
18–20), Theobalds (Earl of Salisbury, July 20–24), Hatfield (July 24–
26), Luton (Sir John Rotheram, July 26–27), Ampthill (July 27–Aug.
1), Bletsoe (Lord St. John, Aug. 1–3), Drayton (Lord Mordaunt, Aug.
3–6), Apethorpe (Sir Anthony Mildmay, Aug. 6–9), Rockingham (Sir
Edward Watson, Aug. 9–12), Harrowden (Lord Vaux, Aug. 12–15),
Castle Ashby (Lord Compton, Aug. 15–16), Grafton (Earl of
Cumberland, Aug. 16–20), Hanwell (Sir Anthony Cope, Aug. 20–21),
Wroxton (Sir William Pope, Aug. 21), Woodstock (Aug. 21–27),
Oxford (Aug. 27–30),[653] Bisham (Sir Edward Hoby, Aug. 30–31).
Aug. 31. Windsor.[654]
Sept. 10 < > 12. Hampton Court.[655]
c. Sept. 30. Whitehall.[656]
Dec. 1. =Prince’s.=
Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (ten) and =Paul’s= (two).
Dec. 27. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 30. =Prince’s.=
1606

Jan. 1. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 4. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 5. Mask (Hymenaei) for wedding of Essex and Frances Howard.
Jan. 6. Barriers, with speeches (Truth and Opinion) by Jonson.
March 3 (S.M.). =Prince’s.=
March 4. =Prince’s.=
March 22. Rumoured assassination of James on visit to Woking.[657]
March 24. Tilt.[658]
March 28. Visit incognito to Guildhall for trial of Henry Garnet.[659]

May 16. Greenwich.[660]
June 1. Challenge for tilt by Knights of the Fortunate Island, or the Lucent
Pillar.[661]
June 22–23. Birth and death of Princess Sophia.
July c. 15–17. Visits to Oatlands and Farnham.[662]
July 17–Aug. 11. Visit of Christian IV of Denmark.[663] Plays (two) by
=King’s= at Greenwich.
July 18. Kings meet at Tilbury.
July 18–24. Greenwich.
July 24–28. Visit to Theobalds (Earl of Salisbury), by Blackwall and
Stratford. Mask (Solomon and Queen of Sheba).[664]
July 24. Entertainment by Jonson.
July 28–31. Greenwich.
July 30. =Paul’s= (Abuses).[665]
July 31. Triumph through London to Somerset House, with pageants at
Great Conduit (Bower of the Muses), Little Conduit (Concord), and
Fleet Conduit (Pastoral).
Aug. 1–2. Whitehall.
Aug. 2–6. Greenwich.
Aug. 4. Ringing.
Aug. 5. Tilt.
Aug. 6. Masters of defence.
Aug. 6. Visit to Richmond.
Aug. 7. Visit to Hampton Court, with play by =King’s=.
Aug. 7–8. Visit to Windsor.
Aug. 8–9. Greenwich.
Aug. 9–11. Rochester (Bp. William Barlow).

Aug. 10. Dinner on Elizabeth James near Chatham.
Aug. 11. Farewell on Admiral of Denmark at Gravesend, with fireworks,
c. Aug. 17. Hampton Court.[666]
Aug. Progress, including Farnham (Aug. 23–24, Bp. of Winchester) and
Beaulieu (Aug. 30, Earl of Southampton).[667]
Sept. 11–c. 18. Visit to Windsor.[668]
Oct. 20 < > Nov. 1. Whitehall.[669]
Dec. 26. =King’s= (King Lear).
Dec. 28. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 29. =King’s=.
1607

Jan. 4. =King’s.=
Jan. 6. =King’s.= Mask (by Campion) for wedding of Lord Hay and Honora
Denny.
Jan. 8. =King’s.=
Jan. 13, 24, 30. =Prince’s= (three plays).
Feb. 1. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 2. =King’s= (Barnes’s Devil’s Charter).
Feb. 5. =King’s.=
Feb. 11. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 15 (S.S.). =King’s.=
Feb. 27. =King’s.=
March 24. Tilt.[670]
May c. 20–24. Entry on Theobalds, with entertainment by Jonson.[671]
May 25. Tilt for Prince de Joinville. Play (Aeneas and Dido) at banquet by
Earl of Arundel for Anne.[672]

June 12. Visit to Lord Mayor and Clothworkers.[673]
July 16. Visit to Merchant Taylors, with speech by Jonson.[674]
July 19. Windsor, by Oatlands?[675]
Aug. Progress in Hants and Wilts.[676] Basing (Marquis of Winchester,
Aug. 5), Romsey, Beaulieu (Earl of Southampton, Aug. 10, 12),
Salisbury (Aug. 14–23), and possibly Isle of Wight.
Aug. 23 < > Sept. 7. Windsor.[677]
Sept. 23 < > 27. Hampton Court.[678]
Oct. 27 < > 29. Whitehall.[679]
Nov. 19. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 26, 27, 28. =King’s= (three plays).
Dec. 30. =Prince’s.=
1608

Jan. 2. =King’s.=
Jan. 3. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 4. =Prince’s.= Fireworks.[680]
Jan. 6. =King’s= (two plays).
Jan. 7. =King’s.=
Jan. 9. =King’s.=
Jan. 10. Queen’s mask (Mask of Beauty).
Jan. 17. =King’s= (two plays).
Jan. 26. =King’s.=
Feb. 2, 7 (S.S.). =King’s= (two plays).
Feb. 9. Mask (by Jonson) for wedding of Viscount Haddington and
Elizabeth Radcliffe.
March 24. Tilt.[681]

May 13 < > 19. Greenwich.[682]
July 1. Whitehall.[683]
July 7 < > 14–Aug. 14 < > 28. Progress in Herts., Beds., and Northants.
[684]
Theobalds (July 14–20) with visit to Lamer in Wheathampstead
(Sir John Garrard, July 19), Toddington (Lady Cheyne, July 24, 25),
Grafton (Duke of Lennox, Aug. 1–3), Alderton (Sir Thomas Hesilrige,
Aug. 4), Holdenby (Duke of York, Aug. 5–14) with visit to Bletsoe
(Lord St. John, Aug. 5).
Aug. 14 < > 28. Windsor.[685]
Sept. 4 < > 17. Hampton Court.[686]
Oct. 1 < > 21. Whitehall.[687]
Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (twelve), =Queen’s= (five),
Prince’s (three), and =Children of Blackfriars= (three).[688]
1609

Jan. 1. =Children of Blackfriars= (Middleton’s Trick to catch the Old One).
Jan. 4. =Children of Blackfriars.=
Feb. 2. Queen’s mask (Mask of Queens).
Feb. 28 (S.T.). Ringing.[689]
March 24. Tilt.[690]
Apr. 11. Visit to Durham House for opening of Britain’s Burse.[691]
Apr. 18. Baiting.[692]
May 6 < > 15. Greenwich.[693]
June 23. Lion baiting in Tower.[694]
July 6. Whitehall.[695]
July 22. Windsor.[696]
July 23–Aug. 20 < > 31. Progress in Surrey, Hants, Wilts., Dorset.[697]
Farnham (Bp. of Winchester, July 23–26), Basing (Marquis of

Winchester, July 26), Beaulieu (Earl of Southampton, Aug. 3–7),
Salisbury (Aug. 15, 20), Cranborne (Aug. 17–19), Tarrant.
Aug. 20 < > 31. Windsor.[698]
Sept. 1 < > 7. Hampton Court.[699]
Oct. 30. Whitehall.[700]
Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (thirteen) and =Children of
Whitefriars= (five).
Dec. 26. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 27. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 28. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 31. Challenge for barriers by Henry as Meliadus.
1610

Jan. 6. Henry’s barriers, with speeches by Jonson.[701]
Jan. 7. =Prince’s.=[702]
Jan. 18. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 9. Duke of York’s.
Feb. 18–20 (S.).
March 24, 27. Tilt.[703]
Apr. 20. Lion baiting in Tower.[704]
Apr. 23. Triumph for Henry at Chester.[705]
May 31–June 6. Creation of Henry as Prince of Wales.[706]
June 5. Queen’s mask (Tethys’ Festival).
June 6. Tilt, water triumph, and fireworks.[707]
June 19. Visit to Woolwich.[708]
July 24–c. Sept. 2. Progress in Northants., Oxon., Berks., and Hants.[709]
Bletsoe (Lord St. John, July 29), Holdenby (Duke of York, Aug. 5, 6,

11, 12, 13, 19) with visits to Apethorpe (Sir Anthony Mildmay) and
Kirby (Sir Christopher Hatton, Aug. 7) and Castle Ashby (Lord
Compton, Aug. 13, 14), Grafton (Duke of Lennox, Aug. 19),
Woodstock (Aug. 22–25), Bisham (Sir Edward Hoby, Aug. 28),
Aldershot (Walter Tichborne? Sept. 2).
c. Sept. 2. Hampton Court.[710]
Oct. 8 < > 18. Whitehall.[711]
Dec. 10. =Queen’s= (three plays).
Dec. 12. =Duke of York’s.=
Dec. 19. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 20. =Duke of York’s.=
Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (fifteen).
Dec. 27. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 28. =Prince’s.=
1611

Jan. 1. Prince’s mask (Oberon).
Jan. 14. =Prince’s.=
Jan. 15. =Duke of York’s.=
Jan. 16. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 2. Queen’s mask (Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly).
Feb. 3–5 (S.).
Feb. 3. King’s (Mucedorus)?
Apr. 27. Greenwich.[712]
June 26 < > July 2. Windsor.[713]
July 18–21. Visit to Englefield (Sir Edward Norris).[714]
July 22 < > 25–Sept. 1 < > 10. Progress in Surrey, Hants, Wilts., and Isle of
Wight.[715] Farnham (Bp. of Winchester, July 25–8), Salisbury (Aug. 3,

6, 10, 13), Beaulieu (Earl of Southampton, Aug. 19, 21, 26) with visit
to Isle of Wight (Aug. 22), Tichborne (Sir Benjamin Tichborne, Aug.
29), Farnham (Aug. 31), Bagshot (Sept. 1).
Sept. 1 < > 10. Hampton Court.[716]
Oct. 31. Whitehall.[717] =King’s.=
Nov. 1. King’s (Tempest).
Nov. 5. King’s (Winter’s Tale).
Nov. 9. =King’s.=
Nov. 19. =King’s.=
Dec. 16. =King’s.=
Christmas.[718]
Dec. 26. Ringing.[719] =King’s= (A King and no King).
Dec. 27. =Queen’s= (Greene’s Tu Quoque).
Dec. 28. =Prince’s.=
Dec. 29. =Prince’s= (Almanac).
Dec. 31. =King’s.=
1612

Jan. 1. Ringing.[720] =King’s= (Twins’ Tragedy).
Jan. 5. =King’s= and/or =Children of Whitefriars= (Cupid’s Revenge).
Jan. 6. Ringing.[721] Prince’s mask (Love Restored?) by gentlemen of the
court.
Jan. 7. =King’s.=
Jan. > 12–22. Visit of Anne and Henry to Greenwich.[722]
Jan. 12. =King’s and Queen’s= (Silver Age) and/or =Duke of York’s=.
Jan. 13. =King’s and Queen’s= (Rape of Lucrece).
Jan. 15. =King’s.=

Jan. 19. =Lady Elizabeth’s.=
Jan. 21. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 23. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 28. =Duke of York’s.=
Feb. 2. =Queen’s= (Greene’s Tu Quoque).
Feb. 5. =Prince’s.=
Feb. 9. =King’s.=
Feb. 13. =Duke of York’s.=
Feb. 19. =King’s.=
Feb. 20. =King’s= (two plays).
Feb. 23 (S.S.). =King’s= (Nobleman).
Feb. 24. =Duke of York’s= (Hymen’s Holiday or Cupid’s Vagaries).
Feb. 25. Ringing. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (Proud Maid’s Tragedy).
Feb. 28. Visit by Henry to Marquis of Winchester, with plays.[723]
=King’s.=
Feb. 29. =Prince’s.=
March 11. =Lady Elizabeth’s.=
March 24. Tilt.[724]
March 28. =King’s.=
Apr. 3. =King’s.=
Apr. 11. =Prince’s.=
Apr. 16. =King’s.=
Apr. 26. =King’s=, for Duc de Bouillon?[725]
May-June. Visits to Eltham, Wanstead (Sir Edward Phelips, June 17, 25),
and Havering (Lady Oxford, June 18).[726]
c. July 9. Visit to Kensington (Sir Walter Cope).[727]

c. July 17–c. Sept. 1. Progress in Herts., Beds., Northants., Rutland, Notts.,
Leicester, Oxon., Berks.[728] Theobalds (July 17), St. Albans?, Wrest?
(Earl of Kent), Ampthill (July 23), Bletsoe (Lord St. John, July 24–27),
Castle Ashby (Lord Compton, July 27–30), Kirby (Sir Christopher
Hatton, July 30–Aug. 3), Apethorpe (Sir Anthony Mildmay, Aug. 3–6),
Brooke (Sir Edward Noel, Aug. 6–7), Belvoir (Earl of Rutland, Aug.
7–10), Newark Castle (Aug. 10–11), Rufford Abbey (Sir George
Saville, Aug. 11–14), Newstead Abbey (Sir John Byron, Aug. 14–17),
Nottingham (Thurland House, Aug. 17–18), Loughborough (Aug. 18–
19), Leicester (Earl of Huntingdon, Aug. 19–21), Dingley (Sir Thomas
Griffin, Aug. 21–22), Holdenby (Duke of York, Aug. 22–24), Grafton
(Duke of Lennox, Aug. 24–26?), Hanwell? (Sir Anthony Cope),
Woodstock (Prince Henry, Aug. 26–31?),[729] Rycote (Lord Norris,
Aug. 31–Sept. 1?), Bisham (Sir Edward Hoby, Sept. 1?).
Sept. 1 < > 21. Whitehall.[730]
Oct. 16. Arrival of Elector Palatine.[731]
Oct. 20. =Lady Elizabeth’s.=[732]
Oct. 29. Visit of Elector to Lord Mayor’s show.[733]
Oct. 31 or Nov. 1. Play put off for Henry’s illness.[734]
Nov. 2 or 3. =Queen’s Revels= (Coxcomb)?[735]
Nov. 6. Death of Henry.
Christmas. Twenty plays by =King’s= this winter (Shakespeare’s 1, 2 Hen.
IV (?), J. C., M. Ado (twice), Oth., W. Tale, Tp.; Jonson’s Alchemist;
Beaumont and Fletcher’s Philaster (twice), Maid’s Tragedy, King and
No King, Captain; Tourneur’s Nobleman; Niccolls’s Twins; Ford’s A
Bad Beginning, and Cardenio, Merry Devil of Edmonton, Knot of
Fools).[736]
Dec. 27. Betrothal of Elector and Elizabeth.[737]
1613

Jan. 1. =Queen’s Revels= (Cupid’s Revenge).
Jan. 9. =Queen’s Revels= (Cupid’s Revenge).

Feb. 11. Fireworks.
Feb. 13. River triumph.
Feb. 14 (S.S.). Wedding of Elector and Elizabeth. Lords’ mask (by
Campion).
Feb. 15. Ringing. Middle Temple and Lincoln’s Inn mask (by Chapman).
Feb. 16. =King’s.= Mask put off.
Feb. 20. Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn mask (by Beaumont).
Feb. 21. Banquet for James and the maskers.
Feb. 25. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (Dutch Courtesan).
Feb. 27. =Queen’s Revels= (Widow’s Tears).
March 1. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (Raymond Duke of Lyons).
March 2. =Prince Charles’s= (1 The Knaves).
March 2–c. 4. Visit of Charles and Elector to Cambridge, with Brooke’s
Adelphe (Mar. 2) and Scyros (Mar. 3) by Trinity men.
March? Visit by Frederick to Oxford.[738]
March 10. =Prince’s= (2 The Knaves).
March 24. Tilt.[739]
Apr. 10. Departure of Elector and Elizabeth, accompanied by James to
Rochester (Apr. 13).[740]
Apr. 24–June 17. Progress of Anne.[741] Hampton Court, with James,
Windsor, Reading (the Friars), Caversham (Lord Knollys, Apr. 27–28),
[742]
Bath, Bristol (Marchioness of Winchester, June 4–8),[743] Siston
(Sir Henry Billingsley, June 8), Bishop’s Cannings (June 11).[744]
May 26. Greenwich.[745]
June 8. =King’s= (Cardenio) for Savoyard ambassador.
July 1–4. Visits to Hampton Court and Oatlands.[746]
c. July 8. Whitehall.[747]

c. July 18. Windsor.[748]
July 19 < > 20–c. Aug. 21. Progress in Surrey, Hants, and Wilts.[749]
Farnham (Bp. of Winchester, July 20), Basing (Marquis of Winchester,
July 23), Andover (July 24, 26), Lydiard (Sir Oliver St. John?, July
27), Charlton (Earl of Suffolk, July 31), Salisbury (Aug. 5), Beaulieu
(Earl of Southampton, c. Aug. 6 < > 21).
July-Sept. Visits of Anne to Bath and Wells (Aug. 20–22).[750]
c. Aug. 21. Windsor.[751]
Sept. 8. Whitehall.[752]
c. Sept. 28. Visit to Hampton Court.[753]
Nov. 1. =King’s.=
Nov. 4. =King’s.=
Nov. 5. =King’s.=
Nov. 15. =King’s.=
Nov. 16. =King’s.=
Dec. 12. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (Dutch Courtesan).
Dec. 24 or 28. =Queen’s.=
Dec. 26. Mask (by Campion) for wedding of Earl of Somerset and Frances
Howard.
Dec. 27. =King’s.= Challenge for tilt, with device by Jonson.
Dec. 29. Mask (Irish Mask) for wedding.
1614

Jan. 1. Tilt. =King’s.=
Jan. 3. Irish Mask repeated.
Jan. 4. =King’s.=
Jan. 4. Play and two masks (one Middleton’s lost Mask of Cupid) by City at Merchant
Taylors for wedding.[754]

Jan. 5. =Queen’s.=
Jan. 6. Gray’s Inn mask (Mask of Flowers) for wedding.[755]
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.[756]
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.[757]
June 8 < > 12. Greenwich.[758]
June 21. Whitehall.[759]
June 29. Visit to Richmond.[760]
July 17–23. Progress in Herts., Essex, Beds., broken by Denmark visit.[761]
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.[762]
July 24 < > 30. Plays before Christian.[763]
Aug. 1. Visit to Woolwich, Rochester, and Gravesend for departure of
Christian.[764]
Aug. 1–31. Progress resumed in Herts., Northants., Rutland, Notts.,
Leicestershire, Oxon., Berks.[765] 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.[766]
Nov. 1. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (Bartholomew Fair).
Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (eight), =Queen’s= (three),
=Elector Palatine’s= (three), =Prince’s= (six).[767]
1615

Jan. 6. Household mask (Mercury Vindicated?).
Jan. 8. Mask repeated.
Feb. 19–21 (S.). Mask by Spanish ambassador?[768]
March 7–11. Visit of James and Charles to Cambridge.[769]
March 24. Tilt.[770]
May 13–15. Visit to Cambridge.
> May 21. Greenwich.[771]
c. July 2–5. Visit to Oatlands.[772]
July 20. Windsor.[773]
July 21–c. Sept. 2. Progress in Surrey, Hants, Wilts., and Dorset.[774]
Bagshot (July 22), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, July 23), Andover
(July 26), Salisbury (July 28–31, Aug. 5), Lulworth Castle (Viscount
Bindon, Aug. 15), Broadlands (Henry? St. Barbe, Aug. 27), Tichborne
(Sir Benjamin Tichborne, Aug. 29), Farnham (Bp. of Winchester, Aug.
31).

c. Sept. 2. Windsor.[775]
Sept. 2 < > Oct. 18. Whitehall.[776]
Dec. 17. =Queen’s= at Somerset House.
Dec. 21. =King’s= at Somerset House.
Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (fourteen), =Queen’s= (four), and
=Prince’s= (four).
1616

Jan. 1. Household mask (Golden Age Restored?).
Jan. 6. Mask repeated.
Feb. 11–13 (S.).
March 4 < > 16. Visit to Royston, with play (Susenbrotus?) by Cambridge
men.[777]
March 25. Tilt.[778]
Apr. 23. Obiit Gulielmus Shakespeare.

APPENDIX B

COURT PAYMENTS

The body of this appendix contains extracts from the accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber and
the Office of Revels, in which expenditure on plays or masks at court is recorded. But in view of the
importance of these documents as sources for the history of court entertainment, it will be well to add
something about their general nature and state of preservation to what has already been said about the
procedure of the Treasurer of the Chamber in ch. ii and that of the Revels Office in ch. iii.
THE AUDIT OF HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS

Most, but not all, of the accounts preserved are records of audit. There is, unfortunately, no
systematic history of the Audit Office; but the somewhat scrappy notices in F. S. Thomas, The Ancient
Exchequer of England (1848), and H. Hall, Studies in English Official Historical Documents (1908),
and A Formula Book of English Official Historical Documents, Part II (1909), may be supplemented
for the Tudor period by the valuable study of M. D. George, The Origin of the Declared Account
(1916, E. H. R. xxxi. 41). The Record Office series of Lists and Indexes includes lists of Declared
Accounts (ii) and Exchequer Accounts (xxxv). Normally the auditing of royal expenditure was a
function of the mediaeval Exchequer. The procedure was for the officer charged with incurring
expenditure to appear as accountant before the Auditor-Baron and his Clerk, and produce detailed
statements, known as ‘particulars’, together with vouchers for sums already spent out of any ‘imprest’
or advance that had been made to him, and the warrants under which his expenditure was authorized.
From these the Exchequer officers prepared a ‘compotus’ or balance sheet, signed it, when the balance
was settled, as a record that the accountant was ‘quietus’ or quit from debt to the Crown, and passed it
through the King’s Remembrancer to the Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer, in whose office it was
enrolled by the Clerk of the Pipe on the roll of ‘foreign’ or non-revenue accounts. It was then returned
to the King’s Remembrancer, who kept it, with the particulars and vouchers as subsidiary documents.
It was a lengthy and cumbrous process. Moreover, the Lord Treasurer, like the Lord Chancellor, was
one of the high officers of state whose functions came at an early date under the control of the barons,
and the same motives, which led the sovereign (cf. ch. ii) to develop in the Wardrobe and Chamber an
executive machinery independent of the Lord Chancellor, also led him to desire that his more private
expenditure should be withdrawn from the survey of the Exchequer. Thus we find the Treasurer of the
Chamber accountable (cf. ch. ii) at the end of the fifteenth century to the King alone, and in the mid-
sixteenth century to the Court of Surveyors or to ad hoc auditors specially appointed by the King or
the Privy Council. When the Court of Augmentations absorbed the Court of Surveyors in 1553, its
establishment included two Auditors of Prests, and although this court was itself merged in the
Exchequer under Mary, the more up-to-date methods of auditing were continued by Elizabeth’s
appointment in 1560, as themselves Exchequer officers, of two ‘Auditores de lez Prestes et
Compotorum forinsecorum nostrorum’. The main difference between the methods of the Auditors of
the Prests and that of the Auditor-Baron appears to have been that the personal appearance of the
accountant was no longer necessary, who now himself prepared in duplicate a balance sheet known as
his Original Account, or Book of Account, of which one copy was signed after examination and
returned to him as evidence of his quittance, while the other was kept by the Auditors, who based
upon it a summary known as the Declared or Recorded Account, which took the place of the old
Compotus. This also was in duplicate. Apparently the Auditors kept one copy, on paper, and sent
another, on parchment, for preservation, as of record, in the Pipe Office. I understand Miss George,
however, to think that the accountant was entitled to the paper copy, if he chose to pay a fee for it,
which he very often did not. The amount of detail taken into the Declared Account from the Original
Account varied for different offices. The Revels Declared Accounts are very summary; those of the
Treasurer of the Chamber, at any rate as regards play-payments, practically duplicates of the Original

Accounts, except that, unfortunately, the names of plays, which sometimes appeared in the Original
Accounts, are usually omitted. The Auditors also kept the subsidiary documents submitted with the
Original Account, and became involved in a controversy, recorded in T. Fanshawe, The Practice of the
Exchequer Court (1658), with the King’s Remembrancer, who claimed that they should come to him.
The King’s Remembrancer did apparently see the Declared Account on its way to the Pipe Office, and
enrolled it, or a further summary of it. About 1603 all the Household accounts appear to have gone
before the Auditors of the Prests, except those of the Cofferer, which still followed the old course of
the Exchequer. The procedures here described explain the provenance of such Household accounts as
belong to the official repositories now united in the Record Office; some others, preserved there or
elsewhere, come from the private archives of the accountants themselves, being either the audit
duplicates supplied to them, or office copies and drafts of their own Original Accounts, or the
journals, pay books, and ledgers from which these were prepared.
CHAMBER ACCOUNTS

The following accounts appear to be extant.
(a) Mediaeval Period.

A few accounts and subsidiary documents of the reigns of Edward II, Edward III, and Richard II
are included in the Foreign Accounts on the Great Rolls of the Exchequer (P. R. O. Lists and Indexes,
xi. 108, 109), and in the Exchequer Wardrobe and Household Accounts (L. and I. xxxv. 376, 379, 380,
382, 386, 391, 392, 396, 540). The earliest are described, with extracts, by J. C. Davies, The First
Journal of Edward II’s Chamber (E. H. R. xxx. 662).
(b) Early Tudor Period.

A number of accounts passed from the Augmentation Office to the Exchequer and were
amalgamated in 1839 with others from the office of the King’s Remembrancer in a series of
Exchequer Accounts, Various. Here they are numbered 413 to 427. They are mainly accounts of
revenue and subsidiary documents, but a few accounts of payments presented to the Record Office by
the Trevelyan family have been added to the series, and with them are listed as Wardrobe and
Household Accounts (L. and I. xxxv) some other payment accounts from the Miscellaneous Books of
the Treasury of Receipt of the Exchequer, and one from the Miscellaneous Books of the Court of
Augmentations. Other payment accounts are in the British Museum and in unofficial collections. It
may be the case, as Newton, 359, suggests, that these or some of them were abstracted from the
Records by officials of antiquarian tastes, but it must be remembered that duplicates even of audited
accounts were often kept by the accountants. These accounts are generally known as The King’s
Books of Payments. The following can be traced:

i. Accounts of John Heron.

Three Books of Payments, for 1505–9, 1509–18, and 1518–21 respectively, with many royal
signatures by way of audit, are now in the P. R. O. (Misc. Books of Treasury of Receipt, 214, 215,
216). The contents of the Henry VIII books are abstracted in Brewer, ii. 1441; iii. 1533. There must
once have been an earlier book, for Collier, i. 49, 52, 76, gives extracts from one for 1492–1505,
which he describes as ‘formerly in the Chapter-house, Westminster’, as well as from the three now
extant, which he describes as ‘in the Chapter-house’. Possibly this was Addl. MS. 21480, which has
been traced back (Newton, 359) through the hands of Craven Ord (a friend of Collier) and Thomas
Astle to those of Peter Le Neve, a Deputy-Chamberlain of the Exchequer. But Addl. MS. 21481,
which also came from Le Neve, is a duplicate of the R. O. books for 1505–18, and therefore Addl.
MS. 21480 may only have been a duplicate of the missing volume. Both the Addl. MSS. contain the
royal signatures. Craven Ord made some extracts which are now Addl. MSS. 7099, 7100, and to these

those supplied by Astle to R. Henry, History of Great Britain, vi (1793), app., and those in S. Bentley,
Excerpta Historica (1831), 85, owe their origin. Collier, i. 49, also cites a small book for 1501–2 kept
(perhaps under Heron) by one Robert Fowler, which refers to parallel payments made by Thomas
Trollop.

ii. Accounts of Brian Tuke.

A book signed monthly by Henry VIII, with some entries from 31 Dec. 1528 to 30 June 1529, but
mainly covering the period from 17 Nov. 1529 to 29 Dec. 1532, was printed by N. H. Nicolas from a
MS. then in his possession as The Privy Purse Expenses of Henry the Eighth (1827) and misdescribed
as an account of the Treasurer of the Household. Presumably this MS. is identical with that owned by
Sir O. Bridgeman in 1634 and now Addl. MS. 20030. It overlaps with an account for 1 Oct. 1528 to
May 1531, presented by Sir W. C. Trevelyan to the P. R. O. (Exchequer Accounts, Various, 420/11);
extracts are given in Trevelyan Papers (C. S.), i. 136, and an abstract in Brewer, v. 303. Collier, i. 116,
and Nicolas (ut supra), xxviii, give extracts from an account for Feb. 1538 to June 1541 in the
possession of the Royal Society, presumably a duplicate of the account for the same period in Arundel
MS. 97, incorrectly catalogued by the B.M. as an account of the Treasurer of the Household, and
abstracted in Brewer, xiii. 2. 524; xiv. 2. 303; xvi. 178, 698. An account for May to Sept. 1542 in
Stowe MS. 554 is abstracted in Brewer, xvii. 474. Collier, i. 117, gives extracts from an account for
1543–4 in Craven Ord’s collection.

iii. Accounts of William Cavendish.

Account for 31 March 1547 to 31 Sept. 1549, of which extracts are given in Trevelyan Papers, i.
191, ii. 13, were presented by Sir W. C. Trevelyan to the P. R. O. (Exchequer Accounts, Various,
426/5, 6). Misc. Exch. Augm. 439 for 1547–8 is referred to by Newton, 359, as a Chamber account,
and is presumably a duplicate.

iv. Account of Edmund Felton.

A Declared Account for 1 Apr. to 31 Dec. 1557 is in D. A. Pipe Office, 541. Stopes, Hunnis, 145,
cites a ‘Compotus Marie Rither and Edmond Felton’ for 5 and 6 Edw. VI (Queen’s Remembrancia,
77/5) as a Chamber Account. It is doubtless a Cofferer’s Account.
(c) Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods.

i. Accounts in P. R. O.

The P. R. O. contains Chamber Accounts in four forms. Original Accounts, as submitted for audit,
are in Audit Office, Accounts Various, 3/127–9. These are no doubt the ‘very incomplete’ set from
which extracts are given by Cunningham, xxvii. So far as play-payments are concerned, they do not
appear to be more detailed than the Declared Accounts annually drawn up from them by the auditors,
of which there are duplicate sets, both nearly complete, belonging respectively to the Audit Office and
to the Pipe Office in the Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer’s Department of the Exchequer. They cover
the terms of office of Mason (1558–66), Knollys (1566–70), Heneage (1570–95), Killigrew (1595–6),
and Stanhope (1596–1617). From the Pipe Office series I supplemented Cunningham’s extracts in M.
L. R. ii (1906), 1; iv (1909), 153, and give a complete record of play-payments below. The payments
are also given for 1558–85 from the Audit Office series in Wallace, i (1912), 210, and very
imperfectly from the Pipe Office series for 1559–97 in Stopes, Hunnis, 318. Finally, there are
Enrolled Accounts in the King’s Remembrancer’s Department (Scargill-Bird1, liv). A single book for
1569–70 is in the same Department (Exchequer Accounts, Various, 430/15). It appears to be an office
book, and has some original signatures by way of receipts for payments.

ii. Accounts in British Museum.

Harl. 1641 and 1642 are duplicates of Heneage’s accounts for 1585–6 and 1593–4 as prepared for
audit. Harl. 1644 is an office book, 1581–3, containing signatures by way of receipts for wages and
the like.

iii. Accounts in Bodleian.

Rawlinson MS. A. 204, ff. 212, 269, contains duplicates of Stanhope’s accounts for 1604–5 and
1610–11 as prepared for audit, and Rawlinson MSS. A. 239 and 240 (formerly Pepys MSS. 78 and 79)
are similar duplicates of his accounts for 1612–13 and 1616–17. They are possibly office drafts, with
some notes by a checking officer or an auditor, but are not signed either by accountant or auditors.
Occasionally they are slightly more detailed as regards play entries than the Declared Accounts. Thus
in 1610–11 and 1612–13 they give some dates of performances instead of the mere number for the
season, and in 1612–13 they even give the titles of the plays. Extracts of these titles are given in
Halliwell-Phillipps, ii. 87, and N. S. S. Trans. (1875–6) 419, and more completely below. Similar
entries are given by P. Cunningham in Sh. Soc. Papers, ii. 123, not direct from the manuscript, but
from notes taken therefrom by Vertue and Oldys. These had passed, in the case of the Oldys notes
through Percy, to Steevens, and from him to Hazlewood, who had copied them, as Oldys and Steevens
had done, into an interleaved Langbaine. Malone had already used Vertue’s notes.
I should add that many ‘declarations’ or memoranda on the business of the Treasurer of the
Chamber and the state of his finances from time to time are to be found in the Domestic State Papers,
in Lansdowne and other B.M. MSS., and in a volume (Lord Steward’s Misc. 301) collected by Sir J.
Caesar.
REVELS ACCOUNTS

The following accounts appear to be extant:
(a) Early Tudor Period.

(i) Accounts of Richard Gibson.

Brewer, ii. 1490; iii. 35, 1548; iv. 418, 837, 1390, 1392, 1415, 1603, 3073, gives abstracts of a
series of accounts, ranging from 1510 to 1530, some or all of which are presumably taken from
Miscellaneous Books of the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer, 217, 228, 229.

(ii) Accounts of John Bridges.

It appears from extracts given by Kempe, 69, that some accounts of John Bridges between 1539,
when he became Yeoman of the Revels, and 1544, when Cawarden became Master, are at Loseley.

(iii) Accounts of Sir Thomas Cawarden.

Many of these are at Loseley, often in more than one copy. Kempe, 69, gives a few extracts for the
last years of Henry VIII, and the most important documents for the next three reigns, ranging from
1547 to 1559; are printed by A. Feuillerat in Materialien, xxi and xliv, with accompanying warrants
and other subsidiary documents. From 1547 to 1550 the accounts are mainly office copies of
‘particular’ books, setting out the details and cost of each individual revel, airing, or the like; but for
1550–55, and again for 1555–9, the ‘particular paye bookes’ are brought together with summaries in
two great ‘Certificates’ (Loseley MSS. 62 and 63), which relate to the Tents as well as the Revels. The
second of these includes, as well as money accounts, inventories of the office stuff and notes of its
employment in masking and other garments during 1555–60, and a similar record for 1550–5 is in

Loseley MS. 112. These Certificates, although signed by the Clerk, Clerk Controller, and Yeoman, are
not audited. Probably they are office copies of Original Accounts prepared for audit.
(b) Elizabethan Period.

Eleven Original Accounts of the Masters or Acting Masters of the Revels, with annotations by the
Auditors, are in R. O. Audit Office, Accounts Various, 3, 907 (formerly 1213). They relate to the
periods: (i) Feb. 1571–May 1572; (ii) June 1572–Oct. 1573; (iii) Nov. 1573–Feb. 1574; (iv) March
1574–Feb. 1575; (v) March 1576–Feb. 1577; (vi) Feb. 1578–Oct. 1579; (vii) Nov. 1579–Oct. 1580;
(viii) Nov. 1580–Oct. 1581; (ix) Nov. 1582–Oct. 1583; (x) Nov. 1584–Oct. 1585; (xi) Nov. 1587–Oct.
1588. It will be seen that a regular annual system, starting with the opening of the season for revels at
All Saints in each year, was ultimately adopted. All these accounts were printed in P. Cunningham,
Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court (1842, Sh. Soc.), but (ii) imperfectly and (xi) from
an unaudited duplicate in the same bundle. These vagaries are corrected in the text of Feuillerat (1908,
Materialien, xxi), who also gives an account for Nov. 1587–Oct. 1589 from Lansd. MS. 59, f. 38,
which in part duplicates (xi), and much illustrative matter, including an estimate in some detail of the
expenditure from Christmas 1563 to Shrovetide 1565 from S. P. Dom. Eliz. xxxvi. 22. The Audit
Office series of Declared Accounts for the Revels is imperfect, but contains two, printed by Feuillerat,
for the years 1581–2 and 1583–4, for which there are no Original Accounts. The Pipe Office series
appears to be complete.
(c) Jacobean Period.

There are only two Original Accounts, for 1604–5 and 1611–12, which are printed by
Cunningham. The Pipe Office Declared Accounts are complete. I have not examined those of the
Audit Office. The Original Accounts for 1604–5 and 1611–12, and especially the former, have been
the subject of a good deal of controversy. The facts are as follows. They were printed in 1842 by Peter
Cunningham, then a clerk in the Audit Office, who described them as a separate discovery from the
Elizabethan bundle, which he also printed. Twenty-six years afterwards, in 1868, he attempted to sell
them to the British Museum, stating that he had found them some thirty years before ‘under the vaults
of Somerset House—far under the Quadrangle in a dry and lofty cellar, known by the name of the
“Charcoal Repository”’. Their official character was realized, and they were sent to the Record
Office, and placed amongst the papers known as Audit Office, Accounts Various, 3, 908 (formerly
1214), with a note that Mr. E. A. Bond, Keeper of the Manuscripts in the British Museum, ‘saw
reasons for doubting the genuineness of one, at least, of these papers, from the peculiar character of
the writing and the spelling’. It is probable that Bond had in mind, wholly or mainly, the play-list of
the 1604–5 book, which does use some spellings, such as ‘Shaxberd’ and ‘aleven’, which are unusual
although by no means unparalleled, and is, moreover, in a style of handwriting sufficiently different
from the rest of the document to have at first sight a suspicious air. But it is an integral part of the
book, occupying ff. 2, 2v of its three small folio sheets, with other matter both on ff. 1, 1v, and on ff.
5, 5v, which form the second half of its sheet, and therefore, if a forged insertion, it occupies a long
blank conveniently left by the original scribe just where, according to Revels practice, such a list
ought to come. Bond’s scepticism was shared by Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, and although the grounds
of it did not extend beyond the play-list in the 1604–5 account, the acceptance of this as a forgery
naturally reflected some suspicion upon the corresponding list for 1611–12. The position, however,
called for some reconsideration when, in A Note on Measure for Measure (1880) and subsequently in
the fifth edition (1885) of his Outlines (ed. 9, ii. 163, 309), Halliwell-Phillipps called attention to
evidence that Malone, at some date before his death in 1812, and therefore before Cunningham was
born, was acquainted at least with the substance of the 1604–5 list. The Bodleian contains a number
of Malone’s note-books, which are believed to have been purchased from Mr. Rodd, a London
bookseller, in 1838, and contain material collected after the issue of Malone’s Shakespeare of 1790

with a view to a second edition ultimately produced by Boswell in 1821. With them were a bundle of
loose scraps, which have since been mounted and bound as a supplementary volume. One of these
scraps (Malone MS. 29, f. 69v) consists of a list of plays headed ‘1604 & 1605 Edd. Tylney’, which
substantially agrees with the list in the Revels book, even to the unusual spelling ‘Shaxberd’, although
it is clearly not a transcript of the Revels list, but merely an abstract of this, or a similar document, in
an unknown hand other than Malone’s. One of the plays named in the Revels book, The Spanish Maze
of Shrove Monday, is omitted. No use of the scrap had been made by Boswell, although he prints
(Variorum, iii. 360) extracts made by Malone from the Elizabethan Revels books, together with a
letter of 7 Nov. 1591 from Sir William Musgrave, of the Audit Office, inviting Malone to inspect
them, and an official memorandum on the ‘State of the Books of Accounts and Records of the Master
of the Revels, still remaining in the Office for Auditing the Public Accounts in 1791’. It is, I think,
inconceivable that, if the Jacobean as well as the Elizabethan books had then been discovered, no
reference should have been made to them either by Musgrave or Malone, and the most probable
explanation of the Bodleian scrap is that the Jacobean books turned up later, and that an abstract of the
1604–5 list was then prepared for the use of Malone. It is true that in that case the Jacobean books
would naturally have been added to the ‘proper presses’ which Musgrave says that he had provided
for the Elizabethan ones, whereas Cunningham found the two sets apart. But as Cunningham also says
that he had redeemed the Elizabethan bundle from ‘a destructive oblivion’, it is possible that
Musgrave’s successors had been neglectful. Moreover, although the 1604–5 list does not appear in the
1821 Variorum, it is difficult to see on what other grounds Malone can have stated of Othello
(Variorum, ii. 404), ‘We know that it was acted in 1604’. Probably, indeed, he had seen the list, before
he abandoned in a note of 1800 to Dryden’s Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy his earlier opinion that
Othello was one of Shakespeare’s latest plays. Further, there is similar indirect evidence that he had
also come across the 1611–12 list. In 1808 he privately printed and in 1809 published an Account of
the ... Tempest, written ‘some years ago’. The chief object of this was to fix an inferior date by
Shakespeare’s use of a pamphlet of 1610. The superior date he took for granted, saying (p. 31) ‘That it
was performed before the middle of 1611, we have already seen’, and adding the foot-note ‘Under a
former article’. There was no former article, but in the preface Malone describes the essay as making
‘a part of the Disquisition concerning the order of the plays in an enlarged form’, and no doubt the
former article would have been included in the disquisition, had Malone ever completed his own
work. Boswell, reprinting the essay in Variorum, xv. 414, altered the foot-note to refer to the essay on
the Chronological Order of Shakespeare’s Plays in ‘vol. i’. This is in fact in vol. ii, but though
Boswell here states (ii. 465) that there is evidence that the Tempest ‘was produced in 1611’, he does
not give any evidence beyond the pamphlet of 1610. Probably he did not know everything that
Malone knew. But how did Malone arrive at ‘the middle of 1611’, since the 1604–5 list does not take
us beyond 1 Nov. 1611? I suppose he assumed that public production preceded performance at court.
Later in the essay (Variorum, xv. 423) he says that the play ‘had a being and a name in the autumn of
1611’.
Since Halliwell-Phillipps’s discovery the prevalent view, suggested by him, has been that if the
lists, or at any rate that of 1604–5, are forged, the forger had before him a genuine original. More
recently, however, the matter has been fully investigated by Mr. Ernest Law, who stimulated the
Record Office to a minute examination of the 1604–5 document, including chemical and
microscopical tests of the ink conducted by Professor J. J. Dobbie at the Government Laboratories. As
a result, Mr. Law’s own view that the list is genuine is confirmed by such high palaeographical
authorities as Sir George Warner of the British Museum and Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte, Mr. Scargill-
Bird, and other officers of the Record Office, as well as by Professor Feuillerat, than whom no one
knows the Revels documents better, and Professor Wallace. Mr. Law set out the evidence and the
whole history of the case in Some Supposed Shakespeare Forgeries (1911). His view was
controverted in a review and a number of subsequent communications in the Athenaeum for 1911 (i.

638; ii. 101, 131, 421) and 1912 (i. 469, 654; ii. 142) by a writer using the signature ‘Audi Alteram
Partem’, whose rather amazing contentions Mr. Law disposed of in the same periodical (1911, ii. 297,
324, 388; 1912, i. 390, 470) and in More about Shakespeare Forgeries (1913). A recent controversy
between Mrs. C. C. Stopes, Mr. Law, and Sir E. M. Thompson (T. L. S. 2, 23, 30 Dec. 1920; 27 Jan.,
10, 24 Feb. 1921) has led to no different result.
I do not think that, in view of the palaeographical investigation, it is any longer possible to reject
the genuineness of the 1604–5 list, and although that of 1611–12 has not been so minutely tested, it is
pretty obviously of a piece with the ‘Book’ of which it forms a part, and had it stood alone, probably
no suspicion would have fallen upon it. In fact, it would really be more plausible—although this also
is not in the least plausible—to take the whole documents as forgeries, than to take the lists as forged
insertions in genuine accounts.
It must be added that there are some singular things about the substance of the books, with which
Mr. Law does not seem to me quite to grapple. On the whole, that of 1604–5 is rather less perplexing
than that of 1611–12. But the scribe has been oddly confused about his dates. On f. 1v he has written
‘iijo’, instead of ‘ijo’ for the regnal year. And at the top of f. 2 he has apparently written ‘1605’ and
then corrected it to ‘1604’. The Queen’s Revels are called by their obsolete name of ‘The Boyes of the
Chapell’, which is odd in an official document, but so they are, much later, in the Treasurer of the
Chamber’s account for 1612–13. It is more important that, while the Treasurer of the Chamber
records payments for two plays to the Queen’s Revels, one on 1 Jan. and the other on 3 Jan., the
Revels list omits the play on 3 Jan. altogether, and instead records a performance of Love’s Labour’s
Lost by the King’s men ‘betwin Newers Day and Twelfe Day’. No complete explanation of this is
possible. The most that can be said is that there is independent evidence of a performance of Love’s
Labour’s Lost in Jan. 1605, but at a date after and not before Twelfth Night. This is derived from two
letters. The first is from Sir Walter Cope to Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, preserved at Hatfield
(Hist. MSS. iii. 148) and printed by Halliwell-Phillipps, ii. 83:
‘I have sent and bene all thys morning huntyng for players juglers and such kinde of creaturs, but fynde them
harde to fynde; wherfore, leavinge notes for them to seeke me, Burbage ys come, and sayes ther ys no new playe
that the Quene hath not seene, but they have revyved an olde one cawled Loves Labore lost, which for wytt and
mirthe he sayes will please her excedingly. And thys ys apointed to be playd tomorowe night at my Lord of
Sowthamptons, unless yow send a wrytt to remove the corpus cum causa to your howse in Strande. Burbage ys my
messenger ready attendyng your pleasure.’

The letter is undated, but endorsed ‘1604’. Cecil’s title was Viscount Cranborne from 20 Aug. 1604
to 4 May 1605. A second letter, from Dudley Carleton to John Chamberlain on 15 Jan. 1605 (S. P. D.
Jac. I, xii. 13) gives within near limits the date of the performance. Carleton says,
‘It seems we shall have Christmas all the yeare and therefore I shall never be owt of matter. The last nights
revels were kept at my Lord of Cranbornes, where the Q. with the D. of Holst and a great part of the Court were
feasted, and the like two nights before at my Lord of Southamptons. The Temples have both of them done
somewhat since Twelftide but nothing memorable, save that it was observed on Friday last at night the greatest part
of the femal audience was the sisterhoode of Blackfriers.’

Mr. Law (More about S. F. 50) rightly rejects the suggestion of ‘Audi Alteram Partem’ that the ‘last
night’ referred to was necessarily 14 Jan., the night before the date of Carleton’s letter; but I think he
is wrong in taking it as the last night of Christmas. This, of course, was traditionally Twelfth Night,
the day in 1605 of Jonson’s Mask of Blackness. But surely Carleton’s whole point lies in the
exceptional prolongation of the Christmas festivities of this year beyond Twelfth Night, and I feel
clear that all the revels he here refers to fell between 6 and 15 Jan. On 7 and 8 Jan. came Hen. V and
E. M. O. Putting the facts together, we get a performance, either at Southampton’s house or
Cranborne’s, between 8 and 15 Jan. of Love’s Labour’s Lost, which the Queen had not seen before. It
is not therefore at all likely that there had been another performance of the same play at court between
1 and 6 Jan. It is true that the Queen might by some accident have missed such a performance. But
that would not have prevented the Treasurer of the Chamber from paying for it, whereas he would not

pay for a performance ordered as part of an entertainment given by Southampton or Cranborne. Nor
would it have been the duty of the Revels Office to attend such a performance, which makes it rather
mystifying that they should have confused it with the second Queen’s Revels performance at court
some days earlier, which it would have been their duty to attend. The vagueness of the phrase ‘betwin
Newers Day and Twelfe Day’, suggesting that the list was prepared retrospectively from memory,
when the account was made up in the autumn of 1605, may perhaps help to explain an error. On the
other hand, a forger, presumably knowing nothing of Cope’s letter, which first came to light in 1872,
could hardly have guessed at a revival of Love’s Labour’s Lost in 1605.
The discrepancies between the Revels list of 1611–12 and the corresponding accounts of the
Treasurer of the Chamber are rather numerous. The Revels list records thirteen plays from 1 Nov. to
25 Feb. ‘before the Kinges Maiestie’, including two which, although, I suppose, ordered for the King,
were in fact only given before the Queen and Prince. The Treasurer paid for only ten plays as before
the King, and for many others before the younger members of the royal family only, with which the
Revels would not normally be concerned. The two records agree as to 1 and 5 Nov., 26, 27, and 29
Dec., and 2, 23, and 25 Feb. On 28 Dec. the Treasurer notes a play by the Prince’s men which the
Revels list does not. On 1 Jan. the Revels list notes a play by the King’s men, which the Treasurer
does not. The play on 5 Jan. is assigned by the Treasurer to the King’s men, and by the Revels list to
the Whitefriars. The plays on 12 and 13 Jan. appear from the Revels list to have been joint
performances by the King’s and Queen’s men, but the Treasurer notes the play on 12 Jan. only,
assigns that to the Duke of York’s men, and refers to Henry but not to the Queen as present. He also
paid for one play by the King’s men before Henry, of which he does not give the date, and which may
be that of 13 Jan. Both records note a play by the Duke of York’s men on 24 Feb., but while the
Revels list does not indicate that James was absent, the Treasurer treats the performance as one before
the royal children only. I do not know that all this is beyond the blundering of the clerks concerned,
especially perhaps the Clerk of the Revels, at a time when the functions of the office in relation to
court plays had become trivial. On the other hand, I am not clear that plays ordered by the Queen and
paid for out of her privy purse, instead of by the Treasurer of the Chamber, may not sometimes have
been produced under Revels Office auspices; if so, some of the discrepancies might be thus accounted
for. But obviously the facts necessitate some caution in the use of the 1611–12 list.
ABSTRACT OF PAYMENTS

I now give in tabular form an abstract of all entries in the Chamber and Revels accounts, which
enable us to establish the succession of court performances during 1558–1616. These are arranged
under years running from Michaelmas to Michaelmas. Four columns are devoted to the Chamber
Accounts. Col. 1 records the dates of the performances, as recorded in the Declared Accounts. Any
correction or closer information as to date derivable from other sources is added in square brackets.
For the Jacobean period I also show the personages before whom the performances were given, K.
standing for James, Q. for Anne, H. for Henry, C. for Charles, E. for the Princess Elizabeth, and F. for
the Elector Palatine. Col. 2 contains the verbatim descriptions in the accounts of the companies
performing and their payees, and in a very few cases of the nature of the performances. A few
miscellaneous entries are inserted in this column. Probably an exhaustive examination of the records
of the subordinate royal households during 1603–16 might enable a few additions to be made. It is
also possible that an occasional play, perhaps on a progress, may have been rewarded out of the Privy
Purse. But the main series of performances provided for the regular winter ‘solace’ of the sovereign
appears to be fairly complete. Col. 3 shows the amounts of the rewards. Col. 4 adds the dates of the
warrants for payment as given in the Declared Accounts and in brackets the places where they were
made out, W. for Westminster, H. for Hampton Court, G. for Greenwich, R. for Richmond, J. for St.
James’s, Wi. for Windsor. I add references to the parallel extracts of Cunningham from the Original
Chamber Accounts (C.), and to the notes of the signing of warrants in the Privy Council Register (D.)

where these exist. A fifth column, for certain years, adds the relevant extracts from such Revels
Accounts as survive. The references are to Feuillerat’s edition. Any discrepancies of importance
between Chamber, Privy Council, and Revels records are dealt with in foot-notes. The variant dates of
warrants in the ill-kept Privy Council Register are not important.
Chamber Accounts. Revels Accounts.
Performance. Payees. Amount. Warrant.
=1558–60= (Pipe Office, Declared Accounts, Roll 541, mm. 17, 22).
— ‘Quenes ... enterlude players for her £6 13s. 4d.[779] F. 34 (1555–60). ‘ffurnisshinge a
hyghnes accustomed rewarde pley by the children of the
dewe vnto them at Newe yeres Chapple.’
tyde.’
— ‘to players of enterludes.’ £13 6s. 8d. F. 79 (1558–9). ‘playes and other
pastymes sett forthe and shewen
in her Maiesties presence.’
=1560–1= (D. A. 541, m. 28).
Xmas. ‘Lorde Robte Dudleyes players.’ £6 13s. 4d. 21 Jan. (W.); C.
xxvii.
Xmas. ‘Sebastiane Westcott Mr of the £6 13s. 4d. 21 Jan. (W.); C.
Children of Polles.’ xxvii.
=1561–2= (D. A. 541, m. 37).
Xmas. ‘Lorde Robert Dudeleys playorrs.’ £6 13s. 4d. 6 Jan.
Xmas. ‘Sebestiane Westcote Mr of the £6 13s. 4d. 6 Jan.
Children of Powles.’
— ‘Sebastiane Westecote Mr of the £6 13s. 4d. 9 Mar. (W.); C.
Children of Powles.’ xxvii.
=1562–3= (D. A. 541, m. 47).
Xmas. ‘playores of the Lorde Robte £6 13s. 4d. 10 Jan. (W.); C.
Duddeley.’ xxviii; D. vii.
134.
Xmas. ‘M. of the children of Poles.’[780] £6 13s. 4d. 10 Jan. (W.); C.
xxviii; D. vii.
134.
=1563–4= (no entry in D. A.).
F. 116. ‘Charges agaynst Cristmas
and Candelmas ffor iij plays at
Wyndsor.’[781]
=1564–5= (D. A. 541, m. 67).
Xmas (2 ‘therle of Warwickes players.’ £13 6s. 8d. 18 Jan. (W.); C.
plays). xxviii; D. vii.
187.
Xmas. ‘Sebastian Westcote Mr of the £6 13s. 4d.[782] 18 Jan. (W.); C. F. 117. ‘in Ienevery ffor cayrtene
Children of Powles.’ xxviii; D. vii. playes by the gramar skolle of
187. Westmynster and the childerne of
Powles.’
2 Feb ‘Sebastian Westcott Mr of the £6 13s. 4d. 9 Mar. (W.); C.
Children of Poles.’ xxviii; D. vii.
204.
F. 116. ‘Cristmas ... ffor a maske
and a showe and a play by the
childerne of the Chaple.’
[In margin] ‘Edwardes tragedy’.
F. 117. ‘The xviijth of februerie ...
for a play maid by Sir Percivall
Hartts sones with a maske of
huntars and diuers devisses and a
rocke or hill ffor the ix musses to
singe vppone with a vayne of

sarsnett dravven vpp and downe
before them.’
F. 117. ‘Shroftid [4–6 March] ...
new and diuers showes made by
the gentillmen of Greys Ine.’
[In margin] ‘Gentillmenne of ye
Innes of Court. Diana, Pallas.’
=1565–6= (D. A. 541, m. 76).
Xmas (3 ‘Sebastian Westcote Mr of the £20 3 Jan. (W.).
plays) Children of Powles ... for two
seūall playes ... at the Courte ...
and one other also before her
Matie at the Ladye Cecilias
Lodging at the Savoye.’
=1566–7= (D. A. 541, m. 92).
Xmas (2 ‘Sebastyan Westcote Mr of the £13 6s. 8d. 11 Jan. (W.); D.
plays) children of Powles.’ vii. 322 (12
Jan.).
Shrovetide ‘John Taylor Mr of the Children of £6 13s. 4d. 13 Feb. (W.); D.
(9–11 vii. 327.
Feb.). Westmr.’
Shrovetide ‘Richarde Farraunte Mr of the £6 13s. 4d. 16 Feb.; D. vii.
(9–11 Feb.) children of Windsore.’ 331 (W. 17
[11 Feb.]. Feb.).
[783]

=1567–8= (D. A. 541, mm. 102–3).
Xmas. ‘John Tailer Mr of the Children at £6 13s. 4d. 10 Jan. (W.). F. 119. ’ theis playes Tragides and
Maskes ... viz. ... seven playes,
Westmr.’ the firste namede as playne as
canne be, The seconde the
Xmas (2 ‘The Lord Ryches Plaiers.’ £13 6s. 8d. 11 Jan. (W.). paynfull plillgrimage, The thirde
plays). Iacke and Iyll, The forthe sixe
fooles, The fiveth callede witte
and will, The sixte callede
Xmas (2 ‘Sebastian Westcote Mr of the £13 6s. 8d. 13 Jan. (W.).
prodigallitie, The sevoenth of
plays). Children of Powles.’ Orestes and a Tragedie of the
Kinge of Scottes, to ye whiche
Shrovetide ‘William Hunnys Mr of the £6 13s. 4d. 3 Mar. (W.). belonged diuers howses, ... as
(29 Feb.-2 Stratoes howse, Gobbyns howse,
Mar.). Children of the Quenes Mates Orestioes howse Rome, the
Chappell ... for ... a Tragedie’. Pallace of prosperitie Scotlande
and a gret Castell one thothere
side.’[784]
Shrovetide. ‘Richarde Ferrante Mr of the £6 13s. 4d. 1 Mar. (W.).
F. 123. ‘Revelles vppon
children of Windesore.’ Shrovesonday and Shroftuisday
at nighte.’
=1568–9= (D. A. 541, m. 113).
26 Dec. ‘the Lorde Riches players.’ £6 13s. 4d. 28 Dec. (H.); C.
xxix.
1 Jan. ‘Sebastian Westecote mr of the £6 13s. 4d. 2 Jan.; C. xxix.
Children of Powles.’
22 Feb. ‘Richard Ferraunte Scole mr of the £6 13s. 4d. 25 Feb. (W.); C.
Children of Windesore.’ xxix.
=1569–70= (D. A. 541, m. 115).
27 Dec. ‘Richarde Ferrante Schole mr to the £6 13s. 4d. 2 Jan. (Wi.); C.
Children of Windesore.’ xxix.
6 Jan. ‘Willm Hun̄ ys mr of the children of £6 13s. 4d. 7 Jan. (Wi.); C.
xxix.
her mates Chappell.’
5 Feb. ‘the Lorde Riches playores.’ £6 13s. 4d. 7 Feb. (H.); C.
xxix.

=1570–1= (D. A. 541, m. 127).
28 Dec. ‘Sebastian Westecote Mr of the £6 13s. 4d. 22 Feb.
Children of Powles.’
Shrovetide ‘Willm̄ Honnyes, Richarde £20 28 Feb.
(25–7 Feb.) Farraunte and Sebastian Westcote
(3 plays). Mrs of the Children of the Q
mates Chapple Royall Windsore
and Powles.’
=1571–2= (D. A. 541, m. 137).
27 Dec. ‘Lawrence Dutton and his £6 13s. 4d. 5 Jan. (W.); D. F. 144. ‘Lady Barbara showen on
fellowes.’[785] viii. 61 (12 Saint Iohns day at nighte by Sir
Jan.). Robert Lanes Men.’
28 Dec. ‘Sebastian Westcott Mr of the £6 13s. 4d. 9 Jan. (W.); D. ‘Effiginia A Tragedye showen on
Children of Powles.’ viii. 62 (12 the Innosentes daie at nighte by
Jan.). the Children of Powles.’
1 Jan. ‘Richard Farrant gent Mr of the £6 13s. 4d. 5 Jan. (W.); D. ‘Aiax and vlisses showen on New
Children of Windsor.’ viii. 62 (12 Yeares daie at nighte by the
Jan.). Children of Wynsor.’
6 Jan. ‘Willm̄ Hunnys Mr of the childer of £6 13s. 4d. n.d.; D. viii. 62 ‘Narcisses showen on Twelfe daye

the Chappell.’ (12 Jan., at Nighte by the Children of the
‘John’ Chappell.’
Hunnis).
17 Feb. ‘John Greaves and Thomas Goughe £13 6s. 8d. 26 Feb. (W.); D. ‘Cloridon and Radiamanta showen
servauntes to Sr Robt. Lane viii. 71 (29 on Shrove sundaye at Nighte by
Knighte.’[786] Feb.). Sir Robert Lanes Men.’
19 Feb. ‘John Billingesley.’[787] £13 6s. 8d. 22 Feb. (W.); D. ‘Paris and Vienna showen on
viii. 71 (29 Shrovetewsdaie at Nighte by the
Feb.). Children of Westminster.’
=1572–3= (D. A. 541, m. 150).
Xmas (3 ‘Therle of Leic. players.’ £30, ‘videlt. for eūye 1 Jan. (H.). F. 174. Scattered entries refer to all
plays). l s d
playe vj xiij iiij and these companies except Sussex’s
for a more rewarde by and to—
‘the play of Cariclia’,
hir Mates owne ‘Theagines’,
comaundemt xl In all ‘the picture of Andromadas’,
xxxl.’ ‘the monster’,
‘the playe of fortune’.
1 Jan. ‘Richarde Farrante Mr of the £6 13s. 4d. 2 Jan. (H.).
children at Wyndesore.’
— ‘Sebastian Westecote Mr of the £6 13s. 4d. 7 Jan. (H.).
Children of Polles.’
6 Jan. ‘Elderton and the Children of £6 13s. 4d. 7 Jan. (H.).
Eyton.’
— ‘Therle of Sussex players.’ £6 13s. 4d. 7 Feb.
— ‘Laurence Dutton s runte to therle of £6 13s. 4d. 10 Feb.
Lincoln.’
3 Feb. ‘Mr Moncaster.’ £20, ‘vjl xiijs iiijd and for 10 Feb.
a more rewarde by her
Mates owne
comaundemt xiijl vjs
viijd.’
=1573–4= (D. A. 541, mm. 165–6).
Xmas (2 ‘Therle of Leicestres players.’ £20, ‘xiijl vjs viijd and by 9 Jan. (W.); D. F. 193. ‘Predor: & Lucia, played by
plays) [26, waye of speciall viii. 177 (8 Therle of Leicesters servauntes
28 Dec.] rewarde for theyre Jan.). vpon Saint stevens daye.’
[788] ‘Mamillia, playde by therle of
chardges cunyng
Leicesteres seruauntes on
and skill shewed
Innosentes daye.’
therein vjl xiijs iiijd.’

27 Dec. ‘Sebastian Westcote Mr of the £6 13s. 4d. 10 Jan. (W.); D. ‘Alkmeon, played by the Children
Children of Powles.’ viii. 178. of Powles on Saint Iohns daye.’
1 Jan. ‘Willm̄ Elderton.’ £6 13s. 4d. 10 Jan. (W.); D. ‘Truth, ffaythfullnesse, & Mercye,
viii. 178. playde by the Children of
Westminster for Elderton vpon
New yeares daye.’
3 Jan. ‘Laurence Dutton and the rest of his £6 13s. 4d. 11 Jan. (W.); D. ‘Herpetulus the blew knighte &
Fellowes sruntes to the L viii. 178 (10 perobia playde by my Lorde
Clinton.’ Jan.). Klintons servantes the third of
Ianuary.’
6 Jan. r
‘Richarde Ferant Scholem .’ l s d
£10, ‘vj xiij iiij and in 10 Jan. (W.); D. ‘Quintus ffabius played by the
respecte of his chardges viii. 178. Children of Wyndsor ffor Mr
coming hyther lxvjs ffarrant on Twelfe daye.’
viijd.’
2 Feb. ‘Richarde Moncaster.’ £26 13s. 4d., ‘xiijl vjs 18 Mar. (G.); D. F. 206. ‘ffor Candellmas ... Timoclia
23 Feb. viii. 210. at the sege of Thebes by
viijd and further her
Alexander showen ... by Mr
Mates speciall rewarde Munkesters Children.’
for suche costes and F. 213. ‘Percius & Anthomiris
chardges as he was at playde by Munkesters Children
for the same xiijl vjs on Shrovetewsdaye.’
viijd.’
[789] ‘Therle of Leic his plaiers.’
21 Feb. £10, ‘vjl xiijs iiijd and 22 Feb. (H.); D. ‘Philemon & Philecia play by the
forther by waye of her viii. 198. Erle of Lecesters men on Shrove
highnes rewarde for Mundaye.’
suche chardges as they F. 227. ‘Italyan Players at
had furniture of bene at Wynsor & Reding ... the xvth of
for the the same lxvjs July 1574.’
viijd.’
=1574–5= (D. A. 541, m. 178).
26 Dec. ‘Therle of Lecesters players.’ £10. 9 Jan.; C. xxx. F. 239. 27 Dec. ‘gloves for my Lord
of Lesters boyes yt plaied at the
coorte.’
F. 244. 25 Dec. ‘my Lord of
Leicesters menns playe.’
1 Jan. ‘the Erle of Leic’ players.’ £6 13s. 4d. 9 Jan.; C. xxx. F. 239. 1 Jan. ‘chymney sweepers in
my Lord of Leycesters mennes
playe & for mosse & styckes.’
27 Dec. ‘the lord Clynton players.’ £6 13s. 4d. 11 Jan.; C. xxx. F. 244. 27 Dec. ‘the Duttons playe.’
2 Jan. ‘the lord Clinton players.’ £6 13s. 4d. 11 Jan.; C. xxx.
6 Jan. ‘Richard Farrante m of the children £13 6s. 8d.
r 23 Jan. (H.); C. F. 244. ‘King Xerxces syster in
of the chapell of Wyndsor.’ xxx. ffarrantes playe, ... cariage ... for
the playe ... on twelfe nighte.’
2 Feb. ‘Sebastian Westecote Mr of the £13 6s. 8d. 16 Feb.; C. xxxi.
Children of Powles.’
13 Feb. ‘William Hunys mr of the children £13 6s. 8d. 16 Feb. (R.); C. F. 244. 13 Feb. ‘Mr Hvnnyes his
xxxi.
of her mates Chappell.’ playe.’
13 Feb. [15 ‘Richarde Moncaster.’ £13 6s. 8d., ‘vjl. xiijs. iiijd 17 Feb. (R.). [F. 238. The following rehearsals
Feb.?]. and for a reward gyven took place:
14 Dec. ‘my Lord Chamberlens
by her heignes vjl. xiijs. players did show the history of
iiijd’. Phedrastus & Phigon and Lucia
together.’
18 Dec. ‘my Lord of Leicesters
menne showed theier matter of
Panecia.’
20 Dec. ‘my lord Clyntons
13 Feb. [14 ‘Therle of Warwickes players.’ £10. 16 Feb. (R.); C. players rehearsed a matter called
Feb.].[790] xxxi. Pretestus.’

21 Dec. ‘the showed ij other
=1575–6= (D. A. 541, mm. 195–6). playes.’]
26 Dec. ‘John Dutton, Lawrence £20. 2 Jan. (H.); D. ix. 68.
Dutton, Jerome Savage,
etc. Thearle of
Warwickes players.’
27 Dec. ‘Richard Farraunt Mr of the £10. 30 Dec. (H.); D.
children of the Chappell at ix. 67 (29
Wyndsore.’ Dec.).
28 Dec. ‘Thearle of Leicestre players.’ £10. 30 Dec. (H.); D.
ix. 68 (29
Dec.)
6 Jan. ‘Sebasten Westcott Mr of the £10. 7 Feb. (H.); D.
children of Powles.’ ix. 71 (7 Jan.).
2 Feb. ‘John Adams and the rest of my £10. 4 Feb. (H.); D.
Lorde Chamberlaynes servaunt ix. 81 (—
players.’ Jan.).
27 Feb. ‘Alfruso Ferrabolle and the rest of £10. 12 Mar. (W.).
the Italyan players.’
4 Mar.?[791] ‘to —— Burbag and his company £10. 14 Mar. (W.).
Servauntes to thearle of
Leicester.’
5 Mar.[792] ‘Lawraunce Dutton and the rest of £10. 8 Mar. (W.); D.
his company Servauntes to ix. 95 (11
thrighte honourable Thearle of Mar.).
Warwicke.
6 Mar. ‘Richard Moulcastre to hime.’ £10. 11 Mar. (W.); D.
ix. 94.
[Sept.-Oct.] ‘Richarde Farrant, Mr of the — 11 Nov. 1577.
Children of her Mates chappell of
Winsore viz. for the chardges of
xv of the singinge men of the
said chappell and sixe of the
children repayringe thither to
Readynge at her mates laste
being there.’
=1576–7= (Audit Office, Declared Accounts, Roll xv, Bundle 382) [Pipe Office missing].
Xmas ‘Therle of Warwickes players.’ £16 13s. 4d. 20 Jan. (H.); D. F. 256, 269. ‘The Paynters Daughter
holidays. ix. 270. ... on St Stevens daie ... by therle
[26 Dec.] of Warwickes seruauntes ... the
Duttons plaie.’
F. 256. ‘Toolie ... on St. Iohns
daie ... by the Lord Howardes
27 Dec. ‘the Lord Howardes players.’ £10. 12 Jan. (H.). seruantes.’
F. 256. ‘The historie of the
Collyer ... on the Sundaie
Xmas ‘Therle of Leicesters players.’ £16 13s. 4d. 20 Jan. (H.); D.
folowing [30 Dec.] ... by th’ erle
holidays. ix. 270.
of Leicesters men.’
[30 Dec.]
F. 266. ‘ffor cariadge ... for the
Earle of Leicesters to the court
28o Decembris.’
F. 266. ‘for that their
Xmas ‘Sebastian Westcote mr of the £16 13s. 4d. 20 Jan. (H.); D. [Leicester’s?] plaie was deferred
holidays [1 Children of Powles.’ ix. 270. until the Sundaie folowing [30
Jan.]
Dec.].’[793]
F. 256. ‘The historie of Error ...
on Newyeres daie ... by the
Children of Powles.’
Xmas ‘Richard Farrante mr of the children £16 13s. 4d. 20 Jan. (H.); D. F. 256. ‘The historye of Mutius
holidays. [6 of the Chappell.’ ix. 270. Sceuola ... on Twelf daie ... by
Jan.] the Children of Windsore and the
Chappell.’

F. 256. ‘The historye of the
Cenofalles ... on Candelmas daie
2 Feb. ‘Therle of Sussexes players.’ £16 13s. 4d. 3 Feb. (H.); D. ... by the Lord Chamberleyn his
ix. 280. men.’
F. 270. ‘The Historie of the
Solitarie Knight ... on Shrove-
sundaie ... by the Lord Howardes
17 Feb. ‘The Lord Howardes players.’[794] £10. 20 Feb. (W.); D.
seruauntes.’
ix. 293
F. 270. ‘The Irisshe Knyght ... on
Shrovemundaie ... by the Earle of
Warwick his seruauntes.’
18 Feb. ‘Therle of Warwikes players.’ £10. 20 Feb. (W.); D. F. 270. ‘The historye of Titus and
ix. 293 Gisippus ... on Shrove-tuysdaie ...
by the Children of Pawles.’
F. 277. Probably for a rehearsal,
17 Feb. [9 ‘Sebastian Westcote.’ £10. 20 Feb. (W.); D. ‘the cariadge of the partes of ye
Feb.][795] ix. 293. well counterfeit from the Bell in
Gracious strete to St. Iohns to be
performed for the play of
Cutwell.’
April. ‘Durham Place (an Italian playe n.d.

their done before her mates Privy [‘Apparelling
Council).’ charge.’]
=1577–8= (D. A. 541, mm. 209–12).
26 Dec. ‘The Earle of Leicesters seruantes.’ £10.[796] 9 Jan. (H.); D. x.
138.
27 Dec. ‘Richarde Farrante mr of the £10. 20 Jan. (H.).
children of her mates chappell.’
8 Dec. ‘The Earle of Warwickes players.’ £10. 12 Jan. (H.).
30 Dec. ‘Sebastian Westcott.’ £10. 31 Jan. (H.).
5 Jan.[797] ‘The Lorde Howarde baron of £10. 9 Jan. (H.); D. x.
Effingham his players.’ 138.
6 Jan. ‘Earle of Warwickes players.’ £10. 12 Jan. (H.).
2 Feb. ‘The Lorde Chamblaynes players.’ £10. 15 Mar. (G.), in
duplicate; D.
x. 185 (14
Mar.).
9 Feb. ‘The Earle of Warwickes players.’ £10. 18 Feb. (H.).
11 Feb. ‘The Countes of Essex players.’ £10. 14 Feb. (H.).
(11 Feb.) ‘The Earle of Leicesters players.’ £6 13s. 4d., ‘for makinge 18 Feb. (H.).
their repaire to the
Courte wth their whole
company and furniture
to presente a playe
before her matie uppon
Shrove-tuesdaye at
nighte in consideracon
of their chardgies for
that purpose although
the plaie by her maties
comaundement was
supplyed by others.’
— ‘for a mattres hoopes and boardes — n.d.
with tressells for the Italian [‘Apparelling
Tumblers.’ charge’]
=1578–9= (d. a. 541, m. 222).
26 Dec. ‘Therle of Warwicke srauntes.’ £10. 16 Jan.; D. xi. F. 286. ‘An Inventyon or playe of
21 (R.). the three Systers of Mantua ... on
St Stephens daie ... by thearle of
Warwick his servauntes.’
28 Dec. ‘ye lord Chamblaynes players.’ £10. 16 Jan.; D. xi. F. 286. ‘An history of the creweltie
21 (R.). of A Stepmother ... on Innocentes

daie ... by the Lord
Chamberlaynes servauntes.’
6 Jan. ‘ye sayd lord Chamblaynes £10. 16 Jan.; D. xi. F. 286. ‘The historie of the Rape of
21 (R.). the second Helene ... on Twelf
srauntes.’ daie.’
F. 299. 6 Jan. ‘my Lord
Chamberleynes players second
plaie.’
1 Jan.[798] ‘ye Mr of ye Children at Pawles.’ £10. 16 Jan.; D. xi. F. 286. ‘A Morrall of the marryage
21 (R.). of Mynde and Measure ... on the
sondaie next after Newe yeares
daie ... by the children of
Pawles.’
4 Jan. ‘Therle of Leicestres players.’ £10. 16 Jan.; D. xi. F. 286. ‘A pastorell or historie of A
21 (R.). Greeke maide ... on the sondaie
next after Newe yeares daie ... by
the Earle of Leicester his
servauntes.’
6 Jan. ‘Mr Ferraunte Mr of the Children of £10. 16 Jan.; D. xi. F. 286. ‘The historie of —— ... on
[27 Dec.][799] 21 (R.). St Iohns daie ... by the children of
her Mates chappell.’ the Quenes maiesties chappell.’
F. 298. 27 Dec. ‘for cariage of the
stuffe that served the plaie for the
children of the chappell to the
courte and back agayne.’
(2 Feb.) ‘Jerome Savage and his companye £6 13s. 4d., ‘in 11 Mar.; D. xi. F. 303. ‘The history of ——
srauntes to Therle of Warwickes.’ consideracon of a playe 81 (W. 18 provided to have ben shewen ...
wch was in readynes to Mar.). on candlemas daie ... by the Earle
have bene presented of Warwickes servauntes....
before her Matie on Being in redines at ye place to
Candlemas night last have enacted the same. But the
paste’. Quenes maiestie wold not come
to heare the same and therefore
put of.’
1 Mar. ‘therle of Warwickes srauntes.’ £10. 13 Mar.; D. xi. F. 303. ‘The history of the Knight in
75 (W.). the Burnyng Rock ... on
shrovesundaie ... by the Earle of
Warwickes servauntes.’
2 Mar. ‘Richarde Ferrante Mr of the £10. 12 Mar.; D. xi. F. 303. ‘The history of Loyaltie and
70 (W.). bewtie ... on Shrove monday ...
children of her mates chapell.’ by the children of the Quenes
maiesties chappell.’
3 Mar.[800] ‘ye lorde Chamblaynes players.’ £10. 13 Mar.; D. xi. F. 303. ‘The history of murderous
75 (W.). mychaell ... on shrove-tuesdaie ...
by the Lord Chamberleynes
servauntes.’
=1579–80= (D. A. 542, m. 8).
26 Dec. ‘the Lorde Chamblaynes players.’ £10. 25 Feb. (W.); D. F. 320. ‘A history of the Duke of
xi. 377 (25 Millayn and the Marques of
Jan.). Mantua ... on St Stephens daie ...
by the lord Chamberlaynes
seruauntes.’
27 Dec. ‘Richarde Farrant mr of the children £10. 25 Jan. (W.); D. F. 320. ‘A history of Alucius ... on
xi. 377. St Iohns daie ... by the Children
of her Mates Chappell.’
of her Maiesties Chappell.’
1 Jan. ‘ye players of the Erle of £10. 25 Jan. (W.); D. F. 320. ‘A history of the foure
Warwicke.’ xi. 377. sonnes of ffabyous ... on Newe
Yeares daie ... by the Earle of
Warwickes servauntes.’
3 Jan. ‘Sebastian Westcote master of the £10. 25 Jan. (W.); D. F. 321. ‘The history of Cipio
children of the Churche of St xi. 377. Africanus ... the sondaye night
Paules.’ after newe yeares daie ... by the
Children of Pawles.’

6 Jan. ‘the players of the E of Leicester.’ £10. 25 Jan. (W.); D. F. 321. ‘The history of —— ... on
xi. 377. Twelve-daye ... by the Earle of
Leicesters seruauntes.’
15 Jan. ‘the Lorde Straunge his Tumblers ... £10. 25 Jan. (W.); D.
in consideracon of certen feates xi. 377.
of Tumblinge by them done
before her Matie.’
2 Feb. ‘the L. Chamblaynes players.’ £10. 23 Feb. (W.); D. F. 321. ‘The history of Portio and
xi. 398. demorantes ... on Candlemas daie
... by the Lord Chamberleyns
seruauntes.’
16 Feb. ‘the saide L. Chamberlaynes £10. 23 Feb. (W.); D. F. 321. ‘The history of Serpedon ...
players.’ xi. 398. on Shrovetwesdaye ... by the lord
Chamberleyns seruauntes.’
14 Feb. ‘the players of the Erle of Derbye.’ £10. 23 Feb. (W.); D. F. 321. ‘The history of the Soldan
xi. 398. and the Duke of —— ... on
Shrovesondaye ... by the Earle of
Derby his seruauntes.’
[F. 326. ‘Examynynge and
rehersinge of dyuers plaies and
choise makinge of x of them to
be showen before her Maiestie.’
In addition to the 8 above were
the tumbling and F. 320. ‘A
historye of —— provided to haue
bene shewen ... on Innocentes
daie ... by the Earle of Leicesters
seruauntes being in readynes in
the place to haue enacted the
same.... But the Queenes
Maiestie coulde not come forth to
heare the same/therefore put of.’]
=1580–1= (D. A. 542, m. 21).
27 Dec. ‘Therle of Sussex srauntes.’ £10. 14 Jan. (W.); D. F. 336. ‘The Earle of Sussex men. A
xii. 321 (30 storie of —— ... on St Iohns
Jan.). daie.’
1 Jan. ‘Therle of Darbyes players.’ £10. 20 Jan. (W.); D. F. 336. ‘The Earle of Derbies men.
xii. 321 (30 A storie of —— ... on newe yeres
Jan.). daye.’
6 Jan.[801] ‘Sebastian Wastcote mr of the £10. 18 Jan. (W.); D. F. 336. ‘The children of Pawles. A
children of Powles.’ xii. 321 (30 storie of Pompey ... on twelf
Jan.). nighte.’
2 Feb. ‘the Lorde Chamblaynes players.’ £10. 13 Feb. (W.); D. F. 336. ‘The earle of Sussex men. A
xii. 330 (14 storie of —— ... on Candlemas
Feb.). daie.’
5 Feb. (W.) ‘the Mr of the Children of the £10. 14 Feb. (W.); D. F. 336. ‘The children of the Quenes
Chappell.’ xii. 330. maiesties chappell. A storie of
—— ... on shrove-sondaie.’
7 Feb. ‘Therle of Leiscesters players.’ £10. 14 Jan. (W.); D. F. 336. ‘The Earle of Leicesters
xii. 330 (14 men. A storie of —— ... on
Feb.). shrove-tuesdaie.’
26 Dec. ‘to them [Leicester’s] more.’ £10. 14 Jan. (W.); D. F. 336. ‘The Earle of Leicesters
xii. 321 (30 men. A Comodie called delighte
Jan.). ... on St Stephens daie.’
=1581–2= (D. A. 542, mm. 32–3; Harl. MS. 1644, ff. 78v, 80v, 81v).
26 Dec. ‘the Mr of the Children of Powles.’ £10. 14 Apr. (W.); D. F. 345. Table II, ‘v playes’.
xiii. 393 (G.).
28 Dec. ‘the Servauntes of the Lorde £10. 21 Jan. (W.); D.
Straunge ... for certen feates of xiii. 311.
activitie shewed her Matie.’
31 Dec. ‘the Mr of the Children of her mates £20. 1 Apr. (G.); D.
27 Feb. Chappell.’ xiii. 374.

=1582–3= (D. A. 542, mm. 44–5).
26 Dec. (Wi.) ‘William Hunnys the mr of the £10. 17 Feb. (R.). F. 349. ‘A Comodie or Morrall
children of the chappell.’ devised on A game of the Cardes
... on St Stephens daie ... by the
Children of her maiesties
Chapple.’
27 Dec. (Wi.) ‘the Seruauntes of the Lorde of £10. 17 Feb. (R.). F. 349. ‘A Comodie of Bewtie and
Hunsdon.’ Huswyfery ... on St Iohns daie ...
by the lord of Hundesdons
servauntes.’
30 Dec. (Wi.) ‘the Seruauntes of Thearle of £10. 17 Feb. (R.). F. 349. ‘A Historie of Loue and
Darby.’ ffortune ... on the sondaie ... next
before newe yeares daie ... by the
Earle of Derbies servauntes.’
1 Jan. (Wi.) ‘John Simons ... for showinge c̄ ten £13 6s. 8d. 17 Feb. (R.). F. 349. ‘Sundrey feates of Tumbling
ffeates of actiuitye and and Activitie were shewed before
Tomblinge.’ her maiestie on Newe yeares daie
at night by the Lord Straunge his
servauntes.’
6 Jan. (Wi.) ‘the Seruauntes of the Lorde £10. 17 Feb. (R.). F. 350. ‘A historie of fferrar ... on
Chamberlayne.’ Twelf daie ... by the Lord
Chamberleynes servauntes.’
10 Feb. (R.) ‘The Seruantes of Thearle of £10. 17 Feb. (R.). F. 350. ‘A historie of Telomo ... on
Lecester.’ Shrovesondaie ... by the Earle of
Leicesters servauntes.’
12 Feb. (R.) ‘Richarde Mulcaster ... wth his £10. 17 Feb. (R.). F. 350. ‘A historie of Ariodante and
Scholers.’ Geneuora ... on Shrove-tuesdaie
... by mr Mulcasters children.’
=1583–4= (D. A. 342, m. 56).
26 Dec. ‘her mates servauntes.’ £20. 12 Mar. (W.), F. 362. Table III, ‘vj histories, one
29 Dec. paid 9 May. Comedie.’
3 Mar.
6 Jan. ‘the master of the children of her £15. 12 Mar. (W.),
2 Feb. mates Chappell.’ paid 29 Mar.
1 Jan. ‘the Erle of Oxforde his servauntes £20. 12 Mar. (W.),
3 Mar. ... paide to Johon Lilie.’ paid 25 Nov.
=1584–5= (D. A. 542, mm. 66–8).
26 Dec. ‘Robte Willson to thuse of him selfe £40. 14 Mar. (G.). F. 365. ‘A pastorall of phillyda &
3 Jan. and the rest of her mates players.’ Choryn ... by her highnes
6 Jan. servauntes on St Stephens daie.’
23 Feb. ‘The history of felix &
philiomena ... by her maiesties
servauntes on the Sondaie next
after newe yeares daye.’
‘An inuention called ffiue playes
in one ... on Twelfe daie ... by her
highnes servauntes.’
‘An inuention of three playes in
one prepared to haue ben shewed
... on Shroue Sondaye ... by her
maiesties servauntes. ... But the
Quene came not abroad that
night.’
‘An Antick play & a comodye ...
on Shrouetewsdaie ... by her
maiesties servauntes.’
27 Dec. ‘Henry Evans ... for one play ... by £6 13s. 4d. 7 Apr. (G.). F. 365. ‘The history of Agamemnon
the children of Therle of & Vlisses ... by the Earle of
Oxforde.’ Oxenford his boyes on St Iohns
daie.’
1 Jan. ‘John Symons and other his £10. 14 Mar. (G.). F. 365. ‘Dyuers feates of Actyuytie
fellowes Servantes to Therle were shewed and presented ... on

Oxforde ... for ... feates of newe yeares daye ... by Symons
actiuitye and vawtinge.’ and his fellowes.’
=1585–6= (D. A. 542, m. 79; Harl. MS. 1641, ff. 20v, 21).
26 Dec. ‘her Mates players.’ £10. 31 Jan. (G.).
27 Dec. ‘the Servantes of the lo admirall.’ £10. 31 Jan. (G.).
1 Jan. ‘her Mates players.’ £10. 31 Jan. (G.).
6 Jan. ‘the Servantes of the lo: admirall £10. 31 Jan. (G.).
and the lo Chamblaine.’
9 Jan. ‘John Symondes and Mr Standleyes £10. 31 Jan. (G.)
Boyes ... for Tumblinge and
shewinge other feates of
activitie.’
13 Feb. ‘her mates players.’ £10. 28 Feb. (G.); D.
xiv. 20 (6
Mar.).
=1586–7= (D. A. 542, m. 94).
26 Dec. ‘the Quenes mates players.’ £40. 18 Mar. (G.).
1 Jan.
6 Jan.
28 Feb.
27 Dec. ‘the Erle of Lecesters players.’ £10. 31 Mar. (G.).
26 Feb. ‘Thomas Giles mr of the Children £10. 9 Apr. (G.); D.
of Paules.’ xv. 24.
=1587–8= (D. A. 542, mm. 108, 115).
26 Dec. ‘the Queenes mates players.’ £20, ‘for their chardges 20 Mar. (G.); D. F. 378, 388. ‘vij playes besides
6 Jan. and paines as also by xv. 425. feattes of Activitie and other
18 Feb. waye of her mates shewes by the Childeren of Poles.
rewarde for geving their her Maiesties owne servantes &
attendaunce in recitinge the gentlemen of Grayes In.’
and playing certein
playes and enterludes
before her matie‘.
28 Dec. ‘John Simons ... for certein feates of £10. 6 Mar. (G.).
actiuitie by him and his
Companie.’
1 Jan. ‘Thomas Giles mr of the children of £20. 29 Feb. (G.).
2 Feb. Powles.’
=1588–9= (D. A. 542, mm. 125–6).
26 Dec. ‘the Quenes Mats Players.’ £20. 16 Mar. (W.); D. F.388. ‘at Christmas Newyearstide
9 Feb. xvii. 109. & Twelftide there were shewed
presented & enacted before her
27 Dec. ‘Tho Gyles mr of the children of £30. 23 Mar. (W.); D. highnes ffyve playes & ... at
1 Jan. xvii. 115. Shrovetide there were shewed &
Powles.’ presented before her twoe plaies
12 Jan.
All which playes were enacted by
her Maiesties owne servantes the
29 Dec. ‘the Lorde Admyrall his players ... £20. 29 Feb. (W.); D. children of Paules & the Lord
11 Feb.[802] for twoe Enterludes or playes ... xvii. 90. Admiralls men besides sondry
and for showinge other feates of feates of actyvity tumbling and
activity and tumblinge.’ Matichives.’... F. 390, ‘a paire of
fflannell hose for Symmons the
Tumbler’.
=1589–90= (D. A. 542, m. 142).
26 Dec. ‘John Dutton and John Lanham her £20. 15 Mar.; D.
1 Mar. mates Sruantes for themselves xviii. 420.
and their companie.’
[803] ‘the Servauntes of the Lorde £20. 10 Mar. (G.); D.
28 Dec.
Admirall ... for shewinge certen xviii. 410.
feates of activities

3 Mar. ‘the servauntes of the Lorde
Admirall ... for playinge.’
‘Christide.’ ‘Thomas Giles mr of the children of £30. 10 Mar.; D.
[28 Dec.][804] Powles.’ xviii. 410
1 Jan. (G.).
6 Jan.
=1590–1= (D. A. 542, m. 155).
26 Dec. ‘Lawrence Dutton and John Dutton £40. 7 Mar.; C. xxxii;
3 Jan. her mates players & there D. xx. 327
6 Jan. companye.’ (G., 5 Mar.).
14 Feb.
1 Jan. ‘John Laneham and his companye £10. 7 Mar.; C. xxxii;
her mates players.’ D. xx. 328
(G., 5 Mar.).
27 Dec. ‘George Ottewell and his companye £20. 7 Mar.; D. xx.
16 Feb. the Lorde Straunge his players 328 (G., 5
for [plays] ... and for other feates Mar.).
of Activitye then also done by
them.’[805]
=1591–2= (D. A. 542, m. 168).
26 Dec. ‘ye Queenes mates players.’ £10. 29 Feb. (W.); D.
xxii. 286 (27
Feb.).
7 Dec.
8 Dec.
24 Feb. (W.); D.
1 Jan.
9 Jan. ‘yee seruantes of ye lo: Straunge.’ £60. xxii. 264 (20
Feb.).
6 Feb.
8 Feb.
2 Jan. ‘ye servauntes of ye Earle of £10. 20 Feb. (W.); D.
Sussex.’ xxii. 264.
6 Jan. ‘ye servauntes of ye Erle of £10. 28 Feb. (W.); D.
Hartford.’ xxii. 263 (20
Feb.).
=1592–3= (D. A. 542, m. 181).
26 Dec.[806] ‘the servantes of the Erle of £20. 11 Mar. (J.); D.
6 Jan. Pembroke.’ xxiv. 113.
27 Dec. ‘Servantes of the Lorde Strange.’ £30. 7 Mar. (J.); D.
31 Dec. xxiv. 102.
1 Jan.
=1593–4= (D. A. 542, m. 194: Harl. MS. 1642, f. 19v).
6 Jan. ‘her Mates players.’ £10. 31 Jan.
=1594–5= (D. A. 542, m. 208).
26 Dec. ‘To Willm̄ Kempe Willm̄ £20. 15 Mar. (W.).
28 Dec. Shakespeare & Richarde Burbage
[27 Dec.?] seruantes to the Lord
[807] Chamƃleyne vpon the councelles
warrt dated at Whitehall xvto
Martii 1594 for twoe seuerall
comedies or Enterludes shewed
by them before her Matie in
xpmas tyme laste paste vizd vpon
St Stephens daye & Innocentes
daye xiiil vjs viijd and by waye
of her mates Rewarde vjl xiijs
iiijd.’
28 Dec. ‘Edwarde Allen, Richarde Jones & £30. 15 Mar. (W.).
1 Jan. John Synger, seruaunts to the
6 Jan. Lord Admyrall.’

=1595–6= (D. A. 543, m. 12).
26 Dec. ‘John Hemynge and George Bryan £50. 21 Dec. 1596
27 Dec. srvuantes to the late Lorde (W.).
28 Dec.
6 Jan. Chamƃlayneand now srvuantes to
22 Feb. the Lorde Hunsdon.’
1 Jan. ‘Edwarde Allen and Martyn Slater £40. 13 Dec. 1596
4 Jan. seruauntes to the Lorde (W.).
22 Feb. Admyrall.’
24 Feb.
=1596–7= (D. A. 543, m. 25).
26 Dec. ‘Thomas Pope & John Hemynges £60. 27 Nov. 1597
27 Dec. servauntes to the Lord (W.); D.
1 Jan. Chambleyne.’[808] xxviii. 151.
6 Jan.
6 Feb.
8 Feb.
=1597–8= (D. A. 543, m. 39).
26 Dec. ‘John Heminges and Thomas Pope £40. 3 Dec. 1598
1 Jan. servauntes to the Lorde (W.); D. xxix.
6 Jan. Chamƃleyne.’ 324.
26 Feb.
27 Dec. ‘Roƃte Shawe and Thomas £20. 3 Dec. 1598
28 Feb. Downton servauntes to the Erle (W.); D. xxix.
of Nottingham.’ 325.
=1598–9= (D. A. 543, m. 55).
26 Dec. ‘John Heminges and Thomas Pope £30. 2 Oct. 1599
1 Jan. servantes vnto the Lorde (N.); C. xxxii.
20 Feb. Chamberleyne.’
27 Dec. ‘Robert Shawe and Thomas £20. 2 Oct. 1599 (N.).
6 Jan. Downton servauntes to Therle of
18 Feb. Nottingham.’
=1599–1600= (D. A. 543, m. 57).
26 Dec. ‘John Hemynge servaunt to the £30. 17 Feb. (R.); C.
6 Jan. Lorde Chamberlaine.’ xxxiii; D. xxx.
3 Feb. 89 (18 Feb.).
27 Dec. ‘Robert Shawe servaunt to Therle £20. 18 Feb. (R.); C.
1 Jan. of Nottingham.’[809] xxxiii; D. xxx.
89.
3 Feb. ‘Robert Browne servaunt to Therle £10. 18 Feb. (R.); D.
[5 Feb.] of Darby.’ xxx. 89.
[810]

=1600–1= (D. A. 543, m. 69).
26 Dec. ‘John Hemynges and Richarde £30. 31 Mar. (W.); C.
6 Jan. Cowley servunts to the Lord xxxiii; D.
24 Feb. Chamƃleine.’ xxxi. 217 (11
Mar.).
28 Dec. ‘Edwarde Allen servaunte to the £30. 31 Mar. (W.); C.
6 Jan. Lord Admyrall.’ xxxiii.
2 Feb.
1 Jan. ‘Roƃte Browne.’ £20. 31 Mar. (W.).
6 Jan.
1 Jan. ‘Edwarde Peers Mr of the children £10. 24 June (G.); D.
of Poules.’ xxxi. 453.
6 Jan. ‘Nathanyell Gyles mr of the £5.
children of the Chapple, for a
4 May (W.); C.
showe wth musycke and speciall xxxiii.
songes p’pared for the purpose.’
22 Feb. [the same] ... ‘for a play’. £10.
=1601–2= (D. A. 543, m. 83).

26 Dec. ‘John Hemyng servaunte to the £40. 28 Feb. (R.).
27 Dec. Lord Chamberleyne.’
1 Jan.
14 Feb.
27 Dec. ‘Edward Allen servaunt to the Lord £10. 28 Feb. (R.).
Admyrall.’
3 Jan. ‘William Kempe and Thomas £10. 28 Feb. (R.).
Heywoode servauntes to Therle
of Worcester.’
6 Jan. ‘Nathanyell Gyles Mr of the £30. 7 Mar. (R.).
10 Jan.
14 Feb. Children of her Mates Chappell.’
=1602–3= (D. A. 543, mm. 95, 97).
26 Dec. ‘John Hemynges and the rest of his £20. 20 Apr. (W.); C.
2 Feb. companie servauntes to the Lorde xxxiv.
Chamberleyne.’
27 Dec. ‘Edwarde Allen servaunte to the £30. 22 Apr. (W.); C.
6 Mar. Lorde Admyrall and the reste of xxxiv.
— his companie.’
1 Jan. ‘Edward Peirs mr of the Children of £10. 31 May (G.).
Paules.’
6 Jan. ‘Martyn Slater and his fellowes £10. 20 Apr.
servauntes to the Erle of
Hertforde.’
— ‘John Hassett ... for presentinge and £10. 29 July (H.).
makinge shewe before his
highnes of his skyll in vaultinge
wch he performed wth his mates
good lykinge.’
=1603–4= (D. A. 543, m. 115–17).
2 Dec. (K.) ‘John Hemyngs one of his mates £30. 3 Dec. (Wilton);
players ... for the paynes and C. xxxiv.
expences of himself and the rest
of the company in comming from
Mortelake in the countie of
Surrie unto the courte aforesaid
[at Wilton] and there p’senting
before his matie one playe.’
26 Dec. (K.)
27 Dec. (K.)
28 Dec. (K.) ‘John Hemynges one of his mates 18 Jan. (H.); C.
£53.
30 Dec. (H.) players.’ xxxv.
1 Jan. (K.)
1 Jan. (H.)
2 Jan. (H.) ‘John Duke one of the Queenes £13 6s. 8d. 19 Feb. (W.); C.
13 Jan. (H.) mates players.’ xxxv.
4 Jan. (H.) ‘Edward Allen and Edward Juby £30. 19 Feb. (W.); C.
15 Jan. (H.) two of the Princes Players.’ xxxv.
21 Jan. (K.)
22 Jan. (H.)
‘Richard Burbadg one of his mates £30. 8 Feb. (H.); C.
comedians ... for the xxxv.
mayntenaunce and releife of
himselfe and the rest of his
company being prohibited to
p’sente any playes publiquelie in
or neere London by reason of
greate perill that might growe
through the extraordinary
concourse and assemble of
people to a newe increase of the
plague till it shall please God to

settle the cittie in a more p’fecte
health by way of his maties free
gifte.’
2 Feb. (K.) ‘John Hemynges one of his mates £20. 29 Feb. (W.); C.
19 Feb. (K.) players.’ xxxvi.
20 Feb. (K.) ‘Edward Jubie to the use of £10. 17 Apr. (W.); C.
himselfe and the rest of his xxxvii.
company servauntes to the
prince.’
20 Feb. (K.) ‘Edward Pearce mr of the children £10. 17 Apr. (W.).
of Powles.’
21 Feb. (K.) ‘Edward Kircham mr of the £10. 30 Apr. (W.); C.
xxxvii.
children of the Queenes Mates
Revells.’
[Apparelling Charges]
‘To Augustine Phillippes and
John Hemynges for thallowaunce
of themselves and tenne of theire
ffellowes his mates groomes of
the chamber, and Players for
waytinge and attendinge on his
mates service by
co[~m]aundemente vppon the
Spanishe Embassador at
Som’sette howse the space of
xviij dayes vizd from the ixth day
of Auguste 1604 vntill the xxvijth
day of the same as appeareth by a
bill thereof signed by the Lord
Chamƃlayne. xxjli. xijs.’
‘To Thomas Greene for
thallowaunce of hymselfe and
tenne of his ffelowes groomes of
the chamber and the Queenes
Players for waytinge and
attendinge vppon Countye
Arrenbergh and the reste of the
comyssioners at Durham howse
by co[~m]aundmente the space
of eighteene dayes vizd from the
ixth of Auguste 1604 vntill the
xxvijth of the same as appeareth
by a bill thereof signed by the
Lord Chamberlayne. xixli, xvjs.’
Chamber Accounts. Revels Accounts.[811]
Performance. Payees. Amount. Warrant. Bodl. Malone Cunningham, 203; Halliwell-Phillipps, ii.
MS. 29, f. 162; Law, Sh. Forgeries, xvi; Audit Office,
69v. Accounts Various, 3, 907.
=1604–5= (D. A. 543, mm. 136–8; Bodl. Rawlinson MS. A. 204).
1604 & 1605 The Plaiers. 1604. The Poets
Edd. Tylney wch mayd the
plaies.
1 Nov. (K.) ‘John £60. 21 Jan. Sunday after By the Kings Hallamas Day
4 Nov. (K.) Hemynges (W.); C. Hallowmas matis being the first
26 Dec. (K.) one of his xxxvi. —Merry plaiers. of Nouembar
28 Dec. (K.) Mates Wyves of A play in the
7 Jan. (K.) players.’ Windsor Banketinge
8 Jan. (K.) } perfd. by house att
Whithall
called The

the K’s Moor of
players. Venis.
Hallamas—in By his Matis The Sunday
the plaiers. ffollowinge
Banquetting A Play of
hos at the Merry
Whitehall Wiues of
the Moor of Winsor.
Venis—
perfd. by
the K’s
players.
On St By his Matis On St Stiuens Shaxberd.
Stephens plaiers. Night in
Night— the Hall A
Mesure for Play caled
Mesur by Mesur for
Shaxberd— Mesur.
perfd. by
the K’s
players.
On Innocents By his Matis On Inosents Shaxberd.
Night plaiers. Night The
Errors by Plaie of
Shaxberd— Errors.
perfd. by
the K’s
players.
23 Nov. (Q.) ‘Edward Jubie £16 10 Dec. On Sunday By the Queens On Sunday Hewood.
24 Nov. (H.) one of the 13s. (W.); C. following Mattis ffollowinge
princes 4d. xxxvii. “How to plaiers. A plaie
plaiors.’ Learn of a cald How
Woman to to Larne of
30 Dec. (K.) ‘John Duke one £10. 19 Feb.; wooe by a woman
of the C. Hewood, to wooe.
Quenes xxxvi.
Ma{tes} perfd. by
plaiers.’ the Q’s
players.
1 Jan. (K.) ‘Samuell £20. 24 Feb. On New Years The Boyes of On Newers By Georg
3 Jan. (K.) Daniell and (W.); C. Night—All the Chapell. Night A Chapman.
Henrie xxxvi. fools by G. playe
Evans ... for Chapman cauled: All
... the perfd. by Foulles.
Quenes the Boyes
Ma{tes} of the
Children of Chapel.
the Revells.’
14 Dec. (H.) ‘Edward Jubie £40. 22 Feb.; bet New yrs By his Matis Betwin Newers
19 Dec. (H.) one of the C. day & plaiers. Day and
15 Jan. (H.) princes xxxvi. twelfth day Twelfe day A
22 Jan. (H.) plaiers.’ —Loves Play of Loues
5 Feb. (H.) Labour Labours Lost.
19 Feb. (H.)
lost perfd.
by the K’s
plrs.
On the 7th By his Matis On the 7 of
Jan. K. plaiers. January was
Hen. the played the
d play of Henry
fifth perf . the fift.
by the K.
prs.

On 8th Jan. By his Matis The 8 of
—Every plaiers. January A
one out of play cauled
his Euery on out
humour. of his Umor.
On By his Matis On Candelmas
Candlemas plaiers. night A playe
night Euery one In
Every one his Umor.
in his
humour.
2 Feb. (K.) On Shrove The Sunday
10 Feb. (K.) Sunday ffollowing A
11 Feb. (K.) ‘the playe
12 Feb. (K.) Marchant provided and
of Venis’ discharged.
by
‘John Shaxberd
Heminges 24 Feb.; —perfd.
one of his £40. C. by the K’s
Mates xxxvii.
Prs.—the
plaiers.’
same
repeated
on Shrove
tuesd. by
the K’s
Commd.’
By his Matis On Shaxberd.
plaiers. Shrousunday
A play of the
Marthant of
Venis.
Feb. (K.) ‘The same John £10. 28 Apr.; By his Ma tis On
Heminges.’ C. plaiers. Shroumonday
xxxvii. A Tragidye of
The Spanishe
Maz.
By his Ma tis On Shroutusday Shaxberd.
players. A play cauled
the Martchant
of Venis
againe com̃
anded By the
Kings Matie.
=1605–6= (D. A. 543, mm. 163, 176).
27 Dec. (K.) ‘John Duke one £8 6s. 30 Apr.;
of the 8d. C.
Queenes xxxviii.
Mates
players.’
Xmas and ‘John £100. 24 Mar.;
since (K. Hemynges C.
10 plays) one of his xxxviii.
Mates
players.’
1 Dec. (H.)
30 Dec. (H.) ‘Edward Jubie
30 Apr.;
1 Jan. (K.) one of the
£50. C.
4 Jan. (H.) Princes
xxxviii.
3 Mar. (K.) players.’
4 Mar. (K.)

—(H. C. ‘Edward £16 31 Mar.;
2 plays) Kirkham one 13s. C.
of the Mres 4d. xxxviii.
of the
Childeren of
Pawles.’
2 plays at G. ‘John
[July-Aug. (K. and Heminges 18 Oct.;
1606] K. one of his £30. C.
1 play at H. of tes
Ma xxxviii.
[7 Aug. Denmark)
1606] Players.’
=1606–7= (D. A. 543, m. 177).
26 Dec. (K.) ‘John £90. 30 Mar.;
29 Dec. (K.) Heminges C.
4 Jan. (K.) one of his xxxix.
6 Jan. (K.) Mates
8 Jan. (K.) Players.’
2 Feb. (K.)
5 Feb. (K.)
15 Feb. (K.)
27 Feb. (K.)
28 Dec. ‘Edwarde £60. 28 Feb.;
13, 24, 30 Jan. Jubye one of C.
1, 11 Feb. the princes xxxviii.
players.’
=1607–8= (D. A. 543, mm. 195–6).
26 Dec. (K.)
27 Dec. (K.)
28 Dec. (K.)
2 Jan. (K.)
6 Jan. (K. ‘John 8 Feb.
2 plays) Hemynges ‘1608’;
7 Jan. (K.) one of his £130. C.
9 Jan. (K.) Maties xxxviii
17 Jan. (K. Players.’ (1607’).
2 plays)
26 Jan. (K.)
2 Feb. (K.)
7 Feb. (K.)
19 Nov. ‘Edward Juby
30 Dec. (K. one of the 8 May; C.
£40.
3 Jan. H.) Princes xxxix.
4 Jan. Players.’
‘John Hassett £13 6s. 23 Sept.
& Caleb 8d.
Hassett ...
for feates of
activitie by
them
performed
upon a
vaughting
horse.’
=1608–9= (D. A. 543, m. 214).
Xmas. (K. Q. ‘John
H. C. Hemynges
12 plays) one of his 5 Apr.; C.
£120.
tes xxxix.
ma
plaiers.’
— (K. H. ‘Thomas £50. 5 Apr.
5 plays) Greene one
of the
Queenes

Mates
plaiers.’
— (K. H. ‘Edwarde £30. 5 Apr.; C.
3 plays) Jubye one of xxxix.
the Princes
Players.’
Xmas. (K. 2 ‘Roƃte Keyser £20. 10 Mar.
plays) ... for ... (W.).
plaies ... by
the Children
of the
blackfriers.’
4 Jan. (H.) ‘the same £10. 10 Mar.
Roƃte
Keyser ... for
one play
presented by
the Children
of the
blackfriers
before his
highnes in
the Cockpitt
at
Whitehall.’
— — ‘John £40. 26 Apr.;
Hemynges C.
one of his xxxix.
mates plaiers
... by way of
his mates
rewarde for
their private
practise in
the time of
infecc̄ on that
thereby they
mighte be
inhabled to
performe
their service
before his
Matie in
Christmas
hollidaies
1609.’
=1609–10= (D. A. 543, mm. 233–5).
‘before xρmas (K. Q. ‘John £130 2 Mar.
and in the H. C. Heminges (W.).
tyme of the E. 13 one of the
holidayes plays) Kinges
and Mates
afterwardes.’ players.’
— (K. H. ‘Roberte £50. 10 May
5 plays) Keysar ... in (W.).
the behalfe
of himselfe
and the reste
of the
Children of
the
Whitefryars.’
27 Dec. (K.) ‘Thomas £10. 31 Mar.
Greene one (W.).

of the
Queene
Mates
players.’
26 Dec. (K.) ‘Edwarde £40. 10 Mar.
28 Dec. (K.) Jubye one of (W.).
7 Jan. (K.) the Princes
18 Jan. (K.) Players.’
9 Feb. (C. E.) ‘the sayd £6 13s. 20 Jan.
William 4d. 1613;
Rowley.’ C. xlii.
— — ‘John £30. 10 Mar.;
Heminges ... C. xl.
for himselfe
and the reste
of his
companie
beinge
restrayned
from
publique
playinge
wthin the
citie of
London in
the tyme of
infecc̄ on
duringe the
space of sixe
weekes in
which tyme
they
practised
pryvately for
his mates
service.’
=1610–11= (D. A. 543, mm. 249, 250, 267; Bodl. Rawlinson MS. A. 204).
— (K. Q. H. ‘John £150. 12 Feb.;
15 plays) Hemynges C. xl.
one of the
Kinges
players.’
10 Dec. (H. ‘Thomas £30. 18 Mar.;
3 plays) Greene one C. xl.
27 Dec. (K.) of the
Quenes
players ... for
three seuerall
playes before
the Kinges
Matie and
the prince’
(D. A.); ‘for
presentinge
three severall
playes before
the princes
highnes
vppon the
xth of
Decemb: and
St Johns
daye at night
1610 before

the Kinges
Matie’
(Rawl. MS.).
19 Dec. ‘Edwarde
28 Dec. Jubye one of 20 Mar.;
(K.) £40.
14 Jan. the Princes C. xl.
16 Jan. players.
12 Dec. (C. E.) 20 Jan.
‘the sayd
20 Dec. (C. E.) 1613
William £20.
15 Dec. (C. E.) (W.); C.
Rowley.’
xlii.
[Cunningham,
xiii, from
Privy Purse
Accounts of
Henry.]
‘For
makinge
readie the
Cocke pitt £2 10s.
fower 8d.
seuerall
tymes for
playes by the
space of
fower dayes
in the month
of December
1610.’
Chamber Accounts. Revels Accounts.[812]
Performance. Payees. Amount. Warrant. Cunningham, 210, from
Audit Office, Accounts Various, 3, 907.
=1611–12= (D. A. 543, mm. 267–8).
31 Oct. (K.) By the Kings Hallomas nyght was
1 Nov. (K.) Players: presented att Whithall
5 Nov. (K.) ‘John Heminges ... for ... the Kinges Mates £60.
1 June; C. before ye Kinges Matie
26 Dec. (K.) servauntes and players.’ xl. a play called the
5 Jan. (K.) Tempest.
23 Feb. (K.)
The Kings The 5th of Nouember: A
players:
play called ye winters
nightes Tayle.
The Kings On St Stiuenes night A
players:
play called A King
no King.
9 Nov. (H. C.) The Queens St John night A play
19 Nov. (H. C.) players: called the City Gallant.
16 Dec. (H. C.) The Sunday followinge
31 Dec. (H. C.) The Princes A play called the
7 Jan. (H. C.) players. Almanak.
15 Jan. (H. C.) 1 June; C. On Neweres night A
9 Feb. (H. C.)
‘the sayd John Heminges.’ £80.[813] xii. The Kings play called the Twiñes
20 Feb. (H. C.) players. Tragedie.
28 Feb. (H. C.) The Sunday following
3 Apr. (H. C.) The A play called Cupids
16 Apr. (H. C.) Childern of Reueng.
Whitfriars.
9 Feb. (H. C. ‘the sayd John Heminges.’ £26 13s. 4d. 1 June; C. By the Queens The Sunday following
E.) xli. players and [Twelfth Night] att
20 Feb. (H.) the Kings Grinwidg before the
28 Mar. (E.) Men. Queen and the Prince
26 Apr. (H. C. was playd the Siluer
E.) Aiedg: and ye next

night following
Lucrecia.
27 Dec. (K. Q.) ‘Thomas Greene ... for ... the Queenes Mates £20. 18 June; C. By the Queens Candelmas night A play
2 Feb. (K. Q.) servauntes.’ xli. players. called Tu Coque.
21 Jan.[814] (H. ‘the sayd Thomas Greene’ £13 6s. 8d. 18 June; C. By the Kings Shroue Sunday: A play
E.) xli players. called the Noblman.
23 Jan. (H. E.)
28 Dec. (K.) ‘Edward Juby ... for ... the Prince highnes £20. 18 June; C. By the Duck of Shroue Munday: A play
29 Dec. (K.) servauntes.’ xli. Yorks called Himens Haliday.
players.
7ensp;5 Feb. ‘the sayd Edward Juby.’ £13 6s. 8d. 18 June; C. By the Ladye Shrove Tuesday A play
(H.) xlii. Elizabeths called the proud Mayds
29 Feb (H.) players. Tragedie.
11 Apr. ‘Edward Jubye ... for ... the Prynce Palatynes £6 13s. 4d. 31 Mar.
‘last past’ Servants.’[815] 1613; C.
(E.) xlii.
25 Feb. (K.) ‘Alexander Foster ... for ... the Ladye Eliz. £10. 1 Apr.; C.
servauntes and players ... for ... the proud xl.
Mayde.’
19 Jan. (H. E.) ‘the sayd Alexander Foster.’ £13 6s. 8d. 1 Apr.; C.
11 Mar. (H. E.) xl.
12 Jan. (H. C. ‘Willm̄ Rowley ... for ... the Duke of Yorkes £26 13s. 4d. 20 June
E.) Servauntes and Players.’ (W.); C.
28 Jan. (H. C. xlii.
E.)
13 Feb. (H. C.
E.)
24 Feb.[816] (H.
C. E.)
[Cunningham, xiv, from Privy Purse
Accounts
of Henry.]
‘For makeinge readie the Cockepitt for a playe by £1 14s. 4d.
the space of twoe dayes in the month of
December 1611.’
‘For makinge readie the Cockepitt for playes £3 10s. 8d.
twoe severall tymes by the space of ffower
dayes in the monethes of January and February
1611.’
=1612–13= (D. A. 544, m. 14; Bodl. Rawlinson MS. A. 239, ff. 46v-48).
8 June. ‘John Hemynges ... for ... the kinges Mates £6 13s. 4d. 9 July; C.
Players for presentinge a playe before the xliii.
Duke Savoyes Ambassadoes’; Rawl. MS. ‘a
playe ... called Cardenna’.
— (C. E. F., 14 ‘To him [Hemynges] more’; Rawl. MS. £93 6s. 8d. 20 May; C.
plays) ‘fowerteene severall playes, viz: one playe xliii.
called ffilaster, One other called the knott of
ffooles, One other Much adoe aboute nothinge,
The Mayeds Tragedy, The merye dyvell of
Edmonton, The Tempest, A kinge and no
kinge, The Twins Tragedie, The Winters Tale,
Sir John ffalstaffe, The Moore of Venice, The
Nobleman, Caesars Tragedye, And on other
called Love lyes a bleedinge’.
— (K., 6 plays) ‘the sayd John Heminges’; Rawl. MS. ‘Sixe £60. 20 May; C.
severall playes, viz: one play called a badd xliii.
beginininge makes a good endinge, One other
called ye Capteyne, One other the Alcumist.
One other Cardenno, One other the Hotspur,
And one other called Benedicte and Betteris’.
[817] ‘Willm̄ Rowley ... for ... the Prynces servantes’; £13 6s. 8d. 7 June; C.
2 Mar. (C.
E. F.) Rawl. MS. ‘One called the first parte of the xlii.

10 Mar. (C. E. Knaues ... And one other playe called the
F.) second parte of the Knaues’.
25 Feb. (C. E. ‘Josephe Taylor ... for ... the Ladie Elizabeth hir £13 6s. 8d. 28 June; C.
F.) servantes’; Rawl. MS. ‘one playe called Cockle xliii.
1 Mar. (C. E. de moye ... and one other called Raymond
F.) Duke of Lyons’.
— (C. E. F.) ‘Phillip Rosseter for ... a play by the Children of £6 13s. 4d. 24 Nov.; C.
[2 or 3 the Chappell’; Rawl. MS. ‘for ... the Children xlii.
Nov.?] of the Queens Majestys Revels, for ... a
Commedye called the Coxcombe’.
9 Jan. (C. E. ‘To him more ... for ... two other playes by the £13 6s. 8d. 31 May; C.
F.) Children of the Chappell’; Rawl. MS. ‘one xlii.
27 Feb. (C. E. called Cupidds revenge, and the other called
F.) the Widdowes Teares’.
1 Jan. ‘1613’ ‘The sayd Phillip Rosseter ... for ... a play by the £10. 31 May.
(K.) said Children’; Rawl. MS. ‘called Cupides
Revenge’.
[Sullivan, 139, from Accounts of Elizabeth 29
Sept. 1612 to 25 March 1613 in Exchequer of
Receipt Misc., Bundle 343.]
— ‘To her gracs plaiers for acting a Comedie in the £5.
[Oct. 20?] Cocke pitt wch her highnes lost to Mr Edward
[818]
Sackvile on a wager.’
=1613–14= (D. A. 544, m. 29).
4 Nov. (C.)
16 Nov. (C.)
10 Jan. (C.)
4 Feb. (C.) ‘John Heminges and the rest of his fellowes his £46 13s. 0d. 21 June; C.
8 Feb. (C.) Mates servaunts the Players.’ [819] xliii.
10 Feb. (C.)
18 Feb. (C.)
‘1614’.
1 Nov. (K.)
‘1614’.
5 Nov. (K.)
15 Nov. (K.)
27 Dec. (K.) ‘the said John Heminges and the rest of his 21 June; C.
£90.
1 Jan. (K.) fellowes.’ xliii.
4 Jan. (K.)
2 Feb. (K.)
6 Mar. (K.)
8 Mar. (K.)
24 Dec.[820] ‘Robƃte Lee and the rest of his fellowes the £20. 21 June
(K.) Queenes Mates servauntes the Playiers.’ (W.); C.
5 Jan. (K.) xliii.
25 Jan. (K.) ‘Joseph Taylor for himselfe and the rest of his £10. 21 June
fellowes servaunts to the Lady Eliz’ her grace (W.); C.
... for presenting ... a Comedy called Eastward xliv.
howe.’
12 Dec. (C.) ‘To him [Taylor] more ... for presenting ... a £6 13s. 4d. 21 June
comedy called the Dutch Curtezan.’ (W.); C.
xliv.
=1614–15= (D. A. 544, mm. 47, 48, 65).[821]
— (K. 8 plays) ‘John Hemynges ... in the behalfe of himselfe and £80. 19 May; C.
his fellowes the Kinges mates players.’ xiii (19
May
‘1613’).
— (K. 3 plays) ‘Roberte Leigh.’[822] £30. 25 Apr.
(W.).
— (K. 2 plays) ‘Edward Juby in the behalfe of himselfe and the £26 13s. 4d. 15 Apr.
(C.) reste of his fellowes the Palsgraves players.’
— (C. 6 plays) ‘Willm̄ Rowley one of the Princes players.’ £43 6s. 8d. 17 May.

1 Nov. (K.) ‘Nathan ffeilde in the behalfe of himselfe and the £10. 11 June; C. [Pipe Office D. A.
rest of his fellowes ... for ... Bartholomewe xliv. (Revels), 2805.]
Fayre.’ ‘Canvas for the
Boothes and other
necessaries for a play
called Bartholmewe
Faire.’
=1615–16= (D. A. 544, mm. 66, 77).
Between 1 Nov. ‘John Heminges and the rest of his fellowes the £140. 24 Apr.
and 1 Apr. Kings Mates Players.’ 1617.[823]
(K. Q. 14
plays)
— (K. 4 ‘Roberte Lee and his fellowes the Queenes Mates £40. 20 May
plays) Servauntes.’ (G.).
— (C. 4 ‘Alexander Foster one of the Princes highnes £26 13s. 4d. 29 Apr.
plays) Players.’ (W.).
[A. F. Westcott, New Poems of James I, lxxii,
from Accounts of Anne for Apr. 1615–Jan.
1616.]
17 Dec. (Q.) ‘Ellis Worth one of her Mates plaiers for so much £10. 7 Jan.
paid vnto him in the behalfe of himselfe and
the rest of his fellowes of that companie for
one plaie acted before her matie [at] Queenes
Court.’
21 Dec. (Q.) ‘John Heminge one of the Kinge Mates plaiers £10. 22 Jan.
for so much paid vnto him in the behalfe of
himselfe and the reste of his fellowes of that
companie for one plaie acted before her Matie
at Queenes Court.’

APPENDIX C

DOCUMENTS OF CRITICISM
[There is much vain repetition in learned controversy, whether literary or ethical. I
have attempted, by extract or summary, to indicate the main critical positions taken up
by writers of different schools with regard to plays, and at the same time to preserve
the incidental information which they furnish on points of stage history. It does not
seem to me necessary to do more than cite, as of minor importance, and practically
adding nothing, T. Becon, The Catechisme (1564, Works, i, f. cccccxxxii); E. Hake,
Merry Maidens of London (1567), A Touchstone for this Time (1574), sig. G 4v; E.
Dering, Catechisme for Householders (1572); T. Brasbridge, Poor Man’s Jewel
(1578); R. Crowley, Unlawful Practises of Prelates (> 1583), sig. B 3v; N. Bownde,
Doctrine of the Sabbath (1595), 211; J. Norden, Progress of Piety (1596, ed. Parker
Soc.), 177; T. Beard, Theatre of God’s Judgments (1597), 193, 197, 374; W. Vaughan,
The Golden Grove (1600), i. 51; F. Hering, Rules for the Prevention of the Sickness
(1603), sig. A 4v; R. Knolles, Six Books of a Commonweal (1606, from J. Bodin, Six
Livres de la République, 1576–8, 1601), vi. 1; W. Perkins, Cases of Conscience (1608,
ed. T. Pickering), 118; R. Bolton, Discourse of True Happiness (1611), 73; L. Bayly,
Practice of Piety (c. 1612, ed. Webster, 1842), 182, 190; O. Lake, Probe Theologicall
upon the Commandments (1612), 267; J. Dod and R. Cleaver, Exposition of the Ten
Commandments (1612); G. Wither, Abuses Stript and Whipt (1613), ii. 3; D. Dyke,
Michael and the Dragon (1615), 216. Probably such references could be multiplied
indefinitely; they show how dread of the stage became a commonplace of pastoral
theology. Thomas Spark’s Rehearsal Sermon (1579) is only known from the citation
of it by Munday (cf. No. xxvii, infra).]

i. 1489 (?). Desiderius Erasmus.
[From Epistola 31, to an unnamed friend (P. S. Allen, Opus Epistolarum Des.
Erasmi Roterodami, i. 123), conjecturally dated by Mr. Allen in 1489. Erasmus more
briefly commends the educational use both of Terence and Plautus in De Ratione
Studii (1511, Opera, i. 521). In 1532 he edited Terence, and to the same year belongs
Epist. 1238 (Opera, iii. 2, 1457), which praises the comedies without re-arguing at
length the ethical controversy; cf. W. H. Woodward, Desiderius Erasmus concerning
the Aim and Method of Education (1904), 28, 39, 113, 164.]

Est enim in his Terentianis comoediis mirifica quaedam sermonis
puritas, proprietas, elegantia ac, vt in tam antiquo comico, horroris
minimum; lepos (sine quo rustica est omnis, quantumuis phalerata, oratio)
et vrbanus et salsus. Aut hoc igitur magistro aut nemine discere licebit quo
pacto veteres illi Latini, qui nunc vel nobis peius balbutiunt, locuti sint.
Hunc itaque tibi non modo etiam atque etiam lectitandum censeo,
verumetiam ad verbum ediscendum.
Caue autem ne homuncionum istorum imperitulorum, imo liuidulorum
garritus te quicquam permoueant, qui vbi in ineptissimis authoribus

Florista, Ebrardo Graecista, Huguitione se senuisse viderunt, nec tantis
ambagibus ex imperitiae labyrintho potuisse emergere, id vnicum suae
stulticiae solatium proponunt, si in eundem errorem suum iuniores omnes
pelliciant. Nefas aiunt a Christianis lectitari Terentianas fabulas. Quam ob
rem tandem quaeso? Nihil, inquiunt, praeter lasciuiam ac turpissimos
adolescentum amores habent, quibus lectoris animum corrumpi necesse sit.
Facile vnde libet corrumpitur qui corruptus accesserit. Syncerum nisi vas,
quodcunque infundis acescit. Itane isti religiosuli ad caetera vel vtilissima
talpis caeciores, ad vnam, si qua est, lasciuiam capreae sunt? Imo capri ac
stolidi nihil sibi praeter nequitiam, qua sola imbuti sunt (indocti quippe
iidemque mali), rapientes, non vident quanta illic sit moralitas, quanta vitae
instituendae tacita exhortatio, quanta sententiarum venustas. Neque
intelligunt totum hoc scripti genus ad coarguenda mortalium vitia
accommodatum, imo adeo inuentum. Quid enim sunt comoediae, nisi
seruus nugator, adolescens amore insanus, meretrix blanda ac procax, senex
difficilis, morosus, auarus? Haec nobis in fabulis, perinde atque in tabula,
proponuntur depicta; vt, quum in moribus hominum quid deceat, quid
dedeceat, viderimus, alterum amemus alterum castigemus. En, in Eunucho
Phaedria ille ex summa continentia in summam ineptiam amore, tanquam
morbo validissimo, immutatus, adeo vt eundem esse non cognoscas; quam
pulchro exemplo docet amorem rem esse et miserrimam et anxiam,
instabilem et prorsus insaniae turpissimae plenam. Assentatores istos,
pestilens hominum genus, Gnatonem suum, artis suae principem, spectare
iubeto. Iactabundi et sibi placentes, quales diuitum plerosque imperitos
videmus, Thrasonem suum spectent ac tandem cum sua magnificentia quam
ridiculi sint intelligant.
Sed de his latius (quum [quae] de litteris scripsimus edemus) nostra
leges, volente quidem Deo. Ad praesentem locum satis fuerit tetigisse
comoedias Terentianas; modo recte legantur, non modo non ad
subuertendos mores, verum etiam ad corrigendos maximopere valere, certe
ad Latine discendum plane necessarias iudicauerim. An potius istud ex
Catholicon, Huguitione, Ebrardo, Papia caeterisque ineptioribus sperare
iubebunt? Mirum vero si his authoribus quis quid Latine dicat, cum ipsi
nihil non barbare locuti sint. Huiusmodi amplectatur, qui balbutire volet;
qui loqui cupiet, Terentium dicat, quem Cicero, quem Quintilianus, quem
Hieronymus, quem Augustinus, quem Ambrosius et iuuenes didicere et
senes vsi sunt; quem denique nemo, nisi barbarus, non amauit.

ii. 1523–31. Iohannes Ludovicus Vives.

(a)
[From Commentary on St. Augustine, De Civitate Dei (1522), viii. 27. The book
was placed on the Index Expurgatorius, ‘donec corrigatur’, and Rainolds, Th’
Overthrow of Stage-Playes, 161, says that this was one of the offending passages.
Vives, a Spaniard by birth, was lecturer at Louvain 1520–3, mainly in England 1523–
8, and at Bruges 1528–31.]

At qui mos nunc est, quo tempore sacrum celebratur Christi morte sua
genus humanum liberantis, ludos nihil prope a scenicis illis veteribus
differentes populo exhibere, etiam si aliud non dixero satis turpe existimabit
quisquis audiet, ludos fieri in re maxime seria. Ibi ridetur Iudas, quam
potest ineptissima iactans, dum Christum prodit: ibi discipuli fugiunt
militibus persequentibus, nec sine cachinnis et actorum et spectatorum: ibi
Petrus auriculam rescindit Malcho, applaudente pullata turba, ceu ita
vindicetur Christi captiuitas. Et post paulum, qui tam strenue modo
dimicarat, rogationibus unius ancillulae territus abnegat magistrum, ridente
multitudine ancillam interrogantem, et exibilante Petrum negantem. Inter
tot ludentes, inter tot cachinnos et ineptias solus Christus est serius et
seuerus. Quumque affectus conatur moestos elicere, nescio quo pacto non
ibi tantum, sed etiam ad sacra frigefacit, magno scelere atque impietate, non
tam eorum qui vel spectant vel agunt, quam sacerdotum, qui eiusmodi fieri
curant. Sed hisce de rebus loquemur forsan commodiore loco.
(b)
[From De Tradendis Disciplinis, iii. 6 (1531, Opera, vi. 328).]

After comparing the Latinity of Plautus and Terence for school purposes,
he adds:
Ex vtroque cuperem resecta quae pueriles animos iis vitiis possent
polluere ad quae naturae quasi nutu quodam vergimus.
(c)
[From De Causis Corruptarum Artium, ii. 4 (1531, Opera, vi. 99).]

Venit in scenam poesis, populo ad spectandum congregato, et ibi sicut
pictor tabulam proponit multitudini spectandam, ita poeta imaginem
quandam vitae; vt merito Plutarchus de his dixerit, Poema esse picturam
loquentem, et picturam poema tacens, ita magister est populi, et pictor, et
poeta: corrupta est haec ars, quod ab insectatione flagitiorum et scelerum

transiit ad obsequium prauae affectionis, vt quaecunque odisset poeta, in
eum linguae ac stili intemperantia abuteretur: cui iniuriae atque insolentiae
itum est obuiam, primum a diuitibus potentia sua, et opibus, hinc legibus,
quibus cauebatur, ne quis in alium noxium carmen pangeret: tum inuolucris
coepit tegi fabula; paullatim res tota ad ludicra, et in vulgum plausibilia, est
traducta, ad amores, ad fraudes meretricum, ad periuria lenonis, ad militis
ferociam et glorias; quae quum dicerentur cuneis refertis puerorum,
puellarum, mulierum, turba opificum hominum, et rudium, mirum quam
vitiabantur mores ciuitatis admonitione illa, et quasi incitatione ad flagitia,
praesertim quum comici semper catastrophen laetam adderent amoribus, et
impudicitiae; nam si quando addidissent tristes exitus, deterruissent ab iis
actibus spectatores, quibus euentus esset paratus acerbissimus. In quo
sapientior fuit qui nostra lingua scripsit Celestinam tragicomoediam; nam
progressui amorum, et illis gaudiis voluptatis, exitum annexuit
amarissimum, nempe amatorum, lenae, lenonum casus et neces violentas:
neque vero ignorarunt olim fabularum scriptores turpia esse quae scriberent,
et moribus iuuentutis damnosa ... Recentiores in linguis vernaculis multo,
mea quidem sententia, excellunt veteres in argumento deligendo. Nullae
fere exhibentur nunc publicae fabulae quae non delectationem vtilitate
coniungant.
iii. 1531. Sir Thomas Elyot.
[From The Governour, i. 13 (ed. H. H. S. Croft, i. 123).]

‘They whiche be ignoraunt in poetes wyll perchaunce obiecte, as is their
maner, agayne these verses [Horace, Epist. ii. 1. 126–31], sayeng that in
Therence and other that were writers of comedies, also Ouide, Catullus,
Martialis, and all that route of lasciuious poetes that wrate epistles and
ditties of loue, some called in latine Elegiæ and some Epigrammata, is
nothyng contayned but incitation to lechery.
First, comedies, whiche they suppose to be a doctrinall of rybaudrie, they
be undoutedly a picture or as it were a mirrour of man’s life, wherin iuell is
nat taught but discouered; to the intent that men beholdynge the promptnes
of youth unto vice, the snares of harlotts and baudes laid for yonge myndes,
the disceipte of seruantes, the chaunces of fortune contrary to mennes
expectation, they beinge therof warned may prepare them selfe to resist or
preuente occasion. Semblably remembring the wisedomes, aduertisements,
counsailes, dissuasion from vice, and other profitable sentences, most

eloquently and familiarely shewed in those comedies, undoubtedly there
shall be no litle frute out of them gathered. And if the vices in them
expressed shulde be cause that myndes of the reders shulde be corrupted:
than by the same argumente nat only entreludes in englisshe, but also
sermones, wherin some vice is declared, shulde be to the beholders and
herers like occasion to encreace sinners.’ Quotes Terence, Eunuchus, v. 4.
8–18, on the moral end of comedy and virtuous counsel from Plautus,
Amphitruo, ii. 2. 17–21; Ovid, Remedia Amoris, 131–6; and Martial, Epigr.
xii. 34. ‘Wherfore sens good and wise mater may be picked out of these
poetes, it were no reason, for some lite mater that is in their verses, to
abandone therefore al their warkes, no more than it were to forbeare or
prohibite a man to come into a faire gardein, leste the redolent sauours of
swete herbes and floures shall meue him to wanton courage, or leste in
gadringe good and holsome herbes he may happen to be stunge with a
nettile. No wyse man entreth in to a gardein but he sone espiethe good
herbes from nettiles, and treadeth the nettiles under his feete whiles he
gadreth good herbes. Wherby he taketh no damage, or if he be stungen he
maketh lite of it and shortly forgetteth it. Semblablye if he do rede wanton
mater mixte with wisedome, he putteth the warst under foote and sorteth out
the beste, or, if his courage be stered or prouoked, he remembreth the litel
pleasure and gret detriment that shulde ensue of it, and withdrawynge his
minde to some other studie or exercise shortly forgetteth it.... So all thoughe
I do nat approue the lesson of wanton poetes to be taughte unto all children,
yet thynke I conuenient and necessary that, when the mynde is become
constante and courage is asswaged, or that children of their naturall
disposition be shamfaste and continent, none auncient poete wolde be
excluded from the leesson of suche one as desireth to come to the perfection
of wysedome.’
iv. c. 1538 (?). Nicholas Udall.
[From Prologue to Roister Doister (? 1566–7).]

What Creature is in health, eyther yong or olde,
But som mirth with modestie wil be glad to use
As we in thys Enterlude shall now unfolde,
Wherin all scurilitie we utterly refuse,
Avoiding such mirth wherin is abuse:
Knowing nothing more comendable for a mans recreation
Than Mirth which is used in an honest fashion:

For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health.
Mirth recreates our spirites and voydeth pensivenesse,
Mirth increaseth amitie, not hindring our wealth,
Mirth is to be used both of more and lesse,
Being mixed with vertue in decent comlynesse.
As we trust no good nature can gainsay the same:
Which mirth we intende to use, avoidyng all blame.

The wyse Poets long time heretofore,
Under merrie Comedies secretes did declare,
Wherein was contained very vertuous lore,
With mysteries and forewarnings very rare.
Suche to write neither Plautus nor Terence dyd spare,
Whiche among the learned at this day beares the bell:
These with such other therein dyd excell.

v. 1551. Martin Bucer.
[From De honestis ludis, a section of De Regno Christi, presented to Edward VI by
Bucer, who was then Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, on 1 Jan. 1551,
printed in 1557, and again in Scripta Anglicana (1577), ii. 54.]

Poterit iuuentus etiam exerceri agendo comoedias et tragoedias:
populisque his honesta, et ad augendam pietatem non inutilis exhiberi
oblectatio: sed piis, et ad regnum Christi doctis atque sapientibus viris opus
fuerit, qui comoedias eas atque tragoedias componant: in quibus nimirum
eiusmodi imitatio repraesentetur, consiliorum, actionum, atque euentuum
humanorum, siue communium et vulgarium, vt fit in comoediis: sive
singularium et qui sint maioris admirationis, quod proprium est tragoediae,
quae ad certam morum correctionem, et piam conserat vitae institutionem.
Vt si comoedia repraesentetur iurgium pastorum Abrahae et Lot, atque
horum a se inuicem discessio.... In huiusmodi comoedia tractari possent, et
vtili ad piam institutionem oblectatione repraesentari, hi loci.... Ad eundem
modum suppeditet piae comoediae vberem sane et aedificandae pietati
peridoneam materiam, historia quaesitae, obtentae et adductae Isaaco
sponsae Ribkae: ex hac enim historia queat describi pia parentum cura,
quaerendi liberis suis religiosa connubia: fides bona et officiositas
proborum seruorum.... Non dissimile argumentum desumi queat et ex ea
historiae de Iacobo parti qua describitur, vt metu fratris, relictis parentibus,
ad Labam auunculum suum concesserit....
Tragoediis, Scripturae vbique perquam copiosam offerunt materiam,
historiis prope omnibus S. Patrum, regum, Prophetarum et Apostolorum

inde ab Adam vsque, primo humani generis parente. Omnino enim refertae
sunt hae historiae diuinis et heroicis personis, affectionibus, moribus,
actionibus, euentibus quoque inexpectatis, atque in contrarium quam
expectarentur cadentibus, quae Aristoteles vocat περιπετείας. Quae omnia
cum mirificam vim habeant fidem in Deum confirmandi, et amorem
studiumque Dei accendendi admirationem item pietatis atque iusticiae, et
horrorem impietatis, omnisque peruersitatis ingenerandi atque augendi:
quanto magis deceat Christianos, ut ex his sua poemata sumant, quibus
magna et illustria hominum consilia, conatus, ingenium, affectus atque
casus repraesentent, quam ex impiis ethnicorum vel fabulis vel historiis!
Adhibendae autem sunt in vtroque genere poematum, comico et tragico, vt
cum hominum vitia et peccata describuntur, et actione quasi oculis
conspicienda exhibentur, id fiat ea ratione, vt quamuis perditorum hominum
referantur scelera, tamen terror quidam in his diuini iudicii, et horror
appareat peccati: non exprimantur exultans in scelere oblectatio, atque
confidens audacia. Praestat hinc detrahere aliquid decoro poetico, quam
curae aedificandi pietate spectatores; quae poscit vt in omni peccati
repraesentatione sentiantur, conscientiae propriae condemnatio, et a iudicio
Dei horrenda trepidatio.
At dum piae et probae exhibentur actiones, in his debet exprimi quam
clarissime sensus divinae misericordiae laetus, securaque et confidens,
moderata tamen, et diffidens sibi exultansque in Deo fiducia promissionum
Dei cum sancta et spirituali in recte faciendo voluptate. Hac enim ratione
sanctorum et ingenia, et mores, et affectus, ad instaurandam in populo
omnem pietatem ac virtutem, quam scitissima imitatione repraesentantur.
Eum autem fructum vt Christi populus ex sanctis comoediis et tragoediis
percipiant praeficiendi et huic rei erunt viri, vt horum poematum
singulariter intelligentes, ita etiam explorati et constantis studii in regnum
Christi: ne qua omnino agatur comoedia, aut tragoedia, quam hi non ante
perspectam decreuerint agendam.
Hi quoque curabunt, ne quid leue aut histrionicum in agendo admittatur:
sed omnia exhibeantur sancta quadam, et graui, iucunda tamen, sanctis
duntaxat, actione: qua repraesententur non tam res ipsae, et actiones
hominum, affectus et perturbationes, quam mores et ingenia: ac ita
repraesententur, vt excitetur in spectatoribus studiosa imitatio: eorum autem