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).
- ↑ P. C. (Nov. 22, 24); Machyn, 179; Lettenhove, i. 300.
- ↑ Machyn, 180; Burghley, Diary.
- ↑ P. C. (Dec. 4, 5); Machyn, 180; Stowe, Annales.
- ↑ P. C. (Dec. 22, 23); V. P. vii. 2.
- ↑ Cf. ch. v.
- ↑ P. C. (Jan. 14); V. P. vii. 11; Machyn, 186; Stowe, Annales.
- ↑ Machyn, 186; Stowe, Annales; cf. ch. xxiv.
- ↑ Machyn, 186; Nichols, i. 60; from Bodl. Ashm. MS., 863; V. P., vii. 11.
- ↑ Machyn, 187; V. P. vii. 18.
