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Court Entertainments and Tournaments

Court Entertainments and Tournaments

Court Entertainments. p.1: Acrobats, feats of activity, tumblers. p.2: Bear-baiting. p.3: Fools and . p.4: Masques. p.6: Playwrights. p.7: Players. p.8: Plays and Players: miscellaneous references. p.10: Plays: alphabetical list. p.13: Plays for the Queen. p.20: Companies of players, and court performances. p.24: Tournaments. p.26: Tournaments’ Glossary. p.27: Tournament Judges. p.27: Fees for tournaments. p.28-34: Tilters’ Index.

Acrobats, feats of activity, tumblers.

1575 July 14: Kenilworth Castle: Italian tumbler. 1578 by Jan 13: Hampton Court: Italian tumbler.

1580 Jan 12: Whitehall: feats of tumbling, by Lord Strange’s tumblers. 1581 Dec 28: Whitehall: feats of activity, by Lord Strange’s Men. 1583 Jan 1: : feats of tumbling and activity, and matachins (sword-dancers), by Lord Strange's Men, led by John Symons. 1584 Christmas: matachin suits were provided for a ‘’.

1585 Jan 1: Whitehall: feats of activity, by of ’s Men: presented by ‘Symons and his fellows’. Nov 26: House: tumblers. 1586 Jan 9: Greenwich: feats of activity and tumbling, by Mr Stanley’s Boys, led by John Symons. Christmas 1586-Shrovetide 1587: Greenwich: tumbling.

1587 Dec 28: Greenwich: feats of activity, by John Symons and his company. 1588 June/July: Greenwich: feats of activity by Turks; and referred to, July 6. Christmas 1588-Shrovetide 1589: Richmond or Whitehall: feats of activity and tumbling, and matachins; with Symons the tumbler. 1589 Dec 28: Richmond: feats of activity, by Admiral’s Men.

1590 Dec 27: Richmond: feats of activity, by Admiral’s Men and Lord Strange’s Men. 1591 Feb 16: Greenwich: feats of activity, by Admiral’s Men and Lord Strange’s Men.

1600 May 5: Queen wishes to see Frenchman who danced on a rope. May 10: Frenchman showed ‘wonders on a rope’ for French envoy. May 12: Queen appoints to see feats upon a rope (deferred). May 14: Greenwich: Peter Bromvill’s feats before the Queen. May 15: Bromvill permitted to perform at The Swan.

1601 Dec 25: hose made ‘for Nick to tumble in before the Queen’. Dec 27: Whitehall: Admiral’s Men: play and tumbling. 1603 Jan 2: Whitehall: ‘vaulting and other active exercises’, presented by John Hassett.

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Bear-baiting. The Queen never visited the public bear-baiting arena at Paris Garden, Southwark, Surrey: when she watched bear-baiting bears were brought to court.

1559 March 21: Whitehall, after bringing Easter wyth. May 25: Whitehall: for Queen and French Ambassadors. May 26: Paris Garden, Southwark: for French Ambassadors. Christmas 1559-February 1560: Whitehall: ‘at sundry times’.

1560 April 10: Whitehall, after bringing the Easter wyth to court. 1561 Oct 28: Whitehall: for Queen and French visitors. 1565 May 25: Paris Garden: for Ambassadors: bears, bulls, wolves, mule, ape. 1567 Christmas 1567-New Year 1568: Whitehall; with payment.

1572 June 15: Whitehall: for Frenchmen (Queen absent). 1573 Jan 9: Hampton Court: payment to Richard Dorrington for bear-baiting. Jan 17: payment for baiting at Greenwich and twice at (1572). June 2: New Master of the Queen’s Games: Ralph Bowes. 1574 Jan 20: payment for baiting at Greenwich (in 1573), and twice at Westminster (Christmas 1573-January 1574). June 1: Greenwich. 1575 April 3: St James’s Palace, in Easter Week. July 14: Kenilworth Castle; Aug 3: Lichfield payment for Ralph Bowes’ tent. Dec 27: Hampton Court. 1576 March 5: Whitehall: for Queen and Champagney, envoy. June 13: Greenwich; Dec 27: Hampton Court. 1577 Feb 18: Whitehall. Christmas 1577-New Year 1578: Hampton Court. 1579 c.Feb 13: Paris Garden, Southwark: for Duke Casimir.

1580 by Jan 13: Whitehall: for Queen and Spanish Ambassador. Dec 27: Whitehall. 1581 April 23: Whitehall. May 1: Whitehall: for Queen and French Commissioners. Dec 4,5,7,31: Whitehall. Duke of Alençon at court. 1582 June 5: Greenwich. 1583 Jan 13: part of Paris Garden collapsed, many dead and injured; Jan 14: reported by Lord Mayor; Jan 15-17: sequel. Dec 27: Greenwich. 1584 March 3: Whitehall: bull broke loose; March 8: described. Dec 28: Greenwich. 1585 Dec 27: Greenwich. 1586 May 24: Greenwich: for Queen and Danish Chancellor; described. 1587 Greenwich: Feb 28; June 6; Dec 28. 1588 Greenwich: Feb 20; May 28.

1593 Jan 28: baiting of bears and bulls forbidden during plague. 1596 Oct 30: Harington’s allusion to a bear at Alençon’s visit (1581). 1598 Aug 11: New Master of the Queen’s Games: John Dorrington. 1599 May 29: Greenwich: for Queen and French Ambassador. 1600 May 12: preparations for bear-baiting at court, letter. May 12: bears, bull, and ape to be baited; May 13: baiting deferred; May 18: Greenwich: baiting in Tilt-yard. 1601 June 2: Greenwich: baiting in Tilt-yard. 1602 Feb 14: Whitehall: for Queen and French Ambassador. May 25: Greenwich: for Queen and French Ambassador. Dec 28: Whitehall.

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Fools and Jesters. See also: ‘Anecdotes’ (Clod; Pace; Tarlton).

1559 Jan 15: Coronation apparel for William Somers ‘the Queen’s Fool’. May 30: De Quadra’s reference to one of the Queen’s Fools.

1562 Jan 1: from Modeno: picture of Patch, King Henry VIII’s Fool. May 7: charges against Countess of Lennox, one relating to her Fool.

1564 Sept 20: a Fool’s advice to the Queen.

1565 January, end: Robert Green, the Queen’s Fool: expenses for. April 16: Jack Green, the Queen’s Fool: apparel. June 4: Baron Zwetkovich relates a jest by the Queen’s . Aug 9: ’s Fool, at Windsor.

1566 June, start: Fulharst, a Fool, imprisoned for slandering Sir William Cecil.

1567 Feb 10: Wardrobe account, including Jack Green, the Queen’s Fool.

1568 April 14: Wardrobe account, including Monarcho (an Italian who is referred to by Shakespeare in Love’s Labour’s Lost).

1572 April 9: hose for Hoyden, a male Fool.

1573 Sept 16: Canterbury Chamberlains paid ‘Walter the Jester’.

1574 Oct 14: Wardrobe account for a Fool, William Shenton. Dec 28: report that a jester at the French court dressed as Henry VIII; the Queen’s anger.

1575 Feb 18: French King and Queen Mother denied the report about a jester.

1578 July 27: Nashe compared Gabriel Harvey to Monarcho.

1585 Sept 8: Earl of Leicester rewarded Robin, Lord Lumley’s Fool.

1591 March 10: John Stanhope sent Jenkin, a Fool, with a letter.

1592 New Year: Countess of Shrewsbury rewarded Ramsey, court jester. 1592 end: Nashe’s play Summer’s Last Will and Testament, including Will Somers, or Summers.

1599 Sept 17: Cope’s museum has the ‘bauble and bells of Henry VIII’s fool’.

1602 Nov 19: note concerning supposed Fool, Garret.

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Masques.

1559 Jan 6: Whitehall: Papists. Jan 16: Whitehall: Turks or Hungarians. Jan 22: Whitehall: Moors; torch-bearers: Moorish Friars. Feb 5: Whitehall: Swart Rutters [Black Riders]; torch-bearers: Germans. Feb 7: Whitehall: Fishermen, Fish-wives, Market-wives; with Minstrels. May 24: Whitehall: Astronomers; torch-bearers: Mariners. July 11: Greenwich: masque after Tilt. Aug 6: Nonsuch, Surrey: masque. Aug 13: Swedish envoys being mocked in masques. Aug 18/21: West Horsley, Surrey: Shipmen and Maids of the Country. Dec 31: Whitehall: Clowns; torch-bearers: Hinds [farm-workers].

1560 Jan 1: Whitehall: Barbarians; torch-bearers: Venetian Commoners. Jan 6: Whitehall: Patriarchs; Italian Women. Feb 25: Whitehall: marriage of Lord Cobham: Nusquams; torch-bearers: Turkish Commoners. Feb 27: Whitehall: Diana and Nymphs Huntresses; torch-bearers: Maidens. Actaeons; torch-bearers: Hunters.

1561 Feb 16-18: Whitehall: masques. Oct 27: Whitehall: Wise and Foolish Virgins (described).

1562 Jan 15: Baynard’s Castle, : masque. Jan 18: Whitehall: Beauty and Desire. Feb 1: Whitehall: masque from London (described). summer: masque prepared for meeting with Queen of Scots, Nottingham. [Details in ‘Proposed Progresses’: 1562].

1563 Feb 17: Baynard’s Castle: masques, for double marriage.

1564 June 9: Richmond: masque for Queen and Frenchmen. July 5: Sackville House, London: masque (described). Aug 10: Hinchingbrooke, Hunts: Mock Mass; by Cambridge students (described; text given). Christmas: Whitehall: masque.

1565 Feb 18: Whitehall: Hunters. March 2: York House: masques for Queen and French Ambassador. March 6: Whitehall: Satyrs; Gentlemen: for Queen and Spanish Ambassador. July 16: Durham Place: marriage of Henry Knollys: masques (described). Nov 12: Whitehall: marriage of : one or more masques.

1566 Feb 19: London: marriage of Earl of Southampton: masque. July 1: Bermondsey: marriage of Thomas Mildmay: masque (described).

1567 Feb 11: Whitehall: masque. Christmas-Shrovetide 1568: Revels prepared six masques, two not used. 1568 March 2: Whitehall: masque: Moors. 1569 Christmas: Windsor Castle: masque.

1571 Christmas-Shrovetide 1572: Revels prepared six masques (described): black and white masque, at Christmas; red cloth of gold masque; yellow cloth of gold masque; murrey satin masque; two masques not new. These and other masque costumes were hired out by the Yeoman of the Revels, usually for marriages (details in Text).

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1572 June 22: Whitehall: masque, for Queen and Frenchmen (described). September, end: at Viscount Montagu’s: marriages of his son and daughter: masque, by George Gascoigne (described). Christmas-Shrovetide 1573: masques: Turks; Women.

1573 Jan 1: Hampton Court: Janus. Feb 3: Greenwich: Fishermen. Sept 3: Canterbury: masques, with Mariners, Turks, Ladies. Nov 8: Greenwich: marriage of William Drury: masque. Dec 27: Whitehall: Lance-Knights.

1574 Jan 1: Whitehall: Foresters or Hunters. Jan 6: Whitehall: Sages. Feb 2: Hampton Court: Virtues: ready but cancelled. Feb 22: Hampton Court: masque ready but deferred. Feb 23: Hampton Court: two masques: Warriors; Ladies.

1575 Jan 6: Hampton Court: Pedlars. July 17: Kenilworth Castle: masque ready, not seen. 1577 Jan 6: Hampton Court: masque ready, deferred to Feb 19. Feb 19: Whitehall: masque of boys.

1578 Aug 21: Norwich: Gods and Goddesses, with gifts (described). Dec 28: Revels ‘conference about masques’.

1579 Jan 11: Richmond: masque, for Queen and French (described): Amazons; torch-bearers: Archers; Knights: torch-bearers: Riders. March 2: Whitehall: Sailors. March 3: Whitehall: masque of Moors prepared, not seen.

1581 Feb 3: supposed plot to kill Queen and Council in a masque. April 1: Whitehall: masques for Queen and French, prepared, not seen. Christmas: Whitehall: masque, with gifts to Queen. 1582 Jan 6: Whitehall: masque for Queen and French (described). Christmas: masque of Six Seamen prepared, not seen (described).

1583 Jan 5: Windsor Castle; masque: Ladies. Christmas 1583-Shrovetide 1584: Whitehall: masque. 1589 September, end: masque to be sent to for King James’s marriage celebrations (described); not used, as James left for Denmark.

1595 Jan 6: Gray’s Inn: ‘show’ and masque. Jan 26: Greenwich: marriage of : masque: Nine Muses; with details of preparations and of another proposed masque. March 3: Whitehall: Gentlemen of Gray’s Inn: masque, Proteus and the Rock Adamantine (described).

1597 Christmas: ’s money for Middle Temple Revels. 1598 Jan 6: Whitehall: Gentlemen of Middle Temple: masque: Nine Passions; (described).

1600 June 14: preparations for masque, Muses, at Anne Russell’s marriage. June 16: Blackfriars: marriage; at Lord Cobham’s house: masque. June 17: descriptions of masque; the Queen danced.

1602 Feb 16: Whitehall: Middle Temple: masque (preparations; described). Nov 2: Song to Queen at a masque at court (in full).

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Playwrights.

Bale, John: : 1560 end. Birck, Sixt: Sapientia Solomonis: 1566 Jan 17. Calfhill, James: Progne: 1566 Sept 5. Dekker, Thomas: 1599 Feb 20: epilogue attributed to. 1599 Feb 27: Old Fortunatus, at court; payments. 1600 Jan 1: Shoemaker’s Holiday, at court. 1601 Jan 6: Phaethon, at court (note).

Edwards, Richard: see ‘Prominent Elizabethans’. Euripedes, trans. Calamino: Phoenissae: 1577 end. Fulwell, Ulpian: Like will to like: 1568 end. Gager, William: Rivales: 1583 June 10; 1592 Sept 26. Meleager; and Prologue and Epilogue for Bellum Grammaticale: 1592 end. Gascoigne, George: see ‘Prominent Elizabethans’.

Greene, Robert: Orlando Furioso. 1593 Dec 7. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: 1594 May 14; 1602 Dec 27 (note). Greene, and Thomas Lodge: Looking Glass for London: 1594 end.

Halliwell, Edward: Dido: 1564 Aug 7. Hughes, Thomas: Misfortunes of Arthur: 1588 Feb 20. Hutton, Leonard: Bellum Grammaticale: 1592 Sept 24. Ingelend, Thomas: : 1560 end.

Jonson, Ben: see ‘Prominent Elizabethans’. Lupton, Thomas: All for Money: 1578 end. Lyly, John: see ‘Prominent Elizabethans’. Marlowe, Christopher: see ‘Prominent Elizabethans’. Marston, John (attrib): Histriomastix: 1602 end.

Matthew, Tobias: see ‘Prominent Elizabethans’. Munday, Anthony: see ‘Prominent Elizabethans’. Nashe, Thomas: see ‘Prominent Elizabethans’. Norton, Thomas: see ‘Prominent Elizabethans’. Peele, George: see ‘Prominent Elizabethans’.

Pickering, John: : 1567 end. Plautus: Aulularia: 1564 Aug 6; Menaechmi: 1566 Feb 8. Miles Gloriosus: 1565 January, end. Preston, Thomas: Cambyses: 1569 end. Sackville, Thomas: see ‘Prominent Elizabethans’. Seneca: Troas, translated by Jasper Heywood: 1559 New Year. Hercules Furens, and Troas: suggested as plays for the Queen: 1564 Aug 4.

Shakespeare, William: see ‘Prominent Elizabethans’. Sophocles: Ajax Flagellifer: 1564 Aug 9. Terence: Heautontimoroumenos: 1565 January, end; 1566 Feb 25 (note). Udall, Nicholas: Ezechias: 1564 Aug 8.

Wager, William: Enough is as good as a feast: 1568 end. The longer thou livest: 1569 end. Webster, John: The White Devil: 1601 Jan 13 (note). Wilson, Robert: Three Lords and Three Ladies of London: 1590 end.

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Players.

Alleyn, Edward, son-in-law of Philip Henslowe. Founder of Dulwich College. 1594 Dec 28: payee for play at court.

Borne, William: 1598 Sept 27: at Croydon during Queen’s visit.

Bryan, George: 1586 May 30: left for Denmark. 1596 Feb 22: payee for plays at court.

Burbage, Richard: 1594 Dec 28: payee for plays at court.

Dutton, John and Lawrence: 1576 Dec 26: in Warwick’s Men’s play. 1580 April 13: Lawrence, now in Oxford’s Men: sent to prison.

Heminges, John: 1596 Feb 22: payee for plays at court. 1597 Feb 8: payee for plays at court.

Kemp, William, comic actor: 1586 May 30: left with other players for two months in Denmark. 1594-1599: in Lord Chamberlain’s Men (Shakespeare’s company). 1594 Dec 28: payee for plays at court. 1600 Feb 11-March 8: his Morris dance from London to Norwich.

Leveson, Robert: 1580 April 13: in Oxford’s Men: sent to prison.

Philips, Augustine: 1601 Feb 7: testimony as to Richard II.

Pope, Thomas: 1586 May 30: left for Denmark. 1597 Feb 8: payee for plays at court.

Tarlton, Richard, comic actor: 1583 March 10: chosen for newly formed ‘Queen’s Men’. 1588 Sept 3: death and burial. See also: ‘Anecdotes’ (Tarlton).

Wilson, Robert: 1583 March 10: chosen for newly formed ‘Queen’s Men’.

Philip Henslowe. Theatre owner whose Diary has payments for Admiral’s Men.

1593 April 9: loans to nephew on woman’s pawned cloth and cloak. 1598 Jan [30]: christening of Lord Windsor’s child (note). Aug 9: loan to Munday for comedy at court; Drayton co-author. Sept 27: loan to William Borne (or Bird), player, at court, Croydon. Dec 27: loans to Henry Chettle, mending for court (note). 1599 April 7: loan to Richard Alleyn and Thomas Towne to go to court. Dec 27: payments to for Old Fortunatus. 1600 April 27: loan to Admiral’s Men to go to Windsor. May 12: Dorrington’s letter to Henslowe for bear-baiting at court. July 8: loan to John Palmer to play shove-groat at court. 1601 Jan 6: for Phaethon: payments to Dekker; loan to William Bird. Dec 25: loan to tailor to make hose for Nick for court. 1602 Nov 5: payments to Day, Smith, Hathaway, for As Merry as may be. Dec 27: payment to Middleton for ‘play of Bacon’. 1603 March 6: payments to Chettle and Mrs Call (head tires) for plays at court.

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Plays and Players: miscellaneous references.

1559 Feb 6: plays in derision of Catholics, at London taverns. April 28: De Feria complained about comedies ‘taking off’ King Philip. May 16: Proclamation prohibiting unlicensed interludes and plays.

1561 December, end: Duchess of Suffolk paid two of Lord Robert Dudley’s Men playing on drum and fife, and Earl of Arundel’s players. 1562 Oct 3: comedy played in London.

1565 January, end: Westminster School’s expenses for plays.

1566 Feb 8: Latin play for Privy Council by Westminster School. Feb 25: court comedy criticised by Earl of Arundel. April 29: Cecilia of Sweden’s complaint about a comedy. Sept 2: at Oxford play before Queen three men accidentally killed. Sept 6: Christ Church expenses, some for plays. Sept 7: Oxford accident described by French Ambassador.

1569 May 5: Oxford visit planned by Cardinal and Earl of Leicester: with play The Destruction of Thebes. (Visit cancelled).

1572 June 30: Act of Parliament for Punishment of Vagabonds; with clause concerning Common Players in Interludes.

1574 May 10: Royal Patent for Earl of Leicester’s players (named). Nov 26: expenses of Clerk of Revels ‘reforming’ a play. Christmas: further expenses for ‘perusing and reforming plays’.

1575 Feb 3: list of properties owned by deceased property-maker. 1576 May 10: Osterley: note on play by Thomas Churchyard.

1577 Feb 17: Revels preparations for plays. April, end: Durham Place: Italian play for Privy Council.

1578 Jan 13: Council order concerning Italian ‘comedian’. July 27: Christ’s College, Cambridge, paid trumpeters at plays. Dec 24: Council order for plays to be allowed in London.

1579 July 24: new Master of the Revels, Edmund Tilney. Dec 26: Revels: ‘examining and rehearsing plays’.

1580 April 13: two players imprisoned for disorders at .

1581 Dec 24: Queen’s Commission to the Master of the Revels to take up ‘cunning artificers’, and ‘stuff’ for the Revels; with other orders.

1582 Feb 26: Theobalds, Herts: players at marriage of Lord Burghley’s daughter Elizabeth Cecil.

1583 March 10: Queen’s Men to be formed. June 10-13: at Oxford: for Alasco: Latin plays by William Gager. Nov 28: Queen’s Men licensed to play in London.

1585 March 25: Ling shows puppets and plays at the Revelation, London. Dec 4: Earl of Leicester’s players going to sea.

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1589 Sept 20: King James wishes the Queen’s Men to go to Scotland.

1591 July 25: Council order to Lord Mayor: no plays on Sunday or Thursday.

1592 Sept 11: Oxford -Chancellor requires ‘furniture for our plays’. Nov 17: Canterbury: Accession day dinner for Queen’s Men. Dec 2: Request to Oxford and Cambridge Universities to provide English plays for court at Christmas. Dec 4: Request declined by both Universities.

1593 Dec 7: Philip Gawdy’s jocular reference to ‘kiss his Kate’ (which may or may not allude to a play seen in London).

1594 Jan 8: at a play with the Queen.

1595 January, mid: Essex House: players at Earl of Northumberland’s marriage. Feb 27-March 2: Cambridge: 3 plays during visit by Essex and other lords.

1597 July 28: Council order to Justices to demolish playhouses.

1598 Jan 30: courtiers have plays and banquets. Feb 15: at Leicester House: two plays. April 10: Act of Parliament for Punishment of Rogues and Vagabonds, including fencers, bearwards, interlude players, minstrels. April 15: London ‘comedians’ scorn King James and the Scots. June 2 and 7: Dumb-shows in Spanish Netherlands. Sept 5: German traveller arrived in London: visited theatres. Sept 20: German robbed at Jonson’s Every Man in his Humour.

1599 Jan 8: Lady Burgh’s children ‘may be stage players or beg’. Feb 20: verse addressed ‘to the Queen by the players’. April 7: two Admiral’s Men at court at Greenwich. June 30: Earl of Derby is writing comedies. Sept 8: Swiss travellers arrived in London: two plays seen, including at The Globe. Oct 11: of Southampton and Rutland go to plays every day. Oct 26: ‘Overthrow of Turnholt’ acted on a stage. (A lost play). Oct 27: Rowland Whyte saw the ‘Overthrow of Turnholt’ acted. Nov 13: Earl of Derby and the Children of Paul’s.

1600 April 27: Admiral’s Men at Windsor Installation of Garter Knight. June 22: Council order: only two playhouses to be allowed: Fortune and Globe. Dec 26: Duke of Bavaria at a play with the Queen.

1601 Aug 4: Queen’s comment to Lambarde on a tragedy played in streets. Dec 29: play for Queen at Lord Hunsdon’s house, Blackfriars.

1602 Sept 12: Duke of Stettin arrived in London: three plays seen: Alba Regalis, at The Rose; Samson, at The Fortune; Sir Giles Goosecap, at The Blackfriars. Nov 6: ‘’s Joy’ to be played at The Swan (hoax: described).

1603 March 18: Restraint of stage-plays, as Queen was dying. Canterbury gift to Admiral’s Men.

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Plays: alphabetical list of plays referred to.

Agamemnon and Ulysses: 1584 Dec 27. Ajax and Ulysses: 1572 Jan 1. Ajax Flagellifer: 1564 Jan 9. Alba Regalis: 1602 Sept 12. Alcmaeon: 1573 Dec 27. Allucius: 1579 Dec 27. All for Money: 1578 end. Ariodant and Jenevora: 1583 Feb 12. Arraignment of Paris: 1584 Jan 6. : 1599 Feb 20 (note). As merry as may be: 1602 Nov 5. As plain as may be: 1567 Christmas. Aulularia: 1564 Aug 6. Battle of Alcazar: 1594 end. Beauty and Housewifery: 1582 Dec 27. Bellum Grammaticale: 1592 Sept 24; 1592 end.

Cambyses, King of Persia: 1569 end. Campaspe: 1584 Jan 1. Chance Medley: 1598 Aug 8. Cloridon and Radiamanta: 1572 Feb 17. Collier: 1576 Dec 30. Comedy of Errors: 1594 Dec 28. Common Conditions: 1576 end. Cruelty of a Stepmother: 1578 Dec 28. Cutwell: 1577 Feb 17. Cynocephali: 1577 Feb 2. Cynthia’s Revels: 1601 end.

Damon and Pythias: 1564 Christmas. Downfall of Robert Earl of ; Death of Robert : 1598 Dec 27 (note). Delight: 1580 Dec 26. Destruction of Thebes: 1569 May 5. Dido: 1564 Aug 7 (Halliwell); 1583 June 10 (Gager). Disobedient Child: 1560 end. Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon, and Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon: 1598 Dec 27. Duke of Milan and Marquis of Mantua: 1579 Dec 26.

Endymion, the Man in the Moon: 1588 Feb 2. Enough is as good as a feast: 1568 end. Error: 1577 Jan 1. Every Man in his Humour: 1598 Sept 20. Every Man out of his Humour: 1600 end. Ezechias: 1564 Aug 8.

Felix and Philiomena: 1585 Jan 3. Ferrar: 1583 Jan 6. Fidele and Fortunio: 1584 Feb 2. Five Plays in One: 1585 Jan 6. Fortune: 1572 Christmas. Four Sons of Fabius: 1580 Jan 1. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: 1594 May 14; 1602 Dec 27 (note). Friar Bacon and John of Bordeaux: 1602 Dec 27 (note).

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Galathea: 1588 Jan 1. Game of the Cards: 1582 Dec 26. Gismund of Salerne: 1568 end. Glass of Government: 1575 end. Gorboduc: 1562 Jan 18. Greek Maid: 1579 Jan 4. Heautontimoroumenos: 1565 January, end; 1566 Feb 25 (note). Henry IV, Part 1: 1598 Sept 20; 1600 March 8. : 1599 March 27. Henry VIII: 1603 end (1613). Herpetulus the Blue Knight and Perobia: 1574 Jan 3. Histriomastix: 1602 end. Horestes: 1567 end. Huff, Snuff, and Ruff: 1561 Feb 16. Iphigeneia: 1571 Dec 28. Irish Knight: 1577 Feb 18. Jack and Jill: 1567 Christmas. Julius Caesar: 1599 Sept 8. Juno and Diana: 1565 March 6. King John: 1560 end. King of Scots: 1567 Christmas; 1568 March 2. King Xerxes: 1575 Jan 6. Knight in the Burning Rock: 1579 March 1.

Lady Barbara: 1571 Dec 27. Laelia: 1595 Feb 28. Liberality and Prodigality: 1602 end. Like will to like, quoth the Devil to the Collier: 1568 end. : 1595 end. Longer thou livest, the more fool thou art: 1569 end. Looking Glass for London and England: 1594 end. Love and Fortune: 1582 Dec 30. Love’s Labour’s Lost: 1597 Dec 26. Love’s Labour’s Won: 1598 Sept 7 (note). Loyalty and Beauty: 1579 March 2.

Mamillia: 1573 Dec 28. Marcus Geminus: 1566 Sept 1. Marriage of Mind and Measure: 1579 Jan 1. Massinissa and Sophonisba: 1565 March 2,3; April 10. Meleager: 1592 end. Menaechmi: 1566 Feb 8. Merry Wives of Windsor: 1592 Aug 20; 1597 April 23; 1602 end. Midas: 1590 Jan 6. Midsummer Night’s Dream: 1595 Jan 26; 1596 Feb 19. Miles Gloriosus: 1565 January, end. Misfortunes of Arthur: 1588 Feb 20. : 1598 end. Mucius Scaevola: 1577 Jan 7. Murderous Michael: 1579 March 3.

Narcissus: 1572 Jan 6. Nice Wanton: 1560 end. Old Fortunatus: 1599 Dec 27. Orestes: 1567 Christmas; 1568 Feb 29. Orlando Furioso: 1593 Dec 7. : 1602 Aug 3 (note).

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Overthrow of Turnholt: 1599 Oct 26,27. Painful Pilgrimage: 1567 Christmas. Painter’s Daughter: 1576 Dec 26. Palamon and Arcite: 1564 Sept 2,4. Panecia: 1564 Christmas; Dec 26. Paris and Vienne: 1572 Feb 19. Perseus and Andromeda: 1574 Feb 23. Phaethon: 1601 Jan 6 (note). Phedastrus: 1574 Christmas. Phigon and Lucia: 1574 Christmas. Philemon and Philecia: 1574 Feb 21. Phoenissae: 1577 end. Phyllida and Corin: 1584 Dec 26. Pompey: 1581 Jan 6. Portia and Demorantes: 1580 Feb 2. Predor and Lucia: 1573 Dec 26. Pretestus: 1574 Christmas; Dec 27. Prodigality: 1567 Christmas. Progne: 1564 Sept 5.

Quintus Fabius: 1574 Jan 6.

Rape of the Second Helen: 1579 Jan 6. Richard II: 1601 Feb 7; Aug 4. Rivales: 1583 June 10; 1592 Sept 26.

Samson: 1602 Sept 12. Sapientia Solomonis: 1566 Jan 17. Sappho and Phao: 1584 March 3. Sarpedon: 1580 Feb 16. Scipio Africanus: 1580 Jan 3. Shoemaker’s Holiday: 1600 Jan 1. Sir Giles Goosecap: 1602 Sept 12. Six Fools: 1567 Christmas. Solitary Knight: 1577 Feb 17. Sultan and the Duke: 1580 Feb 14. Summer’s Last Will and Testament: 1592 end.

Telomo: 1583 Feb 10. Theagenes and Chariclea: 1572 Christmas. Three Lords and Three Ladies of London: 1590 end. Three Plays in One: 1585 Feb 21. Three Sisters of Mantua: 1578 Dec 26. Timoclea at the Siege of Thebes by Alexander: 1574 Feb 2. Titus and Gisippus: 1577 Feb 19. Tooley: 1576 Dec 27. Troas: 1559 New Year. True Tragedy of Richard III: 1594 end. Truth, Faithfulness and Mercy: 1574 Jan 1. : 1601 Jan 6 (note).

Vanity: 1575 Feb 2. Volpone: 1576 May 25 (note).

Wit and Will: 1567, Christmas. Woman in the Moon: 1597 end.

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Plays for the Queen.

1559 Jan 6: Whitehall: play, ‘farce’. Aug 7: Nonsuch: Children of Paul’s. Christmas – New Year 1560: Whitehall: Children of . Christmas – February 1560: Whitehall: Children of Paul’s ‘sundry times’. Dec 31: Whitehall: play.

1560 Jan 6: Whitehall: play. Christmas: Whitehall: Lord Robert Dudley’s Men; Children of Paul’s.

1561 Feb 16/18: Whitehall: Huff, Snuff, and Ruff. Christmas: Whitehall: Lord Robert Dudley’s Men; Children of Paul’s.

1562 Jan 18: Whitehall: : Gorboduc, by Norton and Sackville. Feb 9: Whitehall: Children of Paul’s. Christmas: Whitehall: Lord Robert Dudley’s Men; Children of Paul’s.

1563 Christmas – New Year 1564: Windsor Castle: two plays.

1564 Feb 2: Windsor Castle: play. July 5: Sackville House, London: comedy. Aug 6: Cambridge: Aulularia, by Plautus (Latin). Aug 7: Cambridge: Dido, by Halliwell (Latin). Aug 8: Cambridge: Ezechias, by Udall (English). Aug 9: Cambridge: Ajax Flagellifer, by Sophocles: prepared, not seen. Christmas: Whitehall: Earl of Warwick's men, two plays. Christmas: Whitehall: Children of Chapel Royal: Damon and Pythias, by Richard Edwards.

1565 January, end: Whitehall: Westminster School: Miles Gloriosus; play by Terence rehearsed (expenses for both plays). Feb 2: Whitehall: Children of Paul's. Feb 18: Whitehall: Sir Percival Hart's sons, play of Muses. March 2: York House: Massinissa and Sophonisba. (Latin). March 6: Whitehall: Gray's Inn: Juno and Diana. Christmas 1565-New Year 1566: Children of Paul's: two plays at Whitehall, one at the Savoy for Queen and Lady Cecilia.

1566 Jan 17: Whitehall: Westminster School: Sapientia Solomonis (for Privy Council, Queen expected; expenses). By Feb 24: Greenwich: comedy, described Feb 25. Sept 1: Oxford: Marcus Geminus (Latin; described; Queen absent). Sept 2: Oxford: Palamon and Arcite (Part 1), by Richard Edwards. Sept 4: Oxford: Palamon and Arcite (Part 2). Sept 5: Oxford: Progne, by James Calfhill (Latin). Christmas: Whitehall: two plays by Children of Paul's.

1567 Feb 9: Whitehall: Westminster School. Feb 11: Whitehall: Children of Windsor Chapel. April 13: Whitehall: comedy. Christmas: Whitehall: two plays by Children of Paul's. two plays by Lord Rich's Men; play by Westminster School. Christmas-Shrovetide 1568: Revels prepared eight plays: As plain as can be; The Painful Pilgrimage; Jack and Jill; Six Fools; Wit and Will; Prodigality; Orestes; The King of Scots, a tragedy.

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1568 Feb 29: Whitehall: Children of Windsor Chapel: Orestes/Horestes. March 2: Whitehall: Children of Chapel Royal: King of Scots. Dec 26: Hampton Court: Lord Rich's Men. Christmas 1568-Shrovetide 1569: ‘plays, tragedies, masques’. 1568 end (note): Inner Temple, at Greenwich: Gismund of Salerne.

1569 Jan 1: Hampton Court: Children of Paul's. Feb 22: Whitehall: Children of Windsor Chapel. Dec 27: Windsor Castle: Children of Windsor Chapel. Christmas 1569-Shrovetide 1570: ‘plays, tragedies, masques’.

1570 Jan 6: Windsor Castle: Children of Chapel Royal. Feb 5: Hampton Court: Lord Rich's Men. Dec 28: Hampton Court: Children of Paul's. Christmas 1570-Shrovetide 1571: ‘comedies, tragedies, masques and shows’.

1571 Feb 25: Whitehall: Children of Chapel Royal. Feb 26: Whitehall: Children of Windsor Chapel. Feb 27: Whitehall: Children of Paul's. Dec 27: Whitehall: Sir Robert Lane's Men. Lady Barbara. Dec 28: Whitehall: Children of Paul's. Iphigeneia. Christmas 1571-Shrovetide 1572: six plays prepared.

1572 Jan 1: Whitehall: Children of Windsor Chapel. Ajax and Ulysses. Jan 6: Whitehall: Children of Chapel Royal. Narcissus. Feb 17: Whitehall: Sir Robert Lane's Men. Cloridon and Radiamanta. Feb 19: Whitehall: Westminster School. Paris and Vienne. Christmas: Hampton Court: Earl of Leicester's Men, three plays. Christmas 1572-Shrovetide 1573: Revels prepared plays: Fortune; Theagenes and Chariclea.

1573 Jan 1: Hampton Court: Children of Windsor Chapel. Jan 4: Hampton Court: Children of Paul's. Jan 6: Hampton Court: Eton College. Feb 1: Greenwich: 's Men. Feb 2: Greenwich: Earl of Sussex’s Men [Lord Chamberlain’s Men]. Feb 3: Greenwich: Merchant Taylors School. Dec 26: Whitehall: Leicester's Men. Predor and Lucia. Dec 27: Whitehall: Children of Paul's. Alcmaeon. Dec 28: Whitehall: Earl of Leicester's Men. Mamillia.

1574 Jan 1: Whitehall: Eton College. Jan 1: Whitehall: Westminster School. Truth, Faithfulness and Mercy. Jan 3: Whitehall: Lord Clinton's Men. Herpetulus the Blue Knight and Perobia. Jan 6: Whitehall: Children of Windsor Chapel. Quintus Fabius. Feb 2: Hampton Court: Merchant Taylors School. Timoclea at the Siege of Thebes. Feb 21: Hampton Court: Earl of Leicester's Men. Philemon and Philecia. Feb 23: Hampton Court: Merchant Taylors School. Perseus and Andromeda. July 8/14: Windsor Castle: Italian players. July 15: Reading Abbey: Italian players. Christmas: ‘perusing and reforming plays’, with names. Dec 26: Hampton Court: Earl of Leicester's Men. Dec 27: Hampton Court: Lord Clinton's Men.

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1575 Jan 1: Hampton Court: Earl of Leicester's Men. Jan 2: Hampton Court: Lord Clinton's Men. Jan 6: Hampton Court: Children of Windsor Chapel. King Xerxes. Feb 2: Hampton Court: Children of Paul's. Vanity. Feb 13: Richmond: Children of Chapel Royal. Feb 13: Richmond: Merchant Taylors School. Feb 14: Richmond: Earl of Warwick's Men. July 17: Kenilworth Castle: play. July 20: Wedgnock: Gascoigne’s play or show prepared; not seen. Sept 20: Woodstock Palace: comedy. Dec 26: Hampton Court: Earl of Warwick's Men. Dec 27: Hampton Court: Children of Windsor Chapel. Dec 28: Hampton Court: Earl of Leicester's Men.

1576 Jan 1: Hampton Court: Earl of Warwick's Men. Jan 6: Hampton Court: Children of Paul's. Feb 2: Hampton Court: Earl of Sussex’s Men. Feb 27: Whitehall: Italian players. March 4: Whitehall: Earl of Leicester's Men. March 5: Whitehall: Earl of Warwick's Men. March 6: Whitehall: Merchant Taylors School. May 10-12? Osterley: play by Thomas Churchyard. Dec 26: Hampton Court: Earl of Warwick's Men. Painter's Daughter. Dec 27: Hampton Court: Lord Howard's Men. Tooley. Dec 30: Hampton Court: Earl of Leicester's Men. The Collier.

1577 Jan 1: Hampton Court: Children of Paul's. Error. Jan 6: Hampton Court: Children of Chapel Royal and Children of Windsor Chapel. Mucius Scaevola. Feb 2: Hampton Court: Earl of Sussex’s Men. The history of the Cynocephali. Feb 17: Whitehall: Lord Howard's Men. Solitary Knight. Feb 18: Whitehall: Earl of Warwick's Men. Irish Knight. Feb 19: Whitehall: Children of Paul's. Titus and Gisippus. Dec 26: Hampton Court: Earl of Leicester's Men. Dec 27: Hampton Court: Children of Chapel Royal. Dec 28: Hampton Court: Earl of Warwick's Men. Dec 29: Hampton Court: Children of Paul's.

1578 Jan 5: Hampton Court: Lord Howard's Men. Feb 2: Hampton Court: Earl of Sussex’s Men. Feb 9: Hampton Court: Earl of Warwick's Men. Feb 11: Hampton Court: Countess of Essex's Men. (Earl of Leicester's Men ready at court: did not play). Dec 26: Richmond: Earl of Warwick's Men. Three Sisters of Mantua. Dec 27: Richmond: Children of Chapel Royal. Dec 28: Richmond: Earl of Sussex’s Men. Cruelty of a Stepmother.

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1579 Jan 1: Richmond: Children of Paul’s. Marriage of Mind and Measure. Jan 4: Richmond: Earl of Leicester’s Men. A Greek Maid. Jan 6: Richmond: Earl of Sussex’s Men. Rape of Second Helen. Feb 2: Whitehall: Earl of Warwick’s Men ready (did not play, but were paid). March 1-3: Revels preparations and payments. March 1: Whitehall: Earl of Warwick’s Men. Knight in the Burning Rock. March 2: Whitehall: Children of Chapel Royal. Loyalty and Beauty. March 3: Whitehall: Earl of Sussex’s Men. Murderous Michael. Dec 26: Whitehall: Earl of Sussex’s Men. Duke of Milan. Dec 27: Whitehall: Children of Chapel Royal. Allucius. Dec 28: Whitehall: Earl of Leicester’s Men ready (deferred).

1580 Jan 1: Whitehall: Earl of Warwick’s Men: Four Sons of Fabius. Jan 3: Whitehall: Children of Paul’s: Scipio Africanus. Jan 6: Whitehall: Earl of Leicester’s Men. Feb 2: Whitehall: Earl of Sussex’s Men. Portio and Demorantes. Feb 14: Whitehall: Earl of Derby’s Men. The Sultan and the Duke. Feb 16: Whitehall: Earl of Sussex’s Men. Sarpedon. Dec 26: Whitehall: Earl of Leicester’s Men. Delight. Dec 27: Whitehall: Earl of Sussex’s Men.

1581 Jan 1: Whitehall: Earl of Derby’s Men. Jan 6: Whitehall: Children of Paul’s. Pompey. Feb 2: Whitehall: Earl of Sussex’s Men. Feb 5: Whitehall: Children of Chapel Royal. Feb 7: Whitehall: Earl of Leicester’s Men. Dec 26: Whitehall: Children of Paul’s. Dec 31: Whitehall: Children of Chapel Royal.

1582 Feb 27: Greenwich: Children of Chapel Royal. Dec 26: Windsor Castle: Children of Chapel Royal. A Game of the Cards. Dec 27: Windsor: Lord Hunsdon’s Men. Beauty and Housewifery. Dec 30: Windsor: Earl of Derby’s Men. Love and Fortune.

1583 Jan 6: Windsor Castle: Earl of Sussex’s Men. Ferrar. (Earl of Sussex, Lord Chamberlain, died on June 9). Feb 10: Richmond: Earl of Leicester’s Men. Telomo. Feb 12: Richmond: Merchant Taylors. Ariodant and Jenevora. Dec 26: Whitehall: Queen’s Men. Dec 29: Whitehall: Queen’s Men.

1584 Jan 1: Whitehall: Earl of Oxford’s Boys, viz. Children of Chapel Royal, and Children of Paul’s, combined. Campaspe, by John Lyly. Jan 6: Whitehall: Children of Chapel Royal. Arraignment of Paris, by Peele. Feb 2: Whitehall: Children of Chapel Royal. Fidele and Fortunio, by Munday. March 3: Whitehall: Queen’s Men. March 3: Whitehall: Earl of Oxford’s Boys, viz. Children of Chapel Royal and Children of Paul’s. Sappho and Phao, by Lyly. Dec 26: Greenwich: Queen’s Men: Phyllida and Corin. Dec 27: Greenwich: Earl of Oxford’s Boys, viz. Children of Chapel Royal: Agamemnon and Ulysses.

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1585 Jan 3: Greenwich: Queen’s Men: Felix and Philiomena. Jan 6: Greenwich: Queen’s Men: Five Plays in One. Feb 21: : Queen’s Men: Three Plays in One (not played). Feb 23: Somerset House: Queen’s Men: play and comedy. Dec 26: Greenwich: Queen’s Men. Dec 27: Greenwich: Admiral’s Men and Lord Chamberlain’s Men. (Lord Admiral, July 1585: Charles Howard, 2nd Lord Howard of Effingham). (Lord Chamberlain, July 1585: Henry Carey, 1st Lord Hunsdon).

1586 Jan 1: Greenwich: Queen’s Men. Jan 6: Greenwich: Admiral’s Men and Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Feb 13: Greenwich: Queen’s Men. Dec 26: Greenwich: Queen’s Men. Dec 27: Greenwich: Earl of Leicester’s Men.

1587 Jan 1: Greenwich: Queen’s Men. Jan 6: Greenwich: Queen’s Men. Feb 26: Greenwich: Children of Paul’s. Feb 28: Greenwich: Queen’s Men. Dec 26: Greenwich: Queen’s Men.

1588 Jan 1: Greenwich: Children of Paul’s. Galathea, by John Lyly. Jan 6: Greenwich: Queen’s Men. Feb 2: Greenwich: Children of Paul’s. Endymion, by Lyly. Feb 18: Greenwich: Queen’s Men. Feb 19: Greenwich: Thomas Churchyard’s ‘show in Shrovetide’. Feb 20: Greenwich: Gray’s Inn. Misfortunes of Arthur. Christmas: Revels and Works preparations. Dec 26: Richmond: Queen’s Men. Dec 27: Richmond: Children of Paul’s. Dec 29: Richmond: Admiral’s Men.

1589 Jan 1: Richmond: Children of Paul’s. Jan 12: Richmond: Children of Paul’s. Feb 9: Whitehall: Queen’s Men. Feb 11: Whitehall: Admiral’s Men. Dec 26: Richmond: Queen’s Men. Dec 28: Richmond: Children of Paul’s.

1590 Jan 1: Richmond: Children of Paul’s. Jan 6: Richmond: Children of Paul’s. Midas, by John Lyly. March 1: Queen’s Men. March 3: Admiral’s Men. Dec 26: Richmond: Queen’s Men. Dec 27: Richmond: Admiral’s Men and Lord Strange’s Men.

1591 Jan 1: Richmond: Queen’s Men. Jan 3: Richmond: Queen’s Men. Jan 6: Richmond: Queen’s Men. Feb 14: Greenwich: Queen’s Men. Feb 16: Greenwich: Admiral’s Men and Lord Strange’s Men. Dec 26: Whitehall: Queen’s Men. Dec 27: Whitehall: Lord Strange’s Men. Dec 28: Whitehall: Lord Strange’s Men.

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1592 Jan 1: Whitehall: Lord Strange’s Men. Jan 2: Whitehall: Earl of Sussex’s Men. Jan 6: Whitehall: Earl of Hertford’s Men. Jan 9: Whitehall: Lord Strange’s Men. Feb 6: Whitehall: Lord Strange’s Men. Feb 8: Whitehall: Lord Strange’s Men. Sept 24: Oxford: Bellum Grammaticale, adapted by Hutton (Latin). Sept 26: Oxford: Rivales, by Gager (Latin). Dec 26: Hampton Court: ’s Men. Dec 27: Hampton Court: Lord Strange’s Men. Dec 31: Hampton Court: Lord Strange’s Men. 1592 end: William Gager’s Meleager; with Prologue and Epilogue to the Queen at Bellum Grammaticale. (Oxford, Sept 24).

1593 Jan 1: Hampton Court: Lord Strange’s Men. Jan 6: Hampton Court: Earl of Pembroke’s Men. 1593 end: Churchyard’s Challenge, listing plays for the Queen. 1593 end: Robert Greene’s Orlando Furioso. (Played at court).

1594 Jan 6: Hampton Court: Queen’s Men. Dec 26: Greenwich: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Dec 28: Greenwich: Admiral’s Men (payees included Alleyn). Dec 28: Greenwich: Lord Chamberlain’s Men (payees included Shakespeare).

1595 Jan 1: Greenwich: Admiral’s Men. Jan 6: Greenwich: Admiral’s Men. Dec 26: Richmond: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Dec 27: Richmond: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Dec 28: Richmond: Lord Chamberlain’s Men.

1596 Jan 1: Richmond: Admiral’s Men. Jan 4: Richmond: Admiral’s Men. Jan 6: Richmond: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Feb 22: Richmond: Admiral’s Men. Feb 22: Richmond: Lord Chamberlain’s Men (with payees). {Lord Chamberlain Henry Carey 1st Lord Hunsdon died in July). Feb 24: Richmond: Admiral’s Men. Dec 26: Whitehall: Lord Hunsdon’s Men. Dec 27: Whitehall: Lord Hunsdon’s Men (note on 2nd Lord Hunsdon).

1597 Jan 1: Whitehall: Lord Hunsdon’s Men. Jan 6: Whitehall: Lord Hunsdon’s Men. Feb 6: Whitehall: Lord Hunsdon’s Men. Feb 8: Whitehall: Lord Hunsdon’s Men (with payees). Dec 26: Whitehall: Lord Chamberlain’s Men; described; note on Love’s Labour’s Lost. (New Lord Chamberlain: George Carey, 2nd Lord Hunsdon). Dec 27: Whitehall: Admiral’s Men. 1597 end: John Lyly: Woman in the Moon. (Played at court).

1598 Jan 1: Whitehall: Lord Chamberlain’s Men Jan 6: Whitehall: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Feb 26: Whitehall: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Feb 28: Whitehall: Admiral’s Men. Dec 26: Whitehall: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Dec 27: Whitehall: Admiral’s Men (payment; note on Robin Hood plays).

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1599 Jan 1: Whitehall: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Jan 6: Whitehall: Admiral’s Men. Feb 18: Richmond: Admiral’s Men. Feb 20: Richmond: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Epilogue quoted: attributed to Dekker or Shakespeare. Dec 26: Richmond: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Dec 27: Richmond: Admiral’s Men: Old Fortunatus. By Dekker. (quoted; Henslowe’s payments).

1600 Jan 1: Richmond: Admiral’s Men: Shoemaker’s Holiday. By Dekker. Jan 6: Richmond: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Feb 3: Richmond: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Feb 5: Richmond: Earl of Derby’s Men. Dec 26: Whitehall: Lord Chamberlain’s Men (described). Dec 28: Whitehall: Admiral’s Men. 1600 end: : Every Man Out of his Humour. (Played at court).

1601 Jan 1: Whitehall: Children of Paul’s. Jan 1: Whitehall: Earl of Derby’s Men. Jan 6: Whitehall: Children of Chapel Royal: show with music and songs. Jan 6: Whitehall: Admiral’s Men. Phaethon. By Dekker. Jan 6: Whitehall: Earl of Derby’s Men. Jan 6: Whitehall: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Admiral’s Men payments; note on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Feb 2: Whitehall: Admiral’s Men. Feb 22: Whitehall: Children of Chapel Royal. Feb 24: Whitehall: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Dec 26: Whitehall: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Dec 27: Whitehall: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Dec 27: Whitehall: Admiral’s Men. Dec 29: Blackfriars: Lord Chamberlain’s Men.

1602 Jan 1: Whitehall: Lord Chamberlain’s Men (preparations). Jan 3: Whitehall: Earl of Worcester’s Men. Jan 6: Whitehall: Children of the Chapel Royal (preparations). Jan 10: Whitehall: Children of the Chapel Royal. Feb 14: Whitehall: Children of the Chapel Royal. Feb 14: Whitehall: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Aug 29: Oatlands: play, by ‘Italian comedians’ from France. Dec 26: Whitehall: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Dec 27: Whitehall: Admiral’s Men: Friar Bacon. 1602 end: Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor. (Played at court). 1602 end: Anon. Liberality and Prodigality. (Played at court).

1603 Jan 1: Whitehall: Children of Paul’s. Jan 3: Whitehall: Earl of Worcester’s Men. Jan 6: Whitehall: Earl of Hertford’s Men. Feb 2: Richmond: Lord Chamberlain’s Men. March 6: Richmond: Admiral’s Men. March 8: Richmond: Admiral’s Men.

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Companies of players, and court performances.

Children of the Chapel Royal; Children of Paul’s; Children of Windsor Chapel; Eton College; Merchant Taylors’ School; Westminster School; Inns of Court. Lord Robert Dudley’s Men; Earl of Leicester’s Men; Countess of Essex’s Men. Earl of Sussex’s Men (Lord Chamberlain’s Men). Queen’s Men; Lord Howard’s Men; Lord Admiral’s Men. Lord Hunsdon’s Men (I) (Henry 1st Lord). Lord Chamberlain’s Men (I and II) (Henry 1st Lord Hunsdon). Lord Hunsdon’s Men (II) (George 2nd Lord). Lord Chamberlain’s Men (III) (George 2nd Lord Hunsdon). Earl of Derby’s Men (I); Lord Strange’s Men; Earl of Derby’s Men (II). Earl of Hertford’s Men; Earl of Lincoln’s Men; Lord Clinton’s Men. Earl of Oxford’s Boys; Earl of Pembroke’s Men; Earl of Sussex’s Men; Earl of Warwick’s Men; Earl of Worcester’s Men; Lord Rich’s Men; Sir Robert Lane’s Men. [Sir Percival Hart’s sons]. Italian players.

Children of the Chapel Royal: 1559 Whitehall: Christmas 1559-New Year 1560. 1564 Whitehall: Christmas. 1568 Whitehall: March 2; 1570 Windsor Castle: Jan 6. 1571 Whitehall: Feb 25; 1572 Whitehall: Jan 6. 1575 Richmond: Feb 13; 1577 Hampton Court: Jan 6; Dec 27. 1578 Richmond: Dec 27; 1579 Whitehall: March 2; Dec 27. 1581 Whitehall: Feb 5; Dec 31. 1582 Greenwich: Feb 27; Windsor Castle: Dec 26. 1584 Whitehall: Jan 1; Jan 6; Feb 2; March 3; Dec 27. 1601 Whitehall: Jan 6; Feb 22. 1602 Whitehall: Jan 6; Jan 10; Feb 14.

Children of Paul's: 1559 Nonsuch: Aug 7. 1559 Whitehall: Christmas 1559 – February 1560, ‘sundry times’. 1560 Whitehall: Christmas 1560 – New Year 1561. 1561 Whitehall: Christmas; 1562 Whitehall: Feb 9; Christmas. 1565 Whitehall: Feb 2; Christmas (2); Savoy: Christmas. 1566 Whitehall: Christmas (2); 1567 Whitehall: Christmas (2). 1569 Hampton Court: Jan 1; 1570 Hampton Court: Dec 28. 1571 Whitehall: Feb 27; Dec 28. 1573 Hampton Court: Jan 4; Whitehall: Dec 27. 1575 Hampton Court: Feb 2; 1576 Hampton Court: Jan 6. 1577 Hampton Court: Jan 1; Whitehall: Feb 19; Hampton Court: Dec 29. 1579 Richmond: Jan 1; 1580 Whitehall: Jan 3. 1581 Whitehall: Jan 6; Dec 26; 1584 Jan 1; March 3. 1587 Greenwich: Feb 26. 1588 Greenwich: Jan 1; Feb 2; Richmond: Dec 27. 1589 Richmond: Jan 1; Jan 12; Dec 28. 1590 Richmond: Jan 1; Jan 6. 1601 Whitehall: Jan 1; 1603 Whitehall: Jan 1.

Children of Windsor Chapel: 1567 Whitehall: Feb 11; 1568 Whitehall: Feb 29. 1569 Whitehall: Feb 22; Windsor Castle: Dec 27. 1571 Whitehall: Feb 26; 1572 Whitehall: Jan 1. 1573 Hampton Court: Jan 1. 1574 Whitehall: Jan 6; Hampton Court: Dec 27. 1575 Hampton Court: Jan 6; 1577 Hampton Court: Jan 6.

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Eton College: 1573 Hampton Court: Jan 6. 1574 Whitehall: Jan 1.

Merchant Taylors School: 1573 Greenwich: Feb 3; 1574 Hampton Court: Feb 2; Feb 23. 1575 Richmond: Feb 13; 1576 Whitehall: March 6. 1583 Richmond: Feb 12.

Westminster School: 1565 Whitehall: January, end; 1566 Whitehall: Jan 17. 1567 Whitehall: Feb 9; Christmas; 1572 Whitehall: Feb 19. 1574 Whitehall: Jan 1; Dec 26.

Inns of Court: Gray’s Inn: 1565 Whitehall: March 6; 1588 Greenwich: Feb 20. Inner Temple: 1562 Whitehall: Jan 18; 1566 Greenwich: Feb 26.

Lord Robert Dudley's Men: (Dudley became Earl of Leicester in 1564). 1560 Whitehall: Christmas; 1561 Whitehall: Christmas; 1562 Whitehall: Christmas.

Earl of Leicester's Men: (Robert Dudley, died 1588). 1572 Hampton Court: Christmas (3); 1573 Whitehall: Dec 28. 1574 Hampton Court: Feb 21; Dec 26. 1575 Hampton Court: Jan 1; Kenilworth? July 17; Hampton Court: Dec 28. 1576 Whitehall: March 4; Hampton Court; Dec 30. 1577 Hampton Court: Dec 26. 1578 Feb 11: at Hampton Court to play, replaced by Countess of Essex’s Men. 1579 Richmond: Jan 4. 1580 Whitehall: Jan 6; 1581 Whitehall: Feb 7. 1583 Richmond: Feb 10; 1586 Greenwich: Dec 27.

Countess of Essex’s Men: (Lettice, widow; married Leicester Sept 1578). 1578 Hampton Court: Feb 11.

Earl of Sussex’s Men (Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl, Lord Chamberlain). 1573 Greenwich: Feb 2. 1576 Hampton Court: Feb 2. 1577 Hampton Court: Feb 2. 1578 Hampton Court: Feb 2; Richmond: Dec 28. 1579 Richmond: Jan 6: Whitehall: March 3; Dec 26. 1580 Whitehall: Feb 2; Feb 16; Dec 27. 1581 Whitehall: Feb 2. 1583 Windsor Castle: Jan 6. (Earl of Sussex died June 1583).

Queen’s Men, formed in 1583: 1583 Whitehall: Dec 26; Dec 29. 1584 Whitehall: March 3; Greenwich: Dec 26. 1585 Greenwich: Jan 3; Jan 6; Somerset House: Feb 23; Greenwich: Dec 26. 1586 Greenwich: Jan 1; Feb 13; Dec 26. 1587 Greenwich: Jan 1; Jan 6; Feb 28; Dec 26. 1588 Greenwich: Jan 6; Feb 18; Richmond: Dec 26. 1589 Whitehall: Feb 9; Richmond: Dec 26. 1590 Greenwich: March 1; Richmond: Dec 26; 1591 Richmond: Jan 1; Jan 3; Jan 6; Greenwich: Feb 14; Whitehall: Dec 26. 1594 Hampton Court: Jan 6.

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Lord Howard’s Men: (Charles 2nd Lord Howard of Effingham). 1576 Hampton Court: Dec 27; 1577 Whitehall: Feb 17. 1578 Hampton Court: Jan 5. Lord Howard became Lord Admiral, July 1585.

Lord Admiral’s Men: (Charles 2nd Lord Howard of Effingham). 1585 Greenwich: Dec 27; 1586 Greenwich: Jan 6. 1588 Richmond: Dec 29; 1589 Whitehall: Feb 11. 1590 Greenwich: March 3; Richmond: Dec 27; 1591 Greenwich: Feb 16. 1594 Greenwich: Dec 28; 1595 Greenwich: Jan 1; Jan 6. 1596 Richmond: Jan 1; Jan 4; Feb 22; Feb 24. 1597 Whitehall: Dec 27. (Howard became in October 1597). 1598 Whitehall: Feb 28; Dec 27. 1599 Whitehall: Jan 6; Richmond: Feb 18; Dec 27. 1600 Richmond: Jan 1; Whitehall: Dec 28. 1601 Whitehall: Jan 6; Feb 2; Dec 27. 1602 Whitehall: Dec 27; 1603 Richmond: March 6; March 8.

Lord Hunsdon’s Men (I): (Henry Carey, 1st Lord Hunsdon). 1582 Windsor Castle: Dec 27. Lord Hunsdon became Lord Chamberlain, July 1585.

Lord Chamberlain’s Men (I): (Henry 1st Lord Hunsdon, Lord Chamberlain). 1585 Dec 27 1586 Greenwich: Jan 6.

Lord Chamberlain’s Men (II): (company re-formed: Shakespeare’s company). 1594 Greenwich: Dec 26; Dec 28. 1595 Richmond: Dec 26; Dec 27; Dec 28. 1596 Richmond: Jan 6; Feb 22. Lord Chamberlain Henry 1st Lord Hunsdon died in July 1596; his son George took over his company, which became Lord Hunsdon’s Men (II).

Lord Hunsdon’s Men (II): (George Carey, 2nd Lord Hunsdon). 1596 Whitehall: Dec 26; Dec 27; 1597 Whitehall: Jan 1; Jan 6; Feb 6; Feb 8. George, 2nd Lord Hunsdon, became Lord Chamberlain, April 1597.

Lord Chamberlain’s Men (III): (George 2nd Lord Hunsdon, died 1603). 1597 Whitehall: Dec 26; 1598 Whitehall: Jan 1; Jan 6; Feb 26; Dec 26. 1599 Whitehall: Jan 1; Richmond: Feb 20; Dec 26. 1600 Richmond: Jan 6; Feb 3; Whitehall: Dec 26. 1601 Whitehall: Jan 6; Feb 24; Dec 26; Dec 27; Dec 29. 1602 Whitehall: Jan 1; Feb 14; Dec 26; 1603 Richmond: Feb 2.

Earl of Derby’s Men (I): (Henry Stanley 4th Earl, died 1593). 1580 Whitehall: Feb 14; 1581 Whitehall: Jan 1; 1582 Windsor: Dec 30.

Lord Strange’s Men: (Ferdinando, became 5th Earl of Derby 1593, died 1594). 1590 Richmond: Dec 27. 1591 Greenwich: Feb 16; Whitehall: Dec 27; Dec 28. 1592 Whitehall: Jan 1; Jan 9; Feb 6; Feb 8; Hampton Court: Dec 27; Dec 31. 1593 Hampton Court: Jan 1.

Earl of Derby’s Men (II): (William Stanley 6th Earl, died 1642). 1600 Richmond: Feb 5; 1601 Whitehall: Jan 1; Jan 6.

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Earl of Hertford’s Men: (Edward Seymour, died 1621). 1592 Whitehall: Jan 6; 1603 Whitehall: Jan 6.

Earl of Lincoln’s Men: (Edward Clinton, 1st Earl, died 1585). 1573 Greenwich: Feb 1.

Lord Clinton's Men: (Henry Clinton, 10th Lord, later 2nd Earl of Lincoln). 1574 Whitehall: Jan 3; Hampton Court: Dec 27. 1575 Hampton Court: Jan 2.

Earl of Oxford’s Boys: (Edward de Vere, 17th Earl, died 1604). 1584 Whitehall: Jan 1; March 3; Greenwich: Dec 27.

Earl of Pembroke’s Men: (Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl, died 1601). 1592 Hampton Court: Dec 26. 1593 Hampton Court: Jan 6.

Earl of Sussex's Men: (Henry Radcliffe, 4th Earl; died 1593). 1592 Whitehall: Jan 2.

Earl of Warwick's Men: (Ambrose Dudley, died 1590). 1564 Whitehall: Christmas (2). 1575 Richmond: Feb 14; Hampton Court: Dec 26. 1576 Hampton Court: Jan 1; Whitehall: March 5; Hampton Court: Dec 26. 1577 Whitehall: Feb 18; Hampton Court: Dec 28. 1578 Hampton Court: Feb 9; Richmond: Dec 26. 1579 Whitehall: March 1. 1581 Whitehall: Jan 1.

Earl of Worcester’s Men: (Edward Somerset, 4th Earl, died 1628). 1602 Whitehall: Jan 3. 1603 Whitehall: Jan 3.

Lord Rich’s Men: (Robert, 2nd Lord, died 1581). 1567 Whitehall: Christmas (2). 1570 Hampton Court: Feb 5.

Sir Robert Lane's Men: (Lane, of Northants: 1527-c.1588). 1571 Whitehall: Dec 27; 1572 Whitehall: Feb 17.

Sir Percival Hart’s sons (not a company): (Hart, of Kent: c.1496-1580). 1565 Whitehall: Feb 18.

Italian players: 1574 Windsor Castle: July 8/14; Reading Abbey: July 15. 1602 Oatlands: Aug 29.

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Tournaments.

1558: No tournament: note, end December 1558.

1559 Jan 16: Whitehall: Coronation Tilt. 4 Challengers. Jan 17: Whitehall: Tourney on horseback. 3 Challengers. July 2: Greenwich: Tilt; after a Muster. July 11: Greenwich: Course of the Field. 3 Challengers. Described. Aug 18/21: West Horsley, Surrey: running at the ring. Nov 5: Whitehall: Tilt. 2 Challengers. Described, and Nov 9.

1560 Feb 27: Whitehall: Tilt; for Lord Cobham’s marriage. April 21: Whitehall: Tilt. April 28: Whitehall: Tilt. 4 challengers. Described. July 7: Greenwich: Tilt.

1562 Feb 10: Whitehall: Tilt. 2 Challengers. Feb 14: St James’s Park: running at the ring.

1564 June 7: Richmond: running at the ring. June 8: Richmond: fighting at Barriers; for French envoys.

1565 Jan 7: Whitehall: Tilt; Tourney on foot. Described. March 6: Whitehall: Tilt; Tourney on horseback. 3 challengers. Described. July 16: Durham Place: Tourney; for marriage of Henry Knollys. Described. Oct 14: Whitehall: Challenge for Tournament. Described. Nov 11-13: Whitehall: tournament for Earl of Warwick’s marriage. Nov 11, 12: Tilts. 4 Challengers. Described. Nov 13: Tourney on horseback. 5 Challengers. Described.

1566 July 1: Bermondsey: Tourney on foot; for marriage of Earl of Sussex’s sister. Described.

1570 Nov 30: Queen’s remarks on the lack of tournaments at her court.

1571 Jan 6: Hampton Court: Proclamation for Shrovetide Tournament (deferred). May 1,2,6: Whitehall: Tournament. 4 Challengers. May 1: Whitehall: Tilt. 4 Challengers. May 2: Tourney on horseback. May 6: Fighting at Barriers. Described, and May 14. Dec 17: Whitehall: Tilt; for three marriages at court.

1572 June 15: Whitehall: Barriers on horseback; for French envoys. Described.

1575 July 21/26: Kenilworth: Tilt. Aug 29/Oct 4: Proclamation of Tournament to be held on May Day 1576.

1576 March 1: Greenwich: Tilt; for a special Ambassador, Champagney. April 25: Proclamation: Tournament on May Day deferred. Not held.

1577 Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt; for Marquis of Havrech. ’s songs. Queen was at Windsor.

1578 Nov 17: no Tilt (plague).

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1579 Jan 11: Whitehall: Barriers; for French envoy, Simier. Described. Feb 1-2: Whitehall: Tournament for Duke Casimir. Described. Feb 1: Tilt. Feb 2: Tourney on horseback. Sept 16: New Hall, Essex: Tilt. 3 Challengers. Described. Nov 17: Greenwich: Accession Day Tilt.

1580 Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt. Described.

1581 Jan 6: Whitehall: Challenge for Tilt. Jan 22: Whitehall: Tilt. 2 Challengers. Described. April 16: Whitehall: Challenge for Tilt. April 24: Tilt deferred. May 1: Proclamation again deferring Tilt. May 15-16: Whitehall: tournament for French marriage Commissioners. May 15: Tilt. 4 Challengers. Described. May 16: Tourney and Barriers. Described. Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt.

1582 Jan 1: Whitehall: Fighting at Barriers. Described. Jan 6: Whitehall: Tourney on foot. Described.

1583 c.May 16: Greenwich: Tilt; for Alasco of Poland. Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt.

1584 January, end: Whitehall: a ‘triumph’ (no details). Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt. Described. Dec 6: Whitehall: Tilt, married men v bachelors. Described.

1585 Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt.

1586 Feb 14: Greenwich: Fighting at Barriers. Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt.

1587 April 5: Greenwich: Course of the Field. Nov 18: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt (deferred). Described, Nov 24.

1588 Aug 26: St James’s Park: Show by Earl of Essex. Course of the Field; Tourney on horseback. Described. Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt. Nov 19: no Tilt: see note, 28 Nov 1588.

1589 Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt.

1590 Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt. Followed by resignation of Sir Henry Lee. Fully described. Nov 19: Whitehall: Tilt. Challenge: 3 Challengers.

1591 Aug 27: Portsmouth: Course of the Field. Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt. Speech for Earl of Cumberland.

1592 Nov 17: Hampton Court: No Tilt (plague). Challenge for Shrovetide 1593 Tilt. Described: Dec 8. (Tilt not held).

1593 Nov 17: Windsor: Accession Day Course of the Field. Nov 19: Windsor: Course of the Field.

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1594 Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt. Nov 19: Whitehall: Tilt: Challenge by Earl of Essex. Described. Nov 20: Whitehall: Tilt: Challenge concluded.

1595 March 1,2,4: Whitehall: Tournament. Challenge, 3 Challengers. March 1: Tilt. March 2: Whitehall: Tourney. March 4: Whitehall: Fighting at Barriers. Described. Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt. Fully described.

1596 Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt. Nov 19: Whitehall: Tilt: Challenge by Earl of Essex. Nov 20: Whitehall: Tilt: Challenge concluded.

1597 Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt. Nov 19: Whitehall: Tilt.

1598 Jan 6: Whitehall: Barriers; by the Middle Temple. Described. Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt. Nov 19: Whitehall: Tilt. 3 Challengers.

1599 Nov 17: Proclamation deferring Tilt (bad weather). Nov 18: Proclamation again deferring Tilt. Nov 19: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt. Nov 21: Whitehall: Tilt. Nov 24: Proclamation deferring Earl of Cumberland’s Challenge (not held).

1600 Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt. Nov 19: Whitehall: Tilt: a Challenge.

1601 Nov 19: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt (deferred from Nov 17).

1602 Feb 16: Whitehall: Barriers; by the Middle Temple. Nov 17: Whitehall: Accession Day Tilt. Nov 20: Whitehall: Tilt: a Challenge.

For 'Challenges by Masters of Defence' see 'Miscellaneous'

Tournaments’ Glossary.

Barriers: opponents were separated by a barrier; they fought singly or in groups, usually on foot indoors; occasionally on horseback outdoors. Challenge: a summons or invitation to a tournament, proclaimed by a Herald. Lists: an enclosed area for a tournament. Running at the ring: running on horseback at a suspended ring to catch it on the point of a lance. Score-cheque for tilt: names marked with lances broken, and courses run. Tilt: opponents were separated by a barrier; one on either side rode at one another. Tilt-list: list of names of each contestant and his opponent. Tourney: single or group combat with swords, either on foot or on horseback.

A score-cheque for Accession Day 1584, and a drawing of the Queen watching a tilt, tourney, and barriers, are reproduced by Alan Young, Tudor and Jacobean Tournaments (1987), 49,78.

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Tournament Judges.

1560 April 28: Marquis of Northampton; Earl of Pembroke; Earl of Rutland; Lord Clinton; French Ambassador, De Seurre.

1565 Nov 11-13: Lord Chandos; Lord Clinton; Lord Howard of Effingham.

1571 May 1-2, May 6: Earl of Sussex; Earl of Worcester; Lord Clinton; Sir Henry Sidney.

1585 Nov 17: Earl of Ormond; Earl of Sussex.

1590 Nov 17: Lord Henry Seymour; Lord Norris; Lord North.

1591 Nov 17: Lord Norris; Lord North.

1593 Nov 17: Earl of Worcester; Lord Norris; Lord North; Lord Sandys.

1594 Nov 17: Earl of Shrewsbury; Lord Norris; Lord Sandys. Lord Sheffield ‘came not’.

1595 March 1-2: Lord Burgh; Lord Sheffield; Lord Windsor; Sir Thomas Leighton.

1596 Nov 17: Lord Thomas Howard; Lord Norris; Lord North. Nov 19-20: Lord Thomas Howard; Lord Norris; Sir Thomas Gorges.

1598: Nov 17: Lord Henry Seymour; Lord De La Warr; Lord Sandys; Sir William Knollys.

1599 Nov 19,21: Lord Thomas Howard; Lord Henry Seymour; Lord Sandys; Sir William Knollys.

1600: Nov 17: Lord Henry Seymour; Lord Sandys; Lord Sheffield; Sir William Knollys. Nov 19: Lord Thomas Howard; Lord Sheffield; Sir Thomas Gorges; Sir Henry Grey.

Fees for Tournaments. Paid to Heralds.

1560 April 21: four noblemen: £4.16d. July 7: Earl of Northumberland: two pistolets; Lord Robert Dudley: 40s. 1565 Nov 16: Earl of Leicester: £20 and 20 nobles; from others: 40s. 1583 Nov 17: Earl of Cumberland: £5; Lord Willoughby: six scarves. 1586 Nov 17; Earl of Essex: £10; John Chidley: 20s. 1593 Nov 17: Lord Fitzwalter: 40s; Carew Reynell: 20s. 1594 Nov 17: Earl of Bedford: £6.13s4d, and nine scarves. 1600 Nov 17: Lord Herbert of Cardiff: £3.6s8d; Francis Manners: 40s; Francis Norris: 40s. 1601 Nov 17: Lord North paid for: trumpet banner; 12 staves; shield with his device; truncheon; 12 silk pencels (small flags or streamers).

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Tilters’ Index. Titles are as given in the Tilt-lists.

Abergavenny, Henry Nevill 6th Lord: 1565 March 6. Acton, Richard: 1589 Nov 17; 1590 Nov 17,19.

Alexander, Henry: 99 Nov 19,21; 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,20. Alexander, Robert: 65 Nov 13; 71 May 1,2,6; 72 June 15; 79 Feb 1,2; 81 May 15,16; Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; 85 Nov 17; 86 Nov 17; 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17; 91 Nov 17. Alexander, Sigismund: 98 Nov 17; 99 Nov 17,19; 1600 Nov 19; 1601 Nov 19.

Alphonsus: 1565 March 6. Ansley, Brian: 65 Nov 11,13; 71 May 1,2,6; Dec 17; 72 June 15.

Arundel, Philip Howard 13th Earl of: 81 Jan 22; May 15,16; Nov 17. Arundell, John: 1559 Jan 16,17.

Bedford, Edward Russell 5th Earl of: 94 Nov 17,19,20; 95 Nov 17; 96 Nov 17,19,20; 97 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19; 99 Nov 19,21; 1600 Nov 17,19.

Bedingfield, Thomas: 71 May 1,2,6; 72 June 15; 82 Jan 1. Beeston, George: 1582 Jan 1. Bellingham, Edward: 98 Nov 17,19; 99 Nov 19,21; 1600 Nov 17,19; 1602 Nov 17,20.

Blount, Sir Charles (I): 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17; 91 Nov 17; 93 Nov 17,19. See also: Mountjoy, Charles 8th Lord.

Blount, Charles (II): 94 Nov 17,19,20; 95 March 1,2,4; as Sir Charles Blount: 96 Nov 17,19,20; 97 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19.

Blount, Richard: 1571 May 1,2,6. Bostock, Lancelot: 65 March 6; Nov 11,13; 71 May 1,2,6; 72 June 15; 82 Jan 1. Bowes, Sir Jerome: 1571 May 1,2,6.

Bowes, Ralph: 79 Feb 1,2; Sept 16; 81 Jan 22; May 15,16; Nov 17; 82 Jan 1; 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; Dec 6; 85 Nov 17; 86 Nov 17; 87 Nov 18; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17; 91 Nov 17. Bowes, Thomas: 1584 Nov 17.

Brocas, Pexall: 1584 Nov 18. Brouncker, Henry: 79 Feb 1,2; 81 Jan 22; May 15,16; Nov 17; 82 Jan 1; 84 Nov 17; Dec 6; 85 Nov 17; 86 Nov 17; 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 91 Nov 17. Browne, Francis: 1559 Nov 5.

Bulkeley, Richard (I): 65 Nov 11-13; 71 May 1-2,6; Dec 17; 72 June 15. Bulkeley, Sir Richard (II; son): 96 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19; 1600 Nov 17,19; 1602 Nov 17,20.

Burgh, John: 1582 Jan 1. Burgh, Thomas: 82 Jan 1; as 5th Lord Burgh: 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17.

Butler, Sir Philip: 86 Nov 17; 87 Nov 18; 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17,19.

Carew, Francis: 1559 Jan 16,17. Carew, George: 1582 Jan 1.

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Carey, Edward: 1565 Nov 11,12,13. Carey, Sir George: 71 May 1,2,6; 82 Jan 1.

Carey, Henry: 95 Nov 17; 96 Nov 17,19,20; 97 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19; as Sir Henry: 99 Nov 19,21; 1600 Nov 17,19; 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,20.

Carey, Robert: 82 Jan 1; 85 Nov 17; 86 Nov 17; 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17,19; 93 Nov 17,19; 95 March 1,2,4; as Sir Robert: 95 Nov 17; 97 Nov 17.

Cecil, Thomas: 65 March 6; 71 May 1,2,6; Dec 17; as Sir Thomas: 82 Jan 1. Champernown, Sir Arthur: 1559 Jan 17.

Chetwode, Richard: 1559 Jan 16,17. Chidley, John: 85 Nov 17; 86 Nov 17; 87 Nov 18; 88 Nov 17.

Clifton, Gervase: 1588 Nov 17. Clopton, Roger: 1571 May 1,2,6.

Cobham, Henry: 1565 March 6; 71 Dec 17.

Colshill, Robert: 65 March 6; Nov 11,13; 71 May 1-2,6; Dec 17; 72 June 15; 79 Feb 1-2.

Compton, William, 2nd Lord: 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17,19; 93 Nov 17,19; 94 Nov 17,19,20; 95 March 1,2,4; Nov 17; 96 Nov 17,19,20; 97 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19; 99 Nov 19,21; 1600 Nov 17,19; 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,20.

Coningsby, Thomas: 1571 May 1,2,6. Constable, Robert: 1559 Jan 17; Nov 5.

Cooke, Anthony: 81 Jan 22; May 15,16; Nov 17; 82 Jan 1; 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17.

Cornwallis, Thomas: 59 Jan 17; July 11; Nov 5; 60 Feb 27; April 28; 65 March 6; Nov 11,12,13. Cotton, Thomas: 1572 June 15.

Cumberland, George Clifford, 3rd Earl of: 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; Dec 6; 85 Nov 17; 86 Nov 17; 87 April 5; Nov 18; 88 Aug 26; 90 Nov 17,19; 91 Nov 17; 93 Nov 17,19; 95 March 1,2,4; Nov 17; 96 Nov 17,19,20; 97 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19; 99 Nov 19; 1600 Nov 17,19; 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,19.

Danvers, Henry: 1590 Nov 17,19. Danvers, John: 1565 Nov 11,12,13.

Darcy, Francis: 1582 Jan 1. Darcy of Chiche, John 2nd Lord: 1559 Jan 16; Nov 5. Darcy of Chiche, Thomas 3rd Lord: 1582 Jan 1.

Day, George: 72 June 15. Delves, George: 1571 May 1,2,6; 1572 June 15.

Denny, Edward: 81 Jan 22; May 15,16; 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; Dec 6; 87 Nov 18; as Sir Edward: 90 Nov 17,19; 91 Nov 17. Denton, Anthony: 1602 Nov 17,20.

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Digby, Anthony: 1560 Feb 27; 1565 Nov 11,12,13. Digby, Everard: 81 May 15,16; Nov 17; 83 Nov 17; 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 19; 90 Nov 17,19; 91 Nov 17.

Drury, Sir Robert: 95 Nov 17; 96 Nov 17,19,20; 1600 Nov 17,19. Drury, Sir William: 79 Feb 1,2; 81 Jan 22; 82 Jan 1; 85 Nov 17; 86 Nov 17.

Dudley, Lord Ambrose: 59 Jan 16; Nov 5; 60 Feb 27; April 21,28. See also: Warwick, Earl of. Dudley, Edward, 5th Lord: 97 Nov 17; 1601 Nov 19.

Dudley, Lord Robert: 59 Nov 5; 60 April 28; July 7. See also: Leicester, Earl of.

Dudley, Robert (son of Earl of Leicester): 91 Nov 17; 93 Nov 17,19; 95 Nov 17; as Sir Robert: 97 Nov 17; 1600 Nov 17,19; 1602 Nov 17,20.

Dyer, Edward: 1565 Nov 11,12,13.

Egerton, John: 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,20.

Essex, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of: 86 Nov 17; 87 Nov 18; 88 Aug 26; Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17,19; 93 Nov 17,19; 94 Nov 17,19,20; 95 Nov 17; 96 Nov 17,19,20; 98 Nov 17,19.

Essex, Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of: 1572 June 15.

FitzGarrett: see Garrett. Fitzpatrick, Barnaby: 1559 Jan 16,17; Nov 5.

Fitzwalter, Viscount: 1593 Nov 17,19. See also: Sussex, Robert Earl of.

Garrett/FitzGarrett, Edward: 1559 Nov 5; 1560 Feb 27. Gates, Sir Henry: as ‘Patron’, 1565 Nov 11,12,13.

Gerard, Thomas: 84 Nov 17; 1585 Nov 17; 1586 Nov 17; 87 Nov 18; 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17,19; as Sir Thomas: 93 Nov 17,19; 94 Nov 17,19,20; 95 March 1,2,4; 96 Nov 17,19-20; 97 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19; 99 Nov 19,21; 1600 Nov 17,19; 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,20.

Gifford, George: 81 Jan 22; Nov 17; 82 Jan 1; 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; Dec 6; 85 Nov 17. Goodere, Henry: 1596 Nov 17.

Gorges, Mr: as ‘Patron’, 1565 Nov 11,12,13. Gorges, Thomas: 65 Nov 11-13; as Sir Thomas: 87 April 5. Goring, George: 79 Feb 1-2; 81 Jan 22; Nov 17; 82 Jan 1; 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17.

Gresham, William: 85 Nov 17; 86 Nov 17; 87 Nov 18; 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17,19; 91 Nov 17.

Greville, Fulke: 79 Feb 1,2; 81 Jan 22; May 15,16; Nov 17; 82 Jan 1; 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; Dec 6; 85 Nov 17; 86 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17; 91 Nov 17.

Grey, Henry: 71 May 1,2,6; Dec 17; 72 June 15; 79 Feb 1,2; 81 May 15,16; Nov 17; 82 Jan 1; 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; 85 Nov 17; 86 Nov 17; as Sir Henry: 87 Nov 18.

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Grey of Wilton, Arthur 14th Lord: 1565 Nov 11,12,13. Grey of Wilton, Thomas 15th Lord: 98 Nov 17,19; 99 Nov 19,21; 1600 Nov 17,19; 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,20.

Harvey, Francis: 1565 March 6; Nov 11,12,13; 71 Dec 17; 72 June 15. Harvey, Henry: 1559 Nov 5; 60 Feb 27. Harvey, William: 1587 Nov 18; 88 Nov 17; 94 Nov 17,19,20.

Hatton, Christopher: 1565 Nov 11,12,13; 71 May 1,2,6; Dec 17. as Sir Christopher: 1579 Feb 1,2. Hatton, Sir William: 1587 Nov 18.

Helmes, Henry: 1595 March 4; 96 Nov 17,19,20.

Herbert, Edward: 1571 May 1,2,6; 72 June 15. Herbert, Henry Lord: 1565 Nov 11,12,13. Herbert, William: 1571 May 1,2,6. Herbert of Cardiff, William Lord: 1600 Nov 17,19.

Hifelde, Mr: 1572 June 15. Horsey, Francis: as ‘Patron’: 1565 Nov 11,12,13.

Howard, Charles (I) (later 2nd Lord Howard of Effingham): 59 Jan 16,17; Nov 5; 60 Feb 27; 65 March 6; 71 May 1,2,6; Dec 17; 72 June 15. Howard, Charles (II), son of 2nd Lord Howard: 1597 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19; 99 Nov 19,21; 1600 Nov 17,19; 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,20.

Howard, Edward: 1597 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19; 99 Nov 19,21; 1600 Nov 17,19; 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,20. Howard, Sir George: 1559 Jan 16,17.

Howard, Lord Thomas: 1582 Jan 1; 84 Nov 17; Dec 6; 85 Nov 17; 86 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17. Howard, William: 1559 Jan 16,17; Nov 5; 60 Feb 27.

Howard of Effingham, William 3rd Lord: 1597 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19; 99 Nov 19,21; 1600 Nov 17,19; 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,20.

Hungerford, Edward: 1559 Nov 5; 60 Feb 27; 65 March 6. Hungerford, Sir Walter: 1559 Jan 16,17; Nov 5; 65 March 6. Hunsdon, Henry Carey, 1st Lord: 1559 Nov 5; 60 Feb 27; April 28; 65 March 6. Huntingdon, Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of: 1559 Jan 16,17.

Kellaway, Thomas: 1579 Feb 1,2; 81 Jan 22; May 15,16; Nov 17; 82 Jan 1. Keys, Thomas: 1565 March 6.

Knollys, Francis: 1581 May 15,16; 82 Jan 1. Knollys, Henry: 1565 March 6; Nov 11,12,13; 71 May 1,2,6; Dec 17; 72 June 15; 81 Jan 22; May 15,16.

Knollys, Robert: 1579 Jan 11 (?), Feb 1,2; 81 Jan 22; May 15,16; Nov 17; 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; Dec 6; 85 Nov 17; 86 Nov 17; 87 Nov 18; 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17,19; 91 Nov 17; 93 Nov 17,19; 94 Nov 17,19; 95 March 1,2,4; Nov 17; 96 Nov 17,19,20; 98 Nov 17; 1600 Nov 17,19; 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,19.

Knollys, Sir Thomas: 1590 Nov 17; 95 Nov 17; 96 Nov 17,19,20; 98 Nov 17,19.

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Knollys, William: 1571 May 1,2,6; Dec 17; 72 June 15; 79 Jan 11 (?); 81 May 15,16; Nov 17; 82 Jan 1; 84 Nov 17, Dec 6; as Sir William: 87 Nov 18; 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17,19; 91 Nov 17; 93 Nov 17,19; 94 Nov 17,19,20; 95 Nov 17; 96 Nov 17,19,20.

Knvyett, Henry: 65 Nov 11,12,13; 71 May 1,2,6. Knyvett, Thomas: 71 May 1,2,6; Dec 17; 79 Feb 1,2; Sept 16; 81 Jan 22; May 15-16; Nov 17; 82 Jan 1; 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; Dec 6.

Lane, Ralph: 65 Nov 11,12,13; 71 May 1,2,6; 72 June 15; 79 Feb 1,2; 82 Jan 1; 83 Nov 17.

Lee, Sir Henry: 71 May 1,2,6; Dec 17; 72 June 15; 76 March 1; 79 Feb 1,2; 81 May 15,16; Nov 17; 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; Dec 6; 85 Nov 17; 86 Nov 17; 87 April 5; Nov 17; 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17. Lee, Sir John: 97 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19.

Leicester, Earl of (previously Dudley, Lord Robert): 1565 March 6; Nov 11,12,13; 1566 July 1; 1575 July 21/26; 1582 Jan 1.

Leighton, Thomas: 65 March 6; Nov 11,13. Lidcott, John or brother Leonard: 1579 Feb 1,2.

Macwilliam, Henry: 65 March 6; Nov 11,12,13; 71 May 1,2,6; Dec 17; 72 June 15. Manners, Francis: 1600 Nov 17,19. Markham, Thomas: 59 Jan 16,17; 65 March 6; Nov 11,12,13. Mewtas, Hercules: 81 May 15,16; 82 Jan 1; 83 Nov 17. Mildmay, Anthony: 1582 Jan 1.

More, Edward: 79 Feb 1,2; 81 May 15,16; Nov 17; 82 Jan 1; 83 Nov 17. More, Thomas: 1571 May 1,2,6. Morris, John: 1602 Nov 17,20.

Mountjoy, Charles Blount, 8th Lord: (previously Blount, Sir Charles): 94 Nov 17,19,20; 96 Nov 17,19,20; 97 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19; 99 Nov 19,21. Mountjoy, James Blount, 6th Lord: 1559 Jan 16.

Needham, John: 87 Nov 18; 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17,19; 94 Nov 17,19,20; 95 March 1,2,4; Nov 17; 97 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19; 99 Nov 19,21; 1600 Nov 17,19.

Neville, Sir Henry: 1559 Jan 16,17.

Noel, Henry: 81 May 15,16; 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17, Dec 6; 85 Nov 17; 86 Nov 17; 87 Nov 18; 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17,19; 91 Nov 17; 93 Nov 17,19; 94 Nov 17,19,20; 95 March 1,2,4; Nov 17.

Norfolk, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of: 59 Jan 16,17; 62 Feb 10.

Norris, Edward: 81 Jan 22; Nov 17; 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17. Norris, Francis: 1600 Nov 17,19; as Lord Norris: 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,20. Norris, Henry: 59 Jan 16,17; 65 March 6; Nov 11,12,13. Norris, William: 71 May 1,2,6; 79 Feb 1,2; 84 Nov 17.

North, Dudley 3rd Lord: 1601 Nov 19. North, Sir Roger: 1559 Jan 16,17; July 11; Nov 5.

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Northumberland, Thomas Percy 7th Earl of: 60 Feb 26; April 21,28; July 7.

Ormesby, Edward: 1559 Jan 17; Nov 5. Ormond, Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of: 59 July 11; 66 July 1. Oxford, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of: 71 May 1,2,6; 81 Jan 22.

Pakington, John: 1581 Nov 17. Parker, John: 1582 Jan 1. Perrot, Sir John: 1559 Jan 16,17; July 11. Perrot, Sir Thomas: 1581 Jan 22; May 15,16; Nov 17.

Pollard, Sir John: 1559 Jan 16. Powell, Edmund: 1565 March 6; Nov 11,13. Poynings, Sir Adrian: as ‘Patron’, 1565 Nov 11,13.

Radcliffe, Alexander: 95 Nov 17; as Sir Alexander: 97 Nov 17. Radcliffe, Thomas: 79 Sept 16; 81 May 15,16; Nov 17; 82 Jan 1; 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; Dec 6; 85 Nov 17.

Reynell, Carew: 93 Nov 17,19; 94 Nov 17,19,20; 95 March 1,2,4; Nov 17; 96 Nov 17,19,20; 97 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19; as Sir Carew: 1601 Nov 17,19; 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,20.

Rich, Sir Robert: 1559 Jan 16; Nov 5; 1560 Feb 27. Russell, William: 1579 Feb 1,2; as Sir William: 1582 Jan 1. Rutland, Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of: 1572 June 15.

St John: 1572 June 15. Scrope, Henry 9th Lord: 1559 Jan 16; Nov 5.

Scudamore, James: 95 March 1,2,4; Nov 17; as Sir James: 96 Nov 17,19,20; 97 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19; 99 Nov 19,21; 1600 Nov 17,19.

Seymour, Lord Henry: 59 Jan 16,17; 60 Feb 27; 65 March 6; 71 May 1,2,6. Sheffield, John 2nd Lord: 1559 Jan 16; 1560 Feb 27.

Sidney, Philip: 77 Nov 17; 79 Feb 1,2; 81 Jan 22; May 15,16; Nov 17; as Sir Philip: 84 Nov 17; Dec 6. Sidney, Robert: 1584 Dec 6. Sidney, Thomas: 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17,19.

Skipwith, Richard: 81 May 15,16; 82 Jan 1; 87 Nov 18; 88 Nov 17. Somerset, Thomas: 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,20.

Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of: 91 Nov 17; 93 Nov 17,19; 94 Nov 17,19,20; 95 Nov 17; 96 Nov 17,19,20; 97 Nov 17.

Stafford, Edward 3rd Lord: 71 May 1,2,6; 72 June 15; 82 Jan 1. Stafford, John: 94 Nov 17,19-20; 95 March 1,2,4.

Stanhope, Edward: 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,20. Stanley, Sir William: 1559 Jan 16,17. Staverton, Ralph: 1582 Jan 1.

Strange, Ferdinando Stanley, Lord: 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17,19; 91 Aug 27; Nov 17. Strange, Henry Stanley, Lord: 1560 Feb 27.

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Sussex, Robert Radcliffe, 5th Earl of (formerly Viscount Fitzwalter): 94 Nov 17,19,20; 95 March 1,2,4; Nov 17; 96 Nov 17; 99 Nov 19,21; 1600 Nov 17,19; 1601 Nov 19; 1602 Nov 17,20.

Sussex, Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of: 60 Feb 27; April 21; April 28; 65 March 6; 82 Jan 1.

Tresham, William: 79 Jan 11; Feb 1,2; Sept 16; 81 May 15,16; Nov 17; 83 Nov 17.

Tyrell, Charles: 1560 Feb 27. Tyrell, John: 79 Feb 1,2; 81 Nov 17; 82 Jan 1; 83 Nov 17; 84 Dec 6. Tyringham, Thomas: 1602 Nov 17,20.

Vavasour, Thomas: 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; Dec 6; 85 Nov 17; 86 Nov 17; 88 Nov 17; 90 Nov 17,19; 91 Nov 17; 94 Nov 17,19,20; 96 Nov 17,19,20.

Verney, Richard: 1572 June 15.

Warcop, Thomas: 59 Jan 17; Nov 5; 65 March 6; 72 June 15. Ward, Richard: 81 Jan 22; May 15,16; Nov 17; 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; 85 Nov 17.

Warwick, Earl of (previously Dudley, Lord Ambrose): 1565 March 6 (note); Nov 13.

West, Thomas: 1572 June 15; 1579 Feb 1,2. Westmorland, Henry Neville, Earl of: 1562 Feb 10.

Willoughby, Ambrose: 1582 Jan 1.

Willoughby de Eresby, Peregrine Bertie 13th Lord: 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; Dec 6.

Windsor, Edward 3rd Lord: 59 Nov 5; 60 Feb 27; April 21; 65 March 6. Windsor, Frederick 4th Lord: 81 Jan 22; May 15,16; Nov 17; 82 Jan 1.

Windsor, Henry: 81 Nov 17; 82 Jan 1; as Henry 5th Lord Windsor: 97 Nov 17; 98 Nov 17,19. Windsor, Walter: 65 Nov 11,12,13; 82 Jan 1.

Wingfield, Edward: 86 Nov 17; as Sir Edward: 88 Nov 17; 89 Nov 17; 91 Nov 17; 94 Nov 17,19,20; 95 March 1,2,4; 96 Nov 17,19,20; 97 Nov 17.

Wiseman, Robert: 65 March 6; Nov 11,12,13; 71 Dec 17; 72 June 15.

Worthington, William: 65 Nov 11,12,13; 71 May 1,2,6; Dec 17; 72 June 15; 82 Jan 1.

Wotton, John: 1582 Jan 1.

Wroth, Robert: 1602 Nov 17,20.

Wynter, Edward: 83 Nov 17; 84 Nov 17; Dec 6; 86 Nov 17.

Zouche, Richard: 1579 Feb 1,2.

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