Letters of John Chamberlain, 1613

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 <head>Letter of <persName key="Chamberlain, John"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:1bc0d9ab-b2ba-4c4f-865d-51c1e3e11885"
 xml:id="persName_yh5_tyl_w1c">John Chamberlain</persName> to <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:2f86d34f-63e4-4cc0-b6c5-65bc73c69115"
 key="Carleton, Alice" xml:id="persName_zh5_tyl_w1c">Mistress Alice
 Carleton</persName>, <date when="1613-02-18">February 18th, 1613</date></head>
 <opener>
 <salute>Mistris Carleton:</salute>
 </opener>
 Though <persName key="Wake, Isaac" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6077284"
 type="diplomat" xml:id="persName_a35_tyl_w1c">Master Waake</persName> be now
 comming and lookes for his dispatch within a day or two, who is able to make a large
 discourse of all that passed at this wedding, yet because this is like to arrive
 there before him, I will geve you a litle touch or taste of that, wherof you may
 receve from him full and complete satisfaction. On <date when="1613-02-11">Thursday night</date>
 <eventName>the fireworks</eventName> were reasonablie well performed all save the
 last castle (of five) which bred most expectation and had most devises, but when
 yt came to execution, had worst successe.
 On <date when="1613-02-13"
 >Saterday</date> likewise <eventName>the fight upon the water</eventName> came
 short of that shew and bragges had ben made of yt, but they pretend the best to be
 behind and left for another day, which was the winning of the castle on land: but
 the King and indeed all the companie tooke so litle delight to see no other
 activitie but shooting and potting of gunnes that yt is quite geven over and the
 navie unrigged and the castle pulled downe, the rather for that there were divers
 hurt in the former fight, (as one lost both his eyes, another both his handes,
 another one hande, with divers others maymed and hurt) so that to avoyde further
 harme, yt was thought best to let yt alone, and this is the conclusion of all the
 preparation with so much expence of powder and monie which amounted to no lesse
 then <measure type="currency">nine thousand pound</measure>.
 On <date when="1613-02-14"
 >Sonday</date> I was fetcht from <placeName key="St. Paul's Cathedral"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Ac35a2b6f-f4db-4635-9ec2-a9907c90c982"
 >Powles</placeName> (where I was set at the sermon) to see <persName
 key="Stuart, Elizabeth"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d0db3261-3dd1-4edb-b9a3-16759d7b6696"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_e35_tyl_w1c">the bride</persName> go to church,
 and though yt were past ten a clocke before we came there yet we found a whole
 window reserved in the jewell-house, which was over against her comming downe a
 payre stayres out of the gallerie in the preaching-place to a long stage or
 gallerie made along the court into the hall; so that we had as much view as a
 short passage could geve, but the excesse of braverie, and the continued
 succession of new companie did so dasell me that I could not observe the tenth
 part of that I wisht. The <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:835bd31f-f4b6-42b3-91b3-4338f67cce2a"
 key="Frederick V" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_f35_tyl_w1c"
 >bridegrome</persName> and <persName key="Stuart, Elizabeth"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d0db3261-3dd1-4edb-b9a3-16759d7b6696"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_g35_tyl_w1c">bride</persName> were both in a
 sute of cloth of silver richly embrodered with silver, her traine caried up by
 thirteen younge Ladies (or Lords daughters at least) besides five or sixe more
 that could not come neere yt: these were all in the same liverie with the bride,
 though not so rich. <persName key="Stuart, Elizabeth"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d0db3261-3dd1-4edb-b9a3-16759d7b6696"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_h35_tyl_w1c">The bride</persName> was maried in
 her haire that hung downe long, with an exceding rich coronet on her head (which
 <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_i35_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>
 valued the next day at a million of crownes). Her two bridemen were <persName
 key="Charles I"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A78551a5c-1784-469f-a0f9-3ccc12c58fb6"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_j35_tyl_w1c">the younge Prince</persName> and
 the <persName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A9d93269f-f754-4ea7-9137-623830364ee6"
 key="Howard, Henry" type="nobility" xml:id="persName_k35_tyl_w1c">earle of
 Northampton</persName>. The <persName key="James I"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_l35_tyl_w1c">King</persName> and <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:1442f99b-687c-4ea8-a468-30ac6995abae"
 key="Anne of Denmark" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_m35_tyl_w1c"
 >Quene</persName> both followed, <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:1442f99b-687c-4ea8-a468-30ac6995abae"
 key="Anne of Denmark" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_n35_tyl_w1c">the
 Quene</persName> all in white but not very rich saving in jewells: <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_o35_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>
 me thought was somwhat straungely attired in a cap and a feather, with a Spanish
 cape and a longe stocking. The chappell was very straightly kept none suffred to
 enter under the degree of a baron, but the three Lords Cheife Justices: in the
 midst there was a handsome stage or scaffold made, on the one side wherof sat the
 <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_p35_tyl_w1c">Kinge</persName>,
 <persName key="Charles I"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A78551a5c-1784-469f-a0f9-3ccc12c58fb6"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_q35_tyl_w1c">Prince</persName>, <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:835bd31f-f4b6-42b3-91b3-4338f67cce2a"
 key="Frederick V" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_r35_tyl_w1c">Count
 Palatin</persName> and <persName ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167236"
 key="Frederick Henry" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_s35_tyl_w1c">Count Henry
 of Nassau</persName>, on the other side <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:1442f99b-687c-4ea8-a468-30ac6995abae"
 key="Anne of Denmark" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_t35_tyl_w1c">the
 Quene</persName> with <persName key="Stuart, Elizabeth"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d0db3261-3dd1-4edb-b9a3-16759d7b6696"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_u35_tyl_w1c">the bride</persName> and one or
 two more. Upon this stage they were maried by <persName key="Abbot, George"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q714925" type="clergy"
 xml:id="persName_v35_tyl_w1c">the archbishop of Caunterburie</persName>
 assisted by the <persName ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6139931"
 key="Montague, James" type="clergy" xml:id="persName_w35_tyl_w1c">bishop of
 Bath and Wells</persName> (who made the sermon). Yt was don all in English, and
 the <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:835bd31f-f4b6-42b3-91b3-4338f67cce2a"
 key="Frederick V" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_x35_tyl_w1c">Prince
 Palatin</persName> had learned as much as concerned his part reasonable
 perfectly.
 The <persName
 key="Lefevre, Antoine" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107355633"
 type="diplomat" xml:id="persName_y35_tyl_w1c">French</persName>, <persName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Acc8af01d-a0ab-4e76-9b86-b58cb84112d4"
 key="Foscarini, Antonio" type="diplomat" xml:id="persName_z35_tyl_w1c"
 >Venetian</persName> and <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d9e20431-6301-4f3c-99d5-af2c072b1763"
 key="Caron, Noel" type="diplomat" xml:id="persName_aj5_tyl_w1c">States
 ambassadors</persName> dined that day with the bride. The <persName
 key="Sarmiento, Diego" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q451093"
 type="diplomat" xml:id="persName_bj5_tyl_w1c">Spanish ambassador</persName> was
 sicke and <persName type="diplomat" xml:id="persName_cj5_tyl_w1c">the
 archdukes</persName> was invited for the next day but wold not come.
 That night was <title
 key="The Lords' Masque" ref="https://www.luminarium.org/editions/lordsmask.htm"
 >the Lords maske</title> wherof I heare no great commendation save only for
 riches, theyre devises beeing long and tedious and more like a play then a maske.
 The next morning <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_ej5_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>
 went to visit these young turtles that were coupled on St. Valentines day, and did
 strictly examine him whether he were his true sonne in law, and was sufficiently
 assured. That afternoone
 <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_fj5_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>,
 <persName key="Charles I"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A78551a5c-1784-469f-a0f9-3ccc12c58fb6"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_gj5_tyl_w1c">Prince</persName>, <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:835bd31f-f4b6-42b3-91b3-4338f67cce2a"
 key="Frederick V" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_hj5_tyl_w1c">Count
 Palatin</persName> with divers others ran at the ring, and when that was ended,
 and the King and Prince gon, <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:835bd31f-f4b6-42b3-91b3-4338f67cce2a"
 key="Frederick V" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_ij5_tyl_w1c">the
 Palsgrave</persName> mounted upon a high bounding horse, which he managed so
 like a horsman, that he was excedingly commended and had many showts and
 acclamations of the beholders, and indeed I never saw any of his age come neere
 him in that exercise. Yt were long and tedious to tell you all the
 particularities of the excessive braverie both of men and women, but you may conceve
 the rest by one or two. The <persName key="Wotton, Margaret" type="nobility"
 xml:id="persName_jj5_tyl_w1c">Lady Wotton</persName> had a gowne that cost fifty
 pound a yard the embrodering. I heare <persName key="Percy, Henry"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Acdcdf9e8-78c4-4728-8f52-0b1919507e25"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_kj5_tyl_w1c">the earle of
 Northumberlands</persName> daughter was very gallant, and <persName
 key="Browne, Anthony-Maria" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4771943"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_lj5_tyl_w1c">the Lord Montague</persName> (that
 hath paide reasonablie well for recusancie) bestowed fifteen hundred pound in
 apparell for his two daughters. The <persName key="Carr, Robert"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A50044ba6-aa5f-45a2-9c9b-d9ce7c12a2bd"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_mj5_tyl_w1c">Vicount Rochester</persName>,
 <persName key="Hayes, Thomas" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7790518"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_nj5_tyl_w1c">the Lord Hayes</persName> and
 <persName key="Preston, Richard" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7328504"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_oj5_tyl_w1c">the Lord Dingwell</persName> were
 exceding rich and costly but above all they speake of <persName
 key="Sackville, Richard" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1564273"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_pj5_tyl_w1c">the erle of Dorset</persName>, but
 this extreem cost and riches makes us all poore. On <date when="1613-02-15">Monday night</date> was
 <title key="Memorable Masque"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A13808f1c-f796-4262-9688-8c1d0f98d551"
 >the <orgName key="Middle Temple" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q925942"
 >Middle Temple</orgName> and <orgName key="Lincoln's Inn"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69482">Lincolns Ynne</orgName>
 maske</title> presented in the hall at court, wheras <title
 key="The Lords' Masque" ref="https://www.luminarium.org/editions/lordsmask.htm"
 >the Lords</title> was in <placeName key="Banqueting House"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A77ab9e87-b784-4f84-be23-99b22e610551"
 >the bancketting roome</placeName>. Yt went from <placeName key="The Rolls"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A36f046da-433c-47bd-8866-a873295447b2"
 >the Rolles</placeName> all up <placeName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A91ba01de-454a-4fd7-8463-a5795a81eacd"
 key="Fleet Street">Fleet-street</placeName> and <placeName key="The Strand"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Ae9def7ec-f5e9-4fdb-8896-e6563fd47e1c"
 >the Strand</placeName>, and made such a gallant and glorious shew that yt is
 highly commended. They had forty gentlemen of best choise out of both houses rode
 before them in theyre best array, upon the Kings horses: and the twelve <name
 type="occupation" ref="http://id.lincsproject.ca/occupation/masquer"
 >maskers</name> with theyre torch-bearers and pages rode likewise upon horses
 excedingly well trapped and furnished: besides a dousen litle boyes, dresst like
 babones that served for an antimaske, (and they say performed yt exceedingly well
 when they came to yt), and three open chariots drawne with fowre horses a peece
 that caried theyre musi- cians, and other personages that had parts to speake: all
 which together with theyre <name type="occupation"
 ref="http://id.lincsproject.ca/occupation/musicOccupation">trumpetters</name>
 and other attendants were so well set out, that yt is generally held for the best
 shew that hath ben seen many a day. <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_rj5_tyl_w1c">The Kinge</persName>
 stood in the gallerie to behold them and made them ride about <placeName
 key="Tiltyard"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A938eac79-5fc0-4cd1-9e15-b526e14b17b4"
 >the tilt-yard</placeName>, and then were receved into <placeName
 key="St. James Park"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Ae0bfb4ba-85da-4ce9-88d2-c775a5150942"
 >St. James Parke</placeName> and went all along the galleries into the hall,
 where themselves and their devises (which they say were excellent) made such a
 glittering shew that <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_sj5_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>
 and all the companie were excedingly pleased, and specially with theyre dauncing,
 which was beyond all that hath ben yet. <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_tj5_tyl_w1c">The King</persName>
 made <name type="occupation" ref="http://id.lincsproject.ca/occupation/masquer"
 >the maskers</name> kisse his hand at parting, and gave them many thanckes,
 sayeng he never saw so many proper men together, and himself accom- panied them at
 the banket, and tooke care yt shold be well ordered, and speakes much of them
 behind their backes, and strokes <persName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A138c6fc5-82df-4467-b328-3869188e602e"
 key="Phelips, Edward" type="politician" xml:id="persName_uj5_tyl_w1c">the
 master of the rolles</persName> and <persName key="Martin, Richard"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:08303377-4037-4f6e-a914-79a33491295b"
 type="politician" xml:id="persName_vj5_tyl_w1c">Dick Martin</persName> who were
 the cheife dooers and undertakers.
 On <date
 when="1613-02-16">Tewsday</date> yt came to <orgName key="Gray's Inn"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q157412">Grayes Ynne</orgName> and the
 <orgName ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1233784" key="Inner Temple">Inner
 Temples</orgName> turne to come with <title
 key="Masque of Inner Temple and Gray's Inn"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Af7b6d077-2c45-4980-bcbf-c17a8c3aeec7#page/1/mode/1up"
 >theyre maske</title>, wherof <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:e907ea02-90e4-476a-a856-fb8268cd7449"
 key="Bacon, Francis" type="nobility" xml:id="persName_xj5_tyl_w1c">Sir Francis
 Bacon</persName> was the cheife contriver, and because the former came on horse
 backe, and open chariots, they made choise to come by water from <placeName
 key="Winchester Palace"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A9e0a8e53-8a1e-487b-b15f-249f068c6642"
 >Winchester Place</placeName> in <placeName key="Southwark"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A1fdd3059-1e28-4017-a31f-b6b48e084293"
 >Southwarke</placeName>: which suted well enough with theyre devise, which was
 the mariage of <placeName key="River Thames"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A3d70535d-3e2d-43a8-8fa7-ed92c9eab859"
 >the river of Thames</placeName> to <placeName
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q584" key="Rhine">the Rhine</placeName>: and
 theyre shew by water was very gallant by reason of infinite store of lights very
 curiously set and placed: and many boats and barges with devises of light and
 lampes, with three peales of ordinance, one at theyre taking water, another in the
 <placeName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Ae76c726f-af01-4bdd-a761-62eb4465e9ab"
 key="Temple Garden">Temple garden</placeName>, and the last at their landing:
 which passage by water cost them better then <measure type="currency">three
 hundred pound</measure>. They were receved at the <placeName key="Privy Stairs"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Ab09c5a64-fe26-4714-86af-ba1147c52b9b"
 >privie stayres</placeName>: and great expectation theyre was that they shold
 every way exceed theyre competitors that went before them, both in devise,
 daintines, of apparell, and above all in dauncing (wherin they are held excellent)
 and esteemed for the properer men: but by what yll planet yt fell out I know not,
 they came home as they went without dooing any thing, the reason wherof I cannot
 yet learne thoroughly, but only that the hall was so full that yt was not possible
 to avoyde yt or make roome for them, besides that most of the Ladies were in the
 galleries to see them land, and could not get in: but the worst of all was that
 <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_yj5_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>
 was so wearied and sleepie with sitting up almost two whole nights before, that he
 had no edge to yt, wherupon <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:e907ea02-90e4-476a-a856-fb8268cd7449"
 key="Bacon, Francis" type="nobility" xml:id="persName_zj5_tyl_w1c">Sir Fra
 Bacon</persName> adventured to intreat his Majestie, that by this disgrace he
 wold not as yt were bury them quicke: and I heare <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_ak5_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>
 shold aunswer, that then they must burie him quicke for he could last no longer,
 but withall gave them very goode wordes and appointed them to come again on <date
 when="1613-02-20">Saterday 12</date>: but the grace of theyre maske is quite
 gon when theyre apparell hath ben alredy shewed and theyre devises vented so that
 how yt will fall out God knowes, for they are much discouraged, and out of
 countenance, and the world sayes yt comes to passe after the old proverb the
 properer men the worse lucke. One thing I had almost forgotten for hast
 that all this time there was a course taken and so notified that no Lady or
 gentlewoman shold be admitted to any of these sights with a verdingale, which was to
 gaine the more roome, and I hope may serve to make them quite left of in time. And
 yet there were more scaffolds and more provision made for roome then ever I saw both
 in the hall and banketting roome, besides a new roome built to dine, sup and daunce
 in. And thus in great haste I commit you to God. From <placeName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A465d3392-c68a-4f48-9529-fcce5ba406eb"
 key="London">London</placeName> this <date when="1613-02-18">18th of February
 1612</date>. 
 <closer> Yours most assuredly <signed><persName key="Chamberlain, John"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A1bc0d9ab-b2ba-4c4f-865d-51c1e3e11885"
 xml:id="persName_bk5_tyl_w1c">JOHN CHAMBERLAIN</persName>.</signed></closer>
 </div>
 <div type="letter" xml:id="div_ck5_tyl_w1c">
 <head>Letter of <persName key="Chamberlain, John"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A1bc0d9ab-b2ba-4c4f-865d-51c1e3e11885"
 xml:id="persName_dk5_tyl_w1c">John Chamberlain</persName> to <persName
 key="Winwood, Ralph"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Af6110081-3a4d-4c70-b1cb-352a7878e7e8"
 xml:id="persName_ek5_tyl_w1c">Sir Ralph Winwood</persName>, <date
 when="1613-02-23">February 23rd, 1613</date></head>
 <opener>
 <salute>My very goode Lord:</salute>
 </opener>
 Since my last of <date when="1613-02-10">the 10th of this present</date> here hath
 ben litle to advertise, but the consummation of the <persName key="Stuart, Elizabeth"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d0db3261-3dd1-4edb-b9a3-16759d7b6696"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_fk5_tyl_w1c">Lady Elizabeths</persName> mariage
 with the <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:835bd31f-f4b6-42b3-91b3-4338f67cce2a"
 key="Frederick V" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_gk5_tyl_w1c">Count
 Palatin</persName>, together with the triumphes and shewes both before and after.
 I need not tell you how much
 this match is to the contentment of all well affected people, and what joy they
 take in yt, as beeing a firme foundation for the stablishing of religion, which
 (upon what conceit I know not) was before suspected to be in bransle. But the
 Roman Catholikes maligne yt as much, and do what they can to disgrace yt as beeing
 the ruine of theyre hopes.
 <persName ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:1442f99b-687c-4ea8-a468-30ac6995abae"
 key="Anne of Denmark" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_ik5_tyl_w1c">The
 Quene</persName> that seemed not to taste yt so well at first, is since so come
 about that she doth all she can to grace yt, and takes speciall comfort in him. The solemnities were performed
 in <placeName>the chappell</placeName>, whether <persName key="Stuart, Elizabeth"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d0db3261-3dd1-4edb-b9a3-16759d7b6696"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_kk5_tyl_w1c">the bride</persName> was conveyed
 on a scaffold or open gallerie all alonge the courtyard, arrayed in white, with
 her haire hanging downe long, and a rich coronet on her heade, led by <persName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A78551a5c-1784-469f-a0f9-3ccc12c58fb6"
 key="Charles I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_lk5_tyl_w1c">the younge
 Prince</persName> and <persName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A9d93269f-f754-4ea7-9137-623830364ee6"
 key="Howard, Henry" type="nobility" xml:id="persName_mk5_tyl_w1c">the earle of
 Northampton</persName> her bride-men: and her traine caried up by thirteen
 younge Ladies (or Lords daughters at least) besides five or sixe more that could
 not come neere yt, all suted in the same liverie of white and embroiderie. The
 <persName ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6139931" key="Montague, James"
 type="clergy" xml:id="persName_nk5_tyl_w1c">bishop of Bath and Wells</persName>
 preached, and the archbishop performed the other rites and cere- monies upon a
 stage raised in the middes of the chappell, on the right side wherof sat <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_ok5_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>
 with <persName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A78551a5c-1784-469f-a0f9-3ccc12c58fb6"
 key="Charles I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_pk5_tyl_w1c">the
 Prince</persName>, <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:835bd31f-f4b6-42b3-91b3-4338f67cce2a"
 key="Frederick V" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_qk5_tyl_w1c"
 >Palsgrave</persName>, and <persName
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167236" key="Frederick Henry"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_rk5_tyl_w1c">Count Henry</persName>, on the
 other <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:1442f99b-687c-4ea8-a468-30ac6995abae"
 key="Anne of Denmark" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_sk5_tyl_w1c"> the
 Quene</persName>, with <persName key="Stuart, Elizabeth"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d0db3261-3dd1-4edb-b9a3-16759d7b6696"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_tk5_tyl_w1c">the bride</persName>, <persName
 key="Keilway, Anne" type="nobility" xml:id="persName_uk5_tyl_w1c">the Lady
 Harrington</persName>, and one or two more. The chappell was kept very
 straight, and none admitted under the degree of a baron, saving the three Lords
 Cheife Justices: the contract and mariage was celebrated all in English, and
 <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:835bd31f-f4b6-42b3-91b3-4338f67cce2a"
 key="Frederick V" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_vk5_tyl_w1c"> the Prince
 Palatin</persName> had learned as much as concerned his part reasonable
 perfectly. Yt were to no end to write of the curiositie and excesse of braverie
 both of men and women: with the extreme daubing on of cost and riches, only a
 touch shall serve in a few for a pattern of the rest. <persName
 key="Wotton, Margaret" type="nobility" xml:id="persName_wk5_tyl_w1c">The Lady
 Wotton</persName> was saide to have a gowne that cost fifty pound a yeard the
 embrodering: and <persName key="Browne, Anthony-Maria"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4771943" type="nobility"
 xml:id="persName_xk5_tyl_w1c">the Lord Montague</persName> (that hath paide
 reasonable well for recusancie) bestowed 1500 in apparell upon his two
 daughters.
 The <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:835bd31f-f4b6-42b3-91b3-4338f67cce2a"
 key="Frederick V" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_yk5_tyl_w1c"
 >bridegroome</persName> and <persName key="Stuart, Elizabeth"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d0db3261-3dd1-4edb-b9a3-16759d7b6696"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_zk5_tyl_w1c">bride</persName> with <persName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A78551a5c-1784-469f-a0f9-3ccc12c58fb6"
 key="Charles I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_al5_tyl_w1c">the
 Prince</persName>, <persName key="Lefevre, Antoine"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107355633" type="diplomat"
 xml:id="persName_bl5_tyl_w1c">French</persName>, <persName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Acc8af01d-a0ab-4e76-9b86-b58cb84112d4"
 key="Foscarini, Antonio" type="diplomat" xml:id="persName_cl5_tyl_w1c"
 >Venetian</persName>, <persName ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167236"
 key="Frederick Henry" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_dl5_tyl_w1c">Count
 Henry</persName> and <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d9e20431-6301-4f3c-99d5-af2c072b1763"
 key="Caron, Noel" type="diplomat" xml:id="persName_el5_tyl_w1c"
 >States</persName> ambassadors dined in a roome built of purpose for this
 mariage. <persName key="Sarmiento, Diego"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q451093" type="diplomat"
 xml:id="persName_fl5_tyl_w1c">The Spaniard</persName> was, or wold be sicke,
 and <persName type="diplomat" xml:id="persName_gl5_tyl_w1c">the archdukes
 ambassador</persName> beeing invited for the next day made his excuse, and the
 ambassadors that were present, were not altogether pleased (as I heare) but every
 one found some puntillo of disgust.
 There was a matter happened the same
 day, which though yt were not then so much noted, hath since bred much speach:
 <persName key="Lindsay, David" type="nobility" xml:id="persName_il5_tyl_w1c"
 >Lion the Scottish king of Heralds</persName> beeing expresly sent for, ware a
 rich coate of armes (provided here) with the armes of Scotland before England;
 which is thought to be a great affront offered at such a time, in such a place, to
 such a people.
 Now for the fire works and fight upon the water, (the
 one performed the <date when="1613-02-11">Thursday night</date>, the other on
 <date when="1613-02-13">Saterday</date> in the afternoone before the mariage)
 there was nothing in either aunswerable to the great expectation conceved, or the
 cost bestowed, which amounted to more than 9000 so that according to the proverb
 Parturiunt montes et ct. Marry they pretend the best was kept backe for another
 day, but <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_kl5_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>
 and indeed all the companie were so sufficiently unsatisfied with this, that they
 cared not nor desired to see any more, the rather for that there was much hurt
 don, and divers maymed.
 <title key="The Lords' Masque"
 ref="https://www.luminarium.org/editions/lordsmask.htm">The Lords maske</title>
 likewise on <date when="1613-02-14">the mariage night</date>, though yt were very
 rich and sumptuous, yet yt was very long and tedious, and with many devises more
 like a play then a maske,
 but the <orgName
 key="Middle Temple" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q925942">Middle
 Templers</orgName> and <orgName key="Lincoln's Inn"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69482">Lincolns Ynne</orgName> gave great
 contentment on <date when="1613-02-15">Monday night</date>, as well with theyre
 gracefull comming on horsebacke, as in all the rest of theyre apt invention,
 apparell, fashion, and specially theyre excellent dauncing, wherewith <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_nl5_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>
 was so much delighted that he gave them many thancks, and much commendation as
 well to theyre faces as behind theyre backs.
 But the next day our
 <orgName key="Gray's Inn" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q157412">Grayes
 Ynne</orgName> men and the <orgName
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1233784" key="Inner Temple">Inner
 Temple</orgName> had not the same fortune, though they deserved no lesse for
 striving to varie from theyre competitors, (and theyre devise beeing the marieng
 of the <placeName key="River Thames"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A3d70535d-3e2d-43a8-8fa7-ed92c9eab859"
 >Thames</placeName> to the <placeName ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q584"
 key="Rhine">Rhine</placeName>,) they made choise to go by water from <placeName
 key="Winchester Palace"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A9e0a8e53-8a1e-487b-b15f-249f068c6642"
 >Winchester-house</placeName> in <placeName key="Southwark"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A1fdd3059-1e28-4017-a31f-b6b48e084293"
 >Southwarke</placeName>, with theyre boats and barges excedingly trimmed, and
 furnished with store of lights that made a glorious shew, and three peale of
 ordinance (at theyre taking water, at theyre passing by the <placeName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Ae76c726f-af01-4bdd-a761-62eb4465e9ab"
 key="Temple Garden">Temple</placeName>, and at theyre landing,) which passage
 by water cost them better then 300. But when they were landed at the court, (by
 what mischaunce I know not) they were faine to return as they went without dooing
 any thing, the reason wherof some say was because the hall was so full that yt
 could not be avoyded nor roome made for them, and most of the principall Ladies
 (that were in the galleries to see theyre landing) excluded: but the most probable
 is that <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_pl5_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>
 was so satiated, and overwearied with watching the two nights before, that he
 could hold out no longer and so was driven to put yt of till <date
 when="1613-02-20">Saterday</date>, when yt was very well performed in
 <placeName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A77ab9e87-b784-4f84-be23-99b22e610551"
 key="Banqueting House">the new banketing house</placeName>, which for a kind of
 amends was graunted to them though with much repining and contradiction of theyre
 emulators.
 The next day <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_ql5_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>
 made them all a solemne supper in the new mariage roome, and used them so well and
 graciously that he sent both parties away well pleased. At this great solemnitie
 there was no creation of noblemen, nor making of knights as was most assuredly
 expected, the reason wherof is diversly interpreted. The speach is now who
 shalbe commissioners to conduct <persName key="Stuart, Elizabeth"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d0db3261-3dd1-4edb-b9a3-16759d7b6696"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_rl5_tyl_w1c">the Lady Elizabeth</persName> home,
 and to see her and her joynter well setled: <persName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Ad9133dd9-5859-4a01-8c50-e7c202e3de4a"
 key="Stewart, Ludovick" type="nobility" xml:id="persName_sl5_tyl_w1c">the Duke of
 Lennox</persName>, <persName key="Howard, Thomas"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A81b94252-85db-4bb8-bf58-095975bce47d"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_tl5_tyl_w1c">the earle of Arundell</persName>,
 <persName key="Sidney, Robert"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Ad7fd6ac2-00cd-4fc5-a9ed-76c8feac9264"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_ul5_tyl_w1c">the vicount Lile</persName>,
 <persName key="la Zouche, Edward" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5346053"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_vl5_tyl_w1c">the Lord Zouch</persName> and
 <persName key="Harington, John" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11802898"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_wl5_tyl_w1c">the Lord Harrington</persName> are
 named, and <persName key="Munck, Levinus"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53647399" type="politician"
 xml:id="persName_xl5_tyl_w1c">Levinus</persName> for secretarie in that service. I
 doubt not but you have heard of the death of the <persName key="Tracy, Dorothy"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75495263" type="nobility"
 xml:id="persName_yl5_tyl_w1c">Lady Conway</persName>, and the <persName
 key="Sackville, Mary" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75254322"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_zl5_tyl_w1c">Lady Mary Nevill </persName> (the
 <persName key="Sackville, Thomas"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A0f0afa57-0793-47a1-9347-9ad8e6fced71"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_am5_tyl_w1c">Lord Treasurer Dorsets</persName>
 daughter): yesterday there was a sodain bruit that the <persName
 key="la Zouche, Edward" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5346053"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_bm5_tyl_w1c">Lord Zouch</persName> was dead or in
 great daunger. <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_cm5_tyl_w1c">The King</persName>
 went <date when="1613-02-22">yesterday</date> to <placeName key="Theobalds House"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q512922">Tiballs</placeName> and so toward
 <placeName key="Royston" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19804"
 >Roiston</placeName> and <placeName key="Newmarket"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1382713">Newmarket</placeName> to enjoy this
 fayre weather, and <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:835bd31f-f4b6-42b3-91b3-4338f67cce2a"
 key="Frederick V" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_dm5_tyl_w1c">the Count
 Palatin</persName> is to follow that way, and so to
 <placeName>Cambrige</placeName> very shortly. <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:1442f99b-687c-4ea8-a468-30ac6995abae"
 key="Anne of Denmark" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_em5_tyl_w1c">The
 Quene</persName> removes this weeke to <placeName key="Greenwich"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179385">Greenwich</placeName>: and this beeing
 all I have for the present I will commend your goode Lady and all yours to Gods holy
 protection. From <placeName key="London"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A465d3392-c68a-4f48-9529-fcce5ba406eb"
 >London</placeName> this <date when="1612-02-23">23th of February 1612</date>. 
 <closer>Your Lordships to commaund <signed>
 <persName key="Chamberlain, John"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A1bc0d9ab-b2ba-4c4f-865d-51c1e3e11885"
 xml:id="persName_fm5_tyl_w1c">JOHN CHAMBERLAIN</persName>.</signed></closer>
 </div>
 <div type="letter" xml:id="div_gm5_tyl_w1c">
 <head>Letter of <persName key="Chamberlain, John"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A1bc0d9ab-b2ba-4c4f-865d-51c1e3e11885"
 xml:id="persName_hm5_tyl_w1c">John Chamberlain</persName> to <persName
 key="Carleton, Dudley"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Aea5d1e93-c02c-4916-b479-c54e2c59c780"
 xml:id="persName_im5_tyl_w1c">Sir Dudley Carleton</persName>, <date
 when="1613-02-25">February 25th, 1613</date></head>
 <opener>
 <salute>My very goode Lord:</salute>
 </opener>
 t seemes by your letter of <date when="1613-01-22">the 22th
 of the last</date>, that since mine of <date when="1612-12-17">the 17th of
 December</date>, two ordinaries together came empty; the reason wherof I cannot
 conceve, seeing I have not fayled any weeke since that time of writing to <persName
 key="Carleton, Dudley"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Aea5d1e93-c02c-4916-b479-c54e2c59c780"
 type="diplomat" xml:id="persName_jm5_tyl_w1c">you</persName> or <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:2f86d34f-63e4-4cc0-b6c5-65bc73c69115"
 key="Carleton, Alice" xml:id="persName_km5_tyl_w1c">Mistris Carleton</persName>,
 or both. <persName key="Wake, Isaac" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6077284"
 type="diplomat" xml:id="persName_lm5_tyl_w1c">Master Waake</persName> is now in
 procinctu, having taken his leave of <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_mm5_tyl_w1c">his Majestie</persName>
 and stayes only for his dispatch and letters, which he hath, or is promised to have
 this day at the farthest. On Friday <persName key="Cope, Walter"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7964595" type="nobility"
 xml:id="persName_nm5_tyl_w1c">Sir Walter Cope</persName> sent for me to see a
 sacrifice made of your papers, which in the presence of <persName key="Cope, Anthony"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7526008" type="nobility"
 xml:id="persName_om5_tyl_w1c">Sir Antony Cope</persName> and myself he threw into
 the fire and saw them consumed, beeing to my remembrance fowre or five, I know not
 whether. <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_pm5_tyl_w1c">The King</persName>
 went away on <date when="1613-02-22">Monday</date> to <placeName
 key="Theobalds House" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q512922"
 >Tiballs</placeName> and so toward <placeName key="Royston"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19804">Roiston</placeName> and <placeName
 key="Newmarket" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1382713"
 >Newmarket</placeName>, whence he is not expected till <date when="1613-03-22">the
 22th of March</date>. <persName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A78551a5c-1784-469f-a0f9-3ccc12c58fb6"
 key="Charles I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_qm5_tyl_w1c">The Prince</persName>
 and <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:835bd31f-f4b6-42b3-91b3-4338f67cce2a"
 key="Frederick V" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_rm5_tyl_w1c">Count
 Palatin</persName> follow him this day, and meane the next weeke to visit
 <placeName key="Cambridge" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q350"
 >Cambrige</placeName>: and there is speach that before Easter they will make a
 progresse to <placeName key="Oxford" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34217"
 >Oxford</placeName>: which wilbe a goode errand for <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:835bd31f-f4b6-42b3-91b3-4338f67cce2a"
 key="Frederick V" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_sm5_tyl_w1c">the young maried
 gentleman</persName>, whose frends and followers wish he might oftener have
 occasion to visit <persName xml:id="persName_tm5_tyl_w1c">his uncle</persName>. All well affected people take great
 pleasure and contentment in this match, as beeing a firme foundation and
 stablishing of religion, which (upon what ground I know not) was before suspected
 to be in bransle: and the Roman Catholikes maligne yt as much, as beeing the ruine
 of theyre hopes.
 <persName ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:1442f99b-687c-4ea8-a468-30ac6995abae"
 key="Anne of Denmark" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_vm5_tyl_w1c">The
 Quene</persName> likewise is well come about, and graces yt all she can and seemes
 to take speciall comfort in him. Yesterday was the great christning of the <persName
 key="Cecil, William" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4019960" type="nobility"
 xml:id="persName_wm5_tyl_w1c">earle of Salisberies</persName>
 <persName key="Cecil, Anne" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16527030"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_xm5_tyl_w1c">daughter</persName> in the chappell
 at court, whence <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:1442f99b-687c-4ea8-a468-30ac6995abae"
 key="Anne of Denmark" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_ym5_tyl_w1c">the
 Quene</persName>, <persName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A78551a5c-1784-469f-a0f9-3ccc12c58fb6"
 key="Charles I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_zm5_tyl_w1c">Prince</persName>,
 <persName ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:835bd31f-f4b6-42b3-91b3-4338f67cce2a"
 key="Frederick V" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_an5_tyl_w1c">Palatin</persName>,
 <persName key="Stuart, Elizabeth"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d0db3261-3dd1-4edb-b9a3-16759d7b6696"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_bn5_tyl_w1c">Lady Elizabeths highnes</persName>
 and all the companie convoyed yt home and went by water to the banket. <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:1442f99b-687c-4ea8-a468-30ac6995abae"
 key="Anne of Denmark" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_cn5_tyl_w1c">The
 Quene</persName> removes to morrow to <placeName key="Greenwich"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179385">Grenwich</placeName> to injoy this
 fayre weather which hath ben exceding cleere, sweet and pleasant almost this fort-
 night. Our revells and triumphes
 within doores gave great contentment beeing both daintie and curious in devise and
 sumptuous in shew: specially the ynnes of court whose two maskes stoode them in
 better then 4000 besides the gallantrie and expence of private gentlemen, that
 were but ante-ambulones and went only to accompanie them.
 And our <orgName
 key="Gray's Inn" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q157412">Grayes
 Ynne</orgName> men and the <orgName
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1233784" key="Inner Temple">Ynner
 Templers</orgName> were nothing discouraged for all the first dodge, but on
 <date when="1613-02-20">Saterday last</date> performed theyre parts exceding
 well, and with great applause and approbation both from <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_en5_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>
 and all the companie.
 The next night <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_fn5_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>
 invited the <name type="occupation">maskers</name> with theyre assistants to the
 number of forty to a solemne supper in the new mariage roome, where they were well
 treated and much graced with kissing his Majesties hand, and every one having a
 particuler accoglienza from him. <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_gn5_tyl_w1c">The
 King</persName> husbanded the matter so well that this feast was not at his
 owne cost, but he and his companie wan yt upon a wager of running at the ring
 of <persName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A78551a5c-1784-469f-a0f9-3ccc12c58fb6"
 key="Charles I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_hn5_tyl_w1c">the
 Prince</persName> and his nine followers, who payed thirty pound a
 man: the <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_in5_tyl_w1c">King</persName>,
 <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:1442f99b-687c-4ea8-a468-30ac6995abae"
 key="Anne of Denmark" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_jn5_tyl_w1c"
 >Quene</persName>, <persName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A78551a5c-1784-469f-a0f9-3ccc12c58fb6"
 key="Charles I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_kn5_tyl_w1c">Prince</persName>,
 <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:835bd31f-f4b6-42b3-91b3-4338f67cce2a"
 key="Frederick V" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_ln5_tyl_w1c"
 >Palatin</persName> and <persName key="Stuart, Elizabeth"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d0db3261-3dd1-4edb-b9a3-16759d7b6696"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_mn5_tyl_w1c">Lady Elizabeth</persName> sat at
 table by themselves: and the great Lords and Ladies with the maskers (above
 fowrescore in all) sat at another long table, so that there was no roome for them
 that made the feast but they were faine to be lookers on, which the <persName
 key="Rich, Isabel" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50322914"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_nn5_tyl_w1c">young Lady Rich</persName>' tooke
 no great pleasure in to see <persName key="Rich, Henry"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3131912" type="nobility"
 xml:id="persName_on5_tyl_w1c">her husband</persName> (who was one that payde)
 not so much as drincke for his monie. The ambassadors that were at this
 wedding and shewes were the <persName key="Lefevre, Antoine"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107355633" type="diplomat"
 xml:id="persName_pn5_tyl_w1c">French</persName>, <persName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Acc8af01d-a0ab-4e76-9b86-b58cb84112d4"
 key="Foscarini, Antonio" type="diplomat" xml:id="persName_qn5_tyl_w1c"
 >Venetian</persName>, <persName ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167236"
 key="Frederick Henry" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_rn5_tyl_w1c">Count
 Henry</persName> and <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d9e20431-6301-4f3c-99d5-af2c072b1763"
 key="Caron, Noel" type="diplomat" xml:id="persName_sn5_tyl_w1c">Caron</persName>
 for the States: <persName key="Sarmiento, Diego"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q451093" type="diplomat"
 xml:id="persName_tn5_tyl_w1c">the Spaniard</persName> was, or wold be sicke, and
 <persName type="diplomat" xml:id="persName_un5_tyl_w1c">the archdukes
 ambassador</persName> beeing invited for the second day made a sullen excuse: and
 those that were present were not altogether so pleased, but that I heare every one
 had some puntillo of disgust. <persName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Ad9133dd9-5859-4a01-8c50-e7c202e3de4a"
 key="Stewart, Ludovick" type="nobility" xml:id="persName_vn5_tyl_w1c">The Duke of
 Lennox</persName>, <persName key="Sidney, Robert"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Ad7fd6ac2-00cd-4fc5-a9ed-76c8feac9264"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_wn5_tyl_w1c">the Vicount Lile</persName>,
 <persName key="la Zouche, Edward" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5346053"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_xn5_tyl_w1c">the Lord Zouch</persName>, and
 <persName key="Harington, John" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11802898"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_yn5_tyl_w1c">the Lord Harrington</persName> are
 in speach to be commissioners to go over with <persName key="Stuart, Elizabeth"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d0db3261-3dd1-4edb-b9a3-16759d7b6696"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_zn5_tyl_w1c">the Lady Elizabeth</persName>, to see
 her and her joynter setled, and <persName
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53647399" key="Munck, Levinus"
 type="politician" xml:id="persName_a45_tyl_w1c">Levinus</persName> is named
 secretarie for that service. I heare <persName key="Howard, Thomas"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A81b94252-85db-4bb8-bf58-095975bce47d"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_b45_tyl_w1c">the earle of Arundell</persName> is
 added to the number, who meanes to carry over <persName key="Howard, Alethea"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83520" type="nobility"
 xml:id="persName_c45_tyl_w1c">his Lady</persName>, and no doubt they will both
 make another viage into <placeName key="Italy"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38">Italie</placeName>. Till the very howre
 that <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_d45_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>
 went hence men were still in suspence, and great expectation there was of new
 officers, and <persName ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2775812"
 key="Neville, Henry" type="nobility" xml:id="persName_e45_tyl_w1c">Sir H.
 N.</persName> frends made full account of him from day to day, but beeing now
 driven from that hold, they spin out theyre hopes till <persName
 key="Stuart, Elizabeth"
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:d0db3261-3dd1-4edb-b9a3-16759d7b6696"
 type="royalty" xml:id="persName_f45_tyl_w1c">the Lady Elizabeth</persName> be past
 <placeName key="Low Countries" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q476033">the
 Lowcountries</placeName>, and then we shall see what will become of <persName
 key="Winwood, Ralph"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3Af6110081-3a4d-4c70-b1cb-352a7878e7e8"
 type="diplomat" xml:id="persName_g45_tyl_w1c">our goode frend</persName> there,
 for whom one place is thought to be reserved, and for my part I thincke yt most
 probable but yf we fayle then yt shalbe the last time of my looking at any such
 busines. We were much deceved likewise in our expectation of new creations of noble
 men and knightings, at these solemnities, for <persName
 ref="https://commons.cwrc.ca//reed:949cf318-a2d8-4449-8df0-191275cbb541"
 key="James I" type="royalty" xml:id="persName_h45_tyl_w1c">the King</persName>
 wold not be drawne to yt by any meanes, which hath mard the market, or rather raised
 the price to extraordinarie rate. Only the <persName
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2485335" key="Chichester, Arthur"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_i45_tyl_w1c">Deputie of Ireland</persName> is
 made Lord Chichester of <placeName key="Belfast"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10686">Belfast</placeName> against the
 parlement that is to be held there in May. This weeke here died the <persName
 key="Sackville, Mary" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75254322"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_j45_tyl_w1c">Lady Mary Nevill</persName>
 (daughter to the late <persName key="Sackville, Thomas"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A0f0afa57-0793-47a1-9347-9ad8e6fced71"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_k45_tyl_w1c">treasurer Dorset</persName>), of a
 longe languishing sicknes; and the <persName key="Tracy, Dorothy"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75495263" type="nobility"
 xml:id="persName_l45_tyl_w1c">Lady Conway of the Brill</persName> much after the
 same sort, as likewise <persName key="Cooke, William"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8007084" type="nobility"
 xml:id="persName_m45_tyl_w1c">Sir William Cookes </persName><persName
 key="Lucy, Joyce" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75762630" type="nobility"
 xml:id="persName_n45_tyl_w1c">Lady</persName> of <placeName
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A3df1eaea-ed54-41a7-9048-ca4b2528086a"
 key="Charing Cross">Charing Crosse</placeName>. <persName key="Savile, Henry"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q711589" type="nobility"
 xml:id="persName_o45_tyl_w1c">Sir Henry Savile</persName> shewed me the last weeke
 his notes taken in the reading of <persName key="Bodley, Thomas"
 ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q765673" type="nobility"
 xml:id="persName_p45_tyl_w1c">Sir Thomas Bodleys</persName> life, written by
 himself in seven sheets of paper with vanitie enough, wherin omitting not the least
 minutezze that might turne to his glorie, he doth not so much as make mention of
 <persName key="Carew, Ann" type="nobility" xml:id="persName_q45_tyl_w1c">his
 wife</persName>, nor that he was maried; nor of <persName
 key="Walsingham, Francis" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138409"
 type="politician" xml:id="persName_r45_tyl_w1c">Secretarie Walsingham</persName>
 nor the <persName key="Dudley, Robert" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318017"
 type="nobility" xml:id="persName_s45_tyl_w1c">earle of Lecester</persName>, who
 were all his maine raisers, whereby may be seen, what mind he caried to his best
 benefactors. Here was an odde fray fell out the last weeke twixt one <persName
 key="Hutchinson, Thomas" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7790934"
 type="politician" xml:id="persName_t45_tyl_w1c">Huchinson</persName> of <orgName
 key="Gray's Inn" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q157412">Grayes Ynne</orgName>
 and <persName key="Poole, German" type="nobility" xml:id="persName_u45_tyl_w1c">Sir
 German Poole</persName>, who assaulting the other upon advantage, hurt him in
 three or fowre places, and cut of three of his fingers before he could draw his
 weapon, wherupon inraged he flew upon him and getting him downe bit of a goode part
 of his nose and caried yt away in his pocket. I had almost forgotten one accident at
 this late wedding, which was not then much noted, but is since much spoken of. <persName key="Lindsay, David"
 type="politician" xml:id="persName_v45_tyl_w1c">Lion the Scottish king of
 Heralds</persName> beeing expressly sent for, had a rich coat of armes provided
 here, with the armes of Scotland before those of England, and ware yt (as he
 saide) by commaundment, which is not much inquired into but howsoever yt is
 thought a strange affront offered at such a time in such a place to such a
 people. So with all due remembrance to my Lady and <persName
 key="Carleton, Anne" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21556532"
 xml:id="persName_w45_tyl_w1c">Mistris Carleton</persName> I commend you to the
 protection of the Almighty. From London this <date when="1613-02-25">25th of February
 1612</date>. 
 <closer>Your Lordships to commaund <signed><persName key="Chamberlain, John"
 ref="https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/reed%3A1bc0d9ab-b2ba-4c4f-865d-51c1e3e11885"
 xml:id="persName_x45_tyl_w1c">JOHN CHAMBERLAIN</persName></signed>.</closer>
 </div>
 <div type="index" xml:id="div_y45_tyl_w1c">
 <list>
 <item>
 <ref
 target="#span_b35_tyl_w1c #span_jl5_tyl_w1c #span_c35_tyl_w1c #span_d35_tyl_w1c #span_jk5_tyl_w1c #span_oxc_r5m_w1c #span_jsb_dpr_w1c #span_dj5_tyl_w1c #span_ll5_tyl_w1c #span_qj5_tyl_w1c #span_ml5_tyl_w1c #span_xj2_xqr_w1c #span_wj5_tyl_w1c #span_ol5_tyl_w1c #span_xj2_xqr_w1c #span_dn5_tyl_w1c #span_jyy_ypr_w1c #span_bmf_jrr_w1c #span_ywv_z5m_w1c #span_js4_gyr_w1c"
 >Wedding Events</ref>
 <list>
 <head>Wedding Events</head>
 <item><ref target="#span_b35_tyl_w1c #span_jl5_tyl_w1c">Fireworks</ref></item>
 <item><ref target="#span_c35_tyl_w1c #span_jl5_tyl_w1c"
 >Water-Fight</ref></item>
 <item><ref target="#span_d35_tyl_w1c #span_jk5_tyl_w1c">Wedding
 Ceremony</ref></item>
 <item><ref target="#span_oxc_r5m_w1c #span_jsb_dpr_w1c">Wedding
 Banquet</ref></item>
 <item><ref target="#span_dj5_tyl_w1c #span_ll5_tyl_w1c">Lord's
 Masque</ref></item>
 <item><ref target="#span_qj5_tyl_w1c #span_ml5_tyl_w1c #span_xj2_xqr_w1c"
 >Memorable Masque</ref></item>
 <item><ref
 target="#span_wj5_tyl_w1c #span_ol5_tyl_w1c #span_xj2_xqr_w1c #span_dn5_tyl_w1c"
 >Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn</ref></item>
 <item><ref target="#span_jyy_ypr_w1c #span_bmf_jrr_w1c">Masquers'
 Banquet</ref></item>
 <item><ref target="#span_ywv_z5m_w1c #span_js4_gyr_w1c">Running at the
 Ring</ref></item>
 </list>
 </item>
 <item>
 <ref target="#span_hk5_tyl_w1c #span_um5_tyl_w1c">English Reformation</ref>
 </item>
 <item><ref target="#span_hl5_tyl_w1c #span_zgw_cyr_w1c">Scottish Herald
 Drama</ref></item>
 </list>
 </div>
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