vi. 21): 'The first holy dayes we had every night a publicke play in the

great hale, at which the king was ever present, and liked or disliked as he saw cause; but it seems he takes no extraordinary pleasure in them. The Queen and Prince were more the players frends, for on other nights they had them privately, and hath since taken them to theyr protection.']

[Footnote 6: J. A. Lester, _Some Franco-Scottish Influences on the Early English Drama in Haverford Essays_ (1909).]

[Footnote 7: Scaramelli wrote to the Signory in July 1603 (_V. P._ x. 71) that James had eight palaces on the Thames, of which Hampton Court was the biggest. Each had its own furniture, which was never taken to furnish another. I suppose the eight must be Whitehall, St. James's, Somerset House, the Tower, Greenwich, Richmond, Hampton Court, and Windsor. Letters of 1602, when Elizabeth was at Oatlands, contemplate her return to 'Richmond or some other of her houses of abode' and to 'a standing house' (_Hatfield MSS._ xii. 385, 448). I suppose that these were the permanently furnished houses.]

[Footnote 8: Cheyney, i. 143, says that the Exchequer court near Westminster Hall, the gallery of which was built or repaired in 1570, 'served the queen and court not infrequently as a ball-room'; but this is only an old tradition, for which Smith, _Westminster_, 54, could find no confirmation in 1807, and for which the records of Court entertainments certainly furnish none.]

[Footnote 9: The accounts of Smith and Sheppard (cf. _Bibl. Note_) may be supplemented from W. R. Lethaby in _Archaeologia_, lx. 131; _London Topographical Record_, i. 38; ii. 23; vi. 23, 35; vii. _passim_. Von Wedel (_2 R. Hist. Soc. Trans._ ix. 234) describes the palace in 1584.]

[Footnote 10: E. B. Chancellor, _Historical Richmond_ (1885); R. Garnett, _Richmond on the Thames_ (1896); Chapman, 123; _Survey_ of 1503 in Grose and Astle, _Antiquarian Repertory_; _Survey_ of 1649 in Nichols, _Eliz._ ii. 412.]

[Footnote 11: E. Law, _History of Hampton Court Palace_ (1885-91); W. H. Hutton, _Hampton Court_ (1897). De Silva reports to Philip on 13 Oct. 1567 (_Sp. P._ i. 679) that Elizabeth was then at Hampton Court for the first time since her attack of small-pox there in 1562, after which she took a dislike to it. It was the largest of all the palaces, 'with 1800 inhabitable rooms or at least with doors that lock' (_V. P._ x. 71).]

[Footnote 12: A. G. K. L'Estrange, _The Palace and the Hospital: Chronicles of Greenwich_ (1886); Chapman, 9. The building is shown in Wyngaerde's drawing of _c._ 1543 (Mitton, I). Hentzner was told in 1598 that it was Elizabeth's preferred abode.]

[Footnote 13: W. H. St. J. Hope, _Windsor Castle_ (1913); R. R. Tighe and J. E. Davis, _Annals of Windsor_ (1858); E. Ashmole, _The Institution, Lawes and Ceremonies of the Garter_ (1672); J. Pote, _History and Antiquities of Windsor Castle_ (1749); G. M. Hughes, _Windsor Forest_ (1890).]

[Footnote 14: R. Gower, _The Tower of London_ (1901-2); Clapham and Godfrey, 29. Elizabeth was there in 1559, 1561, and 1565.]

[Footnote 15: For its mediaeval use as an occasional royal lodging, cf. N. H. Nicolas, _Wardrobe Accounts of Edw. IV_, 121, 127.]

[Footnote 16: W. J. Loftie, _Memorials of the Savoy_ (1878); Chapman, 42.]

[Footnote 17: Elizabeth paid visits there in 1559, 1562, 1564, 1566, and 1575.]

[Footnote 18: Chapman, 36; Clapham and Godfrey, 119.]

[Footnote 19: S. Pegge, _Curialia_ (1806); R. Needham and A. Webster, _Somerset House, Past and Present_ (1905). Elizabeth was there in 1558, 1562, 1571, 1573, 1582, 1583, 1585, 1587, 1588, 1589, 1590, 1593, 1594, and 1599. She gave lodgings there to Somerset's son, the Earl of Hertford, and amongst other guests were the Duke of Holstein (1560), Cornelius de la Noye, an alchemist (1567), the Duke of Montmorency (1572), and the Duke of Mayenne (1600). Conferences were held there with Alençon's commissioners in 1581. In 1574 (_Berkeley MSS._ 223) the keepership was given to Henry Lord Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain, who took up his residence there, and after his death to Lady Hunsdon. In early documents of the reign, the name Strand House (_P. C. Acts_, Jan. 1563; _Procl._ 496) or Strand Place (_Procl._ 497) occurs; in the patent of Hunsdon's predecessor John West in 1559 (_Berkeley MSS._ 218) it is 'Somersett Place _al._ Strande House _al._ Somersett House'.]

[Footnote 20: M. A. S. Hume, _A Palace in the Strand_ in _The Year after the Armada_ (1896), 263; Nichols, _James_, i. 75; Clapham and Godfrey, 151; T. N. Brushfield, _The History of Durham House, London_, in _Trans. of Devon. Assoc._ xxxv. 539. Elizabeth was there in 1565 or 1566. Lodgings were assigned to Alvaro de la Quadra, the Spanish ambassador (1559-63), Cecilia of Sweden, Margravine of Baden (1565), Walter, Earl of Essex (1572), Sir Walter Raleigh (1584-1603), Sir Edward Darcy (_c._ 1600-3). In 1603 James turned Raleigh and Darcy out and restored the freehold to Toby Mathew, Bishop of Durham, who retained the river front, and leased the Gatehouse on the Strand. The lease passed to Lord Salisbury, who built there the New Exchange or Britain's Burse in 1609.]

[Footnote 21: L. Hendriks, _The London Charterhouse_ (1889); W. F. Taylor, _The Charterhouse of London_ (1912). The Charterhouse, after temporary use as a storehouse for the Tents (cf. _Tudor Revels_, 13), was granted to Sir Edward North, afterwards Lord North of Kirtling, in 1545 and the grant was confirmed by Mary in 1554. Elizabeth visited him there in Nov. 1558 and July 1561. After his death in 1564 the second lord kept a house in Charterhouse Square, which passed to the Earls of Rutland and as Rutland House became the scene of Davenant's _First Day's Entertainment_ in 1656. The main building was bought in 1565 by Thomas, fourth Duke of Norfolk, and called Howard Place. Elizabeth visited him there in 1568. On his attainder in 1572, she lodged the Portuguese ambassador in the house, but afterwards granted it to Norfolk's son Thomas, Lord Howard of Walden, whom she visited there in Jan. 1603. In 1611 Thomas Sutton bought the Charterhouse from Howard for a hospital. On the Blackfriars and Whitefriars, cf. ch. xvii.]

[Footnote 22: Clapham and Godfrey, 165; cf. ch. iii.]

[Footnote 23: E. Sheppard, _Memorials of St. James's Palace_ (1894). Elizabeth was there in 1561, 1564, 1566, 1571, 1572, 1575, 1576, 1581, 1583, 1584, 1588, and 1593.]

[Footnote 24: _V. H. Surrey_, iii. 478. Elizabeth was there in 1560, 1562, 1564, 1567, 1569, 1570, 1574, 1577, 1580, 1582, 1583, 1584, 1585, 1587, 1589, 1590, 1591, 1593, 1600, and 1602.]

[Footnote 25: _V. H. Surrey_, iii. 266; _Gent. Mag._ viii. (1837) 139; Clapham and Godfrey, 3. Elizabeth was there in 1559, 1563, 1565, 1567, 1574, 1580-5 (yearly), 1587, 1589, 1591, 1592, 1593, 1594, 1595, 1596, 1598, 1599, 1600. The house was begun by Henry VIII and finished by Lord Lumley, son-in-law of the Earl of Arundel, to whom the property was alienated in 1556. Elizabeth bought the house about 1590-2. 'Nonsuch, which of all other places she likes best,' wrote Rowland White in 1599 (_Sydney Papers_, ii. 120).]

[Footnote 26: For Eltham (visits in 1559, 1560, 1576, 1581, 1596, 1597, 1598, 1599, 1601, 1602), once an important palace, cf. J. C. Buckler, _Account of Eltham_ (1828), Chapman, 1, Clapham and Godfrey, 47; for Havering (visits in 1561, 1568, 1572, 1576, 1578, 1579, 1591, 1597), Nichols, _Eliz._ iii. 70, Clapham and Godfrey, 145; for Hatfield (visits in 1558, 1566, 1568, 1571, 1572, 1575, 1576), _V. H. Herts._ iii. 92; for Reading (visits in 1568, 1570, 1572, 1574, 1576, 1592, 1601), J. B. Hurry, _Reading Abbey_ (1901), T. J. Pettigrew in _Journal of Brit. Arch. Ass._ xvi. 192; for Woodstock (visits in 1566, 1572, 1574, 1575, 1592), E. Marshall, _Early Hist. of Woodstock Manor_ (1873), and ch. xxiii, s.v. Lee. Elizabeth was at Enfield in 1561, 1564, 1568, 1572, 1587, 1591, 1594, 1597, and at Winchester in 1560, 1574, 1591.]

[Footnote 27: Schedules of royal houses and other possessions to which places of profit were attached form part of the Fee Lists described in the _Bibl. Note_ to ch. ii. That of 1598 (_H. O._ 262) includes 37 castles under constables, keepers, or porters, 17 other houses, 11 forests, and 8 parks, together with the Fleet prison under a warden keeper, the Baths (at Bath) under a keeper, the Haven of the Duchy of Cornwall under a havenor, the Honour of Tutbury under a steward, and Paris Garden under the keepers of Bears and Mastiffs (cf. ch. xvi, s.v. Hope); in all 78.]

[Footnote 28: Occasionally it was still used as a guesthouse. The Constable of Castile was lodged here in 1604, the Danish ambassador in 1605, Christian of Denmark in 1606 and 1614. Fuller, _Church History_,