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 1604

Jan. 1. King's (two plays, one of Robin Goodfellow, Midsummer Night's Dream?). Mask (Indian and Chinese Knights). Jan. 2. Queen's.

Jan. 4. Prince's.

Jan. 6. Mask.

Jan. 8. Queen's mask (The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses). Jan. 13. Queen's.

Jan. 15. Prince's.

Jan. 21. Prince's.

Jan. 22. Prince's.

Jan. Tilt.

Feb. 2. King's.

Feb. 13.

Feb. 19 (S.S.). King's.

Feb. 20. Prince's and Paul's (Middleton's Phoenix?). Feb. 21. Queen's Revels.

March 12.

March 13. Lion baiting.

March 15. Entry through London with pageants to.

March 29. Tilt.

May 1. Visit to Highgate (Sir William Cornwallis) with Jonson's Penates.

May 30 < > June 2. [10]

June 16. Visit to Ruckholt in Leyton (Michael Hicks).[11]

July 3 or 4. [12]

July 12-21. Visits to Oatlands (July 14-16) and Windsor (July 18, 21).[13]

July 24-Aug. 14. in Herts., Hunts., and Beds., broken by Spanish visit.[14] Theobalds (Lord Cecil, July 24-29), Somersham (Sir John Cutts, > Aug. 2), Bletsoe (Lord St. John, Aug. 5-14).

Aug. 10. Arrival of Fernandez de Velasco, Constable of Castile, and other Spanish and Flemish commissioners at Somerset House.

Aug. 14. [15]

Aug. 19. Signature of treaty and dinner to commissioners at Whitehall, with baiting and activities.[16]

Aug. 25. Departure of Constable of Castile.