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 of honour and others who came with the court; one or two, e.g. Mrs. Kiddermister, were country neighbours of the Egerton's.

These pieces are derived from various sources:

(a) A transcript made by R. Churton in 1803 of a contemporary MS. found at Arbury, the house of Sir Roger Newdigate, to whose family Harefield passed in 1675, contains (i)-(v) and was printed by Nichols. (b) A Conway MS., printed by P. Cunningham in ''Sh. Soc. Papers'', ii. 65, contains (iii), the song from (vi), and (vii), with the heading 'The Devise to entertayne hir M^{ty} at Harfielde ' and the date 1602. (c) The second edition (1608) of Francis Davison's Poetical Rhapsody contains the speech from (vi) and (vii), with the incorrect indication 'at the Lord Chancellor's house, 1601', which misled Nichols into supposing it to belong to some entertainment at York Place, the year before that of Harefield. The item comes between two pieces by Sir John Davies and has the initials J. D. (d) The diary of John Manningham (Harl. MS. 5353, f. 95) contains amongst entries of Feb. 1603 some extracts from (i) and (vii), dating the latter in 'the last Sumer at hir M^{ties} being with the L. Keeper'. (e) A contemporary MS., printed as Poetical Miscellanies (Percy Soc. lv), 5, has (vii) dated 1602. (f) Talbot MS. K, f. 43, in the College of Arms, contains (iv) as given at 'Harville' with the date 'Aug. 1602' and is printed by Lodge, ii. 560. (g) B.M. Birch MS. 4173 contains a similar copy of (iv). On the strength of the Poetical Rhapsody, (vii) is generally assigned to Sir John Davies, which hardly justified Dr. Grosart in assigning all the pieces to him (Works, ii, clxxii). Bond transferred the whole to Lyly, primarily as a conjecture, but was confirmed in his view by finding in Egerton Papers, 343, a payment to 'M^r Lillyes man, which brought the lotterye boxe to Harefield'. But the document in which this is found, and which also contains the item 'x^{li} to Burbidges players for Othello', is one of Collier's forgeries (Ingleby, 261). John Chamberlain (Letters, 164, 169) sent Dudley Carleton 'the Quenes entertainment at the Lord Kepers' on 19 Nov. 1602, and on 23 Dec. wrote that, as Carleton liked the Lord Keeper's devices so ill, he had not cared to get Sir Robert Cecil's (cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Cecil). ''Progress from Scotland. 1603''

There were several contemporary prints:

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S. R. 1603, May 9. 'Kinge James his entrance into England.' Burby and Millington (Arber, iii. 234).

1603. The True Narration of the Entertainment of his Royal Majestie. Thomas Creede for Thomas Millington. [Epistle by T. M. to Reader.]

Editions in Nichols, James (1828), i. 53, and C. H. Firth, ''Stuart Tracts (English Garner''^2), 11.