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 .] Sir William Cornwallis, at whose house this exquisite little drama (which I have called the Penates) was presented, was the elder brother of sir Charles Cornwallis, who, on the establishment of prince Henry's household, was appointed his treasurer, and son of sir Thomas Cornwallis, of Brome Hall, in Suffolk. He accompanied the earl of Essex in his expedition against the rebels in Ireland, in 1599, and was knighted, the same year, at Dublin. The title in the folio is as follow's: "A Private Entertainment of the King and Queen, on May Day in the morning, at Sir William Cornwallis's House, at Highgate, 1604."