John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources Volume III: 1579 to 1595

by Archer, Jayne Elisabeth; Clarke, Elizabeth; Goldring, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780199551408
• ISBN10: 0199551405
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-03-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

John Nichols's The Progresses of Queen Elizabeth (1788-1823) has long been an indispensable reference tool for scholars working on Elizabethan court and culture - despite the serious limitations of an antiquarian edition now two centuries old. This old-spelling edition of the early modern materials contained in Nichols's Progresses is edited to high and consistent standards, and based on a critical re-examination of printed and manuscript sources. It is structured by a narrative of the two sets of annual progresses undertaken by Queen Elizabeth I: the 'summer progresses,' when Elizabeth travelled throughout southern England and the Midlands, visiting cities as far afield as Bristol, Coventry, Norwich, and Southampton; and the 'winter progresses,' when Elizabeth moved between her residences in and around London, including Richmond, Hampton Court, and Whitehall. New editions of the major progress entertainments - Kenilworth, Woodstock, Elvetham, Cowdray, Ditchley, and Harefield - are set alongside accounts of civic receptions, tilts and Accession Day entertainments, and non-dramatic texts, many of which have not been published since Nichols, including verses delivered by Eton scholars before the Queen (1563); John Lesley's Oratio (1574); Gabriel Harvey's Gratulationum Valdinensium (1578); and the Oxford and Cambridge verses on the death of Queen Elizabeth (1603). The editions are supported by translations of all non-English material, full scholarly annotation, illustrations, and maps. This will make John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources the most comprehensive collection of early modern texts pertaining to the court and culture of Queen Elizabeth. Volume III covers the years from 1579 to 1595.

Author Biography

Dr. Jayne Elisabeth Archer is lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature in the Department of English Literature, Aberystwyth University. She is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick, where she spent four years as AHRC postdoctoral Research Fellow on the John Nichols Project. She is co-editor of The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), and has published articles on Elizabethan and Jacobean masques, early modern women's receipt books, and alchemy in early modern literature. She is currently working on a book-length study of the relationship between housewifery and natural philosophy in early modern literature.
Dr. Elizabeth Clarke is Reader in English at the University of Warwick. She is author of Theory and Theology in George Herbert's Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1997) and has just finished a study in versions of the Song of Songs in seventeenth-century England. She was director of the Perdita Project for early modern women's manuscripts and is currently directing a British Academy-funded project on the life-writing of Elizabeth Isham (1608-1654).
Dr. Elizabeth Goldring was a Research Fellow in the University of Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and is now an Associate Fellow of both the Centre and Warwick's History of Art Department. She is co-editor of two essay collections - The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford University Press, 2007) and Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, Politics and Performance (Ashgate, 2002) - and associate general editor of Europa Triumphans: Court and Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2004). Other recent publications include articles in The British Art Journal, The Burlington Magazine, and ELR: English Literary Renaissance. She was Consultant to English Heritage for the exhibition 'Queen and Castle: Robert Dudley's Kenilworth', which opened in 2006.

Table of Contents

New Year's gifts given to the Queen, 1579Edmund Spenser, 'Hobbinolls dittie in praise of Eliza, Queene of the Shepheards'The arrival and entertainment of Count Casimir, 22 January - 14 February 1579Letter from the Earl of Leicester to William Davison, 12 February 1579The court at Shrovetide, 1579The Queen's progress into Essex and Suffolk, summer 1579Orders for the Queen's reception at Colchester, 1 - 2 September 1579Jewels given to the Queen at New Year 1580The Queen's summer progress, 1580Letter from Lord Talbot to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 23 June 1580The growth of the population in LondonProclamation against new buildings in the City of London, 7 July 1580Letter from the Queen to the Bishop, Dean, and Chapter of Chester, 29 September 1580Extract from a wages account, 1580Jewels given to the Queen at New Year 1581Letter from Queen Elizabeth to the Bishop of Chester, 13 January 1581The Queen at Whitehall, 20 - 22 January 1581The tournament of Callophisus, 22 January 1581The Queen visits the Golden Hind, 4 April 1581The Queen visits Islington, 1581Sir Henry Sidney's visit to Shrewsbury School, February - May 1581The Four Foster Children of Desire (The Fortress of Perfect Beauty), May 1581Letter from Queen Elizabeth to Sir Edward Stafford, August 1581The Queen visits the Earl of Nottingham at Chelsea, 1581Thomas Cartwright appointed Master of the Hospital at Warwick, 1581Jewels given to the Queen at New Year, 1582Jewels given to the Queen at other times than at New Year, 1582The Barriers for Monsieur, 1 January 1582The Ioyful and royal entertainment of the ryght high and mightie Prince, Frauncis the Frenche Kings only brother . . . Into his noble Citie of Antwerpe, February 1582Letter from Francis Talbot to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 13 February 1582The King of Denmark invested with the Garter, 28 June - 27 September 1582The death of William Wentworth, November 1582Regulations recommended for the apparel of London apprentices, 1582Regulations for preventing the spread of the plague in London, December 1582 - January 1583Jewels given to the Queen at New Year 1583The visit of Sir Henry and Lady Mary Sidney to Shrewsbury, 11 March 1583Baron ?aski's visit to the University of Oxford, 10 - 13 June 1583The wedding of Robert Southwell and Elizabeth HowardA proclamation against retainers, 19 April 1583Thomas Blanke presented before the Queen, 6 May 1583Letter from the Queen to Lord Burghley, 8 May 1583Queen Elizabeth at Theobalds, 27 - 30 May 1583Feasts at the Grocer's and Haberdasher's Halls in London, July 1583Shooting match in London, 17 September 1583The Queen at Loseley Hall, 28 August 1583Jewels given to the Queen at New Year 1584The visit of the Earl of Leicester, the Earl of Essex, and Lord North to Shrewsbury, 25 - 26 May 1584The Earl of Leicester's reception at Leicester, 18 - 19 June 1584Letter from the Queen to the Sherriff of Lancashire, 16 August 1584Letter from the Earl of Leicester to the Burgesses of Andover, 12 October 1584The Queen in London, 12 - 24 November 1584Jewels given to the Queen at New Year 1585Plate given to the Queen at Nonsuch and received into the Office, 28 November 1585Plate given to the Queen at New Year 1585Plate new made by the said Alderman Martin, and received into the office for the use of the Scottishe QueeneSonnet by RonsardThe King of France's investiture with the Garter, 20 January - 12 March 1585The order of going to Parliament, 29 March 1585Royal proclamation regarding the children of the choir of St Paul's Cathedral, 27 April 1585Letter from the Lords of the Council to Ferdinando Stanley Lord Strange, William ChadertonLord Bishop of Chester, and all the other justices of Lancashire and Cheshire, 20 June 1585Entertainment of the deputies of the states of the Low Countries, June 1585Relations between Lord Burghley and the Earl of Leicester, 1585George Peele, The Device of the Pageant borne before the Woolstone Dixi Lord Maior of the Citie of London, 29 October 1585Jewels given to the Queen at New Year 1586William Webbe, 'Spenser's 'Hobbinolls Dittie' into a 'Homely Sapphic''Letter from Queen Elizabeth to the Bishop of Chester, 23 January 1586Letter from Thomas Dudley to the Earl of Leicester, 11 February 1586The feast of St George observed at Utrecht, 23 April 1586The Danish ambassador's entertainment at Greenwich, 8 - 30 May 1586Edward Hake, An oration conteyning an expostulation, 10 August 1586Letter from King James VI of Scotland to his secretary, 9 September 1586Letter from the Earl of Cumberland to Lord Burghley, 23 September 1586The death (1586) and funeral procession (1587) of Sir Philip SidneyThe examination of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, at Fotheringhay, 1586Proclamation against Mary Queen of Scots, 1586Execution and Funeral of Mary Queen of Scots, 1587Short extract from the Memoirs of Robert Carey, 1586The will of Anne, Duchess of Somerset, 14 July 1586-21 April 1587Letter from King James VI of Scotland to Queen Elizabeth, 26 January 1587Prolusion of 'Prince Arthur, with his Knights of the Round Table', exhibited in 1588 before the QueenThe Spanish Armada, 1588Letter from Sir George Bond, Lord Mayor, to the Privy Council, 1588Letter from the Earl of Cumberland to Sir Francis Walsingham, 29 October 1588New Year's gift roll, 1 January 1589Poems from George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589)Letter from the Lord Mayor of London to the Company of Stationers, 28 January 1589The Queen at Richmond, Chelsea, and Westminster, 30 January 1589Death of Lady Burghley, 4 April 1589Letter from the Earl of Derby to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 21 May 1589Letter from Lord Talbot to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 22 May 1589Death of Sir Francis Walsingham, 6 April, 1590Death of Sir William Drury, 18 January 1590Letter from John Stanhope to Lord Talbot, 22 December 1589Gifts given to the Queen at New Year, 1590Death of Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, 21 February 1590The Queen's summer progress, 1590Sir Henry Lee's retirement tilt, 17 November 1590Letter from Thomas Kery to Lord Talbot, 23 October 1590Letter from John Stanhope to Lord Talbot, November 1590Letter from Richard Brackinbury to Lord Talbot, 20 November 1590The Queen's movements, February - May 1591Queen Elizabeth at Theobalds, 10 - 20 May 1591Letter from Lord Hunsdon to Sir William More, 10 July 1591Sir Henry Unton's embassy to France, July 1591 - June 1592Letter from Sir William More to Lord Hunsdon, 1590The Queen's entertainment at Cowdray, 14 - 20 August 1591The Queen's progress, 20 August - 20 September 1591The Queen's entertainment at Elvetham, 20 - 23 September 1591The Queen's progress, September 1591The death of Sir Christopher Hatton, 20 November 1591Gift received by Queen Elizabeth, 1592The Queen's progress, September 1592Letter from Sir Thomas Heneage to Sir John Puckering, 12 September 1592Letter from Edward Jones, 12 September 1592Queen Elizabeth at Bissam, Sudeley, and Ricote, August - September 1592Queen Elizabeth's second visit to the University of Oxford, 22 - 28 September 1592The Queen at Twickenham Park, 1592Sir Henry Lee's entertainments for the Queen at Ditchley and Woodstock, 20 - 21 September 1592Received into the office, and paied for in the warraunte for New-Yeare's GuiftesThe Proceeding to the Parliament of Queene Elizabeth from her Majesty's Royall Palace of Whitehall to Westminster,1593Received oute of her Majesty's Privy Chamber, from the hands of Michael Stanhope, the 27th daye of April, anno 35o pred; and given her in Progress beforeLetter from Mr Standen to Mr Bacon, 21 November 1593Letter from Mr Standen to Mr Bacon, 23 November 1593The Recorder of London's speech to the Queen following the election of Cuthbert Buckle as Lord Mayor of London, 1593Extracts from the Memoirs of Robert Carey, 1593Received into the office from Mr William Killigrew, 12 August 1594Thomas Churchyard, A Pleasant conceite penned in verse, 1 January 1594Sir Robert Cecil, The Hermit's Oration, Theobalds, 13 - 23 June 1594Extracts from the Memoirs of Robert Carey, 1593 - 94Extracts from Sir John Harington's papers, called his Breefe Notes and RemembrauncerRemembrance for furniture at Kew, and for her Majesty's Entertainment, 14 August 1594William Fowler, A True Reportarie of the Baptisme of the Prince of Scotland, 30 August 1594Letter from the Earl of Cumberland to Lord Thomas Howard, 1 September 1594John Spencer, Lord Mayor of London, presented to the Justices, 29 October 1594Letter from the Queen to Peregrine Bertie, Lord Willoughby, 7 October 1594Christmas and New Year at Gray's Inn, 1594-95: Gesta GrayorumA discharge of the state and degree of Serjeant at the Law to Thomas Fleming, 5 November 1595Device exhibited by the Earl of Essex before Queen Elizabeth, on the anniversary of her accession to the throne, 17 November 1595The Queen at Kew, 11 December 1595