Lambeth Palace Library,
Talbot Papers 3202, fol. 131v
Letter,
Roland Whyte
to the
Earl of Shrewsbury
, dated 26 Jan. 1608,
Whitehall
.
[fol. 131v]
The Spanish Embassador hath invited the 15. ladies that
were of the queens Maske: to dinner vpon Thursday next and they are to
bring with them whom they please within
limitaci on.
The great Maske intended for my Lord
Hadingtons marriage is now the only thing thoughte vpon at court by 5. English. Lord Arundel.
Lord pembroke Lord
Montgomery Lord Theophilus
Howard
and Sir
Rob
ert
Rich
. and by 7. Scottes. duke
Lenox. d'obigney. Hay.
Master of Mar young Erskin
,Sankier and Kenedie. It will cost them about 300l a man.
Bibliography
H&S, 10.482
HMC Shrewsbury and Talbot, 2.250
Lodge (1791), 3.223-4
Nichols (1828), 2.175