Bodleian Library,, MS Add
C259, fols 15r-v (Beaumont Papers)
A letter from
Henry Savile to
Sir Richard Beaumont
commenting upon the Haddington masque
, dated Ash Wednesday (10
February 1608). The letter is contained within a bound folio volume of the
Beaumont
family's correspondence dating from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century.
It appears on both sides of a single, unfolded sheet.
[
fol. 15
]
yesterday
bt
was ye great mariage of the vicount Hadington & a singuler braue maske of Englishe
& Scotts att which I stayd with my wyfe & her mother& my sister Vere till three a clocke in the morninge. The kinge
drunke a health to the Bridegrome & his Bryde in a Cuppe of gould & when he had donne
sent ytt by my Lord of Fenton & therin a pension out of th'Exchequer of six hundred pound a yeare to him & to her & to the longer
lyuer of them: Att the maske I sawe Thomas
Beaumont
, & sett
[
fol. 15v
]
in another place a certain gentlewoman called
Mrs Greseley
attended vpon by yonge Sir Gervaise
Clifton and Wat. Hastinges.
... St Catherynes this Ashewensday 1607
your assured lovinge Cosen H. Savile
Bibliography
Macray (1884), 17-18