Northamptonshire Record
Office, Winwood Papers, 6
Letter from
John Chamberlain
to
Ralph Winwood
, dated
13 January 1609/10 in a folio book of Winwood's
correspondence. The letter occurs on pages 1r-v of a single folded sheet. The
subscription is on 2v.
[fol. 1]
Sir I can make you no longe relation of owr christmas games, beeing growne such a house-doue
that I stirre litle abrode specially to looke after such sports. the barriers on twelfth
night (they say) were well performed, and
the Prince
behaued himself euery way very well and gracefully. the three prises were bestowed
on the earle of mongomerie, younge Darcy (sonne to the Lord Darcy) and Sir Robert Gordon a Scot, more in fauor of the nation then for any due desert. in stead
of a plaudite they had an exceeding goode peale of ordinance or chambers that graced
the matter very much. the next day the Prince with his assistants all in a liuerie, and the defendants in theyre best brauerie rode
in great pompe to conuoy the King to
St James
whether he had inuited him and all the court to supper (the Queen only beeing absent) and there ended his table the allowance wherof from the publishing
of his challenge had ben 100li a day. If the charge [.] do not hinder yt he wold faine undertake another triumphe
or shew against the King s day in march: and the Queen wold likewise in hand with a maske against Candlemas or Shrouetide.
[fol.
1v]
From
London
this 13th of January 1609
[fol.
2v]
[in another hand]
13 February 1609
Mr Chamberlain
to Sir R. Winwood
Bibliography
Winwood (1725), 3.117 (dates the letter
13 Feb. 1610)
H&S, 10.513
Chamberlain (1939), 1.293-5 (dates the letter 13 Jan. 1610)