Archivio Mediceo del Principato,
Florence
Filza 4189
Aftermath of
Prince Henry
's Barriers
, in a dispatch sent home by the Tuscan agent
Ottaviano
Lotti
on 5th February
[i.e. 26 Jan] 1610. It occupies pp. 1-7 in three folded sheets (extract
on p. 1).
Finita che fu la festa della Barriera, mantenuta da questo Serenissimo Principe, come si scrisse, et distribuiti tre premij con bella cerimonia, uno de
quali toccoí al Signor Conte di Mongomery, et glí altri dui apriuati Caualieri, la Maestaí del Re se ní
andoí a Reston alle sue cacce, et la Maestaí della Regina si ritiroí a Grenuicci,
come per riposarsi da i diletti, che non possono senza molto scomodo della Maestaí
sua passare, con disegno di tornare alondra per la Candellora, che la Corte pur solenniza
Translation
As soon as the barriers were over (which as I wrote to you were held by his Highness
the Prince
), and three prizes - one of which went to the
Earl of
Montgomery
and the two others to private gentlemen - were given with beautiful ceremony, the
king
went to Royston to hunt. Her Majesty the
Queen
withdrew to Greenwich, in order to take a rest from the entertainments, which cannot
be given without inconveniencing her greatly. She is thinking of coming back to
London
at Candlemas, which is solemnly celebrated at court.
Bibliography
Orrell (1977-78), 165